The protester is the Person of the Year according to Time magazine, but protests have been a way to express frustration and displeasure forever. CTV News Stox looks back to a wave of protests that happened in China 25 years ago.

It started on December 5, 1986 when students at the University of Science and Technology in Hefei held a meeting to protest their inability to nominate candidates for the People’s Congress. On December 9 the students demonstrated for three hours, and authorities agreed to postpone the election. News of the success of the demonstration spread to other campuses and on December 23, 1986 CTV’s Roger Smith filed this report from Shanghai where students asked for democracy and freedom.

To celebrate this festive season, we are featuring two holiday vignettes. The first celebrates Chanukah, which overlaps with Christmas this year. It also means a lot of baking will be going on! Our second vignette features many delicious winter goodies, guaranteed to make your mouth water!

Happy Holidays from CTV News Stox!

It's December, which means Wright Brothers Day is coming up to commemorate the Wright brothers' first successful flight in heavier-than-air, mechanically propelled craft. The feat was accomplished on December 17, 1903, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

At the turn of the last century, after much time spent observing birds in flight, Orville and Wilbur experimented at Kitty Hawk with kites, gliders, and a wind tunnel they built to test wing design. They are given credit for building the world's first successful airplane with aircraft controls that enabled them to steer the plane. That first aircraft, named Flyer, made its maiden flight for 12 seconds and 120 feet (about 36-37 meters).

In 1905, the Wright brothers built an airplane that could fly for more than half an hour at a time. Three years later, Orville made the world's first flight of over one hour at Fort Myer, Virginia, in a demonstration for the U.S. army. That same year Wilbur made over 100 flights near Le Mans, France; the longest one, on Dec. 31, a record flight: 2 hours, 19 minutes.

The brothers never married. Wilbur Wright died at age 45 of typhoid. Orville Wright died of a heart attack at age 77.

Here, in honour of the Wright brothers, we take a look at flight over time. See if you can spot some well-known political figures boarding (or leaving) the planes.

Belieber: One who is an obsessive fan of Justin Bieber

--Urban Dictionary

It’s Bieber time at CTV News Stox!

Discovered on YouTube in 2008, Stratford-native Justin Bieber shot to the top of the charts with his first album, My World, in 2009. This month, Bieber released his second studio album, Under the Mistletoe, which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. Popular is an understatement -- according to Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, Justin Bieber was 2011's most-searched person online in the USA, beating out Kim Kardashian for the top spot.

We would like to share some of our original footage with Bieber fans everywhere.

The United Nations estimates that the world population hit seven billion on October 31, 2011. We’re multiplying by leaps and bounds. Consider that human civilization has increased by about six billion people since the year 1800, but only by one billion people in the 90,000 years prior.  Eight billion is predicted by 2025, only 14 years from now. Excuse me. Pardon me. May I get by? Thank you!

It's Movember (Nov. 1 - 30) and moustaches are sprouting across Canada and around the world!

The movement began in 2003 in Melbourne, Australia, where originators joked about 80s fashion and decided it was time to bring back the moustache. In order to justify their "Mo"(Aussie slang for moustache), they used their new looks to raise awareness and money for men's health, specifically for prostate cancer research.

The movement has taken off. To date, Movember has raised $176 million dollars worldwide, from 1.1 million participants. In 2010, nearly 110,000 Canadians participated, raising a total of $22.3 million.

CTV News Stox offers "Mo Bros" everywhere support and inspiration in this week's stock-footage montage, in homage to the moustache!

When witches go riding,
and black cats are seen,
the moon laughs and whispers,
‘tis near Halloween.
                                     ~Author Unknown

Safe and Happy Halloween Wishes from CTV News Stox.

Eat, Drink and Be Scary!

Earlier this month, Paris Jackson, Michael Jackson's only daughter, joined her school's football team. She became the first girl ever to do so in the history of her Los Angeles private school.

It's old hat here in Canada, namely in Moose Jaw,Saskatchewan, where two high school girls decided they'd rather play football than stand on the sidelines and cheer.

This CTV story, reported by Wayne Mantyka, aired on October 19, 1986.