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A Roman legionnaire’s pay slip and the siege at Masada

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A Roman legionnaire’s pay slip and the siege at Masada

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

A Roman soldier’s pay slip uncovered outside the ancient fortress at Masada several years ago suggests little has changed when it comes to the army, the fighting man and unfair labour practices.

Written on a scrap of papyrus, the 1,900-year-old pay slip—one of only three ever found in the Roman Empire—shows that the imperial grunt was left penniless once the military recouped expenses for meals, equipment, clothes, even horse feed.

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Divisive figure: remembering Quebec nationalist Paul Rose

STORY BY PAIGE GILMAR

Ten years ago, on March 14, the ringleader of the October Crisis, died. But it turned out that this figure, so imperative to the Quebec sovereignty movement, was aptly name—for no man came out of the situation smelling like a rose better than Paul Rose himself.

“A folk hero to some, a murderer to most, Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) terrorist Paul Rose is one of the most polarizing figures in Quebec history,” historian Éric Bédard told The Montreal Gazette.

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Russia no ‘paper tiger,’ warns Norad commander

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Russia no ‘paper tiger,’ warns Norad commander

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

While China poses a “long-term, long-pacing challenge,” the head of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or Norad, says the current primary military threat to North America is Russia.

“Right now, what I would say from an information space and a cyber domain, [China and Russia] are certainly peer competitors,” U.S. Air Force General Glen VanHerck told the annual Ottawa Conference on Security and Defence on March 9.

“But the true threat, I think the military threat right now is Russia…because they have the kinetic capability, the nuclear capability, the power projection capability in their bombers, their submarines as well.

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Quebec City’s bloody weekend: the Easter Riot of 1917

STORY BY PAIGE GILMAR

On May 18, 1917, Prime Minister Robert Borden dropped a bombshell when he introduced the Military Service Act, a conscription law that would require all male citizens between the ages of 20 to 45 to enlist.

Little did Borden know just how severe the impact would be.

“Borden had implemented conscription because he believed the war had to be won and that Canada must play its full part,” J.L. Granatstein wrote in Maclean’s. “To achieve these ends, he almost broke the nation.”

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