Podcast appearances and mentions of terry copp

Calgary Liberal MP George Chahal says he is opposed to the deportation of the truck driver responsible for the Humboldt Broncos bus crash in 2018. He joins Vassy to discuss how is trying to rally support among his colleagues to block the deportation of Jaskirat Singh Sidhu. On todays show: Listen to Vassy's full conversation with a panel of MPs  as they discuss the bombshell report on MPs 'wittingly' taking part in foreign interference and the RCMP's statement on it.  Dan Riskin, CTV Science and Technology Specialist with his weekly segment 'Talk Science To Me'. The Daily Debrief Panel with Robert Benzie, Marieke Walsh, and Hannah Thibedeau. Terry Copp, Canadian Military Historian, Director Emeritus, Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada on the importance of D-Day in a Canadian context. 

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The Italian Campaign during the Second World War remains a subject of controversy—whether it was “Normandy’s Long Right Flank” or a costly stalemate continues to be debated by historians to modern day. Terry Copp, director emeritus of the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies, believes he has found a new multinational approach to studying the Italian Campaign as he zeroes in on the late 1943/early 1944 Allied assault on the Axis Winter Line. The Winter Line was the site of many famous battles that have since become important national icons, including Ortona, Orsogna, the Rapido River and Monte Cassino. Terry insists to properly comprehend the campaign historians should look passed the national narratives and address the combat operations across the entire peninsula. 

This episode, Krista and Lilly have a guest along for the adventure, and it's Andy, bringing the story of the Ardenne Abbey Massacre, a war crime committed against Canadian soldiers in the aftermath of D-Day. Then, because whoa now, that's heavy stuff, the ladies bring some kooky crimes involving a nosy moose and a hipster raccoon.  Want to hear more of our episodes, or would like to hear them early? Why not check out our patreon page! https://www.patreon.com/36times   You can contact us at: 36timespodcast@gmail.com  @36timespodcast on Twitter and Instagram, and we're on facebook! With a bonus group page message thing aka discussion group!  Intro music  is by We Talk of Dreams & Kooky Crime's song is by Petros! Exciting! Have some sources! (Thanks to Andy!) Lackenbauer, P. Whitney & Madsen, Chris M.V. (2007). Kurt Meyer on Trial: A Documentary Record. Government of Canada Catalogue Number. D2-207/2007E. Beevor, Antony (2009). D-Day: The Battle for Normandy. New York; Toronto: Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-02119-2.Hastings, Max (1984). Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-46029-3Stacey, C.P.(1960). Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War: Volume III: The Victory Campaign: The Operations in North-west Europe 1944-45. Queen's Printer, Ottawa, ON.Luther, Craig W.H. (1987). Blood and Honor: The History of the 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitler Youth", 1943-1945. R. James Bender Publishing, San Jose, CA. ISBN 978-0-912138-38-6McKay, A. Donald (2005). Gaudeamus Igitur "Therefore Rejoice". Bunker to Bunker Books, Calgary, AB, 2005. ISBN 978-1-894255-53-4Whitaker, Denis and Shelagh Whitaker, with Terry Copp (2000). Victory at Falaise: The Soldier's Story. HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., Toronto, ON. ISBN 978-0-00-200017-2

Military families are essential to the care of veterans in both the past and present. Yet current veteran policies and programs do not fully provide the necessary services military families require for the process of healing and recovery. For the final episode of our four-part series on the past and present experiences of veterans in Canada, two scholars, a veteran and a caregiver continue their discussion of the effects of military service on veterans’ families. Drawing comparisons between veteran and family experiences during the First World War and the present, the guests discuss current research and the challenges mental trauma places on the family dynamic. These challenges include recognizing the sacrifices of military spouses and the risk of intergenerational trauma being passed down to veterans’ children. The discussion reveals how the fears of veterans and their families have been shaped by changes in government responsibilities to the veteran community over the past century and how this history continues to inform current veteran policy and program reform. This episode in funded by the Department of National Defence. It is hosted by Dr. Geoffrey Hayes of the University of Waterloo. Panelists are Dr. Jessica Meyer, Dr. Deborah Norris, Jody Mitic and Kim Davis. Dr. Geoffrey Hayes is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Waterloo and a faculty associate of the LCMSDS. His research focuses on Canadian military history. He is the author of Crerar’s Lieutenants: Inventing the Canadian Junior Army Officer, 1939-45, published with UBC Press in 2017, as well as the co-editor of Vimy Ridge: A Canadian Reassessment (2007) and Canada and the Second World War: Essays in Honour of Terry Copp (2012).

Christopher Nolan’s film Dunkirk hit theatres this past summer. It was met with critical acclaim and made hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office. It is arguably one of the greatest war films Hollywood has ever produced and certainly gave its viewers an authentic portrayal of the Battle of Dunkirk from the air, the water and the beach in the spring of 1940. It was a film that as Terry Copp explains “makes your blood boil.” But what we learn from Dunkirk is more raw emotion, fear and suspense of being a soldier, a pilot or a civilian crew member sailing the waters of the British channel. What the viewers do not get from the film is the broader history of the Second World War. What led these British troops to the beaches of Dunkirk? What role did the Royal Navy or the Royal Air Force play in the battle? Where were the French? Terry Copp, an eminent military historian in Canada, has been researching the Second World War for decades and has some insight into what exactly constitutes this broader historical picture. In the episode, Terry helps answers the question––what is the history of the Battle of Dunkirk? And for those interested in Terry’s new website on Montreal and the First World War, you can find it here: montrealatwar.com.

What happened to Montreal during the Great War? For the past three years, distinguished military historian Terry Copp has been researching Canada’s metropolis––Montreal––from 1914 to 1918. In our conversation, Terry discusses the various social, religious and political cleavages within the city beyond the divide between English and French-speaking populations. Although the war intensified many of these cleavages and sewed deep divisions between communities residing within Montreal, Terry is hesitant to argue that the war fundamentally changed the city. Manuscripts published in university presses are the ‘gold standard’ for those working in the field of history, but Terry has decided not to pursue his project on Montreal in traditional manuscript form. He and a student-research assistant have been creating a website for his project, which will allow him the freedom to include (and exclude) short vignettes, stories, maps and databases, which would be nearly impossible to do in a manuscript. It has given him the freedom that many scholars envy when going through the editing stages of publishing a book.  Terry is best known for his award-winning work on the military history of Canadians fighting in the Second World War. But he would not have always called himself a military historian. In the final segment of the episode, Terry discusses his decision to transition from a labour historian to an historian of the military, although he might better be described as an historian of war and society. Why he returned to Montreal for his current research project is the result of his students and their research––something that has always stimulated Terry and kept him going over his career.   References  Copp, J.T. The Anatomy of Poverty: The Condition of the Working Class in Montreal, 1897-1929. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1974. ------. Cinderella Army: The Canadians in Northwest Europe, 1944–45. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. ------. Fields of Fire: The Canadians in Normandy. 2nd ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. Gregory, Adrian. The Last Great War: British Society and the First World War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.  Keelan, Geoff. “Bourassa’s War: Henri Bourassa and the First World War.” PhD Dissertation, University of Waterloo, 2015.

Military historian Terry Copp speaks with RCI's Lynn Desjardins.