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Thousands expected in Fredericton for celebration as Olympic torch arrives
Fredericton :: Canada | about 14 hours ago
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Thousands of people are expected to flock to Officers Square in Fredericton tonight to celebrate the arrival of the Olympic torch. A two-hour community celebration will feature several musical acts before Olympic silver medallist Marianne Limpert arrives...
Tags: olympic torch, Canada, Fredericton, Olympic Flame, Fire, Torch, Moncton, Hopewell Rocks, Marianne Limpert, CFB Gagetown, allnews, Oromocto, Human Interest, Fundy Royal, New Brunswick, Martello tower
Olympic torch makes its way into New Brunswick
Moncton :: Canada | 2 days ago
Credibility N.B. — A giant of New Brunswick sport and the pride of the coastal town of Shediac made his way to centre stage once more on Monday as the Olympic torch arrived in New Brunswick, its eighth province on this cross-Canada, 45,000-kilometre journey. And...
Tags: olympic torch, New Brunswick, Canada, Moncton, Shediac, New Brunswick Route 15, Fire, Olympic Flame, Summer Olympics, Olympic Games, Torch, Summer Olympics torch relay, Aulac New Brunswick, Westmorland County New Brunswick, Memramcook New Brunswick, George LeBlanc, allnews
Legally blind torchbearer plans savour the moment
Charlottetown :: Canada | 3 days ago
Credibility P.E.I. — Prince Edward Island's Robbie Burt has spent months training to swim, bike and run better and faster. But on Sunday, the Olympic torchbearer was hoping to take his time and savour every moment of the 300 metres he would carry the flame in Summerside,...
Tags: olympic torch, Robbie Burt, Canada, Charlottetown, Winter Olympic Games, Torch, Olympic Games, Winter Olympics, Summer Olympics torch relay, Hospitality Recreation, Fire, Olympic Flame, Yang Yang, allnews, Route 2, Canadian Confederation, Entertainment Culture, Prince Edward Island, Olympic symbols
Torch’s Nova Scotia tour continues past historic Halifax Citadel
Halifax :: Canada | 5 days ago
Credibility When Meg Fraser wrapped her red-mitt-covered hands around the Olympic torch in Halifax on Friday, she knew it was something special. “I felt like I was the only person in the world doing the most important thing right now,” Fraser said after her run...
Tags: Nova Scotia, Meg Fraser, Halifax Citadel, Canada, Halifax, Fraser, Acadia University, Thing, The Marina Torch, Fire, Olympic Flame, Wolfville Nova Scotia, Torch, Halifax Harbour, Halifax Nova Scotia railway station, Transportation in the Halifax Regional Municipality
Red Ken's corporate moment, and a politician calling the Kettle black
Shanghai :: China | 5 days ago
Credibility Could that balding, tad paunchy, well-turned out fellow with the plummy English accent addressing a corporate Vancouver luncheon really be fiery “Red Ken” Livingstone, legendary left-wing scourge of both Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair?...Bush as “the...
Tags: Red Ken, John Kettle, Nipper Kettle, Damian Kettlewell, Londoner, China, Shanghai, Ken Livingstone, Olympic Flame, Margaret Thatcher
History, Olympic flame collide at Annapolis Royal
Vancouver :: Canada | 5 days ago
Credibility N.S. — If the Olympic torch relay is history in the making — as so many torchbearers fondly describe it — then history was made on Thursday in one of Canada’s oldest and loveliest historic places. The flame came to Annapolis Royal, the small, well-kept...
Tags: Parks Canada, Royal Bank of Canada, Velma Keevill, Annapolis Royal, olympic flame, Canada, Vancouver, Annapolis Royal Nova Scotia, Fort Anne, Annapolis Maryland, Annapolis County Nova Scotia, Annapolis River, Kings County Nova Scotia
S. Africa says Semenya can keep gold medal
Eldoret :: Kenya | 5 days ago
Credibility South Africa's Ministry of Sport says 800-metre world champion runner Caster Semenya will keep her gold medal, and that the results of her gender tests will be kept confidential. Thousands of people lined the streets of downtown Halifax on Wednesday...
Tags: Caster Semenya, gold medal, Kenya, Eldoret, International Olympic Committee, Brimin Kipruto, Asbel Kiprop, Rashid Ramzi, Kiprop, allnews, Gender verification in sports, Gender role, Gender identity, Gender, Intersexuality, Olympic Flame, Sidney Crosby
THE QUEST FOR FIRE
Toronto :: Canada | 6 days ago
Credibility Last updated on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 2:52AM EST T he 2010 torch relay has months to run before the Olympic flame arrives in Vancouver.
Tags: Canada, Toronto, EBay, Olympic Flame, Fire, Lighting, Torch
Organic waste headed for landfill
Halifax :: Canada | 7 days ago
Credibility Fighting the swine flu pandemic could put Nova Scotia's biggest health authority in a $2.5-million deficit by the end of the year, officials said Wednesday. A third person with swine flu in Nova Scotia has died. Deputy sheriffs use pepper spray to stop...
Tags: Nova Scotia, Halifax Regional Municipality, Sidney Crosby, olympic torch, N.S, hockey star, star sidney, swine flu, fire boat, Canada, Halifax, Halifax Harbour, Geography of the Halifax Regional Municipality, Halifax Nova Scotia, Disaster Accident, Olympic Flame, Captain, allnews, Capsizing, Torch, Downtown Halifax, Pittsburgh Penguins, Summer Olympics torch relay, Fire, Communities in the Halifax Regional Municipality
Determined veteran carries torch for “guys still overseas”
Priština :: Kosovo | 7 days ago
Credibility N.S. — Harris MacLean knows all about high-pressure situations. The 59-year-old retired Mountie worked for decades as a forensic crime-scene investigator in Nova Scotia, and in the 1990s endured the rigours of two peacekeeping missions, in war-ravaged...
Tags: Kosovo, Priština, Maclean's, Investigative journalism, Social Issues, Business Finance, Cape Breton Island, Port Hastings Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia, Canso Causeway, British North America, Fire, Olympic Flame
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