Evidently, Canada has a new national slogan: Lest We Remember. Hence the cataloguing by Holly Doan of Blacklock’s Reporter of politicians ignoring Victoria Day, though we found someone to denounce Sir John A. Macdonald as if he’d been Hitler while reopening his Bellevue home. And they tore down Alexander Watson’s statue.

In case you missed the roundup of historical vandalism, the oldest monument of a military person in Canada, outside St. Catharines City Hall since 1886, 19 years after Confederation, was quietly carted off to the memory hole last week.