Ottawa wants Vancouver organizers to include Afghan veterans in torch relay
                   
theglobeandmail.com
26-Aug-2008
        

PATRICK BRETHOUR From Tuesday's Globe and Mail VANCOUVER — Ottawa is urging the Vancouver Winter Olympics organizing committee to put the Afghanistan war at the heart of the symbolically laden torch relay, saying that the first torch carriers could be veterans of the seven-year-old conflict. The federal government is also pushing to have Canada's French and English "linguistic duality" highlighted by the relay,... [read full story]                    

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