Reprinted from CBC News
'Nobody could say it's not, nobody could say it is,' says veteran Bob Shaw.
A Fredericton, N.B., man says that he may have a piece of a Franklin expedition ship.
In 1967, veteran Bob Shaw was part of a new section of the Armed Forces: combat divers. The team was working in the area of the Arctic where the wrecked HMS Erebus was discovered last month.
The HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were part of Sir John Franklin's doomed expedition in 1845 to find the…
Re-printed from Army News
Windsor, Ontario — The city of Windsor has unveiled the first fixed monument erected in a Canadian city to honour Canadian soldiers who lost their lives in Afghanistan. The Afghanistan and Peacekeepers’ Monument, unveiled on September 7, 2014, in Reaume Park on the banks of the Detroit River, is also the first in Canada to honour fallen peacekeepers and soldiers on one monument.
"I think it is wonderful and very apt that the new monument shares with…
On the 19th of June 2014, the Edmonton Chapter held our second CMEA golf tournament. During the event we raised $4390.65. We donated $3500.00 to Valour Place and $750.00 to the Cpl Turner fund.
The CMEA and our parent association, the Conference of Defence Associations (CDA), fully support the recent federal response to the third report from the Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs. The government has laid out a process to implement recommendations from the report, The New Veteran's Charter: Moving Forward, and will initially take action to address issues surrounding veterans who are seriously ill or wounded and their families. Full details are included in the…
The year 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the First World War. Bruce MacDonald, a recently retired high school Social Studies teacher in Nova Scotia, has created a blog to share the stories of the war's Guysborough County veterans, while providing background information related to their experiences. We have posted links to his stories on our site. Visit our page Stories About or By Sappers.
Former CDS Paul Manson makes a case for today's need for a new way for Canada’s military veterans to express their needs, concerns, and ambitions. In an editorial piece currently circulating among a number of veterans organizations, Mr. Manson makes a forceful argument for the establishment of a new structure to gather the many and varied veterans organizations under one lead to present their concerns in a convincing and forceful, yet constructive, way to seek solutions from…
OTTAWA – Major-General Paul Wynnyk assumed the role of Commander Canadian Forces Intelligence Command (CFINTCOM) and Chief of Defence Intelligence (CDI) today from Major-General Christian Rousseau. The change of command ceremony was held at the Cartier Drill Hall and was attended by Richard B. Fadden, Deputy Minister of National Defence, and presided over by General Tom Lawson, Chief of the Defence Staff.
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On Friday, June 20, 2014 the Governor General presided over an Order of Military Merit investiture ceremony. Among those invested into the order were the following Military Engineers:
Brigadier-General Karl McQuillan, O.M.M., C.D
Captain Kirk Darch, M.M.M., C.D.
CWO Daryl Foster, MMM, CD
CWO Carl Kletke, M.M.M., C.D
