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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.

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Updates from National Headquarters 

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August 2021
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In this edition – August 2021
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Meet your new Senior Elected Officers
The Royal Canadian Legion’s 48th Dominion Convention (Virtual Edition) was a success, with 880 Delegates and 175 Observers attending! While this year’s format was different, our goal remained the same: to make the Legion the best it can be in order to serve Canada’s Veterans.
This year, Delegates representing close to 250,000 members met online to discuss the future of the Legion and elect the next Dominion President and Senior Elected Officers.
Congratulations go out to our new Senior Elected Officers, who will carry out the business of the organization until the next National Convention:
Dominion President – Bruce Julian
First Vice President – Owen Parkhouse
Vice President – Berkley Lawrence
Vice President – Sharon McKeown
Vice President – Brian Weaver
Treasurer – Mark Barham
Chairman – Bill Chafe
Immediate Past Dominion President – Tom Irvine
Key resolutions from the Convention
At the Dominion Convention, Delegates discussed a wide variety of resolutions to further the Legion’s mission and support the organization. Of note are these resolutions passed to support Veterans, Seniors and Communities:
ELIMINATION OF THE MARRIAGE OVER 60 CLAUSE
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that The Royal Canadian Legion recommend to Veterans Affairs Canada to implement the Veterans Survivors Fund immediately;
and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that The Royal Canadian Legion recommend to the Federal Government to fulfil its promise to eliminate the Marriage after 60 clause
VAC CONTRACT BEDS FOR MODERN DAY VETERANS
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that The Royal Canadian Legion, on behalf of all Canadian Forces Veterans, strongly advocate to extend the eligibility of “VAC Contract Beds” to include all Canadian Forces Veterans.
LTC FACILITIES
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED That Veterans Affairs Canada and the Ministry of Health immediately survey the 14 local LHINs and produce a list of all Veterans waiting placement in LTC facilities;
and FURTHER BE IT RESOLVED That Legislation be enacted to re designate all vacant PABs as Preferred Admission Beds to allow immediate placement of all waiting Veterans in LTC facilities and that those facilities be in the areas close to the Veterans normal residence.
ESTABLISH INDEPENDENT OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE CAF AND DND
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that to effect meaningful change that the Dominion President of the Royal Canadian Legion call on the Government to establish a fully independent Office of the Inspector General of the Canadian Armed Forces and the Department of National Defence reporting to Parliament.
SUPPORT FOR CANADA’S INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that, given the requirement for Canada-wide unity of this national imperative and recognizing the importance of improving cultural and heritage awareness, understanding injustices and commemorating loss, The Royal Canadian Legion and all its commands, branches and members extends its unreserved support, however possible and appropriate, and in collaboration with First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities, to assist in this healing journey.
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Dominion Executive Council meeting
The Dominion Executive Council minutes from the August 12 and August 16 meetings are now available. Minutes from all meetings can be accessed on the Member Services Website under Branch and Command Resources / Dominion Executive Council.
View DEC minutes  ‣
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Celebrating the Dominion President Citation Awards
On August 7, the Dominion President Citation Awards were presented to five extraordinary Legion members whose outstanding work on behalf of Veterans and their families helps us build a better Legion. Meet the recipients and discover the difference their work has made.
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Funding for Remembrance initiatives and war memorials
Veterans Affairs Canada’s Commemorative Partnership Program provides funding for remembrance initiatives including community engagement programs and war memorials.
Legion Branch 219 in Kahnawake, Quebec used this funding to honour the legacy of Indigenous Veterans and celebrate local Mohawk Veterans by creating the First Nations Mobile Military Exhibit. The exhibit displays military artifacts that belonged to those who served, including an Iroquois war club from the 1812 era.
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Veteran and Family Well-Being Fund open for new applications
Funding is available through Veterans Affairs Canada’s Veteran and Family Well-Being Fund to conduct research or create projects that improve the lives of Veterans and their families. Veterans Affairs Canada is looking to support equity-seeking groups, including those that serve women and LGBTQ2+ Veterans, in this current call for applications. Projects should focus on the current concerns of Veterans, including homelessness, unemployment, retraining, and health challenges.
Check out the funding guidelines and apply. Applications will be accepted until 1 October 2021.
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Call for volunteers
The Conference of Defence Associations and the CDA Institute put out a call for volunteers to welcome and help integrate Afghans who served alongside the Canadian Armed Forces as interpreters, translators, drivers, and fixers during Canada’s mission in Afghanistan.
The CDA has also released a statement on rescuing and granting asylum to Afghan interpreters.
Volunteer today  ‣
Read the statement  ‣
Reminder: Important updates to Branch payment options
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+ 2022 Renewal Stickers coming in August
2022 Member renewal stickers will be delivered to Branches during the last week of August for all members that are renewed for 2021 by July 31, 2021.
+ Reminder: Digital Membership Card coming soon
Coming this fall, new and returning Legion members will have the choice of the traditional plastic card or an electronic membership card downloadable to a digital wallet. These digital cards will allow the Legion to save time and money producing, mailing and replacing plastic cards. Stay tuned for more details.
We are here to help!
Our team is here to help, Monday through Friday. Please note our hours for phone calls change on September 7 to 8:30–4:30 pm EST.
New promotional resources are available
We’re pleased to share our latest member acquisition Public Service Announcements and magazine ad. Branches are encouraged to share and use these tools to recruit and retain members.
Watch the PSAs on YouTube:
English 30: https://youtu.be/P8roptxgD8A
English 15: https://youtu.be/z8FE_Nj0ZTs
French 30: https://youtu.be/G2ob_bo59Nk
French 15: https://youtu.be/n4uYNI6t6ms
PSA video and radio files:
Original files for the PSA videos and the radio spots can be accessed from Google Drive here.
Printed article in September/October Legion Magazine:
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PR Tip of the Month
Casual dress
The Legion’s new casual dress – blue shirts offering a fresh, approachable look – can be a good option for PR officers or spokespeople during interviews or at public meetings or events. Consider whether a uniform is required and choose casual when it makes sense.
Have questions or need advice? Contact your Command Public Relations Officer or Nujma Bond, Dominion Command Communications at nbond@legion.ca
Your Legion calendar: 2021
Promote important dates and organize activities at your Branch with this list of upcoming days that raise awareness of an issue, commemorate a group or event, or celebrate an important topic.
DOWNLOAD THE 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  ‣
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Fighter Aircraft & Aerospace Technology Blog

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An item from our colleagues at the RCAF Association.


Lieutenant-Colonel (Retired) Billie Flynn, CD, MBA, MSc – was a 20+ year veteran of the RCAF, former commanding officer 441 Squadron and senior test pilot with Lockheed Martin flying the most advanced fighter aircraft – the F-35 Lightning II.

Billie has joined the RCAF Association and on his behalf I am delighted to share with all our members the “blog” site Billie has created, as part of his effort to help inform Canadians about related and important aspects of their country’s air force.

You can find the site here at this link.

There are three stories published thus far: “Stealth Matters, Cell Phones and Fighter Planes, and, One Last Chance to Get it Right.”

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🎙 A conversation on risk-taking with tech titan Sukinder Singh Cassidy | Confluence Podcast covers Canadian tech in the valley

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

🗓 A CONVERSATION ON RISK-TAKING WITH TECHNOLOGY EXECUTIVE & C100 CHARTER MEMBER SUKHINDER SINGH CASSIDY

Join us for an intimate fireside chat with Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, one of Silicon Valley’s most admired leaders, a valued C100 Charter Member and author of her most recent book, CHOOSE POSSIBILITY: Take Risks and Thrive (Even When You Fail). Check out a preview of her book here in Tech Crunch.

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy is a leading digital CEO and entrepreneur with more than 25 years of leadership experience founding, scaling and advising companies including Google, Amazon, StubHub, Yodlee and more. She is currently Founder and Chairman of theBoardlist, a premium talent marketplace for diverse leaders to be recommended and discovered for board and executive opportunities. Most recently, Sukhinder served as the leader of StubHub, the premiere global consumer ticketing marketplace for live entertainment, which her and her team sold for $4 billion in February 2020.

🎙 LISTEN: CANADA’S ROLE IN DEFINING THE FUTURE OF TECH

“Across Canada, the U.S. and around the world, in the last year some of the biggest success stories technology companies that were founded by Canadians. […] We’re looking forward to more IPOs this year of Canadian founded companies that are having a huge impact globally.”

Tune into Episode 5 of the Confluence podcast where C100’s CEO Laura Buhler & Co-Founder Chris Albinson dive into Canada’s role in defining the future of technology, in the Bay Area and beyond, with host Rana Sarkar, Consul General of Canada to Northern California and Silicon Valley.

Also featured in this episode is Michelle Zatlyn, Co-Founder, President & COO at Cloudlfare (& C100 Charter Member).

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SUPPORT THE C100 AS A MEMBER

Join our talented community of builders connecting around the world to advance Canadian founders & leaders in tech.

COMMUNITY UPDATES & MEMBERS IN THE NEWS

🦄 People.ai, led by Founder & CEO Oleg Rogynskyy (Charter Member), has hit unicorn status at a $1.1-billion valuation following a $100-million in Series D financing, co-led by Mike Dinsdale, Managing Director at Akkadian Ventures (and Charter Member), and Abdulla AlBanna of Mubadala Capital. Hear directly from Oleg in this blog post. Congratulations to Oleg & the People.ai team!

📣 Mississauga-based PointClickCare announced that Co-Founder & CEO Mike Wessinger (Charter Member) will become its Executive Chair. His Co-Founder & brother Dave Wessinger will become CEO.

🦄 #anotherone Toronto-based cloud accounting software company FreshBooks has passed the $1-billion valuation mark following an announcement that it has secured $80.75-million in Series E financing and $50-million in debt financing (total $130.75-million). Congratulations to Co-Founder & Chairman of the Board Mike McDerment & the FreshBooks team!

📈 Montreal-based Hopper secured $175-million in Series G financing, bringing its total raise to date to nearly $600-million and its valuation to $3.5-billion. Fun fact: it had a $2-billion valuation just five months ago. Plus, a bonus article from the Logic about the news (subscription required).

🗓 Elevate launches Think 2030, a three-day event taking place in Toronto and online to address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and explore how design, innovation and technology can solve society’s greatest challenges.

📣 The DMZ (C100 Corporate Partner) has launched a new Social Impact Stream within their Black Innovation Program to support Black founders with a social mission and purpose. Learn more here and applications are due August, 31st!

📈 Montreal-based Lightspeed Commerce Inc. has raised an additional $107.4-million in its share offering after underwriters exercised their over-allotment option in full, bringing the total raised amount to $823.5-million (before underwriting commission and offering costs). Founder & CEO Dax Dasilva (Charter Member) shares more about the latest on Lightspeed on CNBC’s Closing Bell.

🛰 The Canadian federal government is providing $1.44-billion to Ottawa-based satellite company Telesat in an effort to extend broadband internet service to Canada’s rural and remote areas. Telesat’s global network, named “Lightspeed”, will be composed of 298 low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites operating 35 times closer to earth than traditional telecommunications satellites.

C100 Association | San Francisco, CA

Zoom Webinar: Geoff Hayes on The Canadians in Normandy

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Dominion Command of the Royal Canadian Legion has partnered with the folks at the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies, who have been providing webinars and these articles throughout the pandemic.  A great benefit for members and non-members alike.
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GEOFF HAYES

The Canadians in Normandy:
Another Go-Around

August 25th, 7:30 PM ET
The webinar is FREE on Zoom.

Registration is required, but you do not need a Zoom account to watch.

CLICK HERE to Register
Despite years of debate, the view persists that “something appeared to be wrong” with First Canadian Army through the summer of 1944. This talk traces the Canadian path through Normandy to re-consider an ‘old’ narrative. It argues that, in the face of heavy casualties and enduring British criticism of the Canadians, the soldiers of First Canadian Army understood that they had earned a remarkable victory in Normandy. Finally, after over four years of war, the Canadians believed that they had won a Canadian victory, one that matched, even surpassed their fathers’ achievements a generation before.

Educated at Wilfrid Laurier University and Western University, GEOFF HAYES is a professor of history at the University of Waterloo. He was a student of Terry Copp when he wrote The Lincs: A History of the Lincoln and Welland Regiment at War (1986). Most recently his book, Crerar’s Lieutenants: Inventing the Canadian Junior Army Officer, 1939–1945 (UBC, 2017) won the 2018 C.P. Stacey Award. Geoff has learned a great deal from the many student tours he has joined on the battlefields of Northwest Europe, organized through the Canadian Battlefields Foundation.
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6 October | Telling the Stories of Canada
Joy Porter
“That Talented Canadian, Mr. Frank Prewett:
Trauma and Indigenous Masquerade in the Wake of the First World War”
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3 November | Telling the Stories of Canada
Carla-Jean Stokes
“First World War Photography”
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Displaced by war: Life on the edge

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An item from the Legion Magazine.

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Displaced by war: Life on the edge

Displaced by war: Life on the edge

Story by Stephen J. Thorne

While the world fights the coronavirus pandemic, families displaced by war in Yemen are combatting malnutrition and rampant disease, most of which has long been eradicated in the West.

Recent reports from inside the embattled country say increasing numbers of children living in displaced-persons’ camps are coming down with malaria, cholera, polio and diphtheria—and often dying.

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Prisoners of Dieppe

Prisoners of Dieppe

Story by Sharon Adams

In June 1942, Canadian troops arrived for six weeks of combined operations training on the Isle of Wight in England in preparation for the raid on Dieppe, France.

Among them were a dozen men from the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps, who were to deliver ammunition, help with the wounded, and transport German prisoners to ships waiting offshore.

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