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Old is new

Aaron Kylie — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:24:32 +0000

How does it look? Regular readers of Legion Magazine may have already noticed the difference(s). This year, the publication is celebrating its 100th anniversary, and in conjunction with the milestone, it’s introducing a refreshed design and a few content updates. This space, too, typically dedicated to sharing an opinion of the editors, is shifting focus for just …

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Undaunted

Legion Magazine — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:19:06 +0000

Citing demand, The Royal Commonwealth Ex-Services League aims to continue its important work

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The B’ys back

Michael A. Smith — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 18:47:44 +0000

Newfoundland repatriates an unknown First World War soldier

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Dog fight

Legion Magazine — Fri, 10 May 2024 15:03:21 +0000

We’re not asking the question anymore if the dogs work—at least my team isn’t—because we already have very strong evidence.” So said Linzi Williamson in November 2023, as quoted in this issue’s feature story on veterans using mental health service dogs (see “The dogs of postwar,” page 32), an assistant professor in the department of psychology …

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The dogs of postwar

Paige Jasmine Gilmar — Mon, 06 May 2024 14:36:41 +0000

How mental health service animals help veterans. And a look at the decade-long struggle to have Veterans Affairs Canada fund them.

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Promises, Promises

Legion Magazine — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 14:00:39 +0000

We’re here to defend our way of life, now and into the future,” said the chief of the defence staff, General Wayne Eyre in mid-October 2022. “So we need a whole-of-society effort to help us bring the Armed Forces back to where it needs to be for the dangerous world ahead.” No argument with that …

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Life of Service

Stephen J. Thorne — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 15:10:04 +0000

While the number of veterans it serves declines, the Royal Commonwealth Ex-Services League continues to provide critical support For more than 30 years, Earl Francis has regularly navigated the backroads of Saint Lucia, delivering food, care packages and financial support to aged veterans and widows scattered around the ruggedly beautiful eastern Caribbean island. A retired …

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Raid reviews

Legion Magazine — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 19:42:46 +0000

Having spent some time in Dieppe in 2018 as part of a Second World War self-guided tour, I found Legion Magazine’s coverage (“To the men of Dieppe,” July/August) of this ill-conceived raid to be very informative. I stopped at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery coming into town, but failed to notice that the headstones …

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Exclusive excerpt: Lifesavers and Body Snatchers

Tim Cook — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 19:26:49 +0000

More than 20,000 doctors and nurses served in the Canadian Army Medical Corps during the Great War. With Canadian soldiers struggling in the trenches of the Western Front, facing dirt and deprivation, along with shells, bullets and chemical agents, it was essential to have supporting medical formations. “On the one hand it is science straining …

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Preserving pensions

Legion Magazine — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 17:39:04 +0000

It all came as a shock to Ardith Bennett, who gave up her own health plan and opted for her husband’s after they married. Dan, a veteran, was over 60, and when he died 15 years later, she discovered she no longer had health benefits. “I had no idea his coverage ended,” she told the …

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