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Vikings’ genetic diversity greater than present-day Scandinavia: study

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Nazi treasure: The ever-elusive myth

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Unarmed, unequipped and untrained: Citizen spies outwit occupying armies

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Misery, optimism and homesickness: WW II Christmas letters
Misery, optimism and homesickness: WW II Christmas letters
Even at the best of times, Christmas can be a confusing, bittersweet...
War Santa and the Ukrainian wish list
War Santa and the Ukrainian wish list
Working out of his home in Texas, a former United States Air...
Civilian death toll, Russian war crimes soar in Ukraine
Civilian death toll, Russian war crimes soar in Ukraine
The verified civilian death toll after more than nine months of war...
Last gasp: The war horse in WW II
Last gasp: The war horse in WW II
Izbushensky is a hamlet in the west Russian oblast of Volgograd, roughly...
Exhibition chronicles the last, not-so-glorious days of the war horse
Exhibition chronicles the last, not-so-glorious days of the war horse
It’s unlikely that artist Alfred Munnings grasped the full significance his work...
Sunken warship sows 80 years of environmental damage
Sunken warship sows 80 years of environmental damage
Shortly before 4 p.m. on Feb. 12, 1942, Royal Air Force planes...

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On this date : February 2023
On this date : February 2023
1 February 1944 A Canadian corps operates on the front line, in Italy,...
Financial assistance for pre-independence Commonwealth veterans
Financial assistance for pre-independence Commonwealth veterans
A recent Statistics Canada report indicates the incomes of seniors aren’t rising...
Why Canada’s military matters
Why Canada’s military matters
As Canadians prepared for Thanksgiving this past fall, the Chief of the Defence...
The Buffalo’s last run
The Buffalo’s last run
A venerable search-and-rescue plane, the de Havilland CC-115 retired from service one...
Promises, Promises
Promises, Promises
We’re here to defend our way of life, now and into the...
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Military ombudsman slams lack of action on reservists, Rangers
The Canadian Armed Forces Ombudsman has criticized the military for failing to...

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On this date : February 2023
On this date : February 2023
1 February 1944 A Canadian corps operates on the front line, in Italy, for the first time since the Great War. 2 February 1915 A German spy...
Military History
<i>Port Arthur</i> earns its U-boat bounty
Port Arthur earns its U-boat bounty
The citizens of Port Arthur, Ont., (now part of Thunder Bay) even offered $1,000 in prize money if the ship named for their town destroyed...
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The Switch
The Switch
Canada’s military and armed forces around the world are taking steps to fight climate change by reducing their emissions It is, as the old saying...
Military History
The Canadian who was the real life James Bond
The Canadian who was the real life James Bond
He was a decorated First World War air ace, a business titan and a spymaster who set up the British espionage system in the Americas,...
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The Buffalo’s last run
The Buffalo’s last run
A venerable search-and-rescue plane, the de Havilland CC-115 retired from service one year ago
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Canada’s attempt to become the ultimate Arctic warrior
Canada’s attempt to become the ultimate Arctic warrior
“Generals January and February mount guard for the Canadian people all year round,” historian Charles P. Snow opined in 1940, to general agreement and relief....
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Exclusive excerpt: Robert Amos on the war art of E.J. Hughes
Exclusive excerpt: Robert Amos on the war art of E.J. Hughes
E.J. Hughes attended the Vancouver School of Art from 1929-1935, and was recognized as the most talented artist of his generation on the West Coast....
Military History
Love bombing: the story of the last woman executed in Canada
Love bombing: the story of the last woman executed in Canada
Marguerite Pitre became a footnote in history on Jan. 9, 1953, when she was the thirteenth—and last—woman executed in Canada. She might well have faded...
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The Night Fighter : How Gordon Learmouth (Raffy) Raphael became a decorated after-dark pilot
The Night Fighter : How Gordon Learmouth (Raffy) Raphael became a decorated after-dark pilot
They called him “Raffy.” He was one of some 1,800 Canadians and about 100 Newfoundlanders who enlisted directly in the Royal Air Force before the...
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A league of her own
A league of her own
Exploring the work of war artist, Molly Lamb Bobak   During the Second World War, the Canadian government officially appointed 32 war artists—but only one...

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Military ombudsman slams lack of action on reservists, Rangers
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RCAF establishes new space division
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A lifetime of service
The Way home
The Way home
Mint’s 2022 Remembrance Day coin reminiscent of Flanders Fields
Mint’s 2022 Remembrance Day coin reminiscent of Flanders Fields
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A league of her own
A league of her own
Exploring the work of war artist, Molly Lamb Bobak   During the Second World War, the Canadian government officially appointed 32 war artists—but only one...
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The Upper Canada Rebellion
The Upper Canada Rebellion
William Lyon Mackenzie was a short, combustible, red-haired Scottish immigrant who coined the term “Family Compact.” He used it to describe the small network of wealthy...
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The namesake navy
The namesake navy
How Verdun, Que., formed a special bond with its own warship As part of Canada Day celebrations marking the country’s 150th anniversary in 2017, several...
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The summit series
The summit series
On Sept. 2, 1972, I was a teenager spending the weekend at a friend’s cottage. They had a television there. My pal and I were...
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RIGHTS FIGHT
RIGHTS FIGHT
As the Second World War wound down, Ottawa assumed wartime working women would return to homemaking—the women had other ideas “Whether I marry or not,...
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The Acadian expulsion
The Acadian expulsion
At least 10,000 Acadians were forcibly displaced In the century after it was established in 1604, the eastern North American colony of Acadia changed hands...
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Memoria Viva
Memoria Viva
Reflections on the internment of Italian Canadians during the Second World War In the Piazza Dante across from Ottawa’s St. Anthony of Padua Church, where...
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The Winnipeg General Strike
The Winnipeg General Strike
The largest strike in Canadian history started with metal and building workers seeking better wages and working conditions. Labourers had been pushing for similar changes...

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Sand traps: Dusty air leaving a bad taste in military lungs
Sand traps: Dusty air leaving a bad taste in military lungs
The world is getting dustier and grittier thanks to global warming.  As...
Time for change
Time for change
There may be no better moment than now to address sexual misconduct...
Facing pandemic gloom
Facing pandemic gloom
The pandemic has delivered a wallop to the mental health of Canadian...
Bracing for impact
Bracing for impact
Military careers are hard on the body, particularly the joints.  Personnel regularly lift...
Medical care in the wars of the future
Medical care in the wars of the future
The challenges of battlefield medicine are about to change for Western allied nations, now...
Study shows impact of pandemic restrictions on long-term care homes
Study shows impact of pandemic restrictions on long-term care homes
An ongoing study in Ontario is shedding light on how COVID-19 restrictions...
The pandemic’s toll on veterans
The pandemic’s toll on veterans
Loneliness, isolation and interruptions in health-care services due to the COVID-19 pandemic...
CIMVHR forum highlights hidden health research possibilities
CIMVHR forum highlights hidden health research possibilities
An explosion of knowledge has occurred since the Canadian Institute for Military...

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Financial assistance for pre-independence Commonwealth veterans
A recent Statistics Canada report indicates the incomes of seniors aren’t rising as quickly as for those under 65. And...
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Promises, Promises
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Military ombudsman slams lack of action on reservists, Rangers
Life of Service
Life of Service
RCAF establishes new space division
RCAF establishes new space division
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Port Arthur earns its U-boat bounty
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The Way home
Naming the dead
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