World War 2

TORONTO -- For years, Jack Paley didn’t talk much about his military past. The Second World War veteran, who turned 100 on Thursday, was part of an elite British group — the Special Air Service (SAS). In downtown Toronto, at the Historic Royal Canadian Military Institute, there was a procession…

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WEBSITE OF THE YEAR APP OF THE YEAR World 1 Dec, 2021 10:00 PM3 minutes to read The explosion threw a mechanical digger onto its side. Photo / AP Four people were injured when an unexploded World War II bomb went off at a construction site in Munich. A 550lb…

Fox Nation host Lara Logan on Monday drew a comparison between Dr. Anthony Fauci and Nazi doctor Josef Mengele. “This is what people say to me: he doesn’t represent science, he represents Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who did experiments on Jews during the Second World War and in…

By Sierra D'Souza Butts, Local Journalism Initiative ReporterThe World-Spectator Sat., Nov. 27, 2021timer3 min. read 100 year old veteran Gordon Jones of Moosomin is one of the few veterans from the Second World War that is still present with us today. “There’s not many left of us now compared to…

Screenshot: Activision / Kotaku The original Call Of Duty, released 18 years ago, was a game that gave a shit about the Second World War. To play it today (and you should, it remains excellent) is to experience fear, disorganization, confusion, and horror. A bunch of barely-trained teenagers are thrown…

When the Second World War ended, they returned to unjust treatment in Canada. Philip Favel was among those who took up a new battle on the home front. Author of the article: Stacey Barker Philip Favel, a member of Sweetgrass First Nation, was one of several thousand Indigenous men and…

Jack Rhind, 101, is a veteran of the Second World War who lives in Toronto.Photography: Christopher Katsarov/The Globe and Mail • handouts courtesy of Jack Rhind At 101 but not looking a day over 80 as he moves briskly about his brown-brick Rosedale home sporting a swoop of thick white…

Several Japanese Canadians who were forced out of their homes into internment camps by the Canadian government in the Second World War are now living in Yee Hong Centre for Geriatric Care in northeastern Toronto. Sue Kai tells her son, Brian, about her years of being forced to live in…

The Asia Pacific region has enjoyed decades of economic growth—from the post-Second World War rise of Japan, to the rapid industrialization of the “Four Asian Tigers” (South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong) between the 1960s and 1990s, along with China’s meteoric rise through the late 20th century, and today’s…