Amidst the renewed controversy over the Confederate flag, a homeowner in Dundas, Ont., says he's proudly displayed the flag for 18 years and has no plans of removing it.

Mississippi will surrender the Confederate battle emblem from its state flag, more than a century after white supremacist legislators embedded it there a generation after the South lost the Civil War.

The current flag has in the canton portion of the banner the design of the Civil War-era Confederate battle flag, that has been the center of a long-simmering debate about its removal or replacement.