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.
I’m with you on this. Almost all jokes re: Halloween are in poor taste so I’m not sure why this one is off limits suddenly after years of indifference.
That’s probably what’s happened: the government is finally taking it seriously.
As far as I can see from the article, the government didn’t have anything to do with it.
They were ordered by presumably the government to remove it.
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?
It says:
I interpreted that to be a government district, but I can see how it could be a fully private enterprise.