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OTTAWA and KABUL – The families of the three Canadian soldiers wounded by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan were due to arrive at a military hospital in Germany early today, as the chief of the defence staff praised their courage and affirmed Canada’s determination to stamp out Afghanistan’s escalating insurgency.

The Tory candidate in the Southern Interior says he “expects to be exonerated” on charges of smuggling booze and a luxury car into B.C. “The only thing I’ve received from the province regards six administrative charges under the Customs Act,” Derek Zeisman, 33, said in Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital in Trail yesterday, where he is [...]