{"id":126494,"date":"2022-11-11T20:05:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T01:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=126494"},"modified":"2022-11-11T20:05:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T01:05:38","slug":"toronto-hosts-remembrance-day-ceremony-at-old-city-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/toronto-hosts-remembrance-day-ceremony-at-old-city-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto hosts Remembrance Day ceremony at Old City Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Toronto is commemerating Remembrance Day at the Cenotaph monument at Old City hall once again.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The monument commemorates the sacrifices of Torontonians in the First World War.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This ceremony\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">is the second consecutive in-person public event during the COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 2020 and 2021 ceremonies were limited to speakers, military personnel and bands.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Toronto Mayor John Tory addressed the veterans present at the ceremony. His speech focused on the sacrifices of Canadian forces in past and present conflicts, as well as Torontonians that answered the call.\u00a0<\/span>\"We can never forget the sacrifices of the past, but neither can we assume the way ahead is easy,\" said Tory. \"We gather here today and say loudly as a city - we will never forget.\"<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Tory, more than 10,000 Torontians were involved in the various wars during the 20th century.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year also marks the 80th anniversary of the Dieppe Raid in 1942, when Allied Forces participated in Operation Jubilee. More than 5,000 Canadian troops were involved, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/city-government\/awards-tributes\/tributes\/toronto-remembers\/remembrance-day-service\/\">according to the city website.<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Listen to CJRU's coverage of Toronto's Remembrance Day ceremony:<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto is commemerating Remembrance Day at the Cenotaph monument at Old City hall once again.\u00a0 The monument commemorates the sacrifices of Torontonians in the First World War.\u00a0 This ceremony\u00a0is the second consecutive in-person public event during the COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0 The 2020 and 2021 ceremonies were limited to speakers, military personnel and bands.\u00a0 Toronto Mayor John&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":126565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57],"tags":[8922,4569,20643,2701,1485],"radio":[1380],"origine":[267,269,273],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126567,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126494\/revisions\/126567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126494"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=126494"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=126494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}