Photo:Adrian Wyld/CP The Delta Lodge at Kananaskis will host the G8 Summit.

G8 leaders gather in Kananaskis By SANDRA DIMITRAKOPOULOS, CTV News Staff Leaders of the world's richest nations will focus on an African action plan, terrorism and global economic growth when they gather for the G8 summit in Kananaskis, Alta. FULL STORY

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Activists range from knitters to UN envoys By CHRISTINE BOYD, Globe and Mail Update Declining living standards, environmental and labour issues top the wide-ranging list of concerns for protestors at the G8 Summit. FULL STORY

Photo:Richard Lam/CP RCMP checks a delivery truck in Whistler, B.C., for the G8 foreign ministers' meeting earlier this month.

Security forces brace for worst-case scenario at G8 Summit By MIKE BOARD, CFCN Plus Calgary police and armed forces are combining to provide the largest peacetime security effort in Canadian history during the G8 summit. FULL STORY

SIERRA LEONE IN PICTURES Port Loko, a town of 15,000, has neither banks nor telephones, and the local river is a multipurpose waterway, used for transportation, bathing and washing clothes as well as providing water for drinking and cooking. View our Photo Gallery

Africa on the brink By STEPHANIE NOLEN, The Globe and Mail World leaders are coming to Canada to discuss a rescue plan for the planet's most troubled continent, but do they realize just how great that challenge is? The Globe's Stephanie Nolen spent five weeks criss-crossing six countries and finds that Africa's hopes -- and needs -- have never been greater. This is the first of a four-part series on what she has learned in Sierra Leone, a nation best known for diamonds, death and destruction. FULL STORY