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Taser death recalled
VANCOUVER -- It's been five years since Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski died after police zapped him with a Taser at Vancouver International Airport.
His mother, Zofia Cisowski, has gone to place candles and flowers in the exact location where her son died in 2007.
She says she and her son had spent seven years planning his move to Kamloops, B.C., where he was to live with her. But all those dreams were destroyed.
Cisowski is now part of an advocacy group organized by family members and friends of people injured or killed by police.
She says she's heartened to learn of a report showing police have reduced Taser use in B.C. by 87 per cent since her son died.
Dziekanski, who did not speak English, was shocked with a Taser by RCMP who spotted him displaying erratic behaviour after he became lost for hours in the international arrivals area of the airport.
War victims remembered
PORT AUX BASQUES, N.L. -- Dozens of innocent people caught up in one of Canada's worst wartime disasters were remembered Sunday with a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the sinking of the passenger ferry Caribou.
Members of the Royal Canadian Navy spread the ashes of two people with links to the tragedy into the icy waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence where the civilian vessel was torpedoed by a German U-Boat in 1942.
Of the 237 people aboard the Caribou -- which was sailing on its regular route from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland -- 136 died in the frigid waters.
Members of the Canadian navy and Marine Atlantic officials held a ceremony during a ferry crossing from Port aux Basques, N.L., to North Sydney, N.S, Sunday afternoon to mark the sinking of seven decades ago.
Wreaths were tossed into the waters over the same spot where the Marine Atlantic vessel sank after the attack by the submarine U-69.
PM backs better locale
KINSHASA -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he's glad he attended the summit of French-speaking nations but hopes the next one is held in a country that promotes democratic values.
Harper said Sunday he had definite reservations about taking part in the weekend's international gathering of la Francophonie in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The African country has been widely criticized for abusing human rights and allowing widespread sexual violence against women.
-- The Canadian Press
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition October 15, 2012 A8
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