Canada Post offers free parcel service to families of deployed troops
Ottawa - Canada Post today announced it will provide free parcel service for family and friends of deployed Canadian troops for the holiday season. Effective October 26 through January 15, 2007 Canada Post will deliver parcels free of charge to designated Canadian Forces Bases, where they will be forwarded through the Canadian Forces postal system to ou.......
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Bureaucrats fight creation of veterans ombudsman:
Bureaucrats fight creation of veterans ombudsman: Marin: 'These people need a place to turn to,' watchdog saysOntario's ombudsman is warning that ""self-serving"" bureaucrats are trying to scuttle a plan for a strong advocate to speak for veterans disillusioned with the poor treatment they receive at the hands of the federal government. The creation of.......
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01-09-2009
Former soldiers want Ottawa to address stress claims
Former soldiers want Ottawa to address stress claimsLast Updated: Thursday, November 2, 2006 | 2:36 PM ET CBC News A group of military veterans is willing to settle their lawsuits with the federal government for about $10 million, a fraction of the $100 million in claims they've made, a spokesman said Thursday. The 26 members of the Military Collec.......
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Ombudsman Finds that the Health Concerns of Canadian Forces Veterans were Ignored
Ombudsman Finds that the Health Concerns of Canadian Forces Veterans were Ignored Ottawa, November 1, 2006 – Department of National Defence and Canadian Forces Ombudsman, Yves Côté, today released a special report, entitled Heroism Exposed: An Investigation into the Treatment of 1 Combat Engineer Regiment Kuwait Veterans (1991), regarding the treatment.......
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01-09-2009
Dishonouring disabled vets (Toronto Star)
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.......
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Canada Post offers free parcel service to families of deployed troops
Canada Post offers free parcel service to families of deployed troops Ottawa - Canada Post today announced it will provide free parcel service for family and friends of deployed Canadian troops for the holiday season. Effective October 26 through January 15, 2007 Canada Post will deliver parcels free of charge to designated Canadian Forces Bases, where.......
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Vets will get compensation for chemical testing
Vets will get compensation for chemical testing CTV NEWS OTTAWA -- The Canadian government will provide compensation to Second World War veterans who volunteered to undergo chemical warfare agent testing done by the British Army. Documents obtained by CTV News last week under Access to Information laws indicate that the Department of Defence believes.......
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UK Wounded to get millions in compensation
Wounded to get millions in compensation By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 1:14am GMT 10/12/2006 Hundreds of troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan are to be awarded millions of pounds in compensation following a ruling by the Government that they are victims of crime not war.
British troops wounded in Iraq and .......
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01-09-2009
Pension board a growing concern
Pension board a growing concern little-known Crown corporation with a big wallet
OTTAWA–The Public Service Pension Investment Board, which jumped into the business pages last week with a multibillion-dollar purchase of the country's largest satellite owner, is a little-known Crown corporation with a big wallet and an eye for diversified investments.......
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Harper government of party's opposition to pension-surplus grab
Plaintiffs in pension lawsuit remind Harper government of party's opposition to pension-surplus grab
OTTAWA, Feb. 13 /CNW Telbec/ - Eighteen unions, employee associations and retiree groups are urging Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government to intervene in the legal dispute over the $30.2-billion expropriation of federal public service pensio.......
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