All Canada goes to the polls this Monday for a plebiscite. ... The real question is how the 3,000,000 French Canadians will vote. In 1918 there were draft riots in the Province of Quebec; ...

Along with British youth opposing military conscription due to what they see as “elitist wars” and Canada’s current status with the U.S. as a defence “freeloader,” a looming question is ...

The issue of conscription or mandatory military service tore Canada apart during the First World War. Pictured here, soldiers standing by a sign denouncing men who did not sign up for the war.

Conscription returned in the Second World War, adding about 1.5 million people to the army, and was extended to women for the first time. It started with "limited" conscription in May 1939 - as ...