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warrant</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 22/08/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#21" TITLE="Aug 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>Parents killed in Alta. crash, newborn survives</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 21/08/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#20" TITLE="Aug 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>Fugitive couple caught at Arizona campsite</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 20/08/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#19" TITLE="Aug 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>International donors make new pledges for Pakistan</B></div> 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</NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 16/08/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#15" TITLE="Aug 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>Charges dropped in Buffalo shooting that killed 4</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 15/08/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#14" TITLE="Aug 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>Canada ups aid to Pakistan, as floods move south</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 14/08/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#13" TITLE="Aug 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>B.C. man had 9 duffel bags of pot in car: Wyoming cops</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 13/08/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#12" TITLE="Aug 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>New superbug gene may spread worldwide: study</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 12/08/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#11" TITLE="Aug 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>Scrapping census will have broad impact on StatsCan</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 11/08/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#10" TITLE="Aug 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>Girls as young as 7 hitting puberty: U.S. study</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 10/08/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#09" TITLE="Aug 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>Woman who allegedly faked cancer in court Monday</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 09/08/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#08" TITLE="Aug 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>Storms spawn tornadoes in North Dakota, Minnesota</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 08/08/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#07" TITLE="Aug 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>U.S. government faces hurdles plugging WikiLeaks</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 07/08/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#06" TITLE="Aug 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>Pickton's police interview transcript made public</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 06/08/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#05" TITLE="Aug 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>Boy stranded by Air Canada gets his wheelchair back</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 05/08/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#04" TITLE="Aug 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Police make three arrests in Humber murder</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 04/08/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#03" TITLE="Aug 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>Day says new prisons needed for 'unreported crimes'</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 03/08/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#02" TITLE="Aug 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>Lindsay Lohan released from jail after 14 days</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 02/08/10</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#01" TITLE="Aug 10"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B> </B><B> </B><B>Improvements continue at site of Michigan oil spill</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 01/08/10</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="Aug 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= 275 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Torture victim LaFortune reunited with family in B.C.</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. Aug. 30 2010  20:29  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: August 31st, 2010</div> <div> <B>A man who experienced horrific injuries at the hands of an alleged torturer was reunited with relatives Monday in British Columbia.</B></div> <bR> <div> Dustin LaFortune arrived at the Victoria, B.C., airport Monday afternoon after receiving months of medical treatment at a Regina hospital.</div> <bR> <div> "I'm feeling good," said LaFortune, who was embraced by family members in the airport. "I'm so excited."</div> <bR> <div> Police believe LaFortune, 26, was savagely beaten and starved for more than a year, before he was dropped off at a hospital last April. He had shrunk down to just 87 pounds from his normal weight of 245 pounds.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="f4f4a06a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="106" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Dustin LaFortune walks out of the Victoria, B.C. airport with his mother Renee LaFortune on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="f4f5a0650.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="101" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 344 WIDTH="707"><div> It took more than a month of medical treatment before police investigators could even speak to him.</div> <bR> <div> Although LaFortune is now out of hospital, he still requires reconstructive surgery to his face and must see a specialist for brain damage.</div> <bR> <div> LaFortune said he looks forward to finishing his therapy in Victoria with the support of family, "So I can go back out into the real world."</div> <bR> <div> His mother, Renee LaFortune, said Monday that "Dustin is coming home and that's where he should be."</div> <bR> <div> "He doesn't have to go through this alone," she added. "It's been so difficult having him go through this in Saskatchewan with his family in B.C. and Manitoba. We haven't been able to be there for him every minute, and now we're going to be."</div> <bR> <div> Dustin Paxton, 30, faces numerous charges including aggravated assault, forcible confinement and breach of probation. He was arrested in Edmonton this month after a Canada-wide warrant was issued.</div> <bR> <div> Paxton's next court appearance is scheduled for Sept. 3.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with a report from CTV Winnipeg</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="Aug 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= 163 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Smoking marijuana helps reduce pain, trial shows</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. Aug. 30 2010  08:09  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: August 30th, 2010</div> <div> <B>Though many who suffer chronic pain will tell you that smoking pot can help dull the pain, there has been little hard medical research into whether it really is effective.</B></div> <bR> <div> Now, a new randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial, appearing in the <I>Canadian Medical Association Journal</I>, shows that marijuana really can bring pain relief and improved sleep to those in chronic pain.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f4eca0660.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="102" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> A new study shows that smoking marijuana helps reduce pain. (AP / Robert F. Bukaty)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 562 WIDTH="707"><div> Dr. Mark Ware, director of research at the Alan Edwards Pain Management Unit of the McGill University Health Centre, led a team who studied the pain-relieving effects of smoking cannabis in 21 people with "chronic neuropathic pain": those who had constant nerve pain, caused by trauma or surgery.</div> <bR> <div> All had suffered the pain for at least three months, had failed to get effective relief from other medications, and reported an average weekly pain intensity score greater than 4 on a 10-point scale.</div> <bR> <div> To ensure that the participants couldn't tell who was smoking real marijuana and who was smoking a placebo, the patients were given a special pipe and 25-milligram capsules of a substance to be lit and inhaled once. The capsules contained either 2.5 per cent, 6 per cent or 9.4 per cent tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which is the active ingredient in marijuana. The placebo pill contained no THC.</div> <bR> <div> They smoked the pipe three times daily for five days in each cycle, followed by a nine-day period without marijuana. They continued this over two months, rotating through all four strengths of THC.</div> <bR> <div> The researchers found that those smoking the tabs with the highest potency, 9.4 per cent, saw their average pain "significantly reduced" compared with those smoking the placebo. The patients also reported improvements in sleep quality and anxiety.</div> <bR> <div> Because the dosages were fairly small compared to what "recreational" pot smokers would receive, most participants said they didn't get "high" from the drug; "euphoria" was reported on only three occasions. But some of the patients did report side effects, including dizziness, numbness and a burning sensation in areas of neuropathic pain.</div> <bR> <div> The researchers note that while cannabis has been used to treat pain since the third millennium B.C., the pain-relieving effects of the drug remain controversial in the medical community. Further study on whether the drug really works is needed, the researchers said, given that at least 10 per cent of patients with chronic non-cancer pain and other conditions have tried using marijuana to relieve pain.</div> <bR> <div> The researchers say they would like to see larger and longer studies on marijuana, using higher potencies and flexible dosing to see if pain levels can be reduced even further.</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="29"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Aug 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= 386 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Sale price for Lennon's loo 'quite a surprise'</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. Aug. 29 2010  10:22  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: August 29th, 2010</div> <div> <B>The man who helped organize the sale of John Lennon's toilet says he cannot reveal who bought the late musician's loo, but he is astonished at how much it fetched at auction.</B></div> <bR> <div> An unidentified overseas buyer purchased a blue-and-white toilet that Lennon used when he lived at a home in Tittenhurst Park in Berkshire, west of London, from 1969 to 1972.</div> <bR> <div> The toilet sold at the 33rd annual Beatles Convention in Liverpool Saturday for 9,500 pounds, or just shy of $15,500 Canadian at current exchange rates.</div> <bR> <div> Stephen Bailey, who helped organize the auction, says the ornate toilet made its way into his Beatles memorabilia shop after sitting in a British contractor's shed for years.</div> <bR> <div> It was passed down to the man's son and recently made its way into his shop.</div> <bR> <div> Bailey told CTV News Channel that it was "quite a surprise" to see the toilet sell for more than nine times its expected selling price.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f4eaa07e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> John Lennon performs during a charity concert to benefit mentally challenged children at New York's Madison Square Garden, in this file photo from Aug. 30, 1972. (AP Photo-File)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="f4e8a0a50.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="165" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 124 WIDTH="707"><div> "The amount of interest we had from all over the world was just amazing to say the least," Bailey said during a telephone interview from his shop in Liverpool, England, on Sunday morning.</div> <bR> <div> "It's a very ornate, and to be honest, really nice looking toilet, but you know I don't think I'd be personally using it in the future if I'd paid 9,500 pounds for it," he added.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Sta<I>ff 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="Aug 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= 153 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>No trauma on foot found in Wash. State: police</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. Aug. 28 2010  07:06  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: August 28th, 2010</div> <div> <B>Authorities say there is nothing to suggest the bare foot that washed up in Washington State on Friday was cut off or injured.</B></div> <bR> <div> Det. Ed Wallace of the Island County Sheriff's Office said the foot is almost complete, despite a few bones missing from the toes.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="f4e7a05a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A tourist walking along a stretch of beach in Whidbey Island, Wash. found a human foot on Friday, Aug. 28, 2010.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 727 WIDTH="707"><div> "There's no trauma to it," he said. "It does not look like it's been severed."</div> <bR> <div> It was discovered by a tourist walking on a beach on Whidbey Island, about 50 kilometres north of Seattle. Police estimate it had been in the water less than two months.</div> <bR> <div> Based on the information police have gathered, they don't believe it matches any missing persons cases in the area. </div> <div> "Based on the size, we believe it's from either a juvenile or a female," Wallace said.</div> <bR> <div> This marks the ninth foot to wash up in the coastal region from B.C. to the northwestern tip of Washington since August 2007.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Related: </B><A HREF="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&ie=UTF8&hq=Pacific+northwest+severed+feet&hnear=&msa=0&msid=107331784610298191068.00044ff6a6d6970754869&ll=49.887557,-123.623657&spn=2.339385,6.366577&t=h&z=8" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?source=s_"><U><B><IMG SRC="f4e5540c0.gif" border=0 width="84" height="12" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B> of locations where detached feet have been discovered.</B></div> <bR> <div> Despite the high concentration of discoveries in the area, Dr. Lynn Bell says it's not uncommon for feet to wash up on beaches.</div> <bR> <div> "It does happen on other coastlines around the world, it's not unusual," she said. "Although it sounds somewhat gruesome, it's a very natural process and one that you would expect to happen."</div> <bR> <div> Some have suggested the feet could belong to tsunami victims or plane crash victims. There is no evidence that any of the found feet were cut off, and Bell says they could have simply separated from the bodies in the water.</div> <bR> <div> It's also possible they could have been forcibly removed without tools, she said.</div> <bR> <div> The last discovery was made in the Triangle Beach area of Richmond in October. The foot was found inside a white, size 8.5 Nike running shoe, and was matched to a man reported missing in January 2008.</div> <bR> <div> The first foot to appear matched the DNA of a man who was depressed and likely took his own life.</div> <bR> <div> There has been little progress on figuring out where the others came from. Two feet found separately in New Balance running shoes in Richmond belong to the same woman, but she remains unidentified.</div> <bR> <div> A matching pair of men's Nikes also remains unidentified, as well as a right male foot found in summer 2007.</div> <bR> <div> RCMP Cpl. Annie Linteau said that B.C. Mounties will be in touch with Washington police on Monday to offer assistance with the latest discovery.</div> <bR> <div> "We've certainly had lots of experience in dealing with these sorts of remains," she said.</div> <bR> <div> <I>With a report from CTV British Columbia's Penny Daflos and files from The Canadian Press & ctvbc.ca</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="27"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Aug 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>Canadians among suspects in child porn bust</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri. Aug. 27 2010  08:25  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: August 27th, 2010</div> <div> <B>Two Canadians are among a group of 11 people arrested for allegedly being part of a global child pornography ring that used Facebook to connect members and share materials.</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="f4dea05a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 774 WIDTH="707"><div> The men were arrested as part of an international police operation that netted suspects in three countries. In addition to the two Canadians, six people were arrested in Britain and three in Australia.</div> <bR> <div> According to a release from the Australian Federal Police, which co-ordinated the investigation, dubbed Project Ocean, one of the Canadian men has been charged with four counts relating to child exploitation in Canada.</div> <bR> <div> The other Canadian suspect is still under investigation, and no details have been released about charges.</div> <bR> <div> No names or hometowns have been released for any of the 11 suspects, but the charges range from using a carriage service to access child pornography, to possessing child porn and making the material available to others.</div> <bR> <div> In the U.K., two children have been "safeguarded" according to the release, but not further details were given.</div> <bR> <div> The investigation was launched by the Australians in March of this year and operated as a partnership with the RCMP, the U.K.'s Child Exploitation Online Protection Centre and the FBI.</div> <bR> <div> The operation began when a member of the Australia Federal Police Internet Policing Team created a Facebook account and was approached by a suspected member of the network.</div> <bR> <div> Soon after, the other international agencies were brought in to the investigation, said Neil Gaughan, AFP national manager of high tech crime operations.</div> <bR> <div> "Criminal activity of this type is often described as a borderless crime because there's no geographical restriction on where offenders may try to target their victims," Gaughan said in the release.</div> <bR> <div> "Policing in this social networking environment is a challenge, but the co-operation during this operation demonstrates that international law enforcement is united in a global fight against online child exploitation material."</div> <bR> <div> Facebook also played a role in the investigation, deactivating the accounts of the initial suspects. Soon after, however, police watched as the group began to reform under new accounts.</div> <bR> <div> The members were described by police as "people who share an interest in viewing extremely disturbing images of children suffering horrific abuse."</div> <bR> <div> RCMP Superintendent John Bilinski, who heads up the Canadian Police Centre for Missing and Exploited Children, said Project Ocean is an example of how police agencies have to function in the world of high-tech, international crime.</div> <bR> <div> "Project Ocean is a clear demonstration of how international co-operation can help ensure that child sexual offenders are brought to justice," he said in the release.</div> <bR> <div> "One of our most effective strategies against Internet-facilitated child sexual abuse is co-operation."</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Sta<I>ff </I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 37 WIDTH="707"><div> <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" >=======================</FONT> </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="Aug 10"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 233 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Terror suspects to appear in Ottawa court</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. Aug. 26 2010  08:02  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: August 26th, 2010</div> <div> <B>Two terror suspects will make an appearance in an Ottawa courtroom on Thursday morning, the day after RCMP announced a pair of arrests made "in relation to terrorist offences."</B></div> <bR> <div> The arrests accompanied two separate raids in west-end Ottawa: one took place at a townhouse, the other occurred at a highrise apartment building.</div> <bR> <div> Police have yet to publicly identify the two arrested parties, though the RCMP towed away an automobile owned by Misbahuddin Ahmed, a 36-year-old X-ray technician at an Ottawa hospital.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f4d9a07e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Police stand guard outside a home in the west end of Ottawa, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010. (Adrian Wyld / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 592 WIDTH="707"><div> Matthew Weiler, who lives next door to Ahmed and his wife, said at least eight Ottawa police and RCMP cruisers were on the street early Wednesday morning.</div> <bR> <div> "I'm not that shocked. It's got to be somewhere, I guess," Weiler said in an interview with The Canadian Press.</div> <bR> <div> A few doors down, Carolina Ayala said she often saw Ahmed dressed in blue hospital scrubs and she presumed he worked at a hospital.</div> <bR> <div> Little information has been released regarding the second raid at the highrise, located several kilometres away from the townhouse.</div> <bR> <div> The RCMP are due to update the public on their investigation later in the day, though they have indicated that "more arrests are anticipated."</div> <bR> <div> Former CSIS agent Michel Juneau-Katsuya said the news that the RCMP had been working on its case for about a year was not a surprise.</div> <bR> <div> Learning from similar cases in the past, Juneau-Katsuya said the RCMP are keenly aware of the information and evidence they must obtain to proceed with arrests.</div> <bR> <div> "They want to be ready this time, again for the arrests and ultimately the prosecution," he told CTV's Canada AM from Ottawa on Thursday morning.</div> <bR> <div> The arrests come at a time when several Canadian security officials have warned about the threat of terrorism on Canadian soil.</div> <bR> <div> "The head of CSIS has long been warning about homegrown terrorism," said CTV's Roger Smith, when reporting on the developing Ottawa case on Wednesday evening.</div> <bR> <div> "Just two weeks ago, the public safety minister, Vic Toews, also warned that radical extremists are becoming increasingly entrenched in Canada and must be stopped."</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Sta<I>ff 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="Aug 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>Torture case suspect faces charges in two provinces</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. Aug. 25 2010  12:01  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: August 25th, 2010</div> <div> <B>A wanted man has been arrested in Alberta more than four months after his former roommate was dumped at a Regina hospital, suffering from the effects of apparent torture and starvation.</B></div> <bR> <div> Dustin Ward Paxton was arrested without incident on Tuesday night at a home in Edmonton. Police from Edmonton and Calgary were involved, as were members of the province's Fugitive Apprehension Sheriffs Support Team.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f4d2a07e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Dustin Ward Paxton, 30, is seen in this undated image made available by the Calgary Police Service.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 561 WIDTH="707"><div> The 30-year-old was taken into custody and is being questioned by Calgary detectives.</div> <bR> <div> Edmonton police say that Calgary police have taken the lead on the case at this point.</div> <bR> <div> Paxton is accused of holding his former roommate, Dustin LaFortune, captive while abusing him and allowing him to starve down to about one-third of his natural weight.</div> <bR> <div> The 26-year-old LaFortune was found at a Regina hospital on April 16. He weighed only 87 pounds -- down from the 245 pounds he typically carried.</div> <bR> <div> LaFortune was also disfigured, had been burned and police say parts of his lips and tongue had been cut off.</div> <bR> <div> He was in such rough shape that police could not even interview LaFortune about what happened to him for nearly a month. </div> <div> Ed Mason, a reporter with Edmonton's CHED radio station, said LaFortune is believed to be making a slow recovery from his injuries.</div> <bR> <div> "He is becoming his old self again," said Mason, citing sources who have spoken to LaFortune's mother. Although he hasn't regained much weight, "he is regaining his strength, both physically and emotionally and he is doing better than maybe some had expected," Mason told CTV News Channel in a telephone interview on Wednesday morning.</div> <bR> <div> "But horrific injuries of this kind over such a long period of time, it'll take a long time to recover."</div> <bR> <div> Arrest warrants indicate police believe that LaFortune was held in Calgary against his will between Dec. 1, 2009 and March 2, 2010. They believed he was confined for a second time in Regina between March 16 and April 16.</div> <bR> <div> Paxton was named as the prime suspect in the case earlier this week. Some of the charges he faces include aggravated assault and forcible confinement.</div> <bR> <div> Calgary police are due to update the media on their investigation late Wednesday afternoon.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Sta<I>ff 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="24"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Aug 10"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 166 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Bank of Montreal reports $669-million profit</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue. Aug. 24 2010  09:01  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: August 24th, 2010</div> <div> <B>TORONTO — Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO) reported a $669-million profit in the third quarter, an increase from the same time last year but still falling short of analyst expectations.</B></div> <bR> <div> The first major Canadian bank to report its third-quarter results, BMO said cash earnings per share came in at $1.14, about seven cents lower than analyst estimates.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f4caa05a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> BMO CEO Bill Downe speaks at the company's annual general meeting in Toronto on Thursday, March 1, 2007. (Adrian Wyld / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 645 WIDTH="707"><div> However, the profit was 20 per cent higher than a year ago, when the bank reported $557 million in net income, or 98 cents cash earnings per share.</div> <bR> <div> BMO's net earnings per share were $1.13, 16 cents higher than in the comparable period.</div> <bR> <div> Revenue was down slightly to $2.91 billion from $2.98 billion.</div> <bR> <div> Bank of Montreal also reduced its provisions for credit losses during the quarter ended July 31 as the economy improved from last year. The provisions were $203 million lower than a year ago, at $214 million.</div> <bR> <div> The bank said it will keep its quarterly dividend unchanged at 70 cents per common share.</div> <bR> <div> In its specific divisions, BMO said domestic personal and commercial banking posted a 17 per cent increase in profits to $426 million, aided by higher revenues across its personal, commercial and cards businesses.</div> <bR> <div> U.S. personal and commercial banking profits dropped 27 per cent to US$38 million on higher provisions for credit losses, impaired loans and adjustments to its mortgage portfolio because of lower long-term interest rates, it said.</div> <bR> <div> BMO Capital Markets was hit particularly hard, with a 58 per cent decrease in profits to $130 million as it contended with lower trading revenues affected by the economic uncertainty out of Europe. The division had also been riding high on several quarters of optimistic trading.</div> <bR> <div> "The focus we are maintaining on helping our customers succeed and our strategic investments in businesses with good growth potential have translated into a solid year-over-year increase in earnings, adding to our already strong capital position," said president and CEO Bill Downe in a release.</div> <bR> <div> "Our results underline the benefit of the bank's diversified business mix."</div> <bR> <div> Bank of Montreal has more than 37,000 employees across its North American operations, which include retail banking, wealth management and investment banking products, as well as its Chicago-based Harris Bank subsidiary.</div> <bR> <div> The capital markets divisions of Canadian banks are expected to face some challenges in amassing revenue, which they earn by providing capital to businesses through activities such as underwriting share offerings and financing mergers and acquisitions.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Sta<I>ff with files from The Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="23"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Aug 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= 163 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Most Canadians fear for health system: report card</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. Aug. 23 2010  08:04  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: August 23rd, 2010</div> <div> <B>Most Canadians are concerned about the future of health care in this country, finds a new report card from the Canadian Medical Association.</B></div> <bR> <div> The survey found 80 per cent of Canadians worry that the quality of health care will decline in the next two to three years. They also fear the strain of aging baby boomers will be too much for the system to handle.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f4c6a05a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> A man poses with his prescription drugs at his home in Tamarac, Fla. on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009. (AP / Wilfredo Lee)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 608 WIDTH="707"><div> Another three-quarters of people are worried they won't be offered the same level of health coverage that they once did as baby boomers start to retire.</div> <bR> <div> Dr. Anne Doig, the outgoing president of the CMA, calls the survey results "a refreshing acknowledgement of reality."</div> <bR> <div> "Canadians are aware that there are issues and concerns that they must address," Doig told CTV's Canada AM from Niagara Falls, Ont., where the CMA is holding its annual meeting.</div> <bR> <div> She says Canadians are right to be concerned about the future of their health care, because if the status quo remains, the imminent "silver tsunami" of aging baby boomers could badly strain the health system.</div> <bR> <div> "It's true if we do nothing, then there will be a major crisis coming at us," Doig said, adding: "We have the opportunity to plan for that crisis and to do something to prevent it from becoming a crisis."</div> <bR> <div> Doig noted that baby boomers are now in their 60s and will soon face the diseases of aging.</div> <bR> <div> "We have to recognize that there is a population bulge – and it's my age group – that is going to live at least another 25 or 30 years. They're very healthy people now. But as we get older, we get frailer and we get sicker, and those needs will need to be met," she said.</div> <bR> <div> "The generation behind us is a smaller group of people, so that means strain on the workforce and a strain on the economy."</div> <bR> <div> The survey, conducted by Ipsos Reid, found that along with concerns over the quality of health care, Canadians are also concerned about how the country will pay for increasingly expensive health-care services.</div> <bR> <div> The survey found 76 per cent of Canadians are worried they will have to pay more taxes so the health system can provide services to the baby boom generation.</div> <bR> <div> About 73 per cent fear they won't have enough money to maintain their own health as they age -- topping concerns over being able to afford retirement (68 per cent) and losing a job (38 per cent).</div> <bR> <div> The bulk of Canadians polled believe governments need to step up to bring about change. Some 85 per cent agreed that challenges brought on by the aging population signal that the time has come for federal, provincial and territorial governments to negotiate a new health-care funding agreement.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 372 WIDTH="707"><div> While those surveyed are clearly concerned over health care's future, the report found little change in public views concerning access and government handling of the health system.</div> <bR> <div> In this year's report card, 75 per cent of Canadians gave an A or B grade for quality of health-care services available, versus 74 per cent in 2009.</div> <bR> <div> A full 41 per cent assigned the federal government either an "A" or "B" grade on its performance, compared to 40 per cent in 2009. The same percentage of Canadians gave their provincial governments either an A or B grade, compared to 42 per cent last year.</div> <bR> <div> The CMA cautions that the "similarly middling grades" for both Ottawa and the provinces translates into uncertainty among Canadians concerning whether health-care services will improve or worsen in their communities over the next two or three years.</div> <bR> <div> The report found 35 per cent of respondents believed services would get better, while 51 per cent said they would get worse.</div> <bR> <div> Every year since 2001, the Canadian Medical Association has asked Ipsos Reid to measure public opinion on the viability of the Canadian health care system. The poll, conducted completely online, surveyed 3,483 Canadian adults in June. The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 1.66 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Sta<I>ff 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="22"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Aug 10"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 233 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Prosecutors defend handling of WikiLeaks warrant</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. Aug. 22 2010  14:25  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: August 22nd, 2010</div> <div> <B>The decision to issue and later revoke an arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was made without error, Swedish prosecutors said Sunday.</B></div> <bR> <div> Karin Rosander, a spokesperson for the Swedish Prosecution Authority, said that an "on-call" prosecutor first made the decision to issue a warrant for Assange after learning of rape allegations. A second prosecutor with more detailed information later revoked it after finding there were no grounds to suspect Assange of rape.</div> <bR> <div> "The prosecutor who took over the case yesterday had more information, and that is why she made a different assessment than the on-call prosecutor," Rosander said.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="f4c5a0a70.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="167" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> This Aug. 14, 2010 file photo shows WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Stockholm, Sweden. (AP / SCANPIX, Bertil Ericson, File)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 613 WIDTH="707"><div> Rosander said there was "absolutely nothing" in the more detailed material that would suggest either prosecutor had erred.</div> <bR> <div> Despite the position of the prosecution authority, a Swedish justice watchdog group known as RO filed a complaint about the on-call prosecutor with the country's Ombudsmen of Justice on Sunday.</div> <bR> <div> RO spokesperson, Johann Binninge, said the complaint alleges that the prosecutor issued the warrant "without having enough information to make such a decision."</div> <bR> <div> Assange said the warrant -- however short-lived -- had damaged his reputation.</div> <bR> <div> He was quoted in the Swedish tabloid <I>Aftonbladet</I> as saying that his "enemies" could now point to the allegations as reasons to discredit his organization.</div> <bR> <div> "I don't know who's behind this but we have been warned that for example the Pentagon plans to use dirty tricks to spoil things for us," he said in comments translated to Swedish. "I have also been warned about sex traps."</div> <bR> <div> The Pentagon did not offer immediate comment on Sunday.</div> <bR> <div> Assange remains under suspicion of molestation in Sweden, where the term covers a wide range of offences that can include inappropriate physical contact with a fellow adult.</div> <bR> <div> But the WikiLeaks founder has rejected the molestation allegation saying he has never "had sex with anyone without the full consent of both parties."</div> <bR> <div> WikiLeaks spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson said the organization believes that the story behind the arrest warrant may involve ulterior motives.</div> <bR> <div> "It is such an unbelievable unfolding of events that it would be unnatural not to consider that there is something behind it," he said from Iceland.</div> <bR> <div> WikiLeaks intends to release an additional batch of 15,000 classified U.S. documents from the Afghan war. The Pentagon has warned the organization that doing so could put the lives of Americans and Afghans at risk.</div> <bR> <div> <I>With files from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="21"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Aug 10"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 166 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Parents killed in Alta. crash, newborn survives</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. Aug. 21 2010  22:29  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: August 21st, 2010</div> <div> <B>A newborn baby has survived a head-on collision in southern Alberta, but both the child's parents were killed.</B></div> <bR> <div> Witnesses told police that a vehicle heading east on Highway 8, near Cochrane west of Calgary, crossed into the opposing lane on Friday night.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="f4c4a05a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Fire officials at the scene of a crash that killed the parents of a newborn baby on Highway 8 near Cochrane, Alta. on Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 166 ><NOBR><div> The parents and seven-week-old baby were in the eastbound vehicle and police say both adults were dead when they arrived.</div> <bR> <div> The baby was taken to hospital with injuries and was listed in serious but stable condition.</div> <bR> <div> The 54-year-old driver of the westbound vehicle was also in serious but stable condition.</div> <bR> <div> Police say they do not believe alcohol or speed were factors in the collision, but the crash is still under investigation.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Sta<I>ff 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="20"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Aug 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= 528 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Fugitive couple caught at Arizona campsite</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri. Aug. 20 2010  08:11  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: August 20th, 2010</div> <div> <B>U.S. Marshals have apprehended a pair of fugitives in the same state where their flight from police began three weeks ago.</B></div> <bR> <div> Federal inmate John McCluskey, 45, and his fiancée and alleged accomplice Casslyn Welch, 44, were caught at a campground in Arizona's Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest on Thursday.</div> <bR> <div> The couple, who are also cousins, had been on the run since July 30.</div> <bR> <div> The jig was up for the fugitives after a U.S. Forest Service ranger went to check on an unattended campfire and a silver Nissan Sentra that appeared as if someone was trying to hide its presence.</div> <bR> <div> The ranger spoke briefly with McCluskey who appeared nervous and agitated.</div> <bR> <div> A SWAT team and surveillance unit soon surrounded the campsite and captured McCluskey and Welch.</div> <bR> <div> McCluskey was caught lying in a sleeping bag outside a tent. He said that he had stashed a gun in his tent and intended to fire on officers if he had been able to reach it.</div> <bR> <div> U.S. Marshal David Gonzales said that Welch reached for a weapon, but surrendered after realizing she would not be able to gun down the officers at the site.</div> <bR> <div> McCluskey, who was in the midst of serving a 15-year sentence for attempted second-degree murder and other offences, indicated to authorities that he wished he had shot the ranger that came to their site.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f4b9a0ce0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="206" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="f4baa0d70.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="215" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> In this image provided by the U.S. Marshals Service fugitive John McCluskey is shown being taken into custody Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010 by U.S. Marshals in eastern Arizona. (AP / U.S. Marshals Office)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 683 WIDTH="707"><div> Welch had recently been caught trying to smuggle drugs into the Arizona prison where McCluskey had been serving his time. She told police that she had been moving the drugs on behalf of a white supremacy group.</div> <bR> <div> "The nightmare that began July 30 is finally over," Gonzales said Thursday.</div> <bR> <div> Following their capture, the couple was taken to the Apache County Jail in St. Johns, Arizona.</div> <bR> <div> <B>The hunt for the armed and dangerous</B></div> <bR> <div> Police say Welch helped McCluskey and two other inmates serving time for murder -- Tracy Province and Daniel Renwick -- break out of a privately run prison near Kingman, Arizona, about 480 kilometres west of where they were captured on Thursday.</div> <bR> <div> The escape of the inmates prompted a massive manhunt in both the U.S. and Canada, as authorities sought to bring them into custody as quickly as possible.</div> <bR> <div> Renwick was caught two days after he escaped at a location in Rifle, Colorado. Province was found in Meeteetse, Wyoming, eight days later on Aug. 9.</div> <bR> <div> But it appears police could not catch them quickly enough: Province, McCluskey and Welch have been linked to the slayings of an Oklahoma couple whose bodies were found in a travel trailer in New Mexico on Aug. 4.</div> <bR> <div> At the campsite where McCluskey and Welch were arrested, police found license plates on their car that were stolen in New Mexico around the time that Greg and Linda Haas of Tecumseh, Oklahoma, were killed.</div> <bR> <div> Sheila Walker, a friend of the slain Oklahoma couple, said many friends and family feared that others could get hurt as well.</div> <bR> <div> "That was one of our main fears, that they would get desperate and someone else would get hurt," Walker said. "We are just thrilled they are back behind bars."</div> <bR> <div> A recent report revealed numerous security lapses at the prison where the inmates escaped from, including a defective alarm system, gaps in guard patrols and an exterior fences that was not topped with razor wire.</div> <bR> <div> On Aug. 15, two senior prison staff resigned their posts at the prison, following comments from Arizona Department of Corrections Director Charles Ryan who said state officials have "great concerns that there was laxness on the part of security staff."</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Sta<I>ff 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="19"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Aug 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= 181 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>International donors make new pledges for Pakistan</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. Aug. 19 2010  08:03  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: August 19th, 2010</div> <div> <B>Foreign countries are ramping up their aid efforts in Pakistan, where 20 million people remain homeless in the aftermath of severe flooding that began three weeks ago.</B></div> <bR> <div> The U.S., Germany and Saudi Arabia announced new multimillion-dollar aid pledges Thursday, while the Asian Development Bank said it would redirect $2 billion in loans so it could be used for reconstruction.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f4afa0690.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="105" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Flood survivors negotiate a flooded road at Muzaffargarh, in central Pakistan on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010. (AP / Khalid Tanveer)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 704 WIDTH="707"><div> Bank director Juan Miranda questioned "what the Pakistani people will think" if they are not given the help that they need in a timely manner.</div> <bR> <div> "We have to put every road and every bridge back into the shape where they should be," Miranda said.</div> <bR> <div> Later Thursday, the UN will hold an emergency session dedicated to the flooding in Pakistan. Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon is scheduled to attend.</div> <bR> <div> Kevin McCort, the president and CEO of CARE Canada, said the flooding has created unique challenges in different parts of Pakistan, leaving aid agencies trying to respond to many problems at the same time.</div> <bR> <div> "In the north in the Swat Valley, we saw evidence where the flood waters are really quite torrential and quite violent, and actually destroyed much of what they hit on the way through -- taking towns and power structures and bridges out," McCort told CTV's Canada AM from Ottawa on Thursday morning, hours after returning from Pakistan.</div> <bR> <div> "And in the lower lands, we saw…extensive flooding with hundreds of thousands of hectares underwater, homes submerged, walls collapsing and many people just seeking small patches of high ground."</div> <bR> <div> Now that aid is beginning to flow into Pakistan more rapidly, there is a sense that progress is being made on the ground, albeit slowly.</div> <bR> <div> Aid organizations have been able to use supplies they had on-hand to help flood survivors, said McCort, and they have purchased all the supplies they can from parts of Pakistan that are still in good shape.</div> <bR> <div> "There's still significant parts of Pakistan unaffected -- Islamabad, Lahore, many of the major cities -- so you're able to purchase relief supplies in those areas and you can deliver it to where you need to," said McCort.</div> <bR> <div> "The roads in many parts are still in good shape, there's lots of transport capacity."</div> <bR> <div> But McCort said that doesn't mean that donors or the international community should get complacent.</div> <bR> <div> "The problem is really increasingly one of funds and availability of supplies," said McCort.</div> <bR> <div> The UN hopes to raise $464 million for relief in Pakistan, and the World Health Organization is seeking $56 million. So far, they each remain well below their targets.</div> <bR> <div> To date, Ottawa has pledged $33 million in humanitarian assistance and equipment for the disaster.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Sta<I>ff 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="18"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Aug 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= 231 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Latest China landslide leaves at least 67 missing</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. Aug. 18 2010  06:05  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: August 18th, 2010</div> <div> <B>BEIJING — Fresh landslides rocked another area of China on Wednesday, sweeping through a mountain town in the southwest of the country after days of heavy rains and leaving at least 67 people missing and cutting off access to the area.</B></div> <bR> <div> Roads, power and telecommunications were severed when the mud tore through Puladi township in Yunnan province, the official Xinhua News Agency said. Rescue workers have been sent to the township, which is in the mountains bordering Myanmar.</div> <bR> <div> Xinhua said 25 people were hurt in the landslide, nine seriously.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f4a89f710.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="113" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> People use wood logs and boards to pave a path into a village submerged by landslides in search for people buried in mud in Puladi township, in southwest China's Yunnan province, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. (AP Photo)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 435 WIDTH="707"><div> "I suddenly heard rumbling late last night and then rushed to a safe place with fellow villagers," it quoted local resident Yu Zhizhong as saying.</div> <bR> <div> Xinhua said the mudslides were spread about 300 metres across, and that at least 10 trucks and 21 houses were buried.</div> <bR> <div> Mudslides and floods have killed at least 1,500 people around the country in the last several months.</div> <bR> <div> The provincial civil affairs office sent tents and clothing to the area, but it is not known when the aid and rescue workers will get there.</div> <bR> <div> Xinhua said the mudslides tore away a bridge on the Nujiang river, which saw its water level surge by 6 metres.</div> <bR> <div> China regularly suffers devastating summer floods, but this year has been the worst in a decade, with cities washed away in the northeast and northwest of the country. The storms have caused tens of billions of dollars in damage.</div> <bR> <div> The worst recent landslides have been in Zhouqu in Gansu province, where at least 1,287 people were killed as a mudslide crashed through the city on Aug. 8. The government says another 457 people are still missing from that disaster.</div> <bR> <div> On Wednesday, Vice Premier Hui Liangyu urged authorities to focus on resettlement of survivors in Zhouqu. He said more shelter and medical services were needed, according to Xinhua.</div> <bR> <div> Hui said schools should resume classes when the fall semester starts in a few weeks.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Sta<I>ff with files from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="17"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Aug 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= 277 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Chalk River ready to resume isotope production</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. Aug. 16 2010  21:33  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: August 17th, 2010</div> <div> <B>OTTAWA — The Chalk River nuclear reactor is back up and running.</B></div> <bR> <div> Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. says the Ontario reactor is operating at high power and can resume making medical isotopes.</div> <bR> <div> The 53-year-old National Research Universal reactor at Chalk River, Ont., supplied a third of the world's isotopes used in medical imaging until AECL shut it down in May 2009.</div> <bR> <div> The shutdown came after scientists found a pinhole-size radioactive water leak.</div> <bR> <div> What was originally supposed to be a month-long shutdown dragged on for more than a year.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f4a1a0ad0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="173" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Shown is a warning sign outside of the nuclear reactor at the Atomic Energy Canada Limited plant in Chalk River, Ontario, Wednesday, December 19 2007. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred Chartrand)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 54 ><NOBR><div> Doctors have been scrambling to make do with an erratic supply of medical isotopes to diagnose cancer and heart ailments.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Sta<I>ff 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="16"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Aug 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= 340 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Canadian cities going green on roads and in buildings</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. Aug. 15 2010  20:33  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: August 16th, 2010</div> <div> <B>MONTREAL — Vancouver has vowed to become the greenest city in the world by 2020. New condos in Toronto are going up without any parking spaces. Regina is doing away with one-way streets to improve public transit access in a revitalized downtown.</B></div> <bR> <div> And in Montreal's trendy Plateau Mont-Royal borough, Mayor Luc Ferrandez is doing his best to bring a little more country into the city.</div> <bR> <div> "We're looking at streets and asking ourselves, 'Is it really useful'," he said in a recent interview. "We've identified about 20 streets that are not useful, that can be taken out and retransformed into green spaces."</div> <bR> <div> Concerns about the environment have topped opinion polls for the last five to 10 years, says Pascoal Gomes, a spokesman for Montreal's Urban Ecology Centre.</div> <bR> <div> But in ever-increasing numbers, people -- and cities -- are acting on those concerns.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f499a0080.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="264" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> A jogger enjoys the warm weather during a run in Mont-Royal park in downtown Montreal, Thursday May 10, 2001. (Andre Forget / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 701 WIDTH="707"><div> "I think people are waking up to the fact that while we might still be OK, our children and grandchildren might not be," said Beate Bowron, a consultant with the Canadian Institute of Planners.</div> <bR> <div> Many measures probably don't seem that radical.</div> <bR> <div> Traffic calming -- the rerouting of vehicles onto major arteries and away from neighbourhoods -- is one. Narrowing streets to dissuade cars is another. More trees is yet another.</div> <bR> <div> "Generally speaking, people have finally, from a planning point of view, started to look at a street as something beyond just moving traffic," Bowron said.</div> <bR> <div> And not just vehicle traffic but pedestrian and bicycle traffic as well.</div> <bR> <div> "Everybody is thinking about streets as multi-use," she explained.</div> <bR> <div> "Smaller streets have a huge role to play in the neighbourhood, not as thoroughfares necessarily but as a place where people meet and where you push your baby carriage and you have your kid learn to ride a bicycle."</div> <bR> <div> The increased use of neighbourhood thoroughfares is something that's furrowed Ferrandez's brow for quite some time.</div> <div> When he and his Projet Montreal team swept into power in the Plateau district in last fall's municipal elections, he vowed to do something about it.</div> <bR> <div> His full-court press for the environment has had its critics -- including merchants who worry the repurposing of streets will deprive their customers of parking spaces, and residents who will have to walk farther from parking spaces to their destinations.</div> <bR> <div> "Parking is very sensitive," acknowledges Ferrandez, an avid cyclist who occasionally rents a car to go cross-country skiing.</div> <div> But he suggests the end does justify the means.</div> <bR> <div> "What we're trying to give to the city is a quality of life that is not just on a par with the suburbs but superior," he says.</div> <div> He wants to eliminate the main excuse for moving to the suburbs -- the city's too noisy, it's not safe and it's not green enough.</div> <bR> <div> Ferrandez says there has to be a big push in the Plateau because it has one of the highest population densities in Canada, possibly only beaten by east Vancouver because it has more high-rises.</div> <bR> <div> Besides traffic-calming measures, back-alley gardens are also on the agenda and the Plateau administration is repurposing some streets into green spaces, extending parks into such places as some cul-de-sacs.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 648 WIDTH="707"><div> "We want every citizen to be in contact with green spaces, not just a park that they walk to," Ferrandez says of the ultimate goal.</div> <bR> <div> Montreal is extending the international Car-Free Day on Sept. 22 to a full week in some parts of the city. Gomes' group, which is active in pushing greener neighbourhoods, will host a symposium with experts from Europe giving ideas during the same week.</div> <bR> <div> In Vancouver, Mayor Gregor Robertson vowed last year that his city would shrink its ecological footprint in the next 10 years.</div> <div> It would do this through a variety of measures: reducing solid waste going to landfills; encouraging more walking and use of public transit; creating green jobs by promoting energy-efficient technologies; and making the city a leader in the design and construction of green buildings.</div> <bR> <div> Bowron says other cities are making inroads, too.</div> <bR> <div> Toronto is getting longer bike lanes and seeing a shift in some of its architecture.</div> <bR> <div> "Some buildings in Toronto are being built without any parking whatsoever. There's a building on University Avenue, a condo development, that's being built with no parking. That's fairly radical," she said.</div> <bR> <div> "In Regina, they are revitalizing the downtown, widening some sidewalks, doing away with major one-way streets, which is an achievement to get the cars off the roads," Bowron said, adding the transformation of one-ways to two-ways improves public transit access.</div> <bR> <div> "I think you could say almost any city in Canada is looking to become more environmentally sustainable."</div> <bR> <div> Bowron says the push in the cities comes from wanting to deal with climate change and also to be environmentally sustainable.</div> <bR> <div> While some may see the pace of change as slow, she notes that people have to see the necessity of measures.</div> <bR> <div> For instance, the creation of some so-called cool islands -- pavement turned into a small oasis of green -- in Toronto didn't work years ago because the neighbourhood was supposed to look after it and didn't.</div> <bR> <div> "You have to bring everybody with you otherwise it's never going to be implemented properly."</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Sta<I>ff with files from The Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 37 WIDTH="707"><div> <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" >=======================</FONT> <A NAME="15"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#top" TITLE="Aug 10"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 266 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Charges dropped in Buffalo shooting that killed 4</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. Aug. 15 2010  13:50  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: August 15th, 2010</div> <div> <B>BUFFALO, N.Y. — A prosecutor said the evidence didn't back up murder charges against a parolee who had been accused of opening fire outside a downtown restaurant, killing four people and wounding four others, and had the counts dismissed Sunday.</B></div> <bR> <div> Keith Johnson, 25, of Buffalo, was still being held in jail on a parole violation. He could be rearrested if authorities change their minds, but Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III cited photo evidence and witness statements in seeking dismissal.</div> <bR> <div> "I'm not going to prosecute someone for a quadruple homicide unless I'm sure he did it," Sedita told City Court Judge Patrick Carney, with Johnson sitting handcuffed next to him, "and I'm not sure he did it."</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f498a0680.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="104" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Law enforcement officers sit in a vehicle outside a home in Buffalo, N.Y., during the investigation of a multiple fatal shooting that happened in front of the City Grill bar and restaurant during the early morning hours of Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010. (AP / David Duprey)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 550 WIDTH="707"><div> Investigators removed several security cameras from the area around the restaurant Saturday and viewed the images into the evening. Sedita said investigators have clear video of the shooting.</div> <bR> <div> "We can see the race, gender, height, build, the clothing of the perpetrator. You can see many of the perpetrator's actions. We have him shooting on video," Sedita said outside the courtroom.</div> <bR> <div> The City Grill's managers, reacting to an altercation, had decided to close the restaurant early Saturday morning and told patrons to leave. The victims were exiting at about 2:30 a.m. when a man began shooting, police said. Four people -- including a Texas man who was celebrating his first wedding anniversary in his hometown -- were killed and four others wounded.</div> <bR> <div> Later in the day, Johnson was arrested by Buffalo police and charged with four counts of second-degree murder.</div> <bR> <div> Even after the charges were dropped Sunday, police Commissioner Daniel Derenda stood by Johnson's arrest.</div> <bR> <div> People who had been at the party identified Johnson by name, one witness picked him out of a photo lineup, Johnson gave inconsistent statements and a search of his home yielded clothing with blood on it, Derenda said. The blood hasn't yet been tested, police said.</div> <bR> <div> "We acted on what we had. If we had the same information today and were given the same scenario we would have had the same result," Derenda said. "We acted quickly to rectify a situation where we were wrong and we turned it around as quickly as possible."</div> <bR> <div> Johnson, who was released on parole in late July after serving two years for assault, was assigned an attorney after the charges were dismissed. Investigators said he could be a witness in the case.</div> <bR> <div> Sedita said he believed Johnson was being held in jail because being at a bar violated the conditions of his release. A parole official could not be reached by phone Sunday to confirm that.</div> <bR> <div> Johnson's mother told The Buffalo News that her son was at the restaurant at the invitation of his friend, Danyell Mackin, who was among those who died.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 484 WIDTH="707"><div> "My son could have been killed. He was ducking and dodging bullets like everybody else out there," Jackie Green said.</div> <bR> <div> Police were pursuing several new leads Sunday, Derenda said, and authorities again asked that witnesses come forward. Derenda has estimated there were over 100 people at the scene when police arrived.</div> <bR> <div> Some of the victims were part of a group that was attending a party at the restaurant in advance of a couple's anniversary celebration scheduled for later Saturday, authorities said.</div> <bR> <div> The couple, Danyell Mackin, 30, and his wife, Tanisha, married in Texas a year ago and had returned to celebrate with Buffalo-area friends and family, authorities said. Danyell Mackin was killed. Tanisha Mackin was unhurt.</div> <bR> <div> The Mackins, who grew up in the same neighbourhood, had been friends since they were 13, according to a website created to commemorate their marriage and provide details about the celebration.</div> <bR> <div> The couple, known as "Dee" and "Tee," have a 6-year-old son, Danyell Jr., and a 7-month-old daughter, Destinee, who was scheduled to be christened on Sunday, the website said. The family had moved from Buffalo to Austin, Texas, in 2006, and the Mackins worked for a local bank.</div> <bR> <div> At a Buffalo church service where the Mackins' daughter was to have been baptized Sunday, the Rev. George Woodruff called the shooting "just a senseless killing" and prayed for the victims -- and gunman.</div> <bR> <div> "I know some people are not comfortable with that," Woodruff said at Durham Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church. "I pray you arrest his spirit as only you can."</div> <bR> <div> Police identified the other three slain victims as Willie McCaa III, 26; Shawnita McNeil, 27; and Tiffany Wilhite, 32.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Sta<I>ff 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="14"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Aug 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>Canada ups aid to Pakistan, as floods move south</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. Aug. 14 2010  12:08  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: August 14th, 2010</div> <div> <B>Ottawa is offering an additional $31 million in aid to Pakistan, where an estimated 20 million people have been left homeless by devastating floods that are now moving into the south.</B></div> <bR> <div> House Leader John Baird made the government announcement Saturday in Toronto, at what was to be an official flag-raising ceremony commemorating Pakistan Independence Day outside Queens Park.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f497a05a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Pakistani flood survivors struggle for juice cartons distributed by volunteers in Muzaffargarh, Pakistan on Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010. (AP / K.M. Chaudary)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 563 WIDTH="707"><div> Ottawa had previously pledged $2 million in aid for Pakistan last month, bringing Canada's combined donation to a total of $33 million.</div> <bR> <div> In Pakistan, the government canceled its celebrations marking the country's creation and independence from Britain in 1947.</div> <bR> <div> Instead, President Asif Ali Zardari met with flood victims in the northwest of Pakistan, where a deadly case of cholera had just been confirmed.</div> <bR> <div> Aid workers expect more cases of cholera as the water-borne disease makes its way through the region.</div> <bR> <div> And the cholera discovery came as new flood surges hit the south, shoving millions more people out of their homes.</div> <bR> <div> Fresh flood waves swelled the River Indus on Saturday, where parts of the river are more than more 25 kilometers -- 25 times wider than during normal monsoon seasons.</div> <bR> <div> Authorities are trying to warn people of the rising waters in Jacobabad, Hyderabad, Thatta, Ghotki, Larkana and other areas.</div> <bR> <div> According to the United Nations, the number of people affected ranks this disaster worse than the combined toll of the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, the Kashmir earthquake in 2005 and this year's earthquake in Haiti.</div> <bR> <div> Michael O'Brien of the International Red Cross said the scope of devastation "is pretty difficult to get your mind around."</div> <bR> <div> "I think the sooner we realize that these problems can only be solved with a major contribution from the international community, the faster we'll be able to mobilize the kind of relief that's required," O'Brien told CTV News Channel by telephone from Islamabad on Saturday.</div> <bR> <div> Some of the numbers in this disaster, which began in late July with heavy monsoon rains:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Hundreds of thousands of homes have been destroyed.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">20 million people are now homeless, though it's unclear how man are displaced temporarily.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">An estimated 1.7 million acres (nearly 700,000 hectares) of farmland has been wiped out.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">About 1,500 people have died, but the toll could rise as disease spreads.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 447 WIDTH="707"><div> This week, UN officials said $460 million is needed for immediate relief, followed by billions more to rebuild once the floodwaters finally recede.</div> <bR> <div> The international community's slow, relatively muted response to the flooding disaster has many speculating why more has not been done.</div> <bR> <div> "The international recognition of this disaster has not yet been sufficient to its dimensions," U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke told the Council on Foreign Relations. "That is because floods, unlike earthquakes and tsunamis, are not sudden catastrophes that hit and then the reconstruction begins. They're rolling crises, which grow and are initially underestimated."</div> <bR> <div> Other theories being considered include donor fatigue or the colouring of international attitudes toward Pakistan by links to terrorism or corruption.</div> <bR> <div> Some even suggest Pakistan's own handling of the disaster has done little to instill confidence foreign aid would be put to good use.</div> <bR> <div> U.S. President Barack Obama congratulated Pakistan on its Independence Day and said the U.S. would not abandon the country in its time of need.</div> <bR> <div> "We will remain committed to helping Pakistan and will work side by side with you and the international community toward a recovery that brings back the dynamic vitality of your nation," Obama said in a statement.</div> <bR> <div> UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is expected to visit Pakistan soon, possibly over the weekend.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Sta<I>ff 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="13"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Aug 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>B.C. man had 9 duffel bags of pot in car: Wyoming cops</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri. Aug. 13 2010  12:26  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: August 13th, 2010</div> <div> <B>SUNDANCE, Wyo. — The Wyoming Highway Patrol says the arrest of a British Columbia man has resulted in one of its largest seizures of marijuana in one traffic stop.</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= 257 WIDTH="707"><div> State troopers allege they found nine duffel bags of marijuana in a rental truck after stopping 33-year-old Andrew Klassen of Victoria Thursday in northeastern Wyoming.</div> <bR> <div> Authorities say the marijuana's estimated street value is $3.6 million.</div> <bR> <div> Troopers say Klassen was stopped on Interstate 90 near Sundance because his truck kept crossing over the centre line.</div> <bR> <div> They say they opened the back of the truck after a drug-detection dog sniffed something suspicious.</div> <bR> <div> The patrol believes Klassen was trying to smuggle marijuana from Montana to Chicago.</div> <bR> <div> He has been arrested on a felony charge of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Sta<I>ff 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="Aug 10"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 166 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>New superbug gene may spread worldwide: study</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. Aug. 11 2010  22:25  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: August 12th, 2010</div> <div> <B>Researchers in England are warning of a new gene that can turn any bacteria into a superbug, rendering it impervious to most antibiotics. They also say the gene may soon begin rapidly spreading worldwide.</B></div> <bR> <div> The gene was first discovered in hospitals in India and Pakistan, but cases have also been reported in Australia, the Netherlands, the United States -- and Canada.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f484a05a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> New Delhi Metalol-beta-lactamase (NDM-1), is linked to receipt of medical care in India or Pakistan, where it is common among enteric bacteria.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 645 WIDTH="707"><div> The new gene, called NDM-1, appears to be most commonly linked to the bacteria that cause urinary tract infections and some types of pneumonia. However, it can also impact other types of bacteria.</div> <bR> <div> "It's not a single bug. It's not like MRSA, for instance," lead researcher Timothy Walsh, of Cardiff University in the U.K., told CTV News Channel on Wednesday.</div> <bR> <div> MRSA refers to a drug-resistant strain of bacteria.</div> <bR> <div> "It's a type of resistance that's carried on a mobile piece of DNA called a plasmid, and it's able very quickly to transfer from bacteria to bacteria," said Walsh.</div> <bR> <div> He said the gene renders infections immune to all but two antibiotics.</div> <bR> <div> Writing in the journal <I>Lancet Infectious Diseases</I>, the researchers say the gene is already widespread in India. The gene has also been identified in 37 British patients, all of whom travelled to India or Pakistan for low-cost surgery.</div> <bR> <div> The researchers say that with the growing popularity of medical tourism, where patients seek a cheap operation or hope to jump a long surgical queue back home, potentially dangerous superbugs may begin popping up around the globe.</div> <bR> <div> "The potential of NDM-1 to be a worldwide public health problem is great, and co-ordinated international surveillance is needed," the authors wrote.</div> <bR> <div> In a commentary piece published with the study, microbiologist Johann Pitout of the University of Calgary, called for worldwide monitoring for the gene, especially in countries that are popular with medical tourists.</div> <bR> <div> "The spread of these multi-resistant bacteria merits very close monitoring," Pitout wrote.</div> <bR> <div> "The consequences will be serious if family doctors have to treat infections caused by these multi-resistant bacteria on a daily basis."</div> <bR> <div> Infectious disease specialist Dr. Neil Rau said the gene is not widespread in Canada, and cautioned that these so-called superbugs may not lead to debilitating disease.</div> <bR> <div> "This word superbug is a bit of a dangerous moniker, it can be a rather frightening word for people," Rau told News Channel. "It's a superbug in the sense that it's resistant to antibiotics, but it may not be more virulent and able to attack and cause infection than the standard strains."</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 285 WIDTH="707"><div> Rau said researchers have yet to determine the "survival advantage," or fitness, of the gene to continue to churn out these superbugs.</div> <bR> <div> But he said should the gene continue circulating, it will likely have a greater impact in a hospital setting where "the standard antibiotic cocktails that we use today may not be effective three or five years from now. So the whole treatment paradigm or approach might be changed."</div> <bR> <div> Walsh said researchers are already setting up a network of observers in India to get a closer look at whether the gene is prevalent in the community.</div> <bR> <div> But he said so far, the general public in North America is "not vulnerable at all" unless they are travelling to India or Pakistan.</div> <bR> <div> "I would suggest that if people are travelling to India or Pakistan they drink bottled water, they be careful of what they eat and where they eat, and just wash your hands frequently," Walsh said.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Sta<I>ff 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="Aug 10"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 233 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Scrapping census will have broad impact on StatsCan</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. Aug. 11 2010  09:14  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: August 11th, 2010</div> <div> <B>The former head of Statistics Canada, in a last ditch effort to dissuade the government from abandoning the mandatory long-from census, says the move will imperil the reliability of information collected by the agency across the board.</B></div> <bR> <div> Data from the long-form census "provides the benchmarking" for many of the surveys that StatsCan conducts, Munir Sheikh said.</div> <bR> <div> "If we don't have that benchmarking available we will not be able to tell whether or not the data we are conducting from other surveys is truly reliable or not," he told CTV's Canada AM. "Without that reference point we can't really tell whether that information is good or bad."</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f47ca07e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Munir Sheikh, former chief statistician at Statistics Canada, appears on Canada AM from CTV studios in Ottawa, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 585 WIDTH="707"><div> Sheikh resigned from his post as the agency's top statistician last month after media reports, quoting Industry Minister Tony Clement, reported that StatsCan recommended that Ottawa replace the mandatory long-form census with a voluntary survey.</div> <bR> <div> Clement has since distanced himself from those comments.</div> <bR> <div> Yesterday, the government released nearly 200 pages of emails and briefing notes to the House of Commons Industry committee, which is probing the government's decision to scrap the mandatory long-form census and replace it with the voluntary National Household Survey.</div> <bR> <div> The documents reveal that just before Sheikh resigned he was set to tell agency staffers that the National Household Survey, "will not provide useful data" to groups that use the mandatory long-form census.</div> <bR> <div> However, that meeting was cancelled and Sheikh resigned hours after the government was made aware of his proposed comments, according to the newly released documents.</div> <bR> <div> Sheikh would not comment on whether the Conservatives were trying to control what the agency said about the census change, saying that he would "let the documents speak for themselves."</div> <bR> <div> "The information that has been made public, I think people can read that information and draw their conclusions from it," he said Wednesday morning, adding that he stands by his decision to leave his post.</div> <bR> <div> Dropping the mandatory long-form survey has been widely criticized and experts say the data will be virtually useless because some groups -- such as aboriginals and low-income Canadians -- will be less likely to respond to a voluntary survey </div> <div> The newly released documents back up a claim Sheikh made to the Commons committee last month that he quit his job over reports the agency recommended scrapping the mandatory census. Sheikh said those reports, which were based on statements by Clement, were damaging to the agency's credibility.</div> <bR> <div> "The one and only factor that led to my decision that I made, was Statistics Canada's reputation," he said. "I thought that if I did not leave my job Statistics Canada's reputation would be tarnished for a long time to come -- and that was something I did not think that I could accept."</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Sta<I>ff with files from The Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="10"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Aug 10"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 147 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Girls as young as 7 hitting puberty: U.S. study</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. Aug. 09 2010  19:54  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: August 10th, 2010</div> <div> <B>Females appear to be hitting puberty earlier, perhaps due to rising obesity rates and common chemicals found in plastic, a new study suggests.</B></div> <bR> <div> Among 1,200 girls in the study, 15 per cent showed signs of breast development at age seven, which is between a year and four years earlier than what was considered usual.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f475a05a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> A new study shows North American girls as young as seven are hitting puberty.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 687 WIDTH="707"><div> The research, which was led by a team from Ohio, also suggests that puberty is arriving at increasingly younger ages.</div> <bR> <div> Other key findings show that by the age of eight, 18 per cent of white girls and 42 per cent of black girls had developed breasts.</div> <bR> <div> Those numbers suggest that girls at age seven or eight are twice as likely to have breasts as compared to girls a decade ago.</div> <bR> <div> A 1997 study showed that only five per cent of white girls had breast development at age seven.</div> <bR> <div> The new study, published on Monday, was printed in the medical journal Pediatrics, and it raises more concerns about how girls will deal with such developmental pressures.</div> <bR> <div> Researcher Dr. Frank Biro said that partially developed bodies may push girls into behaviours they may not be emotionally and mentally ready for.</div> <bR> <div> "Simply because one is physically more mature does not mean they are socially more mature or psychologically mature," he said.</div> <bR> <div> Perhaps equally troubling are links between early sexual development and the risk of developing breast and endometrial cancers later in life. It appears that longer exposure to certain hormones exacerbates the risk of such cancers.</div> <bR> <div> Unplanned pregnancies and exposure to sexually transmitted infections are also major concerns.</div> <bR> <div> Other studies have shown that girls who develop earlier are also more likely to suffer through depression and self-esteem problems as they grow older.</div> <bR> <div> While heavier girls seem to hit puberty earlier in life, the study suggests that environmental factors are also speeding up the process. Chemicals such as bisphenol A, which is commonly found in plastic, have been blamed for the early development.</div> <bR> <div> Other compounds, like phthalates, appear to disrupt the normal work of hormones in the body.</div> <bR> <div> Of interest is that in different U.S. cities, the onset of puberty appears to differ. In San Francisco, 11.6 per cent of seven-year-olds showed breast development.</div> <bR> <div> By contrast, 18.9 per cent of seven-year-old girls in Cincinnati showed pubertal growth.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Sta<I>ff with files from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="09"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Aug 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= 425 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Woman who allegedly faked cancer in court Monday</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. Aug. 09 2010  07:37  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: August 9th, 2010</div> <div> <B>TORONTO — A Burlington, Ont. woman who police say pretended to have cancer to raise money for herself is set to appear in court Monday.</B></div> <bR> <div> A bail hearing will be held in Toronto for Ashley Anne Kirilow, who faces three counts of fraud under five-thousand dollars.</div> <bR> <div> Police allege the 23-year-old woman passed herself off as having cancer and organized fundraisers with the help of others who believed her to be terminally ill.</div> <bR> <div> Her father says Ashley told him earlier this year that she has never had cancer.</div> <bR> <div> Mike Kirilow says his daughter called him on the weekend begging him to be at today's bail hearing, but he told her he wants nothing more to do with her.</div> <bR> <div> The case has generated international headlines.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Sta<I>ff with files from The Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f468a0980.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="152" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="f467a0b40.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="180" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> n this undated photo, Ashley Kirilow is seen with and without hair. The photo was posted to a Facebook group called 'Change' For a Cure. Kirilow is listed as one of the group's administrators.</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="Aug 10"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 233 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Storms spawn tornadoes in North Dakota, Minnesota</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. Aug. 08 2010  18:34  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: August 8th, 2010</div> <div> <B>GRAND FORKS, N.D. — Strong storms spawned several tornadoes that touched down in southeast North Dakota and western Minnesota, including one that appeared to have struck a farm house. No injuries appear to have been reported.</B></div> <bR> <div> A video shot by a storm chaser showed a tornado touching down near a farm house in Wilkin County, Minn., and debris flying into the air as the funnel tore into the building.</div> <bR> <div> The home destroyed in the video was near the tiny community of Campbell, Minn., according to a dispatcher with the Wilkin County Sheriff. But the owner, Al Kosel, 76, and his family weren't home, and there were no injuries, she said.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="f465a08f0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="143" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> In this Aug. 7, 2010 image made from APTN video, debris flies through the air as a tornado moves through rural Wilkin County, Minn. (AP / APTN)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 409 WIDTH="707"><div> The storms started in North Dakota and moved east into Minnesota, said Tom Grafenauer, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Grand Forks. Touchdowns were reported between about 6:15 p.m. and 7 p.m. near Tyler, N.D.; Tenney, Minn.; and Fergus Falls, Minn.</div> <bR> <div> "Most of this action was in Minnesota," Grafenauer said.</div> <bR> <div> One tornado appeared to be on the ground for 20 or 30 minutes, he said.</div> <bR> <div> Dave Langenwalter told KVLY-TV in Fargo that he and his son had just gone into their basement when a tornado touched down just yards from their house near Tyler, N.D. The outbuildings were flattened and his garage was gone, he said. His car apparently was picked up and dropped several yards away. Langenwalter found it behind a nearby grove of trees.</div> <bR> <div> Richland County Chief Deputy Gary Ruhl told the television station that "at any given time" there were four funnel clouds in his county in the state's far southeast corner.</div> <bR> <div> One tornado "came from the southwest, came through this farmstead and leveled everything off. It crossed the river into Wilkin County (Minnesota) and also destroyed a farmstead over there," Ruhl told KVLY-TV.</div> <bR> <div> It wasn't clear Sunday morning exactly how many separate tornadoes touched down or what the extent of the damage was. A National Weather Service storm survey team was in the area assessing the damage and trying to determine exactly what happened, Grafenauer said.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Sta<I>ff 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="07"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Aug 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= 257 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>U.S. government faces hurdles plugging WikiLeaks</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. Aug. 07 2010  10:03  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: August 7th, 2010</div> <div> <B>WASHINGTON — An online whistleblower's threat to release more classified Pentagon and State Department documents is raising hard questions of what the U.S. government can or would do, legally, technically or even militarily to stop it.</B></div> <bR> <div> Constrained by the massive reach of the Internet, sophisticated encryption software and the domestic legal system, the answer seems to be: Not much.</div> <bR> <div> If the U.S. government believes that the classified documents that WikiLeaks is preparing to disclose will threaten national security or put lives at risk, however, cyber and legal experts say the options could expand to include cyber strikes to take down the WikiLeaks website and destroy its files or covert operations to steal or disable the files.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="f464a0a70.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="167" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Founder and editor of the WikiLeaks website, Julian Assange, faces the media during a debate event, held in London Tuesday July 27, 2010. (AP PHOTO/Max Nash)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 641 WIDTH="707"><div> It all sounds, at times, like a spy movie, where the possibilities extend as far as the imagination can reach. But, most outsiders agree that reality is likely to be far less dramatic.</div> <bR> <div> At the centre of the drama is the posting last week of a massive 1.4 gigabyte mystery file named "Insurance" on the WikiLeaks website.</div> <bR> <div> The "Insurance" file is encrypted, nearly impossible to open until WikiLeaks provides the passwords. But experts suggest that if anyone can crack it, it would be the secretive National Security Agency.</div> <bR> <div> That file, coupled with WikiLeaks' release of more than 77,000 secret military documents last month, prompted the Pentagon to "demand" that the website's editor-in-chief, Julian Assange, cancel any new document dumps and pull back the Afghan war data he already posted.</div> <bR> <div> WikiLeaks slammed the demand as an obnoxious threat, and Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell declined to detail what, if any, actions the Defence Department may be ready to take.</div> <bR> <div> Few people involved in the case, for the Pentagon and other agencies, would talk openly about what the Pentagon or America's clandestine NSA could or would do to stop the expected document dump. It is not even clear whether U.S. officials know what WikiLeaks has.</div> <bR> <div> State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley answered it this way: "Do we believe that WikiLeaks has additional cables? We do. Do we believe that those cables are classified? We do. And are they State Department cables? Yes."</div> <bR> <div> Officials say the data may also include up to 15,000 military documents related to the Afghan war that were not made public in the initial release.</div> <bR> <div> Daniel Schmitt, a WikiLeaks spokesman in Berlin, said Saturday the new batch of classified documents the website is preparing to release will contribute to the public's understanding of the war.</div> <bR> <div> "Hopefully with this understanding, public scrutiny will then influence governments to develop better politics," he told The Associated Press.</div> <bR> <div> Schmitt denied that the disclosure of the documents is a threat to U.S. security interests.</div> <bR> <div> Assuming the documents contain highly sensitive information that, if made public, might threaten national security, the United States must weigh a number of options, experts say.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 674 WIDTH="707"><div> First, from a legal standpoint, there probably is little the U.S. government can do to stop WikiLeaks from posting the files.</div> <bR> <div> It is against federal law knowingly and wilfully to disclose or transmit classified information. Assange, an Australian who has no permanent address and travels frequently, is not a U.S. citizen.</div> <bR> <div> Since Assange is a foreign national living in a foreign country, it is not clear that U.S. law would apply, said Marc Zwillinger, a Washington, D.C., lawyer and former federal cyber crimes prosecutor. He said prosecutors would have to figure out what crime to charge Assange with, and then face the daunting task of trying to indict him or persuade other authorities to extradite him.</div> <bR> <div> It would be equally difficult, Zwillinger said, to use an injunction effectively to prevent users from getting access to the data. </div> <div> "Could the U.S. get an injunction to force U.S. Internet providers to block traffic to and from WikiLeaks such that people couldn't access the website?" Zwillinger said. "It's an irrelevant question. There would be thousands of paths to get to it. So it wouldn't really stop people from getting to the site. They would be pushing the legal envelope without any real benefit."</div> <bR> <div> Legal questions aside, the encrypted file conjures visions of secret codebreakers hunched over their laptops, tearing open secret, protected files in seconds with a few keystrokes.</div> <bR> <div> Reality is not that simple, particularly if, as the file name suggests, the documents are encrypted. It appears WikiLeaks used state-of-the-art software requiring a sophisticated electronic sequence of numbers, called a 256 bit key, to open them. </div> <div> The main way to break such an encrypted file is by what is called a "brute force attack", which means trying every possible key, or password, said Herbert Lin, a senior computer science and cryptology expert at the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences.</div> <bR> <div> Unlike a regular six or eight character password that most people use every day, a 256 bit key would equal a 40-50 character password, he said.</div> <bR> <div> If, said Lin, it takes 0.1 nanosecond to test one possible key, and you used 100 billion computers to test the possible number variations, "it would take this massive array of computers 10 to the 56 power seconds -- the number 1, followed by 56 zeros" to plow through all the possibilities.</div> <bR> <div> How long is that?</div> <bR> <div> "The age of the universe is 10 to the 17th power seconds," said Lin. "We will wait a long time for the U.S. government or anyone else to decrypt that file by brute force."</div> <bR> <div> Could the NSA, which is known for its supercomputing and massive electronic eavesdropping abilities abroad, crack such an impregnable code?</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 602 WIDTH="707"><div> It depends on how much time and effort they want to put into it, said James Bamford, who has written two books on the NSA. </div> <div> The NSA has the largest collection of supercomputers in the world. And officials have known for some time that WikiLeaks has classified files in its possession.</div> <bR> <div> The agency, he speculated, has probably been looking for a vulnerability or gap in the code, or a back door into the commercial encryption program protecting the file.</div> <bR> <div> At the more extreme end, the NSA, the Pentagon and other U.S. government agencies, to include the newly created Cyber Command, probably have reviewed options for using a cyber attack against the website, which could disrupt networks, files, electricity and so on.</div> <bR> <div> "This is the kind of thing that they are geared for," said Bamford, "since this is the type of thing a terrorist organization might have -- a website that has damaging information on it. They would want to break into it, see what's there and then try to destroy it."</div> <bR> <div> The vast nature of the Internet, however, makes it essentially impossible to stop something, or take it down, once it has gone out over multiple servers.</div> <bR> <div> In the end, U.S. officials will have to weigh whether a more aggressive response is worth the public outrage it probably would bring. Most experts predict that, despite the uproar, the government probably will do little other than bluster, and the documents will come out anyway.</div> <bR> <div> "Once you start messing with Internet, taking things down, and going to the maximum extent to hide everything from coming out, it doesn't necessarily serve your purpose," said Bamford. "It makes the story bigger than it would have been had the documents been released in the first place."</div> <bR> <div> He and others pointed to the Pentagon Papers saga in 1971, when the New York Times published a top-secret Pentagon study of the history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.</div> <bR> <div> "It wasn't Pentagon papers that took down Richard Nixon," said Bamford. "It was his attempt to stop the papers that brought him down."</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Sta<I>ff with files from The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="06"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Aug 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>Pickton's police interview transcript made public</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri. Aug. 06 2010  14:23  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: August 6th, 2010</div> <div> <B>For the first time, the public is being given the opportunity to see convicted murderer Robert Pickton talking to police about the women who were killed on his Port Coquitlam pig farm.</B></div> <bR> <div> Two tapes are being made public later Friday: a police interrogation that took place the day after Pickton's arrest in February 2002, and a jail cell recording of a discussion with an undercover officer posing his cellmate.</div> <bR> <div> For now, transcripts have been made available.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="f463a07e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> An artist's drawing shows Robert Pickton in a video being interviewed after his arrest in February 2002. He sits slumped down in his chair as he is interviewed by Staff Sgt. Bill Fordy. (Felicity Don / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 675 WIDTH="707"><div> At one point during the 11-hour police interrogation that took place in a small room in the Surrey, B.C. detachment of the RCMP, then-Sgt. Bill Fordy suggests Pickton's arrest had made him a national celebrity.</div> <bR> <div> "You're bigger than the Pope, you're bigger than Princess Diana, you're just like f——-' (Osama) bin Laden. You know you're on the front page of every paper in the country today. Every one."</div> <bR> <div> "In the paper?" Pickton asked.</div> <bR> <div> "Everybody knows who you are right now," Fordy replied.</div> <bR> <div> "In the paper today? They put me in the paper?" Pickton asked again, clearly unable to hide his growing excitement.</div> <bR> <div> There is no question of the public's interest in Pickton's case, but the head of the B.C. Civil Liberties Union is reluctant to encourage people to view the tapes.</div> <bR> <div> "I think it would be really unfortunate if we essentially lionized Robert Pickton and created a celebrity of him by focusing on the salacious details," David Eby told CTV News Channel.</div> <bR> <div> Reporting from Vancouver, CTV's Janet Dirks says the tapes nevertheless provide insight into Pickton's character.</div> <bR> <div> "At first, Pickton appears as a naive guy who doesn't seem to understand anything," Dirks said.</div> <bR> <div> "But as the hours go by and they bring in a senior officer you see a different side of him. You see him put his feet up, he's cocky, he's sort of playing with their minds."</div> <bR> <div> In the jail cell videotape Pickton boasts to his cellmate of killing 49 women.</div> <bR> <div> "I was going to do one more, make it an even 50. The big 5-0," Pickton says as he's giggling and eating a bowl of chili.</div> <bR> <div> Pickton goes on to tell his cellmate, who was actually an undercover officer, that he was then going to kill another 25.</div> <bR> <div> Although Pickton was portrayed by his defence as dimwitted, the former pig farmer appears to clearly understand his situation.</div> <bR> <div> "They're going to nail me to the cross," he says more than once.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Evidence released after conviction upheld</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 608 WIDTH="707"><div> The tapes' release comes after a longstanding publication ban was lifted after the Supreme Court of Canada upheld Pickton's conviction. Crown prosecutors then decided to stay 20 murder charges against him, clearing the way for the release of evidence.</div> <bR> <div> Pickton was first charged with murder in 2002 after police launched an exhaustive search of his pig farm in Port Coquitlam, B.C., about 30 kilometres east of Vancouver.</div> <bR> <div> The three-year investigation ultimately uncovered the dismembered bodies, bones and DNA of more than two dozen women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.</div> <bR> <div> Last week, Vancouver Police Deputy Chief Doug LePard publicly apologized for his department's failure to catch Pickton sooner.</div> <bR> <div> "When faced with the worst, we should have been better," he said, acknowledging that there were indications a serial killer was at work.</div> <bR> <div> Among the documents revealed to the public this week was the testimony of a woman who said Pickton took her to his farm in 1997, put her in handcuffs and tried to kill her. The two struggled in a knife fight that ended with both of them in hospital.</div> <bR> <div> Pickton was charged with attempted murder, but the charges were stayed in 1998. That same year, a special team formed to review missing women files rejected the possibility of a serial killer hunting women in downtown Vancouver.</div> <bR> <div> In 2001, the RCMP and the Vancouver police formed a joint task force to step up their investigation.</div> <bR> <div> Pickton was arrested in February the following year. All the murders for which he was convicted occurred after the 1997 attack.</div> <bR> <div> This week's revelations have stirred renewed calls for a public inquiry into the Pickton investigation. B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell said Thursday his cabinet would decide on the matter in the coming weeks.</div> <bR> <div> Pickton is currently serving a life sentence for six counts of second-degree murder. With no chance of parole for 25 years, he is unlikely to ever be released.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Sta<I>ff 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="05"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Aug 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= 150 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Boy stranded by Air Canada gets his wheelchair back</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. Aug. 05 2010  17:12  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: August 5th, 2010</div> <div> <B>A ten-year-old boy whose wheelchair was destroyed on an Air Canada flight from Toronto to New York is ready to roll again.</B></div> <bR> <div> Tanner Bawn's wheelchair was delivered Thursday afternoon to the New York hotel room where he has been stranded since arriving in the city.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="f461a0650.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="101" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Tanner Bawn and his mother share their experience from New York City, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 451 WIDTH="707"><div> Bawn, who has Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy, flew to the Big Apple with his mother and aunt on Wednesday. The plan was to fulfill one of his wishes -- to race around Central Park in a tutu.</div> <bR> <div> But his dream was shattered when the family arrived at La Guardia Airport to discover his $15,000 custom-built electric wheelchair had shattered en route.</div> <bR> <div> Unable to get around without a proper wheelchair, Bawn had been effectively confined to his hotel room.</div> <bR> <div> The boy's family said Air Canada promised to provide Bawn with a temporary powered wheelchair by the evening, but the replacement never materialized.</div> <bR> <div> The family was then told nothing could be done until Monday, leaving Bawn devastated at the prospect of not being able to race in his own event.</div> <bR> <div> The news set off a deluge of Twitter messages blasting the airline for failing to replace the wheelchair.</div> <bR> <div> Hope returned Thursday afternoon when Bawn's aunt, Catherine Connors, tweeted: "TANNER HAS HIS CHAIR BACK."</div> <bR> <div> Although the chair has been returned to working order, Air Canada has vowed to complete more permanent repairs when Bawn returns home.</div> <bR> <div> Now, Bawn and his family are again planning to take part in the "Tutus For Tanner" charity race on Friday. Money from the fundraiser will be used to fulfill another of Bawn's wishes: live-in care, so he can spend his last days at home.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Sta<I>ff </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="Aug 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= 191 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Police make three arrests in Humber murder</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. Aug. 04 2010  22:48  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: August 4th, 2010</div> <div> <B>Toronto Police made three arrests in connection with the shooting death of a 17-year-old.</B></div> <bR> <div> The body was found near the banks of the Humber River last Friday evening, between Finch Avenue West and Rexdale Boulevard. The youth is Toronto's 33rd homicide victim of 2010.</div> <bR> <div> Police have not yet recovered the weapon, but believe it to be a handgun.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="f460a0800.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="128" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The 17-year-old's body was found near the banks of the Humber River Friday, July 30, 2010.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 145 WIDTH="707"><div> The arrests came after a judge issued a rare warrant on Wednesday which allowed two teen suspects to be publicly named.</div> <bR> <div> However, because the teens have been arrested, they now fall under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, meaning they can no longer be named.</div> <bR> <div> Police say two 17-year-olds and a 15-year-old have been charged.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Sta<I>ff </I><I>w</I><I>ith files from </I><I>ctvtoronto.ca</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="Aug 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>Day says new prisons needed for 'unreported crimes'</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue. Aug. 03 2010  07:38  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: August 3rd, 2010</div> <div> <B>OTTAWA — Opposition critics are scratching their heads over Stockwell Day's claim that Canada needs more prisons because many crimes go unreported.</B></div> <bR> <div> Day, president of the Treasury Board, was asked Tuesday why the Conservative government intends to spend billions of dollars on expanding prisons at a time of falling crime.</div> <bR> <div> "People simply aren't reporting the same way they used to," he responded. "I'm saying one statistic of many that concerns us is the amount of crimes that go unreported. Those numbers are alarming and it shows that we can't take a liberal view to crime."</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="f45fa07e0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="126" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway Stockwell Day speaks during a press conference at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. (Sean Kilpatrick / THE CANADIAN PRESS)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 674 WIDTH="707"><div> However, he didn't provide any evidence of an increase in unreported crimes, or a description of what types of crime go unreported. He also didn't explain how unreported crime relates to the need for new prisons.</div> <bR> <div> Statistics Canada's latest compilation of crime reported to police, issued last month, shows overall crime dropped by seven per cent in 2007, continuing a downward trend since the rate peaked in 1991. The report found a decline in homicides, attempted murders, sexual assaults and robberies.</div> <bR> <div> Still, Day said the government will push ahead with its tough-on-crime agenda, including building new prisons. He added the government supports more mandatory sentences to take discretion away from judges, increased jail times and eliminating "discount sentencing."</div> <bR> <div> Liberal MP Mark Holland accused the government of trying to justify a bad policy with non-existent statistics. If anything, he said, reporting of sexual crime -- which is historically under-reported -- has increased over the years as the stigma has lessened.</div> <bR> <div> But even if the minister is correct, Holland wondered how that would result in the need for more prison spaces.</div> <bR> <div> "You need prisons to lock up people who are not being charged? Unless you are suggesting throwing away habeas corpus and rounding up everybody who looks suspicious, it makes no sense."</div> <bR> <div> New Democrat MP Don Davies said the government is again choosing ideology over the facts.</div> <bR> <div> "Crime rates have been dropping steadily and consistently across categories for decades," he said. "So faced with those statistics, they turn to unreported crimes. Why in 2010 would you be less likely to report a crime than in 1980 or 1990?"</div> <bR> <div> In March, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews also referred to victimization surveys to make the case that crime has not declined in Canada. Toews told a parliamentary committee that surveys compiled by Statistics Canada in 1999 and 2004 showed "a huge increase in crime in this country ... I believe it's somewhere between 15 per cent and 19 per cent."</div> <bR> <div> Statistics Canada conducts a survey of individuals every five years to ask if they have been victims of a crime, and whether they reported it to police. Results of the 2009 survey will not be published until September, but the 2004 report does show a slight decrease, from 37 per cent to 34 per cent, of reported crimes.</div> <bR> <div> An agency analyst said the No. 1 reason given by individuals for not calling the police about a crime is that they believe it was not serious enough. Only two per cent said they feared retribution, and one per cent said they felt the police may be biased.</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="02"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Aug 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>Lindsay Lohan released from jail after 14 days</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. Aug. 02 2010  07:38  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: August 2nd, 2010</div> <div> <B>LOS ANGELES — Lindsay Lohan has been released from jail, but she's not exactly a free woman.</B></div> <bR> <div> The actress was discharged at 1:35 a.m. Monday after serving 14 days of a 90-day sentence for violating her probation in a 2007 drug case, Los Angeles sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said. She is now required to immediately begin a three-month stint in rehab, he added.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="f45ea05a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> In this photo a television news crew reports in front of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in the Westwood section of Los Angeles on Monday, Aug 2, 2010. (AP / Nick Ut)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 428 WIDTH="707"><div> A prosecutor has said that Lohan cannot be released early and will have to spend the entire time in treatment.</div> <bR> <div> Due to overcrowding in California jails, inmates such as Lohan who are serving time for nonviolent offences and have no criminal records typically have their stays reduced for good behaviour.</div> <bR> <div> Lohan, 24, was released to a waiting vehicle and did not walk out the front doorway, avoiding a throng of photographers. </div> <div> Lohan's attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley, did not immediately return an email seeking comment.</div> <bR> <div> Lohan pleaded guilty in August 2007 to two misdemeanour counts of being under the influence of cocaine; no contest to two counts of driving with a blood-alcohol level above 0.08 per cent and one count of reckless driving. She was sentenced to three years of probation.</div> <bR> <div> Media have been camped outside the jail since Lohan was booked July 20, catching shots of her mother and sister coming to visit. The sentence put several of Lohan's projects on hold, including her starring role in as Linda Lovelace in a biopic on the porn star's life.</div> <bR> <div> The women's jail operated by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in Lynwood has hosted several starlets, including actress Michelle Rodriguez and socialite Paris Hilton. Lohan spent 84 minutes there in 2007 after being sentenced for her original case.</div> <bR> <div> Rodriguez served 18 days of her 180-day sentence and was released in January 2008. Hilton served 23 days in 2007 after she was caught driving twice on a suspended license while on probation for reckless driving.</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="01"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Aug 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= 199 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Improvements continue at site of Michigan oil spill</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. Aug. 01 2010  21:59  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: August 1st, 2010</div> <div> <B>LANSING, Mich. — A regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency said Sunday there has been "significant improvement" at the site of an oil spill in a southern Michigan river, but the agency cautioned it will take months to complete the cleanup.</B></div> <bR> <div> Those efforts, along with air and water quality monitoring, continue to increase along the affected stretch of the Kalamazoo River, EPA regional administrator Susan Hedman said during a media briefing in Marshall.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <B><IMG SRC="f45da05a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="90" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Oil sheen is shown in the Kalamazoo River in Battle Creek, Mich., from a ruptured pipeline, owned by Enbridge Inc., Thursday, July 29, 2010. (AP / Paul Sancya)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 728 WIDTH="707"><div> The oil flow was stopped and contained in a 25-mile stretch of the river from Marshall westward past Battle Creek. Several hundred workers are on crews along the river devoted to the cleanup.</div> <bR> <div> "Containment is adequate now," said Mark Durno, the EPA's deputy incident commander. "Now it's a matter of recovery and removal of the remainder of the sheen and small patches of oil that remain on the Kalamazoo River."</div> <bR> <div> The EPA estimates it will take weeks to get the oil out of the river and months to clean it off river banks and the flood plain. It could take several months to clean up the marshy area where the spill began near a creek that flows into the Kalamazoo River, the agency said.</div> <bR> <div> Officials with Enbridge Inc., which owns the pipeline, said they detected the leak July 26. Investigators are reviewing 911 calls to Marshall area fire departments made the previous evening by residents complaining of a strong gas odour to try and determine if the leak might have begun earlier.</div> <bR> <div> The EPA estimates the spill at more than 1 million gallons of crude, while the Canadian company estimates the total at 820,000 gallons. The leak came from a 30-inch pipeline, which was built in 1969 and carries about 8 million gallons of oil daily from Griffith, Ind., to Sarnia, Ontario.</div> <bR> <div> The cost of the cleanup hasn't been determined. Enbridge is responsible for the cleanup bill, including money that the EPA and other government agencies will spend on its response.</div> <bR> <div> "Our goal is to return the river to the state it was in before this incident," Enbridge CEO Patrick D. Daniel said Sunday.</div> <bR> <div> The EPA and other government officials have scheduled a public meeting for residents at Marshall's high school on Monday evening. A similar public hearing will be scheduled for Battle Creek residents later in the week.</div> <bR> <div> The section of the pipeline where the leak occurred has been found. It could be removed early this week and is expected to be taken to a National Transportation Safety Board lab for testing to try and determine the cause of the incident.</div> <bR> <div> The EPA on Saturday said it had rejected the company's long-range cleanup plan because of "deficiencies in content and technical details." It ordered Enbridge to submit a revised version by Monday. Daniel said the company will modify the plan to meet EPA requirements.</div> <bR> <div> U.S. regulators earlier this year demanded improvements to the pipeline network that includes a segment that ruptured in southern Michigan. The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, the U.S. Department of Transportation's regulatory arm, said it had summoned Enbridge Inc. executives in February to discuss problems with the 1,900-mile Lakehead system.</div> <bR> <div> The agency has cited Enbridge or its affiliates for 30 enforcement actions since 2002.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from </I><I>The Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <A HREF="#top" TITLE="Aug 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>