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		<title>The Netherlands Celebrates 65 Years Of Liberation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They may be fewer and a little less inclined to march, but the Canadian veterans who choose to return to the Netherlands this spring will be made as welcome as when they liberated the country 65 years ago.
“The enthusiasm is in no way diminished and 2010 is a milestone year,” The Netherlands Ambassador to Canada, Wim Geerts, said in a visit to Legion House in Kanata, Ont., in January. Geerts said activities are planned on both sides of the Atlantic to mark the 65th anniversary of the liberation in May (Journal, January/February).
While at Legion House, the ambassador presented a liberation [...] <a href="http://www.legionmagazine.com/en/index.php/2010/03/the-netherlands-celebrates-65-years-of-liberation/">Continue Reading...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Karen Bailey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Karen Bailey is passionate about drawing attention to the uncelebrated workers in countless jobs across this land. When she was chosen in 2007 as part of the Canadian Forces Artists Program (CFAP) she carried her vision into the hospital at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan.  <a href="http://www.legionmagazine.com/en/index.php/2010/03/karen-bailey/">Continue Reading...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding The Charter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We will highlight in this and coming Serving You columns information on the New Veterans Charter (NVC). Implemented in April 2006, the NVC offers job placement assistance, rehabilitation services, financial benefits, health services, education assistance and disability benefits to current or former members of the Canadian Forces (CF), including certain reservists.
Financial Benefits include the following:
• Earnings Loss (EL): a taxable monthly benefit that equals 75 per cent of gross pre-release salary, minus the sum of the monthly amounts of other income from prescribed sources. This can be provided on a temporary basis if the veteran is participating in an approved [...] <a href="http://www.legionmagazine.com/en/index.php/2010/03/understanding-the-charter/">Continue Reading...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Torchbearers Live Up To The Challenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While the Vancouver 2010 Olympics may now be over, certainly not every story of those games has yet been told. And among the stories of triumph and tragedy there’s something a little smaller, a little closer to home, and that’s the story of how more than 50 Legionnaires were recruited through the branches to help run the torch across Canada.
From coast to coast, in every province and territory of the county, Legionnaires signed up and got dressed up in the white Olympic outfit and took the torch through their communities. From Michel Albert of Iqaluit Branch in Nunavut to peacekeeping [...] <a href="http://www.legionmagazine.com/en/index.php/2010/03/torchbearers-live-up-to-the-challenge/">Continue Reading...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome To The Job Mr. Blackburn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We welcome Quebec member of Parliament Jean-Pierre Blackburn to his position as Veterans Affairs minister. Blackburn, who was sworn in as minister Jan. 19, is a veteran MP who served under Brian Mulroney from 1984 to 1993 and then returned to Parliament in 2006. He has been serving as minister of National Revenue and minister of state for agriculture since 2008 and, while he moved from National Revenue to Veterans Affairs, he retains his cabinet position of minister of state for agriculture.
As Veterans Affairs minister, Blackburn will have a full plate. That much is obvious by the 56 resolutions related [...] <a href="http://www.legionmagazine.com/en/index.php/2010/03/welcome-to-the-job-mr-blackburn/">Continue Reading...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Assignment Afghanistan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For several weeks last fall, a dusty and dangerous frontier town in Afghanistan was home for Legion Magazine staff writer Adam Day. Armed with a notebook and camera, Day spent his time in Salavat with a platoon of 1st Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, deployed in an attempt to secure the town and win the trust of its people. The result of Day’s visit is a series of articles, beginning with Part 1, The Struggle For Salavat. Before we go there, however, we open with a story (Hearts And Minds) by freelance journalist Matthieu Aikins whose travels throughout Afghanistan have given him a perspective on how Afghans view international efforts to bring stability to their country. <a href="http://www.legionmagazine.com/en/index.php/2010/03/assignment-afghanistan-2/">Continue Reading...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Assignment Afghanistan: The Struggle For Salavat &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the first few days the platoon was uneasy. So much of everything was unknown. As a unit they were new to the war but they knew the war’s reputation for random savagery.

As each patrol was leaving the little fortified schoolhouse over the first days, the soldiers staying behind would come out to see them off, pretending to tease them. Or maybe they would really tease them. There were always a few sombre last moments as the guys gave each other thumbs up or fist bumps on their way out, and then it would start. ‘Have fun at the war soldiers,’ someone might yell in a girl’s voice. ‘Watch out for those IEDs, tough guys,’ another might yell cutely. It seemed pretty clear the soldiers were worried about each other. <a href="http://www.legionmagazine.com/en/index.php/2010/03/the-struggle-for-salavat-part-1/">Continue Reading...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Assignment Afghanistan: Hearts And Minds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Abdul Wali was looking back over his shoulder, explaining to me how bad things had gotten for him, and about the gains the Taliban had been making in Kandahar, when, with a crunch, he rear-ended the car in front of us, another equally battered Corolla taxi that had been trying to take a left turn. <a href="http://www.legionmagazine.com/en/index.php/2010/03/hearts-and-minds/">Continue Reading...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Health File</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Smog And Appendicitis
Already recognized as a risk factor for heart attack, stroke and cancer, air pollution is now also being linked to attacks of appendicitis.
“Appendicitis is one of the most common reasons for North Americans to have surgery,” says gastroenterologist Dr. Gilaad Kaplan of the University of Calgary’s Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences.
Appendicitis, an inflammation of the appendix which is found between the small and the large intestine, is a disease that accompanies industrialization, and until now it was blamed on lack of fibre in modern diets. “But that doesn’t explain the drop in rates in the mid- [...] <a href="http://www.legionmagazine.com/en/index.php/2010/02/health-file-27/">Continue Reading...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Roar Of The Meteor: Air Force, Part 37</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although the first flights of German and British jet engine test beds occurred 21 months apart, the two nations introduced jet fighters into service at almost the same time—July 1944. But both the Me.262 and the Gloster Meteor commenced by making only a modest splash.
The prototype Meteor was so underpowered that it barely staggered into the air on July 22, 1942, in a hop that was so brief it was not even considered a flight, something that was achieved with more powerful Rover engines on March 5, 1943. Development went forward using a bewildering array of engines, and one lesson [...] <a href="http://www.legionmagazine.com/en/index.php/2010/02/the-roar-of-the-meteor-air-force-part-37/">Continue Reading...</a>]]></description>
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