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<tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#14" TITLE="Sep 08"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Rush to judgment' in deadly California rail crash?</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 14/09/08</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#13" TITLE="Sep 08"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Has Toronto's film festival become too elitist?</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 13/09/08</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#12" TITLE="Sep 08"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Mediterranean diet lowers risk of death from disease</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 12/09/08</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 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SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Southeast states, Maritimes brace for Hanna</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 05/09/08</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#04" TITLE="Sep 08"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Sony announces global recall of Vaio laptops</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 04/09/08</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#03" TITLE="Sep 08"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Palin to take centre stage as questions swirl</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 03/09/08</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#02" TITLE="Sep 08"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Evacuees anxious to return home after Gustav</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 02/09/08</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#01" TITLE="Sep 08"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Gustav slams into shore as Category 2 hurricane</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 01/09/08</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <div> =======================</div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="705" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="707"><div>  <A NAME="30"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 574 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Bush to address bailout as global markets shaky</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue. Sept. 30 2008  08:21  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 30th, 2008</div> <div> <B>Asian stock markets fell Tuesday as nervous investors reacted to the rejection of a US$700 billion Wall Street rescue plan by U.S. legislators.</B></div> <bR> <div> Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock 225 index slumped 4.12 per cent to close at 11,259.86 -- the lowest level since June 2005.</div> <bR> <div> In Australia, the S&P/ASX-200 index shed 4.3 per cent after falling as much as 5.3 per cent.</div> <bR> <div> Despite the turmoil, many indices erased early losses as trading progressed. Hong Kong's market made a dramatic turnaround, closing slightly higher than Monday's finish.</div> <bR> <div> Meanwhile, in Europe, markets opened mixed on Tuesday.</div> <bR> <div> Britain's FTSE 100 changed little at 4,817.79 and France's CAC was up 0.3 per cent.</div> <bR> <div> "The people in this country went to bed last night believing the rescue package would go through in Washington," CTV's Tom Kennedy reported Tuesday from London. "They woke up this morning with the shock of realizing that it did not go through."</div> <bR> <div> Kennedy said European markets remain volatile but they're showing resilience.</div> <bR> <div> "There's just a huge question mark here... about what's going to happen in the U.S.," he said.</div> <bR> <div> On Monday, Republicans and Democrats blamed each other for the defeat of a US$700-billion bailout plan.</div> <bR> <div> The deal has been under intense discussions since last week, with legislators negotiating late into the night Sunday before they came up with a tentative agreement.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d5eca0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> U.S. President Bush speaks from the White House, in a pre-market open address, Tuesday morning, Sept. 30, 2008.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d5efa0690.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="105" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A trader pauses to think as the electronic board shows figures in color red during trading at the Philippine Stock Exchange in Manila's financial district of Makati on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008. (AP / Pat Roque)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d5eea0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> People look at the updated stock prices in downtown Tokyo Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008. (AP / Koji Sasahara)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 430 WIDTH="707"><div> If passed, it would have allowed the federal government to purchase mortgage-banked assets from struggling lenders, once again giving them the ability to offer loans, stimulating the economy and helping head off a recession.</div> <bR> <div> In total, 228 House members voted against the deal, compared to 205 who supported the bailout plan.</div> <bR> <div> "This is a very unpopular measure in the United States," CTV's Tom Clark reported Tuesday from Washington. "A lot of these Congressmen are up for re-election in November. They want to be able to go back to their constituents and say 'I voted against this bill.'"</div> <bR> <div> After it was rejected, the Dow Jones plummeted to its biggest point-drop in history Monday.</div> <bR> <div> After the markets closed, the Dow had fallen a staggering 777.68 points to finish at 10365.45 -- surpassing the previous worse point-drop in 2001 of about 684 points.</div> <bR> <div> Toronto's S&P/TSX index was down 840.93 points to 11,285.07 in afternoon trading Monday, its biggest drop in nearly eight years.</div> <bR> <div> Top congressional and White House officials are now scrambling to create a new bailout proposal but the House is not scheduled to meet again until Thursday.</div> <bR> <div> Meanwhile, U.S. President George Bush is expected to speak about the situation at 8:45 a.m. ET Tuesday, before North American markets open.</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="29"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 206 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Hawaii judge stops doomsday lawsuit over collider</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. Sept. 29 2008 08:29  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 29th, 2008</div> <div> <B>HONOLULU -- A federal judge in Hawaii has dismissed a lawsuit trying to stop the world's largest atom smasher.</B></div> <bR> <div> U.S. District Judge Helen Gilmor says in a ruling issued Friday that federal courts don't have jurisdiction over the Large Hadron Collider in Europe, near Geneva.</div> <bR> <div> Two Hawaii residents sued because they feared the machine could create black holes or other phenomena that could destroy the planet.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d583a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The LHC (large hadron collider) is seen in its tunnel at CERN (European particle physics laboratory) near Geneva, Switzerland.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 73 WIDTH="707"><div> Most physicists say the collider is safe. It started low-power operation Sept. 10 but suffered malfunctions and will be shut down until spring.</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="28"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 200 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Hurricane warning issued as Kyle heads for Canada</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. Sept. 28 2008 17:32  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 28th, 2008</div> <div> <B>Kyle has strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane and is racing toward Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The storm is expected to make landfall at about 9 p.m. local time.</B></div> <bR> <div> As of 6 p.m., the storm was about 225 kilometres southwest of Nova Scotia, prompting the Canadian Hurricane Centre (CHC) to issue a hurricane warning for parts of the region.</div> <bR> <div> "Kyle appears to be in line for landfall this evening in western Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, as a strong tropical storm or marginal Category 1 Hurricane. Even if it brushes the coast and </div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d5d8a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Hurricane Kyle moves towards the Maritimes, as seen in this Environment Canada infrared satellite image taken Sunday afternoon, Sept. 28, 2008.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 615 WIDTH="707"><div> passes into the Bay of Fundy, hurricane force wind gusts to 130 km/h should be expected in the southwestern Nova Scotia area," said a bulletin on the CHC website said.</div> <bR> <div> The region is already experiencing heavy rainfall in advance of Kyle.</div> <bR> <div> However, the storm is expected to slow as it enters colder waters along its northward trek. But forecasters said residents may be hit by winds that may be powerful enough to knock down trees and power lines. There is also the possibility of flooding in some areas.</div> <bR> <div> Fifty to 100 millimetres of rain could fall in a short period of time because of Kyle, prompting warnings of potential flash flooding.</div> <bR> <div> Andrew Lathem of Nova Scotia Emergency Management told CTV Newsnet Sunday that the province's citizens should be well prepared for Kyle.</div> <bR> <div> "Nova Scotians have a history of dealing with these storms, and Nova Scotians take the warnings to heart and adhere to them and make the preparations," he said.</div> <bR> <div> Lathem said public awareness advisories about the hurricane began earlier in the week.</div> <bR> <div> He said it was reasonable to expect some power outages and downed trees because of Kyle.</div> <bR> <div> "The other issue we have to be concerned about is the storm surge," Lathem said.</div> <bR> <div> He told Newsnet that Nova Scotians should have emergency kits and 72-hours worth food and water to prepare for the storm. </div> <div> Craig MacLaughlan, the CEO of Nova Scotia Emergency Management told CTV Atlantic that residents of the affected areas should also have a battery-powered radio to listen to storm updates and warnings.</div> <bR> <div> "Nova Scotians understand the best thing to do tonight is to stay indoors," he said.</div> <bR> <div> Kyle is expected to hit Nova Scotia exactly five years after hurricane Juan struck the area. That hurricane killed two people and caused millions of dollars in damage.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Hurricane advisory lifted in Maine</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 232 WIDTH="707"><div> A spokesperson for the U.S. National Hurricane Center told CTV Newsnet that the storm will pack a wallop, even if it slows down to a tropical storm in colder waters.</div> <bR> <div> "We don't want anybody lulled into a false sense of security with the fact that Kyle will be weakening as it approaches land," said Dennis Feltgen.</div> <bR> <div> Yesterday, Maine issued a hurricane advisory in the state for the first time in 17 years. Officials there had warned residents in flood-vulnerable areas to leave their homes.</div> <bR> <div> Some New England hospitals sandbagged their properties to prepare for rising tides and significant rainfall. The hurricane advisory for the area was lifted early Sunday afternoon.</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="27"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 434 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Hollywood icon Paul Newman dead at 83</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. Sept. 27 2008 14:09  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 27th, 2008</div> <div> <B>Hollywood legend Paul Newman, who won accolades for his roles in films such as "Cool Hand Luke" and "The Sting," has died at age 83.</B></div> <bR> <div> Newman, who had been battling cancer, passed away at his home near Westport, Conn., on Friday with family and friends by his side.</div> <bR> <div> Newman's movie career began in the 1950s and spanned six decades, making him one of the industry's best-known stars. He often played rebellious mavericks and cultivated an enduring image of masculine cool that transcended his films and made him a cultural icon.</div> <bR> <div> Alongside his wildly-successful motion picture career, Newman was a business man and race car driver who placed in the top five at some of the most competitive races in the U.S. during the 1970s.</div> <bR> <div> The 10-time Oscar nominee was also an acclaimed director and a philanthropist who donated millions of dollars to charity.</div> <bR> <div> Canadian actor Christopher Plummer, who first met Newman in the 1950s, said the blue-eyed thespian was a selfless anomaly in Hollywood.</div> <bR> <div> "I miss him like mad," Plummer told CTV Newsnet Saturday afternoon.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d5d1a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> In this April 7, 1999 file photo, actor Paul Newman speaks at Newman's Own, Inc. in Westport, Conn. Newman died Friday, Sept. 26, 2008, of cancer, spokeswoman Marni Tomljanovic said. (AP / Douglas Healey, File)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d5d2a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> In this March 31, 1984 file photo, actor Paul Newman is seen at the Grand Prix in Long Beach, Calif. Newman died Friday, Sept. 26, 2008. (AP Photo / Reed Saxon, File)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 420 WIDTH="540"><div> "He was modest, he shunned fame - he was an actual real person for a change," he said, adding that Newman was a modest, generous man who lived modestly despite his international fame.</div> <bR> <div> "He was totally un-actorish," said Plummer.</div> <bR> <div> In the early 1980s, Newman started up the "Newman's Own" brand as a way to sell his homemade salad dressing. The company, which also made popcorn, spaghetti sauce and other products, has turned into a multi-million dollar business which has donated $175 million to charities.</div> <bR> <div> Even in his 60s and 70s, Newman kept up an impressive production pace with such films as "The Road to Perdition" and "Message in a Bottle." However, the star pulled out of a plan to remake the play "Of Mice and Men" last spring because of health problems.</div> <bR> <div> Even some of Hollywood's biggest names were star struck by Newman.</div> <bR> <div> "He'd slug me if I was to call him an icon that I was intimidated by," said actor Tom Hanks in 2002 after the pair worked together on "The Road to Perdition."</div> <bR> <div> "But he's much more than anything you'd expect. He's much more relaxed, unassuming. He gets it. He understands that the biggest job of being an actor, the hardest thing to do is to really capture 45 seconds of truth on film in the course of a long day."</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d5d3a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Newlyweds Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman pose after their wedding ceremony at Hotel El Rancho in Las Vegas, Nev., Jan. 29, 1958. (AP Photo, File)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d5d4a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> In this 1968 file photo released by Warner Bros., Paul Newman played a prisoner who becomes a legend to his fellow members of a chain gang in the film 'Cool Hand Luke.' (AP Photo / Warner Bros., File)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 463 WIDTH="540"><div> Newman won three Oscars in his career, including two honourary trophies and a win for his turn in the pool-shark flick "The Color of Money," which teamed him with Tom Cruise.</div> <bR> <div> "There is a kind of empathy he has shown throughout his career for this kind of underdog," said director Robert Benton of Newman in 1994.</div> <bR> <div> "He just feels what they're going through from the inside, just feels them. He loves the way people just barely get by."</div> <bR> <div> Newman, who married in 1958, also worked with his wife Joanne Woodward in films such as "Rachel, Rachel."</div> <bR> <div> Despite Newman's heartthrob image and his bad boy onscreen persona, the couple's long marriage was an anomaly in Hollywood.</div> <bR> <div> When asked by Playboy if he was ever tempted to cheat on his wife, Newman replied, "I have steak at home, why go out for hamburger?"</div> <bR> <div> Though Newman got a relatively late start in the acting game, within a few years of his film debut in 1955's "The Silver Chalice," the actor was a major force on the big screen.</div> <bR> <div> In 1958, Newman starred alongside Elizabeth Taylor in the celluloid version of Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."</div> <bR> <div> Three years later, Newman was cast as a pool shark in "The Hustler," which would become one of the actor's best-loved roles.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d5d5a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Robert Redford, left, as the Sundance Kid and Paul Newman as Butch Cassidy appear in this scene from the film ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’ in 1969. (AP / 20th Century Fox)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d5d6a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> In this 1978 file photo, Paul Newman speaks at the 10th special session of the U.N. General Assembly on disarmament at U.N. headquarters as alternate representative Marjorie Craig Benton of Evanston, Ill., right, listens. (AP Photo)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 374 WIDTH="707"><div> In 1967, "Cool Hand Luke" was released to critical and commercial acclaim, with Newman playing a rebellious convict bucking against authority. The character struck a chord with audiences and seized on the era's anti-establishment mood.</div> <bR> <div> Though other commercial and critical successes followed in the 1970s and 1980s, it wasn't until Newman reprised his pool hustler role with "The Color of Money" in 1986 that he won his first contemporaneous Oscar.</div> <bR> <div> With his famous blue eyes and handsome features, Newman was the typical Hollywood heartthrob, film critic Richard Crouse told CTV Newsnet on Saturday.</div> <bR> <div> "He really set the template for the modern movie star," he said, pointing to today's stars like Brad Pitt and George Clooney who split their time between film work and philanthropy.</div> <bR> <div> Newman also blazed a trail for younger actors by picking tough underdog roles, such as his turn as a convict in "Cool Hand Luke." </div> <div> "There's so many iconic images that are associated with him," added Crouse, pointing to his buddy roles with Robert Redford in the massive films "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "The Sting."</div> <bR> <div> "He went beyond just being an attractive screen stud and became a really interesting actor, who brought something unique to every role he did."</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="26"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 668 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Obama, McCain clash in debate, no clear winner</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri. Sept. 26 2008 23:57  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 26th, 2009</div> <div> <B>Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain clashed over Iraq, Afghanistan and how to solve the economic crisis in the United States in the first presidential debate of the 2008 election.</B></div> <bR> <div> Obama said his rival backed the U.S. president over the last eight years, and called the current financial meltdown "a final verdict on eight years of failed economic policies promoted by President Bush and supported by Sen. McCain."</div> <bR> <div> The candidates debated particularly passionately over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.</div> <bR> <div> Obama promised to send more troops to Afghanistan to "capture or kill (Osama) Bin Laden and crush Al Qaeda."</div> <bR> <div> McCain touted the "surge" strategy in Iraq and slammed Obama for his opposition to the successful 2007 tactic.</div> <bR> <div> Obama responded that McCain "thinks the war started in 2007. It started in 2003."</div> <bR> <div> He said McCain backed the Iraq war at the expense of the Afghanistan mission.</div> <bR> <div> McCain repeatedly tried to frame Obama as inexperienced and naïve on foreign policy.</div> <bR> <div> In response to Obama's statement that it might be necessary for U.S. troops to cross into Pakistan to chase terrorists, McCain retorted "You don't say that out loud. If you have to do things, you do things."</div> <bR> <div> McCain also criticized his rival for saying he would meet Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad without preconditions.</div> <bR> <div> "So let me get this right, we sit down with Ahmadinejad and he says 'we're going to wipe Israel off the face of the earth' and we say, 'no you're not.' Oh please," McCain said.</div> <bR> <div> Obama closed particularly strongly using his last remarks to pledge to restore America's place in the world.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d5e0a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> U.S. presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain exchange words during the debate at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Friday, Sept. 26, 2008. (AP / Jim Bourg)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d5e1a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> John McCain and Barack Obama embrace at the end of the first U.S. presidential debate at the University of Mississippi in Oxfordm Friday, Sept. 26, 2008. (AP / Charles Dharapak)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d5e2a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Moderator Jim Lehrer from PBS discusses the rules of the debate with the audience prior to the start of the U.S. presidential debate at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss., Friday, Sept. 26, 2008. (AP / Ron Edmonds)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 638 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>So, who won?</B></div> <bR> <div> Most analysts said that neither opponent really landed a knockout punch to be declared the uncontested winner.</div> <bR> <div> Solon Simmons of George Mason University told CTV Newsnet that he thought the debate was a draw.</div> <bR> <div> The debate was on foreign policy -- McCain's strong suit -- but most analysts thought that Obama held his own.</div> <bR> <div> McCain did show off his extensive knowledge - name-checking Soviet-era leaders -- and looked much more comfortable on foreign policy than in the economic questions.</div> <bR> <div> A telephone poll conducted by CNN after the debate said that 51 per cent of Americans thought Obama won the debate and 38 per cent thought McCain won.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Economy plays big role in debate</B></div> <bR> <div> Moderator Jim Lehrer of PBS kicked off the debate by where the candidates' stood on the massive $700 billion bailout plan being worked out in Washington for Wall Street.</div> <bR> <div> Obama said the crisis started under President George W. Bush, who was supported by McCain. He said McCain backed Bush's "orgy of spending" over the past 8 years.</div> <bR> <div> Obama said that Washington needed to step in to solve the financial meltdown, but that a package needed to include help for regular working Americans.</div> <bR> <div> He called the economic crisis the worst since the Great Depression.</div> <bR> <div> McCain said that government overspending factored into the crisis and accused Obama of being in favour of raising taxes.</div> <bR> <div> "Government spending is out of control," McCain said, promising a spending freeze on most departments except for defense.</div> <bR> <div> Sen. Barack Obama countered saying, "The problem is you're using a hatchet where you need a scalpel."</div> <bR> <div> Obama said that he would not raise taxes on any making less than $250,000.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 665 WIDTH="707"><div> McCain accused Obama of having the "most liberal voting record in the U.S. Senate."</div> <bR> <div> Obama fired back that he was only opposing "George Bush's wrong-headed policies."</div> <bR> <div> Although the debate was supposed to focus only on foreign policy, the first 40 minutes was almost entirely spent discussing the economy.</div> <bR> <div> More than 80 million Americans and many more around the world were expected to tune in to the debate.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Debate nearly didn't happen</B></div> <bR> <div> But it wasn't a sure thing that tonight's debate would even happen, as McCain only announced earlier in the day that he would attend the debate against Obama in Mississippi.</div> <bR> <div> McCain had announced earlier this week that he would suspend his campaign while U.S. lawmakers hammered out details of the US$700-billion bailout package.</div> <bR> <div> At the time, he also suggested that the presidential debate should be postponed if a deal was not reached before Friday night, so that he and Obama could help foster a bipartisan outcome.</div> <bR> <div> A final deal hasn't yet been reached, but lawmakers continue to negotiate in Washington.</div> <bR> <div> A statement by the McCain camp confirming his attendance at tonight's debate noted that the Arizona senator will return to Washington after the debate to be part of the talks.</div> <bR> <div> "John McCain's decision to suspend his campaign was made in the hopes that politics could be set aside to address our economic crisis," the statement said. "In response, Americans saw a familiar spectacle in Washington. At a moment of crisis that threatened the economic security of American families, Washington played the blame game."</div> <bR> <div> Both McCain and Obama met with U.S. President George Bush on Thursday afternoon. At the time, congressional leaders said they were close to a deal, but talks on a final bailout settlement stalled late in the evening.</div> <bR> <div> Obama has said all along he would attend tonight's debate.</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="25"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 183 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Suzuki calls Calgary ecological disaster</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. Sept. 25 2008 18:54  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 25th, 2009</div> <div> <B>David Suzuki had some pretty harsh words about Calgary, calling the city an ecological disaster.</B></div> <bR> <div> "The urban sprawl there [Calgary] is crazy, absolutely crazy. It's dependant on the car and it's just not the way that you build community," said Suzuki. "We've got to decide, as communities, are we a community for people or are we a community for cars...we've got to work against the car and make communities where people get out and walk."</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d5dfa0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Environmentalist David Suzuki says Calgary is an ecological disaster because of our dependence on cars.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 323 WIDTH="707"><div> Suzuki made the comments at the 2008 Canadian Urban Forest Conference in Sherwood Park on Tuesday.</div> <bR> <div> Several Calgarians, who CTV News spoke to, say the environmental activist has a point.</div> <bR> <div> "I think if we build up, rather than out, we would have a great chance of saving a lot of gas," says David Bryant.</div> <bR> <div> "If we had a better transit system, people wouldn't have to drive. Just going from north to south, most people would have to drive because it's so far," says Angela Wong.</div> <bR> <div> A professor at the University of Calgary says while everyone may not agree with Suzuki, we do need people voicing those concerns. "We do need those voices, we do need to avoid ecologically what we've just seen happen on the financial markets, and we need someone to warn us that that's where we're going if we don't do anything," says Noel Keough from the university's sustainable design department.</div> <bR> <div> But it wasn't all criticism for Calgary. Suzuki said there are some very good things about the city including its use of wind power to run the LRT and helping to fund the largest wind farm in Canada.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files fro</I><I>m </I><I>ctvcalgary.ca</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><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 510 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Officer: Ex-Blink 182 drummer in intense pain</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. Sept. 24 2008 21:12  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 24th, 2008</div> <div> <B>COLUMBIA, S.C. -- One of the first responders to a fiery South Carolina plane crash said Wednesday that a pair of musicians escaped the flaming wreckage by sliding down the wing.</B></div> <bR> <div> "They said the plane went down. They didn't say how or if they knew," said Lt. Jason Shumpert of the South Congaree Police Department. "Once it went down, they were able to slide down the wing of the plane, and they jumped on each other to put fires on each other out and rolled around on the ground."</div> <bR> <div> Shumpert said he didn't know until later that the two badly burned men were former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and celebrity disc jockey DJ AM, whose real name is Adam Goldstein. One of their doctors at a Georgia burn hospital said he expects them to fully recover from their second- and third-degree burns.</div> <bR> <div> A video of the Friday night crash scene shot from Shumpert's police car shows an inferno next to the road, with screams ringing out above the din of sirens of ambulances and fire trucks. Shumpert said the screaming voice belonged to Barker, who was trembling and seemed to be in intense pain as he sat on the sidewalk, waiting for medical help to arrive.</div> <bR> <div> "Travis, you could tell he was in pain," Shumpert said. "He just kept saying: 'That's my friends in the plane, that's my friends in the plane.'"</div> <bR> <div> Pilot Sarah Lemmon, 31, of Anaheim Hills, Calif., and co-pilot James Bland, 52, of Carlsbad, Calif., died of smoke inhalation and burns within minutes of the crash. A South Carolina coroner has said Chris Baker, 29, of Studio City, Calif., and Charles Still, 25, of Los Angeles, close friends of the musicians, died on impact.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d5dda0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> DJ AM, left, and musician Travis Barker pose backstage at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles on Sept. 7, 2008. (AP / Chris Pizzello)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d5dea0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The wreckage of a Learjet that was carrying former Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker, Adam Goldstein, also known as DJ AM, and four others rests on an embankment along Highway 302, along the outskirts of the Columbia Metropolitan Airport, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2008, in Columbia, S.C. (AP / Brett Flashnick)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 302 WIDTH="707"><div> Barker, 32, was one of the more colorful members of the multiplatinum-selling punk rock band Blink-182. DJ AM is a popular DJ who was also a tabloid favorite for some celebrity romances.</div> <bR> <div> Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board have not said what caused the crash. A cockpit voice recorder revealed that crew members thought a tire blew and tried to abort the takeoff. The Learjet shot off the end of the runway, ripped through a fence and crossed a highway before coming to rest, engulfed in flames.</div> <bR> <div> NTSB officials, who have recovered pieces of tire from the runway, planned to return to Washington on Thursday. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., which made the tires, has said it is cooperating with the investigation.</div> <bR> <div> A spokesman for a clothing company Barker owns said Tuesday the drummer had been through several surgeries and was trying to keep an upbeat attitude. Regardless of what caused the crash, Shumpert said both men are lucky to be alive.</div> <bR> <div> "It was divine intervention that they got out," he said. "They should be commended for being able to get out and keep their heads together."</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="23"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 411 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Man who died waiting 34 hours in ER identified</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue. Sept. 23 2008 23:29  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 23rd, 2008</div> <div> <B>A man who died while waiting 34 hours for care in a Winnipeg emergency room has been identified.</B></div> <bR> <div> Brian Sinclair, 45, died at the Winnipeg Health Sciences Centre (WHSC) in what some are calling the worst emergency room failure in Manitoba's history.</div> <bR> <div> Sinclair, who was reportedly homeless, arrived at the emergency room on Friday at 3 p.m. He was finally attended to at 1 a.m. on Sunday and the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority said he was pronounced dead a short time later.</div> <bR> <div> "For reasons we can't explain right now, he was never presented at the triage desk where we have triage nurses that assess someone's clinical situation," said Dr. Brock Wright, the head of the WRHA.</div> <bR> <div> Wright now confirms what CTV Winnipeg reported Monday - that Sinclair sat dead in the waiting room for some time before anyone realized he had passed away.</div> <bR> <div> A patient in the same hospital waiting room as Sinclair says he told nurses and security workers he was concerned about the man -- but says he was told they were too busy to check on him.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d5dba0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A man waited 34 hours in the Winnipeg Health Sciences Centre emergency room, but died without getting treatment.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d5dca0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Heidi Graham from the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority speaks with CTV Winnipeg on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 554 WIDTH="707"><div> The witness -- who spoke to CTV Winnipeg on the condition of anonymity -- said he was in the waiting room Friday evening. Sinclair, who had both his legs amputated, was sitting nearby in a wheelchair and appeared to be sleeping.</div> <bR> <div> The witness said when he returned to the waiting area the next night Sinclair was sitting in the exact same position.</div> <bR> <div> "I didn't think he was asleep, so we went to tell a nurse," said the witness, who was there with his wife. "The nurse said 'We'll go and check,' [but] nobody ever went and checked on him.</div> <bR> <div> The witness said he waited an hour before asking another nurse to check on Sinclair but the nurse told him she was too busy and couldn't check right away.</div> <bR> <div> The witness claims he told a security officer of the man's condition, but said the guard told him the case would be "too much paperwork."</div> <bR> <div> Sinclair is seen on the hospital's security camera footage when he arrived at the department's main entrance Friday afternoon.</div> <bR> <div> He is not in the footage the entire time, but health officials say they believe the man was in the waiting room for the full 34 hours. It's also believed the man interacted with aides and cleaning staff, but not medical staff.</div> <bR> <div> "The challenge for us right now is to explain how it is somebody could be in the department for 34 hours and not have been brought forward to the triage desk area and be entered into the system," Wright said.</div> <bR> <div> Wright said the system relies on people approaching the triage desk so that they can be placed in a queue based on the urgency of their medical needs. He said Sinclair was known to hospital staff, and said staff was surprised Sinclair wouldn't have checked in at the triage desk.</div> <bR> <div> The chief medical examiner has determined the cause of death, but is still notifying family members. A critical incident review is now underway involving the Health Sciences Centre, its emergency department, and the WRHA.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Political fallout</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 484 WIDTH="707"><div> The issue dominated question period at the Manitoba Legislature on Tuesday, as Progressive-Conservative Opposition Leader Hugh McFadyen demanded answers from Premier Gary Doer.</div> <bR> <div> McFadyen accused the minister of knowing about the case when she held a news conference on Monday to announce a new contract with doctors.</div> <bR> <div> "Thirty four hours, no attention, known to the minister at a time when she's out boasting about her record in health care. I want to ask the premier if he thinks it's appropriate that the Minister of Health was in front of the media yesterday, boasting in this house, boasting before this story broke, a story she was aware of, that she had overseen the worst emergency room failure in Manitoba history."</div> <bR> <div> "We're treating this as a very, very serious situation," responded Doer. "We are investigating what went tragically wrong. And we admit to the people of Manitoba that it went tragically wrong."</div> <bR> <div> <B>Victim had kicked addictions: friend</B></div> <bR> <div> Friends of Brian Sinclair told CTV Winnipeg he was a former solvent abuser who had kicked his addictions.</div> <bR> <div> "We haven't seen him in a year," said Joseph Severeight. "He quit using solvents and things like that. And that's how I knew him, he cleaned up his life."</div> <bR> <div> Sinclair's brother, Bradley, said he didn't know his brother had gone to the emergency room and was told by social workers that Brian had died.</div> <bR> <div> "I feel awful, but I'm going to pray for him," he said.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with </I><I>a report from CTV's Kelly Dehn</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><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 105 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Thirteen babies die at Turkish hospital in one day</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. Sept. 22 2008 06:35  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 22nd, 2008</div> <div> <B>ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkish health authorities are investigating the deaths of 13 newborn babies at a hospital in one day.</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="d5cba0640.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="100" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 182 WIDTH="707"><div> The babies -- all of them premature -- died over the weekend at a hospital in the western city of Izmir. Mehmet Ozkan, who heads the Izmir health department, says a team of investigators is looking into the deaths.</div> <bR> <div> Turkish newspapers have suggested that a hospital infection may have caused the deaths.</div> <bR> <div> In July, more than two-dozen newborns died at a hospital in the capital, Ankara.</div> <bR> <div> Government-appointed doctors investigating the deaths said a shortage of personnel was to blame.</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="21"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 254 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Melamine found in Chinese-made Nestle product</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. Sept. 21 2008 11:27  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 21st, 2008</div> <div> <B>Tests conducted by the Hong Kong government have found melamine in a Chinese-made Nestle brand milk product, Hong Kong officials said Sunday.</B></div> <bR> <div> Small amounts of the chemical, used in the manufacture of plastics and glue, were found in Nestle's Diary Farm pure milk.</div> <bR> <div> The milk is made by a Nestle division in the city of Qingdao and is sold to caterers, officials said.</div> <bR> <div> The Hong Kong tests found only small amounts of melamine that do not pose a serious risk to human health.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d5c9a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Parents and their children wait for health inspection at a children's hospital in Chengdu, Friday, Sept. 19, 2008. Some 1,300 babies remain hospitalized, with 158 suffering from acute kidney failure.(AP Photo / Color China Photo)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 790 WIDTH="707"><div> However, consumers are being advised not to feed the product to children.</div> <bR> <div> The Canadian Food Inspection Agency could not confirm Sunday if the latest product found to contain melamine is sold in Canada. However, it is unlikely, a spokesperson said.</div> <bR> <div> "It's quite a jump to think that just because it's in Hong Kong, it's all over the world," CFIA spokesperson Marc Richard told CTV.ca on Sunday.</div> <bR> <div> The Nestle test results are just the latest development in a growing tainted milk scandal in China. So far, more than 6,200 babies have fallen ill and four have died after drinking formula laced with melamine.</div> <bR> <div> The first child outside of mainland China, a three-year-old girl in Hong Kong, has fallen ill but has been discharged from hospital, Hong Kong officials said.</div> <bR> <div> Melamine has a high nitrogen content, which can make products appear high in protein. However, the chemical can cause kidney stones and kidney failure.</div> <bR> <div> It is alleged that dairy company officials added melamine to watered-down products to make them appear higher in protein content.</div> <bR> <div> Melamine was first found in baby formulas made by China's largest dairy company, the Sanlu Group. On Friday, tests found melamine in products made by more of China's leading dairy companies: Mengniu Dairy Group, Yili Industrial Group and Bright Dairy.</div> <bR> <div> Tests have found the chemical in about 10 per cent of liquid milk samples from Mengniu and Yili.</div> <bR> <div> Yili was an official Olympic sponsor, but the company has pledged the safety of foods supplied to the athlete's village during the Beijing Games.</div> <bR> <div> So far, no products linked to China's growing scandal have been found in Canada.</div> <bR> <div> The CFIA is monitoring the latest developments in China as well as Canadian store shelves for products that may pose a risk, Richard said.</div> <bR> <div> "Should we come across something we would put out a press release with a recall," Richard said.</div> <bR> <div> As a precautionary measure, T&T Supermarkets, the largest chain of Asian grocery stores in Canada with locations in Ontario, Alberta and B.C., have removed Mengniu and Yili yogurt drinks from store shelves. The products have not been linked to the crisis.</div> <bR> <div> "It's not that we're told by CFIA that it has any contamination, we just pulled it off on a precautionary basis," said T&T's Sandra Creighton.</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="20"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 217 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>NDP denies deal with pot activist Marc Emery</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. Sept. 20 2008 14:55  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 20th, 2008</div> <div> <B>The NDP is denying they made an informal deal with marijuana activist Marc Emery.</B></div> <bR> <div> Emery alleges he and NDP Leader Jack Layton had an agreement to bring Marijuana Party members to the New Democrats. In exchange, Emery claims the NDP said they would continue efforts to decriminalize pot.</div> <bR> <div> Emery told CTV.ca in a phone interview from Vancouver he told Layton in 2003 that he and his supporters would bring thousands of new people to the NDP, offer up qualified candidates, and get voters excited about the party.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d5c7a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> NDP Leader Jack Layton announced his party's national child care plan during a campaign stop in Toronto on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 501 WIDTH="707"><div> "We did all that. We fulfilled every obligation we had," he said Saturday.</div> <bR> <div> "I think it's disingenuous to invite us, and then have a candidate acceptable all the way through the process ... and at the last minute they're unacceptable because they associated with me or have smoked pot."</div> <bR> <div> News of the alleged deal came as two B.C. NDP candidates, Kirk Tousaw and Dana Larsen, resigned after separate videos emerged that allegedly showed the pair smoking marijuana. Both were formerly active members of the B.C. Marijuana Party.</div> <bR> <div> The NDP flatly denied they made a deal with Emery.</div> <bR> <div> "This is pure fantasy," campaign spokesman Brad Lavigne said. "The New Democratic Party has made no such deal with any other party or with any individual ... This is nonsense, absolute nonsense."</div> <bR> <div> The NDP said Tousaw and Larsen resigned because they were a distraction from the NDP's focus on issues like the economy.</div> <bR> <div> In a release, Tousaw attributed the move to the likelihood that his past involvement in drug policy reform work might serve to continue to take the focus away from the issues that matter most to Canadians.</div> <bR> <div> "I became involved in the New Democratic Party because I believe that our party has the right ideas and policies on the environment, health care, the economy and ending Canadian involvement in the war in Afghanistan," he said. "I still believe that."</div> <bR> <div> The NDP said on Saturday that retired school counsellor Bill Forst will replace Larsen in the riding of West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country. Forst will challenge incumbent Blair Wilson, a former Liberal MP who is now running for the Green Party.</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="19"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 461 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Back-to-back gaffes may keep Tories on the defence</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri. Sept. 19 2008 08:18  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 19th, 2008</div> <div> <B>The Conservatives are still trying to get their campaign back on track after back-to-back gaffes that took the focus off the party's agenda and put it directly on two top ministers.</B></div> <bR> <div> On Wednesday, it was revealed that Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz made controversial remarks about the Listeria outbreak in late August. He apologized, and Conservative Leader Stephen Harper spent much of Thursday defending him.</div> <bR> <div> Then on Thursday, footage was released of an aide to Transport Minister Lawrence Cannon telling an Aboriginal protestor in Quebec that activists could meet with Cannon -- provided they were sober.</div> <bR> <div> While the Conservatives apologized for both incidents, the comments are likely to continue to dog the campaign and take the focus off the message that the party is the only one ready to govern amid economic uncertainty.</div> <bR> <div> "I don't think the opposition will let them put it to rest," said CTV's Roger Smith travelling with Harper. He predicted all three leaders will continue to demand Ritz's resignation in speeches over the next few days.</div> <bR> <div> "All signs here are that the Tories will hang tough. Mr. Harper will not bend to their desires in the middle of a campaign, he will stand by his minister. The Tories, they're shaken by it but their argument is look, in the end these mistakes grab headlines but they don't grab votes."</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d5c0a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Conservative Leader Stephen Harper reacts to comments made by Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, during a press conference in Trois-Rivieres, Que., Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008. (Paul Chiasson / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d5c1a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Darlene Lannigan, assistant to Transport Minister Lawrence Cannon and Aboriginal protester Norman Matchewan, exchange words outside the campaign office in Maniwaki, Que., Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 438 WIDTH="540"><div> Smith said the story on the campaign plane is that the Conservatives are still making traction on major issues such as the economy. However, he said the latest polls in Ontario battlegrounds suggest the Liberals have regained some ground in the past few days.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Comments a 'favour'</B></div> <bR> <div> Meanwhile, one Aboriginal advocate said that although the comments made by Cannon's aide Darlene Lannigan were offensive, some good may come from the situation.</div> <bR> <div> "It's interesting because she almost did us a favour by echoing that sentiment that's permeating throughout Canada and if there needed to be a reminded that Canada is still very racist and we are still facing a lot of oppression, that was it," said Jessica Yee, director of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network.</div> <bR> <div> She told CTV's Canada AM that the comments garnered attention because they were caught on camera and released to the media. But she said the presumption that many natives are alcoholics, is widespread among Canadians.</div> <bR> <div> "It's something that a lot of people think, something a lot of people say, and something a lot of us in large urban centres may not hear that often. But a lot of us who live close to our home communities, we hear all the time," Yee said.</div> <bR> <div> She said she hopes the incident will lead to a wider discussion during the election, of native issues. Yee pointed out that 27,000 children are currently in state care, 40 communities are without schools and 100 native communities are currently under boil water advisories.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d5b9a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> An unidentified man pushes away a Canadian Press reporter's microphone as he escorts Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz out of the airport in Ottawa on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008. (Adrian Wyld / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d5c3a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Jessica Yee, director of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network, appeared on CTV's Canada AM on Friday, Sept. 19, 2008.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 54 ><NOBR><div> "It's great that she made an apology, and apology accepted or not there needs to be a further call for action," Yee said. </div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff </div> </NOBR></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><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 469 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Ritz should resign over poor performance: Easter</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. Sept. 18 2008 08:26  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 18th, 2008</div> <div> <B>The target of a controversial joke made by Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says the remarks were callous and insensitive, but he's not calling for the minister's resignation over the comments.</B></div> <bR> <div> Instead, Liberal agriculture critic Wayne Easter is calling for Ritz to resign over what he says is his general poor performance in the job.</div> <bR> <div> In a conference call late last month, Ritz said he hoped the Prince Edward Island victim of a deadly listeriosis outbreak was Liberal agriculture critic Wayne Easter.</div> <bR> <div> Ritz also said: "This is like a death by a thousand cuts. Or should I say cold cuts."</div> <bR> <div> At the time, 12 people had died from the outbreak.</div> <bR> <div> He apologized publicly Wednesday night for the "inappropriate" comments made during the call with scientists, bureaucrats and political staff, and called Easter to explain what he had said and offer his apologies.</div> <bR> <div> Easter said he accepted the apology, but that's not the main issue.</div> <bR> <div> "The comments about me personally are beside the point. The real issue here is the insensitivity shown to families that have lost loved ones and to many others who have got sick as a result of listeriosis," Easter told CTV's Canada AM on Thursday.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d5b8a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Wayne Easter, a Liberal MP from P.E.I. who is also the Liberal agriculture critic, reacts to Ritz's apology during an appearance on CTV's Canada AM on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d5b9a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> An unidentified man pushes away a Canadian Press reporter's microphone as he escorts Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz out of the airport in Ottawa on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008. (Adrian Wyld / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 542 WIDTH="707"><div> Easter called for Ritz's resignation several weeks ago over his handling of the Listeria outbreak, which was linked to a Maple Leaf Foods meat processing plant north of Toronto.</div> <bR> <div> "We still stand by that resignation call but it's not related to this comment about myself. So we want to go to the performance of the minister and not politicize this particular issue because this call for his resignation was made prior to the election call," Easter said.</div> <bR> <div> New Democrat leader Jack Layton demanded Easter's resignation on Wednesday.</div> <bR> <div> "Canadians are dying because of the mismanagement of our government . . . there should absolutely never be that kind of humour," he told Mike Duffy Live.</div> <bR> <div> "It illustrates the government is not taking this matter as seriously as they should."</div> <bR> <div> A spokesperson for the Prime Minister's Office said Ritz expressed his regret to Stephen Harper on Wednesday, but there was no suggestion of his resignation.</div> <bR> <div> "A resignation was not offered, nor was one asked for," PMO spokesperson Kory Teneycke said.</div> <bR> <div> CTV parliamentary correspondent Graham Richardson, travelling with Harper, said reporters will ask him later Thursday what he plans to do about the political misstep.</div> <bR> <div> "People have died and here we have the minister responsible making inappropriate jokes," Richardson told Canada AM.</div> <bR> <div> "And if you're a victim's family a lot of them are probably angry about that and the question now for the prime minister is will the apology hold, is it enough, or will he have to make a move?"</div> <bR> <div> It isn't clear why the comments weren't made public until now.</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="17"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 393 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Asian markets mixed after U.S. bails out AIG</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. Sept. 17 2008 08:11  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 17th, 2008</div> <div> <B>Some global financial markets opened to uncertainty Wednesday, one day after news the U.S. federal government would bail out struggling insurance provider AIG.</B></div> <bR> <div> The U.S. Federal Reserve announced Tuesday it would provide an $85-billion loan to save American International Group Inc. from collapse in order to protect the broader market.</div> <bR> <div> Asian markets were mostly up when they opened Wednesday, but some gains were quickly lost over fears the bailout wouldn't do much to stabilize economic woes.</div> <bR> <div> Japan's Nikkei 225 gained 1.2 per cent and hit 11,749.79. One day earlier the index lost close to 5 per cent to hit its lowest level in three years.</div> <bR> <div> In South Korea, the key index rose 2.7 per cent and Taiwan's rose 0.8 per cent.</div> <bR> <div> In Hong Kong, however, the Hang Seng Index lost 3.6 per cent to hit its lowest level since October 26, and China's key Shanghai index dropped 2.9 per cent.</div> <bR> <div> Australia's main index lost 0.6 per cent.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d5b3a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> An investor looks at the stock price monitor at a private security company in Shanghai, China, on Wednesday Sept. 17, 2008. (AP)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d5b4a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A woman walks past the office of U.S. insurance giant AIG, American International Group, in Croydon, South London, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008. (AP Photo / Sang Tan)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 374 WIDTH="707"><div> Business News Network's Michael Kane said much of the market jitters were linked to worries that AIG may not be the only large, struggling U.S. financial institution on the brink of bankruptcy.</div> <bR> <div> "There's no real guarantee this is not going to happen to someone else too. And the next financial institution to come along could fail, could be allowed to fail, and this is where the uncertainty in the marketplace could pull the stocks down," he told CTV's Canada AM.</div> <bR> <div> On Tuesday, the U.S. Fed warned the collapse of AIG could "lead to substantially higher borrowing costs, reduced household wealth and materially weaker economic performance."</div> <bR> <div> "The president supports the agreement announced this evening by the Federal Reserve," said White House spokesman Tony Fratto on Tuesday night.</div> <bR> <div> "These steps are taken in the interest of promoting stability in financial markets and limiting damage to the broader economy."</div> <bR> <div> Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said he supported the Federal Reserve's actions. He said the administration is working with the Fed, the Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulators to stabilize markets and protect taxpayers. </div> <div> The U.S. government received a 79.9 per cent equity stake in AIG in return for its loan.</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="16"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 406 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Pink Floyd member Richard Wright dead from cancer</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. Sept. 15 2008 13:03  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 16th, 2008</div> <div> <B>LONDON -- A Pink Floyd spokesman says founding member Richard Wright has died. He was 65.</B></div> <bR> <div> Wright died Monday after a battle with cancer at his home in Britain. His family did not want to give more details about his death. The spokesman is Doug Wright, who is not related to the artist.</div> <bR> <div> Richard Wright met Pink Floyd members Roger Waters and Nick Mason at college and joined their early band Sigma 6.</div> <bR> <div> Sigma 6 eventually became Pink Floyd and Wright wrote and sang some of the band's key songs. He wrote "The Great Gig In The Sky" and "Us And Them" from Pink Floyd's 1973 "The Dark Side Of The Moon."</div> <bR> <div> He left the group in the early 1980s to form his own band but rejoined Pink Floyd for their 1987 album "A Momentary Lapse of Reason."</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d5b1a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Former British Pink Floyd band member David Gilmour poses aboard his studio boat the 'Astoria' on the River Thames in London, on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008. (AP / Joel Ryan)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d5b2a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Members of the rock group Pink Floyd, from left, David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright, are shown in this 1988 photo. (AP Photo)</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><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 524 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Nanotechnology: good for golf balls, bad for health?</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. Sept. 14 2008 22:27  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 15th, 2008</div> <div> <B>Nanotechnology may help create a new generation of products, but it may also pose risks to the environment and to human health.</B></div> <bR> <div> Scientists are creating nanoparticles of silver, gold, carbon and even bamboo, which are up to 100 times smaller than a virus, or roughly 80,000 times smaller than a single human hair.</div> <bR> <div> Trillions of nanoparticles must be clumped together to become visible to the naked eye.</div> <bR> <div> These tiny particles can be used in the manufacture of a variety of new products, such as scratch-resistant paint, golf balls that can go farther and medications that can destroy cancer cells.</div> <bR> <div> One company weaves nanoparticles of silver into the fabric of its sports clothing to kill odours.</div> <bR> <div> "It's incredibly exciting," Puckskin, Inc.'s Greg McMillan told CTV News. "It filters out and kills the bacteria so the yarn stays fresh, comfortable, odourless."</div> <bR> <div> Some scientists believe more studies need to be conducted to asses the impact of nanoparticles on human health before they become part of products sold on the mass market.</div> <bR> <div> "In a sense it's a big experiment," Professor Kevin Robbie of Queen's University in Kingston, Ont. told CTV News.</div> <bR> <div> "We are putting products onto the marketplace and using them and we don't know what their impact will be."</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d59fa0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A microscopic view shows nanoparticles made from silver woven into a fabric.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d5a2a0730.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="115" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Scientists conducting experiments on socks made using nanotechnology found half of them leaked the particles into the waste water.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d5a3a0730.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="115" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Trillions of nanoparticles have to clump together to be visible to the naked eye.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 269 WIDTH="707"><div> Some studies have shown that nanoparticles can leak out of products and into the environment. For example, some socks made with nanoparticles have been found to release the particles into waste water.</div> <bR> <div> Experts also think nanoparticles can penetrate the human body and perhaps even individual cells.</div> <bR> <div> "We do not know what impact that will have," Robbie said. "We know it is toxic to a lot of systems, but we don't know what will happen with a wide dispersal of nano silver."</div> <bR> <div> In the meantime, some experts suggest putting labels on products made with nanoparticles so consumers can decide for themselves if they want to expose themselves, and their families, to them.</div> <bR> <div> With a report from CTV medical specialist Avis Favaro and senior producer Elizabeth St. Philip </div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with a report from CTV medical specialist Avis Favaro and senior producer Elizabeth St. Philip</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><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 250 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Rush to judgment' in deadly California rail crash?</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. Sept. 14 2008 12:05  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 14th, 2008</div> <div> <B>LOS ANGELES -- In a surprisingly swift assessment, the operators of the commuter train involved in the head-on crash that killed at least 25 people blamed its engineer for the horrific accident.</B></div> <bR> <div> However, a National Transportation Safety Board member cautioned that it was too early to establish the cause of Friday's accident. Others, too, questioned the timing of the operator's move to affix culpability.</div> <bR> <div> Rescuers were still sifting through the twisted wreckage Saturday when Metrolink announced -- 19 hours after the crash -- that its preliminary investigation determined the engineer failed to heed a red signal light, leading to the collision with a Union Pacific freight train.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d59ea0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Rescuers remove a victim with a gurney attached to an aerial ladder as others continue rescue efforts after a MetroLink commuter train collided with a freight train in the Chatsworth area of Los Angeles Friday, Sept. 12, 2008. (AP / Reed Saxon)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 732 WIDTH="707"><div> The engineer was among the dead, the NTSB said. His name has not been released. A total of 135 people were injured.</div> <bR> <div> A visibly distraught Metrolink spokeswoman, Denise Tyrrell, said the company was stepping ahead of the NTSB in suggesting a cause of the accident because "we want to have an honest dialogue with our community." She said internal investigators had reviewed dispatcher recordings and operation of the trackside signal system.</div> <bR> <div> Part of the railroad's safety system involves a series of signals that tell engineers whether the path ahead is clear. According to Metrolink, the engineer missed a stop signal shortly before the accident site -- the last of three that would have warned another train was ahead on a single stretch of track. In that area, trains going both ways share track that winds through a series of narrow tunnels.</div> <bR> <div> The NTSB, the federal agency leading the investigation, did not rule out Metrolink's theory but will complete its witness interviews and review of evidence -- which could take a year -- before announcing conclusions.</div> <bR> <div> "We don't know why it happened, and it's our job to find out," said board member Kitty Higgins.</div> <bR> <div> The collision occurred on a horseshoe-shaped section of track near a 500-foot-long tunnel underneath Stoney Point Park in the San Fernando Valley. There is a siding at one end of the tunnel where one train can wait for another to pass.</div> <bR> <div> Higgins noted that a pair of "switches" that control whether a train goes into a siding were open. One of them should have been closed, she said.</div> <bR> <div> "The indication is that it was forced open," possibly by the Metrolink train, she said of one of the switches.</div> <bR> <div> Higgins said rescue crews on Saturday recovered two data recorders from the Metrolink train and one data recorder and one video recorder from the freight train. The video has pictures from forward-looking cameras and the data recorders have information on speed, braking patterns and whether the horn was used.</div> <bR> <div> Investigators also will test the signals on the track and the brakes on the trains as well as interview Metrolink dispatchers.</div> <bR> <div> The Metrolink train, heading from downtown Los Angeles to Ventura County, was carrying 220 passengers, one engineer and a conductor when it collided with the freight train, with its crew of three. The passenger train was believed to have been traveling about 40 mph.</div> <bR> <div> The crash forced the Metrolink engine well back into the first passenger car, and both toppled over. Two other passenger cars remained upright.</div> <bR> <div> Firefighters worked relentlessly for nearly a day to assist survivors and extract bodies.</div> <bR> <div> Of the 135 people injured, 81 were taken to hospitals in serious or critical condition. There was no overall condition update available Saturday, but a telephone survey of five hospitals found nine of 34 patients still critical.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 290 WIDTH="707"><div> The Metrolink engineer was employed by Connex Railroad, a subsidiary of Veolia Transportation, which said it began operating Metrolink routes in 2005. The company issued a brief statement saying it was "fully cooperating" with investigators.</div> <bR> <div> Metrolink's assertion that engineer error caused the accident drew some criticism.</div> <bR> <div> Los Angeles County Supervisor and Metrolink board member Don Knabe said it's premature to blame the engineer.</div> <bR> <div> "There could always be a technical malfunction where ... there was a green light both ways," he said.</div> <bR> <div> Ray Garcia, a Metrolink conductor until 2006 who now works for Amtrak, said initial evidence could be misleading, as in the case of a central computer inaccurately showing that a signal was red.</div> <bR> <div> "It is a rush to judgment," he said. "It's just way too early in the game to point the finger."</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="13"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 218 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Has Toronto's film festival become too elitist?</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. Sept. 13 2008 12:33  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 13th, 2008</div> <div> <B>While tickets for the hottest movies at the Toronto International Film Fest have been hard to score in years past, some locals say this year's fest is a sell-out in more ways than one.</B></div> <bR> <div> Big gripes with this year's edition include long lines, a pumped-up corporate presence and preferential treatment for TIFF donors.</div> <bR> <div> "I think this city gives a lot to this festival," film fan Jason Keller told CTV.ca this week.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d59ca0800.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="128" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Actor Brad Pitt makes his way on the red carpet as he arrives for the screening of 'Burn After Reading' on Friday, Sept. 5, 2008 in Toronto. THE CANADIAN PRESS / Nathan Denette.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 907 WIDTH="707"><div> "I don't know if the average Torontonian is getting enough back,"</div> <bR> <div> That's why Keller, who sees upwards of 80 movies a year in theatres, decided to boycott this year's festival -- even if that meant missing out on screenings like the Coen brothers' "Burn After Reading" and Paul Gross' First World War epic "Passchendaele."</div> <bR> <div> "The stuff that everyone wants to see is too hard to get to," he said.</div> <bR> <div> "If you want to see the new Coen brothers movie, and if you're not a donor or in media or someone important, it's pretty much impossible."</div> <bR> <div> Underscoring complaints of elitism is the Bell Lightbox: a massive, $196 million complex and condo tower planned for downtown Toronto, slated to become the festival's future home.</div> <bR> <div> Festival brass hope the Lightbox, which will feature five theatres, will be ready for the 2010 edition of the fest, but organizers say they still have to raise about $50-million for the ambitious project.</div> <bR> <div> <B>The 'people's fest' no more?</B></div> <bR> <div> During TIFF's early years in the 1970s and throughout the 1990s, it earned the reputation as the "people's festival" because regular fans could get access to the hottest movies.</div> <bR> <div> But according to film fan and blogger Tim Shore, that moniker is a thing of the past.</div> <bR> <div> "Maybe 15 years ago it was, but it's evolved over the years," he said in a telephone interview on Friday.</div> <bR> <div> This year, for example, the festival jacked-up prices for Visa Screening Room events at the Elgin Theatre to $40, meaning another barrier to fans on a budget.</div> <bR> <div> "That was definitely a downer," said Shore, who writes for blogto.com, a local arts website.</div> <bR> <div> Worse yet, this year's TIFF got off to a bad start when about 200 pass holders were shut out of the opening night's "Passchendaele" showing so donors to the Bell Lightbox project could get in first.</div> <bR> <div> Still, the fest offers plenty of options for film fans on a budget, said Mark Dillon, editor of Playback Magazine, a trade publication devoted to film.</div> <bR> <div> "I don't think their selection of films has declined," he said.</div> <bR> <div> "In defense of TIFF, they have a big, expensive event to put on, and corporate sponsorship is important," he said, noting that TIFF is a non-profit organization putting on a world class festival.</div> <bR> <div> While Dillon said some great Canadian films and smaller budget flicks are often overshadowed by big budget Hollywood features, he noted this year's TIFF is pulling in big stars and big attendance numbers.</div> <bR> <div> "I went to the 'Burn After Reading' gala and it was staggering," he said.</div> <bR> <div> "When Brad Pitt arrived and the flashbulbs went off, it was like Beatlemania."</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><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 125 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Mediterranean diet lowers risk of death from disease</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. Sept. 11 2008 19:14  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 12th, 2008</div> <div> <B>A diet rich in olive oil, grains, vegetables and fish can lower both the risk of death and of developing chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer and Alzheimer's, new research suggests.</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="d599a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 507 WIDTH="707"><div> A team of researchers from the University of Florence analyzed the findings of 12 international studies that included more than 1.5 million participants.</div> <bR> <div> Among subjects who strictly followed a so-called Mediterranean diet, the researchers found a:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Nine per cent drop in overall mortality;</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Nine per cent drop in mortality from heart disease;</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">13 per cent reduction in incidences of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease, and;</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Six per cent reduction in cancer rates.</div> <bR> <div> "These results seem to be clinically relevant for public health, in particular for encouraging a Mediterranean-like dietary pattern for primary prevention of major chronic diseases," the authors conclude.</div> <bR> <div> The findings are published in the online edition of the <I>British Medical Journal</I>.</div> <bR> <div> Recent studies have suggested that following the Mediterranean diet can lower a person's risk for heart disease and cancer.</div> <bR> <div> However, this is the first time a vast array of international data has been compiled and analyzed to determine how the diet may lower a person's risk of chronic disease and even death.</div> <bR> <div> The Mediterranean diet is rich in olive oil, grains, fruits, nuts, vegetables and fish, but low in meat, dairy products and alcohol. </div> <div> It is most common among populations in countries that border the Mediterranean Sea.</div> <bR> <div> The researchers said the next step in this field of study would be to develop a so-called adherence score for the diet. This would allow doctors to recommend the diet for patients to reduce their risk of disease and then evaluate how well they are following it.</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="11"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 365 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Battleground voters agree May should be in debates</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. Sept. 11 2008 08:09  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 11th, 2008</div> <div> <B>Most respondents in key election battlegrounds support Green Party Leader Elizabeth May's inclusion in a televised leaders' debate for the upcoming federal election, according to a new poll conducted for CTV and </B><I><B>The Globe and Mail</B></I><B>.</B></div> <bR> <div> The results of the Strategic Counsel poll were released early Thursday morning, one day after Canada's broadcast networks agreed to include May in the debates after the Conservatives and New Democrats backed down from their initial opposition.</div> <bR> <div> The poll sampled residents in 45 vital ridings in Quebec, Ontario and B.C.</div> <bR> <div> When asked whether "Green Party Leader Elizabeth May should have been included in the upcoming leaders' debate", 74 per cent of B.C. respondents agreed. Among women, 78 per cent agreed while 71 per cent of men agreed.</div> <bR> <div> Only 12 per cent of women disagreed that May should be included and 22 per cent of men disagreed.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d591a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Green Party Leader Elizabeth May speaks to CTV's Canada AM.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d592a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> NDP Leader Jack Layton addresses supporters outside the General Motors plant in Oshawa, Ont., Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2008. (Andrew Vaughan / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 588 WIDTH="707"><div> In Ontario:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">In total, 73 per cent of respondents agreed;</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">80 per cent of women agreed;</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">69 per cent of men agreed.</div> <bR> <div> In Quebec:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">In total, 67 per cent of respondents agreed;</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">73 per cent of women agreed;</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">61 per cent of men agreed.</div> <bR> <div> In the battleground ridings in all three of the provinces, results were consistently in agreement when respondents were asked to agree or disagree with the statement: "It is wrong that the only woman leader of a national party has been excluded from the debate."</div> <bR> <div> In Ontario, a total of 57 per cent of respondents said they agreed it was wrong to exclude May.</div> <bR> <div> Among women, 62 per cent agreed with the statement, while 52 per cent of men agreed.</div> <bR> <div> In B.C.:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">In total, 53 per cent of respondents agreed;</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">62 per cent of women agreed;</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">43 per cent of men agreed.</div> <bR> <div> In Quebec:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">In total, 56 per cent of respondents agreed;</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">60 per cent of women agreed;</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">52 per cent of men agreed.</div> <bR> <div> In all three provinces about 25 per cent of women strongly disagreed that it was wrong to exclude May from the debates.</div> <bR> <div> Among men, 46 per cent in B.C. strongly disagreed, 31 per cent in Ontario strongly disagreed and 35 per cent in Quebec strongly disagreed.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 716 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>May 'jubilant'</B></div> <bR> <div> May told CTV's Canada AM she was "jubilant" to receive the news she would be allowed to participate, calling the decision a victory for democracy.</div> <bR> <div> "I think this is really a victory for citizen outrage and the effectiveness of Canadians getting on websites, calling, writing letters to the editors. It was an astonishing and completely spontaneous movement of outrage and I'm so grateful," May said Thursday.</div> <bR> <div> She welcomed the poll results that showed as many as 80 per cent of women in Ontario felt she should be included. However, she acknowledged that although those respondents wanted her included in the debate, it doesn't mean they plan to vote for her.</div> <bR> <div> "But I really hope that now that I've got a chance to explain where the Green Party stands on a wide range of issues people will be more inclined to actually give us their support at the ballot box," she said.</div> <bR> <div> May vowed to raise issues such as Kyoto, Afghanistan and foreign policy, saying previous debates in 2006 ignored the important issues and as a result were "dreary and horrible" to watch.</div> <bR> <div> "I'm hoping what I'll do by participating is do a service to the 80 per cent or whatever of Canadians who thought I should be there. No matter how they're going to vote I really want to improve the quality of the debates and focus more on issues and less on personalities."</div> <bR> <div> <B>Change of mind</B></div> <bR> <div> Conservative Leader Stephen Harper and NDP Leader Jack Layton both reversed their opposition to the inclusion of May on Wednesday.</div> <bR> <div> Layton was the first to back away from his previous position, saying he didn't want to keep "debating about the debate."</div> <bR> <div> "As long as Stephen Harper takes part, I don't care who else is on the stage," he said Wednesday afternoon on his campaign bus.</div> <bR> <div> Less than an hour later, Conservative representatives informed reporters that the Tories would not stand alone against May's inclusion.</div> <bR> <div> The five networks in the consortium -- CTV, CBC, Radio-Canada, Global and TVA -- said May was excluded because some leaders threatened to boycott the debate if she was allowed to participate.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Battleground 2008 ridings</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 480 WIDTH="707"><div> Following is a list of the Battleground 2008 Ridings included in Strategic Counsel polling throughout the election campaign:</div> <bR> <div> British Columbia</div> <div> <I>Vancouver Quadra, Vancouver Island North, West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country, Fleetwood-Port Kells, Newton-North Delta, Burnaby-Douglas, Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca, Richmond, Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge-Mission, North Vancouver.</I></div> <bR> <div> Ontario</div> <div> <I>Parry Sound-Muskoka, Glengarry-Prescott-Russell, St. Catharines, Hamilton East-Stoney Creek, Brant, Thunder Bay-Superior North, Oakville, Thunder Bay-Rainy River, Huron-Bruce, London-Fanshaw, Ottawa-Orléans, Simcoe North, London West, Barrie, Kitchener-Conestoga, Halton, Peterborough, Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing, Burlington, Mississauga South.</I></div> <bR> <div> Quebec</div> <div> <I>Louis-Hébert, Ahuntsic, Beauport-Limoilou, Brossard-La Prairie, Papineau, Charlesbourg--Haut-Saint-Charles, Hull-Aylmer, Honoré-Mercier, Saint-Hyacinthe-Bagot, Pontiac, Jeanne-Le Ber, Laval-Les Îles, Gatineau, Chicoutimi-Le Fjord, Brome-Missisquoi.</I></div> <bR> <div> <B>Technical notes:</B></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The poll was conducted from Sept. 9-10 by The Strategic Counsel for CTV and The Globe and Mail.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The B.C. ridings had a sample size of 260 (margin of error 6.1 per cent). The Ontario ridings had a sample size of 280 (margin of error 5.9 per cent) and Quebec battleground ridings had a sample size of 270 (margin of error 6 per cent).</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Results are based on random samples of adults 18 years of age or older in each of the 45 battleground ridings. Results were weighted by age to be proportionate to the provincial population sampled.</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="10"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 658 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Largest particle collider conducts successful test</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. Sept. 10 2008 06:24  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 10th, 2008</div> <div> <B>GENEVA -- The world's largest particle collider successfully completed its first major test by firing a beam of protons all the way around a 27-kilometre tunnel Wednesday in what scientists hope is the next great step to understanding the makeup of the universe.</B></div> <bR> <div> After a series of trial runs, two white dots flashed on a computer screen indicating that the protons had traveled the full length of the US$3.8 billion Large Hadron Collider.</div> <bR> <div> There it is," project leader Lyn Evans said when the beam completed its lap.</div> <bR> <div> The startup was eagerly awaited by 9,000 physicists around the world who now have much greater power than ever before to smash the components of atoms together in attempts to see how they are made.</div> <bR> <div> "Well done everybody," Robert Aymar, director-general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, said after the protons were fired into the accelerator below the Swiss-French border at 9:32 a.m.</div> <bR> <div> The organization, known by its French acronym CERN, fired the protons -- a type of subatomic particle -- around the tunnel in stages, several kilometres at a time.</div> <bR> <div> Now that the beam has been successfully tested in clockwise direction, CERN plans to send it counterclockwise. Eventually the two beams will be fired in opposite directions with the aim of smashing together protons to see how they are made.</div> <bR> <div> The startup comes over the objections of some skeptics who fear the collisions of protons could eventually imperil the earth.</div> <bR> <div> The skeptics theorized that a byproduct of the collisions could be micro black holes, subatomic versions of collapsed stars whose gravity is so strong they can suck in planets and other stars.</div> <bR> <div> "It's nonsense," said James Gillies, chief spokesman for CERN, before Wednesday's start.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d582a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The magnet core of the world's largest superconducting solenoid magnet (CMS, Compact Muon Solenoid) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)'s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator. (AP / Keystone, Martial Trezzini)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d583a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The LHC (large hadron collider) is seen in its tunnel at CERN (European particle physics laboratory) near Geneva, Switzerland.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d584a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A cyclist passes by the wooden 'Globe' at the entrance of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2008. (AP / Anja Niedringhaus)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 571 WIDTH="707"><div> CERN is backed by leading scientists like Britain's Stephen Hawking in dismissing the fears and declaring the experiments to be absolutely safe.</div> <bR> <div> Gillies told the AP that the most dangerous thing that could happen would be if a beam at full power were to go out of control, and that would only damage the accelerator itself and burrow into the rock around the tunnel.</div> <bR> <div> And full power is probably a year away.</div> <bR> <div> "On Wednesday we start small," said Gillies. "A really good result would be to have the other beam going around, too, because once you've got a beam around once in both directions you know that there is no show-stopper."</div> <bR> <div> The LHC, as the collider is known, will take scientists to within a split second of a laboratory recreation of the big bang, which they theorize was the massive explosion that created the universe.</div> <bR> <div> The project organized by the 20 European member nations of CERN has attracted researchers from 80 countries. Some 1,200 are from the United States, an observer country which contributed $531 million. Japan, another observer, also is a major contributor.</div> <bR> <div> The collider is designed to push the proton beam close to the speed of light, whizzing 11,000 times a second around the tunnel.</div> <bR> <div> Smaller colliders have been used for decades to study the makeup of the atom. Less than 100 years ago scientists thought protons and neutrons were the smallest components of an atom's nucleus, but in stages since then experiments have shown they were made of still smaller quarks and gluons and that there were other forces and particles.</div> <bR> <div> The CERN experiments could reveal more about "dark matter," antimatter and possibly hidden dimensions of space and time. It could also find evidence of the hypothetical particle -- the Higgs boson -- believed to give mass to all other particles, and thus to matter that makes up the universe.</div> <bR> <div> Some scientists have been waiting for 20 years to use the LHC.</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="09"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 200 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Elizabeth May excluded from television debates</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. Sept. 08 2008 21:12  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 9th, 2008</div> <div> <B>OTTAWA -- Green party Leader Elizabeth May has been shut out of the televised election debates after every major party but the Liberals shunned her inclusion.</B></div> <bR> <div> TV network officials hinted that one or more of the other party leaders would have pulled out of the showcase election event, set for Ottawa on Oct. 1 and 2, if May had participated.</div> <bR> <div> NDP campaign spokesman Brad Lavigne confirmed that Leader Jack Layton had refused to attend with May present.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d57ca0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Green Party Leader Elizabeth May discusses the decision to leave her out of the debates while appearing on Mike Duffy Live in Ottawa on Monday, Sept. 8, 2008.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 650 WIDTH="707"><div> All signs pointed to the Conservatives as being the other deal breaker.</div> <bR> <div> "We believe that as someone who's endorsed (Liberal Leader) Stephane Dion to be the prime minister of Canada, she has endorsed Liberal candidates throughout the country," Lavigne said.</div> <bR> <div> "We said that if the Liberals were going to have two representatives, we would not accept the invitation."</div> <bR> <div> Dion said he welcomed May, the only woman leading a federal party in the election, to join the debates.</div> <bR> <div> Jason MacDonald, a spokesman for the network consortium, said the other three parties all opposed her participation "and it became clear that if the Green party were included, there would be no leaders' debates.</div> <bR> <div> "In the interest of Canadians, the consortium has determined that it is better to broadcast the debates with the four major party leaders, rather than not at all."</div> <bR> <div> The nationally televised event is run by Canada's major TV networks through an umbrella group that decides who takes part. The consortium includes CBC, Radio Canada, CTV, Global and TVA.</div> <bR> <div> Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe stressed that he never threatened to cancel, although he'd prefer the debate be restricted to leaders of the four major parties in Parliament.</div> <bR> <div> But Prime Minister Stephen Harper, like the NDP, said Monday that May's inclusion would in essence allow a second Liberal candidate.</div> <bR> <div> He said May's platform is similar to Dion's and that she will ultimately endorse the Liberals.</div> <bR> <div> "Elizabeth May is not an opponent of Stephane Dion," Harper said at a campaign event in Richmond, B.C.</div> <bR> <div> "She is his candidate in (the Nova Scotia riding of) Central Nova, and I think it would be fundamentally unfair to have two candidates who are essentially running on the same platform in the debate."</div> <bR> <div> Dion raised eyebrows by opting not to run a Liberal candidate against May. She in turn has upset some Greens by heaping praise on Dion's environmental record and touting him as a better prime minister than Harper.</div> <bR> <div> Still, she insists she is a party leader in her own right and dismissed any notion that she will endorse the Liberals as "nonsense."</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 938 WIDTH="707"><div> May threatened to go to court over Monday's decision, accusing the TV networks of "old boy" tactics as she squarely blamed Harper for her exclusion.</div> <bR> <div> "I think Mr. Harper's role was determinative," she said in an interview. "He was the only one making the (public) case that I was not allowed to participate.</div> <bR> <div> "In the interest of fairness ... and a full and fair election, the Green party will seek the guidance of the Federal Court in terms of ... how manipulated the public airwaves can be by the objection of a prime minister who doesn't want to face me in the debate."</div> <bR> <div> Harper had made no further comment on the matter by Monday evening.</div> <bR> <div> In the past, the courts and federal radio-television regulator have washed their hands of the matter, saying it's up to the broadcasters to decide who can participate in an event that can change the course of election campaigns.</div> <bR> <div> The Green leader has stepped up pressure on the networks ever since an Independent MP joined the party, giving the Greens a temporary toehold in the House of Commons.</div> <bR> <div> "I believe the consortium has been overly influenced by hints, and threats without actually having public statements on the record from any national party political leader that they would actually refuse to participate in the debates if I was included," May said.</div> <bR> <div> Layton was hustled away by handlers when reporters tried to clarify if he had said he would pull out.</div> <bR> <div> "I'm looking forward to debating the prime minister," was his only comment.</div> <bR> <div> Before Lavigne spoke, another NDP official speaking off record said that a negotiator for Layton had told network organizers that he would have to "reconsider" his participation but had not threatened to boycott.</div> <bR> <div> Dion told a campaign rally in his Montreal riding of Saint-Laurent on Monday night that May should have been included. </div> <div> "It's about fairness. Elizabeth May should have been part of the debate. Period."</div> <bR> <div> Most Canadians will find her exclusion "deeply anti-democratic, whether they plan to vote Green or not," May fumed. Especially galling, she said, is the fact Duceppe is allowed in even though voters outside Quebec can't vote for his party.</div> <bR> <div> "They can vote for the Green party in all 306 ridings across Canada. They want to know where we stand."</div> <bR> <div> She says Harper's bid to freeze her out has more to do with concern that the Greens could eat into Conservative support.</div> <bR> <div> It's also the latest in a string of actions that suggest Harper's distaste for women's full equality and a dislike of feminists in particular, she charged.</div> <bR> <div> Pollsters have repeatedly cited as a potential weakness the Conservative failure to sway female voters.</div> <bR> <div> "I think it's because (Harper) removed from the mandate of Status of Women Canada achieving equality for women," May said.</div> <bR> <div> "I think it's because he cancelled universal child care when it was within our grasp. I think it's because women look at him and realize that here is someone who really does have a deep antipathy for the aspirations of many Canadian women for full equality, full participation."</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="08"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 331 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Markets jump after takeover of U.S. mortgage giants</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. Sept. 08 2008 11:04  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 8th, 2008</div> <div> <B>Global stock markets jumped Monday following news the U.S. government will takeover struggling mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.</B></div> <bR> <div> Together, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac own or guarantee about half the mortgage debt in the United States.</div> <bR> <div> The move is intended to help strengthen the hard-hit U.S. housing market and restore global investor confidence that has been badly shaken by the U.S. credit crunch.</div> <bR> <div> The bailout did have an immediate impact on financial markets with the Dow Jones industrial average surging more than 2 per cent Monday morning.</div> <bR> <div> The Nasdaq composite index gained 17.01 points to 2,272.8994.12 and the S&P 500 index advanced 23.74 points to 1,266.05 following the weekend announcement.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d577a0640.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="100" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> An investor looks at a stock price monitor at a private security company in Shanghai, China, Monday, Sept. 8, 2008. (AP)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d578a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The Fannie Mae building in Washington is seen on May 2, 2007. (AP / Manuel Balce Ceneta)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 600 WIDTH="707"><div> Dave Rovelli, managing director of U.S. equity trading at Canaccord Adams in New York, called the news positive but said it won't eliminate worries in other areas of the economy.</div> <bR> <div> Still, he said the takeover is a better option than a collapse of the U.S. mortgage giants.</div> <bR> <div> "It saves Armageddon from happening," he told The Canadian Press.</div> <bR> <div> For shareholders, the plan all but wiped out value in the two companies. Freddie Mac plunged 80 per cent to US$1.36 and Fannie Mae dropped 71 per cent to US$1.48.</div> <bR> <div> Meanwhile, Toronto's S&P/TSX composite index initially surged almost 350 points Monday but by mid-morning was up 83.29 points to 12,899.71.</div> <bR> <div> The strong start slowed as the energy sector turned negative. Last week, a commodity-led tumble wiped-out almost a thousand points from the main index.</div> <bR> <div> Overseas, Japan's Nikkei 225 index rose 3.4 per cent to 12,624.46 following Monday's bailout.</div> <bR> <div> Hong Kong's Hang Seng index surged 4.3 per cent to 20,794.27 while Korea's benchmark Kospi index rose 5.2 per cent.</div> <bR> <div> Britain's FTSE 100 rose 3.7 per cent, Germany's DAX was up 3.4 per cent and France's CAC 40 was up 4.6 per cent. </div> <div> The news was welcomed by many nations.</div> <bR> <div> "I think what the American authorities have done, in the brief look I've had, it is the right thing," said Glenn Stevens, the head of Australia's central bank.</div> <bR> <div> "Their implications are likely to be positive for markets because it's a source of uncertainty close to resolution," he said. </div> <div> Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura echoed Stevens' praise.</div> <bR> <div> "We welcome the plan as an appropriate measure as it is believed to contribute to stabilizing the financial markets," he was quoted as saying by Kyodo News.</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="07"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 519 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Stars with Canadian roots lauded at Walk of Fame</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. Sept. 07 2008 10:18  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 7th, 2008</div> <div> <B>TORONTO -- Despite Ottawa's recent multi-million dollar cuts to arts funding, Canadians shouldn't take government cultural financing for granted, says blockbuster filmmaker James Cameron.</B></div> <bR> <div> Neatly shaven and sporting a navy bowtie, the Oscar-winning director shared his views as he strode up the red carpet in Toronto on Saturday towards his latest accolade: a star on Canada's Walk of Fame.</div> <bR> <div> "I live and work in Los Angeles, and there's no funding for arts and culture in the American federal budget, or very, very little," said the native of Kapuskasing, Ont. "The fact you still have a budget, I think you should be thankful for it.</div> <bR> <div> "I think Canadians care more about the arts than a lot of other countries do."</div> <bR> <div> But fellow inductee Mark McKinney, who was honoured alongside the four other members of their sketch comedy troupe Kids in the Hall, called the Conservative cuts "really dumb."</div> <bR> <div> "Arts are profit-making and popular and they present our country worldwide," he said, on the eve of a federal election call. "And they help us in a difficult situation, being north of the United States, to establish a national identity and a national tone to the kinds of shows we produce -- Kids in the Hall being one.</div> <bR> <div> "I guess this government doesn't believe in it. But the next one will. Yeah!"</div> <bR> <div> Neither those moments of seriousness nor overcast skies could dim the smiles on the eight newest Canadians to be feted at the 10th annual event.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d572a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> James Cameron poses with his star after unveiling it in a ceremony for Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. (Frank Gunn / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d573a0c80.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="200" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Michael J. Fox poses with his star after unveiling it in a ceremony for Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. (Frank Gunn / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 326 WIDTH="540"><div> Actor Michael J. Fox, who has also campaigned tirelessly for increased Parkinson's disease research through a foundation he created, was joined by his mother Phyllis. As his cement star was about to be unveiled, he jokingly threw his hands up in the air and pleaded innocence from a pair of RCMP officers on hand for the ceremony.</div> <bR> <div> Ninety-year-old actress Frances Bay, affectionately known as Hollywood's Grandma, energetically signed autographs as she was pushed along in a wheelchair.</div> <bR> <div> While she didn't begin professional acting until age 60, she said "Canada began it," recalling her role in a play at age seven in small-town Manitoba as instrumental in achieving her dream.</div> <bR> <div> A slick-looking Steve Nash, the NBA star who plays for the Phoenix Suns but grew up in British Columbia, rubbed his new star as if for luck.</div> <bR> <div> While stunning in a skin-tight black dress, supermodel Daria Werbowy posed like a pro for cameras but didn't show off her usual runway walk. Werbowy wore a heavy-looking cast on her left foot, which she said was the result of an engine accidentally dropping on her several weeks ago.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d574a0fa0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="250" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Bryan Adams poses with his star after unveiling it in a ceremony for Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. (Frank Gunn / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 306 WIDTH="707"><div> Also celebrated were recording artist k.d. lang and rocker Bryan Adams -- an inaugural inductee in 1998, who was finally available to receive his star this year.</div> <bR> <div> There now are 115 stars on the Walk of Fame.</div> <bR> <div> A host of other celebrities joined the festivities as presenters, including actress Sigourney Weaver, supermodel Linda Evangelista and figure skating champ Kurt Browning as host.</div> <bR> <div> Director Cameron said that while he feels Canadians usually "are a little stingy with giving out their praise " -- especially to those who've left the country to make their mark elsewhere -- the Walk of Fame is a "very cool" honour.</div> <bR> <div> "Canadians succeed, they succeed wherever they go," he said. "So there has to be something in our basic fibre, or spirit that prevails in all these foreign environments."</div> <bR> <div> A broadcast of Canada's Walk of Fame ceremony airs Sunday, Sept. 7 at 7 p.m. ET on CTV. </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="06"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 233 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Que. recalls more cheeses due to Listeria fears</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. Sept. 06 2008 13:03  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 6th, 2008</div> <div> <B>Eight more cheese products have been recalled in Quebec due to concerns they may contain the Listeria bacterium. That brings the total number of cheeses recalled in the province since Thursday to 11.</B></div> <bR> <div> The Quebec government issued the recall after one person died of the infection and 14 other cases were confirmed. Health officials say the number of cases could reach 24.</div> <bR> <div> "These measures are exceptional but justified," Guy Auclair, the director of emergency measures for Quebec's agriculture department, told a news conference in Quebec City on Saturday.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d570a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> An electron micrograph of a Listeria bacterium in tissue. Listeria monocytogenes is the infectious agent responsible for the food borne illness Listeriosis. (CDC / Dr. Balasubr Swaminathan, Peggy Hayes)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 430 WIDTH="707"><div> "A major operation is in effect to control this outbreak," he said.</div> <bR> <div> The province will now conduct more inspections of businesses that make raw milk cheese products. "We want to assure consumers that everything is being done to ensure food security," Auclair said.</div> <bR> <div> The eight products recalled today were packaged after July 12 and were manufactured by Menard de St-Gedeon of Lac-St-Jean, Que.</div> <bR> <div> Three other cheeses were recalled Thursday. They were made by The Fromagiers de la table ronde in Ste-Sophie, Que., and have packaging dates after July 14.</div> <bR> <div> The two companies distribute their products to 300 outlets in the province.</div> <bR> <div> The cheeses recalled have the names Le Rang des Iles, Le 14 Arpents, Les Petits Vieux, Le Gedeon, Le Menard, Le Couvertine, Le Cabrouet, Les Cailles, Le Fleurdelyse, Le Fou du Roy and Le Rassembleu.</div> <bR> <div> Auclair said other products that may have come into contact with the potentially-contaminated cheeses "should be thrown out because they could constitute a health risk."</div> <bR> <div> Listeriosis has been making headlines since the end of August after a national outbreak of the infection was linked to Maple Leafs Foods in Toronto. Health officials have connected 13 deaths to that outbreak. Thirty-eight cases of listeriosis have been confirmed and another 20 are suspected.</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="05"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 399 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Southeast states, Maritimes brace for Hanna</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri. Sept. 05 2008 08:08  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 5th, 2008</div> <div> <B>Tropical Storm Hanna is hurtling across the Atlantic and is expected to slam into the Maritimes on Sunday.</B></div> <bR> <div> The system blasted past the Bahamas on Thursday and charged towards the U.S. southeast coast on Friday, prompting storm watches and warnings from Georgia to just south of New York City.</div> <bR> <div> Forecasters also warned Hanna could still become a hurricane before it made landfall.</div> <bR> <div> Hanna was expected to follow the coast north towards Canada after reaching the U.S.</div> <bR> <div> "We're looking for this storm centre to arrive some time on Sunday and right now to pass through Nova Scotia," said Peter Bowyer of the Canadian Hurricane Centre.</div> <bR> <div> "It will be moving pretty quickly as it comes, probably bringing winds on the order of 70 to 80 kilometres per hour."</div> <bR> <div> Those winds can be especially destructive this time of year, since most trees are still fully laden with leaves, Bowyer warned.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d56da0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> This infrared satellite image provided by the NOAA show tropical storm Hanna moving over the Bahamas on Friday, Sept. 5, 2008.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d56ea0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> This NOAA graphic shows the expected three-day storm path of tropical storm Hanna on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 580 WIDTH="707"><div> "Any time you get a gale force wind those trees catch the wind like a sail and that can cause some problems," he said.</div> <bR> <div> Bowyer said it's difficult to predict how much rain Hanna could dump on the region. But the intensity of the rain is a greater concern than the sheer volume of rain that could fall.</div> <bR> <div> "Any time a tropical system comes you have to prepare for some intense rain," he said.</div> <bR> <div> "It doesn't necessarily mean you're going to have hundreds of millimetres but you could have 20 to 40 millimetres in a short period of time which can always lead to local flooding problems if you're in a flood prone area."</div> <bR> <div> At 5 a.m. ET Friday, Hanna was centred close to 700 kilometres south of Wilmington, N.C. It carried winds near 100 kilometres per hour and was travelling in a northwest direction at about 32 kph.</div> <bR> <div> The system cut a destructive swath through northern Haiti, leaving more than 130 people dead and many more homeless.</div> <bR> <div> In the U.S., the tropical storm warning covered a massive area from Georgia's Altamaha Sound to Chincoteagye, Va., just south of Maryland.</div> <bR> <div> A tropical storm watch applied to areas between Chincoteague and Sandy Hook, N.J., which included Washington.</div> <bR> <div> A state of emergency has been declared in both Virginia and North Carolina, and many residents of coastal areas have been urged to move inland.</div> <bR> <div> Hanna was expected to begin dumping rain on the southern U.S. states as early as Friday night.</div> <bR> <div> Some residents were shuttering their homes and stocking up on food and sandbags, in anticipation of the storm. Coastal parks were closed and school and sporting events were cancelled.</div> <bR> <div> North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley urged residents to be vigilant.</div> <bR> <div> "No, you're not in the clear if you're not in the track we talked about today," he said. "You're in the clear after the storm goes through and didn't bother you."</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 232 WIDTH="707"><div> Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina urged residents in two at-risk counties to leave flood-prone areas and mobile homes by Friday afternoon.</div> <bR> <div> A tropical storm warning means storm conditions are expected within 24 hours while a tropical storm watch means tropical storm conditions would arrive within 36 hours.</div> <bR> <div> A hurricane watch covered an area from Edisto Beach, S.C. to North Carolina's Outer Banks near Virginia.</div> <bR> <div> Meanwhile, Hanna was followed by Hurricane Ike as it also began making its way across the Atlantic towards the Bahamas. Ike weakened to a Category 3 storm early Friday but was still considered a dangerous hurricane by the U.S. National Hurricane Center which was keeping a wary eye on the system expected to make landfall on the Gulf Coast.</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="04"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 147 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Sony announces global recall of Vaio laptops</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. Sept. 04 2008 10:55  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 4th, 2008</div> <div> <B>TOKYO -- Sony Corp. is recalling 440,000 Vaio laptop computers worldwide because of a wiring flaw that could cause overheating.</B></div> <bR> <div> Sony said Thursday the recall involves 19 models in the Vaio TZ series manufactured between May 2007 and July 2008.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="d566a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A Sony Vaio notebook computer.</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 215 WIDTH="707"><div> The Tokyo-based consumer electronics company said improperly placed wires near the hinge connecting the body of the laptop and its display could wear quickly, causing a short circuit and overheating. A flaw in a circuit board inside the display could also overheat its rim.</div> <bR> <div> Sony has received 209 reports of overheating worldwide, including seven cases in which people received minor burns.</div> <bR> <div> The laptop problem comes two years after Sony had to engage in massive recalls of laptop batteries, which also caused overheating or even burst into flames.</div> <bR> <div> In pre-market trading, Sony's U.S. shares were up 34 cents at $38.</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="03"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 445 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Palin to take centre stage as questions swirl</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. Sept. 03 2008 06:55  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 3rd, 2008</div> <div> <B>ST. PAUL, Minn. -- After two days of silence, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will step to centre stage at the Republican National Convention to prove to delegates that she can help John McCain win the White House despite distracting questions about her family life and qualifications.</B></div> <bR> <div> Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, once McCain's rival for the GOP presidential nomination, was to deliver the convention's keynote address Wednesday. Both Palin, 44, and McCain, 72, also were to be officially voted onto the GOP presidential ticket by convention delegates.</div> <bR> <div> Republicans hoped Palin's speech -- to be delivered before a nationwide television audience Wednesday night -- would sell voters on her candidacy despite questions about her qualifications and the thoroughness of McCain's selection process, to say nothing of the continuing distractions involving her family and her brief tenure as governor.</div> <bR> <div> The addition of Palin to the ticket has excited Republicans here and across the country. She has earned a reputation for taking on entrenched interests in Alaska and is staunchly pro-gun and anti-abortion.</div> <bR> <div> But the stunning disclosure Monday that Palin's unmarried 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, is five months pregnant -- and a continuing drip of potentially embarrassing details -- had knocked the convention off message before a rousing program Tuesday night.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d55ba09f0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="159" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Republican Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin acknowledges the crowd after introduced her as Sen. McCain's Vice Presidential running mate Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. (AP / Kiichiro Sato)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d55ca0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> U.S. President George W. Bush speaks at the Republican convention, via video link from the White House, Tuesday night, Sept. 2, 2008.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 438 WIDTH="540"><div> Speakers extolled McCain as a war hero and maverick senator while blasting Obama as an untested liberal. The 47-year-old Illinois senator is seeking to become the first black president.</div> <bR> <div> "Democrats present a history-making nominee for president. History-making in that he is the most liberal, most inexperienced nominee ever to run for president," former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson said as delegates roared with delight.</div> <bR> <div> Palin, who has been in St. Paul since Sunday but out of sight, has a chance Wednesday to speak above the media din and present herself directly to voters as a strong-willed reformer and a solid conservative with appeal to women, including supporters of failed Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton.</div> <bR> <div> The convention returned, mostly, to normal Tuesday after its opening session was cut short as Hurricane Gustav bore down on the Gulf Coast. With damage from Gustav relatively light, the political speeches began, with President Bush calling McCain "ready to lead this nation."</div> <bR> <div> Thompson, a longtime ally of McCain whose own campaign for the White House flamed out early this year, tossed chunk after chunk of rhetorical red meat to the delegates.</div> <bR> <div> "Washington pundits and media big shots are in a frenzy over the selection of a woman who has actually governed rather than just talked a good game on the Sunday talk shows and hit the Washington cocktail circuit," Thompson said.</div> <bR> <div> But the media focus on Palin's difficulties won't go away, particularly since Bristol Palin and the unborn child's father, 18-year-old Levi Johnston, were to attend Wednesday's session.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d55da0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> U.S. First Lady Laura Bush speaks at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008. (AP / Ron Edmonds)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d55ea0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Former U.S. president George H.W. Bush is applauded by the crowd and his wife, Barbara, right, during the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008. (AP / Jae C. Hong)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 318 WIDTH="707"><div> Republicans across the party defended Palin, who in addition to her daughter's pregnancy is under investigation by a state legislative panel over whether she had Alaska's public safety commissioner fired after he refused to dismiss a state trooper who had divorced Palin's sister.</div> <bR> <div> "I haven't seen anything that comes out about her that in any way troubles me or shakes my confidence in her," said former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who ran unsuccessfully for the party's presidential nomination this year.</div> <bR> <div> The prime spot in Tuesday evening's lineup went to Connecticut Democratic-turned-independent Sen. Joe Lieberman -- whose vote presently gives Democrats control of the Senate -- who enthusiastically endorsed McCain and Palin.</div> <bR> <div> "When others wanted to retreat in defeat from the field of battle, when Barack Obama was voting to cut off funding for our troops on the ground," Lieberman said, "John McCain had the courage to stand against the tide of public opinion."</div> <bR> <div> Jim Manley, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Lieberman "can give all the partisan speeches he wants, but as the American people have made very clear, the last thing this country needs is another four years of the same old failed Bush-McCain policies of the past."</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="02"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 254 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Evacuees anxious to return home after Gustav</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. Sept. 02 2008 07:51  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 2nd, 2008</div> <div> <B>New Orleans evacuees are anxious to return home after hurricane Gustav, which is now a tropical depression, delivered a weaker blow than forecasters expected.</B></div> <bR> <div> Although the city was largely spared, Mayor Ray Nagin has told residents that they may have to wait until later in the week before returning.</div> <bR> <div> ABC`s Marti Johnson, reporting from New Orleans, said officials have to clear debris before they can allow residents to return.</div> <bR> <div> "There were a lot of trees that were toppled by the hurricane-force winds," Johnson told CTV's Canada AM on Tuesday.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d4eca0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Glen Martin, Jr. helps the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Department cut through trees which were blocking passage along Highway 665 in Pointe-Aux-Chenes, La. on Monday, Sept. 1, 2008. (AP / Emily Schwarze, The Courier)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 456 WIDTH="707"><div> Ed Conley, the national spokesperson for Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), said the agency is working with the state to help with relief efforts.</div> <bR> <div> He said the biggest obstacle right now is to restore power.</div> <bR> <div> "The longer the power stays down then you're going to have a cascading effect of different issues," Conley told CTV's Canada AM on Tuesday.</div> <bR> <div> Some officials say it could take as long as two weeks before power is fully restored, said Johnson.</div> <bR> <div> Late Monday, Gustav was downgraded to a tropical storm, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.</div> <bR> <div> At 5 a.m. ET Tuesday, the storm's maximum sustained winds had dropped to near 56 km/h and the storm was downgraded to a tropical depression.</div> <bR> <div> The storm's centre was located about 217 km/h northwest of Lafayette and was moving northwest at about 16 km/h.</div> <bR> <div> According to officials, roughly 2 million residents had fled the city and other at-risk areas by Monday morning.</div> <bR> <div> About 10,000 people decided to ride out the storm in New Orleans while about 100,000 remained in their homes along the coast.</div> <bR> <div> Eight deaths in the U.S. have been attributed to Gustav. The storm killed at least 94 people across the Caribbean.</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><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 200 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Gustav slams into shore as Category 2 hurricane</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. Sept. 01 2008 12:02  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 1st, 2008</div> <div> <B>A less powerful than expected hurricane Gustav has slammed into the coast of Louisiana west of New Orleans.</B></div> <bR> <div> Gustav was downgraded to Category 2 status just before making landfall on the vulnerable and all but deserted coast late Monday morning. It was packing winds of over 170 kilometres per hour</div> <bR> <div> According to reports from ABC News, water was splashing over the Industrial Canal floodwall</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d4b3a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Hurricane Gustav slams into the southern U.S. coast as seen in this enhanced NOAA satellite image taken Monday afternoon ET, Sept. 1, 2008.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 627 WIDTH="707"><div> in New Orleans, creating ankle-deep flood areas. But city officials were optimistic the main levees would hold and major flooding would be averted.</div> <bR> <div> "We are seeing some overtopping waves," said Col. Jeff Bedey, commander of the Army Corps of Engineers' hurricane protection office.</div> <bR> <div> "We are cautiously optimistic and confident that we won't see catastrophic wall failure."</div> <bR> <div> Despite the downgrade, Gustav was still packing gusting winds of over 175 kilometres per hour when it struck shore in Cocodrie, southwest of New Orleans.</div> <bR> <div> "It has been downgraded but that does not mean we are out of the woods. This is still a storm to be reckoned with," said CTV's Marcia MacMillan, reporting from New Orleans.</div> <bR> <div> Earlier, forecasters had feared the storm could make landfall as a devastating Category 4 system.</div> <bR> <div> MacMillan said forecasters were expecting the storm to dump about 50 centimetres of rain on the region. Three years ago the devastating Hurricane Katrina hit east of New Orleans, leaving over 1,600 dead and thousands homeless.</div> <bR> <div> Much of southern Louisiana has been deserted ahead of the storm. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin issued a mandatory evacuation, and according to officials roughly 2 million residents had fled the city and other at-risk areas by Monday morning. </div> <div> About 10,000 people decided to ride out the storm in New Orleans while about 100,000 remained in their homes along the coast.</div> <bR> <div> MacMillan said some damage could already be seen Monday morning as strong winds knocked down signs and electricity was temporarily cut off in the city's French Quarter. However, she said officials were mainly concerned about flooding.</div> <bR> <div> "After Katrina they did want to learn a lot of lessons and they have in terms of the evacuation and in terms of the organization and preparedness, but those levees are still vulnerable," she said.</div> <bR> <div> "The levees can only take a storm surge of eight feet. We're looking at a potential storm surge of 20 feet with this storm so that's the real concern, that they're still vulnerable, they're not fortified, they're not strong enough."</div> <bR> <div> <B>Lessons learned</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 575 WIDTH="707"><div> Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Monday morning that lessons from Katrina had been learned.</div> <bR> <div> He summed them up as: "Planning, preparation and moving early" and said U.S. President George Bush is "very focused" on Gustav and the federal response to it.</div> <bR> <div> MacMillan said New Orleans was a virtual ghost town Monday, with the residents that stayed behind nowhere in sight.</div> <bR> <div> "We haven't seen anyone on these streets. It is deserted here in the French Quarter." MacMillan said. "Police and National Guard are the only ones on the streets at this time for a couple of reasons -- they're concerned about looters, they're concerned about people that may have been left behind.</div> <bR> <div> "The evacuation call, according to officials, has been largely successful. They estimate, though it's difficult to be entirely sure, that 90 per cent of the people have left the area."</div> <bR> <div> Some had only been allowed to return to their Katrina-devastated homes a few months ago, before having to flee again ahead of Gustav.</div> <bR> <div> "We're nervous, but we just have to keep trusting in God that we don't get the water again," Lyndon Guidry, who hit the road for Florida, told The Associated Press. "We just have to put our faith in God."</div> <bR> <div> Tropical storm-force winds were already lashing the southeastern tip of the state by early Monday, but there were no reports of distress calls or unexpected flooding.</div> <bR> <div> About 400 km to the west, the Texas town of Beaumont was battening down in advance of Gustav's arrival.</div> <bR> <div> Capt. Brad Penisson of the Beaumont Fire Department told CTV Newsnet that evacuation efforts prior to Gustav were much smoother when compared to when Hurricane Rita hit them in 2005.</div> <bR> <div> "We were better organized this time, we learned some lessons the hard way during Hurricane Rita and we were better prepared, better organized with our evacuation efforts," Penisson said.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Looters warned</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 248 WIDTH="707"><div> New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has warned that anyone staying behind in New Orleans to loot homes would face the full force of the law. The city is under a mandatory evacuation order and Nagin has also ordered a dusk-to-dawn curfew to prevent robberies.</div> <bR> <div> "Looters will go directly to jail. You will not get a pass this time," Mayor Ray Nagin told reporters on Sunday. "You will not have a temporary stay in the city. You will go directly to the Big House."</div> <bR> <div> The evacuation order became mandatory at 8 a.m. local time on Sunday for the more vulnerable west bank of the Mississippi River, and starts at noon on the east bank.</div> <bR> <div> Police and Louisiana National Guard troops remain behind to patrol evacuated neighbourhoods. "We will have unprecedented security," Nagin promised.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>