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  • 06 Feb 2025

    Invictus Logo
    Meet the CME competitors on Team Canada for the Invictus Games Vancouver Whistler 2025. A biography for each athlete can be found on the...
  • 29 Jan 2025

    It is time to update our website. In its current form, it was launched in 2014. In those ten years, web technology advanced to the point we may no longer be able to protect it from hackers and more and more members are using mobile devices to access it. These are the main...

  • 20 Jan 2025

    Piper at Adegem Canadian War Cemetery

    For the last 50 years, the coastal municipality of Knokke-Heist, in Belgium, celebrates Remembrance Day with thousands of Canadian flags. Despite being separated from Canada by an ocean, the community has celebrated Remembrance Day since the end of the Second World War. That’...

  • 19 Jan 2025

    Cpl McCurdy of 36 CER receiving the Sgt George Miok Trophy

    17 January 2025
    In this Issue:

    • President’s Report
    • Exercises
    • Polar Bear Swim
    • 6 FES Reunion – New Zealand
    • Veteran Affairs
    • Membership
    • 39 CER Association Contacts
  • 13 Jan 2025

    Lise Galuga, spouse of Col Jake Galuga, Miliary Attaché in Paris, presents Gen Jennie Carignan with and Izzy Doll

    A special presentation today in Paris!

    Lise Galuga, Executive Director of the Izzy Doll Initiative...

  • 13 Jan 2025

    The Cyprus 2024 reunion was successfully conducted in Nicosia from November 5th to 12th. Ninety Canadian Veterans, with family members, gathered to enjoy and remember their time in Cyprus and the contributions that were made by Canadians over the 60 years of Canada’s...

  • 13 Jan 2025

    Shirley O'Connell and Lise Galuga

    After 20 years of dedicated service, Shirley O’Connell, the beloved “Izzy Doll Mama,” will step down from her day-to-day leadership role on 1 November 2024. She will forever retain the title of “Izzy Doll Mama” as she transitions to an advisory position with Izzy Doll...

  • 13 Jan 2025

    The Fall 2024 Issue of The Blue Beret - The Newsletter of the Canadian Peacekeeping Veterans Association includes an article about a recent VAC-sponsored pilgrimage back to Cyprus. With permission from the CAPA, the story has been extracted from the fall issue and is...

  • 08 Jan 2025

    Bob Lymburne at Lake Placid in 1932 (Photo credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Lymburne#/media/File:Bob_Lynburne,_1932.jpg)

    Article by LCol Don Chipman (Ret’d)
    08 January 2025

    The Revelstoke Review recently published a short announcement concerning Bob Lymburne, who served with the Royal Canadian Engineers during the Second World War:

    ...
  • 06 Jan 2025

    3rd Cdn Div Sappers with comrades from the 671st Multi-Role Bridging Company. atop a completed MGB

    Article submitted by LCol Dan O’Keefe, CD (Ret’d)
    Another successful Exercise Paladin Response was conducted in and around Chilliwack, BC, from December 26 to 31, 2024. Training sites included the Maple Bay Boat Launch and campground areas at...

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