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Is the Canadian Red Ensign an extremist symbol?

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The front page of a newsletter with the Red Ensign flag pictured. The publication's title is "The Canadian Intelligence Service." The masthead says this is volume 14, number 5, published in Flesherton, Ontario in June 1964. The words "The Canadian Red Ensign" are printed above the picture of the flag.

Forrest Pass Fifty-eight years ago today, the Canadian Red Ensign ceased to be the national flag. Yet in 2022, the Ensign unexpectedly became a subject of public discussion again.  Its occasional appearance during protests against public health measures, especially the “Freedom Convoy” occupation of downtown Ottawa in February, led some observers to point out the Ensign’s recent use as an… Read more »

The Canadian Flag was politicized long before the Freedom Convoy

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Forrest Pass The first time a Canadian maple leaf appeared on a flag, it was flown in the final days of a violent protest. At the Battle of Saint-Eustache in 1837, Patriote fighters carried a white banner charged with a Maskinongé fish, pinecones, the initials “C” and “JB” (for “Canada” and “Jean-Baptiste” respectively), and a branch of green maple leaves…. Read more »