Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asked that flags flown at half-staff in May after more 200 children's remains were found buried at what was once Canada’s largest Indigenous residential school.

In the gruelling 1964 quest for a national flag, the red-and-white and maple leaf motifs found their way onto numerous submissions from organizations and citizens across Canada — notably the Pearson ...

The Maple Leaf made the cut for the Canadian flag because it had spent decades as an organic symbol of Canada. The Maple Leaf Forever was an early patriotic anthem, and in both world wars the ...

The argument dragged on for six months, generated more than 270 windy speeches, produced the longest continuous session of Parliament in Canadian history, and all but divided a nation. Last week ...

Andrew Potter is the author of On Decline: Stagnation, Nostalgia, and Why Every Year is the Worst One Ever. Is the flag of Canada that flies over the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill, along with ...

Keep reading for a background on our national flag and then scroll down to take the quiz. ... On February 15, 1965, Canada's official flag was raised for the first time on Parliament Hill.

The Harper government has announced plans to retire the red and white maple leaf as Canada’s national flag and replace it with the iconic Tim Hortons logo.

Not so long after the flag was adopted, Canada hosted the world for Expo 67 in Montreal, on the 100th anniversary of Confederation. "This was a really big thing because the world was now coming to ...

On Canada Day, some citizens were wary of raising the national flag, now also associated with weeks of protests against pandemic mandates. By Vjosa Isai Whether you were in Surrey, British ...