When she first heard the Gassy Jack statue in Vancouver had been splattered with red paint Tuesday, T'uy't'tanat-Cease Wyss said she laughed. Indigenous women have spoken previously about the monument needing to be taken down due to Jack’s treatment of Indigenous girls. A worker in the middle of cleaning the red paint off the Gassy Jack statue in Gastown. The base of the Gassy Jack statue late Tuesday morning still showed some dribbles of red paint. Wyss said she'd like to see the Gassy Jack statue removed once and for all — along with other monuments and place names that celebrate colonial figures.

Source: CBC News June 17, 2020 04:52 UTC