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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.

The Legion Dispatch – October 2022

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An update from Dominion Command to its branches (note that items only relevant to branch executive or for Canadian branches have been removed).

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October 2022
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In this edition – October 2022
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2022 Poppy Campaign
We are pleased to have the support of our National Poppy Campaign Corporate Partners in helping distribute Poppies across Canada and raise funds for the Poppy Campaign. View the Corporate Partners and contact list. As more information becomes available, visit the Member Services Website 2022 Poppy Campaign webpage for updates.
Corporate Partners  ‣ | Partner contact list  ‣ | 2022 Poppy Campaign  ‣
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Add your local Legion Remembrance Day Ceremony to Legion.ca
People visiting the Legion’s website can search for the location of their local Remembrance Day Ceremony here.
We encourage all Branches hosting a Remembrance Day Ceremony to add your event to the site. This tool, which will be widely promoted during the Remembrance period, will allow Legion Branches to share when and where they are holding Remembrance Day ceremonies. Branches can submit their ceremony details through the online form.
Add your Ceremony  ‣
The Poppy Trademark
Protect the Poppy
As the Remembrance period approaches, we see more and more instances of unauthorized use and misuse of the Poppy. Help protect the Poppy symbol from commercialization, misuse and unauthorized use.
Did you know? The Poppy can never be used as a symbol of Remembrance for profit or personal gain and may not be used without the express written permission of Dominion Command by any organization, group, community, or individual for commercial, political or charitable display or public distribution.
See the attached educational flyer for Branches that highlights important information about the Poppy trademark, and requirements for use.
Download the flyer  ‣
Please direct public inquiries to: www.legion.ca/poppy-trademark
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Queen Elizabeth II commemorative pin
As a commitment to preserve the memory of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the Supply Department has created a lapel pin as a visible representation of our gratitude for her unwavering service. The pin may be worn on the Legion uniform until January 31, 2023. This pin replaces the Platinum Jubilee pin, and is worn on the right side lapel, to the left of the Support Our Troops pin. The commemorative pin should not be worn with the Platinum Jubilee pin.
Call Legion Supply at 1-888-301-2257 to order. Temporarily out of stock. Check back the first week of November.
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Renewal reminders and special offer
Renewal reminders are being mailed to over 66,000 members and emailed to over 61,000 members with an email on file.
Members who renew and prepay their dues for 5 years will receive a FREE Poppy toque, scarf and pair of mittens.
Legion.ca/winter  ‣
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Promote membership with free Branch resources
With the Remembrance period coming up, and the new year just around the corner, now is a great time to start promoting membership!
Check out these free Branch recruitment and renewal resources, available through Legion Supply, or download and print.
Download now  ‣
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Legion Yoga: a new activity
The physical and mental health benefits of Yoga have sparked a new program at a Legion Branch in Saskatchewan. “Chair Yoga” is attracting Veterans and Seniors in the community of Weyburn. Could it interest your Legion community too? Read more to find out!
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Branches interested in the video program can access it here:
Part 1  ‣ | Part 2  ‣ | Part 3  ‣
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Service dogs for those who served
In August 2018, the Legion’s Ontario Provincial Command partnered with Wounded Warriors Canada (WWC) to launch Operation Service Dog, with the goal to pair as many injured Veterans as feasible with trained Service Dogs. In the past 12 months alone, WWC is estimating the pairing and placement of 25 Service Dogs with Veterans in Ontario, with a further 18 in training – an increase from 17 dogs paired and placed the previous 12 months, demonstrating that this initiative is producing results!
Learn more  ‣
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Want to hear from CAF members this Veterans’ Week?
Did you know that the Department of National Defence offers Canadians an opportunity during Veterans’ Week (Nov 5-11) to bring history to life and hear stories of our Veterans as part of the National Veterans’ Week Speakers Program (NVWSP)? You can invite a CAF speaker for an in-person or live virtual presentation during Veterans’ Week, where capacity exists and public health guidelines permit.
Learn more  ‣
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Branch Membership Administration
Resources and tips to support your Membership Chair
+ Attract new members with these programs!
Did you know? Legion membership is on pace for the most new and reinstated members we have had in over 20 years!
Promote the following free offers at your Branch to help attract new members:

  • Veterans Welcome Program: Serving and retired CAF and RCMP members are eligible for a free first year of membership
  • Veterans Family Welcome Program: Veterans’ family members, including spouses, children 18+, parents and/or guardians can get a free first year of membership
  • MemberPerks®: All members in good standing have access to our free member benefits program! Over 30,000 Legion members have registered and saved over $600,000 at thousands of stores and restaurants across Canada

* Free Membership Offers only available for first time Legion members.
+ Auto-renew makes membership renewal easier for everyone!
The auto-renewal billing process for the 2023 membership year will run during the first few weeks of November. Members will be notified in advance via email during the month of October.
Did you know:

  • 1 in every 10 Legion members have already selected auto renew as their choice for membership renewal
  • Auto-renew improves member retention rates while removing all Branch processing associated with member renewals
  • Members can sign up for auto-renew:
    • Via their online membership profile
    • When they renew online
    • By calling Dominion membership at 1-855-330-3344

Promote auto-renewal at your Branch with this downloadable poster or order a free, 17×22 inch poster through Legion Supply (item #800412)!
Get access to Marketing and PR resources
Legion Letterhead
Now available: Editable Legion branded letterhead for your Branch! Simply update the letterhead template with your Branch logo and your Branch address and contact information.
Don’t have a Branch logo? Contact marketing@legion.ca and we’ll send you one!
Get the Branch letterhead  ‣
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PR Tip of the Month
Communicate with your PRO team
Stay in regular touch with your regional or provincial Public Relations representatives so that you know what’s going on: learn about successful initiatives you can replicate, or about any red flag issues.
Have questions or need advice? Contact your Command Public Relations Officer or Nujma Bond, Dominion Command Communications at nbond@legion.ca
Your Legion calendar
On November 1st, the Legion announces the National Silver Cross Mother. Learn more about this important role here.
Learn about October’s mental health awareness days and other important dates your Branch can promote or organize activities for.
Download the 2022 calendar  ‣
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MemberPerks®: Exclusive offers and preferred pricing through Venngo
MemberPerks® is more than a member benefit package. It’s also a tool Branches can use to promote membership. Plus, you can partner with local businesses in your community to offer exclusive discounts for your members.
Learn more  ‣
Partner promotions
The following is brought to you by our partners, highlighting special offers and other information.
Special offer from Legion Magazine
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Wednesday: How the Pacific Northwest shaped Canadian identity

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An item from a fellow Canadian organization in the Bay Area.
Canadian Studies Announcements

In This Issue:

Upcoming Events

  • Book talk: Converging Empires: Citizens and Subjects in the North Pacific Borderlands, 1867–1945
  • Graduate student discussion with Prof. Andrea Geiger

Canadian News

  • UC Berkeley center publishes report on Canada’s “Islamophobia industry”

External Events

  • “The Diversification of Agroecosystems: Uncovering Indicators and Outcomes”

UPCOMING EVENTS

Book Talk: Converging Empires: Citizens and Subjects in the North Pacific Borderlands, 1867–1945

Wednesday, October 19 | 12:30 pm | 223 Moses | RSVP here

Andrea Geiger will discuss her new book, Converging Empires: Citizens and Subjects in the North Pacific Borderlands, 1867–1945 (University of North Carolina Press, 2022). Making a vital contribution to our understanding of North American borderlands history through its examination of the northernmost stretches of the U.S.-Canada border, the book highlights the role that the North Pacific borderlands played in the construction of race and citizenship on both sides of the international border from 1867, when the United States acquired Russia’s interests in Alaska, through the end of World War II. Imperial, national, provincial, territorial, reserve, and municipal borders worked together to create a dynamic legal landscape that both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people negotiated in myriad ways as they traversed these borderlands. Adventurers, prospectors, laborers, and settlers from Europe, Canada, the United States, Latin America, and Asia made and remade themselves as they crossed from one jurisdiction to another.

Within this broader framework, Geiger pays particular attention to the ways in which Japanese migrants and the Indigenous people who had made this borderlands region their home for millennia negotiated the web of intersecting boundaries that emerged over time, charting the ways in which they infused these reconfigured national, provincial, and territorial spaces with new meanings. To see the North Pacific borderlands only as a remote outpost that marked the westernmost edges of the U.S. or British empire, is to miss not only the central place it occupied in the lives of the Indigenous peoples whose home it continues to be, but the extent to which it functioned, in the eyes of Japanese entrepreneurs, as an economic hinterland for an expanding Japanese empire, as well as the role it played in shaping wartime policy with regard to citizens and subjects of Japanese ancestry in both Canada and the United States.

Andrea Geiger is professor emerita of history at Simon Fraser University. Her research interests include transpacific and borderlands history, race, migration, and legal history. She received a J.D. and Ph.D. in history from the University of Washington, and is the author of the award-winning Subverting Exclusion: Transpacific Encounters with Race, Caste, and Borders, 1885–1928.

This event is co-sponsored by the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative (BIMI), the Center for Race and Gender, and the Department of History.
Graduate Student Discussion with Andrea Geiger

UC Berkeley students with a research interest in Professor Geiger’s work are welcome to attend a small group discussion with the speaker following her public presentation. For more information, please email canada@berkeley.edu.

CANADIAN NEWS

UC Berkeley Center Publishes Report on Canada’s “Islamophobia Industry”

Muslims make up just under 4% of Canada’s population, and are generally considered well-established in Canadian society. Yet, in recent years, the country has suffered several high-profile, violent attacks targeted at Muslims, and police data shows a steady increase in anti-Muslim hate crimes over the last ten years. What explains this trend in a country that prides itself on diversity and multiculturalism?

A new report from the Center for Race and Gender at UC Berkeley posits answers to that question, and argues that unique among other forms of oppression, anti-Muslim prejudice is fueled by a wealthy and well-connected “Islamophobia industry” that stretches well outside Canada’s borders. Written by Jasmin Zine, a professor of sociology and religion & culture at Wilfrid Laurier University, The Canadian Islamophobia Industry: Mapping Islamophobia’s Ecosystem in the Great White North is a first-of-its-kind comprehensive attempt to map a network of individuals and organization within Canada that promote anti-Islam rhetoric.

At over 200 pages, the report provides a deep dive into the structure and funding of key public figures and organizations active in fomenting fear of Muslims in Canada. These include far-right and White nationalist groups and media, ex-Muslim and Muslim dissident activists, and national security experts and think tanks. They range from the ideologically committed to those who merely utilize anti-Islam rhetoric to achieve their political or social aims.

The report also investigates the rhetorical tactics used in anti-Islam propaganda. Such groups are united in portraying Islam and Muslims as a threat which must be limited wherever possible. They suggest that Islamic religion and its associated cultural practices are incompatible with liberal Canadian values, and sow fear about the threat that Islamic extremists (jihadists and terrorists) pose to Canadian society. These arguments paint Muslims as an un-assimilable demographic threat, whose uncontrolled growth will inevitably lead to the inevitable Islamization of Canada.

The report also connects actors in Canada with a global anti-Muslim network, not just within the United States and Europe but also linked to Asian powers such as India and China. Narratives like those above are shared along these networks, often between ideologically unlikely allies, and frequently along with funding or logistical support.

Ultimately, the report hopes that by identifying these networks, the Muslim community and its allies will be better-able to combat their influence. It also calls on the government of Canada to do more to address anti-Muslim hate speech and challenge the rise of global Islamophobia.

The project was sponsored by the CRG Islamophobia Research and Development Project and the Islamophobia Studies Center, led by Hatem Bazian.

Image: Muslim woman at a Canada Day parade in Toronto, 2018. Source: Bruce Reeve, Wikimedia Commons.

EXTERNAL EVENTS

The Diversification of Agroecosystems: Uncovering Indicators and Outcomes

Monday, October 24 | 12:00 pm | 114 Morgan | Learn more

The Berkeley Food Institute invites you to a lecture and discussion with Dr. Marney Isaac, a sustainable agriculture researcher from the University of Toronto. Around the world, food production systems that rely on intensively managed single crops have tended to disrupt local and global biogeochemical cycles, reduce biodiversity and make farming risky for ecosystems and for people. Simple strategies such as including trees and other sources of biodiversity in the agricultural landscape can curb many of the negative impacts associated with current food production systems. Dr. Isaac will explain how her group assesses agroecosystem function, drawing on her own research from Ontario and Ghana.

Marney Isaac is a professor in the Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences and the Department of Global Development Studies at the University of Toronto. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Agroecosystems & Development and is the Director of the University of Toronto’s Sustainable Food and Farming Futures Cluster. Her research develops novel social-ecological methods to generate contemporary insights into sustainable agroecosystem policy and practice. She leads an interdisciplinary research lab that explores plant-soil interactions, nutrient cycles and ecosystem function in diversified agroecosystems and agroforestry systems, and the social processes that lead to agroecological transitions. Dr. Isaac serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Applied Ecology, Agronomy for Sustainable Development and Biotropica, and she publishes widely in environmental science, agronomy, ecology, and multidisciplinary sustainability science journals.
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Digital Moose Lounge – Book Launch: Tales of a Professional Canadian in America

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Branch 25 is incredibly thankful that the Prime Moose, Sarah Price, has agreed to take some poppies and a poppy box and make them available at upcoming Digital Moose Lounge events.  The images below are ones that were shared by the organization from their Book Launch: Tales of a Professional Canadian in America, and I want everyone to note the poppies in each picture.