World War 2

CUT KNIFE, SASK. -- Canada's Indigenous and military leaders paid tribute and offered condolences to the family of a Juno Beach veteran of the Second World War, who also advocated for Indigenous veterans after the war ended. "Today, Canada lost a great First Nations leader in Philip Favel," Assembly of…

Capt. Sir Tom Moore, the 100-year-old Second World War veteran who captivated the British public in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic with his fundraising efforts, has been hospitalized with COVID-19, his daughter said Sunday. Capt. Sir Tom Moore, the 100-year-old Second World War veteran who captivated the British…

Well-wishes have flooded in for Captain Sir Tom Moore, the Second World War veteran who raised millions for the NHS during lockdown, after he was admitted to hospital with coronavirus. Captain Tom, 100, tested positive for COVID-19 last week and was taken to hospital on Sunday for help with his…

A Canadian group that was set up to protest that country’s COVID-19 regulations, which includes mask wearing and lockdowns, recently attempted a citizen’s arrest of the mayor of St. Catharines, Ontario. The group’s tactics are the brainchild of a self-proclaimed karate master who has connections to dojos all across the…

The Duchess of Cambridge has been reunited with two Holocaust survivors as she praised the bravery of those who continue to their share their stories of the horrors of the Second World War. On a video call Kate spoke to Zigi Shipper, 91 and Manfred Goldberg, 90, who she first…

Tamotsu “Babe” Nomura, the quarterback of the Heart Mountain High School Eagles football team, took the snap on a warm October day in Wyoming nearly 80 years ago. Once poised for athletic success in Los Angeles, Nomura was now at Heart Mountain because the US government had established it as…

Author of the article: Publishing date: Jan 26, 2021  •  January 26, 2021  •  2 minute read AMSTERDAM — Dutch police detained more than 180 people in a third night of unrest in cities across the Netherlands, where roaming groups of rioters set fires, threw rocks and looted stores in…

By 1961, Charles Koch had stacked up three engineering degrees and was back home in Wichita, Kansas, to join the family business of oil refining, pipelines, and manufacturing. His father, Fred, was at the time attempting to tackle a different sort of engineering challenge: how to get unions, Communists, and…

TORONTO -- Thanks to a Twitter thread, Canadians are remembering the life of the late U.S. Second World War veteran Lanier Phillips, who had a special connection to Canada after being saved by Newfoundlanders more than 80 years ago. He was the sole Black survivor of USS Truxtun, a U.S.…

Freida Pinto's labour of love TV project about World War Two spy Noor Inayat Khan has been given the green light. The actress will play the first female wireless operator in Spy Princess, and will also executive produce the adaptation of Shrabani Basu's 2006 novel, Spy Princess: The Life of…