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<tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 130 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Is Ontario heading towards have-not status?</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue. Apr. 29  2008  22:36  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: April 30th, 2008</div> <div> <B>A report by the TD Bank Financial Group handed residents of Ontario a rather dire prediction on Tuesday.</B></div> <bR> <div> Their province may soon achieve "have-not" status. The report cites the strong dollar, high</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="cd5ba0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 533 WIDTH="707"><div> energy rates, and increasing commodity prices as factors that may qualify Ontario for equalization transfers by 2010 -- and perhaps even as early as next year.</div> <bR> <div> It's the opposite story for Newfoundland and Labrador, which will change from a have-not to have-province. Record oil prices have set the region up for a forecasted $544-million surplus. Next year, it will get off the equalization system for the first time since Newfoundland entered Confederation in 1949.</div> <bR> <div> Although Ontario's manufacturing and export sectors are expected to face tougher economic times in the months ahead because of a slowdown in the U.S. economy, the province's possible have-not status in the future will likely be due to strong economies in other parts of the country.</div> <bR> <div> Nonetheless, a drop to the have-not ranks would be a psychological blow, said TD chief economist Don Drummond.</div> <bR> <div> "It gives the signal that Ontario is not the mighty king of the economy anymore .... (That) it's one of the weaker partners. But again, it's not so much Ontario's being weak as the other provinces are really roaring along," Drummond said.</div> <bR> <div> Ontario's finance minister says he doesn't begrudge other parts of Canada from doing well, but Ottawa needs to take steps to make sure the equalization system is fair.</div> <bR> <div> "God bless those provinces that have an abundance of resource wealth," said Dwight Duncan on CTV Newsnet's <I>Mike Duffy Live</I>.</div> <bR> <div> "TD points out in their report quite correctly that over the past 5 years that Ontario has enjoyed relatively good growth -- about three per cent on average -- but it cannot keep pace with the rising commodity prices."</div> <bR> <div> Duncan said the equalization formula needs to be reworked "so that we don't kill the goose that lays the golden egg."</div> <bR> <div> Canada's equalization system -- which is entrenched in the Constitution -- allows Ottawa to address fiscal disparities between provinces through transfer payments from richer to poorer provinces. The payments allow less prosperous provinces to provide similar social and public services to those found in richer provinces.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 463 WIDTH="707"><div> The formula for determining what constitutes a have-not province was recently changed. Previously, an average from only five provinces -- which did not include oil-rich Alberta -- had been used to set a benchmark for fiscal capacity of a particular province.</div> <bR> <div> Now, a province's average fiscal capacity is determined by figures from all 10 provinces. With the inclusion of Alberta, the average benchmark for all provinces has been raised. It's under the new formula that Ontario may fall below the average cutoff.</div> <bR> <div> However, the government may keep Ontario from have-not status by again altering the equalization formula, as it did in 1970s when rising commodity prices drastically affected the province's economy.</div> <bR> <div> Ontario's premier says the new system is flawed. Dalton McGuinty noted that Ontario sends billions more to Ottawa than it gets back.</div> <bR> <div> "How is it that we can be a have-not province if we're sending $20 billion annually to the rest of the country?'' McGuinty asked in the province's legislature.</div> <bR> <div> "I think that tells us something about the (equalization) formula.''</div> <bR> <div> The federal Tories say the Ontario Liberals need to stop pointing fingers.</div> <bR> <div> "Ontario has to be on the cutting edge (of) smart fiscal policies so that businesses will headquarter there (and) make investments there. (They) should eliminate capital taxes, reduce provincial income taxes," Industry Minister Jim Prentice said on <I>Mike Duffy Live</I>.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with a report by CTV's Robert Fife in Ottawa & files from The Canadian Press.</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="29"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Apr 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 217 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Gene therapy may alleviate blindness, study shows</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. Apr. 28  2008  17:54  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: April 29th, 2008</div> <div> <B>Researchers have used gene therapy to restore vision in a small group of young adults with a form of retinal degeneration, two new studies report.</B></div> <bR> <div> The studies' subjects had a form of retinal degeneration known as Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA). LCA causes blindness by damaging the retina so it can no longer process light.</div> <bR> <div> Scientists injected a normal version of a gene known as RPE65, which is mutated in one form of LCA, into the eyes of patients with the disease. They injected one eye and left the other eye untreated.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="cd57a0700.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="112" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> This image shows an artist's rendering of a subretinal surgery in which a dose of normal gene is injected into the back of the eye to replace the defective gene in the cells. (Moorfields Eye Hospital and University College London)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 557 WIDTH="707"><div> In the American study, the patients, one aged 19 and two 26-year-olds, were treated at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Within two weeks, they noticed that their vision improved in the treated eye.</div> <bR> <div> Over a six-month period, researchers found continued improvement.</div> <bR> <div> "After the injection, all of the individuals could read at least four lines on the eye chart," said one of the study's authors, Dr. Jean Bennett of the University of Pennsylvania.</div> <bR> <div> None of the patients reported adverse side effects, except for one patient who developed a hole in the retina that did not affect eyesight and was probably caused by the surgery.</div> <bR> <div> However, only one of three patients in a corresponding British study responded to the therapy. That patient found he could walk easily through a maze that he previously had difficulty with.</div> <bR> <div> Both studies were published in the <I>New England Journal of Medicine</I>.</div> <bR> <div> Symptoms of LCA begin in early childhood, and patients lose their sight completely by the time they are in their twenties or thirties. There is no treatment.</div> <bR> <div> Speaking on CTV's Canada AM, Dr. Robert Koenekoop of Montreal Children's Hospital said that these findings are a major breakthrough.</div> <bR> <div> "I believe that this is one of the most significant advances in human history in the field of medicine, to be able to treat a complicated retinal disease that we thought only ten years ago was untreatable," Koenekoop said.</div> <bR> <div> Gordon Gund of the Foundation Fighting Blindness, who lost his sight when he was 31, said that he believes the findings will lead to future treatments. </div> <div> "It's amazing because children who are born blind will soon be able to have normal vision," Gund said.</div> <bR> <div> Maureen Hartnett of Oakville, Ont., is a mother of two children, Roisin, 18, and Niall, 15, with LCA. While Roisin has some light perception ability, Niall is completely blind.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 402 WIDTH="707"><div> "I think it is exciting and scary at the same time, being suddenly able to see," Hartnett said.</div> <bR> <div> "It is scary because they have spent their entire lives without sight. It would change their lives."</div> <bR> <div> Roisin, who studies education at Queen's University, uses a seeing eye dog named Mitsou. She said that she would willingly undergo the procedure.</div> <bR> <div> "I would love to be able to see people's facial expressions," Roisin said.</div> <bR> <div> "My boyfriend wishes that I had eye contact. And I would love to return to Italy to see the art galleries and the Sistine Chapel."</div> <bR> <div> Niall was just as intrigued by the findings, but also a little wary.</div> <bR> <div> "This is very new. I would like to wait 'till it is more secure and has been tested to be completely safe."</div> <bR> <div> Researchers hope that this gene therapy could one day treat other debilitating eye diseases, such as macular degeneration.</div> <bR> <div> Canadians looking for more information on LCA and other genetic retinal diseases can call the Foundation Fighting Blindness in Canada at 1-800-461-3331, ext. 25, or visit www.ffb.ca.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with a report from CTV's medical correspondent Avis Favaro and producer Elizabeth St. Philip</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="28"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Apr 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 434 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Man who allegedly held daughter captive questioned</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. Apr. 28  2008  06:22  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: April 28th, 2008</div> <div> <B>AMSTETTEN, Austria -- Police on Monday questioned a man they say held his daughter captive for 24 years and sexually abused her in a "house of horrors" -- a high-tech, windowless cell where she allegedly gave birth to at least six children.</B></div> <bR> <div> Lower Austria police said in a statement that the 42-year-old woman, identified as Elisabeth F., had been missing since Aug. 29, 1984. She was found by police in the town of Amstetten on Saturday evening after police received a tip.</div> <bR> <div> "We are being confronted with an unfathomable crime," said Interior Minister Guenther Platter.</div> <bR> <div> Stunned Austrians -- still scandalized by a 2006 case involving a young woman who was kidnapped and imprisoned in a basement cell outside Vienna -- expressed disbelief that something similar could happen.</div> <bR> <div> "The entire nation must ask itself just what is fundamentally going wrong," the newspaper Der Standard said Monday in a soul-searching commentary.</div> <bR> <div> Franz Polzer, head of the Lower Austrian Bureau of Criminal Affairs, told reporters Sunday that the 73-year-old father, identified in the police statement as Josef F., had been taken into custody.</div> <bR> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="cd42a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A photo taken by and released by the Austrian police with permission of Austria's prosecution office on Monday, April 28, 2008 shows suspect Josef F. at an unspecified location.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="cd43a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Outside view of the apartment where a 73-year-old man, identified as Josef F. allegedly kept his daughter Elisabeth F. in the cellar for 24 years. (AP / Helmut Stamberg)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 513 WIDTH="707"><div> A police forensics team arrived on the scene Monday morning, and two technicians in white suits entered the apartment block in Amstetten, a blue-collar town about 75 miles west of Vienna. The suspect was expected to appear in court later Monday.</div> <bR> <div> In a chronology of events outlined in their statement, police said Elisabeth F. told them her father began sexually abusing her when she was 11. Police said she alleged that, some years later, on Aug. 28, 1984, he sedated her, handcuffed her and locked her in a room in the cellar in Amstetten.</div> <bR> <div> Police said a letter written by Elisabeth had apparently surfaced a month after her disappearance, asking her parents not to search for her.</div> <bR> <div> Police said Elisabeth alleged that, during the 24 years that followed, she was continually abused by her father and gave birth to six children.</div> <bR> <div> In 1996, she gave birth to twins, police quoted Elisabeth as saying. One died several days later because it was not properly cared for, according to police, who said they are investigating.</div> <bR> <div> Josef, the alleged abuser, then apparently removed the corpse from the cellar and burned it, the police statement said. It was not immediately clear if the twin who allegedly died was included in the police total of six children.</div> <bR> <div> Police said three of Elisabeth's children were registered with authorities and lived with the grandparents in an apartment in the house.</div> <bR> <div> According to the police statement, Josef F. and his wife, Rosemarie, had told authorities they had found those children outside their home in 1993, 1994 and 1997.</div> <bR> <div> In a letter left with the child that appeared in 1993, Elisabeth had apparently said she already had a daughter and son and that there was no space for a second daughter. In another letter, she said she gave birth to a new son in December 2002, according to the police statement.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 538 WIDTH="707"><div> Three of Elisabeth's six children were apparently held captive in the cellar with their mother, Polzer told reporters in broadcast remarks.</div> <bR> <div> "Elisabeth F. taught them how to speak," Polzer was quoted as saying by the Austria Press Agency.</div> <bR> <div> At some point, according to the police statement, Josef F. freed Elisabeth and two of her three children from the cellar, and told his wife that she had come back to them.</div> <bR> <div> But the third child who had lived in the cellar, Kerstin F., was found unconscious on April 19 in the grandparents' apartment, with a note from Elisabeth asking that she be taken care of.</div> <bR> <div> Kerstin was hospitalized and is in very serious condition in the hospital near which the father and daughter were found by police.</div> <bR> <div> The alleged crimes began to unfold when authorities launched a public appeal for Kerstin's mother to come forward so they could use her medical history to help diagnose the daughter's condition.</div> <bR> <div> After receiving a tip, police picked up Elisabeth and her father on Saturday close to the Amstetten hospital where Kerstin is being treated.</div> <bR> <div> The Austria Press Agency quoted police as saying Josef F. has been arrested but had not confessed.</div> <bR> <div> Sunday evening, police said investigators had found the area where Elisabeth and three of her children had allegedly been held captive.</div> <bR> <div> In an interview with Associated Press Television News, Polzer said the area had "several" rooms, an uneven floor and a "very narrow" hallway.</div> <bR> <div> Police found it after Josef F. gave them a code to unlock a hidden door, Polzer said, adding that the door was "very small," and that one had to bend one's head to get through.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 524 WIDTH="707"><div> "Everything is very, very narrow and the victim herself, the mother of these six or seven children, told us that this was being continually enlarged over the years," Polzer said.</div> <bR> <div> The area also contained sanitary facilities and "small hot plates" for cooking, Polzer said.</div> <bR> <div> On its Web site, ORF reported that the rooms were at most 5.6 feet high and that the area had a TV.</div> <bR> <div> The area also included a "padded cell," Hans-Heinz Lenze, a senior Amstetten district official, said in remarks broadcast late Sunday.</div> <bR> <div> Police said Elisabeth F. appeared "greatly disturbed" during questioning. She agreed to talk only after authorities assured her she would no longer have to have contact with her father and that her children would be cared for.</div> <bR> <div> The Austria Press Agency reported that the surviving children are three boys and three girls, the youngest of whom is 5. </div> <div> DNA tests were expected to determine whether Josef F. is the father of the children.</div> <bR> <div> According to the police statement, Elisabeth said that she and her children got food and clothing only from her father -- and that her mother had not been involved.</div> <bR> <div> Sunday's developments are reminiscent of the case of Natascha Kampusch, which shocked Austrians less than two years ago.</div> <bR> <div> Kampusch was 10 years old when she was kidnapped in Vienna on her way to school in March 1998. She was held for the next 8 1/2 years by Wolfgang Priklopil, who largely confined her to a tiny underground dungeon in his home in a quiet Vienna suburb.</div> <bR> <div> Priklopil threw himself in front of a train just hours after Kampusch's dramatic escape on Aug. 23, 2006.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with a report from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="27"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Apr 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 169 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Woman claims father held her in cellar for 24 years</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. Apr. 27  2008  11:56  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: April 27th, 2008</div> <div> <B>VIENNA, Austria -- Police have found a woman missing since 1984, who told authorities that her father had kept her in a cellar for almost 24 years and that she had given birth to seven children after being repeatedly raped by him.</B></div> <bR> <div> The 73-year-old father was taken into custody, Franz Polzer, head of the Lower Austrian Bureau of Criminal Affairs, told reporters Sunday.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="cd3ea0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> This is the building where the 42-year-old woman was held since 1984 in Amstetten, Austria.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 447 WIDTH="707"><div> Authorities found the woman Saturday evening in the town of Amstetten following a tip, Lower Austria police said in a statement.</div> <bR> <div> The 42-year-old woman told police that her father began sexually abusing her when she was 11 and locked her in a room in the cellar on Aug. 28, 1984.</div> <bR> <div> During the 24 years that followed, she said she was continually abused and gave birth to seven children, one of whom died several days later.</div> <bR> <div> Police said in the statement the woman appeared "greatly disturbed" psychologically during questioning. She agreed to talk only after authorities assured her that she would no longer have to have contact with her father and that her children would be taken care of.</div> <bR> <div> DNA tests are expected to determine whether the man is the father of the six surviving children, according to police.</div> <bR> <div> The Austria Press Agency said the three boys and three girls range in age from 5 and 20. One of the children, a 19-year-old woman, was being hospitalized in very serious condition, according to Austrian broadcaster ORF.</div> <bR> <div> Sunday's developments recalled another case that shocked Austrians in the summer of 2006, when a young woman escaped after being largely confined to a tiny underground dungeon in a quiet Vienna suburb for more than eight years.</div> <bR> <div> Natascha Kampusch was 10 years old when she was kidnapped in Vienna on her way to school in March 1998. Her abductor, Wolfgang Priklopil, threw himself in front of a train just hours after her dramatic escape.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with a report from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="26"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Apr 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 434 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>B.C. church floor collapse injures 42 people</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. Apr. 26  2008  14:04  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: April 26th, 2008</div> <div> <B>The floor of an Abbotsford, B.C. church collapsed during a Christian rock concert on Friday night, leaving 42 people injured.</B></div> <bR> <div> At least 1,200 people, mostly teenagers, were attending the event, Abbotsford police Sgt. Elly Sawchuk told CTV Newsnet on Saturday.</div> <bR> <div> The injuries were much less serious than initially believed, she said.</div> <bR> <div> Abbotsford police Const. Roger Gosal told CTV.ca on Saturday that slightly more than 30 were treated at the scene. Of those, approximately 22 were taken to area hospitals, three with serious injuries.</div> <bR> <div> "There's going to be engineers that will be attending at the church to do an assessment of the structure," he said, adding access to the building is restricted.</div> <bR> <div> Eyewitnesses at the concert say a lighting system above the stage fell on a group of concert-goers.</div> <bR> <div> Richard Thiessen went to the concert at Central Heights Church with his wife and child and told CTV News that several people were seriously hurt.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="cd3ba0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Officials stand outside Central Heights Church in Abbotsford, B.C. after a stage collapsed inside during a Christian rock concert on Saturday, April 26, 2008. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Richard Lam)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="cd3ca0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> People pray outside Central Heights Church in Abbotsford, B.C. after a stage collapsed during a Christian rock concert inside injuring 22 people, Saturday, April 26, 2008. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Richard Lam</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 288 WIDTH="707"><div> "The front of the sanctuary floor collapsed and dozens of people fell through to the floor below. Lights also fell on the audience."</div> <bR> <div> The accident happened during the third song by Christian rock band Starfield, just after 9 p.m.</div> <bR> <div> Mark Maney told CTV News right before the collapse, Starfield frontman Tim Neufeld started screaming for everyone to get out. </div> <div> "It was terrifying as everyone started screaming. Water started pouring out of the pipes that had been in the floor falling on the victims who fell," Maney said.</div> <bR> <div> "There was also a faint dust that rose in the air, probably from the debris of the floor. The scaffolding which the speakers were on slowly started to fall, stage left first followed by the stage right speakers and landed in pews that still had people in them."</div> <bR> <div> The church was built in the 1980s.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with a report from CTV's Michele Brunoro</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="25"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Apr 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 147 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Top court to rule on use of drug-sniffing dogs</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri. Apr. 25  2008  09:17  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: April 25th, 2008</div> <div> <B>The Supreme Court of Canada is expected to decide Friday if police can use drug-sniffing dogs to conduct random searches in public places.</B></div> <bR> <div> The ruling will have an impact on how sniffer dogs are used in airports, train stations, sports stadiums and parks, among other places.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="cd34a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 811 WIDTH="707"><div> "Whatever the court decides will apply to the use of sniffer dogs and whether a sniffer dog constitutes a police search," Jonathan Lisus, a lawyer for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association told The Canadian Press.</div> <bR> <div> "That will be the law of the land from coast to coast."</div> <bR> <div> The case arrived at the Supreme Court following two cases where sniffer dogs found drugs carried by people who weren't already under investigation by police.</div> <bR> <div> Each case called into question the validity of evidence that results from random searches by sniffer dogs.</div> <bR> <div> In one of the cases that the Supreme Court ruling will focus on, drug-sniffing dogs visited St. Patrick's High School in Sarnia, Ont., in November 2002 at the invitation of school officials.</div> <bR> <div> While police and their dogs searched the school, students were confined to their classrooms. During the sweep, a dog led police to a backpack in the gym that contained marijuana and magic mushrooms.</div> <bR> <div> The student who owned the backpack was charged with possession of marijuana and psilocybin for the purpose of trafficking. He challenged the admissibility of the evidence on the grounds that his Charter right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure was violated.</div> <bR> <div> The drugs were excluded and the charges dismissed. A Court of Appeal ruling upheld that decision.</div> <bR> <div> Paul Wubben, director of education for the St. Clair Catholic District School Board, told The Canadian Press that allowing sniffer dogs into schools can be an important tool for ensuring student safety.</div> <bR> <div> "Parents send their children to school with the underlying assumption that school is a safe place," Wubben said.</div> <bR> <div> "And having a drug-free environment certainly lends itself to being a safe place."</div> <bR> <div> However, Lisus said that sniffer dogs patrolling schools will actually make kids uneasy about authority.</div> <bR> <div> "It sends the wrong message to children in our schools that they can be arbitrarily detained en masse and searched without any grounds to believe they have contraband or have committed any kind of offence."</div> <bR> <div> In the second case, police and their sniffer dogs were patrolling a Greyhound bus station in Calgary in 2002 as part of an initiative to patrol travel ports looking for drugs, bombs and other contraband.</div> <bR> <div> Police approached a man and, while conversing with him, a sniffer dog indicated the presence of drugs. That search turned up cocaine and heroin in the man's bag. He was charged with possession of cocaine for the purposes of trafficking, as well as possession of heroin.</div> <bR> <div> In this case, the courts found that Gurmakh Kang Brown could not have had an expectation of privacy because of the odours of the drugs emanating from his bag and into the air.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="24"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Apr 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 395 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Food crisis could hit Canada, expert warns</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. Apr. 24  2008  08:12  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: April 24th, 2008</div> <div> <B>The growing worldwide food crisis could hit Canada, warns one of the country's top consumer advocates.</B></div> <bR> <div> Mel Fruitman, of the Consumers' Association of Canada, said that while food costs in Canada are currently among the lowest in the world, that will change.</div> <bR> <div> "We are going to continue to be somewhat insulated for the next little while, but then the bubble is going to burst," Fruitman told CTV's Canada AM on Thursday.</div> <bR> <div> "Competition between the retailers helps us as consumers keep the price of our food basket down, but it also puts increasing pressure on the farms, on farmers, and that can't continue. Somewhere along the way the dam is going to burst."</div> <bR> <div> For Canadians, the rising cost of fuel will have particular impact on the cost of food, particularly when consumers have come to expect a year-round supply of fresh fruits and vegetables in their grocery stores, Fruitman said.</div> <bR> <div> "Anything that is trucked in, flown in, that comes from farther away than our normal hundred kilometres, say, is going to cost that much more to get to us," Fruitman said.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="cd2fa0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A homeless girl eats her lunch next on a street in Manila's Quezon City in the Philippines on Friday, April 18, 2008. (AP / Bullit Marquez)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="cd30a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> People wait for food at a UN distribution center in Port-au-Prince, Friday, April 18, 2008. (AP / Ariana Cubillos)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 695 WIDTH="707"><div> "And of course, the cost of fuel affects the cost of production of that food, it affects the cost of feed for the various animals. So, we are on a rising curve, there's no question about it."</div> <bR> <div> In the meantime, Canadians can expect it to be business as usual when they shop for groceries. Retailers, so far, aren't putting limits on the sale of any food items.</div> <bR> <div> Wal-Mart Canada issued a statement on Wednesday that it will not follow the lead of U.S. retailer Sam's Club, which recently put restrictions on large purchases of some types of specialty rice.</div> <bR> <div> Meanwhile, there are fears in India that the domestic supply of rice will dry up, and riots have broken out in Haiti among residents who are already feeling the food crunch.</div> <bR> <div> CTV's Paul Workman, reporting from India, told Canada AM on Thursday that India has cut back on its rice exports in order to keep the cost of rice down within the country. However, the move will have far-reaching consequences.</div> <bR> <div> "This is going to have an effect across Asia, but especially in neighbouring Bangladesh, which depends on India hugely for most of its rice imports. We've already seen some rioting in the streets there as a result of it and most of the food specialists here warn that Bangladesh and Asia are going to be the worst hit by this spiraling food crisis, and that it has to be watched very carefully," Workman said.</div> <bR> <div> "And of course there are other agencies saying that there are something like 30 countries that may suffer social unrest as a result of these huge price increases."</div> <bR> <div> The world's food shortage is continually growing and threatens the health of millions of people around the world, including some 20 million of the poorest children.</div> <bR> <div> Josette Sheeran, executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme, focused on the crisis Wednesday during a speech at a London summit dedicated to the subject.</div> <bR> <div> She said the cost of rice has more than doubled in the last five weeks, and the World Bank estimates food prices have increased 83 per cent in three years.</div> <bR> <div> On Wednesday, World Vision said it has been forced to cut back on the number of people it will be able to help in the coming months, blaming a "perfect storm" of drought, changing food patterns and rising fuel costs.</div> <bR> <div> The international aid organization is cutting back on the vital flow of food it can provide to the world's most impoverished -- saying it can no longer afford to feed 1.5 million of the 7.5 million people that received aid last year.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="23"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Apr 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 406 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Martin 'devastated' by Mexico verdict: friend</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. Apr. 23  2008  08:00  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: April 23rd, 2008</div> <div> <B>Brenda Martin's closest friend and advocate says the Trenton, Ont. woman was crushed by the guilty verdict and five-year sentence handed down on Tuesday by a Mexican judge.</B></div> <bR> <div> Martin has been in a Guadalajara prison for more than two years, accused of taking part in an Internet fraud scheme carried out by her former boss.</div> <bR> <div> "I think she's devastated," Tieleman told CTV's Canada AM from Guadalajara on Wednesday.</div> <bR> <div> "In as much as Brenda says she doesn't get her hopes up, of course she does. I think Brenda, in the back of her mind, maybe expected to come home to Canada. I think she's definitely devastated, there's no question."</div> <bR> <div> Martin has always maintained her innocence and says she knew nothing about the business dealings of Alyn Waage, who is currently serving a sentence on fraud charges in a U.S. prison.</div> <bR> <div> Tieleman said Mexican prosecutors have no actual evidence against Martin, and she has been found guilty simply by her association with Waage.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="cd29a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Brenda Martin speaks with journalists at an office inside the Puerta Grande prison in Guadalajara, Mexico on Wednesday, April 16, 2008. (AP / Guillermo Arias)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="cd2aa0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Marjorie Bletcher, mother of Brenda Martin, reacts from her home after learning her daughter is found guilty by a Mexican court on Tuesday, April 22, 2008.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 356 WIDTH="540"><div> "I really did believe Brenda would get justice in the end, and that just didn't happen," Tieleman said.</div> <bR> <div> CTV News has learned the Prime Minister's Office is directly involved in the prisoner-transfer process to bring Martin home.</div> <bR> <div> Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day told CTV's Mike Duffy Live on Tuesday that the government is ready to bring Martin back to Canada after the red tape is sorted out and the prisoner-transfer agreement takes effect.</div> <bR> <div> There are also reports that Jason Kenney, secretary of state for multiculturalism, will be travelling to Mexico to help expedite the transfer.</div> <bR> <div> Tieleman said the government's apparent willingness to get involved is encouraging.</div> <bR> <div> "Certainly I think it will help," she said. "Absolutely it's a positive sign that (Kenney) is coming. I hope this gets expedited and Brenda is home within a couple of weeks."</div> <bR> <div> CTV's Lisa LaFlamme, reporting from Guadalajara, said a mandatory five-day appeal period must pass before the prisoner-transfer process can begin.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="cd2ba0dc0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="220" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Holding airline tickets to bring Brenda Martin and herself home a tear rolls down the cheek of Debra Tieleman as she listens to the judges decision at a hearing at the prison in Guadalajara, Mexico on Tuesday, April 22, 2008. (Adrian Wyld / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 360 WIDTH="707"><div> That means Martin, who has been heavily medicated and put on a suicide watch in recent days, will remain in her Mexican jail cell for a while yet.</div> <bR> <div> When the transfer process is complete, Canadian custody officials will place Martin under guard and she will be flown home under their care -- likely in handcuffs.</div> <bR> <div> She is expected to be taken to a detention facility in Kingston, Ont., LaFlamme said, until a parole board has heard her case.</div> <bR> <div> She is expected to be set free soon after that, under Canada's two-for-one pre-sentencing custody rule. Under the policy, the two years and two months Martin has served account for almost all of her five-year sentence.</div> <bR> <div> "We're also told it will take weeks before that process can actually take place," LaFlamme said.</div> <bR> <div> The Canadian Press reports Martin has signed the transfer documents -- something she refused to do before the judge ruled in her case. She said signing such a document before the ruling was akin to admitting her own guilt.</div> <bR> <div> In addition to her prison sentence, Martin, 51, was fined the equivalent of $3,600.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 68 WIDTH="707"><div> Comment from reader <B>Trevor Wade</B>:</div> <div> She was found guilty. Not by some third-world country. It was Mexico. No matter what your thoughts on this country, we need to believe in their system. Just like we'd expect the same if a Mexican was being prosecuted in Canada. <I><B>If this was a man and not a crying woman? We'd not hear a peep.</B></I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="22"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Apr 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 507 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Montreal rioters torch police cars after Habs win</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue. Apr. 22  2008  07:55  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: April 22nd, 2008</div> <div> <B>Street celebrations following the Montreal Canadiens game-seven win over the Boston Bruins turned violent overnight, ending in multiple arrests and damages to police cars and local businesses.</B></div> <bR> <div> At least 13 people were detained, including one 14-year-old and two 17-year-olds, said police spokesman Const. Laurent Gingras.</div> <bR> <div> Those arrested face several charges including break-and-enter, mischief against a police vehicle, assault against a police officer and numerous municipal bylaw violations, he said.</div> <bR> <div> The game ended around 9:30 p.m. ET but the violent riots didn't begin until about two hours later.</div> <bR> <div> "It was unbelievable, people jumping on police cars, tearing out absolutely everything they could and then torching them," CTV's Jed Kahane reported Tuesday from Montreal.</div> <bR> <div> "Five police cars were set ablaze, completely ruined, another 10 were very badly damaged."</div> <bR> <div> Jean-Francois Hotte said he was celebrating on Ste-Catherine Street when things began to go awry.</div> <bR> <div> "One minute we were all hanging out and celebrating and then all hell broke out,'' he told The Canadian Press.</div> <bR> <div> Looters ransacked a Foot Locker and liquor store, Hotte said.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="cce8a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A burned-out police cruiser sits in downtown Montreal as violence erupted following the Montreal Canadiens' elimination of the Boston Bruins in game 7 of the first round of Stanley Cup playoffs in Montreal, Monday, April 21, 2008. (Peter McCabe / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="cce9a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Riot Police stand on Ste-Catherine Street in downtown Montreal. Violence erupted following the Montreal Canadiens' elimination of the Boston Bruins in game 7 of the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs in Montreal, Monday, April 21, 2008. (Peter McCabe / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 161 WIDTH="707"><div> Kahane said Montreal fans aren't happy that the riots, instead of the victory, are getting all the attention.</div> <bR> <div> "This was only Round One so they're really dreading what will happen if the Habs win, even though of course they want them to go all the way," said Kahane.</div> <bR> <div> The next round of the playoffs for Montreal begins Thursday against either the Philadelphia Flyers, who have a Game 7 Tuesday night against Washington, or the New York Rangers.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with from The Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="21"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Apr 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 395 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Tories disclose details of HQ raid to select media</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. Apr. 21  2008  07:55  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: April 21st, 2008</div> <div> <B>Court documents detailing why Elections Canada officers raided the Conservative party's headquarters last week are expected to be officially released Monday, a day after an attempt by the Tories to preemptively manage the controversy.</B></div> <bR> <div> On Sunday, the Conservatives held secret meetings with select reporters to give their side of the story.</div> <bR> <div> The party showed CTV News the court application for a search warrant, which confirmed that Elections Canada officials and RCMP were looking for evidence of an "alleged scheme" by Tories to spend more than allowed on election advertising.</div> <bR> <div> The document alleges the Conservatives violated the Elections Act "by incurring election expenses that exceeded the election expense spending limit" by $1.1 million.</div> <bR> <div> It also alleges that 67 Tory candidates "improperly" sought taxpayer-funded rebates on expenses they did not incur.</div> <bR> <div> An Ontario judge ordered the application to be unsealed last Friday, but court officials had said they would be unable to make the document public until Monday at the earliest.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="ccd2a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Conservative officials leave a secret briefing they organized at an Ottawa hotel on April 20, 2008.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="ccd3a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Andre Thouin, an elections official, carries a box as he leaves the Conservative Party Headquarters of Canada in Ottawa on April 15, 2008. (Tom Hanson / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 409 WIDTH="707"><div> Conservatives obtained their own copy of the application and contacted a limited number of journalists to discuss the search warrant Sunday.</div> <bR> <div> "Basically, it was an effort to preempt the release of the documents today and to give their spin," CTV's Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife reported Monday. "The media who were not invited, somebody tipped them off, and so they arrived at the event and they were knocking on the door and it sort of became a bit of a farce."</div> <bR> <div> Party officials spoke about the search warrant for roughly 45 minutes, saying the party did nothing wrong and that they had followed all regulations in election spending, before showing reporters the court document.</div> <bR> <div> "Probably what they should have done is invited everybody to one briefing and then gone through the documents rather than trying to cherry pick reporters and news organizations, it backfired on them," said Fife.</div> <bR> <div> "Instead of getting more positive spin, or at least some of their spin out last night... they've got negative spin and I'm sure they're not very happy about it."</div> <bR> <div> RCMP conducted the search on Tory headquarters last week, seizing a long list of financial and correspondence records that included invoices, receipts and emails.</div> <bR> <div> Conservatives insisted Sunday that other parties had acted in a similar way during federal elections and they followed all regulations in election spending.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with a report by CTV's Roger Smith in Ottawa</I> </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="20"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Apr 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 465 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Anti-Western protests spread across China</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. Apr. 20  2008  10:16  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: April 20th, 2008</div> <div> <B>An official Chinese Communist Party newspaper urged China's citizens to express patriotism in a rational way as anti-Western protests spread.</B></div> <bR> <div> "As citizens, we have the responsibility to express our patriotic enthusiasm calmly and rationally and express patriotic aspiration in an orderly and legal manner," the front-page editorial in the People's Daily said Sunday.</div> <bR> <div> The commentary is in response to protests that began Saturday and continued Sunday aimed at the French retailer Carrefour, the second-largest "hypermarket" chain in the world.</div> <bR> <div> Protesters accuse Carrefour of supporting the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet and the head of its government-in-exile.</div> <bR> <div> In Xi'an, more than 1,000 people gathered in front of a Carrefour store. They chanted "Oppose Tibet Independence," "Go China," and "Condemn CNN," reported Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency.</div> <bR> <div> A demonstration organizer, identified as Wu Sheng, said the protests aren't meant to encourage a boycott of Carrefour.</div> <bR> <div> "We do not support a boycott of French companies because the economy is globalizing. We choose Carrefour front doors only because we draw more attention there," Xinhua quoted him as saying.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="ccc9a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Chinese students and citizens chant slogans and hold up banners against France in front of a French Carrefour supermarket in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi province Sunday, April 20, 2008. (AP / Color China Photo)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="cccaa0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Protesters hold Chinese national flags during a protest against the Carrefour supermarket and French goods in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Saturday, April 19, 2008. (AP Photo)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 633 WIDTH="707"><div> Demonstrations were also staged in Harbin, in the country's north, and the eastern city of Jinan. The demonstrations remained peaceful.</div> <bR> <div> Saturday's protests occurred in Wuhan, Kunming and Qingdao. Protesters also appeared outside the French embassy in Beijing and the Beijing French School.</div> <bR> <div> In Xi'an, protesters carried photographs of Jin Jing, a previously obscure disabled fencer who became an icon after she was photographed in Paris on April 7 protecting the Olympic torch from a Tibet protester.</div> <bR> <div> In previous statements, Carrefour has said it has always supported the Beijing Games.</div> <bR> <div> Carrefour denies the charge of supporting the Dalai Lama, saying it supports no political or religious cause.</div> <bR> <div> Jose Luis Duran, the company's chief executive, said he is taking the situation seriously.</div> <bR> <div> "We cannot take the reaction of some of our clients lightly," he said. "It must be understood that a large part of the Chinese population has been very shocked by the incidents that have peppered the passage of the Olympic torch through Paris."</div> <bR> <div> Carrefour has 122 stores in China that employ more than 40,000 people and serve more than two million customers.</div> <bR> <div> <B>CNN protest</B></div> <bR> <div> Besides Carrefour, CNN is also in the bad books of many Chinese for perceived biased reporting and commentary on the Tibet issue. There are reports of foreign journalists being threatened by telephone call and e-mail.</div> <bR> <div> In Los Angeles, as many as 5,000 Chinese-Americans demonstrated outside of CNN's Hollywood office Saturday. They were upset about recent comments by Jack Cafferty, a commentator on the news network. Earlier this month, he called Chinese goods "junk" and went on to describe China's leaders as a "bunch of goons and thugs."</div> <bR> <div> "We understand free speech," Lake Wang, a protester, told the Los Angeles Times. "But what if Cafferty said this about other racial groups? I think he would be fired. I think he's jealous of China."</div> <bR> <div> A smaller protest was also held outside of CNN's headquarters in Atlanta.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Associated Press </I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="19"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Apr 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 254 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>B.C. children likely among those seized in cult raid</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. Apr. 19  2008  13:47  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: April 19th, 2008</div> <div> <B>The federal government isn't confirming claims by British Columbia's attorney general that some of the children taken from a Texas polygamist sect's compound are Canadian.</B></div> <bR> <div> "To date no confirmation has been received on the citizenship status of the children," Eugenie Cormier-Lessonde, a spokeswoman for Foreign Affairs, told The Canadian Press on Friday.</div> <bR> <div> Canadian officials have been in contact with Texas officials over the issue, she said.</div> <bR> <div> Wally Oppal, B.C.'s attorney general, said Friday he'd been told by federal officials that some of the 416 children seized from the compound south of San Angelo, Texas were Canadian.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="ccc7a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints walk along the covered porch of a structure at the group's temporary housing at Fort Concho National Historic Landmark, in San Angelo, Texas on Monday, April 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 414 WIDTH="707"><div> About 1,000 church members live on a similar compound at Bountiful, B.C., which also belongs to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), a breakaway sect of the mainstream Mormon Church.</div> <bR> <div> While there was a falling out between FLDS leader Warren Jeffs and Winston Blackmore, the leader in Bountiful, there are linkages between Bountiful and other polygamist communities.</div> <bR> <div> Stephen Singular, author of "When Men Become Gods," a book about Jeffs and the FLDS, told Newsnet by telephone from San Angelo on Saturday that Jeffs would break up families.</div> <bR> <div> "He sent some north to Canada, he sent others around the west ... and we now know he sent (some) of these people down to Texas," Singular said.</div> <bR> <div> This was done as both reward and punishment -- and to avoid the authorities, he said, adding it makes it more difficult for law enforcement.</div> <bR> <div> In Texas on Friday, Angie Voss, a state child protection official, testified during child custody proceedings that some of the children before the court are Canadians.</div> <bR> <div> According to a New York Times report, she didn't say how many, their age or sex.</div> <bR> <div> If some are Canadian, "it will make it more complex," Singular said.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Prank call?</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 538 WIDTH="707"><div> The state took the children into custody after receiving a phone call from a teenage girl claiming to have been forced into marriage with a 50-year-old man. Officials haven't yet identified the girl who made the call. To make matters even murkier, authorities are investigating a Colorado woman, Rozita Swinton, who has a history of making prank calls. The Texas Rangers won't say if Swinton made the call that triggered the raid.</div> <bR> <div> Forced marriages are a documented event within the FLDS. Last year, a Utah court convicted Jeffs of forcing a 14-year-old to marry an older man. He is also awaiting trial on charges in Arizona.</div> <bR> <div> The state has argued before the custody hearing that the FLDS teaches that girls should marry shortly after puberty, have as many children as possible and obey both their fathers and Warren Jeffs.</div> <bR> <div> About 20 or more women gave birth as minors, some when they were as young as 13, authorities have claimed.</div> <bR> <div> Only a few of the children seized are teenage girls. The state's experts testified that the sect's mothers appear to be loving parents and that there are no signs of abuse among younger girls or any of the boys.</div> <bR> <div> John Walsh, whom the sect called as an expert witness, testified that the young girls do have a say in who they marry.</div> <bR> <div> "I believe the girls are given a real choice. Girls have successfully said, `No, this is not a good match for me,' and they remained in good standing,'' he said.</div> <bR> <div> But state experts say the children are indoctrinated from birth to believe that disobedience leads to their damnation.</div> <bR> <div> State District Judge Barbara Walther ruled Friday that the children will stay in state custody. She also ordered genetic testing for all children and parents.</div> <bR> <div> Child protection officials have said they can't determine how the children and parents are related because of evasive or changing answers.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Associated Press and The Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="18"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Apr 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 456 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Some polygamist sect girls impregnated as teens</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri. Apr. 18  2008  08:08  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: April 18th, 2008</div> <div> <B>SAN ANGELO, Texas -- After hours of lawyers popping up with similar objections and questions, a custody hearing for 416 children seized from a polygamist sect finally turned to whether they were abused: A child welfare worker said some women at the sect's ranch may have had children when they were minors, some as young as 13.</B></div> <bR> <div> The testimony came late Thursday, the first day of a court hearing to determine whether the children, swept up in a raid on the ranch two weeks ago, will remain in state custody. Child welfare officials claim the children were abused or in imminent danger of abuse because the sect encourages girls younger than 18 to marry and have children.</div> <bR> <div> Child welfare investigator Angie Voss testified that at least five girls who are younger than 18 are pregnant or have children. Voss said some of the women identified as adults with children may be juveniles, or may have had children when they were younger than 18.</div> <bR> <div> Identifying children and parents has been difficult because members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints have given different names and ages at various times, Voss said. The state has asked that DNA be taken from all of the children and their alleged parents to help determine biological connections. The judge has not ruled on that request.</div> <bR> <div> The court hearing, which continues Friday morning, disintegrated into farce early Thursday, as hundreds of lawyers who descended on San Angelo for the proceedings shouted objections or queued up to cross-examine witnesses. The judge struggled to maintain order.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="ccaea0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints arrive at the Tom Green County Courthouse in San Angelo, Texas, Thursday, April 17, 2008. (AP / Eric Gay)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="ccafa0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints walks past sheriffs deputies as they leave the Tom Green County Courthouse in San Angelo, Texas on Thursday, April 17, 2008. (AP /Tony Gutierrez)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 554 WIDTH="707"><div> "I've tried to impose some structure to this free-for-all," said Texas District Judge Barbara Walther.</div> <bR> <div> The case -- one of the biggest, most convoluted child-custody hearings in U.S. history -- presented an extraordinary spectacle: big-city lawyers in suits and mothers in 19th-century, pioneer-style dresses, all packed into a historic courtroom and an auditorium two blocks away that was patched into the proceedings by a grainy video feed.</div> <bR> <div> The state wants to keep the children in its custody, and likely move them to foster homes while officials continue investigating abuse allegations. The state must provide evidence the children were physically or sexually abused, or are in imminent danger of abuse.</div> <bR> <div> In 11 hours on Thursday, only three witnesses testified, including Voss.</div> <bR> <div> As lawyers shouted, dozens of mothers sat quietly in their long cotton dresses and braided upswept hair. They were sworn in as possible witnesses at the hearing's outset, but it was not clear when they might testify.</div> <bR> <div> In the satellite courtroom at City Hall, hundreds of people strained to see and hear a large projector set up on the auditorium's stage. But the feed was blurry and barely audible.</div> <bR> <div> "I'm not in a position to advocate for anything," complained Susan Hays, the appointed attorney for a 2-year-old sect member.</div> <bR> <div> No decisions were made on the fate of any of the youngsters, and more cross-examination of Voss was likely Friday.</div> <bR> <div> The children, most of whom are being kept in a domed coliseum in San Angelo, range in age from 6 months to 17 years. About 130 are under 4 years old, Voss said.</div> <bR> <div> She said she was concerned about how the children and women followed the orders of the church's prophet, identified as jailed leader Warren Jeffs.</div> <bR> <div> "The children reported that if the prophet heard from the Heavenly Father that they were to marry at any age, they were to do that. If the prophet said they were to lie, they were to do that," Voss said.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 302 WIDTH="707"><div> Jeffs is currently awaiting trial in a Kingman, Ariz., jail on charges related to the promotion of underage marriages. He previously was convicted of being an accomplice to the rape of a 14-year-old wed to her cousin in a Utah case.</div> <bR> <div> The sect came to West Texas in 2003, relocating some members from the church's traditional home along the Utah-Arizona state line. Voss said the ranch was considered a special place, the sect's Zion.</div> <bR> <div> Authorities raided the 1,700-acre ranch south of here in Eldorado on April 3 and began removing children while seeking evidence of underage girls being married to adults. Walther signed an emergency order giving the state custody of the children taken from the ranch.</div> <bR> <div> The raid was prompted by a call from someone identifying herself as a 16-year-old girl with the sect. She claimed her husband, a 50-year-old member of the sect, beat and raped her.</div> <bR> <div> The girl has yet to be identified, though Voss said a girl matching her description was seen by other girls in the ranch garden four days before the raid began.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="17"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Apr 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 183 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Bardot on trial for allegedly inciting hatred</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. Apr. 17  2008  08:28  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: April 17th, 2008</div> <div> <B>PARIS -- Brigitte Bardot is back on trial in France, facing charges of fanning discrimination and racial hatred against Muslims.</B></div> <bR> <div> In a Paris court hearing Tuesday, prosecutors said they are seeking a two-month suspended prison sentence and a $23,900 fine against the former screen siren and animal rights campaigner.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="cca9a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Legendary silver screen starlet Brigitte Bardot visits Ottawa in 2006 to protest the annual seal harvest.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 215 WIDTH="707"><div> Bardot, 73, was not present for the hearing. A verdict is expected June 3.</div> <bR> <div> A leading French anti-racism group known as MRAP filed suit last year over a letter that Bardot sent to then-Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, and which was published in her foundation's quarterly journal.</div> <bR> <div> In the letter to Sarkozy, now the president, Bardot accused France's Muslim population of destroying France, and complained about the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha.</div> <bR> <div> French anti-racism laws prevent inciting hatred and discrimination on racial or religious or racial grounds. Bardot has been convicted four times for inciting racial hatred.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="16"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Apr 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 190 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Major retailers pull bottles containing bisphenol A</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue. Apr. 15  2008  21:43  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: April 16th, 2008</div> <div> <B>Major retailers including the Hudson's Bay Company announced Tuesday they're pulling products containing bisphenol A from their shelves, ahead of a possible announcement from Health Canada that the chemical is "dangerous."</B></div> <bR> <div> Health Canada has not confirmed whether it will make such an announcement, but a report in <I>The Globe and Mail</I> claims the agency could make a decision on the chemical's safety as early as Wednesday.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="cca3a0640.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="100" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Health Canada is expected to announce that the chemical bisphenol A is dangerous. (University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center Communication Services)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 533 WIDTH="707"><div> Hudson's Bay, which includes both the Bay and Zellers stores, announced it will no longer sell products like baby bottles that contain bisphenol A.</div> <bR> <div> Canadian Tire Corporation has said it will do the same, along with Forzani Group, which operates Sport Chek, Athlete's World and Coast Mountain Sports.</div> <bR> <div> Other major retailers like Lululemon Athletica and Mountain Equipment Co-op had already removed the products.</div> <bR> <div> Health Canada spokesman Paul Duchesne confirmed to CTV.ca that bisphenol A is being reviewed by the federal government's Chemicals Management Plan, which, among other mandates, is reviewing chemicals that have been identified as possible hazards to both humans and the environment.</div> <bR> <div> He said that, according to a timetable set for the investigation into potentially hazardous chemicals, an announcement about the findings for bisphenol A was not scheduled to occur until either late spring or mid summer, depending on what the investigation finds.</div> <bR> <div> If researchers don't like what they find out about bisphenol A, it could pave the way for it to be labelled as toxic under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.</div> <bR> <div> This would lead to strict regulations governing the chemical's use.</div> <bR> <div> Bisphenol A, or BPA as it's commonly known, is a synthetic chemical that is the main component in polycarbonate, the common, shatter-proof plastic that is used in food and drink containers. It is also used in everyday household items, from CDs to electronic products to baby bottles.</div> <bR> <div> According to <I>The Globe</I>, Health Canada would be the first government agency from anywhere in the world to attempt to regulate BPA.</div> <bR> <div> "I think if the government proceeds that's certainly a very important development and I think it would be an international precedent," Aaron Freeman, a policy director at Environmental Defence, told CTV's Canada AM. "</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 414 WIDTH="707"><div> "This would place Canada as the first country to regulate bisphenol A. So it would really be a huge step in protecting human health from what we're seeing is a very risky, toxic chemical."</div> <bR> <div> The move comes on the heels of growing public concern about the chemical's health risks. American studies have shown that most people test positive for trace amounts of BPA, which mimics the hormone estrogen.</div> <bR> <div> Environmental Defence, an environmental advocacy group, has lobbied for the regulation of bisphenol A. Freeman said that the chemical has been linked to a variety of health problems.</div> <bR> <div> "There are over 150 peer-reviewed studies that show that bisphenol A is linked to breast cancer, to attention deficit disorder, to obesity and a whole host of developmental problems," Freeman said.</div> <bR> <div> "And what that means is because it's an endocrine disruptor, it interferes with the natural developmental processes in the human body."</div> <bR> <div> The chemical can leach out of food containers when they are heated or put in the dishwasher.</div> <bR> <div> In the meantime, Freeman said that consumers can take some steps to avoid bisphenol A.</div> <bR> <div> Consumers can opt for baby bottles that don't contain bisphenol A, including glass bottles. And there are plenty of metal water bottles, including stainless-steel versions, on the market.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="15"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Apr 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 110 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Oil prices rise to trading record above US$112</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue. Apr. 15  2008  07:58  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: April 15th, 2008</div> <div> <B>Oil prices hit an intraday trading record above US$112 a barrel Tuesday following a further weakening of the U.S. dollar and disruptions to crude supplies.</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="cc9da0690.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="105" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 509 WIDTH="707"><div> The main factor behind the spike in prices was a decline in the value of the American dollar in comparison to the euro, say analysts.</div> <bR> <div> As the dollar loses ground, investors tend to seek refuge in hard commodities such as oil and gold.</div> <bR> <div> "We've seen another swing down in the U.S. dollar so I think we saw short-term traders go back into oil as a hedge against the falling dollar," said Mark Pervan, senior commodity strategist at the ANZ Bank in Melbourne, Australia.</div> <bR> <div> Light, sweet crude for May delivery rose to US$112.48 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange -- passing the previous trading record of US$112.21 set last week.</div> <bR> <div> Oil prices later retreated Tuesday to US$112.16 a barrel, up 40 cents from Monday's record close of US$111.76 a barrel.</div> <bR> <div> BNN's Linda Sims also said supply disruptions in Mexico have contributed to the rise in crude oil prices.</div> <bR> <div> "That's all it takes, is just a little bit of news that there might be some supply problems and the price of oil heads up again," Sims told CTV's Canada AM on Tuesday.</div> <bR> <div> Sims said the jump in oil prices is creating a spike at the pumps.</div> <bR> <div> "Because we've seen such an appreciation in the Canadian dollar over the last few years, as the price of oil rose -- as long as the Canadian dollar rose as well -- we didn't get hurt as much at the pump," said Sims.</div> <bR> <div> "We haven't been rising anymore, we've been sticking around parity.</div> <bR> <div> "Now, in recent months, we've been watching the price at the gas pumps head higher."</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="14"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Apr 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 183 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Brenda Martin 'scared' ahead of hearing: friend</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. Apr. 14  2008  08:05  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: April 14th, 2008</div> <div> <B>Brenda Martin, held in a Mexican prison for over two years on fraud charges, is on edge ahead of her final hearing Monday, says her best friend.</B></div> <bR> <div> "She's scared, she's very nervous, this will be the first time that she really gets up in court and can say something," Debra Tieleman, who spoke to Martin yesterday, told CTV's Canada AM on Monday.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="cc98a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Brenda Martin walks back to her cell after an exclusive interview with CTV's W-FIVE from a Guadalajara prison in Mexico.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 708 WIDTH="707"><div> Martin has been held in custody since February 2006. She is accused of knowingly accepting illicit funds from an Internet fraud scheme operated by Alyn Waage. Martin had been Waage's chef until she was fired.</div> <bR> <div> Waage, in prison in the U.S., has issued an affidavit in support of Martin, who has long professed her innocence.</div> <bR> <div> "I've seen the document that has all of the evidence and it's totally circumstantial and, in fact, in Canada she probably wouldn't have even been held overnight," Tieleman said from Kitchener, Ont.</div> <bR> <div> The judge has reportedly said he will try to issue a ruling by April 18, if possible.</div> <bR> <div> If found guilty, Martin faces a prison sentence of at least five years.</div> <bR> <div> Marco Pelaez, a Guadalajara lawyer, explained to CTV.ca on Sunday that the final hearing is normally little more than a ceremonial function in the Mexican legal system, where the judge calls an end to evidence being considered.</div> <bR> <div> Normally, a judge will deliver a ruling within 15 to 30 days from the final hearing but Pelaez said because of the attention on this case there might be special circumstances.</div> <bR> <div> The prosecution has reportedly handed in thousands of pages of documents but Martin's defence team has said that there is no direct evidence against their client.</div> <bR> <div> Pelaez said that Martin's length of time in prison waiting for a verdict was not abnormal for federal cases in Mexico.</div> <bR> <div> "I've been practicing law for nine years and two years is not that unusual, unfortunately," he said.</div> <bR> <div> According to the U.S. embassy in Mexico, in the Mexican legal system, there are no oral arguments by lawyers or live witnesses testifying.</div> <bR> <div> Lawyers hand in evidence in the form of written arguments and witness statements are handed to the judge in written statement.</div> <bR> <div> Also, in Mexico, the onus is on the defence to prove their client's innocence.</div> <bR> <div> Martin has complained of deteriorating mental and physical health as a result of her incarceration. Some of her supporters have expressed fear for her life.</div> <bR> <div> The 51-year-old, originally from Trenton, Ont., has also been critical of Canadian government efforts to help her.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="13"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Apr 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 379 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Mountie calls contempt process 'kangaroo court'</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. Apr. 13  2008  13:50  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: April 13th, 2008</div> <div> <B>RCMP deputy commissioner Barbara George said Sunday that she's being punished for refusing to apologize for something she didn't do.</B></div> <bR> <div> On Thursday, George became the first person in 95 years to be held in contempt of Parliament after a vote that ruled she deliberately misled MPs during an appearance before the Public Accounts Committee in 2007. The vote was supported by all four party House leaders.</div> <bR> <div> During a committee appearance in early 2007, George testified she had nothing to do with the removal of Staff Sgt. Mike Frizzell from a team probing how the RCMP's pension fund and insurance plans were operated.</div> <bR> <div> E-mails and other testimony later contradicted her story, but she again asserted her innocence in a committee appearance in December.</div> <bR> <div> "I would not and I never will tell them I misled them or lied to them," she said while appearing on CTV's <I>Question Period</I>. "I will not create a lie to save some embarrassment for committee members of Parliament. I stand by every word I said."</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="cc95a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> RCMP deputy commissioner Barbara George appears on CTV's Question Period on April 13, 2008, three days after being cited for contempt of Parliament.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="cc96a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Conservative MP John Williams has said the committee chose to pursue contempt because it was the only option available.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 521 WIDTH="707"><div> Members of the Public Accounts Committee said they pursued a contempt ruling because it was the only option available to sanction George for what they saw as untruthful testimony.</div> <bR> <div> "It's the only recourse that we have. There is nothing else," John Williams, a Conservative MP on the committee, told <I>The Globe and Mail</I> last week. "We can't say, 'Well, we have a choice between a fine, imprisonment, admonishment' or anything ... That is the only thing that we can do."</div> <bR> <div> The ruling cannot be appealed. George did not have the opportunity to present her side to Parliament and said she has learned that MPs were only given selected documents from her committee hearings.</div> <bR> <div> "I was not able to cross-examine my accusers," said George. "Nobody ever pointed to evidence that was in my favour and there was a great deal of documentation that was never translated due to time constraints.</div> <bR> <div> "The term 'kangaroo court' has been used. I have no argument with that term."</div> <bR> <div> While declining the suggestion she may have been treated differently because she is a woman, George pointed out that there were no women on the committee that recommended her for contempt proceedings.</div> <bR> <div> "I'm just saying, 'here was this woman before these 12 angry men,'" she said.</div> <bR> <div> She also said committee members changed regularly, so there was no sense of continuity among those trying to persecute her.</div> <bR> <div> George is not expected to serve any jail time but says her life has been turned upside down by the accusations. She doesn't yet know if and when she'll be headed back to work.</div> <bR> <div> "I have to maintain my strength and my dignity," she said. "And I have to fight this with every fibre of my body."</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="12"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Apr 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 126 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Canadians see negative side to Facebook: poll</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat.Apr. 12  2008  10:27  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: April 12th, 2008</div> <div> <B>TORONTO -- It's emerged as one of the most popular ways to connect with friends, family and long-lost acquaintances, but nearly one-quarter of Canadians believe Facebook has played a more negative than positive role in society, a new poll suggests.</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="ca7fa0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 807 WIDTH="707"><div> The Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey, conducted March 27 to 30, asked more than 1,000 people about the social networking site's impact on society.</div> <bR> <div> While 40 per cent said Facebook was a positive force, 24 per cent said it played a more negative role. The remainder declined to take a stand.</div> <bR> <div> "There's no question it looks, to a certain number of people, as something that can be used as much for negative purposes as for positive purposes," Harris-Decima spokesman Bruce Anderson said Friday from Ottawa.</div> <bR> <div> "There've been plenty of stories obviously in the media over the last couple of years about cyber-bullying of one sort or another and I think that's part of what we're picking up a reaction to."</div> <bR> <div> Since launching as a university-only website in 2004, Facebook has exploded into a cultural phenomenon claiming to have more than 70 million users worldwide.</div> <bR> <div> In recent years, it's faced criticism over privacy concerns and controversy over online bullying.</div> <bR> <div> Most of its users tend to be young, the survey suggests, with more than half of people younger than 25 reporting they used Facebook, compared to only 10 per cent of those age 50 and older.</div> <bR> <div> Not surprisingly, the poll also suggests there is a generation gap in how Facebook is perceived, with younger people more likely to value the service.</div> <bR> <div> Sixty-seven per cent of participants younger than 25 saw it in a positive light, while only 27 per cent of those 50 and older felt the same way.</div> <bR> <div> "Familiarity breeds a higher degree of comfort and acceptance and positivity towards these new technologies and older people may be less familiar with them and feel more indifferent," said Anderson, who noted that roughly half of the older group declined altogether from taking a side.</div> <bR> <div> "This looks like a situation where there's probably some of that but also maybe ... (there's) older people who haven't experienced the positive effects of Facebook but hear the news stories about some of the negative aspects (and) may be accentuating the negative a little bit more."</div> <bR> <div> Those who saw Facebook in a negative light included 22 per cent of the younger group and 26 per cent of the older group.</div> <bR> <div> The survey also found 26 per cent of those polled said they used Facebook, while only 17 per cent had never heard of it.</div> <bR> <div> Overall, 73 per cent of those who said they used Facebook saw it as having a positive influence, while 12 per cent felt it was negative. Among non-users, 29 per cent felt that Facebook was playing a positive role in society, while 27 per cent felt its role was negative.</div> <bR> <div> The survey polled more than 1,000 people and has a margin of error of 3.1 per cent, 19 times out of 20.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="11"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Apr 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 351 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Pregnant teen to testify in case against boyfriend</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri.Apr. 11  2008  07:51  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: April 11th, 2008</div> <div> <B>A 19-year-old pregnant teenager, jailed because officials feared she wouldn't testify at her boyfriend's assault trial, will be in court today.</B></div> <bR> <div> Noellee Mowatt, who is not charged with anything and has no criminal record, has been held in a Toronto-area jail for more than a week.</div> <bR> <div> In December, Mowatt called police alleging that her partner, Christopher Harbin, had assaulted her.</div> <bR> <div> But a judge later issued an order for her arrest over fears she wouldn't testify against Harbin at his trial.</div> <bR> <div> Mowatt, who said she hopes Harbin is acquitted because she wants to start a life together with him, was picked up by police on April 1.</div> <bR> <div> Mowatt expects to be released from custody today after Harbin's trial.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="cc8aa0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Noellee Mowatt, a pregnant teen, was taken into custody and put in jail in Milton, Ont., just west of Toronto on April 1, 2008.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="cc8ba0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Lawyer Lydia Riva speaking on CTV's Canada AM, Thursday, April 10, 2008.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 376 WIDTH="707"><div> Her lawyer, Lydia Riva, is calling the situation unacceptable.</div> <bR> <div> "Ms. Mowatt should have had bail," Riva told CTV News on Thursday. "We offered a very strict bail, with house arrest. Ms. Mowatt said that she would report daily to the police division.</div> <bR> <div> "She also said that she would attend (court) on April 11. All of those conditions were offered and yet rejected and ultimately she was detained."</div> <bR> <div> Riva added: "Ms. Mowatt is very pregnant and she's now in a jail, a place where we house people who have committed serious criminal offences."</div> <bR> <div> Riva said Mowatt never received a subpoena before she was detained by police. But she conceded that the Criminal Code allows warrants to be issued when there's evidence that someone is evading a subpoena or that they might not respond to a subpoena if it were to be issued.</div> <bR> <div> Mowatt is due to give birth next Tuesday.</div> <bR> <div> Harbin is facing eight charges, including four counts of assault, one of forcible confinement and an assault with a weapon charge.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="10"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Apr 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 238 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Ottawa rejects sale of leading space company</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu.Apr. 10  2008  07:42  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: April 10th, 2008</div> <div> <B>OTTAWA -- The federal government has rejected the controversial sale of Canada's most famous space technology to an American arms maker.</B></div> <bR> <div> Industry Minister Jim Prentice confirmed Thursday morning that he wrote to Alliant Techsystems Inc. on April 8 to advise the U.S. company that, "based on the information received at this time,'' he is not satisfied that the proposed sale of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. is likely to be of net benefit to Canada.</div> <bR> <div> Minnesota-based Aliant has 30 days "to make representations and submit undertakings'' in an attempt to alter this decision.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="cc83a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Astronaut Julie Payette responds to a question next to Industry Minister Jim Prentice and astronaut Robert Thirsk, right, during a news conference in Montreal on Monday, Feb. 11, 2008. (Paul Chiasson / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 145 WIDTH="707"><div> The most valued asset in the proposed $1.325-billion transaction is the taxpayer-subsidized Radarsat 2 satellite.</div> <bR> <div> MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates of Vancouver wants to sell its entire space division, including the Radarsat 2, Canadarm and Dextre, to Alliant.</div> <bR> <div> The deal has faced growing condemnation over national security and sovereignty concerns.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="09"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Apr 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 183 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Complaint filed against Diana's butler</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed.Apr. 09  2008  06:27  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: April 9th, 2008</div> <div> <B>LONDON -- London's police force is considering whether to investigate former royal butler Paul Burrell for alleged perjury, officials confirmed Wednesday.</B></div> <bR> <div> Although the judge who led a six-month inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed decided against asking for a police investigation of Burrell, the force said an unidentified person had filed a complaint.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="cc7da0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Former butler to Princess Diana's, Paul Burrell, appears during a television taping on Monday Aug. 13, 2007. (AP / Richard Drew)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 596 WIDTH="707"><div> "In view of the complaint received, the Metropolitan Police Service has a duty to look at whether Paul Burrell should be considered for perjury," said a spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with department policy.</div> <bR> <div> "In considering this matter, we will of course take note of the coroner's decision not to refer this matter to us."</div> <bR> <div> Hours earlier, Fayed's father, Mohamed Al Fayed, announced that he was ending his long and costly campaign to prove his belief that his son and the princess were murdered by British secret agents.</div> <bR> <div> The couple, along with their driver, died in a car crash in Paris in 1997.</div> <bR> <div> The inquest jury on Monday ruled that the Diana and Fayed were unlawfully killed through the reckless actions of their chauffeur and the paparazzi photographers who pursued them, and because their driver had been drinking.</div> <bR> <div> Al Fayed said in an interview with ITV that he would not pursue the case further.</div> <bR> <div> "Now with the verdict I accept it, but with reservations," he said. "I'm leaving the rest for God to get my revenge."</div> <bR> <div> Burrell spent three days on the witness stand at the inquest. After returning to the United States, he was caught on a hidden camera saying he had not told the whole truth during his testimony at the inquest.</div> <bR> <div> The coroner was scathing in his assessment of Burrell's testimony.</div> <bR> <div> "You heard him in the witness box, and even without what he said subsequently in the hotel room in New York, it was blindingly obvious, wasn't it, that the evidence that he gave in this courtroom was not the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?" Baker told jurors.</div> <bR> <div> Burrell had refused to return to London to explain himself to the inquest, but he sent a written statement denying that he had lied in his testimony.</div> <bR> <div> "At the time of the secretly recorded conversation, I was tired, depressed and had been drinking all evening," Burrell said. "I was showing off. I am not proud of this."</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="08"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Apr 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 393 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Manhunt continues for slain children's father</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue.Apr. 08  2008  08:09  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: April 8th, 2008</div> <div> <B>The bodies of three murdered children have been removed from their home as the search continues for their father.</B></div> <bR> <div> RCMP suspects that Allan Dwayne Schoenborn, 40, may have disappeared into the bush surrounding the southern B.C. community of Merritt, CTV's Rob Brown told Canada AM on Tuesday.</div> <bR> <div> "We are in ranch land, densely forested territory, and the RCMP suspects Schoenborn may have taken his dog with him and gone into the bush," he said.</div> <bR> <div> However, they have also alerted police in Calgary about the possibility that Schoenborn could be headed there, Brown said.</div> <bR> <div> The children's bodies were found by their mother on Sunday afternoon after she returned from buying some groceries.</div> <bR> <div> They are believed to have been stabbed to death, but CTV British Columbia's Michele Brunoro reported Monday that the RCMP has not yet confirmed that information.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="cc77a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Allan Dwayne Schoenborn, the father of the three children who were found deceased, is being sought in connection with the triple homicide in Merritt, B.C. on Sunday, April 6, 2008. (RCMP)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="cc78a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> RCMP investigators prepare to enter a mobile home in Merritt, B.C. on Monday, April 7, 2008. (Richard Lam / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 762 WIDTH="707"><div> The coroner arrived at the mobile home park late Monday and removed the bodies of Kaitlynne, 10, Cordon, 5, and Max, 8, by about 11 p.m. PT.</div> <bR> <div> On Monday afternoon, police announced they were looking for the children's father.</div> <bR> <div> "Although it appears to be a targeted offence, police are requesting that the public not approach Schoenborn if located as he may be dangerous and has suffered from a mental illness," police said in a news release.</div> <bR> <div> More than 20 officers are working on finding Schoenborn.</div> <bR> <div> "We're using every resource we have available to find him," RCMP Const. Julie Rattee told a news conference in Merritt on Monday.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Troubles in Vancouver</B></div> <bR> <div> On Monday, police in Vancouver checked out some of Schoenborn's previously known locations.</div> <bR> <div> Russ Hobbs, a roofing inspector, met Schoenborn on the job and told CTV British Columbia on Monday that "he seemed normal."</div> <bR> <div> But neighbours of the man's former home in East Vancouver said the couple's marriage appeared to be in difficulty last summer.</div> <bR> <div> The wife and children moved to Merritt last summer.</div> <bR> <div> The children attended Diamond Vale elementary school in Merritt, and Schoenborn had been involved in an incident there last week.</div> <bR> <div> Kaitlynne, a newcomer to the school, had been bullied "because of what she wore and because she was new," said Kendra Bennett, a friend of the deceased girl.</div> <bR> <div> Schoenborn, who had recently arrived in Merritt, went to the school and confronted a student and the principal.</div> <bR> <div> The RCMP arrested Schoenborn for making threats. A court order was issued Thursday barring the man from contacting the principal and students of the school. However, the court didn't bar Schoenborn from seeing his own children.</div> <bR> <div> In addition, The Canadian Press reported that police picked Schoenborn up two other times last week -- once on an outstanding warrant for driving while prohibited and once for intoxication.</div> <bR> <div> Schoenborn has had other brushes with the law in recent years.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from CTV British Columbia and The Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="07"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Apr 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 196 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Leslie Feist feasts on top Juno Awards</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun.Apr. 06  2008  22:51  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: April 7th, 2008</div> <div> <B>Moments into Sunday's Juno Awards broadcast, Calgarian Leslie Feist was already on her way to fulfilling expectations she would be the evening's favourite.</B></div> <bR> <div> The indie songstress handily took home the first award of the night, earning single of the year for catchy pop ditty "1 2 3 4." She was soon back on stage accepting the best pop album prize for "The Reminder" and capped off the evening by receiving the much-lauded album of the year prize.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="cc6fa0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Leslie Feist holds five trophies during the Juno Awards in Calgary on Sunday, April 6, 2008. (Larry Macdougal / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 264 WIDTH="707"><div> "There's many more Feists than me and most of them are here," she said, gesturing to her brother, sister and father in the audience after accepting the pop album prize. "I want to thank you all."</div> <bR> <div> Just one night earlier, Feist accepted the songwriter of the year and best artist prizes at Saturday's industry-only dinner, sweeping all five categories in which she was nominated.</div> <bR> <div> The humble singer, who emerged in Canada's mainstream consciousness after winning the 2005 Juno for best new artist, earned the Junos after a year of remarkable commercial success, including a Grammy nomination and a starring role in a high-rotation iPod commercial.</div> <bR> <div> "I guess I should acknowledge the fact I was at the Grammy Awards. You may have heard of them -- the American version of this," she said backstage after the show. "This is just better, not because I won a bunch of them -- thanks for that -- but because it's more comfortable."</div> <bR> <div> <B>Buble praises snack food</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 281 WIDTH="540"><div> The Juno Fan Choice Award sponsor got more than it bargained for with smooth-talking winner Michael Buble, who spent much of his time at the podium pontificating on the merits of Doritos chips.</div> <bR> <div> "I'd like to thank Doritos for making such tasty treats," the five-time-nominated crooner told the crowd after first thanking his fans. "Sometimes when I eat them, my fingers go orange -- but it's worth it."</div> <bR> <div> "This is for all the people who said I couldn't vote for myself enough times to win," Buble added with a playful smile.</div> <bR> <div> Stadium rock band Triumph was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, joining greats such as Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and the Guess Who.</div> <bR> <div> "They showed us how to put as many epic guitar solos in one song as possible," said presenter Tom Cochrane.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="cc70a0b40.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="180" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Michael Buble jumps with his Juno award for Juno Fan Choice Award during the Juno Awards in Calgary on Sunday, April 6, 2008. (Larry Macdougal / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 678 WIDTH="707"><div> Despite forming in 2001, Halifax indie quintet Wintersleep won best new group. Blue Rodeo earned the best group award, after taking the best adult alternative album category for ''Small Miracles'' and best video for ''C'mon" on Saturday. The best country recording Juno went to singer Paul Brandt for hit single "Risk."</div> <bR> <div> Saturday's winners included Serena Ryder for best new artist, Finger Eleven for best rock album and Montreal's Arcade Fire, winning the alternative album category for their "Neon Bible," which also won in the artwork category.</div> <bR> <div> Despite a hefty showing in the nominations department, industry veterans Avril Lavigne and Celine Dion did not garner any awards.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Peters gets the party started</B></div> <bR> <div> Hosted by Brampton, Ont.-born comic Russell Peters, the event was held at Calgary's Saddledome, a uniquely shaped stadium meant to be reminiscent of the city's cow-herding roots.</div> <bR> <div> "I never thought I would play at a place that looks like a pantyliner," Peters told red carpet host Ben Mulroney as he arrived at the gala event.</div> <bR> <div> The funnyman kicked off the night with a few jabs at event organizers and his own South Asian roots. Pointing out the set's post-apocalyptic theme of oil drums and dinosaur bones, he noted they would "let a brown guy host, but the world has to end first."</div> <bR> <div> "South Asians are now the largest visible minority group in Canada," he added, referring to recent census statistics. "You know what that means, Calgary. Pretty soon your cowboys are going to be Indians."</div> <bR> <div> Just to drive the point home, Peters emerged later in the show looking mildly uncomfortable in a Calgary Stampede-style cowboy ensemble.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Star-studded arrival</B></div> <bR> <div> As Canada's biggest music stars flowed into the Saddledome for the broadcast, the mood was one of confidence, glamour and achievement -- painting a picture of a music industry that had come into its own.</div> <bR> <div> The internationally known names on the performance roster compounded the feeling. The evening's entertainment included numbers by Feist, Buble, Lavigne, crooning punkers Hedley, R & B diva Jully Black, soprano Measha Brueggergosman, Canadian icon Anne Murray and head-banging alt-rockers Finger Eleven.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from Saira Peesker</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="06"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Apr 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 511 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Legendary actor Charlton Heston dead at age 84</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun.Apr. 06  2008  10:52  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: April 6th, 2008</div> <div> <B>Charlton Heston, the Oscar-winning actor who starred in some of Hollywood's greatest epics, has died at age 84.</B></div> <bR> <div> Heston passed away at home in Beverly Hills on Saturday night. His wife Lydia was at his side, said Bill Powers, a family spokesperson.</div> <bR> <div> Powers wouldn't give any further details, such as a cause of death.</div> <bR> <div> Heston admitted in 2002 that he had symptoms consistent with Alzheimer's disease.</div> <bR> <div> "I must reconcile courage and surrender in equal measure," he said.</div> <bR> <div> "Charlton Heston was seen by the world as larger than life. He was known for his chiseled jaw, broad shoulders and resonating voice, and, of course, for the roles he played," Heston's family said in a statement.</div> <bR> <div> "No one could ask for a fuller life than his. No man could have given more to his family, to his profession and to his country."</div> <bR> <div> Publicist Michael Levine described Heston's passing as the end of an era.</div> <bR> <div> "If Hollywood had a Mt. Rushmore, Heston's face would be on it," Levine said. "He was a heroic figure that I don't think exists to the same degree in Hollywood today."</div> <bR> <div> Heston once said about himself: "I have a face that belongs in another century."</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="cc6ca0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Actor Charlton Heston is shown in this August 1993 photo. (AP Photo/Wyatt Counts, FILE)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="cc6da0dc0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="220" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> U.S. President Bush, right, congratulates actor Charlton Heston, after presenting him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in the East Room of the White House Wednesday, July 23, 2003. (AP / Charles Dharapak)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 283 WIDTH="540"><div> His roles included:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Moses in Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments" (his then-newborn son, Fraser Clarke Heston, also appeared in the film as the infant Moses);</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">John the Baptist in "The Greatest Story Ever Told";</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Michelangelo in "The Agony and the Ecstasy"; and</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Judah Ben-Hur in "Ben-Hur".</div> <bR> <div> Heston would win his one and only Academy Award in 1959 for his portrayal of a Jewish prince betrayed by a Roman friend and sent into slavery in "Ben-Hur."</div> <bR> <div> "Ben-Hur" has a famous chariot race sequence within it, and Heston bristled at any suggestion the 11-minute sequence had been shot with a double.</div> <bR> <div> "I couldn't drive it well, but that wasn't necessary," said Heston, who practiced for two months.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="cc6ea0dc0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="220" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Actor Charlton Heston poses in character, in the title role of the motion picture 'Ben-Hur,' on April 29, 1958. (AP)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 509 WIDTH="707"><div> "All I had to do was stay on board so they could shoot me there. I didn't have to worry; MGM guaranteed I would win the race."</div> <bR> <div> Other films would include:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">"Touch of Evil";</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">"The Big Country";</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">"El Cid"; and</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">"Planet of the Apes".</div> <bR> <div> In his later years, he had cameo appearances in films like "Tombstone" and "Wayne's World 2."</div> <bR> <div> Heston also worked in theatre and had a role as a tycoon in "The Colbys," a 1980s primetime soap spun off from "Dynasty."</div> <bR> <div> <B>Early life</B></div> <bR> <div> Heston was born Charles Carter on Oct. 4, 1923. His parents moved from a Chicago suburb to St. Helen, Mich., where his father Russell operated a lumber mill.</div> <bR> <div> The youngster had few playmates in the isolated location. His pastimes were reading adventure books and wandering the woods with his rifle.</div> <bR> <div> His birth parents divorced. His mother married Chester Heston and took the boy with her to Wilmette, Ill., a north Chicago suburb.</div> <bR> <div> Going from the country back to the city was tough on Charlton. He gravitated to his high school's drama department.</div> <bR> <div> "What acting offered me was the chance to be many other people," he said in a 1986 interview. "In those days I wasn't satisfied with being me."</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 648 WIDTH="707"><div> He started calling himself Charlton Heston, using his mother's maiden name and stepfather's last name. He won a drama scholarship to Northwestern University in 1941, joined the Army in 1943 and married Lydia in 1944. They would stay married for 64 years.</div> <bR> <div> Besides their son Fraser, they also had a daughter, Holly Ann, born in 1961.</div> <bR> <div> His early work as an actor came in TV soap operas and dramas. Producer Hal Wallis ("Casablanca") lured him into films in 1950.</div> <bR> <div> When Lydia reminded him they had decided to work in theatre and television, Heston said: "Well, maybe just for one film to see what it's like."</div> <bR> <div> <B>Politics</B></div> <bR> <div> Heston was a staunch conservative in an industry seen as dominated by liberals, although he marched in support of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and would be given a honourary Oscar in 1978 for his humanitarian work.</div> <bR> <div> He became president of the National Rifle Association in 1998, proclaiming his rifle could only be taken from "my cold, dead hands" and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2003 -- the highest civilian honour in the United States.</div> <bR> <div> "The largeness of character that comes across the screen has also been seen throughout his life," U.S. President George Bush said in issuing the honour.</div> <bR> <div> Heston publicly feuded with Ed Asner, a liberal, when Asner was president of the Screen Actors Guild. He was "ambushed" by liberal documentary filmmaker Michael Moore in the Oscar-winning film "Bowling for Columbine."</div> <bR> <div> Heston opposed affirmative action and blasted Actors Equity when the union wouldn't allow a white actor to play a Eurasian role in "Miss Saigon," saying the move was "obscenely racist."</div> <bR> <div> He criticized CNN's reports from Baghdad during the 1991 Gulf War, saying they "sowed doubt" about the allied war effort.</div> <div> Time-Warner came under fire for an album by rapper Ice-T that Heston saw as encouraging cop killing.</div> <bR> <div> Heston wrote in "In the Arena," one of his many books, that he was proud of taking that stance -- "though now I'll surely never be offered another film by Warners, nor get a good review in Time. On the other hand, I doubt I'll get a traffic ticket very soon."</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="05"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Apr 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 95 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>'Black hole' machine could destroy planet: lawsuit</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat.Apr. 05  2008  07:04  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: April 5th, 2008</div> <div> <B>An American and a Spaniard have launched a lawsuit to stop scientists from firing up a machine they fear could destroy not just life on Earth but the planet itself.</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="cc6aa05a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 492 WIDTH="707"><div> International scientists, including dozens from Canada, are about to launch the <U>Large Hadron Collider</U>(LHC), a 27-kilometre-long particle accelerator built near Geneva, Switzerland. It will shoot beams of protons at each other in an effort to recreate conditions that resemble what the universe might have been like in the milliseconds after the Big Bang.</div> <bR> <div> "We want to probe the most basic particles and constituents (and we're) trying to understand how matter was made," Robert McPherson, a University of Victoria physics professor who is working on the project, told CTV.ca in a phone interview from Vancouver.</div> <bR> <div> In the process, scientists may end up creating miniature black holes -- areas of space that have gravitational pulls so strong that not even light can escape.</div> <bR> <div> The more matter a black hole pulls in, the stronger it becomes. And that's what worries Walter Wagner, the American who is suing to temporarily stop the project. He says the creation of these black holes here on Earth, no matter how small, may unleash a chain reaction that could destroy the planet.</div> <bR> <div> Wagner says there's a possibility that black holes could just get bigger and bigger as they pull more and more matter into themselves.</div> <bR> <div> "Eventually, all of Earth would fall into such growing micro-black-holes, converting Earth into a medium-sized black hole, around which would continue to orbit the moon, satellites, and the (International Space Station)," according to court papers Wagner, along with a citizen of Spain, filed in Honolulu.</div> <bR> <div> In other words, Wagner asserts the LHC is a machine that will end up causing the Earth to eat itself -- perhaps in less than a century. It may sound fantastic, like a plotline out of a James Bond movie where an evil scientist holds the earth for ransom with a deadly weapon, but Wagner says the possibility isn't science fiction.</div> <bR> <div> "Science fiction can be very strange and sometimes it can come very true. This is in the realm of possibilities where fiction can become fact," Wagner told CTV.ca in a telephone interview from his home in Honolulu.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 459 WIDTH="707"><div> Wagner, an education consultant who studied physics at Berkeley, says scientists working on the project haven't done enough studies to make sure the scenario he envisions won't actually occur. The suit -- which is filed against various U.S. agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency -- aims to get a restraining order to stop work on the project until more safety studies are completed.</div> <bR> <div> McPherson admits small black holes may be created, but he says the concerns are overblown. He says there is virtually no possibility that any black hole that scientists may create at the Large Hadron Collider will end up absorbing the Earth.</div> <bR> <div> "Assuming our wildest fantasies, how much matter can one of these black holes consume in a second, in a year, or even in several billion years?" asks McPherson.</div> <bR> <div> "A black hole we could make at the LHC would only consume a tiny fraction of a gram of matter from Earth. There's no possibility of causing any damage to the Earth," he said.</div> <bR> <div> McPherson says the black holes will decay and disappear quickly. He adds that what scientists are trying to do in a laboratory setting at the LHC happens in nature daily.</div> <bR> <div> "The Earth is constantly being bombarded by cosmic rays. Many of them have much higher energies than what we can create with the LHC. If something dangerous was being made in these interactions it would already have happened in cosmic ray interactions," he said.</div> <bR> <div> But that's no comfort to Wagner. He says the LHC is like a factory that creates a waste product without any way to dispose of it. If he's correct, the factory won't get rid of the byproduct. Instead, the byproduct will dispose of the factory -- and everything else.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from Parminder Parmar, CTV.ca News</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="04"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Apr 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 341 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Students injured in Stouffville, Ont. bus crash</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu.Apr. 03  2008  17:40  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: April 4th, 2008</div> <div> <B>A school bus crash north of Toronto injured five children on their way to their elementary school Thursday morning, one suffering injuries police consider serious.</B></div> <bR> <div> A pickup truck struck the 12-seat school bus at about 7:30 a.m., while it was making a left turn onto Stouffville Road from Highway 48.</div> <bR> <div> The bus was carrying nine students between the ages of five and 12 at the time, said OPP Const. Dave Woodford. He said four received minor injuries but one was more seriously hurt, suffering facial injuries and possibly a broken hip.</div> <bR> <div> The truck's driver also received facial injuries, Woodford said, adding everyone hurt in the crash were taken to Markham-Stouffville Hospital.</div> <bR> <div> The pickup had been travelling south on Highway 48 when it hit the turning bus, which then spun out of control, striking a minivan that was waiting for the lights to change at the intersection.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="cc5ba0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Police believe glare may have been a factor in a school bus crash in Stouffville on Thursday morning that injured five children, one seriously.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="cc5ca0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> OPP Const. Dave Woodford.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 381 WIDTH="707"><div> Woodford said police have not determined who had the right of way and are looking for witnesses who remember the colour of the lights at the time of the crash.</div> <bR> <div> He said the 14-year-old girl who suffered the serious injuries may have been sitting by a window that was smashed in by the impact. Her principal said she would be kept in hospital overnight for observation, but is expected to make a full recovery.</div> <bR> <div> The model of school bus was equipped with seatbelts. Police believe the students were wearing the safety restraints and therefore prevented further serious injury.</div> <bR> <div> The four children who were not hurt were picked up by another bus and driven the rest of the way to school.</div> <bR> <div> The kids had been on their way to Académie de la Moraine, a Richmond Hill school for students who speak French as their first language.</div> <bR> <div> Woodford said Ministry of Transportation officials and the OPP reconstruction team attended the scene of the crash.</div> <bR> <div> "We're treating this as a serious collision because there are students involved," Woodford told CTV.ca.</div> <bR> <div> Woodford said glare may have been a factor in the crash as it was a clear and bright morning.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from ctvtoronto.ca & with a report from CTV Toronto's Chris Eby</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="03"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Apr 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 449 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Sealers recall harrowing escape from capsized boat</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed.Apr. 02  2008  20:46  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: April 3rd, 2008</div> <div> <B>At an emotional press conference Wednesday afternoon, the two surviving sealers from a deadly voyage last Saturday described how they managed to get out of their fishing vessel after it capsized.</B></div> <bR> <div> Claude Deraspe and Bruno Pierre Bourque were the only survivors of the L'Acadien II's six-man crew. The boat capsized while it was being towed by the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Sir William Alexander and rammed into an ice flow, flipping over.</div> <bR> <div> Bourque was at the helm at the time of the accident, which occurred off the coast of Cape Breton. He managed to get out alive, but he's mourning the loss of the man he calls his idol, his father, the boat's captain.</div> <bR> <div> Captain Bruno Bourque and sealers Gilles Leblanc and Marc-Andre Deraspe, were below deck sleeping and did not survive the boat's capsizing. Carl Aucoin was standing watch with Bruno Pierre Bourque, but his body was never recovered.</div> <bR> <div> Bourque said everything happened with a great deal of speed.</div> <bR> <div> "The boat hit the chunk of ice and that flipped us instantly,'' Bourque told reporters in Iles-de-la-Madeleine, Que.</div> <bR> <div> "The icebreaker continued to pull."</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="cc58a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Seal hunter Claude Desrape (left), ponders a question as Bruno-Pierre Bourque looks on during a news conference in the Iles-de-la-Madeleine, Que. on Wednesday April 2, 2008. (Marinel LeBlanc / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="cc59a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The Canadian Coast Guard's Sir Wilfred Grenfell, top, stands by the ice-bound Dodd and Sons off Newfoundlands northeast coast on Wednesday, April 18, 2007. (AP PHOTO/CP, Canadian Coast Guard)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 456 WIDTH="707"><div> Water rushed in so fast it was impossible for Bourque and Aucoin to escape through the main door, and they went for the backdoor instead.</div> <bR> <div> "Everything happened very fast," Bourque said. "We're talking about 15 seconds.'"</div> <bR> <div> Bourque said he found himself beneath the upside-down boat with debris on his back. He's not sure how he managed to escape.</div> <bR> <div> "I opened my eyes and I said to myself, `There's no way you're going to stay trapped here,''' he said.</div> <bR> <div> "After that my memory is very hazy until I was pulled from the water beside the upside down boat.'"</div> <bR> <div> Deraspe was just retiring to the sleeping quarters when the accident occurred.</div> <bR> <div> "I got up and yelled, `Get up! Get up!'," Deraspe said.</div> <bR> <div> "I clapped my hands to wake up Marco, Bruno and Gilles.''</div> <bR> <div> He was wearing a T-shirt, shorts and wool socks which were ripped off by the force of the water when he opened a door to try to escape.</div> <bR> <div> When the water filled the cabin to his ears, he reached up, grabbed a last breath and went underwater. In the dark, he felt his way around until he found a window, which he managed to kick out and push away a chunk of ice to escape.</div> <bR> <div> <B>A rescue</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 654 WIDTH="707"><div> After Deraspe surfaced, Wayne Dickson on the Madelinot War Lord, a boat trailing the tow, spotted him grasping on to an ice flow.</div> <bR> <div> "I heard Mr. Dickson yell, 'Come on boys! Come on boys! Another one here!'," Deraspe said.</div> <bR> <div> Bourque was already on the vessel, and Deraspe said he was relieved to see him, but didn't know where everyone else was.</div> <bR> <div> He added that Dickson and his crew saved his life. Dickson, for his part, said he wished he could have done more.</div> <bR> <div> "We were hoping to find some more guys but unfortunately there wasn't any more to surface, and we feel really bad about that," Dickson said at the press conference.</div> <bR> <div> "I'm so sorry we couldn't save them all," he said, his voice cracking.</div> <bR> <div> Dickson has been a vocal critic of the coast guard operation, saying that no one on the boat was watching the tow, which the coast guard has disputed.</div> <bR> <div> "The coast guard vessel didn't seem to be . . . I don't know if they were untrained for that particular situation or what," he added.</div> <bR> <div> On Wednesday, he said that an eager young female coast guard diver wanted to go back and search for Aucoin's body, but that she was turned down by a superior.</div> <bR> <div> Dickson said that his boat continued to search for survivors for hours. When the coast guard ended the search, they cut L'Acadien II loose, leaving it bobbing near the surface.</div> <bR> <div> The incident is under investigation but the RCMP said Wednesday that it was not expecting to lay any criminal charges.</div> <bR> <div> On Saturday, the three men whose bodies were returned to their hometown will have a joint funeral.</div> <bR> <div> The community has pressured Ottawa to resume the search for Aucoin, so his family has someone to bury.</div> <bR> <div> His mother told CTV News that she has "rage in her heart" over the coast guards decision to call off the search for her son after only 12 hours.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from CTV's Jed Kahane and files from the Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="02"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Apr 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 252 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Third-graders accused of plot to attack teacher</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed.Apr. 02  2008  08:10  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: April 2nd, 2008</div> <div> <B>WAYCROSS, Ga. -- A group of third-graders plotted to attack their teacher, bringing a broken steak knife, handcuffs, duct tape and other items for the job and assigning children tasks including covering the windows and cleaning up afterward, police said Tuesday.</B></div> <bR> <div> The plot by as many as nine boys and girls at Center Elementary School in south Georgia was a serious threat, Waycross Police Chief Tony Tanner said.</div> <bR> <div> "We did not hear anybody say they intended to kill her, but could they have accidentally killed her? Absolutely," Tanner said. "We feel like if they weren't interrupted, there would have been an attempt. Would they have been successful? We don't know."</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="cc4ea0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A group of third-graders plotted to attack their teacher, and a broken steak knife, handcuffs, duct tape and other items are seen in this photo provided by Chief of Police Tony Tanner of Waycross, Ga., Tuesday, April 1, 2008. (AP / Waycross Georgia Police Department)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 538 WIDTH="707"><div> The children, ages 8 and 9, were apparently mad at the teacher because she had scolded one of them for standing on a chair, Tanner said. A prosecutor said they are too young to be charged with a crime under Georgia law.</div> <bR> <div> School officials alerted police Friday after a pupil tipped off a teacher that a girl had brought a weapon to school, Tanner said.</div> <bR> <div> Police seized a broken steak knife, handcuffs, duct tape, electrical and transparent tape, ribbons and a crystal paperweight from the students, who apparently intended to use them against the teacher, Tanner said.</div> <bR> <div> Nine children have been given discipline up to and including long-term suspension, said Theresa Martin, spokeswoman for the Ware County school system. She would not be more specific but said none of the children had been back to school since the case came to light.</div> <bR> <div> The purported target is a veteran educator who teaches third-grade students with learning disabilities including attention deficit disorder, delayed development and hyperactivity, friends and parents said.</div> <bR> <div> The scheme involved a division of roles, Tanner said. One child's job was to cover windows so no one could see outside, he said. Another was supposed to clean up after the attack.</div> <bR> <div> "We're not sure at this point in the investigation how many of the students actually knew the intent was to hurt the teacher," Tanner said.</div> <bR> <div> The parents of the students have cooperated with investigators, who aren't allowed to question the children without their parents' or guardians' consent, he said. Authorities have withheld the children's names.</div> <bR> <div> Police expected to forward the results of their investigation to prosecutors, Tanner said.</div> <bR> <div> Children in Georgia can't be charged with a crime unless they are at least 13, District Attorney Rick Currie said.</div> <bR> <div> Martin told The Florida Times-Union of Jacksonville, Fla., that administrators would follow school system policy and state law in disciplining the students.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 269 WIDTH="707"><div> "From what I understand, they were considered pretty good kids," Martin said. "But we have to take this seriously, whether they were serious or not about carrying this through, and that's what we did."</div> <bR> <div> Four mothers of other third-grade students at Center Elementary called for the immediate expulsion of the suspected plotters.</div> <bR> <div> Stacy Carter and Deana Hiott both cited school system policy stating that any student who brings "anything reasonably considered to be a weapon" is to be expelled for at least the remainder of the school year.</div> <bR> <div> "We don't want our children around them," Carter told the Times-Union. "The one with the knife could have stabbed my child or someone else's child at lunch or out on the playground."</div> <bR> <div> "This is an isolated incident, an aberration. ... We have good kids," Center Principal Angie Coleman told the newspaper.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="01"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Apr 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 351 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Dallaire accuses Canada of hypocrisy on Khadr case</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue.Apr. 01  2008  07:54  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: April 1st, 2008</div> <div> <B>Liberal Senator Romeo Dallaire is accusing Canada of hypocrisy for "abandoning" Omar Khadr after his capture by U.S. forces in 2002.</B></div> <bR> <div> Khadr is the Canadian child soldier who was captured by the U.S. in Afghanistan when he was 15 and taken to a prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.</div> <bR> <div> Dallaire, a UN peacekeeper in Rwanda in the 1990s, says Canada is trying to help rehabilitate and reintegrate child soldiers around the world, but has done nothing to help one of its own citizens.</div> <bR> <div> "In the case of (Khadr), a Canadian child soldier in an American illegal prison ... we've backed off from taking that role and responsibility," the retired general told CTV's Canada AM on Tuesday.</div> <bR> <div> Khadr, the Toronto-born son of an alleged al Qaeda financier, was captured by U.S. soldiers in July 2002 following a firefight in Afghanistan.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="bb09a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> This photo of Omar Khadr was taken before he was imprisoned and distributed by his mother, Maha Khadr.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="caaba0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Romeo Dallaire, speaks on Canada AM on Tuesday, April 1, 2008.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 517 WIDTH="707"><div> The teen was eventually transferred to Guantanamo Bay following allegations he threw a grenade during the firefight, killing a U.S. soldier.</div> <bR> <div> Dallaire says the fact that Canada has not stepped in to help one of its own citizens may be due to the fact that Khadr's late father had alleged terrorist ties.</div> <bR> <div> "(But) that is totally irrelevant of the situation. If your father is a criminal, that does not implicate you of being necessarily part of the crime. On the contrary, if you are a child who has been brought into that process, then we treat you as a juvenile and act accordingly," Dallaire said.</div> <bR> <div> Lt.-Cmdr. William Kuebler, Khadr's U.S. military lawyer, has said Canada should "follow the lead of every other western country" and demand Khadr's repatriation to face justice here. Australian, French, and British citizens who were held at Guantanamo have been sent back to their home countries.</div> <bR> <div> Khadr remains the sole Westerner still held at the prison, where his lawyers have alleged he has been tortured.</div> <bR> <div> Human rights officials, opposition parties, and the Canadian Bar Association have called on the Conservative government to take steps to make sure Khadr is treated fairly. Since his capture, he has been in a legal limbo.</div> <bR> <div> The U.S. government has had various attempts to try Khadr within its military system thwarted by the courts, which have questioned the legality of military tribunals.</div> <bR> <div> Dallaire says Canada needs to step up and help one of its citizens. He says the world is watching to see if Ottawa has dropped its commitment to human rights.</div> <bR> <div> "They are watching us because they don't know where Canada is going in the whole realm of human rights ... generally, this government is making it appear that human rights is not within its parameters," Dallaire said.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff </div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <A HREF="#top" TITLE="Apr 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>