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EDMONTON (CBC) - The repatriation ceremony for Cpl. Joshua Baker of Edmonton, who was killed in Afghanistan, was scheduled to take place at 2 p.m. ET Monday at Canadian Forces Base Trenton as his body arrives home.
Defence Minister Peter MacKay is among those expected to attend.
Baker, 24, died Friday in a shooting range accident during a normal training exercise. Four other soldiers were hurt at the shooting range, about four kilometres from Kandahar.
The four wounded were taken by helicopter to hospital at Kandahar Airfield and are in stable condition. Their names will not be released.
The military is investigating the accident and has not released any other details.
Baker served with the Loyal Edmonton Regiment, 4th Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. Flags at the Edmonton garrison flew at half-mast over the weekend.
Baker "had a laugh rumoured to cure cancer," Brig.-Gen. Daniel Menard, Canada's top commander in Kandahar, said in a news release.
His death raises to 140 the number of Canadian soldiers to die in the country since 2002. Four Canadian civilians have also been killed, including a diplomat, a journalist and two aid workers.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Military Mail Returned
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OROMOCTO - A woman in the model town says Canada Post has returned cards and letters sent to her daughter serving on HMCS Fredericton for insufficient postage.
Lorraine Robichaud said she's spoken to a member of the military at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown and has been told similar complaints have been received.
Canada Post announced last year it was extending a program that allows family and friends of deployed troops and sailors to send letters free throughout 2010.
Robichaud said Canada Post has given her a case number and she has been told it will take a week to investigate her complaint. She said members of the military such as her daughter, who is aboard HMCS Fredericton off the Horn of Africa, look forward to mail from home and to have it returned is disheartening.
A spokesman for Canada Post couldn't be reached for comment.
OROMOCTO - A woman in the model town says Canada Post has returned cards and letters sent to her daughter serving on HMCS Fredericton for insufficient postage.
Lorraine Robichaud said she's spoken to a member of the military at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown and has been told similar complaints have been received.
Canada Post announced last year it was extending a program that allows family and friends of deployed troops and sailors to send letters free throughout 2010.
Robichaud said Canada Post has given her a case number and she has been told it will take a week to investigate her complaint. She said members of the military such as her daughter, who is aboard HMCS Fredericton off the Horn of Africa, look forward to mail from home and to have it returned is disheartening.
A spokesman for Canada Post couldn't be reached for comment.
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