11-11-2025 10:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca

In the news today: 3,691 Canadian WWII vets alive 80 years on

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed...
As Remembrance Day marks 80 years since WWII, fewer surviving veterans remain
Eighty years after the end of the deadliest conflict in history, the number of living Second World War veterans has dwindled to a few thousand. The Department of Veterans Affairs estimates that as of this year, there are fewer than 3,700 surviving Canadian veterans from the war, a figure that Ottawa had previously lumped in with K
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