The CBC helped fuel a national reckoning in 2021 with unverified claims of children’s remains at Kamloops—and still hasn’t owned up, argues Marco Navarro Genie. The public broadcaster’s credibility is on the line, from misleading headlines to ombudsman complaints and backstage media access. If truth matters in reconciliation, Navarro-Genie says, CBC must fess up or risk further eroding trust in Canada’s institutions.
The Kamloops B.C. Indian Band (also known as the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation) that announced the earth-shattering discovery in 2021 of children’s graves next to its Indian Residential School, has sought tens of millions in federal grants, including the...
Readers trying to understand the many claims made about the number of children who died at residential schools can be forgiven for being confused about what they are being told. Various numbers, such as 3,201, 4,000, 6,000, and even 50,000, have been advanced...
Is Kimberly Murray responsible for the false claim that there are thousands of missing Indian residential school children? By her own admission, she is. On 31 August 2022 in support of her request for intervenor status in the Mohawk Mothers' lawsuit in the...
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The writ has been dropped and Albertans are off to the polls on May 29. That leaves just four weeks for political leaders and voters to sort out what is arguably the most divisive, yet significant, issue for this election - health care. On Day 2, NDP leader Rachel...
Barbara Kay highlights the Frontier Centre for Public Policy’s From Truth Comes Reconciliation, which examines the 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) report. The book challenges the TRC’s portrayal of Indian Residential Schools, asserting that its...
A November 29 Blacklocks Reporter post revealed that Kimberly Murray, Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites associated with Indian Residential Schools, advised Canada’s cabinet that she accepts that some...
After Murray Sinclair died in Winnipeg on November 4, 2024, many Canadians learned a good deal about the life and work of the former Senator, Judge, and Chief Commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC). But given how glowing the...
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NEW BOOK From Truth Comes Reconciliation: An Assessment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report (2nd Edition)Edited by Rodney A. Clifton and Mark DeWolf Published and distributed by Sutherland House Press, 2024. Order your copies now available from...
Retired judge and Senior Fellow at Frontier Centre for Public Policy discuss claims of mass graves with Toronto SAUGA 960 AM radio host Richard Syrett. (12 minutes) November 14, 2024.
No. One outrageous lie was quickly discounted, yet another lives on, to the detriment of everybody involved. "My brother Rufus saw them take all those children and stand them up next to a big ditch, and then the soldiers shot them all and they all fell into...
Even the Kamloops band is backing away from its most extreme claim, that 'bodies were found' The price we are being told that we must pay to achieve “reconciliation” is becoming clear. We must pretend to believe a lie. The lie is that 215, and then thousands, of...
U of C Professor Tom Flanagan edited 'Grave Error,' the best-selling book that exposed the mendacity underlying so much of Canada's unmarked indigenous residential schools graves narrative. In the article below, one of the book's contributing authors, retired judge...