Ontario paper apologizes after AFN calls headline on egg attacks ‘insensitive’
THUNDER BAY, Ont. — A newspaper in northern Ontario is apologizing for a headline on a story about a police investigation into two incidents where eggs were thrown from passing vehicles at two men believed to be Indigenous.
The headline in Thursday’s print edition of the Chronicle-Journal referred to the alleged attacks as “egg-toss incidents” that have left police in Thunder Bay, Ont., “scrambling,” prompting the Assembly of First Nations to demand an apology.
In a statement Thursday, the organization called the headline “offensive” and “insensitive,” particularly in a city plagued by reports of violence against Indigenous people.
The Chronicle-Journal’s front-page apology Friday says the play on words was “inappropriate” for a story about an alleged criminal attack.