Just over a week ago, an Ottawa-based non-profit organization — the Rideau Institute — announced plans to hand out white poppies at a local Remembrance Day ceremony. The organization says the white poppies are meant to promote peace and stand as alternative to the red poppy.Continue...
Students at the University of Ottawa have reinvigorated a debate over the symbolism of red and white poppies — denoting the red poppy as promoting war, and not peace.
