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Category: Canadian Flag

Mistaken identity: Ottawa says British flag symbolizes world body

Posted on March 14, 2016March 16, 2016 by Wayne Adam

March 14, 2016–Toronto     Today is Commonwealth Day, highlighting an organization which has grown from days of empire to a group made up mostly of republics. Across Canada, the official nod to the day is to fly a flag — not the Commonwealth flag, the British flag. The federal government requires the Union Jack flown at…

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Put the Canadian flag first

Posted on February 12, 2016February 13, 2016 by Wayne Adam

February 11, 2016 –Toronto    As the Canadian flag turns 51 this Flag Day (Feb. 15), we urge Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly to honour it by erasing a rule that disgraces our proud banner, and thereby all of us. A federal decree says the Maple Leaf is inferior to the personal flags of the governor general,…

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Union Jack is just the tip of the flagpole

Posted on December 11, 2015February 4, 2016 by Wayne Adam

You’ll forgive Syrian refugees who arrived Friday if they’re a little confused about where they’ve landed. Ottawa ordered all federal facilities to fly the British flag on December 11–including at airports. It does so every year to mark the anniversary of the Statute of Westminster, the British act which finally recognized Canadian nationhood in 1931….

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