July 2: As 2021 crosses the halfway mark, the tri-county area has already passed a grim milestone in the overdose crisis. The Leeds, Grenville and Lanark…
July 2: As 2021 crosses the halfway mark, the tri-county area has already passed a grim milestone in the overdose crisis. The Leeds, Grenville and Lanark…
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GANANOQUE – The beat of drums and the strumming of a guitar played over the sound of passing cars as people gathered here to reflect on the hundreds of Indigenous children whose remains were recently found across Canada.
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On this Canada Day, the flag outside Town Hall flew at half mast as Mayor Ted Lojko asked those gathered for a moment of silence.
“Today is a day that we kind of don’t want to be here, but we feel we have to be here, so that we can speak about the things that have been discovered, and speak about the injustices that have happened, or the things that have been forgotten,” said Kevin John Saylor, co-chairman of The First Peoples of The Thousand Islands Committee.