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Who's paying the ultimate price?
Last Updated: Saturday, December 6, 2008 | 8:11 PM There are many ways to measure the cost of conflict. With more than 100 Canadians having died serving Canada in Afghanistan, counting casualties just might be foremost among them.
In Afghanistan, Canada's soldiers take incredible risks on an almost daily basis. They are part of a big international mission to help a country beset by 30 years of war. And Canada is losing soldiers in that country each year.
Canada has also lost diplomats and aid workers, who have been attacked and killed in Afghanistan.
But what is going on in Afghanistan is outright war — however unconventional — and those who are most often killed or wounded are uniformed members of the Canadian Armed Forces.
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Last Updated January 22, 2008
CBC News
In the years after the fall of the Taliban regime in late 2001, Canada steadily increased its military involvement in Afghanistan.
By 2006, Canada had begun a major role in the more dangerous southern part of the country for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). A battle group of more than 2,000 soldiers called Operation Athena was based around Kandahar.