Remembrance Day services cancelled
The Royal Canadian Legion has cancelled the annual Remembrance Day services in Whitehorse due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
The Royal Canadian Legion has cancelled the annual Remembrance Day services in Whitehorse due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
“Please be advised that due to the recent Yukon state of emergency and in the interest of public health, the Remembrance Day ceremony being held on the 11th of November at the CGC (Canada Games Centre) will be cancelled,” Joe Mewett, the president of the Whitehorse branch, said late this morning.
“After consultation with the CMOH (chief medical officer of health) office and the new guidelines that are now in place, we cannot hold this ceremony regardless of its importance,” Mewett added.
“As veterans, our primary objective has always been to keep the public safe and help when necessary or called upon.
“In this instance, due to the severity of the state of emergency, the Whitehorse Legion cannot hold this public event and risk exposure of the participants and spectators to COVID.
“We ask that you take time out of your day on the 11th to remember the veterans who sacrificed so much for this great country,” Mewett added.
In 2020, a small ceremony was held that was not open to the public due to the pandemic.
“All veterans, their families and friends will each remember in their own way,” said Mewett.
“It is unfortunate that we cannot get together as a community on this Remembrance Day, but please reach out to your fellow comrades, friends and family that may have a tough time on this day.
“It is important that we look out for one another and strive to keep each other safe and healthy.”
Carmacks’ planned ceremony has also been cancelled.
Comments (17)
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Vern Schlimbesser on Nov 14, 2021 at 8:32 am
Sincere thanks to the small but very smartly turned out and coordinated team from EMS who did a uniformed parade and tiny (Covid compliant) ceremony of respect.
I am proud to have these people in my community.
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drum on Nov 12, 2021 at 9:55 pm
I had two Grandads in the First World War and one lost his arm in France. My Dad served for 6 years in the Second World War in France, North Africa and Italy. He is gone now but I am sure he would say do whatever you have to do to stay safe. Whatever the Legion decided to do makes sense to me.
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BnR on Nov 11, 2021 at 12:08 pm
‘Our troops served so that we can put our own self interests over the greater good’ is the best remembrance day take there is.
Carry on.
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Dallas Schaber on Nov 11, 2021 at 11:31 am
Yup our troops died in the trenches on the field of battle…. the proverbial caca was hitting the fan and now the government says we should tuck our tails between our legs and hide from…… what…. the flu, a cold and covid, typical liberal government, the military has always suffered under a socialist liberal NDP government, this territory is in the dumps because of this government.
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unReal on Nov 11, 2021 at 6:45 am
Don't make COVID into a Remembrance Day battlefield!
Do you have to be in a crowd to remember our heroes? My father didn't spend 6 years in a German prisoner of war camp just for armchair commentators to distract from the obvious!
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JC on Nov 11, 2021 at 5:44 am
So veterans belonging to a veterans organization came out and said, "We think cancelling is a good idea," and all the mouth-foaming covid hoaxers and their ilk come out of the woodwork to scream about how this is disrespectful, and how dare they, etc...
Pathetic
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Josey Wales on Nov 10, 2021 at 11:31 am
Our political blowholes eagerly threw our fallen soldiers under the bus with this abhorrent disrespectful display of our first world freedoms so hard fought for during their great reset indoctrination program...I mean COvid power grab...dang it, concern for our public health and safety...
Says the Ministry of Communication and double speak...
I hold fallen soldiers the highest regard each day with who I am, my interest in actual history not the revisionist kind.
Should be seismic activity all over the globe from soldiers spinning in their graves, marked or still unknown...with the political tactics of the last few years and disdain our governments hold for the citizens of an alleged free first world...
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Wilf Carter on Nov 10, 2021 at 11:03 am
I had 7 family members in the Canadian forces and two uncles who served in the second world war and a grand father who served in first world war. There were many people in my community in NS who served in the second world war who did not come back.
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DA on Nov 10, 2021 at 10:41 am
Josie,
There wasn't community spread during the last election. Also, it's easy to enforce social distancing at the voting booths.
Those that "paid the price" would have been happy for us to stay home on November 11. There are many others ways to show respect and appreciation to our veterans.
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BnR on Nov 10, 2021 at 6:41 am
Josey, don’t comment when you’ve had a few, you’re even less coherent than usual.
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Nathan Living on Nov 9, 2021 at 9:26 pm
Right thing to do because of the age and vulnerability of many of the participants.
It's unfair to place blame in JT and SS, actually it's silly.
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veteran on Nov 9, 2021 at 8:43 pm
Thursday, November 11, 10:30 am: Remembrance day gathering at the cenotaph downtown Whitehorse by City Hall.
Please join fellow Yukoners in a respectful outdoor gathering to commemorate the selfless sacrifices made by our country's brave veterans, so that future generations would be able to enjoy our Constitutional & Charter Rights and Freedoms.
A moment of silence will be observed at 11:00. Lest We Forget.
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Stace on Nov 9, 2021 at 7:48 pm
There will be a ceremony @ City Hall starting @ 10:30 am.
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Juniper Jackson on Nov 9, 2021 at 5:42 pm
Do people think the life we live is free? In 1989, the Tiananmen Square Massacre in China.. that was not so long ago. That happened because the red Army is loyal to the dictatorship. Chinese that can..leave.. many, as we know, come to Canada. Russia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre#:~:text=In%20what%20is%20known%20as,military's%20advance%20into%20Tiananmen%20Square. I remember that like it was yesterday. Every time i see a Chinese child.. I am so glad that family is here.
Russia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Russia
All those empty headed little entitled ***** protesting war, have never seen war. They have no clue who died so they could run around with a sign and smoke their hash, and still live with their mama. Our men and women in the armed forces, and our policemen, stand in front of us, so that we are not the one's taking the bullet.
Thank you to all those who serve. There are not words to adequately thank you.
Some are lost and do not come home, and some come home and are lost.
I am afraid to think of what would happen without our armed forces defending us.
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Matthew on Nov 9, 2021 at 4:19 pm
So... they were fighting in trenches.. in literal shit, -20, bullets flying overhead, toxic gas on the way and you've shut down honoring these real heros all for a virus that keeps 99.93% of people alive that get it!?
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Al on Nov 9, 2021 at 3:15 pm
Josey you hit the nail on the head. As a veteran I find it disturbing as well.
I will still do my own remembering, acknowledge those who gave of themselves and those that are still giving. RIP comrades.
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Josey Wales on Nov 9, 2021 at 2:24 pm
Wow...we can hold an election but no ceremony for those that paid the price?
What a absolutely disgusting state of our nation under PM Blackface and here the SS.