Remembering war: “Its glory is all moonshine.”
Every year as Remembrance Day approaches, memories surface of my childhood growing up in the shadow of war. One memory stands out. It’s Christmas eve
Richard Foot
November 4, 2026
Every year as Remembrance Day approaches, memories surface of my childhood growing up in the shadow of war. One memory stands out. It’s Christmas eve
It took five years of hard sacrifice for Canada and the Allies to defeat the Nazi regime. Yet somehow, it took more 70 years
They served bravely in the Second World War on secret flying missions deep inside Nazi-occupied Europe. Thousands perished. Others made it home safely to Britain
The prime minister’s words, delivered in a televised address on Oct. 16, 1970, were chilling: “The governments of Canada and of Quebec have been told
Canada recently lost two beacons of moral conscience. Judy Weissenberg Cohen and Rose Lipszyc, survivors of the Holocaust, died last month in Toronto. Both were
The names spill forth from Yann Castelnot’s seemingly endless list, like a rollcall of courage. Alongside those listed are their Indigenous nations—Mi’kmaq, Mohawk (Kanyen’kehà:ka) and
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An informative primer on Canada’s crucial role in the Normandy landing, June 6, 1944.