Toronto flags at half-mast for fallen soldier

Toronto City Hall will fly its flag at half-mastto honour one of the three Canadian soldiers killed Wednesday by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.

Cpl. Stephen Frederick Bouzane, 26, and two comrades died when a roadside bomb struck their unarmoured all-terrain vehicle on a well-travelledroutenear a town southwest of Kandahar.

Bouzane is a Newfoundland and Labrador native, but grew up in Scarborough in the Toronto's east end, anda number ofhis family membersstill live in Ontario.

His father, Fred, says his son asked before he left for Afghanistan that if anything happened to him, his body be buried in Little Bay, thevillage of about 120 residentswhere he was born.

Bouzane was described as a quiet, reserved young man who wanted to make a difference, his sister Kelly said.

Bouzane,Pte. Joel Vincent Wiebe and Sgt. Christos Karigiannis were from the Edmonton-based Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.