{"id":65571,"date":"2026-03-27T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/?post_type=article&#038;p=65571"},"modified":"2026-04-02T10:01:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:01:29","slug":"half-masting-notice-for-national-day-of-remembrance-of-the-battle-of-vimy-ridge","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/article\/half-masting-notice-for-national-day-of-remembrance-of-the-battle-of-vimy-ridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Half-masting Notice for National Day of Remembrance of the Battle of Vimy Ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group hide-on-main\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"taxonomy-action_or_info wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/action_or_info\/action\/\" rel=\"tag\">For Action<\/a><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-release_date article-release-date wp-block-post-terms\"><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__prefix\">Published <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/release_date\/2026-04-02\/\" rel=\"tag\">Thursday April 02 2026<\/a><\/div>\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Half-masting Notice for National Day of Remembrance of the Battle of Vimy Ridge<\/h1><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/canadian-heritage\/services\/flag-canada-masting-rules.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rules for Half-masting the National Flag of Canada (Section 11)<\/a>, the National Flag of Canada will be flown at half-mast on the Peace Tower in Ottawa, from sunrise to sunset on April 9, 2026, to mark the national day of remembrance of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, and the Canadian flag at the legislature in Victoria will also be flown at half-mast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where a Canadian flag and a British Columbia flag fly near to one other, both flags should be lowered to half-mast. The direction of the federal and provincial governments on half-masting protocols is provided in case school districts wish to follow a similar approach.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As per the Rules for Half-masting the National Flag of Canada (Section 11), the National Flag of Canada will be flown at half-mast on the Peace Tower in Ottawa, from sunrise to sunset on April 9, 2026, to mark the national day of remembrance of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, and the Canadian flag at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/article\/half-masting-notice-for-national-day-of-remembrance-of-the-battle-of-vimy-ridge\/\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" >Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"action_or_info":[348],"release_date":[1593],"division":[1403],"target_bulletin":[413],"audiences":[448,298],"sort_order":[],"class_list":["post-65571","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","action_or_info-action","release_date-2026-04-02","division-wag","target_bulletin-district-dmb","audiences-facility-leads","audiences-principals-vice-principals"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/65571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/65571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66017,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/65571\/revisions\/66017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"action_or_info","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/action_or_info?post=65571"},{"taxonomy":"release_date","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/release_date?post=65571"},{"taxonomy":"division","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/division?post=65571"},{"taxonomy":"target_bulletin","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/target_bulletin?post=65571"},{"taxonomy":"audiences","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audiences?post=65571"},{"taxonomy":"sort_order","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gov.bc.ca\/ecc-dm-bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sort_order?post=65571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}