THUNDER BAY – A call for change echoed through a sea of orange that marched through Thunder Bay’s downtown north core on Thursday, an Cancel Canada Day rally supplanting the usual cascade of red and white and fireworks that usher in the country’s July 1 birthday each year.
The march, which saw about 450 people take part, was organized as a replacement for Canada Day festivities, in the wake of the discovery of hundreds bodies of Indigenous children discovered recently in unmarked graves at residential schools across the nation.
It’s not the time to celebrate a country with such a history of mistreatment and abuse of First Nations peoples, said artist Michel Dumont, an organizer of Thursday’s rally.
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