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About Michael K. Barbour

Michael K. Barbour is the Director of Faculty Development and a Professor of Instructional Design for the College of Education and Health Sciences at Touro University California. He has been involved with K-12 online learning in a variety of countries for well over a decade as a researcher, teacher, course designer and administrator. Michael's research focuses on the effective design, delivery and support of K-12 online learning, particularly for students located in rural jurisdictions.

Consultation on Supports for Veteran Families and Caregivers

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An item from Veteran Affairs Canada that may be of interest to some of our regular members.

In late 2022, we asked you about VAC supports for Veteran families and caregivers. Thank you to everyone who participated in the consultation. The results are now in.

Your feedback helped us better understand how our supports are helping Veteran families and caregivers, and learn where future opportunities may exist.

Check out the consultation recap and stay informed by joining our community on Let’s Talk Veterans.
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The Queen of the skies: Iconic Lancaster flies again

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An item from the Legion Magazine.
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Stephen J. Thorne

The Queen of the skies: Iconic Lancaster flies again

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

She’s a big lumbering brute but, oh, how she flies!

Proponents of the Spitfire would no doubt take umbrage, but devotees of the bigger warbirds of the Second World War unabashedly call the Avro Lancaster the most beautiful aircraft ever built.

The crews who survived those long, cold and terrifying night missions over Germany—stragglers limping home, as they so often did, with their fuselages riddled by flak and 30mm cannon rounds, chunks of plane missing and wounded or dead aboard, hoping against hope they weren’t pursued—no doubt have a case.

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The mathematical miracle of the Gimli Glider

STORY BY PAIGE JASMINE GILMAR

It is a sound you never want to hear while manning a 132-ton Boeing 767-200 at 41,000 feet in the air. And despite their accumulated 22,000 hours of flying time, Captain Robert “Bob” Pearson and First Officer Maurice Quintal had never heard a sound quite like it either, emitting from the depths of the plane’s Engine Indicator and Crew Alerting System (EICAS). It was a sharp-tongued, steel-plated bong.

“Oh fuck,” Pearson blurted into the cockpit voice recorder.

The engines of Air Canada Flight 143–what would come to be known as the “Gimli Glider” – had flamed out.

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Joan Para Luncheon

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Earlier today several members of our branch had the opportunity to sit down for lunch with our remaining World War II veteran in the branch.  Joan Para served in Army Communications, where she trained in Bradford and was eventually stationed in London, near Buckingham Palace from 1942 to 1946.  Below are some pictures from the event where the branch presented her with a little display.