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LeDaro: Aboriginal children used for nutritional experiments – during and...

These kinds of stories are troubling. It gives one a bad feeling about our history and damages the pride of being Canadian. Such experiments were done after World War II.

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LeDaro: Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima: Japan marks 68th anniversary

Are the wars worth fighting? We should have learned from World War II. Millions of people were killed. The atomic bombing of Hiroshima by the U.S. was one of the frightening consequences of this war....

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Alberta Diary: Enough petulant propaganda, please: the hammer of D-Day...

D-Day on Juno Beach: Canadians trudge ashore under a strange colorized sky. Below: The distinguished Canadian military historian, the late Reginald H. Roy. It’s been 70 years today since our...

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Alberta Diary: On the centenary of Gavrilo Princip’s fateful shot in...

Gavrilo Princip under arrest. Below: Princip and the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Today is the centenary of the day Gavrilo Princip took his little Belgian pistol to Sarajevo and blew the heir presumptive...

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Alberta Diary: Why Denmark fears militarization of Arctic islands means...

If we just listened to Stephen Harper and the BBC, what a wonderful world this would be! Below: Catherine the Great, USAF Gen. Philip Breedlove. Last Wednesday, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported...

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Alberta Diary: Six things we all need to think about when Canadians volunteer...

The Kurds: They should have had a country of their own, but since they don’t, and since Canada is allied by treaty to one of their principal enemies, letting Canadians join their fight isn’t a simple...

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Alberta Politics: The effort to engineer regime change in Greece could lead...

PHOTOS: Leaders of the Greek military government of 1967 to 1974. Is something similar waiting in the wings if the eurozone leadership’s effort to terrorize the Greeks into voting Yes to never-ending...

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Alberta Politics: In Flanders Fields? It’s time to encourage another...

PHOTOS: In Flanders Fields? The reality of the Great war’s battlefields: squalor, incompetence, mechanized industrial death. Below: John McCrae, and a Great War poet still worth reading, Wilfred Owen....

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Alberta Politics: Victory Day in Moscow: some thoughts about the wisdom of...

PHOTOS: A scene for last year’s May 9 Victory Day Parade in Moscow. The red banner visible in the centre is one of the Soviet victory flags hoisted over the Reichstag in Berlin in May 1945. Below: My...

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Alberta Politics: A timely reminder on this historic day: The hammer of D-Day...

PHOTOS: Canadians soldiers storm ashore at Juno Beach on June 6, 1944, 72 years ago today. Below: The late University of Victoria Professor Reginald H. Roy, author of 1944: The Canadians in Normandy....

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Alberta Politics: Chrystia Freeland should not be punished for her...

PHOTOS: Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland during her visit to Edmonton in the midst of the 2015 federal election. Below: Former Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion and Prime Minister Justin...

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Alberta Politics: He’s no bot, but Russia’s social media and press guy in...

PHOTOS: Kirill Kalinin, Press Secretary of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Ottawa, in a reception room of the Soviet-era structure on Charlotte Street.

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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Quote of the Day – Do I have to do teshuvah?

Barbara Coloroso has done exemplary work in writing “Extraordinary Evil – A Brief History of Genocide”.   Second time around on this book, now going low

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Alberta Politics: Jason Kenney fiddles (with climate policy) while Alberta burns

It is an irony, though not a particularly satisfying one to observe, that while Premier Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party Government moves swiftly to repeal Alberta’s carbon tax, the province is...

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Alberta Politics: A timely reminder on this historic day: The hammer of D-Day...

FREDERICTON, N.B. – It’s now been 75 years since our magnificent Canadian soldiers went ashore at Juno Beach in Normandy to play their part the grim and deadly task of sweeping Hitler and his odious...

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Dead Wild Roses: Dunkirk from German Perspective

Along the lines of the History Oversimplified, a more in depth view of one of the important battles during the early stages of World War II.

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Alberta Politics: Despite COVID-19, 15,000 people join Fight for Equity rally...

A mostly youthful throng estimated at more than 15,000 people braved the coronavirus pandemic yesterday evening to join the Fight for Equity rally against racism at the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton....

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Alberta Politics: Evidence suggests U.S. conservatives have given up on...

Yesterday was Martinstag in Germany. I suppose if you think about it, it’s St. Martin’s Day here in Canada, too. Armistice Day 1918, how the end of World War I was told to Canadians. The occasion is...

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Alberta Politics: If you don’t know basic facts about who was fighting whom...

If the embarrassing events in Canada’s House of Commons last Friday after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s address to MPs and Senators illustrate anything, it ought to be the value of teaching...

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THE FIFTH COLUMN: Remembrance Day and Righteous Wars

When I was growing up in the 1950s and 1960s Remembrance Day was a very solemn occasion. There were still a lot of World War II veterans participating and even some from World War I, as well as...

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