In cities across the province like St. John's and Corner Brook, councils have voted strongly in favour of installing rainbow crosswalks. But not in the small community of Springdale, and following a strong and vocal reaction to news the town's council voted against a crosswalk last week, the mayor of St. John's and an LGBTQ advocate are speaking out. Springdale's town council voted 4-3 against a proposal from the Gender-Sexuality Alliance at Indian River High School on April 9. St. John's voted to install a rainbow crosswalk for the first time in 2016 and painted another one last summer. Likewise, Breen doesn't echo Springdale mayor Dave Edison's concerns that a crosswalk might create division in his town.

Source: CBC News April 21, 2018 09:22 UTC