The City of Port Alberni has cancelled a budget meeting that was originally scheduled for tonight (Feb. 21) at city hall.
“In response to the announcement made today by Tseshaht First Nation regarding the Alberni Indian Residential School Phase 1 results and out of respect for our First Nations neighbours, the Committee of the Whole meeting scheduled for tonight has been cancelled,” an official posted on the city’s social media platforms.
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The Tseshaht First Nation announced results this afternoon from the first phase of ground-penetrating radar around the former AIRS site, which is in Tseshaht territory.
Flags will be lowered to half-mast as the city mourns with the Nuu-chah-nulth Nations, residential school survivors and families and friends of those children who were taken and not returned.
Another meeting date has not been set.