With less than a week before Remembrance Day, people with poppies over their hearts gathered for a short ceremony at the Legislative Building in Regina, as music flowed out of the rotunda on Wednesday.

Col. Jason Quilliam, the provincial government’s chief of protocol and the secretary of the Saskatchewan Order of Merit, said this year’s ceremonies mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War on Sept. 2, 1945.

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“Those dates are not merely historical footnotes,” he said. “They’re solemn reminders of the cost of peace. They spea

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