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Byline: CBC News The courtyard of the Ofatma hospital in Les Cayes, Haiti, is a scene of abject misery right now. People wait with arms that were crushed under cinder [...]

TOM HANSON: In Haiti, the death toll jumped to almost two thousand people following the powerful earthquake on Saturday. And some villages that badly need help are now cut off [...]

Byline: CBC News People in northern Ontario are in an agonizing wait on word about family and loved ones in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, with some taking action to provide help. Some [...]

TOM HANSON: Also, breaking overnight, Grace has strengthened to a tropical storm again and is battering Haiti, which is still reeling from a powerful earthquake. New video overnight shows the [...]

GAYLE KING: Now to Haiti where Tropical Depression Grace caused flooding overnight in areas already hard hit by Saturday`s earthquake. The storm ruined some of the temporary shelters that were [...]

Byline: CBC News Olivier Gentillon moved to Saskatchewan from Haiti in the 1970s, but that doesn't mean the recent earthquake was any less devastating for him. The epicentre of the [...]

Byline: CBC News Port au Prince resident Laurent Dunel says he'll never forget being handed his father's severed arm by a search crew member after the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Dunel's [...]

Byline: CBC News Before the huge earthquake rattled Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010, Morgan Wienberg was a gifted high school senior in Whitehorse, Yukon -- her class valedictorian -- on [...]

Subject: Fifth Anniversary of the Haiti Earthquake Witnesses: Senior State Department Official Time: 15:00:00 Date: 2015-01-08 OPERATOR: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. And welcome to fifth anniversary [...]

REMARKS BY ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES (OAS) SECRETARY-GENERAL JOSE MIGUEL INSULZA AT A COMMEMORATION OF THE FIRST YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE JANUARY 12, 2010 EARTHQUAKE IN HAITI (AS RELEASED BY [...]

REMARKS BY ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES (OAS) SECRETARY-GENERAL JOSE MIGUEL INSULZA AT A COMMEMORATION OF THE FIRST YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE JANUARY 12, 2010 EARTHQUAKE IN HAITI (AS RELEASED BY [...]

A lot of this is in our one-year report, but if there's press out there that has questions, we welcome it. And I think this is good for not only [...]

A lot of this is in our one-year report, but if there's press out there that has questions, we welcome it. And I think this is good for not only [...]

REMARKS BY ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES (OAS) SECRETARY-GENERAL JOSE MIGUEL INSULZA AT A COMMEMORATION OF THE FIRST YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE JANUARY 12, 2010 EARTHQUAKE IN HAITI (AS RELEASED BY [...]

REMARKS BY ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES (OAS) SECRETARY-GENERAL JOSE MIGUEL INSULZA AT A COMMEMORATION OF THE FIRST YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE JANUARY 12, 2010 EARTHQUAKE IN HAITI (AS RELEASED BY [...]

A lot of this is in our one-year report, but if there's press out there that has questions, we welcome it. And I think this is good for not only [...]

And I'm deeply moved by all of you who entrusted us to spend your dollars wisely in ways that best help the people of Haiti. And that is exactly what [...]

MS. MCGOVERN: That is an excellent question. And we are literally helping to keep the doors open of the two hospitals that I described. The Haitian government has started paying [...]

We're providing safe chlorinated water every day to more than 300,000 people in Port-au-Prince. The Red Cross donated 10 million Aquatabs. These are tablets that purify water. And we donated [...]

And I like the fact that in many instances they're being built by the Haitians that live right in that community as part of a cash-for-work program that's being funded [...]

Personally, I welcome this new level of transparency, and I'm proud to share our decisions with our donors. I'm often asked whether or not we're spending the donors' dollars fast [...]

Now, of course, we're working to get people out of the tents as quickly as possible, but at least these shelters have provided earthquake survivors from protection from the blazing [...]

We're providing safe chlorinated water every day to more than 300,000 people in Port-au-Prince. The Red Cross donated 10 million Aquatabs. These are tablets that purify water. And we donated [...]

A lot of this is in our one-year report, but if there's press out there that has questions, we welcome it. And I think this is good for not only [...]

MS. MCGOVERN: That is an excellent question. And we are literally helping to keep the doors open of the two hospitals that I described. The Haitian government has started paying [...]

Now, of course, we're working to get people out of the tents as quickly as possible, but at least these shelters have provided earthquake survivors from protection from the blazing [...]

And I like the fact that in many instances they're being built by the Haitians that live right in that community as part of a cash-for-work program that's being funded [...]

And I'm deeply moved by all of you who entrusted us to spend your dollars wisely in ways that best help the people of Haiti. And that is exactly what [...]

Personally, I welcome this new level of transparency, and I'm proud to share our decisions with our donors. I'm often asked whether or not we're spending the donors' dollars fast [...]

Byline: CBC News Nearly one year after an earthquake in Haiti killed more than 200,000 people, including 58 Canadians, many survivors are living in tents surrounded by rubble. Signs of [...]

Byline: CBC News Wednesday's first anniversary of the Haiti earthquake is weighing on the minds of Nelson, B.C., high school students. The group landed in Haiti about 45 minutes before [...]

Byline: CBC News Wednesday marks one year since a devastating magnitude-7.0 earthquake hit Haiti, killing over 220,000 people and leaving more than a million homeless. Aid agencies rushed to the [...]

Original Source: Political Transcript Wire STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS HOLD A NEWS BRIEFING VIA TELECONFERENCE ON HAITI INFRASTRUCTURE JANUARY 10, 2011 SPEAKERS: THOMAS ADAMS, SPECIAL COORDINATOR FOR HAITI, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF [...]

Original Source: Political Transcript Wire STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS HOLD A NEWS BRIEFING VIA TELECONFERENCE ON HAITI HEALTH JANUARY 10, 2011 SPEAKERS: DONALD STEINBERG, USAID DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR AMBASSADOR ERIC GOOSBY, U.S. [...]

CONFERENCE CALL WITH ERIC GOOSBY, U.S. GLOBAL AIDS COORDINATOR; THOMAS FRIEDEN, CDC DIRECTOR; CARLEENE DEI, USAID MISSION DIRECTOR, HAITI; DONALD STEINBERG, DEPUTY USAID ADMINISTRATOR SUBJECT: HEALTH CONCERNS IN HAITI TIME: [...]

CONFERENCE CALL WITH ERIC GOOSBY, U.S. GLOBAL AIDS COORDINATOR; THOMAS FRIEDEN, CDC DIRECTOR; CARLEENE DEI, USAID MISSION DIRECTOR, HAITI; DONALD STEINBERG, DEPUTY USAID ADMINISTRATOR SUBJECT: HEALTH CONCERNS IN HAITI TIME: [...]

REMARKS BY RAJIV SHAH, M.D., ADMINISTRATOR, U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, AND CHERYL MILLS, COUNSELOR TO SECRETARY OF STATE CLINTON SUBJECT: LOOKING BACK AT THE JANUARY 2010 EARTHQUAKE IN HAITI [...]

I think if you look at how that played out over time, the response clearly went well beyond both that immediate area around the airport, and certainly throughout Haiti, even [...]

I want to focus on the fact that today we still have a lot of other challenges that still are there, for a moment, and then, obviously, answer a lot [...]

STATE-SHAH-MILLS-HAITI functioning government, though. I think for any government, one who has faced the kind of challenges that Haiti has, first of all, not only an earthquake, but subsequent to [...]

That process really is a three-to five-year process. The real challenge is, is you've got to live in that in-between period. And so the question would be -- is, well, [...]

MS. MILLS: I just also want to say one thing just because I don't want us to be mischaracterized, and so -- I don't know that I would subscribe to [...]

REMARKS BY RAJIV SHAH, M.D., ADMINISTRATOR, U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, AND CHERYL MILLS, COUNSELOR TO SECRETARY OF STATE CLINTON SUBJECT: LOOKING BACK AT THE JANUARY 2010 EARTHQUAKE IN HAITI [...]

That process really is a three-to five-year process. The real challenge is, is you've got to live in that in-between period. And so the question would be -- is, well, [...]

STATE-SHAH-MILLS-HAITI functioning government, though. I think for any government, one who has faced the kind of challenges that Haiti has, first of all, not only an earthquake, but subsequent to [...]

MS. MILLS: I just also want to say one thing just because I don't want us to be mischaracterized, and so -- I don't know that I would subscribe to [...]

I think if you look at how that played out over time, the response clearly went well beyond both that immediate area around the airport, and certainly throughout Haiti, even [...]

I want to focus on the fact that today we still have a lot of other challenges that still are there, for a moment, and then, obviously, answer a lot [...]

Original Source: Political Transcript Wire STATE DEPARTMENT NEWS BRIEFING ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE EARTHQUAKE IN HAITI JANUARY 7, 2011 SPEAKERS: RAJIV SHAH, ADMINISTRATOR, U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CHERYL [...]