Park bench designed to celebrate Indigenous reconciliation divides sleepy community where critics claim it is 'hostile architecture'

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Park bench designed to celebrate Indigenous reconciliation divides sleepy community where critics claim it is 'hostile architecture'

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A park bench designed to celebrate Indigenous reconciliation has divided a sleepy Canadian community. The controversial bench was installed in Kinsmen Park in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, to commemorate Canada's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation - an annual holiday on September 30 to recognize the atrocities and multi-generational effects of the Canadian Indian residential school system. Mayor George Andrews said the bench was meant as a place here people can sit and reflect, noting to the CBC that it has been positively received by some of the residents.
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