Canoe -- KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The ever-present perils of the Panjwaii claimed the life of another young Canadian soldier Thursday when his armoured vehicle struck a roadside bomb while returning from a mission to root out Taliban command centres and weapons caches.

Pte. Jonathan Couturier, 23, a member of 2nd Battalion, Royal 22e Regiment, based in Valcartier, Que., was killed when his vehicle detonated an improvised explosive device some 25 kilometres southwest of Kandahar city.

The tragedy makes Couturier the 131st Canadian soldier to die as part of the Afghan mission since it began in 2002. Eleven others who suffered minor injuries in the blast were treated at the Role 3 Hospital at Kandahar Airfield and have since returned to duty.

CBC -- Soldiers gathered at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan Monday night to pay their respects as the body of Pte. Patrick Lormand was loaded onto a transport plane bound for Canadian soil.

Lormand, 21, of the 2nd Battalion, Royal 22nd Regiment based in Quebec City, was killed and four others were injured in a roadside blast from an improvised explosive device on Sunday afternoon, the military said.

The soldiers were patrolling in the volatile Panjwaii district, where two other soldiers were killed just a week ago. The armoured vehicle that Lormand was riding in struck the device about 13 kilometres southwest of Kandahar city, Brig.-Gen. Jonathan Vance said Monday.

Canada.com -- QUEBEC - The family of one of the two Canadian combat engineers killed last weekend in Afghanistan said he died doing what he loved.

Maj. Yannick Pepin, 36, of Victoriaville, Que., commander of the 51st Field Engineers Squadron of the 5th Combat Engineers, and Cpl. Jean-Francois Drouin, 31, of Quebec City, who served with the same unit, died Sunday when their vehicle struck an improvised explosive device southwest of Kandahar City.

Five other Canadians were injured in the blast.

Toronto Star -- Just five weeks ago, a stoic Maj. Yannick Pépin was bidding farewell to two of his fallen soldiers.

"The loss of these two is very difficult," he told reporters on Aug. 3, two days after the two men under his command were killed in a roadside ambush. "But the work will continue."

This weekend it was the major's turn to be eulogized.

Pépin, 36, and Cpl. Jean-François Drouin, 31, were killed Sunday when a roadside bomb smashed their armoured vehicle.

Globe and Mail -- He was one of the younger soldiers to die in Afghanistan, but his family says Sapper Matthieu Allard approached the decision to join the army and the Afghan mission with maturity and determination.

The 21-year-old member of the 5th Combat Engineers Regiment died alongside his friend, Corporal Christian Bobbitt, in a roadside bombing on Saturday.

Both men worked to clear mines and booby traps in Afghanistan.

Globe and Mail -- Two bombs detonated in succession – one to stop the convoy, the second designed to kill the troops after they emerged from their armoured vehicle – claimed the lives of two Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan on the weekend in a lethal refinement of the Taliban’s hallmark IED attack.

Corporal Christian Bobbitt, 23, and another soldier who cannot be identified because his family has asked for time to notify relatives, were on a refuelling mission near the town of Senjaray in the Zhari district west of Kandahar city on Saturday when their vehicle was hit by an IED explosion at around 3:20 p.m. Kandahar time, the Canadian Forces said.

Globe and Mail -- A Canadian soldier fell to his death in Afghanistan Thursday, becoming the fifth Canadian to die during what has been a bloody July for NATO troops in Afghanistan.

Private Sébastien Courcy, 26, died around 6 a.m. Kandahar time, while taking part in military operations in the Panjwai district, about 17 kilometres southwest of Kandahar city. The Canadian Forces said that Pte. Courcy was standing on “high ground” during the operation, and fell to his death. Nobody else was injured. The military did not immediately release further information on what caused the fall, or describe the high ground on which the soldier was standing.

Globe and Mail -- A helicopter crash possibly caused by mechanical failure claimed the lives of two Canadian soldiers on Monday, bringing Canada's death toll from the Afghanistan mission to four in as many days.

The crash of the Griffon helicopter at an American forward operating base in Zabul province, about 80 kilometres northeast of Kandahar city, killed Master Corporal Pat Audet and Corporal Martin Joannette along with a coalition soldier from another country. Three other Canadians were hurt; two were able to return to duty, while the third was in stable condition. Sources said the two pilots survived.

“It has been an extremely difficult week here in Kandahar,” Canadian commander Brigadier-General Jonathan Vance said early Tuesday.

National Defence and the Canadian Forces -- OTTAWA– A Canadian soldier who recently sustained serious injuries in Afghanistan passed away in a Quebec hospital yesterday.

The deceased is Master-Corporal Charles-Philippe Michaud from the 2e Batallion, Royal 22e Régiment based at Canadian Forces Base Valcartier, near Quebec City.

At approximately 9:15 a.m. Kandahar time on June 23, 2009, Master-Corporal Michaud was seriously injured when an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated near his dismounted patrol in Panjwayi District, southwest of Kandahar City.

CBC -- A Canadian soldier was killed Friday in Afghanistan by a roadside bomb that narrowly missed a vehicle carrying the commander of coalition troops in Kandahar.

Cpl. Nick Bulger, 30, a member of Brig.-Gen. Jonathan Vance's tactical team, was travelling behind the general in Kandahar province when his light armoured vehicle struck an improvised explosive device at 11:20 a.m. local time.

After Vance's vehicle passed over the bomb safely, it was set off 15 metres behind by the vehicle in which Bulger was travelling. Vance was not injured in the blast.

Five other soldiers were hurt, but are in good condition and receiving medical care at Kandahar Airfield.