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Nov 3, 2026
Andrew MuellerHOST
Are you surprised, Paul, that Canada is not involved in this as a coalition, not just as a coalition of the willing partner, but of course, I can remember being in Ukraine about 10 years ago, writing a story about Operation Unifier, which was a NATO-led mission to train Ukrainian troops.
Andrew MuellerHOST
But certainly when, at the time I was there, it was largely being led by the Princess Patricia's Light Infantry of the Canadian Army.
Andrew MuellerHOST
And the soldiers there I spoke to did talk a lot about how it made congruent sense for Canada of all countries to be involved because of that huge Ukrainian diaspora community back home in Canada.
Andrew MuellerHOST
Yeah.
David BorysHOST
But what happens when the war is recent, the records are complicated, and the story itself remains contested? Canada's war in Afghanistan presents some unique challenges for historians trying to document what happened and why.
David BorysHOST
Historian Sean Maloney, a fantastic historian, has taken on that challenge, producing a monumental work examining the Canadian Army's experience in Afghanistan.
David BorysHOST
But even getting that history into the hands of the public has proven difficult.
David BorysHOST
And despite Maloney's personal experience embedded with units going beyond the wire and the depth and breadth of his work, some still question whether a true history of this war can be written when so many documents are classified.
J.J. HardyGUEST
And so they ended up giving that job to somebody else that had a fancy degree that was higher than mine.
J.J. HardyGUEST
And so my boss actually told me, he was an Army veteran as well.
J.J. HardyGUEST
He's like, JJ, why don't you just go do this on your own? you'd be a lot happier.
J.J. HardyGUEST
So to answer your question, you know, I was given a nudge.
J.J. HardyGUEST
I mean, we represent and we do it in a way that the company wants because we are used to living within that set of boundaries that are set because we have values.
J.J. HardyGUEST
We have a mission.
J.J. HardyGUEST
We understand the Army's vision statement.
J.J. HardyGUEST
We understand all of those things.
JustinHOST
Oh, now we go to Canadia.
JustinHOST
Canadian Army Range Officer Major Vijani Agar Singh... has confirmed that the artillery shell Private First Class Gupta fired was carried by the dry 70 mile an hour winds to a natural gas well adjacent to an ammo depot where 300 troops were being housed.
JustinHOST
The accident marked Canada's worst military losses since World War II and were caused by, hold on, let me check here,
SkeetsHOST
two Indians.
Mike CauthorneHOST
Then I'll come back and tell you a couple more things about it.
Mike CauthorneHOST
This was a letter from the Canadian Army.
Mike CauthorneHOST
I mean written from the Canadian Army too.
Mike CauthorneHOST
It says the king has been graciously pleased to approve the award of the Victoria Cross to Honorary Captain John Weir Foote of the Canadian Chaplain Services at D.F.A. on 19th of August, 1942.
Mike CauthorneHOST
Honorary Captain Foote, Canadian Chaplain Services, regimental chaplain with the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry.
John BrinkHOST
So there's virtually not a day that goes by that memories of that period come still to mind.
John BrinkHOST
And then being liberated by the Canadian Army, April the 12th, 1945, right behind our house was a little schoolyard.
John BrinkHOST
about 20 soldiers from the Canadian Red Cross were located there.
John BrinkHOST
Every morning, as kids, we would go down there, and they'd give us bread with cheese and butter, and the cheese and butter, bacon and bread.
John BrinkHOST
So what changed my life is the Second World War, obviously.
John BrinkHOST
And then we were liberated on April the 12th, 1945. by the Canadian Army as part of the Allied forces that landed in June of 1944 on the beaches of Normandy, the United States, Canada, the UK at great cost made their way through Normandy and then the United States went east and south and the Canadians went through France, Belgium, the west coast of Holland to the top where we lived, 10 minutes from the German border, and liberated our hometown.
John BrinkHOST
And so I still remember that.
John BrinkHOST
And the small section of the Canadian army was behind our house in the schoolyard.
John BrinkHOST
And we had gone through hunger, nothing to eat.
John BrinkHOST
The winter of 1944 was very, very difficult.
John BrinkHOST
It cost lives of young people, kids in particular, and older people.
John BrinkHOST
And so we were... bones mainly and you know so and i still remember going to the school yard right behind our house where the canadian army had a small medical army section about 25 canadians and every morning we would go down there and defeat his bread with cheese and butter and the cheese and butter was better than the bread and we called everybody johnny obviously we didn't speak the language but really we did And it left such an impression on me that I knew as I grew up, I would go to the land of my heroes, Canada.
Dan SnowNARRATOR
In 1914, he issued an order that militia regiments in Quebec would no longer be permitted to march in parades to mark Catholic holidays.
Dan SnowNARRATOR
His view of the nature of the new kind of Canadian army went hand in hand with his romantic notions of an imperial parliament, which did not exist, and which few but he had proposed.
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the Canadian colonies can be completely ignored, so far as concerns any European theater of war.
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General Friedrich von Bernhardi, German General...
Dan SnowNARRATOR
Sam Hughes' mobilization plan successfully outflanked and bypassed the divisional and district commands and left everything in his hands.
Dan SnowNARRATOR
The result was a bureaucratic nightmare.
Dan SnowNARRATOR
At Sam Hughes' insistence, the Canadian Army formed battalions that had little connection with traditional regiments, which nonetheless remained responsible for most of the cost of recruiting.
Dan SnowNARRATOR
Wealthy patrons sponsored whole units and battalions.
BecklerHOST
Alfred Baum is a Dutch-born investor who survived the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during World War II.
BecklerHOST
And his ties to Calgary started back then, as his hometown was famously liberated by the Canadian Army, more specifically, the Calgary Highlanders.
ShawnaHOST
Baum vividly remembered that day.
ShawnaHOST
He said he hadn't eaten in three days as the Germans had shipped all available food out of the Netherlands.
ShawnaHOST
As a result, they were eating tulip bulbs and stolen scraps to survive.
ShawnaHOST
Thousands died, trees were burned, and survival looked unlikely.
BecklerHOST
That is until the Canadian Army started to push the Germans back and Baum said he recalled the moment when everything went quiet.
BecklerHOST
He was a young boy at the time and he looked up to see what he described as a 10-foot soldier with battle gear he didn't recognize.
Brian CallahanHOST
That's ongoing training until about 5 this evening.
Brian CallahanHOST
And as well, Canadian Army Reservists with the Arctic Response Company Group Atlantic.
Brian CallahanHOST
They're going to conduct the force combat test, they call it, at two locations in the province today, one here in St. John's and one in Central.
Brian CallahanHOST
So from about 7 a.m. this morning, already ongoing, until about 6 this evening here in Metro area.
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