The shock of the crisis has highlighted who Canada is failing.
, an ongoing HuffPost Canada series that makes sense of how the COVID-19 crisis could change our country in the months and years ahead, and what opportunities exist to make Canada better.Long gone were the days of his childhood as an orphan in Nova Scotia. His mother and father, a First World War veteran, both died of tuberculosis.
“Most everything changed,” Newell, 98, told HuffPost Canada from the veterans wing of a long-term care home in New Brunswick. Ken Newell enlisted in the Canadian military to fight in the Second World in 1941. Pictured in August 2019 on the right, he currently lives in Saint John, N.B.vocational training program for veterans
This turning point in Newell’s life came at the tail end of a series of cataclysmic events — the Great Depression that saw millions unemployed and national production plummet, and the World Wars that killed 110,000 Canadians.Unemployed Canadians marched across the country during the Great Depression, demanding more support from the federal government. The men pictured here in Kenora, Ont., July 19, 1935, had marched from labour camps in Manitoba.
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