Halifax’s mayor says a municipal process to rethink how the city honours its controversial founder may not go ahead as planned after the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Chiefs withdrew abruptly. Mike Savage says councillors are evaluating their options after the municipality’s efforts to revisit tributes to Halifax founder Edward Cornwallis were derailed on Friday when the assembly announced it was pulling its participation. The assembly has said its members have run out of patience with a process that has dragged on for “far too long,” and have called for a statue of Cornwallis to be immediately removed from a downtown park. Read more:Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq chiefs call for immediate removal of Cornwallis statue in Halifax

Source: thestar January 28, 2018 23:03 UTC