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Statue of Egerton Ryerson pulled down in downtown Toronto

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#TruthAndReconciliation pic.twitter.com/on9PNJ9GWB— Al Mac (@SparkAlMac) June 6, 2021“A couple decades too late, but the Egerton Ryerson statue has been desecrated and toppled over,” wrote Al MacMillan, who posted the video on Twitter.

Calls grow to rename Ryerson institutions across Ontario Global News has not confirmed yet who pulled the statue down.The statue and the university’s name have been the subject of criticism for several years amid calls for Canada to reconcile history of colonialism and treatment of Indigenous people.Spray-painted words and paint have been splashed across the statue over the last week following the discovery of the bodies of 215 children in a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C.Several students,.

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