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Canadian, Husband and Dad. Unashamed reader of history, member of the afflicted club fascinated by WW2. I'm saving up my pennies so I can join the the WHW Independent Company.
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Well, this should not surprise anyone. The kleptocrocy is in plain sight, and no one will be held to account. It is only just beginning. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

"There is nothing that recommends a police officer to the favourable notice of the public so much as kindness to the poor, to the helpless and to children." Inspector General John R McGowen Newfoundland Constabulary 1871 - 1908. Monument, St. John's Newfoundland, Canada @thehistoryguy.bsky.social

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

On this day, 1917, my grandfather was about to take part in the attack on Vimy Ridge during the Battle of Arras. 2nd Canadian Divisional Trench Mortors, Y Battery. The notes in his pocket diary are pretty straightforward. Remarkable. @sommecourt.bsky.social @rgpoulussen.bsky.social

submitted 70 days ago • 3 comments

@fightingonfilm.bsky.social @sommecourt.bsky.social I remember watching Pink Floyd's The Wall when it was first released. One quick image at the beginning of the film rang a bell. The original image is of Canadian casualties in WW1. I saw this image in a book of Canadian war photographs.

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Very Trump to push the North American economy into depression to change the subject from his national security team's carelessness and lies.

submitted 82 days ago • 40 comments

If it walks like a duck.... Trump may not be a 'madman,' b... www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

I am wondering the same thing, and then I think of all the American idiots I have met in the past, and it all makes sense.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

No doubt

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

Cowards. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/u...

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

In my lifetime, I have never seen so many undone by one person's folly and juvenile grudges. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/u...

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Polish Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Wałęsa and 38 other former political prisoners of Poland's communist regime have condemned Donald Trump's treatment of Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, which they said reminded them of communist interrogation techniques

submitted 106 days ago • 62 comments

That’s right. 🇺🇦

submitted 106 days ago • 329 comments