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World War I

What six soldiers in a World War I art masterpiece might tell us now
Canada

What six soldiers in a World War I art masterpiece might tell us now

From heroism to incompetence, the Canadian officers that William Nicholson painted stand in for the full range of wartime experience

’How do we measure up?’

Rarely do the Prime Minister and his speechwriters aim for poetry. That, I’ve always assumed, was intentional: poetry being quite...