“In light of misinformation which has been widely spread on social media, we will share that at no point did any staff member of Stonewall Collegiate or Interlake School Division direct, nor mandate, any student to wear a ‘rainbow poppy,’ ” read a statement from the Interlake School Division in Manitoba. Natalie Salisbury, Bird’s 17-year-old cousin and a student at Stonewall Collegiate Institute, might not have been coerced into wearing the badge. She and another student rejected that idea, and both were suspended for ‘hate speech.’ ” “Her choir teacher was demanding that the choir wear rainbow poppies during their performance in the Remembrance Day ceremony. “My 17 year old cousin was suspended today… want to know why?” her now-deleted tweet read. The panic reached Stonewall, Man., a rural community 30 minutes northwest of Winnipeg.Ĭyara Bird, a Conservative candidate in the 2019 federal election, posted on Twitter after hearing an unsettling claim from her relatives. And the poppy was never mass-produced - it was hysteria rooted in fake news. “I swear to God that the LGBTQ communities’ sense of entitlement is so bad that I am ashamed these days to admit to be even part of it, one Facebook user wrote.īut the debate consumed social media, the LGBTQ community never did promote the rainbow poppy. Posts alleging the LGBTQ community encouraged replacing the red poppy with the rainbow one fanned online outrage. While users are still trying to get their hands on the glossy badge because “they like the design and what they believe it stands for,” backlash against the modified poppy seeped into Canada. A rainbow poppy is suddenly in the spotlight this year in Canada, in advance of Remembrance Day, and some Canadians are taking offence to it.

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She said she only made the badge at the request of a gay friend. 2022 Poppy Pin: Our enamel 2022 dated Poppy pin, from 3 per item. “There was never any malice intended on my part to disrespect the red poppy and I thought it would be something different.” Julie Fearnley’s rainbow poppy, about the size of a coin, has spurred fighting words on social media. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.

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