“Residential School Mass Grave Mania”

“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 that ditch. Some of the kids were still alive and they just poured the dirt in on top of them. Buried them alive.”

This mass murder happened in 1943 — not in Nazi-held Europe, but in Brantford, Ontario.

The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations says the International Criminal Court should investigate the disappearance of Indigenous children from Canadian residential schools.

Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak said she supports the call by Kimberly Murray — the federally-appointed Independent Special Interlocutor on Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and burial sites — for the ICC to reconsider its decision not to investigate.

“A lot of the people that did create these harms were never prosecuted,” Woodhouse Nepinak told CBC News. “It’s still hurtful to so many survivors.”

The federal probe on Indigenous missing children and unmarked graves, the final report of which was released last Tuesday, does touch on the topic of residential schools. Mostly, though, it’s a 1,300-page tome that sets out arguments against the Canadian state.

The executive summary is 270 pages long. It’s accompanied by a 638-page document titled “Upholding Sacred Obligations” and her previously completed 256-page study titled “Sites of Truth, Sites of Conscience,” and that just about wraps it up for Kimberly Murray, the Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites associated with Indian Residential Schools.

Ottawa must combat residential school denialism by amending Criminal Code, special interlocutor says

The federal government must address residential school denialism by amending the Criminal Code to make it an offence to wilfully promote hatred against Indigenous peoples by downplaying or justifying the harms the institutions caused, a special interlocutor has said in a final report.

Kimberly Murray, the Independent Special Interlocutor for missing children and unmarked graves and burial sites associated with Indian residential schools, released her findings Tuesday in

Gatineau, Que. She was appointed to her role in June, 2022, by the federal Justice Minister and was given a two-year term. In June, her mandate was extended for six months.

OTTAWA — As a young child, Dennis Saddleman’s mother always ensured he knew how much she loved him, gave him kisses on his forehead and told him how beautiful he was.

That all changed when he was six years old, and those warm words turned ice cold when he was sent to the Kamloops Indian Residential School. The priests and nuns who were tasked with looking after him constantly berated him, beat him, barred him from speaking his language and practising his culture, and sexually assaulted him.

Progressives who want to criminalize discussion of residential schools are embarrassing Canada

Once again, commentators in friendly countries throughout the western world are expressing sincere alarm over whether Canada has succumbed to terminal wokeness and is voluntarily and by force of law strangling free speech and ceasing to be, by traditional definition, a free country. Leah Gazan, a Manitoba New Democratic MP, who has been a tireless propagator of the defamatory fraud that French and English Canadians attempted to perform an act of genocide against Canada’s indigenous people, is at it again. Her private member’s bill, supported by the NDP, proposes to make it a crime to question, dispute, minimize or justify the activities of the so-called Indian residential schools which she continues falsely to represent as a genocidal enterprise.

Film critics and viewers should not have to fact check a National Geographic documentary. But in the case of ‘Sugarcane,’ they do.

Independently produced by award-winning investigative journalist Emily Kassie and co-directed by Julian Brave Noisecat, ‘Sugarcane’ is an emotionally powerful film that is beautifully shot and edited. After a win at various film festivals, notably Sundance, it was picked up for distribution by National Geographic .

How a resolution at the B.C. Law Society became a debate about residential school denialism

… The wording used in the training said: “On May 27, 2021, the Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc Nation reported the discovery of an unmarked burial site containing the bodies of 215 children on the former Kamloops Indian Residential School grounds. Although the discovery was shocking to many Canadians, many Indigenous residential school survivors had previously reported the existence of unmarked burial sites, and the unexplained disappearances of children; the discovery confirms what survivors have been saying all along.”

Heller and Berry asked to have the first sentence changed to “…Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc Nation reported the discovery of a potentially unmarked burial site…” and to remove the reference to the bodies of 215 children.

They also asked law society members to delete the passage saying the discovery confirms survivors’ testimonies.

… It says no confirmed human remains have been found to date while telling skeptics there is an “overwhelming abundance of evidence” supporting the legitimacy of the investigation that is being compiled in a scientific way.

A retired Canadian judge says people are being “deliberately deceived by their own government” after blasting the Liberal federal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for “actively pursuing” a policy that blames the Catholic Church for the unfounded “deaths and secret burials” of indigenous children.