Celebrating Canada Day across Toronto with elbows up: ‘We are better than that'
Wearing his 'uniform' — a red-and-white outfit with a maple leaf-shaped shield, Canadian flag attached to a hockey stick and a maple leaf-covered cowboy hat — he felt alone when he would go to annual celebrations at Queen's Park and Nathan Phillips Square. Businesses and organizations didn't seem very patriotic either, he said.
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