11AM Red Friday
Posted May 13, 2011 10:10:56 AM.
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11AM RED FRIDAY Canadian Country music singer Aaron Lines will make a special appearance during a Musical Tribute to the region’s military veterans May 29 at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium. Guest: Owen Lackenbauer, Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel of the Royal Highland Fusiliers of Canada, Waterloo Region’s reserve infantry regiment in-studio 11:20AM Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan will soon call a halt to their pursuit of the Taliban to chase a decidedly different goal as the mission morphs from fighting to helping train Afghanistan’s security forces. Starting in July, when Canada’s combat mission ends and American troops begin drawing down, the 150,000 NATO-led forces now in Afghanistan will gradually pass on responsibility for security to Afghan forces. Guest: Conservative MP Laurie Hawn, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Defence and Member of Parliament for Edmonton Centre. 11:30AM What compels a young, affluent Canadian to put on a uniform and risk his life for the controversial mission in Afghanistan? And how does his family cope with his loss when he is killed there? Guest: Melanie Murray – Captain Francis’s aunt and author of “For your Tomorrow.”
