#remembrance day #weeklyOttawaStart's Weekly Event Round-Up: November 7-November 13, 2013[  ](http://www.flickr.com/photos/mjrimages/10659701136/) Church Lights. Photo by [ Marcel Regimbald ](http://www.flickr.com/photos/mjrimages/) , from the [ OttawaStart Flickr Group ](http://www.flickr.com/groups/ottawastart/pool/with/10659701136/) . Here are our contributors' picks for the best events in Ottawa this week (and a couple from next week too). ...
#museums #remembrance dayA short review of Peace: The Exhibition at the Canadian War Museum[  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/October-2013-Misc.jpg) A few of the artifacts on display. Clockwise from top right: 45 single of "Give Peace a Chance", a tiny "Stop Star Wars" pin, a small knit peacekeeper, an education kit sent to Afghanistan, and the original Greenpeace flag. ...
#ask #remembrance dayCan you help? Help one of our readers track down a poem from last week's Remembrance Day ceremonyWe received this email over the weekend: _ I attended the Remembrance Day Service in the centre of Ottawa on Thursday last and was quite moved really impressed by the poem composed by a 10 year old, which was read out at the service. ...
#remembrance dayOur four-year-old's take on Remembrance DaySo I’m driving our four-year-old to daycare this morning, and she asks “why do we wear a poppy dad?” Not wanting to get into a deep conversation about war and death at 8:30am, I said it was a symbol we wear to remind us of Remembrance Day. ...
#rants #remembrance dayRant of the Day: Remembrance Day ceremonyScott Feschuk rants about Ottawa’s Remembrance Day ceremony on his Maclean’s blog: If you go to the ceremony, here’s what you discover. You’ll discover it is pretty much impossible to see anything. Depending on where you end up, you’ll discover that it’s pretty much impossible to hear anything. ...