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VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 22/10/08</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#21" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Poverty, inequality rates jump in Canada: OECD</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 21/10/08</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#20" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Gas pipelines vulnerable to terrorism: expert</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 20/10/08</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#19" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Six-year-old boy abducted from home found alive</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 19/10/08</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#18" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Rallies held to call for end to Afghan war</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 18/10/08</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#17" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  RCMP's terrorism unit investigating B.C. bombings</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 17/10/08</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#16" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  World stocks drop with Tokyo off 11 per cent</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 16/10/08</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#15" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Harper wins stronger minority government</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 15/10/08</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#14" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Voters head to the polls after 37-day campaign</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 14/10/08</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#13" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Wall Street stocks soar, Dow gains 936 points</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 13/10/08</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#12" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Men, women use web like prehistoric hunter-gatherers</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 12/10/08</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#11" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>GM, Chrysler in merger talks: reports</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 11/10/08</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#10" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Morgentaler to receive Order of Canada today</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 10/10/08</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#09" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Despite cleanup, Maple Leaf not listeriosis free</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 09/10/08</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#08" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Dion blasts Harper for giving financial advice</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 08/10/08</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#07" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Markets rebound slightly after day of historic losses</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 07/10/08</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#06" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Asian markets plunge on fears crisis is spreading</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 06/10/08</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#05" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  British general says, 'We're not going to win this war'</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 05/10/08</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#04" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  RCMP call second attack in Edson, Alta. a hoax</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 04/10/08</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#03" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Asian stocks fall, Wachovia sold for US$15.1 billion</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 03/10/08</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#02" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Party leaders gird for second debate, final sprint</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 02/10/08</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#01" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Edson, Alta., like a 'ghost town' after attacks</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 01/10/08</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></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="31"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 540 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Police resume search for missing 15-year-old boy</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri. Oct. 31 2008  07:37  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 31st, 2008</div> <div> <B>Police in Barrie, Ont., are resuming their search for missing 15-year-old Brandon Crisp despite having no new tips in the case.</B></div> <bR> <div> Crisp went missing on Oct. 13, Thanksgiving Day, after getting into a fight with his parents over his incessant video-game playing.</div> <bR> <div> Since then, an intensive police search, which included help from volunteers, has failed to come up with any solid leads.</div> <bR> <div> After calling off the search earlier this week, police say they want to double-check one area as a precautionary measure.</div> <bR> <div> "The area is a rural area and there's a lot of thick, dense bush in there so we're just trying to get into some of those areas one more time," Sgt. Barrie Goodbrand of the Barrie Police told CTV's Canada AM on Friday.</div> <bR> <div> Goodbrand said investigators will also be canvassing the near the trail where Brandon last went missing.</div> <bR> <div> "(We're) hoping to get people that may walk that trail on a regular basis... (who) may have some crucial piece of information that we can use," he said.</div> <bR> <div> Meanwhile, police have also taken their search for Brandon south of the border, enlisting the help of a popular crime TV show.</div> <bR> <div> "America's Most Wanted" is now featuring the case of 15-year-old Brandon Crisp on their website.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d75aa0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Brandon Crisp, 15, is seen in this undated police handout photo.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d75ba0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Friends, family and strangers gathered in the ball park where Brandon Crisp was last seen, for a candlelight vigil, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d75ca0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> An OPP helicopter flies over the search area for Brandon Crisp northeast of Barrie last week. (Tom Podolec / CTV Toronto)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 290 WIDTH="707"><div> Officials at the show say they are monitoring the case and might feature it on their show if police believe the avid gamer might have made his way to the U.S.</div> <bR> <div> "We also have to consider that there's that possibility that he went to the United States," Goodbrand said.</div> <bR> <div> "...We just want to do everything we can to ensure we cover as much ground in the event that Brandon did leave the area of Barrie."</div> <bR> <div> Brandon is described as male, white, 100 pounds, 5'2", with short sandy blond hair.</div> <bR> <div> When Brandon was last seen, he was wearing a yellow and grey jacket, a grey American Eagle-brand hoodie, blue jeans, white runners with a camouflage stripe on the sides. He may also be carrying a yellow and grey back pack.</div> <bR> <div> Anyone with information is asked to contact Barrie police at 705-725-7025.</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="30"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 184 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Oil prices send loonie rising in overseas trading</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. Oct. 30 2008  07:49  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 30th, 2008</div> <div> <B>The Canadian dollar continued to soar in overseas trading Thursday on the back of rising oil prices, gaining two cents after Wednesday's three-and-a half cent gain.</B></div> <bR> <div> At 7:25 a.m. Eastern time, the loonie was trading at 83.60 U.S., nearly two cents higher than Wednesday's close of 81.63 cents U.S.</div> <bR> <div> In early trading Thursday, the dollar was as high as 83.86.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="c2d1a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A loonie sits in front of an American dollar. (Jonathan Hayward / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 344 WIDTH="707"><div> "Part of the reason is that oil was up $4.77 yesterday, gold was up $13.50, and the Canadian dollar is of course tied into those resources," BNN's Michael Kane said Thursday on Canada AM.</div> <bR> <div> The falling U.S. greenback is also making the loonie appear stronger, Kane said.</div> <bR> <div> The U.S. Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate Wednesday by another half a percentage point and rate cuts have "a tendency to weaken the dollar," Kane said.</div> <bR> <div> Investors may also be skittish about the greenback ahead of a second-quarter report on the U.S. gross domestic product that is to be released today.</div> <bR> <div> The GDP is a primary indicator of economic growth or contraction, Kane said, and experts are divided on what the report will say.</div> <bR> <div> Estimates range from growth of 1.2 per cent to contraction of 1.9 per cent, Kane said.</div> <bR> <div> The loonie's jump Wednesday was its largest single-day gain, beating a record set in the early 1970s.</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="29"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 652 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Pakistani quake leaves 150 dead, 15,000 homeless</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. Oct. 29 2008  08:21  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 29th, 2008</div> <div> <B>At least 150 people are dead after a strong earthquake struck before dawn in southwestern Pakistan, officials confirmed Wednesday.</B></div> <bR> <div> The magnitude 6.4 quake struck about 70 kilometres north of Quetta in the remote province of Baluchistan.</div> <bR> <div> "The problem is that this part of Pakistan is one of the most poor and remote parts of the country," ABC's Nick Schifrin told CTV's Canada AM Wednesday from Islamabad.</div> <bR> <div> "It's down in the southwest corner near the Afghan border."</div> <bR> <div> Schifrin said at least six villages where the earthquake struck were made up completely of mud homes.</div> <bR> <div> "Mud homes do not stand up well to 6.4 earthquakes so what we're hearing is that numerous villages have been absolutely flattened," he said.</div> <bR> <div> The worst-hit area appears to be Ziarat, where hundreds of the mud and timber houses were destroyed in multiple villages, Mayor Dilawar Kakar said.</div> <bR> <div> Kakar said some homes were buried in a landslide triggered by the quake.</div> <bR> <div> "There is great destruction. Not a single house is intact," Kakar told Express News television, adding that at least 15,000 people are now homeless.</div> <bR> <div> Kakar said the latest death toll was 135 but an Associated Press reporter also confirmed 17 people dead in one collapsed house in the village of Sohi and 12 in another.</div> <bR> <div> "We can't dig separate graves for each of them, as the number of deaths is high and still people are searching in the rubble" of many other homes, said Shamsullah Khan, a village elder.</div> <bR> <div> Schifrin said the death toll is expected to rise as more officials reach the region and report back.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d742a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A Pakistani villager walks though the debris of his house, which was damaged by an earthquake in Ziarat, about 130 kilometres south of Quetta, Pakistan on Wednesday, Oct 29, 2008. (AP / Arshad Butt)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d743a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Family members bring a boy injured by the earthquake to a local hospital in Quetta, Pakistan on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008. (AP Photo / Shah Khalid)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d744a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> An official at the National Seismic Monitoring Center in Peshawar, Pakistan, monitors an aftershock recorded on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008. (AP / Shabbir Hussain Imam)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 70 WIDTH="707"><div> Wednesday's earthquake is the deadliest to hit Pakistan since a magnitude-7.6 quake struck Kashmir and northern Pakistan in October 2005 -- killing about 80,000 people.</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><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 411 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Ont. Liberals to introduce cellphone ban for drivers</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue. Oct. 28 2008  07:36  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 28th, 2008</div> <div> <B>The Ontario government will table legislation today that will ban text messaging and emailing while driving and force motorists to use hands-free equipment when making calls on their cellphones.</B></div> <bR> <div> The proposed bill will include regulations for the use of all electronic devices, including BlackBerrys and Global Positioning Systems, while driving.</div> <bR> <div> Transportation Minister Jim Bradley told reporters Monday that Premier Dalton McGuinty asked him to look into legislation that would "deal with electronic equipment being used by people while driving."</div> <bR> <div> The Liberal government consulted police and the Insurance Bureau of Canada before drafting the legislation, Bradley said.</div> <bR> <div> Newfoundland, Quebec and Nova Scotia have all recently introduced new guidelines to prevent drivers from using hand-held devices, while the governments of Manitoba and Prince Edward Island are considering similar legislation.</div> <bR> <div> Cellphone bans for drivers are already in place in about 50 countries, including Australia, China, France, Kenya and Slovenia.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d72ba0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The Liberal government will table a bill to ban electronic distractions in the car caused by personal devices during a session on Tuesday.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d72ca0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Ontario Transport Minister Jim Bradley speaks at press in Toronto, on Thursday, September 18, 2008. (CANADIAN PRESS / Chris Young)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 232 WIDTH="707"><div> The Ontario Medical Association warns that talking on a cellphone while driving increases a motorist's risk of getting into an accident.</div> <bR> <div> Hands-free devices, such as headsets, still leave drivers distracted and therefore do not lower their accident risk, according to the OMA.</div> <bR> <div> While nine-in-10 Canadian drivers don't approve of using a cellphone behind the wheel, more than half of them admit to using one while driving, according to a RBC Insurance/Ipsos Reid survey released this week.</div> <bR> <div> In anticipation of widespread bans of electronic devices for drivers, North American car manufacturers are already building hands-free technologies right into new models.</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="27"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 364 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>World markets down; Japan's Nikkei hits 26-year low</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. Oct. 27 2008  07:39  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 27th, 2008</div> <div> <B>It will likely be another tough week for investors as overseas markets opened down Monday, with Japan's Nikkei 225 Index closing at its lowest point in 26 years.</B></div> <bR> <div> The Nikkei fell 486 points, or 6.4 per cent, to close at 7,162.90, depths it hasn't hit since October 1982.</div> <bR> <div> While in Hong Kong, the Hang Seng Index fell 1,602 points, or 12.7 per cent, to close at 11,015.84. This is the Hang Seng's lowest close in more than four years and largest single-day decline since 1991.</div> <bR> <div> European markets followed suit as all opened down in early trading:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">London's FTSE 100 index was down 190.31 points, or 4.9 per cent, to 3,693.05.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Germany's DAX was down 182.81 points, or 4.3 per cent, to 4,112.86.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">France's CAC-40 was down 184.65 points, or 5.8 per cent, to 3,009.14.</div> <bR> <div> The falling overseas markets will no doubt have an effect on North American markets, said BNN's Michael Kane.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d719a0730.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="115" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> People look at stock prices in downtown Tokyo, Japan on Monday, Oct. 27, 2008. (AP / Katsumi Kasahara)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d71aa06e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="110" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa speaks during a press conference at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo, Monday, Oct. 27, 2008. (AP / Katsumi Kasahara)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 594 WIDTH="707"><div> "It's going to be another day, at least at the start, where the stock markets are going to fall sharply," Kane said Monday morning on Canada AM. "Where they end is anybody's guess."</div> <bR> <div> Japanese investors are skittish as the rising yen has cut into profits of some of the country's largest exporters, such as camera-maker Canon.</div> <bR> <div> At the urging of G7 countries, the Japanese government has said it may intervene in currency markets to try and stop the yen's climb.</div> <bR> <div> As well, stocks of Japan's two biggest banks, Mitsubishi UFJ and Mizuho Financial, plunged on reports that they may have to sell shares to raise money.</div> <bR> <div> Some Japanese media reports said Monday the government is considering infusing cash-strapped banks with a US$108 billion aid package.</div> <bR> <div> Meanwhile in Europe, British officials have admitted that the economy is contracting and the country is in a recession for the first time since 1992.</div> <bR> <div> Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced that his government will increase spending to try pulling the nation out of its economic slump.</div> <bR> <div> And in the U.S., the Federal Reserve begins a two-day meeting Tuesday, which may produce another interest-rate cut to calm the ongoing market volatility.</div> <bR> <div> Experts speculate the Fed could lower its benchmark lending rate by one half a percentage point, to an even one per cent. </div> <div> The European Central Bank is also expected to cut interest rates.</div> <bR> <div> On the oil market Monday, crude prices continued to drop, despite OPEC's announcement it would slow production to slow the decline.</div> <bR> <div> December oil futures fell below US$62 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange in Sinagapore.</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="26"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 390 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Canada can't avoid recession: U.S. economist</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. Oct. 26 2008  12:41  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 26th, 2008</div> <div> <B>A prominent U.S. economist and trader, Dennis Gartman, believes the global economic crisis has already spread to "the real economy" of retail sales and Canada will not be able to avoid heading into a recession.</B></div> <bR> <div> Dennis Gartman, author of "The Gartman Letter," spoke to CTV's Question Period from Virginia Beach, Va., on Sunday. He says the U.S. is at 6 per cent unemployment, and could go as high as 8 or 9 per cent.</div> <bR> <div> "But in historical perspective, that's really not all that severe. I can remember the recession of 1973-74, unemployment got to 13 per cent here in the United States," he said. "That was severe."</div> <bR> <div> Gartman says with the interlocking economies of the two countries, the view is that as the United States goes into recession, so goes Canada.</div> <bR> <div> "Canada can't avoid recession," Gartman said. "We are your biggest client, you are our biggest client and for the next six months or so we are going to drag Canada down with us. That's just a very normal circumstance."</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d711a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> U.S. economist and trader, Dennis Gartman, speaks with CTV's Question Period about his belief that Canada will also enter recession, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d713a06e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="110" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The S&P/TSX Composite Index closed down approximately 120 points on Friday, Oct. 24, 2008, as seen in this TSX.com graphic.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 447 WIDTH="707"><div> Gartman says he's been travelling to across North America in recent weeks, and everywhere he goes, retail sales look very weak, as though they have "fallen of the edge of the cliff."</div> <bR> <div> "Wherever you go, whether it's in New York, whether it's in Cleveland whether it's in Virginia; even last week when I was in Toronto, you talk to people and retail sales are very weak," he says.</div> <bR> <div> Although Ottawa has said Canada's economy will slow in the coming months, government officials have noted that the country's banking sector is stable.</div> <bR> <div> Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has said Canada will face slow growth but will likely avoid a recession and the government will post a modest surplus this fiscal year.</div> <bR> <div> Prime Minister Stephen Harper will attend a meeting of G20 leaders in Washington on Nov. 15, organized by U.S. President George Bush.</div> <bR> <div> Gartman believes the meeting won't accomplish much. G20 countries will hesitate to do anything until a new president is installed in the White House in 2009.</div> <bR> <div> "Until the new regime takes over in January, doesn't anybody think they're going to take direction from the United States? The answer is probably not," Gartman said.</div> <bR> <div> "It's a nice thing, everybody will take up a lot of hotel rooms...and be good for the restaurant business in Washington, but it probably won't be good for anything else."</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><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 341 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Hundreds search for missing Barrie, Ont., boy</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. Oct. 25 2008  10:39  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 25th, 2008</div> <div> <B>Hundreds of volunteers in Barrie, Ont., resumed their search this morning for a missing teen, who was last seen almost two weeks ago.</B></div> <bR> <div> About 400 people helped look for Brandon Crisp yesterday, finding several items in a wooded area near the location where he was last seen. But it's not known if the items were linked to the disappearance.</div> <bR> <div> Brandon, 15, has been missing since on Oct. 13, when he stormed out of the house. His parents had cut him off from access to the XBox game "Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare" after he skipped school on Oct. 9.</div> <bR> <div> The civilian search effort radiated outward Friday from Burl's Creek Family Event Park in Oro-Medonte Township, which is just west of the teen's last known location. It is expected to resume Saturday morning.</div> <bR> <div> The civilian search is just north of the police search zone.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d70ea0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Brandon Crisp, 15, is seen in this undated police handout photo.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d70fa0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Searchers work through heavy grass looking for Barrie, Ont. teen Brandon Crisp on Friday, Oct.24th, 2008.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 290 WIDTH="707"><div> "We are looking at a massive search area," organizer Charmaine Nolan said Friday.</div> <bR> <div> Police said they don't know if Brandon ran away or was abducted. He had been obsessively spending several hours per day playing online, sometimes with friends but also with strangers.</div> <bR> <div> Steve Crisp, the father of the missing teen, has appealed to the "highest levels of Microsoft" to cut through red tape so police can investigate a videogame system which could reveal his whereabouts.</div> <bR> <div> Police have been working with Microsoft to decipher the names and locations of some 200 users that Brandon had tagged on his XBox, said Crisp.</div> <bR> <div> But he said that regulations and police protocol could slow the process.</div> <bR> <div> There is a $50,000 reward for information that helps find the boy.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from ctvtoronto.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><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 125 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Inflation rate dips as food costs rise: StatsCan</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri. Oct. 24 2008  08:05  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 24th, 2008</div> <div> <B>OTTAWA -- Canada's inflation rate dipped slightly last month. It dropped from 3.5 per cent in August to 3.4 per cent in September, but gas and food prices continued to push overall prices upwards, Statistics Canada reported Friday.</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="d70ca0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 573 WIDTH="707"><div> According StatsCan, the September dip was a "slightly slower pace than the August 3.5 per cent increase, when the pace of consumer price growth was the highest since March 2003."</div> <bR> <div> Gasoline prices also spiked last month, however they are expected to stabilize or dip as the price of oil drops.</div> <bR> <div> "The CPI excluding gasoline increased 2.2 per cent in the 12 months to September," said a Statistics Canada media release.</div> <bR> <div> "Stripping away all energy components, the CPI advanced 1.9 per cent .... Prices at the pump rose 26.5 per cent in September and varied considerably during the month."</div> <bR> <div> Statistics Canada noted that transportation cost increases were mitigated by a 9.3 per cent decline in prices to buy and lease vehicles. That was the largest drop since 1956.</div> <bR> <div> The Statistics Canada report also shows that food has become one of the major factors pushing inflation upwards. Food prices overtook transportation costs as the second major contributor to the 12-month change in the CPI last month, StatsCan reported.</div> <bR> <div> According to StatsCan food prices:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">were up 2.4 per cent compared with the same period in 2007.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">rose 5.6 per cent in the 12 months to September, an increase from the 4.5 per cent rise recorded in August.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">were forced upward by pressure on prices for bakery and cereal products, which jumped 15.5 per cent.</div> <bR> <div> The StatsCan report also found that New Brunswick had the lowest inflation rate in the country (dropping from 2.4 per cent to 2.6 per cent), while Prince Edward Island had the highest rate, which jumped from 4.8 per cent in August to 5.5 per cent last month.</div> <bR> <div> British Columbia's inflation rate remained unchanged at 3.3 per cent, while Quebec saw its rate dip slightly from 3.2 to 3.1 per cent in the same period. Overall prices also decreased in Ontario, from 3.7 per cent in August to 3.5 per cent in September.</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="23"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 561 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>No parole for notorious B.C. camping killer</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. Oct. 22 2008  20:11  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 23rd, 2008</div> <div> <B>A man who killed six members of the same B.C. family more than 25 years ago has been denied parole.</B></div> <bR> <div> David Ennis, known as David Shearing at the time of the murders, had his first parole hearing Wednesday at the Bowden Institution in central Alberta.</div> <bR> <div> He told the board he wanted to be granted parole so he could make a positive contribution to society. The board spent about an hour deliberating before it denied his request.</div> <bR> <div> In August 1982, Ennis killed George and Edith Bentley, their daughter Jackie Johnson, son-in-law Bob and grandchildren Janet, 13, and Karen, 11.</div> <bR> <div> The family had been camping in Wells Gray Park in the B.C. Interior.</div> <bR> <div> Police launched a massive search after Bob Johnson, who worked at a sawmill in Westbank, B.C., did not return to his job.</div> <bR> <div> About a month later, the bodies of the four adults were found in a charred vehicle on the side of a mountain. In the trunk, police found the corpses of the two young girls.</div> <bR> <div> The investigation eventually led to Shearing, who now goes by his mother's maiden name of Ennis, and he was arrested in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., in November 1983.</div> <bR> <div> Following an intense interrogation, Shearing eventually confessed to shooting the six family members, loading the bodies into the car and setting it on fire.</div> <bR> <div> In April 1984, he pleaded guilty to six counts of second-degree murder and received a sentence of life in prison with no eligibility for parole for 25 years.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d700a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> David Ennis is shown in a 1983 file photo. Awful memories are flooding back for a woman who lost two of her schoolmates when Ennis murdered six family members who were on a camping trip 26 summers ago. (THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d701a0e10.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="225" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Investigators look over the burnt hulk of the Bentley's camper found just north of Clearwater. B.C. in Oct. 1983. (Gerry Kahrmann / CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 285 WIDTH="707"><div> Last summer, friends of the victims had launched a petition urging officials to keep Ennis behind bars. It drew more than 5,000 signatures.</div> <bR> <div> "It's just an anxious time and I think a lot of people are angry. It's just bringing us all back to a place that we don't want to be in," Tamara Arishenkoff, who was friends with Janet Johnson, told The Canadian Press of the parole hearing.</div> <bR> <div> Terri Prioriello, an activist seeking to toughen Canada's parole laws, said it was "wonderful" that Ennis would remain behind bars.</div> <bR> <div> "To the families, it's a message that says the Parole Board is looking at this realistically and they're seeing this killer for who he is," Prioriello told CTV Newsnet from Brampton, Ont.</div> <bR> <div> Her sister, Darlene, was killed 25 years ago in Ontario by David James Dobson, who faced his own parole hearing two years ago.</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="22"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 147 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Canadian dollar sinks below 80 cents US</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. Oct. 22 2008  08:45  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 22nd, 2008</div> <div> <B>The Canadian dollar plunged below 80 cents US Wednesday, pulled down by tumbling world markets and falling oil prices.</B></div> <bR> <div> The loonie -- which hit an all time high of 110.31 cents US in late 2007 -- was trading Wednesday morning at 79.80 cents US.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="c293a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 575 WIDTH="707"><div> The dollar took a hit as oil prices also dropped dramatically, falling $2.78 to US$69.40 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.</div> <bR> <div> Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday that the economic downturn will likely lead to a recession in his country.</div> <bR> <div> In Britain, the FTSE 100 index of leading shares was down 128.26 points, or 3.0 per cent, at 4,101.47, while Germany's DAX was down 158.71 points, or 3.3 per cent, at 4,625.70.</div> <bR> <div> The CAC-40 in France, Europe's best-performing index on Tuesday, was 105.80 points, or 3.0 per cent, lower at 3,369.60.</div> <bR> <div> In Asia, Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average fell for the first time in three days, dropping 631.56 points, or 6.79 per cent, to 8,674.69.</div> <bR> <div> Hong Kong's Hang Seng was down 6.2 per cent, while South Korea's main index shed 5.1 per cent.</div> <bR> <div> The market downturn comes as media reports in Japan said Toyota Motor Corp. will post its first decline in annual global sales in a decade.</div> <bR> <div> "The credit crunch seems to be behind us, and we are shifting focus to corporate earnings and economic conditions, and clearly both are deteriorating," Alex Tang, head of research at Core Pacific-Yamaichi in Hong Kong, said Wednesday.</div> <bR> <div> In the U.S., bellwether corporations such as chemical manufacturer DuPont Co., Sun Microsystems and Caterpillar Inc. added to recession fears after they downplayed their prospects for the coming months.</div> <bR> <div> "The overarching theme here is that the world may be getting into a recession," BNN's Michael Kane said Wednesday in Toronto.</div> <bR> <div> On Tuesday, the Bank of Canada said the global economy appears to be heading into a mild recession, led by a U.S. economy already in recession.</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><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 196 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Poverty, inequality rates jump in Canada: OECD</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue. Oct. 21 2008  07:52  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 21st, 2008</div> <div> <B>Poverty and inequality rates have increased rapidly in Canada since 1995, reaching levels higher than the average developed country, says a report from an international organization of 30 countries.</B></div> <bR> <div> The report, released Tuesday by the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), found the gap between Canada's rich and poor widened more than in most developed countries between 1995 and 2005.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d6f7a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Robert Garrison, who is homeless, holds out his hat as he panhandles in Toronto on Friday June 2, 2000. (Kevin Frayer / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 613 WIDTH="707"><div> During the 10 year period examined, the average income of the richest 10 per cent of Canadians was US$71,000, one third higher than the OECD average of US$54,000.</div> <bR> <div> Canada's poor and middle classes were also richer than the OECD average, with average incomes higher by 18 per cent.</div> <bR> <div> According to Statistics Canada, the median income in 2006, after taxes, was $58,300 -- an increase of 2.1 per cent from the previous year.</div> <bR> <div> Meanwhile, poverty (meaning people who live on less than half median incomes) in Canada has increased for all age groups, by about 2 to 3 percentage points to an overall rate of 12 per cent.</div> <bR> <div> According to the report, 15 per cent of children are living in poverty and 6 per cent of adults.</div> <bR> <div> "After 20 years of continuous decline, both inequality and poverty rates have increased rapidly in the past 10 years (in Canada), now reaching levels above the OECD average," says the report.</div> <bR> <div> Although poverty rates are high, fewer Canadian households than in other countries struggle to purchase basic goods and to have decent housing and other living conditions.</div> <bR> <div> The report says 20 per cent of the increase in the inequality of household earnings is linked to changes in the age and household structure of the Canadian population -- such as growing shares of single-parent families or people living alone.</div> <bR> <div> Overall, the report found the gap between rich and poor has grown in more than three-quarters of member countries in the past two decades.</div> <bR> <div> In some countries, including Canada, Finland, Germany, Italy, Norway and the U.S., the gap also increased between the rich and the middle-class.</div> <bR> <div> "Growing inequality is divisive. It polarizes societies, it divides regions within countries, and it carves up the world between rich and poor," OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría said Tuesday in a press release.</div> <bR> <div> Gurría said "ignoring increasing inequality is not an option."</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="20"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 406 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Gas pipelines vulnerable to terrorism: expert</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. Oct. 19 2008  22:39  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 20th, 2008</div> <div> <B>Two recent gas pipeline bombings in B.C. demonstrate how vulnerable Canada's energy installations are to a terror attack, a security expert says.</B></div> <bR> <div> Explosions have damaged two EnCana pipelines over the past week, and the RCMP's anti-terror unit is investigating.</div> <bR> <div> "I think that the alarm bells are going off and that is indicated by the fact that the RCMP are bringing in the people who deal with terrorism to look at this," Mercedes Stephenson, a military analyst, told CTV Newsnet Sunday.</div> <bR> <div> She said that there are 2,000 wells around Calgary and most of them are unmonitored, and a easy target.</div> <bR> <div> Stephenson said that the cost of protecting the pipelines would be immense and that gas companies would have feel terrorism was a significant possibility before investing in pipeline security.</div> <bR> <div> "To justify that kind of cost-benefit analysis they're going to have to believe the threat is very real and long-term," she said.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d6e9a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Officials investigate the scene of one of the pipeline bombings. The blasts have raised concern the oil infrastructure is too vulnerable to attacks.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d6eba0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Military analyst Mercedes Stephenson says the fact the RCMP brought in the terrorism unit to investigate means alarm bells are going off about the security of the pipelines.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 619 WIDTH="707"><div> Stephenson said one of the reasons there hasn't been much security invested into gas pipelines is because it's not "mass casualty terrorism."</div> <bR> <div> "You don't blow up part of a pipeline and kill lots of people . . . you disrupt the economy," she said.</div> <bR> <div> She said that Alberta supplies more than 90 per cent of California's natural gas supply.</div> <bR> <div> "You are not disrupting just Canada but you are disrupting Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego."</div> <bR> <div> Stephenson said the Alberta government could put money towards the pipelines' protection but that EnCana is ultimately the one that needs to put resources in.</div> <bR> <div> "It's in everyone interests to keep our economy strong, especially in this economic downturn," she said.</div> <bR> <div> <B>The investigation</B></div> <bR> <div> Sgt. Tim Shields said the investigation has focused on the area near the second blast, located east of Dawson Creek, near the Alberta border.</div> <bR> <div> The force's explosives unit, national terrorism team and local search crews, are conducting a grid search of the area.</div> <bR> <div> "We've seized a number of exhibits and it's just too early to tell if any of them will lead to something that might lead to a break in the case," Shields told The Canadian Press Sunday.</div> <bR> <div> "We have to seize and analyze every piece of evidence no matter how small or insignificant it looks."</div> <bR> <div> Investigators said they are interested in a truck that was spotted leaving the scene of the explosion at 6 a.m. Thursday, </div> <div> There have been conflicting descriptions of the truck, Shields said.</div> <bR> <div> "The explosion likely happened a number of hours before (the truck was spotted)," he said. "The description of the truck is somewhat vague ... but we're just trying to firm up exactly what type of truck that might have been before we go any further with it."</div> <bR> <div> The two blasts - one last weekend and one on Wednesday - were followed by a threatening letter sent to the local media.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 542 WIDTH="707"><div> <I><B>The letter that was sent to a local newspaper just days before the pipeline bombing.</B></I><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><IMG SRC="d6ea5ef40.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="500" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></FONT></div> <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="19"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 217 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Six-year-old boy abducted from home found alive</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. Oct. 19 2008  07:22  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 19th, 2008</div> <div> <B>LAS VEGAS -- A 6-year-old boy kidnapped from a city home by alleged drug dealers posing as policemen has been found alive in a neighborhood northeast of the Las Vegas Strip, police said early Sunday.</B></div> <bR> <div> Cole Puffinburger was recovered at around 11:30 p.m. Saturday after a citizen informed detectives about a child walking the streets, Capt. Vincent Cannito said at a news conference.</div> <bR> <div> Cannito said the child was "in extremely good condition" and had been taken to University Medical Center in Las Vegas for examination.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d6e778780.jpg" border=0 width="120" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> This undated photo released by the Las Vegas Police, shows six-year-old Cole Puffinburger. (AP / Las Vegas Policevia The Las Vegas Review-Journal)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 613 WIDTH="707"><div> Cannito said the area where Cole was found was being treated as a crime scene, but gave no information about how Cole got there or where he had been kept since his Wednesday morning abduction.</div> <bR> <div> The child was kidnapped at gunpoint by men who tied up the boy's mother and her boyfriend and ransacked their home.</div> <bR> <div> Cole's father attended the news conference wearing a T-shirt with his son's photograph, but would not comment on when he planned to see his son or whether Cole would be returning to his home or the boy's mother's home.</div> <bR> <div> "This is just about Cole being home," Robert Puffinburger said as he choked back tears. "Cole's back."</div> <bR> <div> Authorities arrested Cole's grandfather Clemens Tinnemeyer late Friday in connection with the boy's disappearance. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that Tinnemeyer was Cole's maternal grandfather.</div> <bR> <div> Police believe that the abductors were Mexican drug dealers and that the kidnapping was a "message" to Tinnemeyer, 51, whom they said may have stolen millions of dollars from dealers.</div> <bR> <div> Tinnemeyer was arrested in Riverside, Calif., and was being held in nearby San Bernardino on a material witness warrant issued by a federal court in Nevada.</div> <bR> <div> Officer Cris Johnson, a Las Vegas police spokesman, declined to say what role Tinnemeyer played in the drug operation or whether the kidnappers had been seeking a ransom.</div> <bR> <div> Police believe methamphetamine was involved, Johnson said.</div> <bR> <div> Las Vegas police didn't know Saturday whether Tinnemeyer had a lawyer. He was scheduled to appear before a federal magistrate Monday in Riverside.</div> <bR> <div> Authorities investigating the abduction were also focussing on two other men, including a Mexican citizen identified as Jesus Gastelum.</div> <bR> <div> Gastelum, who is in his mid-30s, is believed to be in Las Vegas or Southern California, police said. The other "person of interest" was not identified.</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="18"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 183 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Rallies held to call for end to Afghan war</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. Oct. 18 2008  12:04  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 18th, 2008</div> <div> <B>OTTAWA -- Anti-war activists are taking to the streets in more than a dozen cities across the country this weekend to demand an end to Canada's mission in Afghanistan.</B></div> <bR> <div> They are part of a pan-Canadian day of action organized by peace groups that claim the spiralling cost of the war is hurting the country and the war itself is causing pain and suffering among the Afghan population.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d6e4a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> An Afghan shepherd prays as the sun sets in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008. (AP / Rafiq Maqbool)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 199 WIDTH="707"><div> The Canadian Peace Alliance says the anti-war movement wants to build vocal opposition and denounce "the lies and omissions" about the war in Afghanistan.</div> <bR> <div> The rallies are being held in about 16 cities, including Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Vancouver today or Sunday.</div> <bR> <div> A report on the cost of the Afghan mission released earlier this month said that taxpayers will pay between $14 billion and $18 billion -- and possibly more -- by the time troops are withdrawn in 2011.</div> <bR> <div> The mission has claimed the lives of 97 Canadian soldiers, a diplomat, and two aid workers.</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="17"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 217 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>RCMP's terrorism unit investigating B.C. bombings</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. Oct. 16 2008  22:59  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 17th, 2008</div> <div> <B>The RCMP's national terrorism unit is investigating a second explosion on a gas pipeline in northern B.C. near Dawson Creek, causing some to fear more attacks are on their way.</B></div> <bR> <div> The force says it appears both explosion are linked, and there was a threatening letter sent to local media.</div> <bR> <div> RCMP Sgt. Tim Shields told CTV Newsnet on Thursday afternoon that the explosion targeted a natural gas pipeline owned by EnCana.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d6d9a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> An RCMP terrorism unit is investigating this gas pipeline site in northern B.C. near Dawson Creek. (Photo by Andrew Tylosky for ctvbc.ca)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 662 WIDTH="707"><div> He told CTV.ca earlier on Thursday that a specialized unit had been called in to investigate the first bombing. The unit will now investigate both incidents.</div> <bR> <div> Shields said the Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET) is helping investigators determine who was behind the incidents.</div> <bR> <div> He said it appears to be a "deliberate act" that left a crater below the pipeline. But he noted the pipeline did not rupture, although it was damaged.</div> <bR> <div> "There was a small leak in the pipeline that was contained and there is a hole in the ground," Shields told Newsnet.</div> <bR> <div> Pipeline workers discovered the latest explosion site off Highway 2, about half a kilometre from the B.C.-Alberta border. It appears to be related to another pipeline blast in the area earlier this month, Shields said.</div> <bR> <div> Police in Dawson Creek said someone planted the initial explosive device over the weekend near a sour gas pipeline operated by EnCana.</div> <bR> <div> That blast left a 2.5-metre-wide and 2-metre-deep crater in the ground. It dented the pipeline, which didn't rupture. Otherwise, police said the explosion could have been much worse, noting that sour gas is toxic.</div> <bR> <div> <B>An ominous letter</B></div> <bR> <div> According to the RCMP website, "INSET members are better able to track, deter, disrupt and prevent criminal activities (major or minor offences) of terrorist groups or individuals who pose a threat to Canada's national security."</div> <bR> <div> Shields told CTV.ca on Thursday -- before details of the second blast became public -- that the unit has been "investigating since day one because it was a direct attack on the infrastructure of British Columbia and that's part of their mandate."</div> <bR> <div> At the time, Shields said the initial investigation was not a terrorism probe, but instead police were treating the incident like an "isolated criminal act."</div> <bR> <div> "There appears to be an agenda involved, but we're not characterizing this as an act of terrorism," he told CTV.ca by phone from Vancouver on Thursday morning.</div> <bR> <div> He said police had warned gas and oil companies in the area before the first incident about a suspicious letter that was sent to local media outlets on Oct. 10. It told the companies to cease production and leave the area, but did not contain a specific threat.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 542 WIDTH="707"><div> "We will no longer negotiate with terrorists which you are as you keep endangering our families with crazy expansion of deadly gas wells in our home lands," said the anonymous letter, parts of which were published by the Dawson Creek Daily News, according to The Canadian Press.</div> <bR> <div> Shields said investigators are curious about the timing of the letter, which came just a few days before the first blast on Oct. 12 bombing.</div> <bR> <div> After the second blast, Shields said the letter and explosions appeared to be linked.</div> <bR> <div> Terrorism expert John Thompson said it appears the bombing aren't the work of organized environmental groups.</div> <bR> <div> "This also suggests that this is a small, amateurish effort by community activists," Thompson, president of the Toronto-based Mackenzie Institute, told The Canadian Press.</div> <bR> <div> "It's either somebody who is particularly torqued off by the oil and gas industry specifically, or someone who is self-actualized as a radical environmentalist with their own strange ideas about how to fight."</div> <bR> <div> EnCana spokesman Alan Boras told CP before the discovery of the second incident that the company's facilities in northern B.C. haven't been targeted before. He also said the company has good relations with community members.</div> <bR> <div> "It doesn't mean we don't from time to time have concerns. We work very hard to work through them," Boras said.</div> <bR> <div> One area resident also told CP that some landowners have been fighting for more land use rights.</div> <bR> <div> Gwen Johanson, a representative of Custodians of the Peace which represents some of those property owners, says she's never heard anyone make threats against the gas industry.</div> <bR> <div> "We don't want to go that route," she said.</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="16"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 383 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>World stocks drop with Tokyo off 11 per cent</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. Oct. 16 2008  08:39  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 16th, 2008</div> <div> <B>World stocks tumbled again Thursday, led by an 11 per cent plunge on Tokyo's market, as investors continue to fear a global recession.</B></div> <bR> <div> Tokyo's Nikkei 225 stock average fell 1,089.02 points, or 11.41 per cent, to 8,458.45.</div> <bR> <div> The losses mark Tokyo's biggest drop since the 1987 stock market crash.</div> <bR> <div> Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso said the renewed drop in markets was because the U.S. government's $700 billion bank bailout was not the right solution.</div> <bR> <div> "Since it was insufficient, the market is again falling sharply," Aso told lawmakers, without elaborating further.</div> <bR> <div> BNN's Michael Kane told Canada AM on Thursday that the remarks made by Aso mirror those being made by "hardcore capitalists" who believe a failed banking system should not be saved.</div> <bR> <div> "If you have a business and it is a viable business and makes money for shareholders, it will continue to live," he said. "If it loses money, if it's not being run properly, it will fail.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d6cfa0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A woman walks past a screen showing Dexia bank stock market activities in Paris, Thursday, Oct. 16 , 2008. (AP / Francois Mori)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d6d0a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> After a short-lived rally early in the week, North American markets fell on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2008, because of fading optimism.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 542 WIDTH="707"><div> "The problem here is that the system has failed, yet the governments are bailing out the (banking) system."</div> <bR> <div> Kane said the governments stepped in to prevent the big banks from failing and possibly causing generations of hardship for their citizens.</div> <bR> <div> In South Korea, the main index dropped 9.25 per cent after Standard & Poor's said the credit ratings of some of the country's leading banks may be downgraded.</div> <bR> <div> Hong Kong's key index fell eight per cent earlier Wednesday but closed down only 4.8 per cent.</div> <bR> <div> In Europe, benchmarks in Britain, Germany and France opened about three per cent lower.</div> <bR> <div> "Sentiment is deteriorating very fast. People are losing what little confidence they have on a day-by-day basis," Jacky Choi, a Hong Kong-based fund manager at Value Partners Ltd., said Thursday.</div> <bR> <div> "Everyone is very worried about the economy in the U.S and around the world."</div> <bR> <div> On Wednesday in Toronto, the S&P/TSX composite index tumbled 631.81 points or 6.35 per cent to 9,323.85 after gaining more than 890 points Tuesday.</div> <bR> <div> The Canadian dollar dropped 1.91 cents to finish the day at US $84.16 and oil dipped below US $75 a barrel - its lowest level in 14 months.</div> <bR> <div> Meanwhile, New York's Dow Jones industrials fell 773 points to 8,577 -- its second-worst day ever. On Tuesday, the Dow closed down 77 points.</div> <bR> <div> New York's NASDAQ composite index dropped 150.68 points to 1,628.33, adding to a 65-point loss Tuesday.</div> <bR> <div> Kane said the drops and fluctuation in the markets will continue as investors re-evaluate companies and their ability to turn a profit.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 194 WIDTH="707"><div> "The fishtailing we are going to see in the stock markets in the coming months...is part of a re-pricing of assets," he said. "The money that has been invested in the stock market in various companies over decades is now being re-priced. We are assessing the risk that is in the marketplace investing in certain companies.</div> <bR> <div> "Investors are now looking at companies from the basis of 'can they earn money?'" he said. "Some, who have been floating along, cannot. Others can."</div> <bR> <div> The downturn followed retail sales statistics from the U.S. Commerce Department showing a decrease last month of 1.2 per cent -- almost double the 0.7 per cent drop that was predicted.</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="15"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 420 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Harper wins stronger minority government</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. Oct. 15 2008  03:04  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 15th, 2008</div> <div> <B>Stephen Harper says Canadians have "chartered the way forward" for Canada, after strong gains in Ontario gave the Conservatives a larger minority government.</B></div> <bR> <div> "No matter what economic challenges we face from abroad, this is a land where people from every corner of the Earth have come together to build a peaceful and prosperous country without comparison," the Conservative leader told cheering supporters in Calgary. "Canada will always be the true north, strong and free."</div> <bR> <div> He said the Conservatives would continue to ensure Canada is able to weather the global credit crisis, by enforcing firm regulations for banks and promoting business through low taxes.</div> <bR> <div> "For Canada's $1.5-trillion economy, for the protection of the earnings, savings and future opportunities of our 33 million people, we have a realistic, prudent and responsible plan," he said.</div> <bR> <div> Past midnight, the Tories had won or were leading in 143 ridings across the country, out of a possible 308. Harper needed at least 155 seats to form a majority government.</div> <bR> <div> As the dust settled in Tuesday's election, the NDP had 37 seats and the Bloc Quebecois 50. The Liberals were headed to a crushing defeat, losing about 18 ridings to fall to 76.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d6c7a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper blows a kiss to supporters after winning a minority government in the 2008 federal election campaign, in Calgary Alberta on Tuesday Oct 14, 2008. (Tom Hanson / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d6c8a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Liberal Leader Stephane Dion takes to the stage in Montreal, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008. (Ryan Remiorz / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 227 WIDTH="540"><div> In Liberal Leader Stephane Dion's concession speech, he promised to work closely with the Conservatives to tackle any economic troubles.</div> <bR> <div> "We Liberals will do our part responsibly to make sure this government works," he said in Montreal. "It's clear our economy -- indeed, the global economic crisis -- is the most important issue facing our country. As the official opposition, we will work with the government to make sure Canadians are protected from the economic storm."</div> <bR> <div> NDP Leader Jack Layton also said he would work closely with Harper, telling supporters in Toronto that the Tories could not govern alone without a majority.</div> <bR> <div> "No party has a mandate to implement an agenda without agreement from the other parties," Layton said. "I believe the people of Canada have called upon all parties to put aside the </div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d6c9a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> NDP Leader Jack Layton and his wife MP Olivia Chow celebrate on stage at his election night headquarters in Toronto on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008. (Frank Gunn / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 594 WIDTH="707"><div> acrimony that arises in campaigns, and to come together in the public interest. So we're going to do exactly that."</div> <bR> <div> Harper needed to make strong gains in Quebec in order to secure a majority, but made missteps in the final weeks of the campaign by pledging to cut arts funding and crack down on young offenders.</div> <bR> <div> The Bloc Quebecois appeared ready to dominate the election results in Quebec once again, while the Tories were leading or had won about 10 seats in the province -- a loss of roughly one riding.</div> <bR> <div> Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe boasted of his party's strong performance, noting it was the sixth consecutive majority win in Quebec. </div> <div> "I want to salute the work of all the candidates with the Bloc," he told supporters. "It was a great campaign."</div> <bR> <div> Tory cabinet minister Michael Fortier was defeated in the Montreal-area riding of Vaudreuil-Soulanges, where he was defeated by incumbent Bloc MP Meili Faille.</div> <bR> <div> But despite controversy, embattled Conservative candidate Maxime Bernier managed to keep his Quebec riding of Beauce. Bernier was removed from his post as foreign affairs minister earlier this year after he left sensitive government papers at the home of his former girlfriend, Julie Couillard.</div> <bR> <div> "It's a good feeling, I'm very happy," said Bernier.</div> <bR> <div> When asked if he hoped to return to cabinet, Bernier said "the prime minister will decide."</div> <bR> <div> <B>Strong gains in Ontario</B></div> <bR> <div> Ontario was key to a strong Conservative victory, with the province's 106 seats. While Toronto was largely expected to remain a Liberal stronghold, early results suggested the Tories would pick up roughly nine more seats elsewhere in the province.</div> <bR> <div> In one major loss for the Liberals, Garth Turner was defeated by Conservative candidate Lisa Raitt in the Ontario riding of Halton.</div> <bR> <div> "I think the Liberal party, my party, failed to deliver a real, cogent response to the economic crisis," he told CTV News.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 393 WIDTH="707"><div> But despite the Liberal losses, Bob Rae said the opposition parties had deprived Harper of his ultimate goal.</div> <bR> <div> "I think it's important for people to recognize that Mr. Harper started this campaign looking for a majority. He didn't get it," Rae told CTV News, after winning his riding of Toronto Centre. "Regardless of what anyone might want to say, tonight is a defeat for Mr. Harper because he didn't get what he was seeking to get."</div> <bR> <div> In one hard-fought Liberal win, former leadership candidate Gerard Kennedy unseated NDP candidate Peggy Nash.</div> <bR> <div> In British Columbia, the Conservatives were set to win 20 seats, including a win by Dona Cadman, the wife of the late Independent MP Chuck Cadman.</div> <bR> <div> The Liberals largely held their ground in Atlantic Canada and swept Newfoundland, where Premier Danny Williams waged a fierce campaign against the Conservatives. But the Tories have made gains in New Brunswick.</div> <bR> <div> Early results in the region showed the Conservatives completely shut out of Newfoundland and Labrador. One high-profile loss for the party was Fabian Manning.</div> <bR> <div> Williams, a Progressive Conservative, has had a long-standing feud with Harper over rights to his province's offshore energy revenues and the latest equalization formula. In the past month he had publicized an "Anything But Conservative" campaign.</div> <bR> <div> But Conservatives had a strong showing in other parts of Atlantic Canada. Peter MacKay staved off a challenge from Green Party Leader Elizabeth May to hang on to his Nova Scotia riding of Central Nova.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 542 WIDTH="707"><div> "It's overwhelming, it's exhilarating," he said. "All of these emotions come back every time."</div> <bR> <div> May had likened the fight to David and Goliath, after casting her ballot early Tuesday morning. If she had won, it would have made her Canada's first elected Green MP.</div> <bR> <div> While no Green Party candidates are headed to Parliament, the party did manage to increase its popular vote to 7 per cent from 5 per cent.</div> <bR> <div> In New Brunswick, the Conservatives managed to unseat the Liberals in two ridings: Fredericton and Miramichi.</div> <bR> <div> Before Parliament was dissolved on Sept. 7, the Conservatives had 127 seats, the Liberals had 95, the NDP 30 and Bloc 48. The Greens had one seat, but the MP had initially been elected as a Liberal.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Worst voter turnout in history</B> </div> <bR> <div> Only 58 per cent of eligible voters decided to cast their ballots Tuesday, the lowest in the country's history. In 2006, it was 64 per cent.</div> <bR> <div> An estimated 1.5 million Canadians cast their ballots in early voting.</div> <bR> <div> The election followed a 37-day campaign -- one of the shortest possible under Canadian law. Harper asked Canadians for a stronger mandate to govern the country, after two and a half years of minority rule.</div> <bR> <div> He called an election after complaining that Parliament had become increasingly "dysfunctional," making it difficult for him to lead the country.</div> <bR> <div> "It's difficult to see ... how the prime minister comes back to the people of Canada, at the end, of the day and says this election was worth something," former Liberal cabinet minister Brian Tobin told CTV News.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from Michael Stittle</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="14"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 163 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Voters head to the polls after 37-day campaign</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue. Oct. 14 2008  07:30  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 14th, 2008</div> <div> <B>After a 37-day federal campaign, Canadians will head to the polls today to elect the country's next prime minister and government.</B></div> <bR> <div> Conservative Leader Stephen Harper will cast his ballot at a high school in his Calgary Southwest riding Tuesday morning while Liberal Leader Stephane Dion will vote in Montreal in his home riding of St-Laurent-Cartierville.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d6baa0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Party leaders during the final days of the election campaign.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 737 WIDTH="707"><div> The two leaders spent Monday criss-crossing the country hoping to sway undecided voters as polls suggests the Tories are headed towards a second straight minority government.</div> <bR> <div> "Quebec is going to be a big story tonight because if the Conservatives were going to get a majority, Quebec was the key and it looks like it's not going to happen," CTV's Rosemary Thompson reported Tuesday from New Glasgow, N.S.</div> <bR> <div> Thompson, reporting from Green Party headquarters, said the Tories "started to plummet" in Quebec because of the party's stance on culture and young offenders.</div> <bR> <div> The loss of support for the Tories is expected to translate into gains for the Bloc Quebecois.</div> <bR> <div> Meanwhile, Thompson said the Nova Scotia riding of Central Nova will be one to watch tonight as Green Party Leader Elizabeth May tries to win against Conservative incumbent Peter MacKay.</div> <bR> <div> "This is the story right across the country, we're going to see three and four-way races," Thompson said. "Many are predicting the Conservatives will win. Will it be a minority? Will it be a majority?</div> <bR> <div> "A lot of it depends on all these sort-of fractured races right across the country."</div> <bR> <div> In Toronto, NDP Leader Jack Layton will vote Tuesday morning alongside his wife, Olivia Chow. Both Layton and Chow represent Toronto ridings.</div> <bR> <div> On Monday, Layton told supporters the campaign has shown his party has strong support in all parts of the country, including Quebec.</div> <bR> <div> Before Parliament was dissolved in on Sept. 7, the Conservatives had 127 seats of a possible 308. They held 41 ridings in Ontario, 11 in Quebec and 28 in Alberta -- every single seat in the province.</div> <bR> <div> The Liberals had most of their seats in Ontario, where they held 51 of a possible 106 ridings. They were tied with the Tories in Quebec with 11 seats.</div> <bR> <div> Layton's New Democrats had 12 seats in Ontario and 10 in British Columbia, where the party is traditionally scene as a strong opposition party to the Conservatives, rather than the Liberals.</div> <bR> <div> At dissolution the Bloc had 48 seats in Quebec out of a total 75.</div> <bR> <div> Although May is campaigning in Central Nova, it's believed her party has its best chance at electing its first MP in the Ontario riding of Guelph. Before the election the Greens had one riding, located in B.C. and it was won by an MP under the Liberal banner.</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="13"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 210 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Wall Street stocks soar, Dow gains 936 points</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. Oct. 13 2008  16:21  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 13th, 2008</div> <div> <B>Wall Street bounced back Monday from a week of falling stocks, after North American and European leaders agreed on plans to tackle the worldwide credit crisis. The Dow Jones rose a record-breaking 936 points.</B></div> <bR> <div> The previous record for a one-day point gain was 499 points during the dot-com boom of 2000.</div> <bR> <div> After the closing bell rang, the Dow Jones industrial average had climbed up 936.42 points to finish at 9,387.61. Last week, it lost nearly 2,400 points over eight sessions.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d6b8a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A board on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shows the closing number for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, on Monday Oct. 13, 2008. (AP / Richard Drew)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 711 WIDTH="707"><div> The NASDAQ was also 194.74 points higher at 1,844.25 and other world markets bounced back, too. Analysts said U.S. stocks were headed for the biggest single-day percentage gain in at least two decades.</div> <bR> <div> Toronto's stock exchange was closed Monday because of the Thanksgiving holiday.</div> <bR> <div> The rebound occurred as American and European leaders intensified their efforts to ease a credit crisis that has shaken global economies over the past month.</div> <bR> <div> On Monday, Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index saw a huge 1,434 point jump after a 7 per cent loss on Friday. Japanese markets were closed on Monday for a public holiday, but Australian and Singapore indices also climbed back more than 5 per cent, and the Chinese and South Korean benchmarks added about 3.7 per cent.</div> <bR> <div> The positive news wasn't limited just to Asia and Australia. Britain's FTSE-100 climbed 5.6 per cent, Germany's DAX was up 6.4 per cent, and France's CAC-40 jumped 7 per cent.</div> <bR> <div> The markets appear to be responding to efforts by European and North American leaders to help their banking sectors, which have suffered a crisis in capital and confidence because of bad mortgages.</div> <bR> <div> On Monday, the U.S. Federal Reserve and four other central banks, including the European Central Bank, unveiled new measures to help open up tight credit markets. The Bank of England, The European Central Bank and the Swiss National Bank, announced they will provide unlimited U.S. dollar funds to financial institutions.</div> <bR> <div> Australia says it will guarantee bank deposits for three years and three of Britain's largest banks said they will take US$63 billion in public money to help their balance sheets.</div> <bR> <div> In a bid to ease the global credit crisis, European countries that share the euro currency jointly decided Sunday to offer temporary refinancing guarantees for banks. But even with government action, a full economic recovery for global economies will take time.</div> <bR> <div> Warren Jestin, chief economist for Scotiabank, told CTV's Canada AM on Monday that the U.S. economy will remain weak for about another year.</div> <bR> <div> "The most important part, though, is what happens after we get this mess behind us, after Main Street begins to recover, Wall Street begins to settle down."</div> <bR> <div> "My suspicion is that we've changed the structure of things in a way that will not support a borrow-to-buy type of environment, so that U.S. growth is going to be slower. I wouldn't be surprised if European growth is slower, too, and in Canada, well we're going to be trending along roughly at the U.S. rate -- 2.5 per cent growth may be as good as we can do."</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="12"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 125 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Men, women use web like prehistoric hunter-gatherers</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. Oct. 12 2008  06:50  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 12th, 2008</div> <div> <B>Few men are required to go into the wilderness these days to get food for Sunday dinner. But it seems they can't shed their hunter-like tendencies when it comes to the Internet, according to Canadian researchers.</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="ba60a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 985 WIDTH="707"><div> Two brothers from Quebec have found that men use hunting skills acquired through years of gender evolution when moving through the World Wide Web.</div> <bR> <div> The brothers -- one a doctoral student in psychology, the other in marketing -- created two online bookstores for their study.</div> <bR> <div> They suspected that a wide site, one that kept them close to the homepage, would appeal most to women, who as gatherers traditionally stayed close to home to forage for berries and vegetables.</div> <bR> <div> They also suspected that men would prefer a deep site, which would allow them to navigate through more links using the internal navigation skills they would have used as hunters.</div> <bR> <div> "So if all of this has a little bit of truth to it then we would notice that the women would much prefer the wide structures, simply because there are a lot of landmarks, compared to the deep structure, which you need an internal compass to go through lots of links," study author Philippe Stenstrom told CTV.ca.</div> <bR> <div> Not surprisingly, men reported spending less time to complete tasks when they used the deep website compared to women. They also worked faster on the deep website than they did on the wide site.</div> <bR> <div> "It's not because the Internet appears that all of a sudden our brain developed these new modes of navigation," said Stenstrom, a doctoral student in psychology at the Universite de Montreal. "Whether navigation is virtual, on the Internet, or in real life, it's still going to use the same underlying cognitive processes and neuro-physiological mechanisms."</div> <bR> <div> His brother Eric Stenstrom, a doctoral student in marketing at Concordia University led the research under the supervision of marketing professor Gad Saad. The team published its findings this week in the journal <I>IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication</I>.</div> <bR> <div> Previous studies have found that skills men and women use to surf the Web were originally acquired through human evolution to complete survival tasks such as hunting and gathering food.</div> <bR> <div> Men, as hunters, often went into unknown territory and used inherent navigation skills to find ideal hunting grounds.</div> <bR> <div> As gatherers, women used landmarks in order to stay close to the home while they looked for foods such as berries and vegetables.</div> <bR> <div> The brothers suspected that if 99 per cent of human evolution occurred during times of hunter-gatherers, as research suggests, then these skills would still be used today in new forms of navigation, such as surfing the Internet.</div> <bR> <div> For the purposes of their study, the Stenstroms asked participants to locate a number of book titles on the two online bookstores they created.</div> <bR> <div> The wide site had links to all of the books on the homepage, while the deep site had a number of categories users had to navigate before finding specific titles.</div> <bR> <div> The female subjects reported taking the same amount of time to use both sites and weren't any faster on the wide site compared to men.</div> <bR> <div> But the researchers did find that men and women respond differently to visual cues:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Women prefer clear visual guidelines such as bold colours, markers they would have looked for when foraging for berries.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Men prefer animation and other moving objects, skills they would have used while hunting animals.</div> <bR> <div> The findings suggest that website designers consider gender differences when designing their sites, particularly if they are targeting one gender over another, Stenstrom said.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="11"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 130 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>GM, Chrysler in merger talks: reports</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. Oct. 11 2008  11:37  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 11th, 2008</div> <div> <B>Media outlets in the U.S. are reporting that General Motors and Chrysler LLC are in preliminary talks about a possible merger.</B></div> <bR> <div> The New York Times says that talks between GM and Cerberus Capital Management, which</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="d6b3a0730.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="115" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 360 WIDTH="707"><div> owns Chrysler, were initiated last month. The negotiations are apparently uncertain to produce a deal.</div> <bR> <div> A Wall Street Journal article, however, says that merger talks have been suspended due to the financial-sector economic crisis, which sent international markets tumbling this week. On Thursday, GM lost 31 per cent of its value.</div> <bR> <div> The New York Times said it spoke to two people close to the talks and the sources put the chances of a merger at "50-50."</div> <bR> <div> The paper also reported that Cerberus, a private equity firm, is also in talks with other automakers including Nissan and Renault.</div> <bR> <div> "Without referencing this specific rumor, as we've often said, GM officials routinely discuss issues of mutual interest with other automakers," GM spokesman Tony Cervone said, according to The Associated Press.</div> <bR> <div> "The company is looking at a number of potential global partnerships as it explores growth opportunities around the world," Chrysler spokeswoman Lori McTavish said.</div> <bR> <div> "Beyond those partnerships already announced, however, Chrysler has not formed any new agreements and has no further announcements to make at this time."</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="10"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 219 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Morgentaler to receive Order of Canada today</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri. Oct. 10 2008  06:37  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 10th, 2008</div> <div> <B>QUEBEC CITY -- The sharp debate over abortion will be re-kindled today when Doctor Henry Morgentaler receives his Order of Canada award in Quebec City.</B></div> <bR> <div> Abortion opponents promise to demonstrate outside the Citadel, where Governor General Michaelle Jean will preside over the ceremony.</div> <bR> <div> The debate over abortion re-surfaced in early July when Rideau Hall announced that Morgentaler, Canada's best-known abortion rights crusader, would receive the Order of Canada.</div> <bR> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d6a9a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Dr. Henry Morgentaler smiles as he answers questions during a news conference in Toronto on Wednesday, July 2, 2008. (Frank Gunn / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 166 ><NOBR><div> Some previous recipients of the order were so angered, they returned their awards.</div> <bR> <div> Morgentaler, who is 85, says he deserves the award.</div> <bR> <div> He says because of his efforts, Canadian women are not in danger when they get an abortion.</div> <bR> <div> Among the others who will receive the Order of Canada today is Louise Arbour, a former Supreme Court of Canada justice.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Canadian Press</I></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="09"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 420 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Despite cleanup, Maple Leaf not listeriosis free</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. Oct. 09 2008  07:36  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 9th, 2008</div> <div> <B>More contaminated meat samples have been found at the Toronto plant at the centre of a massive listeriosis outbreak, despite a massive cleanup.</B></div> <bR> <div> The outbreak prompted the recall of thousands of tainted products and killed 20 people across Canada.</div> <bR> <div> Four tainted meat products were found at the Maple Leaf Foods plant on Bartor Road, the company and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced late Wednesday.</div> <bR> <div> The four positive samples were found in 2,700 products that were tested.</div> <bR> <div> None of the products produced at the Toronto facility since it reopened on Sept. 17 have gone out to stores.</div> <bR> <div> "All products produced to date by the 97B Maple Leaf Foods plant are under CFIA detention and control. No product from the 97B Maple Leaf Foods plant has reached the marketplace," states a release from the CFIA.</div> <bR> <div> "The CFIA and Health Canada will do a full and comprehensive assessment and further scientific evaluation of the new findings over the coming days."</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d6a8a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The inside housing of slicer machine disassembled for sanitization is seen in this image made available by Maple Leaf Foods Inc.</div> <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= 285 WIDTH="707"><div> The Canadian Press reports that members of the Prime Minister's Office and the Privy Council met with CFIA officials late Wednesday night to discuss the positive results and how to deal with the situation.</div> <bR> <div> In a statement, Maple Leaf president and CEO Michael McCain said there is no risk to consumers and the results weren't totally unexpected.</div> <bR> <div> He said listeria exists in all food plants, supermarkets and "presumably all kitchens."</div> <bR> <div> "Our testing protocols are designed to find positive results so we can remediate them immediately. The Bartor Road team has found a very small number of positive results, not unexpectedly, and is reacting exactly according to food safety protocols," he said.</div> <bR> <div> "While there is no risk to the public, we are behaving in the most conservative way possible, according to the protocols in how these findings are always to be handled."</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="08"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 238 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Dion blasts Harper for giving financial advice</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue. Oct. 07 2008  22:32  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 8th, 2008</div> <div> <B>Opposition leaders are slamming Stephen Harper for giving Canadians advice on the stock market, accusing him of speaking like an economist and not a prime minister.</B></div> <bR> <div> The Conservative leader said Tuesday that falling stock prices may offer Canadians a good opportunity to invest their money.</div> <bR> <div> "I expect some good buying opportunities may be opening up," Harper told reporters.</div> <bR> <div> His comments came on the same day Toronto's S&P/TSX composite index fell 400.88 points to sit at 9,829.55 -- yet another triple-digit loss over the past two weeks.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d69aa0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper talks with reporters at the Canadian Club in Toronto on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008, 2008. (Tom Hanson / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 559 WIDTH="707"><div> "It shows how insensitive and how out of touch he is with ordinary Canadians," Liberal Leader Stephane Dion said in North Bay, Ont.</div> <bR> <div> "I cannot believe he said that. You have Canadians today worrying about or losing the value of their savings, their pensions. And he said that -- so insensitive and out of touch, it's incredible."</div> <bR> <div> NDP Jack Layton also said the remarks were insensitive.</div> <bR> <div> "People are wondering whether they can retire, whether they're going to be able to pay their mortgages, whether they're going to get by. (The comments) just left me shaking my head," he said.</div> <bR> <div> Harper says only his party can steer Canada through any economic troubles.</div> <bR> <div> "Make a choice that will make things better, not a choice that will panic and make things a lot worse," he said Tuesday.</div> <bR> <div> But Harper continues to face criticism from opposition leaders for maintaining that Canada should stay the course when it comes to its economy.</div> <bR> <div> NDP Leader Jack Layton said the Conservatives were taking the same course of inaction taken by Conservative Prime Minister R.B. Bennett before the Great Depression.</div> <bR> <div> "Mr. Bennett said, 'Don't worry about anything,'" Layton said at a campaign stop in Vancouver on Tuesday. "And that's what Mr. Harper is suggesting today. And he's wrong."</div> <bR> <div> The Liberals issued a release on Tuesday that attacked Harper's "do-nothing platform" and contained statements from Dion questioning Harper's leadership.</div> <bR> <div> "Mr. Harper offers nothing to put Canadians' minds at ease," Dion said in the statement.</div> <bR> <div> "After weeks of doing nothing to help Canadians cope with the crisis in global financial markets, Mr. Harper is promising more of the same with the release of his platform. Do we really want more of this?"</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 339 WIDTH="707"><div> Green Party Leader Elizabeth May also released a statement critical of Harper, admonishing the Conservative leader for releasing his election platform after advance polls had closed.</div> <bR> <div> "It is beyond me why Mr. Harper would wait until the campaign is practically finished before putting his policies forward for the public to scrutinize," May said in the release. "It certainly suggests he is not expecting an enthusiastic response from Canadians."</div> <bR> <div> The chorus of attacks seem to be gaining traction in the minds of voters. According to recent polls taken by The Strategic Counsel for CTV and <I>The Globe and Mail</I>, the Conservatives' support has been slowly but steadily eroding in key battleground ridings.</div> <bR> <div> The Conservatives are down 10 points in B.C. battleground ridings from their support at the beginning of the campaign.</div> <bR> <div> In Quebec, Conservative support is down 13 per cent in the same period, while in Ontario the party is down four per cent, according to the numbers released Monday.</div> <bR> <div> An overlay on the front page of the <I>Toronto Star</I> on Tuesday showed Tory support sliding almost in tandem with the TSX.</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="07"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 469 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Markets rebound slightly after day of historic losses</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue. Oct. 07 2008  08:22  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 7th, 2008</div> <div> <B>International markets seemed to be on the rebound Tuesday after a day of historic losses fuelled by fears of a worsening global credit crunch.</B></div> <bR> <div> Asian markets rebounded slightly after Australia's central bank cut its interest rate by a full percentage point.</div> <bR> <div> The Reserve Bank of Australia cited "heightened instability" in the markets as the reason for the move, which puts its key rate at six per cent.</div> <bR> <div> The markets responded, as Sydney's S&P/ASX-200 index went up by 1.7 per cent to 4,618.7 after opening down 3.7 per cent.</div> <bR> <div> Markets in Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea all edged higher Tuesday.</div> <bR> <div> Japan's Nikkei 225 rebounded from an earlier five-point loss to close down three per cent at 10,155.90.</div> <bR> <div> The Bank of Japan left its already low interest rate unchanged Tuesday at 0.5 per cent, but pumped US$9.9 billion into money markets in an ongoing effort to maintain lending between banks.</div> <bR> <div> The strong showing on Asian markets followed a devastating Monday for investors as markets worldwide tumbled.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d695a0690.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="105" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> An employee of the Korea Stock Exchange works in front of an electronic stock price graph in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008. (AP / Ahn Young-joon)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d694a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Employees of MISEX (Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange) use phones during a suspended session in Moscow, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008. Russia's federal market regulator suspended trading on Moscow's stock exchanges Tuesday, a day after the benchmark RTS index suffered its biggest-ever one-day loss. (AP / Ivan Sekretarev)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 554 WIDTH="707"><div> The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 370 points, or 3.6 per cent, to 9,955,50, the first time it closed below 10,000 in four years.</div> <bR> <div> London's FTSE 100 index fell 7.9 per cent Monday, while France's CAC-40 tumbled by nine per cent, the worst slide in its history.</div> <bR> <div> However, the FTSE was up 1.2 per cent in Tuesday afternoon trading and the CAC jumped by 1.8 per cent.</div> <bR> <div> Yesterday, the TSX made a stunning 1,200-point drop and fell under 10,000 points for the first time in three years. It later rebounded to close at a loss of 573 points at 10,230.</div> <bR> <div> International markets are in such turmoil thanks to a "toxic mix of problems" in the United States, according to one economist.</div> <bR> <div> And a high volume of trade with the U.S. means those problems are spilling over into Canada.</div> <bR> <div> "Let's face it, the U.S. is the epicentre of big problems," Aron Gampel, deputy chief economist at Scotiabank, said Tuesday on Canada AM. "A recession in housing which is dragging down their economy, compounded by a credit crunch and the earlier episodes of high food and energy costs, you couldn't have asked for a more toxic mix of problems."</div> <bR> <div> Gampel predicted that sound economic policies established by previous governments would allow Canada to weather the current storm better than most countries.</div> <bR> <div> "We have a government balance sheet from successive Liberal and Conservative governments, which is able to stimulate the economy through increased tax cuts that we've had in recent years, increased spending which is still flowing through the economy and we still have surpluses that can be spent," Gampel said. "We have really wonderful fundamentals."</div> <bR> <div> Gampel also speculated that the Bank of Canada and central banks around the world would follow Australia's lead and cut interest rates.</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="06"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 657 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Asian markets plunge on fears crisis is spreading</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. Oct. 06 2008  07:36  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 6th, 2008</div> <div> <B>Asian markets took a slide Monday morning as uncertainty in European markets grew despite the passage of a massive U.S. bailout last week meant to ease investor jitters.</B></div> <bR> <div> On Sunday, German announced it was launching its own financial sector rescue package worth US$69 billion that would see Hypo Real Estate pulled back from the brink of failure.</div> <bR> <div> Hypo is the country's second largest lender for commercial property purchases.</div> <bR> <div> Germany also announced it would guarantee all bank savings. The move came as the Swiss national bank and the Bank of England also poured money into the markets.</div> <bR> <div> In Japan, the Nikkei 225 index dropped 4.2 per cent to 10,475 Monday morning.</div> <bR> <div> Hong Kong's Hang Seng lost 3.4 per cent to hit 17,089.</div> <bR> <div> Elsewhere in Asian trading on Monday, markets in mainland China, Australia, South Korea, India, Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand all saw losses.</div> <bR> <div> BNN's Michael Kane told Canada AM on Monday that banks in Europe are being hit hard and the impact is hitting Asia as well.</div> <bR> <div> "We saw some developments over the weekend regarding the failure of some European banks and the takeover of others," Kane said.</div> <bR> <div> "So I believe you're going to see several days of selling, possibly several weeks of selling, while we take the values of the marketplace down to a level where they can be looked at on their fundamental value, and then people will start buying again."</div> <bR> <div> Over the weekend, Belgium's prime minister said France had committed to taking over 75 per cent of Fortis NV, a troubled European bank.</div> <bR> <div> British treasury chief Alistair Darling said he was ready to take "pretty big steps" to deal with the financial turmoil.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d685a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A trader reacts to early market moves on the London Stock Exchange and the FTSE100 index at CMC Markets in London, Monday, Oct. 6, 2008. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d686a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A man examines stock updates on a display at a stock brokerage in Beijing, China, Monday, Oct. 6, 2008. (AP / Ng Han Guan)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d688a0ca0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="202" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The curve of German stock index DAX is seen at the stock market in Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, Oct. 6, 2008. (AP / Michael Probst)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 252 WIDTH="707"><div> Meanwhile, global markets were waiting to see whether the U.S. bailout would trigger a resumption in credid lending, unfreeze credit markets and strengthen the U.S. markets.</div> <bR> <div> "The market had already figured in the package's passage," Yukio Takahashi at Shinko Securities Co. in Tokyo told The Associated Press. "There are strong doubts about its implementation."</div> <bR> <div> Following are some market details from early Monday:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">China's Shanghai Composite Index lost 3.5 per cent.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">U.S. stock futures were down more than 1 per cent.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The Eurp dropped from US$1.3774 to US$1.3618 on Monday morning.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Oil prices fell over concernt that global growth will slow, reducting demand. Sweet crude for November delivery was down to $92.03 per barrel in Asian trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange -- a slide of $1.85 per barrel.</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="05"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 395 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>British general says, 'We're not going to win this war'</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. Oct. 05 2008  13:44  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 5th, 2008</div> <div> <B>In an interview with The Sunday Times, the commander of British forces in Afghanistan, Brig.-Gen. Mark Carleton-Smith suggested that NATO troops may well leave the country before an insurgency is entirely defeated.</B></div> <bR> <div> "We're not going to win this war," he told the newspaper. "It's about reducing it to a manageable level of insurgency that's not a strategic threat and can be managed by the Afghan army."</div> <bR> <div> British forces are stationed mainly in Helmand province. Canadian troops are based in Kandahar province, where there are similar problems containing the insurgency.</div> <bR> <div> Carleton-Smith said the NATO role is to contain the insurgency to the extent that it can be contained by the Afghan National Army after foreign troops leave.</div> <bR> <div> CTV's Paul Workman, based in Kandahar, said Carleton-Smith's Canadian counterparts would probably agree with the suggestion it may be impossible to entirely defeat the Taliban, Workman said.</div> <bR> <div> "I think the general's statement would probably resonate fairly well here on the ground with the other commanders who probably would say or agree with exactly that," Workman said.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d680a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> ISAF soldiers patrol the outskirts of Feyzabad, northern Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008. (AP / Anja Niedringhaus)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d681a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Hamid Karzai, president of Afghanistan, leaves the lectern after addressing the 63rd session of the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008. (AP / Seth Wenig)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 356 WIDTH="540"><div> Carleton-Smith said negotiations may be necessary to end a Taliban insurgency.</div> <bR> <div> "If the Taliban were prepared to sit on the other side of the table and talk about a political settlement, then that's precisely the sort of progress that concludes insurgencies like this," Carleton-Smith said. "That shouldn't make people uncomfortable."</div> <bR> <div> Many Afghan and NATO leaders feel the Taliban "may have to be brought into the structure of the country, may have to be involved in government and that would be the only way to bring peace to Afghanistan," Workman said.</div> <bR> <div> Last week, Afghanistan's President, Hamid Karzai, said he has spent years seeking Saudi Arabia's help to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table.</div> <bR> <div> However, the Taliban have routinely rebuffed offers to negotiate a peace accord.</div> <bR> <div> Taliban leaders view Karzai as a weak leader who they will be able to wrest control of Afghanistan from after foreign troops leave the country.</div> <bR> <div> The bleak outlook on the Afghanistan war came as another Canadians soldier was injured in the country.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d682a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Conservative candidate James Moore appears on CTV's Question Period on Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d683a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> NDP candidate Paul Dewar appears on CTV's Question Period on Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 356 WIDTH="707"><div> Reports say an improvised explosive device detonated around noon local time near an armoured vehicle carrying Canadian troops.</div> <bR> <div> The soldier has not been named, though is reported to be in serious, but stable, condition.</div> <bR> <div> Conservative MP James Moore said the government has been honest about difficulties inherent in the Afghan mission, but NATO efforts have produced results.</div> <bR> <div> "We've been honest with Canadians that this is not going to be an easy mission, it's going to be a difficult one," Moore told CTV's Question Period. "But we're seeing remarkable progress there, we're building universities, 5,000 schools, women now have access to medical care that they never had access to before. So the Afghan mission, I think, has been as success."</div> <bR> <div> NDP candidate Paul Dewar disagreed, saying his party has called for a new strategy for the Afghan mission, that would end military operations and focus on diplomacy and aid. He said Carleton-Smith's comments are in step with that proposal.</div> <bR> <div> "I recall very well in the (House of Commons), our party standing up and saying this isn't going well, this isn't working, we need to change the direction," Dewar told Question Period. "Now we have the military, at least in the U.K., saying the same thing."</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="04"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 210 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>RCMP call second attack in Edson, Alta. a hoax</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. Oct. 04 2008  13:36  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 4th, 2008</div> <div> <B>A reported attack on a woman in Edson, Alberta, just days after 14-year-old Emily Stauffer was murdered, didn't actually happen, say the RCMP.</B></div> <bR> <div> The 20-year-old woman told police she was attacked on a walking path, but Mounties have determined the claim to be "frivolous."</div> <bR> <div> Tracking dogs and a helicopter were called in from Edmonton after the woman made the complaint.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d5f6a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A police officer searches the path in Edson, Alta., where a woman said she was attacked on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008, just a few days after a teen was murdered on the same path.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 290 WIDTH="707"><div> Police say circumstances, combined with Emily's death, may have pushed the woman to make the false report and they don't plan to lay public mischief charges.</div> <bR> <div> Emily Stauffer's body was found last Saturday afternoon on a trail on the outskirts of the town, which is west of Edmonton.</div> <bR> <div> A medical examiner confirmed the girl was murdered but did not release information as to how she died or whether she was sexually assaulted.</div> <bR> <div> Nearby resident Jim Lozinski told CTV Edmonton that he saw officers trying to resuscitate the girl. He also noticied a bloody rope on the trail.</div> <bR> <div> Emily Stauffer's funeral was held on Friday.</div> <bR> <div> CTV.ca called the RCMP on Saturday but they declined to comment on how the search for the suspect is going.</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="03"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 490 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Asian stocks fall, Wachovia sold for US$15.1 billion</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri. Oct. 03 2008  07:53  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 3rd, 2008</div> <div> <B>World markets fell Friday, just one day after the Toronto stock exchange plunged to its lowest level in more than two years.</B></div> <bR> <div> Meanwhile, Wachovia Corp. announced Friday it will be acquired by Wells Fargo & Co. in a US$15.1 billion all-stock deal.</div> <bR> <div> The deal, which will be done without U.S. government assistance, wipes out a previous plan Wachovia had to sell its banking operations to rival Citigroup.</div> <bR> <div> The Citigroup deal would have been done with government help.</div> <bR> <div> Overseas, Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average fell 216.62 points Friday, or 1.9 per cent, to 10,938.14 -- the lowest since May 18, 2005.</div> <bR> <div> In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng index slid 2.9 per cent to 17,682.40, while key indices in Australia, Singapore, India, Malaysia and Thailand also fell.</div> <bR> <div> Only Taiwan was able to record gains on its financial market Friday.</div> <bR> <div> In Europe, markets opened lower with Britain's FTSE 100 down 0.5 per cent and Germany's DAX down 0.3 per cent.</div> <bR> <div> The declines come as anxious investors await a vote by the U.S. House of Representatives Friday on a US$700 bailout plan for Wall Street.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d674a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A pedestrian walks past at an electric stock index board in Tokyo, Friday, Oct. 3, 2008. (AP / Katsumi Kasahara)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d676a0de0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="222" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A Wachovia bank branch is shown near the company's headquarters in Charlotte, N.C., Monday, Sept. 29, 2008. (AP / Chuck Burton)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 376 WIDTH="707"><div> Even if the measure passes, many investors are still pessimistic that it will be able to fix the financial crisis.</div> <bR> <div> "The bailout could move us toward a solution, but there are many unresolved issues," said Tim Rocks, Asia strategist at Macquarie Securities in Hong Kong. "We're starting to see the first evidence that the U.S. economy is starting to suffer, and this will have an impact on Asia exports through next year."</div> <bR> <div> On Thursday, Toronto's TSX was battered by falling commodity prices, which helped pull down the index by nearly 814 points to close at 10,900.54.</div> <bR> <div> Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan and Agrium Inc. took heavy hits after Merrill Lynch released a report that included a negative outlook for potash.</div> <bR> <div> BNN's Michael Kane said Thursday the fears over potash came as investors were already concerned about slumping prices for resources such as oil, gold and timber.</div> <bR> <div> "If we can't count on that (potash) then the real fear comes into the marketplace and we see a sell off," Kane said.</div> <bR> <div> In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average lost 348.22 points to finish as 10,482.85 and the Nasdaq composite index fell 92.68 at 1,976.72.</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><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 741 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Party leaders gird for second debate, final sprint</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. Oct. 02 2008  08:10  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 2nd, 2008</div> <div> <B>The federal political party leaders are getting ready to square off in round two tonight, with the English-language debate set to take place in Ottawa.</B></div> <bR> <div> Last night's televised French-language event saw Conservative Leader Stephen Harper targeted by his four opponents mainly over his policies on the economy and the environment.</div> <bR> <div> A post-debate <I>La Presse</I> poll in Quebec found most people who watched the debate felt Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe and Liberal leader Stephane Dion came out as the winners.</div> <bR> <div> They also said Harper could have been stronger in the debate but that he looked prime ministerial under the circumstances, said CTV's Rosemary Thompson.</div> <bR> <div> "Nobody was the clear winner ultimately but at least the television viewers in Quebec, who this debate was all about, felt both Mr. Dion and Mr. Duceppe were the best performers last night," she told CTV's Canada AM.</div> <bR> <div> Harper will be looking to turn the tables in tonight's English language debate and New Democrat leader Jack Layton and Green Party leader Elizabeth May are likely to pull off a stronger showing when debating in their native language.</div> <bR> <div> Harper found himself picked on throughout Wednesday's debate and often resorted to a tight smile during the attacks.</div> <bR> <div> Both NDP leader Jack Layton and Duceppe slammed Harper early on, calling him a clone of U.S. President George Bush. They said Harper's policies could lead Canada into a financial disaster similar to the one south of the border.</div> <bR> <div> Dion, appearing more confident than he has through much of his campaign, accused Harper of squandering the surplus left to him by the previous Liberal government.</div> <bR> <div> Dion also made news when he unveiled a 30-day action plan to begin dealing with the current economic crisis plaguing the U.S.</div> <bR> <div> Harper, who was the first to speak in the debate, said that Canada is not the United States and promoted a "stay the course" approach to dealing with the financial slowdown.</div> <bR> <div> "The fundamentals of Canada's economy are strong," Harper declared. "The biggest challenge is to stay on the right track . . . lower taxes and target our spending."</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d66aa0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Liberal Leader Stephane Dion, Conservative Leader Stephen Harper and NDP Leader Jack Layton leave the French language federal election debate in Ottawa, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008. (Tom Hanson / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d66ba0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Liberal Leader Stephane Dion looks on as Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe makes a point with Conservative Leader Stephen Harper during the French language federal election debate in Ottawa Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008. (Tom Hanson / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="d66ca0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> NDP Leader Jack Layton, Conservative Leader Stephen Harper, Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May and Liberal Leader Stephane Dion, pose for a photograph at the start of the French election debate in Ottawa on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008. (Tom Hanson / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 575 WIDTH="707"><div> Harper said it was not the time for new taxes, a shot at Dion's Green Shift. Green Leader Elizabeth May called for greater government regulation on Bay Street.</div> <bR> <div> "It's very important to establish financial regulations for finance companies. It's impossible to remain unregulated in a situation of speculation and greed and everything we've seen happen in the U.S. And, we need to invest in our own economy to create jobs," she said.</div> <bR> <div> <B>The environment</B></div> <bR> <div> The environment quickly became a key issue even as the moderator told the leaders repeatedly that it would be discussed later.</div> <bR> <div> Harper took a lot of heat on the Conservatives' environmental record as the debate turned contentious, with each party leader talking over the others and attacking the prime minister.</div> <bR> <div> "Perhaps you don't understand that the (climate-change) crisis is serious," May said directly to Harper.</div> <bR> <div> Duceppe pointed out that the Conservative plan uses 2006 as a reference point for carbon-gas emissions to base Canada's reductions on.</div> <bR> <div> "If there's any consensus in Quebec, it's on Kyoto.... Everyone agrees we should truly apply it, with 1990 as a reference lead -- let's not forget the past like Mr. Harper," he said.</div> <bR> <div> May also hammered away at Harper on the levels issue, saying the 2006 levels had "increased by more than 24 per cent over the 1990 levels."</div> <bR> <div> She forcibly attacked Harper's environmental plan, calling it a "fraud" and "ridiculous."</div> <bR> <div> Harper responded by saying, "We've set targets -- hard targets -- of 20 per cent (reductions) by 2010. That's one of the most aggressive plans in the world."</div> <bR> <div> "I meet people, the leaders of countries around the world, that recognize this."</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 493 WIDTH="707"><div> At this point, May lost her cool.</div> <bR> <div> "Give me a break," she belted in English. "That's ridiculous. I'm sorry, that's a joke."</div> <bR> <div> Harper also blamed the Liberals for not responding to the climate crisis in the 1990s.</div> <bR> <div> "The problem here is we can't reduce green house emission of the past," Harper said. "We are all concerned about the future of the planet . . . and there are challenges ahead of us."</div> <bR> <div> <B>Arts and culture</B></div> <bR> <div> Duceppe and Layton combined to skewer Harper on his arts and culture record -- a major election issue in Quebec.</div> <bR> <div> The Tory government has cut $45 million from arts and culture programs and Harper recently outraged the arts community with some controversial remarks. He said "ordinary Canadians" don't relate to whining artists at "rich galas" subsidized by the taxpayer.</div> <bR> <div> But Harper sang a different tune during the debate.</div> <bR> <div> "I personally support the arts and culture," Harper said.</div> <bR> <div> Originally, the economy was only allotted 12 minutes of the debate but was given 30 minutes because of the U.S. financial crisis and Canadian's worries.</div> <bR> <div> Issues such as Afghanistan, crime and health care took a back seat because of the changes.</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="01"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 233 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Edson, Alta., like a 'ghost town' after attacks</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. Oct. 01 2008  08:24  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 1st, 2008</div> <div> <B>Schools will open again today in Edson, but the small Alberta community remains on edge as police hunt for the killer of a young girl after another woman was attacked on Tuesday.</B></div> <bR> <div> "(Officials) thought it was safer to have the schools open, especially for families that have both parents working," Edson Mayor Greg Pasychny told CTV's Canada AM on Wednesday, noting that residents are still living in fear.</div> <bR> <div> A woman in her 20s was attacked on Tuesday afternoon along a walking path about one to two kilometres from where the body of Emily Stauffer, 14, was discovered on Saturday.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="d5f6a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A police officer searches the path in Edson, Alta., where a woman was attacked on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008, just a few days after a teen was murdered in the community.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 416 WIDTH="707"><div> "In a small town, something that you see in the news is not something you see in your backyard," Pasychny said. </div> <div> "Our town feels like a ghost town when you drive around at night."</div> <bR> <div> Tuesday's assault occurred as dozens of officers were scouring the area where Stauffer was killed. Thirty RCMP officers were in the town yesterday and Pasychny said about 40 officers will continue the investigation on Wednesday. RCMP have brought in search dogs and a helicopter to help their probe.</div> <bR> <div> Pasychny said the victim of Tuesday's attack has spoken to police and has given good "descriptive details" of her assailant.</div> <bR> <div> RCMP Cpl. Wayne Oakes said on Tuesday that police have not yet established a link between the latest attack and Stauffer's murder.</div> <bR> <div> Her body was found Saturday afternoon on a trail on the outskirts of the town, which is west of Edmonton.</div> <bR> <div> A medical examiner confirmed the girl was murdered but did not release information as to how she died or whether she was sexually assaulted.</div> <bR> <div> Mounties have said they are searching for a 30-year-old white man wearing a blue jacket and blue jeans who may have been driving an all-terrain vehicle.</div> <bR> <div> Police released a composite sketch of a man whom they want to question, but said he is not a suspect.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff </div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 08"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>