On Dec. 6, 1917, more than 1,700 people were killed when an explosives-laden French cargo ship, the Mont Blanc, collided with ...

(Cris Monetta/CBC) Fast forward to today, Durkee is watching the rise in incidents of antisemitism in Canada against the backdrop of the escalating war in the ... African Nova Scotian and more.

Nova Scotia, setting off a blast that devastated the Canadian city. It is noted as the most powerful human-made blast in history until the Hiroshima atomic bomb at the end of World War II.