Caleb Desnoyers of Team Canada and Emil Hemming of Finland skate after the puck in the first period of a Group B stage game during the 2026 IIHF World Junior Championship at Mariucci Arena in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Dec. 31, 2025 . Brad Rempel/Getty Images1/6/2026|Updated: 1/6/2026CommentaryFifty years ago, Czechoslovakia was experiencing a baby boom that blossomed in the wake of the Prague Spring when, for a few months, Czechs and Slovaks imprisoned behind the Iron Curtain toyed with the idea of democracy.Peter Menzies is a senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, an award winning journalist, and former vice-chair of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.Author’s Selected Articles
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