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Canadian expert: Ukraine war could end Russian power, influence

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Canadian expert: Ukraine war could end Russian power, influence

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

A Canadian adviser in Ukraine says Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade the former Soviet republic could spell the end of Russia as the world knows it.

Donald Bowser, an anti-corruption specialist who has worked in Ukraine for 30 years, says the Feb. 24 invasion and subsequent offensive has confirmed what insiders already knew—that the Russian army is a hollow shell of its former self.

 

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Wallace Turnbull and the variable-pitch propeller

STORY BY SHARON ADAMS

In 1902, when most of the world thought heavier-than-air flight was a pipe dream, Wallace Rupert Turnbull began research into aeronautics in Rothesay, N.B.—and went on to make a major contribution to aviation.

After graduating as a mechanical engineer in 1893 and studying physics in Germany, Turnbull started testing aircraft stability and the efficiency of various wing designs in his Rothesay workshop, which included Canada’s first wind tunnel.

 

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Hell and high water: When high-tech bows to age-old tactics in Ukraine war

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Hell and high water: When high-tech bows to age-old tactics in Ukraine war

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Hell and high water: When high-tech bows to age-old tactics in Ukraine war

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

The villagers of Demydiv are being credited with saving Kyiv from what could have been a decisive attack after they flooded their own neighbourhoods and surrounding fields in the weeks after Russian forces invaded Ukraine.

With Russian designs on the capital of almost three million now all but abandoned, the village of fewer than 2,500 is still cleaning up wet basements, soggy carpets and the saturated fields that had formed a quagmire the invaders—with all their technology, tanks and heavy tracked vehicles—could not cross.

 

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Warfighting at Mont Sorrel

STORY BY SHARON ADAMS

Mount Sorrel and two nearby hills were the last elevated positions held in the Ypres Salient at the start of June 1916.

In the next two weeks Canadian forces would lose and recapture the high ground. Nearly 4,000 would die there and more than 5,000 would be wounded.

 

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