THE ANGELS’ SHARE — Tragedy on the Whiskey Trail
Scotch, especially the single malts of Laphroaig, Lagavulin, Ardbeg, Bruichladdich and Bowmore, drew me to Islay, the most southerly of the islands of the Hebrides. With eight active distilleries,…
JUST ONE LIFE — The Life and Death of Tommy White
The stark, compelling aerial photograph above was taken on July 3, 1944, during an American bombing mission over Timisoara, Rumania. Unlike so many aerial combat photos, whose exact date and location…
ONE WAY TICKET TO DUISBERG
When a Maximum Effort raid was called for by Bomber Command, upwards of 600 four-engined bomber crews could find themselves converging on the turning point…
THE GHOST LAKES OF MANITOBA
Canada is a very large place indeed and much of it contains no Canadians whatsoever, save for sport fishermen and tiny remote communities. The great boreal forest …
NATHAN CIRILLO, PATRICE VINCENT AND THE LONG LINE
I thought long and hard about whether to write anything at all about the recent murders of two of Canada’s proud soldiers by unstable humans who embraced religion and extremism as the final act of fragile and failure-filled lives…
READ AND REMEMBER
Spend a few moments on or around this Remembrance Day to read a story from our website about one of our heroes of the Second World War or Cold War. Scroll down, find a story that interests you and click on the image. You will be taken back to a time when duty, honour, leadership, courage, dignity and humility reigned supreme.