Cancel Canada Day?
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There are growing calls across the country to cancel Canada Day celebrations this year, in the wake of recent discoveries of almost 1,000 graves at residential schools in Canada.
Under the slogan of #CancelCanadaDay, a number of rallies are being organized in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Manitoba on Wednesday, July 1, in solidarity with the Indigenous community.
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https://globalnews.ca/news/7986663/c...ntial-schools/
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The previous month has seen the discovery of hundreds of unmarked children’s graves at the site of former Canadian Indian Residential Schools; 215 at Kamloops Indian Residential School and 751 at Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan. At each discovery the phrase “Cancel Canada Day” soon trended on social media. Nevertheless, a mere 14 per cent of Canadians polled favoured an abolition of the July 1 holiday, which marks Canada’s 1867 confederation as an independent country.
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https://nationalpost.com/news/canada...dians-disagree
All things considered, this is pretty minor to hundreds of dead children, but this is idiotic. Good to see no one actually agrees with it.
Nenshi has said Calgary will have fireworks but they're not celebration fireworks. They're to honour indigenous people.