Salvatore Vistarchi of Montreal spent 33 months in an internment camp in Petawawa, Ont., during the Second World War without knowing why after the federal government labelled Italian-Canadians 'enemy aliens.'
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Philip Dombowsky is an archivist at the National Gallery of Canada. His new book, Walter S. Allward: Life & Work, is being published by the Art Canada Institute.
With recent protests around the globe calling for the removal of certain historical statues, it is worth noting this country’s most famous work of public art, the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in France. It’s been 100 years since it was commissioned, and April 9 is the anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, the First World War conflict that led to its creation.
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Preston Manning is the former leader of the Reform Party of Canada and a former leader of the official opposition in Parliament.
“What’s a million?” was a phrase allegedly uttered in 1945 by the federal minister of wartime production, C. D. Howe, to casually dismiss fears concerning wartime overspending by the Liberal government of the day. It was seized upon by John Diefenbaker to paint the government as fiscally irresponsible, resurfaced again in the great Pipeline Debate of 1956, and was used very effectively by Diefenbaker in the 1957 federal election campaign to bring down Louis St. Laurent’s government.
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James Betram Collip, who worked at the University of Alberta from 1915 until 1928, played a key role in the discovery of insulin a century ago.(University of Alberta Archives)
In 1923, scientists Frederick Banting and John Macleod were jointly awarded a Nobel Prize Canada s first for discovering insulin.
Nearly 100 years later, a lesser-known member of their research team is gaining recognition for his role in one of Canada s biggest medical breakthroughs.
99 years ago this month, University of Alberta professor James Collip managed to purify a pancreatic extract so it could be used on humans.
Back then, people with diabetes did not live for long, but thanks to insulin, millions of lives have been saved.