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0 I just read a touching piece about a good way to say thanks to a veteran. Paul Kavanagh, a Montreal periodontist, was visiting the Canadian War Museum in 2009 with his family and happened to be in line at the cafeteria behind a veteran who did...
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0 The Veterans Review and Appeal Board has followed through on its promise to begin changes in response to a report from the Veterans Ombudsman that reviewed cases appealed to federal courts. After reviewing 140 VRAB decisions reviewed by the Federal Court of Appeal in 2011,...
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0 On Tuesday, July 17, 270 Canadian Forces members are putting their best foot forward at the opening of the 96th Annual Nijmegen Marches. By the time the event winds up Friday, they will have logged 160 kilometres through the countryside and towns of the...
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0 A groundswell of support has grown in Saskatchewan as communities, businesses and ordinary folks rally around Wounded Warriors Weekend Aug. 23-27 in Nipawin, Sask. The brain-child of Canadian country singer Blake Emmons and his business partner Jimmy Chute, the weekend is a way to thank...
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0 The medical director of Sunnybrook Hospital’s trauma centre, surgeon Colonel Homer Tien has been appointed the new Canadian Forces Major Sir Frederick Banting Term Chair in Military Trauma Research. Col. Tien has served in Bosnia, Croatia, Africa, Burma and had many tours in Kandahar. “Under...
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0 This month marks the 95th anniversary of the introduction of income tax in Canada—a “temporary” measure to help fund the First World War. The government imposed a number of financial measures to deal with the growing economic burden of the war. Luxury taxes and taxes...
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Canada and the Holocaust
Many young Canadians may be unaware Canada has any connection to the Holocaust, the Nazi extermination program that claimed six million Jewish people and millions of others during the Second World War. That is about to change as Canada assumes chairmanship of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance . In his speech at the hand-over...
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