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...MASON St. Albert, Alta...
...even further when he asserted this month that the Canadian mission in Afghanistan was part of the "evolution" of the nation's military toward the "harder side" of peacemaking. "We're going into [the Taliban's] yard," says Brigadier General Fraser, who commanded the Mechanized Brigade Group in Edmonton, Alta., before his assignment to Afghanistan. "We're going to start kicking them." Those were unfamiliar messages for Canadians accustomed to seeing themselves in the post-cold war world as benign peacekeepers. And it has enraged critics who say the Afghan enterprise was wrongheaded from the start. "Trying to stabilize...
...sense of Canada's highs and lows at these 20th Winter Olympics, ponder a seven-hour span last Wednesday. Most Canadians awoke to news that cross-country skier Chandra Crawford of Canmore, Alta., had pocketed gold in the 1.1-km sprint, a bit of an improvement on her 46th-place finish at the 2005 world championship. Then Winnipeg's Cindy Klassen and Ottawa's Kristina Groves netted gold and silver, respectively, in speedskating. That made Klassen the first Canadian to win four medals at a single Olympics (she would add a fifth on Saturday). Three hours later, Canada survived...
...record on snow isn't as good as the one on ice in some of the newer events. Sure, two-time World Cup-champion freestyle skier Jennifer Heil, of Spruce Grove, Alta., won gold. But after winning gold, silver and bronze in 1994, the men's freestylers missed the podium for the third straight Olympics. And no Canadian man has made a trip to an Olympic podium in snowboarding since the sport made its debut...
DIED. WILLIAM COWSILL, 58, teen heartthrob and lead singer of the Cowsills, the 1960s pop band that featured his mother and four siblings and inspired TV's The Partridge Family; after suffering from numerous ailments, including emphysema; in Calgary, Alta. News of his death came on the day the family--famous for hits like Indian Lake and The Rain, the Park and Other Things--was holding a memorial service for his brother Barry, the Cowsills' bass player, who drowned in the flooding following Hurricane Katrina...