{"id":809289,"date":"2026-07-18T03:57:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T03:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/809289\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T03:57:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T03:57:27","slug":"indigenous-effigies-on-montreal-fountain-spark-anger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/809289\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous effigies on Montreal fountain spark anger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A landmark fountain in Montreal&#8217;s St. Henri park is drawing renewed attention for what some see as a troubling symbol of the city&#8217;s colonial past. One Indigenous resident says the monument featuring explorer Jacques Cartier portrays Indigenous people in a demeaning way, raising questions about how history is represented in public spaces. Phil Carpenter reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A landmark fountain in Montreal&#8217;s St. Henri park is drawing renewed attention for what some see as a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,34356,284046,2338,284047],"class_list":["post-809289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-indigenous-people","tag-jacques-cartier","tag-montreal","tag-phil-carpenter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}