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Vancouver Island landfill ordered to remove and destroy 'triggering' Halloween sign (bc.ctvnews.ca)
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Similar signs have graced landfills and residential front yards ahead of Halloween for decades.

But the dark joke no longer lands in light of the discovery of human remains in a Manitoba landfill last year, and the belief that other Indigenous women were similarly murdered and discarded near Winnipeg.

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[–] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I’m divided on this one. On the one hand, there’s a crisis facing indigenous peoples. On the other hand, this is a pretty normal Halloween sign that has nothing to do with that. It might be in poor taste but I’m not fully convinced.

[–] Ilikeprivacy@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm with you on this. Almost all jokes re: Halloween are in poor taste so I'm not sure why this one is off limits suddenly after years of indifference.

[–] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s probably what’s happened: the government is finally taking it seriously.

[–] teuast@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As far as I can see from the article, the government didn't have anything to do with it.

[–] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They were ordered by presumably the government to remove it.

[–] teuast@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The article says the order came from the corporation that owns the facility and says nothing about the government. Do you have evidence that the government was behind it?

[–] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It says:

"Regional district staff instructed the landfill operator to immediately remove the sign and to destroy it, so as to ensure a similar error does not occur again," Sailland added.

I interpreted that to be a government district, but I can see how it could be a fully private enterprise.

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