Reading Time: 3 minutes One hundred years ago, a flu pandemic swept across the world, killing tens of millions of people, particularly those in the prime of life
Tag: First World War
Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag
Reading Time: 4 minutes Our perspective in marking Remembrance Day is definitely at odds with views of the day, but that doesn’t mean the sacrifices weren’t worthy
Did the Great War really create a distinct Canadian identity?
Reading Time: 4 minutes It took far more than our efforts during the Great War to nudge Canada out of its subordinate role in the British Empire
Never shirk responsibility for honest, forthright observation
Reading Time: 4 minutes The rules of writing opinion pieces haven’t changed through the generations in the Robinson family
The failure of an American president to compromise
Reading Time: 3 minutes Woodrow Wilson failed to accept the limitations and checks explicit in the American democratic system
Central banks’ overreach risks another recession
Reading Time: 4 minutes We need a decentralized, innovative and transparent banking system driven by free-market principals
Harold Macmillan and the fickleness of history
Reading Time: 4 minutes The onetime British PM’s apparent affable, avuncular nature masked a lethal ruthlessness
The arc of the moral universe will bend toward justice
Reading Time: 3 minutes Amidst acts of nationalism and racism, it can be difficult to see the fundamental goodness of humanity – but it’s there
Was the Armistice of 1918 a triumph or tragedy?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The 1918 Armistice was an enormous historical blunder that led to the greatest tragedy experienced in modern times
‘Countless white crosses’ a century later
Reading Time: 3 minutes The concept of loyalty to king and empire may be incomprehensible to us, but It was part and parcel of who those young soldiers were