Lest we forget: Calgary’s 2024 Remembrance Day efforts
How Calgary is choosing to honour Remembrance Day this year
Tagged: remembrance day
Calgary cadets plant 100 trees to memorialize RCAF
By James Windler, Staff Writer This past October, Calgary’s Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) cadets planted 100 trees to memorialize the RCAF ahead of their 2024 centennial. The memorial, which is open to the...
What is going on for Remembrance Day within Calgary and MRU
Mikaela Delos Santos, News Editor Every Nov. 11, Canada and many other Commonwealth countries commemorate Remembrance Day to memorialize the soldiers that served during the first world war. While Remembrance Day is considered a...
Rescue Friends Christmas Market creates a space for Calgarians to support local
By Mackenzie Mason, Arts Editor COVID-19 has been hard on Calgary’s local businesses, and now more than ever, Calgarians need to be supporting local. The Rescue Friends Remembrance Day event and Christmas market was...
5 artistic ways to commemorate Remembrance Day this year
By Mackenzie Mason, Arts Editor Freedom is something that we’ve all been yearning for since the beginning of COVID-19. But, remembering why we have that freedom in the first place is so important on...
Reflecting on the past going forward: The significance of Remembrance Day
By Christian Kindrachuk, Staff Writer “There’s an old saying: ‘History repeats itself.’ If you don’t understand history, you run the risk of having to make the same mistakes again,” says Dave Love, president of...
Field of Crosses: MRU honours veterans before Remembrance Day
By Nathan Woolridge, News Editor This Remembrance Day marks the 100th anniversary of Canada’s Hundred Days. According to Veterans Affairs Canada, “battlefields of Europe were capped by a three-month stretch of victories at the...
Haunting war poem is given new passion in musical play
by Kevin Rushworth With each passing year, the “greatest of wars” slips further from public recollection. In four years, it will be the 100th anni- versary of the beginning of the First World War....
