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The Royal Canadian Legion’s national poppy campaign kicked off on Friday with some new initiatives to breathe fresh life into the annual tradition.
Last year, those boxes were part of a pilot project, with only 250 in use across Canada. This year, there are 2,000 tap pay tribute boxes, and Victoria has 10 of them.
Angus Stanfield, chairman of the Victoria Poppy Fund, presents Lt.-Gov. Janet Austin with the first poppy of the Royal Canadian Legion’s 2021 Poppy Campaign at Government House on Tuesday, Oct. 26,. . .
VICTORIA -- Royal Canadian Legion branches in B.C. are struggling, and many may not survive, so legion brass has renewed its call for a provincial exemption from paying property taxes. “We have been advocating previous governments in the past and it’s fallen on deaf ears,” said Valerie MacGregor, president of the legion’s BC/Yukon Command. “There are provinces in Canada (where) no legion branches pay property taxes,” said Angus Stanfield, vice president of Dominion Command. The Victoria branch got its tax bill yesterday. “That bill was $92,656.30,” said Patti Stockton...
VICTORIA -- It was busy outside the Victoria Legion on Tuesday as volunteers picked up boxes of poppies and envelopes for next year's poppy campaign. Inside and on the patio, it was a different story. "We do need help, it is really tough," said Angus Stanfield, vice president with Dominion Command. Legions have struggled through the pandemic, but the province's latest circuit breaker restrictions have decimated Legion branches' ability to generate any income, and the Legion says the province has cut them out of any provincial relief money. "We didn’t fit here, and we didn’t fit th...