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0 ILLUSTRATION: SHARIF TARABAY It was Canada Day Eve, a special night for the soldiers at the main Canadian Forces Base in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Master Bombardier Bounyarattanaphon Makthepharak, fresh out of the shower after one of his gruelling gym workouts, was sitting down with his buddies...
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0 ILLUSTRATION: SHARIF TARABAY Retired Warrant Officer Terri Orser. “I didn’t tell anybody–for a long time. I was diagnosed way back when it was so taboo…. But I had it before that. I just didn’t know it.” As Terri Orser talks about getting diagnosed with post-traumatic...
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0 PHOTO: NATALIE SALAT Legion service officer Gerry Finlay, in Edmonton. It’s still early days in the life of the New Veterans Charter, but some initial assessments have crystallized since the government’s overhaul of veterans’ benefits and services took effect April 1, 2006. Reviews so far...
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0 ILLUSTRATION: SHARIF TARABAY Master Corporal Paul Franklin. “I get rock star parking.” As Master Corporal Paul Franklin pulls into the parking lot of Earls Restaurant in downtown Edmonton on a humid July day, he brings his Mini Cooper to a stop in one of the...
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0 PHOTO: NATALIE SALAT Monique Allard and Dr. Serge Gingras at Ste-Anne’s Hospital. Veterans often have to cope with mental as well as physical pain, but until recently these two types of injury have been treated separately. The new pain management clinic run by Veterans Affairs...
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0 ILLUSTRATION: LUKE KNIGHT When Anne Lyddiatt went into hospital for major surgery a few months ago, she went with her eyes wide open–and with a perspective that relatively few patients have: “I have a nursing background, but I don’t disclose that.” She has also been...
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