{
  "id": 17609231,
  "title": "In wake of Wainwright tragedy, this year's Silver Cross Mother has a message for grieving families",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/01/in-wake-of-wainwright-tragedy-this-years-silver-cross-mother-has-a-17609231",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-01T11:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CBC News",
    "slug": "cbc-news",
    "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/silver-cross-mother-2026-9.7402837"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Virginia Hicks is this year's national Silver Cross Mother, an annual tradition by the Royal Canadian Legion recognizing the mother of a fallen Canadian Armed Forces member each Remembrance Day. Every year she visits CFB Petawawa in northern Ontario, where her daughter Sapper Mariebeth Short was killed during a training exercise in 2002.",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}