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Legally blind torchbearer plans savour the moment
Charlottetown :: Canada | 1 day ago
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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
Organic waste headed for landfill
Halifax :: Canada | 4 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
Torch relay begins final day in Newfoundland and Labrador
Carbonear :: Canada | 8 days ago
Credibility Residents of the riverside town of Badger waited by the Trans-Canada Highway to be among the first to welcome the Olympic flame early Sunday morning as the torch relay began its final day in Newfoundland and Labrador. On Day 17, the relay commenced westward...
Tags: Newfoundland, torch relay, olympic torch, olympic flame, Canada, Carbonear, Badger, Fire, Torch, Carbonear Newfoundland and Labrador, Joey Smallwood, Clarenville Newfoundland and Labrador, Bay Roberts Newfoundland and Labrador, Brigus Newfoundland and Labrador, Cupids Newfoundland and Labrador, Winter Olympics
Women ski jumpers lose appeal
Vancouver :: Canada | 9 days ago
Credibility Ski jumpers Jessica Jerome, right, of Park City, Utah, and Karla Keck, centre, of Oconomowoc, Wisc., lead their fellow athletes to speak to reporters outside British Columbia Court of Appeal in Vancouver, B.C., on Thursday November 12, 2009. Faith that...
Tags: Alpine Canada, Atlantic Canada, Newfoundlanders, ski jumpers, olympic torch, ski jump, torch relay, Appeal Court, winter olympic, women ski, Canada, Vancouver, Winter Olympic Games, Lindsey Van, International Olympic Committee, Olympic Games, Winter sports, Winter Olympics, Ski jumping, Ski jumping at the Winter Olympics, allnews, Powder Mountain Icefield, Sigmund Ruud, Law Crime, William Faulkner, Summer Olympics, Summer Olympics torch relay, Fire, Olympic Flame, Torch, Human Interest
Olympic flame's spotlight moves from Nunavut to Quebec communities
Vancouver :: Canada | 13 days ago
Credibility The 2010 Olympic flame makes its first foray into "La belle province" Tuesday. The torch relay for the Vancouver-Whistler Winter Games will move from Iqaluit, Nunavut, Tuesday morning to Sept-Iles, Quebec, Tuesday night. A few stops are scheduled in-between,...
Tags: olympic flame, Quebec, olympic torch, Nunavut
Man badly hurt in nightclub brawl
Winnipeg :: Canada | 14 days ago
Credibility The Olympic flame makes a stop in Churchill, Man., Sunday on day 10 of the 106-day cross-Canada torch relay. One man was seriously injured during a large brawl in the parking lot of a Winnipeg nightclub early Sunday morning. A report for the city of...
Tags: Manitoba, polar bears, olympic flame, Churchill, torch relay, Sagkeeng First Nation, flame makes, Marie Fontaine, olympic torch, lotto max
Olympic torch arrives in La Ronge on cross-country tour
Saskatoon :: Canada | 15 days ago
Credibility The Olympic torch will arrive in Saskatchewan today, where it will make its first stop in La Ronge. In a 45,000-kilometre cross-country relay, the Olympic torch is heading for every Canadian province and territory in advance of the 2010 Vancouver Winter...
Tags: Lac La Ronge, olympic torch, Saskatchewan
Man dies of stab wounds after pursuit
Parksville :: Canada | 22 days ago
Credibility The relay ahead of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics was on Vancouver Island for its second day Saturday, part of a 106-day relay across Canada that will pass through more than 1,000 communities. Police say one man is dead from apparent self-inflicted...
Tags: stab wounds, olympic torch, police say, inflicted stab, Parksville, Vancouver Island, B.C, Tofino
Impolitic Twitter post prompts apology
Vancouver :: Canada | 23 days ago
Credibility Housing Minister Rich Coleman for getting personal on Twitter. Hundreds of protesters interrupt the Olympic torch relay through downtown Victoria. Public health officials say it was vital to give members of the Olympic torch team inoculations for swine...
Tags: swine flu, flu vaccination, Sarasota County Health Department, elementary schools, schools students, olympic torch, health officials, vaccination clinics
Protesters block Olympic torch relay
Victoria :: Canada | 23 days ago
Credibility Anti-Olympic activists forced the 2010 Olympic torch run to divert from its planned route Friday night as the relay headed toward what was supposed to be a triumphant finale at the B.C. legislature. Several hundred protesters, angry that billions are...
Tags: olympic torch, Victoria International Airport, torch relay, Simon Whitfield, Catriona Le May Doan, winter games, Vancouver, relay starts, protesters blocks, vancouver winter
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