Between Canada's middling-to-terrible COVID-19 performance and the discovery of hundreds of unmarked children's graves, fireworks seem distinctly inappropriate.

With less than a week to go until Canada Day, and the search for unmarked Indigenous children’s graves suddenly gathering steam, more and more communities are calling off their celebrations. Victoria, Penticton and Kelowna in British Columbia; Moncton, Fredericton and Saint John, among several other New Brunswick communities; the fireworks in St. Alberta, Alta., are set off on the former site of a residential school where Indigenous children are “likely” buried, according to the city. Cancelling those seemed like a bit of a no-brainer.
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