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The motorcycles had filled up a long stretch of parking in the southwestern Ontario town of Tillsonburg, long enough that then-98-year-old Tom Boneham and his caregiver/friend Christine Grim had to walk around them. Boneham noticed a patch on one of their jackets that said “30 Commando.” “I’m in charge of …
Read More »Hamilton Tiger Cats deal veteran quarterback Dane Evans to B.C. Lions
Dane Evans’s CFL career will continue on the West Coast. The Hamilton Tiger-Cats traded Evans to the B.C. Lions on Thursday for a conditional 2024 fourth-round draft pick. Evans was the Ticats’ starter for their two Grey Cup losses to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (2019, 2021). The move comes just …
Read More »Communication key for veteran Jets coach as Winnipeg gets Bowness bump – Winnipeg
Winnipeg Jets head coach Rick Bowness made a promise when he hung up his skates as a player and turned his attention behind the bench. Having just retired, the journeyman centre would coach the way he wished he had been coached. Read more: ANALYSIS: Have some patience, Jets fans Read …
Read More »‘A way of keeping the memory alive’: Manitoba veteran reflects on remembrance, importance of supporting legion – Winnipeg
Supporting the Royal Canadian Legion is something Harold ‘Timer’ Hyndman has been taking to heart for 75 years and counting. Hyndman, a Second World War veteran living in Minnedosa, Man., is still an active member of the local legion in his home community of Rapid City, Man. “The simple reason …
Read More »France honours 100-year-old B.C. veteran with Legion of Honour medal
Fernand Labrie may be 100 years old, but his memories from the time around the 1942 Dieppe Raid are as vivid as ever. He was 20, a soldier in the Canadian Forces’ Régiment de Maisonneuve, aboard a ship carrying TNT, on standby to fight Nazis on the French beach during the …
Read More »Military veteran living with chronic pain for a decade says he had to learn to ‘push through’
Paul Roos has been living with chronic pain for the last 10 years — a direct result of injuries he sustained while serving as an infantry officer in the Canadian Armed Forces. Roos, who is also the director of operations with the Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence for Canadian Veterans in …
Read More »After Afghanistan’s fall, a Canadian veteran turned his grief into hope for Ukraine
Former corporal John Lowe was angry and overwhelmed by a sense of helplessness as he watched the breathtaking collapse of Afghanistan a year ago. Everything he and other Canadian combat veterans had fought for there seemed to have been swept away in the wake of the Taliban takeover — a brutal event …
Read More »‘Frustrated’ veteran Mitchell to back up Maier for Stampeders against Blue Bombers
This game will be different for Jake Maier right from the start, but he’s trying not to think about it that way. The Calgary Stampeders’ second-year backup quarterback will get the start Thursday in Winnipeg against the 9-1 Blue Bombers with healthy veteran Bo Levi Mitchell still on the depth …
Read More »Veteran on long-term disability waiting for family doctor since 2011
A Canadian navy veteran says he’s fed up with waiting for a primary care provider after having been on Prince Edward Island’s wait-list for 11 years. Matt Dobson moved to P.E.I. in 2011 after being medically released from the navy when he was diagnosed with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. He had been …
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