UPDATE
Radio-Canada reporter Patrice Roy and camera operator/editor Charles Dubois are still in Kandahar at this hour. They fly to Germany tomorrow.
Dubois, who was seriously wounded, will be treated at the military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany until he’s well enough to return to Canada. Radio-Canada’s office in Paris is assisting. His wife and her brother are flying there to be with him.
Roy will return to Canada sooner. He had originally been scheduled to come home on September 9.
If you’d like to send a message of encouragement to the two, please contact me (Tod Maffin) via Groupwise and I’ll provide the special email address set up for that purpose.
Replacing the two in Afghanistan will be veteran correspondent Bernard Derome, who leaves this evening, camera operator Gilbert Drouin, and producer Bruno Bonamigo.
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Might want to mention too that Jean-François Bélanger is going two weeks earlier than what was planned (leaves this coming Monday, in fact). Bélanger was a correspondent in West Africa from 2001 until recently.
Radio-Canada also has a new international news section (launched on August 21st!) called À Vous Le Monde, which my colleagues at the New Medias in Montreal worked on for the past weeks. We occasionally post web-exclusive video interviews too.