‘It’s a human right’: Ponoka, Alta. bakery told to remove Pride flag from window
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A bakery owner in Ponoka has been told to remove the Pride flag from her window and stop hosting Pride meetings as it violates multiple aspects of her lease.
A bakery owner in Ponoka, Alta. says a Pride flag in her store window has become the cause of conflict between her and her landlords. If she wants to keep her Pride flag up, she may have to do so at a new store.
Sarah Kumar has been baking cakes at her store for over a year and until a few weeks ago she never had any issues with her landlords.
“They had asked me to take down the little Pride flag that I have in the window of my shop. They had also asked me in that letter, to stop hosting any Pride meetups, coffee chats that sort of thing,” Kumar said.
Kumar owns Sarah’s Specialty Cakes at Riverbank Common and has been told by her landlords that the flag and the after-hours meet-ups violate her lease.
“It’s definitely affected my business, it’s affecting my reputation in town. It’s become very polarizing between members of the community and that wasn’t the point. The point was to bring the community together in a safe space,” she said.
Bruce Blackmore owns the shopping center and says he warned Kumar multiple times that the lease states that there can not be any advertisements or placards in the front window regardless of what they say.
“It’s not about Pride, it could be the Conservative Party of Canada, it could be NDP. It’s politics, religion and that just obviously causes problems,” said Blackmore.
The owners say the shopping centre is a shared space and Kumar would require permission from other tenants to host after-hours activities.
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