REGINA — The Saskatchewan Coalition Against Racism is hoping to get support for a petition calling on the City of Regina to take down its statue of John A. Macdonald. Chris Kortright with SCAR says they held a rally about white nationalism earlier in the month and one person recommended they get rid of certain monuments. Kortright says the city “is built literally on white supremacy” with things that celebrate the colonial history of Canada, such as the statue of Canada’s first prime minister. “If they want to actually have a true monument, they want to show some artistic design of John A. MacDonald holding food away from Indigenous people and actually show the genocide that he did,” he says. “It’s a continental move to actually challenge these violent histories.”(CJME)

Source: National Post August 29, 2017 03:45 UTC