Canadian Tire, Indigenous customers put racial profiling case in past with washing ceremony

Dawn Wilson being robed by Heiltsuk elder Connie Tallio, as father Richard Wilson looks on, at a Heiltsuk washing ceremony in Vancouver on May 19, 2026. PHOTO BY SUSAN LAZARUK Article content What began as hurtful actions against her and her Indigenous father in a Coquitlam Canadian Tire store more than six years ago that left Dawn Wilson in tears ended on Tuesday evening with a washing ceremony at a hall in east Vancouver. Article content The washing ceremony, a traditional act of restorative justice practised by the Heiltsuk tribe in Bella Bella, B.C., was agreed to as part of a settlement b…