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August 12, 2016

The Honourable Kent Hehr, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence, joined Veterans and their families in Brandon, Manitoba, today to announce that the previously closed Veterans Affairs Canada office will reopen in October 2016.

The new Brandon office will be located at 1^st floor, 1039 Princess Avenue, Brandon (MB), and once opened, will employ approximately nine staff who will serve approximately 2400 Veterans. Staff at the Brandon office will answer questions about VAC services and benefits; arrange pension medical examinations; and assist Veterans to complete and submit applications and receipts. Case-managed Veterans will also be able to meet with their case manager.

More information: News Release - Veterans Affairs Canada office in Brandon to reopen October 2016

August 12, 2016

The Honourable Kent Hehr, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence, joined Veterans and their families in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, today to announce that the previously closed Veterans Affairs Canada office will reopen in November 2016.

The new Saskatoon office will be located at 5^th floor, 101-22^nd St. East, Saskatoon, SK, and once opened, will employ approximately seven staff who will serve approximately 2900 Veterans. Staff at the Saskatoon office will answer questions about VAC services and benefits; arrange pension medical examinations; and assist Veterans to complete and submit applications and receipts. Case-managed Veterans will also be able to meet with their case manager.

More information: News Release - Veterans Affairs Canada office in Saskatoon to reopen November 2016

July 28, 2016

The Honourable Kent Hehr, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence, joined Veterans and their families in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, today to announce that the previously closed Veterans Affairs Canada office will reopen in November, 2016.

The new Charlottetown office will be located at 1st floor, 191 Great George Street, Charlottetown, PE, and once opened, will employ approximately 10 staff who will serve approximately 2,000 Veterans. Staff at the Charlottetown office will answer questions about VAC services and benefits; arrange pension medical examinations; and, assist Veterans to complete and submit applications and receipts. Case-managed Veterans will also be able to meet with their case manager.

More information: Veterans Affairs Canada office in Charlottetown to reopen November, 2016

July 27, 2016

The Honourable Kent Hehr, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence, joined Veterans and their families in Sydney, Nova Scotia, on July 27^th to announce that the previously closed Veterans Affairs Canada office will reopen in November 2016.

The new Sydney office will be located at 1^st floor, 70 Crescent Street, Sydney NS, and once opened, will employ approximately 15 staff who will serve approximately 2,200 Veterans. Staff at the Sydney office will answer questions about VAC services and benefits; arrange pension medical examinations; and assist Veterans to complete and submit applications and receipts. Case-managed Veterans will also be able to meet with their case manager.

More information: Veterans Affairs Canada office in Sydney to reopen November 2016

July 08, 2016

On Tuesday, July 5, Veterans and their families joined the Honourable Kent Hehr, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence, in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, to officially re-open the first of nine Veterans Affairs Offices to be opened across the country.

The office, located at 1 Regent Square in Corner Brook, is the first of nine offices that will re-open in Charlottetown, PE; Sydney, NS; Windsor and Thunder Bay, ON; Saskatoon, SK; Brandon, MB; and, Prince George and Kelowna, BC. A tenth office will open in Surrey, BC, and outreach will be expanded to Veterans in the territories.

July 03, 2016

The Honourable Kent Hehr, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence, and members of a Canadian delegation marking the centennial anniversaries of the Battles of the Somme and Beaumont-Hamel today attended a remembrance ceremony at the Canadian National Vimy Memorial.

July 02, 2016

On July 2, 2016, the Honourable Kent Hehr, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence, and the Canadian delegation participated in a commemorative ceremony at the Courcelette Canadian Memorial. This memorial stands on a small, well-tended site with beautiful greenery. On the granite block of the memorial is recorded the simple inscription: “The Canadian Corps bore a valiant part in forcing back the Germans on these slopes during the battles of the Somme Sept. 3rd - Nov. 18th 1916.” There are more than ten varieties of maple trees planted and tended to on the memorial site. Few bright colours in the gardens allow visitors to meditate and reflect on the monument’s somber message.

June 29, 2016

On Wednesday, June 29, 2016, the Honourable Kent Hehr, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence, and the Canadian delegation visited the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The Commission marks and maintains Commonwealth graves from both the First and Second World Wars. Included in this mandate is the commemoration of some 1.7 million war dead in over 150 countries. Of this number, more than 935,000 have known graves and are buried in one of the Commission’s 2,500 war cemeteries or plots or within some 20,000 other burial grounds worldwide.

June 20, 2016

The Honourable Kent Hehr, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence, joined Lindsay Peach, Vice-President of Integrated Health for the Nova Scotia Health Authority, to officially open the Nova Scotia Operational Stress Injury Clinic on Monday, June 13^th.

Funded by Veterans Affairs Canada and operated in partnership with the Nova Scotia Health Authority, the Clinic, located in Dartmouth, provides full assessment, diagnosis and treatment services for Veterans, members of the Canadian Armed Forces, current and former members of the RCMP and their families who are living with operational stress injuries, also known as OSIs. Each OSI clinic has a team of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, mental health nurses and other specialized clinicians who understand the experience and unique needs of Veterans living with OSIs.

June 17, 2016

The Honourable Kent Hehr, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence, participated in the Royal Canadian Legion’s 46^th Dominion Command Convention.