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Inuit company wins Arctic radar contract

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Front Lines
Inuit company wins Artic radar contract

Inuit company wins Arctic radar contract

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

An Inuit-owned company has been awarded a seven-year contract to operate and maintain North America’s early-warning radar system in the Canadian Arctic, placing the security and sovereignty of the northern expanse squarely in the hands of its traditional peoples.

The $592-million contract for the operation and upkeep of the North Warning System (NWS) went to Nasittuq Corp. The Iqaluit-based company takes over from Raytheon Technologies at a particularly sensitive time for Arctic sovereignty and management.

 

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The first to fall in Korea

The first to fall in Korea

STORY BY SHARON ADAMS

On March 2, 1951, the Department of National Defence published the first casualty list of the Korean War, which included the name of the first Canadian to die there—Regimental Sergeant Major James D. Wood.

His death was not combat related so his story is easily overlooked among the hundreds who lost their lives in battle. Wood, a decorated Second World War veteran, died preparing comrades for the dangers they would face in combat.

 

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TV series tells story of Canada’s Black sleeping car porters

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An item from the folks at the Legion Magazine.

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Front Lines
The Royal Navy’s war on trees

TV series tells story of Canada’s Black sleeping car porters

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

Despite oppression and discrimination in their day-to-day lives, hundreds of Black men volunteered for service in the Canadian Expeditionary Force between 1914 and 1918, only to be met with another uphill battle simply to go to war.

Most were rejected for service in local fighting units. About 800 eventually ended up in No. 2 Construction Battalion, a segregated support element commanded by mostly white officers. Still others—some 700—managed to join regular infantry units.

 

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Military Milestones
The Battle over the fiords of Norway

Aubrey Cosens and the Victoria Cross

STORY BY SHARON ADAMS

Aubrey Cosens was already a battle-hardened soldier when he earned the Victoria Cross three months shy of his 24th birthday.

He’d had a hard life. He was born in 1921 in remote Porquis Junction in northern Ontario, a town reachable only by train. His father was a railwayman. After his mother died when he was four years old, Aubrey was raised by a neighbour.

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