Read this play last night – brilliant, classic Fennario. Having grown up in the Verdun/Point area his characters tend to send shivers down my spine in their uncanny familiarity and purely old school working class worldviews. It includes a lot of stuff about World War 1 that your standard history
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Calgary Grit: Canada has always been at war with Eurasia
RB Bennett was one of Canada’s most popular Prime Ministers, to the point where average Canadians would name their buggies after him. We found out last week that the Harper Conservatives will be leading a review of the way Canadian history is taught in schools. We don’t yet have word
Continue readingTrashy's World: Vimy Ridge…
… where thousands of Canadians are commemorating the 95th anniversary of one of the events that defined Canada. And my nephew is over there taking part in the ceremonies. I can only imagine how moving it must be. Never forget the horrors of war. Never let it happen again. Trashy,
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