Lower Sackville graveyard owner offers $500 fee instead of $1,500 for military, police relatives
Discount burials for military and police veterans are being offered at a Lower Sackville graveyard, the cemetery’s owner announced Friday.
The move was made to help financially strapped families of veterans, said Bill Mont, who owns the 9.7-hectare Pleasant Hill Cemetery outside Halifax.

August 2, 2013 ACTION ON HOMELESS VETERANS NEEDED NOW: NDP

Priscilla Blake sits with her two sons Kain and Tie at the Dartmouth park soon to be renamed in honour of her husband Craig, a Canadian naval clearance diver, who was killed while serving Afganistan in 2010.
Tie Blake would always glide back into his dad’s strong palm on the swings at Montebello Park in Dartmouth, a memory imprinted on the nine-year-old boy who wanted the city to rename a piece of land to honour Craig Blake, his father and the first Canadian sailor killed in the Afghanistan conflict.

INJURED SOLDIER WHO TESTIFIED BEFORE COMMITTEE MUST BE REINSTATED

 
 
Minister Blaney Announces National Launch of PTSD Mobile App and funding for PTSD Research
 
Toronto – The Honourable Steven Blaney, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Minister for La Francophonie, today recognized the beginning of Mental Health Week in Canada by announcing support for initiatives to help Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and their families.