Veterans

The red poppies many people are wearing on their coats right now aren't just a potent symbol honouring those who've fallen in the military service of their country; they're also...
With the Toronto Blue Jays in the Major League Baseball (MLB) playoffs for the first time in over two decades Jays fever is through the (Skydome) roof not just in the 416, but all across Canada....
Jim Lowther, the founder and president of volunteer-run organization Vets Canada (formerly registered as Veterans' Emergency Transition Services Canada) which has 140,000 members,...
By all accounts, Bryan Adams is a little uncomfortable about accepting awards for his philanthropy and rarely does interviews about it.  He received the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award at...
Stephen Colbert ended The Colbert Report with a song and a fundraising tally. The talk show host and political satirist, who will take over the Late Show from David Letterman in 2015, announced that...
About 8000 volunteers helped to dismantle the 888,246 one-of-a-kind ceramic poppies that decorated the moat of England’s Tower of London and now the millions of British pounds raised from...
In Five Finger Death Punch's new music video for "Wrong Side of Heaven," staggering statistics are displayed over emotional images of American soldiers on the battlefield abroad and...
Bruce Cockburn, who has written songs and campaigned about everything from banning landmines to protecting the rain forests, has been named the 2014 recipient of the Allan Slaight...
Shortly after her husband returned from the Middle East, post 9/11, O.R. nurse Nicole Taylor noticed a dramatic change in him. The military firefighter had become withdrawn: he disengaged from his...
You’ve seen them on the grocery shelves:  Newman’s Own products from salad dressings to pasta sauce, but did you know every after-tax penny of profit from sale of the foodstuffs is...

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