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19News 01-09-2009Military refuses to give details on JTF2 troops to Veterans AffairsElite unit is so secretive soldiers can't get disability benefits: Military refuses to give details on JTF2 troops to Veterans Affairs

The Ottawa Citizen
February 8, 2005
By David Pugliese

The intense secrecy surrounding the Ottawa-based Joint Task Force 2 special forces unit is preventing injured commandos from obtaining disability benefits.
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24NewsSDB01-09-2009SDB Claw-backOttawa Citizen
Dave Brown
October 9, 2005
Canada's gold diggers, those gorgeous younger women who would take advantage of aged military veterans, should unite in a class action defamation suit aimed at the Canadian government. The challenging question in the suit would be: How stupid do you think we are?

Reg Warkentin of Kingston is one of those v.......
27NewsAgent Orange/Purple01-09-2009Agent Orange Gleaner Article 1The Canadian military will be looking in the wrong place if they conduct more soil tests
at a CFB Gagetown herbicide dump this summer, says an Agent Orange expert.
Dr. Wayne Dwernychuk has spent years studying Agent Orange's after-effects in
Vietnam and is the senior vice-president of Hatfield Consultants Ltd., a British
Columbia-based research comp.......
28News 01-09-2009Agent Orange Gleaner Article 2Tips from veteran leads to possible dump sites

A Black Watch veteran's suggestion of where to look for buried Agent Orange barrels might have turned up a valuable clue for Canadian Forces Base Gagetown officials.

David Weir was a soldier while the toxic herbicides were being sprayed in 1966 and 1967, and he remembers seeing about 25 or 30 used bar.......
36News 01-09-2009Vet blasts study to debunk Gulf War SyndromeVet blasts study to debunk Gulf War Syndrome
Research similar to U.S. and British surveys
KEYWORDS: ""PTSD"" OR ""POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER"" OR ""POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER"", ""DEPLETED URANIUM"", ""GULF WAR"" NEAR ""SYNDROME"", ""SADDAM"" OR ""SADDAM HUSSEIN"", ""INVASION OF IRAQ"" OR ""INVASION OF IRAK"", ""DEFENCE PERSONNEL"" OR ""MILITA.......
37News 01-09-2009Gulf War veterans' cancer rates averageGulf War veterans' cancer rates average
StatsCan
KEYWORDS: ""CANADIAN SOLDIER*"" AND NOT (""SADDAM HUSSEIN"" OR ""FIRST WORLD WAR"" OR ""SECOND WORLD WAR""), ""CANADIAN SOLDIER*""
A new study finds that Gulf War veterans showed no higher incidence of cancer, or death from all causes, than other military personnel or the general population.
In.......
38NewsVeteran Ombudsman01-09-2009Hinton Supports Veterans’ Call For a Veterans Affairs OmbudsmanHinton Supports Veterans’ Call For a Veterans Affairs Ombudsman

KAMLOOPS – Yesterday a group of modern day veterans, led by Capt. Sean Bruyea (ret’d.), held a press conference on Parliament Hill to unveil their 2005 Ombudsman Report on Veterans Affairs Canada. This report clearly outlines the need for an ombudsman for VAC and calls on the governme.......
39NewsVAC01-09-2009WWII pilot gets pension after 40-year battleWWII pilot gets pension after 40-year battle

Last Updated Tue, 08 Nov 2005 18:12:06 EST

CBC News

Clifton Wenzel flew almost 50 combat missions during the Second World War and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Force Cross. But, in spite of his record, he was told when he left the service he didn't qualify for a pension. .......
48News 01-09-2009Harper promises to do more for Canada's war veterans at legion campaign stopHarper promises to do more for Canada's war veterans at legion campaign stop
VICTORIA (CP) - A Conservative government would enact a veterans bill of rights and hire an ombudsman to enforce it with instructions to give veterans the benefit of the doubt in most disputes with the government, party leader Stephen Harper said Wednesday.
Harper also promi.......
49NewsVAC01-09-2009WWII Pension AwardsVets expect to wait years for pension awards


The head of the War Amps is blasting a multibillion-dollar court award involving bungled pensions for disabled veterans, insisting the ruling will actually hurt living veterans.
""I usually fight for veterans,"" Cliff Chadderton, CEO of the War Amps and chairman of the National Council of Veteran Asso.......