Happy Remembrance/Veterans Day
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Armistice Day | Meaning, 1918, & World War I | Britannica
Armistice Day, international holiday observed each year on November 11 to commemorate the end of World War I. The titular armistice was signed at 5:45 am on November 11, 1918, at Compiègne, in the region of Picardy, France. The agreement took effect at 11:00 am, thus officially ending the war on
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Nice sentiment, but it turned out the "War to End War". . . didn't.Armistice Day | Meaning, 1918, & World War I | Britannica
Armistice Day, international holiday observed each year on November 11 to commemorate the end of World War I. The titular armistice was signed at 5:45 am on November 11, 1918, at Compiègne, in the region of Picardy, France. The agreement took effect at 11:00 am, thus officially ending the war on
Lest we forget our veterans who served and died in foreign wars and, instead, focus on exaggerated slavery and past colonialism. Only in Toronto would we be as stupid and as insensitive as that? The City of Toronto at the Old City Hall Cenotaph Tuesday made sure that before we got to our war dead it was all about everything but them.
Before the bells rang at 11 a.m. on the 11th day on the 11th month — before the moment of silence or a rendition of the Last Post on this Remembrance Day — Aretha Phillip, the chief of protocol and external relations, passed the podium microphone over to two air cadets “to share the lands and ancestral acknowledgments with us.”
(She didn’t dare do it herself this year)
One of the cadets gave the traditional land acknowledgment. The other talked of people being brought here against their will as part of the “transatlantic slave trade.”
So much for remembrance, dignity and respect for the fallen Canadian troops of the First World War, the Second World War, the Korean War, Afghanistan, peacekeeping missions, and the Cold War.
Their tributes could wait.
The following is what was read out first. By the way, these are not the words of the young cadets. They were used to read this out. Those behind this travesty were hiding behind them. This should not have happened.
“We acknowledge the land we are meeting on as a traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabe and the Chippewa and Anishinaabe, and Haudenosaunee and Wendat people and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples,” said the first cadet. “We acknowledge that Toronto is covered by Treaty 13, signed with the Mississauga’s of the Credit and we also acknowledge the Williams treaties signed with multiple Mississauga and Chippewa bands.”
The second cadet continued: “We acknowledge all treaties peoples including those who came here as settlers, as migrants either in this generation or generations past and those who came here involuntarily, particularly those who were brought to these lands as a result of the transatlantic slave trade and slavery.”
It was so gross. It was like spitting on the graves of the soldiers right at the war memorial on the one annual day of remembrance.
There’s no excuse for talking about slavery and land acknowledgements on this day. None of the organizers of this day would have any freedoms if not for the very troops they were disrespecting. It was hard to move past this travesty.
It was like burning down a theatre but trying to stay around to watch the movie. It’s hard to get past what happened to then acknowledge the good parts of the ceremony.
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Before the bells rang at 11 a.m. on the 11th day on the 11th month — before the moment of silence or a rendition of the Last Post on this Remembrance Day — Aretha Phillip, the chief of protocol and external relations, passed the podium microphone over to two air cadets “to share the lands and ancestral acknowledgments with us.”
(She didn’t dare do it herself this year)
One of the cadets gave the traditional land acknowledgment. The other talked of people being brought here against their will as part of the “transatlantic slave trade.”
So much for remembrance, dignity and respect for the fallen Canadian troops of the First World War, the Second World War, the Korean War, Afghanistan, peacekeeping missions, and the Cold War.
Their tributes could wait.
The following is what was read out first. By the way, these are not the words of the young cadets. They were used to read this out. Those behind this travesty were hiding behind them. This should not have happened.
“We acknowledge the land we are meeting on as a traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabe and the Chippewa and Anishinaabe, and Haudenosaunee and Wendat people and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples,” said the first cadet. “We acknowledge that Toronto is covered by Treaty 13, signed with the Mississauga’s of the Credit and we also acknowledge the Williams treaties signed with multiple Mississauga and Chippewa bands.”
The second cadet continued: “We acknowledge all treaties peoples including those who came here as settlers, as migrants either in this generation or generations past and those who came here involuntarily, particularly those who were brought to these lands as a result of the transatlantic slave trade and slavery.”
It was so gross. It was like spitting on the graves of the soldiers right at the war memorial on the one annual day of remembrance.
There’s no excuse for talking about slavery and land acknowledgements on this day. None of the organizers of this day would have any freedoms if not for the very troops they were disrespecting. It was hard to move past this travesty.
It was like burning down a theatre but trying to stay around to watch the movie. It’s hard to get past what happened to then acknowledge the good parts of the ceremony.
WARMINGTON: Toronto spits on veterans' graves with land, slavery acknowledgements — Toronto Sun
Only in Toronto would people putting on a Remembrance Day ceremony on Nov. 11th be so crass as to make treaties and the slave trade take precedence over the fallen troops of Canada's foreign wars
Sad . Vote Liberal .Lest we forget our veterans who served and died in foreign wars and, instead, focus on exaggerated slavery and past colonialism. Only in Toronto would we be as stupid and as insensitive as that? The City of Toronto at the Old City Hall Cenotaph Tuesday made sure that before we got to our war dead it was all about everything but them.
Before the bells rang at 11 a.m. on the 11th day on the 11th month — before the moment of silence or a rendition of the Last Post on this Remembrance Day — Aretha Phillip, the chief of protocol and external relations, passed the podium microphone over to two air cadets “to share the lands and ancestral acknowledgments with us.”
(She didn’t dare do it herself this year)
One of the cadets gave the traditional land acknowledgment. The other talked of people being brought here against their will as part of the “transatlantic slave trade.”
So much for remembrance, dignity and respect for the fallen Canadian troops of the First World War, the Second World War, the Korean War, Afghanistan, peacekeeping missions, and the Cold War.
Their tributes could wait.
The following is what was read out first. By the way, these are not the words of the young cadets. They were used to read this out. Those behind this travesty were hiding behind them. This should not have happened.
“We acknowledge the land we are meeting on as a traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabe and the Chippewa and Anishinaabe, and Haudenosaunee and Wendat people and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples,” said the first cadet. “We acknowledge that Toronto is covered by Treaty 13, signed with the Mississauga’s of the Credit and we also acknowledge the Williams treaties signed with multiple Mississauga and Chippewa bands.”
The second cadet continued: “We acknowledge all treaties peoples including those who came here as settlers, as migrants either in this generation or generations past and those who came here involuntarily, particularly those who were brought to these lands as a result of the transatlantic slave trade and slavery.”
It was so gross. It was like spitting on the graves of the soldiers right at the war memorial on the one annual day of remembrance.
There’s no excuse for talking about slavery and land acknowledgements on this day. None of the organizers of this day would have any freedoms if not for the very troops they were disrespecting. It was hard to move past this travesty.
It was like burning down a theatre but trying to stay around to watch the movie. It’s hard to get past what happened to then acknowledge the good parts of the ceremony.
WARMINGTON: Toronto spits on veterans' graves with land, slavery acknowledgements — Toronto Sun
Only in Toronto would people putting on a Remembrance Day ceremony on Nov. 11th be so crass as to make treaties and the slave trade take precedence over the fallen troops of Canada's foreign wars
You mean they passed up the chance to say "Women were not permitted to serve except in subordinate, unappreciated, and largely unacknowledged roles?"Lest we forget our veterans who served and died in foreign wars and, instead, focus on exaggerated slavery and past colonialism. Only in Toronto would we be as stupid and as insensitive as that? The City of Toronto at the Old City Hall Cenotaph Tuesday made sure that before we got to our war dead it was all about everything but them.
Before the bells rang at 11 a.m. on the 11th day on the 11th month — before the moment of silence or a rendition of the Last Post on this Remembrance Day — Aretha Phillip, the chief of protocol and external relations, passed the podium microphone over to two air cadets “to share the lands and ancestral acknowledgments with us.”
(She didn’t dare do it herself this year)
One of the cadets gave the traditional land acknowledgment. The other talked of people being brought here against their will as part of the “transatlantic slave trade.”
So much for remembrance, dignity and respect for the fallen Canadian troops of the First World War, the Second World War, the Korean War, Afghanistan, peacekeeping missions, and the Cold War.
Their tributes could wait.
The following is what was read out first. By the way, these are not the words of the young cadets. They were used to read this out. Those behind this travesty were hiding behind them. This should not have happened.
“We acknowledge the land we are meeting on as a traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabe and the Chippewa and Anishinaabe, and Haudenosaunee and Wendat people and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples,” said the first cadet. “We acknowledge that Toronto is covered by Treaty 13, signed with the Mississauga’s of the Credit and we also acknowledge the Williams treaties signed with multiple Mississauga and Chippewa bands.”
The second cadet continued: “We acknowledge all treaties peoples including those who came here as settlers, as migrants either in this generation or generations past and those who came here involuntarily, particularly those who were brought to these lands as a result of the transatlantic slave trade and slavery.”
It was so gross. It was like spitting on the graves of the soldiers right at the war memorial on the one annual day of remembrance.
There’s no excuse for talking about slavery and land acknowledgements on this day. None of the organizers of this day would have any freedoms if not for the very troops they were disrespecting. It was hard to move past this travesty.
It was like burning down a theatre but trying to stay around to watch the movie. It’s hard to get past what happened to then acknowledge the good parts of the ceremony.
WARMINGTON: Toronto spits on veterans' graves with land, slavery acknowledgements — Toronto Sun
Only in Toronto would people putting on a Remembrance Day ceremony on Nov. 11th be so crass as to make treaties and the slave trade take precedence over the fallen troops of Canada's foreign wars
Damn! Clear chance pissed away!
But, congrats to you and pgs for turning it into a pissing-and-moaning thread.