Category: rememberance day

Case Managers Warn Veterans’ Lives at Stake as Ottawa Presses Ahead on Rehab Contract

Case managers at Veterans Affairs Canada are warning that lives could be at stake as the government presses ahead with plans to change the way physical and mental rehabilitation services are provided to ill and injured ex-soldiers. The warnings were delivered in emotional testimony before the House of Commons veterans affairs committee Monday, where three…


Australians Pause to Remember War Dead

More than a century after the end of World War I, the thousands of Australians killed in the Great War and later conflicts have been remembered across the country. Australians paused at 11 a.m. to mark Remembrance Day and commemorate the 103,000 Australians who lost their lives in wars and peacekeeping operations. The national event…