Two art heists, 50 years apart: expert says Canada is a ‘soft target’

OTTAWA — It’s not clear how they did it: was it a clandestine operation, carried out under the cloak of darkness? An elaborate ruse, designed to fool onlookers? Or something else?However it happened, it’s clear those who stole a world-famous portrait of Sir Winston Churchill from the Château Laurier planned the heist meticulously.It took more than eight months for anyone to realize the photo hanging from the wood-panelled walls of the Reading Lounge was a fake.“It w