“Aboriginal Fatigue”

In the decade leading up to 2024/25, inflation-adjusted federal Indigenous spending jumped from $10.3 billion to $40.8 billion, growing seven times faster than overall federal spending, according to a new study published by the Fraser Institute.

The independent think tank found that inflation-adjusted federal Indigenous spending increased by an average of 4.3 per cent per year from 1969/70 to 2014/15. But from 2014/15 to 2024/25, average annual Indigenous spending increased 17.1 per cent, not including the “substantial” spending on lawsuits and court settlement payouts.

According to the CBC, the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), Canada’s largest, most influential, and best taxpayer-funded indigenous advocacy organization, has just claimed that it is still waiting for uncensored access to the government’s historic intelligence dossier about the AFN and its predecessor, the National Indian Brotherhood (NIB), six months after a CBC News investigation revealed the RCMP’s now-defunct spy agency infiltrated the groups in the 1970s.

CBC Live Stream for those who can stomach it.

CBC’s institutional amnesia, Truth & Reconciliation morning

The CBC archives exist. CBC once filmed residential schools as Education Week, “a new future,” integration, a free and equal chance. CBC were the house organ when the policy was respectable. Those tapes do not lead the… https://t.co/IT5lF7PZBS pic.twitter.com/vnwRGzvq7X

— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) September 30, 2026

Why is the federal government trying to prevent Canadians from learning the truth about Indian residential schools?

On 24 September 2026, six days before Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations Rebecca Alty issued a statement about so-called ‘Residential Schools denialism’.

Described by police as a “cowardly” intimidation attempt, over a dozen masked men marched through Kamloops, B.C., as part of a white nationalist demonstration on Sunday.

The demonstration, which also saw masked men gather on the nearby Tk’emlups te Secwepemc reserve, happened just days before the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Bullshit and Grifting on Sept. 30.

No one has told me what law they may have broken.

OTTAWA — Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak renewed her call Tuesday for Canada to criminalize residential school denialism as a form of hate speech.

Woodhouse Nepinak identified the proposal as an AFN priority for Parliament’s fall sitting, three months after the Senate rejected an attempt to add a residential school denialism offence to the federal government’s hate-crime legislation.

You just can’t escape it. At hockey games, city council meetings, school assemblies, and town hall meetings. You see it at the bottom of email signatures, and it’s even done at the beginning of monthly meetings of the rock and lapidary club I belong to (I stopped going to those meetings because of it). The prayer begins, and we are expected to bow our heads in observance and shame. Someone must recite that we are gathered on the traditional, ancestral, and frequently unceded territory of whichever nations the script committee selected this year. Then everyone nods, the real business begins, and nothing of consequence changes.

Many Canadians are familiar with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), due to media coverage of both the content of the declaration, legislation passed by Ottawa and Victoria, along with court cases declaring it positive Canadian law. What many may not understand is that UNDRIP has been the “holy grail” of the activist Aboriginal movement in Canada, and particularly in British Columbia, for many years.