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Episode 300: The Hidden Powers Within Us May 06, 2026

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1917. With Black Canadians rejected at recruiting offices in suspiciously high numbers, a campaign emerges to form a distinctly black unit within the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
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Episode 299: Hostages of Our Good Faith Apr 29, 2026

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1917. After touring the battlefield at Vimy, Prime Minister Robert Borden determines that conscription is necessary to maintain the Canadian Corps, sparking Canada's most divisive debate since Confederation.
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Episode 298: Vimy Apr 22, 2026

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Spring 1917. All four divisions of the Canadian Corps work together for the first time, demonstrating a distinctively Canadian approach to the conundrum of trench warfare at Vimy Ridge.
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Episode 297: Only Limited By the Duration of the War Apr 15, 2026

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1916 Faced with war-time budget cuts, the Commissioner of Canada's National Parks system, James Harkin, sees an opportunity in labour provided by interned enemy aliens.
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Episode 296: What Am I To Do With My Name Apr 08, 2026

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1916. The residents of Berlin, Ontario face the challenge of being German-Canadians in a nation mobilized for war against Germany.
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Episode 295: The School of War Apr 01, 2026

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1916. After two years (and intense study of battlefield conditions), the Canadian Expeditionary Force begins its evolution from colonial auxiliary to vanguard of the British Imperial Army.
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Episode 294: The Greatest Attack in the History of the World Mar 25, 2026

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1916. The Newfoundland Regiment finds itself at the centre of the worst day in the history of the British Army.
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Episode 293: Unstable, Unliked, and Uneeded Mar 18, 2026

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1916. As the Canadian Expeditionary Force matures, its soldiers, officers, and (eventually) the politicians back in Ottawa come to realize it has outgrown its erratic creator, Militia Minister Sam Hughes.
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Episode 292: Let Manitoba Be First Mar 11, 2026

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1915. A group of writers, journalists and activists based in Winnipeg, score the first victory for Canada's women's suffrage movement.
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Episode 291: The War at Home Mar 04, 2026

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The Canadian economy, still reeling from a post-war recession, struggles to meet the production total war demands.
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