Crowds gathered at the Old City Hall cenotaph and Queen’s Park, where Mayor Olivia Chow marked the Royal Canadian Legion’s 100th year and a general who served in Afghanistan said Canada is worth defending.

Hundreds gathered at Victory Square for Vancouver’s Remembrance Day ceremony, where new Mayor Pete Fry laid a wreath at his first ceremony as mayor.

Thousands watched Victoria’s Remembrance Day ceremony at the cenotaph in front of the B.C. legislature, where a cadet and a young soldier spoke of what the day means to them.

Fredericton council voted to let a court decide what the city owes Fredericton Exhibition Ltd. for the expropriated Exhibition Grounds lease after talks failed to settle a $4.1-million offer.

Fredericton council adopted a 2027 budget that lowers the city’s main property tax rate by 4.67 cents and puts about $60 million, or 35 per cent of spending, into public safety.

A large crowd gathered at Fredericton’s cenotaph on Remembrance Day, where speakers and residents spoke of the four soldiers killed at CFB Wainwright and the Legion’s 100th year.

Hundreds filled Wainwright’s Peace Memorial Multiplex on Remembrance Day as the base commander thanked the town for its response to the Oct. 17 fire that killed four soldiers.

A pilot in his 60s died Wednesday when his small plane crashed near the Saint-Georges, Que., airport after a Remembrance Day flypast, police and the city said.

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