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VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 28/01/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#27" TITLE="Jan 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>Toyota halts sales, production of 8 models</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 27/01/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#26" TITLE="Jan 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>Scientists to consider broadening search for aliens</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 26/01/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#25" TITLE="Jan 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>Death toll rises to 34 in Ethiopian Airlines crash</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 25/01/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#24" TITLE="Jan 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>Plane with Haitian orphans arrives in Canada</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 24/01/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#23" TITLE="Jan 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>Country-wide protests planned against Parliament's pause</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 23/01/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#22" TITLE="Jan 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>First Haiti adoptees to land in Canada in days: Kenney</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 22/01/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#21" TITLE="Jan 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>Haitian mass graves swell as more victims buried</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 21/01/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#20" TITLE="Jan 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>Canadian troops get to work as aftershock hits Haiti</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 20/01/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#19" TITLE="Jan 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>Canadian ships arrive in Haiti, sailors get to work</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 19/01/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#18" TITLE="Jan 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>B.C. teens caught in Haiti quake now on Canadian soil</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 18/01/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#17" TITLE="Jan 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>1,000 Canadian Forces personnel to be sent to Haiti</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 17/01/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#16" TITLE="Jan 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>Canada shifts from search work to humanitarian aid</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 16/01/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#15" TITLE="Jan 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>1,415 Canadians still missing in Haiti, says gov't</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 15/01/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#14" TITLE="Jan 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>Canada's disaster response team on its way to Haiti</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 14/01/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#13" TITLE="Jan 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>Three million affected by Haiti quake: Red Cross</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 13/01/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#12" TITLE="Jan 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>Four potential buyers queue for Canwest auction</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 12/01/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#11" TITLE="Jan 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>Liberal ad campaign attacks PM on prorogation</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 11/01/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#10" TITLE="Jan 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>Heavy snow halts planes, strands drivers in Europe</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 10/01/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#09" TITLE="Jan 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>Saudi court revokes Canadian's death sentence</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 09/01/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="345"><div> <A HREF="#08" TITLE="Jan 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>Brenda Martin arrested, held by police</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 08/01/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#07" TITLE="Jan 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>Activists pursue Japanese whalers by helicopter</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 07/01/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#06" TITLE="Jan 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>Ottawa ordered airline scanners months ago: Baird</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 06/01/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#05" TITLE="Jan 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>Tillman gets absolute discharge in sex assault case</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 05/01/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#04" TITLE="Jan 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>Strict new U.S. airline rules follow bomb plot</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 04/01/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#03" TITLE="Jan 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>'Avatar' tops box office again, with $1B worldwide</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 03/01/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="345"><div> <A HREF="#02" TITLE="Jan 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>Swiss juniors upset Russians</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 02/01/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="345"><div> <A HREF="#01" TITLE="Jan 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>Quebec bus crash kills 1, injures 9</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 01/01/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> =======================</div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="705" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="707"><div>  <A NAME="31"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jan 10"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 254 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Toyota recall could help North American automakers</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. Jan. 31  2010  13:03  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: January 31st, 2010</div> <div> <B>TORONTO — Toyota could be just the thing General Motors needs.</B></div> <bR> <div> Despite a wide array of new products that have been acknowledged with several industry awards, GM is still having a hard time convincing consumers to come back into the fold after a brief stint under bankruptcy protection last year.</div> <bR> <div> But the negative publicity has suddenly shifted to the industry's former golden boy, Toyota.</div> <bR> <div> A massive recall of millions of Toyota vehicles in Canada, the U.S. and overseas due to a faulty accelerator, could be just the opportunity GM -- and its more successful rival, Ford -- need, analysts say.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="eaa1a0610.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="97" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally, left, and Ford Motor Co. Executive Chairman William Ford, Jr., pose next to the next-generation Ford Focus 5-door at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Monday, Jan. 11, 2010. (AP / Carlos Osorio)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 658 WIDTH="707"><div> "It's a good opportunity for particularly Ford and GM, who have been moving up in quality ratings in all of the surveys, moving up in customer satisfaction ratings, to once again say, 'Look, we're here, we've got darn good product, all the ratings of our products say so. Give us a chance,"' said Tony Faria, co-director of the automotive research centre at the University of Windsor.</div> <bR> <div> While it's unlikely former Toyota lovers are going to defect in droves to GM and Ford -- it's much more likely disillusioned customers will turn to other Asian manufacturers like Honda, Mazda, Nissan and Hyundai -- the recall will open up doors for the North American automakers.</div> <bR> <div> Long before the recession hit, the Detroit Three -- GM, Ford and Chrysler -- were already suffering from the growing popularity of Japanese cars and a reputation for less-than-stellar quality. This allowed Toyota to gain market share until it became No. 1 in the world, a fact that may have indirectly led to the recall, said industry analyst Dennis DesRosiers.</div> <bR> <div> "I think their lesson here is that bigger isn't better," DesRosiers said.</div> <bR> <div> "The bigger you get, the more expansive you get, it's harder to stay on top of everything. This is a complex industry. And in some respects, they had to grow at the expense of something. Something had to give," he added.</div> <bR> <div> "Toyota may end up a point or two of market share lower as a result of this."</div> <bR> <div> <B>Incentives target Toyota customers</B></div> <bR> <div> That market share will be scooped up by someone, and GM and Ford are doing what they can to get their piece of the pie. Both companies are offering incentives to customers who want to trade in their Toyota due to the recall, and GM said it has received "thousands" of calls from interested Toyota owners.</div> <bR> <div> These incentives will likely be supplemented with marketing campaigns from Toyota's rivals, said Bill Pochiluk, president of industry adviser AutomotiveCompass.</div> <bR> <div> "I think you're going to see a lot of sales and marketing by Toyota's competitors in the very near term to remind the world that they're still in business and they've got great products with great quality," Pochiluk said.</div> <bR> <div> Pochiluk predicted that the recall will have a "serious" impact on Toyota's near-term sales, and said he expects "substantial conquest sales" by the automaker's rivals as a result.</div> <bR> <div> While it is by no means assured that the North American automakers will see a noticeable boost in sales due to the Toyota recall, this is an important opportunity for GM and Ford to continue to improve their reputations.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 368 WIDTH="707"><div> Ford has been very successful in this endeavour so far, due in large part to the fact that it didn't file for bankruptcy protection and didn't ask for a government bailout, unlike GM and Chrysler. New models like the Taurus and the Fusion have also helped Ford to improve its popularity among North American consumers.</div> <bR> <div> GM, on the other hand, received billions in government loans from the U.S., Canada and Ontario and is now majority owned by the public. However, new CEO Ed Whitacre said he expects to completely repay the governments by June and has predicted that GM will be profitable this year.</div> <bR> <div> Chrysler's future is less certain. There is no doubt the automaker has a lot of work to do to develop new, smaller products in conjunction with its new partner, Italian automaker Fiat. CEO Sergio Marchionne has said Chrysler could turn a profit in 2010, but only if it boosts its global sales by 27 per cent, which is unlikely.</div> <bR> <div> Toyota has recalled 2.3 million vehicles in the U.S. and 270,000 in Canada due to a faulty accelerator pedal that can stick. That announcement followed a larger U.S. recall months earlier of 4.2 million vehicles because of problems with gas pedals becoming trapped under floor mats, causing sudden acceleration. That problem was the cause of several crashes, including some fatalities.</div> <bR> <div> In 2009, Toyota garnered 13.0 per cent of the Canadian market compared to 12.8 per cent in 2008. GM had 17.2 per cent, down from 21.7 per cent, and Ford had 15.4 per cent, up from 12.9 per cent.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff<I> </I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="30"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jan 10"><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>Inuit must adapt to climate change: study</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. Jan. 30  2010  07:15  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: January 30th, 2010</div> <div> <B>James Ford has spent eight years researching the effects of climate change on the lifestyles of Inuit people living in the Far North.</B></div> <bR> <div> He's seen evidence that local temperatures are rising and there's a lot less sea ice floating around, for a much shorter time period each year. Along the Northern Foxe Basin, for example, the ice is taking as much as four weeks as long to freeze than it did 40 years ago, said Ford.</div> <bR> <div> That means it is harder for Inuit people to hunt, fish, and eke out a livable existence, according to their traditional ways.</div> <bR> <div> "Hunting is not just a hobby to Inuit, it's a way of life," the McGill University professor explained in a recent telephone interview from his Montreal office.</div> <bR> <div> In places like Igloolik, Nunavut, where a week's worth of groceries typically cost more than $550 for a small family, there simply aren't a lot of other options.</div> <bR> <div> There are few jobs, many of Canada's 50,000 Inuit live well below the poverty line and there is little opportunity to change the available means of subsistence.</div> <bR> <div> Ford likens the current circumstances for many Inuit to a community where the grocery store moves five kilometers away from your home every year, making it more and more difficult for you to get access to food, as time goes by.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="eaa0a0080.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="264" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> An Inuit hunter is seen looking out from the ice-edge of Igloolik in November 2005. The photographer, Dr. James Ford, returned to the same spot a year later and found it to be open water -- an example of ice that freezing later and later each year. (Courtesy of James Ford)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 414 WIDTH="707"><div> And after enough time passes by, the road starts to crumble away and you're not even sure how to get there with the use of a car -- or in the case of the Inuit, possibly an ATV or a snowmobile.</div> <bR> <div> For Inuit people, "their supermarket is the land," Ford said. The problem is that the supermarket is moving out of reach.</div> <bR> <div> <B>A way forward</B></div> <bR> <div> In a new study published in the <I>Global Environmental Change</I> journal, Ford and a group of Canadian colleagues have concluded that Inuit must adapt to coming environmental changes that are inevitable and unavoidable.</div> <bR> <div> Climate change, the researchers report, is threatening many aspects of Inuit life, including access to food, the integrity of local infrastructure and the ability to maintain their traditional lifestyles.</div> <bR> <div> But according to Ford and his fellow researchers, things are not completely bleak.</div> <bR> <div> "Despite the fact that our climate is changing, Inuit are adapting," Ford said.</div> <bR> <div> Many Inuit are adapting to climate change on an individual basis through, for example, the use of new hunting techniques that employ modern technology. They are also paying attention to the fluctuations of wildlife populations and migration patterns and adjusting accordingly.</div> <bR> <div> But the researchers contend that individual adaptation is not going to be good enough in the long run, and Inuit people will need government assistance to successfully maintain their lifestyles.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 397 WIDTH="707"><div> They are calling for all levels of government to work with Inuit communities, taking advantage of both scientific and traditional knowledge, to best develop strategies for dealing with climate change.</div> <bR> <div> The cost for these investments is hard to gauge, as only a small number of researchers are involved in studying Inuit adaptation to climate change and firm cost projections are not yet available.</div> <bR> <div> "That is where the research is lacking," Ford admits.</div> <bR> <div> And while some may assume that Ottawa has dropped the ball on a long-festering problem, Ford said the government has its eye on the situation.</div> <bR> <div> Multimillion-dollar projects are underway with Indian and Northern Affairs, as well as Health Canada, seeking to gather "very, very practical" information about climate change and Inuit people, said Ford.</div> <bR> <div> "The Feds, they are certainly getting up to speed on the adaptation side," he said. </div> <div> At the Nunavut government level, studies are taking place to determine how climate change is affecting every aspect of Inuit life. </div> <div> It's this type of progress that keeps Ford "guardedly optimistic" about the future.</div> <bR> <div> "There still is a lot to do…but we're going in the right direction," he said.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff<I> </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="Jan 10"><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= 461 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Basic medicine running out for sick, injured Haitians</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri. Jan. 29  2010  08:12  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: January 29th, 2010</div> <div> <B>PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Doctors and aid workers say treating the tens of thousands of Haitians injured by the earthquake is taxing the country's devastated hospitals -- as well as the efforts of physicians from around the world who are providing emergency care.</B></div> <bR> <div> Basic medical supplies such as antibiotics and painkillers are running dangerously low at some hospitals and clinics in Port-au-Prince, the capital, and in the countryside, alarming doctors who are struggling to keep up with demand.</div> <bR> <div> The shortages complicate the effort to treat 200,000 people in need of post-surgery care "and an unaccounted number of people ... with untreated injuries," Elisabeth Byrs, of the U.N.'s humanitarian co-ordination office said Friday in Geneva.</div> <bR> <div> Dr. Nancy Fleurancois, volunteering at the damaged hospital in the Haitian coastal town of Jacmel, told a visiting U.N. official Thursday that her team is treating 500 people a day -- many for the first time since the Jan. 12 quake -- and desperately needs antibiotics and surgical supplies.</div> <bR> <div> "You see people come here and they are at death's door," said Fleurancois, a Haitian-American from Newark, Delaware. "More help is needed."</div> <bR> <div> The doctor aired her concerns to Anthony Banbury, deputy head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti, during his tour of Jacmel, where more than 20,000 people are homeless.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="ea95a01d0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="285" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Capt. Ron Stecum, doctor aboard HMCS Athabaskan, assists Donna Smith, surgeon from the Canadian Medical Assistant Team, for a hand amputation at the camp in Leogane, Haiti, Monday, Jan. 25, 2010. (Cpl. Johanie Maheu / Department of National Defence)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 653 WIDTH="707"><div> Banbury said later he would try to resolve her shortages, but noted there is a "grave need" for medicine all over Haiti. Aid workers say the need for medicine generally falls third behind water and tents for shelter from the blistering tropical sun and looming rains.</div> <bR> <div> The reason the supplies are not reaching people is the same: The need is too great and it's just not possible to get them into Haiti fast enough or distributed in a country with ruined infrastructure.</div> <bR> <div> The struggle to treat people comes amid warnings of a potential public health calamity with tens of thousands of Haitians living in squalid camps where there is a big concern about sanitation due to limited water supplies, Byrs said Friday.</div> <bR> <div> "The health care system in Haiti has been terribly affected by the earthquake," said Joe Lowry, a spokesman for the International Federation of the Red Cross. "Medical staff have been killed and injured, hospitals destroyed and stocks damaged and depleted."</div> <bR> <div> Marcela Sauza, the regional director of the Latin America and Caribbean office of the United Nations Population Fund, said Haiti's maternal mortality rate -- already by far the highest in the Western Hemisphere -- is expected to jump this year because more pregnant women lack adequate food and health care and are stressed by the earthquake and its aftermath.</div> <bR> <div> Even as aid and emergency workers have poured in from around the world, it is easy to find aid workers struggling to keep up with demand. The U.N. estimates the quake injured about 200,000 people, including thousands who required amputation of damaged limbs and now must have postoperative care to prevent infection.</div> <bR> <div> At the chaotic General Hospital in downtown Port-au-Prince, amputees groan in pain while recovering in canvas tents in the courtyard of the damaged structure. There is a shortage of painkillers as well as crutches, wheelchairs and physical therapy equipment, said Dr. Bob Norris, who leads an International Medical Corps team of physicians.</div> <bR> <div> "We have a country full of people with new amputations who have to learn how to live their lives," Norris said.</div> <bR> <div> At the Bernard Mevs Hospital near the airport, Kathleen Sejour, a hospital administrator, said they are short of such basic supplies as gloves, gauze and antiseptic as well as malaria medicine and treatment for amputees.</div> <bR> <div> "Malaria is becoming a big problem and we don't have enough anti-malaria drugs. There are too many patients we're seeing who have malaria. Most of the kids right now have it. We had a good supply but we can't keep up," Sejour said.</div> <bR> <div> At a clinic run by U.S.-based ACTS World Relief and a Haitian group called Operation Hope in Carrefour, a hard-hit Port-au-Prince district, volunteer Dr. Laura Asher said just about everything they need is lacking as they treat hundreds. She said she had pleaded with international aid agencies and better-funded private groups for help.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 480 WIDTH="707"><div> "It's a constant need, a constant need. Every day we go out and beg," Asher, of Silver Spring, Maryland, said as patients waited in the shade of the front yard of the clinic, which has been set up in a house.</div> <bR> <div> To be sure, there are any number of small groups providing badly needed medical aid and not all are running low.</div> <bR> <div> Dr. Margaret Degand, who runs a private clinic in Petionville, said she was inundated with patients following the earthquake and ran out of supplies, but her stocks were replenished by a French humanitarian organization.</div> <bR> <div> Sandra Murillo, a Doctors Without Borders spokeswoman in New York, said the aid group is doing well with medical equipment and supplies. The group is working on plans to create a postoperative facility for 100 patients to provide therapy and psychological assistance for about 100 people at a time. It will be in tents because many people are still too afraid to be inside a building, she said.</div> <bR> <div> The International Federation of the Red Cross also has plenty of supplies.</div> <bR> <div> But even some of the largest institutions are feeling the strain.</div> <bR> <div> Air Force Gen. Douglas Fraser, head of the U.S. military's Southern Command, told reporters Thursday that Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort had reached its "care limit" after treating more than 3,000 people. U.S. authorities are now planning a new treatment centre for up to 5,000 patients on land provided by the Haitian government.</div> <bR> <div> In addition to the shortages, medical teams are seeing a big shift in the types of cases they are treating, World Health Organization spokesman Paul Garwood said Friday in Geneva. He said there are a growing number of diarrhea cases, as well as unconfirmed reports of a rise in measles and tetanus cases in resettlement camps -- a particularly worrying development because of the high population density in the camps, he 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="28"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jan 10"><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= 58 ><NOBR><div> <B>Report of mysterious object in sky over southern N.L.</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. Jan. 28  2010  08:23  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: January 28th, 2010</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="ea8c502c0.jpg" border=0 width="80" height="44" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 505 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>HARBOUR MILLE, N.L. — The RCMP and federal officials weren't saying much Wednesday about the reported sighting earlier this week of mysterious missile-like objects in the sky off southern Newfoundland.</B></div> <bR> <div> Darlene Stewart of Harbour Mille said she was outside taking pictures of the sunset Monday when she saw something fly overhead.</div> <bR> <div> Her picture shows a blurry image of what appears to be a missile-shaped object trailing flames or smoke.</div> <bR> <div> She said she and neighbours saw another three similar objects flying offshore minutes apart.</div> <bR> <div> David Charbonneau, a spokesman for Public Safety Canada, said in an email that the federal government was "aware of media reports of public sightings of unidentified objects" off Newfoundland but said the RCMP was investigating.</div> <bR> <div> The RCMP, however, disputed that and referred all comment back to Public Safety Canada.</div> <bR> <div> Helen Cleary-Escott, an RCMP spokeswoman, said there is no debris or any other evidence that would allow the Mounties to investigate the matter.</div> <bR> <div> VOCM radio in St. John's, N.L., citing a French news agency report, said that France had successfully test-fired its new M51 strategic missile from a nuclear submarine in the Atlantic Ocean.</div> <bR> <div> AFP reported that France's newest strategic nuclear submarine "Le Terrible" launched the test at 9:25 am (local time) from the Audierne Bay in the Atlantic. The M51 has a range of 8,000 kilometres.</div> <bR> <div> Capt. Kendrah Allison, a spokesperson for the Department of National Defence, said the military was aware of the reported sightings but wasn't aware of any missile testing in the area.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff<I> with files from The Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="27"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jan 10"><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>Toyota halts sales, production of 8 models</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. Jan. 27  2010  08:25  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: January 27th, 2010</div> <div> <B>Toyota Motor Co., the largest car manufacturer in the world, says it has suspended sales of eight recalled vehicles as the company moves to fix a problem with unreliable accelerator pedals.</B></div> <bR> <div> To carry out the plan, Toyota said it will suspend production at a handful of manufacturing plants, including those that produce Corolla, Matrix and RAV4 vehicles in Canada. The stoppage will take effect during the week of Feb. 1, "to assess and co-ordinate activities," Toyota said.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="ea8ba07e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A 2010 Toyota Corolla is shown at car dealership in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010. (AP / Jeff Chiu)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 491 WIDTH="707"><div> It’s unclear how long production will stop for.</div> <bR> <div> "We don't know yet how long this pause will last but we will make every effort to resume production soon," company officials said in an email to employees.</div> <bR> <div> Toyota said the stoppage will affect plants in Cambridge, Ont., and Woodstock, Ont., where the company employs some 5,900 people. South of the border, workers at facilities in Kentucky, Indiana and Texas will be affected.</div> <bR> <div> "This action is necessary until a remedy is finalized," said Toyota's group vice-president and general manager, Bob Carter. </div> <div> The recall was announced last week and affects roughly 2.3 million vehicles in the U.S. and 270,000 in Canada.</div> <bR> <div> "Toyota will recall approximately 270,000 vehicles to correct sticking accelerator pedals on specific Toyota Division models," Toyota Canada said in a press release.</div> <bR> <div> "Toyota has investigated isolated reports of sticking accelerator pedal mechanisms in certain vehicles without the presence of floor mats. There is a possibility that certain accelerator pedal mechanisms may, in rare instances, mechanically stick in a partially depressed position or return slowly to the idle position."</div> <bR> <div> The models affected by the recall are:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">-2009-2010 RAV4</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">-2009-2010 Corolla</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">-2009-2010 Matrix</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">-2005-2010 Avalon</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">-2007-2010 Camry</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">-2010 Highlander</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">-2007-2010 Tundra</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">-2008-2010 Sequoia</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 468 WIDTH="707"><div> Earl Stewart, who owns a Toyota dealership in North Palm Beach, Fla., expressed concern that the decision would impede sales and said he hoped that parts to fix the problem would be distributed soon.</div> <bR> <div> "They're going the extra mile to reassure people that they really care about the customers," Stewart said. "It is something that's going to be at least a short-term hardship on the dealers, and especially on Toyota."</div> <bR> <div> Suspending production may affect the company's reputation for quality as well as its bottom line, according to Aaron Bragman, an auto analyst with consultancy IHS Global Insight.</div> <bR> <div> “They need to go and get a solution to this fast,” Bragman said.</div> <bR> <div> The Camry was the best-selling midsize sedan in the U.S. as of December, with 34,000 units sold. Combined sales of the Corolla and Matrix there totalled 34,220 in December.</div> <bR> <div> Last week, Toyota recalled vehicles in the U.S. and Canada in order to deal with accelerator pedals at risk of becoming stuck due to mechanical problems.</div> <bR> <div> The company issued another recall in November. In that case, it was to keep gas pedals from becoming wedged under floor mats and affected some 4.2 million vehicles.</div> <bR> <div> The floor-mat problem was believed to have caused several serious crashes, some of which were fatal.</div> <bR> <div> The November recall did not apply to Canadian models. But the company advised Canadian owners of the Toyota Venza to remove drivers’-side all-weather floor mats.</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="26"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jan 10"><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= 58 ><NOBR><div> <B>Scientists to consider broadening search for aliens</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue. Jan. 26  2010  08:25  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: January 26th, 2010</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="58" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="165" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 215 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>LONDON — Scientists and other experts are gathering in London to consider new ways -- and new places -- to search for alien beings.</B></div> <bR> <div> Britain's Royal Society -- an eminent group equivalent to the U.S. Academy of Sciences -- is hosting a two-day event to consider the progress made and the challenges posed in the hunt for alien beings.</div> <bR> <div> One astrobiologist says the best place to look for aliens may be right here on Earth. Paul Davies of Arizona State University said Tuesday that extraterrestrial life may have found its way to this planet at several different times.</div> <bR> <div> If so, Davies says, the aliens could be "right under or noses -- or even in our noses."</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="Jan 10"><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>Death toll rises to 34 in Ethiopian Airlines crash</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. Jan. 25  2010  09:58  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: January 25th, 2010</div> <div> <B>Lebanese authorities have recovered 34 bodies after an Ethiopian Airlines jet caught fire and crashed into the Mediterranean Sea early Monday morning.</B></div> <bR> <div> Ninety people were on board the Boeing 737-800 -- including one Canadian citizen -- when it caught fire shortly after takeoff from a Beirut airport. It crashed into the sea shortly after 2:30 a.m., local time.</div> <bR> <div> Lebanon's public works and transportation minister, Ghazi Aridi, said the plane went down about 3.5 kilometres off the coast.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="ea77a0620.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="98" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> An airplane takes off as Lebanese soldiers gather debris on the shore after an Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed in the sea, in Khalde, south of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Jan. 25, 2010. (AP / Mohammed Zaatari)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 708 WIDTH="707"><div> The cause of the crash is not immediately known, though Lebanon has seen stormy weather since Sunday evening.</div> <bR> <div> Aridi told reporters "the weather undoubtedly was very bad."</div> <bR> <div> Lebanese President Michel Suleiman said terrorism is not suspected in the crash of Flight 409, which was headed to Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital.</div> <bR> <div> "Sabotage is ruled out as of now," he said.</div> <bR> <div> Pieces of the plane and other debris have washed ashore in the aftermath of the crash, including passenger seats, a baby sandal and bottles of medicine. A Lebanese defence official told The Associated Press that several children are among the dead.</div> <bR> <div> Aridi said the plane's 83 passengers included 54 Lebanese citizens, 22 Ethiopians, one Iraqi, one Syrian, one Canadian of Lebanese origin, one Russian of Lebanese origin, a French woman and two Britons of Lebanese origin.</div> <bR> <div> The nationality of the plane's seven crew members was not immediately released.</div> <bR> <div> In Ottawa, Foreign Affairs released a statement indicating that a flight manifest indicated "there was one Canadian citizen on board the flight." The department did not provide any additional details about the individual.</div> <bR> <div> Consular officials are in contact with the family, Foreign Affairs said.</div> <bR> <div> Friends and relatives seeking information on Canadians believed to be on Flight 409 are asked to call Foreign Affairs at 1-800-267-6788, or 1-613-996-8885.</div> <bR> <div> The French Embassy reported that the wife of Denis Pietton, the French ambassador to Lebanon, was also on board the plane.</div> <bR> <div> Ethiopian Airlines CEO Ato Girma Wake told reporters in Addis Ababa that he had no information about the fate of the people on board the plane, nor about the cause of the crash.</div> <bR> <div> Wake said the plane had been serviced Dec. 25 and passed inspection.</div> <bR> <div> He also said the plane had been leased in September from CIT Aerospace, a U.S.-company based in New York.</div> <bR> <div> Wake also said the airline would be sending accident and crisis management experts to Beirut.</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="Jan 10"><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= 175 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Plane with Haitian orphans arrives in Canada</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. Jan. 24  2010  12:51  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: January 24th, 2010</div> <div> <B>The first planeload of Haitian orphans arrived in Canada early Sunday morning after days of worry by their adoptive parents.</B></div> <bR> <div> Adoptive parents had wondered if the devastating earthquake that has reduced parts of Haiti to rubble would halt plans to expand their families, just as the needs of children became more urgent.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="ea75a0700.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="112" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> A Haitian orphan arrives at the Ottawa airport, on Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010. (Fred Chartrand / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 687 WIDTH="707"><div> But the government was able to fast-track some adoptions that were already in progress.</div> <bR> <div> Twenty-four children touched down in Ottawa on board an Air Canada Airbus A-330 around 6:55 a.m., where some met their new parents.</div> <bR> <div> "They're giving new hope, a new beginning and a new life to these Haitian kids who have been without much hope," Immigration Minister Jason Kenney told CTV's Question Period.</div> <bR> <div> The children emerged from the plane wrapped in blue blankets to protect them from the chilly winter air.</div> <bR> <div> Two of the children were taken to hospital with fever and gastrointestinal problems, said Dr. Guy Riendau, who accompanied the children on the flight.</div> <bR> <div> However, they will likely be released on Sunday after being treated for dehydration.</div> <bR> <div> "Most of them were all right," Riendau said. "Some of them had thrown up and had a couple episodes of diarrhea."</div> <bR> <div> The children began their journey at the Canadian Embassy in Port-au-Prince before being transported by bus to the capital's airport on Saturday night.</div> <bR> <div> Some children waved to members of the media who had gathered to see them off, while others slept as they were carried by their caregivers.</div> <bR> <div> Kenney said the sudden change of scenery must have come as a shock to the children..</div> <bR> <div> "We were worried about all the logistics, getting these kids back as quickly as possible," Kenney told CTV. "Then I suddenly realized, this must be like arriving at a different planet."</div> <bR> <div> As for the children newly orphaned in the wake of last week's disaster, Kenney is hopeful that potential adoptive parents will be patient.</div> <bR> <div> "The worst thing we can do in a disaster is to start fast-tracking the adoption of people who we think are orphans," Kenney said.</div> <bR> <div> "They may find their families later on and we want to give them the first opportunity when the dust settles to be reunited".</div> <bR> <div> In addition to the possibility that the children may still have family that has not yet been found, child trafficking is a growing concern. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 557 WIDTH="707"><div> Kenney said that it is common in these types of situations for locals to claim false relations to children, with the intention of illegally removing the children from the country.</div> <bR> <div> Facing heat from the opposition parties, Kenney called the idea of altering Canada's immigration policies in response to the severity of the situation currently facing Haiti "irresponsible and unfair".</div> <bR> <div> Canada has not changed its policies in the face of severe humanitarian crises before, Kenney noted and added that -- were the policies to be altered -- the country would leave itself vulnerable to accepting more immigrants than can actually be accommodated.</div> <bR> <div> "We don't have the capacity to welcome hundreds of thousands of people," he told CTV's Question Period.</div> <bR> <div> He also warned that a lack of medical and criminal records in Haiti would complicate the government's ability to properly approve potential immigrants.</div> <bR> <div> He added that Canada's focus should be more on fixing the problems on the ground instead of evacuating those left in need. </div> <div> "That's not the approach," he said. "The approach is reconstruction, not resettlement"</div> <bR> <div> According to Kenney, 90 children have been cleared to come to Canada, while another 90 are being fast-tracked through the adoption process.</div> <bR> <div> "We are only going to facilitate the adoption of children where the relevant provincial child welfare agency has clearly indicated to us that the parents are qualified," Kenney said.</div> <bR> <div> "We're not going to rush if there is not such approval because we need to be 100 per cent sure that kids are coming to qualified adoptive families."</div> <bR> <div> On Saturday, Kenney announced a new email address for Canadian parents who are already in the process of adopting a child from Haiti. The address, which is monitored 24 hours a day, seven days a week, is adoptions-haiti@cic.gc.ca.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff<I> </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="Jan 10"><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>Country-wide protests planned against Parliament's pause</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. Jan. 23  2010  13:27  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: January 23rd, 2010</div> <div> <B>The first of more than 40 cross-country demonstrations are underway to protest the Conservative government's decision last month to call a Parliamentary time out.</B></div> <bR> <div> The largest of the protests will likely be in Ottawa, where demonstrators will be joined by Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff, the NDP's Jack Layton and the Green Party's Elizabeth May.</div> <bR> <div> In Halifax, several hundred people gathered near the province's legislature and shouted slogans against the government. Speakers included Liberal MP Geoff Regan and ex-provincial NDP leader Robert Chisholm.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="ea73a07e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> The Peace Tower on Parliament Hill is framed by the iron gates in Ottawa, Ont., on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009. (Sean Kilpatrick / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 650 WIDTH="707"><div> Some of the demonstrators carried signs that read "Stand Up to Harper." Those signs also had the NDP logo on them.</div> <bR> <div> Organizer Jonathan Allen said the protests are a reaction against what many feel is an abuse of power by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government.</div> <bR> <div> The protests are being billed as non-partisan events, Allen added.</div> <bR> <div> "We are urging Canadians to come out if they are concerned; it doesn't matter what political party they support," he told CTV News Channel on Saturday morning.</div> <bR> <div> Harper requested that Parliament be prorogued as the opposition parties pressed the Conservatives on the Afghan prisoner abuse issue.</div> <bR> <div> The pause also coincides with next month's Olympics, with some critics complaining that the government is muting criticism as the world comes to Vancouver. Parliament will resume again in early March.</div> <bR> <div> "We've got Conservative supporters working within the groups as well, because they don't like the precedent that is being set, and they don't like the fact that this is the second prorogation in the course of a year."</div> <bR> <div> Parliament was also suspended in December 2008, in response to an opposition plan that aimed to dethrone the Conservatives.</div> <bR> <div> "We expect a good turnout," said Allen, who added that the protests began with a Facebook group that has now attracted upwards of 210,000 members.</div> <bR> <div> "We bestow upon the government the authority to govern, but we do not bestow upon them the authority to abuse their constitutional privileges," said Allen.</div> <bR> <div> "It's just not right, actually," said Allen.</div> <bR> <div> Allen said protests will also take place in major cities in other countries.</div> <bR> <div> "These are concerned expatriate Canadians that are not happy with the fact that the government has decided to prorogue Parliament for partisan purposes, as opposed to the good of the state."</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff<I> with files from The Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="22"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jan 10"><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= 166 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>First Haiti adoptees to land in Canada in days: Kenney</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. Jan. 21  2010  20:34  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: January 22nd, 2010</div> <div> <B>The first group of children adopted by Canadian families from earthquake-devastated Haiti should arrive in Canada within a few days, says Immigration Minister Jason Kenney.</B></div> <bR> <div> "We hope and expect the first group will be coming this weekend," Kenney told CTV's Canada AM Thursday.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="ea71a05a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Kids slide down the hill on cardboard boxes at a refugee camp in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010. (AP / Jae C. Hong)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 683 WIDTH="707"><div> He said Haitian officials are working to fast-track foreign adoptions, but the chaotic state of the country -- and the virtual collapse of the government -- has slowed down the process.</div> <bR> <div> "The problem is there is no longer a legal system in Haiti, so a lot of these cases are in limbo because they have not been approved," he said.</div> <bR> <div> "We're going to go to them with a bulk list and say these are the kids we'd like to remove from Haiti as soon as possible," Kenney said.</div> <bR> <div> He said the Haitian government already approved some adoptions, and the Canadian government is trying to get those kids on flights to Canada as soon as possible.</div> <bR> <div> CTV News has also learned that three Haitian orphans who were evacuated from Haiti by the U.S. government and flown to Pittsburgh, have already been formally adopted by Canadian parents. But there is no word on when they might arrive in Canada.</div> <bR> <div> Kenney did not reveal how many children are expected to arrive on the weekend.</div> <bR> <div> CTV's Roger Smith reported Thursday that Canada has identified 150 cases where families were successfully matched with children. He said paperwork was mostly complete in about 100 of those adoptions before the earthquake hit.</div> <bR> <div> Kenney said he understands the anxiety of many adoptive parents, but said foreign adoptions are complicated and officials want to prevent child trafficking, which happened after the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004.</div> <bR> <div> "That's why it's very important to be careful when dealing with children," Kenney said.</div> <bR> <div> He also said there is still uncertainty surrounding whether parents are in fact alive, when it comes to new adoptions.</div> <bR> <div> "We don't want to be separating kids from their potential families during this chaos," he said.</div> <bR> <div> "Please understand we're working for (adoptive parents) as hard as we can, but we need some kind of authorization. We cannot simply go into orphanages and remove children from that country."</div> <bR> <div> Still, some Canadian parents hoping to adopt say they have been hamstrung by red tape. Among them is Jackie Reimche, who began the adoption process in Dec. 2008.</div> <bR> <div> In July, Reimche was cleared to adopt a pair of twins. However, the boys are still staying in an orphanage which has been overrun with other homeless infants.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 458 WIDTH="707"><div> "We need to be included in these families that are given priority right now," Reimche told CTV News Channel on Thursday.</div> <div> "It is frustrating for us," she said, adding that government officials have told her that she is not on the priority list.</div> <bR> <div> While much of the hold-up has to do with the shutdown of the Haitian government, Reimche said the paperwork can be completed at a later date.</div> <bR> <div> "Lets just get these kids over here and we will complete the adoption on the Haiti side afterwards," she said.</div> <bR> <div> But Steve Matthews, Relief Communications Director for World Vision, says Canadians may be well-meaning, but taking kids away from their homeland may not be wise.</div> <bR> <div> "Right now the best idea is to look after them now in their own country, in their own community, rather than rip them away," he said.</div> <bR> <div> "It's a controversial topic but our position is adoptions are not a good idea at this time."</div> <bR> <div> Kenney said Canada is doing the best it can to unite families that were affected by the earthquake.</div> <bR> <div> He said Canada's priority for helping people out of Haiti is as follows:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">- Canadian citizens are first,</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">- Canadian residents are second</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">- Adopted children are third</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">- Close family members, including grandparents and children under 18 are fourth.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff<I> </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="Jan 10"><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= 201 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Haitian mass graves swell as more victims buried</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. Jan. 21  2010  08:31  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: January 21st, 2010</div> <div> <B>Workers continue the grim task of burying Haiti's dead in mass graves, while emergency workers say the death toll may still be on the rise.</B></div> <bR> <div> Some 80,000 earthquake victims have been buried, following the devastating Jan. 12 disaster that killed an estimated 200,000 people.</div> <bR> <div> There are so many corpses that workers are using earth-movers to shuttle them to the mass graves, burying as many as 10,000 people in a single day.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="ea63a07d0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="125" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> People ride bicycles past the destroyed cemetery in Leogane, Haiti on Wednesday Jan. 20, 2010. (The Miami Herald / Patrick Farrell)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 671 WIDTH="707"><div> At a burial site in Titanyen, north of Port-au-Prince, the limbs of men, women and children stick out from different angles.</div> <bR> <div> Burial worker Foultone Fequiert says the dead are on his mind at all times.</div> <bR> <div> "I have seen so many children, so many children. I cannot sleep at night and, if I do, it is a constant nightmare," the 38-year-old Fequiert said.</div> <bR> <div> There is no time to provide burial services for each of the dead, nor to accommodate requests to bury the bodies in shallow graves so their loved ones might eventually retrieve them.</div> <bR> <div> "We just dump them in, and fill it up," said Luckner Clerzier, 39, who was helping guide trucks to another grave site nearby.</div> <bR> <div> Nine days after the 7.0-magnitude quake hit Port-au-Prince, survivors are at a point where they, too, are at risk of death.</div> <bR> <div> With so many people living outdoors and in temporary camps, experts say it is likely that problems with disease will follow. The European Commission believes as many as two million may be homeless.</div> <bR> <div> "The next health risk could include outbreaks of diarrhea, respiratory tract infections and other diseases among hundreds of thousands of Haitians living in overcrowded camps with poor or nonexistent sanitation," said Dr. Greg Elder, deputy operations manager for Doctors Without Borders in Haiti.</div> <bR> <div> Elder also said that injured people have been dying of sepsis from untreated wounds in the aftermath of the quake -- a problem that is exacerbated by the overwhelming demand for medical treatment.</div> <bR> <div> By Thursday, the number of survivors found in the rubble was dwindling.</div> <bR> <div> A five-year-old boy was found in the ruins of a home on Wednesday and was rescued by relatives who had been looking for him for a week, said Margaret Aguirre of the International Medical Corps.</div> <bR> <div> A Los Angeles County rescue team searched a site in Petionville, a suburb that overlooks Port-au-Prince, after trained dogs picked up the scent of life at one spot.</div> <bR> <div> The L.A. rescuers yelled in Creole, but got no response. But they vowed to continue with their search.</div> <bR> <div> "It's like trying to find a needle in a haystack, and each day the needles are disappearing," team member Steven Chin 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="20"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jan 10"><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>Canadian troops get to work as aftershock hits Haiti</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. Jan. 20  2010  09:38  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: January 20th, 2010</div> <div> <B>Canada's troops, sailors, medical staff and civilians were assisting in the recovery effort in Haiti on Wednesday morning, even as the hard-hit capital city felt a powerful aftershock.</B></div> <bR> <div> On Wednesday morning a 6.1 magnitude quake hit the area, sending people into the streets in fear of another temblor like the one on Jan. 12 that left tens of thousands dead or homeless.</div> <bR> <div> The latest quake damaged the roof and second floor of the Canadian embassy in Port-au-Prince but none of the staff or Canadians taking shelter at the compound were injured.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="ea5aa05e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="94" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Master Cpl. J-P Somerset (left) and Able Seaman P J MacKenzie, from HMCS Athabaskan, give medical attention in Leogane, Haiti, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. (Cpl. Johanie Maheu / Department of National Defence)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 776 WIDTH="707"><div> Recent developments:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">- Canada's Emergency Operations Centre has received 28,600 calls</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">- 1,681 Canadians have been located</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">- 543 Canadians are unaccounted for</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">- 1,441 people have been evacuated on 16 flights</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">- 13 confirmed Canadian deaths</div> <bR> <div> Gen. Guy Laroche, commander of the Canadian Forces in Haiti, said part of Wednesday's efforts will be assessment, in order to determine how much damage was done by the second quake.</div> <bR> <div> "People were surprised this morning but so far so good on our side. We're going to do an assessment today in Port-au-Prince and other areas to see if more damage was caused by the aftershock this morning," Laroche told CTV's Canada AM.</div> <bR> <div> Laroche spoke from the airport at the capital city, as planes landed and took off behind him, many of them delivering much-needed aid to the country. A major component of Canada's work is helping to ensure those supplies reach the people who need them.</div> <bR> <div> Canada has two navy ships in Haiti. The destroyer HMCS Athabaskan is anchored off Jacmel, while the frigate HMCS Halifax is positioned near the capital.</div> <bR> <div> Both will continue to carry out light engineering work to support aid agencies, as well as deliver food, water and medical aid, Laroche said.</div> <bR> <div> In addition, Canada's Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) has set up in Jacmel, the childhood home of Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean.</div> <bR> <div> Canadian Forces SAR Techs are working in Port-au-Prince, helping search for survivors, Laroche said.</div> <bR> <div> "SAR Techs has been working in the area of Port-au-Prince yesterday, trying to find if there are still people under the rubble in Port-au-Prince and also they have been doing different missions throughout the island and they're going to keep on doing that," Laroche said.</div> <bR> <div> A total of 2,000 Canadian troops are already in Haiti, or preparing to be deployed, to help keep the peace and deliver aid.</div> <bR> <div> Canada's efforts will focus largely on an isolated area south and west of Port-au-Prince. The area is largely cut off due to blocked roads and crumbled infrastructure.</div> <bR> <div> The Canadian area stretches from the outskirts of the capital to Jacmel on the south coast, about 35 kilometres from Port-au-Prince.</div> <bR> <div> Canadian troops will set up hospitals and clear roads leading to Leogane.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff<I> </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="Jan 10"><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= 276 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Canadian ships arrive in Haiti, sailors get to work</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue. Jan. 19  2010  07:58  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: January 19th, 2010</div> <div> <B>Two Canadian naval ships have arrived off the coast of Haiti and 200 sailors are expected to deploy ashore within the hour.</B></div> <bR> <div> The destroyer HMCS Athabaskan and navy frigate HMCS Halifax arrived on Tuesday morning after five days at sea, said Naval Task Force Commander Capt. Art McDonald.</div> <bR> <div> Speaking from the deck of Athabaskan, McDonald told CTV's Canada AM his sailors have "a busy day ahead" and are anxious to get to work.</div> <bR> <div> "In just over 30 minutes I'm going to have two ships deploying over 200 sailors ashore in two different locations," McDonald said.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="ea4ba0670.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="103" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> A 424 Squadron Griffon helicopter, number CH-146419, departs for the city of Jacmel carrying Canadian Forces members who are to set up a Canadian aid location in the city, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. 424 Squadron is a Search and Rescue Squadron based out of 8 Wing, Trenton, Ont. (Master Cpl. David Hardwick / Department of National Defence)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 687 WIDTH="707"><div> HMCS Halifax was launching its efforts just offshore from Jacmel, a town about 25 kilometres southwest of Port-au-Prince where Canada's DART team has based its efforts. It is also the hometown of Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean.</div> <bR> <div> HMCS Athabaskan was docked near Leogane, west of the capital.</div> <bR> <div> The two ships have a combined crew of 500 sailors, and teams deployed ashore will "help with the flow of aid."</div> <bR> <div> "Today's efforts are light engineering work, what some would call humanitarian support services -- things like clearing roads and fixing up hospitals," McDonald said.</div> <bR> <div> The ships were called back to port shortly after the earthquake struck Haiti on Jan. 12, and preparations began immediately to deploy the ships to Haiti.</div> <bR> <div> Within about 24 hours they were leaving port in Halifax and were en route to Haiti.</div> <bR> <div> Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Walt Natynczyk said the ships' crews will be working on basic priorities like clearing roads to ensure aid can be delivered to those who need it, establishing communications and delivering humanitarian aid.</div> <bR> <div> The Canadian military will eventually deploy a total of 2,000 soldiers to Haiti -- including 1,000 peacekeepers, 200 DART members, 500 crew from Halifax and Athabaskan, and 200 soldiers already on the ground.</div> <bR> <div> Natynczyk said the mission could last up to two months.</div> <bR> <div> "Everyday is Groundhog Day for the next while," Natynczyk said. "It's going to be very difficult for the men and women on the ground because the need is so great."</div> <bR> <div> With 2,500 Canadian troops stationed in Afghanistan, 2,000 going to Haiti, and with 5,000 prepared for deployment to Vancouver to carry out security duties during the Olympics, many have expressed worry that the military is being stretched too thin.</div> <bR> <div> Natynczyk dismissed those worries, saying members of the Canadian Forces are stepping up to do their duty.</div> <bR> <div> "That is a concern that has been voiced from many corners but as we're seeing in this operation -- humanitarian support for Haiti -- we have men and women lining up to participate in this operation," he said.</div> <bR> <div> "Everybody wants to go and make a contribution to serve Canada."</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff<I> </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="Jan 10"><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>B.C. teens caught in Haiti quake now on Canadian soil</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. Jan. 18  2010  09:22  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: January 18th, 2010</div> <div> <B>A group of British Columbia teens who arrived in Haiti shortly before Tuesday's devastating earthquake is now back home on Canadian soil.</B></div> <bR> <div> The group from South Slocan, B.C., arrived on a military aircraft at Montreal's Trudeau International Airport early Monday morning.</div> <bR> <div> The plane was carrying about 180 Canadian evacuees from Haiti.</div> <bR> <div> While the student group included 17 students and seven adult chaperones, reports from the airport early Monday suggested not everyone made the return flight home.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="ea48a07e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Canadian evacuees from Haiti are seen arriving at the Wyndham Hotel in Montreal, Monday, Jan., 18, 2010 after being stranded in Haiti following a devastating earthquake. (Graham Hughes / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 592 WIDTH="707"><div> One of the students told reporters that six students and three chaperones were not on the flight, but it is not clear why.</div> <bR> <div> Defence Minister Peter MacKay told reporters Monday morning that the remaining six students and three chaperones are expected to arrive in Montreal at 10:20 a.m. ET.</div> <bR> <div> MacKay also said that two members of the group had been rescued via a Canadian Forces helicopter equipped with medical supplies. But he did not discuss the nature of any injuries suffered by members of the group.</div> <bR> <div> The evacuees are now resting at a Montreal hotel.</div> <bR> <div> Norm Ouellet said he received a call from his son, Blake, who was with the group, around 4:30 a.m. ET Monday.</div> <bR> <div> "He was very emotional. They've had quite an experience," Ouellet told CTV's Canada AM. "He talked more about the Haitians and what incredible people they are. He's quite concerned about them. They've run out of food at the mission complex."</div> <bR> <div> The students arrived in Haiti last Tuesday, shortly before the 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocked the capital, Port-au-Prince, and surrounding areas.</div> <bR> <div> They were in Haiti to help establish a goat farm near a mission in the town of Grand-Goave, about 45 kilometres outside the capital. They had been scheduled to remain in Haiti for two weeks.</div> <bR> <div> Ouellet said the group spent their first night in Haiti sleeping in buses due to a number of severe aftershocks, and then slept outside in makeshift tents until their rescue. He said it was seven hours between the time he learned of the quake and the time he knew his son was alive.</div> <bR> <div> According to Ouellet, more than 100 Haitians sought refuge at the mission with the students.</div> <bR> <div> After five days stranded in the seaside village, Canadian soldiers arrived at the mission with buses to transport the group to the Canadian Embassy complex in Port-au-Prince. Soldiers also rescued several dozen volunteers from the Glen Acres Baptist Church in Waterloo, Ont., who had arrived in Haiti on Jan. 6.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff<I> with files from The Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="17"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jan 10"><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= 189 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>1,000 Canadian Forces personnel to be sent to Haiti</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. Jan. 17  2010  13:59  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: January 17th, 2010</div> <div> <B>An additional 1,000 Canadian soldiers will deploy to Haiti in the coming days to help with emergency relief efforts in the earthquake-ravaged nation, Defence Minister Peter MacKay announced Sunday morning.</B></div> <bR> <div> The soldiers, from CFB Valcartier, have been put on notice to deploy any day to serve under the command of Brig.-Gen. Guy Laroche, who has been tapped to co-ordinate Canada's effort in Haiti.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="ea3ba07e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Defence Minister Peter MacKay speaks during a press briefing in Ottawa, on Sunday, Jan. 17, 2009.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 699 WIDTH="707"><div> "Brig.-Gen. Laroche will make the most of the assets already on the ground to do an assessment of what is needed most urgently and to utilize the appropriate personnel and equipment provided for those tasks," MacKay told reporters in Ottawa.</div> <bR> <div> The soldiers will complement the 200 already on the ground and the 500 personnel on board HMCS Halifax and HMCS Athabaskan, both of which should arrive off the coast of Haiti early next week, MacKay said.</div> <bR> <div> According to MacKay, two Griffon helicopters left Saturday and are scheduled to arrive in Haiti in three or four days. Another two Griffon choppers will depart Monday.</div> <bR> <div> Three water purification units were scheduled to leave 8 Wing Trenton Sunday to arrive in Haiti later in the day and "begin operation immediately," MacKay said.</div> <bR> <div> Light utility vehicles, medical personnel, medical supplies and additional personnel with Canada's Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) continue to arrive in Haiti via C-17 and C-130 aircraft.</div> <bR> <div> "The military under the Government of Canada direction is pursuing a full-court press to get into theatre and affect the changes positively for Haitians and Canadians still there," MacKay said.</div> <bR> <div> MacKay praised the speedy deployment of Canadian military personnel in the wake of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake, which struck Haiti early Tuesday evening.</div> <bR> <div> Since the quake, the Department of Foreign Affairs has provided daily updates on Canadians in Haiti. On Sunday, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said the latest figures are as follows:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">- Eight Canadians have died</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">- 1,115 Canadians are still unaccounted for</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">- 1,122 Canadians have been located</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">- 593 Canadians have been flown home to Canada</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">- 30 Canadians are in the Canadian Embassy compound</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">- 22,600 calls have been made to Foreign Affairs seeking information (1-800-387-3124)</div> <bR> <div> "We continue to do our utmost to ensure we locate all Canadians and that these Canadians are transported safely home here to Canada," Cannon told reporters on Sunday.</div> <bR> <div> Cannon said that later Sunday, he will host a telephone conference with his counterparts from a number of countries to map out their collective relief efforts to ensure a "high degree" of co-ordination of the immediate humanitarian response, as well as medium- and long-term reconstruction assistance.</div> <bR> <div> Cannon also announced that Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Peter Kent will travel to the Dominican Republic on Monday to meet with other regional heads of state about the humanitarian effort in Haiti.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 480 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>Canada's role in Haiti</B></div> <bR> <div> Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Walter Natynczyk believes Canada's history in Haiti will give the country an advantage providing relief in the aftermath of last Tuesday's devastating earthquake.</div> <bR> <div> "We have people in the Canadian forces who are Creole speakers," Natynczyk told CTV's Question Period. "Last year we had a ship off the coast of Haiti providing supplies. So we're capable to handle a whole range of humanitarian, security operations at the drop of a hat."</div> <bR> <div> Canada has been very active in Haiti over the course of the past decade including Operation Horatio in August 2008. That operation saw Canadian forces delivering badly needed food and supplies after the island was hit by four separate hurricanes in the span of a month. Canadian forces sent a strategic support team along with a Sea King to help recovery efforts.</div> <bR> <div> Prior to that Canada also participated in the multinational operations HALO and HAMLET in 2004 under United Nations supervision that saw Canadian senior officers deployed to headquarters in Port-au-Prince to protect human rights.</div> <bR> <div> More than 500 Canadians were deployed to Haiti after a revolt against then-president Jean Bertrand Aristide. UN forces in Haiti totaled 6,940 military personnel and 2,211 police as of last count in October 2009.</div> <bR> <div> A lot of our officers and NCOs have experience in Haiti from previous tours," Natynczyk said. "I think Canadians should be proud of the fact that they have soldiers, sailors, airmen and women who are trained in a whole spectrum of operations and requirements."</div> <bR> <div> Haitian Creole is one of more than 25 languages available to military personnel through the Canadian Forces Language School.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff<I> </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="Jan 10"><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= 271 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Canada shifts from search work to humanitarian aid</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. Jan. 16  2010  14:37  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: January 16th, 2010</div> <div> <B>Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon says the Canadian relief effort in Haiti is shifting from an urgent search and rescue mission to one of humanitarian aid and stabilization.</B></div> <bR> <div> "We are putting everything in action to help the victims," said Cannon, speaking at a joint press conference with other cabinet ministers in Ottawa Saturday morning.</div> <bR> <div> Since the 7.0 earthquake shook the Caribbean nation on Tuesday, Canada has shipped 100 tons of supplies to Haiti, including about 22,000 kilograms of medical supplies, Cannon said.</div> <bR> <div> Officials say that 200 Canadian soldiers are now in the ground in Haiti, with a further 30 on the way Saturday.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="ea39a09a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="154" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Cpl. Alex Robitaille and Master Cpl. Richard Paul attend to an injured woman at a temporary medical clinic in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Friday Jan. 15, 2010. (Adrian Wyld / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 804 WIDTH="707"><div> To further alleviate the suffering, restrictions on Haitian immigrants will also be amended.</div> <bR> <div> Brig.-Gen. Guy Laroche, from Quebec's Royal 22nd Regiment, will co-ordinate Canada's effort in Haiti. He is a seasoned military leader who commanded the Canadian forces in Afghanistan over a ten-month period in 2007 and 2008.</div> <bR> <div> By next week, another several hundred soldiers will be in the nation, when HMCS Halifax and HMCS Athabaskan arrive in the shattered capital of Port-au-Prince.</div> <bR> <div> About 1,000 troops will eventually be in Haiti; many of them coming from Canadian Forces Base Valcartier.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Foreign Affairs is keeping track of Canadians in Haiti and these are the latest numbers:</B></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">- 1,362 Canadians in Haiti are unaccounted for</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">- Six Canadians are dead</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">- 781 Canadians have been found</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">- 460 Canadians have been evacuated to Canada</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">- 50 Canadians are in the Canadian embassy compound in Port au Prince</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">- 21,500 Canadians have called Foreign Affairs (1-800-387-3124) seeking and providing information about relatives</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  and friends in Haiti</div> <div> <I><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">- If you have missing family members in Haiti, please </I><I><U>email CTV News</U></I><I> with photos and any information about them.</I></div> <bR> <div> Defence Minister Peter MacKay said that a C-130 Hercules was on its way Saturday loaded with more soldiers and aid equipment. He added that Canada's Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART ) is already at work in Haiti.</div> <bR> <div> MacKay added that six Griffin helicopters and a Sea King chopper will arrive in Haiti in three or four days.</div> <bR> <div> "Make no mistake about it, this is an immense challenge," said MacKay.</div> <bR> <div> Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said his department will work to speed immigration applications from Haitians who have family in Canada.</div> <bR> <div> He added that Haitians temporarily in Canada can now extend their stays.</div> <bR> <div> Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the damage in Haiti was "instant, utter and widespread" and that "we take our role for security in the hemisphere very seriously."</div> <bR> <div> He added that relief efforts won't end in the short-term, either.</div> <bR> <div> "I think important long-term progress had been made, I think it's safe to say that has been virtually wiped out and we are starting from scratch," Harper said.</div> <bR> <div> "I think everybody recognizes to go in and stabilize things for a couple of years and then leave would be a disastrous approach."</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff<I> with files from The Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="15"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jan 10"><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= 107 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>1,415 Canadians still missing in Haiti, says gov't</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri. Jan. 15  2010  09:08  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: January 15th, 2010</div> <div> <B>The federal government says 1,415 Canadians are still missing in the quake-ravaged regions of Haiti.</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <B><IMG SRC="ea37a0650.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="101" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 678 WIDTH="707"><div> The Canadian death toll remains at four, with 13 others injured, says foreign affars, while 550 Canadians have been evacuated. Meanwhile, 50 Canadians have taken refuge at the Canadian embassy in Haiti, while another 50 are located outside the capital.</div> <bR> <div> The news comes hours after the first group of Canadians arrived at Montreal's Trudeau Airport early Friday morning, exhausted and relieved, after escaping the horrific disaster in Haiti.</div> <bR> <div> About 100 people, 60 of them children, were flown in a Hercules military aircraft - the same one that took Canadian soldiers into Port-au-Prince on Thursday. Soon after, a second plane, a C-17 carrying about 50 more people, landed in Montreal. A third aircraft arrived later in the morning.</div> <bR> <div> Anxious relatives and politicians were on hand to welcome home the evacuees, many of whom were wrapped in Red Cross or grey military blankets, some with dried blood still caked on their faces. Some had to be pushed through the airport terminal in wheelchairs.</div> <bR> <div> But reunions with family members had to wait, as the evacuees were packed aboard airport buses and ferried to a nearby hotel to meet with their relatives.</div> <bR> <div> Medical crews were standing by to take the wounded to a specially prepared area of the Wyndham Montreal Airport Hotel. Priority in the repatriation effort was given to women, children, and the injured.</div> <bR> <div> "Thank you," said one of the first men on the ground. "Thank you for bringing us home."</div> <bR> <div> "I haven't slept in three days," another survivor said. "It was hell."</div> <bR> <div> Peter Kent, Canada's minister of state of foreign affairs (America) was one of the politicians on hand to greet the survivors. </div> <div> "There were any number of harrowing stories and very touching stories," he told Canada AM in Montreal, "members of the Haitian Canadian community returning on board the flight; missionaries; missionary families; folks that had walked many kilometeres through rubble and across the devastated capital to get to the Canadian embassy. And to a person, all of them paid high tribute to the Canadians on the ground."</div> <bR> <div> Four Canadians so far have been confirmed dead: an Ontario nurse, a Nova Scotia RCMP officer and a couple from Montreal. </div> <div> Kent said a number of the evacuees left behind friends and colleagues who were killed in the earthquake.</div> <bR> <div> "Of course the first priority now is for the living," Kent said, "but we remain fully committed to returning the dead to Canada just as soon as time and flight capacity allow."</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staf<I>f </I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="14"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jan 10"><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= 271 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Canada's disaster response team on its way to Haiti</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. Jan. 14  2010  09:35  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: January 14th, 2010</div> <div> <B>A massive military transport aircraft, loaded with members of the country's disaster response unit and humanitarian supplies, is now on its way to the disaster-struck capital of Haiti.</B></div> <bR> <div> The Canadian Forces squad called DART, or Canada's Disaster Assistance Response Team, worked through the night at Canadian Forces Base Trenton, Ont., to load the C-17 cargo plane, which then took off at 5 a.m. ET for Port-au-Prince.</div> <bR> <div> The DART team includes search-and-rescue technicians and equipment who will rush in with excavation tools to try to pluck out survivors as they can who might still be caught under the rubble.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="ea28a07e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> A CH-146 Griffin helicopter is secured on a CC-177 Globemaster at CFB Trenton for a DART humanitarian mission to Haiti, late Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. DART departed for Haiti early Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. (Warrant Officer Carole Morissette / Department of National Defence)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 608 WIDTH="707"><div> A medical platoon and a mobile medical facility will also arrive to help overwhelmed local Haitian hospitals, which have been inundated with injured survivors.</div> <bR> <div> Later, DART electricians will work to help re-establish power and phone service and engineers will help to get roadways and bridges operational again.</div> <bR> <div> Along with the DART team, the C-17 is also loaded with a Griffon helicopter, fuel, clean drinking water and food supplies.</div> <bR> <div> Two navy ships loaded with more helicopters and humanitarian supplies have also been dispatched to the area. HMCS Halifax, which was ordered back to port Wednesday, is being sent with a Sea King helicopter, Defence Minister Peter MacKay said.</div> <bR> <div> Destroyer HMCS Athabaskan is also scheduled to depart for Haiti in the coming days, laden with additional emergency supplies.</div> <bR> <div> A C-130 Hercules with 20 Canadian Forces personnel on board was the first to head into the region, leaving Wednesday morning.</div> <bR> <div> The troops aboard that aircraft are considered a reconnaissance team and will provide Canadian officials with "an immediate, eyes-on assessment of the needs," MacKay told reporters.</div> <bR> <div> CTV's Ottawa bureau chief Robert Fife said the helicopters and ships will also be used to evacuate some of the 6,000 Canadians in Haiti.</div> <bR> <div> "The government will begin evacuating Canadians not only to the Dominican Republic but also directly home," Fife told Canada AM Thursday.</div> <bR> <div> "Senior officials tell me that a Hercules aircraft will take more than 100 Canadians to Montreal later this evening," he added, noting that Foreign Affairs Minister MacKay will be greeting them at the airport.</div> <bR> <div> More than 100 Canadians are now in the Canadian embassy compound in Port-au-Prince, where tents, food, water and medical assistance are being provided. Another 48 Canadians could soon be brought in as well.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Financial aid</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 676 WIDTH="707"><div> Canada's minister of international cooperation, Beverley Oda, announced Thursday that Canada will match dollar-for-dollar any donations they make to registered Canadian charities to support humanitarian and recovery work in Haiti, up to a total of $50 million.</div> <bR> <div> The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) will distribute any funds donated between Jan. 12 and Feb 12 to Canadian and international humanitarian and development organizations.</div> <bR> <div> Already the donations have been pouring in. The Canadian Red Cross, just one group doing work in Haiti, said Wednesday evening it had already received more than $1 million in donations.</div> <bR> <div> Aid agencies are also trying to get the word out to Canadians that while their offers of clothing and food are appreciated, it would be more helpful to donate money. They're asking Canadians not to drop off supplies at their offices, but instead to write a cheque.</div> <bR> <div> Ottawa has already pledged to send $4.8 million in immediate aid to Haiti. Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said the money represents an initial contribution by Canada for urgent humanitarian assistance.</div> <bR> <div> "This will help provide emergency shelter, medical service, food, relief items, water and sanitation services, as well as offer protection," Cannon told reporters Wednesday.</div> <bR> <div> Dave Toycen, president and CEO of World Vision Canada, said the organization has 300 workers already in Haiti, along with relief supplies for 1,500 families that were prepared in anticipation of hurricane season. However, the group is still struggling to get a clear picture of the devastation.</div> <bR> <div> Even in the best of times, infrastructure in Haiti is often barely functional, Toycen said. During a crisis, the system breaks down almost completely, making it difficult for groups to deliver assistance to those who need it, he said.</div> <bR> <div> Haiti is the second-largest recipient of Canadian development aid.</div> <bR> <div> More than 100,000 people of Haitian descent were living in Canada as of 2006, and the two nations have a long-standing relationship.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">- Canadians concerned about relatives in the country can call the emergency operations centre in Ottawa at 1-800-387-3124, (613) 943-1055, or by email: sos@international.gc.ca</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">- Canadians in Haiti can contact embassy officials in Port-au-Prince by calling the Department of Foreign Affairs' Emergency Operations Centre collect at (613) 996-8885.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staf<I>f </I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="13"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jan 10"><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= 180 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Three million affected by Haiti quake: Red Cross</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. Jan. 13  2010  07:49  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: January 13th, 2010</div> <div> <B>The Red Cross believes as many as three million Haitians have been affected by the devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck Port-au-Prince Tuesday, flattening buildings and leaving thousands homeless in its aftermath.</B></div> <bR> <div> Injured Haitians sat on the city's darkened streets Wednesday, pleading for help, while untold numbers of people remained trapped within tons of rubble that piled up the day before. Clouds of dust thrown up by falling buildings choked the capital city for hours.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="ea14a05a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> This photo provided by Carel Pedre shows people running past rubble of a damaged building in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010. (AP / Carel Pedre)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 573 WIDTH="707"><div> France's foreign minister Bernard Kouchner said the head of the UN peacekeeping mission was apparently among the dead. </div> <div> International Red Cross spokesperson Paul Conneally said an estimated three million people may have been affected by the quake, though it will take a day or two for a clear picture of the damage to emerge.</div> <bR> <div> It was believed to be the strongest earthquake to hit the country in more than two centuries. U.S. Geological Survey geophysicist Kristin Marano called it the strongest earthquake since 1770 in the area that is now Haiti.</div> <bR> <div> The ornate National Palace and the headquarters of the UN peacekeeping mission were among the hundreds of buildings destroyed in the chaos.</div> <bR> <div> Some 9,000 UN peacekeepers have been in Haiti since a 2004 rebellion ousted the president. As of Wednesday morning, at least 1,266 Brazilian peacekeepers were missing in Haiti, that country's foreign ministry said.</div> <bR> <div> The first quake stuck Port-au-Prince at 4:53 p.m. local time and was centred about 15 kilometres west of the city. For the next eight hours, a mishmash of sporadic cellphone calls, text messages and pictures posted online formed the early reports on the quake.</div> <bR> <div> Aftershocks followed, as people clawed their way out of dusty debris, many wailing.</div> <bR> <div> It is believed that tens of thousands have lost their homes as a result of the quake, which Dr. Louis-Gerard Gilles, a former senator, said will leave Haitian hospitals overwhelmed.</div> <bR> <div> "The hospitals cannot handle all these victims," Dr. Louis-Gerard Gilles, a former senator, said as he helped survivors. "Haiti needs to pray. We all need to pray together."</div> <bR> <div> Associated Press journalists found the damage staggering, even for a country long accustomed to tragedy and disaster -- and one that is considered the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere.</div> <bR> <div> The quake was felt in the Dominican Republic, though no major damage was reported there. Similarly, houses shook in eastern Cuba, though no significant damage was reported.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staf<I>f with reports 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="Jan 10"><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>Four potential buyers queue for Canwest auction</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue. Jan. 12  2010  08:18  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: January 12th, 2010</div> <div> <B>Potential buyers are lining up to place their bid for Canwest Global Communications Corp., the Canadian media company now floundering in creditor protection.</B></div> <bR> <div> Canwest has been searching for the past few months for an investor willing to put up as much as $65 million needed to help restructure the company and lighten its crippling debt load.</div> <bR> <div> Last week, the<I> The Globe and Mail</I> reports, Canwest's financial advisors narrowed the list down to four contenders: Corus Entertainment Inc., Shaw Communications Inc., Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. and Jim Pattison Group.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="ea0ba07e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> A secretary talks on the phone at the Canwest offices in downtown Ottawa, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009. (Sean Kilpatrick / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 250 WIDTH="707"><div> BNN's Mark Bunting told CTV's Canada AM that all the potential bidders are poring over Canwest's books to determine whether a deal is financially viable.</div> <bR> <div> The prized assets, he said, are the History Channel and Showcase -- cable specialty channels owned by CanWest. </div> <div> But a lot of work will have to be done before a deal is finalized, Bunting said.</div> <bR> <div> "One lawyer says any group must deal with Canwest bondholders, which have a lot of sway, Goldman Sachs which is a partner in the cable channels, and then if they do get a deal they have to get regulatory approval from the CRTC and that is not an easy task, according to this lawyer."</div> <bR> <div> Canwest's newspaper division is part of a different grouping and is being sold seperately. Both Quebecor and Torstar are believed to be interested in that portion of the business, Bunting said.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staf<I>f with reports from The Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="11"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jan 10"><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>Liberal ad campaign attacks PM on prorogation</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. Jan. 11  2010  09:12  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: January 11th, 2010</div> <div> <B>The Liberals have launched a series of new Tory-style attack ads that call Prime Minister Stephen Harper's decision to prorogue Parliament a "holiday gift to himself."</B></div> <bR> <div> The print and radio ads claim Harper's decision to shut down the government was made so that he could avoid questioning on tough issues like torture in Afghanistan and unemployment.</div> <bR> <div> The surprise move to extend the holiday break until after the Olympics came on Dec. 30 -- prompting outrage from the opposition parties and people across the country.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="ea05a05a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Liberals have no money for TV ads but have issued some video ads online: 'On December 30th, Stephen Harper shut down Parliament'</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 683 WIDTH="707"><div> "While Canadians were busy getting ready for New Year's Eve, Stephen Harper was busy too," one of the English radio ads says.</div> <bR> <div> "He was busy shutting down Parliament. He did it in the middle of the holidays because he thought Canadians wouldn't notice. It was his holiday gift to himself. He doesn't want to have to answer questions about torture cover-ups, climate change, unemployment. Stephen Harper did this secretly because he has something to hide."</div> <bR> <div> The second English radio ad suggests the decision to prorogue Parliament is akin to a cover-up on the torture issue.</div> <bR> <div> "When questions arose about what he and his government knew about torture in Afghanistan, Stephen Harper shut down Parliament. Why doesn't he want to face Parliament? What is he covering up? What does Stephen Harper know that he doesn't want other Canadians to know?"</div> <bR> <div> The print ads show a picture of Parliament Hill, with a sign superimposed in front of the building that reads: "CLOSED out of self-interest," with Harper's signature affixed.</div> <bR> <div> A recent poll showed that a majority of Canadians disapproved of the decision to prorogue Parliament -- a move Harper says was necessary in order to recalibrate the government and prepare the budget.</div> <bR> <div> CTV's Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife said that explanation doesn't seem to be gaining much traction with Canadians.</div> <bR> <div> "Governments are always doing budgets while Parliament is sitting so it's a pretty weak excuse and for the first time in a long time the Liberals seem to have some real energy here to go after the government," Fife told CTV's Canada AM.</div> <bR> <div> However, Fife said Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff's strategy has been somewhat confusing. On Monday, for example, he was scheduled to speak with university students but had no plans to meet with working Canadians.</div> <bR> <div> Ignatieff also seems to be missing out on an opportunity to get his message out on the airwaves, declining major television interview opportunities.</div> <bR> <div> "I think it's a smart move to do these ads but I don't understand why they're not letting him reach as large an audience as he possibly can," Fife said.</div> <bR> <div> Harper, by comparison, has been making numerous television appearances to defend his decision.</div> <bR> <div> "He's out there trying to convince people that he's working, he's on top of this issue, he's not just on a holiday," Fife said.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staf<I>f </I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="10"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jan 10"><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>Heavy snow halts planes, strands drivers in Europe</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. Jan. 10  2010  14:51  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: January 10th, 2010</div> <div> <B>BERLIN — Europeans were struggling to restore roads and railways Sunday after heavy snow caused hundreds of traffic accidents, halted flights from Germany and France, downed power lines in Poland and trapped more than 160 people overnight on a frozen German highway.</B></div> <bR> <div> The 148 adults and 19 children stuck on Germany's coastal A20 highway survived by running their car engines until rescuers using snow plows and excavators pushed through 6.5-foot (2-meter) drifts to free them Sunday morning, police in the town of Altentreptow said.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="ea03a05a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Two lamps shine on top of the Feldberg mountain near Frankfurt, central Germany, following a heavy snow storm, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010. (AP/ Michael Probst)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 604 WIDTH="707"><div> "At least the firefighters were able to bring them hot beverages and food while they were waiting," said Jens Apelt, a spokesman for the Altentreptow highway police. After being rescued, the people were brought to tents set up by local aid organizations until rescuers could unblock all the cars.</div> <bR> <div> "We're trying to free all cars from the snow so that the drivers can get back to their vehicles and take a different road instead," Apelt said.</div> <bR> <div> Hundreds of weather-related road accidents were reported in Germany after a second day of heavy snowfall, especially along the Baltic Coast. Two men were killed when their car hit a tree in Nordvorpommern.</div> <bR> <div> Ferry service across the Baltic to Scandinavia was cancelled, and rough sea swells flooded several streets in the cities of Flensburg and Luebeck while threatening to break levees in the village of Dahmeshoeved. Rescue teams were busy repairing damage, the Germany news agency DAPD said.</div> <bR> <div> "The waves of the Baltic Sea are whipping against the boardwalk, pulling bricks out of the wall with incredible power which are flying around uncontrollably," police in Luebeck-Travemuende said in a statement.</div> <bR> <div> In southeastern France, about 800 people at a snowbound airport in Lyon spent the night huddled on waiting room armchairs or camping cots, after flights in and out of the southeastern city were halted Saturday night. Flights resumed gradually Sunday morning.</div> <bR> <div> France's TF1 TV said freezing rain overnight made a virtual skating rink out of one highway near Tours in France's Loire Valley, with some cars skidding out of control and crashing into road barriers.</div> <bR> <div> In southern Poland, about 80,000 people were without electricity Sunday after snow-laden tree branches cracked, damaging several power lines, the news agency PAP reported.</div> <bR> <div> In the German city of Anklam, near the Polish border, rescue team freed a regional train carrying 14 passengers that was stuck in drifts, DAPD reported. Many trains in the northeastern state of Mecklenburg Western-Pomerania were not running because of snow blocking tracks, the railways said.</div> <bR> <div> Several German coastal and island towns were also cut off from electricity.</div> <bR> <div> At Frankfurt airport, 61 flights were cancelled and more than 400 people spent the night at the airport.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 297 WIDTH="707"><div> In southern Denmark, strong winds and snowfall also caused chaos on the roads. Armored military tanks were put on duty to assist emergency vehicles through the snow, while authorities warned that big "wind-sensitive vehicles" should not cross the Oresund bridge to Sweden.</div> <bR> <div> In Britain, Press Association news agency put the number of weather-related deaths at 26 -- including a woman who died after being found lying in the snow in a wooded area in northern England, and a 90-year-old woman who fell and froze to death in her garden earlier this week.</div> <bR> <div> British forecasters predicted temperatures would remain frigid in many areas for the next week. The Red Cross and the military have been mobilized to deliver supplies to snowbound Britons. British Gas said it had experienced its busiest week on record with many calls reporting broken boilers and frozen pipes.</div> <bR> <div> In Croatia, snow swelled rivers and triggered emergency anti-flood measures. A number of houses were flooded in the southern town of Metkovic, forcing some residents to use small boats to reach polling stations during Sunday's presidential runoff, state-run news agency HINA reported.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staf<I>f with reports from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="09"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jan 10"><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>Saudi court revokes Canadian's death sentence</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. Jan. 9  2010  15:31  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: January 9th, 2010</div> <div> <B>A Canadian on death row in Saudi Arabia will get a new trial and no longer faces an imminent public beheading, according to the Foreign Affairs department.</B></div> <bR> <div> Mohamed Kohail, now 24, has been held in a Saudi Arabian prison since 2007 after police linked him to a schoolyard brawl that led to the death of another teenage student.</div> <bR> <div> But on Saturday, a spokeswoman for Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said that a 2008 sentence which had ordered Kohail's death has been overturned.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="ea01a07e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Mohamed Kohail is shown in an undated handout photo. (HANDOUT / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 598 WIDTH="707"><div> According to the spokeswoman, Saudi Arabia's supreme court has decided that the case should be tried again. </div> <div> "This is good news," said spokeswoman Catherine Loubier.</div> <bR> <div> Kohail's younger brother Sultan is also in Saudi custody over the incident, and his case was recently moved from juvenile court to adult court. The younger Kohail could also face a death sentence if convicted.</div> <bR> <div> However, the spokeswoman said that Ottawa had yet to resolve the younger Kohail's case.</div> <bR> <div> "This case continues to be a priority for the government," Loubier said. "Canada continues to provide consular assistance and to pursue all avenues to assist Mohamed and Sultan Kohail."</div> <bR> <div> The brawl, portions of which were captured by grainy video images, was allegedly sparked by an insult to a girl at the school.</div> <bR> <div> Both brothers were attending school in Jidda at the time of the incident. Both have said that they were acting in self-defence during the brawl, which led to the death of 19-year-old Munzer Al-Hiraki.</div> <bR> <div> For the past year, Kohail's case has been locked in the Saudi justice system. First, he was found guilty by a lower Saudi court and sentenced to death. That decision was upheld by an appeal court but had yet to be ruled upon by the top court.</div> <bR> <div> On Saturday, however, the top court issued its decision for a new trial.</div> <bR> <div> Meanwhile, Sultan Kohail has also been languishing in jail as he awaits the outcome of his trial. At first, Sultan's sentence was 200 lashes and a year in prison.</div> <bR> <div> However, that ruling was overturned and the case was shipped to adult court.</div> <bR> <div> While the Canadian government has been criticized by the Kohail family for its handling of the file, Ottawa has maintained that it has been working behind the scenes.</div> <bR> <div> "Canada encourages the abolition of the death penalty internationally and also advocates full respect for international safeguards where the death penalty is in use," Loubier said.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staf<I>f with reports from The Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="08"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jan 10"><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= 207 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Brenda Martin arrested, held by police</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri. Jan. 8  2010  06:48  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: January 8th, 2010</div> <div> <B>NAPANEE, Ont. — A Trenton, Ont., woman who spent two years in a Mexican prison until her release in May, 2008, is back behind bars.</B></div> <bR> <div> Brenda Martin was arrested Thursday night in Trenton and is being held in Napanee, Ont., after police responded to an incident regarding an intoxicated woman.</div> <bR> <div> The 53-year-old woman was arrested in an apartment building's common area and is being held for a parole board hearing.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="e9f8a0750.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="117" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Brenda Martin, 51, of Trenton, Ont., speaks with journalists at an office inside the Puenta Grande prison in Guadalajara, Mexico, April 16, 2008. (AP / Guillermo Arias)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 145 WIDTH="707"><div> Martin garnered national attention when she was imprisoned in Mexico for two years for her alleged role in a fraud scheme.</div> <bR> <div> In early December, the National Parole Board slapped tighter restrictions on Martin for "excessive alcohol consumption."'</div> <bR> <div> She was ordered to attend psychological counselling, stay out of drinking establishments and abstain from drinking. Martin's prison sentence expires in February, 2011.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staf<I>f with reports from The Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="07"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jan 10"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 341 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Activists pursue Japanese whalers by helicopter</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. Jan. 7  2010  06:04  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: January 7th, 2010</div> <div> <B>SYDNEY — An aggressive conservation group searched Antarctic waters by helicopter Thursday for a key Japanese whaling ship, renewing its relentless pursuit of the hunters just one day after one of its boats was wrecked in a clash.</B></div> <bR> <div> The chopper from Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's main ship was trying to find the Japanese fleet's whale processing ship and resume attempts to harass the whalers into giving up their hunt, the group's founder and ship captain Paul Watson said.</div> <bR> <div> The group's two other vessels -- including the futuristic trimaran Ady Gil that was struck Wednesday -- were tied together in another location, near Commonwealth Bay.</div> <bR> <div> Activists were removing fuel and other potential pollutants from the Ady Gil in anticipation of its sinking, Watson told The Associated Press.</div> <bR> <div> Wednesday's clash was the most serious in about a decade of altercations between activists and Japanese whalers in Antarctica, experts said.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="e9eea0c90.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="201" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> This photo shows the Japanese whaling ship the Shonan Maru firing high-powered hoses at the Ady Gil in the frigid waters of Antarctica on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010. (AP / Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, JoAnne McArthur)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 585 WIDTH="707"><div> Each side blamed the other for the crash and showed no signs of backing down.</div> <bR> <div> "The series of sabotage acts by the Sea Shepherd were very dangerous and risked the life and safety of the Japanese crew members. These acts should be strongly condemned," Yasuhisa Kawamura, a spokesman for Japan's Foreign Ministry, told reporters in Tokyo. "Violence will not contribute to the final solution of this issue."</div> <bR> <div> Watson vowed his group would not step back, saying "we now have a real whale war on our hands."</div> <bR> <div> New Zealand and Australia launched an investigation and renewed oft-repeated appeals for both sides to show restraint, warning that both human lives and Antarctica's pristine environment could be at risk.</div> <bR> <div> Japanese Ambassador to New Zealand Toshihiro Takahashi met with senior officials in Wellington to protest the crash, a Japanese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said.</div> <bR> <div> It is not clear what, if any, legal action could be taken.</div> <bR> <div> Don Rothwell, an international maritime law expert at the Australian National University who has advised the government on whaling, said it was possible Sea Shepherd could sue the whaling ship's master for negligence. But the whalers could also try to have the Ady Gil charged with terrorism at sea for trying to foul its navigation systems.</div> <bR> <div> Any case would be problematic because the sovereignty of the waters where the clash occurred is not clear cut, and because the remote location means resolving the claims and counterclaims of each side would be extremely tough, Rothwell said. He said a court in New Zealand would be the most likely venue because that is where the Ady Gil is registered. </div> <div> "I am not suggesting they were completely at fault yesterday, but Sea Shepherd operate really at the very outer edge of the law and it is amazing what they get away with," he said.</div> <bR> <div> Wednesday's clash was the most serious yet between the two sides, Rothwell said, and with no clear way to resolve the issue, the confrontation could easily escalate further.</div> <bR> <div> Japan kills about 1,200 whales a year in Antarctica during the December-February season. Sea Shepherd sends ships to try to stop the Japanese hunt, which Tokyo says is for scientific research, but conservationists claim is a cover for commercial whaling.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 428 WIDTH="707"><div> Sea Shepherd's aggressive and confrontational tactics have drawn criticism in the past from Greenpeace, which used to send ships to try to interfere with the hunt but now is seeking to change Japanese attitudes toward whaling by cultivating political allies in parliament.</div> <bR> <div> Sea Shepherd is generally seen as belligerent in Japan and has garnered little sympathy. Two major newspapers put photos of the clash on their front pages Thursday. "This is what harassment leads to," said one of the captions.</div> <bR> <div> But Sea Shepherd's efforts have spawned the Animal Planet TV series "Whale Wars," which has helped win the group high-profile patrons including former "Price is Right" TV host Bob Barker, who recently gave Sea Shepherd $5 million. The activists named a ship the Bob Barker, which rescued the Ady Gil's crew after the collision.</div> <bR> <div> The Bob Barker tried to tow the Ady Gil on Thursday, but the damaged boat took on more water each time it was moved, Watson said. Crew were removing diesel fuel, the boat's two engines and other items in case it sinks.</div> <bR> <div> He said Sea Shepherd did not intend to scuttle the boat, but that it was expected to sink when rougher weather arrives. </div> <div> "That is our priority right now; to make sure there is no pollution from that vessel," Watson said.</div> <bR> <div> Animal Planet spokesman Brian Eley said Sea Shepherd has no editorial control over "Whale Wars" and that it pays the group a nominal fee for space on its vessels, meals and incidentals.</div> <bR> <div> Asked if producing the show raises the risk of violent confrontation, Eley replied: "Our production crew did not direct or control Sea Shepherd's actions. We have documented what happened, and our viewers can make their own judgments."</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staf<I>f with reports from 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="Jan 10"><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>Ottawa ordered airline scanners months ago: Baird</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. Jan. 6  2010  08:21  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: January 6th, 2010</div> <div> <B>Transport Minister John Baird says Canada must improve its airline security in the wake of a failed U.S. terror attack -- but he insists that Ottawa is not following the lead of Washington on security issues.</B></div> <bR> <div> Baird announced Tuesday afternoon that body scanners that can see through the clothes of air travellers will be installed at airports across Canada over the next two months. Under the new system, travellers who are singled out for extra screening will be able to choose whether they prefer to undergo a pat-down search or to be scanned by trained security staff.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="e9e5a07e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Transport Minister John Baird appears on Canada AM from CTV studios in Ottawa, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 819 WIDTH="707"><div> On Wednesday morning, Baird told CTV's Canada AM that Canada chose to pursue the high-tech scanner technology months ago, putting an order in to manufacturers "before the United States were in the queue...and before some of the countries in Europe."</div> <bR> <div> "We're taking the leadership in this. We have to move quickly and expeditiously, we're confident that these are the best machines available on the market and they are the only ones recognized by the (U.S.) Transportation Security Administration, so that was an important part of our decision," Baird said during an interview from Ottawa.</div> <bR> <div> The new scanners will be up-and-running only weeks after the failed attempt by an alleged terror suspect to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner on Christmas Day.</div> <bR> <div> Umar Farouk Abdulmatallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian, is accused of sewing an explosive device into his underwear and attempting to ignite it on a Northwest Airlines flight that was travelling from Amsterdam to Detroit. He was subdued in the air by flight staff and passengers.</div> <bR> <div> The attack has prompted major criticism from U.S. President Barack Obama who said his country's security system failed in a "potentially disastrous way."</div> <bR> <div> Since then, Washington has introduced tough new screening procedures that target airline passengers from 14 countries that are considered to be state sponsors of terrorism, or "countries of interest" to the U.S.</div> <bR> <div> When Baird was asked if the body scanners would have been able to catch the explosive materials involved in the Dec. 25 incident, he told Canada AM that authorities from around the world were carefully reviewing what happened and will "learn from that."</div> <bR> <div> But he said the scanner technology was in the works well before the events in recent weeks, leaving Canadian authorities well-informed about the practical concerns of implementing them at nationwide airports.</div> <bR> <div> "This is something we've been working on for about 15 months," said Baird.</div> <bR> <div> "We did a trial for more than six months in Kelowna, B.C., and an overwhelming majority of people that use the system preferred it considerably better than a physical pat-down."</div> <bR> <div> Baird said the scanners are "the only system" that the U.S. Transportation Security Administration recognizes in the United States. By choosing to employ it north of the border, it will make it easier for Canadians "to come and go across the border as easily as possible," Baird said.</div> <bR> <div> Moving forward, Ottawa will need to make better use of its intelligence and contacts with its allies "to do everything that we reasonably can to ensure the public's safety and the security of Canadian families," Baird said.</div> <bR> <div> He said Ottawa will remain in close contact with Washington, other allies and worldwide aviation officials to tighten security, both now and in the long-run.</div> <bR> <div> "We've always got to be raising our game, because the terrorists are always going to be changing theirs," said Baird.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staf<I>f with reports from The Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="05"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jan 10"><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>Tillman gets absolute discharge in sex assault case</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue. Jan. 5  2010  12:33  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: January 5th, 2010</div> <div> <B>Saskatchewan Roughriders general manager Eric Tillman received an absolute discharge Tuesday after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting his children's teenage babysitter.</B></div> <bR> <div> Tillman pleaded guilty to a single sexual assault charge Monday in connection with an incident that occurred in his home in August 2008.</div> <bR> <div> Judge Murray Hinds told a Regina courtroom Tuesday he believed Tillman was "genuinely remorseful" and that his behaviour on that day was "an aberration" that resulted from the fact he had taken sleep medication, as well as pills for a sore back.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="e9d9a06d0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="109" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Eric Tillman, the general manager of the Saskatchewan Roughriders, breaks downs and cries as he speaks to reporters outside of the court in Regina on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2010.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 1136 WIDTH="707"><div> The judge's decision means Tillman is still guilty, but he will not have a criminal record and will not have to meet any sentencing conditions.</div> <bR> <div> "While I'm very pleased obviously with the decision today, I want to make it very, very clear that a mistake was made and I, as I said yesterday, I assume full responsibility for it," Tillman told reporters Tuesday outside the courthouse. "Although it was without an ounce of malice or intent, it's a regret that I'll take to my grave. As I said yesterday I am profoundly sorry."</div> <bR> <div> On Monday, Tillman stood up in court and tearfully apologized to the victim, his and her families and the Roughrider organization and its fans.</div> <bR> <div> Tillman, 52, was arrested on Jan. 27, 2009 after the 16-year-old girl filed a complaint.</div> <bR> <div> On Monday, court heard that on the day of the incident, Aug. 6, 2008, Tillman attended a board meeting at the team's facility, and board members noticed he was "acting loopy."</div> <bR> <div> Tillman admitted that he had taken both a sleep aid and medication for back pain and was sent home, where the incident took place.</div> <bR> <div> Court heard that Tillman came up behind the teen as she bent over to feed one of the children, put his arms around her, put his thumbs through her belt loops and pulled her toward him.</div> <bR> <div> "While in that position there was physical contact that was clearly of a sexual nature," Crown prosecutor Bill Burge told court.</div> <bR> <div> Tillman said he could not remember the incident or how he got home from the meeting.</div> <bR> <div> The teen declined to make a victim-impact statement in court, but she and her family have accepted Tillman's apology, Burge said.</div> <bR> <div> When asked what lessons he learned from the ordeal, Tillman said the experience has taught him how one mistake can have a devastating impact on so many other people.</div> <bR> <div> "As happy as I am with the resolution, other people's lives matter. I hurt my parents, I embarrassed my wife," Tillman said.</div> <bR> <div> "The onus is on me to earn respect. Hopefully I'm going to have another 52 years and respect is not given, it's earned. I believe I earned it. Most of my life I've earned respect by the way I've conducted myself, the way I've treated other people. And when I get up tomorrow morning the next stage of my life starts and I hope I can re-earn other people's trust."</div> <bR> <div> <B>Team to decide GM's fate</B></div> <bR> <div> When he was arrested, the Roughriders placed Tillman on paid administrative leave. He was still involved in the team's operations, but was not allowed to appear at its facilities.</div> <bR> <div> Roughriders president and CEO Jim Hopson released a statement Monday saying Tillman would step back from his responsibilities for the day-to-day operations of the team until the board of directors can decide Tillman's future with the club. </div> <div> Hopson said the board will meet as soon as possible to make that decision.</div> <bR> <div> "I love this franchise dearly. We've moved here, our family is here and I would love to stay," Tillman said Tuesday.</div> <bR> <div> Tillman said he has been in contact with team brass regularly over the past week and "will respect whatever decisions that they make. I hope it continues, I very much hope that my relationship continues with this club, but if it doesn't I'll have a great deal of gratitude for the last three years for the privilege of being here and it will not end acrimoniously if that's the result."</div> <bR> <div> Tillman, a native of Jackson, Miss., has had great success in the Canadian Football League.</div> <bR> <div> He was general manager of the B.C. Lions when they won the Grey Cup in 1994 and the Toronto Argonauts when they won in 1997.</div> <bR> <div> Tillman also served as general manager of the expansion Ottawa Renegades for three seasons.</div> <bR> <div> After Saskatchewan's 2007 Grey Cup win, Tillman was rewarded with a contract extension through 2010.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staf<I>f with reports from The Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="04"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jan 10"><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= 304 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Strict new U.S. airline rules follow bomb plot</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. Jan. 3 2010  20:21  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: January 4th, 2010</div> <div> <B>People travelling to the United States from certain countries in the Middle East and Africa will now be extensively searched, following a failed plot to blow up a flight bound for Detroit, the U.S. government said Sunday.</B></div> <bR> <div> Passengers from Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria -- nations the U.S. lists as state sponsors of terror - will be subject to the new rules. Additionally, travellers from Nigeria, Yemen and Pakistan will also be searched by hand, and carry-on bags will be checked.</div> <bR> <div> All other travellers heading to the U.S. will be subject to random searches under the new rules, which come into effect on Monday.</div> <bR> <div> The Transportation Security Administration, the agency responsible for airline security, issued the new rules in response to a plot allegedly hatched by a Nigerian man flying from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="e9dfa07e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Transportation Security Administration agent Paul Marshall helps an international traveler at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Mich., Saturday, Dec. 26, 2009. Officials were trying to calm traveler's fears a day after an attempted terrorist attack aboard a Northwest Airlines flight as it was about to land in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 161 WIDTH="707"><div> U.S. officials say the man, identified as 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, sewed an explosive into his underwear and then tried to ignite it on the Northwest Airlines flight. He was later subdued by flight staff.</div> <bR> <div> The TSA said the new rules are partially the "result of extraordinary co-operation from our global aviation partners."</div> <bR> <div> U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday linked Abdulmutallab to al Qaeda and added that he had trained with and was equipped by a terror network located in Yemen.</div> <bR> <div> With files from The Associated Press</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="Jan 10"><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= 266 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>'Avatar' tops box office again, with $1B worldwide</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. Jan. 3 2010  10:43  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: January 3rd, 2010</div> <div> <B>Canadian director James Cameron's science-fiction epic "Avatar" had another stellar weekend with $68.3 million domestically, shooting past $1 billion worldwide, only the fifth movie ever to hit that mark.</B></div> <bR> <div> No. 1 for the third-straight weekend, 20th Century Fox's "Avatar" raised its domestic total to $352.1 million after just 17 days. The film added $133 million overseas to lift its international haul to $670 million, for a worldwide gross of $1.02 billion.</div> <bR> <div> "Avatar" opened two weekends earlier with $77 million, a strong start but far below dozens of other blockbusters that debuted as high as $158 million. But business for other blockbusters usually tumbles in following weekends, while "Avatar" revenues barely dropped over the busy Christmas and New Year's weekends.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="e9d7a0a90.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="169" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> The character Neytiri, voiced by Zoe Saldana, right, and the character Jake, voiced by Sam Worthington are shown in a scene from 20th Century Fox's 'Avatar.'</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 1183 WIDTH="707"><div> "It's like a runaway freight train. It just keeps doing business," said Fox distribution executive Bert Livingston. "Here's what's happening: I think everybody has to see 'Avatar' once. Even people who don't normally go to the movies, they've heard about it and are saying, 'I have to see it.' Then there's those people seeing it multiple times."</div> <bR> <div> "Avatar" was Cameron's first film since 1997's "Titanic," the biggest modern blockbuster with $1.8 billion worldwide.</div> <bR> <div> The Canadian director is now the only filmmaker to direct two movies that have topped $1 billion. Along with "Titanic," the others are "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" at $1.13 billion, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" at $1.06 billion and "The Dark Knight" at a fraction over $1 billion, according to box-office tracker Hollywood.com.</div> <bR> <div> With "Avatar" closing in on No. 2 film "The Return of the King," Cameron is in striking distance of having the two top-grossing movies globally.</div> <bR> <div> "Avatar" has had a price advantage over those other billion-dollar movies. About 75 per cent of its domestic business has come from theatres showing it in digital 3-D presentation, those tickets typically costing a few dollars more than admissions for the 2-D version.</div> <bR> <div> Finishing at No. 2 for the weekend was Robert Downey Jr.'s crime caper "Sherlock Holmes" with $38.4 million. The Warner Bros. film lifted its domestic total to $140.7 million after 10 days in theatres.</div> <bR> <div> In third place was 20th Century Fox's family tale "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel" with $36.6 million. It raised its 10-day total to $157.3 million.</div> <bR> <div> The top-three movies, along with solid holdovers that included Universal's "It's Complicated" at No. 4 with $18.7 million, steered Hollywood to a big start to 2010 after a year of record revenue.</div> <bR> <div> Hollywood finished 2009 with $10.6 billion domestically, easily surpassing the previous record of $9.7 billion in 2007, according to Hollywood.com.</div> <bR> <div> Factoring in today's higher admission prices, the year was strong but not a modern record-breaker for number of tickets sold. According to Hollywood.com, domestic admissions came in at 1.42 billion in 2009, the most in the last five years, though well below the modern record of 1.6 billion in 2002.</div> <bR> <div> In Hollywood's glory years of the 1930s and '40s, before television eroded the movie audience, estimated movie attendance ran as high as 4 billion some years.</div> <bR> <div> Studios began 2010 with a headstart over last year. Overall revenues came in at $230 million, up 50 per cent from New Year's weekend in 2009, when "Marley&Me" was No. 1 with $24.3 million.</div> <bR> <div> Like "Titanic" 12 years ago, "Avatar" has fairly clear sailing now that the holidays are over. Hollywood is entering a slow season, when fewer big movies arrive and competition is lighter.</div> <bR> <div> "Titanic" lingered as the No. 1 film for months leading up to the Academy Awards, where it won 11 Oscars, including best picture and director.</div> <bR> <div> "Avatar" also proved a critical favourite with strong Oscar potential. Cameron broke new ground in combining live-action, digitally-enhanced performances, visual effects and 3-D presentation to immerse viewers in his futuristic tale of humans and aliens on a distant moon.</div> <bR> <div> "Leave it to James Cameron to do this. To not only set the technical world on fire, the visual world on fire, but also the box-office world on fire 12 years after 'Titanic,"' said Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com.</div> <bR> <div> Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theatres, according to Hollywood.com. Final figures will be released Monday.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">"Avatar," $68.3 million.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">"Sherlock Holmes," $38.4 million.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">"Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel," $36.6 million.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">"It's Complicated," $18.7 million.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">"The Blind Side," $12.7 million.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">"Up in the Air," $11.4 million.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">"The Princess and the Frog," $10 million.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">"Did You Hear About the Morgans?", $5.2 million.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">"Nine," $4.3 million.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">"Invictus," $4.1 million.</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="02"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jan 10"><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>Swiss juniors upset Russians</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. Jan. 2 2010  22:33  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: January 2nd, 2010</div> <div> <B>It all came together for Switzerland at the right time.</B></div> <bR> <div> Despite losing their first two games at the world junior championship and two key defencemen to injury, the Swiss somehow managed to upend the favoured Russians 3-2 in overtime Saturday in Saskatoon to advance to the semifinals.</div> <bR> <div> "We know we don't have a big country as far as hockey is concerned, and everybody can think whatever they want," said Swiss goaltender Benjamin Conz, who continued his impressive run at the tournament with 50 saves.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="e9e1a05a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <I>Swiss goalie Benjamin Conz makes a glove save during quarter-final action against Russia at the world junior championship. </I>(Richard Wolowicz/Getty Images)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 832 WIDTH="707"><div> "Sometimes people take us too lightly, like they did today against the Russians, and you see what kind of things can happen."</div> <bR> <div> Switzerland's best finish in the tournament came in 1998 when it won bronze.</div> <bR> <div> Switzerland (3-2) will now meet host Canada in the semifinals Sunday afternoon. Meanwhile, the Russians (3-2) will face the loser of Saturday's other quarter-final between the United States and Finland on Tuesday in the fifth-place game.</div> <bR> <div> Swiss forward Nino Niederreiter cut across the hash-marks at 9:47 into overtime and fired a shot past Russian goaltender Igor Bobkov for his second goal of the game. The puck appeared to be deflected in by defenceman Patrick Geering, but the goal was officially credited to Niederreiter.</div> <bR> <div> When the Saskatoon crowd went crazy, Geering hadn't even seen the puck cross the goal-line.</div> <bR> <div> "I tried to deflect it," said Geering. "I just heard the whole stadium start cheering."</div> <bR> <div> Added Niederreiter: "I don't know what to say — it's just amazing."</div> <bR> <div> The Swiss were without injured defencemen Luca Sbisa and Roman Josi.</div> <bR> <div> Sbisa is lost for the rest of the tournament, while Josi's status is uncertain. Both were named to the Swiss Olympic national team on Wednesday.</div> <bR> <div> If Conz continues his stellar play, it won't matter who skates for Switzerland. He followed up his impressive performance from the round robin with another gem Saturday.</div> <bR> <div> "Since the start of the tournament I've taken over 30 shots a game," said Conz. "I'm going to take a good massage tonight and have a good night's sleep and tomorrow try and be ready."</div> <bR> <div> For the Russians, the overtime goal punctuates a disappointing performance at this year's tournament.</div> <bR> <div> "It was a big mistake by the defence," said head coach Vladimir Plyushchev. "It was an elementary task that normally the player would do. Maybe his intensity level was high and he didn't look."</div> <bR> <div> Said Russian star forward Nikita Filatov: "We should we have won this game way earlier in the first period."</div> <bR> <div> Russia appeared poised to clinch a 2-1 victory late in the third before Niederreiter scored with 33 seconds left to send the game into overtime.</div> <bR> <div> Michael Loichat gave the Swiss 1-0 lead in the second period after he stripped a Russian defender of the puck behind the net and beat Bobkov on a wraparound at 8:25.</div> <bR> <div> But the Russians answered before the period was out to take a 2-1 lead to the third. Vladimir Tarasenko beat Conz at 18:44 before Kirill Petrov knocked home a feed from Filatov just 16 seconds later.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="01"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jan 10"><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>Quebec bus crash kills 1, injures 9</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri. Jan. 1 2010  20:20  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: January 1st, 2010</div> <div> <B>One person has died and at least nine people were hurt after a bus overturned near Stanstead, Que., on Friday, police said.</B></div> <bR> <div> At least two passengers were severely injured in the crash, and at least seven passengers suffered minor injuries.</div> <bR> <div> Police described the person who died as a woman in her 60s from Hong Kong.</div> <bR> <div> The bus, which was carrying roughly 30 passengers to Boston, was southbound on Highway 55 when a driver in a pickup truck cut in front of it near Curtis Road, police said.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="e9e3a09a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="154" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <I>Emergency workers at the accident scene on Highway 55 near Stanstead, Que.</I> (Graham Hughes/Canadian Press)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 215 WIDTH="707"><div> "The driver tried to keep control of the bus, but lost control, went on the right shoulder of the road, hit a post, flipped on the side and finished in the middle of the highway," provincial police Sgt. Marc Butz said.</div> <bR> <div> Butz said police closed the highway to investigate the crash, which happened approximately five kilometres from the Canada-U.S. border.</div> <bR> <div> The bus was operated by Big Apple Bus Tours, a New York-based company. A company representative said Friday night that a bus was on the way to the scene of the accident to pick up the remaining passengers.</div> <bR> <div> Stanstead is about 160 kilometres southeast of Montreal.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jan 10"><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>