Remembrance Day Canada

• ‘Forever in their debt’: Remembrance Day commemorations honour fallen soldiers, veterans

  This year will mark a full return to normalcy after COVID-19 forced various changes to remembrance ceremonies over the past two years.

  Canada

  Nov 11, 2022
  
• Mom of last Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan chosen as Silver Cross Mother

  Byron Greff was a 28-year-old master corporal with the 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry based out of Edmonton.

  Canada

  Nov 1, 2022
  
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• Royal Canadian Legion launches new poppy campaign to modernize remembrance

  The Legion has scaled back the number of traditional poppy boxes at locations across the country where people can donate cash and receive a poppy pin.

  Canada

  Oct 28, 2022
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• ‘Some form of normalcy’: Veterans reconnect in Ottawa as Remembrance Day crowds return

  After COVID-19 forced Canadians to observe a very different Remembrance Day last year, crowds returned to Ottawa's National War Memorial in 2021 -- including the prime minister.

  Canada

  Nov 11, 2021
• Canadians asked to mask up at Remembrance Day ceremonies, says Royal Canadian Legion

  Some restrictions and changes will nonetheless remain in place at Remembrance Day ceremonies as COVID-19 continues to pose a threat.

  Canada

  Nov 11, 2021
• 100 Years of Poppies: From Flanders Fields to our lapels

  Anna Guérin convinced the Canadian Great War Veterans’ Association to adopt the poppy. One hundred years later it’s still worn on lapels leading up to Remembrance Day.

  Canada

  Nov 9, 2021
• Remembrance Day 2021: What will it take to raise the flag?

  The discovery of the unmarked burial sites has forced a national reckoning over the horrors of the residential school system and the government's treatment of Indigenous people.

  Canada

  Nov 3, 2021
• Fewer Canadians plan to wear poppies this Remembrance Day, poll finds

  Fewer people plan to participate in Remembrance Day ceremonies or wear poppies this year, according to a poll from Historica Canada.

  Canada

  Nov 10, 2020
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• Whole Foods will let staff wear poppies after firestorm over ‘disgraceful’ ban

  Ontario Premier Doug Ford is promising legislation to prohibit employers from poppy bans.

  Canada

  Nov 6, 2020
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• WATCH: Remembrance Day 2020: BC Remembers Special

  Officials asked people to observe Remembrance Day at home and watch the public ceremony online amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

  Canada

  Nov 4, 2020