# Welcome to the Canadoper Café, 2025! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 31, 2024, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410 "2024-12-31T21:26:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 266
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410/266 "2025-02-15T15:53:43Z")
A blast from the past: > [@Canada's Flag is 50 Years Old Today!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadas-flag-is-50-years-old-today/712756): > > [Canada’s Flag](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Canada#mediaviewer/File:Flag_of_Canada.svg) Fifty years ago today, at noon, Canada’s Maple Leaf flag was first hoisted above the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill. The Flag Debate of 1964 was ranourous. It embodied two fundamentally different views of Canada. Prime Minister Mike Pearson viewed Canada as a fully independent, multi-cultural nation, with inheritances from both Britain and France, but its own nation. Canada thus needed a flag that was uniquely Canadian. On the other side, the Leader of the Opposition, John Di… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-the-canadoper-cafe-2025/1012410)._