BBC News
By Emma Elsworthy
image captionParis, Ontario bills itself as one of Canada s prettiest towns
It took one night for a Pride rainbow pedestrian crossing on the busiest street of Paris, a small Canadian town just over an hour s drive from Toronto, to be smeared with burnt rubber. Was a rainbow a bridge too far for the town, or is a new era of progressive politics forcing Paris to change its stripes?
Dotted with Carolinian foliage, church spires and cobblestone architecture, Paris wears its unofficial tagline - Canada s prettiest little town - proudly.
It s one of dozens of smaller Canadian communities growing in popularity as people desert big cities during the pandemic.