Beaumont-Hamel is Newfoundland’s raw wound
On July 1, 1916, the Royal Newfoundland Regiment suffered a massive military tragedy—and changed Canada’s newest province
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WWI
The Battle of Jutland: chaotic, bloody and a mass of ironies
The naval Battle of Jutland in 1916, the hinge year of the Great War, upended neutrals around the world
A whole new picture of the origins of the Great War
Review of July Crisis: The World’s Descent into War
The collapse of the Habsburg Empire: A state led by idiots
Review of A Mad Catastrophe
Ambitious plans to remember WWI could strain a troubled European Union
Things are far from quiet on the Western Front
Stephen Harper joins the WWI debate
’I find the comments outrageous, inflammatory, unacceptable’
The refighting of WWI enters its third day
Everyone is profoundly saddened
This week: Good news, bad news
Hosni Mubarak is barred from leaving Egypt, while the Taliban lays claim to a Canadian hostage
Going, Going...
Newsmakers exits
Interview with John Babcock
Canada’s last known veteran of WWI died yesterday at age 109; Maclean’s spoke with him in 2007