Posts Tagged ‘white-poppy’

white poppies ‘08

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

White poppies are now at Toronto Meeting House, and will also be at Yonge St Meeting (Newmarket) from next week.

white poppies for 2007

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Yesterday Toronto Monthly Meeting approved my request to have white poppies at the meeting house this year.

no white poppies

Saturday, November 6th, 2004

Further to They’ll turn white soon enough, I’ve heard from CFSC that you can’t get white poppies in Canada. Maybe that’s a project for next year.

They’ll turn white soon enough

Saturday, October 30th, 2004

So everyone’s getting these red-centred quarters in their change from Tim Hortons:

Canadian Poppy Quarter 2004

They’re apparently the world’s first bicolour coin. The red in the middle has already started to look very distressed , ‘cos everyone’s scratching them to see if the colour comes off. And it does.

If Canada were really serious about peace, they’d have made the coin like this:

Improved Canadian Poppy Quarter 2004

… like the white remembrance poppies I used to get from the Peace Pledge Union in the UK.