Staff at a Vancouver Island landfill have been ordered to remove and destroy a Halloween decoration amid complaints that it is cruel and distasteful, particularly towards Indigenous women.

Similar signs have graced landfills and residential front yards ahead of Halloween for decades.

But the dark joke no longer lands in light of the discovery of human remains in a Manitoba landfill last year, and the belief that other Indigenous women were similarly murdered and discarded near Winnipeg.

  • stolid_agnosticEnglish
    42·
    11 months ago

    That’s probably what’s happened: the government is finally taking it seriously.

    • teuast@lemmy.ca
      2·
      11 months ago

      As far as I can see from the article, the government didn’t have anything to do with it.

      • stolid_agnosticEnglish
        11·
        11 months ago

        They were ordered by presumably the government to remove it.

        • teuast@lemmy.ca
          2·
          11 months ago

          The article says the order came from the corporation that owns the facility and says nothing about the government. Do you have evidence that the government was behind it?

          • stolid_agnostic
            1·
            11 months ago

            It says:

            “Regional district staff instructed the landfill operator to immediately remove the sign and to destroy it, so as to ensure a similar error does not occur again,” Sailland added.

            I interpreted that to be a government district, but I can see how it could be a fully private enterprise.