Freed journalist Lindhout back in Canada this week

Canadian freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout, recovering in Kenya after spending 15 months as a hostage in Somalia, is expected to be back in Canada early this week, CBC News has learned.

The Canadian government will be supplying a plane to fly Lindhout and her family to Canada. It's not known exactly when or where they will land.

A spokesman for Lindhout's parents, who live in Sylvan Lake, Alta., confirmed last Tuesday that she had been released from a hospital in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.

Lindhout, 28, and Australian photojournalist Nigel Brennan, 38, were released on Nov. 25 during a nighttime exchange for $600,000 in ransom money, on a road south of the Somali capital, Mogadishu.

The pair had been ambushed by gunmen on Aug. 23, while making their way to a refugee camp near Mogadishu.