will create special edition kits, with the remembrance poppy featured on their shirt. Canadian professional and junior ice hockey teams will wear a remembrance poppy sticker emblem on their helmets. A remembrance poppy patch is also worn by American Major League and Minor League Baseball teams, although these patch are worn to commemorate Memorial Day in May, as opposed to Remembrance Day. In 2007, Air Canada emblazoned 20 of its jets with the remembrance poppy symbol in partnership with the Royal Canadian Legion. Controversy and protest In Canada In November 2016, Air Canada released an internal memo that "strongly encouraged" its staff to not wear a poppy while in uniform. After several hours of employee and union pushback, a second memo was distributed, reversing its earlier position and stating that the "wearing of poppies is supported" by the company. In November 2019, Don Cherry, a prominent ice hockey pundit of Hockey Night in Canada, made a controversial complaint on-air that he rarely saw people he believed were new immigrants to Toronto wearing a remembrance poppy. His remarks caused widespread condemnation from the ice hockey community, and several complaints were filed against him through the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council. Cherry was later fired by Sportsnet for his comments. In November 2020, U.S.-based grocer Whole Foods briefly banned its employees from wearing a remembrance poppy at its 14 Canadian locations, as it did not conform to its updated uniform policy of not wearing symbols that were "supporting a cause". Whole Foods reversed its decision on the poppy several days later, after receiving complaints from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, veteran affairs minister Lawrence MacAulay, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, and several Royal Canadian Legion branches. In the United Kingdom In 1993, The Royal British Legion complained that Cannon Fodder, a video game with an anti-war message, had planned to use a poppy on its cover. The Legion, along with some politicians, called it "offensive to millions" and "monstrous". The publisher was forced to change the cover before the game was released. Within the United Kingdom, there has been growing controversy over the Poppy Appeal. Some—including a few British Army veterans—have argued that the Poppy Appeal has become excessive, that it has been used to marshal support for British military activities, and that poppy wearing has become seen as compulsory for public figures. In 2006, Channel 4 newsreader Jon Snow described the pressure to wear