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0 PHOTOS: M.CPL. ISSA PARÉ, RIDEAU HALL Governor General Michaëlle Jean presents the Star of Military Valour (inset) to Major William Fletcher (left) and Sergeant Patrick Tower at a ceremony in Ottawa. For only the second time in Canadian military history, the Star of Military Valour...
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0 PHOTO: M.CPL. JILL COOPER, CFSU(O) PHOTO SERVICES General Rick Hillier. Ironic as it may seem, the defence establishment of Canada is actually finding itself in a worse position under the government of Stephen Harper than it was under the prime ministership of Paul Martin. And...
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0 PHOTO: ADAM DAY The first of the Orca-class. They’re wooden-hulled and worm-eaten and they’re finally being retired. Quite possibly the oldest fleet in the Canadian Navy, the Yard Auxiliary General (YAGs)–built between 1954 and 1958–have long been the navy’s dedicated training platform, logging hundreds of...
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0 PHOTOS: P. FRUTIER/ALTIMAGE FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA One of the Mourner figures near the stairs leading up to the monument; inset photos, from top: Walter S. Allward; sculpture models: Peace and Faith; The Sympathy of Canadians for the Helpless; Justice and Honour. Sculpture is...
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1 Photo: Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary Top: Shoulder-to-Shoulder Paintings by Beverley Tosh celebrate the lives of war brides. Bottom from left One-Way Passage, the portraits Kay and Nina. Bev Tosh captures the essence of what it is to be a war bride in 75 portraits on...
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0 ILLUSTRATION: ELENA PANKOVA; PHOTO: NATALIE SALAT The Sprott Centre uses a range of high-tech lab equipment (inset). The fact that Jennifer Molson can now motor around Ottawa in a stick-shift car is something of a wonder–not because it’s a complex task, but because Molson was...
Archive for May, 2007
