Charlottetown café refuses to use coffee sleeves featuring ‘problematic’ John A. Macdonald image

Café owner Laura Noel expressed discomfort with a fundraising campaign by the Confederation Centre of the Arts that featured Sir John A. Macdonald’s image on coffee sleeves, especially given his controversial legacy linked to the residential school system. She criticized the decision to use orange, a color symbolizing Indigenous reconciliation, alongside Macdonald’s image, calling it “too problematic” and highlighting the lack of sensitivity in the campaign’s execution.

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