Canadian history

“Lest we forget.” #DDAY

Join us in honouring these heroes:Canadian Veterans who played an essential role in #DDAY and the Battle of #Normandy pic.twitter.com/JxfOA0xbyo — Canada (@Canada) June 6, 2015 “On June 6, 1944, Canadian troops stormed Juno Beach in Normandy, France, as part of the Allied assault to break the grip of Nazi…

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Daniel Hannan on Magna Carta

From: Daniel Hannan    What Magna Carta initiated, rather, was constitutional government—or, as the terse inscription on the American Bar Association’s stone puts it, “freedom under law.” It takes a real act of imagination to see how transformative this concept must have been. The law was no longer just an…

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