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May 31  2010  08:55  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: May 31st, 2010</div> <div> <B>An Israeli raid on a flotilla of Gaza-bound aid ships brought unexpected casualties Monday, when at least 10 people were killed and dozens of others were wounded by gunfire.</B></div> <bR> <div> Israeli commandos stormed the ships to prevent them from sailing any closer to Gaza, which has been effectively cut off from the world for the past three years due to an Israeli blockade.</div> <bR> <div> The three cargo ships and three passenger ships carried 10,000 tons of aid and 700 activists, which was organized by the Free Gaza movement -- an international group of pro-Palestinian activists that has launched nine aid missions to Gaza since August 2008.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f1a7a06d0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="109" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> This video image released by the Turkish Aid group IHH on Monday, May 31, 2010 purports to show an injured passenger on a Turkish ship, part of an aid convoy heading to the Gaza Strip, after Israeli soldiers boarded the vessel in international waters off the Gaza coast. (AP / IHH via APTN)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 468 WIDTH="707"><div> When the commandos landed on the ships, they were attacked with sticks, knives and hit with gunfire, the Israeli government said.</div> <bR> <div> Mark Regev, a spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said the flotilla had been warned in advance that they would not be allowed to enter Gaza from the sea.</div> <bR> <div> "Unfortunately these people wanted a confrontation and they charged our blockade," Regev told CTV's Canada AM from Jerusalem on Monday morning.</div> <bR> <div> Regev said the Israeli government had offered to inspect the aid shipments, before allowing them through to Gaza. A similar offer was made by the Egyptian government, but was not accepted by the people on board the boats.</div> <bR> <div> Regev said the commandos were under strict instructions to use minimal force. But when they came under attack, they were forced to respond.</div> <bR> <div> "Unfortunately, the minute they came on the ship, they were attacked by very deadly force – knives, iron bars and of course, live fire. And they violence was initiated by the people on the boat," said Regev.</div> <bR> <div> "And of course, all violence is regrettable and anyone killed is regrettable, but it's clear which side initiated the violence."</div> <bR> <div> The army said five soldiers were injured in the raid, including two who were shot with pistols seized from Israeli forces.</div> <bR> <div> An Al-Jazeera reporter claimed Israel fired upon one of the ships before boarding it. The ship's captain was wounded.</div> <bR> <div> In a telephone interview with CTV's Canada AM, Free Gaza spokesperson Greta Berlin said the Israeli soldiers were shooting as they boarded. She said cameras mounted on the ship recorded the violence.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 484 WIDTH="707"><div> "What they didn't know was there was a live camera onboard, you can see them coming off the ship and you can see them shooting," she said.</div> <bR> <div> Berlin said a Canadian, Kevin Neish of Victoria, B.C., is on one of the ships in the flotilla. However she said as far as she knows, Neish was not on a ship where casualties occurred.</div> <bR> <div> "There were six ships. We have a boat called the Challenger I, which is flagged in the United States. He was on that boat and as far as I know he hadn't transferred over to the Turkish ship," Berlin said.</div> <bR> <div> However, in other reports Neish is said to be on a ship called the Challenger II. It is unclear whether they are the same ship. Neish is reportedly tasked with protecting a team of news reporters travelling with the flotilla.</div> <bR> <div> The incident Monday brought scorn from Gaza's Hamas government and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The United Nations and other countries demanded an explanation from the Jerusalem government.</div> <bR> <div> "We are in contact with the Israeli authorities to express our deep concern and to seek a full explanation," said Robert Serry, the highest-ranking UN official in the region.</div> <bR> <div> Following the altercation, the Israeli military shut down all satellite phones on board the ships and a group of embedded reporters were unable to communicate from the scene.</div> <bR> <div> After the raid, the Israeli military started towing the ships back to the Israeli port of Ashdod.</div> <bR> <div> Israel began its blockade of Gaza after the coastal territory was seized by Hamas three years ago. About 1.5 million people live in Gaza.</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="30"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="May 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= 252 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Latest failure to cap oil spill raises frustration</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. May 30  2010  23:11  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: May 30th, 2010</div> <div> <B>The failure of the latest attempt to seal off a ruptured well that has caused the worst oil spill in U.S. history has led some to question whether the leak can be contained any time soon, or even at all.</B></div> <bR> <div> British Petroleum admitted failure Saturday in its "top kill" plan to plug the flow of crude oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico by pumping mud and concrete into the broken pipe more than 1,500 metres beneath the water's surface.</div> <bR> <div> The company now says it is turning to yet another mix of difficult and risky undersea robot operations in a new bid to stem the flow of leaking oil that has been fouling beaches and sensitive coastal marshlands for six weeks.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="f1a5a07e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Protesters gather for a rally against BP PLC and the Gulf oil spill, in Jackson Square in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Sunday, May 30, 2010. (AP / Jae C. Hong)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 587 WIDTH="707"><div> BP said it was unable to overwhelm the broken well with a combination of heavy fluids and debris after three days of pumping, although it was able to somewhat slow the flow of oil into the sea.</div> <bR> <div> Now, BP hopes to saw through a pipe leading out from the crippled well and cap it with a funnel-like device using the same remotely guided undersea robots that have failed in other tries to stop the gusher.</div> <bR> <div> This will be the company's seventh attempt to seal the well, but Managing Director Bob Dudley said BP will learn from its previous failures and apply the lessons to its next try.</div> <bR> <div> Dudley told the news talk show "Fox News Sunday" that the unmanned submersibles will try to saw through a leaking pipe and then cap it with a funnel-like device built to capture the oil.</div> <bR> <div> This attempt is similar to a containment dome that failed to work in BP's first attempt to cap the well. However, Dudley said this time they will try to pump warm sea water down the pipe to keep ice from forming, which was blamed for the earlier failure.</div> <bR> <div> He said it will be the end of the week before BP knows whether or not this latest plan is successful.</div> <bR> <div> "We're confident the job will work but obviously we can't guarantee success," BP chief operating officer Doug Suttles said of the new plan, declining to give odds on whether or not it will work.</div> <bR> <div> A relief well now being drilled to divert the oil before it reaches the leaking well is considered the best shot at a permanent solution. But that is at least two months, and potentially millions of barrels of spilled oil, away.</div> <bR> <div> But the failure of the "top kill" plan has effectively ended whatever optimism may have been left among Gulf Coast residents that the mammoth spill will end any time soon.</div> <bR> <div> Frustration has grown as the leaked oil closes more beaches and washes up in sensitive marshland. The area's oyster beds and shrimp nurseries face certain death, according to fishermen who see no end in sight to the catastrophe that's keeping their boats idle.</div> <bR> <div> "Everybody's starting to realize this summer's lost. And our whole lifestyle might be lost," said Michael Ballay, the 59-year-old manager of the Cypress Cove Marina in Venice, La.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 472 WIDTH="707"><div> Johnny Nunez, owner of Fishing Magician Charters in Shell Beach, La., said the spill is hurting his business during what's normally the best time of year -- and there's no end in sight.</div> <bR> <div> "If fishing's bad for five years, I'll be 60 years old. I'll be done for," he said.</div> <bR> <div> The top official in Louisiana's coastal Plaquemines Parish said news of the top kill failure brought tears to his eyes.</div> <bR> <div> "They are going to destroy south Louisiana. We are dying a slow death here," said Billy Nungesser, the parish president. "We don't have time to wait while they try solutions. Hurricane season starts on Tuesday."</div> <bR> <div> Washington is also showing signs of impatience.</div> <bR> <div> U.S. President Barack Obama, who visited the Louisiana coastline hit hardest by the spill on Friday, has been criticized for not taking charge of the situation.</div> <bR> <div> He called the latest failure to stop the spill "as enraging as it is heartbreaking."</div> <bR> <div> White House energy adviser Carol Browner said Sunday that the spill is the biggest environmental disaster the United States has ever faced.</div> <bR> <div> The spill is already the worst in U.S. history, having dumped between 68 million litres and 150 million litres into the Gulf, according to government estimates. That easily surpasses the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster and the oil is continuing to spill.</div> <bR> <div> The leak began after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded on April 20, killing 11 people.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="29"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="May 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= 216 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Actor Dennis Hopper dies after cancer battle</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. May 29  2010  14:34  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: May 29th, 2010</div> <div> <B>LOS ANGELES — Dennis Hopper, the high-flying Hollywood wild man whose memorable and erratic career included an early turn in "Rebel Without a Cause," an improbable smash with "Easy Rider" and a classic character role in "Blue Velvet," has died. He was 74.</B></div> <bR> <div> Hopper died Saturday at his home in the Los Angeles beach community of Venice, surrounded by family and friends, family friend Alex Hitz said. Hopper's manager announced in October 2009 that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f1a3a07e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Actor Dennis Hopper attends the 2009 National Arts Awards presented by Americans for the Arts on Monday, Oct. 5, 2009 in New York. (AP Photo / Evan Agostini)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 827 WIDTH="707"><div> The success of "Easy Rider," and the spectacular failure of his next film, "The Last Movie," fit the pattern for the talented but sometimes uncontrollable actor-director, who also had parts in such favourites as "Apocalypse Now" and "Hoosiers." He was a two-time Academy Award nominee, and in March 2010, was honoured with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.</div> <bR> <div> After a promising start that included roles in two James Dean films, Hopper's acting career had languished as he developed a reputation for throwing tantrums and abusing alcohol and drugs. On the set of "True Grit," Hopper so angered John Wayne that the star reportedly chased Hopper with a loaded gun.</div> <bR> <div> He married five times and led a dramatic life right to the end. In January 2010, Hopper filed to end his 14-year marriage to Victoria Hopper, who stated in court filings that the actor was seeking to cut her out of her inheritance, a claim Hopper denied.</div> <bR> <div> "Much of Hollywood," wrote critic-historian David Thomson, "found Hopper a pain in the neck."</div> <bR> <div> All was forgiven, at least for a moment, when he collaborated with another struggling actor, Peter Fonda, on a script about two pot-smoking, drug-dealing hippies on a motorcycle trip through the Southwest and South to take in the New Orleans Mardi Gras.</div> <bR> <div> On the way, Hopper and Fonda befriend a drunken young lawyer (Jack Nicholson, whom Hopper had resisted casting, in a breakout role), but arouse the enmity of Southern rednecks and are murdered before they can return home.</div> <bR> <div> "'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me," Hopper said in 2009. "A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country."</div> <bR> <div> Fonda produced "Easy Rider" and Hopper directed it for a meagre $380,000. It went on to gross $40 million worldwide, a substantial sum for its time. The film caught on despite tension between Hopper and Fonda and between Hopper and the original choice for Nicholson's part, Rip Torn, who quit after a bitter argument with the director.</div> <bR> <div> The film was a hit at Cannes, netted a best-screenplay Oscar nomination for Hopper, Fonda and Terry Southern, and has since been listed on the American Film Institute's ranking of the top 100 American films. The establishment gave official blessing in 1998 when "Easy Rider" was included in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or esthetically significant."</div> <bR> <div> Its success prompted studio heads to schedule a new kind of movie: low cost, with inventive photography and themes about a young, restive baby boom generation. With Hopper hailed as a brilliant filmmaker, Universal Pictures lavished $850,000 on his next project, "The Last Movie."</div> <bR> <div> The title was prescient. Hopper took a large cast and crew to a village in Peru to film the tale of a Peruvian tribe corrupted by a movie company. Trouble on the set developed almost immediately, as Peruvian authorities pestered the company, drug-induced orgies were reported and Hopper seemed out of control.</div> <bR> <div> When he finally completed filming, he retired to his home in Taos, N.M., to piece together the film, a process that took almost a year, in part because he was using psychedelic drugs for editing inspiration.</div> <bR> <div> When it was released, "The Last Movie" was such a crashing failure that it made Hopper unwanted in Hollywood for a decade. At the same time, his drug and alcohol use was increasing to the point where he was said to be consuming as much as a gallon of rum a day.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 1018 WIDTH="707"><div> Shunned by the Hollywood studios, he found work in European films that were rarely seen in the United States. But, again, he made a remarkable comeback, starting with a memorable performance as a drugged-out journalist in Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War epic, "Apocalypse Now," a spectacularly long and troubled film to shoot. Hopper was drugged-out off camera, too, and his rambling chatter was worked into the final cut.</div> <bR> <div> He went on to appear in several films in the early 1980s, including the well regarded "Rumblefish" and "The Osterman Weekend," as well as the campy "My Science Project" and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2."</div> <bR> <div> But alcohol and drugs continued to interfere with his work. Treatment at a detox clinic helped him stop drinking but he still used cocaine, and at one point he became so hallucinatory that he was committed to the psychiatric ward of a Los Angeles hospital.</div> <bR> <div> Upon his release, Hopper joined Alcoholics Anonymous, quit drugs and launched yet another comeback. It began in 1986 when he played an alcoholic ex-basketball star in "Hoosiers," which brought him an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor.</div> <bR> <div> His role as a wild druggie in "Blue Velvet," also in 1986, won him more acclaim, and years later the character wound up No. 36 on the AFI's list of top 50 movie villains.</div> <bR> <div> He returned to directing, with "Colours," "The Hot Spot" and "Chasers."</div> <bR> <div> From that point on, Hopper maintained a frantic work pace, appearing in many forgettable movies and a few memorable ones, including the 1994 hit "Speed," in which he played the maniacal plotter of a freeway disaster. In the 2000s, he was featured in the television series "Crash" and such films as "Elegy" and "Hell Ride."</div> <bR> <div> "Work is fun to me," he told a reporter in 1991. "All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job -- two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be."</div> <bR> <div> For years he lived in Los Angeles' bohemian beach community of Venice, in a house designed by acclaimed architect Frank Gehry.</div> <bR> <div> In later years he picked up some income by becoming a pitchman for Ameriprise Financial, aiming ads at baby boomers looking ahead to retirement. His politics, like much of his life, were unpredictable. The old rebel contributed money to the Republican Party in recent years, but also voted for Democrat Barack Obama in 2008.</div> <bR> <div> Dennis Lee Hopper was born in 1936, in Dodge City, Kan., and spent much of his youth on the nearby farm of his grandparents. He saw his first movie at 5 and became enthralled.</div> <bR> <div> After moving to San Diego with his family, he played Shakespeare at the Old Globe Theater.</div> <bR> <div> Scouted by the studios, Hopper was under contract to Columbia until he insulted the boss, Harry Cohn. From there he went to Warner Bros., where he made "Rebel Without a Cause" and "Giant" while in his late teens.</div> <bR> <div> Later, he moved to New York to study at the Actors Studio, where Dean had learned his craft.</div> <bR> <div> Hopper's first wife was Brooke Hayward, the daughter of actress Margaret Sullavan and agent Leland Hayward, and author of the best-selling memoir "Haywire." They had a daughter, Marin, before Hopper's drug-induced violence led to divorce after eight years.</div> <bR> <div> His second marriage, to singer-actress Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas, lasted only eight days.</div> <bR> <div> A union with actress Daria Halprin also ended in divorce after they had a daughter, Ruthana. Hopper and his fourth wife, dancer Katherine LaNasa, had a son, Henry, before divorcing.</div> <bR> <div> He married his fifth wife, Victoria Duffy, who was 32 years his junior, in 1996, and they had a daughter, Galen Grier.</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="May 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= 451 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Lineups expected as iPad goes on sale in Canada</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri. May 28  2010  08:12  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: May 28th, 2010</div> <div> <B>Long, snaking lineups are expected across the country today as the iPad officially makes its debut in Canada.</B></div> <bR> <div> The lineups of the most eager buyers began early outside Apple's 16 retail shops in Canada ahead of the 8 a.m. store openings. Limited quantities are also available at Best Buy, Future Shop, and some other retailers.</div> <bR> <div> One of Apple's most hyped products ever, the iPad was first released in the U.S. about eight weeks ago. It quickly sold more than a million units. Sales are expected to be just as strong in Canada, with both "tech geeks" and average folks racing to try to pick up one up.</div> <bR> <div> "I'm in love with it, I'm enamoured by it," technology expert Marc Saltzman told CTV's Canada AM Friday, as he showed off the iPad he's been using for the last few weeks.</div> <bR> <div> "It's just an amazing device that you really only understand once you touch it."</div> <bR> <div> CTV's tech expert Kris Abel also loves the iPad he's been testing for review, saying it offers "a more relaxed way to use a computer."</div> <bR> <div> "It's not a device that you can carry around with you at all times like a Smartphone, nor is it a work machine you can sit down with at a desk for long hours like a laptop," he writes on his blog, Tech Life.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f19ba0870.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="135" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> A customer uses an Apple iPad on the first day of iPad sales at an Apple store in San Francisco, Saturday, April 3, 2010. (AP / Paul Sakuma)</div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="f19ca07b0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="123" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> eople line up outside an Apple store in Toronto to be one of the first to own an iPad in Canada on Friday, May 28, 2010. (Darren Calabrese / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 484 WIDTH="707"><div> "You'll likely use it for only a few hours each day, but like a sketchbook, journal, or canvas, it becomes a means to drift and escape while still being productive."</div> <bR> <div> For the last two months, Canadians who've wanted to get their hands on the computer-on-a-tablet had to go across the border to the U.S., where iPads have been $50 cheaper than they'll be in Canada.</div> <bR> <div> The base model, with Wi-Fi connectivity and 16 gigabytes of storage, will sell in Canada for $549; the model with 32 GB will sell for $649; and the 64 GB model will go for $749. The 3G models will go for $679, $779 and $879 respectively.</div> <bR> <div> "If you're a casual user and just want to download a few book and store your music on it, 16 GB is ample," Saltzman said.</div> <bR> <div> "But if you're a power user and want to load it up with movies for the kids in the backseat on a road trip -- and by the way, this battery lasts almost 12 hours, something your laptop can't do – then you're going to want to go with more capacity."</div> <bR> <div> As for the two methods of connecting to the Internet -- Wi-Fi or 3G -- the former will allow users to use the device in wireless hotspots, such as in cafes that offer free Internet, or at home with a wireless modem. 3G connection is what a cellphone uses, so users can connect to the Internet anywhere, from a park bench to a moving car.</div> <bR> <div> Rogers and Bell have announced data plans for the 3G models of the iPads. Both are charging $15 for 250 megabytes of data or $35 for five gigabytes of data; neither is offering an unlimited option – at least for now.</div> <bR> <div> In addition to being launched in Canada today, the iPad is also making its debut in nine other countries, including Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and Britain.</div> <bR> <div> Shoppers mobbed Apple's flagship store in London, England today, with long lines snaked down Regent St.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="27"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="May 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= 203 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>No word on fate of 'top kill' oil plug attempt in Gulf</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. May 27  2010  08:38  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: May 27th, 2010</div> <div> <B>No one knows if the "top kill" method being used to stem the flow of oil from an undersea Gulf of Mexico well is working, though officials say they should get a better picture by this afternoon whether their effort is yielding results.</B></div> <bR> <div> U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen said "the absence of any news is good news."</div> <bR> <div> "It's a wait and see game here right now, so far nothing unfavourable," said Allen, who is leading the operation launched Wednesday.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f190a0670.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="103" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> This image made from video released by British Petroleum shows equipment being used to try and plug a gushing oil well in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, May 27, 2010. (AP / BP PLC)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 575 WIDTH="707"><div> The well in question began leaking oil after an explosion occurred on the BP-operated Deepwater Horizon oil rig on April 20, killing 11 workers.</div> <bR> <div> After the explosion, oil began spewing out of the undersea gusher, located only 80 kilometres from the Louisiana coast. To date, at least seven million gallons have flowed out of the well, endangering the local environment and economy.</div> <bR> <div> CTV's Washington Bureau Chief Paul Workman said the disaster has affected about 160 kilometres of beaches, wetlands and coastline in Louisiana.</div> <bR> <div> "It is seeping in gradually and there is a massive cleanup effort underway," Workman told CTV's Canada AM from Grand Isle, La., on Thursday morning.</div> <bR> <div> CNN correspondent Sandra Endo said the fallout from the oil disaster has ravaged the local tourism industry.</div> <bR> <div> "It's pretty desolate here. A lot of the businesses -- hotels, restaurants, the fishing industry here – have really come to a standstill," Endo told CTV's Canada AM from Grand Isle.</div> <bR> <div> "They were relying on these warmer summer months to really rake in the profits, but they are not seeing any of that happen."</div> <bR> <div> <B>Top kill strategy</B></div> <bR> <div> The top kill method involves pumping heavy mud into the spewing well, so that the flow of oil can be stopped. If successful, cement would then be used to cap the well.</div> <bR> <div> The same technique has been used to stop leaks in above-ground wells. But it has never been tested 1,500 metres underwater -- the same depth where the well is located.</div> <bR> <div> BP officials have put the odds of success at 60 to 70 per cent. But they won't know for sure until the operation has been active for about 24 hours.</div> <bR> <div> "We're doing everything we can to bring it to closure, and actually we're executing this top kill job as efficiently and effectively as we can," said BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 488 WIDTH="707"><div> There is also a risk that the top kill operation could make the situation worse by causing additional leaks in the undersea well.</div> <bR> <div> Anil Kulkarni, a Penn State mechanical engineering professor, said that if the leak "ruptures all over, then it would be even more difficult to close it."</div> <bR> <div> Suttles said BP had not found any evidence of new leaks as of Wednesday night.</div> <bR> <div> U.S. President Barack Obama is due to tour the area Friday, a visit that will give him the chance to see the damage that has been done.</div> <bR> <div> Endo said the White House has come under fire for the way it has handled the disaster and its aftermath.</div> <bR> <div> "A lot of criticism saying (that) if this top kill process doesn't work then the White House should take over, the military should take over," Endo said.</div> <bR> <div> "People are just fed up that it's been over a month and this oil well is still spewing out thousands of barrels of crude oil."</div> <bR> <div> Well-known Democratic strategist James Carville said he hoped the sight of the damage to the Louisiana coastline would spur the president to do more.</div> <bR> <div> "I think you're going to see some real action," said the Louisiana-raised Carville.</div> <bR> <div> On Thursday, Obama is due to announce that a moratorium on undersea drilling will continue for six more months, while a presidential commission investigates the Gulf disaster.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="26"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="May 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= 182 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>BP expected to attempt 'top kill' of leaking oil well</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. May 26  2010  08:18  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: May 26th, 2010</div> <div> <B>The operator of a destroyed oil rig will attempt to plug the source of a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday, using a technique that is untested at the depths where it will be used.</B></div> <bR> <div> BP plans to use the so-called "top kill" technique to plug the leak that began April 20, after an explosion on the oil rig named Deepwater Horizon.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f185a06a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="106" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> An image from a live video feed the oil plume is seen on the BP.com website early Wednesday, May 26, 2010. (AP / BP.com)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 596 WIDTH="707"><div> In an interview on NBC's "Today" show on Wednesday morning, CEO Tony Hayward said BP was still running tests to determine whether to start its operation.</div> <bR> <div> When the oil rig exploded last month, a well located 1,500 metres underwater began spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico, only 80 kilometres off the coast of Louisiana.</div> <bR> <div> In the five weeks that have followed, some seven million gallons of oil have spilled into the sea and washed up along the U.S. coastline, putting wildlife and its coastal habitat at risk. Additionally, the oil coming out of the well appears to be darker than it was only two weeks ago, with some experts concluding that it is now heavier and may be doing more damage.</div> <bR> <div> "We want what everybody wants -- to stop the flow at the source as quickly as possible," said BP spokesperson John Curry. </div> <div> "We understand the frustration and we just want to bring this to closure."</div> <bR> <div> <B>The top kill strategy</B></div> <bR> <div> The "top kill" method involves pumping a dense mixture of drilling mud into the leaking underwater well, in hopes of plugging the leak at the source. Engineers would then use cement to permanently seal off the well.</div> <bR> <div> BP crews have stockpiled 50,000 barrels of the heavy mud for use in the operation.</div> <bR> <div> While many hold out hope the method could stop the growing environmental disaster, Hayward has cautioned that the odds of success may be no higher than 60 per cent or 70 per cent.</div> <bR> <div> And in his Wednesday interview, Hayward said it could be "a day or two before we have certainty that it's worked."</div> <bR> <div> University of California engineering professor Bob Bea said the top kill method could be ineffective because of the velocity of the outgoing oil.</div> <bR> <div> If the top kill doesn't work, it will be some time before BP will be able to dig relief wells that can shut down the leak, Bea said. </div> <div> BP has set up a video feed of the leak site to its website allowing Internet users to watch the procedure online.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Associated Press and a report from CTV's Washington Bureau Chief Paul Workman</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="May 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= 269 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Lohan's ankle bracelet has breathalyzer technology</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue. May 25  2010  08:27  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: May 25th, 2010</div> <div> <B>NEW YORK — If an alcohol-monitoring bracelet can keep celebrities like Lindsay Lohan from drinking, some parents might wonder, Can I get one for my teen?</B></div> <bR> <div> The answer is no.</div> <bR> <div> For the time being, the ankle bracelets are only sold to the courts, probation officers and others who want to make sure drunken drivers or anyone involved in alcohol-related offenses don't drink again.</div> <bR> <div> "That might be a market down the road," said Kathleen Brown, a spokeswoman for Alcohol Monitoring Systems Inc., which makes the only alcohol ankle bracelet.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f17ca0b30.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="179" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Actress Lindsay Lohan, left, is shown in court with her attorney Shawn Chapman Holley during a hearing in Beverly Hills, Calif., Monday, May 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, Pool)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 658 WIDTH="707"><div> In the meantime, the Denver-based company is focusing on the corrections market, she said.</div> <bR> <div> One of the devices was slapped on Lohan's ankle Monday by a judge angered because the actress didn't show up for a hearing last week in Beverly Hills, Calif., and instead attended the Cannes Film Festival in France. It's her second go-around with the bracelet — and she's not the only celebrity to sport one.</div> <bR> <div> Rapper-actress Eve wore one and ex-basketball star Jayson Williams was forced to earlier this year.</div> <bR> <div> The gadgets are much like the better known electronic ankle bracelets that have been used for years to restrict suspects or parolees to their homes. (The alcohol bracelets can now do that too, if needed.)</div> <bR> <div> The bracelet uses the same technology as a breathalyzer, but instead of checking the breath for alcohol, it samples the perspiration on the skin. After alcohol is consumed, it eventually enters the bloodstream and a small amount is expelled through the skin.</div> <bR> <div> The bracelet tests the skin every half hour. If there's alcohol, it causes a chemical reaction in the device's fuel cell. Usually once a day, the information is sent over phone lines to the company, which alerts the courts or probation officer if alcohol is detected at a blood-alcohol level of 0.02 or higher.</div> <bR> <div> It won't pick up very small amounts and it takes a while to be reach the skin. A 180-pound man would register 0.02 if he has two 5-ounce drinks in less than an hour on an empty stomach, according to Brown.</div> <bR> <div> The alcohol bracelets — called SCRAM for Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitoring — have been available since 2003, and are in use in every state except Hawaii. To date, they've been worn by 136,000 people, for an average of 90 days, Brown said. It costs about $1,500, she said.</div> <bR> <div> South Dakota has about 600 units and uses them in its 24/7 Sobriety Project, which requires daily monitoring for alcohol — either two trips to the county jail for a breath test or wearing a bracelet.</div> <bR> <div> "Some people don't want to look at a deputy sheriff two times a day. It's a humbling experience," said South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley, whose office successfully defended a court challenge of the device in South Dakota Supreme Court.</div> <bR> <div> Given a choice between the sobriety project or jail, "Most people will obviously chose to go back to their family, go back to their job, to go be a parent and work it out," Jackley said.</div> <bR> <div> Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Whitmore said the SCRAM is used frequently and is very effective. He said there are many stories about people trying to disable the signal.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 412 WIDTH="707"><div> "I heard about someone who tried to put chicken skin between the signal and his skin, but it didn't work," Whitmore said. </div> <div> Brown, the company's spokeswoman, said there are sensors that check for tampering.</div> <bR> <div> Stephen Bouchard, a judge in Missouri's Jefferson County near St. Louis, handles drunken driving cases, and says he's a fan of the bracelets. They are often required of anyone released on bond, and defendants are charged $12 a day.</div> <bR> <div> "You sure don't want to have the person on bond on an alcohol-related offense going out and getting drunk and hurting someone else. That pretty much stops that," said Bouchard.</div> <bR> <div> He said the bracelets are also used in other alcohol-related offenses, like domestic violence. And on a few occasions, someone has asked to keep the bracelet longer than required.</div> <bR> <div> "It's kind of like their security blanket. As long as they know they've got that SCRAM monitor on, they feel more in control of their drinking," he said.</div> <bR> <div> In Los Angeles, defense attorney J. Michael Flanagan, who represents many DUI defendants said the problem with the device is that it is bulky and very uncomfortable. Flanagan said one of his clients had the option of wearing the device or going to jail. After a few days, he said, the man complained that it was irritating his skin and was so uncomfortable he couldn't sleep. He took it off and went to jail, he said.</div> <bR> <div> The latest version is smaller — about the size of a deck of cards — and lighter than the first device.</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="May 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= 182 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Human error possible cause of Air India crash</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. May 24  2010  07:49  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: May 24th, 2010</div> <div> <B>MANGALORE, India — Human error might have caused the crash of an Air India Boeing 737-800 plane that killed 158 people over the weekend, India's civil aviation minister said Monday.</B></div> <bR> <div> Weather conditions and other factors at the time the plane reached its destination "looked absolutely normal for a regular touchdown and a safe landing," Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel told the CNN-IBN television news channel.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="f17ba05a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> An earth remover cleans the site of the crash of an Air India Boeing 737-800 plane in Mangalore, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, Monday, May 24, 2010. (AP / Rafiq Maqbool)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 629 WIDTH="707"><div> "You can't rule out a human error factor," Patel said.</div> <bR> <div> Only an inquiry could establish what exactly went wrong as the aircraft overshot the hilltop runway and crashed and plunged over a cliff and into a ravine at dawn Saturday on the outskirts of the southern Indian city of Mangalore, he said.</div> <bR> <div> Of the 166 passengers and crew aboard, only eight people survived the crash.</div> <bR> <div> Patel said there was no rain in the area and visibility was good at the time of the plane's landing.</div> <bR> <div> Investigators and aviation officials searched through the wreckage of the Boeing 737-800 strewn across a hillside to try to determine the cause of India's worst air disaster in more than a decade. They recovered the cockpit voice recorder, which they hope will give them important clues, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.</div> <bR> <div> A four-member U.S. forensic team also arrived in India to help in the investigation, said Harpreet Singh, an Air India spokeswoman.</div> <bR> <div> By Sunday evening, 146 of the 158 bodies had been identified and given to grieving relatives for burial, said Arvind Jadhav, Air India's chairman and managing director.</div> <bR> <div> Doctors were conducting DNA tests on 22 bodies that were so badly burned that relatives could not identify them, said Suresh Babu, an official at Wenlock hospital in Mangalore. They included a 2-year-old boy.</div> <bR> <div> In nearby Uppala village, the relatives of brothers Mohammed Basheer and Aboo Backer Siddeeq were told it could take more than a week for the bodies of the two men to be identified, said their uncle B.K. Mohammed Haji.</div> <bR> <div> "For two days we waited at the airport for the bodies," said Haji. "All the bodies were badly charred and very difficult to recognize."</div> <bR> <div> The two men were returning home from Dubai for the wedding of their younger sister Sunday. The wedding was cancelled and instead friends and relatives joined the grieving family under a canopy erected for the wedding to pray for the dead men.</div> <bR> <div> The black box would be sent to New Delhi for decoding and further investigations, officials said.</div> <bR> <div> The flight from Dubai to Mangalore carried some of the millions of Indians who work as cheap labour in the Middle East back to their families for a rare visit during India's summer holiday season.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 281 WIDTH="707"><div> Aviation experts said the eight survivors were seated in the centre of the aircraft, near where it broke open, and they managed to get out before a fireball engulfed the plane.</div> <bR> <div> "In this case it was pure luck of the draw," said Sidney Dekker, a professor of flight safety at the School of Aviation at Sweden's Lund University. "The luck of where you are in the airplane relative to how the fuselage disintegrates going into the ravine."</div> <bR> <div> The crash was the deadliest in India since a November 1996 midair collision killed 349 people. Saturday's crash happened when the plane overshot the runway, airline officials said. Aviation experts said the Mangalore airport's "tabletop" runway, which ends in a valley, makes a bad crash inevitable when a plane does not stop in time.</div> <bR> <div> Kapil Kaul, an aviation expert at the Center for Asia Pacific Aviation, said while India's air safety record is good, he hopes the crash will push officials to establish an independent national safety board to ensure standards remain high as the booming economy drives more traffic into the skies.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="23"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="May 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 COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 369 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>Citizens find human remains in two townships north of Toronto</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. May 23  2010  10:55  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: May 23rd, 2010</div> <div> <B>ORO-MEDONTE TOWNSHIP, Ont. — LAKE OF BAYS TOWNSHIP, Ont. -- Provincial police are investigating after human remains were found in the Barrie and Huntsville areas this weekend.</B></div> <bR> <div> In the first case, human remains were found by a resident on a street that's under development in Ore-Medonte Township Saturday.</div> <bR> <div> Const. Peter Leon calls the case strange and suspicious.</div> <bR> <div> In the second case, Leon says a citizen found human remains in a ditch on a road in Lake of Bays Township on Saturday. The remains were removed from the scene late Saturday night.</div> <bR> <div> Post-mortems are being conducted today at Toronto's Centre of Forensic Sciences to determine the sex and cause of death in both cases.</div> <bR> <div> Leon says police are treating them as separate cases and says it's too early to speculate on whether they are related.</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="May 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= 206 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Will the Volt recharge GM and U.S. auto industry?</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. May 22  2010  11:21  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: May 22nd, 2010</div> <div> <B>WARREN, Mich. — He stands all day, bent over noisy machines, cutting giant sheets of steel and feeding them into monster-sized presses so powerful the concrete floor rumbles beneath his size-16 feet.</B></div> <bR> <div> This is how Steve Prucnell builds cars. In 22 years, the parts haven't changed much. A car's a car.</div> <bR> <div> But then another project came along, something totally different.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="f17aa08f0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="143" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The Chevy Volt goes on sale in Canada mid-2011. The price has not been determined. Feb. 8, 2010. (CTV)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 662 WIDTH="707"><div> After decades of building everything from Corvettes to Saturns to Silverados, Prucnell took a giant leap into the future, working on early models of the Chevy Volt, General Motors' new electric car. It's a high-risk, high-profile venture and Prucnell is understandably nervous.</div> <bR> <div> Maybe it's the 13 foreclosure signs that popped up on his street. Or turning 50 in a struggling industry. Or working for a company that needed a $52-billion loan from the U.S. Treasury to stay alive. Whatever the reason, Prucnell is keeping his fingers crossed, hoping America is ready for a new kind of love affair — battery included.</div> <bR> <div> The Volt could help usher in a new generation of electric cars, but there's more at stake here than a technological breakthrough: The fate of GM and its workers. The future of a beleaguered state. And, maybe, in some larger sense, the image of all U.S. autoworkers, eager to prove they have what it takes to compete on the global stage.</div> <bR> <div> The moment of truth is coming, and Steve Prucnell feels the pressure.</div> <bR> <div> "If this doesn't fly, what's left for GM?" he asks, taking a break from work at the GM Tech Center. "Wall Street is going to say, 'We knew they couldn't dig themselves out of the hole.'"</div> <bR> <div> There was, Prucnell says, a different vibe building the Volt's test models. It wasn't just the intense scrutiny from above. It was the anxiety down below, on the shop floor.</div> <bR> <div> "I don't want to say that we worked harder on this," Prucnell says. "I think we worked a lot smarter. I mean everybody was on their 'A' game. ... It was, 'We want to make sure we're perfect.'"</div> <bR> <div> "We know the Volt is the last hurrah for GM," he adds. "It's either do or die."</div> <bR> <div> Roam the state of Michigan, and you will hear the same insistent optimism:</div> <bR> <div> The Volt is crucial. So much depends on this car. It cannot fail.</div> <bR> <div> This is a state that talks about becoming more than an auto capital, but cars have been its identity. It's the place where Henry Ford's name graces a college and hospital; where Pontiac was an Indian warrior and then a town before gaining fame as a car.</div> <bR> <div> So when the car industry tanks, the crisis is financial, personal and even existential.</div> <bR> <div> "Detroit," declares Mike Smith, head of the Reuther Library, "has two choices: Remake itself. Or die on the vine. We HAVE to reinvent ourselves."</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 662 WIDTH="707"><div> So what can a single car — one touted as revolutionary but still untested by the public — mean in a state that has hemorrhaged jobs, leaving some cities with Hoover-like jobless rates edging toward 30 percent?</div> <bR> <div> Maybe a lot, according to Smith.</div> <bR> <div> "If you're going to have an electric car and if the Volt turns out to be the leader of the pack, think what that means in sales, prestige, in reputation," he says. "This one is symbolic in the sense that it's going to speak to the prowess of the American auto industry — and GM itself."</div> <bR> <div> And the spotlight will be white-hot.</div> <bR> <div> "The Volt," he says, "is going to be the most watched production in the history of autos."</div> <bR> <div> Teri Quigley, the 22-year GM veteran who manages the sprawling Detroit-Hamtramck plant where the Volt will roll off the line, can already feel the heat.</div> <bR> <div> "We have to execute flawlessly," she says. "A lot of pressure? Yeah. ... We've got one chance to do this right. My work force has heard me say this more than once: The world is really going to be watching."</div> <bR> <div> GM is spending $336 million to prepare the factory, so it can build Volts on the same line as the Cadillac DTS and Buick Lucerne.</div> <bR> <div> The Volt, she says, could help restore luster to American cars — and the city.</div> <bR> <div> "The whole view of what Detroit is like, what the auto industry is like — we have a unique opportunity to change that tarnished image," she says. "I'd like to change people's minds about what we do here."</div> <bR> <div> Initially, the Volt will be available only in Michigan, California and Washington, D.C. GM won't reveal the price tag, though it's believed to be about $35,000 — not taking into account a $7,500 tax credit.</div> <bR> <div> The car will have a 400-pound T-shaped lithium ion battery that gives it a range of up to 40 miles on one charge. After that, a small gas-powered engine will kick in to generate electricity to power the car about 300 miles. The battery can be recharged by plugging it into an electrical outlet.</div> <bR> <div> GM is pouring $700 million into eight operations that will produce the car. The dollars and work will be spread out: Warren. Hamtramck. Bay City. Grand Blanc. Brownstown Township. And Detroit and Flint, two cities that are the walking wounded of the cataclysm that has engulfed Michigan.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 633 WIDTH="707"><div> The state has lost 860,000 jobs in a decade, the majority since 2007.</div> <bR> <div> There have been some modest signs of improvement for U.S. automakers; GM recently announced its first quarterly profit in nearly three years.</div> <bR> <div> Even so, the auto industry will never again generate one in six U.S. jobs, says Smith, the historian. Robots, automation and foreign competition have changed that.</div> <bR> <div> And yet ... silver linings can be found in small clouds.</div> <bR> <div> "People in this area are looking for anything to say Michigan and the car industry can make it," he says. "That's the hope factor that drives a lot of us in Detroit. What if there are suddenly orders for 100,000 Volts? Now we're talking."</div> <bR> <div> <B>Flint sees a rainbow on horizon</B></div> <bR> <div> Dayne Walling is accustomed to looking for silver linings; he's mayor of Flint.</div> <bR> <div> These days, he has 230 million reasons to be optimistic — the amount GM is investing in Volt projects in Flint. Most will go to renovate a plant where about 200 workers will build a 1.4-liter engine for the Volt and Chevy Cruze compact.</div> <bR> <div> A few hundred jobs, though, won't reverse the devastation in a city where more than one in four people are unemployed, thousands of homes stand shuttered and once vibrant factories are empty concrete shells.</div> <bR> <div> Still, Walling, is looking for a meaningful way to remain positive.</div> <bR> <div> "You can bemoan the glass that's half-empty or you can embrace the glass that's half-full," says the boyish-looking, 36-year-old mayor. "We're part of next generation of GM — and that demonstrates we're part of its future, not its past."</div> <bR> <div> The past did have moments of glory. In the 1950s and '60s, Flint bustled with 80,000 workers streaming into GM factories, creating traffic jams, backing up expressway exits.</div> <bR> <div> A generation later, there were the massive layoffs depicted in Flint native Michael Moore's scathing documentary "Roger and Me," that took aim at Roger Smith, then GM's CEO.</div> <bR> <div> For the record, Walling admits he liked "Roger and Me" — an attitude he says isn't widely shared in Flint.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 654 WIDTH="707"><div> "it was really funny and tragic," he says. "I took it as a challenge ... to work against the odds and not just promote a better image but make this a more prosperous community."</div> <bR> <div> Twenty years later, the job is even harder.</div> <bR> <div> But here comes the Volt.</div> <bR> <div> "It's the beginning," Walling says, "of a long transition from a Rust Belt city to one that's more green, has more technology and is more relevant to the 21st century."</div> <bR> <div> <B>The launch team is optimistic</B></div> <bR> <div> Kris Johns, an auto plant electrician, is making that transition himself.</div> <bR> <div> He started as a young man at Flint. Now, 34 years later, he's part of the Volt engine launch team.</div> <bR> <div> "It's savior for us," he says, simply.</div> <bR> <div> At 55, Johns could retire with a full pension, but he still wants to work.</div> <bR> <div> GM has provided him a good life. He bought his first house, for instance, at 23. He built a 4,100-square-foot home, helped his three kids through college, bought a truck, an 18-foot boat and a 28-foot camper trailer.</div> <bR> <div> "Working around here you were the rich guys," Johns says. "We were well-paid, for blue-collar workers. We will not deny that. But we worked hard, too. We gave them their money's worth."</div> <bR> <div> Johns knows autoworkers and GM have been bad-mouthed over the years; some of it, he feels has been unfair, but some justified.</div> <bR> <div> "We've taken a pretty good beating. We developed a reputation for poor quality. We put out junk," he says, referring to some cars in the late '70s and early '80s. "People recognized it. It's taken awhile to get the public back."</div> <bR> <div> An hour's drive away, Steve Prucnell agrees.</div> <bR> <div> "I think their thinking was, 'Hey, we're No. 1. We're never going to be knocked off," he says, referring to the '80s. "Toyota kicked our butt."</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 654 WIDTH="707"><div> Prucnell stops to make a point. "That's just Steve's opinion," he says.</div> <bR> <div> The result wasn't pretty. When Prucnell started worked on the Volt last year, GM was bankrupt. A federal rescue was in question. And money was so tight, he says, workers scrimped on paper towels and wore their industrial gloves until they were tattered.</div> <bR> <div> "Even I had my doubts GM would have been here in 2010 — and I'm a positive person. ... I thought, 'What am I going to do?'" Prucnell recalls. "Is a 50-year-old guy marketable? Not reallllly."</div> <bR> <div> Prucnell has moved on to a new project. Some days, he sees Volts cruising around the tech center lot.</div> <bR> <div> "There's going to be a feeling of pride when it's running off the line," he says. "We know it's going to be right."</div> <bR> <div> <B>Will the Volt mean security?</B></div> <bR> <div> George McGregor, president of UAW Local 22 in Detroit, is more measured in his optimism.</div> <bR> <div> The Volt, he says, will put his workers on the ground floor of a new enterprise and hopefully provide job security.</div> <bR> <div> "Do I want it to work? Most definitely. MOST definitely. Now, do I have some reservations about battery cars? Definitely." McGregor lets loose a throaty laugh. "Definitely."</div> <bR> <div> McGregor came to Detroit from Memphis in the late 1960s, fresh out of Vietnam. It was an era when a sturdy back and a willingness to work were enough to land an auto job — and a ticket to the middle class.</div> <bR> <div> Now, 42 years later, McGregor, a 64-year-old grandfather with a halo of Brillo-like silver hair, presides over a dwindling auto empire. His local has shrunk from 6,000 members in the 1980s to 1,500 today.</div> <bR> <div> So the Volt is mighty welcome. "We're blessed to have it," McGregor says in his raspy voice.</div> <bR> <div> But he knows old habits die hard.</div> <bR> <div> "Americans love power," he says. "Fast cars. You understand? They LOOVVE large cars. Small cars, efficient cars? We're being forced into that now. If ... gas was reasonable, it would be SUVs and large cars."</div> <bR> <div> McGregor figures electric cars are part of the future. Still, one question gnaws at him.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 91 WIDTH="707"><div> "Is this what the public really wants?" he asks, as if seeking reassurance.</div> <bR> <div> "Hopefully," he says softly. "Hopefully."</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="21"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="May 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= 202 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Edmonton toddler to get his miracle surgery today</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. May 20  2010  07:56  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: May 21st, 2010</div> <div> <B>A New York doctor will perform surgery today on two-year-old Maddox Flynn, an Edmonton boy with a facial deformity who has captured the hearts of many Canadians.</B></div> <bR> <div> Maddox suffers from a lymphatic malformation on his face that has caused a massive cyst of fluid to build up over his left eye. The surgery he requires to fix it is complicated and there is no one available in Canada who can perform the procedure.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f172a07e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Mike Flynn and his two-and-a-half-year-old son Maddox Flynn enjoy some down time in New York City on Wednesday, May 19, 2010.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 609 WIDTH="707"><div> Maddox has gone with his father Mike to New York, where a surgical team at the Vascular Birthmark Institute of New York, led by Dr. Milton Waner, will attempt to fix the malformation.</div> <bR> <div> Waner explains that the condition Maddox was born with -- lymphatic cystic hygroma -- is a form of birthmark that affects his lymph system, the network of vessels that return excess fluid from tissues back into the veins.</div> <bR> <div> "With a lymphatic malformation, these vessels don't work so well, so the flow of lymph across these vessels is slowed down so you get a back-up of fluid," he explained to CTV's Canada AM Friday.</div> <bR> <div> "So the fluid backs up, it swells the tissue, eventually some scar tissue sets in and it turns into a very hard mass, which is pretty much what the patient has at this point."</div> <bR> <div> Maddox will undergo two surgeries. The first will work on the lymphatic malformation in his eye socket, which itself will be very delicate surgery, Waner says.</div> <bR> <div> The second surgery will work on the malformation on his cheek that's interspersed with the facial nerve, a key nerve that controls all the muscles of the face.</div> <bR> <div> "So in order to separate that from the nerve and preserve the nerve so that he can still smile and be a normal child will take about eight to nine hours," Waner explained.</div> <bR> <div> As for whether Maddox will eventually be able to see out of his left eye, Waner says that remains to be seen. </div> <div> "His eye has actually been shut since probably the first month or two of his life, so we're not exactly sure how much serviceable vision there'll be. We know that once we get the eye functioning again and once we get the eye open, some vision may return."</div> <bR> <div> Maddox's surgery will cost US$50,000, along with costs for travel and recovery. But all of that has been covered by generous donations from the public: as of Wednesday, the family has received $175,000 in donations, most of that in the last week alone.</div> <bR> <div> The family has been stunned and delighted by the many small donations made by ordinary people who have been touched by Maddox's plight. Other donations have come from businesses and organizations wanting to help. And then on Thursday, Edmonton Oilers player Gilbert Brule announced he would be adding $10,000 to the growing fund.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 372 WIDTH="707"><div> "Our whole team is rooting for Maddox and his family as they show courage during this challenging time," Brule said in a news release.</div> <bR> <div> Now that the donations have exceeded the expectations of the family, they have consulted a lawyer who is handling a trust fund. The family wants to donate any leftover funds to the Stollery Children's Hospital in Edmonton and the clinic where Maddox is having his surgery, Vascular Birthmark Institute of New York (VBINY) at Roosevelt Hospital and Beth Israel Medical Center.</div> <bR> <div> Friday's surgery will not be the end of the ordeal for Maddox. Assuming everything goes well, he will have to go back for a second surgery in September, which will reconstruct the lower part of his face.</div> <bR> <div> While the surgeries will be taxing for Maddox and his family, Waner suggests the alternative is worse.</div> <bR> <div> "If left untreated, unfortunately, this mass will get bigger and bigger, so that as he gets older, the degree of disfigurement will actually increase," he said</div> <bR> <div> <I>Anyone who wants to donate can e-mail maddoxflynntrustfund@hotmail.com or visit a RBC branch and donate to the Maddox Terrence Flynn Trust Fund, Account #6007443.</I></div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="20"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="May 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= 220 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Loonie continues sharp decline against U.S. dollar</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. May 20  2010  07:56  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: May 20th, 2010</div> <div> <B>TORONTO — The Canadian dollar continues to fall sharply.</B></div> <bR> <div> The dollar was worth about 94.22 cents US, down 1.55 cents from the close on Wednesday.</div> <bR> <div> Canada's dollar has now fallen nearly four cents in little more than a week and nearly seven cents since late April, when the loonie was worth about US$1.</div> <bR> <div> The loonie has been affected recently by fallout from the Greek debt crisis.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f16ba0740.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="116" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> A loonie is seen in front of a United States dollar in Ottawa, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2008. The Canadian dollar is once again creeping closer to parity with the American greenback. (Adrian Wyld / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 107 WIDTH="707"><div> There are concerns that the European Union's efforts to help Greece and other member countries will stall the global economic recovery.</div> <bR> <div> That could depress demand for commodities that are key to the Canadian economy.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="19"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="May 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= 197 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Unrest, fires follow Thai army assault on protest zone</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. May 19  2010  08:17  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: May 19th, 2010</div> <div> <B>Thai authorities have regained control of a protest zone in downtown Bangkok, after a military assault prompted the surrender of anti-government Red Shirt leaders and dispersed thousands of their supporters.</B></div> <bR> <div> The assault began Wednesday morning as armoured personnel carriers drove over the barricades that the anti-government protesters had built in recent weeks. It involved hundreds of Thai soldiers and lasted nine hours.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="f15ca0790.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="121" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> An anti-government protester piles tires on a fire at a shopping centre in Bangkok, Thailand, on Wednesday, May 19, 2010. (AP / Wally Santana)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 701 WIDTH="707"><div> CTV's South Asia Bureau Chief Janis Mackey Frayer said the army moved forward with a deliberately slow pace, unsure of what lay ahead inside the protest zone.</div> <bR> <div> "They didn't know how many protesters were in there, they didn't know how committed they were or how hard-line they were, and they certainly didn't know the kind of weapons they had," she told CTV's Canada AM from Bangkok on Wednesday.</div> <bR> <div> Mackey Frayer said at least two gun battles took place, including one that was prolonged and was followed by explosions.</div> <bR> <div> By the end of the military assault, at least four protesters and an Italian photographer lay dead. Another 60 people -- including a Canadian journalist -- were wounded.</div> <bR> <div> When it became clear that the protesters were on the wrong side of a losing battle, seven Red Shirt leaders surrendered to authorities, with hopes of limiting the casualties on the streets.</div> <bR> <div> "Brothers and sisters, I'm sorry I cannot see you off the way I welcomed you all when you arrived here. But please be assured that our hearts will always be with you," said Nattawut Saikua, as he was arrested Wednesday. "Please return home."</div> <bR> <div> By Wednesday afternoon, Thai army spokesperson Col Sansern Kawekamnerd said the "police officers and soldiers have now stopped their operation."</div> <bR> <div> But the violence hasn't yet come to an end.</div> <bR> <div> "With the surrender of the protest leaders, the violence within the camp abated somewhat but it spread to other parts of the city," Mackey Frayer said.</div> <bR> <div> After the Red Shirt leaders surrendered, rioters set fires at numerous prominent locations in Bangkok including at various banks, the stock exchange, as well as a major shopping mall and cinema complex.</div> <bR> <div> Thai cabinet minister Satit Vongnongeay said the government had anticipated "aftershocks" on the streets of Bangkok. </div> <div> "There are violent-prone protesters who remain angry," Satit told a news conference.</div> <bR> <div> Scattered violence was also reported in other cities in the northeast part of the country where the Red Shirts claim strong support.</div> <bR> <div> Following the military assault, the Thai government issued a nighttime curfew banning Bangkok residents from being outside from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m, without authorization.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="18"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="May 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>NASA wants mission to bring Martian rocks to Earth</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue. May 18  2010  07:18  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: May 18th, 2010</div> <div> <B>MONROVIA, Calif. — For the past decade, NASA's Mars exploration strategy was to follow the water.</B></div> <bR> <div> Signs of water have been found in weathered rocks, mineral deposits and the arctic plains. Now, scientists say it's time to search for life again -- something the space agency hasn't done directly since 1976 when the Viking mission turned up empty-handed.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f151a0740.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="116" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> An artist's concept portrays a NASA Mars Exploration Rover on the surface of Mars.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 126 WIDTH="707"><div> This time, there's a push to bring Martian rock and soil samples back to Earth. Here, they could be analyzed for fossilized traces of alien bacteria, or chemical or biological clues that could only be explained by something that was alive.</div> <bR> <div> NASA can't afford such a mission on its own, so it recently joined the European Space Agency to map out a shared project. </div> <div> Space policy experts think the timing is right despite the risks and hefty price tag, which can cost as much as $10 billion.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="17"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="May 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= 182 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>After string of failures, BP slows flow of oil</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. May 16  2010  21:31  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: May 17th, 2010</div> <div> <B>A mile-long tube has been successfully deployed to slow most of the flow of oil blasting out of a broken undersea pipe in the Gulf of Mexico, a BP spokesman announced Sunday.</B></div> <bR> <div> Mark Proegler said that one end of the tube was slipped inside the larger, broken pipe on the seafloor, which has been spewing crude oil into the water for three weeks. The surface end of the tube was hooked up to a tanker which began capturing oil almost immediately, he said.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f14ba07e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> A slick of oil is seen in Chandeleur Sound, La., Tuesday, May 4, 2010. (AP / Alex Brandon)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 662 WIDTH="707"><div> This is the first time crews have gained even partial control over the leak since a BP-owned rig exploded, caught fire and sank three weeks ago, killing 11 people.</div> <bR> <div> Proelger said the tube began siphoning off most of the oil spilling from the leak soon after it was carefully placed into the ruptured 21-inch piping on the seafloor by engineers gingerly steering deep-sea robots.</div> <bR> <div> Top U.S. officials warned the tube "is not a solution" to the devastating spill and said they would continue to monitor the situation.</div> <bR> <div> "We will not rest until BP permanently seals the wellhead, the spill is cleaned up, and the communities and natural resources of the Gulf Coast are restored and made whole," Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said in a joint statement.</div> <bR> <div> BP has spent three weeks trying to contain the leak that's been fouling the Gulf of Mexico and the latest effort had several setbacks.</div> <bR> <div> Engineers said on Saturday that they had initially failed to connect two pieces of equipment deep below the water's surface.</div> <bR> <div> BP PLC chief operating officer Doug Suttles said one piece of equipment, called the framework, had to be brought to the surface and adjusted to fit with the long tube that connects to a tanker above.</div> <bR> <div> "The frame shifted, so they were unable to make that connection," said Suttles.</div> <bR> <div> Positioning the mechanism in 1,500 metres of water was difficult enough on its own, but the force of the oil rushing out of the pipe made the work even tougher.</div> <bR> <div> The tube is capturing more than three-quarters of the crude leaking out of the well. The company also must contend with a smaller leak that's farther away.</div> <bR> <div> A week ago, BP workers tried to put a massive box over the main leak, but ice-like crystals formed inside and the plan had to be scrapped.</div> <bR> <div> The best chance to permanently stop the leak comes from a relief well that is currently being drilled. But although the work is about halfway done, it's likely months away from being completed.</div> <bR> <div> To deal with the oil already spilled, BP began this weekend to spray undersea dispersants at the leak site. It reported that the chemicals appeared to have reduced the amount of surface oil.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 716 WIDTH="707"><div> Federal regulators on Friday approved the underwater use of the chemicals, which act like a detergent to break the oil into small globules and allow it to disperse more quickly into the water or air before it comes ashore.</div> <bR> <div> But with the National Institute for Undersea Science and Technology suggesting that the undersea plumes it's spotted might be the result of those dispersants, it's unclear what environmental impact the chemicals will have.</div> <bR> <div> The decision by the Environmental Protection Agency to use the dispersants has angered local fishermen, who complained regulators ignored their concerns about the effects on fish.</div> <bR> <div> "The EPA is conducting a giant experiment with our most productive fisheries by approving the use of these powerful chemicals on a massive, unprecedented scale," John Williams, executive director of the Southern Shrimp Alliance, said in a news release.</div> <bR> <div> <B>'Shocking amount of oil'</B></div> <bR> <div> Scientists announced Sunday they'd found huge plumes of oil lurking under the surface.</div> <bR> <div> Researchers from the National Institute for Undersea Science and Technology said they had detected three or four large plumes under the water. One is at least 16 kilometres long and a 1.6 kilometres wide. Some of the plumes are just below the surface, while others have been spotted at depths of more than 1,200 metres.</div> <bR> <div> Samantha Joye, a marine science professor at the University of Georgia told the New York Times that the find suggests "a shocking amount of oil" in the deep water relative to what has been seen on the surface.</div> <bR> <div> "There's a tremendous amount of oil in multiple layers, three or four or five layers deep in the water column," she told the newspaper.</div> <bR> <div> Joye and fellow researchers were testing the effects of large amounts of sub-sea oil on oxygen levels in the water. Oil can deplete oxygen in the water, which is expected to threaten populations of plankton and other tiny creatures that serve as food for a wide variety of sea creatures.</div> <bR> <div> Oxygen levels in some areas have dropped 30 per cent, and should continue to drop, Joye said. She said it could take years -- possibly decades -- for the system to recover from an infusion of this size of oil and gas.</div> <bR> <div> "We've never seen anything like this before. It's impossible to fathom the impact," she said.</div> <bR> <div> At least 790,000 litres -- or 5,000 barrels -- of oil has gushed into the Gulf of Mexico each day since an oil rig exploded April 20.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="16"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="May 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= 61 ><NOBR><div> <B>Quebec cyclist killed on highway in second incident</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. May 16  2010  11:49  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: May 16th, 2010</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="61" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="165" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 344 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>A Quebec cyclist has died after being struck by a car on a highway, just one day after a pickup truck slammed into a group of cyclists south of Montreal, killing three of them.</B></div> <bR> <div> The 57-year-old cyclist died Saturday night, as he biked along the shoulder of Highway 117 near Val-Morin.</div> <bR> <div> The town is located about 90 kilometres northwest of Montreal.</div> <bR> <div> Quebec provincial police say the driver of the car will be charged with impaired driving causing death.</div> <bR> <div> One day earlier, a pickup struck hit a group of six cyclists as they travelled along a stretch of highway near Rougemont, south of Montreal.</div> <bR> <div> Three women died. They have been identified as Sandra de la Garza Aguilar, 36, of Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Que., Lyn Duhamel, 39, of Boucherville, Que., and Christine Deschamps, 44, of Brossard, Que.</div> <bR> <div> Police have said that neither alcohol nor the weather were factors in the crash. But coroner Andre Dandavino said the driver was returning from working an all-night shift as a volunteer firefighter.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="15"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="May 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= 172 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>No arrests after bomb threat aboard Vancouver flight</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. May 15  2010  23:20  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: May 15th, 2010</div> <div> <B>An inbound Cathay Pacific aircraft was escorted into YVR airport by Canadian Forces fighter jets on Saturday afternoon due to a bomb threat.</B></div> <bR> <div> The plane landed safely shortly after 1:30 p.m. accompanied by two CF-18 Hornets, airport spokeswoman Alisa Gloag told ctvbc.ca.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="f149a06d0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="109" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Cpl. Sherrdean Turley from the Richmond RCMP unit speaks to media about the bomb threat, Saturday, May 15, 2010.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 907 WIDTH="707"><div> "It was taken to the gate and all the passengers were offloaded," she said. "To my understanding, no one has been injured."</div> <bR> <div> Mounties searched the plane, but Cpl. Sherrdean Turley said investigators found "nothing of concern on board."</div> <bR> <div> She told reporters outside Vancouver International Airport that the RCMP received the threat at 10:43 a.m. local time.</div> <bR> <div> "This threat is being taken very seriously," she said. "We just want to ensure the travelling public that there is no threat at this time."</div> <bR> <div> Passengers were allowed off the plane a few hours after landing on the tarmac. No one was arrested.</div> <bR> <div> "I was scared," said one passenger about the moment he noticed the fighter jet outside the plane's window. "It was flying very near."</div> <bR> <div> However, several passengers told CTV News that they were not told about the security threat during the flight.</div> <bR> <div> "No announcements were made on board," she said. "Some passengers noticed the fighter jets out the window and were frightened. But there was no panic on the plane. Everyone remained calm because passengers had no idea what was going on."</div> <bR> <div> The order to send the jets was made from the Canadian Norad regional headquarters in Winnipeg. A search and rescue aircraft plus a military helicopter also responded to the call in case the incident developed.</div> <bR> <div> A Vancouver Island resident who witnesses the escorted plane fly by said he was able to snap about 20 pictures as the aircraft made its way across the horizon.</div> <bR> <div> "I just heard planes overhead, looked up and saw a big aircraft with a fighter right on its wings," said Patrick Beeton in a telephone chat with News Channel. "At a distance behind was another fighter jet. It was pretty impressive to see."</div> <bR> <div> The plane has been towed to a remote part of the airport, away from the terminal. Sniffing dogs were seen around the luggage area.</div> <bR> <div> Passengers were told they would receive their luggage at a later date after they were thoroughly examined.</div> <bR> <div> Alan Bell, a terrorism expert, told CTV News Channel that the threat was not likely made by someone on board the aircraft.</div> <bR> <div> "It looks like it was an external bomb threat," he said. "It looks like they gave enough information to make it sound like a credible threat and the crew acted accordingly."</div> <bR> <div> Bell said regardless of the scenario, fighter jets are always deployed when there is a credible threat to public safety.</div> <bR> <div> "We don't know yet what the threat was but each situation scenario would have elicited a response from military aircraft...until the aircraft is safely on the ground," he said.</div> <bR> <div> The fighter jets would be ordered to shoot the plane down if terrorists took over the plane's cockpit and aimed the plane towards a residential area, he added.</div> <bR> <div> The investigation is being handled by the RCMP in Vancouver.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Canadian Press & ctvbc.ca</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="May 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= 182 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Canadian embassy in Bangkok relocated amid riots</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri. May 14  2010  08:08  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: May 14th, 2010</div> <div> <B>Workers at Canada's embassy in Bangkok have been forced to relocate to an emergency location as riots continue in the Thai capital, following the attempted assassination of a key Red Shirt leader.</B></div> <bR> <div> CTV's Janis Mackey Frayer reports that the Canadian ambassador in Bangkok told her Friday morning that embassy officials are now operating essential consular services out of a second location they set up weeks ago as unrest in the capital grew.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f141a05a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Thai soldiers fire rubber bullets into the crowd of anti-government protesters hurling rocks in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, May 14, 2010. (AP / Wally Santana)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 678 WIDTH="707"><div> The move comes as anti-government Red Shirt protesters clash with armed Thai soldiers, turning central Bangkok into a virtual war zone, with troops firing rubber and live bullets along with tear gas at the protesters.</div> <bR> <div> Tensions that had been brewing since mid-March exploded into violence again Thursday evening after a rogue army general regarded as a military advisor to the Red Shirt protesters was shot in the head, leaving him in critical condition.</div> <bR> <div> Since then, street clashes have killed two people and wounded at least 13 others, including a Thai photographer and a foreign journalist.</div> <bR> <div> Friday's violence was initially centred on a small area that's home to several foreign embassies, but by mid-afternoon had spread to other areas around the protest zone.</div> <bR> <div> In one area, soldiers fired rubber bullets, live ammunition and tear gas shells, while protesters retreated, hurling rocks, and army vehicles sped down deserted streets littered with debris.</div> <bR> <div> Two months of fighting in Thailand have now killed 31 people and injured hundreds. The protests began as the Red Shirts, who are mostly rural poor, began camping in the capital on March 12, in a bid to force out Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva.</div> <bR> <div> They claim his coalition government came to power illegitimately through manipulation of the courts and the backing of the powerful military, which in 2006 forced the populist premier favored by the Red Shirts, Thaksin Shinawatra, from office in a coup.</div> <bR> <div> Last week, Abhisit offered November elections, raising hopes that a compromise could be reached with the Red Shirts. But those hopes were dashed after Red Shirt leaders made more demands.</div> <bR> <div> Late Thursday, the army moved to seal off the Red Shirt barricaded encampment which covers three square kilometres in a high-end neighbourhood of the capital. Some 10,000 protesters, women and children among them, have crammed into the area.</div> <bR> <div> Authorities have also extended a state of emergency across 17 provinces, in the hopes of keeping protesters elsewhere in the country from joining those who have occupied a swath of the capital.</div> <bR> <div> The protesters have signalled that they do not intend to give in.</div> <bR> <div> "We will never surrender. Please have faith in the fight," Jatuporn Prompan, a protest leader said Thursday. "As soon as troops move in, the Red Shirts in the provinces and Bangkok will rise together."</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="13"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="May 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= 236 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>MPs question private eye about Jaffer, Guergis</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. May 12  2010  20:25  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: May 13th, 2010</div> <div> <B>The private investigator at the centre of allegations against Rahim Jaffer says he has concerns about the former MP's dealings with controversial Toronto businessman Nazim Gillani.</B></div> <bR> <div> But Derrick Snowdy said he has no evidence of questionable conduct by former Conservative cabinet minister Helena Guergis, Jaffer's wife.</div> <bR> <div> Snowdy was called before the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates Wednesday, which is probing allegations that Jaffer and business partner Patrick Glemaud engaged in inappropriate lobbying on Parliament Hill.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f13da05a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Private investigator Derrick Snowdy, right, appears at Commons government operations committee looking into Rahim Jaffer and energy projects funded by the government on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday May 12, 2010. (Sean Kilpatrick / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 625 WIDTH="707"><div> The investigator became a public figure after it was revealed he tipped off the Conservatives about allegations involving Jaffer and Guergis -- the married couple whose personal and professional relationships have come under intense scrutiny in recent weeks.</div> <bR> <div> He said he told the Conservative party about potential compromising relationships involving Guergis and her husband, which he learned of during an investigation he was conducting.</div> <bR> <div> "I appear before you today to speak to the facts, to connect the dots, as I did to the victims and clients during the investigative process," the 38-year-old said in his opening remarks.</div> <bR> <div> "I hope and trust that my presence today will serve to offer perspective and close this chapter," he said. "I am an unwilling participant in this drama."</div> <bR> <div> Prior to speaking to the Conservatives, Snowdy had been looking into the relationship between Jaffer and Gillani. Snowdy had been hired by a company called HD Retail Solutions to investigate Gillani, who is currently facing unrelated fraud charges in Ontario.</div> <bR> <div> Snowdy said he was asked to look into Gillani's business dealings because the initial proposal to HD Retail "did not fit with the traditional venture capitalist presentations."</div> <bR> <div> "Having my previous involvement in these types of schemes, investigating them with respect to cases, I was well aware that there was a dark side to this and it was not on the up and up."</div> <bR> <div> Snowdy said he understood from his client that Jaffer and Gillani held a dinner meeting to discuss Jaffer's ability to secure government grants for green projects using "special access."</div> <bR> <div> "It was their understanding that this was the back door."</div> <bR> <div> But Snowdy said he didn't think they had agreed on how Jaffer would be paid.</div> <bR> <div> "That went more to the previous business schemes that Mr. Gillani had put into place, as to how his partners are compensated," he said.</div> <bR> <div> Asked whether he was the source of information that led to Prime Minister Stephen Harper to kick Guergis out of caucus, Snowdy replied: "You'll have to ask the prime minister."</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 538 WIDTH="707"><div> An April 8 Toronto Star report detailed a September 2009 business meeting Gillani and Jaffer attended in Toronto last fall, involving several other business associates where they discussed means of obtaining funds for business projects.</div> <bR> <div> Snowdy has denied he was the source behind the Star report.</div> <bR> <div> When Jaffer drove home from the September meeting, he was stopped by the OPP and charged with cocaine possession and driving under the influence. Those charges were later dropped and he pleaded guilty to careless driving in an Orangeville, Ont., court earlier this year.</div> <bR> <div> The morning after the meeting, Gillani sent out an email claiming Jaffer had "opened up the Prime Minister's Office to us." </div> <div> A spokesperson for Prime Minister Stephen Harper would call such claims "absurd" and said Jaffer had no pull within the Conservative government.</div> <bR> <div> The day after the Star report was published, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Guergis had resigned from his cabinet after "serious allegations" about her conduct were relayed to his office.</div> <bR> <div> Harper said Guergis, a three-term MP for the Ontario riding of Simcoe-Grey, would sit outside the Conservative caucus until the matter was resolved.</div> <bR> <div> Since then, Guergis has fought an attempt by the Conservative party to dump her as its nominated candidate in Simcoe-Grey, by writing a letter of protest to party officials and speaking about her situation in a TV interview.</div> <bR> <div> Guergis has also claimed that she has not been informed of the allegations against her, after initially claiming they were baseless.</div> <bR> <div> Harper spokesperson Dimitri Soudas has said the Conservative party fully briefed Guergis on the allegations against her. </div> <div> In a recent interview with The Canadian Press, Snowdy said he believes Guergis has been "collateral" damage in the story involving Gillani and Jaffer.</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="12"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="May 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= 182 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Family of four perished in Que. landslide: authorities</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue. May 11  2010  21:55  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: May 12th, 2010</div> <div> <B>Authorities have located the bodies of four family members whose home was destroyed in a landslide northeast of Montreal.</B></div> <bR> <div> The landslide struck Monday night on the outskirts of Saint-Jude, Que., near a tributary of the Yamaska River. It left a hole four times larger than a football field, damaged a two-lane road and prompted the evacuation of five other houses in the town, which is located about 50 kilometres outside of Montreal.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f135a06d0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="109" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> A landslide in Saint-Jude, Que., is shown from the air on Tuesday, May 11, 2010. (Graham Hughes / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 799 WIDTH="707"><div> After nearly 24 hours of searching the family's property, authorities located the remains of Richard Prefontaine, Lynne Charbonneau, and their two girls, nine-year-old Amelie and 11-year-old Anais, in the rubble of their destroyed home.</div> <bR> <div> The bodies were found in the basement, where authorities believe the Prefontaine family was watching the Montreal-Pittsburgh playoff hockey game when the landslide occurred.</div> <bR> <div> "After digging and going through the rubble we found the four victims," said Michel Dore, Quebec's emergency management co-ordinator. "They were found very close to one another, some of them lying on the couch in the family room in the basement."</div> <bR> <div> Rescue crews had been using helicopters and a K9 team to scour the property and brought in heavy machinery to help them gain access to the sunken house.</div> <bR> <div> However, progress had been slow. Rescuers made several attempts to make their way inside the house overnight Monday but had to stop due to safety concerns.</div> <bR> <div> Earlier on Tuesday, they found the family's golden retriever, Foxy, alive but severely weakened in the mud near the house. </div> <div> Meanwhile, family gathered near the property, waiting to find out the fate of their loved ones.</div> <bR> <div> At the Aux Quatre-Vents elementary school in Saint-Jude, students heard what had happened at the house where one of their fellow students lived.</div> <bR> <div> Principal Chantal Gagnon said the school had never been so quiet.</div> <bR> <div> Mayor Yves de Bellefeuille said residents are in shock after seeing what happened to the house in Saint-Jude.</div> <bR> <div> He said counselors would be made available to people who need help.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Cause unknown</B></div> <bR> <div> Geologist Judith Patterson said the swath of displaced land bore the hallmarks of "lateral spread," a type of sideways landslide.</div> <bR> <div> Parts of the region sit on a "quick clay" that can liquefy, causing such events, she said.</div> <bR> <div> "These clays, they're stable when they're undisturbed. But once they're disturbed, then they become very hazardous," she told CTV News Channel.</div> <bR> <div> Patterson noted that a lot of rain had fallen on Saint-Jude over the weekend, which may have been a contributing factor. </div> <div> Dore said about 100 landslides occur in the province every year, but most are minor.</div> <bR> <div> In 1971, a major landslide struck the town of St-Jean-Vianney, Que., killing 31 people and destroying 38 homes.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="11"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="May 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>Two adults, two kids missing after Quebec landslide</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue. May 11  2010  07:43  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: May 11th, 2010</div> <div> <B>Police have seen no signs of life at the site of a Quebec landslide that has partially collapsed a house where a family of four lives northeast of Montreal.</B></div> <bR> <div> The landslide struck late Monday in the town of Saint-Jude, Que., in a rural area near the Yamaska River. Leaving behind a huge crevice, it affected an area about 450 metres long and prompted the evacuation of five other houses.</div> <bR> <div> A couple and their two young children have not been seen since the disaster and officials fear they could be inside the sunken house.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f12da05a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> The landslide affected an area at least 450 metres long and left a huge crevice. Police have closed a six-kilometre stretch of a secondary road where the affected houses are located on Monday, May 10, 2010.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 414 WIDTH="707"><div> CTV's Genevieve Beauchemin said police have tried to call the cellphone of a male electrician who lives in the home, but have not had any success.</div> <bR> <div> "He apparently carries his cellphone all the time with him. He has it on his belt, even when he is within the house," Beauchemin told CTV's Canada AM from Saint-Jude on Tuesday morning.</div> <bR> <div> "So, what they tried to do overnight is to call that cellphone to try to see whether he would answer that and they could hear the cellphone ring at times, but there was no one who picked up. No signs of life."</div> <bR> <div> Beauchemin said it is not certain if the family was home at the time of the landslide. But since no one has heard from them, police are working under the assumption they are inside the home.</div> <bR> <div> Francois Gregoire, a fire department spokesperson, said rescuers had been able to enter the collapsed house but could not find the missing family members.</div> <bR> <div> Beauchemin said the disaster has created a "massive hole" that has left the home "tilting on its side" on Tuesday morning -- a situation that makes it dangerous for rescuers to approach the site.</div> <bR> <div> Engineers and other officials have been on site to survey the scene, but it is not clear what caused the landslide.</div> <bR> <div> "They are saying they don't know yet, this is the type of situation where they have a lot of work to do," she said.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="10"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="May 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= 244 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Death toll in Russian mine blasts hits 30</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. May 10  2010  06:23  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: May 10th, 2010</div> <div> <B>MEZHDURECHENSK, Russia — The death toll from two explosions in Russia's largest underground coal mine rose to 30 on Monday, with about 60 people still trapped, the government official heading the rescue operation said.</B></div> <bR> <div> Emergency Minister Sergei Shoigu announced the news at a briefing after rescue workers were able to go down into parts of the Siberian mine hit by two blasts over the weekend.</div> <bR> <div> High levels of methane gas have raised fears of further explosions and hindered rescue efforts. Shoigu said a further danger is now posed by rising water levels in the deep mine, and rescuers have a maximum of 48 hours to reach 13 people in two locations that are being flooded.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f127a07e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> People walk around the building destroyed by the underground explosion at the Raspadskaya mine in the city of Mezhdurechensk in the west Siberian region of Kemerovo, Monday, May 10, 2010. (AP / Fedor Baranov)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 463 WIDTH="707"><div> Most of the 18 dead found early Monday were rescue workers who had entered the mine after the first blast, Shoigu said. The second more powerful blast destroyed the main air shaft and a five-storey building over the mine.</div> <bR> <div> The first blast, believed to have been caused by methane, hit the Raspadskaya mine just before midnight Saturday and the second about 3 1/2 hours later. There were 359 workers below ground at the time of the first explosion, the Emergency Ministry said. A total of 58 people were injured.</div> <bR> <div> Most managed to get out, but after the second explosion, 64 miners and 19 rescue workers were trapped underground and all communication with them was lost, Shoigu said Sunday.</div> <bR> <div> The mine is 500 metres deep and has 370 kilometres of underground tunnels.</div> <bR> <div> More than 500 emergency workers from around the country raced throughout the day Sunday to restore ventilation to the mine and rebuild mine shafts so the search for those trapped could resume. The first rescue teams entered the mine early Monday.</div> <bR> <div> Shoigu said risks of further explosions remained but were not high.</div> <bR> <div> The Raspadskaya mine is in Kemerovo, a coal mining region in western Siberia located about 3,000 kilometres east of Moscow.</div> <bR> <div> There was no immediate information on what set off the blast. Mine explosions and other industrial accidents are common in Russia and other former Soviet republics, and are often blamed on inadequate implementation of safety precautions by companies or by workers themselves.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="09"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="May 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= 205 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Man kills 8 in China's latest bloody rampage</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Son. May 09  2010  08:15  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: May 9th, 2010</div> <div> <B>BEIJING — A Chinese man on a stabbing rampage killed eight people in the country's southeast, including his mother, wife and daughter, police and new reports said Sunday.</B></div> <bR> <div> The motive in Saturday night's stabbing was not immediately clear.</div> <bR> <div> The official Xinhua News Agency cited witnesses as saying the man killed his 10-year-old daughter and then his 83-year-old mother, who was kneeling and begging to be spared.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="f125a0650.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="101" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, a police vehicle parks at the crime scene at Chengyuan village in the southeastern province of Jiangxi on Sunday May 9, 2010.(AP / Xinhua, Zhou Ke)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 344 WIDTH="707"><div> He then killed his wife and two other people in a neighbouring home, a nearby migrant worker and two villagers running from the scene, the report said.</div> <bR> <div> Xinhua said suspect Zhou Yezhong was caught within two hours of the stabbings in the southeastern province of Jiangxi.</div> <bR> <div> China has been shaken in recent weeks by multiple cases of mass violence, including attacks on children at schools. Some have been blamed on the attackers' mental illness and others on the pressures of a rapidly changing society and a lack of a strong social support system.</div> <bR> <div> Because of the concerns, the central government has ordered tighter security at schools across the country.</div> <bR> <div> A man answering telephones at the police station in Badu town, where the latest stabbings occurred, confirmed the attacks but did not give details. He did not give his name.</div> <bR> <div> Police offices at Jishui county and the provincial level did not answer phone calls.</div> <bR> <div> Other media reports mirrored the Xinhua account of the attack.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="08"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="May 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= 179 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Ice crystals block attempt to stem undersea oil spill</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. May 08  2010  22:43  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: May 8th, 2010</div> <div> <B>Crews hit a snag Saturday in the delicate and time-consuming attempt to cap an undersea oil well that is pumping millions of litres of crude into the Gulf of Mexico.</B></div> <bR> <div> A spokesman for BP said Saturday that a 100-ton steel-and-concrete vault was successfully maneuvered over the ruptured well nearly 1,500 metres below the surface, a critical step in the attempt to seal off the massive leak.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="f124a0670.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="103" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A support ship circles a relief platform at the Deep Sea Horizon oil spill site in the Gulf of Mexico, near Louisiana on Saturday, May 8, 2010. (AP / David Quinn)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 664 WIDTH="707"><div> But Doug Suttles, chief operating officer for BP, said methane hydrate ice crystals quickly began to form inside the huge structure, blocking the flow of oil and threatening to lift it off the sea floor.</div> <bR> <div> "As we were placing the dome over the leak source a large volume of hydrates formed inside the top of the dome, requiring us to move the dome to the side of the leak point," Suttles said.</div> <bR> <div> Suttles said workers have moved the four-storey tall vault off the ruptured section of the well and are now trying to figure a way around the problem.</div> <bR> <div> "I wouldn't say it's failed yet," Suttles told a news conference. "I would say that what we were trying to do last night didn't work."</div> <bR> <div> The company also said that a second, larger containment box was being built.</div> <bR> <div> But as BP workers tried to stop the leaking well, more than 150 kilometres away blobs of tar washed up at an Alabama beach full of swimmers.</div> <bR> <div> Authorities in protective gear descended on the public beach on Dauphin Island, five kilometres off the Alabama mainland at the mouth of Mobile Bay and much farther east than oil had been reported.</div> <bR> <div> About a half dozen tar balls had been collected by Saturday afternoon at Dauphin Island, Coast Guard chief warrant officer Adam Wine said in Mobile. Authorities planned to test the substance but strongly suspected it came from the oil spill.</div> <bR> <div> The containment vault, a method never before attempted at such depths, had been considered the best hope of stanching the flow in the short term.</div> <bR> <div> But officials had cautioned that there would be unforeseen challenges during this unprecedented attempt to divert leaking oil. </div> <div> BP contracted the Deepwater Horizon, the oil rig that sank after an explosion that killed 11 workers two weeks ago. The blast sent more than 757,000 litres of crude a day spilling into the Gulf.</div> <bR> <div> Suttle said the company is also working on other methods of stopping the leak, including having crews drill sideways into the well in hopes of plugging it up with mud and concrete.</div> <bR> <div> The work is becoming increasingly urgent as the spilled oil creeps deeper into the Mississippi Delta.</div> <bR> <div> Crews have been laying booms, spraying chemical dispersants and setting fire to the oil slick to try to keep it from coming ashore.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 629 WIDTH="707"><div> The U.S. Coast Guard said Saturday that about 7.95 million litres of oil mixed with seawater has been collected since the explosion.</div> <bR> <div> Nearly 190 vessels are involved in the cleanup efforts, laying more than 257 kilometres of boom to contain the oil and using more than 1 million litres of chemicals to break up the oil on the water's surface.</div> <bR> <div> More than 4,500 people are responding and another 2,500 volunteers have been trained to help, the Coast Guard said.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Methane bubble set off blast, report says</B></div> <bR> <div> The Associated Press reported Saturday that the deadly blowout that set off the massive oil spill was triggered by a bubble of methane gas that escaped from the well and shot up the drill column, bursting through several seals and barriers before exploding.</div> <bR> <div> According to interviews with rig workers conducted during an internal investigation by BP, the well was in the process of converting from conducting exploratory drilling to producing oil when the blast occurred.</div> <bR> <div> Ironically, a group of BP executives was on board the rig celebrating the project's safety record at the time of the explosion, according to the transcripts of the investigation obtained by AP.</div> <bR> <div> While workers were placing concrete seals on the well, deep beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, they encountered a buried pocket of methane, said Robert Bea, a University of California Berkeley engineering professor who was consulted as part of the investigation.</div> <bR> <div> Bea said that the bubble rose up the drill column, expanding as it shot up from the high-pressure deep and breaking through safety barriers as it went.</div> <bR> <div> "A small bubble becomes a really big bubble," he said. "So the expanding bubble becomes like a cannon shooting the gas into your face."</div> <bR> <div> The gas flooded into an adjoining room with exposed ignition sources and exploded.</div> <bR> <div> The BP executives were injured but survived, according to one account. Nine rig crew and two engineers died.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="07"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="May 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>Giant box close to being overtop oil-spewing well</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri. May 07  2010  08:28  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: May 7th, 2010</div> <div> <B>A massive metal containment chamber is close to being placed over a ruptured oil well 1,500 metres below the surface in the Gulf of Mexico, in an attempt to stem a wider environmental disaster than that which has already begun.</B></div> <bR> <div> Once in place, the four-storey, 100-tonne concrete and steel box will be placed over a blown-out well that's been spewing hundreds of thousands of litres of oil into the ocean for more than two weeks.</div> <bR> <div> A crane began lowering the containment box on Thursday night, while undersea robots placed buoys around the main oil leak to act as markers to help line up the box.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f11ea07e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Oily water splashes against the containment vessel as it is lowered into the Gulf of Mexico at the site of the Deepwater Horizon rig collapse, Thursday, May 6, 2010. (AP / Gerald Herbert)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 608 WIDTH="707"><div> The operation had to be delayed a few hours Thursday, because dangerous fumes were rising from the oily water on a windless night. The fear has been that a spark caused by scraping metal could ignite a fire.</div> <bR> <div> Eventually, the crane will give way to underwater robots that will secure the contraption over the main leak at the bottom.</div> <bR> <div> A steel pipe will be installed between the top of the box and tanker. The device will then begin to collect as much as 85 per cent of the oil and funnel it up to a tanker waiting on the surface.</div> <bR> <div> If all goes well, the whole structure could be operating by Sunday. But since nothing like this has ever been attempted before, it could take days before it's learned whether the plan has been successful.</div> <bR> <div> "We haven't done this before," said oil company BP spokesman David Nicholas. "It's very complex and we can't guarantee it."</div> <bR> <div> At depths of 1,500 metres, the water pressure is so intense, it's enough to crush a submarine. The fear is that if the dome is not positioned over the well accurately, or it could damage the leaking pipe and perhaps make the problem even worse.</div> <bR> <div> Other risks include ice clogs in the pipes -- a problem that crews will try to prevent by continuously pumping in warm water and methanol. There is also the danger of explosion when separating the mix of oil, gas and water that is brought to the surface.</div> <bR> <div> "I'm worried about every part, as you can imagine," said David Clarkson, BP vice president of engineering projects, told Associated Press.</div> <bR> <div> The blown-out Deepwater Horizon oil rig has been spewing an estimated 200,000 gallons a day since it exploded April 20. That oil has now reached the Chandeleurs barrier islands off the Louisiana coast, many of them with fragile animal habitats.</div> <bR> <div> There are reports that several birds were spotted diving into the oily, rust-coloured water, and dead jellyfish washed up on the uninhabited islands.</div> <bR> <div> The oil slicks stretch for kilometres off the Louisiana coast, where workers are trying to skim, corral and set the oil afire, while people watch from the shore.</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="06"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="May 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= 202 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>NYC car bomb suspect had practice run: official</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. May 06  2010  10:36  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: May 6th, 2010</div> <div> <B>The Pakistani-American suspect behind the failed car bomb in Times Square performed a dry run of the operation three days earlier, an official close to the investigation told the Associated Press.</B></div> <bR> <div> Faisal Shahzad, in custody on terrorism and weapons charges, took a 1993 Nissan Pathfinder to New York's bustling tourist area from Connecticut on April 28, the official said. He returned two days later to drop off a car to use as a getaway vehicle.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f115a07e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> A man who was identified by neighbors in Connecticut as Faisal Shahzad, is shown in this photo from the social networking site Orkut.com. (AP / Orkut.com)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 613 WIDTH="707"><div> Authorities say Shahzad has admitted that he left the Pathfinder in Times Square Saturday, filled with a crude mix of firecrackers, gasoline and propane. Officials said the bomb could have caused a large fireball and killed nearby tourists or theatregoers.</div> <bR> <div> Shahzad, 30, of Connecticut, has also said he received explosives training in Pakistan, according to officials. He was arrested Monday on a Dubai-bound plane and authorities say he is co-operating fully.</div> <bR> <div> Sources close to the investigation have revealed a number of errors made by Shahzad.</div> <bR> <div> He left the engine of the Pathfinder running and its hazard lights on after he left it parked in Times Square. While he had a getaway vehicle nearby, he locked the keys to that vehicle, along with his house keys, in the SUV.</div> <bR> <div> A court date for Shahzad has not yet been set, the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan said Thursday.</div> <bR> <div> Shahzad is suspected to have been working alone on the car bomb plan since he returned from Pakistan in February. Authorities have yet to make a link to any terror groups in Pakistan.</div> <bR> <div> His motives are still in question.</div> <bR> <div> "It appears from some of his other activities that March is when he decided to put this plan in motion," New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Wednesday. "He came back from Pakistan Feb. 3, 2010. It may well have been an indicator of putting something catastrophic in motion."</div> <bR> <div> Pakistan Ambassador Husain Haqqani said his country is investigating any possible terror links to the case but so far no connection has been made.</div> <bR> <div> "I think it's premature to start identifying groups and individuals with whom he might have trained," he told AP.</div> <bR> <div> Shahzad lived in Shelton, Connecticut with his wife and two children. However, his wife and children did not return with him from his recent trip to Pakistan.</div> <bR> <div> He became a U.S. citizen last year.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="05"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="May 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>Schreiber gets 8 years for tax evasion in Germany</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. May 05  2010  06:26  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: May 5th, 2010</div> <div> <B>AUGSBURG, Germany — A German-Canadian arms lobbyist, whose dealings with Brian Mulroney saw the former prime minister defend himself at a public inquiry, has been found guilty of evading taxes in Germany.</B></div> <bR> <div> Karlheinz Schreiber, a key figure in a political party financing scandal involving former German chancellor Helmut Kohl, was sentenced to eight years for not declaring money he allegedly received as kickbacks for the sale of tanks to Saudi Arabia in the 1990s.</div> <bR> <div> Prosecutors had asked for 9 1/2-years in prison while Schreiber's defence attorneys had argued for his acquittal. It was not immediately clear if either side would appeal.</div> <bR> <div> Schreiber, who has German and Canadian citizenship, was arrested in Canada in 1999 under a German warrant. He was sent to Germany in August for trial after losing a 10-year battle against extradition.</div> <bR> <div> Schreiber, 76, also allegedly gave a cash donation in 1991 to the former treasurer of Kohl's</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f10ca0f10.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="241" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> German businessman Karlheinz Schreiber waits for the judgment in his trial in a courtroom in Augsburg, southern Germany, Wednesday, May 5, 2010. (AP Photo/ Kerstin Joensson)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 428 WIDTH="707"><div> Christian Democratic Union party, Walther Leisler Kiep. That allegation triggered a scandal that only deepened with Kohl's 1999 admission that he had personally accepted off-the-books -- and therefore illegal -- donations from supporters.</div> <bR> <div> The party financing scandal tainted the reputation of Kohl, who was chancellor from 1982-1998, and led to a criminal investigation against the chancellor who united Germany in 1990. However, prosecutors in Bonn closed the case in 2001 without charging him after he agreed to pay hefty fines.</div> <bR> <div> Schreiber was indicted initially on charges of tax evasion, bribery and of being an accessory to breach of trust and fraud. </div> <div> The court only considered the tax evasion charge after finding that the statute of limitations has expired on a bribery charge, while charges of accessory to breach of trust and fraud were not included in the extradition order.</div> <bR> <div> Similar allegations swirled around Schreiber during his scandal-plagued stay in Canada, during which his dealings with Mulroney became the subject of a public inquiry last year.</div> <bR> <div> Mulroney has admitted taking $225,000 in cash from Schreiber but said he broke no laws or ethical guidelines. He argued that he had merely tried to line up support from political leaders in Russia, China and France for a proposed UN purchase of the vehicles for peacekeeping work.</div> <bR> <div> Schreiber said the payments totalled $300,000, not the $225,000 Mulroney later declared for tax purposes. He also maintained the former prime minister was supposed to lobby Canadian officials, not foreign leaders.</div> <bR> <div> The final report from the inquiry has not yet been released.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="04"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="May 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= 216 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Times Square bomb plot suspect to appear in court</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue. May 04  2010  09:43  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: May 4th, 2010</div> <div> <B>A suspect in a failed Times Square bomb plot is due to appear in a Manhattan court Tuesday, hours after he was apprehended at a New York airport.</B></div> <bR> <div> Faisal Shahzad was arrested at Kennedy Airport late Monday, as he tried to board a flight to Dubai.</div> <bR> <div> His arrest kept passengers on board Flight EK202 waiting to depart the airport for about seven hours. The Dubai-based Emirates airlines said it was "co-operating with the local authorities."</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f104a07e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> An FBI agent stands inside a truck outside a home in Bridgeport, Conn. Tuesday morning May 4, 2010. FBI searched a home in Bridgeport where Faisal Shahzad lived. (AP / Douglas Healey)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 869 WIDTH="707"><div> U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Shahzad was identified by customs agents and stopped before he could board the plane.</div> <bR> <div> Holder said authorities "will not rest until we have brought everyone responsible to justice," suggesting that further suspects may be under investigation.</div> <bR> <div> A law enforcement official told The Associated Press that Shahzad "claimed to have acted alone, but there are things that have to be investigated."</div> <bR> <div> Held in New York overnight, Shahzad is due to appear in court later today. The exact charges he faces have not yet been made public by the U.S. Attorney's Office.</div> <bR> <div> The 30-year-old Pakistani-born, naturalized U.S. citizen is suspected of being involved in the failed Times Square car bombing that police have been investigating since the weekend.</div> <bR> <div> Authorities say Shahzad paid cash for a 1993 Nissan Pathfinder about three weeks ago.</div> <bR> <div> This same vehicle was found in a busy Manhattan street on Saturday night. Inside the vehicle was a crude explosive device that was connected to alarm clocks and fireworks, which authorities claim were intended to ignite gas cans and propane tanks.</div> <bR> <div> NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the intent was "to cause mayhem, to create casualties."</div> <bR> <div> The U.S. attorney general said "it's clear that the intent behind this terrorist act was to kill Americans."</div> <bR> <div> The plot was foiled when a food vendor noticed that smoke was coming out of the vehicle. Police were able to successfully disarm the device and no one was injured.</div> <bR> <div> Following Shahzad's arrest, FBI investigators searched a home in Bridgeport, Conn., where he is known to have resided, said agent Kimberly Mertz.</div> <bR> <div> Mertz did not answer questions about the search.</div> <bR> <div> Shahzad previously lived in Shelton, Conn., a short drive northeast of Bridgeport.</div> <bR> <div> A phone number at his former residence was out of service.</div> <bR> <div> Residents in his old neighbourhood said Shahzad had lived there up until last year, along with his wife and two young children.</div> <bR> <div> "He was a little bit strange," said Brenda Thurman. "He didn't like to come out during the day."</div> <bR> <div> He gave differing accounts of his employment to neighbours. Shahzad told Thurman's husband that he worked on Wall Street, while telling former next-door-neighbour Audrey Sokol that he worked in nearby Norwalk, Conn.</div> <bR> <div> Shahzad had recently returned to the U.S., after taking a five-month trip to Pakistan.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="03"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="May 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>NYC mayor confident bomb suspect will be caught</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. May 03  2010  10:04  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: May 3rd, 2010</div> <div> <B>Authorities are confident they will apprehend the perpetrator behind the potentially deadly, but ultimately fizzled car bomb that was discovered in Times Square Saturday.</B></div> <bR> <div> Police are looking for a middle-aged white man who was spotted in security footage removing his shirt near the SUV that was carrying the bomb.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f0f9a05a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> A New York City police officer stands watch on Times Square as pedestrians pass by in New York, Monday, May 3, 2010. (AP / Craig Ruttle)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 594 WIDTH="707"><div> Investigators spoke to the owner of the 1993 Nissan Pathfinder Monday, but did not identify the owner or say whether they were a suspect.</div> <bR> <div> The owner was traced to Connecticut using the vehicle registration number on the SUV. The licence plate on the vehicle has been traced to a different vehicle in a repair shop in the same state.</div> <bR> <div> Mayor Michael Bloomberg said there is a "high-probability" police will apprehend those behind the car bomb.</div> <bR> <div> "Working with White House, working with Homeland Security, working with the FBI, all city agencies working together, there's a high probability that we will find out who did this and apprehend them," Bloomberg said.</div> <bR> <div> The gasoline-and-propane bomb would have been powerful enough to rip the SUV in half and cause a "significant fireball," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Sunday.</div> <bR> <div> While the Pakistani Taliban took responsibility for the bomb, Kelly said that was no evidence to substantiate that claim. </div> <div> "New York officials really believe this is not Taliban-related and are saying it's probably only one person involved here, maybe two," ABC's Linsey Davis told Canada AM Monday morning from New York.</div> <bR> <div> Homeland security secretary Janet Napolitano called the incident a "one-off."</div> <bR> <div> The surveillance video, made public Saturday, shows an unidentified man in an alley taking off his shirt, revealing another shirt underneath. He looks back in the direction of the SUV, and puts his shirt in a bag.</div> <bR> <div> The Pathfinder was photographed crossing an intersection at 6:28 p.m. Saturday. Within two minutes, a T-shirt vendor pointed out the vehicle to a police officer because it was smoking.</div> <bR> <div> The explosive device found in the vehicle featured cheap alarm clocks connected to a can of fireworks. It appeared the fireworks were intended to set off the gas can and cause a chain reaction to the propane tanks stored in the vehicle.</div> <bR> <div> There was also a fertilizer-like substance found in the vehicle, but police say it appears it was not of a type capable of exploding.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="02"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="May 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>Police search for suspect in failed NYC bombing</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. May 02 2010  10:20  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: May 2nd, 2010</div> <div> <B>The bomb at the heart of a failed terror attack in Times Square contained fertilizer that was incapable of exploding, according to New York City police.</B></div> <bR> <div> Unlike the ammonium nitrate grade fertilizer that has been used in attacks such as the Oklahoma City bombing, the substance utilized in Saturday's attempted car bombing would not have triggered a substantial explosion, police spokesman Paul Browne said.</div> <bR> <div> Police have yet to determine exactly what was in the homemade bomb, which officials have described as "amateurish," but not without danger.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="f0f7a05a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly discusses Saturday evening's Times Square incident during a news conference at One Police Plaza, in New York on Sunday, May 2, 2010. (AP / Henny Ray Abrams)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 519 WIDTH="707"><div> New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Sunday afternoon there is no evidence to link the failed attack to the Taliban.</div> <bR> <div> Kelly said police are on their way to a Pennsylvania town to speak with a person who may have videotaped a suspect. Kelly said the person got a picture of a white man in his 40s, who was taking off his shirt in an alley and putting it in a bag. </div> <div> "The intent of whoever did this (was) to cause mayhem, create casualties," Kelly said. He added that New York is still "clearly a target of people who want to come here and do us harm."</div> <bR> <div> The head of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, said that while the incident was clearly meant as an act of terrorism, it appears to have been a one-off attack and not part of a wider plot.</div> <bR> <div> The normally bustling neighbourhood was devoid of pedestrians for 10 hours while the bomb, which was hidden inside a Nissan Pathfinder, was dismantled.</div> <bR> <div> "We avoided what could have been a very deadly event," Mayor Michael Bloomberg told reporters early Sunday morning. "It certainly could have exploded and had a pretty big fire and a decent amount of explosive impact."</div> <bR> <div> As the bomb was dismantled, police found three propane tanks, fireworks, two 19-litre gasoline containers and two clocks with batteries, electrical wire and other parts, Kelly said.</div> <bR> <div> Police also found a gun locker, which was detonated at another location. It contained eight containers of an "unknown substance."</div> <bR> <div> While Bloomberg described the bomb as "amateurish," Kelly said it could have caused considerable damage despite being made of consumer-grade fireworks.</div> <bR> <div> "I think the intent was to cause a significant ball of fire," Kelly said.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Vendor sounded the alarm</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 641 WIDTH="707"><div> The incident began around 6:30 p.m. Saturday when a T-shirt vendor alerted police to smoke that was pouring out of the back of the SUV.</div> <bR> <div> According to Rallis Gialaboukis, a vendor who for 20 years has worked across the street from where the bomb was located, the vehicle's hazard lights were on as smoke billowed out the back. "It was just sitting there," he said.</div> <bR> <div> New York Fire Department Commissioner Sal Cassano said firefighters who arrived on scene shortly after being called heard a popping sound from the car. A police said it appeared the bomb had started to detonate but malfunctioned.</div> <bR> <div> Kelly said police are studying surveillance video from the scene, including footage that shows the SUV travelling westbound on 45th Street before it parks between Seventh and Eighth Avenues.</div> <bR> <div> Police checked the vehicle's Connecticut licence plate but said it did not match the Pathfinder. The plate's owner told police he had sent the plate to a junkyard, Bloomberg said.</div> <bR> <div> Police said they are scouring through video footage of at least 82 cameras in the area.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Bomb scare seen as tourist attraction</B></div> <bR> <div> The scare led police to shut down the block of 45th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues where the car was parked. Seven theatres are in that one block, and shows such as "God of Carnage" and "Red" opened a half-hour later than scheduled, according to spokesperson Adrian Bryan-Brown.</div> <bR> <div> Stephanie Sy of ABC News said Sunday that many pedestrians in Times Square treated the incident "more as a spectacle than as anything really scary."</div> <bR> <div> "People lined the streets where the cordons were and they were taking pictures as if it was a tourist attraction," Sy told CTV News Channel in a telephone interview. "They weren't exactly running for cover."</div> <bR> <div> The incident is reminiscent of a similar occurrence in Times Square last December, when a van without license plates set off an investigation that caused police to cordon off the area for two hours. A bomb-detection robot searched the van, but no explosives were found.</div> <bR> <div> Several law enforcement agencies will assist the NYPD as they investigate the incident, including the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force. U.S. President Barack Obama has also directed John Brennan, his homeland security and counterterrorism adviser, to work with New York officials.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 327 WIDTH="707"><div> "We have no idea who did this or why," Bloomberg said. "These things invariably ... come back to New York."</div> <bR> <div> <B>A "shockwave of insecurity"</B></div> <bR> <div> Michel Juneau-Katsuya, a former senior intelligence analyst with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, said the perpetrators had succeeded to an extent, even though the bomb didn't fully detonate.</div> <bR> <div> "This will send a shockwave of insecurity, it will put the authorities on the edge," he told CTV News Channel.</div> <bR> <div> Investigators may have a wealth of evidence to work with, he said, because the bomb and the truck in which it was housed remain intact.</div> <bR> <div> The perpetrators may have been members of a domestic militia group, Juneau-Katsuya suggested. One such group was dismantled in the U.S. less than a month ago, and the bombing could represent a reprisal for that.</div> <bR> <div> "Ultimately, we might have to look at this form of homegrown terrorism that exists in the U.S.," he said.</div> <bR> <div> <I>With files from CTV Washington Bureau Chief Paul Workman and The Associated Press</I> </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="01"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="May 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= 147 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Medical marijuana march</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. May 01 2010  20:25  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: May 1st, 2010</div> <div> <B>A march in Calgary Saturday afternoon called for the decriminalization of pot and easier access to medical marijuana.</B></div> <bR> <div> The sixth annual Calgary Worldwide Marijuana March included recreational users and also Calgarians who have multiple sclerosis and other conditions.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f0f6a05a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> The march took place outside of City Hall.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 215 WIDTH="707"><div> Many have Health Canada exemptions allowing them to legally posses, cultivate, and consume cannabis.</div> <bR> <div> But event organizer Keith Fagan says access to medical marijuana is too restrictive, and he says Canada should be more like the U.S. in the number of people legally allowed to use medical marijuana.</div> <bR> <div> "One state in the U.S. in the first year has 20-thousand people, 30-thousand people in the first year, and we've been at it since 2001, and almost 10 years and we've got 5-thousand, not even. Something's seriously, seriously wrong," commented Fagan.</div> <bR> <div> There were also marijuana marches held in Edmonton, Red Deer, and Lethbridge.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from </I>ctvcalgary.ca</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <A HREF="#top" TITLE="May 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>