WESTJET INCREASES SERVICE FROM Calgary

WestJet has launched new non-stop service from Calgary to Huatulco, its tenth destination in Mexico, and has added new non-stop flights from Calgary to Liberia, Costa Rica, beginning on December 19.

More wet and windy weather slammed British Columbia's south coast this weekend, forcing ferry cancellations and blackouts. Environment Canada issued wind warnings for all of Vancouver Island as well as Metro Vancouver, the Sunshine Coast, Fraser Valley and Howe Sound.

One of China's top entrepreneurs, the chairman of the Fosun conglomerate that owns Club Med and other businesses in Europe and the US, is assisting Chinese authorities with an investigation, his company said, a possible sign that an anti-corruption campaign is widening beyond state companies.

THOUSANDS EVACUATED Powerful typhoon slams into eastern Philippines

Thursday evening’s chartered flight from New York to Doha, Qatar was meant to celebrate an Airbus A350-900 XWB’s first-ever journey from the US, but things didn’t go quite as planned. The aircraft sped down the runway at JFK, watched by passengers on their seat back screens - before coming to a sudden, screeching halt.

Firefighters rushed to the rescue of a plane apparently on fire on the tarmac at Fuzhou airport, but mistakenly sprayed the wrong aircraft with foam. The bizarre incident caused a partial shutdown of the airport, delaying 30 flights.

There was a security scare at PortMiami last Friday when passengers on the Norwegian Sky had to evacuate the ship. Law enforcement officers and their K9’s swept the vessel after it was determined that a passenger boarded without scanning their key card.

Princess Cruises will soon crown the top guest entertainer for 2015 during the cruise line's fifth annual Entertainer of the Year competition.

The partnership of two high tech companies may allow cruise ships to resolve mechanical difficulties and perform regular maintenance in an efficient and timely way. The hope is that 3D Scanning AS and 3Discovered technology can diagnose a problem, determine a solution and provide the parts for the repairs instantly thereby avoiding the disasters of ships disabled at sea.

Landlubbers have their Santa Clause parades, but boaters in BC have their Santa’s Christmas Ships. For two decades boating enthusiasts cruise from Belcarra to Burnaby, Port Moody and Deep Cove to “light up” the season.

Few details are being released about a 40 year old male who was arrested at the Berlin Tegel Airport after flying from Miami to join an AIDA cruise ship.

The future will be a watery one for some of the world's biggest cities faced with the challenge of adapting to climate change, and rising sea levels. Predicted sea level increases this century mean many cities face increased flooding, stronger storm surges and unpredictable weather. How well coastal cities can cope will dramatically affect quality of life and their economic destiny.