Laureen Harper helps clean out flooded basement

If anyone wondered if living in 24 Sussex Drive has softened up Laureen Harper, they should have seen her go Wednesday. The prime minister’s wife — along with a whole bunch of Calgary MPs, friends and assistants — cleaned out literally tonnes of garbage from flood-damaged Calgary-area homes, helped deliver tonnes of food at the Morley reserve and then — after putting in a solid eight hours of work and travel, continued on to Exshaw, where she helped clean out a couple more damaged homes. Calgary Herald