Confined to ship

CBC newsmen Rob Gordon and Craig Paisley left Halifax for Haiti aboard HMCS Athabaskan January 14, but returned home Friday without setting foot on the island. It seems the journalists were confined to the warship because their required training for operating in dangerous environments was not up to date. Both men had received the five-day course, provided by U.K.-based AKE Integrated Risk Solutions, before traveling to Afghanistan several years ago, but their accreditation has expired. As a result, CBC brass ordered the men not to leave the ship. "It's analogous to a driver's licence," said CBC's Atlantic Regional Director Andrew Cochran. "If you...