Canmore gourmet business fires owner after sending transphobic email
A Google Street View image of Valbella Gourmet Foods in Canmore, Alta.
"I was really shocked and obviously very disappointed," they said. "I'm a trans person myself, so it's also very harmful and always so disappointing when, you know, people still think think that way. And a lot of his message just brings forward these horrible stigmas that are really dangerous to our community."
Owner Chantal von Rotz apologized for the email and said the person who wrote the email has been removed from the company and is no longer responsible for its operations. Following the recent communications that were made public within the Bow Valley community and Valbella Gourmet Foods today, Banff Centre has chosen to remove all Valbella products from company operations and will seize any business relations.Social media users went through the list of businesses Valbella supplies and called on them to stop buying from the business.
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