A partnership with HomeEquity Bank, the campaign encourages video gamers to pause their streams for two minutes on Monday and play a video from the legion acknowledging Remembrance Day and directing viewers to donate to the digital poppy fund. Royal Canadian Legion communications manager Nujma Bond told HuffPost Canada that the initiative and Fortnite partnership are ways to reach out to new audiences with education around Remembrance Day. It’s a bit of an opportunity to also actually stop everything, stop playing, sit and remember about the importance of what our veterans have done for us. Modernizing remembrance The gamer-focused initiatives are part of a larger push to modernize the legion for the digital age. He fought in World War Two in Italy and then through Holland and into Germany,” author Margaret Atwood wrote.

Source: Huffington Post November 10, 2019 22:25 UTC