Oct 20 In 1960, Sir John A. Macdonald Hall, the law school of Queen’s University, was officially opened by prime minister John Diefenbaker. (Queen’s removed Macdonald’s name from the building in October 2020 at the end of a months-long process that began after a petition to change the name gathered support. The first prime minister of Canada played a key role in setting up the residential school system that removed Indigenous children from their families.) In 2021, the Newfoundland and Labrador government was getting rid of the term “savages’’ from its official description of the Indigenous people depicted on the province’s nearly 400-year-old coat of arms. Premier Andrew Furey said amendments to the Coat of Arms Act were introduced for second reading in the legislature. The amendments included replacing “savages’’…
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