Juergen Knauert, who served with the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps from 1965 to 1970, stepped into the Regina branch of the Royal Canadian Legion, one of the oldest in the country, looking for a place where he could be around fellow veterans.

A truck driver from Brampton, Ont., who was convicted of smuggling $7.5-million worth of drugs into Canada, allegedly fled the country after a court denied a request from the Crown to revoke his bail.