Unpublished Newswire

Ottawa's Line 1 remains closed east of uOttawa station Thursday morning after the overhead power system was damaged during Wednesday's wet, icy weather.

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. — In January 2010, a catastrophic earthquake upended Haiti. In Port-au-Prince, the capital, thousands of bodies piled up in a morgue. In Canada, people scrambled to help. Ten days after the disaster, Air Canada personnel volunteered to fill one of the airline’s Airbus A330 jets with antibiotics, generators, food, plus 15 doctors and nurses organized through Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital, and fly to Haiti. I joined the flight on Jan. 23, 2010, as a National Post journalist. In the sultry Caribbean pitch-black night, on the tarmac of destroyed Toussaint L’Ouverture...