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Re: Remembrance Day
by Tazzer Wed 13 Nov 2019, 2:40 pm
“Ye broke faith”: Toronto cenotaph graffiti inspired by “In Flanders Field” | David Menzies
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Re: Remembrance Day
by Armoured Wed 13 Nov 2019, 8:49 pm
Caught on cam: Man steals poppy box from Sask. drug store
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Re: Remembrance Day
by SniperGod Fri 15 Nov 2019, 1:49 pm
Suspect cites Don Cherry’s firing as part of motive behind Toronto cenotaph vandalism
By Ryan Rocca . Global News . Posted November 15, 2019
A suspect accused of spray-painting Toronto‘s Old City Hall cenotaph shortly after Remembrance Day said that Don Cherry’s firing partly motivated the vandalism.
The phrase “Ye broke faith with us” was spray-painted across the front and back of the monument, located at Bay and Queen streets, sometime Tuesday morning, police said.
On Friday, police said Toronto resident Thomas Christian Zaugg, 33, was arrested and charged with two counts of mischief.
Global News identified a post on Thursday from the suspect’s Facebook account claiming responsibility for the vandalism. Along with the post was a video in which the suspect, speaking to the camera, voices criticism towards various Canadian politicians.
Among a number of topics, the written post was critical of Don Cherry‘s firing from Hockey Night in Canada, as well as Toronto Mayor John Tory and Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie.
Zaugg appeared in court Friday morning.
The Crown raised concerns regarding Zaugg’s mental health, saying he has schizophrenia.
He is also known to police, the Crown said.
Zaugg was later released on bail after a surety came forward.
In an interview with Global News Radio Friday afternoon, Cherry said he was unaware of the whole case.
The vandalism was an apparent reference to the line, “If ye break faith with us who die,” in the last stanza of John McCrae’s poem, “In Flanders Fields.”
When the spray-paint was discovered Tuesday, wreaths and poppies were still at the base of the monument from the Remembrance Day ceremony the day before.
The vandalism, which has since been removed, drew wide condemnation, including from Mayor Tory and Premier Doug Ford.
“It’s disgraceful and unacceptable that someone would deface a public monument,” Tory said.
“There’s never any excuse for this kind of vandalism.”
Ford called the incident “disgusting” and “shameful.”
— With files from Oriena Vuong and Jamie Mauracher
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Re: Remembrance Day
by Spider Mon 18 Nov 2019, 8:22 am
Veterans deserve more respect from all Canadians
Chris Nelson • For The Calgary Herald • Published Nov 18, 2019
Lest we forget isn’t much of a challenge to the majority of native-born Canadians.
All you need to do is drop a toonie in a box once a year, stick a fake flower in your lapel and know that Vimy united the nation, we were there at Juno Beach and a bunch of Canadians once fought and died for our values and we should honour them.
That’s about it. Not much to remember at all, is it?
Then, once you’ve finished mouthing John McCrae’s poem, you can get on with life, as we do after making that obligatory call to mom on Mother’s Day after popping a sweetly worded card in the mail.
So when TV hockey commentator Don Cherry lambastes immigrants for not showing vets respect he might ponder how much respect those born in Canada show past and present members of our Forces, outside of those few days marking the Armistice, 101 years ago.
Not much would be the answer.
Which is why, for example, most people haven’t a clue that a majority of the Canadian Corps that fought for the first time under a countryman’s command at Vimy Ridge were actually immigrants.
Yes, more than half of those 15,000 troops in the four divisions were born in the United Kingdom. But then again that’s hardly surprising because Canada itself didn’t declare war on Germany but entered automatically, as its foreign policy was the concern of Great Britain in 1914. At least we waited a week before doing similar in September 1939.
And, as for the First World War being nation-building: that’s a crock, too. It almost split this country in two.
As deaths mounted, enthusiasm waned and recruits dwindled. So thoughts turned to conscription and moves in 1917 to make that government policy led to deadly riots in Quebec, many citizens of that province not surprisingly believing this was a British war. Why should they fight when no one was actually bombarding Montreal? (Imagine a Coach’s Corner commentary on that.)
Still, the Conscription Crisis did lead to Canadian women getting the federal vote, as Prime Minister Robert Borden first opened the franchise door to mothers, wives and sisters of men fighting overseas, believing they’d vote for his party as opposed to the hopelessly split Liberals. It worked and the Unionist Party won. Women’s suffrage never looked back.
Wow. Who’d imagine history could be so convoluted? Likely not Cherry, who waxes lyrical about D-Day landings but probably knows squat about the months following in Normandy. He probably thinks the Falaise Gap is something to do with a Canadiens forward’s missing front teeth.
That’s what is annoying about this nasty “us and them” argument, sparked by Cherry’s comments about immigrants coming to Canada to dine on milk and honey but rarely wearing a poppy.
Someone arriving from the Philippines — that country supplying the most immigrants last year — at least has a good reason in being ignorant of Canadian history, having being educated elsewhere. But people born here can’t use that excuse, if they were asked what was transpiring 75 years ago across the Scheldt. (Don’t hold your breath for an answer.)
A few weeks ago, I was in Phoenix airport and watched current and former servicemen and women using a special lounge exclusive to them. Earlier I’d visited a nearby museum where the entrance fees specified that veterans get in free. How often do you see such gestures in Canada?
Sure, we roll up with a few tins of baked beans at Remembrance time for the veterans’ food bank, but if we really cared there’d be no need for such annual grovelling because we’d look after those people properly all year round.
Remembrance Day is at best tokenism and at worst hypocrisy. So before deriding immigrants, all Canadians should learn much more about this country’s history.
Chris Nelson is a regular columnist for the Calgary Herald.
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Re: Remembrance Day
by Marshall Tue 03 Dec 2019, 4:33 pm
The Jewish origins of the poppy
December 3, 2019 By Rochelle Carr Burns
December 3, 2019 By Rochelle Carr Burns
While all the shouting about who was or wasn’t wearing a poppy this year on Nov. 11 continues, there is a softer, kinder – and Jewish – backstory to the red flower we wear on Remembrance Day. It’s the story of Lillian Freiman, a Jewish-Canadian shero, who became known as the “Poppy Lady” to all Canadians.
It all began when the First World War broke out in 1914. Freiman, already a hard-working community volunteer, opened her spacious Ottawa home to help the war effort. She set up 30 sewing machines so that her sewing circle could make blankets and clothes for Canadian soldiers. Later, after reading John McCrae’s famous poem, “In Flanders Fields” (“In Flanders fields the poppies blow …”), Freiman was propelled to make the poppy a symbol of remembrance.
In 1921, after the war, her sewing circle began producing poppies. Its initial sole purpose was to remember those soldiers who died in the First World War, so the rest of Canada could enjoy a life of peace and security. And she was well aware of the immense pride that existed then among all Canadians in all the service people who fought in such bloody battles as Vimy Ridge and Passchendaele. With the help of the Royal Canadian Legion, of which she was one of the founders and the first female honorary life member, poppies took off. To this day, they stand as the symbol of all Canadian soldiers who gave their lives to keep Canada free and safe.
Quickly, poppies became a very pragmatic and direct link to returning soldiers, as well. With the force of her indomitable will, Frieman also created the Vetcraft Shops in 1919. These places employed returning veterans to make such things as furniture and toys. It gave the veterans some income and an after-the-war purpose in life. In 1923, poppy making moved from Freiman’s living room to Vetcraft Shops, which eventually morphed into the Royal Canadian Legion. To this day, the Legion is legally the sole producer of poppies. That income still goes to fund all things dealing with veterans.
While her poppies were gaining ground in Canada, Europe was still smouldering from the horrific losses and turmoil of the First World War. That led Frieman, in 1921, to help bring about 150 Jewish war orphans from Ukraine to Canada. Her efforts in this area became very personal: one orphan, 12-year-old Gladys Rozovsky, was adopted by Freiman and her businessman husband, A.J. Freiman, joining the couple’s three birth children.
In addition to her military contribution, Lillian Freiman made time to found Canadian Hadassah WIZO (the women’s arm of the World International Zionist Organization), along with her Toronto friend Ida Siegel. Freiman became the group’s first Canadian president in 1919 and remained president until her death in 1940.
She plunged into this new position with the same fervour as she did producing poppies, crisscrossing the country and visiting nearly every community where Jewish-Canadians lived. With her tenacious zeal and personal persuasive powers, by 1925, Canadian Hadassah WIZO had 4,500 women in 68 chapters, all throwing tenacious support behind a Jewish state for the increasing numbers of displaced Jews across Europe.
Freiman, the fifth of 11 children, followed in the footsteps of her father. Moses Bilsky fled the pogroms in Lithuania for Canada in 1845 and eventually married Pauline Reich. He was a noted philanthropist and supporter of a Jewish homeland. At one point, Freiman’s childhood home in Ottawa was also used as a synagogue, until her father re-established the Adath Jeshurun congregation in a building of its own. He even travelled to New York to acquire a Torah for the congregation.
If that wasn’t enough for the Poppy Lady, Frieman also gave her powerful support to such organizations as Big Sisters, Salvation Army, Protestant Infants’ Home, Amputations Association of Great War Veterans of Canada, Ladies Hebrew Benevolent Society, Joan of Arc Society and Girl Guides Association. For her volunteerism to Canada, Freiman was awarded the Order of the British Empire by King George V in 1934. She was designated a Person of National Historic Significance in 2008 by the Canadian government for being “a gifted organizer and philanthropist who worked to improve the health and welfare of her fellow citizens.”
Quite a Canadian. Quite a shero. Quite a Jew.
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Re: Remembrance Day
by Sandman Wed 22 Jan 2020, 8:07 am
Politicians vote to restrict parades leading up to Remembrance Day
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Re: Remembrance Day
by Vexmax Tue 04 Feb 2020, 8:52 am
Meadow Lake honours veterans and first responders all year, not just on Remembrance Day
Feb 3, 2020
In Meadow Lake every day is Remembrance Day.
George Wood, banner chair with Northern Light Masonic Lodge told meadowlakeNOW the partnership with the Royal Canadian Legion #76 and the City of Meadow Lake is what helped spearhead the banner program.
The 48 banners hang from streetlights and fly along Highway 55 between Green Lake and Meadow Lake to honour the sacrifice of past and present veterans and armed forces. Each banner carries the name and photo of a soldier local to the area.
A number commemorate veterans of the Flying Dust band, Wood said. He added if anyone in the community has a family member who served or continues to serve, they are welcome to participate in the program at a $200 cost.
The project recently marked its third anniversary and the idea for it came from a similar program in New Brunswick.
“We guaranteed them for five years where we would put them up and down every spring and fall, though after the first year, people who had them up wanted them to stay up,” Wood said. “We got permission from the city to leave them up as long as they didn’t interfere with Christmas lights.”
Dennis Baldinus, treasurer with legion branch #76 and the branch’s former president, said he feels a closeness to veterans in the community as his father also served in the Second World War as a German interpreter.
“To me, it’s not the individuals as it is the entire group of veterans. We don’t have an understanding of what these guys went through,” Baldinus said.
He said he thinks of the mental health sacrifices soldiers made as many — scarred by witnessing many traumatic and life-threatening events — returned home with PTSD. Honouring that sacrifice extends beyond Nov. 11, he said.
“Our Remembrance Days in Meadow Lake are bar-none, probably some of the best in the country as far as our population is concerned and there are still a lot of people that feel the same way,” he said.
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Re: Remembrance Day
by Oliver Wed 07 Oct 2020, 3:43 pm
Veterans will be remembered 'a little bit differently' in Yukon this year, amid COVID-19 restrictions
Steve Silva · CBC News · Posted: Oct 07, 2020
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Re: Remembrance Day
by Maxstar Thu 08 Oct 2020, 8:26 am
Royal Canadian Legion introduces a new way to commemorate Remembrance Day at the National War Memorial
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Re: Remembrance Day
by Hammercore Mon 12 Oct 2020, 3:41 pm
Remembrance Day 2020 will be unlike any other
COVID-19 has cast its influence on Remembrance Day Services for November 11, 2020.
Dan Archer . Oct 11, 2020
COVID-19 has cast its influence on Remembrance Day Services for November 11, 2020. Regardless of the regulations brought by public health officials to prevent the spread of the virus, we must take the time to remember our veterans on the 11th month, the 11th day and the 11th hour just as we did every other year before COVID-19's arrival.
In a letter dated August 2020, the Legion Dominion Command said “The importance of a live ceremony honouring our veterans and their sacrifices is considered paramount by the Legion, especially during the 75th anniversary of the Second World War.”
The 2020 National Remembrance Day Ceremony will be performed live at the National War Memorial on Nov. 11, 2020.
However, the Legion Dominion Command recommended branches of local Royal Canadian Legions across the country to follow provincial and federal directions on the limits of outside and indoor gatherings. Two-metre distances were ruled as necessary at all events in Canada. Cadets and Juniors were prohibited from attending ceremonies anywhere in the country.
This year, even members of the Canadian Armed Forces received limitations on the numbers of personnel allowed to drill together, including during national parades honouring the veterans on Remembrance Day.
On this note, there won’t be any CAF or veteran parades for Remembrance Day 2020, which is tragic.
The alterations to this year’s Remembrance Day are unhappy ones, yet these regulations are important to follow as a second wave of the virus has appeared in different parts of Canada since the late summer and early fall.
The National Remembrance Day Ceremony is planned to be stripped down to four armed sentries and one sentinel (Nursing Sister) at the National Monument. There’ll be a trumpeter to play the lament, but the 2020 Colour Party will be reduced to the Canadian, Legion, Union Jack, Red Ensign, NATO and UN flags. A Vice Regal Party will stand in front to face the memorial with wreaths.
There will be wreath bearers at the national service in Ottawa and the media are invited too, but there won’t be any spectators at this year’s Remembrance Day Services in Ottawa.
For the 2020 Remembrance Ceremony, wreath bearers across Canada were asked to preplace their wreaths at their respective monuments and cenotaphs or leave them after the ceremonies concluded.
In a sad but hopeful conclusion, the letter from the Legion Dominion Command read: “The modifications we as Legionnaires will experience in our planning and conduct of a Remembrance Day Ceremony are difficult, but not insurmountable. Following the local area restrictions imposed due to the pandemic needs to be paramount in concern of the safety of all involved. However, with a reduction in people at the ceremony location, be it the National Memorial or your local cenotaph, (…) an adjustment in the format will allow us to honour our veterans and the sacrifices made regardless of the pandemic.”
Signed, DEC, Provincial Executive Directors of all Royal Canadian Legion Branches.
In previous years, the venue for Assiniboia’s Remembrance Day Services in Assiniboia has usually been St. George’s Parish Hall.
Since July 28, 2020, indoor and outdoor gatherings in Saskatchewan had a maximum of 30 people, providing a two-metre separation could be sustained at all times between individuals who weren’t in the same household.
The 2020 Remembrance Ceremony in town will be held at the cenotaph outside of the Asaskan Complex starting at 10:30-45 a.m. on November 11 with a limited number of people allowed to attend.
Because the wreaths will either being preplaced or left after the ceremony, this year’s gathering held at the cenotaph located near the Assiniboia Town Office will also be much shorter than in preceding years.
The limitations on outdoor and indoor gatherings, along with social distancing measures, have transformed important annual events across Canada, including Remembrance Day.
Regardless of the 2020 pandemic, Canadians shouldn’t forget to show their respect for our veterans this year on November 11 as in times past, but public safety must be kept in mind too.
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Re: Remembrance Day
by Warrior Fri 16 Oct 2020, 11:41 am
'A time of collective lament': Perley-Rideau veterans planning to celebrate Remembrance Day virtually
"It forces you to ask, what is its purpose? This is ultimately a memorial service. It's a time of collective lament, of collective grief."
Blair Crawford . Published Oct 16, 2020
There will be no Remembrance Day parade this year at Canada’s National War Memorial, no jet fighter fly past, no ranks of white-haired veterans wrapped in blankets against the chill. The public is being asked to stay home.
But while the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the Royal Canadian Legion to mute the national Nov. 11 ceremonies, staff at the Perley and Rideau Veterans’ Health Centre are planning their own commemoration, one brought into sharp focus by the global health crisis.
“It’s given us the opportunity to reflect on the day itself,” said Jessie Stephenson, a spiritual health practitioner at the Perley who has been planning since August for Remembrance Day. “That’s a really beautiful thing to do. It’s a re-grounding and a re-centring.
“It forces you to ask, what is its purpose? This is ultimately a memorial service. It’s a time of collective lament, of collective grief.”
The Legion, which is responsible for organizing the national ceremony, has vastly scaled down this year’s service. Parades are out. The colour party is reduced to just the Canadian Flag, the Legion Flag, the Union Jack, Red Ensign and the flags of NATO and the United Nations. Participants will be masked and physically distanced. While armed sentries will be posted at the four corners of the cenotaph, along with one nursing sister, the wreaths will be pre-placed.
Roads will be closed around the site to allow for proper distancing and the public will be encouraged to watch the event on TV or live-streamed on the internet. Past Remembrance Day crowds in Ottawa have topped 30,000. This year, health regulations limit outdoor gatherings to 100.
Veterans Affairs estimates there are just 33,200 Canadian Second World War veterans alive and their average age is 94. There are another 6,500 veterans of the Korean War; average age 87. All are among the highest risk population for COVID-19 infection.
The Perley and Rideau ceremony will mirror the national one and will take place at the cenotaph on the health centre’s grounds, conducted by the bare minimum of people: a piper, a bugler, one representative of the veteran residents and a handful of others required for readings. Residents can have one family member or caregiver with them to watch the event on Facebook Live in their rooms. There will be small, physically distanced gatherings in each wing for those without caregivers to share and assist. A feed of the national ceremony in downtown Ottawa will also be available.
It’s a far cry from the normal gathering of more than 800 who fill the hospital’s cafeteria for Remembrance Day in a normal year.
“It’s a very scaled down group,” Stephenson said. “We asked ourselves, who’s essential? Who really needs to be there?”
For that, organizers looked at the original ceremonies, held to commemorate the Nov. 11, 1918 armistice that ended the First World War.
“It has a set structure that was established long, long ago. We don’t have to reinvent the wheel. We just have to hold on to what is most important and figure out how to share that in a way that’s safe and follows all our distancing protocols,” she said.
Some 150 Second World War and Korean War veterans live at the Perley and Remembrance Day is a time of keen reflection for many of them, she said.
“These guys are the carriers of our collective memory. That’s why the Perley is such a special place at this time.”
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Re: Remembrance Day
by SniperGod Wed 28 Oct 2020, 4:00 pm
Small town Canadian legion finding new ways to honour veterans
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Re: Remembrance Day
by Ravenson Mon 02 Nov 2020, 8:08 am
Remembrance Day: National Silver Cross Mother honours late son and submariner Lt. Chris Saunders
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Re: Remembrance Day
by Kizzer Mon 02 Nov 2020, 3:44 pm
Tim Hortons
offering free hot beverages to veterans and Canadian Armed Forces members on Remembrance Day
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Nov 02, 2020, 06:00 ET
https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/tim-hortons-r-offering-free-hot-beverages-to-veterans-and-canadian-armed-forces-members-on-remembrance-day-843427386.html
Legion concerned that poppy campaign may result in fewer donations for vets this year
Muriel Draaisma · CBC News · Posted: Nov 01, 2020
offering free hot beverages to veterans and Canadian Armed Forces members on Remembrance Day NEWS PROVIDED BY
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Nov 02, 2020, 06:00 ET
https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/tim-hortons-r-offering-free-hot-beverages-to-veterans-and-canadian-armed-forces-members-on-remembrance-day-843427386.htmlLegion concerned that poppy campaign may result in fewer donations for vets this year
Muriel Draaisma · CBC News · Posted: Nov 01, 2020
Wayne Powell, deputy district commander and poppy chairman for the legion's District D, which encompasses Toronto, says of the pandemic: 'It's really handcuffed us in terms of running a poppy campaign as a normal poppy campaign.' (CBC)
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