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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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[-] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It says:

"Regional district staff instructed the landfill operator to immediately remove the sign and to destroy it, so as to ensure a similar error does not occur again," Sailland added.

I interpreted that to be a government district, but I can see how it could be a fully private enterprise.

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