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1 week ago | 
legionmagazine.com | Stephen Thorne
Stephen J. Thorne An award-winning journalist, editor and photographer. He has reported on the downfall of South African apartheid and from war fronts in Kosovo and Afghanistan. All Posts
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2 weeks ago | 
legionmagazine.com | Stephen Thorne
Stephen J. Thorne An award-winning journalist, editor and photographer. He has reported on the downfall of South African apartheid and from war fronts in Kosovo and Afghanistan. All Posts
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3 weeks ago | 
legionmagazine.com | Stephen Thorne
Tariffs. Annexation. Invasion? Anything and everything, it seems, is on the table when it comes to U.S. President Donald Trump and Canada’s future. Trump has said he aims to bring economic pressure down on America’s long-time friend, ally and trading partner, and force the country to cede itself to the United States. “Canada only works as a state,” he said during the initial weeks of a 47th presidency laced with lies, disinformation and mixed messages.
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1 month ago | 
legionmagazine.com | Stephen Thorne
With U.S. President Donald Trump threatening to tariff Canada into submission as the “51st state,” 92 per cent of Americans surveyed by the Angus Reid Institute said they had no, or only qualified, support for a merger. Sixty per cent of 2,005 Americans questioned online between Feb. 27 and March 3, 2025, said they had no interest in Canada joining the United States, while another 32 per cent said they would support the idea only if Canadians wanted it.
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1 month ago | 
legionmagazine.com | Stephen Thorne
Ukrainian chemist Artur Mylin was working at the Academy of Sciences in Kyiv when Russian forces invaded his homeland on Feb. 24, 2022. Mylin, with a PhD in chemical sciences, two lucrative grants and a president’s scholarship under his belt, had been planning to move to Canada, home to the world’s third-largest population of Ukrainian heritage. “I wanted to move not because I don’t love my country, but to see the world and gain some experience,” he said.
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1 month ago | 
legionmagazine.com | Stephen Thorne
Stephen J. Thorne An award-winning journalist, editor and photographer. He has reported on the downfall of South African apartheid and from war fronts in Kosovo and Afghanistan. All Posts
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1 month ago | 
legionmagazine.com | Stephen Thorne
Stephen J. Thorne An award-winning journalist, editor and photographer. He has reported on the downfall of South African apartheid and from war fronts in Kosovo and Afghanistan. All Posts
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1 month ago | 
legionmagazine.com | Stephen Thorne
The Invictus Games aren’t about medal counts, country pride or, least of all, politics. There are no national anthems sung at opening or closing ceremonies, nor at any medal presentations or victory parties. And, so, what occurred at the conclusion of the joyous parade of nations that opened the seventh iteration of the Invictus Games at BC Place in Vancouver, coming when it did at a time of great tension between Canada and its neighbour and friend to the south, was all the more interesting.
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2 months ago | 
legionmagazine.com | Stephen Thorne
In 1984, Canadian soldiers visited a small, barren island in the middle of the Kennedy Channel between Greenland and Ellesmere Island. Jurisdiction over Hans Island had been the subject of a mild dispute between Canada and Denmark since 1973, when the two countries agreed to redefine their overlapping seabed boundaries in the area, leaving ownership of the 1.2-square-kilomentre rock in limbo. The soldiers didn’t arrive expecting a fight.
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2 months ago | 
legionmagazine.com | Stephen Thorne
Talk may be cheap but, when it comes to war, words matter. From declaration to surrender, wars begin and end with words: they provoke, commit, inspire, motivate, reassure and mislead. Mislead, indeed. Perhaps conflict’s most telling and well-known quotation is “the first casualty of war is the truth,” variously attributed to the Greek dramatist Aeschylus circa 550 BC, English writer Samuel Johnson in 1758, and U.S. Senator Hiram Warren Johnson in 1918. Regardless, truer words were never spoken.
