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HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Two inmates dead after fire, riot at Quebec prison</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 22/07/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#21" TITLE="Jul 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>S</B><B>cientists find most massive star ever discovered</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 21/07/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#20" TITLE="Jul 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>Maddox can now have 'normal life,' mom says</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 20/07/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#19" TITLE="Jul 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" 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HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>George Clooney testifies at fraud trial in Milan</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 16/07/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#15" TITLE="Jul 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>Arrest made after woman, 61, attacked in cemetery</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 15/07/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#14" TITLE="Jul 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>Freighter spilled 75 tonnes of oil into St. Lawrence</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 14/07/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#13" TITLE="Jul 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>82 police injured in Belfast's 2 nights of riots</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 13/07/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#12" TITLE="Jul 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>Party continues as Spanish team heads home from Cup</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 12/07/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#11" TITLE="Jul 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>Senator seeks probe into flavoured alcoholic drinks</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 11/07/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="360"><div> <A HREF="#10" TITLE="Jul 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>RCMP officer accused of killing his wife</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 10/07/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="360"><div> <A HREF="#09" TITLE="Jul 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>Lloyd Robertson announces retirement</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 09/07/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#08" TITLE="Jul 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>Central Canadians may get relief from heat Friday</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 08/07/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#07" TITLE="Jul 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>Missing girl, father seen at Manitoba gas station</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 07/07/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#06" TITLE="Jul 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>Heat warnings continue across Ontario, Quebec</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 06/07/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#05" TITLE="Jul 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>BP costs for oil spill response pass $3 billion</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 05/07/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#04" TITLE="Jul 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>MI5 probing link between royals, accused Russian spy</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 04/07/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#03" TITLE="Jul 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>UN says at least 220 dead in oil explosion in Congo</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 03/07/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#02" TITLE="Jul 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>Que. police probe blast at Armed Forces centre</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 02/07/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#01" TITLE="Jul 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>Mountie believes journalist is on 'personal vendetta'</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 01/07/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> =======================</div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="705" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="707"><div>  <A NAME="31"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jul 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= 164 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Scientists say Martian rock may hold evidence of life</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. July 31  2010  09:36  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: July 31st, 2010</div> <div> <B>Researchers say they have identified rocks that could hold four-billion-year-old evidence of life on Mars.</B></div> <bR> <div> According to a scientific article published Friday, scrutiny of clay-carbonate rocks in the Nili Fossae region of Mars points to possible evidence of organisms that once lived on the Red Planet.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="f453a05a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Mars is seen in this image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. (NASA / Hubble Heritage Team / STScI / AURA)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 666 WIDTH="707"><div> In 2008, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter determined that the Nili Fossae, a region of valleys that have cut into the Martian bedrock, contains carbonate.</div> <bR> <div> The mineral, which forms in the presence of water, had previously been detected in trace amounts in Martian dust and soil.</div> <bR> <div> Because carbonate is typically formed when the remains of dead organisms are buried and preserved, the finding generated considerable excitement in the scientific community.</div> <bR> <div> Following this latest study, lead author Dr. Adrian J. Brown of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute in California said the indicators remain.</div> <bR> <div> "We suggest that the associated hydrothermal activity would have provided sufficient energy for biological activity on early Mars at Nili Fossae," Dr. Adrian Brown said in a statement.</div> <bR> <div> Using infrared light beamed from NASA's Mars Orbiter, Dr. Brown's team closely examined the composition of rocks in the Nili Fossae area. Then, they applied the same technique to rocks in Pilbara, Australia.</div> <bR> <div> The Pilbara rocks, having remained on the surface of the Earth for 3.5 billion years, afford scientists the chance to examine evidence of the planet's early geological history.</div> <bR> <div> Of particular note are the 'stromatolites' formed in the rocks by ancient microbes and preserved there for billions of years.</div> <bR> <div> Now the team believes that the same 'hydrothermal' processes that preserved these markers of life on Earth could have taken place in the four-billion-year-old Nili Fossae.</div> <bR> <div> Comparing the composition of rocks on the two planets, researchers found they each contained similar properties.</div> <bR> <div> "They indicate that biomarkers or evidence of living organisms, if produced at Nili, could have been preserved, as they have been in the North Pole Dome region of the Pilbara craton," Dr. Brown said in a statement.</div> <bR> <div> Nili Fossae was once touted as a possible landing site for the Mars Science Laboratory NASA plans to launch in 2011. The area has since been deemed too treacherous, due to its rocky, uneven terrain.</div> <bR> <div> The paper "Hydrothermal formation of Clay-Carbonate alteration assemblages in the Nili Fossae region of Mars" is published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Written by CTV.ca News Staff </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="Jul 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= 256 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Ontario boy found after spending night in corn field</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri. July 30  2010  08:16  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: July 30th, 2010</div> <div> <B>An Ontario family has been reunited with a toddler who went missing overnight after he got lost in a cornfield.</B></div> <bR> <div> Three-year-old Jessie Chmile went missing on his family's 16-acre property in Bradford, Ont., at about 7:15 p.m. Thursday.</div> <bR> <div> About 120 police officers and firefighters spent the night searching for him, with the help of police dogs, ATVs and a helicopter.</div> <bR> <div> The boy was found alive and well on Friday morning, when he was carried out of the corn fields in the arms of his father.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f449a0b40.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="180" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Jessie Chmile, 3, is carried from his family's corn field in Bradford, Ont. by his father, early Friday, July 30, 2010.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 91 ><NOBR><div> Though Chmile is doing well after his night outdoors, police say he was taken to hospital as a precaution.</div> <bR> <div> Bradford is approximately a one-hour drive north of Toronto.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Written by CTV.ca News Staff with files from The Canadian Press</I></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="29"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jul 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= 235 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>In iPhone, adult industry sees pocket porn market</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. July 29  2010  07:25  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: July 29th, 2010</div> <div> <B>NEW YORK — It's a maxim of technology: Invent the newest gadget and the porn industry will find a way to cash in.</B></div> <bR> <div> So when Apple Inc. launched the iPhone 4 and its FaceTime videoconference feature, it didn't take long for adult-entertainment companies to develop video-sex chat services and start hiring workers through Craigslist.</div> <bR> <div> With more than 3 million of the phones already sold, the adult industry stands to make big money on this new way to reach out and touch someone -- even if it puts Apple, which has always taken pains to keep its iPhone apps squeaky clean, in an awkward spot.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f444a0790.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="121" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> In this photograph taken July 21, 2010, adult film star Teagan Presley poses with her iPhone in Atlanta. Presley is experimenting with Apple's FaceTime feature. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 695 WIDTH="707"><div> In at least five cities, Craigslist ads seek models specifically for video sex chat on FaceTime. Many of the ads even offer to throw in a free iPhone 4 for the new employees.</div> <bR> <div> FaceTime lets people call another iPhone 4 user and have live video conversations over a Wi-Fi connection through the phone's camera and screen. In one TV ad, a soldier uses it to get a look at his faraway wife's ultrasound pictures.</div> <bR> <div> The adult industry wants its customers to share moments of an entirely different kind with its stars. And while the technology may be new, the idea is not. Porn providers have always been early adopters.</div> <bR> <div> In the 1970s, the demand for explicit videos at home helped VCRs become widespread, and the industry was the first to embrace DVDs, too. Internet porn peddlers were some of the first to make wide use of streaming video and online credit card payments.</div> <bR> <div> "The first time someone created a camera there was someone who said, 'Wouldn't it be good for someone to take off their clothes in front of this camera?'" said Michael Gartenberg, vice president at Interpret LLC, a media research company.</div> <bR> <div> And for years, cameras mounted on computers have helped connect people for racy online video sessions. But the portability and privacy of a cell phone makes FaceTime a new frontier for the industry.</div> <bR> <div> "A phone is such an intimate thing, you usually don't lend it out or have someone else use it," said Quentin Boyer, a spokesman for Pink Visual, an adult production company.</div> <bR> <div> Boyer said his company began planning for iPhone 4 video services almost as soon as the device hit stores. They should be ready in a matter of weeks. Boyer said the company will offer FaceTime sessions with some of the same women who appear in its videos.</div> <bR> <div> "It has a very personal feel -- your mobile phone to hers," he said.</div> <bR> <div> Online exhibitionism is only growing. Take Chatroulette, which randomly connects strangers for video chats. While the service isn't explicitly sexual, it's common for users to stumble upon people looking for more than just conversation.</div> <bR> <div> So far, most online video sex chat services have let the customer see the performer, but not the other way around. FaceTime may change that.</div> <bR> <div> "We are seeing more and more that customers want to be watched as much as they want to watch," said Dan Hogue, owner of an adult chat company called CamWorld, which is planning FaceTime services.</div> <bR> <div> The rise of FaceTime porn puts Apple in an awkward position. Its competitors have products that allow video chat, too -- HTC's Evo 4G phone, for one. But Apple has made a big deal about keeping applications sold in its iTunes store clean.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 662 WIDTH="707"><div> Apple has rejected book apps for featuring sexual content and political satires for their potential to offend. While some rejected apps have been approved after revisions, Apple has kept one strict rule: No porn.</div> <bR> <div> FaceTime isn't even an outside developer's app. It's a main feature of the phone.</div> <bR> <div> An e-mail attributed to CEO Steve Jobs that was posted on technology blogs in April says it is Apple's "moral responsibility" to keep pornography off the iPhone. Apple would not confirm that Jobs wrote it.</div> <bR> <div> But just as Apple can't control whom iPhone users call, the company will have a hard time dictating how FaceTime is used. Internet experts say customers will understand that Apple cannot control what goes on in private video chats.</div> <bR> <div> "Apple can't be seen as responsible any more than makers of routers or hardware are responsible for the content you are looking at," said Jonathan Zittrain, a co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.</div> <bR> <div> Still, advocacy groups worry that FaceTime could connect children to pornography or predators. Parents can put computers in public areas of the home to supervise Internet usage, but mobile phones go anywhere.</div> <bR> <div> "Unfortunately, both children and sexual predators are often ahead of parents when comes to technology," says Donna Rice Hughes, president of Enough Is Enough, a child safety group.</div> <bR> <div> Apple, asked to comment on the emerging adult services, noted that people can choose whom they chat with, just like regular calls, and parents can turn off the FaceTime feature. Hughes said it would be better if parents could create a "safe list" of people their children could call.</div> <bR> <div> For the adult-entertainment industry, FaceTime could be more than just another medium. It could actually change the business. For independent sex-chat workers, for instance, it could mean handing over less of their earnings to computer-based services.</div> <bR> <div> But FaceTime presents its own challenges. It requires that both parties in a chat have each other's phone numbers, which could expose video-chat workers to unwanted calls from their clients.</div> <bR> <div> Another obstacle: The iPhone 4 camera was designed specifically for face-to-face chatting.</div> <bR> <div> "You can have the phone on your face, or other body parts, but not both at the same time," said Teagan Presley, who acts in adult films and performs in video chats. "Most customers want the full package, and it's going to be difficult holding a phone." </div> <bR> <div> <I>Written by CTV.ca News Staff 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="Jul 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= 214 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>China floods test massive Three Gorges Dam</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. July 28  2010  06:18  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: July 28th, 2010</div> <div> <B>BEIJING — Record-high water levels put the capacity of China's massive Three Gorges Dam to the test Wednesday after heavy rains raged on across the country, compounding flooding problems that already have left more than 1,200 people dead or missing.</B></div> <bR> <div> The dam's water flow reached 56,000 cubic meters per second (1.96 million cubic feet) Wednesday morning, the biggest peak flow this year with the water level reaching 518 feet (158 meters), the official Xinhua News Agency reported, about 10 percent less than the dam's maximum capacity.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f43ba0580.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="88" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Flood water is released from the Three Gorges Dam's floodgates in Yichang, in central China's Hubei province, Tuesday, July 20, 2010. (AP / Xinhua, Cheng Min)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 550 WIDTH="707"><div> Chinese officials for years have boasted the dam could withstand floods so severe they come only once every 10,000 years. The dam is the world's largest hydroelectric project and was also built to end centuries of floods along the Yangtze River basin.</div> <bR> <div> Floods this year have killed at least 823 people, with 437 missing, and have caused tens of billions of dollars in damage, the State Flood Control and Drought Prevention reported. More heavy rains are expected for the southeast, southwest and northeast parts of the country through Thursday.</div> <bR> <div> Thousands of workers sandbagged riverbanks and checked reservoirs in Wuhan city in central Hubei province in preparation for potential floods expected to flow from the swollen Yangtze and Han rivers, an official with the Yangtze Water Resources Commission said Wednesday. He was surnamed Zhang but refused to give his full name as it common with Chinese officials.</div> <bR> <div> "Right now, the Han river in Hubei province is on the verge breaching warning levels," said Zhang.</div> <bR> <div> The Han is expected to rise this week to its highest level in two decades, Xinhua reported.</div> <bR> <div> Though China experiences heavy rains every summer, flooding this year is the worst in more than a decade, as the flood-prone Yangtze River Basin has seen 15 percent more rains than in an average year, Duan Yihong, director of the National Meteorological Center, said in a transcript of an interview Wednesday posted on the Xinhua website.</div> <bR> <div> "Rains should begin to slow down in August, but it is hard to predict now what exactly will happen, said Duan. "We have to be vigilant and closely monitor the weather ... do a better job of forecasting."</div> <bR> <div> Thousands of rescuers in central China's Henan province searched for survivors on Wednesday after a bridge collapsed from heaving flooding in the Yi River over the weekend, killing 37 people with 29 missing, Xinhua reported.</div> <bR> <div> In the southern province of Sichuan, rescuers searched for 21 missing on Wednesday after a massive rain-triggered landslide buried 58 homes, Xinhua reported.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Written by CTV.ca News Staff with files from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="27"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jul 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= 194 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Leaked file suggests 4 Canadians killed by friendly fire</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. July 26  2010  22:07  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: July 27th, 2010</div> <div> <B>A classified document that was part of a torrent of secret files released to the WikiLeaks website suggests four Canadian soldiers died from friendly fire, not a Taliban attack, in a 2006 incident.</B></div> <bR> <div> At the time, the Canadian government said that the four soldiers died "as they fought to drive Taliban fighters" from a region near Kandahar on Sept. 3. However, the leaked document said that friendly fire from American forces was responsible for the deaths.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f431a05a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> From left to right: Sgt. Shane Stachnik, Warrant officer Frank Mellish, Warrant officer Richard Nolan and Pte. William Cushley, shown in undated photos courtesy of the Department of National Defence.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 538 WIDTH="707"><div> A spokesperson for Defence Minister Peter MacKay said the leaked document was incorrect.</div> <bR> <div> "MacKay's office insists the four Canadian soldiers were killed in a firefight with the Taliban. They say the only Canadian who was killed by friendly fire died the next day, on September 4, 2006," CTV's Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife said Monday night.</div> <bR> <div> It's possible the discrepancy could be part of a miscommunication between U.S. and Canadian officials.</div> <bR> <div> The Canadian soldiers killed on Sept. 3, 2006 were: Sgt. Shane Stachnik, 30, Warrant Officer Richard Francis Nolan, 39, Warrant Officer Frank Robert Mellish, 38, and Private William Jonathan James Cushley, 21.</div> <bR> <div> The revelations come as governments, the media and policy analysts attempt to digest 92,000 secret U.S. documents on the Afghan war which went live on the Internet Monday.</div> <bR> <div> Several European NATO members have expressed concern that the fallout the leak of confidential documents could extend well beyond the Internet -- and could even affect the war itself.</div> <bR> <div> The U.S. records cover six years of the war in Afghanistan, including previously unknown accounts of civilian deaths and targeted attacks on Taliban members.</div> <bR> <div> The files also reveal that the Taliban have used heat-seeking missiles, which is something that NATO has never publicly acknowledged.</div> <bR> <div> One such missile was used to shoot down a U.S. Chinook chopper three years ago, according to the documents.</div> <bR> <div> That May 2007 missile attack led to the death of Canadian combat photographer Cpl. Darrell Priede and six other NATO troops.</div> <bR> <div> So far, NATO has declined comment on the release of the U.S. documents. But representatives from NATO member countries say they hope the leaks do not pose problems for the current war effort.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 538 WIDTH="707"><div> German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle warned that "backlashes" could result from the 91,000 U.S. military documents posted online by the WikiLeaks organization on Sunday.</div> <bR> <div> British Foreign Secretary William Hague said that with recent progress being made in Afghanistan, he hoped "any such leaks will not poison that atmosphere."</div> <bR> <div> "We are working hard with our allies on improving security on the ground and increasing ... the capacity of the Afghan government, so we are not going to spend our time looking at leaks," Hague said Monday before attending a European Union meeting.</div> <bR> <div> Another EU official told The Associated Press that the organization "wants to stay as far from this as possible."</div> <bR> <div> In Washington, White House national security adviser Gen. Jim Jones said the leaks "put the lives of Americans and our partners at risk."</div> <bR> <div> Col. Dave Lapan, a Defence Department spokesman, said the military would need "days, if not weeks" to determine "the potential damage to the lives of our service members and coalition partners."</div> <bR> <div> The Pentagon is investigating the source of the leaks, and has detained Bradley Manning, a former Army intelligence analyst in Baghdad, for allegedly transmitting classified information.</div> <bR> <div> The military said the leaks could have come from anyone with secret-level clearance.</div> <bR> <div> In Kabul, the Afghan government said it was "shocked" by the release of the documents, while arguing that much of the information was not new.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Canadian references</B></div> <bR> <div> In Ottawa, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon told reporters that the Canadian government is concerned that "operational leaks could endanger the lives of our men and women in Afghanistan."</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 463 WIDTH="707"><div> When questioned about a leaked report that suggested a Canadian was among the casualties in a helicopter that was brought down by a heat-seeking missile, Cannon said that any incidents involving Canadian military members are handled by "the investigative arm of the Canadian Forces."</div> <bR> <div> Another leaked report indicated that the U.S. wanted Canada to put pressure on Saudi Arabia and South Africa, two countries where the Americans believed Taliban fundraising was taking place.</div> <bR> <div> On Monday, Pakistan's ISI said the accusations that it had close links to the Taliban were false.</div> <bR> <div> And on Sunday, Husain Haqqani, Pakistan's ambassador to the U.S., said the documents posted by WikiLeaks "do not reflect the current on-ground realities."</div> <bR> <div> Haqqani also said Pakistan is jointly working with the U.S. and Afghanistan, "to defeat al Qaeda and its Taliban allies militarily and politically."</div> <bR> <div> Most of the documents are considered "raw intelligence" reports collected by junior officers that are then passed on to analysts for further review.</div> <bR> <div> In London, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told reporters that the leaked documents show evidence of war crimes, though "it is up to a court to decide really if something in the end is a crime. That said … there does appear to be evidence of war crimes in this material."</div> <bR> <div> Assange said WikiLeaks has access to another 15,000 Afghan files, though they are currently being vetted by the organization.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Written by CTV.ca News Staff with files from The Canadian Press and The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="26"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jul 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= 95 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Accused gang member says only crime is baking cupcakes</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. July 26  2010  06:39  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: July 26th, 2010</div> <div> <B>TORONTO — A Toronto woman ordered deported to Chile for being a gang member says she did nothing more than bake cupcakes and organize Sunday mass.</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <B><IMG SRC="f427a05a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 381 WIDTH="707"><div> Carla Campana has been in detention since October 2009 after police raided the Toronto home she shared with her family.</div> <bR> <div> Earlier this month, an adjudicator with the Immigration and Refugee Board found Campana to be a member of a criminal organization.</div> <bR> <div> The gang in question is the Almighty Latin Kings and Queens Nation, reported to have chapters in several countries.</div> <bR> <div> Court documents in Campana's case state Toronto police believe the local chapter was involved in crimes that included firearms, drugs and aggravated assault.</div> <bR> <div> Campana says all she ever did was sell cupcakes to raise money for a baby shower when one of the female members got pregnant.</div> <bR> <div> She said she had no knowledge of any illegal activities taking place while she was an entry-level member.</div> <bR> <div> "They told me it was a group to help Latin women rise up," Campana, who wants to be a social worker, said in an interview from the jail near Toronto where she is being held.</div> <bR> <div> She has no criminal record and was never charged with any crime.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Written by CTV.ca News Staff 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="25"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jul 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= 256 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Neighbours, family react to apparent murder-suicide</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. July 25  2010  09:02  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: July 25th, 2010</div> <div> <B>Neighbours say there were no signs that could have offered a warning of an apparent murder-suicide in Montreal this weekend.</B></div> <bR> <div> Police believe a retired pizza delivery man was distraught that his relationship with his girlfriend was slipping away, so he killed their two sons and himself.</div> <bR> <div> The mother called police early yesterday when she discovered the bodies of her 72-year-old boyfriend and the boys, aged seven and one.</div> <bR> <div> "If he had to kill him(self) fine, but why he have to touch the kids," the boys' grandfather Roger Breton told CTV News.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="f426a07f0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="127" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Sylvie Breton, 33, walked into her apartment to discover the bodies of her children, Gabriel, 1, and Anthony, 7. Police say they were killed by their father, 71-year-old Jacques Roger Tanguay, who then killed himself.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 166 ><NOBR><div> One neighbour who says he often had breakfast with the family at a local youth centre describes them as normal people.</div> <bR> <div> He says while the couple argued frequently, he would have never predicted anything like this would happen.</div> <bR> <div> Another man who worked with the dead man says he never suspected something like this could happen.</div> <bR> <div> Autopsies will be conducted on the bodies later this week.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Written by CTV.ca News Staff</I></div> </NOBR></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="Jul 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>North Korea vows nuclear response to military drills</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. July 24  2010  13:26  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: July 24th, 2010</div> <div> <B>SEOUL, South Korea — A massive nuclear-powered U.S. supercarrier readied Saturday for manoeuvrs with ally South Korea in a potent show of force that North Korea has threatened could lead to "sacred war."</B></div> <bR> <div> The military drills, code-named "Invincible Spirit," are to run Sunday through Wednesday with about 8,000 U.S. and South Korean troops, 20 ships and submarines and 200 aircraft. The Nimitz-class USS George Washington, with several thousand sailors and dozens of fighters aboard, was deployed from Japan.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f424a0620.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="98" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> The U.S. Navy's Aegis destroyer USS John S. McCain, arrives for joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises at Donghae Harbor, South Korea, Saturday, July 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Yonhap)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 943 WIDTH="707"><div> The North routinely threatens attacks whenever South Korea and the U.S. hold joint military drills, which Pyongyang sees as a rehearsal for an invasion. The U.S. keeps 28,500 troops in South Korea and another 50,000 in Japan, but says it has no intention of invading the North.</div> <bR> <div> Still, the North's latest rhetoric threatening "nuclear deterrence" and "sacred war" carries extra weight following the sinking of a South Korean warship that killed 46 sailors. Seoul and Washington say a North Korean torpedo was responsible for the March sinking of the Cheonan, considered the worst military attack on the South since the 1950-53 Korean War.</div> <bR> <div> The American and South Korean defence chiefs announced earlier in the week they would stage the military drills to send a clear message to North Korea to stop its "aggressive" behaviour.</div> <bR> <div> The exercises will be the first in a series of U.S.-South Korean manoeuvrs to be conducted in the Sea of Japan off Korea's east coast and in the Yellow Sea closer to China's shores in international waters. The exercises also are the first to employ the F-22 stealth fighter -- which can evade North Korean air defences -- in South Korea.</div> <bR> <div> South Korea was closely monitoring North Korea's military, but no unusual activity had been observed Saturday, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported.</div> <bR> <div> North Korea, which denies any involvement in the sinking of the Cheonan warship, has warned the United States against attempting to punish it.</div> <bR> <div> "The army and people of the DPRK will legitimately counter with their powerful nuclear deterrence the largest-ever nuclear war exercises to be staged by the U.S. and the South Korean puppet forces," North Korea's official news agency in Pyongyang quoted an unnamed government spokesman as saying. North Korea's official name is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.</div> <bR> <div> Though the impoverished North has a large conventional military and the capability to build nuclear weapons, it is not believed to have the technology needed to use nuclear devices as warheads.</div> <bR> <div> Its rhetoric regarding using nuclear deterrence was seen by most as bluster, but its angry response to the manoeuvrs underscores the rising tensions in the region.</div> <bR> <div> U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced Wednesday, after visiting the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas, that the U.S. would slap new sanctions on the North to stifle its nuclear ambitions and punish it for the Cheonan sinking.</div> <bR> <div> On Friday, the European Union said it, too, would consider new sanctions on North Korea.</div> <bR> <div> The North's Foreign Ministry said Saturday that Pyongyang will further strengthen its nuclear deterrent and again mentioned "powerful physical measures" in response to the U.S. military provocations and sanctions.</div> <bR> <div> In an apparent bow to China, the George Washington will participate in the exercise in the Sea of Japan, but there are no plans for it to enter the Yellow Sea for the subsequent exercises.</div> <bR> <div> China, a traditional North Korean ally, has voiced concerns that military drills in the Yellow Sea could inflame tensions on the Korean Peninsula and also fears exercises too close to its own shores could breach Chinese security.</div> <bR> <div> The George Washington had been expected to join in exercises off Korea sooner, but the Navy delayed those plans as the United Nations Security Council met to deliberate what action it should take over the Cheonan sinking.</div> <bR> <div> The council eventually condemned the incident, but stopped short of naming North Korea as the perpetrator.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Written by CTV.ca News Staff 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="Jul 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= 218 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>StatsCan's future is at risk: former chief</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. July 22  2010  21:11  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: July 23rd, 2010</div> <div> <B>The former head of Statistics Canada says the agency is in jeopardy due to the government's decision to scrap the mandatory long-form census.</B></div> <bR> <div> Ivan Fellegi, former StatsCan chief statistician, said the escalating political debate over the census has compromised the agency's independence, on which its performance and reputation are built.</div> <bR> <div> That, in turn, could have far-reaching consequences for Canada, he told CTV News Channel on Thursday evening.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f41ba07e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Ivan Fellegi, former StatsCan chief statistician, speaks with CTV News in Ottawa on Friday, July 22, 2010.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 823 WIDTH="707"><div> "(The long-form census) is important for the operation of the country because it is used so widely" to allocate funds and plan services, he said.</div> <bR> <div> Fellegi was among a growing number of experts and insiders sounding the alarm Thursday following the shocking resignation of StatsCan boss Munir Sheikh over the census dispute.</div> <bR> <div> Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff called the resignation "honourable" because Sheikh suffered unacceptable political interference.</div> <bR> <div> The Liberals are asking that the government release all records of advice given to them by StatsCan on scrapping the mandatory long-form sentence.</div> <bR> <div> "Munir Sheikh was forced to resign on a matter of principle," Liberal House Leader Ralph Goodale said. "The government has triggered complete chaos in Canada's esteemed data-gathering agency which, pre-Harper, had been the envy of the world for its accuracy and integrity."</div> <bR> <div> Other critics include the Bank of Canada, which may need to find alternate sources of information, according to Mark Carney, the bank's governor.</div> <bR> <div> Though the bank does not use raw data from the census, the switch could influence unemployment, household income and productivity statistics issued by StatsCan, he said.</div> <bR> <div> New Democratic Party MP Charlie Angus said the Conservative government is waging an "ideological attack" on data, and becoming a "laughingstock" in the process.</div> <bR> <div> "We need to get this issue dealt with," the Timmins James Bay MP told CTV News Channel on Thursday afternoon.</div> <bR> <div> "I really think at this point Stephen Harper has to send a message that they're listening, that they're willing to listen and they're willing to fix this debacle that they've created."</div> <bR> <div> Industry Minister Tony Clement has said that he received advice on how to implement a volunteer survey, but insiders at StatsCan said the agency officials did not recommend such a move.</div> <bR> <div> The Liberals are asking for Sheikh and Clement to appear at a parliamentary committee next week. They are also asking that the Statistics Act be changed to entrench the mandatory long-form census.</div> <bR> <div> The Conservative government quietly announced that they would do away with the long-form census in June, opting to spend $30 million more on a voluntary survey that will be sent to more homes.</div> <bR> <div> The Tories say the mandatory long form census is "intrusive and coercive" and have said Canadians support them on the matter.</div> <bR> <div> However, statisticians say a voluntary survey will produce unreliable data and the move has been widely criticized by provincial governments, many non-governmental organizations and business groups, among others.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Written by CTV.ca News Staff </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="Jul 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= 223 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Two inmates dead after fire, riot at Quebec prison</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. July 22  2010  10:13  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: July 22nd, 2010</div> <div> <B>Two male inmates are dead and another six are in hospital after a fire was started during a riot at a provincial prison north of Quebec City.</B></div> <bR> <div> The riot at the Orsainville prison began at about 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday night.</div> <bR> <div> Marc Lyrette, a spokesperson for Quebec's Ministry of Public Security, said 14 inmates were involved in the riot that took place in the prison's F-wing.</div> <bR> <div> When the warden tried to intervene, some of the inmates set mattresses on fire.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f40ca07e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> ublic Security buses wait outside the prison at the Orsainville detention centre in Quebec City on Thursday, July 22, 2010. (Jacques Boissinot / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 423 WIDTH="707"><div> Authorities ordered the inmates to evacuate the area, but eight of the inmates refused to comply, Lyrette said.</div> <bR> <div> After the fire was extinguished, authorities found the bodies of two inmates who died.</div> <bR> <div> The six other inmates were taken to hospital with various injuries, including smoke inhalation.</div> <bR> <div> Lyrette said all of the inmates in hospital are expected to survive.</div> <bR> <div> The fire caused only minor damage to the prison wing, Lyrette said.</div> <bR> <div> No guards were injured.</div> <bR> <div> Provincial police and prison officials are now investigating the incident. The wing where the riot and fire took place is presently sealed.</div> <bR> <div> While the fire remains under investigation, Lyrette said inmates are allowed to smoke while outdoors at the Orsainville prison. That means that many inmates have routine access to lighters and matches.</div> <bR> <div> It's not the first time that a riot has occurred at the Orsainville detention centre.</div> <bR> <div> Another riot happened in February 2008 after a smoking ban was introduced at the facility.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Written by CTV.ca News Staff 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="21"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jul 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= 290 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Scientists find most massive star ever discovered</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. July 21  2010  07:22  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: July 21st, 2010</div> <div> <B>LONDON — A huge ball of brightly burning gas drifting through a neighboring galaxy may be the heaviest star ever discovered -- hundreds of times more massive than the sun, scientists said Wednesday after working out its weight for the first time.</B></div> <bR> <div> Those behind the find say the star, called R136a1, may once have weighed as much as 320 solar masses. Astrophysicist Paul Crowther said the obese star -- twice as heavy as any previously discovered -- has already slimmed down considerably over its lifetime.</div> <bR> <div> In fact it's burning itself off with such intensity that it shines with nearly 10 million times the luminosity of the sun.</div> <bR> <div> "Unlike humans, these stars are born heavy and lose weight as they age," said Crowther, an astrophysicist at the University of Sheffield in northern England.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f400a0910.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="145" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> A new near-infrared image of the R136 cluster is seen, obtained at high resolution with the MAD adaptive optics instrument at the ESO's Very Large Telescope which provides unique details of its stellar content. (AP / European Southern Observatory, P. Crowther and C.J. Evans)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 844 WIDTH="707"><div> "R136a1 is already middle-aged and has undergone an intense weight loss program."</div> <bR> <div> Crowther said the giant was identified at the center of a star cluster in the Tarantula Nebula, a sprawling cloud of gas and dust drifting through one of the Milky Way's neighboring galaxies.</div> <bR> <div> The star was the most massive of several giants identified by Crowther and his team in an article in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.</div> <bR> <div> While other stars can be larger, notably the swollen crimson-colored ones known as red giants, they weigh far less.</div> <bR> <div> Still, the mass of R136a1 and its ilk means they're tens of times bigger than our sun, and that they're brighter and hotter, too.</div> <bR> <div> Surface temperatures can surpass 40,000 degrees Celsius, seven times hotter than the sun. They're also several million times brighter, a product of the fact that the greedy giants tear through their energy reserves far faster than their smaller counterparts.</div> <bR> <div> That also means that massive stars live fast and die young, quickly shedding huge amounts of material and burning themselves out in what are thought to be spectacular explosions.</div> <bR> <div> "The biggest live only 3 million years," Crowther said. "In astronomy that's a very short time."</div> <bR> <div> Small lifespans are one of several reasons why these obese stars are so hard to find. Another is that they're extremely rare, forming only in the densest star clusters.</div> <bR> <div> Astronomers also have a limited range in which to look: In clusters that are too far away it isn't always possible to tell if a telescope has picked up on one heavyweight star or two smaller ones in close proximity.</div> <bR> <div> In this case, Crowther's team re-examined previously known stars to see if they could find an accurate measurement of their weight. The team reviewed archival data from the Hubble Space Telescope and gathered new readings from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope at Paranal in Chile.</div> <bR> <div> Scientists who weren't involved in the find said the results were impressive, although they cautioned it was still possible, although unlikely, that scientists had confused two very close stars for a bigger, single one.</div> <bR> <div> "What they're characterizing as a single massive star could in fact be a binary system too close to be resolved," said Mark Krumholz, an astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz.</div> <bR> <div> Both he and Phillip Massey, an astronomer with the Lowell Observatory in Arizona, also cautioned that the star's weight had been inferred using scientific models and that those were subject to change.</div> <bR> <div> But both scientists said the authors had made a strong case, arguing for instance that the solar material being thrown off from feuding stars in a binary system would produce much more powerful X-rays than have been detected.</div> <bR> <div> Crowther acknowledged that R136a1 could have a partner, but he said it was likely to be a much smaller star, meaning that its birth weight was still considerable -- perhaps 300 solar masses instead of 320.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Written by CTV.ca News Staff with files from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="20"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jul 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>Maddox can now have 'normal life,' mom says</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue. July 20  2010  08:28  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: July 20th, 2010</div> <div> <B>The mother of an Alberta boy with a dramatic facial deformity says her son can finally have a normal life, now that a number of complicated and lengthy surgeries are complete.</B></div> <bR> <div> Maddox Flynn, 2, was born with lymphatic cystic hygroma, a rare condition that caused two massive cysts to build up over and under his left eye.</div> <bR> <div> After a fundraising campaign that brought in more than $280,000 -- and caused many Canadians to fall in love with the lively youngster -- Maddox's parents were able to take him to New York for surgery that is unavailable in Canada.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f3f8a0770.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="119" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Following facial surgery, Maddox Flynn is comforted by his parents Mike Flynn and Nicole Champagne in a recovery room at the Roosevelt Hospital in New York on Monday July 19, 2010. (Daryl McIntyre/CTV News)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 505 WIDTH="707"><div> "I think Maddox is going to have a chance at a normal life now. He's not going to have anyone stare at him or point at him or question what's wrong with your face," his mother, Nicole Champagne, told CTV's Canada AM on Tuesday, one day after the surgery took place.</div> <bR> <div> Maddox's doctor, Dr. Milton Waner, had already performed surgery in May to remove the growth around his left eye.</div> <bR> <div> On Tuesday during the two-phased procedure, he was able to remove 99 per cent of the remaining growth on the boy's face.</div> <bR> <div> "His whole cheek, the whole mass on his cheek has been removed, his cheek is still a little swollen because of the surgery but it's normal," Champagne said.</div> <bR> <div> "His cheek looks amazing, his mouth is straight and he just looks great."</div> <bR> <div> Doctors had to contend with a very large nerve that runs through the face that has several branches.</div> <bR> <div> Dr. Waner has technology no one else is using to cut the cheek open, move the nerves out of the way and cut out the mass without damaging the nerves.</div> <bR> <div> Maddox and his parents are scheduled to head home to Edmonton on July 27, after roughly a week of monitoring and daily visits with Dr. Waner.</div> <bR> <div> Maddox will have to return for one small procedure at a future date, but the majority of the work is done and Champagne said her son can now begin to move on with his life.</div> <bR> <div> "It's going to mean the world to Maddox, it's going to change a lot," she said. "He's going to be able to go on and that beautiful spirit everybody has fallen in love with it will never be damaged."</div> <bR> <div> <I>Written by CTV.ca News Staff </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="Jul 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>Edmonton toddler to have second facial surgery today</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. July 19  2010  08:47  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: July 19th, 2010</div> <div> <B>Edmonton toddler Maddox Flynn will undergo a second life-changing surgery in New York today, to remove a massive growth from his face.</B></div> <bR> <div> Maddox, 2, was born with lymphatic cystic hygroma, a rare condition that caused two massive cysts to build up over and under his left eye.</div> <bR> <div> In May, he underwent surgery to remove the growth around his left eye. This time, doctors hope to remove the mass on Maddox's cheek and in his mouth.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f3f1a07e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Maddox Flynn cracks a smile while waiting to see his doctor in New York City on Friday, May 28, 2010.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 716 WIDTH="707"><div> The two-phased procedure, scheduled for noon, will first remove the cheek mass, while the second will improve the appearance and function of the boy's left eye.</div> <bR> <div> Mike Flynn, Maddox's father, says Maddox's surgeon, Dr. Milton Waner, has said that the six-hour surgery carries risk because of the intricate nature of the procedure.</div> <bR> <div> "They'll cut his cheek open, move away all those nerves, cut out the mass, put the nerves back together without damaging them – he's got technology that he's using that no one else is using. He can map out every single nerve so that they don't damage it," Flynn told CTV's Canada AM on Monday morning from New York.</div> <bR> <div> Flynn said his son is doing well and seems happy.</div> <bR> <div> "Maddox is awesome. When we talk to him and we say ‘Dr. Waner,' he'll scream in laughter and joy and he'll point to his cheek. He's happy and he's outgoing. He's acting like a normal two-and-a-half year old," Flynn said.</div> <bR> <div> He added that his whole family is excited to have the surgery completed.</div> <bR> <div> "This whole trip is a celebration. We've waited two-and-a-half years. At first, people told us that nothing could be done, but later on this afternoon, it's all done," Flynn said.</div> <bR> <div> On the eve of his surgery, Maddox spent the weekend enjoying the Big Apple. Edmonton Oiler Gilbert Brule, who was so touched by the boy's story he donated $10,000 to the trust fund, even met up with the family to play a bit of hockey in Central Park.</div> <bR> <div> With a $90,000 price tag, the family was initially unsure how they would pay for the surgeries. But thanks to the generosity of Brule and others, more than $280,000 was raised.</div> <bR> <div> Alberta Health Services announced late last week the province would cover the cost of Monday's surgery, but not the first $50,000 procedure in May.</div> <bR> <div> While the family is appealing the decision, they are glad donations mean Maddox won't have to wait for his second and final procedure.</div> <bR> <div> The family has said that they plan to donate any money left over from the trips to 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> Barring any complications following the surgery Monday, the family expects to be back in Edmonton by the end of July.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Written by CTV.ca News Staff with files from CTV's Daryl McIntyre in New York City</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="Jul 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= 187 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>$400K spent on space-food, beef jerky ends up on menu</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. July 18  2010  08:16  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: July 18th, 2010</div> <div> <B>MONTREAL — It's the secret federal space-food project that never saw liftoff.</B></div> <bR> <div> After quietly spending more than $400,000 to develop made-in-Canada meals for astronauts, the federal government has discreetly shelved the program, The Canadian Press has learned.</div> <bR> <div> Only one item ever made it through NASA's food-testing labs and into the astronauts' stomachs: some cream-filled oatmeal cookies known as Canasnacks.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="f3efa05a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> In this image taken from NASA television, the space shuttle Atlantis, top left, moves away from the International Space Station after undocking, Sunday, May 23, 2010. (AP Photo/NASA)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 645 WIDTH="707"><div> The original idea was to have space-friendly food kits ready in time for visits to the International Space Station by Canadian astronauts Julie Payette and Bob Thirsk in 2009 and, eventually, to feed all the world's astronauts.</div> <bR> <div> The two-year project was officially put on hold after two key researchers from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada decided to move on.</div> <bR> <div> Documents obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act revealed there were delays developing the menu and requests for additional funding.</div> <bR> <div> Work on the moveable feast began in December 2006, when the Canadian Space Agency signed its first contract with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada to develop "Good Tasting Foods for Space Travellers."</div> <bR> <div> The space agency initially kicked in $65,000, while Agriculture Canada's contribution was budgeted at almost $350,000. The agency had hoped to have a made-in-Canada space menu ready in two years, approved by NASA, and placed permanently on U.S. flights.</div> <bR> <div> Initially, 11 specially created Canadian food items were proposed -- including Bison meat loaf, wild mushroom sauce, vegetable crush, beef and barley soup, and maple cookies.</div> <bR> <div> But there were a number of complications. In an example of the challenge in preparing extraterrestrial cuisine, Thirsk tested the mushroom sauce and concluded it had to be thickened to hold together in micro gravity.</div> <bR> <div> Thirsk also requested a green vegetable dish like asparagus or fiddleheads because he dislikes root vegetables.</div> <bR> <div> Five head chefs were consulted on the original menu, which included breakfast, lunch and dinner items.</div> <bR> <div> The Institut de tourisme et d'hotellerie du Quebec -- the Quebec Tourism and Hotel Institute -- was also asked to help co-ordinate the meal.</div> <bR> <div> Project developers had several key criteria: the food had to have as many Canadian ingredients as possible, had to be healthy and tasty, and needed to get the NASA seal of approval.</div> <bR> <div> In the end, only the cookies made it.</div> <bR> <div> About a dozen packages of the so-called "Canasnacks" -- blueberry, cranberry, maple-filled cookies -- were shipped to the space station.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 753 WIDTH="707"><div> In January 2008, Ted Farnworth, the lead scientist, said he needed additional funds -- and time -- and that meant renegotiating the deal between the CSA and Agriculture Canada.</div> <bR> <div> "It is clear that we very much underestimated the time and resources necessary to get the full one-day menu completely through the system and ready for flight," Farnworth wrote in an email to one of the project co-ordinators.</div> <bR> <div> Natalie Hirsch, who handled the project for the Canadian Space Agency, says time ran out in late 2008 -- even after researchers tried to trim the menu.</div> <bR> <div> In a December email, Farnworth announced he would be phasing out his research and would no longer be working on the Canadian space-food program.</div> <bR> <div> "When we realized it was taking longer than we expected to optimize these foods for long-duration flight and we realized that Bob Thirsk's mission and Julie Payette's mission were coming up quickly, we decided to put the novel food development on hold," Hirsch told The Canadian Press.</div> <bR> <div> Hirsch said one big challenge researchers faced was developing special packaging that would ensure the food had an extended shelf life without refrigeration or freezing.</div> <bR> <div> It was finally decided that astronauts would eat, according to federal documents, "some commercially available products representative of and originating in Canada."</div> <bR> <div> That prompted a new concern: Canadian content.</div> <bR> <div> Technician Luc Jacques noted that "a lot of Canadian foods on the market do not have major ingredients coming from Canada due to market globalization."</div> <bR> <div> He cited blueberry yogurt as an example. It might be manufactured in Canada with Canadian milk but, because of the short fruit-growing season, the blueberries likely come from another country.</div> <bR> <div> In the end, off-the-shelf commercial foods were sent up like smoked salmon pate from Salt Spring Island, B.C., and maple leaf-shaped cookies from Don Mills, Ont., which were "made with pure Quebec maple syrup.</div> <bR> <div> But the magic solution to the Canadian government's $400,000 culinary conundrum? Beef jerky, from Cold Lake, Alta.</div> <bR> <div> "It (was) an easy choice because jerky has an extended duration shelf-life and it also has quite a strong flavour that the astronauts enjoy because some of them experience a decreased taste sensation," Hirsch said.</div> <bR> <div> The space agency says it's now taking the lessons learned from the project, and assessing "the most effective means to proceed with Canadian space food development and provision."</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Canadian Pre</I><I>ss & </I><I>Peter Rakobowchuk </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="Jul 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= 61 ><NOBR><div> <B>Lightning strikes couple, tornado touches down in St. Lazare</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. July 17  2010  23:10  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: July 17th, 2010</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 764 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>A couple in their 40s is recovering in hospital after it was struck by lightning Saturday evening in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve.</B></div> <bR> <div> The 46-year-old man is in critical condition in the intensive care unit, while the 49-year-old suffered minor burns.</div> <bR> <div> The couple was struck as they were preparing to watch Saturday evening's fireworks display at La Ronde, while sitting under a tree at Notre-Dame and Frontenac Sts.</div> <bR> <div> Lightning hit the tree, then travelled along an umbrella the man was holding.</div> <bR> <div> Several people nearby provided assistance to the couple until an ambulance arrived.</div> <bR> <div> "When paramedics arrived on the scene, the man was in cardiac arrest, so they did CPR on the victim. The woman was still conscious, but really shocked," said Benoit Garneau, Urgences Sante spokesperson.</div> <bR> <div> Garneau warned that the incident served as a reminder not to take cover in dangerous spots during an electrical storm.</div> <bR> <div> "Don't place yourself in danger. If you go under a tree, you will be in danger," said Garneau.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Tornado touches down in St. Lazare</B></div> <bR> <div> Meantime, severe thunderstorms spawned a tornado Saturday night in the Monteregie town of St. Lazare, confirmed Rene Heroux from Environment Canada.</div> <bR> <div> "There's a scale for tornados that goes from F0 to F5. Here in St. Lazare, from our investigation, it turns out it's an F0, so winds of around 120 kilometres per hour," he said.</div> <bR> <div> Though considered a small tornado, it was enough to cause dramatic damage, explained St. Lazare resident Robert Toonen.</div> <bR> <div> "We saw the trees all just lying down, just tumbled over, and the wind carried away my neighbour's trampoline. It went about 15 feet up in the air and ended up in a tree," he said.</div> <bR> <div> Resident De Santis Alfredo was on a trip to Toronto when Surete du Quebec called him to tell him to return home, because the aluminum siding was ripped off the back of his home, his patio furniture had been lifted off the ground and his roof and deck were damaged.</div> <bR> <div> "Of course, you see these things on TV, but you never expect that to happen in your own home, you know?" he said. </div> <div> Heroux said Alfredo is lucky he wasn't in the back yard at the time of the storm.</div> <bR> <div> "It could be really dangerous to receive a patio chair at 120 kilomtres per hour," he said. "Those become flying debris."</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff with files from ctvmontreal.ca</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="Jul 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= 327 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>George Clooney testifies at fraud trial in Milan</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri. July 16  2010  08:47  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: July 16th, 2010</div> <div> <B>MILAN — Actor George Clooney has testified at a fraud trial in Milan and even the judge said it seemed like a Hollywood set.</B></div> <bR> <div> Dozens of celebrity-watchers packed the tiny courtroom Friday as Clooney showed up at the trial against three defendants charged with coopting the American actor's name for a line of clothing.</div> <bR> <div> The actor wore a navy blue suit, crisp white shirt and red-spotted blue tie, and he addressed the court through an interpreter. He said photos purportedly showing him with two of the defendants were doctored and that his signature on documents was forged.</div> <bR> <div> After his 90-minute testimony, Judge Pietro Caccialanza thanked Clooney and said the session "has lasted as long as a movie."</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff with files from The Associated Press</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="f3e8a0d70.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="215" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> U.S. actor George Clooney leaves a tribunal in Milan, Italy, Friday, July 16, 2010. Clooney appeared in court as a witness in a fraud trial against defendants charged with co opting his name for a line of clothing. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)</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="Jul 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>Arrest made after woman, 61, attacked in cemetery</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. July 15  2010  08:58  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: July 15th, 2010</div> <div> <B>Toronto police have arrested and charged a man in the vicious sexual assault of a woman in a cemetery earlier this week.</B></div> <bR> <div> The suspect will appear in court Thursday morning to face aggravated sexual assault and attempted murder charges.</div> <bR> <div> The sexual assault and beating of the 61-year-old woman occurred when she was visiting her mother's grave Monday.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="f3e5a0890.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="137" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A Toronto Police officer searches for evidence in Pine Hills cemetery on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 after a violent sexual assault.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 145 WIDTH="707"><div> She was dragged off a paved path in Pine Hills Cemetery, near Kennedy Road and St. Clair Avenue, by a man and into a wooded area, police allege.</div> <bR> <div> The woman was taken to hospital with serious head injuries after a beating so severe she was left unconscious.</div> <bR> <div> Russell Kirkpatrick, 44, of Toronto, has been charged with aggravated sexual assault and attempted murder.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="14"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jul 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= 243 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Freighter spilled 75 tonnes of oil into St. Lawrence</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. July 14  2010  07:40  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: July 14th, 2010</div> <div> <B>A St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation executive says a damaged freighter dumped about 75 tonnes of oil into the waterway near Montreal, though he expects that it will be cleaned up by tomorrow morning.</B></div> <bR> <div> Richard Corfe, the head of the federal seaway corporation, told CTV's Canada AM that crews are already on the water on Wednesday morning, working to get the oil cleaned up as quickly as possible.</div> <bR> <div> "There's about 30 people on the water, as we speak, starting to skim and vacuum that oil up," Corfe said during an interview from Montreal on Wednesday morning.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="f3dca06f0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="111" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A safety helmet floats amid the diesel fuel behind the Canada Steamship Line freighter 'Richelieu' after it ran aground in the St. Lawrence Seaway, Saint Catherines, Que., south of Montreal on Tuesday, July 13, 2010. (Ryan Remiorz / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 397 WIDTH="707"><div> "It's a long process. It'll take probably all day, we'll do an update later on in the afternoon to see where we are, but we expect to be able to restart navigation tomorrow morning sometime."</div> <bR> <div> The Canada Steamship Lines freighter ran aground when it experienced engine failure on Monday morning.</div> <bR> <div> Corfe said the spill was contained quickly as the management corporation, the Coast Guard and the freighter company followed an emergency plan that was already in place to deal with spills.</div> <bR> <div> "Now it's a matter of cleaning up. That's going to go on for probably all day today and maybe into tomorrow morning," said Corfe.</div> <bR> <div> He said it is a rare occurrence for such a large spill to occur.</div> <bR> <div> "These incidents don't happen very often: I've been with the Seaway 28 years and this is the first time we've dealt with an incident of this magnitude," he said.</div> <bR> <div> Because the spill happened in a man-made canal, crews were "able to control the water flow so it wouldn't go into the river proper," said Corfe.</div> <bR> <div> In addition to the spilled oil, Corfe said the freighter has a hole in its bottom that must be repaired before it can be moved.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="13"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jul 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= 219 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>82 police injured in Belfast's 2 nights of riots</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue. July 13  2010  06:59  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: July 13th, 2010</div> <div> <B>BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Northern Ireland's political and security leaders condemned Irish nationalist militants Tuesday who injured 82 police officers during two nights of rioting sparked by the province's annual parades by the British Protestant majority.</B></div> <bR> <div> While most of the officers sustained minor injuries like cuts and bruises, two remained hospitalized: a policeman wounded in the chest and arms by a shotgun blast, and a policewoman who had a paving stone dropped on her head from a shop rooftop above.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f3d1a08f0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="143" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> A nationalist protester runs from a flaming car during clashes with police in Belfast, Northern Ireland, early Tuesday July 13, 2010. (AP Photo)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 525 WIDTH="707"><div> The rioting in working-class Catholic parts of Belfast and other towns came both before and after tens of thousands of Protestants of the Orange Order brotherhood marched at 18 locations across Northern Ireland in an annual show of communal strength. It was the worst rioting in Belfast since the same event exactly one year ago.</div> <bR> <div> Politicians said the rioters, influenced by Irish Republican Army dissidents opposed to compromise, were chiefly motivated to attack the police themselves. IRA dissidents have focused in recent months on trying to lure police into ambushes, until now with little success.</div> <bR> <div> Brian Rea, chairman of a joint Catholic-Protestant board that oversees Northern Ireland police, said the rioters "were intent on causing maximum disruption and inflicting terror on police and the wider community."</div> <bR> <div> Several Belfast roads remained closed Tuesday as workers cleared away the remains of the riots: blackened shells of cars that were stolen and torched; roadways littered with glass shards and scorched by impacts from Molotov cocktails; errant objects -- wood planks, a beer keg, iron scaffolding, a child's bicycle -- that had been thrown at police; garbage cans lined up on a bridge and set on fire.</div> <bR> <div> A moderate Irish nationalist lawmaker, Conal McDevitt, said most rioters were teenagers who lack any coherent political philosophy, only a desire to lash out at police.</div> <bR> <div> "This seems to be as much about aping what they saw previous generations of so-called 'hard men' doing, than protesting or opposing an Orange march," said McDevitt, who asked Catholics to tell police about the rioters living in their communities. "No community deserves to be dragged back into the past by a tiny minority who have no idea why they are rioting or what they want to achieve."</div> <bR> <div> Northern Ireland's main rail line remained partly closed after Irish nationalist rioters in Lurgan, southwest of Belfast, tried to set fire to a train with 55 passengers on board. Nobody was hurt because the engineer drove the train away quickly. Passengers on all Dublin-Belfast rail services were being switched on to buses for the Northern Ireland half of the journey.</div> <bR> <div> "If that train had gone on fire, there would have been a major disaster," said John O'Dowd, a politician from the IRA-linked Sinn Fein party who represents Lurgan in the Northern Ireland Assembly.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 566 WIDTH="707"><div> In Northern Ireland's second-largest city of Londonderry, a lone gunman using a nearby pub for cover fired at least five shots from a handgun at police Tuesday as they tried to extinguish a fire that had engulfed a police armored vehicle. Nobody was hurt, and police said the masked gunman escaped.</div> <bR> <div> Police commanders planned to present video and photographic footage of Monday's attacks on police officers to journalists later Tuesday.</div> <bR> <div> Monday's violence began in Ardoyne, a traditional IRA power base in north Belfast, where about 100 demonstrators tried to block one parade route while masked men and youths on side streets bombarded police with bricks, bottles, stones, Molotov cocktails and at least one homemade grenade.</div> <bR> <div> Police said they fired about 70 plastic bullets during four hours of street clashes in Ardoyne.</div> <bR> <div> Since 1998, a British-appointed Parades Commission has imposed restrictions on Orange marching routes to prevent the Protestants — accompanied by "kick the pope" bands of tattooed men playing fife and drum — from passing most Catholic districts.</div> <bR> <div> Still, authorities have failed to negotiate alternative routes for some parades, including the one past Ardoyne's row of shops on Crumlin Road. The thoroughfare connects one Orange lodge to central Belfast.</div> <bR> <div> The disputed Ardoyne parade involves a single Orange lodge of about 30 men and an accompanying band of about 50 men and boys. But it attracts several hundred Protestant supporters to match the Catholic crowds opposed to it, with police caught in the middle each summer.</div> <bR> <div> The Orange Order commemorates July 12 -- also known as the Glorious Twelfth, an official holiday in Northern Ireland -- as the date when their community, descended largely from 17th-century Scottish settlers, secured their place in northeast Ireland versus Catholic natives.</div> <bR> <div> On July 12, 1690, the forces of Protestant King William of Orange defeated the army of his dethroned Catholic rival, James II, at the Battle of the Boyne south of Belfast.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="12"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jul 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= 208 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Party continues as Spanish team heads home from Cup</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. July 12  2010  08:39  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: July 12th, 2010</div> <div> <B>The World Cup may be over, but the partying is far from being done.</B></div> <bR> <div> With the victorious Spanish team set to return home to Madrid on Monday, several hundred thousand fans are expected to greet them when they get there.</div> <bR> <div> The team is expected to land in Madrid at about 8:30 a.m. ET. They will have a rest, meet with King Juan Carlos and Prime Minister Rodriguez Zapatero, before taking a five-kilometre, open-air drive to celebrate their first-ever World Cup win.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f3caa05a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Under the light of flares, Spanish fans celebrate in a fountain in downtown Madrid after Spain defeated the Netherlands to win the World Cup soccer final, which is being played in South Africa, on Sunday, July 11, 2010. (AP / Arturo Rodriguez)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 716 WIDTH="707"><div> Freelance reporter Benjamin Jones said it has been an amazing ride for Spanish fans, who watched their team play many tough opponents while making their way to victory.</div> <bR> <div> "Spain had never made it to the semi-finals, this was a historical moment for everyone," he told CTV's Canada AM during a telephone interview on Monday morning.</div> <bR> <div> Local newspapers devoted major front-page coverage to the win, with <I>El Pais</I> calling the World Cup victory "an ode to happiness" and <I>El Mundo</I> paying tribute to Andres Iniesta, "the little wizard" who scored the winning goal for Spain.</div> <bR> <div> Jones said the five-foot-seven Iniesta is "the man of the hour" in Spain.</div> <bR> <div> When Spain clinched the World Cup with a 1-0 victory over the Netherlands yesterday, an estimated 300,000 people jammed the centre of Madrid, with the partying lasting well into Monday morning.</div> <bR> <div> Hair salon owner Marisa Dalon stayed up until 3 a.m. to celebrate the win. The 42-year-old said "it is the greatest day imaginable. We are so incredibly proud."</div> <bR> <div> Security guard Francisco Delgado, 49, came into work after sleeping only three hours.</div> <bR> <div> "I'm so unbelievably proud not just that we won but of how we won, playing clean and in a dignified manner," said Delgado, 49. "The Dutch were tough and very unsporting. We can hold our heads up and I'd even be proud if we had lost because of the class and dignity of our game."</div> <bR> <div> Another 75,000 fans took to the streets of Barcelona, during a rowdy celebration that eventually led to conflicts with riot police.</div> <bR> <div> In South Africa, citizens are left only with the memories of hosting the world's biggest soccer tournament and with proof that the country can handle hosting such a massive event.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Globe and Mail</I> sports columnist Stephen Brunt said the country faced many doubts in the lead-up to the World Cup, but left most people impressed with how successful the Johannesburg-hosted tournament was.</div> <bR> <div> "A lot of people wondered whether this country could handle it, whether the infrastructure would hold up -- it's massive investment and I guess the bills are still to come in -- and there are issues with security and crime here," he told CTV's Canada AM by telephone from Johannesburg on Monday morning.</div> <bR> <div> "But all of those fears, or almost all of those fears were unfounded. This has been a really remarkable event the last month and a bit, things have run very smoothly. And I think people have felt secure and have had a good time."</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="11"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jul 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= 279 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Senator seeks probe into flavoured alcoholic drinks</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. July 10  2010  21:54  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: July 10th, 2010</div> <div> <B>ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Sen. Charles Schumer is urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the marketing of flavoured alcoholic beverages with caffeine that appear to be explicitly designed to attract underage drinkers.</B></div> <bR> <div> In a letter to FTC chairman Jon Leibowitz, Schumer said Sunday that the colorful cans are also designed to befuddle parents and police with labels that resemble nonalcoholic energy drinks. He said popular drinks such as Joose and Four Loko also use very small print to disclose alcohol content of up to 12 per cent, about twice that of beer.</div> <bR> <div> Michael Mikhail, chief executive of United Brands Co. of La Mesa, Calif., which makes Joose, said the company markets nationally through beer distributors and target consumers who can drink alcohol legally.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="f3c9a0a10.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="161" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY., questions Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan during her confirmation hearing before the committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 29, 2010. (AP / Susan Walsh)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 595 WIDTH="707"><div> "We don't condone nontraditional marketing. We position our product toward at least the age of 21 and older," Mikhail said. "We do not target college kids. We don't condone it."</div> <bR> <div> Schumer, a New York Democrat, sees it differently. He said 24-ounce cans of Four Loko and Joose are designed to appear hip with flashy colours and funky designs with appeal to younger consumers. They come in flavours such as grape and orange and can cost as little as $2.50 a can.</div> <bR> <div> Calls to Phusion Projects Inc. of Chicago, maker of Four Loko, were not immediately returned.</div> <bR> <div> In 2008, Anheuser-Busch InBev NV and MillerCoors LLC stopped selling caffeinated alcoholic beverages including Tilt and Sparks under pressure from several states and federal regulators, but smaller companies continued to sell such products and have since increased sales. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said earlier investigations showed the big company's beverages were aggressively marketed to a younger crowd.</div> <bR> <div> Last November, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration notified more than two dozen manufacturers of caffeinated alcoholic beverages that it has never specifically approved the addition of caffeine to alcoholic drinks and began studying whether it is unsafe and should be outlawed. The agency noted the mix's growing popularity among up to 26 per cent of college students and its potential health and safety issues. They included a Wake Forest University study that students who combine caffeine and alcohol are likelier to suffer alcohol-related injuries than those drinking alcohol without caffeine.</div> <bR> <div> "It is my understanding that caffeine-infused, flavoured malt beverages are becoming increasingly popular among teenagers," Schumer wrote in his letter Sunday. "The style and promotion of these products is extremely troubling. Frankly, it looks to me as if manufacturers are trying to mislead adults and business owners who sell these products, while at the same time actively courting underage drinkers. This type of marketing is, at minimum, grossly irresponsible."</div> <bR> <div> In 2003, the FTC investigated the marketing of flavoured malt beverages and the impact on underage drinkers and found most complying with industry codes for ad placement targeting adults. Schumer says that manufacturers since "have continued to push new products in new ways that arguably cross the line by targeting younger consumers."</div> <bR> <div> FTC spokeswoman Betsy Lordan said the agency has continued to investigate complaints against beverage makers, including a 2009 settlement with Constellation Brands over its advertising that consumers of the caffeinated alcohol drink Wide Eyes will remain alert. The FTC said there was no scientific evidence to support the claim.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="10"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jul 10"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 180 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>RCMP officer accused of killing his wife</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. July 10  2010  21:54  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: July 10th, 2010</div> <div> <B>A 36-year-old RCMP constable is in custody Saturday after police arrested him for allegedly killing his wife.</B></div> <bR> <div> The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team was called out around 7 a.m. to the Jackson Heights home to investigate the homicide. Clifton Purvis, Executive Director with ASIRT, confirmed the suspect was arrested at a location that was not his home.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="f3c7a05a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Officers investigate a homicide in the Jackson Heights neighbourhood Saturday afternoon. Police say an RCMP officer was taken into custody in connection to the killing.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 561 WIDTH="707"><div> The victim and suspect's names are not being released until the next of kin have been notified.</div> <bR> <div> The accused had been a Mountie for about seven years. RCMP say he was not on-duty at the time of the killing.</div> <bR> <div> "The member did have his service weapon at home," said Assistant Commissioner Peter Hourihan, "K" DIVISION. "His job required him to have that for operational purposes and on-call purposes."</div> <bR> <div> ASIRT and the RCMP would not say how the victim died but neighbours tell CTV News they heard several gunshots in the early hours of the night.</div> <bR> <div> "I heard like bang bang, seven to eight times," said Vikas Kwatra. "I was just thinking it was a neighbour early in the morning, nailing something, maybe nailing the fence."</div> <bR> <div> The couple has two boys; police confirmed they were not at home at the time of the killing. They are in the care of family members. Neighbours say the family has lived at the home for about a year before putting it up for sale about a month ago.</div> <bR> <div> "I don't know what happened," said Kwatra. "They were a happy family. We used to meet with them, walking over there and say hello."</div> <bR> <div> Other neighbours say they're shocked something like this could happen, especially involving a member of the RCMP.</div> <bR> <div> It's disappointing and it's really sad because that's one of the parties that we got to know a little more so than the rest of the family," said Hilda Shaw. "He seemed like a very pleasant person."</div> <bR> <div> ASIRT is in charge of the investigation with Edmonton Homicide assisting. The agency investigates incidents or complaints involving police officers.</div> <bR> <div> An autopsy has not been scheduled yet for the victim. Police say charges have not been laid yet.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from CTV's Sea</I><I>n Amato, </I>Nahreman Issa & ctvedmonton.ca</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="Jul 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>Lloyd Robertson announces retirement</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. July 08  2010  23:49  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: July 9th, 2010</div> <div> <B>CTV's Chief Anchor and Senior Editor Lloyd Robertson announced Thursday night that he will be stepping down from the anchor's chair during the latter half of 2011.</B></div> <bR> <div> After 35 years as the network's national news anchor, Robertson made the announcement at the end of Thursday night's broadcast.</div> <bR> <div> "I thought it was an appropriate way of letting you know that I have agreed to stay on for another TV season to make it 35 years at CTV," Robertson told viewers.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f3b3a07e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Chief Anchor and Senior Editor Lloyd Robertson announces he will vacate his anchor chair at CTV News in 2011, on Thursday, July 8, 2010.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 432 WIDTH="707"><div> "But that will be the final year. That means I'll be stepping aside in the latter half of 2011. So, I'll be around for a while yet."</div> <div> The network will announce Robertson's successor on Friday.</div> <bR> <div> His successor will act as Robertson's immediate backup through 2011, and will take over as chief anchor later in the year.</div> <bR> <div> "I want to leave a suitable period for my successor to have a smooth and seamless transition," said Robertson in a release issued late Thursday. "While I'll be hoisting anchor next year, I'll be continuing at CTV for some time."</div> <bR> <div> In a career spanning 50 years, Robertson has become one of Canada's most recognizable public figures, ending his nightly newscast with his familiar sign off of "that's the kind of day it's been."</div> <bR> <div> Robertson joined CTV in 1976 and has been chief anchor and senior editor since 1983. He was voted Canada's most trusted news anchor by TV Guide readers 11 years straight.</div> <bR> <div> "Lloyd is a great newsman, an institution and the most trusted anchor in Canada; all of which is why he's the ratings king," said Ivan Fecan, President and Chief Executive Officer, CTV Globemedia, and Chief Executive Officer, CTV Inc.</div> <bR> <div> "We are all sorry to see him step down as anchor, but we are buoyed by the fact that he will remain in the CTV family for as long as he likes and I personally hope that will be a very long time," Fecan added.</div> <bR> <div> Though Robertson won't be in the news anchor chair, he will continue working with the network and will remain as co-host of the news features show W5.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="08"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jul 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= 162 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Central Canadians may get relief from heat Friday</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. July 08  2010  08:18  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: July 8th, 2010</div> <div> <B>TORONTO — The heat wave continues again today across central Canada -- but the good news is the temperature should start to drop tomorrow.</B></div> <bR> <div> Millions of people in Quebec and Ontario will have to cope again today with temperatures into the mid-30s and humidex readings into the 40s.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f3a6a0710.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="113" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">\</B></div> <div> People crowded to beaches trying to stay cool during a heat wave in Toronto, Monday, July 5, 2010.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 252 WIDTH="707"><div> So far, Ontario has been able to deal with the demand for power from air conditioners -- largely because of a drop in demand from the hard-hit manufacturing sector.</div> <bR> <div> Hydro Quebec says it can deal with the demand since Quebecers tend to consume more energy in the winter.</div> <bR> <div> The heat also saw health emergency calls spike in both Toronto and Montreal as people with breathing problems suffer from the smog.</div> <bR> <div> Environment Canada predicts Ontario and Quebec will experience higher than normal temperatures until August.</div> <bR> <div> Queen's University professor Harry McCaughey, who studies climate change, says there will be more frequent extreme heat waves and cold snaps in the future.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="07"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jul 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= 223 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Missing girl, father seen at Manitoba gas station</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. July 07  2010  07:42  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: July 7th, 2010</div> <div> <B>A missing four-year-old Regina girl was seen at a Manitoba gas station in the company of her father -- a man who is suspected of abducting his daughter and her mother.</B></div> <bR> <div> Regina police say they have obtained video footage of Samantha Martyn and her father, 39-year-old Christopher Martyn, when they were at a Manitou, Man., gas station at about 6 a.m. local time on Tuesday.</div> <bR> <div> The video also shows a woman sitting in a car at the gas station, whom police believe is likely the girl's mother, Natasha Sentes, 34, thought that has not yet been confirmed.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f39da0ae0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="174" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Samantha Martyn, 4, is seen in this image provided by the Saskatchewan RCMP.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 683 WIDTH="707"><div> Manitou is more than 500 kilometres east of Regina.</div> <bR> <div> Police issued an Amber Alert yesterday after Sentes and her daughter were reported missing, with Regina police spokesperson Lara Guzik revealing that authorities had "great concern for the safety of both Samantha and Natasha."</div> <bR> <div> Natasha Sentes was last seen on Monday evening when she left her workplace, about four hours after her daughter was picked up by Christopher Martyn at a home in Regina.</div> <bR> <div> A family friend called police at 1 a.m. Tuesday, saying that Sentes and her daughter could not be contacted.</div> <bR> <div> Sentes was supposed to pick up her daughter from Martyn after she finished work, said Guzik.</div> <bR> <div> Guzik said Sentes and the girl's father were estranged and court documents indicate that Christopher Martyn is required to go through lawyers to make contact with his daughter.</div> <bR> <div> In a telephone interview on Wednesday morning, Regina police Staff Sgt. Ron Weir told CTV's Canada AM that the investigation shows "Christopher Martyn and Natasha Sentes have been in an on-again, off-again relationship for approximately that past eight or nine years. And during that time, they had this four-year-old daughter, Samantha together."</div> <bR> <div> While Weir said he could not comment on the specific reasons why police fear for the missing women's safety, it is publicly known that Martyn previously served time for manslaughter for running down a Saskatchewan man over a dispute over an unpaid bill in 1991.</div> <bR> <div> Police are urging the public to keep watch for any signs of Sentes, her daughter, as well as Christopher Martyn or the car he is believed to be driving -- a brown, four-door Ford Taurus with the Saskatchewan license plate 250 FMA.</div> <bR> <div> Samantha Martyn is described as a Caucasian girl with long, light brown hair with bangs. She weighs about 50 pounds and stands about three-foot-seven in height.</div> <bR> <div> Her mother is five-foot-six and weighs about 155 pounds. She has black curly hair and brown eyes.</div> <bR> <div> Christopher Martyn is five-foot-eight and weighs 225 pounds. He has short brown hair, brown eyes and has a heart tattoo on his left upper arm.</div> <bR> <div> Anyone with information is asked to call 1-877-SO-AMBER, or to contact their local police detachment. Regina police can be reached directly at 306-777-6500.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from The Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="06"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jul 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>Heat warnings continue across Ontario, Quebec</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue. July 06  2010  08:32  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: July 6th, 2010</div> <div> <B>Keeping cool will be the order of the day Tuesday -- and for much of the week -- as most of Central Canada and northeastern U.S. continues to roast in a nearly week-long heat wave.</B></div> <bR> <div> A southern flow of hot air from the south -- called the Bermuda High -- has blanketed the area and is acting like a heat pump, moving warm, southerly air from the Gulf of Mexico northward. The heat and humidity isn't expected to break until at least Friday, when a cold front is forecast to sweep in and drop temperatures closer to seasonal norms of about 25 or 26 Celsius.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f394a07e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Warm air and cold Lake Ontario water created a foggy sunrise in Toronto as heatwave continues across the region on Tuesday, July 6, 2010.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 463 WIDTH="707"><div> Environment Canada senior climatologist Dave Phillips says if it feels like this heat wave is hitting us hard, it's because it's been so long since we've had a long, withering bout of the three H's: heat, humidity and haze.</div> <bR> <div> "This is the first heat wave in, I think, three years for this area and that's why it's sort of noteworthy... And the humidity is so high, probably because of all that precipitation we had in June," he told CTV's Canada AM Tuesday morning.</div> <bR> <div> Phillips notes that while we've already seen a few very hot days across Canada this summer, it's the humidity element that makes the heat so dangerous.</div> <bR> <div> "In this kind of heat wave we have now, when you add in that humidity factor, the air is just saturated with moisture and the body just can't perspire. So we often see health problems associated with that," he said.</div> <bR> <div> Once again today, Environment Canada has issued smog and humidex advisories for parts of Ontario and Quebec. Humidex values are expected to be in the 40-degree range. The advisory covers southern Ontario and southern Quebec, from Windsor, to Montreal and the St. Lawrence River.</div> <bR> <div> Many affected cities have opened special cooling centres and are urging people to use them. Those most at risk of heat stroke, such as young children, seniors, and those on certain medications, should try to spend the day in air-conditioned facilities, such as shopping malls, libraries and community centres.</div> <bR> <div> The heat wave has already claimed the life of a homeless woman in suburban Detroit on Sunday.</div> <bR> <div> Rob Kuhn from Environment Canada recommends taking precautions on a day like today.</div> <bR> <div> "Drink a lot of water, a lot of fluids and take it easy if you're working outside or doing anything outside, especially between 12 noon and 6 p.m. because certainly, it's going to be quite hot," he told CTV News Channel Tuesday.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 264 WIDTH="707"><div> "And we also note that the UV index across southern Ontario will be ‘10' or ‘extreme'," he said.</div> <bR> <div> With so many residents expected to crank up the air conditioning today, power utilities across Ontario, Quebec and the eastern U.S. are preparing for maximum demand, trying to avoid the brief blackout that hit a large swath of Toronto on Monday.</div> <bR> <div> An explosion and fire at a transformer station knocked out electricity for more than 300,000 Toronto residents just before 5 p.m. ET, though it's unclear whether a surge in electricity demands sparked the blowout. Nevertheless, the blackout sent thousands of office workers out into the streets, where they found the downtown briefly in chaos from a lack of traffic signals.</div> <bR> <div> The blackout was confined to a relatvely small area, because the relay system at the transformer station was able to disconnect the disabled site from the rest of the grid. That helped prevent the ripple effect that occurred in 2003, when a local Ohio outage led to a massive blackout throughout the northeastern U.S. and southern Ontario.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="05"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jul 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>BP costs for oil spill response pass $3 billion</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. July 05  2010  08:22  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: July 5th, 2010</div> <div> <B>NEW ORLEANS — BP's costs for the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill climbed nearly half a billion dollars in the past week, raising the oil giant's tab to just over $3 billion for work on cleaning and capping the gusher and payouts to individuals, businesses and governments.</B></div> <bR> <div> London-based BP PLC, the largest oil and gas producer in the Gulf, released its latest tally of response costs Monday. The total of $3.12 billion was up from $2.65 billion a week earlier. The figure does not include a $20 billion fund for Gulf damages BP created last month.</div> <bR> <div> As BP continued drilling relief wells that are the best hope for plugging the blown-out well, a giant new oil skimming vessel was tested in the Gulf. But lousy weather means it may be longer than first hoped before officials know if it can work full-time sucking crude from the sea.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f38ea07e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> An unidentified BP worker power-washes booms that have been collecting oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, at the BP Cocodrie staging area in Terrebonne Parish where they clean and repair booms, Sunday, July 4, 2010 in Cocodrie, La. (AP / Judi Bottoni)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 587 WIDTH="707"><div> The Taiwanese skimmer dubbed "A Whale" has been able to show off its maneuverability during a weekend test in a 25-mile-square patch of water just north of the site where an April 20 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon killed 11 workers and started the worst oil spill in Gulf history.</div> <bR> <div> TMT, the shipping firm that owns the vessel, had hoped to test a containment boom system designed to direct greater volumes of oily water into the 12 vents or "jaws" that the ship uses to suck it in, according to spokesman Bob Grantham.</div> <bR> <div> But lingering bad weather in the form of stiff winds and choppy seas has made that impossible, and prevented a flotilla of smaller skimmers from working offshore along the coasts of Alabama, Mississippi and Florida.</div> <bR> <div> "As was the case yesterday, the sea state, with waves at times in excess of 10 feet, is not permitting optimal testing conditions," Grantham said in an e-mail Sunday.</div> <bR> <div> The skimmers, which have been idle off the coasts since a spell of bad weather last week kicked up by Hurricane Alex, were on the water along the Louisiana coast over the weekend. Officials with the U.S. Coast Guard are waiting for the weather to improve before sending them out elsewhere.</div> <bR> <div> "We've got our guys out there and they're docked and ready, but safety is a huge concern for us, especially with the smaller vessels," said Courtnee Ferguson, a spokeswoman for the Joint Information Command in Mobile, Ala.</div> <bR> <div> On Sunday, huge barges used to collect oil from skimming vessels were parked at the mouth of Mobile Bay, waiting for conditions to subside as waves rose to about 5 feet high miles offshore.</div> <bR> <div> The current spate of bad weather is likely to last well into next week, according to the National Weather Service.</div> <bR> <div> "This should remain fairly persistent through the next few days, and maybe get a little worse," meteorologist Mike Efferson said.</div> <bR> <div> On the shore, beach cleanup crews were making progress on new oil that washed up thanks to the high tides generated by last week's bad weather.</div> <bR> <div> In Grand Isle, about 800 people were removing tar balls and liquid oil from seven miles of beach, Coast Guard Cmdr. Randal Ogrydziak said.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 381 WIDTH="707"><div> "In a day or two, you wouldn't be able to tell the oil was even there," he said.</div> <bR> <div> By Wednesday, Ogrydziak said they should have a machine on the beach that washes sand where the oil washed ashore.</div> <bR> <div> Crews have also been working to put containment boom thrown around by the storms back into place, he said.</div> <bR> <div> So far, weather has not slowed drilling on two relief wells meant to finally plug the spill. BP officials have said they're running slightly ahead of schedule on the drilling, but expect weather or other delays.</div> <bR> <div> Early to mid-August is still the timeframe for the completion of the drilling.</div> <bR> <div> Along with the drilling, the capture and burning of oil and gas at the site of the leaking well has gone on without interruption from the weather. But the choppy seas have delayed the operation of another vessel that officials say will roughly double the amount of oil being collected or burned.</div> <bR> <div> The Helix Producer is supposed to connect with the leaking well by a flexible hose that will help it disconnect and reconnect quickly if a hurricane or other major storm forces an evacuation of the site.</div> <bR> <div> Coast Guard officials say they're hoping to have the Helix Producer connected to the well and collecting oil by Wednesday.</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="Jul 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= 397 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>MI5 probing link between royals, accused Russian spy</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. July 04  2010  23:09  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: July 4th, 2010</div> <div> <B>British intelligence agency MI5 is investigating an extraordinary link between the "glamorous" accused Russian spy Anna Chapman and the royals, following reports she haunted popular London hangouts in a bid to meet Princes William and Harry.</B></div> <bR> <div> According to a British tabloid, the red-haired 28-year-old daughter of a teacher and a Russian diplomat had the young princes clearly in her sights.</div> <bR> <div> In a report published Sunday, The Sunday Mirror suggests Chapman was fixated with the pair, going so far as to infiltrate their social circles to meet them.</div> <bR> <div> Following the split from her British husband Alex Chapman in 2005, Anna Chapman reportedly became a regular at the swanky London "Boujis" nightclub favoured by the young royals.</div> <bR> <div> Protecting the royals in the club's atmosphere of hedonistic, alcohol-fuelled partying has long been a security headache. So much so, Prince Charles reportedly banned the pair from the club in the summer of 2006, after a pair of bloody brawls on its doorstep.</div> <bR> <div> Now, no one can say for sure whether Chapman ever rubbed shoulders with the Princes. But Garry Toffoli of the Canadian Royal Heritage Trust thinks the mere attempt is cause for concern.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="f38ca07e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> This undated image taken from the Russian social networking website 'Odnoklassniki', or Classmates, shows a woman journalists have identified as Anna Chapman, who appeared at a hearing Monday, June 28, 2010 in New York federal court. Chapman, along with 10 others, was arrested on charges of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the U.S. attorney general. The caption on Odnoklassniki reads 'Russia, Moscow. Left 4 dead???' (AP Photo)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 468 WIDTH="707"><div> "I think the attempt would be worrying because of the possibility of a successful encroachment into the circle of the Royal family (is) potentially damaging."</div> <bR> <div> But Toffoli says the more things change, the more they stay the same.</div> <bR> <div> "George Washington authorized a plan to kidnap Prince William during the American Revolution," Toffoli told CTV News. "The Royals were worried about American spies, now they're worried about Russian spies. Some things don't change."</div> <bR> <div> The Sunday Mirror reports that Chapman did manage to meet royal confidant Jake Parkinson-Smith several times before the Boujis general manager was fired after being caught with cocaine.</div> <bR> <div> Chapman also befriended London socialite Shoshana Dadoun.</div> <bR> <div> Beside Boujis, Chapman was also a regular at other royal haunts including the nightclubs Movida and Tramp, as well as the Japanese restaurant Nobu.</div> <bR> <div> Chapman left London for the U.S. in 2007.</div> <bR> <div> In late June of this year, Chapman and nine other alleged spy suspects were arrested in the United States. According to the indictment, she was caught communicating with the Russian intelligence service, the SVR, using a computer attached to a wireless network at a Starbucks coffee shop in January, and two months later from a bookshop.</div> <bR> <div> She faces a charge of conspiring to act as an unregistered agent of a foreign government, which carries a potential penalty of five years in prison.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>and p</I><I>re</I><I>pared with files from CTV's Joy Malbon </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="Jul 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= 109 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>UN says at least 220 dead in oil explosion in Congo</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. July 03  2010  14:10  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: July 3rd, 2010</div> <div> <B>An oil tanker flipped over and burst into flames in eastern Congo, killing at least 220 people and wounding 200 others, according to UN and local officials.</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <B><IMG SRC="f38aa0670.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="103" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 470 WIDTH="707"><div> The truck overturned as it was attempting to pass a bus late Friday evening near the village of Sange, about 30 kilometres north of Uvira near the Burundi border. Oil began spilling from the tanker, which burst into flames about an hour later, said Mana Lungwe, manager of the company that owns the tanker.</div> <bR> <div> The driver was injured in the accident and was taken to hospital before the blast.</div> <bR> <div> The high death toll is being blamed on the fact that local villagers tried to siphon off fuel from the truck after it overturned.</div> <bR> <div> "A fire started, and the people trying to siphon the fuel were killed or injured," Madnodje Mounoubai, a spokesperson for the UN peacekeeping mission in the Congo, told The Associated Press.</div> <bR> <div> "Right now, we are talking about 220 dead and 111 wounded, but this is not the final toll. This is a very fluid situation."</div> <bR> <div> A spokesperson with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said many of the victims died instantly, while nearly a dozen others died from severe burns after arriving in hospital.</div> <bR> <div> According to Mounoubai, several homes, many of which were made with dried leaves and mud, and a local market were destroyed in the fire.</div> <bR> <div> Such tragedy is not unheard of in Congo, where locals often descend on accident scenes or stalled vehicles to siphon fuel. </div> <div> In Nigeria, thousands have died trying to siphon oil from ruptured pipelines.</div> <bR> <div> The ICRC has sent body bags and medical supplies to the Congo. The UN said it has transported 35 of the wounded to Bukavu via helicopter, while other peacekeepers are transporting people to local hospitals and clinics.</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="02"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jul 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= 173 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Que. police probe blast at Armed Forces centre</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri. July 02  2010  12:33  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: July 2nd, 2010</div> <div> <B>Quebec provincial police are investigating an explosion that ravaged a military recruitment centre in Trois-Rivieres early Friday morning, just moments after authorities received a bomb threat.</B></div> <bR> <div> The Canadian Armed Forces centre was closed when the blast went off around 3 a.m. ET, said provincial police Sgt. Eloise Cossette. There were no injuries.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f37fa0610.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="97" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Police survey the area near the bombed out Army recruitement centre in Trois-Rivi?res, Que. on Friday July 2, 2010. (Sylvain Mayer / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 505 WIDTH="707"><div> Cossette confirmed local police received a bomb threat about 20 minutes before the explosion that tore the glass doors off the building and left the entrance a charred mess.</div> <bR> <div> No one has claimed responsibility for the threat or the explosion, and so far, the phone call is the only lead, she said.</div> <bR> <div> The area around the centre has been cordoned off by police while a bomb squad and canine unit scour the scene.</div> <bR> <div> "We have explosives technicians, crime specialists, dogs," Cossette said. "These are the resources we will be contributing during the day with the goal of obtaining as much information as possible to solve this crime."</div> <bR> <div> That the explosion so quickly followed the threat "says that we've got somebody who's very, very serious," says Michel Juneau-Katsuya, a former intelligence officer with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.</div> <bR> <div> Bombings have grown more frequent as fringe groups realize explosions "take all the attention of the media," he told CTV News Channel from Ottawa.</div> <bR> <div> "And that is what they are trying to do -- to promote the idea, not to try to hurt anybody," he said. "But when you play with fire, it's only a matter of time before somebody can be hurt, or worse, killed."</div> <bR> <div> Juneau-Katsuya said fringe groups have carried out 11 bombings nationwide since 2004: six in British Columbia, three in Alberta and two in Quebec. Friday's explosion could turn out to be the 12th, he said.</div> <bR> <div> Canada's mission in Afghanistan has drawn fierce opposition in Quebec, more so than in any other province.</div> <bR> <div> A Canadian Press Harris-Decima poll last year showed 54 per cent of Canadians contacted disagreed with the government's decision to have troops in Afghanistan, while 39 per cent approved of it. In Quebec, opposition reached 73 per cent.</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="01"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jul 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>Mountie believes journalist is on 'personal vendetta'</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. July 01 2010  23:30  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: July 1st, 2010</div> <div> <B>The Mounties' head of media relations in B.C. believes that an unnamed Vancouver journalist has embarked on a "personal vendetta" against him, according to internal emails released Thursday.</B></div> <bR> <div> In a chain of emails between Insp. Tim Shields and various unnamed recipients, Shields wrote that a Vancouver newspaper reporter has started, "an organized, personal and pre-planned smear campaign."</div> <bR> <div> Although the reporter was not named, Shields pointed to an article entitled "Six in ten BC RCMP have thought about quitting," which concerned a recent survey of RCMP employees.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f37da0b50.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="181" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> RCMP Insp. Tim Shields is seen in this file image from July 16 2009. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Dayna Manning)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 554 WIDTH="707"><div> An article with the same title was written by reporter Chad Skelton for the <I>Vancouver Sun</I> on May 12.</div> <bR> <div> Skelton could not be reached for comment on Thursday, and Shields told ctvbc.ca that federal privacy law prevented him from confirming if the emails concerned Skelton.</div> <bR> <div> In an email written on May 17, Shields described that particular article as "indicative of a filtering process where the public only gets to know what (redacted) decide they should know," and argues that it neglected to include many positive results revealed by the survey.</div> <bR> <div> In a June 1 email, apparently addressed to someone at the same media organization, Shields requested "some objective oversight" over the alleged campaign against him.</div> <bR> <div> "When a reporter begins to target a middle manager for making a decision he didn't like, this is not objective journalism, but is a personal act that becomes a form of revenge."</div> <bR> <div> An email response sent later the same day, addressed to Shields by an unnamed person, didn't address the "vendetta" directly, but lamented the RCMP's recent decision to post the results of all Access to Information requests online.</div> <bR> <div> "The RCMP's recent policy of posting responses to requests online doesn't help the applicant create better journalism. If anything it compels the researcher to quickly mobilize out of concern his/her application and response will be copied by others."</div> <bR> <div> Shields told ctvbc.ca that the B.C. RCMP decided to post the results of all ATI requests online so that the public can access the information in its raw form, instead of reading a version filtered through journalists.</div> <bR> <div> "There's no question that reporters have the responsibility as gatekeepers of the information to report with balance and in a factual and unbiased manner, and this is not always what is happening. This is not always what we're seeing," he said.</div> <bR> <div> He declined to comment further, expressing a reluctance to "inflame the situation."</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with</I><I> files from</I><I> </I><I>Bethany Lindsay and ctvbc.ca</I></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jul 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>