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The Canadian flag on Parliament Hill was flown at half-mast for the longest period in our history last year, to symbolically honour the Indigenous children who suffered and died at residential schools. But the flag is up again, and it looks like business as usual.
We can do more than just lower one symbol – we can change another symbol to better reflect our nation’s political and cultural ancestry.
In 1957, during the Suez crisis, the HMCS Magnificent arrived in the
