Canada Day

The big Canada Day celebration in Cambridge starts with an early morning fishing derby and ends with a bang as fireworks take over the sky.

This show features three of Canada’s fastest rising comedians," as stated on the website. Spice up your Saturdays with salsa, bachata and merengue. A midway, car show, Portraits of Honour, kids activities and more await families at Riverside Park for the nation's celebration this year. 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. 7:30 p.m. to midnight 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Returning back this year, the parade starts at 11 a.m. and will go down King Street, people will be lined up early to get a good spot. Show starts at 7 p.m. It's a Canada Day themed market this Friday. Making a return appearance at the market is MP Valerie Bradford. The MP of Kitchener South-Hespeler will have a booth at the market from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. to chat with the community. This year, the community can come out to the park to enjoy two days of amusement in honour of the nation's holiday. Families will be dressed head to toe in red and white Friday as the celebrations kick off at 8 a.m. and go til the end of the fireworks show.

Celebrations of Canadian pride balanced with country's difficult history with Indigenous people.

Halifax will also have a re-envisioned event that was developed in collaboration with Indigenous communities. “That’s the place I, as an immigrant, chose to make my life in.” In developing plans for Saskatoon, Canada Day project director Shad Ali started by looking at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s recommendations and consulting with Indigenous partners. Education about colonialism and residential schools must be included in any Canada Day event, said Lisa Howell, a professor at the University of Ottawa and one of the organizers of the Reimagine Canada Day project. The holiday itself is recent. This year, organizers of the big Canada Day celebration at the Forks — an important site for Indigenous peoples in downtown Winnipeg — have renamed the event “A New Day,” cancelled fireworks and promised events that are to be reflective as well as celebratory.

Some communities in Waterloo region are reimagining Canada Day to be more inclusive and to honour Indigenous peoples.

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“What’s happening, though, is that overt celebration that ‘Canada is the best’ — that feeling is not shared by many of our treaty partners… The holiday, he said, may have become something over the years that it was never intended to be — an excuse for Canadians to get drunk and obnoxious. “We do have to balance celebration with reconciliation and with respect…