Podcasts about Verdun

Charles Milliard, leader of the Quebec Liberal Party Image: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi

Paul Chablo, Chairman of Police Technology at CEGEP - John Abbott College and member of the board of directors of the International members of police academies and college training organization

Barry Appleton, international trade lawyer and co-director of the Center for International Law at New York Law School, and an Adjunct Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo Image: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

Dr. Chris Labos, cardiologist with a degree in epidemiology and a regular contributor on CJAD 800 - you can catch him every Sunday on Weekends with Joanne Vrakas at 7:20AM

Political commentator James Mennie is a reporter, columnist and editor at the Montreal Gazette. He can be heard weekdays at 4:05 p.m. on Montreal Now with Aaron Rand.

Tasha Kheiriddin, a writer and commentator for the National Post, GZero Media, and Substack

Political analyst David Heurtel is an attorney. He is a former Québec liberal cabinet minister and CEO of Montreal’s Olympic Park. He can be heard regularly on Montreal Now with Aaron Rand.

Dida Berku, Former Côte-St-Luc city councillor

Éric Sansoucy, spokesperson for CORPIQ, the largest organization of rental property owners and managers in Quebec

Political commentator James Mennie is a reporter, columnist and editor at the Montreal Gazette. He can be heard weekdays at 4:05 p.m. on Montreal Now with Aaron Rand.

André Bernier, president of the association representing principals, assistant principals and administrative managers in schools

Raphaël Melançon, a political analyst for Noovo and CTV Montreal. He is also the president and founder of Trafalgar Strategies

Tech analyst and journalist Carmi Levy can be heard regularly on Montreal Now with Aaron Rand as well as CTV News.

Political commentator James Mennie is a reporter, columnist and editor at the Montreal Gazette. He can be heard weekdays at 4:05 p.m. on Montreal Now with Aaron Rand.

Dr. Catherine Goudie, pediatric hematologist- oncologist, Montreal Children’s Hospita

Dr. Lucie Opatrny, President and Executive Director of the MUHC

Scott Reid, CTV Political Analyst and former advisor to Prime Minister Paul Martin

Political commentator James Mennie is a reporter, columnist and editor at the Montreal Gazette. He can be heard weekdays at 4:05 p.m. on Montreal Now with Aaron Rand.

Anthony Dimas, CPA, financial planner and market manager at TD Wealth

CJAD 800 legal contributor Chris Dimakos is a lawyer and managing partner at Dimakos Law Group. He can be heard regularly on Montreal Now with Aaron Rand.

Julian Karaguesian served in the Canadian Ministry of Finance and the Canadian Embassy in Washington and he is now a professor of economics at McGill Image: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Kelly Geraldine Malone

Tasha Kheiriddin, a writer and commentator for the National Post, GZero Media, and Substack

Political commentator James Mennie is a reporter, columnist and editor at the Montreal Gazette. He can be heard weekdays at 4:05 p.m. on Montreal Now with Aaron Rand.

Dr. Chris Labos, cardiologist with a degree in epidemiology and a regular contributor on CJAD 800 - you can catch him every Sunday on Weekends with Joanne Vrakas at 7:20AM

Political analyst David Heurtel is an attorney. He is a former Québec liberal cabinet minister and CEO of Montreal’s Olympic Park. He can be heard regularly on Montreal Now with Aaron Rand.

Political commentator James Mennie is a reporter, columnist and editor at the Montreal Gazette. He can be heard weekdays at 4:05 p.m. on Montreal Now with Aaron Rand.

Nobody toppled Charlemagne's empire with a sword. Nobody burned it down with a torch. It was taken apart with a law.Most history counts the battles. This channel reads the contracts. You've been told Charlemagne's empire just fell apart — his sons fought, the Vikings came, the center broke. That version is true as far as it goes. It's just far too small.The real weapon was Frankish partible inheritance — a legal custom built for chieftains splitting up cattle and hillforts. In 843 it got applied to an empire that ran from the Atlantic to the Elbe. The lawyers were ready for it. The parchment was drawn up. The seals were stamped.The Treaty of Verdun gets remembered as a peace agreement. What it really was, was an estate-planning contract written at the scale of a civilization — negotiated by teams of church lawyers, notaries, financial administrators, and surveyors who spent months calculating fiscal revenues and drawing ecclesiastical circuits. They thought they were doing estate planning. They were also, without having any idea of it, doing nation building. France and Germany begin at Verdun.Nobody conquered Charlemagne's empire. They inherited it. And inheriting it broke it into pieces.════════════════════════════

durée : 00:58:53 - Toute une vie - Champ de bataille de Verdun, le 11 novembre : petites et grandes commémorations se succèdent aux quatre coins de la forêt, au pied des tombes et des monuments. Elles nous replongent dans un temps long : 110 ans de récit, d'histoire en chantier et de mémoire changeante. Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

durée : 00:59:23 - Toute une vie - Le 11 novembre 1918 à 11 h, un sonogramme a immortalisé le silence soudain. La cessation des hostilités fit alors place à un champ de possibles, et le champ de bataille de Verdun, dévasté, devint une sorte de Far West meusien. Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

durée : 00:59:22 - Toute une vie - La guerre se diffuse hors du lieu même des combats. Elle s'agrippe aux prisonniers dans les camps de l'arrière-front ou en Allemagne, s'installe dans la tête des enfants et irrigue toute la société dont le cœur bat à son rythme déréglé. Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

durée : 00:59:11 - Toute une vie - Trous d'obus, boyaux, abris, forts, zones de cantonnement : les traces et vestiges sur le champ de bataille de Verdun nous replongent dans le quotidien des combattants français et allemands. Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

durée : 00:58:52 - Toute une vie - Entre ciel et terre, le champ de bataille de la Première Guerre mondiale se déploie et commence à raconter son histoire. Pourquoi Verdun ? Comment Français et Allemands en sont-ils arrivés à cet affrontement de dix mois sur une portion de territoire de 200 km² ? Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

This week Charlie is joined by two special guests, Derrick from Bad Movies Worse People and Capt. Steven from Bucket of Chum podcast. The guys cover Edge of Tomorrow...aka Live Die Repeat, a movie that takes the time-loop premise and straps it into a mech suit. Tom Cruise plays a PR officer with zero combat experience who gets dumped into an invasion against alien invaders called Mimics. He dies (spectacularly) in minutes, then wakes up at the start of the same day....over and over. Each reset, he learns, adapts, and gets a little better. Emily Blunt plays the “Angel of Verdun"....his drill sergeant and guide through the loop. What makes it work is the balance: it's funny, brutal, and genuinely clever about how repetition changes a person. It's Groundhog Day meets Saving Private Ryan with sci-fi technology. The action is tight and the story earns its payoff because failure actually matters. This is definitely one everyone should check out.

Nick Lloyd, author of The Western Front: A History of the Great War, Volume 1: 1914-1918, examines the immense psychological strain placed on early German leadership, specifically Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, who felt crushed by the military legacy of his uncle. Tasked with the ambitious Schlieffen Plan, Moltke's insecurity led him to alter the balance of forces, weakening the critical "swinging door" through Belgium, which ultimately contributed to his nervous breakdown by September 1914. The Kaiser, described as a "weather vane" with a fluctuating personality, remained a distant figurehead rather than a day-to-day commander, often feeling sidelined by his generals. As the war progressed, Erich von Falkenhayn replaced Moltke, introducing a ruthless attritional vision famously realized at the Battle of Verdun, which focused on "killing Frenchmen" rather than territorial gain. This period highlights a fatal German flaw: prioritizing tactical and operational effectiveness over critical political and strategic considerations, an imbalance that hindered translating battlefield success into ultimate victory. (1)

Nick Lloyd characterizes 1916 as a "meat locker," dominated by the twin horrors of Verdun and the Somme. Falkenhayn's strategy at Verdun was a "concentrated experiment in killing," designed to bleed the French army dry through superior artillery rather than territorial gain. This prompted the British and French to launch the Somme offensive to relieve the pressure, leading to a significant tactical dispute between Douglas Haig and Henry Rawlinson. While Haig maintained a traditionalist desire for a "breakthrough" to open maneuver, Rawlinson advocated for a "bite and hold" strategy—systematically smashing enemy lines with artillery and stopping to consolidate. Lloyd argues that in 1916, the British lacked the sophisticated weaponry and know-how for Haig's grand vision, being only capable of the incremental attrition suggested by Rawlinson. This period marked a crucial shift where Germany began a decline from which it never fully recovered. (6)

durée : 00:59:11 - Le Cours de l'histoire - Trous d'obus, boyaux, abris, forts, zones de cantonnement : les traces et vestiges sur le champ de bataille de Verdun nous replongent dans le quotidien des combattants français et allemands. Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

durée : 00:58:52 - Le Cours de l'histoire - Entre ciel et terre, le champ de bataille de la Première Guerre mondiale se déploie et commence à raconter son histoire. Pourquoi Verdun ? Comment Français et Allemands en sont-ils arrivés à cet affrontement de dix mois sur une portion de territoire de 200 km² ? Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

This week on the show Sonny has a bag of missed radness to empart upon us all that is VERY strong - but before that we must observe the release of Yearning: The Unbeautiful After by one of our favourite bands as a podcast... Boundaries does it hold up? Have they sold out? Is the production actually THAT bad? ALL is discussed we also enjoy No Cure whilst drinking a beer which feels a bit naughty to be honest but what are  you gonna do? then Sonny's missed radness comes from Verdun, Yersin, Chaosphere, Skinsewnshut and Hot Load then the WHEEL OF RIFFS gifted us a delight in the form of Messy, Isn't It? from the cult heroes Dangers, another FANTASTIC spin from the wheel if you wanna discuss anything we talked about on the show or submit your WHEEL OF RIFFS recommendation then come on down and join us in the Discord, the funnest place on the internet to worship the riff Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.