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		<title>The Voice Of Commitment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was the perfect city in which to reaffirm a longstanding and honourable commitment to Canada’s veterans and their families. Located midway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, Winnipeg is known as the “bull’s eye” of Canada, but for Legionnaires, the city—and one hotel in particular—holds an even more central meaning; it is the birthplace of their grassroots cause, one that has helped shape Canadian society and improve the lives of the people they care most about.
Recognition of the Legion’s birthplace and the sanctioning of the Legion’s founding as an event of national historic significance were celebrated June 12, one [...] <a href="http://www.legionmagazine.com/en/index.php/2010/09/the-voice-of-commitment/">Continue Reading...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>43rd Dominion Convention: Walking The Path Of Service</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Under a clear Prairie sky, with sunlight glinting off the Golden Boy statue atop the Manitoba Legislative Building, more than a thousand Legionnaires marched toward the cenotaph in the city recognized as the birthplace of the Canadian Legion. The men and women making up the sea of blue and grey were in Winnipeg for The Royal Canadian Legion’s 43rd dominion convention, June 12-16, and to celebrate the historic unity that has bettered the lives of veterans and their families. 
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		<title>43rd Dominion Convention: The Delegates Decide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LEGEND
Committee abbreviations: DEF—Defence; P&#38;R—Poppy and Remembrance; R&#38;A—Ritual and Awards; VSS—Veterans, Seniors, Service.
Government abbreviations: CF—Canadian Forces; DND—Department of National Defence; VAC—Veterans Affairs Canada.
Legislation: NVC—New Veterans Charter; SISIP—Service Income Security Insurance Plan; VIP—Veterans Independence Program.
*Denotes non-concurred resolution brought back to the floor by a command and approved by convention.
DOMINION EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
1. (QUE; NS/NUNAVUT)—Directs Legion to petition federal government for statutory holiday on Feb. 15 to be known as Canada Flag Day.
VETERANS, SERVICE AND SENIORS
GENERAL
2. (VSS)—Urges federal government to declare Vimy Ridge Day (April 9) a national federal holiday.
3. (VSS)—Asks federal government to regroup all federal ombudsmen into a centralized ombudsmen office with [...] <a href="http://www.legionmagazine.com/en/index.php/2010/08/43rd-dominion-convention-the-delegates-decide/">Continue Reading...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>43rd Dominion Convention: It Happened In Winnipeg</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Winnipeg has a long history of hosting Royal Canadian Legion conventions, including  (clockwise from top), the first convention in 1927 of what was then called the Canadian Legion of the British Empire Service League;  Dominion President Clare Sparling speaks to delegates at the  20th convention in 1964 who ‘voiced their objections’ to Prime Minster Lester Pearson about replacing the Union Jack with ‘a distinctive Canadian flag;’ more than 5,000 Legionnaires march during the Golden Anniversary dominion convention in 1976; veterans at the 37th dominion convention in 1998 ride antique military vehicles in the parade; delegates and guests crowd the cenotaph at the 30th dominion convention in 1984. <a href="http://www.legionmagazine.com/en/index.php/2010/08/43rd-dominion-convention-it-happened-in-winnipeg/">Continue Reading...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>43rd Dominion Convention: Birthplace Of The Legion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, June 12th, at just the right moment, the rain stopped on Smith Street. The dignitaries—most wearing blue blazers—filed out from under the awning, and then the sun was distantly there, sending a glow over Winnipeg’s Marlborough Hotel, birthplace of The Royal Canadian Legion. <a href="http://www.legionmagazine.com/en/index.php/2010/08/43rd-dominion-convention-birthplace-of-the-legion/">Continue Reading...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>43rd Dominion Convention: Leading The Team</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dominion president Pat Varga, a Royal Canadian Navy veteran, is a life member at Coleville, Sask., Branch. She has served on Dominion Executive Council since 1997 and on many national committees, including veterans, service and seniors, Royal Commonwealth Ex-Services League (RCEL), youth, leadership and development, poppy and remembrance, public relations and was recently the chairman of the dominion sports committee. She is currently chairman of veterans, services and seniors, RCEL, and the dominion convention committees, as well as vice-chairman of finance/budget, and investment committees and sits as a member of the veterans’ consultation group. She is also a surveyor with the Long-term Care Surveyor Program. <a href="http://www.legionmagazine.com/en/index.php/2010/08/43rd-dominion-convention-leading-the-team/">Continue Reading...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>On This Date &#8211; September</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1 SEPTEMBER 1939
The Second World War begins as German forces sweep into Poland with the power of the “lightning war,” better known as the blitzkrieg.

PHOTO: LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA
Advance East of Arras. 

2 SEPTEMBER 1918
In France, throughout September and October, the Canadian Corps breaks through the Hindenburg Line, pushing the German army back from east of Arras to Cambrai and beyond.
3 SEPTEMBER 1943 
The Allies invade mainland Italy by crossing the Strait of Messina and landing near the town of Reggio di Calabria.
4 SEPTEMBER 1939
Pilot Officer S.R. Henderson, a Canadian serving in No. 206 Squadron, Royal Air Force, becomes the [...] <a href="http://www.legionmagazine.com/en/index.php/2010/08/on-this-date-september/">Continue Reading...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Health File</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Got A Food Craving?  
Imagine This…

Anyone who’s ever had a food craving knows how it can blot out the rest of the world. You want chocolate. You imagine the glisten on the surface, the crunch as you take a bite, the velvety texture on your tongue, the sweetness, the aroma…soon you can hardly think of anything else.  <a href="http://www.legionmagazine.com/en/index.php/2010/08/health-file-30/">Continue Reading...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Arctic Investigations: Air Force, Part 40</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“It is considered that North West Air Command should examine the Northwest Territories in the interests of the safe and efficient conducting of air, land and sea rescue operations in the future. Such action is considered to be in line with the recent Cabinet Decision that the RCAF is to be responsible for the co-ordination of all air, land and sea rescue.” <a href="http://www.legionmagazine.com/en/index.php/2010/08/arctic-investigations-air-force-part-40/">Continue Reading...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Complex And Troubled Years: Navy, Part 40</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The war at sea in 1942 pulled Canada’s small-ship navy in several directions simultaneously. The importance of the Royal Canadian Navy’s contribution to transatlantic convoy operations east of Newfoundland was confirmed in early 1942. As American destroyers drifted away to warmer climes, the RCN assumed responsibility for their escort duties in the northwest Atlantic. However, American preoccupation with the Pacific war and the spread of U-boat attacks to the eastern seaboard of North America also drew the fleet south, into the American coastal zone and as far as the Caribbean. 
And while this was happening, the U-boat fleet struck deep [...] <a href="http://www.legionmagazine.com/en/index.php/2010/08/complex-and-troubled-years-navy-part-40/">Continue Reading...</a>]]></description>
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