HMCS Sackville, the last-surviving Flower-class corvette of the Second World War, will soon be recommissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy, a symbolic gesture in recognition
Retired master warrant officer William MacDonald remembers the Afghan heat and dust that enveloped his platoon on Aug. 3, 2006. Above all else, he recalls
“Beam me up, Scotty.” Those famous words are associated with Star Trek actor James Doohan—words, it must be noted, never once uttered (or at least
Street by street, house by house, canal by canal, the Canadians clawed a foothold into the Dutch city of Groningen. It was April 15,
It’s a name that resonates—at least in Canada—like few others: Ortona. An idyllic Italian town it may now be, but in December 1943, it was
General Jennie Carignan has an idea of how she went from aspiring dancer to military recruit to Canada’s defence chief. “In a nutshell, I would
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