Can't you wait for a couple of weeks?

"Holiday" display window, Hudson's Bay Company store,m Vancouver, BC (October 29, 2015)

Since at least 2010, a few groups have been waging a campaign to get retailers to give Remembrance Day some respect. November 11 commemorates the end of World War One. In cities and towns across Canada people turnout at their local cenotaph to pay their respects to those who served Canada over the past century. (Where I live about half of the town's population comes out to the ceremony.)

But trying to get retailers to hold off on putting up their Holiday (Christmas) displays until after November 11 seems to be a daunting task.

The last WWI veterans are long since gone, and the number of remaining WWII veterans is shrinking every day. For those that remain, and all of the veterans that served since WWII, a little respect might not go unrecognized.