Jonathan Vance is a professor at the University of Western Ontario who teaches Canadian history and has written extensively about Canada's wartime experience. He said Remembrance Day has been a ...

Students, teachers from 34 high schools across Canada will visit Bergen-op-Zoom Canadian War Cemetery, carry “Torch of Remembrance” in ...

The relentless assault on what it means to be Canadian continued apace this Remembrance Day. Let’s not forget we have a prime minister whose mantra is “Come to Canada and be whatever you want.” ...

Remembrance Day – also known as Armistice Day – takes ... as many of the battlefields in WW1 had poppies growing in them. Canadian doctor, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae wrote a now famous ...

If Prime Minister Mark Carney wins the Canadian federal election, new Attorney General and Minister of Justice Gary Anandasangaree — appointed by Carney on March 14 — will likely remain in the role ...

Canadian patriotism was an equal mixture of quiet pride in some of our institutions (UN peacekeeping, health care, hockey excellence, the RCMP) and a sharp awareness of how we were not American. Then ...

“We commemorate [Genocide Remembrance, Condemnation and Prevention Month] by having a special day for each of the genocides ...

The poppy has a long association with Remembrance Day. But how did the distinctive ... memorial symbol to the fallen was realised by the Canadian surgeon John McCrae in his poem In Flanders ...

The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 561 in Elliot Lake hosted its annual Vimy Ridge memorial at the cenotaph on April 9, the ...