50 years since the October Crisis
We’re coming up on 50 years since the October Crisis so we’re bound to see some items about it. This piece talks about a 25-minute documentary that will be available soon on various platforms.
Le Devoir has a good timeline of the story and the Journal put up a photo essay recently.
Incidentally, unless Wikipedia has missed a trick, James Cross is still alive at 98.
Jack 20:57 on 2020-09-27 Permalink
Cross was Irish and like many Irishmen did not support Ireland’s neutrality in the face of Nazism. So when freedom needed defending he enlisted in the British Army. Oddly his primary kidnapper, and current columnist with the Journal de Montreal, Jacques Lanctôt, had a connection to World War II also. His father was one of Adrien Arcand’s lieutenants and was a fascist who supported Hitler.
Kate 21:36 on 2020-09-27 Permalink
Jack, that’s quite a study in contrasts.
Jack 08:47 on 2020-09-28 Permalink
Oddly the other kidnappers, the Cossette-Trudel’s spawned the head of the anti maskers in Quebec. Alexis who has earnestly declared that Justin Trudeau is a satanist and a pedophile, however he did not say anything about his socks.