Reading Time: 4 minutes Ultimately, though, disagreement surfaced. The trigger was conscription and the division was between Quebec and English Canada
Tag: Second World War
With war on the doorstep, The Singing Cowboy came calling
Reading Time: 3 minutes His tour of the U.K. and Ireland just before the Second World War was a huge success. But prudence meant his entourage came home early to avoid any danger
How Ireland stayed neutral in a world at war
Reading Time: 3 minutes Under the leader ship of Eamon de Valera and with a very small army, virtually no aerial capability and little naval service, Ireland was a sitting duck in the Second World War
Believe it or not: There was once a plan for a Franco-British union
Reading Time: 3 minutes From the failed Franco-British Union during the Second World War to Brexit, some things are just meant to fail
Human spirit has the strength to tear down walls
Reading Time: 3 minutes Many walls remain in the world, including physical ones and those of racism, sexism and economic injustice
You have not nearly seen everything yet
Reading Time: 4 minutes A 96-year-old mother’s invaluable experiences and insights help put today’s calamitous events in perspective
Canada helps preserve memory of Holocaust by buying Hitler’s book
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadians need to be reminded that conflicts and human tragedies sometimes come perilously close to home
Brexit drama has historical echoes
Reading Time: 4 minutes The battle over Brexit isn’t the equivalent of the Second World War, but the outcome is shaping up to be a disaster on its own terms
Heal our own pain and the pain of others, and heal the world
Reading Time: 3 minutes Our efforts to stop crime and violence through aggression and punishment have never worked. Compassion works
Harold Macmillan and the fickleness of history
Reading Time: 4 minutes The onetime British PM’s apparent affable, avuncular nature masked a lethal ruthlessness