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Why white poppies are a good addition to your Remembrance Day
Opinions November 7, 2020by Meera Eragoda, Arts & Culture Editor If you pay even the slightest bit of attention to Remembrance Day every year, you will have noticed the red poppies that seemingly everybody wears. Lesser known, however, is the movement to wear white poppies in addition to red ones — a movement that I recently learned about and wish I had known about much sooner because it is more inclusive of all victims of war. Created in the United Kingdom in 1933 by the Women’s Cooperative Guild, white poppies were made to be a symbol of the anti-war movement in Britain. They…
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What does Remembrance Day mean to millennials?
EIC November 11, 2016Ninety-eight years ago, the “war to end all wars” came to an end. In this global conflict, Canada mobilized 620,000 soldiers. Of these soldiers, 20,000 were under the age of 18 when they volunteered. So many of these brave souls…
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