Saskatoon / 650 CKOM
Jul 1, 2021 | 5:42 PM
Event Speaker Andre Bear Carrying an Orange Flag at Kiwanis Memorial Park for Cancel Canada Day (Payton Zillich/650 CKOM)
Canada Day had a different feeling in Saskatoon for 2021.
People gathered at Kiwanis Memorial Park to support residential school survivors, those who did not make it home and the Indigenous community, as a whole.
The day-long event is called “Cancel Canada Day,” and was put on by Saskatoon’s Chokecherry Studios. Events began at 9 a.m. Thursday and will run until 9:30 p.m.
“We are asking the community to show support for Residential School Survivors & Indigenous Communities across the country by refusing to celebrate 154 years of colonial violence & genocide,” a release from Chokecherry Studios reads.
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SASKATOON Canada Day is around the corner and for many it will be a time to celebrate what the country is about, some though, say it shouldn’t be celebrated at all. Allison Forsberg who is First Nations is organizing her event ‘Bring Them Home’ taking place July 1st at 11 a.m in Kiwanis Memorial Park in Saskatoon. “I’m having some speakers come. Share some knowledge. We’re having some poetry, we’re also having some speakers come from Cowessess First Nation come and speak on their experience,” Forsberg said. Canada Day is representing genocide within a country that is built on the attempted eradication of indigenous people, she said.
Regina / 980 CJME
May 10, 2021 | 4:26 PM
A man holds an upside-down Canadian flag ahead of a rally at Kiwanis Memorial Park on May 9, 2021.
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Saskatoon police say they have handed out 18 tickets to people who attended a so-called “freedom rally” in Kiwanis Memorial Park on Sunday.
Police say upon attending the rally, public health officials and police saw more than 100 people congregating and disobeying current public health orders.
Eighteen tickets were handed out to people violating the orders. Police say one additional ticket was issued to a participant who was also involved in a rally in the city on April 24.
In a release, police say those who were ticketed were seen to have varying levels of involvement with the rally.
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Alec Couros says he was concerned, but not surprised, to see video surface on social media of what appears to be a Canadian Nationalist Party flag being waved at a so-called “freedom rally” in downtown Saskatoon over the weekend.
Couros, an expert in digital citizenship and social media at the University of Regina, says white nationalist and “freedom rally” groups often overlap in the social media channels they use, whether it’s Facebook forums or other websites. White supremacists and white nationalists have also been showing up at such protests in Canada and the United States.
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