We need to be reminded: war is hell

Our parents and grandparents lived through the early 20^th century with sickness, poverty, and then the hell of war, and came out of it to build a new country.

Infantrymen with The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment in Italy in July 1943. This week it will be 80 years since the end of the Second World War. Canada is a different place, although we face as much turbulence in the world as our parents and grandparents did, writes Andrew Caddell.Photograph courtesy of Lieut. Jack H. Smith/Department of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

August 6, 2025

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—Among my summer reading this year, I have been perusing a 1955 work by famed Canadian author Farley Mowat. The Regiment is a history of The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment, which recruited men from southern Ontario and turned them into a poten...

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