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‘Come dive with us:’ The politics of archeology

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Stephen J thorne

Russian Ministry of Defence, Mil.ru

‘Come dive with us:’ The politics of archeology

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

On April 22, 2022, locked in an epic struggle for its very existence, the government in Kyiv took the seemingly incongruous step of declaring the recently sunken Russian warship Moskva a Ukrainian underwater cultural object.

Moskva had been hit nine days earlier by two Neptune anti-ship missiles fired from somewhere south of Odessa.

The sinking was particularly satisfying to Ukrainians, not only because the 39-year-old missile cruiser was the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet or that it was in the vanguard of Russia’s invasion of their country, but because it was Moskva that had ordered Ukrainian troops garrisoned on Snake Island to surrender, only to be told: “Russian warship, go fuck yourself!”

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200 Greatest Canadians
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Daughters of the King now mothers of Canada

Daughters of the King now mothers of Canada

STORY BY SHARON ADAMS

In the mid-1660s, King Louis XIV of France had a problem.

He wanted to establish a strong and profitable colony in North America. But male workers who finished their contracts and soldiers who left the army did not stay on in New France. It was no way to build a colony.

An incentive was needed to keep them in Canada. The king’s advisor Jean-Baptiste Colbert had a solution.

Women. And in short order, children.

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Developer abandons planned condo complex at Juno Beach

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Stephen J thorne

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Developer abandons planned condo complex at Juno Beach

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

A French developer is abandoning plans to build a luxury condominium complex at the site where Canadian troops fought and died on D-Day.

The decision came after the Canadian and French governments formulated a plan to help the local council in Courseulles-Sur-Mer purchase the land. Ottawa will contribute about $4 million.

“This is a big day. A big day for Canada. A big day for veterans,” said Veterans Affairs Minister Lawrence MacAulay on Oct. 7. “Tens of thousands of people wrote to me—that does not happen every day—on this issue. In fact, that helps a politician make things move, and we were able to do it.

“I’m just thankful that we got the resolution that we did. That will help Canada and help France … display to the world what we paid for peace and security in the world.”

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Sharif Tarabay

The making of Canada’s first hero—Isaac Brock

STORY BY SHARON ADAMS

Major-General Isaac Brock was 43 years old when he died on Oct. 13, 1812, while defending Canada from a United States invasion.

That day Canada lost an able administrator, Britain last an insightful military strategist and the Canadian people lost a hero.

Born on Guernsey, an island in the English Channel, in 1769, he was the eighth son in a large family. Three of his older brothers went into the military and Brock followed at the age of 15, becoming an ensign with the 8th Regiment of Foot.

He had an active early career, serving in Barbados and Jamaica and the war with Napoleon. As a lieutenant-colonel in 1797, he was given command of the 49th Regiment of Foot, where his ability to interpret enemy strategies was honed.

 

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