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​​​​​​​Ottawa pays out over $100K to Quebec group that lost contract for Afghan war monument

Ottawa recently signed an out-of-court settlement with a team of Quebec architects that was denied a prestigious contract to design the National Monument to Canada’s Mission in Afghanistan. Sources told Radio-Canada the confidential deal is worth more than $100,000, or at least three times the initial offer made to the …

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New Calgary park and monument honouring Vietnamese community unveiled

Hundreds of people gathered at the grand opening of the Journey to Freedom Park in southeast Calgary on Friday. The park, which has been under construction since April 2021, was built to honour the journey of thousands of Vietnamese refugees who fled to Canada after the fall of Saigon in 1975.  Tu …

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