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UN warns of a “global refugee crisis,” urges peace and stability

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Front Lines Weekly Feature
Veterans with PTSD should have MedicAlert IDs, says Afghanistan vet

UN warns of a “global refugee crisis,” urges peace and stability

Story by Stephen J. Thorne

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is urging world leaders to boost their efforts to promote “peace, stability and co-operation” in the face of a global refugee crisis.

The agency says refugee numbers driven by violence, persecution, war and human-rights violations have been increasing for the past decade, rising four by per cent from 2019 to a record 82.4 million in 2020.

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Remembrance Collection
Military Milestones
Remembering Indigenous war heroes

Remembering Indigenous war heroes

Story by Sharon Adams

Their ancestors fought beside the British in the Seven Years’ War, the American Revolution and the War of 1812. In 1885, they navigated Africa’s Nile River on a British military rescue mission and volunteered for Canada’s first international expeditionary force at the dawn of the 20th century, fighting with the British in the Second Boer War in South Africa.

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Veterans with PTSD should have MedicAlert IDs, says Afghanistan vet

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An item from the Legion Magazine.

Legion Magazine
Front Lines Weekly Feature
Veterans with PTSD should have MedicAlert IDs, says Afghanistan vet

Veterans with PTSD should have MedicAlert IDs, says Afghanistan vet

Story by Stephen J. Thorne

War veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) should have validated MedicAlert bracelets stating that they have a combat-related illness, said the decorated survivor of an RPG attack and subsequent firefight.

Sean Teal, a wounded veteran who served four eventful tours in Afghanistan and earned the military’s second-highest award for valour, struggled with physical pain and mental health issues until he was ushered out of the army in 2014. Then his problems got worse.

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O Canada Summer Bundle
Military Milestones
The hunt for Convoy HX-133

The hunt for Convoy HX-133

Story by Sharon Adams

Convoy HX-133—49 merchant ships and an escort of five warships—left Halifax on June 16, 1941, bound for Liverpool, England. Not all of them would arrive.

The merchant ships were arranged in nine short columns, with the escorts—HMC ships Chambly, Orillia and Collingwood, all of them corvettes, and two destroyers, HMCS Ottawa and HMS Wolfe—dispersed among and around them. They sailed into heavy fog.

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Iris Advantage
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