Employees at one of the fast-food giant's restaurants in Lethbridge were told that wearing poppies for Remembrance Day while working is banned.
This very line near the begining of the article would clearly indicate that simply the wearing of poppies is banned there. I don't see anywhere that MacDonalds is stating the wearing of TRADITIONAL poppies is banned. Perhaps, what they should have said was improperly secured poppies are banned and given an example for the kids to use. I think the writer of the article added the word traditional meaning traditional wearing of poppies rather than traditional poppies. Just because poppies fall out all the time, I usually keep replacements. It took me a bit of searching because the purchasing of black centered poppies has been mentioned. For a brief period, poppy centres were changed to green but people objected and wanted the traditional red with black poppies back. So, I have a poppy with a black centre and it has the usual straight pin. I also have two others in which I have removed the pin and replaced it with the Canadian Flag pin that I mentioned earlier.