Canada flag

The repairs are expected to happen next week, Wilson said. Canada Day celebrations will be ongoing throughout the day in the city's downtown. Fireworks are set ...

You can also submit photos, videos or news tips to the newsroom and be entered to win a monthly prize draw. We won't censor or delete comments unless they contain off-topic statements or links, unnecessary vulgarity, false facts, spam or obviously fake profiles. The City of Kelowna will not be flying a Canadian flag this weekend due to an issue with the flag pole at city hall.

As convoy protests return to the nation's capital ahead of Canada Day, some Canadians say they want to reclaim the symbolism of the Maple Leaf from the ...

He put a flag on his own car and posted an image of it as a call to action on social media. "If you're not happy with the prime minister, if you're not happy with politics, then vote. Who is that person inside that car?'" said Fakih, a Lebanese immigrant to Canada and CEO of Paramount Fine Foods. He says he feels the flag, and its association with the protesters, sends the wrong message. "From my perspective, the flag has more meaning now because it represents patriotism and freedom." They desecrate, in my view, the flag by using it somehow as a false flag," said Lloyd Axworthy, a former Liberal foreign affairs minister. "It sort of hit home to me that our beautiful flag had been hijacked as their symbol of protest," Crapnell said. Jason Kowalyshyn of Take Action Canada, a group opposed to vaccine mandates and COVID-related restrictions, is travelling from Hamilton, Ont., to be in Ottawa this weekend. It's also a painful symbol for many Indigenous people. At his wife's behest, so as not to cast aspersions on all truckers, he added a misspelled Freedom Convoy logo on the truck. Mount it on your car. He says he's shipped more than 1,600 stickers nationwide.

It wasn't that long ago the Maple Leaf flag was a mostly inoffensive, and occasionally inspiring, symbol of Canadian national pride, writes columnist Max ...

Now, more than ever, we need things that pull us out of our self-imposed silos and create a sense of shared understanding and identity. And it’s been that spirit of co-operation and mutual benefit that helped pull us through the COVID-19 pandemic in better shape than more individualistic countries and cultures. But there was a clear difference between the patriotism our national flag inspired and the more boisterous and aggressive brand that prevails south of the border.

The blank canvas of our Maple Leaf flag had benefits and perils alike.

So the maple leaf and its flag came out of it all a little less innocent. I heard and read everywhere people saying that this was a misuse of the flag. There is a certain innocence in all of this. Can they take ownership of the flag and somehow desecrate its innocence or its non-political imagery? And after all, it is another Canadian cliché that we have a surplus of nature. Green is not the beloved Canadian colour of nature. Our reality is that through myriad political battles we ended up with a cheery flag evoking nature. A tree leaf and a bright colour — perhaps a Liberal colour, but we opted from the beginning to ignore that. And, from a mythological point of view, at least in central and eastern Canada, autumn is thought of as the primary Canadian season. It’s nice to have a nice flag. What do we know about the idea behind the Canadian flag? To mark this Canada Day, the Star asked a series of Canadian writers for their thoughts on what the red-and-white maple-leaf flag symbolizes in our complex modern era.

In the wake of last year's discoveries of unmarked graves at residential schools and the prominent displays of the Canadian flag during 'Freedom Convoy' ...

This was a flag that to many Indigenous people was a symbol of colonialism.” A recent survey shows nearly 50 per cent of Canadians who rent expect to do so forever. But considering Canada’s poor track record in making concrete steps towards reconciliation, many Indigenous people have said that the Canadian flag does not convey a sense of belonging. Two of Canada's largest airlines announced steps this week to cope with delays, cancellations and service issues. A recent survey shows nearly 50 per cent of Canadians who rent expect to do so forever. “I think [the flag] can be a uniting symbol again, but I think right now it's a symbol of, ‘we've got a lot of work to do’,” she said. “[The] intention was to associate their [the protesters’] goals and objectives, their values with Canadian patriotism and therefore proclaim that those ideas, their sort of fundamentalist notion of freedom, is singularly Canadian, uniquely Canadian,” Pass said. “So for over 30 years, this is a flag that flew over residential schools. Twelve per cent of respondents said Canada Day should be strictly for reflection on the country’s shortcomings. But months after the ‘Freedom Convoy’ forced downtown Ottawa to a standstill, with Canadian flags billowing from trucks and prominently displayed in protest crowds, some Canadians are reconsidering what the flag means to them. “We haven't had that to the same extent until fairly recently.” “[On] Canada Day, particularly in the nation's capital, we see flags all over the place.

This Canada Day holiday is sparking cries to reclaim the Canadian flag from the so-called “freedom movement" that occupied Ottawa last winter and continues ...

“This Canada Day, July 1, calls for a thunderous show of appreciation for the country we live in. You can also submit photos, videos or news tips to the newsroom and be entered to win a monthly prize draw. Get out there, display lots and lots of flags big and small: maple leaf hats, shirts, stickers, etc.” “It’s not going to change because, all of a sudden, it’s become a symbol. If you want change, you go to polls and vote them out.” Someone said: ‘Do you do this for the movement?’ No. Have you ever heard of Falkland?” It’s been there since the early 1990s, inspired by Fran Nikon and her “I Care Canada” campaign. Nikon died in 2015 but the flag is still illuminated at night. “Most Canadians felt both sadness and disgust towards the disrespectful use of our cherished Canadian flag,” she wrote. “If this is the highlight of your life so far, then I truly pity you." We will challenge you and it starts with taking back our flag.” “They said I don’t’ know what I’m talking about, it’s their flag too, they can do whatever they want.

The City of Kelowna has made temporary adjustments to the flag pole and the flag has been restored at the top of the mast. Further repairs to the pole will ...