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“#Canadians paid the price for British mistakes in Dieppe, says British historian” In his book Operation Jubilee, military historian Patrick Bishop offers a retelling of the raid during the war in 1942 and its cost to Canadian lives The failure of the Second World War raid on Dieppe on Aug. 19, 1942—which saw 3,367 Canadians…
“#Group of Conservative MPs to form a ‘civil liberties’ caucus to speak for anti-vaxxers” Politics Insider for Nov. 5, 2021: A ‘Civil Liberties Caucus’ emerges; more NDP-Liberal deal talks; Anita Anand’s action plan A group of 15 to 30 Conservative MPs and Senators is set to launch a “Civil Liberties Caucus” to advocate for anti-vaxxers…
“#Exclusive: The real story of baby Farhan, the child passed over barbed wire in Afghanistan” Shannon Gormley describes how the baby made it over the wall at the Kabul airport and journeyed to Canada. It is also a tale of how Western democracies revealed the nature of their fight in Afghanistan through their abandonment of…
“#338Canada: Valérie Plante takes the lead in Montreal” Philippe J. Fournier: For the first time since fall 2020, a poll puts Plante ahead of Denis Coderre in the mayoral race, with all the momentum in the campaign’s final day We shall know on Sunday night whether Montreal voters will re-elect incumbent mayor Valérie Plante for…
“#How an RCAF airman’s watch solved a 50-year mystery” The discovery of F.O. William Joseph Kyle’s watch led Veterans Affairs Canada—and his family—to where his plane went down during the Second World War In November 1990, a hunter found a watch while trekking through the jungle in northwest Burma (now Myanmar). It was weathered, as…
“#A physician to his mom: ‘The stress of life under the virus fell disproportionately onto you’” I used to take your hands for granted, Arjun V.K. Sharma writes, but they guided me through the pandemic Sharma with his mother (Photograph by Brendan George Ko) Last winter, when your hands became knotted and inflamed from your…
“#Doug Ford backs down on vaccines for hospital workers; and Trudeau turns inward” Politics Insider for Nov. 4, 2021: Parliament on the back burner; Doug Ford backs down; and Hydro-Québec gets blocked Paul Wells, writing in Maclean’s, notes that Justin Trudeau seems to have lost interest in Marc Garneau, Bardish Chagger, Jim Carr, his caucus and…
“#Manitoba has a new premier, and it’s not Shelly Glover” Politics Insider for Nov. 3, 2021: Heather Stefanson takes over, and her rival refuses to concede; America sends an ambassador Heather Stefanson, Manitoba’s new premier — the first woman to hold the job — was non-committal at her first news conference after being sworn in…
“#’Sealioning’ is the word that sums up why Twitter discussion is so unbearable” This neologism on Merriam-Webster’s list of words to watch aptly describes the frustration of conversing online Over the decades, comics strips have birthed a number of words that became part of common speech. Consider “brainiac,” believed to have its genesis in the…
“#’There is not enough being done to save our children’ from Canada’s opioid crisis” (Photo illustration by Stephen Gregory) The other epidemic In September, Michael Friscolanti covered the opioid overdose crisis in Canada. Thanks to Michael Friscolanti for his outstanding exposé on drug-poisoning deaths in Canada (“Every 49 minutes,” September 2021). This article should outrage…