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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.
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.
Woman dead to feds—twice
Thursday, 18 March 2010 - 1:09pm GARDEN OF EDEN, N.S.—Theresa Fraser has a good sense of humour, but the 76-year-old wasn’t laughing when the federal government told her for a second time that she was dead.
“It is quite a shocker really,” Fraser said yesterday.
“If a person was sick . . . it would really upset you,” she added.
New trial for Pickton would sour perception of justice: Crown
Thursday, 18 March 2010 - 1:08pm VANCOUVER—The evidence against convicted serial-killer Robert Pickton was “overwhelming,” and he does not deserve a new trial on six counts of murder, B.C. prosecutors say.
In their brief to the Supreme Court of Canada ahead of Pickton’s appeal next week, the Crown lawyers said evidence against Pickton is so strong that a re-trial undoubtedly would produce a guilty verdict.
Police intercept boat loaded with cocaine
Tuesday, 16 March 2010 - 12:49pm PORT HARDY, B.C.—Two men have been charged after a sailboat packed with cocaine was seized at Port Hardy on Vancouver Island earlier this month.
Police found more than 1,000 kg of the drug aboard a 16-metre boat called “The Huntress” after it arrived from Panama on March 4.
