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2 months ago |
stcatharinesstandard.ca | Francine Kopun
Lisa Platt was 15, an exchange student returning to Toronto from Paris when the plane she was in overshot the runway and burst into flames near Highway 401, a crash eerily similar to the Delta Airlines accident at Pearson International Airport on Monday. It was Aug. 2, 2005. Platt was sitting beside Aurélie Durel, the girl whose family she had been living with as part of a French exchange program, and who would now be living with Platt and her family for a month to learn English.
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2 months ago |
thespec.com | Francine Kopun
Lisa Platt was 15, an exchange student returning to Toronto from Paris when the plane she was in overshot the runway and burst into flames near Highway 401, a crash eerily similar to the Delta Airlines accident at Pearson International Airport on Monday. It was Aug. 2, 2005. Platt was sitting beside Aurélie Durel, the girl whose family she had been living with as part of a French exchange program, and who would now be living with Platt and her family for a month to learn English.
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2 months ago |
thespec.com | Francine Kopun
Toronto Harbour was cloaked in fog on the night of April 30, when the Thomas Rennie ferry left the Jack Layton terminal, destined for Hanlan’s Point with six passengers and 11 crew. Additional lookouts had been posted on the vessel, due to reduced visibility. It was 10:21 p.m.Fifteen minutes later, after breaching the marine exclusion zone meant to keep planes from hitting boats in the harbour, the three-storey, 900-passenger ferry collided with airport property, as reported by the Star last year.
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2 months ago |
thespec.com | Francine Kopun
FORT MYERS, Fla.—Afternoons are for tennis at the Palmetto Palms RV Resort, even if you’re 82 years old and it’s 84 degrees Fahrenheit. Donald Lamadeleine plays energetically, despite his age, and despite the sun beating down on the court — or maybe because of it.
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Oct 17, 2024 |
thestar.com | Francine Kopun
Tensions ran high Wednesday night at an Etobicoke meeting held by Coun. Amber Morley to discuss bike lanes on Bloor Street West. About 100 cyclists rolled in a half-hour before the 7 p.m. meeting at Etobicoke Collegiate Institute after rallying in High Park in support of the bike lanes.
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