Last week, Morden Mayor Brandon Burley resurfaced calls for a local senior hockey team to drop its name, which is considered a slur toward Indigenous peoples. The general manager for the hockey team told CBC News earlier this week it is having internal discussions and will announce soon what it plans to do. It has the same name as the Morden hockey team, and a logo with racist connotations toward Indigenous people. There was unanimous support for such a change among board members at the meeting, according to the head of Hockey Manitoba. 'Get left behind'Pearson just became coach of the Neepawa team last year, but he was born and raised in the town and played for the junior hockey team in the late 1980s, when it was formed.

Source: CBC News July 18, 2020 03:33 UTC