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and was the source of a controversy about the lack of public transparency by the Canadian Forces. [1] Gunther was the third Canadian fatality in the Yugoslavia peacekeeping mission, [2] and also the only Canadian soldier killed by hostile fire for the decade between 1993 and 2004 when Corporal Jamie Murphy was killed in Afghanistan in 2004. [3]
The death of nine Canadian Armed Forces personnel when their Buffalo 461 was shot down over Syria on August 9, 1974, remains the largest single death toll in Canadian peacekeeping history. [52] [53] The United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti saw the death of two Canadian RCMP peacekeepers as a result of the 2010 earthquake. [54]
National Peacekeepers' Day (French: Journée Nationale des Casques Bleus) is an official remembrance day for Canadian veterans of military peacekeeping activities. [1] It is officially marked on 9 August of each year [ 2 ] and alternately may be observed on the closest Sunday.
The US-Canadian citizen who was among the seven World Central Kitchen aid workers killed in an IDF airstrike was just days away from leaving Gaza when he died, his grieving father has revealed ...
Ceremonial Guard stand watch over Canada's national memorial, The Response, with the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the foreground.. Canadian war memorials are buildings, monuments, and statues that commemorate the armed actions in the territory encompassing modern Canada, the role of the Canadian military in conflicts and peacekeeping operations, and Canadians who died or were injured in a war.
The Canadian Police Memorial Ride to Remember began in 2000, and covers 640 kilometres (400 mi) from the Ontario Police College in Aylmer, Ontario. The National Peace Officers' Memorial Run to Remember was first held in 2005, starting at the Ontario Police Memorial in Toronto's Queen's Park and covers 460 km (290 mi) over three days.
But it really got going when AI-generated images and video that memeified the stories went viral. How AI images of cats and ducks powered the pet-eating rumor mill in Springfield, Ohio Skip to ...
The Somalia affair was a 1993 Canadian military scandal, prompted by the beating to death of Shidane Arone, a Somali teenager, at the hands of two Canadian peacekeepers participating in humanitarian efforts in Somalia. The act was documented by photos, and brought to light internal problems in the Canadian Airborne Regiment.