Canada Day muted as country reckons with treatment of indigenous people
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Demonstrators wearing orange in solidarity with survivors of residential schools gather at a memorial in front of Parliament Hill on Canada Day, in Ottawa on Thursday. | BLOOMBERG
Reuters
Jul 2, 2021
Ottawa – Multiple cities scrapped Canada Day celebrations on Thursday after the discovery of hundreds of remains of children in unmarked graves at former indigenous schools sparked a reckoning with the country’s colonial past.