Legion news

Oct 20, 2025

The Royal Canadian Legion presented the First Poppy of the 2025 National Poppy Campaign today, to Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada. The Legion’s Dominion President, Berkley Lawrence, pinned her Poppy during the traditional event at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.

Aug 20, 2025

Intermittent rain and heat did not deter the hundreds of young competitors who displayed athletic prowess recently at The Royal Canadian Legion’s National Youth Track and Field Championships in Calgary from August 8-10. Records were broken as participants achieved personal bests, honed their athletic skills, and made new connections.

Aug 8, 2025

Over one thousand athletes from across Canada have descended upon Calgary for this year’s edition of the Legion National Youth Track and Field Championships. The Games are now officially underway at Foothills Athletic Park.

May 28, 2025

The Royal Canadian Legion shared the history of how Canada’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier came to be, during a special Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) event in Ottawa this morning.

Mar 11, 2025

Canada’s Veterans are at the core of everything the The Royal Canadian Legion’s 270,000 members do, whether providing direct assistance, or running a local branch. From organizing the country’s National Remembrance Day Ceremony at a national level, to holding a peer support program at a local level, everything the Legion embarks upon leads to one overarching effort: supporting and remembering Canada’s Veterans and their families – military or RCMP.

Dec 6, 2024

The Royal Canadian Legion has long been advocating for government-led national training standards for service dogs—amazing animals that provide a lifeline for Canadian Armed Forces and Royal Canadian Mounted Police veterans living with operational stress injuries such as post traumatic stress disorder, or physical injury.

Nov 27, 2024

The Royal Canadian Legion and the Calgary Grey Cup Committee (CGGC) once again joined forces during the 111th Grey Cup Festival to honour Canada’s Veterans and celebrate the spirit of Western hospitality. The 2nd Annual Stampede Breakfast and VIP Reception brought together Grey Cup fans, local dignitaries, and Legion members for a day of fun, food, and Remembrance.

Nov 19, 2024

Raphaelle Merlo of Laval University in Quebec is the first ever recipient of a new $50,000 PhD scholarship in Veteran Health Research, offered by The Royal Canadian Legion. She is embarking upon research related to mental health and traumatic events.

Nov 11, 2024

Close to thirty-five thousand people gathered at Canada’s National War Memorial for the National Remembrance Day Ceremony in Ottawa this year. “When we say we will remember them, we mean it,” says Royal Canadian Legion Dominion President Berkley Lawrence. “We will remember their bravery, their sacrifice, and how their selflessness led to our lives of freedom today.”

Nov 6, 2024

Dorsan “Sam” Lambert grew up just outside of Bruges, Belgium, on a small plot of land his family cultivated. He was only 9 years old when the Second World War began, and it was only eight months later Germany would occupy Belgium for the remainder of the war. “It was simply terrifying. I was afraid for 4 years, non-stop,” Sam said. One of the core pillars of The Royal Canadian Legion is supporting the tradition of Remembrance –amplifying the stories of Veterans who have served our country is one way of continuing this tradition.