Manthorpe says this is a good opportunity for Canada to reassess its relationships with both China and the U.S., and build stronger ties with other "middle powers" like Japan, Taiwan and Chile.

And unlike the other entrants — such as China, the United States, the United Kingdom or Ukraine — Canada didn’t make the list because its flag is a particularly oft-seen symbol in foreign ...

China is Canada’s second largest trading partner, but relations have been bad since Canadian authorities in 2018 arrested a former Huawei executive who the U.S. had charged with fraud.

In response to these foreign-made flags, politicians chose ire over irony. In 2001, Congress’s first Genuine American Flag Act intended to ban all American-flag imports to the United States.

On Canada Day, some citizens were wary of raising the national flag, now also associated with weeks of protests against pandemic mandates. By Vjosa Isai Whether you were in Surrey, British ...