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Richard Foot

Richard Foot is Halifax-based journalist and author, he was a founding staff member of the National Post and a senior national affairs writer for Postmedia News. He has a special interest in Canada's military history, and has interviewed D-Day veterans on Juno Beach, Canadian peacekeepers in Kigali and soldiers in Kandahar. He's seen 12 of Canada's 13 provinces and territories and lived in five of them. He's been "Screeched in" by the mayor of Gander, Newfoundland, has wrestled a rodeo calf with his bare hands, and once received an $800 speeding ticket for driving too fast on an Ice Road in the Arctic.

Articles by Richard Foot

Photo of the wreckage of a fatal bus crash carrying members of the Humboldt Broncos hockey team

Humboldt Broncos Bus Crash

Somalia Affair

Somalia Affair

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Les Éboulements Bus Crash

Canadian soldiers at Vimy in German wire entanglements

Battle of Vimy Ridge

D-Day and the Battle of Normandy

HMCS Fredericton

Canadian Forces Bases

Canadian Prisoners of War

Canada and the Battle of Hong Kong

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Robert Bourassa

Province of Canada, 1841─67

Canada East

John Molson

Molson Coors Brewing Company

Canadian Parliament

Senate of Canada

Battle of the Somme

Canada and the Battle of the Somme

Supreme Court and Parliament

Singh Case

Minnie Affleck

Canada and the South African War (Boer War)

Menin Gate

Canada and the Second Battle of Ypres

Canada in Afghanistan

Canada and the War in Afghanistan

Battle of Passchendaele

Canada and the Battle of Passchendaele

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CP Rail Crew Bus Crash

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

René Lévesque

René Lévesque

Soldier and Child

Emergencies Act

Halifax Explosion

Halifax Explosion

Ile Ste.-Croix: The Birth of Acadia

Infantry, near Nijmegen, Holland

Stories of Remembrance: Alex Colville

Mulroney and Mandela

Nelson Mandela: A soft spot for Canada

G.F.G. Stanley

Editorial: The Stanley Flag and the “Distinctive Canadian Symbol”

Battle of Paardeberg

Paardeberg Day

Charlie Martin

Canada on D-Day: Juno Beach

The Abbaye Ardenne, in the Normandy countryside south of Juno Beach, 2012.

Normandy Massacres

Victoria Cross

Battle of Cambrai

Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Currie

Battle of Mons

The Unknown Soldier Monument

Canada's Unknown Soldier

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Motor Vehicle Disasters in Canada

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Canada West

King and Laurier

Election of 1917

War Monument

Stories of Remembrance: Arthur Hiller

Catriona LeMay Doan

Stories of Remembrance: Catriona Le May Doan

Canada in Afghanistan

Stories of Remembrance: Chris Hadfield

Wounded at the Somme

Stories of Remembrance: Mary Walsh

Paul Gross

Stories of Remembrance: Paul Gross

Mike Myers

Stories of Remembrance: Mike Myers

Canadian troops with the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment in an armoured carrier, advancing north through Italy in July 1943.

Stories of Remembrance: Farley Mowat

Norman Jewison

Stories of Remembrance: Norman Jewison

War Monument

Stories of Remembrance: John Ralston Saul

Unknown Soldiers

Stories of Remembrance: Marc Garneau

Lynn Johnston

Stories of Remembrance: Lynn Johnston

Vera Frenkel's Body Missing installation

Stories of Remembrance: Vera Frenkel

Oil, Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan Party

Giant Mine

Giant Mine Murders

David Spencer

David Spencer and Christine Lamont Case

Bathurst High School

Bathurst High School Tragedy

Canada Pins

Lost Canadians

La Maison des Canadiens

Flag of the American Indian Movement

Anna Mae Pictou Aquash

Canadian Peacekeepers in Rwanda

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Eastman Bus Crash

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Remembrance Day Poppy

Mike Duffy, November 2007.

Canadian Senate Expenses Scandal

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Dorion School Bus–Train Crash

Somalia Affair

Canadian Peacekeepers in Somalia

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Murder of Reena Virk