/CNW/ - Since the start of Canadian peacekeeping, few of Canada s international peace missions over the past seven decades have taken members of the Canadian.
LONDON, ONT. Researchers at Lawson Health Research Institute (Lawson) are receiving $40,000 from Veterans Affairs Canada to study the role of personality traits in relation to the mental health of veterans. The research will look at whether an individual s personality traits will serve as risk or protective factors for a veteran developing mental health disorders. Some traits to be researched included include openness, agreeableness, emotionality, honesty-humility, conscientiousness, extraversion, and resiliency. “Past research has identified some risk factors, including history of childhood trauma, age, gender, and education. However, no one to date has investigated the role that personality traits might play in Veterans’ symptoms of mental health conditions,” said Dr. Rachel Plouffe with Lawson.
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OTTAWA, ON, May 10, 2021 /CNW/ - The Honourable Lawrence MacAulay, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence, issued the following statement today to recognize National Nursing Week: Nurses are the heart of our health care community, and they play an absolutely vital role in keeping Canadians safe and healthy, often while putting their own health at risk. This year, National Nursing Week s theme is #WeAnswerTheCall. Since the start of the pandemic, Canada s nurses have shown tremendous courage as they ve cared for patients and combatted COVID-19. The roots of military nursing in Canada go back more than 120 years, when Nursing Sisters first accompanied the Canadian troops sent to serve in the South African War. Some have given their lives in service to Canada, like Margaret Lowe of Binscarth, Manitoba, who died as a result of a German air raid near Étaples, France in May 1918. In the decades that have foll
SWIFT CURRENT More than 30 wooden grave markers have been replaced with permanent headstones at the Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Swift Current. The wooden crosses were put up the by the local branch of the Royal Canadian Legion over the years in a section of the cemetery known as the “Field of Honour” for soldiers without an official military marker, many of them from veterans of WWI and WWII. “The wooden crosses were put in place where there was no marker for a deceased veteran,” said Jim Pratt, a past president of Royal Canadian Legion Branch 56.
The crosses are prone to weathering and eventually need to be restored or replaced. But now the legion has partnered with the Last Post Fund to give the soldiers permanent headstones through its Unmarked Grave Program.