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HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Canadian officials warn tourists not to visit Oaxaca</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 31/10/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="390"><div> <A HREF="#thousands_without_power_day_after_windstorm" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Thousands without power day after windstorm</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 30/10/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="390"><div> <A HREF="#3_dead_in_edmonton_nightclub_shooting" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><B>3 dead in Edmonton nightclub sh</B><B>ootin</B><B>g</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 29/10/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#hackers_demanding_ransom_from_online_gambling_sites_study" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Hackers demanding ransom from online gambling sites: study</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 28/10/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#u_s__teacher_convicted_of_sex_abuse_to_learn_fate" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  U.S. teacher convicted of sex abuse to learn fate</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 27/10/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#at_least_60_civilians_killed_in_nato_operation_afghan_officials" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  At least 60 civilians killed in NATO operation: Afghan officials</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 26/10/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="390"><div> <A HREF="#five_injured_in_b_c__school_bus_rollover" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Five injured in B.C. school bus rollover</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 25/10/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#colonel_urges_patience_on_afghanistan_mission" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Colonel urges patience on Afghanistan mission</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 24/10/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="390"><div> <A HREF="#sudan_ejects_un_envoy_over_blog" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Sudan ejects UN envoy over blog</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 23/10/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#u_s__arrogant_stupid_in_iraq_american_diplomat" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  U.S. arrogant, stupid in Iraq: American diplomat</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 22/10/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#new_botulism_case_in_quebec_tied_to_tainted_carrot_juice" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  New botulism case in Quebec tied to tainted carrot juice</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 21/10/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="390"><div> <A HREF="#inflation_rate_plunges_to_0_7_" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Inflation rate plunges to 0.7%</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 20/10/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="390"><div> <A HREF="#feds_to_table_new_clean_air_rules" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Feds to table new clean air rules</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 19/10/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#12_year_old_charged_with_burning_playmate_11" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  12-year-old charged with burning playmate, 11</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 18/10/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="390"><div> <A HREF="#ottawa_to_introduce_dangerous_offender_bill" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Ottawa to introduce dangerous offender bill</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 17/10/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="390"><div> <A HREF="#hawaii_cleans_up_after_weekend_quake" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Hawaii cleans up after weekend quake</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 16/10/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="390"><div> <A HREF="#ont__town_faces_3rd_day_without_power" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Ontario town faces 3rd day without power</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 15/10/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#security_council_votes_to_impose_north_korea_sanctions" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Security Council votes to impose North Korea sanctions</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 14/10/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#thousands_without_power_in_buffalo_after_first_snowfall_of_season" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Thousands without power in Buffalo after first snowfall of season</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 13/10/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#probe_begins_into_nyc_plane_crash_that_killed_ballplayer" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Probe begins into NYC plane crash that killed ballplayer</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 12/10/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#north_korea_says_u_s__pressure_will_be_seen_as_act_of_war" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  North Korea says U.S. pressure will be seen as act of war</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 11/10/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#china_opposes_military_response_to_n__korean_nuclear_test" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  China opposes military response to N. Korean nuclear test</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 10/10/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="390"><div> <A HREF="#toxic_carrot_juice_paralyzes_2_in_toronto" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Toxic carrot juice paralyzes 2 in Toronto</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 09/10/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#ceremonies_mark_anniversary_of_deadly_pakistan_quake" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Ceremonies mark anniversary of deadly Pakistan quake</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 08/10/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#rolling_stones_dazzle_crowd_at_1st_regina_show" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Rolling Stones dazzle crowd at 1st Regina show</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 07/10/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#death_toll_of_soldiers_in_afghanistan_is_price_of_leadership_harper" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Death toll of soldiers in Afghanistan is price of leadership: Harper</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 06/10/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#drug_could_reverse_effects_of_macular_degeneration" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Drug could reverse effects of macular degeneration</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 05/10/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#asian_nations_urge_north_korea_not_to_carry_out_nuclear_test" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Asian nations urge North Korea not to carry out nuclear test</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 04/10/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="#mysterious_grudge_probed_in_amish_school_shooting" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Mysterious grudge probed in Amish school shooting</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 03/10/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="390"><div> <A HREF="#ignatieff_out_front_in_liberal_leadership_race" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Ignatieff out front in Liberal leadership race</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 02/10/06</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="390"><div> <A HREF="#overpass_collapse_kills_5" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><B><IMG SRC="f1f0b0d0.png" border=0 width="11" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  Overpass collapse kills 5</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> 01/10/06</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="canadian_officials_warn_tourists_not_to_visit_oaxaca"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 58 ><NOBR><div> <B>Canadian officials warn tourists not to visit Oaxaca</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue. Oct. 31 2006  08:04  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 31st, 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= 835 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>Foreign Affairs is advising Canadians not to travel to the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca because police have taken over the once popular tourist destination after months of civil unrest and the city continues to be a violent and chaotic place.</B></div> <bR> <div> In a travel advisory, Foreign Affairs said Canadians have had trouble obtaining assistance from local authorities in emergency situations. It said the Canadian consulate in the city may have to operate from an alternate location because of local security conditions.</div> <bR> <div> On Sunday, 3,500 Mexican police stormed the city centre known as a zocalo, or central square, which protesters had used as a base to launch demonstrations against the local government.</div> <bR> <div> About 2,000 protesters have fled to a local university, where they said on Monday they plan to regroup and to reoccupy the main square.</div> <bR> <div> On Monday, police and protesters kept their distance from each other, with protesters lighting fires and throwing Molotov cocktails near police to taunt them.</div> <bR> <div> The occupation began as a strike by teachers in May but escalated when a number of groups, representing anarchists, Indians and students, took over the central square and set up barricades.</div> <bR> <div> "Protests and subsequent civil unrest in general have affected local security and resulted in vandalism and violence, gunfire in front of one of the city's main hotels, armed assaults, arson attacks, and one reported fatality. The situation remains tense," reads the travel advisory, which was updated on Monday and remained in effect on Tuesday.</div> <bR> <div> "Groups of protesters are gathered throughout the city and their presence has resulted in frequent blockades, occupation or closures of government buildings, including the state tourism office and police stations, businesses, and several roadblocks throughout the city and its outer lying areas."</div> <bR> <div> The travel advisory said transportation has become a problem.</div> <bR> <div> "Local transport is operating intermittently. Protests in surrounding areas have also resulted in the interruption of traffic flow of local highways and the Oaxaca airport. Local airlines that serve the city of Oaxaca are reducing their number of flights due to a lack of passengers."</div> <bR> <div> The travel advisory reminds Canadians to "remain extremely vigilant" in Mexico City, Oaxaca and on the highway between the city and the capital. It said Canadians should avoid large gatherings and public areas where demonstrations could occur.</div> <bR> <div> It reminds Canadians that, under the Mexican constitution, foreigners are prohibited from taking part in political activities in Mexico and such actions could result in detention and deportation.</div> <bR> <div> Canadians already visiting Mexico are advised to register with the Canadian consulate in Oaxaca or the Canadian Embassy in Mexico City.</div> <bR> <div> Oaxaca, a city laid out in Spanish colonial style, used to be a popular destination for tourists visiting Mexico. It is the capital of a Mexican state of the same name.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff <I>with files from the Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="thousands_without_power_day_after_windstorm"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 125 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Thousands without power day after windstorm</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. Oct. 30 2006  08:00  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 30th, 2006</div> <div> <B>Thousands of people were without power early Monday in Quebec and Ontario, while outages were affecting about 40 New Brunswickers, a day after a windstorm whipped through parts of Canada on Sunday.</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="acac9f780.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 449 WIDTH="707"><div> The storm Sunday in Eastern and Central Canada had left as many as 200,000 in the dark, and streets littered with broken branches. Winds of up to 100 kilometres an hour knocked power lines down. In some areas, trees fell onto cars, houses, buildings and roads.</div> <bR> <div> The storm blew in from the United States, where it was blamed for at least two deaths, with one person still missing on Monday.</div> <bR> <div> "Things are calmer today, but of course, it'll be cleanup day," said CBC weather broadcaster Colleen Jones.</div> <bR> <div> More than 10,000 customers in Quebec City, the Laurentian area, the Lac St.-Jean area and Montreal were without electricity in the morning, according to Hydro-Québec.</div> <bR> <div> In Ontario, blackouts were affecting about 5,400 people, said Hydro One. The Georgian Bay area, mainly Penetanguishene and Parry Sound, were hardest hit.</div> <bR> <div> About 40 New Brunswickers, mainly in rural areas, were still without power, said the New Brunswick Power Corporation.</div> <bR> <div> On Sunday, the storm affected about 49,000 people in Quebec, 30,000 in Ontario and 3,000 in southeastern New Brunswick.</div> <div> In the United States, 112,000 clients were without power, including 44,000 in Maine.</div> <bR> <div> A falling tree killed a motorcyclist in Massachusetts and a man drowned after his kayak overturned on a river swollen with rain in New Hampshire. The missing person is a man who fell off a lake cruiseship during the storm.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff <I>with files from the Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="3_dead_in_edmonton_nightclub_shooting"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 130 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>3 dead in Edmonton nightclub shooting</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. Oct. 29 2006  09:03  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 29th, 2006</div> <div> <B>Three men were killed and another seriously wounded after a shooting early Sunday at an Edmonton nightclub, police said.</B></div> <bR> <div> A staff member at the lounge called police just before 2:30 a.m. MT to report that several</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="aca79f780.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 257 WIDTH="707"><div> shots had been fired, Edmonton Police Service spokesman Jeff Wuite said.</div> <bR> <div> "We found two adult males deceased on the scene. Several more people were injured," he said.</div> <bR> <div> "Those injured parties were taken to hospital where one adult male did succumb to his injuries shortly after arriving."</div> <bR> <div> A fourth person remains in hospital in serious condition, Wuite said.</div> <bR> <div> "More than 20 witnesses are currently being interviewed by both our gang unit and homicide unit," Wuite said. "Their investigation is now fully under way."</div> <bR> <div> Police have made no arrests, but Wuite said their investigators have "pretty good leads."</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff <I>with files from the Canadian Press</I> </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="hackers_demanding_ransom_from_online_gambling_sites_study"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 58 ><NOBR><div> <B>Hackers demanding ransom from online gambling sites: study</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. Oct. 28 2006  11:22  ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 28th, 2006</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 533 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>New research into cyber crime suggests the global, $10-billion-a-year online gambling industry is regularly held for ransom by sophisticated hackers and organized criminals.</B></div> <bR> <div> A researcher at St. Mary's University in Halifax has just released his findings of a study conducted over the past five years into what he calls "cyber extortion."</div> <bR> <div> John McMullan, a criminologist at the university, says online gambling sites are targeted for "digital shakedowns" at peak times, such as the approach of the Super Bowl and other major sporting events.</div> <bR> <div> Anonymous online hackers attack betting websites, swamp them with unwanted electronic messages and virtually shut them down, he said. They then go to the site operators and typically demand $40,000 to $60,000 in ransom in order to release the website so that users can return and keep playing.</div> <bR> <div> McMullan said the hackers often have a business hierarchy, running organizations that are global and invisible, with the masterminds recruiting people, often via e-mail, to carry out the crime, never meeting in person.</div> <bR> <div> "They recruited different people, like hackers and worm writers, and crackers. There were people who were involved in picking up the money, bankers who were able to move the money around," said McMullan, who presented his research at Nova Scotia's Responsible Gambling Conference in Halifax earlier this month.</div> <bR> <div> McMullan said there have been a number of arrests in Latvia, Russia and Eastern Europe. In recent years, online betting websites have beefed up security, but McMullan said the criminals are getting smarter, too.</div> <bR> <div> "For every ability to develop a better security architecture, you can be sure the hackers and cyber extortionists are out there scanning your security, trying to find out how to defeat it."</div> <bR> <div> He said these modern criminal groups use the anonymity of the internet, as well as different bank accounts and shell companies, to skim the profits from online gambling.</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="u_s__teacher_convicted_of_sex_abuse_to_learn_fate"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 184 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>U.S. teacher convicted of sex abuse to learn fate</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri. Oct. 27 2006  07:55 ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 27th, 2006</div> <div> <B>An American teacher exiled to Canada after his conviction on sexual abuse charges in the United States then arrested at the border faces an immigration hearing on Friday.</B></div> <bR> <div> Canadian border guards arrested Malcolm Watson, 35, on Wednesday as he returned from a court appearance in Buffalo, N.Y.</div> <bR> <div> At an immigration hearing in Niagara Falls on Friday morning, a judge will decide whether to</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="ac9f9f780.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Malcolm Watson was sentenced to three years probation in Canada, as opposed to a year in a U.S. jail.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 526 WIDTH="707"><div> keep Watson in custody.</div> <bR> <div> Watson is a landed immigrant, but the federal government wants him declared inadmissible to Canada.</div> <bR> <div> He pleaded guilty on Monday in a Buffalo court to sexual abuse in the third degree and endangering the welfare of a child.</div> <bR> <div> Watson, a teacher at an all-girls seminary in Buffalo, was charged after he was found in a car with 15-year-old student with whom he was having a relationship.</div> <bR> <div> A judge in Buffalo approved a plea bargain that sentenced him to three years probation in Canada, where he has a wife and three children. He faces a year in jail if he returns to New York.</div> <bR> <div> He has lived in Ontario for four years, most recently in St. Catharines, close to the U.S. border.</div> <bR> <div> Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day has said the federal government wants Watson out of the country.</div> <bR> <div> "We don't want to see Canada become a haven for, whether it's pedophiles or any other person committing a serious crime, and we don't want U.S. courts getting the notion that we just take people here that they would have put in jail but instead they sent him to Canada," Day said Thursday.</div> <bR> <div> Government lawyers will be in court next week to argue for his deportation.</div> <bR> <div> Watson was ordered by the U.S. court to provide a DNA sample and is forbidden from re-entering the country except for probation hearings.</div> <bR> <div> Under Canadian law, permanent residents of Canada can be deported for serious crimes that would garner sentences of 10 years or more in Canada, including crimes that are considered misdemeanours in the U.S.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff <I>with files from the Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="at_least_60_civilians_killed_in_nato_operation_afghan_officials"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 58 ><NOBR><div> <B>At least 60 civilians killed in NATO operation: Afghan officials</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. Oct. 26 2006  05:51 ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 26th, 2006</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 625 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>NATO operations in Afghanistan's volatile south left dozens of Afghan civilians dead earlier this week, according to Afghan government officials and a village resident.</B></div> <bR> <div> Bismallah Afghanmal, a provincial council member, told the Associated Press an estimated 80 to 85 civilians were killed in the operation, while Karim Jan, a villager, said 60 to 70 civilians died. Another government official, who declined to give his name, told the Associated Press that at least 60 civilians were killed.</div> <bR> <div> NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said late Wednesday that its forces killed 48 militants in the Panjwaii district of Kandahar province on Tuesday. ISAF said it had "credible reports" of civilian casualties in the fighting, but was aware of only four civilians wounded.</div> <bR> <div> Maj. Luke Knittig, a ISAF spokesman, said NATO forces used mortar and artillery backed by air support against militants who were trying to undermine efforts to stabilize the area for reconstruction.</div> <bR> <div> Knittig said the Afghan Defence Ministry is planning to investigate the reports of civilian deaths.</div> <bR> <div> According to Afghanmal, Taliban militants in the area sought shelter in homes owned by civilians and NATO forces targeted the homes.</div> <bR> <div> "The government and the coalition told the families that there are no Taliban in the area anymore," Afghanmal said. "If there are no Taliban, then why are they bombing the area?"</div> <bR> <div> Afghan President Hamid Karzai has repeatedly urged NATO to exercise caution during its operations to avoid civilian deaths and injuries.</div> <bR> <div> In September, NATO carried a military operation known as Operation Medusa, led by Canadian troops, that it said led to the deaths of 500 suspected militants in two districts, including the Panjwaii, west of Kandahar. NATO deemed the operation a success.</div> <bR> <div> Since then, 10 Canadian soldiers have been killed in bombings and attacks by Taliban fighters.</div> <bR> <div> Canada has more than 2,000 troops in southern Afghanistan, the majority in Kandahar, as part of the NATO force in the country. Forty-two Canadian soldiers have died since Canada first sent troops to Afghanistan in early 2002.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff <I>with files from the Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="five_injured_in_b_c__school_bus_rollover"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 58 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Five injured in B.C. school bus rollover</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. Oct. 25 2006  03:09 ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 25th, 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= 344 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>A school bus transporting 38 students veered off a road near Kitimat, B.C., and rolled Tuesday evening, injuring five people, including one who sustained serious head injuries, an ambulance official said Tuesday night.</B></div> <bR> <div> The accident occurred about 5 p.m. when the bus was taking students home after school.</div> <bR> <div> David Suderman, a spokesperson for the B.C. Ambulance Service, said the school bus was travelling on "particularly windy road" when it went crashed.</div> <bR> <div> Kitimat is a community of about 11,000 on the west coast of central B.C., about 600 kilometres northwest of Vancouver.</div> <bR> <div> RCMP have not yet released any information about the accident. The condition of the bus driver on board and the conditions of the road were not known.</div> <bR> <div> Five of the injured were taken to hospital in Kitimat, but one was later transferred to a hospital in Terrace, 60 kilometres to the north, in serious condition with head injuries, he said.</div> <bR> <div> Suderman said the remaining students were "walking wounded," with bumps, bruises and shoulder injuries.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff <I>with files from the Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="colonel_urges_patience_on_afghanistan_mission"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 125 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Colonel urges patience on Afghanistan mission</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue. Oct. 24 2006  05:56 ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 24th, 2006</div> <div> <B>Canada's mission to Afghanistan is making progress despite continuing violence but Canadians need to be patient because the process of creating a stable country will take years, a military officer told a parliamentary committee on Monday.</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="ac919f780.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 575 WIDTH="707"><div> Canadian Forces Col. Mike Capstick, who spent a year in the Kabul working with the Afghan government, told the Commons defence committee that Canada helping make a difference to Afghanistan.</div> <bR> <div> "Somewhere around 75 per cent of the country is relatively stable and secure. And it's stable and secure enough for development to occur. Of course, incidents occur — suicide bombers here and there," Capstick said.</div> <bR> <div> The ongoing insurgency facing Canadian troops in southern Afghanistan, he said, can be beaten but not quickly.</div> <bR> <div> "If it's to be successful, the international community is going to have to be involved for a long time," he said.</div> <bR> <div> Canada has more than 2,000 troops in Afghanistan, with the majority in southern Afghanistan. Forty-two Canadian soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since Canada first sent troops there in early 2002.</div> <bR> <div> The Canadian mission involves a combination of troops on the ground, an embassy in Kabul and developmental projects that include the building of schools, clinics, wells, roads and bridges. Canada has committed to spending nearly $1 billion over 10 years on reconstruction, reducing poverty and illiteracy and strengthening the government in Afghanistan.</div> <bR> <div> Canadian troops recently took part in a military offensive, called Operation Medusa, to root out the Taliban in two volatile districts west of Kandahar. NATO deemed the operation a success, but suicide bombers continue to attack Canadian troops with alarming frequency.</div> <bR> <div> Despite Capstick's assurances, some opposition MPs on the committee had questions.</div> <bR> <div> "There's no question that if you want to have a peaceful, prosperous, stable Afghanistan, it's going to take a long time. The question is: Can we get there?" said Liberal defence critic Ujjal Dosanjh.</div> <bR> <div> Capstick acknowledged that it will take years before Canada will be able to say the mission is accomplished. And he said more international aid is needed to accomplish the task of creating a stable, peaceful Afghanistan.</div> <bR> <div> "This is one very tough place to try and rebuild," 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="sudan_ejects_un_envoy_over_blog"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 213 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Sudan ejects UN envoy over blog</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. Oct. 22 2006  22:32 ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 23rd, 2006</div> <div> <B>UN envoy Jan Pronk has been ordered to leave Sudan in 72 hours after posting comments about the Sudanese military on his personal blog.</B></div> <bR> <div> It is not Pronk's right to comment, Sudan's foreign minister, Sammani al-Wasila, told the BBC on Sunday, when the government told him to leave the country.</div> <bR> <div> "The second thing, the false information he is giving and the interference in matters — he has got nothing to do with it. Enough is enough," al-Wasila said.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="ac8aa0c00.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="192" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Sudan (CBC)</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 465 WIDTH="707"><div> On Oct. 14, Pronk wrote on his blog that the Sudanese Armed Forces had lost two major battles with coalitions of rebels near the border with Chad.</div> <bR> <div> "The losses seem to have been very high. Reports speak about hundreds of casualties in each of the two battles, with many wounded and many taken as prisoner," he wrote.</div> <bR> <div> "The morale in the government army in North Darfur has gone down. Some generals have been sacked; soldiers have refused to fight."</div> <bR> <div> The government-run Sudan News Agency said Pronk has shown "enmity to the Sudanese government and the armed forces."</div> <bR> <div> <B>Apology demanded</B></div> <div> The Sudanese army said Thursday that his posting was "psychological war against the Sudanese army." The military demanded an apology on Friday.</div> <bR> <div> A UN spokeswoman said Pronk's comments were his personal views.</div> <bR> <div> The UN Security Council has voted to send peacekeepers to Darfur, where more than 200,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million displaced in confused fighting between government forces and militias they are accused of supporting and various rebel groups.</div> <bR> <div> Pronk has been pushing for Sudan to accept a UN force to take over peacekeeping from African Union forces, but President Omar al-Bashir rejected the plan, saying it smacked of colonialism.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff <I>with files from the Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="u_s__arrogant_stupid_in_iraq_american_diplomat"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 233 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>U.S. arrogant, stupid in Iraq: American diplomat</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. Oct. 21 2006  22:59 ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 22nd, 2006</div> <div> <B>A senior U.S. diplomat has criticized his country's role in Iraq as President George W. Bush said the United States is still expecting to win the war, but is changing its tactics.</B></div> <bR> <div> "We tried to do our best but I think there is much room for criticism because, undoubtedly, there was arrogance and there was stupidity from the United States in Iraq," Alberto Fernandez, an Arabic-speaking diplomat in the State Department's bureau of Near Eastern affairs, said on Al-Jazeera television on Saturday.</div> <bR> <div> An administration official wondered whether the translation was accurate, the Associated Press reported. The unidentified official said Fernandez was not repeating the administration </div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="ac83a07f0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="127" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Shia gunmen loyal to anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr seized control of Amarah on Friday. This police station was destroyed in fighting as security forces recaptured the town. </div> <div> (Nabil al-Jurani/Associated Press)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 718 WIDTH="707"><div> position.</div> <bR> <div> Earlier Saturday, Bush met with Pentagon generals to discuss the situation in Iraq, which is perceived to be getting worse — three marines and at least 18 civilians were killed Saturday — and has become an issue in the U.S. midterm elections, set for Nov. 7.</div> <bR> <div> Bush said the U.S. goal is victory in Iraq, but "what is changing are the tactics we use to achieve that goal." No details were available, but a U.S. general admitted recently that a campaign to end the violence in Baghdad by putting extra U.S. and Iraqi soldiers in the capital had failed.</div> <bR> <div> <B>U.S. open to talks</B></div> <div> Fernandez also said that the solution in Iraq requires national reconciliation, and the U.S. is ready to talk with any group except al-Qaeda in Iraq. That suggests that the the U.S. will talk with the Sunni and Shia factions that have reduced the country to a state akin to civil war.</div> <bR> <div> He said the sectarian fighting, and the insurgency — which involves both al-Qaeda and the Baath Party, which ran Iraq under deposed dictator Saddam Hussein — was not just the fault of the U.S.</div> <bR> <div> "We are witnessing failure in Iraq and that's not the failure of the United States alone. But it is a disaster for the region."</div> <bR> <div> Iraqi insurgents are marching openly in some cities, and a man claiming to speak for the outlawed Baath party said Saturday that the U.S. was seeking a "face-saving" way out of the country.</div> <bR> <div> The deaths of three marines Saturday raised U.S. casualties to 78 so far in October, making it the worst month this year.</div> <bR> <div> As the death toll mounts and Bush's strategy appears to be in trouble, opposition Democrats have been increasing their attacks on the government's handling of the war.</div> <bR> <div> Diane Farrell, a Democratic candidate for Congress in Connecticut, Saturday said Bush should fire Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and the government should set up defined terms for the departure of U.S. soldiers.</div> <bR> <div> "We need a new direction in Iraq," she said in the Democrats' weekly national radio address.</div> <bR> <div> While U.S. deaths are a political issue in the United States, the daily toll of Iraqi civilians is an indication of the problems with the U.S. approach.</div> <bR> <div> A bomb blast and a subsequent mortar attack killed a least 18 people and wounded 52 in an outdoor market in the city of Mahmoudiyah near Baghdad on Saturday.</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="new_botulism_case_in_quebec_tied_to_tainted_carrot_juice"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 58 ><NOBR><div> <B>New botulism case in Quebec tied to tainted carrot juice</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. Oct. 21 2006  00:15 ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 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= 557 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>A Quebec resident has become the latest Canadian to contract botulism after drinking tainted carrot juice, public health officials said Friday.</B></div> <bR> <div> The provincial agriculture and health departments again urged the public to throw out the affected brands. All of the products subject to the recall have already been removed from store shelves, the government said after consulting six distribution centres and 150 retail stores.</div> <bR> <div> Authorities haven't released details about the victim.</div> <bR> <div> Two Toronto residents, who live in the same household, were paralyzed and put on ventilators after consuming tainted carrot juice.</div> <bR> <div> The products subject to the Quebec notice, sold in one-litre and 450-ml bottles, were the subject of a previous Canadian Food Inspection Agency warning:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Bolthouse Farms 100 per cent Carrot Juice </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Earthbound Farm Organic Carrot Juice </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">President's Choice Organics 100 per cent Pure Carrot Juice </div> <bR> <div> A spokesperson for the California-based Bolthouse Farms, claimed that consumers had failed to keep the product properly refrigerated.</div> <bR> <div> Tests in Canada have shown that the juice consumed by the Toronto residents was handled and stored properly.</div> <bR> <div> The CFIA issued a voluntary recall of the product on Sept. 30 after four cases of botulism in the southeastern U.S. were linked to the toxic carrot juice. The federal regulator followed up with a second alert on Oct. 7 to ensure public awareness.</div> <bR> <div> Botulism can lead to serious illness or death, and must be treated early. Symptoms can include blurred vision, slurred speech, difficulty swallowing, and paralysis. In severe cases, the paralysis can restrict breathing, forcing patients on to ventilators.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff <I>with files from the Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="inflation_rate_plunges_to_0_7_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 127 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Inflation rate plunges to 0.7%</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri. Oct. 20 2006  7:53 ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 20th, 2006</div> <div> <B>Canada’s annual inflation rate in September fell to its lowest level in 2½ years, thanks to last month’s big drop in gasoline prices, Statistics Canada said Friday.</B></div> <bR> <div> The September inflation rate was just 0.7 per cent, matching the rate reported in February </div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="ac7d9f780.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 596 WIDTH="707"><div> and March of 2004. Inflation was 2.1 per cent in August.</div> <bR> <div> Gas prices fell more than 17 per cent last month alone.</div> <bR> <div> "A drop of this magnitude has never been recorded since the introduction of gasoline to the CPI basket," the federal agency said.</div> <bR> <div> The effect of cheaper gas was so profound that consumer prices actually fell by 0.5 per cent last month.</div> <bR> <div> On a year-over-year basis, gasoline was 18.7 per cent lower than it was in September 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.</div> <bR> <div> The core inflation rate, which excludes the most volatile items like fresh fruit and energy, unexpectedly rose to 1.7 per cent, up from August’s 1.5 per cent.</div> <bR> <div> <B>'Wild gyrations' in gas prices</B></div> <bR> <div> Since the Bank of Canada’s calculation of core inflation ignores the impact of July’s GST cut, its core reading jumps to 2.2 per cent – above its expectation of a 2.0 per cent cent core rate.</div> <bR> <div> "While the wild gyrations in gasoline prices are certainly providing some fireworks in headline inflation news, the big story here is the move in core inflation to above two per cent a lot earlier than the bank expected," said Doug Porter, BMO Capital Markets' senior economist.</div> <bR> <div> "Let’s just say that their warnings on the inflation dangers are bound to grow a lot louder in the months ahead, even if growth remains disappointing," he said in a morning commentary.</div> <bR> <div> Alberta again had the highest annual inflation rate among the provinces, at 3.7 per cent. But most provinces reported rates under 1.0 per cent.</div> <bR> <div> P.E.I. and New Brunswick reported negative inflation rates.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff <I>with files from the Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="feds_to_table_new_clean_air_rules"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 130 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Feds to table new clean air rules</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. Oct. 19 2006  7:54 ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 19th, 2006</div> <div> <B>The Harper government was set to introduce on Thursday a proposed clean air act — the centrepiece of its highly touted environmental plan.</B></div> <bR> <div> The bill is expected to contain regulations for industries that emit air pollution and greenhouse </div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="ac779f780.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 666 WIDTH="707"><div> gases, including the auto industry, and oil and gas sector.</div> <bR> <div> Although not yet been tabled in the House of Commons, the bill has been criticized by environmental groups and the opposition parties.</div> <bR> <div> NDP Leader Jack Layton, who obtained a leaked internal document that details aspects of the bill, said the government is not moving fast enough and the bill will do little to control air pollution.</div> <bR> <div> "The government promised action. What we have here is delay. Many of the measures are not kicking in until five years from now," Layton said.</div> <bR> <div> "In some cases, we're promising to match the standards set in Washington. This is hardly what you could call a made-in-Canada solution. It's a Xerox copy of a made-in-Washington solution, delayed."</div> <bR> <div> <B>4 years for final provisions: leaked paper</B></div> <bR> <div> The leaked document, labelled "notice of intent," says:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">It will take until at least 2010 for initial provisions to be put in place to regulate emissions from large polluters. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The government plans to conduct detailed consultations on proposed regulations before setting short-term targets to reduce industrial emissions. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The government will gather advice on the idea of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent to 65 per cent by 2050. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The bill does not set short-term targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions. </div> <bR> <div> Layton said short-term targets are critical to dealing with the pressing issue of climate change.</div> <bR> <div> Environment Minister Rona Ambrose told the House of Commons standing committee on environment and sustainable development that the proposed legislation to deal with air pollution and climate change will be a historic moment for the government.</div> <bR> <div> "This will be the first time the federal government will embark on a comprehensive approach from a national perspective to dealing with the issue of air pollution and greenhouse gases," said said recently. "It's an ambitious achievement and it's an ambitious agenda."</div> <bR> <div> Environmental groups have said they will examine the legislation closely after it is introduced.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff <I>with files from the Canadian Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="12_year_old_charged_with_burning_playmate_11"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 58 ><NOBR><div> <B>12-year-old charged with burning playmate, 11</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. Oct. 18 2006  6:37 ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 18th, 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= 757 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>A 12-year-old Manitoba boy has been charged by the RCMP after taking part in a dangerous game that ended when an 11-year-old girl was severely burned.</B></div> <bR> <div> The children, from the Chemawawin Cree Nation in central Manitoba, doused the girl with bug spray and set her on fire as part of a game, said Staff Sgt. Steve Saunders.</div> <bR> <div> "There were a group of kids playing with bug spray. They would spray it on themselves, light it, and then put it out," Saunders explained on Tuesday.</div> <bR> <div> "That game progressed to the point that a group of them took an 11-year-old girl, were spraying her, and the top of the can came off or the can malfunctioned to the point that the bug spray poured over the girl. They lit it on fire and she suffered burns and was subsequently taken to the Health Sciences Centre."</div> <bR> <div> The incident took place on Sept. 30, the accused's 12th birthday. The girl remained in the Winnipeg hospital Tuesday, where she has been treated for burns to her face, neck, and one arm. She is in stable condition.</div> <bR> <div> Friends of the girl's family said Tuesday their only concern is that the girl gets better.</div> <bR> <div> "I feel sorry for my granddaughter's friend. She was a good girl when she came around here in my house," said Patsy George, who said the youngster was at her house all the time, playing with her granddaughter.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Two 11-year-olds not charged</B></div> <bR> <div> The 12-year-old boy faces several charges, including aggravated assault, assault with a weapon and mischief endangering life. CBC News learned of the charges on Tuesday.</div> <bR> <div> Two other 11-year-olds who participated are deemed too young to be charged, Saunders said.</div> <bR> <div> The Chemawawin Cree Nation is located near Easterville, southeast of The Pas. The reserve is about 400 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg and has about 1,200 residents.</div> <bR> <div> Chief Clarence Easter told CBC News on Tuesday that he felt a range of emotions in response to the incident.</div> <bR> <div> "It's disturbing when you have kids that do that in your community and you have to deal with it," he said.</div> <bR> <div> "I could get angry, but what's that going to do? You've got to deal with the problem that's at hand, and I got to deal with it on both sides: you know, the offender plus the victim. I've got to help them both."</div> <bR> <div> Easter said the band is sending family members to Winnipeg to be with the girl. The community is also working with the offenders, with the help of the RCMP, counsellors and the reserve's school, 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="ottawa_to_introduce_dangerous_offender_bill"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 58 ><NOBR><div> <B>Ottawa to introduce dangerous offender bill</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue. Oct. 17 2006  8:08 ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 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= 447 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>The federal government is expected to introduce on Tuesday a bill that would make it easier to have criminals </B><B>designated as dangerous offenders.</B></div> <bR> <div> The proposed legislation would call for tougher sentences and stricter conditions on repeat offenders — those convicted of a third sexual or violent offence.</div> <bR> <div> Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the proposed legislation last week in Toronto, saying: "We will work to ensure that those who are truly dangerous will be put in jail for an indefinite period of time."</div> <bR> <div> The onus would be put on offenders instead of the Crown to prove they should not be declared dangerous offenders. Failing to do so means they would be designated as dangerous and be given an indeterminate jail sentence, with no eligibility for parole for seven years.</div> <bR> <div> Currently, the Crown must show at a hearing why an individual should be declared a dangerous offender.</div> <bR> <div> Under the proposed legislation, the person would not be given the benefit of the doubt and would have to prove why the designation should not apply.</div> <bR> <div> It would also increase the maximum duration of peace bonds from 12 to 24 months, allowing additional restrictions and conditions to be placed on released criminals.</div> <bR> <div> At the news conference announcing the proposed legislation, Harper said: "By putting criminals on a tighter leash after release, we hope to better facilitate their reintegration into the community."</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="hawaii_cleans_up_after_weekend_quake"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 58 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Hawaii cleans up after weekend quake</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. Oct. 16 2006  7:58 ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 16th, 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= 716 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>Hawaii was under a disaster declaration on Monday after a strong earthquake on Sunday and dozens of aftershocks rattled the islands, causing no deaths but resulting in landslides and blackouts.</B></div> <bR> <div> Governor Linda Lingle issued the declaration, saying the quake caused damage to roads and buildings and left some areas without power. The Honolulu International Airport was operating on emergency power on Monday.</div> <bR> <div> Lingle, who was in a hotel near the quake's epicentre, said the most serious reported injury was a broken arm.</div> <bR> <div> "I would say that the aftershock … was more stressful than the original shake because once the original shake was over, you started to let down a little and to relax," Lingle said.</div> <bR> <div> The Pacific Tsunami Centre reported a preliminary magnitude of 6.5, while the U.S. Geological Survey gave a preliminary magnitude of 6.6.</div> <bR> <div> Dave Curtis, spokesperson for Hawaii state civil defence, told CBC News on Monday that a disaster was declared because of the power outages throughout the state. He said state crews will do an assessment on Monday of damage done to roads. Some lanes "literally collapsed," he said.</div> <bR> <div> "Most folks had a very long day," he said. "For a 6.5, this was a surprisingly mild earthquake. We have a couple of major buildings with some structural damage. Most of the big hotels on the corner coast of the Big Island are up and operating this morning."</div> <bR> <div> Curtis said airports were functioning for the most part, but the power outages caused flights to be delayed or cancelled. Cellphone service and internet service was disrupted but was back to normal on Monday.</div> <bR> <div> As many as 3,000 people were evacuated from three hotels on the Big Island and sought shelter in a gymnasium until alternate accommodation could be found. Hundreds were still in shelters on Monday.</div> <bR> <div> The aftershocks included one measuring a magnitude of 5.8, according to U.S. Geological Survey.</div> <bR> <div> In Honolulu on the island of Oahu, there were widespread power outages after the quake.</div> <bR> <div> The quake hit at 7:07 a.m. local time Sunday, 10 kilometres north-northwest of Kailua-Kona, a town on the west coast of Hawaii Island, also known as the Big Island, said Don Blakeman of the National Earthquake Information Center, part of the U.S. Geological Survey.</div> <bR> <div> On Nov. 16, 1983, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7 caused heavy property damage on Hawaii Island and collapsed trails into a volcano in Hawaiian Volcanoes National Park.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff <I>with files from the Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="ont__town_faces_3rd_day_without_power"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 58 ><NOBR><div> <B>Ontario town faces 3rd day without power</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. Oct. 15 2006  10:19 ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 15th, 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= 774 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>Nearly 11,000 homes and businesses in Ontario's Niagara region were still without electricity Sunday morning, three days after a snowstorm toppled power lines.</B></div> <bR> <div> Crews from as far away as Cornwall in eastern Ontario are working to get the electricity back on in Fort Erie, where a state of emergency remains in effect.</div> <bR> <div> Mayor Wayne Redekop said the bulk of customers with Canadian Niagara Power Company Ltd. should have service by the end of Monday.</div> <bR> <div> "We're coping fairly well under the circumstances, but it's starting to get a bit more difficult now because it's the third day without power, and people can't heat their homes."</div> <bR> <div> Redekop said temperatures are hovering around two to three degrees, while "it's 12 degrees or so" inside most homes.</div> <bR> <div> The town has been operating shelters for the past two nights, but the mayor said "human nature being what it is, people want to stay in their homes."</div> <bR> <div> Nearly 11,000 homes and businesses in Ontario's Niagara region were still without electricity Sunday morning, three days after a snowstorm toppled power lines.</div> <bR> <div> Crews from as far away as Cornwall in eastern Ontario are working to get the electricity back on in Fort Erie, where a state of emergency remains in effect.</div> <bR> <div> Mayor Wayne Redekop said the bulk of customers with Canadian Niagara Power Company Ltd. should have service by the end of Monday.</div> <bR> <div> "We're coping fairly well under the circumstances, but it's starting to get a bit more difficult now because it's the third day without power, and people can't heat their homes."</div> <bR> <div> Redekop said temperatures are hovering around two to three degrees, while "it's 12 degrees or so" inside most homes.</div> <bR> <div> The town has been operating shelters for the past two nights, but the mayor said "human nature being what it is, people want to stay in their homes."</div> <bR> <div> Melting snow has flooded some streets and several basements.</div> <bR> <div> Across the border in Buffalo, N.Y., the storm is being blamed for three deaths after the city was hit with nearly a metre of snow.</div> <bR> <div> About 325,000 homes were still without power in western New York state on Sunday. Public schools in the region will be closed on Monday.</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="security_council_votes_to_impose_north_korea_sanctions"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 125 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Security Council votes to impose North Korea sanctions</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. Oct. 14 2006  8:49 ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 14th, 2006</div> <div> <B>The United Nations Security Council voted Saturday to impose sanctions on North Korea, saying its nuclear test posed "a clear threat to international peace and security."</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="ac5d9f780.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 629 WIDTH="707"><div> The unanimous vote comes a day after the United States and its allies reached a compromise resolution with Russia and China.</div> <bR> <div> The resolution demands North Korea eliminate all its nuclear weapons, but the proposed resolution rules out military action, a demand made by the Russians and the Chinese.</div> <bR> <div> The sanctions tighten the economic noose around the impoverished and secretive communist state.</div> <bR> <div> The resolution limits the embargo to major hardware such as tanks, warships, combat aircraft and missiles. It would also ban the import or export of material and equipment that could be used to make nuclear weapons or ballistic missiles.</div> <bR> <div> Other countries would be able to inspect cargo leaving and arriving in North Korea to prevent any illegal trafficking of such material.</div> <bR> <div> The five permanent council members — the U.S., Russia, China, Britain and France — met Saturday morning before the full 15-member council convened to discuss the proposed compromise.</div> <bR> <div> Japan was to be included in those talks, Bolton said.</div> <bR> <div> While diplomats worked out the final details, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was preparing a trip to China, Japan and South Korea. She will travel to Tokyo on Tuesday before heading to Seoul and Beijing.</div> <bR> <div> "North Korea needs to understand that this is indeed a very, very costly decision that will leave North Korea far worse off and far more isolated than ever before," said Christopher Hill, an aide to Rice, speaking in Washington on Friday.</div> <bR> <div> Meanwhile, preliminary U.S. tests on air samples taken over North Korea found radioactive debris, backing North Korea's claim that it exploded a nuclear device last weekend, according to a draft report distributed to members of U.S. Congress late Friday.</div> <bR> <div> However, the U.S. cautioned that a final analysis of the tests could take several days.</div> <bR> <div> The Chinese and Japanese governments have done their own air sampling and found no trace of radioactive material, officials from both countries said Friday.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff <I>with files from the Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="thousands_without_power_in_buffalo_after_first_snowfall_of_season"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 58 ><NOBR><div> <B>Thousands without power in Buffalo after first snowfall of season</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri. Oct. 13 2006  6:04 ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 13th, 2006</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 774 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>Having just set a record for the "snowiest" October day, the city of Buffalo in western New York state braced for more Friday as the season's first snowfall closed schools and left 155,000 customers without electricity.</B></div> <bR> <div> At least 60 centimetres of snow blanketed parts of the Buffalo area early Friday, signalling a possible second record-setting day. The snow downed scores of tree limbs and toppled power lines.</div> <bR> <div> The snowfall was expected to continue throughout the morning, said Tom Paone, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in the U.S.</div> <bR> <div> On Thursday, 21 centimetres of heavy snow set the record for the "snowiest" October day in Buffalo in the 137-year history of the weather service, said meteorologist Tom Niziol. The previous record of 15 centimetres was set Oct. 31, 1917.</div> <bR> <div> "This is an extremely rare event for this early in the season," Niziol said.</div> <bR> <div> The Buffalo Police Department received more than 3,000 calls late Thursday and about two-thirds were related to the weather, Lt. James Watkins said.</div> <bR> <div> "There are power lines going down all over the place," he said.</div> <bR> <div> Crews worked into the night to restore power, but many customers were expected to remain in the dark through the weekend and into next week, National Grid energy company spokesman Steve Brady said.</div> <bR> <div> "This is extremely heavy snow and most of the trees still have most of their leaves, he said. "We can't do a complete damage assessment until the snow stops falling."</div> <bR> <div> Other western New York communities also experienced heavy snowfall. Officials in Amherst ordered a driving ban for the entire town.</div> <bR> <div> "We have a condition where 80 percent of the roads are impassable," said Lt. Stephen McGonagle of the Amherst Police Department.</div> <bR> <div> Buffalo schools were closed Friday.</div> <bR> <div> The snowstorm caused flight delays and cancellations at Buffalo Niagara International Airport, officials said. The airport shut down for almost two hours late Thursday.</div> <bR> <div> Tree branches were strewn across the roads around the region. A large box maple tree split in half, falling on Joan Casey's home in Buffalo.</div> <bR> <div> "The whole house shook," Casey said. "We were very afraid. Originally I thought it was just the thunder, and then I came outside and I couldn't believe it."</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff <I>with files from the Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="probe_begins_into_nyc_plane_crash_that_killed_ballplayer"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 58 ><NOBR><div> <B>Probe begins into NYC plane crash that killed ballplayer</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Thu. Oct. 12 2006  8:05 ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 12th, 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= 687 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>Investigators have begun sifting through debris after a plane carrying Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle and his flight instructor slammed into a New York City highrise, killing the two.</B></div> <bR> <div> "We have radar data that we are reviewing and we are also collecting information from witness interviews conducted on the scene," said Debbie Hersman of the National Transportation Safety Board.</div> <bR> <div> Hersman said the crash left debris, including aircraft parts, headsets and the pilot's log book, all over the street.</div> <bR> <div> The cause of the crash, which also injured 21 people, hasn't been determined.</div> <bR> <div> Hersman told reporters late Wednesday that no mayday call was issued by the single-engine plane, which crashed about 2:45 p.m. ET, and no flight plan was filed.</div> <bR> <div> The plane smashed into the 40-storey luxury apartment building in Manhattan's affluent Upper East Side, sending black smoke and flames billowing from 30th and 31st floors two floors and sparking fears of a repeat of the Sept. 11, 2001, al-Qaeda attacks.</div> <bR> <div> Baseball fans were in shock after hearing that Lidle, a nine-year veteran who played with several teams, including the Toronto Blue Jays, was acquired by the Yankees in July. The 34-year-old leaves behind a wife and six-year-old son.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Baseball mourns Lidle's death</B></div> <bR> <div> "This is a terrible and shocking tragedy that has stunned the entire Yankees organization," Yankees owner George Steinbrenner said in a statement Wednesday.</div> <bR> <div> Steinbrenner extended sympathies to Lidle's wife and son.</div> <bR> <div> Federal Aviation Administration records showed the plane was registered to the ballplayer.</div> <bR> <div> The small airplane left New Jersey's Teterboro Airport at about 2:30 p.m. ET and was airborne for about 15 minutes before it crashed.</div> <bR> <div> Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Lidle and his flying instructor were believed to be sightseeing and on a route that was to take them over the Statue of Liberty, the Brooklyn Bridge and the Empire State Building.</div> <bR> <div> Twenty-one people, most of them firefighters, were sent to hospital with minor injuries.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff <I>with files from the Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="north_korea_says_u_s__pressure_will_be_seen_as_act_of_war"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 130 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>North Korea says U.S. pressure will be seen as act of war</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. Oct. 11 2006  7:24 ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 11th, 2006</div> <div> <B>North Korea said Wednesday that any increase in pressure from the United States against the communist country would be viewed as an act of war.</B></div> <bR> <div> North Korea's Foreign Ministry said in a statement that North Korea would respond with </div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="ac44a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 592 WIDTH="707"><div> "physical measures" if the U.S. applies pressure on the regime for testing a nuclear weapon on Monday. It also said the nuclear test, conducted underground, was a success.</div> <bR> <div> "If the U.S. keeps pestering us and increases pressure, we will regard it as a declaration of war and will take a series of physical corresponding measures," the ministry said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.</div> <bR> <div> "We were compelled to conduct a nuclear test because of the U.S. nuclear threat and pressure of sanctions," the ministry said. "We are ready for both dialogue and confrontation."</div> <bR> <div> The statement was the first formal comment from the North Korean government since the test was conducted.</div> <bR> <div> "Even though we conducted the nuclear test because of the U.S., we still remain committed to realizing the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula through dialogue and negotiations," the ministry said.</div> <bR> <div> It also claimed that North Korea did not break an agreement reached at international arms talks in September, when the country said it would abandon its nuclear program in exchange for aid and guarantees of security.</div> <bR> <div> North Korea also vowed on Wednesday to carry out more nuclear tests in response to what it calls U.S. hostility.</div> <bR> <div> Kim Yong Nam, second in command to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il as president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, said in an interview in Pyongyang with Japan's Kyodo News agency that the communist country will proceed with its plans depending on U.S. actions.</div> <bR> <div> "The issue of future nuclear tests is linked to U.S. policy toward our country," Kim said.</div> <bR> <div> "If the United States continues to take a hostile attitude and apply pressure on us in various forms, we will have no choice but to take physical steps to deal with that," he said.</div> <bR> <div> South Korea, meanwhile, said it plans to bolster its arsenal of conventional weapons if North Korea is confirmed to have nuclear bombs.</div> <bR> <div> And in a rare direct criticism of North Korea, South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun said he believes that North Korea may be exaggerating its need for security in order to justify its nuclear program.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 571 WIDTH="707"><div> "The security threat North Korea speaks of either does not exist in reality, or is very exaggerated," Roh said in a report by Yonhap news agency.</div> <bR> <div> South Korean Defence Minister Yoon Kwang-ung said South Korea will take steps to protect itself as North Korea issues threats and conducts alleged nuclear tests.</div> <bR> <div> "If North Korea really has the (nuclear) capabilities, we will improve and enlarge the number of conventional weapons as long as it doesn't violate the principle of denuclearization," Yoon told parliament.</div> <bR> <div> "We will supplement (our ability) to conduct precision strikes against storage facilities and intercept delivery means, while also improving the system of having military units and individuals defend themselves," he said.</div> <bR> <div> North Korea announced on Monday that it had carried out a nuclear test. Leaders around the world condemned the move and it provoked a strong reaction from China, traditionally an ally of the regime.</div> <bR> <div> U.S. intelligence officials, however, said they have doubts whether the test was actually conducted and they plan to conduct tests of their own to determine its validity.</div> <bR> <div> North Korea made no mention of a second test, but Japan officials said Tuesday that they feared a second test had taken place when Japan's meteorological agency reported an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 had struck at 8:58 a.m. off the coast of Fukushima, located about 100 kilometres northeast of Tokyo.</div> <bR> <div> Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters on Tuesday that he had no information to confirm the test and the initial suspicions seemed to be related to the earthquake.</div> <bR> <div> In other developments, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Tuesday that the United Nations should take action against North Korea after it conducted its first alleged nuclear test this week.</div> <bR> <div> He said North Korea is trying "to be a threat" and its actions are unacceptable to Canada. Harper said he supports the idea of sanctions against the communist country.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff <I>with files from the Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="china_opposes_military_response_to_n__korean_nuclear_test"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 130 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>China opposes military response to N. Korean nuclear test</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue. Oct. 10 2006  6:37 ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 10th, 2006</div> <div> <B>China said Tuesday it is "firmly against" military action in response to North Korea's nuclear test, which had the United States leading a call for UN sanctions.</B></div> <bR> <div> Liu Jianchao, spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, told a news briefing in Beijing </div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="ac3e9f780.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 285 WIDTH="707"><div> that China does not rule out sanctions against North Korea imposed by the United Nations Security Council, but opposes military action to punish the country.</div> <bR> <div> "We do not endorse any military action toward North Korea. We are firmly against that," Liu said. "Taking military action against North Korea would be unimaginable."</div> <bR> <div> China, an ally of North Korea, said the test is having a negative effect on bilateral relations and it urged North Korea on Tuesday to return to six-party talks about its nuclear program.</div> <bR> <div> China harshly criticized the nuclear test on Monday and insisted that Pyongyang desist from any further action that could make the situation in the region more fragile.</div> <bR> <div> Liu said members of the UN Security Council are not currently talking about taking military force against North Korea. "So this is positive," he said.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Japan holds to no-nukes policy</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 430 WIDTH="707"><div> Meanwhile, Japan is also considering what can be done in light of the test but said it will not affect its ban on nuclear weapons.</div> <bR> <div> Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told a parliamentary session on Tuesday that Japan has no plans to alter its policy of not having nuclear weapons despite the alleged test by North Korea.</div> <bR> <div> "We have no intention of changing our policy that possessing nuclear weapons is not our option," he said. "There will be no change in our non-nuclear arms principles."</div> <bR> <div> Japan's constitution forbids the use of force to settle international disputes, and Japan has a policy of not producing, possessing or using nuclear weapons.</div> <bR> <div> Late Monday, the United States circulated a draft UN resolution calling for tough and immediate sanctions against North Korea. The resolution would include a ban on trade of military and luxury goods and limit financial dealings.</div> <bR> <div> U.S. President George W. Bush said on the weekend that the test requires an "immediate response" from world leaders, while South Korea said the test is a "grave threat" that it cannot be expected to tolerate.</div> <bR> <div> Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper called it an "irresponsible and dangerous act."</div> <bR> <div> The test took place at 10:36 a.m. local time Sunday (9:36 p.m. ET) near the city of Kilju, according to South Korean defence sources cited by South Korea's Yonhap news agency.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff <I>with files from the Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="toxic_carrot_juice_paralyzes_2_in_toronto"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 163 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Toxic carrot juice paralyzes 2 in Toronto</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. Oct. 09 2006  13:43 ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 9th, 2006</div> <div> <B>Two Toronto residents are paralyzed after drinking carrot juice that tested positive for a botulism toxin, according to the city's public health department.</B></div> <bR> <div> "There are two adults who are severely ill in hospital and they had a history of drinking the exact same juice that's been part of the carrot juice recall," Dr. Elizabeth Rea, an associate medical officer of health, told the Toronto Star on Sunday.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="ac3ca0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> One of the three brands of recalled carrot juice. (CBC)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 416 WIDTH="707"><div> The juice, produced by Bolthouse Farms in Bakersfield, Calif., was ordered off North American store shelves late last month after four cases of botulism in the United States were linked to toxic carrot juice.</div> <bR> <div> A Florida woman has been in hospital, unresponsive, since mid-September. Three people in Georgia suffered respiratory failure and are on ventilators since drinking carrot juice a month ago.</div> <bR> <div> Botulism is rare, but it can be fatal and must be treated quickly. Symptoms can include blurred vision, slurred speech, difficulty swallowing and paralysis, Toronto Public Health said.</div> <bR> <div> In severe cases, the paralysis can restrict breathing, forcing patients on to ventilators. There's no word whether the Toronto patients are on ventilators.</div> <bR> <div> Toronto Public Health has warned the public to avoid drinking three brands of carrot juice. The federal regulator, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, issued a product recall covering the three brands on Sept. 30.</div> <bR> <div> Bolthouse Farms bottles the three brands. The recalled products, all sold in both one-litre and 450-millilitre containers, are:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Bolthouse Farms 100% Carrot Juice. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Earthbound Farm Organic Carrot Juice. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c8ffffff00.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">President's Choice Organics 100% Pure Carrot Juice. </div> <bR> <div> Products with a "best by" date up to Nov. 11 have been recalled.</div> <bR> <div> Consumers who have any brand should "take it out of the fridge, dump it down the sink," Rae said.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 484 WIDTH="707"><div> Bolthouse said the cases may have resulted from improper refrigeration. Carrot juice is low in acids, so bacteria can grow unless it's kept below 7 C.</div> <bR> <div> This most recent news of food-poisoning comes after California-grown spinach tainted with a potentially deadly strain of E. coli caused grocers to pull the vegetable from shelves last month. It is suspected in three recent U.S. deaths.</div> <bR> <div> The Canadian Food Inspection Agency issued a warning on Sept. 15, advising consumers not to eat fresh spinach from the U.S., including spinach that is bagged, loose or in salad blends.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Juice recall follows spinach concerns</B></div> <bR> <div> Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it was safe to eat U.S.-packaged spinach again, but Canadian health officials have not yet followed suit.</div> <bR> <div> And on Sunday, Nunes Company Inc. in California's Salinas Valley initiated a voluntary recall of green leaf lettuce purchased last week under the Foxy brand name. Foxy is one of the largest suppliers of lettuce, celery, broccoli, vegetable platters and stir-fry mixes in the United States.</div> <bR> <div> The company made the move after concerns about E. coli contamination of its popular brand of lettuce.</div> <bR> <div> While Nunes Company investigators have not found E. coli bacteria on the lettuce itself, company president Tom Nunes Jr. said it was a precautionary measure.</div> <bR> <div> "We're just reacting to a water test only. We know there's generic E. coli on it, but we're not sure what that means," he said. "We're being extra careful. This is precautionary."</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff <I>with files from the Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="ceremonies_mark_anniversary_of_deadly_pakistan_quake"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 125 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Ceremonies mark anniversary of deadly Pakistan quake</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. Oct. 08 2006  09:12 ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 8th, 2006</div> <div> <B>Pakistanis stopped for a moment of silence Sunday on the first anniversary of the South Asia earthquake that killed 80,000 people, while President Gen. Pervez Musharraf praised reconstruction efforts.</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="ac3b9f780.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 517 WIDTH="707"><div> Sirens wailed and a minute's silence was held at 8:52 a.m. local time, to mark the moment one year earlier when the 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck. It left more than 100,000 people injured and 3.5 million homeless in northern Pakistan and disputed Kashmir, the region divided between India and Pakistan.</div> <bR> <div> Hundreds of people stood in silence in the bustling main street of Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani-controlled Kashmir and one of the worst hit cities.</div> <bR> <div> Musharraf led a sombre memorial ceremony at the grounds of Muzaffarabad's Azad Jammu Kashmir University, which was destroyed in the earthquake.</div> <bR> <div> He praised the massive relief effort led by Pakistan's military, which sprang into action immediately after the quake to rescue people from the rubble, provide relief and begin large-scale reconstruction.</div> <bR> <div> "It is a victory for the government, for the army, for the people, for the non-governmental organizations and for the world that supported it," Musharraf told at least 1,000 people who attended the service.</div> <bR> <div> "It was due to the help and generosity of the whole world and the NGOs that we were able to improve the situation."</div> <bR> <div> The Pakistani president also urged people affected by the quake to be patient, promising his government was working to improve their lives.</div> <bR> <div> The task of rebuilding is daunting, even with pledges of $6.7 billion in aid. More than 600,000 homes, 6,500 schools and 800 clinics and hospitals were destroyed by the quake, as well as about 6,500 kilometres of roads.</div> <bR> <div> In Muzaffarabad, the force of the quake toppled hundreds of buildings, trapping thousands under the rubble. The quake triggered massive landslides that sheared thousands of tonnes of soil from towering mountains surrounding the city. Ghostly white scars still remain on the mountain faces where the land was cut away.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Hotels in business, but homeless in tents</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 608 WIDTH="707"><div> But life here has assumed a degree of normality among the partially cleared ruins. Hotels are undergoing reconstruction and doing a brisk trade. Rubble and collapsed minarets no longer block the narrow alleys of Medina Market.</div> <bR> <div> Crudely repaired stores are well stocked. Across the city, children attend class at schools set up in tents and prefabricated buildings.</div> <bR> <div> Displaced families still crowd city parks and hillsides, living in crudely erected shacks or under canvas. The government says about 40,000 people remain in tents and that reconstruction has started on one-fifth of the homes destroyed by the disaster.</div> <bR> <div> Hundreds of memorial services were held across Pakistan to mark a disaster that prompted a massive outpouring of humanitarian relief and reconstruction aid.</div> <bR> <div> Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz were expected to travel throughout the northern Pakistani quake zones on Sunday to attend ceremonies and inaugurate facilities built in the year since the earthquake ravaged cities, towns and mountain villages.</div> <bR> <div> About 100 members of the hardline Jamaat-e-Islami group held a prayer service at a small Muzaffarabad mosque.</div> <bR> <div> In the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, about 200 people observed a minute's silence at the site of the luxury Margalla Towers apartment building that collapsed in the quake, killing 74 people.</div> <bR> <div> Among those attending were relatives of those who died. Many hugged each other, wept and placed flowers at the site where the apartment block once stood.</div> <bR> <div> "We have gathered here to pay our respects to the departed souls and to renew our commitment to helping those still in need," Jan Vandemoortele, the UN's humanitarian co-ordinator in Pakistan, said at a separate ceremony near the towers.</div> <bR> <div> Musharraf has said his government will ensure the provision of basic facilities to those affected by the quake and that he hopes 80 per cent of the reconstruction will be completed in the next three years.</div> <bR> <div> Aid organizations have said the reconstruction could take up to eight years to complete.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff <I>with files from the Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="rolling_stones_dazzle_crowd_at_1st_regina_show"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 199 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Rolling Stones dazzle crowd at 1st Regina show</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sat. Oct. 07 2006  07:24 CT</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 7th, 2006</div> <div> <B>In Regina's biggest rock show ever — and its best, according to some of the 40,000 fans in attendance — the Rolling Stones played in Saskatchewan for the first time on Friday night.</B></div> <bR> <div> Under a full moon on an unseasonably mild October night at Mosaic Stadium at Taylor Field, the band many call the world's greatest gave the crowd two hours of iconic hits and sent them out in a blissful mood.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="ac399f780.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Keith Richards charmed a crowd of 40,000 in Regina on Friday night as the Rolling Stones played in Saskatchewan for the first time.</div> <div> (CBC)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 526 WIDTH="707"><div> "It was awesome, the highlight of my fall," said Janice Rothermel of Qu'Appelle, Sask., east of Regina.</div> <bR> <div> Rothermel said the light show was fantastic and she was thrilled to hear old hits like <I>Satisfaction</I> played live. It was also exciting to hear members of the band talk about her province, she said.</div> <bR> <div> "It was like they really took an interest in where they were. It was definitely worth the price of the tickets."</div> <bR> <div> The show, and a second one on Sunday, have been the talk of the town for weeks and were expected to inject more than $10 million into the economy.</div> <bR> <div> Friday's concert began with an explosion of fireworks and the opening chords of <I>Jumpin' Jack Flash</I>. Vocalist Mick Jagger burst onto the mammoth 300-tonne stage and for the next 120 minutes ran, danced, pranced, strutted and shook his hips.</div> <bR> <div> The set was largely a medley of fan favourites interspersed with songs from <I>A Bigger Bang</I>, the band's bluesy new album.</div> <bR> <div> There were streamers, giant flames, a giant inflatable mouth and tongue, and a sliding stage that took the band halfway down the field.</div> <bR> <div> Jagger worked hard to charm the crowd and it appeared to pay off.</div> <bR> <div> "Thank you, home of the Roughriders," he said as the crowd roared its approval, just before the band tore into <I>Tumbling Dice.</I></div> <bR> <div> Jagger pronounced Saskatchewan correctly and made a couple of comments about the city and province that had the audience cheering. Even an old joke about Regina got some laughs.</div> <bR> <div> "Someone told me, 'Regina, it rhymes with fun,'" he said.</div> <bR> <div> Keith Richards, meanwhile, had the crowd awestruck and amused by turns.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 505 WIDTH="707"><div> During a solo, he smiled and took a long drag on a cigarette, to the apparent delight of those in the crowd who had heard media reports suggesting he might get ticketed for violating a no-smoking bylaw.</div> <bR> <div> The notoriously hard-living rocker said it was nice to see the people in the stadium. "It's nice to see anybody," he added.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Fans flocked from several provinces</B></div> <bR> <div> For the first concert, fans came from Saskatoon, Sturgis and Madge Lake and dozens of other communities around the province. Others made the journey from Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario to see Jagger, Richards, Ron Wood and Charlie Watts.</div> <bR> <div> James Sterling of Moose Jaw came out of the stadium with a grin on his face.</div> <bR> <div> "I was amazed at how great they were live," he said. "And to see a 63-year-old [Jagger] run around like that? I don't think I could keep up with him — I'm 31."</div> <bR> <div> In the minutes before the show got underway, a carnival-like atmosphere prevailed outside the stadium. Scalpers tried to get rid of the last of their tickets. Vendors flogged $10 "Bigger Bang" key chains. Kids with cardboard signs flagged down people looking for parking.</div> <bR> <div> Two blocks away, a cherry picker with a bucket was put into position to hoist people where they could watch the show for free.</div> <bR> <div> One man paced outside the stadium wearing a sandwich board that read "I need Stones tickets."</div> <bR> <div> Later, a woman was spotted wearing the same sandwich board. Her explanation? The man had sold it to her.</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="death_toll_of_soldiers_in_afghanistan_is_price_of_leadership_harper"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 26 ><NOBR><div> <B>Death toll of soldiers in Afghanistan is price of leadership: Harper</B></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 172 WIDTH="540"><div> Web Posted | Last Updated Fri. Oct. 06 2006  07:33 ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 6th, 2006</div> <div> <B>Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the death toll of Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan is the price Canada is paying for playing a leadership role in world affairs.</B></div> <bR> <div> In a speech in Calgary on Thursday night, Harper praised Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, saying they are well aware of the risks involved in their work there.</div> <bR> <div> "The Canadian men and women who serve there have gone willingly, knowing that not all of them will return," he said.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="ac34a08f0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="143" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 372 WIDTH="707"><div> Thirty-nine Canadian soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since Canada first sent troops there in early 2002.</div> <bR> <div> Harper said Canadians want their country to be confident and to take a clear role in the world, even it is not always the safest path. "A Canada that doesn't just criticize, but one that can contribute," he said. "They want a Canada that reflects their values and interests, and that punches above its weight."</div> <bR> <div> Harper, who was in Calgary to receive the Woodrow Wilson Award for public service, made his comments as the bodies of two Canadian soldiers were making their way back home to Canada.</div> <bR> <div> Sgt. Craig Paul Gillam and Cpl. Robert Thomas James Mitchell were killed on Tuesday. They were both members of the Royal Canadian Dragoons, based in Petawawa, Ont. Their bodies were expected to arrive at 7 p.m. ET at CFB Trenton in eastern Ontario.</div> <bR> <div> Gillam and Mitchell were providing security for a road construction project about 20 kilometres west of Kandahar when a handful of insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles attacked. They were killed in the attack, which also left five other soldiers wounded.</div> <bR> <div> They were the 38th and 39th Canadian soldiers to die in Afghanistan since Canada first sent troops to the troubled country in early 2002.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff <I>with files from the Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="drug_could_reverse_effects_of_macular_degeneration"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 125 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Drug could reverse effects of macular degeneration</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. Oct. 04 2006  22:38 ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 5th, 2006</div> <div> <B>A recent medical breakthrough may reverse the effects of macular degeneration, a major cause of blindness in North America and Europe. But its high cost is already prompting doctors to find a cheap alternative.</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="ac27a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 33 WIDTH="707"><div> "It's the first treatment that actually causes vision improvement in the average patient, with 35 to 40 per cent of patients showing significant vision improvement," Dr. Philip Rosenfeld, of the University of Miami School of Medicine, told CTV News.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=CENTER HEIGHT= 169 WIDTH="540"><div> There are about 250,000 new cases of macular degeneration in Canada and the United States each year.</div> <bR> <div> The disease is largely associated with aging -- patients are typically at least 65 years old -- and causes blood vessels to form in the back of the eye. Patients lose their ability to see clearly, and in some cases become legally blind.</div> <bR> <div> Jean King was one of thousands of Canadian seniors who struggled with macular degeneration, as it slowly took away her sight.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="ac28a0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Dr. Philip Rosenfeld, of the University of Miami School of Medicine.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 580 WIDTH="707"><div> "It mainly caused blurriness. I found I couldn't read as much," said King.</div> <bR> <div> So far, treatments have effectively stopped vision loss. But a new drug called Lucentis may actually restore vision. The drug is injected directly into the eye, stopping blood vessels from forming.</div> <bR> <div> But Lucentis, already approved for use in the United States and likely to become available in Canada in the next few months, is extremely expensive.</div> <bR> <div> "It costs $2,000 per monthly injection. That adds up to some $48,000 for the recommended two years of treatment," reported CTV's Avis Favaro.</div> <bR> <div> North American eye specialists have started using a cheap alternative that is about one tenth the cost of Lucentis, and made by the same pharmaceutical company.</div> <bR> <div> Avastin is designed to treat colon cancer, but it's chemically similar to Lucentis. Doctors are using it on patients like King -- a practice called "off-label use" -- and finding the cheaper drug could be about as effective.</div> <bR> <div> King said she noticed the effects of Avastin after just one injection that cost $250.</div> <bR> <div> "My vision cleared considerably. I noticed quite a difference the next day," she said.</div> <bR> <div> The manufacturer of the two drugs, Genentech, has not invested in further tests for the less expensive Avastin.</div> <bR> <div> "You really expect Avastin to have similar efficacy. However, we do need to perform a clinical study to make sure the treatment is safe," said Rosenfeld.</div> <bR> <div> But a lack of clinical trials may not matter to patients who can't afford to spend more money on the proven Lucentis drug.</div> <bR> <div> "The good news is that patients with macular degeneration will have access to two drugs that may restore their sight," said Favaro.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with a report by CTV's Avis Favaro.</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="asian_nations_urge_north_korea_not_to_carry_out_nuclear_test"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 58 ><NOBR><div> <B>Asian nations urge North Korea not to carry out nuclear test</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Wed. Oct. 04 2006  6:00 ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 4th, 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= 695 WIDTH="707"><div> <B>China, Japan and South Korea warned North Korea on Wednesday not to carry out a nuclear test after Pyongyang announced Tuesday that it plans to do so to fend off what it calls growing U.S. hostility.</B></div> <bR> <div> Leaders of North Korea's neighbours said they are planning to meet in the next two weeks to discuss the issue.</div> <bR> <div> China, meanwhile, called on North Korea on Wednesday to remain calm and exercise restraint and urged its other neighbours to avoid actions that would exacerbate tensions in the region.</div> <bR> <div> South Korea's Unification Minister Lee Jong-seok, who deals with North Korea on security issues, said Wednesday that there are no signs that a test is imminent.</div> <bR> <div> But Lee said there was a "high possibility" it would take place eventually if efforts to restart six-party nuclear talks fail to convince North Korea to abandon its plans.</div> <bR> <div> Pak Myong-guk, an official who speaks for North Korea at its embassy in Australia, said the planned nuclear test is not designed as a move to provoke other nations.</div> <bR> <div> "It is just the corresponding measure for defence, for us to defend ourselves," Pak told the Associated Press. "It is the really essential process for nuclear deterrence."</div> <bR> <div> Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Japan would not tolerate a nuclear test and he is scheduled to visit South Korea and China at the end of the week. The purpose of the visits are to improve relations but the nuclear announcement will likely be on the agenda.</div> <bR> <div> His office said he would meet with Chinese leaders on Oct. 8 and 9. Meanwhile, South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun plans to speak with Chinese President Hu Jintao on Oct. 13. He has called for a "cool-headed and stern" response to the North.</div> <bR> <div> U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in Cairo on other international business, said the announcement by North Korea that it plans to detonate a bomb should be a wake-up call to other countries in the region and they should rethink their relationship with North Korea.</div> <bR> <div> "It would be a very provocative act," Rice said. "I think that you would see that a number of states in the region would need to reassess where they are now with North Korea."</div> <bR> <div> The U.S. is expected to raise the issue on Wednesday with China and other members of the United Nations Security Council.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff <I>with files from the Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="mysterious_grudge_probed_in_amish_school_shooting"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 183 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Mysterious grudge probed in Amish school shooting</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Tue. Oct. 03 2006  8:00 ET</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 3rd, 2006</div> <div> <B>A fifth girl died of wounds from an Amish schoolhouse shooting in Pennsylvania's Lancaster County as the community grappled to understand the motive of a gunman consumed by a mysterious decades-old grudge.</B></div> <bR> <div> A fourth girl died early this morning about 4:30 a.m. at Penn State Children's Hospital in Hershey, hospital spokeswoman Amy Buehler Stranges told The Associated Press.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="ac1da0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> This undated photo released by the Pennsylvania State Police shows Charles Carl Roberts IV (AP / Pennsylvania State Police)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 430 WIDTH="707"><div> "Her parents were with her,'' Buehler Stranges said. "She was taken off life support and she passed away shortly after.''</div> <bR> <div> The seven-year-old girl was wounded when a gunman burst into a one-room Amish schoolhouse Monday and killed three girls execution-style before committing suicide in the third deadly U.S. school shooting in the past week.</div> <bR> <div> Charles Carl Roberts, apparently spurred by a two-decades-old grudge, ordered the boys and some adults to leave the school.</div> <bR> <div> He then barricaded the doors with two-by fours and piled-up desks, made the remaining girls line up along a blackboard, and tied their feet together.</div> <bR> <div> Then he opened fire, shooting the girls in rapid succession at close range, before he took his own life.</div> <bR> <div> Three were found dead, while another seven were critically injured. There have been conflicting reports on whether one of the victims was a teacher's aide.</div> <bR> <div> A 6-year-old girl remained in critical condition and a 13-year-old girl was in serious condition at Penn State Children's, Buehler Stranges said.</div> <bR> <div> Another three girls, ages 8, 10 and 12, were flown to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where they were out of surgery but remained in critical condition Tuesday, spokeswoman Peggy Flynn said.</div> <bR> <div> One other victim was transported by helicopter to Delaware's Christiana Hospital, where officials declined to release information.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 183 WIDTH="540"><div> The attack bore similarities to a deadly school shooting last week in Bailey, Colo. last Wednesday where a drifter took six female high school students hostage, molested them and then shot one dead before killing himself as police closed in.</div> <bR> <div> Then on Friday, a 15-year-old student killed his school's principal in western Wisconsin.</div> <bR> <div> Canada has also felt the horror of gun violence at a school as recently as last month, when a gunman killed one woman and wounded 20 other people at Dawson College in Montreal.</div> <bR> <div> <B>The gunman's motive</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="ac1ea0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A body is removed from a schoolhouse after a gunman killed several people, in Nickel Mines, Pa. (AP / Matt Rourke)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 968 WIDTH="707"><div> Friends and family said the 32-year-old Roberts was an ordinary man and a devoted father who showed few signs of trouble in the days leading up to the attack.</div> <bR> <div> Neighbours and family members said they saw no indication that would lead Roberts, who was not Amish, to open fire on the young girls.</div> <bR> <div> "Absolutely not," said Lois Fiester, a relative of Roberts who was standing outside the family's modest ranch house told AP. "They're a fine Christian family. It's ironic and it's heartbreaking."</div> <bR> <div> In a statement released to reporters, Marie Roberts called her husband "loving, supportive and thoughtful."</div> <bR> <div> "He was an exceptional father," she said. "He took the kids to soccer practice and games, played ball in the backyard and took our 7-year-old daughter shopping. He never said no when I asked him to change a diaper."</div> <bR> <div> But Roberts had left a rambling suicide note and letter to his wife and children, referring to an event for which he sought revenge.</div> <bR> <div> "He was angry with life and was angry at God," Commissioner Jeffrey Miller of Pennsylvania state police said at a news conference.</div> <bR> <div> Roberts also called his wife during the siege by cell phone to tell her he was getting even for a long-ago offence, according to Miller.</div> <bR> <div> Miller said it was clear from interviews with co-workers at the dairy where Roberts worked as a truck driver that his mood had darkened in recent days.</div> <bR> <div> Miller said Roberts was apparently preparing for a long siege, arming himself with a 9mm semiautomatic pistol, a 12-gauge shotgun and a rifle, along with a bag of about 600 rounds of ammunition, two cans of smokeless powder, two knives and a stun gun on his belt. He also had rolls of tape, various tools and a change of clothes.</div> <bR> <div> Investigators said they were looking into the possibility the attack may have been related to the death of one of Roberts' own children.</div> <bR> <div> According to an obituary, Roberts and his wife lost a daughter shortly after she was born in 1997.</div> <bR> <div> State police refused to divulge further details, citing concern for other people involved.</div> <bR> <div> The tragedy stunned the peaceful, largely Amish community about 90 kilometres west of Philadelphia, where descendants of settlers of Swiss-German descent have preserved a religious lifestyle that shuns aspects of modern life like cars and electricity.</div> <bR> <div> Amish farmers live simply, travel by horse and buggy and cultivate the land using old-fashioned traditions.</div> <bR> <div> These traditions are likely helping them come to grips with the tragedy, said a senior fellow in the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College in Lancaster County.</div> <bR> <div> "I think the Amish community has a remarkable capacity for dealing with diversity. In many ways, they are better prepared to deal with this kind of situation than many other Americans," Professor Donald Kraybill, a leading scholar of Amish communities, told CTV's Canada AM.</div> <bR> <div> "Partly because of their religious world view, even horrific events like this are part of the providence of God and that there may be a greater purpose or a greater good here that isn't apparent at first."</div> <bR> <div> Written by CTV.ca News Staff <I>with files from the Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="ignatieff_out_front_in_liberal_leadership_race"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 125 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Ignatieff out front in Liberal leadership race</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Mon. Oct. 02 2006  6:43:00 EDT</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 2nd, 2006</div> <div> <B>Toronto MP Michael Ignatieff emerged as the clear front-runner for the leadership of the federal Liberal party after members across the country voted for delegates to attend the leadership convention in December.</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="aaba9f780.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 828 WIDTH="707"><div> Unofficial results of three days of voting on the Liberals' "super weekend" put Ignatieff in the lead with 30 per cent of the delegates nationally, followed by former Ontario premier Bob Rae with 19 per cent.</div> <bR> <div> Former Ontario education minister Gerard Kennedy and Stéphane Dion, the lone Quebec candidate, tied for third at 16 per cent.</div> <bR> <div> The other contenders — former hockey player Ken Dryden, sole Atlantic candidate Scott Brison, Toronto MP Joe Volpe and Toronto lawyer Martha Hall Finlay — have less than five per cent each.</div> <bR> <div> About 4,300 delegates were chosen to attend the convention in Montreal Nov. 28 to Dec. 3 when the next leader of the Liberal party will be chosen. Delegates are expected to vote on the first ballot for the candidate for whom they pledged their support and a tally of their stated preferences is a fairly accurate reflection of the results of the first ballot.</div> <bR> <div> More than 80 per cent of results were reported Sunday.</div> <bR> <div> Ignatieff, however, said Sunday he is not making any assumptions about winning, telling his supporters in Toronto that his front-runner status does not guarantee a win.</div> <bR> <div> "I don't take anything for granted," he said. "I don't think I'm vulnerable, but I don't think I'm in an all-powerful position. I look at the strength I've got. We'll get more support but there's two more months to do."</div> <bR> <div> In those two months, there will be a battle for delegate support on a second ballot and on subsequent ballots if need be. A candidate needs more than half of the votes cast to win the leadership, according to party rules.</div> <bR> <div> Rae said Sunday that the race is by no means over.</div> <bR> <div> "The whole purpose of the exercise this weekend is to get us into position to run for the prize in December. We're in a position to do that now and we just have to keep going in the direction we're going," he said.</div> <bR> <div> For Rae, the challenge will be to convince delegates his past political experience is not a liability.</div> <bR> <div> The other two candidates in the top four have their own challenges. Kennedy did not fare well in Quebec, while Dion did not garner a lot of support in Ontario.</div> <bR> <div> Ignatieff is expected to try to appeal to delegates as the strongest national candidate whose political inexperience is an asset in a party that is trying to rebuild itself from internal divisions and electoral defeat.</div> <bR> <div> In more than half of the 75 Quebec constituencies, the party is allowing mail-in ballots, meaning official results are not expected until later in the week.</div> <bR> <div> About 100 uncommitted delegates, roughly two per cent of the total, were also selected.</div> <bR> <div> In addition to elected delegates, another 1,000 delegates are automatically able to attend the convention — MPs, senators, past candidates, riding presidents and assorted party officials who are not bound on the first ballot.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff <I>with files from the Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="707"><div> =======================</div> <div>  <A NAME="overpass_collapse_kills_5"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 133 WIDTH="540"><div> <B>Overpass collapse kills 5</B></div> <div> Web Posted | Last Updated Sun. Oct. 01 2006  12:23:00 EDT</div> <div> Giant Dwarf Posted: October 1st, 2006</div> <div> <B>Five people were killed when a highway overpass collapsed in Laval, north of Montreal, sending tonnes of concrete onto two cars, police said on Sunday.</B></div> <bR> <div> Three of the victims were in one of the cars, while two were in a second vehicle.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="aab79f780.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 113 WIDTH="707"><div> Crane operators recovered the wrecked cars early Sunday after crews worked for nearly 15 hours to clear tonnes of rubble.</div> <bR> <div> They loaded the vehicles onto a flatbed truck and took them to a municipal garage. They were crushed so badly they barely reached the knees of one firefighter on the scene.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Debris fell ahead of collapse</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 200 WIDTH="540"><div> Reports say people saw chunks of concrete falling from the overpass, about one hour before it crumbled around 12:30 p.m. ET on Saturday.</div> <bR> <div> Transport Quebec spokesman Mario St-Pierre told a Montreal newspaper, the Gazette, a maintenance crew was dispatched to the scene to clean up the pieces of concrete that had fallen.</div> <bR> <div> "Portions of structures like this fall off all the time and most of the time that does not affect the stability of the bridge," he told the paper.</div> <bR> <div> A stretch of three lanes of the viaduct, part of Boulevard de la Concorde, gave way, dropping </div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="165"><div> <IMG SRC="aab8a07f0.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="127" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> At least four people died and six were injured after the overpass collapsed. (Ryan Remiorz / Canadian Press)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 522 WIDTH="707"><div> onto Highway 19 below, causing six vehicles and a motorcycle on the overpass to plunge 15 metres.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Spinal column injuries</B></div> <bR> <div> Six people were injured, two critically. Three of the four adults undergoing treatment at Sacré-Coeur Hospital in Montreal suffered vertebral fractures, Dr. Jacques Laplante told reporters.</div> <bR> <div> One of the injured underwent surgery Sunday morning, while another was to undergo an operation later in the day, he said.</div> <bR> <div> Robert Hotte of Laval was driving east on Boulevard de la Concorde when his car fell to the highway below. He and his girlfriend escaped with minor injuries.</div> <bR> <div> "It was like a roller-coaster ride. I saw just in front of me the bridge collapsing," he told CBC News. "Then it became all dark. We managed to get out from my side window."</div> <bR> <div> Renata Isopo, who lives a few houses away from the overpass, said the collapse sounded like an earthquake.</div> <bR> <div> "It was something like a huge rock rolling down, just making one enormous thump — making the houses shake," she said.</div> <bR> <div> Laval Mayor Gilles Vaillancourt told CBC News the bridge was 35 years old and there was no reason to suspect problems.</div> <bR> <div> "Buses were going on it, trucks, everybody was going on it every day. The bridge had been inspected less than a year ago."</div> <bR> <div> This is the second bridge to come down in Laval in seven years. In 2000, an overpass under construction collapsed, killing one man. Inspectors are now checking all bridges in the area to make sure they are sound.</div> <bR> <div> Written by CBC News Staff <I>with files from the Associated Press</I></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <A HREF="#top" TITLE="Oct 06"><U><IMG SRC="16243f0d0.png" border=0 width="63" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>