1trailmaker
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Sno Voyageurs Club
We have some more bad news!!!! The B103 from Miller Dr will be closed permanently starting this season in both directions. As you can see on this map attached and will also be reflected on all other maps issued, you can now only access the B103 from the parking lot at the clubhouse and go north towards Hwy 26 and the commuter parking lot. The other access point is at Seadon Rd east of George Johnston rd. Thanks to Barrie Hill Farms we can keep this trail open for now. That's if riders respect his property and crops it will stay open. So here you have it, the results of traveling outside the prescribed limits set out by the orange trail limit stakes. So I can't stress it enough, PLEASE, "STAY ON THE TRAIL".
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23 minutes ago, FAT DAVE said:
Canada contributes $33 million to help build rehab centre for Afghan vets
Canada has quietly helped establish a new centre in Kabul to treat Afghan vets wounded in that nations many years of conflict.
Members of the Afghan Civil Order of Police stand in formation for the arrival of local leaders at Camp Bost on September 11, 2017 in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Canada plans to help finance a facility to treat Afghan victims of war. (ANDREW RENNEISEN / GETTY IMAGES)
Wed., Sept. 20, 2017
OTTAWA—Canada has quietly contributed $33 million to help establish a new centre in Kabul to treat Afghan vets wounded in that nation’s many years of conflict, the Star has learned.
When built, the rehabilitation centre will be the largest and most modern facility of its kind in an impoverished country where injured vets have faced an uphill battle for treatment.
“It would dramatically improve the quality of care for ill and injured vets,” said one former soldier who served in Canada’s Afghanistan mission.
He said the needs are great in the country, the result of “40 years of war and the remnants of war.
“The numbers would be astonishing,” said the former soldier, who spoke on background because a formal announcement has not yet been made.
Article Continued BelowIt’s also hoped that the centre will be a “catalyst” for more effective treatment of ill and injured Afghan personnel, whose numbers continue to grow because of the ongoing counter insurgency campaign against the Taliban, he said.
A NATO official referred questions about the project to the Canadian government.
The Foreign Affairs department confirmed that Ottawa recently contributed $33 million, through NATO’s trust fund for the Afghan National Army, for the construction of the Kabul Military National Hospital’s Rehabilitation Centre.
As well, the government has provided another $2.5 million to repair the hospital, which was severely damaged in a March terror attack. In that attack, gunmen wearing white lab coats stormed the hospital, killing more than 40 people and wounding dozens.
The department did not make anyone available to speak about the funding.
News of the contribution comes just days before Toronto plays host to the Invictus Games, sports competitions for military personnel and veterans wounded while on duty. The games, which begin this weekend, will bring together more than 550 athletes from 17 nations.
Canada — which had a military mission in Afghanistan for more than a decade — would be the largest donor to the Kabul facility, paying half the cost of the project.
It is meant to accommodate 100 military and police personnel as well as civilians injured as a result of the country’s conflicts. An attached facility would house 20 women medical students in training. The goal would be to have the centre built by 2019.
Canada has its own legacy from Afghanistan — 158 soldiers died during the lengthy mission. Another 635 were wounded in action and a further 1,436 suffered non-battle injuries.
While Ottawa has at times faced criticism for the care and benefits provided to personnel who have suffered mental and physical wounds, it far exceeds the treatment and support available to wounded Afghan soldiers who face challenges after suffering injuries, the former soldier said.
“It’s a pretty grim prospect if you lose an arm or leg,” he said.
“The situation for them is as you would expect in a broken, impoverished country at war in one form or another for 40 years,” he said
After a decade of Cuts under Harper government?
This has been added in just over 1 year of Trudeau
$133.9 million over six years to create a new Veterans’ Education and Training Benefit to provide up to $80,000 to Veterans in support of post-secondary education.
This new benefit will provide Veterans with funding for college, university or a technical education. Veterans with six years of service may be eligible for up to $40,000 and Veterans with at least 12 years of service may be eligible for up to $80,000 to cover tuition, course materials, and some incidentals and living expenses.
Veterans Affairs Minister Kent Hehr says his department is drawing up plans to offer injured ex-soldiers the choice of lump-sum payments or lifetime pensions when they leave the military, despite the government's tight fiscal situation.
"We made commitments to our veterans to offer the lump sum or lifetime pension option," he said. "We are putting my department through the paces of coming up with real, viable plans to allow veterans that choice, to allow them to make a clear decision (by) understanding the financial ramifications."
There is more if you took the time to look - but Facts are not your best quality
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1 hour ago, FAT DAVE said:
Sure he did....he was know for it...Maggie was a hoe herself.
after separation from Maggie?
Did he smooze? yes of course
did he bang everything in sight? he wishes
JT is playing to the 50% of the voters, and doing it well by all the polls.....
I bet the line is huge of women wanting to bang Justin hard
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20 minutes ago, J. Jackson said:
Just watched a video of Trudeau and his "equal" in N.Y.C. giving a rah-rah speech about how men should be feminist. SMFH!!! His old man, who got more ass than a toilet seat, must be turning in his grave. And you guys shit on us for electing Trump!!!
No he didn't - Maggie might have given plenty of ass
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2 hours ago, Momorider said:
France has already said its a joke
Snot your meme is FAKENEWS like you
The French government will use meetings at the UN this week to try to persuade Donald Trump not to abandon the nuclear agreement with Iran, warning that the deal’s collapse would trigger a “spiral of proliferation” in the Middle East, the French foreign minister said.
“France will try to persuade President Trump of the importance of this choice,” Le Drian said. He was non-committal when asked if the deal could survive if the US abrogated it by imposing new sanctions, while the other national signatories – France, the UK, Germany, China, Russia and Iran – continued to uphold it.
clueless
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1 hour ago, XCR1250 said:
From the article:
“If you don’t smoke at all, I would strongly advice not to start smoking electronic cigarettes,” she says. “They’re not harmless.”
well to be fair diet coke isn't harmless
red meat
alcohol
salt
blah blah
You can find harm in anything you chose to test i would agree
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that interview is not new
Good Job Trudeau!!!!! What about Canadas vets?
in Current Events
just wow