Western Standard - November 08, 2026


No Coins, No Poppy？ A Remembrance Week Reminder

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353

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00:00:00.000 Now, speaking of poppies, it's officially Remembrance Week.
00:00:06.840 I always thought like Remembrance, I didn't know that Remembrance was a week or very specific.
00:00:12.800 I always started wearing a poppy, you know, sort of around Halloween kind of thing.
00:00:18.380 But now it's very specific.
00:00:20.880 And I noticed today coming into Calgary, I was on the train, first of all.
00:00:26.100 then i was walking downtown and i i like i was doing a mental count in my head maybe five percent
00:00:32.880 of the people have poppies that's it i don't know hopefully it goes up over over the course of this
00:00:38.200 week but but then at this point i'm willing to give people the benefit of the doubt one of the
00:00:43.760 things that happened with poppies unfortunately is you know remember there used to be uh the boxes
00:00:48.840 were everywhere and you just put your coins and they were all over the place well people aren't
00:00:52.200 carrying coins. And I think that's part of the problem, right? You see the box of poppies and
00:00:56.540 you don't have a coin. I think some people are solving that problem by bringing those card
00:01:02.020 readers or whatever. So keep that in mind this week. If you're coming for a walk, going to the
00:01:07.380 bank, and the poppy boxes are usually in common places like that, like at the bank tellers and
00:01:12.680 at your convenience stores and things like that. So this week, maybe do a little extra effort to,
00:01:17.980 I know most of you just use credit cards and debit cards, but throw five loonies in your pockets or some change or whatever, and then go buy yourself a poppy, okay?
00:01:29.060 Especially at this time here in Alberta with the tragedy that happened at Wainwright on October 17th.
00:01:38.500 And there's still, I mean, we shouldn't be just remembering our veterans and our soldiers this week, right?
00:01:45.220 we should remember them all the time and, and thank them for what they do.
00:01:49.800 But this week in particular, this here in Alberta,
00:01:53.280 because of the incident that Wainwright, so it's, it's a,
00:01:56.040 it's a little closer to home.