Three red flags

There is a photo in the April 15 issue of this multicultural newspaper which caught my attention when I was browsing through the latest posts on Facebook.  The photo shows three flags, flying on a balcony of the Austrian-Canadian Cultural Centre in Calgary. With the beautiful blue sky of Alberta as a backdrop, there are these three flags, and all three of them are red an white. The first one is the “Dannebrog” which is the flag of Denmark with a white Scandinavian cross in a red field. The second one is the flag of Austria which is a horizontal triband of red, white and red. And the third one is our Canadian Maple Leaf flag. The background of the raising of these three flags is that the Danish-Canadian Club of Calgary moved to the Austrian-Canadian Cultural Centre, and the two ethnic communities are now sharing that building. It is a great example how different communities can work together. We need more of that in this turbulent era of our history with wars in the Ukraine, Gaza and Iran which should be ended as soon as possible, because our time on this beautiful Planet Earth is limited, and this limited time should be used to cooperate and to help and support each other. Maybe I am a hopeless optimist who grew up with music of the Beatles and Bob Dylan, and I still believe in “Give Peace a Chance!”

‍Arnim Joop 
Publisher & Editor
mwmosaic@telus.net