Posted on Mar 16, 2017
Families of six cadets killed in 1974 grenade blast to receive $100,000 in settlement with...
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Teenage kids in a Canadian Army Cadets program did not know there was a live grenade among the dummy ones and someone pulled the pin and it exploded killing many and wounding more. The Canadian Government finally gave in to demands for this meager compensation. Just think how many millions the Attorneys would have won for themselves (40%) if it had happened in the USA. Finally these survivors will get the medical care they deserved since 1974.
Families of six cadets killed in 1974 grenade blast to receive $100,000 in settlement with...
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Thanks for sharing the news LTC (Join to see). I enlisted in 1974 and know exactly how long it has been since that year when I was an 18-year-old.
That is a tremendously long tie for the parents of those Canadian Army Cadets who were killed by a grenade blast to wait for a settlement of 100,000 Canadian dollars for each dead teenager.
That is a tremendously long tie for the parents of those Canadian Army Cadets who were killed by a grenade blast to wait for a settlement of 100,000 Canadian dollars for each dead teenager.
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LTC (Join to see) Teenagers and cadet types and it takes 43 years for recognition and compensation?! Unreal!
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Native Indian to what the residential school and went through their hardship of abuse get $40,000 each. Canada legally forced native parents to give up their kids and put them in residential school to take the Indian out of the child many of them disappeared and are buried in unmarked Graves and I don't think those parents received any money. It's called cultural genocide. It took the government decades to acknowledge it so I'm not surprised these poor kids with a hand grenade took them over 40 years to get compensated https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_system
Canadian Indian residential school system - Wikipedia
In Canada, the Indian (Aboriginal) residential schools (French: pensionnats autochtones / écoles résidentielles) were a network of "residential" (boarding) schools for Indigenous people (First Nations or "Indians"; Métis and Inuit). The network was funded by the Canadian government's Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, and administered by Christian churches.
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Capt Tom Brown
Capt Tom Brown - I gained a favorable impression of all Canadians at an early age listening to 'Sgt Preston of the Yukon' on the radio before it became a weekly TV show and before it changed it's name.
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