Weak response to religious arson has been alarming
When churches burn across Canada, do they make a sound? The answer, sadly, seems to be no.
It began near the town of Penticton, British Columbia, in the early morning of June 21.
Sacred Heart Mission and St. Gregory Mission, both located on Indian tribal lands, burnt completely to the ground.
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.
Will the nightmare ever end? Indigenous families across Canada have been lied to about their history for a long time. Their greedy leaders have been feeding their grief with new allegations of cruelty almost daily — and exploiting it — for the purpose of extorting billions from Canadian taxpayers.
For too many ordinary indigenous families, the consequence has been anger, anxiety, distrust of all politicians — their own included — and continued dependence on taxpayers for their very existence.
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.
Progressives want to outlaw ‘denialism,’ but no actual remains have been found.
Progressives want the state to monitor truth in the public square, and some would give government the power to punish dissent from approved narratives. Last month Hillary Clinton proposed criminalizing speech she labels as “propaganda.”
Any first-year law student can tell you why that won’t fly under the U.S. Constitution. But in Canada protections for those who question conventional wisdom aren’t nearly so secure—even if the truth is on their side.
… 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.
Blacklocks reports that since 2010, when the Truth and Reconciliation (TRC) commissioners began making the claim in interviews and in interim reports that thousands of indigenous children had died at residential schools under suspicious circumstances, more than 400 Christian churches have burned in Canada.
Those allegations were false, and based on a conspiracy theory.
Orange Shirt Day arose from the experience of a 6-year-old orphan named Phyllis Webstad in a hostel in Williams Lake, B.C. In 2018, she published the eponymous book The Orange Shirt Story, which is now in school libraries across Canada. The plot is of a young child in a forbidding-looking residential school losing her shirt to faceless, black-habited Catholic nuns who force her to shower, give her new institutional clothes, crop her hair, and hover over her while she prays at bedtime.
Jim McMurtry's Back to talk about schools in Canada https://t.co/Rgojvh33dR
— Peyman Askari (@PeymanAskari451) October 1, 2024
Canada’s state broadcaster published a story where a woman claims her grandfather was forced to dig graves for other children at a residential school.
No graves have been found to date, despite millions of federal dollars spent excavating sites where the remains allegedly would have been uncovered since the claims were made in 2021.
112 Christian churches in Canada have been vandalized, burned down or desecrated since the announcement of the apparent discovery of graves found near a residential school in Kamloops, BC.
Since then, three other first nations have announced similar findings of burial sites located near former residential schools.
h/t Mauser
