Communities across Canada have canceled this week’s July 1 Canada Day celebrations after hundreds of unmarked graves were found at former residential school sites in British Columbia and Saskatchewan. The city of Victoria, British Columbia, was the first to cancel. The mayor there said it would be disrespectful to celebrate while Indigenous communities mourn. Indigenous activists are organizing protests and marches instead, and say they cannot celebrate a country responsible for what it terms an act of genocide. Reporter Anita Elash has the story.
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