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Vancouver Island landfill ordered to remove and destroy 'triggering' Halloween sign

bc.ctvnews.ca Vancouver Island landfill ordered to remove and destroy 'triggering' Halloween sign

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.

Vancouver Island landfill ordered to remove and destroy 'triggering' Halloween sign

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.

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