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Feds Failing Veterans

CP | Stephanie Levitz, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.21.2012 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - A report on how former soldiers are told whether they've qualified for disability benefits is the start of a wide-ranging look into problems ...

Injured Veterans Struggle To Enter Workforce

CBC | Posted 02.18.2012 | Canada

Advocates for Canadian veterans say a priority list aimed at helping injured soldiers get jobs in the public service isn't fulfilling its...

Remembering With Witnesses to Our History

Jeremy Diamond | Posted 01.11.2012 | Canada
Jeremy Diamond

Remembering the Silent Generation

Peter Behrens | Posted 01.10.2012 | Canada
Peter Behrens

As they grew old, and faced their deaths, most of what had happened in the decades since their war seemed to recede, fade, lose shape and colour -- and the hard kernels of dastardly memory grounded in those intense weeks and months in Europe was all that remained.

Let's Honour Veterans With Better Foreign Policy

Romeo Saganash | Posted 01.09.2012 | Canada Politics
Romeo Saganash

I believe that before we send our troops into danger, they deserve to know what is expected and why it is asked of them.

Calm Down, Conservatives, You Have a Majority

Keith Beardsley | Posted 01.09.2012 | Canada Politics
Keith Beardsley

The Conservatives haven't yet figured out that a majority government doesn't need to be constantly on the attack. It's time for them to take a deep breath, pause, shift gears and be the best majority government they can be.

Homeless Vets Problem Set To Explode?

CP | Heather Scoffield, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.07.2012 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - Standing a few discreet metres away from those selling Remembrance Day poppies at shopping centres across the country this week will be the r...

At Home With Claude: A Veteran's Life In The Shipping Container

CP | Andy Blatchford, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.07.2012 | Canada

MONTREAL - He steps over piles of trash, past the dog wolfing kibble off the floor, across his tattered mattress and into the perpetual darkness at th...

An Open Letter to the Poppy Box Thieves

Ben Johnson | Posted 01.06.2012 | Canada
Ben Johnson

I assume that you aren't fully aware of the significance of the poppy, so I wrote this in hopes that you'll read it and do the right thing.

Another Veteran Claims Privacy Breach

CBC | Posted 01.04.2012 | Canada Politics

Another veterans' advocate says government officials breached his privacy by unnecessarily going into his medical record hundreds of time...

Sask. Mother Selected For 2011 Silver Cross

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 01.01.2012 | Canada

RAYMORE, Sask. - In just over a week, Patty Braun will place a wreath at the National War Memorial on behalf of all mothers who have lost sons or daug...

Canadian WWI Soldier To Be Buried In France

CBC | Posted 12.24.2011 | Canada

The remains of a Canadian soldier killed during the First World War and missing for nearly a century found a final resting place during a...

Veterans Say Feds Denying Travel Benefits To See Psychiatrists

CP | Alison Auld, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.09.2011 | Canada Politics

Former members of the Canadian military who are struggling with mental health problems say they're being denied benefits from Veterans Affairs to cove...

Harper Honours Veterans Of 'Forgotten' Korean War

CP | Posted 09.26.2011 | Canada

BRAMPTON, Ont. - Scores of veterans, dignitaries and members of the public turned out Wednesday for a parade and ceremony to remember the once "forgot...

Tory Promise Of Big Aid For War Vets... Not So Much

CP | Posted 09.18.2011 | Canada Politics

THE CANADIAN PRESS -- OTTAWA - As thousands of Canadian soldiers adjust to home life after the battlefields of Kandahar, what looked like a flood of a...

Canadian History Just Bunk to Make a Buck

Mark Bourrie | Posted 09.12.2011 | Canada
Mark Bourrie

Don't feel guilty if you couldn't pass the silly Canadian history trivia tests that ran in most of the country's newspapers recently. A lot of people in governments, universities and publishing companies make good salaries working with Canadian history every day don't care much about it, either.