LONG PASS

Virgin of San Juan, thank you for appearing in the circus when a very horny horse jumped on Bigbooty the clown. I, Panfilo de Narvaez, implored you so that the children wouldn’t see such a grotesque scene.

Landscape with Goats, 1895, Henri-Edmond Cross

Medium: oil,canvas

Time, Death and Judgement, 1886, George Frederick Watts

Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry has added her voice to those condemning businesses for denying Indigenous people entry due to COVID-19 fears, calling it racism.

But the businesses — which include a restaurant, dentist’s office and grocery store — claimed they were trying to stop COVID-19 from spreading from nearby Indigenous communities.

The CBC has learned that Save-On-Foods in Powell River, the Glen Lyon Restaurant in Port Hardy, and a dentist’s office in Duncan all refused service to Indigenous people, citing cases of COVID-19 in their communities as a reason.

When Tla'amin Nation Councillor Brandon Peters learned that members of his Tla'amin Nation were denied access to the nearby Save-On-Foods, he was shocked.

“That’s infringing on our human rights, it’s assuming every single First Nation person [in the community] has COVID,” Peters said.

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