{"id":549977,"date":"2026-03-20T23:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T23:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549977\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T23:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T23:11:08","slug":"toronto-councillor-pens-motion-to-ban-flying-foreign-flags-at-city-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549977\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto councillor pens motion to ban flying foreign flags at City Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Toronto councillor is proposing changes to the City\u2019s flag-raising policy.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.toronto.ca\/council\/agenda-item.do?item=2026.MM39.35\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a motion introduced on Friday<\/a>, Ward 16 (Don Valley East) Coun. Jon Burnside called for the City to eliminate the flying of foreign flags and those of non-profit or charitable organizations effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The motion, which was seconded by Ward 21 (Scarborough Centre) Coun. Michael Thompson, does not recommend any changes to the City\u2019s policies regarding the flags of Indigenous or Treaty partners, the intersex Pride flag, the Black Liberation flag, the flags of professional sport organizations and those of cities that are part of the City\u2019s International Alliance program.<\/p>\n<p>In recent months, the flags of Angola, Morocco and Palestine<a href=\"https:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/city-government\/awards-tributes\/tributes\/flag-raising-half-masting\/flag-raisings-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> have all been raised at Toronto\u2019s City Hall<\/a>, along with the M\u00e9tis flag for Louis Riel Day, Toronto FC and the Trans Day of Remembrance flag.<\/p>\n<p>Burnside\u2019s motion follows other cities like Calgary, whose City council narrowly voted last year to ban the flying of foreign flags at its City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>The motion will be considered by councillors when they meet next week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Toronto councillor is proposing changes to the City\u2019s flag-raising policy. In a motion introduced on Friday, Ward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-549977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}