If there is one place where you’d figure Canada’s Maple Leaf flag would fly proudly, Maple Leaf Gardens would be a good guess. With spring in the air, it makes people want to get outside and ...

Even Canada’s iconic Maple Leaf flag can become easy to miss if you’re not looking for it. “There (are) tons of flags around but you don’t often notice,” says Judy Denham, owner and ...

Over half a century after Canada adopted the Maple Leaf flag for the first time, its image has changed for some Canadians due to its use as a symbol by participants in convoy protests in Ottawa.

If there’s a “go big or go home” mentality to such flags, Harper is going real big. During a rally earlier this month in Edmonton, the Prime Minister’s venue warranted the 15’ x 30’ flag.

The maple leaf flag that celebrates its 50th anniversary on Feb. 15 was eventually chosen, but thousands of hopefuls still reside inside a few dozen cardboard boxes at Library and Archives Canada.

Our beloved red-and-white maple leaf flag was raised on Feb. 15, 1965, but not before years of angry debates and a parade of competing designs were put down They started with some 5,900 design ...

Children pose with the Canadian flag in 1996. The flag with its iconic red bars and central maple leaf was raised for the first time in February 1965 following months of heated debate. (Photo: Peter ...

Today Canada celebrates its flag, the red and white Maple Leaf. It is also one of the youngest flags having been officially raised for the first time in a chilly ceremony in front of Canada’s ...

A small flag positioned inside a wreath made of brilliant red berries creates a beautiful display of patriotism on a front door on Bond Street in Westdale. Cathie Coward/The Hamilton Spectator ...

However, when the Maple Leaf flag was adopted in 1965, all previous orders-in-council were revoked and the Red Ensign ceased to have any official standing until Mr. Kenney's intervention.

We’re never, ever going to forget them.” Close to 200 of the Maple Leaf flags fly above graves in the veterans’ section of Heavenly Rest Cemetery at 5005 Howard Ave.

Feb. 15 is National Flag Day and the good old red and white Maple Leaf flag is celebrating its 60th anniversary. It was first proclaimed in 1996, using the date the current Canadian flag was first ...