Written By Joshua Drakes LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER It has been 80 years since Germany’s unconditional surrender to the Allied powers, effectively ending World War II. On Tuesday, ...

Born in Manitoba, Melkowski served with the Winnipeg Grenadiers in the Battle of Hong Kong. He spent over three years in ...

Thousands of residents gathered at Millennium Place to mark Remembrance Day on Tuesday, Nov. 11, honouring generations of ...

Genealogist Linda Yip spoke to an audience of around 160 people about Kelowna’s Commando Bay on Monday, Nov. 10. Commando Bay ...

Two Kootenay families linked by a war correspondent’s battlefield dispatch made contact for the first time in almost 70 years ...

Cmdr. Robert Watkin still remembers the exact moment he decided he would join the military and fight for his country in the ...

“The poppy is our emblem of supreme sacrifice. It is the symbol of remembrance. When you wear a poppy, or display a wreath, ...

Hundreds gathered at memorial services across the Kingston region on Tuesday to mark the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of ...

I Remember Je me souviens. I remember. I remember my great-grandmother’s tears when she sent four of her boys off to fight in the Great War. I remember her muted joy at seeing three of them – ...

Jeff Nicklin had survived Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge, but on the day he took his last breath during World War II, the former Winnipeg Blue Bomber ‘never had a chance’. Nicklin was born in ...

As time has passed, the significance of the cenotaph has also evolved. Initially a tribute to the fallen of the First World War, it has grown to honor all Canadian soldiers who have sacrificed their ...

The Hollywood writer, Anna Sandor, created some of the most popular CBC shows on screen during the 80s and 90s.