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0 Clockwise from top left: Aboriginal veteran George Pambrun performs a graveside smudging ceremony; Smokey Smith VC places a wreath at Moro River Canadian War Cemetery in Italy; Polish veteran Zbigniew Gondek (far right) and others at Moro River. “I have a sad story to tell...
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0 PHOTOS: TOM MacGREGOR From top:Mayor Bill Enouy places a wreath; veterans and branch members parade to the cenotaph. It is Remembrance Day in Kirkland Lake, Ont., and the only noise you hear is the sound of boots crunching down on the thick layer of snow...
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0 PHOTOS: METROPOLIS STUDIO Clockwise from top: the viceregal group (from left) Chief of Defence Staff Ray Hénault, Speaker of the Senate Dan Hays, Silver Cross Mother Agatha Dyer, Gov. Gen. Adrienne Clarkson, John Ralston Saul, Prime Minister Paul Martin and his wife Sheila; poppies adorn...
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0 The Department of National Defence and the Canadian military have announced that the compulsory retirement age, or CRA, for all new regular force and primary reserve members has been increased by five years to age 60. A statement from National Defence says any personnel who...
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0 PHOTO: M.CPL. PAUL MCGREGOR, CANADIAN FORCES COMBAT CAMERA HMCS Chicoutimi is helped to the jetty by two Royal Navy tug boats in Faslane, Scotland. It is the last of four submarines purchased by the Canadian Forces from the British Ministry of Defence. This column is...
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0 PHOTOS: RAY DICK From top: The crammed interior of 1RCHA’s gun park at CFB Shilo; the Vimy building at Kapyong Barracks in Winnipeg. When the foreign troops left Canadian Forces Base Shilo in southwestern Manitoba in 1999, they left a void some people thought would...
Archive for January, 2005
