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Survivors of the SS Athenia reunite to mark 80th anniversary
SS Athenia survivors describe the night their ship was torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1939, the first British ship to be sunk by the Germans in the Second World War.
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The quest to put a face to fallen soldiers' names
Canada lost more than 100,000 soldiers in the First and Second World Wars alone. You can find their names, but what's often missing is their faces.
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WW II letters returned to daughter of soldier
Long-lost letters discovered in an attic from a Canadian soldier during the Second World War have helped a daughter better understand her father, who was never the same after the war.
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Honouring service and sacrifice on Remembrance Day
People across Canada gathered today to honour the service and sacrifice of the men and women in the Canadian Forces on Remembrance Day.
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Grandson of Auschwitz commander uses his family past to combat hate
The grandson of an Auschwitz commander, Rainer Hoess, travels the world to tell his family’s story as part of an effort to combat hate. Hoess came to Toronto to speak at Holocaust Education Week.
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Woman learns names of 3 Canadian soldiers who saved her life during WWII
A photo captures the moment in time that transformed the lives of three Canadian soldiers and a baby girl during the Second World War. The baby was abandoned by her mother, the soldiers found her before being separated by an ocean. Now...
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Trudeau delivers official apology for Canada's role in the MS St. Louis
The Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler tested the limits of Canada's humanity in the lead up to the Second World War and Canada's government failed that test "miserably," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.
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Legendary soldier Roy Rushton to be honoured in Nova Scotia
A veteran of the Second World War and the Korean War, Rushton was also a leader in the effort to get Canada to fully commemorate Korean war veterans. Rushton died this past June at the age of 100.
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Mary Ellis, famed Second World War pilot, dead at age 101
During the war, Ellis joined the air transport auxiliary. But a labour shortage meant she was soon flying Spitfires, Wellingtons and dozens of other warplanes.
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Meet Dunkirk's Canadian hero whom Hollywood forgot
Canadian Cmdr. James Campbell Clouston played a significant role in the evacuation at Dunkirk, but Christopher Nolan's new WW II movie doesn't acknowledge his contribution.
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Dunkirk is unlike any war movie you've ever seen
Christopher Nolan's Second World War film gets 4.5 stars out of 5 from CBC film critic Eli Glasner
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Meet Dunkirk's Canadian hero who Hollywood forgot
Canadian Cmdr. James Campbell Clouston played a significant role in the evacuation at Dunkirk, but Christopher Nolan's new WW II movie doesn't acknowledge his contribution.
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Dunkirk is unlike any war movie you've ever seen
Christopher Nolan's Second World War film gets 4.5 stars out of 5 from CBC film critic Eli Glasner
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Halifax bomber resurrected
A retired pilot is recovering and reconstructing Halifax bombers, workhorse aircraft of the Second World War
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Was recovered WW2-era art re-sold to Nazis?
Explosive new claims suggest German state of Bavaria profited from paintings recovered by U.S. Monuments Men
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Mein Kampf Published Again in Germany
For the first time since the Second World War, Hitler's manifesto "Mein Kampf" has been published in Germany.
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Second World War plane to pay tribute to its former pilot
James McRae, an RCAF veteran and the last surviving WWII recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross, died this year, aged 106. A restored PBY Canso, which he flew during the war, will journey from Fairview, Alta., to Yarmouth, N.S., in...
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These women veterans of the Second World War are finally telling their stories
A documentary filmmaker is recording the stories of women veterans of the Second World War. For many of them, it's their first time in the spotlight as much of the previous attention went to the men.
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B.C. and Ontario expanding Holocaust teaching in schools
Ontario and British Columbia will update their high school curriculum by the 2025 school year in an effort to combat antisemitism. B.C. says it will make it mandatory for Grade 10 students to learn about the Holocaust while Ontario will...
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Putin ridicules former Speaker Anthony Rota
Russian President Vladimir Putin says former House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota is 'an idiot' if he didn't know that a Ukrainian veteran fighting against Russia during the Second World War was fighting alongside Nazi forces. Putin...
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Hunka debacle prompts calls to release records on former Nazis in Canada
Over a week after Yaroslav Hunka was cheered in the House of Commons, Jewish groups are calling for Ottawa to release a decades-old report from the Deschênes Commission containing details about alleged Nazi war criminals living in Canada.
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Yaroslav Hunka and family hiding from political backlash, friend says
The family of Yaroslav Hunka is in hiding in the wake of a political firestorm tied to his service with a Nazi unit in the Second World War, according to a family friend. That same friend says the family didn't know Parliament would...
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How did Ukrainian who fought with Nazis end up in Canada?
Yaroslav Hunka, the Ukrainian man at the centre of the controversy that caused the resignation of the House Speaker, served in a unit of Ukrainian volunteers under the command of the Nazis in the Second World War. Dozens of members of...
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102-year-old WW II pilot catches air one more time for charity
Colin Bell, a 102-year-old veteran who flew Mosquito bombers in the Second World War, abseiled 85 metres down the Royal London Hospital building. The event was for charity and, despite the heights involved, Bell laughed when asked if he...