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Police investigating after flagpoles flying Pride flag cut down in Ontario's Perth County

June 15, 2026

Ontario Provincial Police are looking for two persons of interest captured on surveillance cameras after flagpoles with Pride flags were cut down and rainbow flags were stolen from multiple Perth County schools. The Avon Maitland District School Board is calling it "a targeted, costly, and hateful act of vandalism."



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