Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...

Persians, Spartans, Leonidas, Xerxes, Ephialtes… Everyone has heard these names and can place them—more or less—in the 4th century BCE, when the Battle of Thermopylae took place. It was one of the key ...

One of the neat things to see is that people that maybe have not had a Canada flag before, that are now coming in to buy one,” said Julia Izadi of Flying Colours. “Normally, this time of year ...

In a joint statement this week, former prime ministers Joe Clark, Kim Campbell, Jean Chrétien, Paul Martin and Stephen Harper urged Canadians to fly the flag with pride as “never before” this ...

The upside-down flag, once a signal of distress for sailors, has been used as a form of protest for several decades. Before the 2024 presidential election, the upside-down flag had also come to ...

Or sign-in if you have an account. When the Maple Leaf flag was first hoisted to the top of the Peace Tower on Feb. 15, 1965, few spectators commented on the moment being a triumph of graphic design.

Business was brisk at Victoria’s Flag Shop this week, with everything from pins to huge flags bearing the maple leaf flying out the door as U.S. President Donald Trump continues to make economic ...

BARRIE, Ontario - Canadian flagmaker Flags Unlimited's sales have doubled from a year earlier, the company's owners said, as tensions with the neighboring United States fuel a wave of patriotism.

The Maple Leaf turns 60 years old on Saturday and, in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump's continued jabs at Canada, the nation's flag and its special day are gaining more attention than usual.

The Winnipegger had tried to get a flag before Saturday, but her attempt floundered after she went to a Canadian Tire on Friday and found the Maple Leaf had already been sold out. The demand ...

Putin has issued what appeared to be a thinly veiled threat about the risk of nuclear war in disturbing remarks reported by ...

Hamlin was racing Austin Cindric, who had one of the dominant cars of the race, for the win as the white flag flew. But before either could take the checkered flag, Cole Custer made it three-wide ...