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  <title>Does anyone remember Nathan Phillips?</title>
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  <description>You may have skated, strolled, protested, or celebrated in a square with his name. But do you know who he was?</description>
  <content:encoded><![CDATA[One of the most important and trailblazing public figures in the history of Ontario’s capital city died 50 years ago. You hear his name all the time, because the square in front of Toronto City Hall is named after him. Protestors, demonstrators, ice skaters, politicians, city employees, tourists, Stanley...]]></content:encoded>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:10:52 EST</pubDate>
  <dc:creator>Steve Paikin</dc:creator>
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  <title>How ordinary Ontarians rallied to protect their homes from the threat of German invasion</title>
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  <description>During the Second World War, 70,000 Ontarians heeded the call to protect their communities. </description>
  <content:encoded><![CDATA[When Canadians felt under threat of invasion during the Second World War, ordinary citizens mobilized to protect the home front, creating a civil defence corps of almost 280,000 people. Training after work and on weekends, men and women rallied to join the Air Raid Precaution program to learn how to...]]></content:encoded>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 06:50:48 EST</pubDate>
  <dc:creator>Karen Black</dc:creator>
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  <title>How a convention in Chatham helped spark the American Civil War</title>
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  <description>John Brown held a meeting to discuss liberating slaves via a guerrilla war — just before his infamous raid on Harpers Ferry.</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 07:14:38 EST</pubDate>
  <dc:creator>Jamie Bradburn</dc:creator>
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