Conservative Leader Stephen Harper is promising a bill of rights to improve the lives of Canada's veterans and proper recognition for.......
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Vets expect to wait years for pension awards
Vets expect to wait years for pension awards
The head of the War Amps is blasting a multibillion-dollar court award involving bungled pensions for disabled veterans, insisting the ruling will actually hurt living veterans. ""I usually fight for veterans,"" Cliff Chadderton, CEO of the War Amps and chairman of the National Council of Veteran Assoc.......
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Forces ombudman's office denies Gulf War illnesses
Forces ombudman's office denies Gulf War illnesses One in five veterans has reported ailment
The office of the Canadian Forces ombudsman has concluded that engineering troops who served in the Persian Gulf and were thought to have been exposed to various contaminants aren't suffering any greater rate of illnesses than other veterans, according to a .......
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Legion Targets Ombudsman Report on Use of Poppy
-----Original Message----- From: SeanK Sent: 27-Mar-06 17:17 To: xxxxxx@legion.ca Subject: Legion Targets First Ever Ombudsman Report on VAC by Claiming Ownership of All Representations of a Poppy
Letter In response to Royal Canadian Legion Representative's Email:
Mr. Clark
Apparently the Legion has claimed ownership of every symbol and r.......
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Veterans' benefits beefed up
Veterans' benefits beefed up MICHAEL DEN TANDT
Globe and Mail Update
The Harper government Thursday unveiled a beefed-up package of veterans' benefits that it billed as the most comprehensive since the end of the Second World War.
The legislation, which was drafted in consultation with veterans' groups following years of complaints that forme.......
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Poppy trade-mark argument reveals unique amalgam of rights
By Bob Tarantino (Courtesy of The Lawyers Weekly)On Nov. 4, 2005, a representative of the Royal Canadian Legion contacted Pierre Bourque, author of the widely-read Canadian news website www.bourque.com, and demanded the removal of a digital image of a poppy posted on the site. The Legion asserted a right to prohibit unauthorized use of the poppy im.......
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No death benefit for soldier’s kin
No death benefit for soldier’s kin N.S. man was single and had no children; parents, sister shut out By DEAN BEEBY The Canadian Press OTTAWA — The family of a Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan won’t be getting a generous cash settlement from the government after all.
Media reports last month said relatives of Pte. Braun Scott Woodfield, a N.......
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Dishonouring disabled vets
Dishonouring disabled vets (Toronto Star)
While politicians heap praise on our troops, Canadian soldiers disabled in Afghanistan will receive far less than those who fought in World War II, by Robert Smol and Sean Bruyea
Jun. 19, 2006. 01:00 AM
Young Canadian men and women are at war in Afghanistan. Over here, many immigrants from strife-tor.......
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Peacekeeping too passive for peace of mind, says psychiatrist
July 5, 2006
Soldiers better off fighting Peacekeeping too passive for peace of mind, says psychiatrist By CHRIS LAMBIE Staff Reporter
Fighting war might be easier on the head than peacekeeping, says a Halifax military psychiatrist who recently returned from Afghanistan.
Canadian troops are now involved in combat operations in the volatile so.......
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Study: More war veterans suffering from stress
WASHINGTON -- More than one-third of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans seeking medical treatment from the Veterans Health Administration report symptoms of stress or other mental disorders -- a tenfold increase in the last 18 months, according to an agency study. The dramatic jump in cases -- coming as more troops face multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanista.......