HighwayOfHeroes

Moira Peters — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 03:40:04 +0000

Highway 401, the section between the military base in Trenton and Toronto, has been disputably renamed "The Highway of Heroes" in honour of Canada’s fallen soldiers in Afghanistan. Crowds gather to pay tribute as Canadian soldiers' corpses – now numbering 106 – are transfered from Trenton to Toronto. Close to 20,000 Afghan deaths are estimated in the same war. Canada's recent deployment of warplanes over Afghanistan illustrate an extension of combat operations in spite of widespread opposition in Canada to the war.

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dawn — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:57:30 +0000

Alberta's boreal desert: the tar sands.

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dawn — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:55:15 +0000

As if in allegiance to the tar sands gigaproject, a convoy of trucks drives out of the mines near Fort McMurray.

The Dominion - Luc Bourgeois

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