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Transport Canada must be ‘more vigilant,’ relatives say two years after N.S. sinking

Geno Francis loved most things about fishing on the high seas, but his son says that in his final year, fear overshadowed that passion. “My father said, ‘After this trip, this was it,’ because it was quite dangerous,” Michael Francis said during a recent interview at his home in Milton, …

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Federal government to formally apologize to relatives of No. 2 Construction Battalion

The federal government will formally apologize to descendants and relatives of the men of the No. 2 Construction Battalion Saturday afternoon, 106 years after the formation of the historic battalion that faced anti-Black racism during the First World War. The Nova Scotia-based battalion was the first military unit in Canada made up …

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