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Thursday, April 30, 2015

New announcement: Canadian soldiers unprepared for the reality of killing, retired officer warns

Canadian soldiers unprepared for the reality of killing, retired officer warns

National Post, Tom Blackwell | April 30, 2015 | Last Updated: Apr 30 12:40 AM ET
More from Tom Blackwell | @tomblackwellNP

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-soldiers-unprepared-for-the-reality-of-killing-retired-officer-says

The aftermath of his troops' first firefight in Afghanistan was a rude awakening for Dave Quick.

Clearly, the soldiers were superbly equipped for the physical demands of their combat "christening," but when the Canadians approached the insurgents they had just killed, that level-headed confidence seemed to crumble.

Some giggled nervously, gagged or trembled at the sight.

"In those instances around the dead, they looked like insecure little kids," says Quick, who commanded a Royal Canadian Regiment company that would see numerous firefights over the next six months. "Their voices changed, their hands were — some of them — shaking."

It was a harbinger of the emotional fallout — including deep unease over experiencing actual sexual arousal during combat — that many of Quick's soldiers would feel around their core business: killing the enemy.

Intense training made them effective at taking Taliban lives, but never prepared them for the psychological aftereffects, the now-retired officer details in a surprising, unpublished master's thesis for the National Defence Department's staff college.

As hundreds of Afghanistan veterans grapple with mental-health troubles, and Canadian troops are again seeing action in a far-off land, Quick says training needs to ready infantry troops for what they may feel after they kill — as well teaching them how to do it efficiently.

"Armies succeed in tricking soldiers into killing with modern training methods," he wrote in his thesis. "[But] I realized that I had failed to prepare my soldiers properly when I watched them react to the realization that they had killed a man for the very first time."

Quick, 41, has since retired as an army lieutenant colonel and is starting a new career in the somewhat tamer world of investment banking. He and his troops had lots of experience with inflicting death, however.

During a six-month stint in 2007 — assigned to ferret Taliban out of Zhari District west of Kandahar city — they had 24 planned operations and many other impromptu ones with "lethal effect."

I briefly met Quick, then a major, when I joined India Company on one of its operations in the district's atypically muggy and jungle-like farmland. Padding around in sandals and T-shirt between missions, the engaging, boyish-looking native of Trenton, Ont., seemed almost as much surfer dude as crack combat leader.

Remarkably, all 400 of his soldiers went home alive, a feat that helped earn him the Star of Military Valour, second only to the Victoria Cross in Canadian military honours.

But he clearly remains disturbed that a quarter were injured both psychologically and physically.

Across the army, it is estimated that hundreds of Afghan veterans are suffering some kind of "operational stress injury," the blame often attributed to the trauma of being severely injured or seeing friends hurt.

The impact of having to kill others has received relatively little attention.

That impact was hard to avoid during the in-your-face combat Quick and his troops fought in Zhari. Their opponents set off bombs that killed and maimed indiscriminately, terrorized civilians and pushed an uncompromising, harsh brand of Islam. Yet the fighters themselves were often no more than 17, frequently jacked up on stimulants and, dead on the battlefield, seemed less than fearsome.

"They're not like our kids. They're not strong, well-nourished people … They're teeny," says Quick. "When you see them laying there, it's surreal. They're little, frail drug addicts."

After that first firefight, he made sure that the soldiers who did the kills would not have to "process" the same bodies — remove material that could offer up intelligence and place them in body bags.

Yet even when there was no direct link between killing and the resultant corpse, the act resonated.

Fighting was so close, one of Quick's captains dropped a grenade over a wall and virtually on top of a Talib. A Canadian sniper had to shoot an insurgent high on drugs repeatedly from close range to bring him down.

"The intimacy was always there," Quick says. "There was very much a connection, listening to them change magazines, listening to them talk while you're sneaking up on them. Listening to the prayers. It's not a target at that point, it's not a paper target."

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One time, they discovered a slain Taliban commander had been recording his own voice as the Canadians converged on his position. "He was speaking as a commander and at the same time giving thanks to Allah and finding peace. Until there was no more talking."

Quick says some soldiers were "very freaked out" after experiencing a bizarre side effect of combat: sexual arousal during firefights that can include erections.

Others, including a devout Christian who seemed to be questioning his faith, just "really wrestled" with having to kill.

One of Quick's platoon commanders, Eddie Jun, now a major, agrees that the killing could be difficult, though he says negative thoughts tended to form after the fact.

"It was very chaotic, especially when there's bullets flying at you. You're almost numb," he says. "An act of killing while you're doing that, you don't really think about it until you come back and wind down."


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Still, he questions whether instruction about the possible emotional reverberations of killing — only one part of combat's sensory "overload" — would be valuable. To stave off operational-stress injuries, he favours inoculating soldiers to the "battlefield effect" by having more realistic live-fire training exercises.

It appears the military is addressing some of Quick's concerns in its mental-readiness training — to a point. The 30-minute "psychological preparation" module includes "understanding the complications of combat and killing," and "common reactions to killing and adverse situations" — as well as eight other topics.

The ramifications of taking adversaries' lives may still be something of a taboo among Canada's professional warriors, but Quick believes there is no downside to airing the issue.

"I don't think you can make someone soft," he says. "Who you are, you bring to the battlefield. Modern warfare is not about being a Neanderthal. Modern warfare is being smarter than the enemy."

National Post

• Email: tblackwell@nationalpost.com

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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

New announcement: Coming Back Home

The journey to healing from service-related trauma: support and resources delivered with compassion and a good dose of corny humour.

Coming Back Home is meant to be a resource of information about service-related trauma. It's written for veterans, serving members of the armed forces, and their families and supporters. When possible, I try to write broadly enough to make the blog useful to other groups too – like law enforcement and first responders, and even civilians coping with mental health concerns.

The topics I cover will continue to be pretty diverse, based on reader feedback and my own thoughts about what needs to be discussed. I have previously written about depression, fear, relationship issues, parenting, childhood issues, military culture, sexual dysfunction, and anger, to name a few.

I don't pretend to know everything about everything; I will stick to writing about what I know. Most of the patients I work with are male, heterosexual veterans. Most of the readers who write to me to share their stories so I can learn from them are also male heterosexual veterans. If and when I learn enough about other groups to write knowledgeably about them, I will do so; in the meantime, I will do my best to keep my posts broad whenever I can, so that more readers might find them helpful.

My other goal is to learn as I go – so, if you see me write something that you disagree with, please feel more than welcome to let me know. I'll do what I can to continue to improve it.

ABOUT ME: I'm a licensed, practicing clinical and rehabilitation psychologist based in St. Catharines, Ontario. I co-direct a psychology clinic, Niagara Psychological Wellness, with Dr. Jason Ramsay.

I work with veterans, law enforcement officers, first responders, as well as with survivors of child abuse, violent crime, and intimate partner violence. In terms of approaches to treatment – I respect the needs and preferences of each individual patient, and don't impose my own goals on anyone. I'm trained in EMDR, and in my experience, I find it tremendously helpful for a lot of people dealing with complex trauma.

~ Dr. Dee Rajska, C. Psych.

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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

New announcement: Will making nice with veterans be a case of too little, too late?

SCHNEIDEREIT: Will making nice with veterans be a case of too little, too late?

PAUL SCHNEIDEREIT
Published April 21, 2015 - 8:00pm
Last Updated April 21, 2015 - 8:11pm

http://thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/1281868-schneidereit-will-making-nice-with-veterans-be-a-case-of-too-little-too-late

When someone who's treated you badly starts being nice to you, it's human nature to wonder what they want.

But the federal Conservative government's more conciliatory approach on veterans' issues in 2015 is probably, in the eyes of many Canadian military vets, not all that great a mystery.

There's a federal election later this year.

And the Tories, in power since 2006, have found themselves uncomfortably running neck and neck with the Liberals in the polls for quite some time.

Of course, it could be simply a coincidence that, with an October vote looming, Prime Minister Stephen Harper decided in January to replace toxic former minister of Veterans Affairs Julian Fantino with personable Erin O'Toole, a former navigator with Canada's long-serving military Sea King helicopter fleet.

Likewise, the fact the new Veterans Affairs minister has been busy announcing improvements to services and benefits in recent months could have nothing to do with an upcoming election.

Your senses would have to be AWOL to believe that.

Veterans' groups seem pleased the new minister appears more willing to listen to their concerns than Fantino ever did. But I'm guessing that won't soon erase memories of the pitched battles vets have fought for years with this government and its minions.

Let's look back over just the last three years.

In 2012, an advocate for homeless vets, saying Veterans Affairs had "an insurance company mentality," accused them of denying troubled vets followup assistance for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A Federal Court judge blasted Ottawa for trying to try to claw back disability payments from pensions paid to disabled Canadian Forces veterans. Meanwhile, veterans ombudsman Guy Parent released a scathing report on departmental decisions on veterans' benefits, finding most were being overturned on appeal, despite an appeal process rife with procedural unfairness.

In 2013, protests greeted Veterans Affairs' plan to close nine regional offices, including one in Sydney, the following year. Parent released another report, this one showing that hundreds of seriously injured vets faced being impoverished at age 65 due to a lack of financial support available under the 2006 Veterans Charter. And Ottawa fought efforts to launch a class-action suit on behalf of Canada's Afghanistan vets that claimed the veterans charter was contravening their Charter rights.

Last year, despite large protests, the government closed the regional offices in early February. That was days after Fantino callously stood up a group of veterans who had travelled to Ottawa to meet him and pleaded the closures be stopped. The minister appeared long enough only to argue with the group and chide one man for shaking his finger in anger. Military ombudsman Pierre Daigle told a Senate committee the military was encouraging members to seek treatment for PTSD and mental health concerns, then dismissing many as unfit for deployment. Not surprisingly, many who needed help avoided asking, worried they'd not qualify for a military pension.

Meanwhile, government lawyers fighting the class action over the veterans charter actually argued there was no social contract between government and those who served our nation. Fantino eventually walked that unbelievable assertion back.

In November came news the Harper government had failed to spend $1.13 billion of the Veterans Affairs budget since 2006, a third of that total apparently instead going toward the deficit. At the same time, the federal auditor general reported Veterans Affairs wasn't meeting its legislated responsibility to ensure vets have timely access to needed care.

Then, last week, came more damning news. The Globe and Mail reported that while the Tories had cut more than 900 jobs from Veterans Affairs since 2009 — 23 per cent of the workforce — every year senior departmental staff warned, in ever stronger language, the cuts endangered their ability to meet the needs of veterans.

Despite this, O'Toole, who last week said the department would hire at least 200 new staff to work on disability claims and support services, claimed the new hires in no way were an admission previous cuts had gone too far.

Well, no. That would be like admitting recent announcements of better services and benefits for vets are an acknowledgement the Tories are worried their adversarial relationship with vets over the years might come back to haunt them this October.

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Friday, April 17, 2015

New announcement: Peter Stoffer, Bill C-58 and the three proposed new benefits for vets & famillie

Peter Stoffer, MP regarding Bill C-58 and the three proposed new benefits for veterans and their families

Please see the following note from Peter Stoffer, MP regarding Bill C-58 and the three proposed new benefits for veterans and their families

Last month, the federal government introduced new legislation (Bill C-58) that will provide three new benefits for veterans and their families under the New Veterans Charter. This proposed legislation will only apply to Canadian Forces veterans. It will not apply to RCMP veterans and their families as they do not fall under the New Veterans Charter.

I have reviewed the bill and participated in a briefing session by VAC departmental officials. In brief, the proposed bill will help some veterans and their families but the federal government could do much, much, more. As the bill will be reviewed by the Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs, I encourage you to send me your thoughts on this proposed legislation. I have attached the bill to this email for your information.

Please see a short summary of the proposed new benefits:

Retirement Income Security Benefit
The proposed new Retirement Income Security Benefit would provide monthly income support payment beginning at age 65 for disabled Canadian Veterans who are receiving the Earnings Loss Benefit due to being totally and permanently incapacitated as a result of their service to Canada. The Retirement Income Security Benefit would ensure that an eligible Veteran's total annual income is at least 70% of what he or she received in Veterans Affairs Canada financial benefits before age 65. Monthly payments would be calculated on a case-by-case basis, taking into account how much the Veteran was receiving before age 65 and other sources of income he or she may have beyond age 65. Veterans survivors are also eligible for the benefit. Departmental calculations estimate that by 2020, approximately 5,800 Veterans and survivors would qualify for the Retirement Income Security Benefit upon turning 65.

Critical Injury Benefits
This benefit will provide a $70,000 tax free award to support the most severely injured and ill Canadian Forces members and veterans. Veterans are eligible for the payment from 2006 forward under the New Veterans Charter. The Veterans Affairs Minister has estimated that more than 100 veterans injured since 2006 will receive this payment. The initiative is expected to cost about $200,000 annually if the current deployment situation remains the same. This means that only about two or three people a year would qualify.

Family Caregiver Relief Benefit
The proposed new benefit will provide veterans with an annual tax-free grant of $7,238. This benefit would allow relief options for the caregiver at home such as covering the cost of having a professional caregiver come into the home or covering the cost for another family member or friend to travel to the veteran's home. The new benefit is expected to provide relief to approximately 350 spouses or caregivers of the most seriously ill and injured Veterans by 2020.
Peter's Comments:

I will be pushing for changes to this proposed bill. Here are some of my thoughts:
• Increase the amount of the Retirement Income Security benefit from 70% to 100% of what the veteran received in VAC Financial benefits before age 65 to ensure the veteran's financial stability.
• Increase the family caregiver relief benefit. The current proposed amount of $7,238 per year is not enough, especially for those caregivers who have left their careers to take care of their veteran spouse. The amount of the family caregiver relief benefit should be similar to the attendant allowance available to those receiving a disability pension under the Pension Act.
• Provide an increase in the rates for the lump-sum disability award for ALL veterans along with the critical injury benefit.

I look forward to your feedback. As always, please include your phone number so I can call you personally.

Sincerely,
Office of Peter Stoffer, MP | Bureau du député Peter Stoffer
Official Opposition Critic for Veterans Affairs | Le Porte-Parole de l'Opposition Officielle pour Les Anciens Combattants.
New Democratic Party | Nouveau Parti démocratique
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New announcement: PRIVATE BILL (ONTARIO) PRIORITY FOR LONG TERM CARE FACILITY MODERN for VETS

CINDY FORSTER MPP WELLAND - PRIVATE BILL (ONTARIO) PRIORITY FOR LONG TERM CARE FACILITY MODERN for VETS

It's a private members bill that would essentially extend priority to modern day veterans to long term care beds in all long term care facilities in Ontario. I can forward you the link to the bill as soon as the Legislative Assembly puts it up on its website. I know this is something that Veterans have wanted and very much needed for a very long time. The current "class system" is not right and isn't fair to modern day vets who need long term care.

N.S. veterans' plight echoed nationwide
http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1280986-n.s.-veterans%E2%80%99-plight-echoed-nationwide

NDP calling for changes to federal policy regarding vets long-term care
http://globalnews.ca/news/1942665/ndp-calling-for-changes-to-federal-policy-regarding-vets-long-term-care/

Peter Stoffer urges Ottawa to open veterans hospitals to all vets
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/peter-stoffer-urges-ottawa-to-open-veterans-hospitals-to-all-vets-1.3035491

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 16, 2015

VETERANS DENIED ACCESS TO CARE WHILE BEDS SIT EMPTY

HALIFAX – Today, New Democrats joined veterans and their families to repeat their call for the federal government to allow all veterans access to Department of Veterans Affairs run hospitals and long-term care facilities across the country.

"Today there are over 10 empty beds at Camp Hill here in Halifax, yet these beds cannot be filled by post-Korea veterans due to strict eligibility criteria," said Peter Stoffer (Sackville—Eastern Shore), Official Opposition critic for Veterans Affairs.

Federal regulations limit eligibility to veterans long-term care centres like Camp Hill and Sunnybrook to only World War II and Korean War veterans. Veterans who served in the Canadian Forces "post-Korea" are not eligible for care at these types of facilities.

"A veteran is a veteran is a veteran. With empty beds, it makes sense to allow a younger generation of veterans' access to these exceptional veteran care centres," added NDP MP Robert Chisholm (Dartmouth—Cole Harbour).

The federal government is effectively downloading the cost of long-term care for this younger generation of veterans to the provinces. Veterans not eligible for a placement at Camp Hill turn to provincial long-term care facilities.

"The federal government has a responsibility and moral obligation to provide the same federally funded level of long-term care to all veterans, regardless of where and when they served," said NDP MP Megan Leslie (Halifax).

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For more information, please contact:
Heather Finn, Press Secretary, 613-355-9940 or heather.finn@parl.gc.ca
Office of Peter Stoffer, MP 902-861-2311


POUR DIFFUSION IMMÉDIATE
16 avril 2015

DES ANCIENS COMBATTANTS PRIVÉS DE SOINS ALORS QUE DE NOMBREUX LITS SONT VIDES


HALIFAX – Les néo-démocrates se joignent aux anciens combattants et à leurs familles afin de demander au gouvernement fédéral de permettre à tous les anciens combattants d'avoir accès aux hôpitaux et aux établissements de soins de longue durée gérés par le ministère des Anciens Combattants.

« Aujourd'hui, plus de 10 lits sont vides à Camp Hill à Halifax. Or ces lits ne peuvent pas être occupés par d'anciens combattants post-guerre de Corée en raison d'exigences d'admissibilité trop sévères », a affirmé le porte-parole du NPD en matière d'anciens combattants, Peter Stoffer (Sackville-Eastern Shore).

Les règlements fédéraux limitent l'accès aux centres de soins de longue durée tels que Camp Hill et Sunnybrook aux vétérans de la Seconde Guerre mondiale et de la guerre de Corée. Les anciens combattants qui ont servi dans les Forces canadiennes après la guerre de Corée n'ont pas accès à ces établissements.

« Un ancien combattant est un ancien combattant, point final. Si les lits sont vides, pourquoi ne pas permettre aux générations plus jeunes d'anciens combattants de profiter de ces centres de soins exceptionnels ? », a ajouté le député du NPD, Robert Chisholm (Dartmouth-Cole Harbour).

Le gouvernement fédéral refile aux provinces les coûts liés aux soins de longue durée de la plus jeune génération d'anciens combattants. Les anciens combattants qui ne sont pas admissibles à Camp Hill se tournent vers les établissements de soins de longue durée de la province.

« Le gouvernement a le devoir moral d'offrir le même niveau de soins de longue durée à tous les anciens combattants, peu importe le lieu ou l'année où ils ont servi notre pays », a conclu la députée du NPD, Megan Leslie (Halifax).

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Wednesday, April 8, 2015

New announcement: Nice Imprevements: New Features in My VAC Account

New features in My VAC Account

http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/e_services

New features have been added to My VAC Account:

1.More application forms – to help you apply online.

Application for Attendance, Clothing or Exceptional Incapacity Allowance (PEN6203)
This form can be submitted online

Exceptional Incapacity Allowance
If you are receiving a Disability Pension and are exceptionally incapacitated you may qualify for this tax-free monthly allowance. The amount of the allowance is based on the extent of the pain and loss of enjoyment or shortened life expectancy.

You may qualify for an Exceptional Incapacity Allowance if you are in receipt of:
a Disability Pension for condition(s) that total 98% or more; ORa Disability Pension and a Disability Award for conditions that total 98% or more; ORa Disability Pension and POW compensation that total 98% or more; ANDyou have an exceptional incapacity that is a result of, in whole or in part, the condition(s) for which you are receiving a disability benefit.
Note: you are not eligible to be awarded Exceptional Incapacity Allowance if you are eligible for the Permanent Impairment Allowance (PIA) (Opens a New Window).

Attendance Allowance
Attendance Allowance is an additional tax-free monthly assistance to individuals who:have a Disability Pension of 1% or more or receive Prisoner of War compensation;are totally disabled; ANDneed help with activities of daily living; for example: bathing, eating, dressing etc.
Clothing Allowance
If you are receiving a disability benefit for a condition that causes wear and tear on your clothing or requires you to wear specially-made clothing, you may qualify for a monthly tax-free clothing allowance.

Questions
If you have any questions, please Contact us.Open Form
? Application for Career Transition Services (VAC606CAP)
This form can be submitted online.

What is Career Transition Services?

Veterans and survivors can get help finding civilian employment through the Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) Career Transition Services (CTS) Program. VAC will reimburse eligible Veterans and survivors for these services, up to a lifetime maximum of $1,000 (including taxes).

What services could I be reimbursed for?
Career assessmentsAptitude testingJob market analysisResume writingJob search skillsInterview techniquesIndividual career counsellingJob finding assistanceServices of a professional recruiter agentDo I Qualify?
? Application for Disability Benefits (PEN923AP)
This form can be submitted online

Disability benefits are financial payments provided to individuals who have a service-related disability.

To receive a disability benefit you must:
1. have a diagnosed medical condition or disability; and
2. be able to show that the condition or disability is related to your service.Open Form
? Application for Earnings Loss Benefit - Veteran (VAC610)
This form can be submitted online

The Earnings Loss Benefit is a taxable, monthly benefit that ensures your total income will be at least 75% of your gross pre-release military salary.

Do I Qualify?
? Application for Permanent Impairment Allowance/supplement (VAC608A)
This form can be submitted online

The Permanent Impairment Allowance (PIA) is a taxable, monthly benefit-payable for life. The allowance is provided when your career options have been limited because of a service-related illness or injury.

Do I Qualify? (Opens a New Window)Open Form
? Application for Supplementary Retirement Benefit - Veterans (VAC666)
This form can be submitted online

The Supplementary Retirement Benefit is a taxable, lump-sum benefit provided to individuals who were in receipt of Earnings Loss Benefits on a long term basis. It is provided in recognition of the lower pension plan contributions you may have made.

Do I Qualify?

Open Form
? Canadian Forces Income Support (CFIS) (VAC660)
This form is intended to enable Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) to determine what your rate of payment for the Canadian Forces Income Support (CFIS) should be, if any, for a specific month. You must complete this form and return it to us at the beginning of each month.

Single: You can complete and submit this form online.

Married or living common-law: You and your spouse or common-law partner must both sign this form. Please complete and print the form. You can then:
upload your signed form through My VAC Account, orsend it by mail, ordrop it off at one of our offices (see Contact section to find the office nearest you).Open Form
? Canadian Forces Income Support (CFIS) Benefit Initial Application - Veteran (VAC613)
Canadian Forces Income Support (CFIS) is a form of financial assistance administered by Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC). Its purpose is to ensure that a qualified Veteran is provided with monthly income support to meet his/her basic needs while transitioning to civilian employment.

Do I Qualify?

Single or separated: You can complete and submit this form online.

Married or living common-law: You and your spouse or common-law partner must both sign this form. Please complete and print the form. You can then:
upload your signed form through My VAC Account, orsend it by mail, ordrop it off at one of our offices (see Contact section to find the office nearest you).Open Form
? Canadian Forces Income Support (CFIS) Benefit Subsequent Application - Veteran (VAC620)
A Veteran is entitled to make a subsequent application for the CFIS benefit as long as it is made within a pre-determined time period. This time period begins with the month immediately following the month the CFIS ceased to be payable, and ends 6 months later.

Single: You can complete and submit this form online.

Married or living common-law: You and your spouse or common-law partner must both sign this form. Please complete and print the form. You can then:
upload your signed form through My VAC Account, orsend it by mail, ordrop it off at one of our offices (see Contact section to find the office nearest you).Open Form
? Consent for Veterans Affairs Canada to Collect Personal Information from Third Parties (VAC928)


2.The Application for Career Transition Services is now presented as a guided web form. In the coming months, additional application forms will add similar guidance to further assist Veterans applying online.

3.Status tracking – you can now track applications for earnings loss benefits, and the Veterans Independence Program (VIP).

4.If you receive a disability pension, you can now update the status of your dependents through Your profile (note: this feature will be viewable for Veterans who receive a disability pension only).

5.Ability for you to organize your submitted forms and documents held on My VAC Account through the use of an archive button.

6.Additional benefits have been added to the summary of your services and benefits to allow for a full display of benefits you may be receiving from Veterans Affairs Canada.

7.Veterans Affairs is now beginning to send forms to Veterans electronically. Any forms sent to you in this manner will be found in Correspondence from VAC. Not all forms and letters sent from the Department are available electronically, but we will be adding more in the coming months. Ensure your communication preferences are set to receive an email alert when electronic correspondence becomes available.

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Tuesday, April 7, 2015

New announcement: SECURITY(?) SITUATION at STE. ANNE'S (VET) HOSPITAL by Wolf William Solkin WWII

by Wolf William Solkin

SECURITY(?) SITUATION at STE. ANNE'S (VETERANS) HOSPITAL.
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Over the past several months, and more resoundingly since the monstrous massacres and beheadings by egregious extremists of civilians and soldiers alike all over the so-called "civilized" world, there has been a cacophony of rabid rants by various verminous "Islamist State" terrorist groups, urging their brainwashed (but by no means brain-dead) minions to stay at home in their own country of residence and, in our case, to kill CANADIAN civilians, police and members of the military.

We need only bow our heads in tragic tribute to the recent gut-wrenching loss of two of our own, both proud serving members of the CAF, who were cold-bloodedly murdered in front of our very eyes and on our own soil, to realize that the infamous call to Jihad has already been heeded here at home, and will escalate exponentially world wide,as it is already doing on an almost daily basis.

It is with regard to that very issue, particularly as it impinges upon Ste. Anne's Hospital, that we should all immediately and determinedly solicit our respective representatives in Parliament, to put pressure on the Hon. Steven Blaney, Minister for Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, to spend a lot less time on pronouncing public placebos, and much more effort to ensure the prompt provision of an urgently needed comprehensive and effective program of preparedness and protection for the hundreds of handicapped Canadian Veterans at Ste. Anne's Hospital, plus the thousands of additional people involved daily in sustaining, supporting and enhancing our patients' overall health and welfare.

As a patient/resident of Ste. Anne's , I cannot help but be painfully aware of how critically close this institution is to fitting the perfect profile on any "lone-wolf" terrorist's wish list. We are the veritable poster child for an ideal soft target. We are not near any heavily policed city core, quite isolated from any surrounding built-up areas, yet very close to two major highways for easy and quick ingress and egress. Ours is a readily recognized Canadian government facility on federal land, fully staffed by federal employees. It is replete with a large body of disabled, confused and bed-ridden patients, plus the presence of hundreds of OSI/PTSD out-patients of the present generation. All are Canadian ex-service men and women, having honourably served Canada in World War II and Korea, sundry peace -keeping missions, and Afghanistan. The Afghan war plus the current RCAF support sorties and Special forces forays in the Iraq/Syria sector, appear to have been the latest pseudo-excuses for the Islamist extremists' most recent outpouring of terrorist threats to the safety and security of Canadians everywhere. However, the betting odds favour focusing on a vulnerable venue such as Ste. Anne's Hospital, which presents itself as
a plump plum, ripe and ready for the picking. "They" don't have to be rocket scientists to recognize how unbelievably unprotected we are!
As an added incentive to being a prime priority for any transient terrorist, Ste. Anne's is frequently the destination of choice for visitations by various groups of our armed forces, numerous Royal Canadian Legionnaires, platoons of military cadets, and hosts of kindergarten to teen-age school children, plus assorted Service Club members, all coming and going every day of the year. In addition we welcome a plethora of Veterans' visiting family members and friends, let alone the vast array of volunteers who constantly serve "their" Veterans in innumerable and invaluable ways. And last, but by no means least, the countless numbers of devoted and dedicated employees, from practitioners to preposees, who keep this facility functioning at full throttle, every precious day.

And yet, against the spectre of one or more armed and angry terrorists, I, among others, cannot discern any significant sign of safety or security measures to speak of, other than a squad of civilian Commissionaires who, while serving mostly as gate-keepers, sitting serenely in their glass booths (except when they leave their posts to pop outside for a smoke), have their unarmed hands full just 'buzzing' people into or out of the building, often without even asking for any identification, as long as they simply sign in as a patient's visitor. In point of fact, one of the well-used building entrances is perfunctorily "manned" by camera and microphone alone, while another entry is just locked up and left unattended.

As an irresistible aside, I must add that these same Commissionaires are most content, competent and conscientious at their jobs, when barring bona fide patients/Veterans from attending special events such as Remembrance Day Services, if the latter (all delinquents in their nineties, and most in wheelchairs) have criminally forgotten or lost their invitation cards. To give due credit where debit is due, they do perform perfectly well as unfeeling ushers and bullying bouncers, but as "Security Guards" ??? ........stop pulling my one semi-useable leg! Assigning those rent-a-cop wannabees to that task would be hugely hilarious, if it weren't so hazardous to our health!

Out of conscientious concern for those of my comrades who expressed their ongoing anxiety to me about their exposure to possible personal harm, I broached these breaches in our purportedly protective protocols to Ste.Anne's uppermost echelons of Management. I was told that everything was well in place for our overall safety and security, and was directed to meet with the Director of Strategic Services (whatever that connotes). That person would then inform me of the all-encompassing security measures already in hand, so as to reassure me that "All's well with the world", thus hoping to preclude any need for me to delve further into the matter . I was then told how there were quick communication links with nearby local emergency, fire and police personnel, who , AFTER being notified by Ste. Anne's, could arrive within ten minutes(!). to cope with whatever major problems arose to confront us. In addition we were to count on the Commissionaires in their glass booths, ready to rush to our rescue. When I made so bold as to inquire whether said glass was bullet-proof against an automatic assault weapon, the astounding answer was "I'm sorry, but I don't really know; that had not really occurred to me"...and with that simplistic statement of stultifying ignorance stemming from the in-house head of security, it took no time at all for me to confirm my gut feeling that, insofar as its security concerns are concerned, Ste. Anne's Hospital is indeed in deep doo doo , and has much to be considerably concerned about !

The incontrovertible fact that this facility is very much In harm's way and faces a serous security vacuum cannot be denied, even by those bureaucrats who are blinded by budgetary boundaries. . My comrades and I plead for prompt and preemptive protective action,not just "asap", but "immediately, if not sooner". We need to be provided NOW with an effective sufficiency of well trained, fully equipped, and highly motivated security guardians, preferably readily available and otherwise unassigned military personnel, on a full 24 / 7 / 52 schedule. No plan is perfect, but perhaps a minimal presence of two military vehicles with two appropriately armed soldiers in each, constantly circling our building(s) in opposite directions, is but one simple solution (and at no added cost!). Only by some strong and visible armed presence BEFOREHAND, can one hope to discourage, deter, prevent, or at the very least mitigate the effects of any sudden devastating "lone wolf" attack by some crazed Canadian convert/jihadist, upon those Veterans who had, in their time, faithfully fulfilled their sworn duty to serve and protect the Government of Canada and its citizens from enemies at home and abroad. They now need those roles to be reversed, and that favour to be returned......PRONTO !

My next obvious move was to write to Public Safety Minister Blaney, (formerly Minister of VAC,who is fully familiar with both our plant and population), to impress upon him that he must needs appreciate Ste. Anne Hospital's precarious position, and erase the fears that beset some of the more frail and fragile among us. I did just that, not once but twice (in fact, sizeable portions of this column's comments have been lifted and/or paraphrased from that correspondence), but nary a nod or Ray of recognition from the very person whose paid job it is to "minister" to the safety and security needs of the self-same citizenry which employs him. I even remarked that, notwithstanding his time and effort expended on his pet piece of anti-terror legislation labelled C-51, its prodigious piles of paper don't stand a snowball's chance in hell against a fistful,of C-4, or an AK-47 burst directed at Ste. Anne's much vaunted but equally valueless entry posts, which rightfully should be one of the first concerns of his ministerial agenda.

In sharp contrast to Blaney's apparent indifference to my protestations, I did later receive the inbred courtesy of a personal response from General (Ret'd) Walter J. Natynczyk, the recently appointed and, I firmly believe, devoted and dedicated Deputy Minister of Veterans Affairs Canada...a veritable "Veteran's Veteran". His forthright letter referred to there being "a detailed security plan in place to protect all of our Veterans and employees at Ste. Anne's Hospital (which)) is reviewed and monitored regularly...in line with the Policy on Government Security ( of which I confess my ignorance)...based on on-going risk and threat assessments...that Ste. Anne's...is one of the most secure hospitals in Quebec, in terms of infrastructure...and continuous presence of "security officers?" ( the question and quotation marks are mine). The Deputy Minister, in whom I have an implicit trust as to both his integrity and intentions, added that "the protection and security of our Veterans and employees at Ste. Anne's Hospital is one of my top priorities". I believe him, as far as it goes, however, I do not believe that it goes far enough to fulfil the functions which I feel are warranted by our glaring weaknesses. I was brought up to "Trust, but Verify", and I have yet to arrive at that desired destination while I envision Ste. Anne's Veterans so very much in harm's way. I hope to hell and back that my disquietingly queasy qualms prove to have been unjustified at the end of the day, but should my prediction pan out, and my comrades and I suffer due to lack of foresight and the absence of an abundance of caution as our shield, then our severed heads could well be upon the head of the Minister of Public Safety(etc.) and his bundle of bureaucratic billmeisters.

There is no paranoia prevalent among 'the troops'. We at Ste. Anne's simply have a better observation post from which to detect the raw reality of this new and insidious invasion of our fought-for way of life. We are also better able to identify the need to bring up reinforcements to take proactive steps to confront the enveloping enemy BEFORE he strikes at us, rather than just a reactive, post -facto defensive position easily overrun and inevitably too little and too late to be of any use, other than to bind the bloody wounds of the traumatized survivors .

Undoubtedly, this Veterans' refuge at Ste. Anne's deserves the same level of preparedness and protection as is now afforded to other government buildings, offices and agencies. Similarly, it must merit the same standards of safety and security as are now furnished to our elected representatives and their bureaucratic buffers in our own Canadian Houses of Parliament.
Somehow this scenario inevitably brings to mind a venerable Biblical adjuration; something about...."Do unto others as you would ...".

Surely we would all wish not to have to mourn the tragic loss of any more true Canadian patriots such as W/O Patrice Vincent and Cpl. Nathan Cirillo...even two is too many to tolerate. No more need be said, as the dead clearly speak so forcefully to the living, as well as for themselves.

SAFETY. FIRST, LAST AND ALWAYS !





To all in the audience...do feel free to put in your two cents' worth ( even if it's only in current Canadian currency) , and, lest we forget........

....... LEAVE NO VET BEHIND !




Wolf William Solkin
Ste. Anne de Bellevue, P.Q.





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A VETERAN'S VOICE: Intro / TRANSFER of Ste Anne by Wolf Solkin WWII Veteran
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Sunday, April 5, 2015

Medical/Dental Standard of Care

Medical/Dental Standard of Care

The purpose of this policy is to provide direction with respect to death or disability benefit claim applications based on the error or omission of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) to exercise the expected medical/dental standard of care to its personnel.

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New announcement: Don’t Give Up the Fight: A Blog on Military Trauma and Suicide

Don't Give Up the Fight: A Blog on Military Trauma and Suicide

Suicide is Not Simple, Secrets, Lies, and Suicide, A Failure in Leadership, DND vs. VAC, Told to Leave the Facts to the Government, The Suicide's Pain Becomes the Survivor's Pain etc

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New announcement: Coming Back Home: Dr. Dee Rajska, C. Psych.

Coming Back Home, Dr. Dee Rajska, C. Psych., is meant to be a resource of information about service-related trauma. It's written for veterans, serving members of the armed forces, and their families and supporters. When possible, I try to write broadly enough to make the blog useful to other groups too – like law enforcement and first responders, and even civilians coping with mental health concerns.

The Trouble with Positive Thinking, Your Love-Hate Relationship with your Anxiety, Mindfulness: Learning to Observe Without Judging, PTSD and the science behind why you can't just "get over it", Panic Attacks: Where They Come From, What They Are etc

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Saturday, April 4, 2015

New announcement: Disentitled despite service to Canada

Disentitled despite service to Canada

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The Harper government is offering another new lump-sum benefit to Canada's most critically wounded soldiers, but most of them don't qualify for it, says a Kelowna veteran.

Patrick Wilkins served 20 years in the military, including two tours in Bosnia and one in Afghanistan. Even though he's considered 92 per cent disabled, the new $70,000 benefit unveiled this week by Veterans Affairs Minister Erin O'Toole will elude him.


"The criteria is so narrow," Wilkins said. "Anyone who's listed as permanently disabled, unless it's a one-time physical injury, won't qualify. If it's an injury over any length of time, like a chronic or psychological injury, you'll be denied because it's something that was accumulated."


At 44, Wilkins is considered permanently impaired. He suffers from chronic back pain after he fell out of a helicopter during a combat exercise when he was 19. He has irritable bowel syndrome, two bad knees, an anxiety disorder and erectile dysfunction.


He suffered post-traumatic stress disorder during his mission in Afghanistan in 2006-07. He now operates a part-time business taking people on sidecar tours but is unable to work steadily and relies on his wife Dorothy to care for him.


Once Parliament approves the legislation, Conservatives hope the critical-injury payment will complement the existing lump-sum awards system, vilified by soldiers and veterans since it was introduced in 2006.


A Commons committee has said the disability awards system is less generous to wounded soldiers than the courts are to civilians hurt in workplace accidents. Wilkins suspects the new one-time award is meant to appease critics before this year's federal election.


"There's nothing that gets people's hearts and minds moving more than seeing someone stand up there with medals on their chest who fought for their country calling someone else a liar," he said. "It changes people's perception, even if you're a strong Conservative."


Wilkins collects a small pension based on his years of service and CPP disability.


He received $247,000 in lump-sum payments, an amount that sounds substantial but doesn't carry over a lifetime, he said.


Dorothy Wilkins estimates the money adds up to what the couple would receive as a full pension over four years.


"When he was injured, I was working for the Workers' Compensation Board in Alberta. I saw the difference between what military gets and what WCB pays out for people, and it's a big difference," she said.


If houses cost just $200,000, the lump-sum awards would be sufficient, said Patrick. The couple invested most of his payout in their house but struggle to make ends meet.


"I never planned on making the only trips in my life to the hospital to get medication because we can't afford to do anything else," he said.


The system of lump-sum payments for pain and suffering has been a lightning rod of controversy for the Conservatives. It's one reason angry veterans of the mission in Afghanistan launched a class-action lawsuit against the federal government.


The military recognizes an injured veteran affects the spouse. But Dorothy fails to qualify for benefits to caregivers who give up work to stay at home because she suffered a breakdown caused by Wilkins' PTSD and can't return to work, he said.


If the government brought back monthly disability pensions, the lives of most wounded veterans would improve, Wilkins said. Instead, too many have squandered the large sums they received all at once.


"They weren't healed yet. They wasted it," he said. "I have friends who pissed it away — drank it, bought trucks, and now they have nothing.


"People say they should have known better, and they're right. A 19-year-old kid — you give him $180,000 for PTSD, the only thing he can think about doing is drinking and partying to relieve some of the pain and stress. . . . He's trying to forget."


— With files from The Canadian Press


ARTICLE: Fewer caseworkers left to help veterans http://www.kelownadailycourier.ca/news/article_e4e927a8-da6e-11e4-abf3-a3793d53c5e9.html
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New announcement: Study adds evidence on link between PTSD, heart disease

Study adds evidence on link between PTSD, heart disease

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In a study of more than 8,000 veterans living in Hawaii and the Pacific Islands, those with posttraumatic stress disorder had a nearly 50 percent greater risk of developing heart failure over about a seven-year follow-up period, compared with their non-PTSD peers.

The findings appear in the April 2015 issue of the American Journal of Public Health.

The study adds to a growing body of evidence linking PTSD and heart disease. The research to date--including these latest findings--doesn't show a clear cause-and-effect relationship. But most experts believe PTSD, like other forms of chronic stress or anxiety, can damage the heart over time.

"There are many theories as to how exactly PTSD contributes to heart disease," says Dr. Alyssa Mansfield, one of the study authors. "Overall, the evidence to date seems to point in the direction of a causal relationship."

Mansfield was senior author on the study while with the Pacific Islands Division of the National Center for PTSD of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). She is now with the VA Pacific Islands Health Care System and also an assistant adjunct professor of epidemiology at the University of Hawaii.

The study tracked 8,248 veterans who had been outpatients in the VA Pacific Islands system. The researchers followed them an average of just over seven years. Those with a PTSD diagnosis were 47 percent more likely to develop heart failure during the follow-up period. The researchers controlled for differences between the groups in health and demographic factors.

Out of the total study group, about 21 percent were diagnosed with PTSD. Of the total 371 cases of heart failure during the study, 287 occurred among those with PTSD, whereas only 84 cases occurred among the group without PTSD.

Combat service, whether or not it led to a full-blown PTSD diagnosis, was itself a strong predictor of heart failure. Those Veterans with combat experience were about five times more likely to develop heart failure during the study period, compared with those who had not seen combat. Other predictors of heart failure were advanced age, diabetes, high blood pressure, and overweight or obesity.

The authors of the study say they didn't have access to a full range of data that would have provided further clues as to the PTSD-heart disease link. For example, they were not able to distinguish in the data between those who had served in the Gulf during 1990 and 1991, and those who served more recently in Iraq or Afghanistan. Nor were they able to analyze whether racial or ethnic identity plays a role one way or the other, as that information was not complete for most veterans in study.

Nonetheless, the authors point out that the work is the "first large-scale longitudinal study to report an association between PTSD and incident heart failure in an outpatient sample of U.S. veterans."

Heart failure, in which the heart grows weaker and can't pump enough blood to adequately supply the body's needs, affects about 5 million Americans in all, with some 500,000 new cases each year. People with the condition feel tired with physical activity, as the muscles aren't getting enough blood.

The new results, says Mansfield, provide further potent evidence of the nexus between mental and physical health. The practical upshot of the findings, she says, is that veterans with PTSD should realize that by treating their PTSD, they may also be helping to prevent heart disease down the road.

By the same token, the authors point out that VA and other health care systems may need to step up efforts to prevent and treat heart failure among those with PTSD.


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Lead author on the study was Samit S. Roy, with Ohio State University and the University of Minnesota. Other coauthors were Dr. Randi Foraker, with OSU; and Dr. Richard Girton, with the VA Pacific Islands Health Care System.

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Thursday, April 2, 2015

New announcement: SISIP CLASS ACTION - Undeliverable Settlement Packages

SISIP CLASS ACTION - Undeliverable Settlement Packages

Dear Class Members,

Re: Dennis Manuge v. Her Majesty the Queen
HFX. No.: T-463-07
Undeliverable Settlement Packages


Since April 15, 2013, we have delivered settlement packages to over 8,000 class members. We have not been able to send a number of packages to some class members as we do not have their current contact information. If you have not received your settlement package to date,
please review the list below to see if your name is on it. If so, please contact (902) 444-8417.

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Jean LeBoeuf
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Geoffrey Morgan
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