by K-J | 28 Dec 2022 | Community
Stag Special Getting behind the wheel is the most dangerous thing most of us do each day, and that’s before high-voltage electric equipment is added to the equation.Each year, countless vehicles crash into utility poles, knocking power lines to the ground and putting...
by K-J | 26 Dec 2022 | Community
Shilo Stag Are you planning New Year’s Eve celebrations off-Base to welcome the advent of 2023? If so, Brandon Transit is offering free bus rides if you are attending parties in the nearby community. From 6 p.m. Dec. 31 to 3 a.m. Jan. 1, Brandon Transit will run...
by K-J | 16 Dec 2022 | Community
Soldiers from 2PPCLI, 1RCHA participated in Brandon’s No Stone Left Alone event in November. They mingled with students, helping them place poppies at each grave in the military section of the municipal cemetery. Photos Jules Xavier/Shilo Stag Stag Special The...
by K-J | 8 Dec 2022 | Community
Stag editor Jules Xavier has spent more than a decade experiencing Manitoba’s winters after he moved east from Vancouver Island. Despite the occasional Arctic Vortex providing residents on the prairies with consistent daily temperatures in the range of -25 to...
by K-J | 6 Dec 2022 | Community
Students in an Ottawa classroom receive a lesson in battlefield first aid using artifacts from Supply Line First World War Discovery Box, an educational initiative of the Canadian War Museum. A service dress cap is one of a group of artifacts in the Canadian War...
by K-J | 5 Dec 2022 | Community
Use your CANEX Canada Post retail outlet to mail your letters and parcels for free to military members currently deployed on overseas missions. Do not use Canada Post’s street mailboxes, like the one located across from the CANEX venue. Photos Jules Xavier/Shilo...