In the spotlight: national holiday in Canada in a very tense context
Lights and flags placed on the site of hundreds of unidentified Indigenous graves in Saskatchewan, Canada.
AP - Mark Taylor
Text by: Camille Marigaux
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Several cities have announced the cancellation of their festivities, in support of the victims after the discovery of graves of indigenous children.
A third site was reported Wednesday, June 30 in British Columbia, 182 bodies buried near Cranbrook.
In parallel with these discoveries, several churches have caught fire in recent days, fires "
of suspicious origin
", according to
La Presse
.
As near Edmonton in Alberta, a few hours before this discovery in Cranbrook.
The Globe and Mail is
relaying the calls for calm from the National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, even if no official link has been established between the two events, recalls
The Star
. One of the chiefs of the First Nations of Alberta, Arthur Noskey calls for more protection for the churches, because they are potential sites of evidence in the discovery of these bodies.
Churches that burn and "The story that is buried".
In the daily
La Presse
, Yves Boisvert returns to this context of tension in the middle of a national holiday.
Quebec "
would like to escape it
", in this province the festivities take place on Saint-Jean on June 24.
And “
it's convenient
”, according to the editorialist: it saves “
embarrassment, introspection
”, while “
some of these western boarding schools were run by Quebec Catholic communities
”.
The Trump Organization in court.
The family business of the former US president and its chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg have been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury.
The charges against him and the company are to be disclosed by prosecutors this Thursday afternoon.
Prior to that, Weisselberg went to court early this morning to be heard, the
Boston Globe
reports
, as part of the two-year investigation, which is looking at the bonuses and luxurious benefits the man has enjoyed. business: an apartment in Manhattan, or Mercedes rentals, details
the
New York Times
.
And this question from prosecutors: should taxes have been paid on these benefits?
asks
USA Today
.
Weisselberg could be pressured to cooperate and reveal what he knows about the former president's affairs.
This indictment establishes in any case an unprecedented balance of legal power between Manhattan prosecutors and a former president, whose "
hold on the Republican Party remains considerable,
"
said the
Washington Post.
Donald Trump, who denounced a "
witch hunt
" should not be worried for the moment.
But for
the
New York Times
, defending his business could be "
a costly distraction as he contemplates another presidential race
."
In Florida, a law that prohibits transgender athletes from playing on women's teams comes into effect on July 1.
It is now necessary to show a birth certificate, indicating his "biological sex", explains the
Miami Herald
. A 13-year-old transgender teenager and her parents are challenging this measure in court, the daily teaches us. For their lawyers this measure is unconstitutional, because it violates a federal law, which prohibits discrimination based on sex within schools.
In
the
Washington Post
, the activist Gavin Grimm gives his experience, these years spent fighting in his high school for access to boys' toilets, harassment, exclusion.
"
It shouldn't have been that hard
."
But for him, it is not a question of sport or toilets, but of "
ignorance and fear
", on the part of some legislators.
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