The colours dance slowly on the walls of St. Gabriel's Catholic Church, descending gently down one wall, and then the next. Throughout, light floods in through the church's floor-to-ceiling south window, the room's minimalist décor an ideal canvas for nature's offerings.

FRASERBURG, ONT.–At Camp Big Canoe, some things are done outside the box. To tell the weather, campers look at the big hunk of granite lodged on the beach in front of the craft shack.

If the little dog barked, the jig was up. The unlicensed shih-poo cross, Jasper, was barricaded in a second-floor bedroom. His owners waited ... ready to muffle any sound if a clipboard-bearing student came to the door.

At Camp Big Canoe, some things are done outside the box.

For each of the 10,382 hugs doled out at Ontario Place yesterday, a jar of peanut butter was donated to the Daily Bread Food Bank to feed the hungry in the GTA.

The saga of Balm Beach's most famous fence took another turn this week after a key player in the dispute was arrested for mischief. Elizabeth Marion, an owner of the contentious fence that has so many people in Tiny Township upset, was arrested on Friday stemming from an incident in mid-June.

Saddam Hussein will soon be helping to keep the lights lit on Toronto's Bay Street – and wherever else the North American power grid flows.

Nastasia Elzinga, the sole survivor of a horrific crash in cottage country that killed three of her friends Thursday, was unconscious, trapped by her seat belt in a car filling with water when an unknown rescuer sprang to her aid, a friend says after talking to the young woman.

More than two decades ago, Jim Brickman had the opportunity to buy an ownership stake in The Beer Store. Brickman says he's now kicking himself for saying "no."

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Sunny Freeman Staff Reporter Motorists on the QEW should expect delays overnight as the Burlington St. overpass in Hamilton is removed. Traffic in all four westbound lanes of the QEW near the entrance to the Red Hill Creek Expressway will be reduced to a single lane until 9 a.m. Sunday.

Repairs are up and sales are down. The economy might not be in a recession yet, but consumers have already begun pinching their pennies. Sales of some luxury items, such as power boats, are crashing.

The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program, a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium, reached Montreal today to complete a top-secret U.S. operation.

Jackson Hayes Staff Reporter One man is dead and another is injured after a boating accident early this morning in Trenton. The crash came along a section of the Trent River east of Front St. after midnight.

Repairs are up and sales are down. The economy might not be in a recession yet, but consumers have already begun pinching their pennies.

Police forces in some parts of the country say drivers are slowing down as the price of gasoline continues to rise.

A developer planning the boot-shaped L Tower condominium project above the city-owned Sony Centre for the Performing Arts is giving the theatre $1 million in the form of a new condo unit and cash.

A judge has thrown out firearms charges against two men, ruling that drug squad officers storming a west Toronto apartment used excessive force, and that much of their testimony is "unreliable, likely false."

Every crisis has a tipping point. Zimbabwe crossed that divide so surreptitiously this week that the change seems just like more of the same. As is often the case, the political plates shifted with a squeak, not a bang.

It cost an Ontario man almost half a million dollars to save his own life, but he may have to pay even more.