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About Michael K. Barbour

Michael K. Barbour is the Director of Faculty Development and a Professor of Instructional Design for the College of Education and Health Sciences at Touro University California. He has been involved with K-12 online learning in a variety of countries for well over a decade as a researcher, teacher, course designer and administrator. Michael's research focuses on the effective design, delivery and support of K-12 online learning, particularly for students located in rural jurisdictions.

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The May/June 2020 issue of Legion Magazine will commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Netherlands and Victory in Europe and we want our dedicated readers to be a part of it. Help choose our cover! Cast your vote, give us your opinion and share with your friends on social media!

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What would you do?

What would you do?

Story by Dyann Bernard

Canadian and other Allied forces faced challenging terrain and brutal battles with German occupiers from the fall of 1944 to May 1945 and the end the Second World War. More than 7,600 Canadians died in the nine-month campaign to liberate the Dutch.

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News and Updates from CWGC

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Due to the ongoing uncertainty around Covid-19, and due to the French and Belgian Governments’ advice on public spaces and institutions, we have taken the decision to close The CWGC Experience in Beaurains and The CWGC Information Centre in Ieper for the time being.

The Last Post Ceremony, the daily act of remembrance at the Menin Gate Memorial, will go ahead each evening but the CWGC and the Last Post Association are asking the public not to attend due to the unprecedented spread of the coronavirus.

Please check the CWGC website for regular updates.
Noor Inayat-Khan: A Woman of Conspicuous Courage

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Armed with just a false passport and a pistol, Noor Inayat-Khan became the first woman radio operator to be sent to Nazi–occupied France during the Second World War.
Now 75 years on from her death the CWGC’s charity, the Commonwealth War Graves Foundation (CWGF), is keeping her story alive through a new interactive exhibition at the Runnymede Memorial.

Find out what it takes to be an undercover agent and put your code-breaking skills to the test, use state-of-the-art technology in our totally unique and interactive exhibition.

With the help of the Girlguiding Association – the CWGC’s charity, the CWGF, is telling the story of Noor – we want to inspire the next generation of History Makers.
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See the most iconic images of WAR 📷

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The evolution of war photography

The evolution of war photography

Story by Stephen J. Thorne

In an age when technology limited most photography to static studio poses and bland, if not severe, countenances, Canadian army photographer William Rider-Rider elevated the art to a higher level under the most trying of circumstances.

Armed with a bulky 4×5 box camera, the lieutenant from London, England, captured striking images of Canadian soldiers in the trenches and among the ruins of First World War Europe. The locales, the faces and the circumstances humanize the history behind the photographs, bringing it to life as few did.

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Canadian leads coalition against Gadhafi

Canadian leads coalition against Gadhafi

Story by Sharon Adams

Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi responded harshly to opponents and citizens as the demonstrations of the Arab Spring devolved toward civil war in 2011. He vowed to eradicate them house by house.

To protect civilians, the United Nations called for a ceasefire and imposed a no-fly zone and 19 countries, led by NATO, intervened against Libyan military attacks and conducted a naval blockade.

The whole coalition effort—more than 20 warships and nearly 200 warplanes—was commanded by RCAF Lieutenant-General Charles Bouchard.

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This week in history
This week in history

March 17-18, 1813

The British at Fort Erie, on the Niagara River, begin an artillery duel, firing across the Niagara River on Black Rock, N.Y.

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Update about the National WWI Memorial In Washington, D.C.

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Dear Friends and Colleagues,

I hope each of you is staying safe in these challenging times. We are adapting to circumstances and progress continues to be made on the National World War I Memorial.
We are as determined as our Doughboys were a century ago.

All our staff members are working from home, and meetings with colleagues and prospective supporters are being conducted virtually.

As we continue to navigate our way ahead, I am pleased to report that the next set of armatures for A Soldier’s Journey arrived this week at Sabin Howard’s studio in Englewood, NJ.

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Sabin and Traci have rented a house in Englewood to keep the sculpting team close to the studio and ensure their safety.  They are continuing their work on the Memorial while closely following CDC guidelines.

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You can also follow construction progress at the Memorial in real time by visiting our website and scrolling down to the camera at the construction site.

We will keep you all closely informed as we forge ahead to raise the remaining funds that will make this Memorial a reality. As we move forward, please know how grateful we are for the advice and support you have each contributed to bring us to this point.

Stay safe and take care of each other.

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CAN Announcements

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A newsletter from a fellow Canadian organization in the Bay Area.
Canadian Studies Announcements
Spring Events Update:
Special Video Colloquium and Live Q&A, March 23/24
feat. Dr. Rebecca Wallace, Queen’s University
In compliance with public health directives, Canadian Studies has cancelled all in-person events until further notice. However, we are pleased to announce a pilot two-part online lecture next week, featuring our second postdoctoral finalist, Dr. Rebecca Wallace.
On Monday, March 23, you will receive an email with two links. The first will contain a recording of Dr. Wallace’s talk, which you will be able to watch on demand. We then invite you to use the second link on Tuesday, March 24, to join us for a live Q&A with Dr. Wallace regarding her research. We request that you view the recorded lecture before engaging in the Q&A.
Please note there is no colloquium tomorrow, March 17.
Further details on the talk are below; please contact us if you have any questions about this format or technical concerns.
Framing Deservingness in Canadian News Media
Dr. Rebecca Wallace, Queen’s University
Lecture | March 23 | Online
Live Q&A | March 24 | 12:30 p.m. | Online
Research on the framing of social assistance in Canadian media suggests that news coverage is “race-coded”, whereby Indigenous and immigrant welfare recipients are frequently portrayed as more or less deserving than non-Indigenous, native-born Canadians across a number of deservingness criteria. What are the effects of these frames on public opinion toward social assistance recipients, and support for redistribution more generally? And how do these frame effects potentially differ based on the recipients’ assumed race or country of origin?
This presentation reports the results of a custom-designed framing experiment that aims to understand how news frames affect attitudes toward Indigenous and immigrant recipients of welfare. The findings indicate that while the frames can have a significant impact on perceptions of recipients’ deservingness, the effects are conditioned by the beneficiaries’ identity as an Indigenous or immigrant recipient. Results, implications, and future research will be discussed.
Rebecca Wallace received her Ph.D. in political studies at Queen’s University. She holds a B.A.H. (with distinction) and an M.A. in political studies from the same institution. Rebecca’s research focuses on Canadian politics, broadly examining welfare chauvinism toward different racial minority groups and its manifestation in Canadian news media. Rebecca is a doctoral fellow at the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations and a research assistant for the Canadian Opinion Research Archive, and held a Joseph Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Fellowship from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (2016-2019).
Big Give Results: Our Best Year Yet!
The numbers are in! Thanks to your efforts, Canadian Studies raised an amazing $54,205 in gifts and pledges from 34 donors. That’s money that will be used to support student research, host public lectures with leading experts, and promote cultural and academic exchange between Berkeley and Canada. We want to thank each and every one of you for your participation. Your support is the foundation of our continued excellence – we couldn’t do it without you!
Former Canadian Studies Speaker Dr. Michael Benarroch Named President of University of Manitoba
Canadian Studies sends our warm wishes to Dr. Michael Benarroch, who was recently named the 12th president of the University of Manitoba. Dr. Benarroch gave a colloquium at Berkeley in 2013 entitled “Weathering the Global Financial Crisis: The Canadian Experience”, where he explained how Canada avoided the sub-prime crisis in 2008.
Dr. Benarroch is an economist specializing in international trade and development economics. He has held leadership posts at several universities, most recently as provost and vice-president at Ryerson University in Toronto and as dean of the Asper School of Business at Manitoba.
For more information, please see the full UM press release.
Other Bay Area Events Cancelled
As part of the shelter-in-place order issued by the Bay Area regional authorities, all nonessential gatherings are now banned. Events which were previously advertised in this newsletter may have been affected; please contact the official event host if you have any questions.
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