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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un poses for a photo with soldiers of the Seoul Ryu Kyong Su Guards 105th Tank Division of the Korean People's Army. [ KCNA VIA KNS]
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North Korean army mobilizes in Russia-Ukraine war

The ancient Roman military camp was discovered at 2,200 metres in a remote region of the Swiss Alps. Fortified by three ditches and a rampart, it provided panoramic views of the surrounding valleys. [Andrea Badrutt/Chur]
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Team discovers 2,000-year-old Roman Legion camp in Swiss Alps

Fighting the tide: The first Canadian Battle of Hill 355

F Echelon officers of 2nd Battalion, Le Royal 22e Régiment at battalion headquarters, behind Hill 355 in Korea. [Wikimedia]
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Fighting the tide: The first Canadian Battle of Hill 355

Norman Bethune (right) as part of thr Canadian Blood Transfusion Unit which operated during the Spanish Civil War 1936. [Wikimedia]
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In his blood: The life and death of Norman Bethune

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That time they held a Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden
That time they held a Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. –...
Raising hell: Discovering, and recovering, lost warships
Raising hell: Discovering, and recovering, lost warships
“Rise again! Rise again!” Canadian folksinger Stan Rogers declares in his song...
Editorial cartoonist Bob Chambers and Halifax in Wartime
Editorial cartoonist Bob Chambers and Halifax in Wartime
Through two world wars, Halifax was the anonymous “East Coast port” referenced...
Researchers identify remains of Franklin expedition skipper
Researchers identify remains of Franklin expedition skipper
They are the last known communications from the storied Arctic expedition led...
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Stolen Churchill portrait coming home
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100 images of the 2024 Legion National Youth Track and Field Championships: Part 2
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Professor Healy and the partisans
Professor Healy and the partisans
Canadian Captain Dennis Healy, a peacetime university prof, played a pivotal role alongside...
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Blaze of glory?
The 1976 Montreal Olympics was a major assignment for the Canadian Armed...
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The Canadian Samurai
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Fighting the tide: The first Canadian Battle of Hill 355
Fighting the tide: The first Canadian Battle of Hill 355
“No withdrawal. No platoons overrun. No panic.” These were the simple yet assertive instructions of Lieutenant-Colonel Jacques Dextraze, commander of 2nd Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment,...
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Professor Healy and the partisans
Professor Healy and the partisans
Canadian Captain Dennis Healy, a peacetime university prof, played a pivotal role alongside locals in the liberation of the Italian city of Ravenna
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Queen Victoria herself crocheted eight scarves for Boer War veterans—Richard Thompson of The Royal Canadian Regiment was presented one
Military History
The Canadian Samurai
The Canadian Samurai
Great War Sergeant Masumi Mitsui never stopped fighting for right
Military History
In his blood: The life and death of Norman Bethune
In his blood: The life and death of Norman Bethune
The hands of Norman Bethune, a Canadian thoracic surgeon born on March 4, 1890, had been saving lives long before he set foot in Spain...
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A trio of courageous acts of war left unrecognized
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Victoria Cross Trio of Leliefontein: A Boer War Story of Courage
Victoria Cross Trio of Leliefontein: A Boer War Story of Courage
Paardeberg had changed everything. Between Feb. 18 and 27, 1900, one of the most famous clashes of the Boer War resulted in a British Empire...
Home Front
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Bombs away
The wild story of Japanese balloon bombs floated over North America
Military Milestones
When Canada invaded Iceland: ‘Z’ Force and Operation Fork
When Canada invaded Iceland: ‘Z’ Force and Operation Fork
May 10, 1940, was a British day of infamy. In mainland Europe, Hitler’s forces had carried out a blitzkrieg whereby France, Belgium, the Netherlands and...
Military Milestones
The forgotten grave of Canada’s first VC recipient, Alexander Roberts Dunn
The forgotten grave of Canada’s first VC recipient, Alexander Roberts Dunn
Canadian peacekeeper Ben Mitchell was uneasy, and not just about the mines. “Tensions were very high for not only the Eritrea[n] and Ethiopian armies,” he...

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Sharon Adams named 2022 Ross Munro Award recipient
Sharon Adams named 2022 Ross Munro Award recipient
Growing membership and new initiatives
Growing membership and new initiatives
51st Saskatchewan Convention
51st Saskatchewan Convention
Culture change, equal rights and PTSD treatment highlight the 2022 CIMVHR forum
Culture change, equal rights and PTSD treatment highlight the 2022 CIMVHR forum
59th Quebec Convention
59th Quebec Convention
Military ombudsman slams lack of action on reservists, Rangers
Military ombudsman slams lack of action on reservists, Rangers
RCAF establishes new space division
RCAF establishes new space division
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Canada and the Scheldt Campaign: The Necessary Victory
Canada and the Scheldt Campaign: The Necessary Victory
It’s 1944 and, as Allied armies fight their way through France, supply lines are stretched thin. The tools of war must travel from Normandy to...
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The Charlottetown Conference
The Charlottetown Conference
The 1864 Charlottetown Conference was initially designed to discuss a union of the three Maritime provinces. But delegates from the Province of Canada heard about the...
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JA, VI ELSKER DETTE LANDET
When Canada welcomed Norwegian mariners exiled from their homeland by the Nazis, it brought new meaning to the country’s de facto national anthem—“Yes, we love...
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War measures
War measures
The War Measures Act went into law on Aug. 4, 1914, allowing the cabinet to bypass the House of Commons and the Senate and to rule...
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Licence to plunder
Licence to plunder
Privateers played an important role in wars throughout the 18th century
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“Those damn women” – Special web feature
“Those damn women” – Special web feature
Canadian female fighter jet pilots first took to the skies 30-plus years ago—but few have followed in their vapour trails
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Tinker Tailor Soldier CSIS
The spy business is a complex, often dirty, game.

HEALTH

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Finding their voices
Finding their voices
How a travelling exhibit and writing workshop have enabled veterans and military families...
Lured by nature
Lured by nature
How a veterans’ fly-fishing program has embraced the healing power of the great...
Virtual healing
Virtual healing
Recovery for some wounded Afghanistan veterans is simulated
Disheartening data
Disheartening data
Latest survey of military sexual misconduct reveals little change
The dogs of postwar
The dogs of postwar
How mental health service animals help veterans. And a look at the...
It takes a village
It takes a village
The new Legion Veterans Village in Surrey, B.C., is offering unheralded opportunities...
Musical Medicine How music therapy helps heal veterans
Musical Medicine How music therapy helps heal veterans
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How a pilot team-fitness program showed connections between exercise and veteran mental health...

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MILITARY MILESTONES

Fighting the tide: The first Canadian Battle of Hill 355
In his blood: The life and death of Norman Bethune
Victoria Cross Trio of Leliefontein: A Boer War Story of Courage

HUMOUR HUNT

Blaze of glory?
Flag flap
Loony tunes

FACE TO FACE

Should Canadians continue to pay tribute to the Boer War?
Face to face: Did, as Charles Stacey wrote in his official history of the Canadian Army in the Second World War, Canada fail to make the most of its opportunities in the Normandy Campaign?
Should Canada replace its military as the first line of response to domestic disasters?

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REMEMBRANCE

Overlooked
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Remembrance for all

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