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The death of Queen Elizabeth might provide the Canadian military the catalyst to pull the plug and the unit names and traditions associated with the Royal Family and Canada’s colonial past, writes Scott Taylor. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

September 12, 2022

OTTAWA—The death of Queen Elizabeth at the age of 96 after 70 years as the Commonwealth’s reigning monarch was certainly not an unexpected shock. Nobody can live forever. However much her eventual demise may have been anticipated, the reality of her passing makes one realize just how deeply the...

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