Relief Efforts: Christian Paradis

Christian Paradis: Christian Paradis has arrived in the Philippines and will travel to some of the hardest-hit areas of the country, including Tacloban, Ormoc and Roxas City, where Canadian relief efforts have been concentrated, according to Huffington Post. Senior Canadian officials, at a briefing in Ottawa, said the military's disaster assistance response team had expanded its operations to the outlying areas of Panay Island, where Roxas City is located and OTTAWA - Canada's minister for international development is getting a first-hand look at the devastation of Typhoon Haiyan. More than 5,000 people were killed and four million made homeless by the super-storm, which rolled over the island nation on Nov. 8. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.