A Nova Scotia high school named after Sir John A. MacDonald announced last month that it’s beginning the process of changing the school’s name “so that every student that walks through the door feels welcome.” It’s part of a growing movement to remove tributes to architects of Canada’s genocide of Indigenous peoples from public spaces, schools, institutions. Statues in parks, names on buildings, faces on money … nothing is off the table. Read More
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Zubi: In an inclusive society, there are words and symbols we should let go of
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