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Statue of Queen Elizabeth Repaired and Reinstalled, Two Years After Vandalism

June 2, 2023
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A bronze statue of Queen Elizabeth that was toppled on the grounds of the Manitoba legislature has been repaired and put back in place. The three-metre-high statue was one of two monuments hauled to the ground on Canada Day in 2021 by demonstrators following the discovery of suspected unmarked graves at a former residential school…

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The Push to Change British Columbia’s Name

August 2, 2021
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Commentary Is it time to change the name of British Columbia? An opinion article in The Tyee, an influential online publication based in B.C., says it’s the right thing to do. According to the piece, the name “honours England’s racist colonizers” and “lionizes Columbus.” The Village of Pemberton thinks the name should be changed too….

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Queen Victoria Is Not Hitler or Stalin, and It Matters

July 6, 2021
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Commentary When people vandalize a statue, for instance of Queen Victoria, I confess to a malevolent urge to leave it there as a squalid monument to their utopian vision, as it once was a dignified one to the society they repudiate. It would just make things worse in a “broken windows” manner, encouraging disorder and…

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