
Andrew Johnson
Anchor and Producer at CTV-TV (Vancouver, BC)
BC Bureau Chief, CTV National News
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1 week ago |
ctvnews.ca | Andrew Johnson
Before an aircraft in British Columbia drops water on a wildfire or crews attack flames from the ground, a pilot like Rob Verstraten gets there first. “We really have to size up the fire. We have to see what terrain and hazards we have to deal with,” Verstraten said. Verstraten flies in one of two new TBM 960 Air Attack planes from Conair Aerial Firefighting, known as “birddogs,” alongside a provincial air attack officer. Together, they orchestrate the aerial response to a wildfire.
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3 weeks ago |
ctvnews.ca | Andrew Johnson
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4 weeks ago |
ctvnews.ca | Andrew Johnson
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1 month ago |
ctvnews.ca | Andrew Johnson
On May 5, 101-year-old Richard Rohmer walked slowly out of the Hotel de Wereld, pushing a walker, in Wageningen, Netherlands, where he greeted crowds clamouring for a photo, as they thanked the Canadian veteran and honourary Lieutenant-General for his service. Exactly 80 years earlier on the same day in 1945, at the same Holland hotel, Canadian general Charles Faulkes secured the surrender of the German army, ending a five-year nazi occupation in the dying days of the Second World War.
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1 month ago |
ctvnews.ca | Andrew Johnson
Eighty years after the end of the Second World War, when most surviving Canadian veterans are nearing or already past the age of 100, there were nearly two dozen of them sitting in the Groesbeek Canadian war cemetery Friday, metres from the graves of the men they fought side by side with and called their friends. When Retired Maj.-Gen.
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