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Toronto Mayor John Tory says if the Church-Wellesley Village BIA want to remove a statue of Alexander Wood in the gay village because of his past link to residential schools for Indigenous children, they are free to do so.
Speaking at his afternoon media briefing Wednesday, Tory said the CWVBIA asked for the statue’s installation in the first place and “largely” paid for it in 2005.
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But CWVBIA Chair Christopher Hudspeth says they split the $200,000 statue 50-50 with the city, the latter paying the entire cost of the installation.
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On Friday, about 224 people gathered in Rainy River First Nation to honour the 215 children found at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C.
This is the second ceremony to be held in northwestern Ontario. The first was held in Couchiching three days following the discovery.
The discovery was made on May 27 when Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation said in a statement that with the help of ground penetrating radar specialist, the stark truth of the preliminary findings came to light. This was the confirmation of the remains of 215 children who were students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School.
A former Kamloops councillor is eyeing a run for mayor in next year’s civic election, on Oct. 15, 2022. Ray Dhaliwal, who was elected in a 2016 byelection and served until October 2018, when he . . .
VANCOUVER Bells at Anglican churches across Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands chimed 215 times Sunday, once for each child whose remains were recently found at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. “We need to start somewhere and we need to signify and signal something,” said Reverend Ross Bliss, vicar of Christ Church Cathedral in Vancouver. “(We need to) signal intent that, you know, we get that this is a horrible thing, this is an important thing and we are implicated. So we’re starting there.” Locals stopped in their steps or sat to listen as the chimes played at noon Sunday, after services.