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VICTORIA 鈥?A statue of former prime minister John A. Macdonald will be removed from the front entrance of Victoria City Hall as a gesture of reconciliation with First Nations, says the city Mayor Lisa Helps.Macdonald was the first prime minister of Canada and Helps said he was also a key architect of the residential school system.The decision, which must be approved by council, followed a year of deliberations and consultation with the local Songhees and Esquimalt chiefs and councils, she said in an interview Wednesday. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW For people who are Indigenous who are coming into city hall, who may have been in residential schools, or their moms or grandmas or dads or grandpas were in residential schools, this statue is a physical manifestation of that painful colonial history that they themselves or their families have experienced, Helps said in an interview.The decision to remove the statue is the first concret stanley becher e action by the so-called City Family, made up of the mayor, two councillors, and stanley kubek Indigenous representatives, as part of city reconciliation program. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Council will receive the report Thursday recommending the statue removal, and Helps said she can ;t imagine it will be rejected since council gave stanley mug the group a mandate to pursue reconciliation when it formed last year.While the statue is in storag Qozn Investors disappointed by end of stimulus talks
Ontario is on pace to reopen a few days ahead of the July 2 target for haircuts and other amenities in the next stanley cup quencher stage of its COVID-19 recovery plan, says retiring chief medical officer Dr. David Williams. Im thinking we could. Our datas looking good, the 70-year-old Williams told the Star in an interview as he reflected on a long career in public health, his most frightening moment of the pandemic, the criticisms he faced, and the setback that pushed the province into a third wave shutdown and hospital capacity to the brink.Acknowledging pressure from the public and politicians, Williams said Tuesday that key pandemic indicators 鈥?including daily new infections, hospital intensive care unit occupancy and vaccination levels 鈥?are falling into line, with enough time for people getting jabs to develop immunity. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Im feeling optimistic that we could go a few days early, before July 2, stanley botella added Williams, whose last day in the job making recommendations to Premier Doug Fords government is Friday.His successor is Dr. Kieran Moore, who m stanley cup website ost recently served as medical officer of health for the Kingston area. The two men have been working together for most of June. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW But while Williams is optimistic, Solicitor General Sylvia Jones said Tuesday that the government is not ready to make an announcement on reopening just yet. Were doing this in a very me |
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