Father Christmas seeks a police Checkstop on Christmas Eve
The Reverend Hugh Christmas of St. Barnabas Anglican Church in Hillhurst Calgary hints at a secret wish for Christmas Eve. At 74 with more than five decades in ministry he recalls festive puns and jokes about Mary. He would reveal his identity if stopped and say he is Father Christmas.
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Calgary
Virginia
Father Christmas
Hugh Christmas
St. Barnabas
Hillhurst
Mary
Father
Christmas in Croatia Peacekeepers Keep Duty In Pakrac
In Pakrac Croatia 2400 Canadian troops maintain UN peacekeeping duties through Christmas with patrols surveillance and weapons searches ongoing. Christmas dinners proceed in shifts with officers serving meals and Charlie Company soldiers exchange gifts amid a bombed hotel festooned with tinsel.
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Pakrac
Croatia
Ric Jones
Charlie Company
First Battalion
Hunger strike by 400 Palestinians in south Lebanon border camp
More than 400 Palestinians expelled by Israel staged a dawn to dusk hunger strike in a freezing no man’s land camp near MARJ AZ-ZOHOUR. Leader Abdel Aziz al Rantisi urged international aid as water and food ran low and Israel refused to allow the 415 to return, offering possible aid through the Red Cross via the security zone.
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Marj Az-Zohour
Lebanon
Reuter
Israel
No Man's Land
Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi
Red Cross
South Lebanon
Hat soldiers share paths from Medicine Hat to Somalia
Captain Michael Sox and Sergeant Kevin Lloyd of the Canadian Airborne prepare for Christmas in Baledogle Somalia to aid relief efforts. Both grew up in Medicine Hat and attend Crescent Heights High and Medicine Hat High respectively. Their families share a local barber shop link.
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Michael Sox
Kevin Lloyd
Baledogle
Somalia
Canadian Armed Forces
The
Canadian Airborne
Petawawa
Ont
Medicine Hat
Lloyd
Crescent Heights
Sox
Veterans Lloyd and Sox deployed to Somalia mission
Sergeant Lloyd and Captain Sox, 28 and 29, part of a 32 man platoon sent to Somalia on December 13 to prepare for a larger 900 man contingent. Families fear and pray as no contact is possible, but relatives recall their sons trained for service and focused on aid rather to fighting.
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Lloyd
Larry
Lox
Tony
Bethlehem Christmas Dampens Hope Amid Heavy Rain
In Bethlehem crowds brave cold rain as Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah leads a procession into the Church of the Nativity. Israeli security tightens after tensions over West Bank and Gaza policy as patrols ring the town and a helicopter looms overhead.
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Bethlehem
Jesus
Israel
West Bank
Gaza Strip
Michel Sabbah
Regio
Church of the Nativity
Susan Tassell
Perth
Australia
Sabbah
St. Catherine’s Church
Canadians rely on family and friends for everyday help
Statistics Canada reports 81 percent of Canadians aged 15 and up gave or received outside help in 1990. Families provided much of unpaid assistance while friends supplied significant support with housework, maintenance, and transportation as mobility grows.
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Ottawa
Statistics Canada
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Bosnia
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