Lest we forget our veterans who served and died in foreign wars and, instead, focus on exaggerated slavery and past colonialism.

Only in Toronto would we be as stupid and as insensitive as that.

The City of Toronto at the Old City Hall Cenotaph Tuesday made sure that before we got to our war dead it was all about everything but them.

Before the bells rang at 11 a.m. on the 11th day on the 11th month — before the moment of silence or a rendition of the on this Remembrance Day — Aretha Phillip, the chief of protocol and external relations, passed the podium microphone over to two air cadets “to share the lands and ancestral acknowledgments with us.”

She didn’t dare do it herself this year.

One of the cadets gave the traditional land acknowledgment. The other talked of people being broug

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