Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 25, 2006, Winnipeg, Manitoba A10 Canada Winnipeg free press Friday August 25, 2006 outlet for troops singing Barber Back in Peg Cut soldiers hair in Afghanistan for 6 months by Sean Moore a Laredo Dagui travels to escape Winnipeg but after six months of cutting hair in Afghanistan singing in a Kosovo band and attending too Many funerals he was glad to come Home this week. The stylist from Mario a in Polo Park volunteered for six months in Kandahar cutting the hair of Canadas soldiers ? from High ranking colonels to Buck Joe it was the Best worst experience of my life. I Don to know any other Way to put it actually the 41-year-old civilian said at the Airport wednesday. Its kind of hard to sum it up in a few words. I could sit there and show you a thousand pictures and i could Tell you a Hundred stories but no one would Ever really understand what its All some soldiers told him their woes and he a listen just like he would Here but mostly he tried to amuse them with anecdotes. Sometimes he talked about the banality of grass cutting or paying Mort gages ? anything to get the soldiers not to think about their present situation. I be heard All the stories. I be trav As he was greeted by his jubilant family formed a band which performed at Elled in lavs and a wagons through the including his 3 1/2-month-old Niece who ious social functions around bases. They he a average about 70 hair cuts a Day worlds most dangerous City. I did every he a never met before holding a two were Given two Days notice before their ranging from Brush cuts to Dye jobs. The thing but kill people he said. Metre Banner that read Welcome Home first show so they called themselves most he did was 120 in a Day. It was always loud in his makeshift Alfredo the singing Barber of Kanda two Days their set included i be spent 10 years looking around Salon helicopters jets and tanks he was then escorted to a White Brian Adams. The world for some place different other stantly rumbled by. But the Only time he limousine waiting outside with Cham you find some Way to get an outlet in than Winnipeg. This is probably the first could to Cut hair an essential army ser pagne waiting inside. There. You had need something to time in my life i could to wait to see this vice was when there was a funeral. In they Call him the singing Barber remind you of Home and put a smile on bloody town he said with a chuckle. His tour there were More than 15. Because simply he sings. In Kandahar your face and those around you because. but wednesday was not a somber Day he met some men from Kosovo and they that a Why we were there in the first Liberal my accuses Jason Kenney of double Standard Vancouver ? liberals accused prime minister Stephen harpers parliamentary Secretary of hypocrisy yesterday after reports he attended a rally organized by iranian supporters of a banned terrorist group. Is that a double Standard asked lib eral my Denis Coderre of Jason Ken Neys attendance at the rally. Said interim Liberal Leader Bill Gra Ham i think its so hypocritical when you heard the words that came out of his Mouth a couple of Days ago about the observations made about one of our members and then you find he himself is standing there embracing a terrorist Coderre could to disguise his Delight yesterday at news Kenney was photographed at the april rally. The picture appears on the website of the National Council of resistance of Iran the political Wing of the Moi or Peoples Mujahedin organization of Iran. The Moi is one of the names used by the Mek or Mujahedin a Khaliq an armed iranian rebel group formally designated As a terrorist organization by the governments of Canada the United states and the european Union. The Canadian government put the group on its official terror list in May 2005. Kenney is shown addressing an april 6 rally on parliament Hill and is quoted As welcoming participants on his own behalf As Well As the prime in an interview with the Toronto Star Kenney said he was completely unaware of the context As it presented Here even though we had done our due ? Canadian press around Canada woman spared prison term Saskatoon ? a woman who stabbed her male partner to death was spared prison yesterday because she suffered battered spouse syndrome. Valerie Kashpe Sewat 44, was Given a conditional sentence of two years less one Day to be served in the Community for the july 22, 2004, killing of 37-year-old Frank Nadjary. The tragedy reminds us of the need to intervene Early in cases of Domestic violence provincial court judge Bria Huculak said. Klein a scholarly pursuits Edmonton ? after Alberta Premier Ralph Klein finally Calls it a Day he will spend part of 2007 As a Chin tug Ging scholar at a prestigious american think tank. First Klein said yesterday he will take about three months to relax. Then he will do some work for a pair of right Wing think tanks the Fraser Institute and the Manning Centre for building democracy. Klein also said he will spend three months at the Woodrow Wilson Institute for International scholars in Washington . Grit hopeful deep in debt Vancouver ? Stephane Dion has racked up the biggest debt so far of any Liberal leadership contender a Cool half million. According to Dion a Campaign team the sole Quebec candidate has pulled in about $155,000 in Cash donations thus far including $35,000 at a single British Columbia event this week. But those donations have been far outstripped by the $530,000 Dion a Campaign has taken out in Loans. Ontario okays to in courts Toronto ? Ontario is poised to Lead Canadas court system into a new Era of televised Justice but not so far that it leads to Media circuses like those often seen at trials in the United states attorney general Michael Bryant said yesterday As he endorsed the idea of cameras in the courtroom. Bryant gave an emphatic thumbs up to the concept As he released the find Ings of a panel of Justice and Media experts that recommended allowing television viewers Access to a world Long off limits to the Lens. ? from the news services 2006 Chrysler 300 your Best Price excludes Caw your lease negotiated ebon us. 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