Due Process Abandoned Once Again: VAC Tables C-45 Regulations over Christmas Holidays and During an Elecition
Dear Senator,
We are writing to you in your capacity as a Senator in an appeal for urgent assistance with respect to the creation of regulations and policies for C-45.
Currently, we find ourselves in the midst of an .......
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Gregory Thompson - Minister of Veterans Affairs
Thompson, the MP for New Brunswick Southwest, was first elected to the House of Commons in 1988, and was re-elected in 1997, 2000 and 2004. Most recently, Thompson served as official Opposition critic for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. Prior to entering politics, Thompson worked as a financi.......
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Jack Stagg's parents were both veterans. He would lead the charge to deny to modern veterans the very benefits his parents enjoyed with the development of the NVC. He thrived in an environment which eventually allowed him to acquire a PhD in history at Cambridge (UK). Minister Pagtakhan's speech to SCONDVA:
""He brings to the Portfolio a wealth of e.......
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Failings of C-45 New Veteran Charter
The attached document clearly shows how out of touch VAC Minister Greg Thompson is with the reality of what is going on in the lives of Disabled Veterans. Legal actions against the government will continue until we are treated with the respect, dignity, and loyalty, from the Government of Canada, that we, Disabled.......
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No plan to monitor plight of troops with hearing loss, mild brain trauma By ALISON AULD The Canadian Press Mon. Nov 17 - 2:49 PM
Canadian and U.S. medics help wounded Canadian soldiers into an ambulance May 25 just outside Kandahar City. (MURRAY BREWSTER / CP)
The Canadian Forces is not tracking how many of its soldiers are suffering from serv.......
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We need a public commission of inquiry into treatment of disabled veterans, says Canadian veteran
Re: ""Disabled CF veterans proceed with class action suit against government,"" (The Hill Times, June 18, p. 1). We need the public's help in the most desperate way. We Canadian Forces Disabled Veterans are struggling, daily, to survive physically, menta.......
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STRENGTHEN PROGRAM FOR VETERANS' WIDOWS IMMEDIATELY: NDP
NDP demands Conservatives honour their commitment to widows and programs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MARCH 10, 2008
TRURO, N.S. - NDP Veterans Affairs Critic Peter Stoffer (Sackville-Eastern
Shore) and Joyce Carter, a well-known advocate for veterans' widows from
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Gulf War illness linked to chemical exposure Reuters
Mon Mar 10, 2008 7:11pm EDT
By Julie Steenhuysen
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Exposure to pesticides, nerve agents and other chemicals may explain the chronic, multi-symptom health problems experienced by up to one-third of Gulf War veterans, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
They said an analysis.......
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Parliament and our veterans: now’s the time for healing It’s time to hold public House National DefenceCommittee hearings into veterans issues.
BY SEAN BRUYEA With another Remembrance Day behind us, now is the time for Parliament to pay more than lip service to truly honour those who have sacrificed much so that Parliament can begin another sessi.......
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AGENT ORANGE CASES Ward v. Canada, 2007 MBCA 123: The Manitoba Court of Appeal affirmed the lower court decision accepting jurisdiction. The court found that the real and substantial connection test need not be applied if the defendant is resident in the jurisdiction, as was the case with the Federal Government. The court also found that forum non conv.......
