Volume 11 • No. 21 • November 1 -15, 2015 Publication Mailing Account #41721512
Janine Gutierrez
In Flanders Fields 100 years ago CANADA – Remembrance Day commemorates the end of the First World War in 1918. In the war’s second year, 100 years ago, a Canadian physician wrote the poem In Flanders Fields, which would almost immediately become synonymous with the sacrifice of soldiers who have died in wars throughout the world. Its imagery of poppies growing on the graves of fallen soldiers is one of the world’s most recognized memorial symbols for soldiers to this day. Major John McCrae from Guelph, Ontario, wrote the poem on May 3, 1915, after the funeral of his friend Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres in the Flanders region of Belgium. McCrae performed the burial service himself, at which time he See FLANDERS p17
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#RememberThem Veterans’ Week November 5 to 11
Trudeaumania 2015
Marion Aunor Live in Winnipeg! December 27, 2015
A Benefit Concert See Ad on p13 for details
13 The Prime Minister-Designate, Justin Trudeau, with his wife, Sophie Grégoire, with two of their three children wave at supporters on the eve of election day (Photo: www.liberal.ca) By Dr. Rey Pagtakhan Historic campaigns, historic results Indeed, Canada’s 42nd election on October 19, 2015 was a marathon campaign that produced historic results: 184 Liberal MPs of the total 338
NOEL CADELINA
Sales, 6th Consecutive SMG Gold Ring Awardee
LITO DABU
Sales, & Leasing Consultant 5th Year SMG Gold Ring Awardee
JOEL SIBAL Service Consultant
ROBERT MISA
Triple Diamond Sales Consultant Award 2014 - Gold Winner
NELSON LANTIN Sales Manager
ROMMEL FAJARDO
Sales Manager
Members of Parliament in the House of Commons – a decisive Liberal majority (54.44 per cent) of the electoral districts or ridings from Newfoundland and Labrador to British Columbia and to the Territories in the North. The Liberal edge comfortably exceeded the 170-seat threshold
MA. LEE HOLGADO JEZREEL “The Jet” Sales Advisor REYES Sales Advisor
for a majority government – a spectacular political comeback that added 150 new seats from the 34 that the Liberals had when the election was called on August 2nd. The Liberal Party was in third-place in the national polls at the start; it emerged in See TRUDEAU p8
ELAINE VERRI
Sales Consultant
JOELAN MENDOZA Collision Repair Advisor