Canadian reporter suspended for praising troops

One of Canada's top television reporters has been suspended for praising the country's increasingly troubled military mission in Afghanistan in a week when five Canadian soldiers were killed. Christine St-Pierre, Ottawa correspondent for the French-language public broadcaster, Radio-Canada, wrote an open letter to Canada's 2,300 troops telling them to ignore mounting criticism. "Dear soldiers, your tears are not in vain, your tears are brave," St-Pierre wrote in the letter, which was published by La Presse. St-Pierre told the paper she knew she had gone too far and said she could no longer be objective when it came to reporting on events in Afghanistan. (Via Toronto Star)