Tag: canadian history

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When the Sky Closed: The Quiet Miracle of Operation Yellow Ribbon

The morning of September 11, 2001, began like any other for the thousands of passengers crossing the Atlantic. By midday, every one of them was sitting on a runway in Canada, watch

The Boy Who Ran Half a Dream Across a Country

He wasn’t supposed to be a hero. Heroes are athletes at their peak or figures of impossible strength. Terry Fox was twenty-one years old, shy, with a mop of curly hair and a prosth