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CTV News
12 hours ago
- Politics
- CTV News
Canadian flags selling fast in Montreal for July 1
With Canada Day approaching, Montrealers are snapping up flags and showing renewed national pride. Across the country, many people will be showing their Canadian colours on July 1, and it seems the maple leaf has been flying high since January for many Montrealers. At Le Flag Shop in Cote-St-Paul, owner Marc-Andre Bazergui said he's seen an increase in Canadian flag sales since the beginning of the year and a renewed pride for Canada Day amid the recent U.S. tension. 'A big rise in flag sales,' he said. 'People flying their flags in Quebec, the Canadian flag. It's always been a dilemma. Do I do I fly the Canadian flag? Fly the Quebec flag? So with everything happening in the South, the Canadian flag has kind of taken a new position.' Le Flag Shop customer Philippe Blais said buying and flying Canadian flags is his way to show unity. 'When they started talking about the tariffs and the whole bit, it was just very encouraging to see how the Canadians held together, how they basically mobilized in certain ways,' he said. 'How the premiers from the different provinces decided to work together.' One shopper came in to buy the Indigenous Canadian flag designed by West Coast Kwakwaka'wakw artist James Curtis Wilson. 'It's nice to have a flag that represents all Canadians, but also especially the people who have been the custodians of this land for a very long time, much longer than anyone in my family has ever been,' the shopper said. Curtis Wilson designed flag Kwakwaka'wakw artist Curtis Wilson designed an Indigenous themed flag, which is selling fast. (Christine Long/CTV News) In Pointe-Claire, Karen Robson and neighbour Dan Gelinas have been flying the flag since January. 'After a certain loud-mouthed, tiny, tiny-handed person started to threaten our sovereignty, so I thought, no, I'm not having it,' said Robson. 'First, they went up when Trump was saying that we should become the 51st state and we said, 'no way.'' said Gelinas. 'So we hung our Canadian flags up, and then we took them down, and now for July 1st, they're back up.' Canadians aren't usually known to be flag-waving patriots, yet, this year, there seemed to be renewed pride in this country. 'We're selling a lot of flags. I'm actually a little bit low on stock right now,' said Bazergui. All of his stock is made in Canada, of course.
New York Times
3 days ago
- Business
- New York Times
A Celebration of Canada and a Protest Against Musk and Trump
While the approach of Canada Day in Ottawa is always marked by the appearance of flags — some of them quite large — on buildings, one apartment building in the city's Little Italy neighborhood was off to an early and very noticeable start. After President Trump started a tariff war against Canada, following his repeated calls for the country's annexation, maple leaf flags gradually began taking over nearly all of the balconies of a modest apartment building. What distinguishes the display from the general enthusiasm for flags created by Mr. Trump is its location: The Sidney Towers Housing Co-operative looms over a Tesla showroom and service center. [Read: Rejecting Trump's Call to Annex Their Nation, Canadians Rally Around the Flag] [Read: How Canadians Are Making Their Anger Toward the U.S. Loud and Clear] [Read: Canadians and Wayne Gretzky: Anatomy of a Relationship on Thin Ice] The subtle rebuke of Elon Musk, Mr. Trump's former ally who repeatedly joined the president in dismissing Canada's sovereignty, was the work of Graziana Marcantomo, a tailor who has a shop on the tower's ground floor and an apartment several floors above. 'Trump, the tariff and the insults and the whatnot, I don't think we deserve that,' said Ms. Marcantomo, who emigrated from Italy. 'So I got this idea, and I went to buy flags — Tesla is right here, next to us.' Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
National Post
25-04-2025
- Sport
- National Post
Anthony Stolarz's strong playoff start stirs Maple Leafs memories for Ken Wregget
Anthony Stolarz seems to fill up the TV screens in the sports bar Ken Wregget runs in suburban Pittsburgh . Article content Article content So, the former maple Leaf goalie can just imagine how imposing he must look to the Ottawa Senators. Article content 'I was 6-foot-1 in the 1980s and considered big,' Wregget told the Sun on Friday morning after watching Game 3. 'He's 6-foot-6, but's he's moving well and playing great. From what I've heard about him as a person, this is a great moment for him, too.' Article content Article content Wregget and Stolarz now share a unique Leafs mark as the only two Toronto netminders to have won their first three playoff games in blue and white. Article content Article content For Wregget, now 61, Stolarz has opened the memory bank to the 1986 best-of-five division semifinal. After a turtle derby in the very-forgiving NHL post-season format of the day. Toronto had finished 2-7-1 in their last 10 games with 57 points yet still qualified and it swept the Chicago Blackhawks, who were almost 30 points ahead. Article content 'Oh man, the Snorris Division,' Wregget said. 'That was a special series, but being a best-of-five, they were all important games. Article content 'I think it was my first game at Chicago Stadium, with that pipe organ and the crowd noise from the national anthem. It didn't stop when the game started. They won the opening faceoff, shot it in our corner and our defencemen and I couldn't hear each other shouting.' Article content Unlike Stolarz, who had a role on the 2024 Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers, Wregget's Leafs hadn't made the playoffs for three years and he hadn't played a full season. Article content 'It was almost like ignorance was bliss,' he said of 5-3 and 6-4 wins, led by young guns Wendel Clark, Gary Leeman, Steve Thomas and Russ Courtnall, in tandem with Rick Vaive. 'I didn't fully understand the pressure. Then we came home for Game 3 (many corporate subscribers hadn't used their playoff option on a bad team so 'real fans' snapped up tickets) and it was crazy when we won (7-2). Article content Article content 'What's courage? It's belief in yourself and that can go a long way.' Article content Article content Wregget's bid for a fourth straight win was stopped in Game 1 of the Norris final against St. Louis. Still, Toronto forced the Blues to a seventh game, a 2-1 loss. After being traded to the Flyers in 1989, Wregget joined the Pittsburgh Penguins to back up Tom Barrasso on their '92 Cup team. Article content 'That gave me a lot of perspective. I see myself doing what Stolarz probably did for his team this year, as the part-time starter, helping on the bench, carrying sticks, drying equipment. But watching Tom in net, the biggest thing for me was always making sure you were ready to play at a moment's notice. You never wanted to get thrown in and embarrass yourself.' Article content 'I make sure the Leafs games are on,' he said. 'I really like the team Craig Berube has put together up there, how tight they play. If Pittsburgh's not in, the Leafs are in my heart.' Article content
