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Dan Dowan makes an offering of tobacco at the stone base that once held a statue of Queen Victoria on Saturday. Dowan’s grandmother was forced to attend a residential school when she was a child. (Daniel Crump / Winnipeg Free Press)
The anger that drove two queen statues to the ground at the Manitoba legislature is understandable but misdirected, two local Indigenous leaders say.
The anger that drove two queen statues to the ground at the Manitoba legislature is understandable but misdirected, two local Indigenous leaders say.
The Queen Victoria statue and a smaller statue of Queen Elizabeth were pulled down by protesters on July 1 at the end of a walk to remember Indigenous children who died at residential schools.
Pot-shop lawsuit a big smokescreen, says Long Plain First Nation chief
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In May the provincial regulator terminated the licence for another store Long Plain First Nation is a partner in, Meta Cannabis Supply Co. at 420 Madison St., even though that store was in compliance with all the regulations. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press files)
The province has filed a statement of claim seeking to shut down the Indigenous Bloom cannabis store in Portage la Prairie, the provincial regulator’s latest attempt to rein in what it claims to be the operation of an unlicensed retail shop.
The province has filed a statement of claim seeking to shut down the Indigenous Bloom cannabis store in Portage la Prairie, the provincial regulator’s latest attempt to rein in what it claims to be the operation of an unlicensed retail shop.
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A statue of Queen Victoria was toppled at the Manitoba Legislative Building following a march in honour of Indigenous children found in unmarked graves at former residential schools. (John Woods / Winnipeg Free Press)
A day that began with rallies that flooded streets orange in honour of bodies buried in unmarked graves at residential schools ended with the toppling of a statue that has stood for more than a century in front of Manitoba’s legislative building.
A day that began with rallies that flooded streets orange in honour of bodies buried in unmarked graves at residential schools ended with the toppling of a statue that has stood for more than a century in front of Manitoba’s legislative building.
WINNIPEG Leading up to Canada Day, calls from the across the country came in to cancel the holiday after hundreds of unmarked graves were discovered at former residential schools throughout Canada. Demonstrations have been held all over the country, including in Manitoba. Protesters gathered outside the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Thursday for a No Pride in Genocide Walk and Ride.
Protesters outside the Canadian Museum of Human Rights honouring kids who died at residential schools. (Source: Gary Robson/CTV News) Dennis Meeches, the chief of Long Plain First Nations, wants the Canadian government to recognize residential schools, day schools and the Sixties Scoop as genocide.
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