RCMP investigating after 'transphobic, homophobic' material left in St. Albert playgrounds
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Mounties are on the case of what appears to be a hate crime in St. Albert, after anti-LGBTQ2S+ literature was discovered in two schoolyards in the city just north of Edmonton.
Mounties are on the case of what appears to be a hate crime in St. Albert, after anti-LGBTQ2S+ literature was discovered in two schoolyards in the city just north of Edmonton.
Surveillance video captured two adults leaving posters and bookmarks in the playground of Joseph M. Demko School, St. Albert Public Schools confirmed to CTV News Edmonton.
"It was some transphobic, homophobic kinds of statements," spokesperson Paula Power said in a Thursday interview.
"Our reaction, pretty much across the board, was distress, anger, frustration."
Power said parents found the material on Monday morning and took it to school staff.
Similar material was also found on Tuesday in the playground of Muriel Martin School, not far away.
The material, and the video of the people leaving it, are now with police, Power said.
