BC’s newest political party OneBC takes hard stance against reconciliation

BC’s newest political party, OneBC, came into the spotlight this week after their leader tried to host a public, unsanctioned event at UVic.

The public speaking event focused on denying the existence of 215+ unmarked graves at the Kamloops Residential School, and refuting the fact that what was done to Indigenous Peoples in Canada qualifies as a form of genocide.

OneBC is doing splendid work.

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RUBENSTEIN: OneBC leader’s truthful comments drive Métis indigenous delegation from legislature

A Métis delegation stormed out of the BC legislature after controversial OneBC party leader Dallas Brodie questioned the narrative surrounding the Kamloops Indian Residential School (IRS). Brodie’s statement, while technically accurate, was deemed disrespectful, even “triggering,” by the delegation.​

(Incognito)

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Ottawa briefing note compares Chinese concentration camps to Canada’s residential schools

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A federal briefing note shows cabinet officials privately told the Chinese Communist regime not to “repeat Canada’s past mistakes,” directly comparing Beijing’s mass detention of Uyghurs to the Indian Residential School system.

The May 6, 2024 document, titled Assistance To China and prepared for the minister of international development, reveals that Canadian diplomats drew parallels between China’s forced labour programs and residential schools, despite international findings that Beijing’s actions amount to genocide.

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Teacher fired for countering residential school narrative ‘so excited’ to be OneBC’s first candidate

OneBC has announced that a British Columbia teacher fired over his comments on residential schools will be their first candidate.

Jim McMurtry told the Western Standard he was ” so excited” to join the party and praised leader Dallas Brodie for tackling head on issues that others have been afraid to skirt around.

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McCRAE: The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation is lying to us

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew recently announced a $20 million dollar grant to the University of Manitoba for the construction of a new National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) at the University of Manitoba. In 2022, the federal government committed $60 million for the same project.

The University’s National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation is considered a key component of reconciliation in Canada, partly because, among other functions, the NCTR staff maintain a Memorial Register of student deaths at Indian residential schools.

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Toronto Star uses ‘mass graves’ conspiracy to ‘explain’ DEI increases

When the Toronto Star recently linked the rise of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs to the “discovery of unmarked graves at residential schools,” it echoed a familiar trope of moral reckoning born from tragedy.

The paper conspiratorially theorized that “a push for more inclusive policies in many countries was sparked by the 2020 death of George Floyd … and in Canada by the discovery of unmarked graves at residential schools.”

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GIESBRECHT: No digging necessary at Kamloops Residential School

Another National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (NDTR) has come and gone. This is the fifth since the shocking Kamloops claim was made on May 27, 2021. The orange shirts worn by those who believe in the truth of the claim pay tribute to the 215 indigenous students at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School (KIRS) they believe died under sinister circumstances, and were buried by priests to hide their crime with the forced help of children — as young as six. That’s the Kamloops claim.

(Incognito)

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WTF? Criminalizing residential school denialism is the only way forward …

Only 14 of the 94 Calls to Action have been implemented. Criminalizing residential school denialism is the only way forward

… The key roadblock to true reconciliation however, is Residential School Denialism. In 2023, despite complete rejection by the publishing industry, a book titled “Grave Error,” a vitriolic and hateful diatribe denying the truth about residential schools and the intergenerational harms they caused, was self-published by a gaggle of hard-core denialists, determine to shore up the myth that residential schools were well-intentioned, abuses suffered there exaggerated or fabricated and that intergenerational harms do not exist. It is deeply disturbing that in this day and age, and in the face of indisputable evidence in the form of government documentation, this book rose to the level of a bestseller.

Confronting denialists is critically important. It is also exhausting and largely a waste of time. Taking a page out of the MAGA playbook the denialists, though with other words, posit the notion of “alternative facts” or “fake news.”


The Star. Batshit Crazy doesn’t begin to describe it.

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Truth and Reconciliation Day: A national farce masquerading as mourning

Justin Trudeau started and anti-Christian pogrom based on false claims of Aboriginal mass graves at Residential schools. Over 100 churches have been burned down or vandalized. No graves have been found.

Taxpayer money squandered on ‘unmarked graves,’ while hospitals crumble and kids go without. Time to bury this hoax for good.

Here we go again, another “National Day for Truth and Reconciliation” is upon us. The federal government shuts down for the day. Flags are at half-mast. Across the country, Canadians are supposed to pause, reflect, and feel guilty for a manufactured fake holiday.

But pause we must, not to bow before this altar of invented outrage, but to ask when does this madness end?

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Alberta church burned to the ground, two aboriginal suspects charged after dangerous RCMP chase

Smoky Lake RCMP have arrested two people in connection with a string of vehicle thefts and a fire that destroyed the All Saints Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Bellis, Alta.

The arrests come after a dramatic police pursuit involving erratic driving, bear mace, and a vehicle ramming a police car.

h/t Auntie Polly (Incognito)

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FLETCHER: Orange Shirt Day guilt industry running out of control

As the end of September approaches, my Facebook feed is suddenly awash with paid ads for orange shirts and caps with an array of designs inspired by West Coast indigenous art.

This social media sales frenzy has been growing in recent years, since the concept of Orange Shirt Day was officially adopted and promoted by the BC government and others. I’ve encouraged this advertising blitz by clicking on several of the offerings, not to purchase but to check their origin and validity. Facebook’s user algorithm picks up on that activity, directing more ads to me and getting a cut from the action.

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Manitoba spends $20 million on permanent home for Truth and Reconciliation Centre

Premier Wab Kinew announced Friday that Manitoba will spend $20 million to help build a permanent home for the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) at the University of Manitoba.

Kinew, who is also minister responsible for indigenous reconciliation, said the centre will provide a place for Manitobans to honour survivors of residential schools and support ongoing healing.

(Incognito)

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RUBENSTEIN: The truth about Canada’s residential school abuses

Finally, the 2003 Final Report of British Columbia’s RCMP Native Indian Residential School Task Force, also called Project E-NIRS, was released on August 26 thanks to an access to information request by the Investigative Journalism Foundation.

The task force was created in 1995 to investigate sexual and other abuse in the province’s Indian Residential Schools after the Alberni RCMP met on November 3, 1994, with unnamed representatives of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth Tribal Council who claimed that 100 of its people had reported alleged abuse during their time at BC’s Indian residential schools.

(Incognito)

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