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Legion program helps vets Re: " Flexible spending needed : Vets," Aug. 15. In reply to and to coincide with the article Flexible Spending Needed : Vets. published August 15th 2017 . I wish to inform the readers that Ontario Command of the Royal Canadian Legion has been helping and housing homeless veterans since 2009. To date, and with the help of our branches, Ladies Auxiliaries amd some outside organizations, Ontario Command has spent in excess of $1.55 million in their outreach program "Leave the streets behind". This program combined with the " Joe Sweeney Fund " and the hard work of many dedicated volunteers has assisted over 517 veterans, in 117 communities across the province. We have housed 290 veterans and assisted with first and last month's rent, utilities, food vouchers, apartment start up items, bus tickets, dental needs and more. We do not just get them a place to live and hope they make it, we monitor progress and all that show any in...

One day in August, 2016, the financier Carl Icahn made an urgent phone call to the Environmental Protection Agency . Icahn is one of the richest men on Wall Street, and he has thrived, in no small measure, because of a capacity to intimidate. A Texas- based oil refiner in which he had a major stake was losing money because of an obscure environmental rule that Icahn regarded as unduly onerous. Icahn is a voluble critic of any government regulation that constrains his companies. So he wanted to speak with the person in charge of enforcing the policy: a senior official at the E.P.A. named Janet McCabe . Icahn works from a suite of offices, atop the General Motors Building , in midtown, that are decorated in the oak-and-leather fashion of a tycoon’s lair in a nineteen-eighties film. During that decade, Icahn made his reputation as one of the original corporate raiders , pioneering the art of the hostile takeover and establishing himself as a human juggernaut—a pugnacious deal machine ...