The Edmonton Arts Council had the Emily Murphy statue cleaned within two hours at a cost of roughly $1,200. The council also cleaned up the Churchill statue last month.
Murphy was a journalist, a novelist, a jurist, a mother, and a feminist crusader. But she was also racist, wanting to see Canada develop as a white, Anglo-Saxon country, and while she was sympathetic to the plight of Indigenous Canadians, she feared immigration was debasing the country. Murphy was also a vocal proponent of the eugenics movement, and of Alberta’s Sexual Sterilization Act: “We protect the public against diseased and distempered cattle,” she wrote. “We should similarly protect them against the offal of humanity.”Article content
Other statues of Churchill have been vandalized before, most notably the one in Parliament Square in London, which has been defaced several times.Article content In the wake of the Churchill vandalism, Mayor Don Iveson said in a statement that he welcomes healthy debate on legacies in society.Article content
The childish people/teens who vandalize this statue has gone too far this time. They step on the toes of half the Canadians. Ask how your mother, grandmother, great grandmother feel about not being accepted as a 'person'. Let's see who the supporters are this time.
acoyne Moronic vandalism.
When will people who posses 'common sense' rise up against the 'woke' community and their utter nonsense. Trying to erase our history will only fail those who need to learn our history. The 'woke' are so short sighted it's laughable
It will be never ending you realize
Ten thousand Twitter dollars that it was deranged white liberals.
Now it gets interesting
Oh let’s just paint all statues red
Paid goons again I presume
It’s just a bunch of very stupid ill educated people that do these things, just arrest them
Who ever did this I congratulate you ...now do it for all the liberal prime ministers and the woke
literally,every statue hundred years old should be vandalized.Just curious,by asking a person lived more than hundred years ago to be perfect or to suit modern standards,can make you happier?
I hope Canadian tears itself apart - Trudeau wanted to socially reengineer this country....good luck we will be complaining about race and sexism for an eternity it will never go away....somehow here in Canada we think we are better....
Sometimes statues of heroes get defaced in Canada and around the world.
Protests turn criminal.
inky_mark The hate machine just keeps rolling. Who are they hating next? Ghandi?
It's the 'let it all burn' crowd run amok
Lock them up.
More evidence of the ignorance taking over our beautiful country!
acoyne It’s the new puritanism. The Catholics had puritanical ideals about sexuality and Sin for centuries, now everyone is celebrating homosexuality. The Social Justice fanatics have puritanical ideals about racism and want to eradicate it from society including history…
How would you use today's standard to judge people living in a century ago?
I am baffled as to why this woman was even honored with a statue based on this;
acoyne When will the statue of Jack Layton be torn down. We cannot have statues of men who sexually exploited women in massage parlours. jacklayton layton NDP rubandtug HappyEnding
Remove ALL statues
How long before the woke thugs (minority) mandate the rest of us (majority) to take it down. Control....
is about whypipo
'It sometimes seems as if the white race lacks both the physical and moral stamina to protect itself, and that maybe the black and yellow races may yet obtain the ascendancy'. She sure missed those slavery days.
The left imploding on itself, better call the election JustinTrudeau in a few months might be too late.
Why?
Really the founder of personhood for women, wth?
Are they just damaging all statues now
acoyne She supported voting rights for women… who were white and Christian… but not a Catholic. And she personally led the charge to ban drugs so as to protect decent Canadians from corruption by the Yellow race. Even by the standards of her time, she was illiberal and bigoted.
is this the start of progressive movements cannabilism?
Another?
We all learn by the examples we see set before us, we know this from the time we are very young, when leaders in particular set such poor moral examples the world reaps what is sown.
If you cheer for Church burning and toppling of statues of people you don’t like eventually places and things you DO like will get their turn with the arsonists and and vandals.
acoyne Take the statue down or put a plaque telling the WHOLE story of who she was.. or put it in a museum with a plaque saying the good and the bad.. we cannot sweep history, even the bad, under the rug
why can't we just leave it with the paint on it?
Blame Trudeau for his lack of leadership in not swiftly condemn all of these types of actions - defacing statues, renaming streets, burning churches, running down people, violence against women / minorities / religious groups, etc! He cherry picks and is far too inconsistent!
acoyne Eugenicists who was instrumental in the foundation of the Alberta Sexual Sterilization Act which deemed 4700 “unfit” to have kids and sterilized 2800 - many of whom were minorities…call it revisionism but I call it historiography! Statues ≠ history
When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”
When destroying ‘certain’ statutes is tolerated and burning churches not condemned… this is the outcome. Without good people standing up, Canada risks going to some sark places.
So shameful that we Canadians are so miserable people. What has happened to Politeness that we were known for it. Proud of our Country!