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21/09/09</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#20" TITLE="Sep 09"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Man, girl found dead in Montreal-area hotel</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 20/09/09</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#19" TITLE="Sep 09"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Leonard Cohen recovers after collapsing onstage</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 19/09/09</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#18" TITLE="Sep 09"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Police focus on Yale murder suspect's attitude</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 18/09/09</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD 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><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#14" TITLE="Sep 09"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Nortel announces selloff of enterprise division</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 14/09/09</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#13" TITLE="Sep 09"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Elton John wants to adopt Ukrainian toddler</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 13/09/09</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#12" TITLE="Sep 09"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Sportscaster's killer returns to Canada to live</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 12/09/09</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="330"><div> <A HREF="#11" TITLE="Sep 09"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  New York to remember 9/11 victims</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 11/09/09</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#10" TITLE="Sep 09"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Obama slams Republican 'scare tactics'</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 10/09/09</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#09" TITLE="Sep 09"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Victim's sister says Canada too soft on drunk driving</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 09/09/09</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#08" TITLE="Sep 09"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  New poll puts the Conservatives in the lead</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 08/09/09</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#07" TITLE="Sep 09"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  U.K. court convicts 3 men in airline bomb plot</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 07/09/09</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#06" TITLE="Sep 09"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Obama adviser quits amid 9-11 controversy</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 06/09/09</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#05" TITLE="Sep 09"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Mother of dead boy joins lawsuit against Manitoba gov't</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 05/09/09</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#04" TITLE="Sep 09"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  New jobs created, but unemployment edges up</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 04/09/09</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#03" TITLE="Sep 09"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Gunmen kill 17 people at Mexican rehab centre</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 03/09/09</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#02" TITLE="Sep 09"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Police had contact with cyclist before fatal crash</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 02/09/09</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#01" TITLE="Sep 09"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Bryant reportedly questioned about fatal collision</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 01/09/09</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="30"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Sep 09"><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>Samoa islands recovering from deadly quake, tsunami</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. Sep. 30  2009  08:00  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 30th, 2009</div> <div> <B>Ninety-nine people have died after a powerful earthquake in the South Pacific caused a massive tsunami that hit the shores of Samoa and American Samoa.</B></div> <bR> <div> Dozens remain missing and authorities believe the death toll will likely rise further. Hundreds of others were injured, said Samoan police commissioner Lilo Maiava.</div> <bR> <div> The day after the back-to-back disasters, Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi was shaken by the devastation that he had seen, including the destruction of his home village of Lepa.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="e628a05a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The aftermath of a powerful earthquake is seen in Pago Pago village, on American Samoa Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009. (SamoaNews.com / Ausage Fausia)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 816 WIDTH="707"><div> "So much has gone. So many people are gone," Malielegaoi told reporters during a flight from Auckland, New Zealand to the Samoan capital of Apia. "I'm so shocked, so saddened by all the loss."</div> <bR> <div> The three-minute earthquake rated between 8.0 and 8.3 on the Richter scale when it struck around dawn on Tuesday, some 200 kilometres from Samoa -- an island nation where 180,000 live halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii. Three aftershocks followed, each registering a magnitude of at least 5.6.</div> <bR> <div> The quake hit slightly closer to American Samoa, at a distance of 190 kilometres from the U.S. territory that is home to 65,000 people.</div> <bR> <div> When the tsunami hit, survivors ran for higher ground, where they stayed stranded for hours.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Aftermath</B></div> <bR> <div> The tsunami was felt thousands of kilometres away in Japan, where its waves registered off the island of Hachijojima about 10 hours later. No injuries or damages, however, were reported in Japan.</div> <bR> <div> In Samoa, Maiava said police have so far confirmed 63 deaths. And in American Samoa, Gov. Togiola Tulafono said at least 30 people were killed Tuesday.</div> <bR> <div> "I don't think anybody is going to be spared in this disaster," said Tulafono, speaking in Hawaii where he was to attend a conference.</div> <bR> <div> Tulafono told reporters that member of his extended family had died during the events of Tuesday.</div> <bR> <div> Another six deaths were confirmed by authorities in Tonga, another island nation west of the Samoas.</div> <bR> <div> The Samoa Red Cross estimates that as many as 15,000 people were affected by Tuesday's tsunami.</div> <bR> <div> <B>No Canadian fatalities reported yet</B></div> <bR> <div> It is unclear if any Canadians are among the dead.</div> <bR> <div> Tala Mauala, secretary general of the Samoa Red Cross told The Canadian Press that it is possible that some Canadians could have been caught up in the waves that swept the island, particularly in the area of Lalomanu, where many resorts are located.</div> <bR> <div> "There hasn't been any identification done so far," Mauala said.</div> <bR> <div> In Ottawa, Foreign Affairs has not confirmed if any Canadians were affected by the tsunami, but some news reports from Samoa have suggested that Australian officials are providing assistance to some Canadians.</div> <bR> <div> In Samoa, the Australian High Commission is responsible for Canadian consular activities.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Canadian Press and The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="29"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Sep 09"><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= 250 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Philippine death toll rises, as new storms brew</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue. Sep. 29  2009  08:15  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 29th, 2009</div> <div> <B>The death toll from the massive flooding in the Philippines has climbed to 240 people, say officials who are now worried about more storms due to hit the area later this week.</B></div> <bR> <div> Tropical Storm Ketsana, which sliced across the northern Philippines on Saturday, dumped more than a month's worth of rain in just 12 hours. It has led to the worst flooding to hit the country in more than 40 years. About 80 per cent of Manila, a city of 15 million, was flooded.</div> <bR> <div> The National Disaster Coordinating Council said Tuesday the homes of nearly 1.9 million had been flooded, with nearly 380,000 people brought to schools, churches and other evacuation centres.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="e623a07e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> A woman struggles to walk on the mud in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila, Philippines on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009. (AP / Pat Roque)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 608 WIDTH="707"><div> More storms are brewing in the Pacific Ocean east of the country. One could hit the northern island of Luzon Friday and the other early next week. But meteorologists say that could still change.</div> <bR> <div> More than 12,400 people have been rescued so far, but many survivors are reporting that more bodies lie under the water of the swollen rivers and debris-strewn streets.</div> <bR> <div> Troops and police are getting the help of dozens of volunteers in their search for survivors. Even the country's communist guerrillas announced a ceasefire, saying they will hold off on assaults against government forces for now to help villagers recover from the storm.</div> <bR> <div> Overwhelmed officials are also calling for international help, warning they are going to run out of resources. Defence Secretary Gilbert Teodoro told a news conference Tuesday that help from foreign governments will ensure that the Philippine government can continue its relief work.</div> <bR> <div> "We are trying our level best to provide basic necessities, but the potential for a more serious situation is there," Teodoro said. "We cannot wait for that to happen."</div> <bR> <div> Teodoro estimated damage from the storm so far at around 4.69 billion pesos (US $98.5 million), but those figures will surely increase, as reports come in from remote areas.</div> <bR> <div> "Even opportunity loss of revenues for establishments, that alone would amount to hundreds of millions at least per day," he said.</div> <bR> <div> The United States has donated $100,000 and deployed a military helicopter and five rubber boats manned by about 20 American soldiers from the country's south, where they have been providing counterterrorism training.</div> <bR> <div> Unicef, the United Nations Children's Fund and the World Food Program have also provided food and other aid.</div> <bR> <div> President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has called the typhoon "an extreme event that has strained our response capabilities to the limit."</div> <bR> <div> "But it is not breaking us," she said in a statement on Monday. "It's a once-in-a-lifetime typhoon."</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="28"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Sep 09"><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= 250 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Iran conducts third round of missile tests</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. Sep. 28  2009  06:47  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 28th, 2009</div> <div> <B>TEHRAN, Iran — Iran said it successfully test-fired the longest-range missiles in its arsenal on Monday, weapons capable of carrying a warhead and striking Israel, U.S. military bases in the Middle East, and parts of Europe.</B></div> <bR> <div> State television said the powerful Revolutionary Guard, which controls Iran's missile program, successfully tested the medium-range Shahab-3 and Sajjil missiles with can fly up to 2,000 kilometers. It was the third round of missile tests in two days of drills by the Guard.</div> <bR> <div> The Sajjil-2 missile is Iran's most advanced two-stage surface-to-surface missile and is powered entirely by solid-fuel while the older Shahab-3 uses a combination of solid and liquid fuel in its most advanced form.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="e61ca07e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> This image from state TV channel IRIB, released Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009, purports to show a successful test-fire launch of a short range missile. (AP / IRIB, via APTN)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 1030 WIDTH="707"><div> Solid fuel is seen as a technological breakthrough for any missile program as solid fuel increases the accuracy of missiles in reaching targets.</div> <bR> <div> The war games come at a time when Iran is under intense international pressure to fully disclose its nuclear activities. They began Sunday, two days after the U.S. and its allies disclosed that Iran had been secretly developing an underground uranium enrichment facility and warned the country it must open the site to international inspection or face harsher international sanctions.</div> <bR> <div> Gen. Hossein Salami, head of the Revolutionary Guard Air Force, said Sunday the drills were meant to show Tehran is prepared to crush any military threat from another country.</div> <bR> <div> The revelation of Iran's previously secret nuclear site has given greater urgency to a key meeting on Thursday in Geneva between Iran and six major powers trying to stop its suspected nuclear weapons program.</div> <bR> <div> Alex Vatanka, a senior Middle East analyst at IHS Jane's, said Tehran was conducting missile tests now "to show some muscle, show some strength, and say the game is not over for Iran yet." He noted the upcoming meeting in Geneva.</div> <bR> <div> "They felt going into these meetings ... that they needed to have something else to bolster their position, and I think that Iran's Revolutionary Guard showing a bit of military muscle here is part of that," he said.</div> <bR> <div> U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she doesn't believe Iran can convince the U.S. and other world powers at the upcoming meeting that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, as Tehran has long claimed. That puts Tehran on a course for tougher economic penalties beyond the current "leaky sanctions," she said.</div> <bR> <div> The nuclear site was revealed in the arid mountains near the holy city of Qom and is believed to be inside a heavily guarded, underground facility belonging to the Revolutionary Guard, according to a document sent by President Barack Obama's administration to lawmakers.</div> <bR> <div> After the strong condemnations from the U.S. and its allies, Iran said Saturday it will allow U.N. nuclear inspectors to examine the site.</div> <bR> <div> Israel has trumpeted the latest discoveries as proof of its long-held assertion that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons.</div> <bR> <div> By U.S. estimates, Iran is one to five years away from having nuclear weapons capability, although U.S. intelligence also believes that Iranian leaders have not yet made the decision to build a weapon.</div> <bR> <div> Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hasan Qashqavi identified the newly revealed site as Fordo, a village located 180 kilometers south of the capital Tehran. The site is 100 kilometers away from Natanz, Iran's known industrial-scale uranium enrichment plant.</div> <bR> <div> Qashqavi, however, said the missile tests had nothing to do with the tension over the site, saying it was part of routine, long-planned military exercises.</div> <bR> <div> Iran also is developing ballistic missiles that could carry a nuclear warhead, but the administration said last week that it believes that effort has been slowed. That assessment paved the way for Obama's decision to shelve the Bush administration's plan for a missile shield in Europe, which was aimed at defending against Iranian ballistic missiles.</div> <bR> <div> State media reported tests overnight of the Shahab-1 and Shahab-2 missiles, with ranges of 300 kilometers and 700 kilometers respectively.</div> <bR> <div> That followed tests early Sunday of the short range Fateh and Tondar missiles, which have a range of 193 kilometers and 93 miles respectively.</div> <bR> <div> Iran's last known missile tests were in May when it fired its longest-range solid-fuel missile, Sajjil-2. Tehran said the two-stage surface-to-surface missile has a range of about 1,900 kilometers -- capable of striking Israel, U.S. Mideast bases and southeastern Europe.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="27"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Sep 09"><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>Polanski arrested in Switzerland on old U.S. warrant</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. Sep. 27  2009  09:38  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 27th, 2009</div> <div> <B>Swiss police took director Roman Polanski into custody late Saturday on a 30-year-old U.S. arrest warrant for having sex with a 13-year-old girl.</B></div> <bR> <div> Polanski had travelled from his home in France to Switzerland to receive an honorary award at the Zurich Film Festival when he was held at the airport, festival officials said in a statement.</div> <bR> <div> A spokesperson for Zurich police, Stefan Oberlin, confirmed the arrest but would not comment further. Officials with the Swiss Justice Ministry also refused to comment on the case.</div> <bR> <div> France's culture minister said Sunday that he was "dumbfounded" by the arrest.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="e619a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Organizers of the Zurich Film Festival say director Roman Polanski has been taken into custody on a 31-year-old U.S. arrest warrant. (AP / Roberto Pfeil)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 786 WIDTH="707"><div> Frederic Mitterrand said he "strongly regrets that a new ordeal is being inflicted on someone who has already experienced so many of them."</div> <bR> <div> According to a statement released by the culture ministry, Mitterrand is in contact with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, "who is following the case with great attention and shares the minister's hope that the situation can be quickly resolved."</div> <bR> <div> Polanski has lived in France since 1978, when he fled the United States after pleading guilty the year before to unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl.</div> <bR> <div> The director, now 76, has asked a U.S. appeals court in California to overturn another judge's refusal to throw out the case. Polanski has levelled allegations of misconduct at the judge, who is now deceased, saying he reneged on a previously arranged plea bargain.</div> <bR> <div> Polanski was accused of raping the teenager during a photo shoot in 1977 at the home of Jack Nicholson, while the actor was away. The girl testified that the director gave her champagne and part of a Quaalude pill and proceeded to have intercourse with her despite her protests.</div> <bR> <div> Polanski pled guilty to one of six charges, unlawful sexual intercourse. He was sent to prison for 42 days of evaluation.</div> <bR> <div> Defence and prosecution lawyers were satisfied with the 42-day sentence. However, the judge tried to overturn the plea bargain, which would have meant more prison time and eventual deportation for the director, who chose instead to flee to France.</div> <bR> <div> The victim, who identified herself publicly many years ago, has supported Polanski's attempts to have the case dismissed.</div> <bR> <div> Samantha Geimer, now 45, has said she would like to put the ordeal behind her. She previously sued Polanski for an undisclosed sum.</div> <bR> <div> Despite the director's arrest, the film festival announced that it will go ahead with a planned retrospective of his work.</div> <bR> <div> Polanski was born in France, but as a child moved to Poland. He escaped Krakow's Jewish ghetto as a child, but his mother died at Auschwitz.</div> <bR> <div> He began his career in Poland, earning an Oscar nomination for best foreign-language film in 1964 for his movie "Knife in the Water."</div> <bR> <div> His career in the U.S. began in 1968, when he directed "Rosemary's Baby." However, his Hollywood fairytale was cut short with the gruesome murder of his actress wife, Sharon Tate, in 1969 at the hands of followers of Charles Manson. Tate was eight months pregnant when she was killed.</div> <bR> <div> Polanski also directed the classic film, "Chinatown," in 1974, and received a directing Oscar in absentia for his 2002 film, "The Pianist."</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="26"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Sep 09"><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>U.S. terror suspect visited family in Canada: report</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. Sep. 26  2009  16:31  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 26th, 2009</div> <div> <B>Terrorism suspect Najibullah Zazi travelled to Canada on at least one occasion, according to published reports, including a visit to his grandmother in Ontario.</B></div> <bR> <div> Zazi's aunt, Maimoona Zazi, told the Globe and Mail that "it's the same guy" after seeing footage of her nephew on television.</div> <bR> <div> According to his aunt, Zazi travelled to Canada "a year or two ago" to visit his grandmother in Mississauga for a few days.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="e618a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Najibullah Zazi, center, is escorted off an NYPD helicopter by U.S Marshals after being extradited from Denver, Colorado on Friday, Sept. 25, 2009 (AP / New York City Police Department)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 645 WIDTH="707"><div> Zazi told the newspaper that her nephew is not a terrorist. "He's a very good Muslim...a very nice boy," she said.</div> <bR> <div> The revelations come after U.S. authorities told a Denver court Friday that they were investigating reports that Zazi made several trips north of the border, where he may have tried to organize a terror cell in Canada.</div> <bR> <div> CSIS and RCMP officials refused to comment on Zazi's reported travels in Canada.</div> <bR> <div> "It's going to take some serious checking in Canada to find out when he was there, why he was there, where he went, who he got in touch with and what his purpose was," said CTV's Paul Workman in Washington.</div> <bR> <div> "The word 'several' is important in this because it shows that he travelled into the country on a number of occasions, and that's going to be very worrying both to the authorities in Canada and in the United States," Workman said.</div> <bR> <div> At the G20 summit in Pittsburgh, Prime Minister Stephen Harper told a news conference that he can't discuss individual national security files.</div> <bR> <div> However, "Canada monitors national security threats very carefully and we work hand-in-glove with our allies, in particular our American neighbours, on national security threats that cross our borders," he said.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Zazi returned to New York</B></div> <bR> <div> On Friday, a U.S. federal marshall's aircraft flew Zazi to New York, where he will face charges of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction.</div> <bR> <div> U.S. prosecutor Tim Neff told a federal judge that Zazi was in the middle of making a bomb when he was apprehended by U.S. authorities.</div> <bR> <div> U.S. authorities allege they found handwritten bomb-making instructions on Zazi's computer, and they believe three accomplices helped him buy bomb-making items and may be at large.</div> <bR> <div> Zazi's indictment stipulates that he was trained to make explosives in Pakistan by members of al Qaeda. Surveillance video shows a man appearing to be Zazi purchasing a large amount of hydrogen peroxide and nail-polish remover at beauty-supply stores, allegedly to make bombs.</div> <bR> <div> Prosecutors have alleged that the bombs were to be detonated on New York City commuter trains on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 252 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>Transit warnings</B></div> <bR> <div> Former CSIS agent Michel Juneau-Katsuya told CTV Newschannel that Canadian transit authorities need to consider a warning program for commuters. Citing the London and Madrid bombings, he said transit systems are often targets for terror attacks.</div> <bR> <div> "We don't have to wait until something happens. A terrorist threat is omnipresent," Juneau-Katsuya said.</div> <bR> <div> "We've got to sort of raise the alertness, and I don't think we are doing it sufficiently.'</div> <bR> <div> Defence lawyer Arthur Folsom told The Associated Press on Friday that his client maintains "that he was not part of a terrorist cell." Folsom added that federal agents found no trace of explosives in Zazi's car or apartment.</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="25"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Sep 09"><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= 200 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Man who hijacked Canadian airliner found guilty</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. Sep. 24  2009  07:21  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 25th, 2009</div> <div> <B>A man who commandeered a Canadian airliner on an airport tarmac in Montego Bay, Jamaica back in April has been found guilty.</B></div> <bR> <div> Stephen Fray, 21, was found guilty of robbery and assault, among other charges, said public prosecution director Paula Llewellyn on Thursday.</div> <bR> <div> Fray originally faced six charges, including some breaches of Jamaican civil aviation regulations.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="e611a0690.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="105" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Soldiers stand near the hijacked CanJet 737 as it sits on the tarmac at the airport in Montego Bay, Jamaica, Monday, April 20, 2009. (Adrian Wyld / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 252 WIDTH="707"><div> His trial began on Sept. 14. Sentencing will take place on Oct. 8. He faces a maximum of about 20 years in prison.</div> <bR> <div> Fray pushed his way aboard a CanJet Airlines aircraft on April 19. It had been sitting on the tarmac at Montego Bay's Sangster International Airport with 167 passengers aboard.</div> <bR> <div> Court heard he had fired a shot into the air, took money from passengers and demanded to be flown off the island.</div> <bR> <div> Special anti-terrorist police, trained by Canada, managed to capture him after a six-hour standoff. They entered through the cockpit window.</div> <bR> <div> The motive for Fray's actions remains unclear, but authorities have described Fray as "mentally challenged." However, he was found fit to stand trial.</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="24"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Sep 09"><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= 531 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>A world first: Vaccine helps prevent HIV infection</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. Sep. 24  2009  06:16  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 24th, 2009</div> <div> <B>BANGKOK -- For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. Recent failures led many scientists to think such a vaccine might never be possible.</B></div> <bR> <div> The vaccine cut the risk of becoming infected with HIV by more than 31 percent in the world's largest AIDS vaccine trial of more than 16,000 volunteers in Thailand, researchers announced Thursday in Bangkok.</div> <bR> <div> Even though the benefit is modest, "it's the first evidence that we could have a safe and effective preventive vaccine," Col. Jerome Kim said in a telephone interview. He helped lead the study for the U.S. Army, which sponsored it with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. </div> <bR> <div> The institute's director, Dr. Anthony Fauci, warned that this is "not the end of the road," but said he was surprised and very pleased by the outcome.</div> <bR> <div> "It gives me cautious optimism about the possibility of improving this result" and developing a more effective AIDS vaccine, Fauci said in a telephone interview. "This is something that we can do."</div> <bR> <div> Even a marginally helpful vaccine could have a big impact. Every day, 7,500 people worldwide are newly infected with HIV; 2 million died of AIDS in 2007, the U.N. agency UNAIDS estimates.</div> <bR> <div> "Today marks an historic milestone," said Mitchell Warren, executive director of the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition, an international group that has worked toward developing a vaccine.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="e609a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> In this photo released Sept. 24, 2009, a lab technician working with the HIV Vaccine Trial Phrase Project in Thailand, holds up a vial to check information and the manufactured date printed on the AIDS vaccine vials, at the Armed Forces Institute of Medical Science, in Bangkok, Thailand on Feb. 19, 2005. (AP / Thai Public Health Ministry)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="e60aa0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> An HIV/AIDS patient waits for treatment at Wat Phrabatnampo near Lopburi, Thailand on Wednesday, July 28, 2004. (AP / David Longstreath)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 641 WIDTH="707"><div> "It will take time and resources to fully analyze and understand the data, but there is little doubt that this finding will energize and redirect the AIDS vaccine field," he said in a statement.</div> <bR> <div> The Thailand Ministry of Public Health conducted the study, which used strains of HIV common in Thailand. Whether such a vaccine would work against other strains in the U.S., Africa or elsewhere in the world is unknown, scientists stressed.</div> <bR> <div> "This is a scientific breakthrough," Thai Health Minister Witthaya Kaewparadai told a news conference in Bangkok. "For the first time ever there is evidence that HIV vaccine has preventative efficacy."</div> <bR> <div> The study actually tested a two-vaccine combo in a "prime-boost" approach, where the first one primes the immune system to attack HIV and the second one strengthens the response.</div> <bR> <div> They are ALVAC, from Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccine division of French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis; and AIDSVAX, originally developed by VaxGen Inc. and now held by Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases, a nonprofit founded by some former VaxGen employees.</div> <bR> <div> ALVAC uses canarypox, a bird virus altered so it can't cause human disease, to ferry synthetic versions of three HIV genes into the body. AIDSVAX contains a genetically engineered version of a protein on HIV's surface. The vaccines are not made from whole virus -- dead or alive -- and cannot cause HIV.</div> <bR> <div> Neither vaccine in the study prevented HIV infection when tested individually in earlier trials, and dozens of scientists had called the new one futile when it began in 2003.</div> <bR> <div> "I really didn't have high hopes at all that we would see a positive result," Fauci confessed.</div> <bR> <div> The results proved the skeptics wrong.</div> <bR> <div> "The combination is stronger than each of the individual members," said the Army's Kim, a physician who manages the Army's HIV vaccine program.</div> <bR> <div> The study tested the combo in HIV-negative Thai men and women ages 18 to 30 at average risk of becoming infected. Half received four "priming" doses of ALVAC and two "boost" doses of AIDSVAX over six months. The others received dummy shots. No one knew who got what until the study ended.</div> <bR> <div> All were given condoms, counseling and treatment for any sexually transmitted infections, and were tested every six months for HIV. Any who became infected were given free treatment with antiviral medicines.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 695 WIDTH="707"><div> Participants were followed for three years after vaccination ended.</div> <bR> <div> Results: New infections occurred in 51 of the 8,197 given vaccine and in 74 of the 8,198 who received dummy shots. That worked out to a 31 percent lower risk of infection for the vaccine group.</div> <bR> <div> The vaccine had no effect on levels of HIV in the blood of those who did become infected. That had been another goal of the study -- seeing whether the vaccine could limit damage to the immune system and help keep infected people from developing full-blown AIDS.</div> <bR> <div> That result is "one of the most important and intriguing findings of this trial," Fauci said. It suggests that the signs scientists have been using to gauge whether a vaccine was actually giving protection may not be valid.</div> <bR> <div> "It is conceivable that we haven't even identified yet" what really shows immunity, which is both "important and humbling" after decades of vaccine research, Fauci said.</div> <bR> <div> Details of the $105 million study will be given at a vaccine conference in Paris in October.</div> <bR> <div> This is the third big vaccine trial since 1983, when HIV was identified as the cause of AIDS. In 2007, Merck & Co. stopped a study of its experimental vaccine after seeing it did not prevent HIV infection. Later analysis suggested the vaccine might even raise the risk of infection in certain men. The vaccine itself did not cause infection.</div> <bR> <div> In 2003, AIDSVAX flunked two large trials -- the first late-stage tests of any AIDS vaccine at the time.</div> <bR> <div> It is unclear whether vaccine makers will seek to license the two-vaccine combo in Thailand. Before the trial began, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said other studies would be needed before the vaccine could be considered for U.S. licensing.</div> <bR> <div> Also unclear is whether Thai volunteers who received dummy shots will now be offered the vaccine. Researchers had said they would do so if the vaccine showed clear benefit -- defined as reducing the risk of infection by at least 50 percent.</div> <bR> <div> Those issues, plus how to proceed with future studies, will be discussed among the governments, study sponsors and companies involved in the trial, Kim said. Scientists want to know how long will protection last, whether booster shots will be needed, and whether the vaccine helps prevent infection in gay men and injection drug users, since it was tested mostly in heterosexuals in the Thai trial.</div> <bR> <div> The study was done in Thailand because U.S. Army scientists did pivotal research in that country when the AIDS epidemic emerged there, isolating virus strains and providing genetic information on them to vaccine makers. The Thai government also strongly supported the idea of doing the study.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="23"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Sep 09"><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= 200 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Shingles vaccine Zostavax arrives in Canada</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue. Sep. 22  2009  14:40  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 23rd, 2009</div> <div> <B>Canadian seniors can now help protect themselves against the intensely painful condition called shingles by getting a vaccine that becomes available today.</B></div> <bR> <div> Merck Frosst Canada's Zostavax, the first and only vaccine to help prevent shingles, is now available at clinics and doctors' offices in Canada.</div> <bR> <div> And while the vaccine isn't cheap -- about $150 for a single dose -- most people who have ever come down with a bad case of the condition would tell you it's worth it.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="e604a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Merck Frosst Canada's Zostavax, the first and only vaccine to help prevent shingles, is available at clinics and doctors' offices in Canada as of Sept. 22, 2009.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 765 WIDTH="707"><div> "A hundred and fifty dollars? I wouldn't care if it was $1,000," shingles patient Jacqueline Wilkins told CTV News. Wilkins came down with shingles last winter and lived with intense pain for more than four months.</div> <bR> <div> "The pain was unreal," she remembers. "The nerve endings scream at you."</div> <bR> <div> By the time she was properly diagnosed, it was too late for treatments, which need to be started within days of the first symptoms.</div> <bR> <div> Shingles is caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox: varicella zoster. Anyone who has had chickenpox -- and that's just about all adult Canadians -- is at risk of shingles, which occurs when the chickenpox virus reactivates.</div> <bR> <div> As the virus "wakes up," it causes itching, tingling, burning or pain , typically on one side of the body or face. It then develops into a rash with fluid-filled blisters within a few days.</div> <bR> <div> The blisters, which aren't pretty and can take four weeks to heal, are not the worst of the condition. What's worse is the pain that affects almost 90 per cent of shingles sufferers over the age of 60. Patients describe it as burning, stabbing or throbbing pain.</div> <bR> <div> For about half of those over 60, the pain continues for weeks or months after the blisters have healed, a condition called postherpetic neuralgia, or post-shingles pain.</div> <bR> <div> People who have a weak immune system, through illness or injury, are most vulnerable to developing shingles. But even just aging can make the immune system weak enough that the virus reactivates, which is why about two-thirds of cases happen in people older than 50.</div> <bR> <div> The severity of shingles and its complications increase with age, with almost 10 per cent of shingles patients 65 and older needing to be hospitalized. Others need to use steroid creams and antiviral medications to reduce the pain and shorten the illness.</div> <bR> <div> The Zostavax vaccine should help reduce illness, though it doesn't offer perfect protection. In one study on more than 38,000 patients over the age of 60, the vaccine cut the risk of developing shingles by just 51 per cent.</div> <bR> <div> But it does cut the risk of long-lasting post-shingles pain by 73 per cent compared with placebo. And in those who are vaccinated but do get the illness, the vaccine will help reduce the intensity and duration. It may even prevent further attacks in those who have already devloped shingles before.</div> <bR> <div> For now, not many clinics and doctors' offices in Canada can offer Zostavas. That's because the vaccine has to be kept frozen to a temperature of -15°C or colder to maintain its potency; few doctors' offices have the freezers needed onsite.</div> <bR> <div> Patients who want to find out where the vaccine is available in their area can visit the Zostavax.ca website, where clinics and doctors offering the vaccine are listed.</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="22"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Sep 09"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 449 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Climate talks will put focus on China, U.S.: Prentice</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue. Sep. 22  2009  08:20  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 22nd, 2009</div> <div> <B>Environment Minister Jim Prentice says two global superpowers will be under the microscope at a United Nations summit in New York, where 100 world leaders will meet Tuesday to try to find some common ground on climate change.</B></div> <bR> <div> "It's China and the United States that together account for pretty close to 50 per cent of the global carbon emissions," Prentice told CTV's Canada AM during an interview from New York.</div> <bR> <div> "And in the case of the United States they did not ratify Kyoto and in the case of China, they do not have targets under the Kyoto Protocol. So, progress in Copenhagen depends very much on what these two countries do and how they decide to move forward."</div> <bR> <div> The Kyoto Protocol bound 37 industrial countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 5.2 per cent of their 1990 levels. The 1997 pact gave the countries until 2012 to meet their targets.</div> <bR> <div> Many of the countries that signed on did not meet their targets, including Canada.</div> <bR> <div> Prentice said the 1997 climate pact had many flaws.</div> <bR> <div> "Kyoto has not fulfilled its promise, many of the countries that signed Kyoto have not been able to achieve the targets, the targets were not realistic and the structures that were put in place under Kyoto have not been successful," Prentice said.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="e5fea0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> New York police officers gather at the intersection of First Avenue and 47th Street near United Nations headquarters Monday, Sept. 21, 2009. (AP / Jason DeCrow)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="e5ffa0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, left, meets with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at United Nations headquarters on Monday, Sept. 21, 2009. (AP / Stephen Chernin)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 463 WIDTH="707"><div> Instead, the focus now turns to an upcoming meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark in December, where nations will try to work towards forming a new global climate pact.</div> <bR> <div> "There's less than 90 days now left until we get to Copenhagen, so there is a lot of work to be done," Prentice said. "People are working hard though, and we continue to be hopeful."</div> <bR> <div> Developing countries were not obliged to follow the presumed lead of industrial nations when Kyoto was signed 12 years ago. This time around, there will be higher expectations for them, as any changes that are agreed to will affect billions of people, businesses, farms and households around the world.</div> <bR> <div> But there are roadblocks. Both China and India have said they will not agree to binding greenhouse-gas cuts if the United States, which has been accused of moving at a glacial pace on climate change, will not do the same.</div> <bR> <div> Chinese President Hu Jintao is expected to announce plans to reduce the "intensity" of China's carbon pollution and his country's intention to expand its energy-saving programs, while he is in New York.</div> <bR> <div> Prentice said that the international community wants "to get to a treaty that actually works."</div> <bR> <div> "But it can only work if the people who emit carbon are governed by the treaty," Prentice said. "And that's why for China, India, Brazil, it's central in our Canadian position that they have targets under the Copenhagen agreement and that the United States agree and ratify."</div> <bR> <div> On Tuesday evening, Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be one of 100 dinner guests who will attend a dinner hosted by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, where attendees will talk about the environment.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Associated Press and The Canadian Press</I> </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="21"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Sep 09"><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= 187 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Police speak to students after T.O. teen disappears</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. Sep. 21  2009  07:54  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 21st, 2009</div> <div> <B>Toronto police will hold two assemblies for students of a Forest Hill high school Monday in hopes of finding new leads in their search for a 17-year-old student who disappeared a week ago.</B></div> <bR> <div> Mariam Makhniashvili went missing last Monday morning after she told her brother she was going to enter Forest Hill Collegiate Institute from another doorway. She never made it to class and hasn't been seen since.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="e5f8a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Mariam Makhniashvili in an undated photo released by the Toronto Police Service.</div> <bR> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 687 WIDTH="707"><div> Peggy Aitchison, principal at Forest Hill CI, told CTV's Canada AM on Monday that the assemblies are being held in hopes that students might remember details about the day Makhniashvili disappeared.</div> <bR> <div> The teen was new at the school this year and apparently hadn't made any friends in the four days she attended classes.</div> <bR> <div> Police will show students pictures of the girl in a slide show on a jumbo screen to help jog their memory, Aitchison said.</div> <bR> <div> Makhniashvili and her brother moved to Toronto in June from the Republic of Georgia to join their parents who relocated to North America five years ago.</div> <bR> <div> Her parents have said they have no indication that Makhniashvili was upset about her new living situation and insist the shy, stable girl had no reason to run away.</div> <bR> <div> Aitchison said students and teachers did not notice anything amiss during the short week they spent with the girl.</div> <bR> <div> "The students described her as a quiet but engaged student who responded in class," she said. "Nothing was reported to me that would indicate she was in a situation of despair or sadness but after four days, you don't really know someone."</div> <bR> <div> Despite the girl's lack of ties at the school, the community is ready to help do what they can to bring her home, said Aitchison.</div> <bR> <div> Toronto police confirmed to reporters on Sunday that they would pay a special visit to the teen's school.</div> <bR> <div> "The focus of it all is to reach out to the students and provide them with the photographs that we have to date of Mariam, and get them to turn their minds back to the beginning of the school year, which is when they would have had the opportunity to have met her," Det. Sgt. Dan Nealon told CTV Toronto.</div> <bR> <div> He added that officers will also remind students that any information - no matter how minimal - is important.</div> <bR> <div> It's expected that her father Vakhtang Makhniashvili will also speak to students.</div> <bR> <div> A command post remains at the family's apartment on Shallmar Boulevard, which is near Eglinton Avenue and Bathurst Street.</div> <bR> <div> Police say the case is currently classified as a Level 3 search, which is the highest level possible. However, authorities may decide to downgrade their search if they can't find any new clues to the girl's disappearance.</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="20"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Sep 09"><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= 362 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Man, girl found dead in Montreal-area hotel</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. Sep. 20  2009  18:48  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 20th, 2009</div> <div> <B>The bodies of a man and a little girl were found in a hotel room in a Montreal suburb Sunday, and police are characterizing their deaths as "suspicious."</B></div> <bR> <div> Police said a staff member from a Best Western hotel in Brossard made the discovery and phoned police just before 1 p.m.</div> <bR> <div> The housekeeping employee entered the room and saw a man lying on the ground beside the room's bed. When police arrived at the scene, they searched the entire room and found the body of the girl.</div> <bR> <div> The two were transferred to hospital where they were confirmed dead.</div> <bR> <div> Police have yet to explain the relationship between the man and child but said the girl was about six to 10 years old.</div> <bR> <div> Longueuil police spokesman Gaetan Durocher said it was too soon for police to establish a cause of death.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="e5f6a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Police say a staff member at a Best Western hotel in Brossard made the gruesome discovery.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="e5f7a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Longueuil police officer Gaetan Durocher speaks with CTV News on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009 about the discovery.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="707"><div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with</I><I> </I><I>a report from CTV Montreal's Maya Johnson</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="19"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Sep 09"><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>Leonard Cohen recovers after collapsing onstage</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. Sep. 19  2009  08:56  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 19th, 2009</div> <div> <B>MADRID, Spain -- Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen is recovering after collapsing onstage while on tour in eastern Spain late Friday, his music company said Saturday.</B></div> <bR> <div> The veteran poet and performer has been released from hospital after suffering from a stomach complaint, Doctor Music Concerts said in a statement.</div> <bR> <div> Cohen was part-way through his "Bird on the Wire" song in Valencia when he fainted, causing the band to stop playing to rush to his aid as concertgoers watched. The concert was stopped.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="e5f5a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Canadian singer, songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen performs during a concert in Budapest, Hungary, on Monday, Aug. 31, 2009. (AP / MTI, Peter Kollanyi)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 285 WIDTH="707"><div> A video showing Cohen kneeling down several times during the performance and then keeling over sideways during a saxophone solo has been placed on YouTube by a fan.</div> <bR> <div> Cohen, who will be 75 years-old Monday, was taken in an ambulance to the Nueve de Octubre hospital in Valencia but was released early Saturday.</div> <bR> <div> Cohen was due to perform the last show of his Spanish tour at the Palau Sant Jordi concert hall in Barcelona on Monday. Trucks carrying Cohen's show had arrived at the hall Saturday morning and were to be set up as normal, a spokesman for the concert hall said.</div> <bR> <div> Cohen had to come out of retirement five years ago when he discovered that most of his retirement fund had disappeared in a disputed case of mismanagement.</div> <bR> <div> After leaving Spain, Cohen was due to perform next at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Fla., on Oct. 17, his website said.</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="Sep 09"><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>Police focus on Yale murder suspect's attitude</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri. Sep. 18  2009  07:57  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 18th, 2009</div> <div> <B>A 24-year-old Yale University animal research technician who is under investigation in the murder of a 24-year-old woman whose body was found on what was to be her wedding day, is said to be a "control freak."</B></div> <bR> <div> Annie Le disappeared on Sept. 8. Her body was found five days later stuffed in a compartment on the wall of a Yale medical school building.</div> <bR> <div> On Thursday, 24-year-old Raymond Clark III was arrested in New Haven, Conn. and charged with murder.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="e5efa0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Raymond Clark III, 24, is driven away from an apartment building by police in Middletown, Conn. on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009. (AP / The Hartford Courant, John Woike)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 725 WIDTH="707"><div> The Associated Press reported Friday that law enforcement officials are saying Clark clashed with scientists and staff at the lab where he and Le worked, and was a "control freak."</div> <bR> <div> Police are probing whether Le's killing may have stemmed from Clark's aggressive attitude, AP reports.</div> <bR> <div> Police have released few details about the case, and the comments about Clark's work attitude were reported without attribution because the case is still under investigation.</div> <bR> <div> Brad Garrett, a former FBI special agent, told CTV's Canada AM that police will look into Clark's background. If suspicions about Clark's role in Le's death are correct, they will likely find evidence of past violent tendencies, he said.</div> <bR> <div> "People who commit murders like this don't start on that day," Garrett said. "I think if they start unfolding his background, they're probably going to see he's had issues in other relationships."</div> <bR> <div> New Haven Police Chief James Lewis on Thursday called Le's death a case of workplace violence.</div> <bR> <div> He dismissed reports that the two had a romantic relationship.</div> <bR> <div> "It is important to note that this is not about urban crime, university crime, domestic crime but an issue of workplace violence, which is becoming a growing concern around the country," Lewis said.</div> <bR> <div> More than a week passed between Le's death and Clark's arrest. But Garrett said that may have been a strategic move on the part of investigators.</div> <bR> <div> "The longer you can leave someone out on the street the better you can make your case, potentially, because that person is still out there talking to the community, so the ability to collect additional information can be fairly high," Garrett said.</div> <bR> <div> Police arrested Clark on Thursday and collected hair, fingernail and saliva samples, and charged him with murder.</div> <bR> <div> The samples will be compared with evidence collected at the scene.</div> <bR> <div> A judge set Clark's bail at US$3 million.</div> <bR> <div> Police began to focus on Clark early in the investigation. His apartment was searched on Tuesday, and he was named as a person of interest.</div> <bR> <div> He was under constant surveillance after that and until his arrest Thursday morning at the hotel he had checked into in Cromwell, Conn.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="17"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Sep 09"><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= 523 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>10 students injured in axe attack at German school</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. Sep. 17  2009  06:10  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 17th, 2009</div> <div> <B>ANSBACH, Germany -- A 19-year-old student armed with an axe attacked his high school in southern Germany on Thursday, wounding nine pupils, police said.</B></div> <bR> <div> The alleged attacker, who was arrested, was also injured at Carolinum High School in the Bavarian town of Ansbach, said Nuremberg police spokeswoman Elke Schoenwald. She said that in addition to the axe, the student was carrying flammable devices.</div> <bR> <div> All the 700 students at the school were brought to safety, she said.</div> <bR> <div> Nuremberg police spokesman Peter Grimm told N24 television that all the wounded students appeared to all be eighth-graders and that one of them, a girl, was seriously injured.</div> <bR> <div> "There are no indications that any other attackers are in the building," he said.</div> <bR> <div> Police could not confirm media reports that the attacker had lobbed Molotov cocktails into a classroom or that shots had been fired.</div> <bR> <div> According to its Web site, Carolinum was founded in 1528, making it the second-oldest public high school in Bavaria. Today, the school offers curriculum based on the humanities and music for grades five through 13.</div> <bR> <div> The incident was the second attack on a school in Germany this year.</div> <bR> <div> In March, 17-year-old Tim Kretschmer fatally shot 12 people at his former school in the southwestern town of Winnenden. He fled the building and killed three more people before turning the gun on himself.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="e5e8a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Police officers and paramedics walk in front of Carolinum school in Ansbach, Germany Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009. (AP / Thomas Kienzle)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="e5e9a0010.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="257" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Police officers walk near Carolinum school in Ansbach, Germany on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009. (AP / Thomas Kienzle)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 107 WIDTH="707"><div> That was the nation's second-worst school shooting after a 2002 shooting spree in Erfurt that left 17 dead, including the gunman.</div> <bR> <div> After Kretschmer's attack in Winnenden, Germany moved to tighten checks on weapon owners.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="16"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Sep 09"><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>Economy on course for growth by third quarter: RBC</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. Sep. 16  2009  08:02  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 16th, 2009</div> <div> <B>The Canadian economy is now coming out of the recession and is poised to show some growth in the third quarter, predicts the latest forecast from RBC Economics.</B></div> <bR> <div> RBC chief economist Craig Wright says the economy is advancing because aggressive policy actions are taking effect.</div> <bR> <div> The report cites improved markets, low borrowing rates and fiscal stimulus as the keys to the turnaround. A sharp rebound in auto production and a recovery in the housing market will continue to lead the charge, the report says.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="e5e1a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A Canadian Loonie and a Canadian dime are shown in Ottawa. (Tom Hanson / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 302 WIDTH="707"><div> The report suggests that although the economy shrank at an average of 3.4 per cent in the second quarter, the stage is set for a return to positive growth by the third quarter. So, the bank predicts the economy will grow 2.0 per cent in the third quarter and by 2.4 per cent in the fourth quarter.</div> <bR> <div> The report also projects the Canadian economy will grow by 2.6 per cent in 2010, when the 8.7 unemployment rate will also begin to fall and consumers will begin to spend again.</div> <bR> <div> However, the unemployment rate is likely to remain historically high, and so inflation will probably remain below the Bank of Canada's mid-point target of two per cent.</div> <bR> <div> The report concedes that there are still worries that the recovery won't last, but Wright believes that the momentum that has alread ybegun is likely to build as financial markets continue to recover and stimulus flows.</div> <bR> <div> "We expect that Canada's recession will turn out to be the least severe of the past three, even after the consecutive hefty drops in GDP output from late 2008 and early 2009," Wright said.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="15"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Sep 09"><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= 523 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Patrick Swayze dies at 57 after 2-year cancer battle</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. Sep. 14  2009  22:41  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 15th, 2009</div> <div> <B>Actor Patrick Swayze, the romantic leading man of "Dirty Dancing" and "Ghost," has died at 57 after a nearly two-year battle with pancreatic cancer.</B></div> <bR> <div> "Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months," said a statement released Monday evening by his publicist, Annett Wolf.</div> <bR> <div> The actor came forward with his illness in March 2008, but valiantly continued to work on his new television series, "The Beast."</div> <bR> <div> Swayze said he did not use painkillers while making the series because he feared they would weaken his edgy performance as FBI agent who may be on the wrong side of the law.</div> <bR> <div> Swayze rose to fame during the 1980s by appearing in a number of iconic films: Francis Ford Coppola's "The Outsiders," the ultra-violent Cold War saga "Red Dawn" and "Road House."</div> <bR> <div> But it was his role of bad-boy Johnny Castle in the 1987 film "Dirty Dancing" that forever cemented Swayze as a heartthrob leading man.</div> <bR> <div> The coming-of-age romance co-starring Jennifer Grey, made great use of Swayze's graceful dancing and muscular physique.</div> <bR> <div> The film, which continues to have a place in teenage girls' hearts, was a hit in the summer of 1987 and spawned the Oscar-winning "(I've Had) the Time of my Life" hit song.</div> <bR> <div> It also featured the classic line spoken by Swayze, "Nobody puts Baby in a corner."</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="e5d9a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Actor Patrick Swayze poses for photographers prior to a premiere at a Leicester Square cinema in central London, on Nov. 28, 2005. (AP / Lefteris Pitarakis)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="e5dba0da0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="218" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Patrick Swayze and his wife Lisa Niemi pose with their dogs at their ranch in New Mexico, on May 13, 2009. (AP / WKT Public Relations, Brian Braff)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 712 WIDTH="707"><div> The film has since been turned into numerous stage productions and had a 2004 sequel in which Swayze had a cameo.</div> <div> If "Dancing" won over the hearts of millions, the 1990 film "Ghost" broke them.</div> <bR> <div> Starring Swayze as a murdered man trying to communicate with his fiancée (Demi Moore) through a psychic (Whoopi Goldberg), the film was a massive box office success, taking in more than $215 million.</div> <bR> <div> It was also a critical success and was nominated for the Best Picture at the Academy Awards, and won two Oscars. </div> <div> At the time, Swayze said he worked hard for the role.</div> <bR> <div> "It made me cry four or five times," he told the Associated Press of the script.</div> <bR> <div> In 1991 he appeared on the cover of People magazine as the "Sexiest Man Alive" but his career dwindled in the 1990s.</div> <bR> <div> While he starred in the well-received "Point Break," other films such as "Tall Tale" and "Three Wishes" fizzled.</div> <bR> <div> By the end of the 90s, he went into rehab for alcohol abuse.</div> <bR> <div> His career picked back up in the early 2000s, when he played against typecast as a closeted pedophile in the 2001 cult classic "Donnie Darko."</div> <bR> <div> He also returned to the stage, playing in "Chicago" in New York and later in "Guys and Dolls" in London.</div> <bR> <div> Swayze was born in 1952 in Houston to Jesse Swayze and choreographer Patsy Swayze.</div> <bR> <div> While he played football, Swayze was drawn to dance and theatre and played Danny Zuko in "Grease" on Broadway. But a series of injuries turned his attention to acting fulltime.</div> <bR> <div> After moving to Los Angeles he made his big-screen debut alongside Scott Baio and Maureen McCormack in 1979's "Skatetown, U.S.A."</div> <bR> <div> Swayze has been married since 1975 to Lisa Niemi, a dancer who took lessons from his mother. They met when he was only 19 and she was 15.</div> <bR> <div> A licensed pilot, Niemi would fly her husband for treatment at Stanford University Medical Center in northern California, People magazine has reported.</div> <bR> <div> The couple did not have any children.</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="14"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Sep 09"><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= 308 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Nortel announces selloff of enterprise division</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. Sep. 14  2009  07:08  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 14th, 2009</div> <div> <B>Nortel Networks Corp., the once-powerful Canadian telecom giant that is now struggling through insolvency, announced Monday it has sold off a major portion of the business.</B></div> <bR> <div> BNN's Michael Kane said Nortel has gotten rid of its enterprise division.</div> <bR> <div> "Nortel Networks says it has chosen Avaya Inc. as the successfully bidder for its enterprise solutions business," Kane told CTV's Canada AM.</div> <bR> <div> "Avaya will pay US$900 million for the assets which include several lucrative government contracts."</div> <bR> <div> Nortel said it will seek government approval for the deal, in both Canada and the U.S., tomorrow.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="e5d1a0a20.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="162" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> George Riedel, Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer for Nortel Networks Corporation appears as a witness at the standing committee on Industry , science and technology on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Friday, Aug. 7, 2009. (Sean Kilpatrick / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 306 WIDTH="707"><div> Courts in France and Israel will also have to sign off on the sale, Nortel said in a news release on Monday.</div> <bR> <div> The deal is expected to close at the end of 2009.</div> <bR> <div> In the news release issued Monday, Nortel repeated its earlier belief that the ongoing creditor protection proceedings will result in any value for Nortel's shareholders.</div> <bR> <div> Nortel says the sale will allow the enterprise division to focus on its priorities.</div> <bR> <div> "As we work through integration planning, it is business as usual, and we will continue to focus on supporting our installed base," said Nortel Enterprise Solutions President Joel Hackney.</div> <bR> <div> "Through deal close and beyond, we will deliver on our stated customer commitments and maintain high levels of service and support. We will ensure our customers can fully leverage their existing Nortel investment as they benefit from the complementary capabilities of the Nortel and the Avaya portfolio of products and services."</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="13"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Sep 09"><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= 224 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Elton John wants to adopt Ukrainian toddler</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. Sep. 13  2009  07:30  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 13th, 2009</div> <div> <B>LONDON -- Look out, Madonna and Angelina Jolie -- pop star Elton John may be joining the ranks of A-list celebrities with adopted children.</B></div> <bR> <div> John and longtime partner David Furnish are interested in trying to adopt a Ukrainian toddler named Lev they met during an orphanage tour there.</div> <bR> <div> The singer told reporters in Ukraine on Saturday that Furnish has long wanted to adopt a child but that he was reluctant until he met Lev at an orphanage where many of the children's parents have died from AIDS.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="e5cfa0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Sir Elton John arrives at a press conference at Starz animation studio in Toronto on Tuesday, May 26, 2009 where he gave a speach alongside Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty. (Nathan Denette / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 306 WIDTH="707"><div> "David always wanted to adopt a child and I always said 'no' because I am 62 and I think because of the travelling I do and the life I have, maybe it wouldn't be fair for the child," John said.</div> <bR> <div> "But having seen Lev today, I would love to adopt him. I don't know how we do that but he has stolen my heart. And he has stolen David's heart and it would be wonderful if we can have a home. I've changed my mind today."</div> <bR> <div> He acknowledged bureaucratic hurdles may make adoption of a Ukrainian child impossible.</div> <bR> <div> John and Furnish, 46, toured the orphanage -- where John performed for the children -- as part of his Elton John's AIDS Foundation work. Ukraine has one of the fastest rising rates of HIV infection in Europe.</div> <bR> <div> John said he was motivated in part by the sudden death last week of one of his closest friends, keyboardist Guy Babylon.</div> <bR> <div> "It broke my heart because he was such a genius and so young and has two wonderful children," John said. "What better opportunity to replace someone I lost than to replace him with someone I can give a future to."</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="12"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Sep 09"><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>Sportscaster's killer returns to Canada to live</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. Sep. 12  2009  09:15  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 12th, 2009</div> <div> <B>Police in Barrie, Ont., are reassuring residents they're safe, after learning that a paranoid schizophrenic who killed Ottawa sportscaster Brian Smith in 1995 is now living in their city.</B></div> <bR> <div> Jeffrey Arenburg returned to Canada last week, when he was deported from the United States. He had been serving a 20-month prison term in Pennsylvania for assaulting a U.S. border guard in 2007.</div> <bR> <div> Originally it was thought the 52-year-old would return to the Ottawa area, where he shot to death Smith in a parking lot. But he is believed to be living with his brother in a quiet neighbourhood in Barrie.</div> <bR> <div> The local police force said they will be monitoring Arenburg. They added that they have the authority to check in with him, his family and his neighbours to ensure he's coping with life in the community.</div> <bR> <div> "If we believed this person was a ticking time bomb, so to speak, we would do a public notification, which we haven't," said Sgt. Robert Allan. "So I think the community can be rest assured that our guys and girls are working hard to keep track of these things."</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="e5cda0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Jeffrey Arenburg, seen in this undated file photo, fatally shot CTV Ottawa sports reporter Brian Smith.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="e5cea0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Former CTV Ottawa sports director Brian Smith, who was shot by Arenburg, is seen in this undated photo.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 468 WIDTH="707"><div> However, some residents of the Southern Ontario city expressed dismay about the news.</div> <bR> <div> "My daughter just started grade nine and I moved from Toronto to Barrie two years ago, to get away from stuff like that," resident Tanya Lynn Hobson told CTV News.</div> <bR> <div> Arenburg was deemed not criminally responsible for killing Smith, and was institutionalized until 2006.</div> <bR> <div> The Ontario Review Board, an independent government body that's responsible for Ontario's criminally insane, granted him an absolute discharge. The terms of his release mean he has no parole obligations.</div> <bR> <div> He was detained by U.S. authorities less than a year afterwards, while trying to cross the border to Buffalo on a shopping trip. At his trial there, Arenburg spoke of his paranoid belief that his thoughts are being broadcast across the world.</div> <bR> <div> His U.S. lawyer said he seemed to be suffering from the same kind of psychotic thinking that led him to kill Smith in 1995. The U.S. judge who eventually ordered his deportation back to Canada said he's a danger to society.</div> <bR> <div> Doctors have also said Arenburg needs professional help. But there are no legal means to force him to be treated for his mental illness.</div> <bR> <div> "From what's been reported in the media of Mr. Arenburg's comments, he is exhibiting the same type of delusions and experiences, and that raises concerns from the public and the mental health community," said Dr. Helen Ward, clinical director at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre.</div> <bR> <div> The worry is that he could stop taking his medication, potentially making him a public danger once again.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with a file from CTV's Rosemary Thompson</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="Sep 09"><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= 552 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>New York to remember 9/11 victims</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri. Sep. 11  2009  08:15  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 11th, 2009</div> <div> <B>As they have for eight years now, the families of the 2,752 killed in the World Trade Center attacks in New York on that sunny Tuesday morning in 2001 will gather to read each of the names in turn.</B></div> <bR> <div> They will be interrupted four times by minutes of silence: one minute each for the two jets that crashed, and one minute each for the two towers collapsed.</div> <bR> <div> One figure who will be conspicuously absent from the now-familiar ceremonies in New York will be U.S. President Barack Obama.</div> <bR> <div> Perhaps seeking to distinguish himself from his predecessor, George W. Bush, who consistently attended World Trade Center anniversaries to galvanize support for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Obama will steer clear of the event.</div> <bR> <div> Instead, he will attend the lower-profile memorial at the Pentagon and then meet with the families of the 184 people who died when a jet slammed into the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense.</div> <bR> <div> Vice President Joseph Biden and his wife Jill will visit attend the New York ceremony, along with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.</div> <bR> <div> Obama's decision comes as public sentiment in the U.S. toward their country's involvement in Afghanistan is souring, as combat deaths grow and questions persist about flawed Afghan elections.</div> <bR> <div> And while U.S. troops are slowly being drawn down from Iraq, it's happening at a much slower pace than Obama envisioned while he campaigned for the presidency. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has spoken of "a certain war-weariness on the part of the American people."</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="e5c9a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> The World Trade Center construction site is shown in New York on Friday, Sept. 11, 2009. (AP / Mark Lennihan)</div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="e5caa0dc0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="220" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> A rain-soaked American flag flies at half-staff, at the Pentagon Memorial to honor the 125 people who were killed in the 2001 terror attacks when the highjacked American Airlines flight 125 was flown into the headquarters of America's military, in Arlington, Va., is seen on on Sept. 11, 2009. (AP / J. Scott Applewhite)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 571 WIDTH="707"><div> An Associated Press-GfK poll released this week finds Obama's approval ratings for his handling of Afghanistan and Iraq slipping, along with approval ratings for his efforts to combat terrorism have also slipped.</div> <bR> <div> On Thursday, Obama pledged to "apprehend all those who perpetrated these heinous crimes, seek justice for those who were killed and defend against all threats to our national security."</div> <bR> <div> In light of Obama and Congress's decision to declare Sept. 11 "a day of service," a fundraiser to repair storm damage at Central Park was planned, as were beach cleanups and repairs of homeless shelters.</div> <bR> <div> A group in Boston, from where two of the four planes left that Tuesday day in 2001, victims' family members planned to write letters to U.S. soldiers overseas and pack care packages.</div> <bR> <div> In Pennsylvania, the names of the 40 passengers and crew of United 93 were to be read at 10:03 a.m., the time the plane crashed. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell was giving the keynote speech.</div> <bR> <div> In New York, one new name will be added to the list of victims. His name is Leon Heyward and he died last year of lymphoma and lung disease. The medical examiner's office ruled that Heyward was a homicide victim because his death was a result of having been caught in the toxic dust cloud just after the Trade Center towers collapsed.</div> <bR> <div> It's the second time the city has added to the victims' list someone who died long after Sept. 11.</div> <bR> <div> Even eight years after the attacks, work on a 9/11 memorial at the World Trade Center remains stalled, held up by financial and legal wrangling.</div> <bR> <div> Work has begun on the foundation of "Freedom Tower," a planned complex of five new skyscrapers, with a park and memorial in the middle. But progress has been slow, hampered by the financial crisis and the real estate downturn.</div> <bR> <div> Although work on foundations of several key elements is underway and the frame for the future tower is rising, for the most part the site still looks like a big hole, eerily reminiscent of the wasteland created eight years ago today by two jetliners driven by a two groups of terrorists.</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="10"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Sep 09"><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= 481 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Obama slams Republican 'scare tactics'</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. Sep. 09  2009  22:20  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 10th, 2009</div> <div> <B>U.S. President Barack Obama has slammed Republican 'distortions' and partisan games in the health care debate, during a speech before a rare joint session of Congress.</B></div> <bR> <div> "Instead of honest debate, we have seen scare tactics," he said Wednesday night, in a crucial address he had been crafting for several days.</div> <bR> <div> "Some have dug into unyielding ideological camps that offer no hope of compromise. Too many have used this as an opportunity to score short-term political points, even if it robs the country of our opportunity to solve a long-term challenge. And out of this blizzard of charges and counter-charges, confusion has reigned."</div> <bR> <div> Tensions were high in Congress. At one point, the president was even heckled by South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson, who shouted: "You lie!"</div> <bR> <div> The incident seemed to take House Leader Nancy Pelosi off guard, and she exchanged a glance with Vice President Joe Biden. First Lady Michelle Obama shook her head from side to side.</div> <bR> <div> But Obama told his opponents he is determined to bring about reform to the battered U.S. health care system.</div> <bR> <div> "I am not the first president to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last," he said. "It has now been nearly a century since Theodore Roosevelt first called for health care reform."</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="e5c0a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a speech on healthcare to a joint session of Congress, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP / Charles Dharapak)</div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="e5c1a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> A member of Congress reads U.S. President Barack Obama's healthcare plan on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009, during the president's speech on healthcare to a joint session of Congress. (AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 753 WIDTH="707"><div> Not only must Obama contend with bitterly partisan Republican opponents, but centrist Democrats conscious of public anxiety about handing the government control of health care.</div> <bR> <div> "The Obama administration had a very rough August," David Mark, of the U.S. political website Politico, told Power Play on Wednesday. "There were many protests at town hall meetings with members of Congress, and there was a lot of discontent in the president's own party."</div> <bR> <div> But about 50 million U.S. citizens do not have health insurance, and ballooning health care costs eat up 20 per cent of the country's gross domestic product.</div> <bR> <div> Jeff Zeleny, a political correspondent for The New York Times, said the majority of Americans want some form of change.</div> <bR> <div> "If there's one bright spot in all of the polling numbers that the White House and others have looked through, it's that most Americans want something to be done with health care," he said.</div> <bR> <div> Republicans have sought to portray Obama as a so-called "socialist" trying to expand government control on their lives, and have attacked the public health care systems of Canada and Britain as broken models.</div> <bR> <div> Supporters of Obama's plan are pushing for a "public option" to private health insurance, meaning a government-operated insurance plan, also known as a "single-payer system" in U.S. political jargon.</div> <bR> <div> "There are those on the left who believe the only way to fix the system is through a single-payer system like Canada's, where we would severely restrict the private insurance market and have the government provide coverage for everybody," Obama said in his speech.</div> <bR> <div> But he also suggested he would be willing to pass health care reform without a public option -- or at least not immediately, suggesting that a public option would kick in if private companies fail to provide insurance to enough Americans.</div> <bR> <div> Another compromise would be setting up non-profit health insurance co-operatives, along with enforcing more regulations on private companies -- such as ending the practice of barring customers with pre-existing health problems.</div> <bR> <div> In trying to reform America's health insurance system, Obama has studied the failed attempt by former president Bill Clinton. Unlike Obama, Clinton pre-wrote his plan before bringing it before Congress, and then tried to push it through.</div> <bR> <div> It never made it to a vote.</div> <bR> <div> Zeleny said that a bill will likely be signed at the end of this calendar year, but it may not include the public option.</div> <bR> <div> "Victory will largely be through what the (Democrats) define it," he said. "Might it be incremental? Perhaps, but even incremental steps, they'll say, will bring coverage to a lot of uninsured Americans."</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="09"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Sep 09"><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= 335 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Victim's sister says Canada too soft on drunk driving</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. Sep. 09  2009  07:34  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 9th, 2009</div> <div> <B>The surviving sister of a Quebec drunk driving victim says Canada is too soft on the issue of impaired driving, though a pending sentencing in her sister's death could soon set a precedent for chronic offenders.</B></div> <bR> <div> Clara Khudaverdian says it is time for Canadians to realize that drunk driving is an issue that impacts people just as bluntly as violent crimes that result in loss of life.</div> <bR> <div> The Montreal sociologist said we tend not to perceive impaired driving as a serious crime.</div> <bR> <div> "It's not like murder, or rape, or any of these big crimes where we hear about it and it's like: 'Oh my God,'" Khudaverdian told CTV's Canada AM during a telephone interview from Dollard-Des-Ormeaux, Que.</div> <bR> <div> "This is a more serious crime, it actually kills more people than guns or knives do. We don't seem to take it seriously."</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="e5baa05a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> The victim was wheelchair-bound. Walsh was arrested nearly 10 kilometres away when he crashed into a ditch.</div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="e5bba0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Anee Khudaverdian was out with her dog on her 47th birthday when she was struck by Walsh's minivan and thrown into a ditch.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 447 WIDTH="707"><div> Her sister, Anee, died when she was run down in her wheelchair on her 47th birthday last October. The mother of a seven-year-old girl was propelled into a ditch after being hit by a minivan.</div> <bR> <div> The minivan that killed her was driven by Roger Walsh, a chronic drunk driver from St-Lazare, Que., who fled the scene after the incident. He was pulled over about 10 kilometres from the site where Anee Khudaverdian was hit -- a spot where Walsh also ended up in a ditch.</div> <bR> <div> When he pleaded guilty in a Quebec court last December, it was the 19th time that he had been convicted for impaired driving. He also has 114 prior convictions for assault, uttering threats, breaking and entering, as well as theft.</div> <bR> <div> The Crown is seeking a dangerous offender designation for Walsh, though Clara Khudaverdian said she does not know what to expect in court on Wednesday.</div> <bR> <div> "I have this feeling like something good is going to happen today, but then maybe that's just hopeful thinking," she said.</div> <bR> <div> "I think logically it would make sense for Judge (Michel) Mercier to render the appropriate decision, but one never know, so I'm kind of cautious," Khudaverdian added.</div> <bR> <div> If Walsh is declared a dangerous offender, it will be the first time in Canadian history that a chronic drunk driver gets the designation. Crown prosecutors have been unsuccessful in previous attempts in Alberta and Ontario.</div> <bR> <div> Quebec court Judge Michel Mercier is expected to hand down a decision on the matter on Wednesday.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from CTV's Canada AM and The Canadian Press and a report from CTV's Genevieve Beauchemin</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="08"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Sep 09"><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= 224 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>New poll puts the Conservatives in the lead</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue. Sep. 08  2009  23:06  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 6th, 2009</div> <div> <B>A new poll suggests that the Liberals might want to tread carefully into election waters as they have lost some support over the summer, particularly in Quebec.</B></div> <bR> <div> A Strategic Counsel poll taken in early September for CTV and the Globe and Mail has the Liberals down five points with 30 per cent support nationally, compared to the Conservatives' 35 per cent.</div> <bR> <div> Earlier polls this summer had the two parties neck-and-neck, with the Liberals up as much as five per cent over the Tories in May.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="e5b6a0ae0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="174" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Results of a new poll conducted for CTV News and The Globe and Mail.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 722 WIDTH="707"><div> Here are the national results (difference between 2008 federal election results in brackets):</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Conservatives: 35 per cent (-3)</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Liberals: 30 per cent (+4)</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">NDP: 14 per cent (-4)</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Green Party: 9 per cent (+2)</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Bloc Quebecois: 12 per cent (+2)</div> <bR> <div> Strategic Counsel pollster Peter Donolo said it is clear that Canadians feel Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff has not yet made a strong enough argument for a change in government.</div> <bR> <div> "The poll results illustrate why the Liberals are in a Catch-22 position," he told the Globe and Mail.</div> <bR> <div> "As long as they continue having to prop up the government, they're unable to differentiate themselves and make the case for change. Therefore, they have no momentum in the polls. But the only way to break out of this may be to start voting against the government and trigger an election in a situation where they're behind."</div> <bR> <div> The Liberals' drop in support in Quebec comes mostly to the benefit of the Bloc Quebecois. The Grits dropped seven points to 23 per cent support, while the Bloc jumped up five points to 49 per cent.</div> <bR> <div> The Tories trail at 16 per cent.</div> <bR> <div> Ontario remains a dead heat, with the Conservatives holding 41 per cent support and the Liberals, 39. The NDP lag far behind at 11 per cent.</div> <bR> <div> The West continues to be dominated by the Conservatives, who held 43 per cent support. The Grits and NDP are in a battle for second place at 24 per cent and 22 per cent support, respectively.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Economy and leadership on voters' minds</B></div> <bR> <div> Should the opposition parties bring down the Conservative government and force yet another vote this fall, the election will be about two issues: the economy and leadership, political science professor David Docherty says.</div> <bR> <div> Last week, Ignatieff said he can no longer support the Stephen Harper government and seemed poised to force a non-confidence vote in Parliament when MPs get back to work later this month.</div> <bR> <div> The opposition parties had previously threatened to throw Harper out of office if their demands over employment insurance reform were not met.</div> <bR> <div> And while EI reform is still an important issue, says Docherty, a political science professor at Ontario's Wilfred Laurier University, it's not what is going to appeal most to voters.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 896 WIDTH="707"><div> "If there is an election issue there will be two things. Obviously the economy, and where we're going as the economy improves, and what kind of deficit we may or may not have as a result and how we pay for that," Docherty said Monday during an interview with CTV News Channel.</div> <bR> <div> "And the second issue will be leadership. It will be very much Mr. Ignatieff, Mr. Harper, who is the better leader? The Liberals are much more comfortable now with Mr. Ignatieff than they were with Stephane Dion. So they're not afraid to make leadership a bit of an issue in this campaign."</div> <bR> <div> Another sign that the Liberal Party is getting election-ready is the fact it has released three television ads in which it touts its readiness to lead the country under Ignatieff's guidance.</div> <bR> <div> "We need a new way of thinking, a government that thinks big," Ignatieff says in an English-language ad, with a wooded area behind him. "I know Canada can take on the world and win."</div> <bR> <div> The slogan for that ad is, "We can do better."</div> <bR> <div> But "election-weary" Canadians, who would be headed to their fourth election in five years, may not want to hear it.</div> <bR> <div> "We had less than 60 per cent voter turnout last election," Docherty says. "A lot of Canadians might decide to stay home because it looks like nothing is going to change and the result will be about the same. And so if that's the case, voter turnout could diminish even more."</div> <bR> <div> Even if turnout is low, Docherty predicts that key battlegrounds will be lower mainland British Columbia, particularly Vancouver, southern Ontario and Quebec.</div> <bR> <div> In last year's election, the Conservatives gained nine seats out of the 45 "Battleground 2008" ridings in B.C., Ontario and Quebec, tracked for CTV and The Globe and Mail by The Strategic Counsel.</div> <bR> <div> They gained five battleground seats in Ontario and four in B.C., but none in Quebec.</div> <bR> <div> "We'll probably have higher turnout in the Atlantic provinces where little change takes place," Docherty said, "and lower turnout in southern Ontario where the real battles will take place and which really could make or break Stephen Harper, could take him from a minority to a majority, or swing the balance to Mr. Ignatieff."</div> <bR> <div> <B>Sample size and margin of error:</B> </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Canada: 1,000 -- 3.1 per cent</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Quebec: 243 -- 6.3 per cent</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Ontario: 383 -- 5.0 per cent</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">West: 300 - 5.7 per cent</div> <bR> <div> <B>Technical notes</B></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Interviews were conducted between Sept. 3rd and 6th, 2009.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Findings are based on a telephone survey of 1,000 voting-age Canadians -- 500 men and 500 women, all living in Canada.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The sampling model relies on stratification of the population by 10 regions (Atlantic Canada, Montreal CMA, the rest of Quebec, Toronto CMA, the rest of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Vancouver CMA and the rest of British Columbia) and by four community sizes (1,000,000 inhabitants or more, 100,000 to 1,000,000 inhabitants, 5,000 to 100,000 inhabitants, and under 5,000 inhabitants).</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="Sep 09"><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>U.K. court convicts 3 men in airline bomb plot</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. Sep. 07  2009  13:47  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 7th, 2009</div> <div> <B>A U.K. court has convicted three men of plotting to kill thousands of people by blowing up trans-Atlantic flights with homemade liquid explosives, in what could have been the largest terrorist attack since Sept. 11.</B></div> <bR> <div> A jury at Woolwich Crown Court found Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 28, Assad Sarwar, 29, and Tanvir Hussain, 28, guilty of conspiracy to murder by planning to detonate the bombs on airplanes.</div> <bR> <div> Three other men, Ibrahim Savant, 28, Arafat Waheed Khan, 28, and Waheed Zaman, 25, whom the prosecution alleged would have carried the bombs onto the aircraft, were acquitted of conspiracy to blow up airplanes.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="e5b4a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Tanvir Hussain and Assad Sarwar are seen in a composite image, with undated photos provided by Britain's Metropolitan Police.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 921 WIDTH="707"><div> The jury could not decide on verdicts for the three men on charges of conspiracy to murder.</div> <bR> <div> Another defendant, Umar Islam, 31, was found guilty of conspiracy to murder, but the jury was unable to decide if he was guilty of conspiring to target aircraft.</div> <bR> <div> Donald Stewart-Whyte, 23, was cleared of all charges.</div> <bR> <div> The trial began in February.</div> <bR> <div> The men were arrested in a series of pre-dawn raids in August 2006, a sweep that led to the cancellation of hundreds of flights and sparked fear among would-be travellers.</div> <bR> <div> British and U.S. security officials said the defendants may have been just days away from implementing their plans when they were arrested.</div> <bR> <div> The arrests also led to widespread changes to airport security measures, particularly the restrictions on taking liquids onto airplanes, which are still in place today.</div> <bR> <div> Prosecutor Peter Wright argued that the men plotted to disguise ingredients, including hydrogen peroxide, for the bombs as "soft-drink bottles, batteries and other innocuous items" and bring them on board the planes in carry-on luggage.</div> <bR> <div> "They were to be detonated in-flight by suicide bombers" after they were assembled in the aircrafts' bathrooms, he said. </div> <div> According to Wright, the plot would have led to "a civilian death toll from terrorism on an almost unprecedented scale."</div> <bR> <div> Officials have predicted that as many as 2,000 passengers could have died in the attacks, with hundreds more killed or injured on the ground.</div> <bR> <div> John McDowall, the deputy assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in London, said the attacks would have been devastating.</div> <bR> <div> "Apart from massive loss of life, these attacks would have had enormous worldwide economic and political consequences," he said in a statement released Monday. "But their plans were thwarted by the police and security services before they could commit mass murder on an unimaginable scale."</div> <bR> <div> Prosecutors said the men had identified as targets seven flights from London's Heathrow airport to New York, Washington, Chicago, San Francisco, Toronto and Montreal.</div> <bR> <div> The defendants denied they were trying to blow up airliners and said they were planning a stunt to make a political point about Western foreign policy.</div> <bR> <div> Security officials countered that the plot had direct connections to al Qaeda and was aided by Islamic militants in Pakistan. However, they were unable to prove the defendants ever made a viable bomb.</div> <bR> <div> The trial was the second in the case.</div> <bR> <div> Ali, Sarwar and Hussain were convicted last year of conspiracy to murder, but the jury could not agree on whether they were specifically targeting airplanes.</div> <bR> <div> Authorities have yet to announce if they will pursue a third trial.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from </I><I>The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="06"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Sep 09"><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>Obama adviser quits amid 9-11 controversy</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. Sep. 06  2009  08:30  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 6th, 2009</div> <div> <B>A top environmental adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama has resigned from his job in the midst of what he calls "a vicious smear campaign against me."</B></div> <bR> <div> Van Jones, an adviser on environmentally friendly "green jobs" with the White House Council on Environmental Quality, has been linked to a group that has questioned whether the U.S. government had a role in the September 11 terrorist attacks.</div> <bR> <div> Recent news reports have claimed that Jones's name was included on a 2004 petition that called for congressional hearings into whether decisions made by high-level government officials may have led to the attacks.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="e5b2a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Van Jones, an administration official specializing in environmentally friendly jobs, is seen at the National Summit in Detroit, in this June 16, 2009 file photo. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 580 WIDTH="707"><div> Videotape also surfaced depicting Jones, a former civil rights activist from California who later changed his focus to environmental and energy issues, using crude language to describe Republicans.</div> <bR> <div> "On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me," Jones said in his resignation statement.</div> <bR> <div> "They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide."</div> <bR> <div> According to Jones, he has been "inundated with calls from across the political spectrum urging me to stay and fight."</div> <bR> <div> After the reports surfaced, Jones issued a statement on Thursday apologizing for his past comments, and said the 9-11 petition, "certainly does not reflect my views, now or ever."</div> <bR> <div> At a White House press briefing the next day, press secretary Robert Gibbs would not comment on whether the president still has confidence in Jones, only saying that he "continues to work in the administration."</div> <bR> <div> As the controversy grew, Republican members of Congress demanded that Jones resign.</div> <bR> <div> Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana released a statement, saying: "His extremist views and coarse rhetoric have no place in this administration or the public debate."</div> <bR> <div> The White House released a statement announcing the resignation early Sunday morning.</div> <bR> <div> Nancy Sutley, chair of the Council on Environmental Quality, also released a statement early Sunday, accepting Jones's resignation.</div> <bR> <div> "Over the last six months, he had been a strong voice for creating jobs that improve energy efficiency and utilize renewable resources," Sutley said.</div> <bR> <div> "We appreciate his hard work and wish him the best moving forward."</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="05"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Sep 09"><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= 378 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Mother of dead boy joins lawsuit against Manitoba gov't</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. Sep. 05  2009  20:49  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 5th, 2009</div> <div> <B>The mother of a two-year-old boy killed while in the Manitoba child welfare system is joining a class-action lawsuit to sue the government for alleged abuse in its childcare programs.</B></div> <bR> <div> Natasha Guimond is among several parents who are suing because they say their children were much worse off under the care of the Child and Family Services system.</div> <bR> <div> Her son, Gage, was killed in 2007. He was moved from a foster home to live with relatives who had criminal records. His great-aunt has been charged with manslaughter.</div> <bR> <div> Guimond also has a five-year-old daughter, Evening Star, in Manitoba's child welfare system and is trying to regain custody of the child.</div> <bR> <div> "I'd like to know a little more about my daughter instead of them telling me that she's better off without me," Guimond told CTV Winnipeg.</div> <bR> <div> Jules Greyeyes is organizing the lawsuit through the North End Advocacy Group. He says 30 people are contributing money to fund the lawsuit, which he hopes will be filed in early 2010.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="e5b0a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Natasha Guimond spoke with CTV News on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2009.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="e5b1a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Gage was moved from a foster home to live with relatives with addiction problems. He died in 2007.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 385 WIDTH="707"><div> "It's about accountability, it's about responsibility," he told CTV Winnipeg.</div> <bR> <div> He said Child and Family Services needs to do a better job of communicating with parents.</div> <bR> <div> <B>A long recovery</B></div> <bR> <div> Guimond admits she was not fit to be taking care of her son at the time of her death because of her addiction to drugs.</div> <bR> <div> But she says the horrific phone call informing her of his death forced her to break the addiction cycle.</div> <bR> <div> Now in her mid-20s, she has been sober for almost two years and is taking parenting classes, while working to go back to school.</div> <bR> <div> "I'm trying my hardest to help myself get better to try and raise my daughter and help her," she said. "I know she's probably going through a lot herself."</div> <bR> <div> Neither the province nor the child services agency would comment on the lawsuit.</div> <bR> <div> There are more than 700 children in the province's child welfare system.</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="Sep 09"><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>New jobs created, but unemployment edges up</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri. Sep. 04  2009  07:26  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 4th, 2009</div> <div> <B>The Canadian economy defied expectations and actually gained new jobs in August, according to the latest release from Statistics Canada.</B></div> <bR> <div> The StatsCan Labour Force Survey released Friday showed thousands of new jobs were created last month, largely in retail, finance and the construction industry.</div> <bR> <div> "We were expecting the economy would lose 15,000 jobs, seasonally adjusted, in August," said BNN's Michael Kane.</div> <bR> <div> "In fact the Canadian economy created 27,100 jobs. This was totally unexpected."</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="e5a9a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Jordan Smith, a recent graduate of Memorial University in St. John's, takes his job hunt to the streets of Halifax on Tuesday, July 14, 2009. (Andrew Vaughan/ THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 376 WIDTH="707"><div> Unemployment also rose, inching up by 0.1 per cent to an 11-year high of 8.7 per cent. But that gain was largely due to the fact that more people entered the market and were looking for work, Kane said.</div> <bR> <div> The unexpectedly positive employment news provided an early boost to markets.</div> <bR> <div> "This is what the market will trade on and indeed just before the numbers came out we saw the Canadian dollar rise a half cent, it's now trading above 91 cents U.S."</div> <bR> <div> Since employment peaked in October 2008 -- just as the recession began to set in -- total employment has dropped by 2.3 per cent, or 387,000 jobs.</div> <bR> <div> But in the past five months only 31,000 jobs have been lost, suggesting the rate of decline is slowing as the economy begins to stabilize.</div> <bR> <div> But the news was not all good. All of the new jobs were part-time positions, and the number of full-time jobs in Canada fell by 3,500 in August.</div> <bR> <div> Job losses in August were largely in business, building and other support services, education services and manufacturing, which lost another 17,300 workers.</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="Sep 09"><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>Gunmen kill 17 people at Mexican rehab centre</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. Sep. 03  2009  07:43  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 3rd, 2009</div> <div> <B>CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- Gunmen broke into a drug rehabilitation centre, lined people against a wall and shot 17 dead in a particularly bloody day in Mexico's relentless drug war. The brazen attack followed the killing of the No. 2 security official in President Felipe Calderon's home state.</B></div> <bR> <div> The attackers on Wednesday broke down the door of El Aliviane centre in Ciudad Juarez, lined up their victims against a wall and opened fire, said Arturo Sandoval, a spokesman for the regional prosecutors' office. At least five people were injured.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="e5a3a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Police officers block off the area outside the El Aliviane rehab centre in Ciudad Juarez, after a gunman shot 17 people late Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 674 WIDTH="707"><div> Authorities had no immediate suspects or information on the victims. Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, is Mexico's most violent city, with at least 1,400 people killed this year alone.</div> <bR> <div> Most of the homicides are tied to drug gang violence, which has taken a heavy toll across Mexico. Earlier the same day, gunmen ambushed and killed a senior security official in the home state of President Felipe Calderon.</div> <bR> <div> Dozens of sobbing relatives rushed to the rehabilitation centre to find out if their loved ones were among the dead. Soldiers and federal agents patrolled the streets surrounding the centre in the Bellavista neighbourhood.</div> <bR> <div> Calderon sent thousands more troops and federal police to Ciudad Juarez earlier this year, but the surge has done little to stem the raging violence. The city is home to the Juarez drug cartel, which is battling other gangs for trafficking and dealing turf.</div> <bR> <div> The government is struggling to revamp Ciudad Juarez's police force, which is plagued by corruption and the assassination of many of its officers. Other police have quit the force out of fear of being targeted.</div> <bR> <div> The massacre capped a particularly bloody day in Mexico's relentless drug war.</div> <bR> <div> Gunmen killed the No. 2 security official and three other people in Calderon's home state of Michoacan, where the government is locked in an intensifying battle with the ruthless La Familia cartel, blamed for a string of assassinations of police and soldiers.</div> <bR> <div> Jose Manuel Revuelta, who was promoted less than two weeks ago to state deputy public safety director, is the highest-ranking government official killed in the wave of assassinations sweeping Michoacan, the cradle of La Familia drug cartel.</div> <bR> <div> Attackers drove up alongside Revuelta as he headed home and opened fire, state Attorney General Jesus Montejano said.</div> <bR> <div> Revuelta tried to speed away, but only made it a few blocks before he was intercepted by two vehicles. Six gunmen got out and sprayed Revuelta's car with bullets, killing him, two bodyguards and a truck driver caught in the crossfire, Montejano said.</div> <bR> <div> An AP reporter at the scene saw the bodies of Revuelta and his bodyguards in the car, which had at least 15 bullet holes in the front windshield. Soldiers and federal police rushed to the site -- just three blocks from the headquarters of the Michoacan Public Safety Department -- and a helicopter circled overhead.</div> <bR> <div> Soldiers and federal police have intensified their fight against La Familia since accusing the cartel of killing 18 federal agents and two soldiers last month. In the worst attack, 12 federal agents were slain and their tortured bodies piled along a roadside as a warning.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 463 WIDTH="707"><div> It was the boldest cartel attack yet on Mexico's government. Authorities said say La Familia was retaliating for the arrest of one of its top members.</div> <bR> <div> The government has since rounded up more La Familia suspects, including Luis Ricardo Magana, who is alleged to have controlled methamphetamine shipments to the United States for the gang. Days before his capture, prosecutors detained the mother of reputed La Familia leader Servando "La Tuta" Gomez despite his threat to retaliate if police bothered his family. The woman was released after two days "for lack of evidence" of involvement in the cartel.</div> <bR> <div> Calderon first launched his crackdown against drug cartels in Michoacan, sending thousands of federal police and soldiers to his home state after taking office in late 2006. Tens of thousands more have since been deployed to drug hotspots across Mexico.</div> <bR> <div> Drug gang violence has since surged, claiming more than 13,500 lives, including more than 1,000 police officers.</div> <bR> <div> Calderon defended his battle against drug trafficking in a speech to Congress on Wednesday. He said the government has taken on the cartels as no previous Mexican administration has dared to do.</div> <bR> <div> "As never before, we have weakened the logistical and financial structure of crime," the president told legislators.</div> <bR> <div> The federal Attorney General's Office, meanwhile, announced the arrest of its two top officials in Quintana Roo, a state on the Yucatan Peninsula, for allegedly protecting the Gulf and the Beltran Levya drug cartels.</div> <bR> <div> Officials provided no further details on the allegations against the prosecutors, who were ordered jailed by a court Wednesday pending the investigation.</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="Sep 09"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 449 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Police had contact with cyclist before fatal crash</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. Sep. 02  2009  08:22  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 2nd, 2009</div> <div> <B>A cyclist who was killed in a collision in downtown Toronto earlier this week was involved in a confrontation with his ex-girlfriend that brought police to her home less than an hour before he died.</B></div> <bR> <div> Police arrived at a home where the former girlfriend of Darcy Allan Sheppard lived on George Street, just after 9 p.m. on Monday. Officers were reportedly there to deal with a disturbance of some type.</div> <bR> <div> Toronto police Const. Tony Vella said officers escorted Sheppard away from the scene and there were no allegations of criminal activity.</div> <bR> <div> Vella also said there were no indications that Sheppard was intoxicated, though neighbours have suggested he may have been drinking that night.</div> <bR> <div> About an hour later, the 33-year-old Sheppard was involved in an incident with a car along a bustling stretch of Bloor Street West that led to his death.</div> <bR> <div> The car was driven by Michael Bryant, a former MP who served in several cabinet positions in the provincial Liberal government until recently.</div> <bR> <div> Early indications were that the cyclist and the driver got into an altercation of some sort before a minor collision near Bay and Bloor Streets just before 10 p.m. on Monday.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="e59da0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Darcy Allan Sheppard, a bike courier working in Toronto, was killed in a traffic incident, Monday, Aug. 31, 2009. Mr. Sheppard is seen in this image made available to CTV Toronto.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="e59ea0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Former Ontario attorney general Michael Bryant speaks to media outside Toronto police Traffic Services headquarters in Liberty Village, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009. (Darren Calabrese / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 650 WIDTH="707"><div> Toronto police Sgt. Tim Burrows told reporters that the cyclist then grabbed hold of the vehicle and the driver continued west until Avenue Road, where Sheppard fell off the car.</div> <bR> <div> Sheppard, a father and aspiring comedian, died in hospital that same night.</div> <bR> <div> The victim was a bicycle courier and his former friends gathered at the scene of his death on Tuesday night. They placed flowers at a mailbox where it is believed Sheppard received his fatal injuries.</div> <bR> <div> The Globe and Mail reports Sheppard had 61 outstanding warrants for his arrest in the province of Alberta at the time of his death.</div> <bR> <div> The warrants were related to allegations of fraud, the newspaper reported.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Former cabinet minister charged</B></div> <bR> <div> Bryant was taken into custody on Monday evening and charged on Tuesday with one charge of criminal negligence causing death and one count of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death.</div> <bR> <div> The 43-year-old ex-politician made a brief statement to the media before leaving the Traffic Services office on Hanna Avenue on Tuesday.</div> <bR> <div> "I want to extend my deepest condolences to the family of Mr. Sheppard," he said, choking back tears. "To all those who offered support to my family in the last 12 hours, thank you."</div> <bR> <div> Bryant is a former attorney general of Ontario, as well as the province's former minister of aboriginal affairs and minister of economic development.</div> <bR> <div> His former boss, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty said the incident was "very sad, very tragic...my thoughts are with the family and friends of the gentleman who lost his life."</div> <bR> <div> The B.C.-born Bryant first won a seat in Queen's Park in June 1999.</div> <bR> <div> He spent 10 years in provincial politics before resigning to take a position with Invest Toronto, an agency created to lure investment dollars to the city, earlier this year.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Canadian Press and a report from CTV's John Vennavally-Rao</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="01"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Sep 09"><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= 631 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Bryant reportedly questioned about fatal collision</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue. Sep. 01 2009  12:15  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: September 1st, 2009</div> <div> <B>The former attorney general of Ontario is reportedly being questioned by Toronto police in connection with a fatal collision that occurred in the city's Yorkville district on Monday evening.</B></div> <bR> <div> But Toronto police told reporters at a news conference Tuesday morning that they would not confirm whether the man in custody is indeed Michael Bryant.</div> <bR> <div> News cameras at the scene of the accident captured the former politician in the back seat of a cruiser. A car registered to a Michael Bryant was also seen at the scene of the crash.</div> <bR> <div> The fatal crash is the result of an apparent altercation that took place between a motorist and a cyclist over several blocks on Bloor Street, from Church Street to Avenue Road, just before 10 p.m.</div> <bR> <div> The 33-year-old cyclist later died.</div> <bR> <div> The suspect in custody has not been charged, said Sgt. Tim Burrows at the 11 a.m. news conference.</div> <bR> <div> "There is no definitive decision in regards to charges," he said. "It's safe to say charges are pending but I don't want to dicate what those charges will be or when they will be laid."</div> <bR> <div> <B>Not a hit-and-run</B></div> <bR> <div> Witnesses told police that at one point the cyclist hung onto the driver's side of the car, but eventually fell off near Avenue Raod and suffered severe head injuries. The suspect continued to drive but stopped a short distance away at the Park Hyatt hotel, located at the northwest corner of Bloor and Avenue.</div> <bR> <div> Burrows said that the suspect was one of several people who called 911 to report the incident.</div> <bR> <div> "This person was not in any way trying to evade or elude our investigation," he said.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="e595a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Former Ontario attorney general Michael Bryant sits in the back seat of a police cruiser near Bloor and Avenue Road in downtown Toronto, late Monday, Aug. 31, 2009.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="e596a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The bike involved in the incident sits surrounded by police tape near Bloor and Avenue Road in downtown Toronto, late Monday, Aug. 31, 2009.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="e597a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A Saab convertible that Michael Bryant was apparently driving sits damaged in the parking lot of the Park Hyatt Toronto on Avenue in downtown Toronto, late Monday, Aug. 31, 2009</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 687 WIDTH="707"><div> Burrows said there are three parts of the incident that police are investigating. The first part is the report of an altercation between the victim and the suspect. Burrows said that shortly after there was a minor collision between the cyclist and the vehicle.</div> <bR> <div> After that, tensions escalated between the two and ended when the cyclist grabbed on to the car and held on, even as the car mounted the curb, hitting several objects in its path.</div> <bR> <div> The cyclist eventually fell off and suffered severe head injuries.</div> <bR> <div> The cyclist was rushed to hospital but he was pronounced dead at a local trauma centre shortly after 11 p.m.</div> <bR> <div> Burrows said that a friend of the victim has been notified by police but authorities are still trying to contact the man's next of kin.</div> <bR> <div> The man was reportedly a bicycle carrier and a father of at least one child. A friend of his told CTV Toronto that the victim was a "good-natured, caring, fun-loving guy."</div> <bR> <div> The incident remains under investigation by members of Traffic Services.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Witnesses sought</B></div> <bR> <div> Burrows said they have received a number of reports from witnesses who were in the area and that they have answered many questions that investigators had about the crash.</div> <bR> <div> However, police are still looking to speak with anyone who was in the area -- along Bloor Street, from Church Street all the way to Avenue Road -- between 9:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Monday.</div> <bR> <div> They are asked to call Traffic Services investigators at 416-808-1900.</div> <bR> <div> The B.C.-born Bryant first won a seat in Queen's Park in June 1999.</div> <bR> <div> Ten years later, he resigned from politics to pursue a new opportunity with Invest Toronto.</div> <bR> <div> Toronto Mayor David Miller, who is also chair of Invest Toronto, released a statement Tuesday morning expressing his condolences to the family and friends of the dead cyclist. However, he did not comment on Bryant.</div> <bR> <div> "As this is an active police investigation, I will not be making any further comment on this tragedy today," says the statement.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 199 WIDTH="707"><div> Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty also briefly touched on the incident during a morning news conference on a different matter at Queen's Park Tuesday morning.</div> <bR> <div> He said the incident is "very sad, very tragic," and added that he will wait for the investigation to unfold.</div> <bR> <div> "It's very tragic how events that unfold in a minute can have such a profound impact on people's lives," he said. "A negative impact."</div> <bR> <div> During his time at Queen's Park, Bryant also served as aboriginal affairs minister and minister of economic development.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from </I>ctvtoronto.ca</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <A HREF="#top" TITLE="Sep 09"><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>