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Electronic voting debuts with promising results
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September 22, 2022
Electronic voting debuts with promising results

Dominion Command Vice-President Berkley Lawrence oversaw elections at the convention, which featured a new electronic voting system.
55th British Columbia/Yukon Convention

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Delegates elect first female president
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September 22, 2022
Delegates elect first female president

52nd Alberta-Northwest Territories Convention
Rosaline LaRose (opposite) is the new president of Alberta-Northwest Territories Command.

Not one branch had to close because of the pandemic. That good news kicked off the 52nd convention of Alberta-Northwest

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New command president takes up the cause for new members
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September 22, 2022
New command president takes up the cause for new members

50th Manitoba-Northwestern Ontario Convention

Dominion President Bruce Julien with newly acclaimed Manitoba-Northwestern Ontario President Ernie Tester and Past President

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Plans for helping homeless veterans and changes to track and field highlight
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September 22, 2022
Plans for helping homeless veterans and changes to track and field highlight

66th Prince Edward Island Convention
Dominion Vice-President Owen Parkhouse addresses the convention.

The pandemic has had a profound impact on the Island, but the members

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Veterans programs take centre stage
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September 22, 2022
Veterans programs take centre stage

Ontario Command president Garry Pond, among others, placed wreaths
52nd Ontario Convention

North Bay, home to the Canadian operations centre of Norad and a nearly

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Photo Essay: Memorials mark the passing of Queen Elizabeth II
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September 21, 2022
Photo Essay: Memorials mark the passing of Queen Elizabeth II

She was born April 21, 1926, Princess Elizabeth of York and, as events would have it, she would become heir to the British throne.

She became Queen Elizabeth II on Feb. 6, 1952, succeeding her father, King George VI, and declaring that “my whole life whether it be long or short shall be devoted to

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The Royal Canadian Engineers and Operation Berlin
Operation Market Garden was a plan to create a route for an Allied invasion of northern Germany by capturing key bridges over the Rhine and...
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The Long and complex history of the Independent State provides critical context to Russia's "Special Military Operation" When Russia began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine...
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Stephen J. Thorne says NO The Battle of the St. Lawrence was a limited engagement by opportunistic German U-boat captains to harass shipping in the...
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Herbert Taylor Reader, of Perth, Ont., decided in 1850 to follow in his father’s footsteps, Colonel George Hume Reade, a staff surgeon with the Leeds...
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David Everett MacLeod, of Pictou County, N.S., joined the Royal Canadian Air Force as a teenager and served as an air gunner and gunnery instructor...
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On Sept. 1, 1939, the passenger liner Athenia left Scotland bound for Montreal, two days before Britain declared war on Germany. Athenia was carrying 1,418...
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New command president takes up the cause for new members
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Plans for helping homeless veterans and changes to track and field highlight
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