“Residential School Mass Grave Mania”

Residential school denialism shouldn’t be illegal, Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says

Residential school denialism is detestable but not illegal, and that shouldn’t change, says Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew, who disagrees with federal Manitoba NDPer Leah Gazan’s efforts to add it to the Criminal Code.

“I have a lot of respect for MP Gazan, but I don’t think we can criminalize this. I think we have to just do the continued work of educating people and trying to combat misinformation,” Kinew told CBC Manitoba Up to Speed host Marcy Markusa on Friday.

Gazan first introduced Bill C-254, her private member’s bill to amend the Criminal Code regarding the promotion of hatred against Indigenous people, in October 2024, but it died when the spring 2025 election was called.

by Blazingcatfur•October 10, 2026October 9, 2026•0•"Residential School Mass Grave Mania"

Michael Higgins: Frances Widdowson sues Lethbridge university for $3M in defamation claim

Frances Widdowson, professor, “academic provocateur” and an increasing terror to higher education administrators, is suing the University of Lethbridge for defamation claiming she was accused of spreading prejudice, hate, disinformation and lies.

Widdowson, who is claiming $3 million in damages, also alleges that she was defamed when the university sent out a notice that it would be holding a sacred smudging ceremony to “dissipate the negative atmosphere brought by this individual to our community.”

That smudging should be worth 10 Million on its own!

by Blazingcatfur•October 6, 2026October 5, 2026•0•"Cancel Culture", "Residential School Mass Grave Mania"

Michael Higgins: Governor General has no business musing about ‘denialism’

Governor General Louise Arbour is the latest political actor to give voice to the idea that Indian Residential School “denialism” is such a plague in this country that it must be stamped out.

If that means criminalize it, as others have demanded, then the former Supreme Court judge is doing nothing for truth and even less for reconciliation.

by Blazingcatfur•October 3, 2026October 3, 2026•0•"Aboriginal Fatigue", "Residential School Mass Grave Mania"

Sooke brewery owner terminated after ‘Show Me the Evidence’ shirt sparks backlash on Truth and Reconciliation Day

A Sooke brewery has closed temporarily and fired one of its owners after a photograph appearing to show him wearing a “Show Me the Evidence” T-shirt on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation sparked widespread backlash online.

Sooke Brewing Company initially acknowledged the photograph in a social media statement, saying the shirt’s message was inconsistent with what the business stands for.

I bet their beer sucks.

by Blazingcatfur•October 2, 2026October 2, 2026•0•"Residential School Mass Grave Mania", Uncategorized, WTF?

BRULOTTE: Truth before reconciliation — beyond the headlines of residential schools

Canada marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation with solemn ceremonies and renewed commitments to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) 94 Calls to Action. Residential schools caused documented harm. But the historical record is more complex: compulsory schooling was part of Canada’s broader movement toward universal education, and many former students described their residential school experiences positively and credited their education with improving their lives. Recognizing those experiences requires us to examine the full historical record and apply consistent standards of evidence.

by Blazingcatfur•October 1, 2026September 30, 2026•0•"Aboriginal Fatigue", "Residential School Mass Grave Mania"

Orange Shirt Day founder says her truth is being ‘pushed aside’ by controversial shirts

The founder of Orange Shirt Day says she was sick to her stomach when she learned orange shirts with slogans like “Dig deeper” and “Still no proof” were being sold online.

Holding back tears and speaking from Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc in B.C., which announced a discovery of potential unmarked graves near a former residential school site in 2021, Phyllis Webstad said her campaign was being used in a “hateful way.”

“I’ve been trying to understand why they believe that it’s OK to hurt people,” she said.

What nerve, there is no truth in the fake graves grift.

She should apologize to all parishioners whose churches were burned or otherwise vandalized.

by Blazingcatfur•September 11, 2026September 11, 2026•0•"Residential School Mass Grave Mania"

Michael Higgins: Teacher fired for speaking truth on Kamloops fake graves gets day in court

For refusing to jump on the Kamloops “mass graves” narrative bandwagon, high school teacher Jim McMurtry was sacked by educational authorities, abandoned by his union and refused a hearing before a labour relations board.

Now, five years after first being walked out of a classroom as Indian residential school hysteria swept Canada, McMurtry is heading to B.C. Supreme Court in a case that he hopes will expose the truth about Kamloops.

by Blazingcatfur•July 31, 2026July 31, 2026•0•"Residential School Mass Grave Mania"

RUBENSTEIN: No progress on the ‘215 unmarked graves’ — Kamloops Indian Band owes Canadians answers

According to Blacklock’s Reporter, Canada’s premier investigator of federal government machinations, the Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations waived a requirement that the Kamloops Indian Band account for the spending of a $12.1 million grant for the “exhumation of remains” at its former Indian Residential School, according to records disclosed on July 23.

In particular, the Band made no attempt to exhume even a single grave despite this generous funding.

by Blazingcatfur•July 29, 2026July 28, 2026•0•"Residential School Mass Grave Mania"

Jamie Sarkonak: Why the B.C. Law Society walked back claims of buried children

In 2024, a mandatory course for B.C. lawyers referred to the “discovery of an unmarked burial site containing the bodies of 215 children on the former Kamloops Indian Residential School grounds” which “(confirmed) what survivors have been saying all along.” When one lawyer proposed a correction, as no graves were ever found, the B.C. Law Society publicly disparaged him. He sued for defamation — but now, the trial has been called off.

by Blazingcatfur•July 27, 2026July 27, 2026•0•"Aboriginal Fatigue", "Residential School Mass Grave Mania"

CROSSON: Making residential school ‘denialism’ a crime would criminalize historical debate

Survivor accounts of residential schools vary — sometimes from the very same person. Nunavut Senator Nancy Karetak-Lindell told Nunatsiaq News in 2001 that her time at Akaitcho Hall was “a home-away-from-home” and that “it’s not like what you’re hearing about all the residential school issues today.” In the same piece, she said, “At Akaitcho, we were in a structured environment compared to where we came from. That taught us perseverance and how to discipline ourselves.” “It taught us a lot about doing things in life that we didn’t always want to do, but those things had to be done … We had to learn how to live with people from different cultures who spoke different languages and came from different parts of the NWT,” she continued, adding that those friendships helped her political career.

by Blazingcatfur•July 25, 2026July 25, 2026•0•"Aboriginal Fatigue", "Criminalizing Dissent", "Residential School Mass Grave Mania"

Michael Higgins: It’s not reconciliation when law societies exaggerate anomalies as ‘graves’

Making criminals out of people who merely ask questions about the residential school system is not the path to reconciliation, says B.C. lawyer Jim Heller.

Goodwill and open dialogue are needed far more than trying to imprison people under a “denialism” law, according to Heller, whose defamation suit against his own law society over potential graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School was recently settled.

by Blazingcatfur•July 24, 2026July 23, 2026•0•"Aboriginal Fatigue", "Residential School Mass Grave Mania"

Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc chief says probe into fake graves continues with no end to gravy train in sight

Five years after Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc sent shockwaves around the world by announcing the First Nation found more than 200 possible unmarked graves at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, the chief says the community doesn’t yet know if or when it will proceed with excavation.

Kúkpi7 (Chief) Rosanne Casimir told CBC News the nation is still in an engagement phase with dozens of communities that sent children to the institution when it was in operation from 1890 to 1978 to try to get consensus on the path forward.

“For us, it is about truth and reconciliation and being able to work with all the different communities, our neighbouring nations, our consultants and our families,” Casimir said.

by Blazingcatfur•July 23, 2026July 22, 2026•0•"Aboriginal Fatigue", "Residential School Mass Grave Mania"

Michael Higgins: There’s no justice in jailing people for residential school ‘denialism’

Five years after the Kamloops “graves” controversy first erupted, and with zero bodies discovered, First Nations chiefs are pushing hard to make residential school denialism an imprisonable offence.

But Canadians should not have to face up to two years in jail for denying what the chiefs describe as their “truth.” Are we only to speak about the horrors of residential schools, or will survivors with “warm memories” face prison?

by Blazingcatfur•July 18, 2026July 17, 2026•0•"Residential School Mass Grave Mania", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Assembly of First Nations wants calling out fake graves bullshit criminalized to protect the grift

The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) has passed an emergency resolution that calls on Canada to criminalize residential school denialism.

The advocacy organization, which represents chiefs countrywide, is holding its annual general assembly in Ottawa this week. The resolution was passed on Tuesday.

First Nations chiefs spoke about the importance of the resolution at a news conference Wednesday.

by Blazingcatfur•July 15, 2026July 15, 2026•0•"Aboriginal Fatigue", "Residential School Mass Grave Mania"

McCRAE: Globe and Mail admits its Kamloops ‘mass grave’ failure — now other mainstream media must follow

In its May 30 mea culpa, the Globe and Mail’s editorial board came clean and confessed that the newspaper’s reporting of the May 27, 2021, Kamloops graves “discovery” announcement was journalism at its worst.

The newspaper — finally, after five years — admitted it did no homework, asked no questions, and acted merely as a stenographer for the Kamloops Indian band, which, on that “day that lives in infamy,” announced it had discovered the bodies of 215 indigenous children indecently interred in the apple orchard near the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.

by Blazingcatfur•June 13, 2026June 12, 2026•0•"Residential School Mass Grave Mania"