He said he did not know if a "hell for heroes" demonstration against Remembrance commemorations would now go ahead.
In memory of the attack on the Grand Mosque of Quebec that killed six people last year, more than 70 Canadian Muslim organizations have asked Canada to make January 29 a national day of remembrance and action against Islamophobia.
Consequently, the anniversary of the massacre has since been commemorated as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
The letter is followed by the list of nineteen names, with a note at the bottom: Canadians mark the day of the killings with a National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
Unfortunately this wasn't the only pickup event scheduled on arguably the worst day ever to hold such an event: December 6, the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
Distasteful as it may be at dinnertime, it pays to recount the bloody deeds of the past -- both by attackers and in our defense -- if such unrelenting annual remembrance girds the world against a recurrence of evil.
In 2009, the Consultative Group on the Past, established by Tony Blair, recommended the establishment of a Legacy Commission to run for five years (a truth commission by another name), a Reconciliation Forum and various other measures concerning storytelling, remembrance and a declaration against violence for political ends.
Although recalling the Holocaust does nothing for the victims, remembrance is a weapon against other acts of genocide (although, as is obvious, only a limited one).
But last month, on the eve of Tisha B'Av, the most somber of the Jewish holidays, a day that marks the destruction of the holy Temple in Jerusalem and also is used for Holocaust remembrance, Polish Parliament voted against the bill.
The rival networks, which had been caught flatfooted by "The Winds of War," counterprogrammed cleverly against "War and Remembrance".
