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Reporter at the Toronto Star kdaubs@thestar.ca

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    With Remembrance Day soon, here's a story I did earlier this year that explores the complicated relationship Canadians had with Vimy Ridge and how we make "sense of events that are essentially senseless."

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  2. 1 hour ago

    The Currie libel trial remains one of the most interesting reckonings about the last day of the war, as some asked why Canadians had to die with peace imminent. This play will be done in the actual courthouse. I wrote about the trial a few years ago:

    "Last Day Last Hour, Canada's Great War on Trial" is performed in the Victoria Hall Courthouse, where the original post-war trial took place, in Cobourg, Ont., Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred Thornhill
    The play "Last Day, Last Hour," recreates a 1928 libel trial involving Canada's top First World War general, in the same building in Cobourg, Ont., where it was actually held. Video from
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    2 hours ago

    A 59-year-old woman was struck and killed by a driver who mounted the curb in Scarborough this morning. There have now been at least 34 pedestrians and 5 cyclists killed in Toronto this year.

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    5 hours ago

    “This is called segregation. That’s what it is. There is no other word for it,” told the Future Cities Canada Summit. Cole said many “young brilliant Black people” are leaving the city because “we can’t get the opportunities we deserve.”

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  5. 3 hours ago

    "Toot your little tooter, deck yourself with flags. Grab your feather tickler, be among the wags." takes a look a the soundscape of Armistice Day in Toronto in this fascinating piece for

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    Nov 7

    Tomorrow we will be sharing stories of Indigenous veterans for . Thousands of peoples served in the Canadian military forces in the First and Second World Wars, mostly voluntarily. Before Nov 8th, take time to learn more:

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  7. 23 hours ago

    If you enjoy these stories, please consider a subscription to so we can keep digging into the past, and continue to tell today's stories, to help build a record for historians of the future.

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  8. 23 hours ago

    A feature is a team effort, and it takes time to find these details and bring them to life. The Toronto Star cares about history. 4 years ago, they sent photographer Richard Lautens and I to Belgium and France to walk the western front for two months.

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  9. 23 hours ago

    Then shot and edited a behind the story video about photographer William James. Kelsey loves history. She is the person behind the Star's popular archival accounts on social media.

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  10. 23 hours ago

    Jon Ohayon, deputy features editor and , the digital lead on projects and features, both gave it a read and made it better. Then we sent the package to designer David Schnitman, who created this beautiful digital design.

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  11. 23 hours ago

    I also created a map as I was writing so I could visualize where things were happening. I looked up people like the mayor and the premier in the old city directory so I could tell you where they were sleeping when the news came in.

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  12. 23 hours ago

    Meanwhile, I was trying to understand Toronto of 1918. Did all newspapers have their own telegraph operator? Why are the restaurants open so late? I interviewed historians for context, and the story began to come together.

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  13. 23 hours ago

    But back to the real armistice. I found photos for the narrative but still needed a specific restaurant, a munitions worker, and a few other items- so it was back to Toronto Archives, Library and Archives Canada, and Toronto Public library websites to find the missing images.

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  14. 23 hours ago

    I also visited . They had a scrapbook from Allen Edward Cuthberston, an amateur photographer who had his camera out on November 11, and also on November 7 for the false armistice- which sent me in another direction:

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  15. 23 hours ago

    It was clear that it was a visual story. , the executive creative director of visuals and design agreed. But were there any photos/video out there? The Star didn't have staff photographers at the time.

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  16. 23 hours ago

    (I'm always distracted by the ads. A man risking his life for a cigarette in no man's land. A local brewery with beer just "as satisfying as this peace declaration." To say nothing of the Liver Pills.)

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  17. 23 hours ago

    I read the Star and Globe online through the Toronto library, but other newspapers are on microfilm, so I spent an afternoon at the reference library scrolling and scanning the Toronto Telegram's coverage to establish a timeline of the day.

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  18. 23 hours ago

    As part of our coverage of the 100th anniversary of the armistice, I spent some time digging through archives to tell the story of Toronto's first day of peace after four years of war. You can read it here:

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    Nov 8

    Never forget that Indigenous soldiers did not have the rights of Canadian citizenship. As wards of the Crown, they could not vote or own land, and residential schools were stripping away their culture. They fought anyway.

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    Nov 8

    Rohinie Bisesar’s lawyer Robert Karrass is doing an AMA on Reddit today at noon about mental health and the law. (Bisesar was found not criminally responsible on Tuesday for fatally stabbing Rosemarie Junor in a PATH Shoppers Drug Mart)

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