N ATIONAL N EWS E XECUTIVE S UMMARY / S OMMAIRE DES NOUVELLES NATIONALES
ADM(PA) / SMA(AP)
December 31 2013 / le 31 decembre 2013
M INISTER / L E M INISTRE
Calls for St. John’s Maritime Rescue Sub-centre
Newfoundland and Labrador's intergovernmental affairs minister Steve Kent says recent confusion in the rescue of crew members aboard a container ship highlights the need for St. John's to have its own maritime rescue sub-centre. Mr. Kent said he's requested a meeting with Defence Minister Rob
Nicholson
to press the issue further (D. MacEachern: SJT A3 ).
CDS / CEM
No related coverage. / Aucune couverture pertinente.
CAF O PERATIONS / O PÉRATIONS FAC
C ANADA IN A FGHANISTAN / L E C ANADA EN A FGHANISTAN
Final Holiday Season in Afghanistan
Bruce Campion-
Smith’s article about the CF’s final holiday season in Afghanistan was reprinted ( NBTJ
A5 ).
D ISASTER A SSISTANCE R ESPONSE T EAM (DART) / É
QUIPE D
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INTERVENTION EN CAS DE
CATASTROPHE (EICC)
No related coverage. / Aucune couverture pertinente.
P ROCUREMENT / A PPROVISIONNEMENT
Government Spending and the Military: Comment
Victoria Times-Colonist editorial: Look, up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane! No, it's a fistful of taxpayer dollars being scattered to the four winds! What else can be said about a $14,000 online study by researchers for DND that quizzed 150 people on what they know about superheroes' powers. Can they fly through the air? Do they have X-ray vision that penetrates walls? Yes? No? Who cares? All you Clark
Kents at Defence - get back into your phone booths and come up with something less silly. Someone
should have applied kryptonite to this study before it ever got off the ground ( VTC A10 ).
O THERS / A UTRES
Order of Canada
Coverage of the Order of Canada noted that the Meritorious Service Decorations include a military division and a civil division. The military division recognizes individuals for their outstanding professionalism and for bringing honour to the Canadian Forces and to Canada. The Order of Military
Merit honours for exceptional leadership, service and performance of duty. Coverage listed the current
holders of both honours ( G&M A6 ).
CF Skyhawks Parachute Demonstration Team Photograph

One of the favourite photographs of the year by Globe & Mail photographer Jason Payne was of the CF
Skyhawks parachute demonstration team ( G&M A10 ).
Helicopter Rescue in Kingston
Coverage reviewed the rescue by a CF SAR team of a crane operator from a fire in Kingston (L. Kane:
TStar A8 ).

Section: Provincial
Byline: Daniel MacEachern
Outlet: The Telegram (St. John's)
Headline: Communications mixup highlights need for St. John's rescue sub-centre: Kent
Page: A3
Date: Tuesday 31 December 2013
Newfoundland and Labrador's intergovernmental affairs minister says recent confusion in the rescue of crew members aboard a container ship highlights the need for St. John's to have its own maritime rescue sub-centre.
On Sunday, Joint Task Force (JTF) Atlantic responded to a distress call from MSC Monterey, 34 nautical miles off Portugal Cove South, which reported a problem with its hull and was in danger of breaking apart. Four non-essential crew were airlifted from the vessel, which anchored 9:30 p.m. Sunday.
During the rescue, JTF Atlantic's Twitter account noted the operation in progress "South of
Portugal Cove." Portugal Cove and Portugal Cove South are 140 kilometres apart, at opposite ends of the eastern edge of the Avalon Peninsula.
Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Steve Kent said Monday the mixup - which did not affect the rescue operation - highlights the necessity of reopening the St. John's maritime rescue sub-centre, which was closed by the federal government in May 2012.
"What's most important here is that everybody is safe and that the Joint Rescue Coordination
Centre out of Halifax successfully co-ordinated efforts of search and rescue responders," said
Kent. "Protocols were certainly followed, and I'm pleased that everything went well. However, there was certainly a communications issue that was discovered on Twitter, as whoever was managing the account referred to 'Portugal Cove' instead of 'Portugal Cove South.'"
Kent said it's similar to an early 2013 incident in which a co-ordination centre employee voice recording said a search was underway for a missing Newfoundland hunter in the Port-au-Prince peninsula area. The hunter was actually missing near Port au Port. Port-au-Prince is in Haiti.
"I think these issues speak to the complexities in Newfoundland and Labrador with our geography, and it speaks to the importance of having local presence and local knowledge in terms of our search and rescue efforts," said Kent. "It's absolutely critical that the marine rescue sub-centre in St. John's and the communications centre in St. Anthony be reinstated, and this is a good example as to why." Kent said he's requested a meeting with Defence Minister Rob
Nicholson to press the issue further.
"We know that we need more resources in terms of training and personnel in Newfoundland and
Labrador," he said.
"We need more fixed-wing aircraft for search and rescue, and we need the centres, the communications centres in St. John's and St. Anthony as well as the marine rescue sub-centre in
St. John's reinstated."

dmaceachern@thetelegram.com Twitter: @TelegramDaniel
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Section: A
Headline: A last holiday in Afghanistan
Page: A5
Outlet: New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal
Byline: Bruce Campion-Smith Toronto Star
Date: Tuesday 31 December 2013
Canadian troops are packing up in Afghanistan, confident the Afghan security forces they've helped train will be able to defend the country against persistent insurgent attacks.
This Christmas was a bittersweet milestone as Canadian soldiers marked their last holiday in the war-torn land after more than a decade of fighting insurgents and, more recently, training Afghan army and police units to take on that role themselves.
"I've seen them fight through this last fighting season with very little support and do extremely well," Maj.-Gen. Dean Milner told the Star in a telephone interview from Kabul.
"They've come a long way. Their confidence, their capabilities, their leadership. We've helped them build a pretty strong force," he said.
In addition to commanding the Canadian contingent, Milner is commander of the NATO training mission, responsible for all institutional training of Afghan national security forces, both army and police.
"Canadians are natural working with people and the Afghans really get along with Canadians.
They like us. We have a knack for working with them," he said.
The Afghan army now has close to 190,000 troops and the police have 152,000 members in its ranks.
Milner, who spent time as a commander in Kandahar, has watched as their capabilities have evolved and improved.
And, Milner said, efforts have focused on integrating police with the army units so they could
"fight together as a team."
He saw evidence those efforts are paying off over the summer months, after the Afghans assumed responsibility for leading security operations in June.
"About midway through the fighting season, they got all the generals together, police chiefs.
They looked at their lessons learned from the first half of the fighting season and then what they needed," Milner said.
He concedes there is work to be done. For example, he said efforts are needed to boost leadership in the Afghan forces. They haven't yet had the time to nurture experienced leaders.
Work is also needed on the system to procure equipment as well as logistics, which Milner said is critical to sustain a large army.

As the Christmas decorations were going up in the Kabul outpost named Camp Eggers where the
Canadians have their headquarters, much else is being packed as soldiers count down the days.
Much of the equipment has been returned to Canada and just 260 soldiers remain in Afghanistan.
Many will fly home in January, leaving about 100 who will remain until the mission ends in mid-
March.
At that point, the departure of the Canadians will end a military commitment that began in the months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. Canadian forces initially deployed to Kandahar, moved to Kabul and then returned to
Kandahar for a prolonged combat mission in southern Afghanistan.
The commitment has been a costly one. According to the defence department, 138 soldiers were killed in action, another 20 died from other causes; 635 were wounded and a further 1,436 soldiers suffered non-battle injuries. These include soldiers injured in traffic accidents, other accidental injuries and those returned home for medical reasons.
Milner said Canadians can take pride in what the military has done in Afghanistan.
"We've really helped the Afghans, really given them a lot better capability. We fought hard in
Kandahar, held the fort down there, helped governance,"
"We've learned a lot as an army, how to train for a complex, tough environment," he said. "I think we've really grown and learned a lot. An army needs that. It prepares us better for any other options."
Bruce Campion-Smith writes for the Toronto Star.
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Section: Comment
Outlet: Times Colonist (Victoria)
Headline: A super waste of money
Page: A10
Date: Tuesday 31 December 2013
Source: Calgary Herald
Look, up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane! No, it's a fistful of taxpayer dollars being scattered to the four winds!
What else can be said about a $14,000 online study by researchers for the federal Defence
Department that quizzed 150 people on what they know about superheroes' powers. Can they fly through the air? Do they have X-ray vision that penetrates walls?
Yes? No? Who cares?
The study was intended to assist the Canadian Forces in winning "the hearts and minds" of people overseas where the military is deployed. We can think of a better way. How about bringing peace and stability to those populations, helping to build schools, distribute food and do other humanitarian things? That's a great way to win hearts and minds.
Instead, the research summary says the study will aid in understanding non-natural and religious concepts and allow the military to "design messages that are memorable for their target audiences."
Guess what? Most respondents agreed superheroes can fly and leap over tall buildings at a single bound. Whether they can make themselves invisible or go through walls raised some doubts.
All you Clark Kents at Defence - get back into your phone booths and come up with something less silly. Someone should have applied kryptonite to this study before it ever got off the ground.
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Section: National News
Outlet: The Globe And Mail
Headline: The Order of Canada
Page: A6
Date: Tuesday 31 December 2013
Each of the 11 members received their box in mid-October, signing for the delivery to prove the shipment had landed in the appropriate, security-cleared hands.
Inside was a password-protected iPad, its Internet capabilities disabled so members could only view the uploaded, confidential content. The men and women were to use the device for a sole purpose: to consider which nominees should be appointed to the Order of Canada, the centrepiece of this country's $3-million honours system.
On Nov. 21, after reviewing 300 digitally compiled nominations, the Order advisory council met at Ottawa's Rideau Hall, where they spent the day choosing the 90 names that were announced to the public Monday.
Since 1967, such lists have been compiled by a group of analysts and then approved by the
Governor-General, the Queen's representative in Canada. The Order is tiered, comprising, in descending order, companions, officers and members. What unites the appointees, in the eyes of the council, is their embodiment of the Order's motto: Desiderantes meliorem patriam (``They desire a better country'').
The Order has at times gleaned headlines for its controversial choices, with abortion rights crusader Henry Morgentaler chief among them. And although the Order has considerable profile, its inner workings are somewhat of a mystery to Canadians wondering how and why recipients are chosen.
What makes someone worthy of joining the Order? Does it matter if a nominee is male or female, a visible minority, from Montreal or Newfoundland's tiny Tilt Cove? What happens if the council disagrees on a nominee?
And this: Does Canada even need an honours system?
For Governor-General David Johnston, who is a companion of the Order, the answer to the latter is emphatic in the affirmative. ``It reinforces the fundamental values of Canadians, the things we admire most,'' he said in an interview, later adding he has never overruled the council's recommendations.
The 11-member council includes six members there by virtue of other positions they hold: the
Privy Council clerk, the Canadian Heritage deputy minister, the Canada Council chair, the Royal
Society of Canada president, the chair of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, who serves as chair. The other five members, who are appointed by the Governor-General on the recommendation of those six, must themselves be members of the Order.

Eleven people come with 11 opinions. So while the council unanimously agrees on most nominations, there are times the chair must move for a vote, two former advisory council members said.
The acting director of orders at Ottawa's Chancellery of Honours, Darcy DeMarsico, confirmed there is sometimes a show of hands, adding: ``There is still a consensus element: Every Council member has to be comfortable with the group's recommendation to the Governor-General. If this is not the case, then the file will be given back to the [chancellery analysts] to gather further information and to discuss anew at a future meeting.''
Ms. DeMarsico said every nomination is discussed when the council meets in May and
November, and that the analysts ``don't screen anything out.'' The former council members,
Aldéa Landry and Stephen Toope, said the nomination files typically come with one of four suggestions: appointment as a member, officer or companion, or ``not recommended.''
``You come to trust the judgment, overall, of the analysts, but with each file, you make your own determination,'' said Mr. Toope, whose tenure ended before the November meeting, once he was no longer chair of the universities association.
Since the dawn of the Internet, analysts have done extensive research to bolster a nominee's file, which at minimum includes a nomination form and recommendation letters, said historian
Christopher McCreery, who has written nine books on the Canadian honour system, including one on the Order of Canada.
The Order's constitution sets out the criteria for the three tiers, but those parameters are open for interpretation. Companions, for one, are recognized for a ``lifetime of outstanding achievement and merit of the highest degree, especially in service to Canada or to humanity at large.''
``Ultimately,'' Mr. Toope said, ``it's a question of judgment.''
After each investiture, the chancellery produces a ``gap analysis'' detailing, among other things, gender and geographic breakdowns, Governor-General Johnston said. Since the only consideration is merit, Ms. DeMarsico said, the council isn't tasked with rectifying imbalances.
Instead, the chancellery encourages institutions and Order appointees to nominate people from certain categories. (Geographically, for example, Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia are under-represented.)
Governor-General Johnston said he is ``particularly concerned'' with the gender imbalance: The
Order is currently 31 per cent female. Once a woman is nominated, however, she has a 74 per cent chance of appointment, compared to 60 per cent for a man. ``We think that's because a woman has to be so great to be nominated in the first place,'' Ms. DeMarsico said.
Both Ms. DeMarsico and Governor-General Johnston pointed out that the honours system is apolitical. It is run at arm's-length from the government, nominations are generated spontaneously and elected officials can't be appointed while in office. It's that grassroots quality,
Mr. McCreery said, that makes the Canadian honour system unique, compelling and important.
``An honour system is a lot like having a flag, a passport, a country name,'' he said. ``This is the country saying `thank you.'''

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Marie Deschamps
Ms. Deschamps, 61, retired from her job as a Supreme Court justice after a decade, at a youthful
59, saying she wished to find other ways to contribute to society. She is being recognized for her dedication to youth development, as well as for her contributions as a jurist.
Sarah Polley
The 34-year-old who earned fame as a child actor in the TV series Road to Avonlea , is the director of the award-winning Away From Her , based on an Alice Munro short story, and an autobiographical, feature-length documentary, Stories We Tell .
Douglas Coupland
Mr. Coupland, who turned 52 on Monday, is a novelist and influencer of the zeitgeist who coined the term Generation X to describe the low-profile group that followed the baby boomers.
He is also a respected visual artist.
Dick Irvin Jr.
Mr. Irvin, 81, is the son of a Montreal Canadiens coach who grew up to be an integral part of
Hockey Night in Canada , from the mid-1960s until 1999, with his euphonious voice, his breadth of knowledge and his love of the game. He is also the author of several books on hockey.
Jim Cuddy, Greg Keelor
The two musicians became friends in high school but didn't decide to start a band till after university, when their friends were getting real jobs. Their band, Blue Rodeo, has been together more than a quarter-century. Mr. Cuddy is 58; Mr Keelor is 59.
Colm Feore
The 50-year-old actor has played Romeo and Hamlet on stage at Stratford, Pierre Trudeau on television and Glenn Gould in a movie. He has been a bilingual Cyrano de Bergerac and a bilingual officer in Bon Cop, Bad Cop .
Albert Schultz
The founding artistic director of Toronto's Soulpepper Theatre Company, Mr. Schultz, 50, has a long list of acting and directing credits.
John Thompson
A member of the Thomson Reuters board of directors, the 70-year-old Mr. Thompson has been a chancellor of the University of Western Ontario (now Western University). He is being recognized for his leadership in information technology and for helping create research partnerships between industry and academia.
Eric Sprott

The investment manager, who was born in 1944, is being honoured for his contributions as a philanthropist in health care, education and international development.
Donald Sobey
The 78-year-old philanthropist and founder of Sobeys Inc. created an annual $50,000 award for artists under 40 who have exhibited their work in a public or commercial art gallery within 18 months of being nominated.
Louis Audet
The 61-year-old president and chief executive officer of Cogeco Cable Inc. of Montreal is being recognized for turning the family business into a leading Quebec telecommunications company and for supporting community groups.
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COMPANIONS
Marie Deschamps
Donald Mazankowski
Margaret Norrie McCain
Raymond Murray Schafer
OFFICERS
Michael Bliss
Gilles Brassard
Douglas Coupland
Jim Gordon Cuddy
John Daniel
Colm Feore
Sherrill E. Grace
Nancy Jane Hermiston
Daniel Ish
David Jenkins
Gregory James Keelor
Patrick Delamere Lafferty

Steve Paikin
Eliot A. Phillipson
Sarah Polley
Glenn Pushelberg
Keren Rice
Hartley T. Richardson
J.J. Michel Robert
Michael Rudnicki
Daniel Walter Smith
John M. Thompson
Peter Tugwell
V. James Weisgerber
George Yabu
MEMBERS
Baha Abu-Laban
Ewan Affleck
Rina Arseneault
Louis Audet
Jeanne Beker
David Blair
Shirley Blumberg
Walter Boudreau
Ron Burnett
Carmen Campagne
Paul G.S. Cantor
Stephen Carpenter
Denise Clarke

Dennis Cochrane
Marie-Éva de Villers
Morton Doran
Yvon Dumont
Marc Dutil
Phil Dwyer
Louise Forestier
Madeleine Gagnon
Peter Gilgan
Michael Goldbloom
Philip Gosling
Bernard Grandmaître
Roger Greenberg
Catherine Anita Hankins
Morley Hanson
Robert Harding
Mary E. Hofstetter
James Dickinson Irvin
Elisapee Ishulutaq
George Jonas
Danielle Juteau
James Peter (Hamish) Kimmins
Lucia Kowaluk
Francine Lelièvre
Douglas Letson
K. Barry Marsden
Murray D. McEwen

W.R. (Bob) McPhee
Djavad Mowafaghian
Wesley Nicol
Constance V. Pathy
Juri Peepre
Louise Penny
John Derek Riley
Sandra Rotman
Aurel Schofield
Albert Schultz
Mamdouh Shoukri
Joan C. Snyder
Donald Creighton Rae Sobey
Eric Sprott
Jacques Tanguay
Ian Tannock
Tom Traves
Marie-José Turcotte
Sara Vered
William Robert Waters
Robin Williams
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Meritorious Service Decorations
The Meritorious Service Decorations include a military division and a civil division, with two levels each: a cross and a medal. The civil division recognizes individuals who have performed an exceptional deed or an activity that brought honour to the community or to Canada. The military division recognizes individuals for their outstanding professionalism and for bringing honour to the Canadian Forces and to Canada.
MERITORIOUS SERVICE CROSS (CIVIL DIVISION): Col. Chris Austin Hadfield

MERITORIOUS SERVICE CROSS (MILITARY DIVISION): Lt.-Gen. Stuart Beare, Ottawa;
Lt-Gen. Daniel Bolger, Aurora, Ill.; Brig.-Gen. Michael Day, Ottawa; Maj.-Gen. James Ferron,
Kingston, Ont; Gen. James Mattis, Richland, Wash.; Capt. Aaron Noble, Burnaby, B.C.; Lt.-
Gen. Guy Thibault, Comox, B.C.
MERITORIOUS SERVICE MEDAL (MILITARY DIVISION): Lt.-Col. Suzanne Bailey, Maj.
Bergeron, Maj. Nicolas Bertrand, Officer Cadet Roger Bibaud, Maj. Scott Bland, CPO2
Christopher Blonde, Brig.-Gen. Jack Briggs II, LCdr. Douglas Campbell, CWO Gorden
Cavanagh, Col. Kenneth Chadder, Maj. Derek Chenette, Lt.-Col. Marcel Chevarie, Cdr. Jeffrey
Climenhaga, Col. Grant Dame, Col. Peter Dawe, Capt. Gregory Dixon, Maj. Bryan Dockter, Lt.-
Col. Guy Doiron, Capt. (N) Haydn Edmundson, Capt. Islam Elkorazati, Honorary Col. Dennis
Erker, Col. Philip Garbutt, CWO Daphne Germain, Col. Michael Gibson, CWO Stuart Hartnell,
Brig.-Gen. Craig Hilton, LCdr.
Christopher Holland, Col. Derek Joyce, WO Allan Kendall, PO1 Jeffery Kenney, Lt.-Col. Guy
Leblanc, Maj. Yannick Lemieux, Cpl. Clinton Lewis, Lt. (N) David Lewis, Col. Norman
Litterini, Maj. Jay MacKeen, WO Michael Mar, Capt. Aaron Noble, Lt.-Col. James Ostler, Capt.
(N) Rebecca Patterson, Cdr. Bradley Peats, Capt. Trevor Pellerin, Col. Alain Pelletier, Lt.-Col.
Paul Pickell, Lt.-Col. Jean Riffou, Lt.-Col. David Ross, CPO2 Daniel Rowe, CWO Christopher
Rusk, Maj. Carol Sawatzky, Sgt. Jessie Scheller, CPO1 Alistair Skinner, CWO Anthony Slack,
MWO Gregory Smit, Col. Gregory Smith, Capt. Shane Smith, CPO1 Robert Spinelli, Maj. Kerry
St. George, MWO Allan Upshall, Capt. (N) Douglas Young
Order of Military Merit
A military honour for exceptional leadership, service and performance of duty.
COMMANDERS Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh ( Extraordinary appointment) Maj.-Gen.
Stephen Bowes, Maj.-Gen. Richard Foster, Rear Admiral David Gardam, Maj.-Gen. David
Millar, Lt.-Gen. Jonathan Vance, Maj.-Gen. Paul Wynnyk
OFFICERS Col. David Anderson, Cmdre. Bob Auchterlonie, Col. Scott Clancy, Col. Howard
Coombs, Maj. Charles Côté, Col. Robert Delaney, Brig.-Gen. Christian Drouin, Col. Bruce
Ewing, Col. Sean Friday, Lt.-Col. Kelly Gash, Col. Simon Hetherington, Lt.-Col. Lyle Johnson,
Col. Vihar Joshi, Brig.-Gen. Stephane Lafaut, Brig.-Gen. Karl McQuillan, Cdr. Patrick
Montgomery, Brig.-Gen. Matthew Overton, Lt.-Col. Louis Rémillard, Col. Michael Rouleau,
Col. James Taylor, Brig.-Gen. Carl Turenne, Col. Steven Whelan
MEMBERS CPO1 Pierre Auger, CWO Anthony Batty, CWO Richard Beauchamp, MWO Rock
Boucher, MWO Ronda Bowman, MWO Raymond Brodeur, CPO2 Darcy Burd, MWO Alain
Caron, Maj. Christopher Catry, CWO Gorden Cavanagh, Sgt. Michel Charette, MWO Troy
Chiasson, MWO Robin Crane, CWO Gary Crosby, CPO1 Thomas Curley, MWO Mark
Cushman, WO Michel D'Astous, CPO1 Keith Davidson, MWO Deschênes, CWO Kevin
Donovan, CPO2 Gerard Doucet, WO Éric Drouin, PO1 Dale Durand, Maj. Terrance Evoy,
MWO Chantal Gagnon, CWO Terry Garand, CWO Catherine Gaudet, Capt. John Graham, Capt.
Theresa Green, PO1 Martin Harrison, MWO James Hebert, MWO Éric Henry, CWO William
Hinchey, WO John Hryniw, MWO Michael Jackson, CWO Carol Jalbert, MWO Christopher

Kane, Ranger (Sgt.) William Kataquapit, WO Suzanne Kavanagh, CWO Michel Kelly, CPO1
Derek Kitching, CWO Carl Kletke, CWO Jean Lafond, MWO Steve Laforge, WO Jacques
Lamarch, CWO Walter Laughlin, PO1 Line Laurendeau, Capt. Yves Lesieur, MWO Michael
Lever, CPO2 Lawrence Lyver, CWO Joseph MacInnis, CWO Peter Manuge, WO Brent
McDonald, CWO Raymond McEachern, Lt. (N) Murray McKnight, CPO1 Michael Miller,
MWO Keith Mitchell, CPO2 Alena Mondelli, MWO Leonard Murphy, WO Erica Oliver, MWO
Daniel Parenteau, MWO Robert Patten, MWO Daniel Paulhus, WO Melinda Pearson, Maj.
Mario Pelletier, WO Guylaine Plamondon, Maj. Sylvain Rhéaume, MWO Scott Robinson, CWO
Clarence Rose, MWO Glenn Rowlandson, Maj. René Roy, CWO Senecal, WO Gerald Shaw,
Maj. Ryan Smid, MWO James Smith, MWO Matthew Taylor, MWO Michael Thompson, WO
Derek Thompson, CWO Louise Toussaint-Langois, MWO Wayne Trainor, CWO Stéfan
Tremblay, Sgt. Lori Veitch, CPO1 Michel Vigeault, CWO Wheeler, Sgt. Timothy Woznow
Order of Merit of the Police Forces
For merit and exceptional service by members of the police force
COMMANDERS Commissioner Christopher D. Lewis, OPP; Chief Clive L. Weighill,
Saskatoon Police Service, Sask.
OFFICERS Chief Keith J. Atkinson, Brandon Police Service, Man.; Deputy Commissioner Craig
J. Callens, RCMP, Vancouver; Chief Paul Douglas Cook, North Bay Police Service, Ont.;
Assistant Director Didier Deramond, Service de police de la ville de Montréal; Chief Bradley S.
Duncan, London Police Service, Ont.; Chief Jennifer Evans, Peel Regional Police Service,
Brampton, Ont.; Inspector Michel Forget, Sûreté du Québec, Montreal; Anna Gray-Henschel,
RCMP, Ottawa; Chief Rick Hanson, Calgary Police Service; Director Mario Harel, Service de le police de la ville de Gatineau, Que.; Deputy Commissioner Peter Henschel, RCMP, Ottawa;
Chief Rod R. Knecht, Edmonton Police Service; Assistant Commissioner Roman Nick Lipinski,
RCMP, Surrey, B.C.; Sgt. Charles Momy, Ottawa Police Service; Deputy Chief William Francis
Moore, Halifax Regional Police Service; Director Shelagh Elizabeth Morris, Guelph Police
Service, Ont.; Director Marc Parent, Service de police de la ville de Montréal; Chief Daniel
Colin Parkinson, Cornwall Community Police Service, Ont.; Chief Constable Robert A. Rich,
Abbotsford Police Department, B.C.; Deputy Director General Marcel Savard, Sûreté du
Québec, Montreal; Supt. Donald J.J. Spicer, Halifax Regional Police Service; Deputy
Commissioner William Scott Tod, OPP; Staff Supt. Jane Wilcox, Toronto Police Service
MEMBERS Supt. Brian Adams, Peel Regional Police Service; Assistant Commissioner Janice
Rose Armstrong, RCMP, Ottawa; Constable Michael Arruda, Service de police de la ville de
Montréal; Sharon Baiden, Greater Sudbury Police Service, Ont.; Chief Supt. Ricky W. Barnum,
OPP; Assistant Commissioner Randall J. Beck, RCMP, Vancouver; Chief Supt. Donald William
Bell, OPP, Aurora; Sgt. Colin Evan Lamont Brown, Victoria Police Department; Chief Supt.
Brian Cantera, RCMP , Surrey, B.C.; Deputy Chief Thomas W.B. Carrique, York Regional
Police Service, Newmarket, Ont.; Supt. James William Carroll, Royal Newfoundland
Constabulary, St. John's; Sgt. Michael Chicorelli, Victoria Police Department; Inspector Brian F.
Cookman, Kingston Police Service, Ont.; Sgt. George A. Couchie, OPP, Orillia; Supt. Susanne
DeCock, OPP; Assistant Commissioner François Deschênes, RCMP , Westmount, Que.; Chief
John C. Domm, Rama Police Service, Ont.; Sgt. Charles Dubois, Service de police de la ville de
Montréal; Staff Sergeant Cameron E.Durham, Toronto Police Service; Supt. Selwyn John

Fernandes, Toronto Police Service; Inspector Gerard E. Francois, Calgary Police Service; Staff
Sergeant Pierre Gauthier, Ottawa Police Service; Supt. Ronald ``Thomas'' Girling, OPP; Chief
Supt. James R.D. Gresham, RCMP, Surrey, B.C.; Agent Evens Guercy, Service de police de la ville de Montréal; Chief John Peter Hagarty, City of Kawartha Lakes Police Service, Lindsay,
Ont.; Chief Constable Paul Hames, Central Saanich Police Service, Saanichton, B.C.; Sgt. Mike
(Michael) Hunter, North Bay Police Service, Ont.; Detective Sergeant Leonard Gordon Isnor,
OPP; Chief Constable Dave Jones, New Westminster Police Service, B.C.; François Landry,
Service de police de la ville de Montréal; Deputy Commissioner Douglas Lang, RCMP, Ottawa;
Inspector William James Law, Canadian Pacific Police Service, Toronto; Inspector Michael W.
Leighton, RCMP, Halifax; Sergeant Marc Lépine, Sûreté du Québec, Montreal; Chief Constable
Peter A. Lepine, West Vancouver Police Department, B.C.; Chief Supt. Brenda M. Lucki,
RCMP, Thompson, Man.; Supt. Kenneth MacDonald, OPP, Aurora; Assistant Commissioner
Craig Steven MacMillan, RCMP, Ottawa; Inspector Dan Markiewich, Greater Sudbury Police
Service, Ont.; Inspector Steven James Martin, RCMP, Stoney Creek, Ont.; Deputy Chief Robert
D. Morin, Regina Police Service; Inspector Glen L. Motz, Medicine Hat Police Service, Alta;
Assistant Commissioner Joseph Oliver, RCMP, Ottawa; Deputy Chief Robert Percy, Halton
Regional Police Service, Oakville, Ont.; Inspector Adua Porteous, Vancouver Police
Department; Supt. Paul Richards, RCMP, Vancouver; Inspector Lise Roussel, RCMP ,
Fredericton; Chief Alfred Rudd, Taber Police Service, Alta.; Cpl. L. Wayne Russett, RCMP,
Ottawa; Assistant Commissioner Marianne C. Ryan, RCMP, Edmonton; Inspector Allan
Godfrey Sauve, Canadian Pacific Police Service, Alta.; Supt. Michael P. Shea, Hamilton Police
Service, Ont.; Provincial Commander Mary Silverthorn, OPP; Supt. Eric Kenneth Slinn, RCMP,
Ottawa; Staff Sergeant Brian Snyder, Cornwall Community Police Service, Ont.; Chief William
B. Sornberger, Owen Sound Police Service, Ont.; Inspector Robert Arthur Stewart, Vancouver
Police Department; Deputy Chief Stephen Streeter, Peterborough Lakefield Community Police
Service, Ont.; Chaplain James E. Turner, RCMP, Vancouver; Detective Sergeant Benoit
Vigeant, Service de police de la ville de Montréal; Supt. Christopher Mark Wyatt, OPP; Akira
Brian Yamashita, RCMP, Ottawa.
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Section: News
Outlet: The Province
Illustrations:
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/ Jason Payne
Headline: Our Photographers' favourite images of the year
Page: A10
Date: Tuesday 31 December 2013
Source: The Province
Cruising at 10,000-feet above Delta farmland, members of the Canadian Forces SkyHawks parachute demonstration team jump from a RCAF C130J aircraft for their appearance at the
Boundary Bay Airshow in July. It was a fairly odd experience for me to be allowed to walk towards the open rear door of the aircraft, camera in hand, while tethered by a monkey tail. The roar of the engines and the buffeting wind, along with wildly diverse lighting conditions, made this a challenging yet unique shoot. Would I do it again? Absolutely.
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Section: News
Byline: Laura Kane Toronto Star
Outlet: Toronto Star
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Adam Jastrzebski said that as his rescuer wrapped a harness around him and pulled him onto the chopper, he could feel only shock. Dave Chidley for the Toronto star
Headline: Crane operator relives harrowing moments before fire rescue; London man suffered second-degree burns to nearly half his body
Page: A8
Date: Tuesday 31 December 2013
It was like a miracle: a stranded worker, clinging to a 43-metre-high crane as flames leapt from a burning building below, was scooped up by a helicopter crew and flown to safety.
But two weeks after the massive Kingston blaze, the crane operator is still in hospital, recovering slowly from second-degree burns that cover nearly half his body.
"I'm in pain all the time," said Adam Jastrzebski, 68, speaking from his bed in Victoria Hospital in London, Ont., on Monday.
"Whatever I do, everything is painful ... I didn't feel like I have a Christmastime. Because I'm in pain, nothing can make me happy."
Jastrzebski, a Polish immigrant, suffered burns to his back, leg, buttocks and right hand. He is on painkillers that are wreaking havoc on his digestive system, causing him crippling stomach pain.
He recalled the day of the fire, Dec. 17, as one of the worst of his life. He said the blaze broke out on the top floor of the five-storey wood apartment building under construction on Princess
St.
It was about 2:20 p.m., so most other workers were out for lunch while he was on the crane. In a split second, the air filled with flames and heavy smoke, so he didn't think he could climb down.
"There was no chance to go down because I would be choked by the smoke," said Jastrzebski, who has more than 40 years' experience as a crane operator.
"I realized there was only one way. If I go any other way, I will die."
He was able to turn the crane east, away from the flames, and shut it down. Shaking, he began to climb along the 65-metre boom without a safety harness, as the heat of the blaze burned into his right hand and buttocks.
He kept scrambling all the way to the edge of the boom, where he lay down and called 911 from his cellphone. An operator assured him a helicopter was on its way, he said.
Jastrzebski spent about 40 minutes lying on the boom, shivering in the -20C cold and wind. One side of his body was freezing while the side closer to the blaze burned, he said.

"For me, it was like hours. Time was so slow," he said, adding the situation was "scary" but he didn't think he would die.
"I still hoped. I had hope they can come and rescue me."
When a Griffon helicopter from CFB Trenton swooped in and a rescuer lowered himself,
Jastrzebski could hear the dozens of onlookers below applauding and "screaming, happy," he said.
But as Sgt. Cory Cisyk wrapped a harness around his chest and pulled him onto the chopper,
Jastrzebski couldn't feel anything other than shock.
"I was shaking. I was just, like, paralyzed," he said, adding he doesn't remember much from inside the helicopter. Crew members spoke to him and offered him oxygen to help his breathing, he said.
When they arrived at Kingston General Hospital, he expected to be able to walk from the chopper to the front doors. It was only then that he realized how badly he had been burned,
Jastrzebski said.
He was released from Kingston General later that week and moved to the hospital in London,
Ont., where he lives. He has two adult sons who visit him regularly, and a daughter who is out of the country.
Doctors have not told him when he will be able to leave to recover at home, but he sees a long road ahead.
Every morning, he takes a long bath and nurses clean his wounds. His dressing is changed twice a day. For now, he has declined skin grafts due to concerns about the surgery.
"It's not healing (like doctors expected). It's going to be very slow. I just think of staying alive, day by day."
Ontario's Fire Marshal's office, Kingston police and the Ministry of Labour are investigating the blaze. No official cause has been released.
Asked whether he will ever operate a crane again, Jastrzebski said he's not sure. One thing he hopes to do again is dance - the spry 68-year-old picked up merengue dancing during a trip to
Costa Rica many years ago and has remained devoted to it.
"It was my life. I love dancing. I have to go back to that," he said.
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