- Nov 11, 2018
- 2 min
UNKNOWN
Over the years I learned fairly little about my grandfathers' experience of war. He never spoke a word, at least to me, about WWII. I...
- Jul 10, 2017
- 5 min
OK
This Omar Khadr case is far more interesting than the banter in your local or national paper, on the evening news or on Twitter. What I...
- Jun 6, 2017
- 2 min
LEGACY
On this day in 1944, D-Day, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division and 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade landed on Juno Beach in Nazi-occupied...
- Apr 15, 2017
- 4 min
A RIDGE CALLED VIMY
Today is the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. All week CBC has been flush with related articles, reports, videos, and...
- Nov 9, 2013
- 4 min
FORGOTTEN
If you know me then you know that I hate Remembrance Week (as it is currently constructed and observed.) This here is my annual...
- Nov 11, 2012
- 7 min
LEST WE REMEMBER
Some say that Remembrance Day is a time when we get to celebrate our freedom, a freedom hard-won by the brave veterans who fought and...
- Dec 9, 2011
- 5 min
REMEMBERING MASSEY or FILMS NOT BOMBS
The findings of Canada’s Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences (or “the Massey Report”, if you...