Veterans board grants or improves benefits in 9 of 10 cases reviewed

As an Ottawa man who helped the Canadian Armed Forces during its NATO mission in Afghanistan waited for a decision from the Federal Court in a bid to bring his family to safety in Canada from the Taliban’s revenge, he heard distressing news from his sister. She had fled Afghanistan when her husband was shot dead after receiving threatening phone calls from Taliban fighters and was living abroad waiting for a family reunification in Canada, but she had just heard she might be ordered deported to Afghanistan at the end of this week, he said. “She called me crying,” the man told...