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height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Controversial Muslim cleric denies sermons are hate speech</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 30/06/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="385"><div> <A HREF="#15_years_for_katrina_looters" TITLE="Jun 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  15 years for Katrina looters</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 29/06/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#texas_executes_mexican_drifter_linked_to_15_murders" TITLE="Jun 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Texas executes Mexican drifter linked to 15 murders</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 28/06/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A 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height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Harper set to announce $15B in military spending</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 22/06/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="385"><div> <A HREF="#canadian_soldiers_wounded_in_afghanistan" TITLE="Jun 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Canadian soldiers wounded in Afghanistan</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 21/06/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="385"><div> <A HREF="#how_the_cup_was_won__and_lost_" TITLE="Jun 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  How the Cup was won (and lost)</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 20/06/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="385"><div> <A HREF="#gun_legislation_could_be_unveiled_today" TITLE="Jun 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Gun legislation could be unveiled today</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 19/06/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="385"><div> <A HREF="#resilient_oilers_force_game_7" TITLE="Jun 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Resilient Oilers force Game 7</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 18/06/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#attacks_continue_in_baghdad_despite_security_clampdown" TITLE="Jun 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Attacks continue in Baghdad despite security clampdown</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 17/06/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#man_who_knew_some_plot_suspects_says_islamic__anger__prevalent" TITLE="Jun 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Man who knew some plot suspects says Islamic 'anger' prevalent</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 16/06/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="385"><div> <A HREF="#tories_to_introduce_street_racing_bill" TITLE="Jun 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Tories to introduce street racing bill</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 15/06/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="385"><div> <A HREF="#sampson_s_torture_suit_bid_denied" TITLE="Jun 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Sampson's torture suit bid denied</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 14/06/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#supreme_court_to_hear_security_certificate_challenge" TITLE="Jun 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Supreme Court to hear security certificate challenge</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 13/06/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="385"><div> <A HREF="#bomb_plot_suspects_to_return_to_court" TITLE="Jun 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Bomb plot suspects to return to court</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 12/06/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="385"><div> <A HREF="#nearly_600_prisoners_freed_in_iraq" TITLE="Jun 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Nearly 600 prisoners freed in Iraq</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 11/06/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="385"><div> <A HREF="#news_crew_hurt_covering_caledonia_standoff" TITLE="Jun 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  News crew hurt covering Caledonia standoff</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 10/06/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#traffic_ban_ordered_in_baghdad_following_death_of_al_zarqawi" TITLE="Jun 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Traffic ban ordered in Baghdad following death of al-Zarqawi</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 09/06/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="385"><div> <A HREF="#militant_al_zarqawi_killed_in_air_attack" TITLE="Jun 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Militant al-Zarqawi killed in air attack</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 08/06/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="385"><div> <A HREF="#suspect_in_bomb_plot_was_canadian_soldier" TITLE="Jun 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Suspect in bomb plot was Canadian soldier</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 07/06/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#heavy_security_in_place_as_accused_in_bomb_plot_seek_bail" TITLE="Jun 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Heavy security in place as accused in bomb plot seek bail</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 06/06/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#quebec_crews_use_dam_to_contain_huge_fuel_spill" TITLE="Jun 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Quebec crews use dam to contain huge fuel spill</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 05/06/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="385"><div> <A HREF="#mosque_vandalized_after_bomb_plot_sweep" TITLE="Jun 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Mosque vandalized after bomb-plot sweep</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 04/06/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#serious__bomb_plot_against_canada_averted_police" TITLE="Jun 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  'Serious' bomb plot against Canada averted: police</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 03/06/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="385"><div> <A HREF="#standoff_continues_after_police_officer_shot" TITLE="Jun 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Standoff continues after police officer shot</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 02/06/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#facts_the_focus_of_agent_orange_reports_investigator_says" TITLE="Jun 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Facts the focus of Agent Orange reports, investigator says</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 01/06/06</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="controversial_muslim_cleric_denies_sermons_are_hate_speech"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 287 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Controversial Muslim cleric denies sermons are hate speech</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri, 30 June 2006  07:07:08  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: June 30th, 2006</div> <div> <B>The controversial Muslim cleric from Britain due to speak in Toronto this weekend has told CBC News that he does not promote hatred.</B></div> <bR> <div> Sheik Abu Yousef Riyadh ul-Haq, scheduled to speak at the Youth Tarbiyah Conference in Scarborough, has drawn fire for sermons his critics allege incite hatred of Jews, Hindus, gays and even moderate Muslims.</div> <bR> <div> "All I would like to say is that the picture portrayed from these quotes that I preach hatred against the Jews, the Christians or the Hindus is totally false," he told CBC.</div> <bR> <div> Ul-Haq was interviewed in London on Thursday by officials from the Canadian High Commission, who have been in contact with Air Canada regarding his possible arrival in the country.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="a364a09c0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="156" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Sheik Abu Yousef Riyadh ul-Haq is scheduled to speak to a Muslim conference in Canada this weekend, but is still waiting to find out if he'll be allowed into the country.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 608 WIDTH="707"><div> In an interview to be aired Friday on the CBC Radio program <I>The Current,</I> ul-Haq insists his words have been taken out of context and that he was actually condemning extremists of every religious persuasion who misinterpret their holy books to justify terrorism.</div> <bR> <div> Several groups in Canada, including the Muslim Canadian Congress and the Canadian Jewish Congress, want him turned back if he does arrive.</div> <bR> <div> "This is a very divisive man," said Tarek Fatah of the MCC. "Even if the words were taken out of context, we would like to know in what context does he have the right to speak about gays and lesbians and Hindus and Jews?"</div> <bR> <div> The two groups were among a coalition that contacted Immigration Minister Monte Solberg in advance of the visit to raise their concerns.</div> <bR> <div> The cleric has preached in Canada on four occasions and attracted little attention. He was scheduled to speak in Montreal last week but withdrew.</div> <bR> <div> The media officer for the Islamic Foundation of Toronto, which is helping organize the conference, told CBC ul-Haq is being unfairly targeted because of heightened tension in the wake of the arrests earlier this month of 17 Muslims in an alleged bomb plot in the Toronto area.</div> <bR> <div> "For some reason, they're pointing fingers at him and saying, 'There's the guy who's coming here, he's going to incite the youth,' " said Syed Zain Khan. "We want him to come here to help build the youth."</div> <bR> <div> Alistair Gordon of the Coalition of Democracies said the group was careful to have ul-Haq's speeches translated by a fluent Arabic speaker and he maintains nothing was taken out of context.</div> <bR> <div> Ul-Haq's speeches, he said, are intolerant.</div> <bR> <div> "He says in his own sermon, 'Please forgive me for polluting the mosque,' before he would even utter the word homosexual."</div> <bR> <div> The Canadian High Commission has told ul-Haq that if he flies to Canada, officials at Pearson International Airport will likely decide to refuse him entry.</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="15_years_for_katrina_looters"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 58 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>15 years for Katrina looters</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu, 29 June 2006  07:27:13  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: June 29th, 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= 306 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>Three people convicted of looting a liquor store in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina last year were given the harshest sentence possible in a Louisiana court on Wednesday.</B></div> <bR> <div> The three were convicted on May 2 of stealing 27 bottles of wine and liquor, six cases of beer and a case of wine coolers over the course of a week after the storm first hit.</div> <bR> <div> Coralnelle Little, Rhonda McGowen, and Paul C. Pearson, all of Kenner, La., received 15-year sentences. The district judge said he wanted to send a message with the sentences.</div> <bR> <div> Pearson's lawyer called the sentences "excessive" and said he would appeal.</div> <bR> <div> Attorneys for the trio had argued for a new trial on grounds that the state’s looting law was unconstitutional.</div> <bR> <div> The looting statute, which carries a minimum sentence of three years, took effect just two weeks before Katrina battered the U.S. Gulf Coast.</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="texas_executes_mexican_drifter_linked_to_15_murders"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 292 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Texas executes Mexican drifter linked to 15 murders</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed, 28 June 2006  05:51:03  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: June 28th, 2006</div> <div> <B>The state of Texas executed a Mexican drifter who rode freight trains on his way to committing as many as 15 murders.</B></div> <bR> <div> Angel Maturino Resendiz, known as "The Railroad Killer," was put to death by lethal injection Tuesday night. Texas has executed 13 people this year, the most in the United States.</div> <bR> <div> "I deserve what I am getting," said the 46-year-old Mexican drifter.</div> <bR> <div> Resendiz was executed for the rape and murder of Dr. Claudia Benton in 1998. DNA evidence also connected him to the murder of a Texas pastor and his wife.</div> <bR> <div> All told, he has been connected to eight murders in Texas, two each in Illinois and Florida, as well as killings in Kentucky, California and Georgia.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="a353a0c60.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="198" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz sits in a Houston courtroom, Wednesday, June 21, 2006. He was executed on Tuesday. (Pat Sullivan/Associated Press)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 344 WIDTH="707"><div> While most those killings occurred in the late 1990s, he was also the prime suspect in a murder in San Antonio in 1986.</div> <bR> <div> The murders, which often occurred not far from railroad tracks, earned him a spot on the FBI's Most Wanted list, even though police didn't know who he was.</div> <bR> <div> In addition to his nomadic lifestyle, Resendiz used a series of aliases and would often change his appearance.</div> <bR> <div> In June 1999, U.S. Border Patrol picked up Resendiz for illegal entry but a lack of co-ordination among law enforcement computers meant he was deported to Mexico instead of being apprehended. It is believed he killed four people after that date.</div> <bR> <div> Later that summer, Resendiz turned himself in 1999 after his half-sister had been in contact with police.</div> <bR> <div> The execution was delayed almost two hours before the U.S. Supreme Court rejected appeals from not only Resendiz's attorney, but the consul general of Mexico. Mexico does not have capital punishment.</div> <bR> <div> The appeals centred on the mental competency of Resendiz, who had described himself as "half man, half angel."</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_s_health_care_staffing_lags_behind_other_nations_report"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 58 ><NOBR><div> <B>Canada's health-care staffing lags behind other nations: report</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon, 26 June 2006  16:28:21  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: June 27th, 2006</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 774 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>Canada's doctor-to-population ratio has remained nearly unchanged since the 1990s and is one of the lowest rates among Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries.</B></div> <bR> <div> Monday's report from the organization compares health data from 30 countries.</div> <bR> <div> Canada was the only country not to show an increase in the number of doctors per capita since the 1990s.</div> <bR> <div> While the OECD average rate for practising physicians per 1,000 population increased from 2.3 in 1990 to 3.1 in 2004, Canada's rate stayed the same, at 2.1.</div> <bR> <div> Canada's nurse-to-population ratio was 9.9 in 2004, about the same as in Germany and Japan, and higher than the OECD average of 8.3.</div> <bR> <div> The number of nurses per 1,000 population in Canada fell from 11.1 in 1990, while it increased in most other countries. Canada's downward trend was attributed to fewer graduates in nursing and a decline in the number of hospital beds.</div> <bR> <div> The number of acute care hospital beds in Canada has fallen as in most OECD countries, as the average length of stays in hospitals is lower and more surgeries are done on a same-day basis, the report said.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Public, private spending</B></div> <bR> <div> "Following a period of strict cost containment measures in the mid-1990s, health expenditures in Canada has risen steadily since then, reflecting improvements in the budgetary situation of governments and deliberate policies to relieve pressures which arose from earlier restraint measures," the report said.</div> <bR> <div> The report also looks at differences between public and private financing of health systems.</div> <bR> <div> Per capita health-care spending is on the rise in Canada, up to $3,165 US in 2004, above the OECD average of $2,550.</div> <bR> <div> Canadians spent less out of pocket, 15 per cent of total health spending, compared to the OECD average of nearly 20 per cent. Mexicans paid the highest proportion out of pocket, 51 per cent, while those in Luxembourg paid the lowest, seven per cent.</div> <bR> <div> Private insurance and out-of-pocket payments in Canada tend to be higher for services such as drugs, dental and vision services, as well as supplemental hospital care, that aren't covered by the Canada Health Act.</div> <bR> <div> Private insurance represented 13 per cent of health-care spending in Canada in 2004, more than twice the OECD average of six per cent.</div> <bR> <div> Private insurance financing was highest in the United States at 37 per cent. Japan, Iceland and the Czech Republic reported the lowest shares, at less than one per cent.</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="conservatives_set_to_unveil__15_billion_in_defence_spending"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 130 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Conservatives set to unveil $15 billion in defence spending</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon, 26 June 2006  08:11:54  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: June 26th, 2006</div> <div> <B>The Conservative government will unveil a plan Monday to purchase three new supply ships as part of a multi-billion dollar investment in the Canadian military.</B></div> <bR> <div> The price tag for the new 28,000 tonne ships is expected to be about $2.8 billion.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="a3459f780.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 348 WIDTH="707"><div> Much of the work on the ships will be done at the Davie Shipyard in Quebec and a consortium led by General Dynamics Canada is one of the contenders for the contract, the CBC's Rob Gordon reported from Halifax.</div> <bR> <div> The Irving Shipyard in Halifax could also benefit from the project.</div> <bR> <div> This will be the first in a series of military spending commitments expected to be unveiled in the coming week by the minority Conservative government.</div> <bR> <div> The government is also expected to outline plans to buy new helicopters, military trucks and planes.</div> <bR> <div> The total for the new spending could be as much as $15 billion.</div> <bR> <div> Ever since their election in January, the Harper government has emphasized a commitment to boost military spending.</div> <bR> <div> A month after the election, Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor outlined his vision for the Canadian Armed Forces.</div> <bR> <div> "It's about having a three-ocean navy, a robust army and a revitalized air force," O'Connor said at the time.</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="hells_angels_meet_in_windsor_with_few_incidents"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 147 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Hells Angels meet in Windsor, with few incidents</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat, 24 June 2006  22:23:23  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: June 25th, 2006</div> <div> <B>Hundreds of Hells Angels descended on Windsor, Ont., for a much-ballyhooed annual meeting on the weekend — but fears of biker mayhem evaporated as the gang members behaved like regular tourists.</B></div> <bR> <div> "We've had a few of the Hells into our restaurant," said Kevin Mckeown, who manages the </div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="a343a08b0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="139" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 344 WIDTH="707"><div> Chatham St. Grill. "And they've done absolutely nothing. They've been nothing but gentlemen. They come in. They are spending money and that's all we can ask."</div> <bR> <div> The bikers picked the border city for their meeting to celebrate that they've been in Ontario for five years.</div> <bR> <div> About 500 members of the gang were expected to gather from all over North America. But only half that number showed up and they kept a relatively low profile.</div> <bR> <div> Restaurateur Marcel Barbary posted a sign outside Tiffany's restaurant that said: "Welcome Angels. Come have a beer."</div> <bR> <div> "Their money is as good as anybody's money," he told CBC News as he stood outside his restaurant. "You don't mess with them, they don't mess with you. It's like everybody else."</div> <bR> <div> There were a few minor incidents, however.</div> <bR> <div> Four bikers inside a strip club got into a fight with some men from Michigan, accusing one of them of insulting a dancer. They were charged with assault and were released on condition they not associate with each other or other gang members.</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="gunfight_derails_plans_for_afghan_medical_clinic"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 105 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Gunfight derails plans for Afghan medical clinic</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat, 24 June 2006  09:08:07  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: June 24th, 2006</div> <div> <B>A mission of mercy turned into a mission of war for Canadian troops in Afghanistan early Saturday as they exchanged fire with suspected Taliban militants.</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="a3409f640.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="100" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 414 WIDTH="707"><div> The soldiers were in the heavily Taliban-influenced area of Panjwai, near Kandahar, to set up a two-day medical clinic when an overnight patrol came upon a suspected group of Taliban fighters, apparently planning to ambush the Canadians.</div> <bR> <div> The group opened fire on the Canadians, leading to a one-hour battle. The Canadian convoy returned fire, using 50-calibre machine-guns and eventually mortars.</div> <bR> <div> No Canadians were injured in the fight, though military officials believe four Taliban fighters were killed.</div> <bR> <div> Four to six others were able to flee, which led the Canadians to cancel the medical visit, citing the increased risk and tendency of insurgents to attack coalition soldiers in built-up civilian areas such as markets, or meeting places.</div> <bR> <div> The Canadians wanted to set up the clinic to help local residents and gain their trust.</div> <bR> <div> Such village medical outreach programs have seen huge turn-outs in the past, but the one planned for this weekend was abruptly cancelled early Saturday morning over fears that it could become a Taliban target.</div> <bR> <div> U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan have killed at least 65 Taliban militants in recent offensives in the country's southern regions, the U.S. military said on Saturday.</div> <bR> <div> Coalition and Afghan forces attacked a large group of militants and fought a three-hour battle in Zharie district in Kandahar province on Friday. Troops fought a five-hour battle on the same day with Taliban fighters in neighbouring Uruzgan province.</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="7_arrested_in_suspected_u_s__attacks_plot"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 284 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>7 arrested in suspected U.S. attacks plot</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri, 23 June 2006  06:21:18  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: June 23rd, 2006</div> <div> <B>FBI agents have arrested seven people they said were planning to attack Chicago's Sears Tower and other U.S. targets.</B></div> <bR> <div> Law enforcement officers swarmed a warehouse in Miami on Thursday, after a months-long undercover sting operation.</div> <bR> <div> "On Thursday, the FBI, in conjunction with federal, state and local authorities, executed arrests as part of an ongoing investigation into a terrorist-related matter. The individuals arrested posed no immediate threat to the U.S.," said FBI spokesperson Richard Kolko.</div> <bR> <div> Reports quoting multiple sources have indicated the men, five of them U.S. citizens, had no apparent ties to al-Qaeda.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="a33ca0d00.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="208" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The Sears Tower in Chicago was on the list of targets for a militant cell in the United States, officials claim. (Charles Bennett / Associated Press)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 323 WIDTH="707"><div> At 108 storeys, the Sears Tower is the tallest building in the United States. The tower remained open Thursday with no visible increase in security.</div> <bR> <div> Representatives of the Sears Tower released a statement late Thursday indicating there are ongoing discussions between building security and the FBI.</div> <bR> <div> "Law enforcement continues to tell us that they have never found evidence of a credible terrorism threat against Sears Tower that has gone beyond criminal discussions," the statement said.</div> <bR> <div> Miami's FBI field office and police headquarters were also said to be targets.</div> <bR> <div> Neighbours in the city's Liberty City district told the Associated Press the men slept in the warehouse and were often dressed in army fatigues.</div> <bR> <div> U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is scheduled to provide more information at a news conference Friday morning in Washington, with one planned in Miami as well.</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="harper_set_to_announce__15b_in_military_spending"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 280 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Harper set to announce $15B in military spending</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed, 21 June 2006  20:42:30  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: June 22nd, 2006</div> <div> <B>Ottawa will announce $15 billion in new spending on the Canadian military next week, CBC News has learned.</B></div> <bR> <div> A report by SRC, the CBC's French language service, says the spending spree will be "Christmas in June for the Canadian Forces."</div> <bR> <div> On Monday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is set to announce in Halifax that the Conservative government will fund the building of three new supply ships at an expected cost of about $2.1 billion.</div> <bR> <div> On Tuesday, the announcement will be to give the army new trucks. That promise, worth about $1.1 billion, will be made in Quebec.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="a3249f780.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="a325a07a0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="122" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The country's aging Hercules fleet will be replaced. (Canadian Press)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 232 WIDTH="707"><div> On Wednesday, in Edmonton, will come the official announcement about helicopters. The prime minister will issue an invitation to tender for 15 new helicopters at a cost of about $4.2 billion.</div> <bR> <div> Finally, on Thursday at CFB Trenton in Ontario, Harper will announce a competition worth $4.6 billion to replace Canada's aging fleet of Hercules aircraft, some of which date back to the 1960s.</div> <bR> <div> Harper will also promise to buy at least four C-17 transport planes, which are massive heavy-lift aircraft, at a cost of $3 billion.</div> <bR> <div> That adds up to over $15 billion and fulfills a campaign promise by the Conservatives to make the Canadian military a top priority.</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_soldiers_wounded_in_afghanistan"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 58 ><NOBR><div> <B>Canadian soldiers wounded in Afghanistan</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed, 21 June 2006  07:16:44  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: June 21st, 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= 344 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>Four Canadian soldiers were wounded, one seriously, after their light armoured vehicle was attacked with roadside bomb on Wednesday in Afghanistan.</B></div> <bR> <div> The soldiers were in a LAV III near a forward base 75 kilometres north of Kandahar when the roadside bomb exploded.</div> <bR> <div> Maj. Mario Couture, a spokesperson for the Canadian Forces, said the wounded soldiers were airlifted to hospital. One of the soldiers is in serious condition, while the condition of the other three is good.</div> <bR> <div> These are the first Canadian casualties since Operation Mountain Thrust was officially announced last week.</div> <bR> <div> A second LAV III in a different area was also damaged in a similar explosion, though no one was hurt.</div> <bR> <div> Canadian forces on the ground confirm that two detainees seen near the site of one of the attacks were apprehended, CBC reporter David Common said.</div> <bR> <div> Two Canadian soldiers were slightly injured when their armoured vehicle rolled over Wednesday, but it is not believed there was any enemy involvement in that incident.</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="how_the_cup_was_won__and_lost_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 271 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>How the Cup was won (and lost)</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue, 20 June 2006  02:36:51  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: June 20th, 2006</div> <div> <B>Improbable as it may have sounded before the season, the Carolina Hurricanes won the Stanley Cup Monday with a 3-1 Game 7 win over the Edmonton Oilers.</B></div> <bR> <div> So, how did this happen?</div> <bR> <div> Monday's win was merely the latest in a season full of unlikely victories for the Hurricanes, who won 52 games — 24 more than in the previous season, when they missed the playoffs.</div> <bR> <div> Carolina's almost overnight improvement was fuelled largely by a seamless transition to the offence-friendly landscape created by the NHL after the lockout. The lowest-scoring team in the league before the lost season, the Hurricanes morphed into the third-most potent offensive squad in 2005-06.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="a31aa0a00.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="160" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Oilers forward Ryan Smyth congratulates Niclas Wallin after the Carolina Hurricanes won Game 7 of the 2006 NHL Stanley Cup final. (Getty Images/Dave Sandford)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 442 WIDTH="707"><div> The club’s newfound scoring punch was spurred by the shrewd off-season acquisitions of general manager Jim Rutherford, who brought in slick veterans Cory Stillman (76 points this season), Ray Whitney (55 points) and Matt Cullen (career-high 25 goals and 49 points), none of whom attracted much interest from rival teams.</div> <bR> <div> "To go out and sign guys like Cullen and Stillman, they were really welcome additions to our team for offensive purposes," Carolina coach Peter Laviolette said during a conference call amid the Eastern playoffs.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Breakthrough years</B></div> <bR> <div> The Hurricanes also got a surprising 100-point season from second-year man Eric Staal, a breakthrough 76 points from 24-year-old Justin Williams and 31 goals from rejuvenated captain Rod Brind'Amour.</div> <bR> <div> “I [was] playing with much better players, I had a lot more opportunity with more power-play time and that's where you get the bulk of your points,” explained Brind’Amour.</div> <bR> <div> The unexpected production from Brind’Amour and Co. transformed a team that was lightly regarded before the season into the East’s second seed in the playoffs, where the Hurricanes continued to improve.</div> <bR> <div> Carolina's middling power play, which ranked 17th in the regular season, finished the playoffs behind only Ottawa. And rookie goalie Cam Ward, who stepped in for Martin Gerber early in the first round, posted a sparkling .926 save percentage and 2.14 goals-against average to earn the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP.</div> <bR> <div> “In his first playoffs, to handle it and respond the way he did and never crack under the pressure, says a lot about Cam,” Laviolette said after Game 7. “You need goaltending in order to win hockey games. We got it tonight. We have gotten it through the playoffs.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 517 WIDTH="707"><div> Led by steady veteran blue-liners like Glen Wesley and Bret Hedican, Carolina also shored up its defence.</div> <bR> <div> No playoff team allowed more regular-season goals than the Hurricanes, but in the playoffs they allowed fewer goals per game than the Oilers – a team with a reputation for stingy play.</div> <bR> <div> Carolina also stepped up its penalty killing, which was ranked 19th in the regular season, to the point that it succeeded 85.4 per cent of the time – trailing only the Oilers.</div> <bR> <div> And the Hurricanes also lived up to the old saw that says, In the playoffs your best players have to be your best players. Staal and Stillman led all post-season scorers with 28 and 26 points, respectively, and Brind'Amour finished second with 12 goals.</div> <bR> <div> <B>How did the Oilers slip up?</B></div> <bR> <div> The eighth-seeded Oilers did remarkably well just to make it to the Cup final and, if not for a few bad breaks, could have brought Lord Stanley back to Canada.</div> <bR> <div> Propelled by air-tight penalty killing, a surprisingly potent offence and the stellar play of Dwayne Roloson (a Minnesota Wild cast-off who played perhaps the best hockey of his career after coming to Edmonton in a deadline deal), the Oilers embarked on one of the more surprising runs in recent playoff memory.</div> <bR> <div> But the clock struck midnight almost as soon as Edmonton arrived in Carolina for Game 1 of the Cup final. In that game, the Oilers lost Roloson to a season-ending knee injury and blew a 3-0 lead en route to a 5-4 loss.</div> <bR> <div> Backup Jussi Markkanen performed admirably in relief, but it’s tempting to wonder what Edmonton could have done with its No. 1 goalie in the lineup.</div> <bR> <div> “Having a goalie back there that is playing as well as Dwayne is, it’s a big piece,” stalwart defenceman Chris Pronger said after Edmonton clinched a spot in the Cup final.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 426 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>Not-so-special teams</B></div> <bR> <div> The Oilers' penalty killing, the glass slipper on which they waltzed in to the final, also slid off against the Hurricanes. After holding San Jose and Anaheim to a combined five goals on 74 chances (6.7-per-cent success rate) in Rounds 2 and 3, Edmonton gave up 9 goals on 44 Carolina power plays in the final (20.5 per cent).</div> <bR> <div> It may be that the Oilers' undisciplined play finally caught up with them against the Hurricanes. Edmonton handed its opponents a playoff-high 158 power-play chances – something which San Jose and Anaheim couldn't exploit but which Carolina and its lethal power play could.</div> <bR> <div> “The number of penalties is going to favour the team that's got a special team advantage, and that's Carolina,” Oilers coach Craig MacTavish admitted after the Hurricanes went 3-for-9 with the man advantage in Game 5.</div> <bR> <div> Edmonton's power play, meanwhile, was terrible in the Cup final. Apart from a 3-for-9 outburst in Game 6, the Oilers went 2-for-36 against a Hurricanes penalty-killing unit that was playing at its best but still far from top-notch.</div> <bR> <div> And some of the Oilers' best players were, well, not at their best against Carolina. Roloson, of course, was unavailable due to his knee injury, and Shawn Horcoff, who racked up 17 points in the Western playoffs, tallied just two goals and no assists in the seven finals games.</div> <bR> <div> As both Edmonton and Carolina now know, it takes a great deal of skill and luck to embark on a run to the Stanley Cup. Perhaps in the end, the Hurricanes' lasted just long enough while the Oilers' ran out a moment too soon.</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="gun_legislation_could_be_unveiled_today"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 148 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Gun legislation could be unveiled today</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon, 19 June 2006  08:00:05  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: June 19th, 2006</div> <div> <B>Stephen Harper's Conservative government could introduce legislation as early as Monday to abolish the long-gun registry, a controversial program they gutted last month.</B></div> <bR> <div> Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day is expected to introduce a bill to amend the Criminal </div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="a316a08f0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="143" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 692 WIDTH="707"><div> Code and Firearms Act to get rid of the long-gun registry.</div> <bR> <div> The handgun registry will remain in place, as will bans on automatic and assault weapons.</div> <bR> <div> MPs, who break for the summer on June 22, likely won't get to vote on the bill until they return in the fall.</div> <bR> <div> Day is expected to say the two-month break will give MPs a chance to study the bill.</div> <bR> <div> Prime Minister Stephen Harper campaigned on a promise to scrap the long-gun registry, which was supposed to cost $2 million when the former Liberal government introduced it in 1995.</div> <bR> <div> Its cost wound up being roughly $1 billion.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Changes have already been discussed</B></div> <bR> <div> Last month, the Tories introduced a number of measures that effectively gutted the system, including a one-year amnesty for people who haven't registered their firearms.</div> <bR> <div> The government also told long-gun owners they wouldn't face prosecution if they didn't register their weapons.</div> <bR> <div> Ottawa also transferred responsibility from the Canada Firearms Centre to the RCMP and cut the annual operating budget for the program by $10 million.</div> <bR> <div> The minority government may have a tough sell on the proposed legislation, however, as all three opposition parties have said they support the long-gun registry.</div> <bR> <div> Public Safety Minister Day and Justice Minister Vic Toews have said they believe they can cobble together enough votes to pass the bill.</div> <bR> <div> Opposition to the long-gun registry is highest among rural Canadians and hunting enthusiasts, who say the registry penalizes legal gun owners and does nothing to reduce crime.</div> <bR> <div> Support is high in urban centres and in Quebec, where the conservatives are trying to build support.</div> <bR> <div> The registry also has support from police. The Canada Firearms Centre says officers from across the country consult the firearms databank about 6,500 times a day.</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="resilient_oilers_force_game_7"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 271 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Resilient Oilers force Game 7</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat, 17 June 2006  23:56:01  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: June 18th, 2006</div> <div> The ever-resilient Edmonton Oilers flexed their collective muscle Saturday night at Rexall Place and will now have the opportunity to win the franchise's sixth Stanley Cup.</div> <bR> <div> The Oilers used three power-play goals to defeat the Carolina Hurricanes 4-0 in Game 6 as both teams head back to Raleigh, N.C., for the seventh and deciding game on Monday night (CBC, 8 p.m. EDT).</div> <bR> <div> The Hurricanes led this best-of-seven matchup 3-1, but the Oilers stepped up their special-teams play over the last two games to even the series.</div> <bR> <div> "We all talk about belief. We all talk about urgency," said Edmonton forward Ryan Smyth. "We've given ourselves the opportunity to play in a Game 7.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="a315a0a00.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="160" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <I>Carolina centre Eric Staal, right, battles for the puck with Edmonton defenceman Steve Staios during Game 6 of Stanley Cup final Saturday night at Rexall Place. (Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 656 WIDTH="707"><div> "We'll do our best to put our names on the Cup."</div> <bR> <div> Edmonton completely dominated Game 6 with physical play that the Hurricanes simply couldn't match.</div> <bR> <div> Forward Fernando Pisani led the Oilers with a goal and an assist, while defenceman Jaroslav Spacek added two assists.</div> <div> Pisani now leads the post-season with 13 goals.</div> <bR> <div> The Oilers scored the eventual game-winning goal at 1:45 of the second period on the power play.</div> <bR> <div> Pisani slid a backhand off the left skate of Hurricanes defenceman Glen Wesley and by goaltender Cam Ward to give Edmonton a 1-0 lead.</div> <bR> <div> "You know it seems like you are in the right spot at the right time and they're going in," Pisani said.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Pressure leads to second goal</B></div> <bR> <div> Edmonton went up by two goals at 9:54 of the second after pressuring the Hurricanes in their own end. Oilers defenceman Steve Staios took a pass from Pisani and blasted a low shot from the blue-line that was deflected in by Raffi Torres.</div> <bR> <div> It was evident in the second period that the Hurricanes weren't ready for an Edmonton team that was intent on sending the series back to Carolina.</div> <bR> <div> The Hurricanes didn't register a shot in the second until the latter stages of the period, forcing coach Peter Laviolette to call a timeout.</div> <bR> <div> "What are our options, really?" Laviolette asked of his team's Game 7 prospects. "It's in our building and we won a lot of games there this year.</div> <bR> <div> "There is a lot of room for improvement to get back to our style of hockey."</div> <bR> <div> While he was rarely tested throughout the game, Oilers goaltender Jussi Markkanen stopped all 16 Carolina shots to earn the first playoff shutout of his career.</div> <bR> <div> Edmonton took a 3-0 lead on its second power-play goal of the game at 3:04 of the third period.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Nice feed from Peca</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 994 WIDTH="707"><div> Smyth took a nice feed from centre Michael Peca, weaved to the front of the Carolina net and lifted a backhand over Ward's left shoulder.</div> <bR> <div> Edmonton put the game away at 13:05 of the third on its third power-play goal.</div> <bR> <div> Forward Radek Dvorak slid a backhand pass to centre Shawn Horcoff, who one-timed a high shot past Ward for a 4-0 Edmonton lead.</div> <bR> <div> "We always think we can play better," Torres said. "I think we've got them right where we want them but at the same time we can't get over-excited because they're that dangerous."</div> <bR> <div> <B>Power play comes to life</B></div> <bR> <div> At the urging of coach Craig MacTavish, the Oilers capitalized with their power play, which had been basically dormant throughout the first five games of the final.</div> <bR> <div> Prior to Game 6, Edmonton was a dismal 2-for-32 with the man advantage, but scored three goals on nine chances Saturday night.</div> <bR> <div> "They outskated us pretty good tonight," Laviolette said. "They battled better than we did and ultimately when we're skating we're tough to handle and we didn't skate well tonight.</div> <bR> <div> "We just seemed to be off a step or maybe two."</div> <bR> <div> Laviolette pulled the surprise of the final as he dressed injured power forward Erik Cole for Saturday night's game.</div> <bR> <div> Many thought that Cole, who received clearance to play from his doctor in Denver on Friday and took part in the pre-game skate, was suiting up merely as motivation for his teammates, but he started the game on a line with centre Eric Staal and Mark Recchi.</div> <bR> <div> Though Edmonton winger Ethan Moreau promptly nailed Cole along the boards on Carolina's first power play, the 27-year-old winger was able to shake it off.</div> <bR> <div> "I felt strong over the last several weeks," said Cole. "We talked it over with all the doctors and got all the opinions we needed, that we could do this."</div> <bR> <div> <B>Compression fracture</B></div> <bR> <div> Cole hadn't played since sustaining a compression fracture in a neck vertebra when driven head-first into the boards by Pittsburgh's Brooks Orpik during a 7-5 victory March 4.</div> <bR> <div> Orpik was suspended three games for the hit, but the injury sidelined Cole for the remainder of the regular season and the entire post-season up to Saturday night.</div> <bR> <div> Cole scored 30 goals in 60 games before his injury.</div> <bR> <div> The Hurricanes on Saturday were without 35-year-old centre Doug Weight, who suffered an upper-body injury in Game 5.</div> <bR> <div> Weight was hurt when he was sandwiched between body checks from Edmonton's Chris Pronger and Torres. Weight immediately left the ice holding his right arm.</div> <bR> <div> Prior to Game 6, Laviolette declined to elaborate on the injury or indicate whether Weight, whose right arm is in a sling, would be available for Game 7.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff w<I>ith files from the Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="attacks_continue_in_baghdad_despite_security_clampdown"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 58 ><NOBR><div> <B>Attacks continue in Baghdad despite security clampdown</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat, 17 June 2006  10:04:06  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: June 17th, 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>Bomb and mortar attacks killed more than 20 people in and near Baghdad on Saturday, dealing a blow to a highly publicized security crackdown that began in the Iraqi capital earlier in the week.</B></div> <bR> <div> Four explosions within two hours struck commercial areas in Baghdad, killing at least seven people and wounding dozens of others.</div> <bR> <div> The attacks began at one of Baghdad's oldest markets. Nearly half an hour later, a bomb in a plastic bag struck a second market.</div> <bR> <div> Two more bombs targeted police and soldiers near a popular downtown shopping area and a square in the same neighbourhood.</div> <bR> <div> Eleven people, including several Iraqi soldiers, were killed and 15 others wounded when a bomber blew himself up at a joint Iraqi army and police checkpoint in Baghdad's Karrada neighbourhood, an Interior Ministry official said.</div> <bR> <div> Outside the capital, five people died in a car-bomb attack targeting an army checkpoint in Mahmudiya, a town 30 kilometres south of Baghdad, police said.</div> <bR> <div> <B>1 American soldier killed, 2 missing</B></div> <bR> <div> An American soldier was killed and two others were missing after an attack on a checkpoint southwest of Baghdad on Friday, the U.S. military said.</div> <bR> <div> The attack took place around 8 p.m. near Yusufiyah, about 19 kilometres southwest of Baghdad.</div> <bR> <div> The soldiers were officially listed as "whereabouts unknown," which means they could have been captured or killed, or could be hiding out.</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="man_who_knew_some_plot_suspects_says_islamic__anger__prevalent"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 93 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>Man who knew some plot suspects says Islamic 'anger' prevalent</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri, 16 June 2006  07:21:00  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: June 16th, 2006</div> <div> <B>A Toronto-area man who knew some of the 17 people charged in connection with an alleged bomb plot in Ontario says one had some fairly extreme views.</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 405 WIDTH="540"><div> Mohammed Robert Heft claims Faheem Ahmad thought the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington were a good thing for Islam.</div> <bR> <div> Three of the 17 suspects facing terrorism-related charges will be in a Brampton, Ont., courthouse on Friday. They cannot be named because they are under the age of 18.</div> <bR> <div> Evidence presented today in court cannot be made public because of a publication ban.</div> <bR> <div> Heft converted to Islam in his twenties. He says he fell briefly into a radical religious mindset but then regained his perspective. That's when he started helping troubled Muslims at a Scarborough, Ont., shelter.</div> <bR> <div> He says he knows five of the suspects facing terrorism-related charges, some of whom came to the shelter. He never heard any of them advocate violence against Canadians, but he says he had a long and disturbing debate with Ahmad, 21, two months ago outside of a Scarborough mosque.</div> <bR> <div> "He believed the 19 people involved in the World Trade Center bombings were martyrs and he was handing out DVDs openly of wills and testimonies of those 19 people suggesting what they did was right," said Heft.</div> <bR> <div> But Heft has a different impression of another of the suspects, 25-year-old Stephen Chand, whom he describes as quiet and not at all political.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="a30da09c0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="156" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Mohammed Robert Heft is hoping to open a new Islamic centre and residence for Muslim men and women. (CBC)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="a2ef9f780.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Alleged bomb-plot suspects in a Brampton, Ont., courtroom during a recent appearance. (John Mantha/CBC)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 484 WIDTH="707"><div> "I felt no threat from Steven Chand. This alleged [threat of] beheading of the prime minister sounds like a Hollywood movie to me."</div> <bR> <div> Heft says a lot of young Muslims are angry and extremism is prevalent in the Toronto area. They get upset when they hear of alleged atrocities overseas in places like Iraq.</div> <bR> <div> "People get emotional. Imagine if somebody came into your house and raped your family, or by mistake just blew up your family, you'd get a little angry.</div> <bR> <div> "I mean we get angry ... when the water isn't hot in Canada or we lose our electricity for a day. So imagine what these people overseas are going through."</div> <bR> <div> Heft knows personally about the road to religious extremism. He says when he was in the thick of it, he would have killed his own parents had they come between him and his newly chosen religion.</div> <bR> <div> He blames the spread of extremism on the internet and what he calls "do-it-yourself Islam," where uneducated scholars are bending the peaceful word of the Koran to suit their violent ideology.</div> <bR> <div> "For the last two years I've been involved in this mentality. I was dealing with it on a grassroots level. All it takes is a little education and sorting out who to take religion from."</div> <bR> <div> Heft is hoping to open a new Islamic centre and residence for Muslim men and women. The idea is to help troubled young people and get those who have become radical back on track.</div> <bR> <div> He says the problem of extremism is something the Muslim community has to face up to and solve itself.</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="tories_to_introduce_street_racing_bill"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 200 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Tories to introduce street racing bill</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu, 15 June 2006  06:58:54  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: June 15th, 2006</div> <div> <B>The Conservative government is expected to introduce a bill in the House of Commons on Thursday that would make street racing a specific criminal offence.</B></div> <bR> <div> Under the proposed legislation, convictions for street racing would bring driving bans and stiffer sentences than existing crimes involving vehicles.</div> <bR> <div> Several deaths and injuries in recent years have been blamed on street racing in cities across the country, including four men killed in Vancouver last January.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="a3099f780.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Hot rodders with souped-up muscle cars start a street race in this still from The Need for Speed, a documentary filmed in Toronto. (Canadian Press)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 344 WIDTH="707"><div> The same month in Toronto, Tahir Khan, a 46-year-old immigrant from Pakistan, was killed in Toronto when a Mercedes-Benz slammed into his taxicab.</div> <bR> <div> Two teenagers were charged with criminal negligence causing death.</div> <bR> <div> Prime Minister Stephen Harper first announced the proposed changes last month in Vancouver.</div> <bR> <div> Critics of the proposed legislation have argued that existing sections of the Criminal Code can be used to impose harsh sentences for street racing.</div> <bR> <div> Meanwhile, Ontario Attorney General Michael Bryant will show his distaste for street racing on Thursday when he'll watch as police in Markham, Ont., destroy two street racing cars forfeited under the Civil Remedies Act.</div> <bR> <div> The drivers of the modified cars were stopped in 2004 and 2005 for speeding and dangerous driving and their cars were seized.</div> <bR> <div> Police say 34 people have died as a result of street racing in the Greater Toronto Area since 1999.</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="sampson_s_torture_suit_bid_denied"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 384 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Sampson's torture suit bid denied</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed, 14 June 2006  09:26:38  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: June 14th, 2006</div> <div> <B>Canadian William Sampson cannot sue the people he says tortured him while he was in a Saudi jail, Britain's highest court ruled on Wednesday.</B></div> <bR> <div> The ruling by the Law Lords also applied to Ron Jones, Sandy Mitchell and Les Walker, all from Britain.</div> <bR> <div> The Saudi government argued that Britain's Court of Appeal was wrong when it agreed with the men that their alleged torturers should not be protected under England's State Immunity Act.</div> <bR> <div> In 2004, the Court of Appeal ruled that the men could sue those individuals, but not the Saudi government.</div> <bR> <div> Sampson told reporters afterward he was not surprised at the decision, but lashed out at the Belgian, British and Canadian governments.</div> <bR> <div> "They have behaved with complete and utter moral and ethical hypocrisy from the start," Sampson said. "They have allowed their citizens to be tortured, they have prevented their citizens from seeking redress or any form of justice and they continue to do so.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="a303a0340.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="308" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> William Sampson, right, and Les Walker plan to take their lawsuit against their Saudi captors to the European Court of Justice. (Max Nash/Associated Press)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 414 WIDTH="707"><div> "They're more concerned with holding cocktail parties with torturers than they are in seeing that justice is done for their own citizens."</div> <bR> <div> Sampson told CBC News the men would take their claim to the European Court of Justice in Strasbourg, France.</div> <bR> <div> He called that final avenue of appeal a "good hope," pointing to the case of Sulaiman Al-Adsani, a man with British and Kuwaiti citizenship who alleged that he had been tortured while detained in Kuwait in 1991.</div> <bR> <div> The European Court ruled in favour of the Kuwaiti government in 2001, but by a narrow 9-8 majority.</div> <bR> <div> "We believe the judicial planet has changed in Europe because since that time a number of European countries have pushed back the boundaries of state immunity and enacted laws which actually allow their citizens to pursue redress," he said.</div> <bR> <div> Sampson, who had been working in Saudi Arabia as a consultant, was one of three men who appeared on Saudi television in 2001 confessing to a series of car bombings in Riyadh several months earlier that killed two people and injured several others.</div> <bR> <div> He says he was tortured into making the confession.</div> <bR> <div> After serving more than two years in prison, Sampson was among seven foreigners held prisoner in Saudi Arabia who were granted amnesty and freed in 2003.</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="supreme_court_to_hear_security_certificate_challenge"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 130 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Supreme Court to hear security certificate challenge</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue, 13 June 2006  06:59:58  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: June 13th, 2006</div> <div> <B>The Supreme Court of Canada begins hearing arguments on Tuesday in an appeal of the controversial security certificate process.</B></div> <bR> <div> Mohamed Harkat, Adil Charkaoui and Hassan Almrei have all been held for months in jail </div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="a3029f780.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 743 WIDTH="707"><div> because Canadian Security Intelligence Service alleges they have ties to al-Qaeda.</div> <bR> <div> Almrei is the only one who remains in custody, but they all argue their constitutional rights were violated by their detentions.</div> <div> The hearings before the Supreme Court are expected to last three days.</div> <bR> <div> Security certificates allow authorities to detain suspected terrorists indefinitely without charge, and without making public any evidence against them.</div> <bR> <div> Critics say the certificates deny people detained their Charter rights to due process.</div> <bR> <div> Federal lawyers are expected to argue the secrecy is necessary to protect intelligence sources and the cost of putting even a single person under constant surveillance is exorbitant.</div> <bR> <div> The government wants the court to give it a year to create a new anti-terrorism law, but Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said Monday the current security certificate law offers detainees a way out of prison.</div> <bR> <div> "Because they're deemed to be a threat they are kept and detained until the appeals process is over," he said. "If the appeals shows that they're not a threat then we live with that and they go free."</div> <bR> <div> Day also said Monday outside the House of Commons that those detained are free to voluntarily return to their countries of origin.</div> <bR> <div> Critics say returning to a country such as Syria — where Almrei was born — could mean arrest and torture.</div> <bR> <div> Harkat was ordered released last month. The government's bid to to get an injunction blocking the release was denied last week by the courts.</div> <bR> <div> Charkaoui was released with strict bail conditions after over two years of detention. He was arrested after an informant claimed he had participated in a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan.</div> <bR> <div> Almrei, a Syrian-born refugee, was detained in 2001 and ordered deported a year later. He remains in custody, mostly in solitary confinement.</div> <bR> <div> Two other men — Mohammad Mahjoub and Mahmoud Jaballah — are also the subjects of security certificates.</div> <bR> <div> Mahjoub has been in jail since 2000. He acknowledged working on a farm owned by Osama bin Laden but denies any links to terrorist organizations.</div> <bR> <div> Jaballah faces allegations he was involved in the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.</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="bomb_plot_suspects_to_return_to_court"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 184 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Bomb plot suspects to return to court</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon, 12 June 2006  07:57:27  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: June 12th, 2006</div> <div> <B>Most of the men accused of terrorism-related offences will appear in a Toronto-area court on Monday to have dates set for their bail hearings.</B></div> <bR> <div> Lawyers for the 14 men scheduled for appearances at the Brampton courthouse are also expected to raise the issue of access to their clients.</div> <bR> <div> "They are accompanied by armed guards in full tactical outfits and gear," said lawyer Gary </div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="a2ef9f780.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Alleged bomb plot suspects in a Brampton court June 6, 2006. Several of the men return to court on Monday. (CBC sketch)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 811 WIDTH="707"><div> Batasar. "It's unprecedented in Canadian history to have this level of security, in my opinion, regarding an incident such as this."</div> <bR> <div> Prosecutors allege in court documents that the plotters had hoped to take federal politicians in Ottawa hostage while demanding Canadian forces be withdrawn from Afghanistan and some prisoners in Canadian jails be released.</div> <bR> <div> Batasar, who represents Steven Chand, also known as Abdul Shakur, told reporters last week that his client has been accused of wanting to behead Prime Minister Stephen Harper.</div> <bR> <div> Police say the group were inspired by al-Qaeda to make bombs to attack targets in Ontario. On June 2, security services swept up 17 suspects — 12 adults and five youths — in the alleged plot.</div> <bR> <div> Two of the suspects, Yasim Abdi Mohamed and Mohammed Dirie, were already in custody serving sentences in Kingston for attempting to smuggle guns and ammunition from the United States in August 2005.</div> <bR> <div> A hearing for remaining suspect is set for July 4.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Lawyers, family complain of treatment</B></div> <bR> <div> Lawyers for the accused have complained that the suspects have been denied their religious rights, as well as adequate visitation from family members while in custody.</div> <bR> <div> The father of suspect Shareef Abdelhaleen is among the relatives who have also lobbied for access.</div> <bR> <div> "Why? Why can't I see my son?" Tarif Abdelhaleen said. "What is the problem with seeing my son? I am not allowed. I just want to see him and say 'OK, you're going to be OK.'"</div> <bR> <div> Arif Raza, lawyer for 19-year-old suspect Saad Khalid, said he was finally allowed to visit his client without having to communicate through Plexiglas over the weekend.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Charges against suspects</B></div> <bR> <div> All the adult suspects face terrorism-related charges:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The 12 men have been charged with knowingly participating, directly or indirectly, in the activity of a terrorist group.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Ten of the men are charged with engaging in terrorism-related training. Residents in Ramara township, about 150 kilometres north of Toronto, reported hearing gunshots from an area where men were seen dressed in camouflage gear.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Six of the men were also charged with planning to cause a deadly explosion.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Three of the suspects have been charged with importing firearms and prohibited ammunition, and supplying prohibited weapons.</div> <bR> <div> One of the alleged bombers, Amin Mohamed Durani, 19, enrolled in an aviation course at Toronto's Centennial College, but withdrew before completing the training.</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="nearly_600_prisoners_freed_in_iraq"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 184 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Nearly 600 prisoners freed in Iraq</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun, 11 June 2006  14:01:06  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: June 11th, 2006</div> <div> <B>Iraqi's prime minister released nearly 600 detainees from prisons run by the Iraqi and U.S. militaries on Sunday, in a bid to ease tensions between Sunni and Shia Muslims.</B></div> <bR> <div> The detainees were the first of more than 2,000 prisoners that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had pledged to free over a 30-day period to try to heal the sectarian rift.</div> <bR> <div> He said the order would exclude prisoners who remain loyal to ousted president Saddam</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="a2fb9f780.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A man is hugged after he and 230 others were released from four American-run prisons in Iraq. (Karim Kadim/Associated Press)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 472 WIDTH="707"><div> Hussein and "terrorists whose hands are stained with the blood of the Iraqi people."</div> <bR> <div> An American military spokesman, Lt.-Col. Kier-Kevin Curry, said it would be the largest release of prisoners over such a short period of time since U.S.-led troops invaded Iraq in March 2003.</div> <bR> <div> Vice-President Adel Abdul Mehdi met some of the former inmates before they boarded a bus to Baghdad.</div> <bR> <div> Once they arrived, they kissed the ground and cheered as they were reunited with family members.</div> <bR> <div> Others were taken to Anbar province west of Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul, the U.S. military said. More than 200 of the detainees set free came from the four U.S.-run prisons of Cropper, Suse, Bucca and Abu Ghraib.</div> <bR> <div> Most of the prisoners were from minority Sunni communities and were taken captive during the early days of the invasion.</div> <bR> <div> Sectarian violence between the Shia and Sunnis has flared almost daily since February, when a Shia mosque was bombed in Samarra, north of Baghdad.</div> <bR> <div> Al-Maliki, a Shia, was sworn in as head of a national unity government on May 20 amid promises to make security and reconciliation a priority.</div> <bR> <div> But he also has vowed to crack down on the violence, which is often blamed on the Sunni-led insurgency.</div> <bR> <div> The Sunni minority dominated the government for years under Hussein, who was Sunni, but the Shia majority has dominated the government since an election in December 2005.</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="news_crew_hurt_covering_caledonia_standoff"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 58 ><NOBR><div> <B>News crew hurt covering Caledonia standoff</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat, 10 June 2006  09:07:44  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: June 10th, 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= 592 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>Ontario Provincial Police are investigating a new outbreak of violence at the native protest site in Caledonia and claims that its officers did not intervene to stop an attack on two news camera operators.</B></div> <bR> <div> Debbie Walker, a managing producer at CH Television in nearby Hamilton, said one of the employees was taken to hospital Friday with cuts and bruises to his head, but couldn't say who was responsible. A second camera operator also suffered minor injuries after he was kicked and punched.</div> <bR> <div> Ken MacKay and Nick Garbutt said they were attacked by Six Nations protesters while filming a confrontation between natives and an elderly couple in front of a Canadian Tire store.</div> <bR> <div> MacKay alleged that he asked for protection from OPP officers standing nearby but they did nothing to help.</div> <bR> <div> Garbutt needed stitches to close a head wound. MacKay accompanied his colleague to hospital, but did not require treatment.</div> <bR> <div> OPP Const. Keith Robb said police were investigating the allegations.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Insults thrown around</B></div> <bR> <div> The conflict continued late into the night as natives and non-natives hurled insults at each other over a schoolyard fence. Townspeople also directed their anger at police, accusing them of being one-sided after two non-native residents were arrested.</div> <bR> <div> The three-month standoff began Feb. 28 when a small group of Six Nations protesters from the Grand River Territory reserve moved on to a construction site in the town, southwest of Hamilton, claiming the land belongs to them.</div> <bR> <div> Since then, there has been an abortive OPP raid to clear the site in April, a subsequent blockade of a major artery into town; strained relations between native and non-native protesters that led to a standoff down the road, and finally a period of calm after the protesters took down their blockade and moved back on to the construction site.</div> <bR> <div> Native protesters still occupy that land.</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="traffic_ban_ordered_in_baghdad_following_death_of_al_zarqawi"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 144 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Traffic ban ordered in Baghdad following death of al-Zarqawi</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri, 09 June 2006  06:17:22  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: June 9th, 2006</div> <div> <B>A four-hour midday ban on all vehicle traffic has been ordered in Baghdad and Baqouba to prevent reprisal attacks by suicide bombers following the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.</B></div> <bR> <div> The ban, ordered by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, will be in effect from 11 a.m. until </div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="a2f6a0840.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="132" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 463 WIDTH="707"><div> 3 p.m. Friday when most Iraqis go to mosques for Friday prayers.</div> <bR> <div> Suicide car bombers have been known to target Shia mosques during Friday prayers. Mortars hidden in vehicles have also been used to attack religious services.</div> <bR> <div> "The curfew is a measure to keep people indoors as there could be more bombings like the ones last night, following Zarqawi's death," a Defence Ministry official said.</div> <bR> <div> Al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, was killed along with nine other people Wednesday evening during an air raid on a safehouse 50 kilometres northeast of Baghdad in the province of Diyala. U.S. F-16 jets dropped two 225-kilogram bombs on the house.</div> <bR> <div> While hailing the killing of al-Zarqawi, senior U.S. officials have warned that it won't end the cycle of violence in Iraq. Hours after the announcement of the militant leader's death, at least 31 people were killed and dozens injured in a series of bomb blasts in Baghdad.</div> <bR> <div> On Friday, gunmen kidnapped a senior Iraqi oil official in Baghdad as he was returning home from work, an Oil Ministry spokesman said.</div> <bR> <div> However, U.S. President George W. Bush said al-Zarqawi's death has given the new Iraqi government an opportunity to "turn the tide of this struggle."</div> <bR> <div> Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani echoed Bush's sentiments, telling Iraqiya state television:"Killing Zarqawi is a new beginning for Iraqi security and establishing peace between the different components of society."</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="militant_al_zarqawi_killed_in_air_attack"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 148 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Militant al-Zarqawi killed in air attack</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu, 08 June 2006  08:21:22  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: June 8th, 2006</div> <div> <B>Jordanian-born militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the most wanted insurgent in Iraq, has been killed in a U.S. air raid north of Baghdad, Iraq's prime minister said Thursday.</B></div> <bR> <div> The leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, said to be responsible for numerous car and suicide bombings </div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="a2f5a08f0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="143" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 70 WIDTH="707"><div> and beheadings of foreign and Iraqi hostages, was killed with seven aides Wednesday evening in a safehouse 50 kilometres northeast of Baghdad in the province of Diyala, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said.</div> <bR> <div> Al-Maliki said the air strike was the result of intelligence reports provided to Iraqi security forces by residents in the area.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 195 WIDTH="540"><div> "Today, al-Zarqawi was eliminated," al-Maliki told a news conference, joined by U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad and Gen. George Casey, the top U.S. commander in Iraq.</div> <bR> <div> Casey said his body was identified by fingerprints and facial recognition, including scars. He said the hunt for al-Zarqawi began in the area two weeks ago.</div> <bR> <div> Khalilzad added "the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is a huge success for Iraq and the international war on terror."</div> <bR> <div> An Islamist web site posted that Al-Qaeda in Iraq confirmed al-Zarqawi's death.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="a2f6a0840.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="132" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A $25-million US reward had been offered for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. (Associated Press via IntelCenter)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 430 WIDTH="707"><div> "We herald the martyrdom of our mujahed [warrior] Sheikh Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq … and we stress that this is an honour to our nation," said the statement, signed by al-Zarqawi's deputy, Abu Abdulrahman al-Iraqi.</div> <bR> <div> British Prime Minister Tony Blair said al-Zarqawi's death was a "strike against al-Qaeda in Iraq and a strike against al-Qaeda everywhere."</div> <bR> <div> But the killings in Iraq will continue and many challenges remain, Blair warned.</div> <bR> <div> Al-Zarqawi, who launched his campaign in mid-2003, was Iraq's most wanted militant. The United States put a $25 million US bounty on his head, the same as Osama bin Laden.</div> <bR> <div> U.S. forces and their allies have said they have come close to capturing al-Zarqawi in the past. He was apparently caught in late 2004 by Iraqi security forces near Fallujah but released when they did not realize who he was.</div> <bR> <div> In a Feb. 20, 2005 raid, U.S. forces say they nearly captured al-Zarqawi when they identified his vehicle west of Baghdad near the Euphrates River. He escaped but his driver and another associate were captured. Al-Zarqawi's computer was seized.</div> <bR> <div> In May 2005, al-Zarqawi was reportedly wounded in fighting with Americans.</div> <bR> <div> Along with a number of bombings and killings in Iraq, al-Zarqawi claimed to be behind the Nov. 9, 2005 triple suicide bombing against hotels in Amman that killed 60 people.</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="suspect_in_bomb_plot_was_canadian_soldier"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 128 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Suspect in bomb plot was Canadian soldier</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed, 07 June 2006  06:25:16  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: June 7th, 2006</div> <div> <B>More details were emerging Wednesday about an alleged bomb plot in Ontario and about one of the suspects and his alleged plan to behead Prime Minister Stephen Harper.</B></div> <bR> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="a2ef9f780.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 509 WIDTH="707"><div> As well, there were also new suggestions about how the suspects may have had international connections.</div> <bR> <div> The lawyer for Steven Chand, also known as Abdul Shakur, said Tuesday that his client is accused of wanting to storm Parliament, behead the prime minister and attack a number of sites, including the CBC building in Toronto.</div> <bR> <div> A newspaper report on Tuesday said Chand had been a member of the Royal Regiment of Canada, a reservist unit, and that he had been given weapons training.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Military confirms connection</B></div> <bR> <div> The Toronto Star said the military confirmed, but downplayed, Chand's military connection.</div> <bR> <div> "He spent a large portion of his time in the Canadian Forces on leave of absence," Cmdr. Denise Laviolette told the newspaper.</div> <bR> <div> "It looks like he did not complete his military trade training," she added.</div> <bR> <div> Chand joined the reserves in June 2000 and served until April 2004.</div> <bR> <div> His lawyer said Tuesday the charges against him came in an eight-page synopsis.</div> <bR> <div> "My client's alleged to have been part of a plot to blow up Parliament buildings in Canada, storm the CBC, take over the CBC, as well as, among other things, behead the prime minister," lawyer Gary Batasar said.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Allegedly inspired by al-Qaeda</B></div> <bR> <div> Police allege the accused — 12 adults and five youths — were inspired by al-Qaeda and planned to make bombs to attack targets in Ontario. None of the allegations has been proven in court.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 468 WIDTH="707"><div> Elsewhere, the Times of London reported Wednesday that the 17 arrests in the Toronto area were actually linked to a much bigger international investigation.</div> <bR> <div> "The arrest of 17 suspects, many of them teenagers, picked up in the suburbs of Toronto at the weekend is said to be the latest stage in dismantling a terrorist nexus," the Times reported in its online edition.</div> <bR> <div> The report said the arrests came after a nine-month investigation.</div> <bR> <div> "Intelligence agents in eight countries have patiently worked through a forest of e-mails and intercepted telephone calls."</div> <bR> <div> <B>Snipers inside and outside</B></div> <bR> <div> As 15 of 17 suspects arrived in a Brampton court for a bail hearing on Monday, snipers could be seen on rooftops and heavily armed police officers were posted inside and outside the courtrooms.</div> <bR> <div> Scores of media from both Canada and the United States lined up at the courthouse Tuesday to secure a spot inside. Family members of the suspects were met by throngs of reporters as they entered.</div> <bR> <div> Defence lawyers asked that the bail hearings be postponed, saying they did not have enough time to prepare and had not seen the evidence against their clients.</div> <bR> <div> The judge granted their requests, rescheduling most of the bail hearings to June 12, and the suspects were remanded into custody.</div> <bR> <div> The lawyers also complained about a number of restrictions placed on their clients. They are in solitary confinement, under 24-hour surveillance and have been denied access to family members.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 412 WIDTH="707"><div> Donald McLeod said he and his colleagues have only been able to speak to their clients through Plexiglas and want private visits with them.</div> <bR> <div> The defence lawyers also alleged that clients' rights were being violated because a guard in full riot gear was always present when a lawyer held a privileged conversation with a client.</div> <bR> <div> They demanded the situation be changed or said they would go to court on June 12 to get a court order to be allowed to communicate with their clients in private.</div> <bR> <div> All the adult suspects face terrorism-related charges:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The 12 men have been charged with knowingly participating, directly or indirectly, in the activity of a terrorist group.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Those charges relate to activities in Mississauga, Ont., Toronto and the Township of Ramara, which is located about 150 kilometres north of Toronto.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">On Monday, six of the men were also charged with planning to cause a deadly explosion.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Three of the suspects have been charged with importing firearms and prohibited ammunition, and supplying prohibited weapons.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Ten of the men are charged with engaging in terrorism-related training. Residents in Ramara, a rural area north of Toronto, reported hearing gunshots from an area where men were seen dressed in camouflage gear.</div> <bR> <div> As many as 400 police officers and security officials were involved in the series of raids in southern Ontario that led to the arrests on June 2 and June 3, in the largest operation carried out under the Anti-terrorism Act.</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="heavy_security_in_place_as_accused_in_bomb_plot_seek_bail"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 127 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Heavy security in place as accused in bomb plot seek bail</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue, 06 June 2006  07:44:16  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: June 6th, 2006</div> <div> <B>Security will be extremely tight in Brampton, Ont., on Tuesday as most of the suspects in an alleged bomb plot in Ontario appear for a bail hearing.</B></div> <bR> <div> Fifteen of the 17 people charged are expected to make their second appearance in court.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="a2e49f780.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 509 WIDTH="707"><div> They first appeared on Saturday after being arrested in a series of raids on June 2 and 3.</div> <bR> <div> Two of the men are already under arrest and serving prison terms in Kingston, Ont. for attempting to smuggle guns and ammunition from the U.S.</div> <bR> <div> The arrests came as part of the largest operation carried out under Canada's Anti-terrorism Act.</div> <bR> <div> Police allege the suspects were inspired by al-Qaeda and planned to make bombs to attack targets in Ontario. None of the allegations has been proven in court.</div> <bR> <div> The 12 men have been charged with knowingly participating, directly or indirectly, in the activity of a terrorist group.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Activities around Toronto area</B></div> <bR> <div> Those charges relate to activities in Mississauga, Ont., Toronto and the Township of Ramara, which is located about 150 kilometres north of Toronto.</div> <bR> <div> On Monday, six of the men were also charged with planning to cause a deadly explosion.</div> <bR> <div> Three of the suspects have been charged with importing firearms and prohibited ammunition, and supplying prohibited weapons.</div> <bR> <div> Ten of the men are charged with engaging in terrorism-related training. Residents in Ramara reported hearing gunshots from an area where men were seen dressed in camouflage gear.</div> <bR> <div> As many as 400 police officers and security officials were involved in the arrests.</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="quebec_crews_use_dam_to_contain_huge_fuel_spill"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 140 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Quebec crews use dam to contain huge fuel spill</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon, 05 June 2006  07:53:50  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: June 5th, 2006</div> <div> <B>Efforts continued Monday to contain a major gasoline spill from a derailed train near the town of Charette, Que.</B></div> <bR> <div> Hundreds of thousands of litres of diesel and hydrocarbons ended up in a nearby river.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="a2dc9f690.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="105" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Derailed train near the town of Charette, Que. (CBC)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 437 WIDTH="707"><div> Federal and provincial environment officials are at the scene and workers have created a dam on the river to contain the spill, CN rail spokeswoman Julie Senécal told CBC News.</div> <bR> <div> As well, efforts are continuing to get the remaining rail cars off the tracks. Some of them are still filled with hazardous liquids, Senécal said.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Gas, diesel, flammable liquids</B></div> <bR> <div> The freight train was hauling gasoline, diesel and other flammable liquids and was on its way to the Lac St-Jean region of the province when the accident happened.</div> <bR> <div> The train jumped the tracks at around noon on Sunday just as it was crossing a rail bridge.</div> <bR> <div> "The people that drove the train, they didn't realize that anything was wrong, except for the fact that it started braking by itself," Chantal Mackels of the Quebec provincial police told CBC News.</div> <bR> <div> "They started walking it and that's when they saw that wagons had derailed."</div> <bR> <div> CN said it does not yet know what caused the accident.</div> <bR> <div> Charette is in the Mauricie region, 40 kilometres northwest of Trois-Rivières, or about 140 kilometres northeast of Montreal.</div> <div> The rail line is expected to remain closed for the next few days.</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="mosque_vandalized_after_bomb_plot_sweep"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 341 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Mosque vandalized after bomb-plot sweep</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun, 04 June 2006  13:55:07  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: June 4th, 2006</div> <div> <B>The vandalizing of a Toronto mosque on the weekend could be part of a reaction against Islam after police arrested 17 Muslim men and youth in southern Ontario amid accusations of an al-Qaeda-inspired bombing plot, an imam says.</B></div> <bR> <div> Hamid Slimi, who leads the International Muslims Organization of Toronto mosque, told CBC News on Sunday that it was a "logical assumption" to link the vandalism and news of the detentions under Canada's Anti-terrorism Act.</div> <bR> <div> In the largest anti-terrorism operation ever undertaken in Canada, more than 400 police officers conducted a series of raids in southern Ontario on June 2, 2006, detaining 12 men and five youths. They alleged the suspects adhered to a violent Islamic ideology linked to al-Qaeda and accused them of planning to attack targets in southern Ontario with bombs made from the fertilizer ammonium nitrate.</div> <bR> <div> Windows at the mosque were smashed and the front door was broken sometime on Saturday night or early Sunday morning, Slimi said.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="a2daa0720.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="114" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The International Muslims Organization of Toronto mosque, located on Rexdale Boulevard in northwest Toronto, was vandalized on the weekend. (CBC)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="a2d9a0740.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="116" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Surveying the damage (CBC)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 547 WIDTH="707"><div> No one was hurt, nothing inside was damaged and there was no looting or spray-painting, he said.</div> <bR> <div> But Slimi said the vandalism came as a shock at the mosque, which is in the northwest Rexdale neighbourhood and has as many as 20,000 members.</div> <bR> <div> The mosque has good relations with its neighbours, he said.</div> <bR> <div> The mosque, which includes a food bank and school, was forced to cancel Sunday school classes and food distribution because of the broken glass, Slimi said.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Mississauga's</B> <B>Muslims fear backlash</B></div> <bR> <div> Even before the report of the vandalism, the Muslim community in Mississauga — a city just west of Toronto —had been expressing concern about reactions to the arrests.</div> <bR> <div> Six of the adult suspects and some of the young offenders had been living in the city.</div> <bR> <div> Waiting for his son outside the Muslim Community Centre in Mississauga, Nadeem Mian said he moved back to Canada because of the anti-Muslim backlash in New York City after the al-Qaeda attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.</div> <bR> <div> "It was bad, it was really, really bad. That's why I'm here in Mississauga," he said.</div> <bR> <div> He said he hopes his neighbours will withhold judgment until the justice system takes its course.</div> <bR> <div> But Akeem Quzi, 12, said there have already been some incidents.</div> <bR> <div> While he and other boys were inside the mosque studying the Qur'an Saturday, some children outside kept banging on the windows, he said.</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="serious__bomb_plot_against_canada_averted_police"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 177 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>'</B><B>Serious' bomb plot against Canada averted: police</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat, 03 June 2006  12:57:25  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: June 3rd, 2006</div> <div> <B>Declaring that Canada "is not immune to the threat of terrorism," the RCMP announced on Saturday the arrests of 17 people accused of planning a series of attacks against targets in southern Ontario.</B></div> <bR> <div> "This group holds a real and serious intent," RCMP Assistant Commissioner Mike McDonell told reporters.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="a2d4a0800.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="128" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> An officer is seen outside the police station in Pickering, Ont., on Friday night.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 781 WIDTH="707"><div> "Our investigation prevented the assembly of any bombs and attacks from being carried out."</div> <bR> <div> He declined to answer questions about the intended targets but he said Toronto's public transit system was not one of them.</div> <div> Bill Blair, the city's police chief, told CBC News that officials had gathered information about dates chosen for the attacks, but he refused to provide details.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Ammonium nitrate seized</B></div> <bR> <div> Police also said they seized about three tonnes of the commonly used fertilizer ammonium nitrate. Just one-third of that material was used in the bombing of a U.S. federal building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people in 1995.</div> <bR> <div> Officers fanned out across the Toronto area on Friday to make the arrests. They later delivered the suspects to the Durham Regional Police Station in Pickering, east of Toronto.</div> <bR> <div> The 12 adult suspects, who face terrorism-related charges, were to appear west of the city in a Brampton courtroom later on Saturday.</div> <bR> <div> All of the suspects are residents of Canada and most are Canadian citizens of various backgrounds, officials said.</div> <bR> <div> <B>'Trained together'</B></div> <bR> <div> "Our information is that they participated in training altogether," McDonell said.</div> <bR> <div> "For various reasons, they appear to have become adherents of a violent ideology inspired by al-Qaeda," said Luc Portelance, Assistant Director of Operations for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).</div> <bR> <div> This was the largest counter-terrorism operation and the greatest number of arrests made in Canada since the Anti-terrorism Act came into effect in December 2001.</div> <bR> <div> "These individuals were allegedly intent on committing acts of terrorism against their own country and their own people," Prime Minister Stephen Harper said. "As we have said on many occasions, Canada is not immune to the threat of terrorism."</div> <bR> <div> "I think people will be extremely concerned," Toronto Mayor David Miller told CBC News.</div> <bR> <div> "The good news is that the RCMP and CSIS and the Toronto police were aware of it, were monitoring it, and were able to apprehend the people involved before they acted."</div> <bR> <div> Miller said he had been briefed "for a number of months" about the investigation.</div> <bR> <div> "I was extremely concerned about the potential existence of this organization," he said.</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="standoff_continues_after_police_officer_shot"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 58 ><NOBR><div> <B>Standoff continues after police officer shot</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri, 02 June 2006  07:18:21  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: June 2nd, 2006</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="a2d29f350.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="53" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 493 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>An armed standoff continued Friday morning after an Ontario Provincial Police officer was shot and seriously injured at a home near Smith Falls, Ont., on Thursday night.</B></div> <bR> <div> OPP Const. Dana Mellon told CBC.ca that between 40 and 50 police officers have surrounded the house, in which an armed suspect is barricaded.</div> <bR> <div> Police tactical and rescue units are on the scene in the small community of Jasper, Ont., as well as the OPP's emergency response team.</div> <bR> <div> "Our negotiators are attempting to get this fellow to surrender to police," Mellon said.</div> <bR> <div> "The investigation is still going on right now. The suspect is still barricaded in the residence where this incident took place."</div> <bR> <div> "Our officers are in contact with the person on and off. They are trying to get him to surrender himself," Mellon added. "Hopefully, this will come to a peaceful conclusion."</div> <bR> <div> The shooting happened around 8 p.m. EDT Thursday, when an on-duty OPP officer went to the home.</div> <bR> <div> The officer, who has not been identified, was taken to hospital in Ottawa, where Mellon said he was in "stable" condition.</div> <bR> <div> OPP have not said why the officer went to the home, on a county road in a sparsely populated area.</div> <bR> <div> However, a neighbour told reporters that OPP cruisers had been seen in front of the residence since Wednesday.</div> <bR> <div> Smiths Falls is about 75 kilometres southwest of Ottawa.</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="facts_the_focus_of_agent_orange_reports_investigator_says"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 58 ><NOBR><div> <B>Facts the focus of Agent Orange reports, investigator says</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu, 01 June 2006  07:21:13  EST</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: June 1st, 2006</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="a2ca9f350.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="53" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 157 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>Two reports to be released Thursday on the spraying of Agent Orange and other chemical defoliants at a Canadian Forces base in New Brunswick should make clearer what actually happened, the man in charge of the fact-finding mission says.</B></div> <bR> <div> One report details the history of herbicide spraying at CFB Gagetown. It outlines what was sprayed, when and how much. The second report contains the results of soil and vegetation tests at the base.</div> <bR> <div> Dennis Furlong, the former New Brunswick health minister who took over as co-ordinator of the federal government's inquiry last fall, said the hard facts need to be shown without the emotion that has often been attached to the issue.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 197 WIDTH="540"><div> "Everybody had a personal impression of what took place but what we needed to know is what actually took place," he said. "That is what these documents are about."</div> <bR> <div> Hundreds of people have come forward to claim their health was affected by the use of herbicide sprays at the base since it opened in the 1950s.</div> <bR> <div> Those sprays contained dioxin until the 1980s, a toxic byproduct now banned. Preliminary results from soil tests have revealed three areas on the base with high levels of dioxin.</div> <bR> <div> More scandalous has been the revelation that in the 1960s, the U.S. military tested a number of defoliants, including Agents Orange, White and Purple at the base.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="a2cca0c00.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="192" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 376 WIDTH="707"><div> Widely used during the war in Vietnam, the sprays are blamed for numerous health problems in that country and among veterans of the war.</div> <bR> <div> Some veterans and civilians who worked on the base say the entire fact-finding mission, which could take at least another year to complete its work, is just a stalling tactic.</div> <bR> <div> "I would like to see a compensation package announced today," said Wayne Cardinal, who spent nearly 40 years in the Canadian Forces.</div> <bR> <div> That won't happen today, Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor said.</div> <bR> <div> "My understanding, by talking to people on the ground there, [is that] it's going to take another year for us to resolve this issue, at which time, if we find people that have ailments linked to the activities there, there will be compensation," he said. "But we have to make that linkage."</div> <bR> <div> Thursday's reports are the first of several, Furlong said. The hardest work is yet to come, such as tracking down all of the people who worked at CFB Gagetown over the past 50 years during spraying. About 50,000 have so far been identified.</div> <bR> <div> A major health study has also to be done, and that could take until the middle of next year to complete.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>