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border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan firefight</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 29/03/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#ad_exec_brault_could_be_jailed_over_sponsorship_fraud" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Ad exec Brault could be jailed over sponsorship fraud</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 28/03/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#b_c__ferry_sank_in_one_piece_underwater_images_suggest" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  B.C. ferry sank in one piece, underwater images suggest</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 27/03/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="380"><div> <A HREF="#_great_to_be_alive__former_canadian_hostage" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  'Great to be alive': former Canadian hostage</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 26/03/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="380"><div> <A HREF="#seal_hunt_begins_on_thin_ice" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Seal hunt begins on thin ice</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 25/03/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#traders_expect_feeding_frenzy_as_tim_hortons_goes_public" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Traders expect feeding frenzy as Tim Hortons goes public</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 24/03/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#military_operation_frees_2_canadian_hostages_in_iraq" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Military operation frees 2 Canadian hostages in Iraq</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 23/03/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="380"><div> <A HREF="#ferry_sinks_off_b_c__coast" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Ferry sinks off B.C. coast</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 22/03/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="380"><div> <A HREF="#gunmen_storm_iraqi_police_station" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Gunmen storm Iraqi police station</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 21/03/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#cyclone_leaves_thousands_homeless_in_australia" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Cyclone leaves thousands homeless in Australia</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 20/03/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#sectarian_violence_is_civil_war_says_former_iraqi_pm" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Sectarian violence is civil war, says former Iraqi PM</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 19/03/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="380"><div> <A HREF="#worldwide_protests_condemn_iraq_war" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Worldwide protests condemn Iraq war</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 18/03/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="380"><div> <A HREF="#tests_show_no_poison_in_milosevic_s_blood" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Tests show no poison in Milosevic's blood</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 17/03/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="380"><div> <A HREF="#gretzky_s_wife_to_testify" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Gretzky's wife to testify</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 16/03/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="380"><div> <A HREF="#green_light_for_fort_mcmurray_work_camps" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Green light for Fort McMurray work camps</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 15/03/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#afghanistan_grateful_for_canadian_sacrifice_karzai" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Afghanistan grateful for Canadian sacrifice: Karzai</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 14/03/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#canada_committed_to_afghan_mission_harper_tells_troops" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Canada committed to Afghan mission, Harper tells troops</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 13/03/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="380"><div> <A HREF="#iran_rejects_moscow_s_nuclear_proposal" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Iran rejects Moscow's nuclear proposal</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 12/03/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="380"><div> <A HREF="#milosevic_found_dead_in_prison_cell" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Milosevic found dead in prison cell</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 11/03/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#family_friends_to_bury_canadian_soldier_killed_in_afghanistan" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Family, friends to bury Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 10/03/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#relatives_of_dead_soldier_question_canada_s_role_in_afghanistan" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Relatives of dead soldier question Canada's role in Afghanistan</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 09/03/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="380"><div> <A HREF="#winning_tim_hortons_cup_sparks_bitter_row" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Winning Tim Hortons cup sparks bitter row</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 08/03/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#9000_ontario_college_teachers_walk_off_the_job" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  9,000 Ontario college teachers walk off the job</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 07/03/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#ban_on_sikh_kirpan_overturned_by_supreme_court" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Ban on Sikh kirpan overturned by Supreme Court</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 06/03/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#2nd_canadian_soldier_dies_after_afghan_crash" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  2nd Canadian soldier dies after Afghan crash</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 05/03/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="380"><div> <A HREF="#canadian_soldier_hurt_in_axe_attack" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Canadian soldier hurt in axe attack</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 04/03/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#5_canadian_soldiers_injured_in_suicide_attack" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  5 Canadian soldiers injured in suicide attack</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 03/03/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="380"><div> <A HREF="#canadian_soldier_killed_in_afghan_crash" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Canadian soldier killed in Afghan crash</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 02/03/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#canadian_women_deny_involvement_in_murders_in_mexico" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>Canadian women deny involvement in murders in Mexico</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 01/03/06</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="bush_praises_harper_s__steely_resolve__on_softwood"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 58 ><NOBR><div> <B>Bush praises Harper's 'steely resolve' on softwood</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu, 30 Mar 2006  22:06:24  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: Mar 31st, 2006</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="9db79f350.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="53" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 397 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he has received a commitment from U.S. President George W. Bush to resume talks on the softwood lumber dispute.</B></div> <bR> <div> "The president has expressed his desire to see a resolution. I certainly accept at face value the president's commitment to that," said Harper, following a meeting with Bush on Thursday in Mexico.</div> <bR> <div> Harper, Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox are meeting over two days in a special summit to promote North American unity.</div> <bR> <div> Harper said he "reminded" Bush that Canada's position on softwood lumber "is very clear.</div> <bR> <div> "If we don't see a resolution, Canada is certainly going to continue to pursue all its legal options as well as provide financial support for its industry."</div> <bR> <div> Harper said he is instructing Canadian officials to look for options for a resolution with the United States on the issue.</div> <bR> <div> Canada wants the U.S. to pay back $5 billion worth of tariffs it has collected on Canadian lumber.</div> <bR> <div> Washington has not abided by NAFTA rulings, saying the tariffs are justified. Earlier this month, however, Canada won another free-trade ruling in the dispute.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Meeting emphasizes leaders' similarities</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 364 WIDTH="707"><div> At the end of the afternoon, Bush described Harper as someone who is in many ways like himself, saying they share "mutual values" and "respect for human life and human dignity."</div> <bR> <div> He described the meeting as a "valuable day."</div> <bR> <div> Bush praised Harper's stance on the lumber issue, saying he made an "emphatic case.</div> <bR> <div> "I appreciate his steely resolve to get something done," Bush said.</div> <bR> <div> "I assured him that our intention is to negotiate in good faith...to resolve this issue. I appreciate your pushing.</div> <bR> <div> "I view the relationship with Canada as a vital relationship for the United States," the president added.</div> <bR> <div> "The relationship is defined government to government and also people to people."</div> <bR> <div> Thursday marked the first meeting between Harper and Bush since the Conservative leader became prime minister on Jan. 23. Harper previously met Bush as Opposition leader.</div> <bR> <div> Bush greeted Harper by saying "Hola" – Spanish for "Hello" –. Harper then rode alongside the president in the back of his car and in Bush's private helicopter for a two-hour round trip to the ancient Mayan archeological ruins at Chichen Itza.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 360 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>Lumber deal scuttled by election: Bush</B></div> <bR> <div> Before the summit in Cancun, the U.S. president indicated a desire to settle the softwood lumber issue, which has strained relations between the two countries for years. Bush also confirmed that a deal had been nearing completion but was scuttled by Canada's federal election call at the end of November.</div> <bR> <div> Other issues they are expected to discuss in Mexico include U.S. plans to introduce tough requirements for cross-border travellers, starting in 2007. Trade and tourism experts fear the requirement to hold a passport or, for Americans, a new $50 US identification card will cut travel dramatically.</div> <bR> <div> Harper didn't indicate what he would say about the travel issue, but Bush has said he understands it is serious.</div> <bR> <div> Harper also met one-on-one with Fox to discuss trade-related issues.</div> <bR> <div> Harper said he hoped to increase trade with Mexico by 50 per cent by 2010.</div> <bR> <div> The Mexican president pressed Canada to allow more Mexican workers into the country to fill job sectors that faced work shortages.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="suicide_bombing_wounds_canadian_soldier_in_kandahar"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Mar 06"><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= 59 ><NOBR><div> <B>Suicide bombing wounds Canadian soldier in Kandahar</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu, 30 Mar 2006 04:40:38 EST<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: Mar 30th, 2006</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="9db99f350.gif" border=0 width="159" height="53" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 70 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>A suicide car bomber heading toward a Canadian military convoy in Kandahar Thursday blew up near the unit, wounding one soldier and six civilians, police said.</B></div> <bR> <div> The bomb went off before it reached the convoy, killing the suicide bomber.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 194 WIDTH="540"><div> One Canadian soldier suffered injuries that are not considered life-threatening and was airlifted to the main coalition airbase outside Kandahar.</div> <bR> <div> "The target was a Canadian convoy," Kandahar city district police chief Colonel Shir Shah told Agence France-Presse.</div> <bR> <div> "As the suicide bomber wanted to get close to the convoy, another taxi overtook and ... the bomber detonated," he said.</div> <bR> <div> The convoy included Canadian and Romanian vehicles headed to Gombad to resupply a forward base.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="9dbaa0760.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="118" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A Canadian soldier, wounded in Thursday's suicide bomb attack, is loaded into an ambulance at Kandahar airfield. (Murray Brewster/Canadian Press)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 107 WIDTH="707"><div> The attempted suicide bombing comes a day after Pte. Robert Costall, a Canadian soldier, was killed when Taliban insurgents attacked a coalition outpost in a remote area outside Kandahar.</div> <bR> <div> The firefight lasted for several hours. A U.S. soldier and eight Afghan soldiers were also killed in the battle.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="canadian_soldier_killed_in_afghanistan_firefight"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 58 ><NOBR><div> <B>Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan firefight</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed, 29 Mar 2006  08:24:09  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: Mar 29th, 2006</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="9dab9f350.gif" border=0 width="159" height="53" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 124 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>A Canadian soldier was killed early Wednesday when Taliban insurgents attacked a coalition outpost in a remote area outside Kandahar, Afghanistan.</B></div> <bR> <div> An American soldier and three more Canadian soldiers were also injured in the attack.</div> <bR> <div> Pte. Robert Costall was killed in a battle which took place in Helmand province about 110 kilometres northwest of Kandahar, Canadian Forces Brig.-Gen. David Fraser confirmed early Wednesday.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 209 WIDTH="540"><div> Fraser said Costall died "defending his fellow soldiers and we will not forget his sacrifice."</div> <bR> <div> Born in Thunder Bay, Ont., Costall was with the 1st Battalion of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, based in Edmonton. He was believed to be 22.</div> <bR> <div> The Canadians, along with U.S. helicopters and British planes, had been repositioned to a base in the area in response to an incident on Tuesday in which eight Afghan army soldiers were killed. The region is a flashpoint for insurgent activity and the illegal drug trade.</div> <bR> <div> Fraser said Taliban insurgents attacked the base with mortars, grenades and small arms fire early Wednesday.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="9daca0a00.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="160" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Pte. Robert Costall was born in Thunder Bay and based in Edmonton. (DND/Canadian Press)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 472 WIDTH="707"><div> The firefight lasted for several hours, he said, adding that a "significant number" of Taliban members were killed during the battle. U.S. military reports say as many as 32 insurgents died.</div> <bR> <div> An Afghan National Army soldier was also wounded.</div> <bR> <div> The three Canadians injured were in stable condition with non-life threatening injuries, he added. The Department of Defence said it wouldn't release their identities because they are expected to return to duty.</div> <bR> <div> "They're doing well and receiving good treatment," said Fraser, who commands a multinational force in Kandahar, including about 2,300 Canadian troops.</div> <bR> <div> The injured soldiers were taken to a coalition medical facility in Kandahar for treatment.</div> <bR> <div> The region is key to the Taliban's communication lines, said coalition spokesperson Col. Chris Vernon. Insurgents have been carrying out nightly attacks against the base for the past month, he said.</div> <bR> <div> "It's a pretty thorny area," he said.</div> <bR> <div> About 2,000 British troops are due to move into the region in the next couple of months.</div> <bR> <div> Twelve Canadians have been killed in Afghanistan since 2002 – 11 soldiers and one diplomat.</div> <bR> <div> Earlier this month, Cpl. Paul Davis of Bridgewater, N.S., and Master Cpl. Timothy Wilson of Grande Prairie, Alta., were killed when their light armoured vehicle smashed into a taxi and flipped during a routine patrol near Kandahar.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="ad_exec_brault_could_be_jailed_over_sponsorship_fraud"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 58 ><NOBR><div> <B>Ad exec Brault could be jailed over spo</B><B>nsorship fraud</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue, 28 Mar 2006  07:15:58  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: Mar 28th, 2006</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="9da39f350.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="53" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 615 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>The Crown is expected to argue Tuesday that former ad executive Jean Brault should spend some time in jail for his role in the federal sponsorship scandal.</B></div> <bR> <div> Brault pleaded guilty to five counts of fraud earlier this month. His sentencing hearing began Monday in Montreal.</div> <bR> <div> As head of Groupaction Marketing, Brault was one of several communications executives accused of overbilling Ottawa for contracts designed to shore up support for the federal government in the wake of the 1995 sovereignty referendum in Quebec.</div> <bR> <div> In court Monday, he admitted to filing bogus invoices for $1.6 million for work of little or no value.</div> <bR> <div> Testifying for several hours, Brault said he was not proud of what he had done.</div> <bR> <div> He apologized to taxpayers as well as to his family, saying they have to put up with the shame he brought to their name. </div> <div> He also said stress over the scandal has hurt his health, to the point that he is taking 21 different pills a day.</div> <bR> <div> Some analysts have credited public outrage over the resulting scandal with bringing down the government of Liberal prime minister Paul Martin in January.</div> <bR> <div> Brault's testimony at the Gomery inquiry last spring was particularly damaging. He said he was asked to give cash donations to the Liberal party's Quebec wing and pressured to put election workers on his payroll as the price of receiving sponsorship contracts.</div> <bR> <div> In court Monday, Brault said the federal government refused his offer to compensate it for a portion of the money Groupaction received from the sponsorship program.</div> <bR> <div> Ottawa is suing all the companies involved in the scandal, seeking a full return of the money.</div> <bR> <div> The court heard that Brault has taken several trips over the last year, including a Caribbean cruise, two weeks in the Dominican Republic, and a trip to Las Vegas for his birthday to see Cirque du soleil.</div> <bR> <div> Though Brault pleaded guilty to five of the charges against him, he will go to trial on a sixth charge of conspiracy.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="b_c__ferry_sank_in_one_piece_underwater_images_suggest"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 58 ><NOBR><div> <B>B.C. ferry sank in one piece, underwater images suggest</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon, 27 Mar 2006  06:54:36  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: Mar 27th, 2006</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="9d9f9f350.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="53" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 87 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>The ferry that sank off northern British Columbia last week appears to be in one piece, according to images captured by a miniature submarine equipped with special cameras.</B></div> <bR> <div> A spokeswoman for BC Ferries, which operated the Queen of the North, said the ship appears to be resting on silt up to its keel 427 metres beneath the surface of Wright Sound, southeast of Prince Rupert, B.C.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 258 WIDTH="540"><div> The Transportation Safety Board is not releasing the images taken by the submarine during a three-hour dive Sunday.</div> <bR> <div> The submarines detected no sign of the two passengers who are presumed to have drowned when the vessel went down just after midnight local time last Wednesday.</div> <bR> <div> Shirley Rosette and Gerald Foisey, of 100 Mile House in the B.C. Interior, have not been seen since the Queen of the North hit a rock and sank about a kilometre off its planned course.</div> <bR> <div> The ferry was heading south on an overnight trip to Port Hardy from Prince Rupert when it went down near Hartley Bay.</div> <bR> <div> The other 99 passengers and crew members were brought to shore safely in the early hours of Thursday morning.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="9da0a0c30.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="195" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A miniature submarine, like this Deepworker 2000, was to be used to reach the submerged ferry. (CP file photo)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 33 WIDTH="707"><div> Over the weekend, Transportation Safety Board officials said mechanical problems didn't cause the sinking. They declined to comment on whether human error was to blame.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 203 WIDTH="540"><div> Investigators hope the information collected by two mini-subs sent to the site will help determine the cause of the grounding, as well as shed light on how to stop diesel fuel leaking from the ferry.</div> <bR> <div> The estimated 225,000 litres of fuel in the vessel's tanks are leaking at a relatively slow rate of 50 litres an hour.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Teams working to minimize diesel damage</B></div> <bR> <div> Officials said Sunday that the environmental damage from the fuel appeared to be minimal.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="9da1a08c0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The ferry sank on March 22 after running aground off the coast of northwestern British Columbia. (Andrew Krueger/AP file photo)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 264 WIDTH="540"><div> Teams from BC Ferries, Environment Canada, the B.C. Ministry of the Environment, the Canadian Coast Guard and aboriginal groups have been working at the site since the ship sank.</div> <bR> <div> Involved in the cleanup effort are two fishing boats, two tugboats, two equipment barges, three support boats, one skimmer, four trailers and a floating boom that is about three kilometres long.</div> <bR> <div> Officials are testing sand, soil and water in the area of the sinking to see whether the fuel has penetrated the beaches.</div> <bR> <div> Environment Canada said there was no evidence of the spill killing any mammals or birds. The wind and sun help break the diesel fuel down quickly into non-toxic biodegradable substances.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="9da2a0c10.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="193" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The Queen of the North was about 135 kilometres south of Prince Rupert when it sank.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="_great_to_be_alive__former_canadian_hostage"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 58 ><NOBR><div> <B>'Great to be alive': former Canadian hostage</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun, 26 Mar 2006  13:32:49  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: Mar 26th, 2006</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="9d999f350.gif" border=0 width="159" height="53" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 140 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>Surrounded by family and friends at a Toronto airport, former hostage James Loney thanked those who secured his freedom in Iraq and paid tribute to a colleague who was slain before rescue came.</B></div> <bR> <div> "For 118 days, I disappeared into a black hole and somehow by God's grace, I was spit out again," Loney told reporters shortly after his arrival on Sunday afternoon.</div> <bR> <div> Loney, 41, and two colleagues from the Christian Peacemakers Team, including Canadian Harmeet Sooden, were rescued from a house during a raid in Baghdad on March 23, four months after being taken hostage.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 248 WIDTH="540"><div> "They saved us from the shadow of death. I'm grateful in a way that can never be adequately expressed in words," Loney said.</div> <bR> <div> "It's great to be alive."</div> <bR> <div> A fourth abducted member of the humanitarian organization, 54-year-old American Tom Fox, was shot and killed earlier in March.</div> <bR> <div> "Tom is not coming home with us – I'm so sorry," the Toronto man said in a statement to more than 30 journalists at Pearson International Airport.</div> <bR> <div> Loney's two brothers had been waiting for his arrival since early Sunday morning after flying to Toronto from Vancouver. Matt Loney stayed by his side and kept one hand on his brother's shoulder during the news conference.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="9d9aa0c60.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="198" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> James Loney speaks to reporters at Toronto Island Airport, March 26, 2006 (CBC photo).</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 379 WIDTH="707"><div> The peace activist described his time in captivity as a "terrifying, profound, life-transforming and excruciatingly boring." Now that he's free and back home, he said he wants to slip into "an abyss of love."</div> <bR> <div> Loney and the other activists were abducted by militants in Baghdad in November.</div> <bR> <div> There were reports that Loney would spend several days in Toronto, where he lives, before travelling on to his parents' home in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.</div> <bR> <div> Sooden, meanwhile, was on his way on Sunday to Auckland, New Zealand. The 33-year-old, who once studied at McGill University in Montreal, is attending teacher's college in New Zealand.</div> <bR> <div> The third released hostage, Briton Norman Kember, 74, arrived in London on Saturday where he was reunited with his wife, Pat.</div> <bR> <div> The three men were rescued by an elite multinational unit known as Task Force Black, led by British Special Air Service members. They encountered no kidnappers during the raid.</div> <bR> <div> Loney and Sooden left Baghdad Saturday morning on a Canadian Forces Hercules military transport headed for Dubai. </div> <div> Sooden met with family in the United Arab Emirates before flying home.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="seal_hunt_begins_on_thin_ice"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 58 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Seal hunt begins on thin ice</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat, 25 Mar 2006  08:49:24  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: Mar 25th, 2006</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="9d959f350.gif" border=0 width="159" height="53" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 70 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>The annual seal hunt in the Gulf of St. Lawrence began at dawn Saturday amid warnings from animal rights groups that it'll cost Canada both money and respect.</B></div> <bR> <div> Some opponents say global boycotts of Canadian seafood have had an impact and that this year's hunt could be the last.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 245 WIDTH="540"><div> Most of the large ice floes in the region have melted while others are quite thin because of the mild winter. The lack of solid ice means the hunters will, for the most part, have to stay in their boats and shoot the seals, according to media reports.</div> <bR> <div> By mid-morning on Saturday, the temperature was already 15 degrees. Hunt protesters say many seal pups could die because they're still too young to survive in the water.</div> <bR> <div> Celebrities have drawn a lot more attention than usual to the annual seal hunt this year. Earlier in the week, Brigitte Bardot, once a movie star who now devotes much of her time to animal welfare, returned to Canada for the first time in almost three decades to reiterate the plea she made in the 1970s to stop killing seals.</div> <bR> <div> Former Beatle Paul McCartney and his wife, Heather Mills McCartney, were on the ice floes off the Atlantic Ocean earlier this month to see young seals and call for an end to the hunt.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="9d96a0c40.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="196" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A harp seal sits an ice floe in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in March 2005. (CP file photo)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 592 WIDTH="707"><div> On Friday, the Humane Society of the United States posted a statement from McCartney on its website to step up the pressure on Canada.</div> <bR> <div> "Heather and I chose to come out to the ice floes before the hunt because it would break our hearts to have to see the cruelty of the hunt, but we are absolutely committed to making sure that this is the last slaughter of baby seals in Canada anyone will ever have to witness."</div> <bR> <div> Sealers from Atlantic Canada and Quebec will be allowed to take 91,000 harp seals for this hunt. A second and much larger hunt is expected to begin April 4 off the northern coast of Newfoundland, where sealers can take 234,000 seals.</div> <bR> <div> The federal government says the country's seal population is thriving at nearly six million, nearly triple the population of the 1970s.</div> <bR> <div> Canada banned the killing of immature whitecoat seals in 1987. Hunters are not allowed to kill the pups before they molt their downy, white fur, usually when they're about three weeks old.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Renewed call for boycott</B></div> <bR> <div> Still, anti-sealers are again calling for a boycott of Canadian seafood. They say their boycott last year hit Canada's economy hard.</div> <bR> <div> But in Washington, a coalition of restaurants and food companies says its research debunks that claim.</div> <bR> <div> The U.S-based Center for Consumer Freedom says it has a survey showing that only 21 per cent of the restaurants and seafood companies that the Humane Society of the United States claims are boycotting Canadian seafood are doing that.</div> <bR> <div> "Thirteen per cent of the restaurants on their list are presently serving Canadian seafood as we speak," spokesman David Martosko told CBC Radio.</div> <bR> <div> The consumer group also found more than 45 per cent of the restaurants on the society's list have never served Canadian products.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="traders_expect_feeding_frenzy_as_tim_hortons_goes_public"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 58 ><NOBR><div> <B>Traders expect feeding frenzy as Tim Hortons goes public</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri, 24 Mar 2006  05:13:59  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: Mar 24th, 2006</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="9d919f350.gif" border=0 width="159" height="53" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 542 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>Investors will be able to buy a piece of Tim Hortons on Friday when shares in the popular coffee and doughnut chain start trading on the Toronto and New York Stock Exchanges.</B></div> <bR> <div> Shares in Tim Hortons are going public at $27 each and the chain is allocating 60 per cent of the shares for Canadian investors, but large institutional investors will likely get the majority of those shares.</div> <bR> <div> Tim Hortons will raise $780 million through its initial public offering.</div> <bR> <div> Traders are expecting a feeding frenzy.</div> <bR> <div> Wendy's International Inc., an Ohio-based American fastfood giant, will retain its majority ownership in the chain but it has indicated it plans to sell its remaining stake in the company by the end of the year.</div> <bR> <div> However, analysts say the chain may not have the same growth potential in the United States as it does in Canada, where it nearly has a religious following among some coffee drinkers.</div> <bR> <div> Tim Hortons has closed stores in New England and slowed down its plans for expansion in the U.S. more than once.</div> <bR> <div> Shares of Tim Hortons will be listed on the exchanges under the symbol THI. Tim Hortons said it will use money raised in the IPO to pay off debt that it owes to its Wendy's International.</div> <bR> <div> Tim Hortons has more than 2,500 outlets across Canada ,including 660 smaller restaurants in non-standard locations, such as gas station convenience stores, universities, hospitals and office buildings.</div> <bR> <div> It has said its long-term goal is to have between 3,500 and 4,000 restaurants in Canada.</div> <bR> <div> In the U.S., the company has 272 restaurants in 10 states, primarily in the Northeast and Midwest. The company said its goal is to have 500 restaurants open in the U.S. by the end of 2008.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="military_operation_frees_2_canadian_hostages_in_iraq"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 58 ><NOBR><div> <B>Military operation frees 2 Canadian hostages in Iraq</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu, 23 Mar 2006  09:06:23  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: Mar 23rd, 2006</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="9d899f350.gif" border=0 width="159" height="53" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 140 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>Two Canadian hostages held in Iraq for nearly four months have been freed in a carefully planned military operation involving British, American and Iraqi forces, said British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.</B></div> <bR> <div> Canadians James Loney, 41, and Harmeet Singh Sooden, 32, were freed along with Briton Norman Kember, 74. All three were members of the Chicago-based Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), an international peace activist group.</div> <bR> <div> They were abducted in November in Baghdad with American Tom Fox, who was later killed. His body was found March 10 with gunshot wounds to his head and chest.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 261 WIDTH="540"><div> Straw said Loney and Sooden required hospital treatment but he provided no details. Kember was reportedly in "reasonable" condition. All three were initially taken to the U.S.-controlled military Green Zone in Baghdad and have since been moved to the British Embassy. They are not expected to make any public statements today.</div> <bR> <div> The Iraqi interior ministry said the operation took place in a rural area between the town of Mishahda, about 30 kilometres north of Baghdad and the suburb of Abu Ghraib, about 20 kilometres from downtown Baghdad.</div> <bR> <div> The U.S. military says the operation was based on information from a man who was captured Wednesday night and that only three hours passed from the time they got the intelligence to the time of the raid, which took place at 8 a.m. local time.</div> <bR> <div> Maj.-Gen Rick Lynch said no kidnappers were at the house when multinational forces entered to release the hostages.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="9d8aa0c60.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="198" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Britain's Foreign Secretary Jack Straw comments on the release of the hostages in London on Thursday. (AP Photo)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 290 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>Loney family elated</B></div> <bR> <div> Loney's brother Ed Loney said he is relieved this nightmare has come to an end, adding the whole family has huge smiles on their faces and are making plans to welcome James home whenever he reaches Canada.</div> <bR> <div> "Elated is an understatement," Loney told CBC News from Vancouver.</div> <bR> <div> Ed Loney said although his brother has lost about 20 pounds, he sounded "fantastic" and told his family he was sorry about putting them through this situation.</div> <bR> <div> "My mom said, 'Don't worry about it, just get home and we'll talk about all that stuff when you get here'," said Ed Loney.</div> <bR> <div> Sooden's brother-in-law spoke from New Zealand, where Sooden was based before being sent to Iraq. The family is "a little bit numb," said Mark Brewer.</div> <bR> <div> "Actually, we're jumping up and down," he laughed.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 197 WIDTH="540"><div> The co-director of the Christian Peacemaker Teams said he couldn't think of a better reason to get a phone call in the middle of the night.</div> <bR> <div> "Our hearts are filled with joy this morning," said Doug Pritchard during a morning news conference in Toronto. "Our gladness is bittersweet that Tom is not alive to join his colleagues in this celebration."</div> <bR> <div> Pritchard said he was pleased that no gunshots were fired during the rescue operation.</div> <bR> <div> Members of the CPT in Baghdad are to meet with the three hostages shortly at the embassy, said Maxine Nash, who works with the organization.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="9d8ba0a20.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="162" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Hostage Harmeet Sooden in video release.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 143 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>Rescue plan weeks in the works</B></div> <bR> <div> Straw said the military operation that led to the release of the hostages occurred after "weeks and weeks" of careful preparation and involved military and civilian personnel, including the RCMP.</div> <bR> <div> "The operation included representatives from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, other agencies from Canada – and they did a terrific job – as well as the Americans and British staff and those from Iraq," said Straw.</div> <bR> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 211 WIDTH="540"><div> "I'm delighted that now we have a happy ending to this terrible ordeal for Norman Kember, for his family, for the Canadian hostages, and for their families as well," Straw said.</div> <bR> <div> British Prime Minister Tony Blair's office said he was "delighted" by the news and congratulated everyone involved in the rescue.</div> <bR> <div> A group calling itself the Swords of Righteousness Brigades initially claimed responsibility for the hostage-taking.</div> <bR> <div> Their abduction drew criticism from high-profile Muslim groups, including leading Sunni clerics in Iraq and a top Palestinian cleric. The Muslim Association of Britain placed ads in Iraqi newspapers appealing for their release.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="9d8ca0b00.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="176" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Hostage James Loney in video release.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 124 WIDTH="707"><div> The hostages were shown in several videos. In the most recent, dated February 28, Loney, Sooden and Kember were shown without Fox.</div> <bR> <div> American reporter Jill Carroll is still missing in Iraq. She was kidnapped in early January in the Iraqi capital and has since appeared in three video clips on Arab television.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="ferry_sinks_off_b_c__coast"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 58 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Ferry sinks off B.C. coast</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed, 22 Mar 2006  08:49:04  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: Mar 22nd, 2006</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="9d819f350.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="53" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 105 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>All 101 passengers and crew have been accounted for after the ferry they were travelling in sank off the coast of British Columbia near the Queen Charlotte Islands.</B></div> <bR> <div> The Queen of the North hit a rock shortly before 1 a.m. local time (4 a.m. ET) on Wednesday, about 135 kilometres from Prince Rupert. The vessel reportedly began to tip to one side before it sank.</div> <bR> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 140 WIDTH="540"><div> The ship is now completely submerged, said the Search and Rescue Centre in Victoria.</div> <bR> <div> Officials are waiting for one more rescue ship carrying survivors to arrive in Hartley Bay, about 630 kilometres north of Vancouver, where other passengers were taken.</div> <bR> <div> Many passengers were asleep when they felt the ferry run aground at 12:43 a.m. local time. It took about an hour for the ferry to sink, giving passengers time to scramble into lifeboats in the choppy seas, said Coast guard Cpt. Leah Byrne.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="9d82a0630.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="99" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Queen of the North. (Photo courtesy BC Ferries)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 234 WIDTH="707"><bR> <div> Fishing boats from nearby communities, a helicopter and several coast guard vessels responded to the distress call.</div> <bR> <div> The ferry had been making the 450-kilometre journey from Prince Rupert south to Port Hardy when it sank. According to the BC Ferries website, the Queen of the North would have left Prince Rupert on Tuesday at 8 p.m. local time and was to arrive in Port Hardy at 1:30 p.m. local time on Wednesday.</div> <bR> <div> The 125-metre long ship, which can hold up to 700 people and 115 cars, is one of the larger ferries in the fleet.</div> <bR> <div> It's not normally used for the inside passage route along the province's north coast, but was being used while the smaller Queen of Prince Rupert was undergoing maintenance. That vessel is 101 metres long.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Small community greets survivors</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 218 WIDTH="540"><div> Clare Hill, a bed and breakfast owner who is helping take care of survivors at the Hartley Bay community centre, told CBC Newsworld that the passengers are shaken but seem fine. A few survivors reported minor injuries, such as a wrist injury and gashed head.</div> <bR> <div> Some of the survivors left the ship in a hurry, he said.</div> <bR> <div> "We had a couple of people in their nightgowns," said Hill.</div> <bR> <div> The survivors are resting with hot coffee and blankets, while the younger kids are asleep, he said.</div> <bR> <div> They're all focused on calling friends and family to tell them they're fine, said Hill.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="9d83a0d50.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="213" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 145 WIDTH="707"><div> BC Ferries made headlines last year when a large passenger ferry ran aground near Vancouver.</div> <bR> <div> In July 2005, a BC Ferries vessel lost power while docking and smashed into a marina in Horseshoe Bay near Vancouver. No one was injured but 22 pleasure boats were damaged or destroyed.</div> <bR> <div> Investigators blamed the incident on a problem with the ship's clutch.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="gunmen_storm_iraqi_police_station"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 58 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Gunmen storm Iraqi police station</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue, 21 Mar 2006  08:15:29  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: Mar 21st, 2006</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="58" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="165" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 381 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>Suspected insurgents killed at least 17 police officers and freed 33 prisoners during a daybreak attack on a police station in Iraq on Tuesday, police said.</B></div> <bR> <div> Police said more than 20 gunmen in five civilian cars arrived at dawn at the station in the city of Muqdadiyah, north of Baghdad.</div> <bR> <div> They lobbed a mortar round at the station, then stormed it on foot, firing automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades. At least 17 police officers and a guard at a neighbouring courthouse were killed in the fighting. Ten of the attackers were also killed, police said.</div> <bR> <div> The attackers set the police station on fire and detonated a series of bombs as they made their escape.</div> <bR> <div> The attack left 13 others wounded, including police officers and civilians.</div> <bR> <div> Most of the freed prisoners were suspected insurgents.</div> <bR> <div> Muqdadiyah is about 95 kilometres northeast of Baghdad in the Sunni heartland.</div> <bR> <div> On Monday, at least 39 people were killed in Iraq by insurgents and sectarian gangs.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="cyclone_leaves_thousands_homeless_in_australia"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 238 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Cyclone leaves thousands homeless in Australia</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon, 20 Mar 2006  06:27:55  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: Mar 20th, 2006</div> <div> <B>A cyclone that ripped across parts of the northeast Australian state of Queensland on Sunday has left thousands homeless, local government officials said Monday.</B></div> <bR> <div> Police say more than half of the homes in Innisfail, a coastal town of 8,500, were destroyed.</div> <bR> <div> Mayor Neil Clarke said on Monday he didn't know how many people are in need of shelter, but he guessed the number would be in the thousands.</div> <bR> <div> Tents have been set up at the Innisfail airport to serve as emergency shelters.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="9d7aa0af0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="175" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Downed trees block a road outside Cairns on Monday after cyclone Larry swept through the region. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 524 WIDTH="707"><div> "This is not only a disaster for the environment, for the structural buildings of places, but it's an economic disaster as well," Clarke said.</div> <bR> <div> Cyclone Larry hit the north coast with winds approaching 300 kilometres an hour, damaging houses, uprooting large trees, knocking down kilometres of powerlines, and devastating the region's banana and sugar-farming industry.</div> <bR> <div> Mike Keating, a police official in the coastal city of Cairns, said the destruction across the region hit is a "horrendous sight,'' with houses reduced to rubble.</div> <bR> <div> Emergency services say they are amazed at the small number of casualties reported. About a dozen people, including one woman who was struck by flying glass, were reported hurt, but their injuries were considered minor.</div> <bR> <div> Premier Peter Beattie of Queensland state declared a state of emergency.</div> <bR> <div> "It's the worst cyclone we've had in decades," he said.</div> <bR> <div> Prime Minister John Howard promised to send any assistance necessary in response to the cyclone, including army helicopters.</div> <bR> <div> The state government of Queensland and the federal government are co-operating closely to deal with the situation, he said. </div> <div> "This is certainly a very fearful and challenging time for the people of far north Queensland," he said.</div> <bR> <div> "I want them to know that their fellow Australians are with them, and will respond in an appropriate fashion to any request for help."</div> <bR> <div> By Monday, the cyclone had been downgraded to a category-three system and was heading inland, with gale-force winds still lashing parts of the state.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff <I>with files from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="sectarian_violence_is_civil_war_says_former_iraqi_pm"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 58 ><NOBR><div> <B>Sectarian violence is civil war, says former Iraqi PM</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun, 19 Mar 2006  12:30:26  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: Mar 19th, 2006</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="6a5d9f350.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="53" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 194 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>Ayad Allawi, the former interim prime minister of Iraq, says the increasing attacks across his country can only be described as a "civil war."</B></div> <bR> <div> "We are losing each day an average of 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more. If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is," Allawi told BBC television on Sunday.</div> <bR> <div> Allawi also warned that if fighting continues as it has, the country could fragment with aftershocks being felt in Europe and the United States.</div> <bR> <div> "It will not only fall apart but sectarianism will spread throughout the region, and even Europe and the U.S. will not be spared the violence that results," he said.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 252 WIDTH="540"><div> The BBC report quoted analysts who said they viewed Allawi's comments as "political manoeuvring," as talks continue over the creation of an Iraqi government.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Cheney says militants failed to start civil war</B></div> <bR> <div> Both U.S. and British leaders have repeatedly denied that Iraq is in a state of civil war.</div> <bR> <div> U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney derided talk of civil war in Iraq during an interview with the CBS television program <I>Face the Nation</I> on Sunday morning.</div> <bR> <div> "What we've seen is a serious effort by them to foment a civil war," Cheney said on the third anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. "But I don't think they've been successful."</div> <bR> <div> <B>'It is a civil war': Democrat legislator</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="9d75a0b00.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="176" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Ayad Allawi, the former interim prime minister of Iraq, warned that continued 'civil war' in Iraq would have an impact in Europe and the United States. (AP file photo)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 304 WIDTH="707"><bR> <div> One of the most passionate critics of the war effort, Representative Jack Murtha – a Democrat from Pennsylvania and a respected war veteran – weighed in on the Sunday morning circuit of U.S. network news shows.</div> <bR> <div> "We're caught in a civil war, however you want to look at it," he told NBC's <I>Meet the Press</I>. "First of all, they said there is no insurgency. Then they said it's not a civil war.</div> <bR> <div> "It is a civil war. Twenty-five thousand insurgents are fighting with each other inside the country for supremacy. That's the definition of a civil war."</div> <bR> <div> In a Washington Post column published on Sunday, U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld argued that the insurgents "seem to recognize that they are losing in Iraq."</div> <bR> <div> He added that withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq now "would be the modern equivalent of handing postwar Germany back to the Nazis."</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="worldwide_protests_condemn_iraq_war"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 58 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Worldwide protests condemn Iraq war</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat, 18 Mar 2006  16:46:02  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: Mar 18th, 2006</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="9d719f350.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="53" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 124 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>Demonstrators around the world marked the third anniversary of the U.S. attack on Iraq with marches and protests, but turnouts appeared to be small.</B></div> <bR> <div> In London, organizers hoped to attract 100,000 people, but police estimated the crowd at about 15,000.</div> <bR> <div> About 500 protesters in Australia chanted, "end the war now," while 2,000 marched in Japan and more than 1,000 paraded in Toronto.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 216 WIDTH="540"><div> As well, Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) organized a vigil in Toronto to remember the work of peacemakers and victims of war.</div> <bR> <div> Three CPT members – two Canadians and a Briton – have been held hostage by Iraqi militants since Nov. 26, 2005. A fourth hostage, 54-year-old American Tom Fox, was killed on March 10.</div> <bR> <div> The previously unknown Swords of Righteousness Brigades has claimed responsibility for the kidnappings.</div> <bR> <div> Anti-war activists had planned co-ordinated demonstrations all over the world, including at least 35 cities and towns in Canada.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="9d72a0700.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="112" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> More than 1,000 anti-war protesters took to the streets of downtown Toronto, joining worldwide demonstrations marking the third anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq on Saturday. (CP Photo)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 339 WIDTH="707"><div> Marchers added other issues into the mix, demanding the withdrawal of soldiers from Afghanistan, pleading that the U.S. not attack Iran and calling for more spending on social programs.</div> <bR> <div> In March 2003, U.S. President George W. Bush told Iraqi dictator Sadam Hussein to leave Baghdad or face a U.S. attack. Saddam remained defiant, and the attack began on March 19.</div> <bR> <div> By May 1, Bush said major combat operations were over, but Iraqi and anti-American militants from other countries have continued to fight against the Americans, Iraqi government forces and each other.</div> <bR> <div> Just this week, America launched Operation Swarmer, a large air offensive targeting insurgent strongholds northeast of the city of Samarra.</div> <bR> <div> The fighting between the majority Shias and minority Sunnis, who ran the country under Saddam, has also led some observers to say Iraq is involved in a civil war.</div> <bR> <div> The internal disputes have made it hard to negotiate an Iraqi government. Members of the new government have been sworn but three months after the vote, the factions cannot agree on a way to share power.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="tests_show_no_poison_in_milosevic_s_blood"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 58 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Tests show no poison in Milosevic's blood</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri, 17 Mar 2006  08:02:47  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: Mar 17th, 2006</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="9d6c9f350.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="53" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 645 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>Toxicologists who examined Slobodan Milosevic's blood tests say the former Yugoslav president was not poisoned, says the head of the United Nations war crimes tribunal.</B></div> <bR> <div> Tribunal president Judge Fausto Pocar also said Friday that the preliminary tests showed no sign that Milosevic had received "toxic concentrations" of any medication with the power to kill him.</div> <bR> <div> Preliminary results from a Dutch autopsy had earlier suggested Milosevic died of a heart attack in his cell last weekend.</div> <bR> <div> However, Milosevic's family and supporters have been accusing UN authorities of killing the 64-year-old former Serb leader by administering poison.</div> <bR> <div> They also say he failed to receive proper medical care for his heart condition and high blood pressure while in custody.</div> <bR> <div> Shortly after the former Serb leader's death, a toxicologist who had examined earlier blood test results said they showed the presence of an antibiotic drug called rifampicin, which could have diminished the effectiveness of Milosevic's heart medications.</div> <bR> <div> Donald Uges, based at the University Hospital of Groningen in the Netherlands, said he believed Milosevic was taking rifampicin deliberately to bolster his claim that UN officials were poisoning him, so that he would be sent to Russia for treatment.</div> <bR> <div> "So far no traces of rifampicin were found," Pocar said Friday in releasing the "provisional" toxicology report on samples of Milosevic's blood taken after his death.</div> <bR> <div> Pocar also said independent investigators would be asked to conduct a review of the detention centre where Milosevic was being held.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Death halted four-year trial</B></div> <bR> <div> Known as the Butcher of the Balkans, Milosevic had been on trial in The Hague for four years.</div> <bR> <div> He was facing 66 charges of genocide, resulting from years of fierce racial, ethnic and religious fighting in the former Yugoslavia that killed 250,000 people.</div> <bR> <div> Milosevic was the first sitting head of any government to be charged with war crimes at the time an international warrant was issued for his arrest in 1999.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 468 WIDTH="707"><div> His remains are now on display at a museum in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia-Montenegro, where Serb nationalists are lining up to pay their respects.</div> <bR> <div> Milosevic's widow, Mirjana Markovic, was due to arrive Friday for the burial.</div> <bR> <div> She has been living in Moscow with her son, Marko Milosevic, because both still face abuse of power charges in their homeland.</div> <bR> <div> Serbia's government agreed to a deal that would let them travel to Belgrade for the funeral without fear of arrest.</div> <bR> <div> <B>'We remember Kosovo,' opponents write</B></div> <bR> <div> In another development Friday, a group of Milosevic's opponents published what they called a "memorial" in the daily newspaper Politika, placed next to several traditional death notices lauding the former Socialist Party leader.</div> <bR> <div> "Thank you for the deceit and theft, for every drop of blood shed by thousands, for the fear and uncertainty, for the failed lives and generations, the unfulfilled dreams, for the horrors and wars you waged in our name, without asking us, for all the burdens you've placed on our shoulders," the anti-Milosevic notice said.</div> <bR> <div> "We remember tanks on Belgrade streets and blood on the pavements. We remember Vukovar. We remember Dubrovnik. We remember Knin and Krajina. We remember Sarajevo. We remember Srebrenica. We remember the air strikes. We remember Kosovo.</div> <bR> <div> "We'll be remembering that one for a while. And dreaming of it."</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="gretzky_s_wife_to_testify"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Mar 06"><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= 273 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Gretzky's wife to testify</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed, 15 Mar 2006  19:13:19  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: Mar 16th, 2006</div> <div> <B>Janet Jones, wife of Phoenix Coyotes coach Wayne Gretzky, will be called to court when a grand jury examines charges stemming from an alleged illegal gambling operation in the United States, the New Jersey attorney general says.</B></div> <bR> <div> "She'll be served," Zulima Farber told the Associated Press on Wednesday. "She hasn't been because there is no grand jury yet hearing the case."</div> <bR> <div> Farber added that authorities would convene a grand jury in "weeks or months, not years."</div> <bR> <div> Gretzky and his wife were linked a month ago to the gambling ring that New Jersey police claim was run by Coyotes assistant coach Rick Tocchet.</div> <bR> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="9d67a0c20.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="194" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Janet Jones will testify when a grand jury examines charges stemming from an alleged illegal gambling operation in the United States. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 650 WIDTH="707"><div> Tocchet has been charged with financing the ring that allegedly took non-hockey bets from a number of current players, along with Jones, even though her name is not on public record.</div> <bR> <div> On Wednesday, a lawyer for Jones said she has yet to receive any grand jury subpoena from New Jersey authorities.</div> <bR> <div> Jones allegedly placed large bets through Tocchet. Gretzky has pleaded his innocence and said he never placed any wagers through his wife.</div> <bR> <div> Jones has also denied betting for her husband.</div> <bR> <div> According to AP, Gretzky asked Tocchet in the wiretapped conversation how his wife could avoid being named as a participant in the investigation.</div> <bR> <div> New Jersey police have said between six and 12 players or people close to National Hockey League teams are believed to have placed bets.</div> <bR> <div> "I think it became a big case only because of the names involved," Farber said. "I think it would have been a routine – if there is such a thing – illegal gambling case if it wasn't for the names of those people involved. However, because there was a trooper involved, it was big to us."</div> <bR> <div> Authorities allege 41-year-old Tocchet and James J. Harney, a state police trooper, were partners in the gambling ring.</div> <bR> <div> Harney has been charged with official misconduct, promoting gambling, money laundering and conspiracy. Another man accused of taking bets, James A. Ulmer, was charged with promoting gambling, money laundering and conspiracy.</div> <bR> <div> Tocchet was granted an indefinite leave of absence on Feb. 8 from his coaching duties by NHL commissioner Gary Bettman.</div> <bR> <div> Additional charges likely will be laid, said Farber, adding that possible charges could be brought against state police officers or other bettors.</div> <bR> <div> Authorities previously said bettors did not break any laws and would not be charged.</div> <bR> <div> Farber defended an assertion by Col. Rick Fuentes, New Jersey state police superintendent, that the gambling ring had connections to the mob, something defence lawyers have denied.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff <I>with files from Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="green_light_for_fort_mcmurray_work_camps"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 235 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Green light for Fort McMurray work camps</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed, 15 Mar 2006  08:41:45  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: Mar 15th, 2006</div> <div> <B>Faced with a severe housing shortage, the booming oilsands city of Fort McMurray, Alta., is going ahead with a controversial plan to set up work camps for up to 300 construction workers in its downtown core.</B></div> <bR> <div> Municipal councillors gave the go-ahead Tuesday night, despite concerns that the camps will worsen crime and drug problems in the city of 56,000.</div> <bR> <div> Some people in the city fear the presence of hundreds of single men on as many as eight sites will threaten the safety of women and children.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="9d62a0e60.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="230" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 488 WIDTH="707"><div> "I work with men during the day and I know how some act," said Lesley McGlenen, a 20-year-old construction worker. "I want to be able to walk down the street without guys after me all the time."</div> <bR> <div> The work camp proposal has been creating debate in the regional municipality of Wood Buffalo for weeks.</div> <bR> <div> The city has grown dramatically because of frenzied activity at nearby oilsands projects, leaving newcomers with literally nowhere to live at a time when many jobs in Fort McMurray remain unfilled.</div> <bR> <div> The rental vacancy rate is zero and hotels are full. Even trailer homes can cost up to $300,000.</div> <bR> <div> The high cost of living means developers can't attract construction workers to build new homes or other facilities.</div> <bR> <div> Employers have been asking for some kind of low-cost housing to attract workers in the face of competition from oilsands companies offering much higher wages.</div> <bR> <div> Municipal councillors voted for the work camps proposal despite a flood of opposition, in part because the municipal government itself has a tough time finding people to build a long list of projects, including a new recreation centre and water treatment plants.</div> <bR> <div> "We need to inject something fast in order to make this community work and that is what we are trying to do," said Coun.Carolyn Slade.</div> <bR> <div> The bylaw establishing the camps requires the council to revisit the issue in early 2009.</div> <bR> <div> The camps will likely consist of trailers and other support buildings. On-site security will be mandatory.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="afghanistan_grateful_for_canadian_sacrifice_karzai"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 58 ><NOBR><div> <B>Afghanistan grateful for Canadian sacrifice: Karzai</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue, 14 Mar 2006  08:00:24  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: Mar 14th, 2006</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="9d5c9f350.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="53" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 592 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>Prime Minister Stephen Harper wrapped up a two-day visit to Afghanistan Tuesday as that country's president thanked him for Canadian aid and the "lives of your sons."</B></div> <bR> <div> Harper met Afghan President Hamid Karzai at his presidential palace in Kabul, the first head of state the prime minister has met since his Conservative government won the January federal election.</div> <bR> <div> With U.S. military helicopters buzzing overhead, Karzai asked Harper to deliver a message of thanks to Canadians for their financial and military aid since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan following the Sept. 11 attacks.</div> <bR> <div> "Please convey to your people, to the people of Canada, the immense gratitude of the Afghan people for what your country, your people have done for us," said Karzai.</div> <bR> <div> "For giving the lives of your sons, for contributing in money, for contributing in soldiers and for being one of the biggest helpers in Afghanistan."</div> <bR> <div> Harper responded by inviting Karzai to visit Canada.</div> <bR> <div> "I've said to the president I hope to see him in Canada," said Harper.</div> <bR> <div> Harper made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan late Sunday, meeting with Canadian troops in the country. He repeated his government's commitment to the mission and assured the more than 2,200 soldiers stationed there that their work is important.</div> <bR> <div> The morale-boosting visit comes amid growing questions in Canada over its role in Afghanistan. Ten soldiers and one diplomat have been killed since the mission started in 2002.</div> <bR> <div> Karzai defended the Canadian presence, saying it would help Afghanistan achieve stability and independence, which will in turn, support the long-term security of Canada.</div> <bR> <div> Shortly after the meeting, Harper left Afghanistan for Pakistan, where he was to meet with Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="canada_committed_to_afghan_mission_harper_tells_troops"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 58 ><NOBR><div> <B>Canada committed to Afghan mission, Harper tells troops</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon, 13 Mar 2006  06:50:42  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: Mar 13th, 2006</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="9d569f350.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="53" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 49 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>Prime Minister Stephen Harper reaffirmed his government's commitment to Canadian troops serving in Afghanistan on Monday, telling hundreds of soldiers there that Canada won't "cut and run" as long as he's in charge.</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 278 WIDTH="540"><div> "You can't lead from the bleachers. I want Canada to be a leader," Harper told about 1,000 troops at the Kandahar airfield base the day after he arrived on an unannounced visit to Afghanistan.</div> <bR> <div> "Your work is about more than just defending Canada's interests. It's also about demonstrating an international leadership role for our country."</div> <bR> <div> Harper told the troops they have the support of the Canadian people and government on what he called the country's most challenging deployment since Korea.</div> <bR> <div> "There will be some who want to cut and run, but cutting and running is not my way and it's not the Canadian way," he said, to a round of applause.</div> <bR> <div> "We don't make a commitment and then run away at the first sign of trouble. We don't and we will not, as long as I'm leading this country."</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="9d57a0ca0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="202" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Prime Minister Stephen Harper chats with Brig.-Gen. David Fraser upon arriving in Afghanistan on Sunday. (CP PHOTO/Tom Hanson)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 376 WIDTH="707"><div> The prime minister's speech came amid increasing Canadian casualties and opposition calls for a parliamentary debate on Canada's role in Afghanistan.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Harper spends night on base</B></div> <bR> <div> Harper arrived in Afghanistan early Sunday local time. He spent much of Monday morning visiting troops on the base, checking out their equipment and living conditions. It's his first foreign trip since his Conservative government won the federal election in January.</div> <bR> <div> Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor accompanied Harper to Afghanistan.</div> <bR> <div> Harper said he was impressed with the Canadian facilities, especially during his tour of a military hospital on the base.</div> <bR> <div> "It's amazing what they have there. It's a very small facility and they have a very wide range of diagnostic and treatment equipment," said Harper.</div> <bR> <div> Other world leaders, including U.S. President George W. Bush, have made unannounced visits to Afghanistan, but it is unusual for a such a high-profile visitor to remain overnight in the turbulent region.</div> <bR> <div> Canada currently has about 2,300 troops in the country. On Feb. 28, Canadian Brig.-Gen. David Fraser assumed control over the multinational force responsible for southern Afghanistan.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 157 WIDTH="540"><div> Since early 2002, 10 Canadian soldiers and a diplomat have been killed in Afghanistan. Another 26 Canadian soldiers have been injured.</div> <bR> <div> Canada hands over control of the mission in August. Harper suggested that could be the time for a debate on Canada's role.</div> <bR> <div> "There will be, obviously, fence posts in the future where we will make future decisions about deployment, but as long as we have troops, police, diplomats, development officials, we're going to support them."</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="9d59a06f0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="111" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Harper meets with Canadian troops in Kandahar.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 252 WIDTH="707"><div> As it stands now, Canada is in for the long haul, said Harper. Canada and the international community are determined to take a failed state and create a "democratic, prosperous and modern country," he said.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Media sworn to news blackout</B></div> <bR> <div> The Harper visit was arranged with a close eye on security and secrecy. Every journalist travelling with the prime minister had to agree not to reveal news of the visit before 6 p.m. EST on Sunday.</div> <bR> <div> Media organizations were notified late Friday. The flight left early Saturday, refueled in Croatia and then headed on to Islamabad, Pakistan, where the passengers transferred to a Canadian Hercules aircraft.</div> <bR> <div> Harper is expected to be back in Canada by the middle of the week.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="iran_rejects_moscow_s_nuclear_proposal"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 58 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Iran rejects Moscow's nuclear proposal</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun, 12 Mar 2006  08:28:53  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: Mar 12th, 2006</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="7f0e9f350.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="53" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 414 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>Iran is no longer interested in a proposal to move its uranium enrichment program to Russia, an Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said on Sunday.</B></div> <bR> <div> "The Russian proposal is not on our agenda any more," Hamid Reza Asefi said.</div> <bR> <div> The statement further complicates the international dispute over Iran's nuclear activities.</div> <bR> <div> The United States and several other Western powers believe Iran wants to resume uranium enrichment to build nuclear weapons. Tehran insists it only wants to build nuclear power plants.</div> <bR> <div> The Kremlin had been trying to persuade Iran to move its enrichment program to Russian territory, thereby allowing closer international monitoring and some assurance that Tehran would not misuse the process to make weapons.</div> <bR> <div> Iran's foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, said the Russian proposal is no longer an option and his country is instead considering large-scale uranium enrichment at home.</div> <bR> <div> The statement comes two days after the UN Security Council ended a second round of talks on how to persuade Iran to suspend uranium enrichment-related projects and whether Iran should face sanctions.</div> <bR> <div> Konstantin Kosachev, head of the international affairs committee of the lower house of the Russian parliament, said Iran's decision could "radicalize" UN discussions.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="milosevic_found_dead_in_prison_cell"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 58 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Milosevic found dead in prison cell</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat, 11 Mar 2006  08:34:50  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: Mar 11th, 2006</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="9d4e9f350.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="53" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 70 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic has been found dead in his cell at the United Nations war crimes tribunal at The Hague.</B></div> <bR> <div> An official in the chief prosecutor's office said Milosevic was found lifeless on his bed around 10 a.m. on Saturday.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 262 WIDTH="540"><div> French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy told reporters Milosevic, 64, died of natural causes. An autopsy is planned, along with an inquiry into the death.</div> <bR> <div> Since February 2002, Milosevic had been on trial for war crimes on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity during the violent breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.</div> <bR> <div> He suffered a heart condition and high blood pressure, which had repeatedly interrupted his trial. The hearings were entering the final phase, with arguments expected to wrap up within a few months.</div> <bR> <div> His was the second death within a week at the UN detention center in Scheveningen, a suburb of The Hague. Former Croatian Serb leader Milan Babic, serving 13 years for crimes against humanity, committed suicide in his cell last weekend.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="9d4fa0e30.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="227" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Slobodan Milosevic at the war crimes tribunal in 2004.(AP photo)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 232 WIDTH="707"><div> Milosevic led Serbia, the dominant Yugoslav republic, into four Balkan wars, including the 1992-95 Bosnia war, in which 200,000 people died.</div> <bR> <div> He was accused of overseeing the systematic killing of about 8,000 men and boys in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1995, the worst massacre on European soil since the Second World War.</div> <bR> <div> Former U.S. secretary of state and envoy to the Balkans Richard Holbrook led negotiations to end the Balkan wars. The deal led to NATO deploying 60,000 peacekeepers to keep the Bosnian, Serb and Croatian armies apart.</div> <bR> <div> Holbrook said Milosevic is one of the worst leaders the world has ever seen. "This man wrecked the Balkans. He was a war criminal who caused four wars, over 300,000 deaths, 2.5 million homeless."</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="family_friends_to_bury_canadian_soldier_killed_in_afghanistan"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 58 ><NOBR><div> <B>Family, friends to bury Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri, 10 Mar 2006  06:21:16  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: Mar 10th, 2006</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="9d479f350.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="53" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 559 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>A Canadian soldier who died last week in a vehicle accident in Afghanistan will be buried with full military honours Friday in Nova Scotia.</B></div> <bR> <div> Cpl. Paul James Davis, 28, was killed last Thursday when his armoured vehicle flipped over on a road near Kandahar. One other soldier later died of his injuries, and five more soldiers and a local interpreter were injured.</div> <bR> <div> The married father of two young children will be buried in the Halifax suburb of Lower Sackville following a funeral at 2 p.m. local time.</div> <bR> <div> His father, Jim Davis, said his son died serving his country and the free world. Paul Davis turned down a promotion that would have kept him home because he wanted to join his friends in Afghanistan, said his father.</div> <bR> <div> "He had this sense of duty and comradeship with the other people he had been training with. He felt he wanted to go with them."</div> <bR> <div> Ten Canadian soldiers have died in the Afghan mission. Canadian diplomat Glyn Berry was also killed in January in a roadside attack on his vehicle in Kandahar.</div> <bR> <div> Military officials are investigating the accident that killed Davis.</div> <bR> <div> The armoured LAV-lll collided with a taxi on the outskirts of Kandahar. The Department of National Defence says the taxi may have failed to yield at an intersection, causing the armoured vehicle to swerve into a roadside ditch before flipping.</div> <bR> <div> "The accident appears to have been caused by our vehicle striking the vehicle," said Col. Tom Putt, deputy commander of Canadian troops in Afghanistan.</div> <bR> <div> Davis had no vital signs when he arrived at hospital and was pronounced dead.</div> <bR> <div> There are 2,200 Canadians in southern Afghanistan, part of a multinational force led by Canadian Brig.-Gen. David Fraser.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="relatives_of_dead_soldier_question_canada_s_role_in_afghanistan"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Mar 06"><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= 156 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Relatives of dead soldier question Canada's role in Afghanistan</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu, 09 Mar 2006  07:17:21  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: Mar 9th, 2006</div> <div> <B>The mother and aunt of a Newfoundland soldier who was killed in Afghanistan are calling on the federal government to reconsider Canada's role there.</B></div> <bR> <div> Cpl. Jamie Murphy died in a suicide bomb attack near Kabul in January 2004. Two years later, Murphy's mother says his death still haunts her.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="9d44a06b0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="107" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Soldiers salute Cpl. Jamie Murphy's coffin in Afghanistan in January 2004. (CP file photo)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 199 WIDTH="707"><div> "I think about every second of every day," said Alice Murphy, who lives in Conception Harbour, N.L.</div> <bR> <div> She said memories of her son's death are revived whenever she hears of new casualties.</div> <bR> <div> "It is really hard to know that there's other guys and families in the same situation that we're in, and we are still in it, and it will never go away. Never."</div> <bR> <div> So far this year, 11 Canadian soldiers have been injured in Afghanistan and two have died. As well, a bombing in Kandahar City on Jan. 15 killed Foreign Affairs official Glyn Berry.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Murphy's aunt fears for own son</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 152 WIDTH="540"><div> Murphy's aunt, Eva Skeffington, disagrees with Prime Minister Stephen Harper's decision that there will be no parliamentary debate on the future of Canada's role in Afghanistan.</div> <bR> <div> Skeffington's son, Dale Newbury, is a military mechanic who served in Afghanistan last year and is scheduled to head back to Kandahar in August.</div> <bR> <div> More than 2,000 Canadians will be deployed near Kandahar this year, but Skeffington thinks Canada should instead be withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="9d45a0930.gif" border=0 width="160" height="147" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 236 WIDTH="707"><div> "I can't imagine my son going over there and then not coming back," said Skeffington, as she fought back tears.</div> <bR> <div> "They did go at first for peace and now it's war. I really don't agree with them being there. It's our sons and daughters."</div> <bR> <div> While Murphy's family has opposed Canada's participation in the Afghanistan effort, others in his home community of Conception Harbour disagree.</div> <bR> <div> "The troops are there. We made a commitment," said Jack Gushue, who intends to build a monument to Murphy in the small town.</div> <bR> <div> "Canadians – and Newfoundlanders especially – once we commit, we are determined to do what we want to do."</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="winning_tim_hortons_cup_sparks_bitter_row"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 58 ><NOBR><div> <B>Winning Tim Hortons cup sparks bitter row</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed, 08 Mar 2006  08:33:19  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: Mar 8th, 2006</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="58" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="165" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 521 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>A dispute is brewing in Quebec over an SUV after two schoolgirls found a winning "Roll Up the Rim" coffee cup in a garbage can.</B></div> <bR> <div> It all started Tuesday in Montreal when a 10-year-old girl found a Tim Hortons cup in a trash bin, according to a report in the Montreal Gazette.</div> <bR> <div> Remembering the coffee chain's promotional contest, she plucked it out of the garbage. The girl couldn't roll up the rim by herself, so she got help from a 12-year-old friend.</div> <bR> <div> When the two girls discovered that the cup was the winner of a $28,700 Toyota RAV4, they took it to a teacher at the school, who called the girls' parents.</div> <bR> <div> The 10-year-old's father, who wasn't identified, arrived first and took the cup, saying he planned to sell the vehicle and would offer some of the money to the second child's family.</div> <bR> <div> But when the mother of the 12-year-old showed up, she said her family deserved to take the prize.</div> <bR> <div> Nathalie Prevost then called a local radio station to ask for legal advice, propelling the story into the media spotlight, said the Gazette.</div> <bR> <div> The father of the 10-year-old says Prevost's radio appeal went too far and that he has changed his mind about offering that family any money.</div> <bR> <div> A spokesperson for Tim Hortons told the newspaper that whoever submits a winning tab to the company is considered the official prizewinner.</div> <bR> <div> Neither of the girls can claim the prize because they are minors.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="9000_ontario_college_teachers_walk_off_the_job"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Mar 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 200 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>9,000 Ontario college teachers walk off the job</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue, 07 Mar 2006  08:14:00  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: Mar 7th, 2006</div> <div> <B>About 150,000 Ontario college students are in limbo, following failed contract talks that sent thousands of teachers and other college staff to the picket lines today.</B></div> <bR> <div> Talks between the management of the province's 24 community colleges and the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) broke off at 10:30 p.m. last night -- ahead of the midnight deadline set by the union.</div> <bR> <div> "This is the first offer that they have tabled for us in over five days ... they are forcing a strike</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="9d3da0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Ontario Public Service Employees Union members set up shop outside of George Brown College in downtown Toronto Tuesday morning.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR>