Not sure where to put these, but I think this qualifies as "news."
So historically, the Canadian Army has gotten a bad rap for its performance in the Second World War - particularly in North-Western Europe, which is strange given the disproportionate contribution of Canada - which at the time had a population of only around 10 million people.
Robert Engen, a McGill PhD, has recently contributed excellent new research demonstrating that the Canadians' poor reputation was mainly the result of dismissive American and British senior officers, who really viewed the Canadians as a colonial army, even into the 1940s.
Engen demonstrates that the Canadian Army was highly effective, particularly in the early days on the Normandy Invasion where "bite and hold" tactics inflicted significant casualties on the German Panzer counterattacks, which enabled the Americans to break-through, ending the Battle of Normandy.
Check out both titles. Great history.
Canadians Under Fire
Strangers in Arms