Gambling in public places on ANZAC day was an allowance to let people play 'Two-Up' in the street. Two-Up was a common gambling game, and was played by Diggers during and after WWI. It oddly became associated specifically with them. The game involved flipping two coins simultaneously (typically using a flat length of wood, such as a ruler, on which the coins were laid) and betting on the outcomes of single and/or consecutive throws.
It's an odd thing to use as a memorialising event, but it's felt it helps people connect to the past.
for the canadians, the solution to the whole white/red poppy thing is fairly solveable by taking a third option
our flag is red and white, it has no blue in it whatsoever and for the most part from what I've seen amongst service members of various dispositions and civilians of various dispositions, it would actually account for both sides/groups of the whole thing while playing to nationalism at the very same time
since that the whole "canadians as peacekeepers(UN armed forces basically)" thing is a reasonably common view
Should we replace the picture of Huw Edwards due to the recent controversy about him?