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Governor General Michaelle Jean arrives in Haiti for 2-day visit
Monday, 8 March 2010 - 8:34am PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean arrived in Haiti on Monday on a two-day visit to her homeland, devastated by a cataclysmic earthquake Jan. 12.
Jean’s plane landed at Port-au-Prince some 12 minutes late.
But that didn’t inconvenience her hosts — President Rene Preval was even later. The presidential motorcade hadn’t arrived yet when she landed at the airport.
Families of Canadian soldiers come to Afghanistan to mourn lost loved ones
Thursday, 4 March 2010 - 8:33am KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Christine Plamondon wanted to see where her boyfriend spent his final days.
Trooper Jack Bouthillier had only been away for a short while when a roadside bomb took his life, and they hadn’t talked much about what it was like to be on the base.
“It was important for me to come here just to be in Jack’s shoes in his last moments,” Plamondon said Thursday.
Harper urges Canadians to shed quiet nature to cheer on Canada’s Olympic team
Friday, 12 February 2010 - 8:56am VICTORIA — Canadians should drop their normally quiet nationalist ways during the Winter Olympics to loudly and proudly cheer on Canada’s Olympic athletes, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday.
Harper helped lead the nationalistic charge, unfurling a Canadian flag with B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell, and chanting, “Go, Canada, Go.”
Gretzky? Greene Raine? Terry Fox’s family?Speculation rife over final 2010 torchbearer
Thursday, 11 February 2010 - 8:45am VANCOUVER — Will it be the Great One or Sid the Kid? A former Olympic darling or someone who could stand on the medal podium this time around?
Speculation abounds about who will carry the final Olympic torch to light the cauldron marking the start of the 2010 Games in just two days.
Olympic flame to finally arrive in Vancouver after cross-Canada relay
Thursday, 11 February 2010 - 8:37am VANCOUVER — The Olympic flame, which was lit in Greece and has now touched every province and territory of Canada in the hands of thousands of torchbearers, was finally set to arrive in the host city of Vancouver on Thursday.
The torch relay was scheduled to reach Vancouver in the early afternoon before passing through nearby communities of Port Moody, Port Coquitlam and Burnaby.
Showing the love: Canadians craft more than 20,000 valentines for veterans
Thursday, 11 February 2010 - 8:29am OTTAWA — Canada’s veterans living in long-term care facilities will be feeling the love from across the country with the delivery of special valentines created by fellow Canadians.
More than 20,000 valentines were received by Veterans Affairs Canada for its annual Valentines for Vets program.
Flood threat likely to be low
Friday, 19 March 2010 - 1:06pm WINNIPEG—People in Manitoba’s Red River Valley should be able to breathe more easier this spring than the thousands who have been trying to hold back rising waters upstream in North Dakota.
Weeks of warm, dry weather gradually have melted snow about two weeks earlier than usual and reduced the likelihood of flooding in the coming weeks.
‘Ring of Fire’ blockade ends
Friday, 19 March 2010 - 1:03pmTHUNDER BAY, Ont.—Mining companies with interests in the so-called “Ring of Fire” chromite deposit can head up to their claims again after a two-month-long First Nations’ blockade of frozen landing strips ended.
Arrest made in deathbed theft
Friday, 19 March 2010 - 1:01pm TORONTO—The husband of an 83-year-old woman who was robbed on her deathbed at a hospital in Toronto says he can’t believe anyone would do this.
The husband told CityNews yesterday he may have passed the thieves inside Toronto East General Hospital before they stole $7,000 in jewellery from his wife, Edna, just moments before she died on Tuesday.
Tories accede to ban on MP mail-outs
Thursday, 18 March 2010 - 1:09pmOTTAWA—The Conservative government has decided those lowly one-page partisan MP mail-outs that tend to wind up in household recycling bins may not be worth the fight after all.
