” It has escalated quickly, shall we say. “

Year of the Graves: Terry Glavin, on the reaction and fallout to his adventure in residential school truth telling.

For a “mainstream” Canadian journalist to be too closely associated with me right now might be bit dangerous, owing to the bosses responsible for all the shoddy journalism I catalogue in Year of the Graves. […]

Then there are the senior journalists at top-drawer news organizations who have come to me privately. Here’s one: “We in this business have become a bunch of wankers. . . much of the industry decided it knew what was right and wrong, and chose its orthodoxy. Orthodoxies allow no room for dissent.”

48 Replies to “” It has escalated quickly, shall we say. “”

  1. They wonder why we hate them. Suck it scumbags is what I say. There’s a reckoning coming and Pierre will not be kind to these bastards. You sell yourself to the devil you live with it. Justin is the most hated politician in Canadian history and the media are closely associated with him.

    1. The women are infatuated with the idiot.
      If there was election tomorrow, he would win.
      It is nearly impossible to change religiosity.

      1. What? You don’t like a prime minister who wore Spidey undies?

        You know, that picture would look great in a Conservative election ad.

          1. So? After all his name-calling, after all his lies, after all his petulant bullshit, I’m long past the point of being scrupulous with that sack of shit.

  2. They’re still trying to claim that it was only white journalists that got it wrong.

    Utter bollocks. The Kamloops band was lying from the get-go and they knew they were lying.

    1. Yep. Ranks right up there with “narrative”, “whopper” & “ideology”.

  3. The average Canadian knew the mass graves story was bullshit immediately.
    The Indigenes went along with it for the potential Ottawa money which is their metier.
    It’s hard to tell whether Indian leadership or the Media leadership are the biggest contemptible immoral shit parasites.

    1. YP

      As per BA a few days ago.

      These two quotes sum up our Lying Rotten Legacy TRUDEAU paid Media perfectly.

      “You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.” William Randolph Hearst (attributed)

      “A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.” Mark Twain (attributed)

      And not one investigation of a burnt out Church….cant have BLM, AntiFa or the “Warriors” linked to any of this now can we..??

    2. yellow peril, the average Canadian fell for this b.s. hook, line, and sinker. For months flags flew at half-mast and orange ribbons are still tied to fences.

      Potential Ottawa (taxpayer, MY) money? That’s not all. The Catholic bishops in Canada have launched a $30 million Indigenous Reconciliation Fund and my parish has already collected over $3,000. I won’t be helping them reach their goal.

      There’s nothing like guilt to pick people’s pockets.

  4. Oh, how Canadian. After how many decades of corrosive social engineering, inspired by the diseased Bolsheviks Gramsci and Alinsky, a journo tip toes away from the gathering tumbrels. His tongue was full of praise for other journos. Pardon me while I vomit. In my years of life in Toronto I have seen people whose lives have been ruined, relationships poisoned, and, ambitions crushed, thanks to the lubricant gushed about by this creature and his like. The long list of victims never bothered them before. Perhaps at a party Dr.Phibes will explain it to them.

  5. Take everything with a grain of salt.
    File a grievance with your rep.
    Live another day
    Everyone dies eventually
    Who cares what others think of you

  6. The band confirmed the graves, the band confirmed the burials… Is anything confirmed if they haven’t dug up the remains?

    You cannot detect bodies with ground penetrating radar.

    1. You cannot detect discriminate between bodies and other objects with ground penetrating radar.

      There, that’s better.

  7. The “truth and reconciliation” money was winding down so it was time for a top up. It’s the grift that keeps on giving.

    1. Or, like some wag here on SDA put it, “Old money gone. Send new money.”

  8. “Jonathan Kay, the author, Quillette editor, polymath, disc-golf superstar and scourge of the “woke” bourgeoisie, says it’s the “best (and bravest) article I’ve read in any Canadian newspaper all year.”

    At least they acknowledged that telling the truth is an extremely rare event in the Canadian media.

    “In times of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

    This was the Canadian Press’s ‘Story Of The Year’ and it was complete bullshit.
    All of press who are funded by Trudeau and have a Qualified Canadian Journalism Organization License were on board with the vicious lies about Canadians.
    On the other hand the unfunded and unlicensed independent Canadian media got the story correct from the start and tried to fight those lies. Without $2 billion of our tax dollars.

    Jonathon Kay gushes about the bravery of this piece?
    Why didn’t he gush about the bravery of Candace Malcom’s piece from July 2021 that exposed the media’s lies?
    It was better and more accurate than this.

    The Trudeau media are frauds and Glavin’s semi-whitewash article is more evidence of it.

  9. The treaties that were signed guaranteed 2nd class citizenry.. Strangely enough it was the Church’s teachings that guided government policy at the time.. The Native culture had to be preserved so it could be saved.. Turning bad work into good work so to speak..

    A grand make work project that rings hollow.. We can help you put it all back together by creating a written language (all great cultures have a written language) and a soapstone fetish.. We give you the tools to be unhappy so we can all grieve together..

    So.. Don’t be surprised when a situation that been guided with emotion, feelings and good intent goes off the rails when facts attempt to enter the room.. The longest funeral in the history of mankind doesn’t need actual bodies..

    How do you appease everything belongs to me?.. By stopping the clock that nothing came before me.. This is not true..

    Truth is a hell of a thing to allow into politics..

    1. No ‘grate culture’ has ever been conquered by a lesser culture in the history of man.

      Not one.

    2. Which church would that be?

      There was never any good intent in demonising an entire country just so a handful of chiefs can buy Escalades.

  10. The biggest benefactors of the grievance industry are white liberal academics, millions of dollars are at stake and Terry wrote the truth. Mass graves, no evidence of said graves but the taxpayer is footing the bill for the white liberal academics where the truth is immaterial to how they feel.

    1. If it wasn’t one scam, it would be another.

      Being a white liberal means never having to deal with facts.

  11. “Three Indigenous teachers – Joe Stanley Michel, who graduated from KIRS, Benjamin Paul, and Mabel Caron – were on staff in 1962 when the CBC filmed a documentary at the Kamloops school, and none complained of anything untoward, either then or later.

    By 1973, half the staff at KIRS was Indigenous, and none of these Indigenous staff members complained of anything untoward at the school, neither then nor later.”
    snip

    “Not one of the many Indian Bands who sent children to the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, including the Kamloops Band itself, has ever come forward with the name of a single child who allegedly went to the school and never returned, and for whom the Band has been looking ever since. Not one.”

    https://tnc.news/2022/05/19/guest-op-ed-one-year-later-there-is-still-no-evidence-of-unmarked-graves-or-missing-children-at-former-residential-schools/

  12. Good on Glavin and Nat Post for for this. Should it have been earlier? Maybe, but a year later is better later than never.

    The MSM can ignore the Rebel and TN but they can’t call bullshit on the NP.

  13. Deviating slightly from the fake narrative is not particularly brave.

    Writing a follow up column about yourself is downright embarrassing.

    And name dropping commie propagandist Paul Wells certainly doesn’t bolster ones journalistic bonafides.

    1. Let’s look at it this way: if only marginally telling the truth is a revolutionary act, we’ve gone right down the rabbit-hole if people are surprised.

  14. I have found it quite fascinating how the mainstream “abortion debate” has devolved into a battle between the “ban ALL abortion” and “kill every fetus in sight” crowds. There is little nuance left at all, anymore.

    These residential schools have developed an eerily similar ‘feel’. Just try convincing a liberal that these schools did some positive things for native families, many being there voluntarily. Same trying to convince others that these schools also enabled a lot of abuse and suffering, for some. Tribalistic politics and corrupt media have killed honest debate and the sharing of basic facts in our societies.

    We are all grown-ups here, we know what man is capable of and how child predators often work themselves into positions of power over children. There are also many natives who have said the residential schools were a positive experience, leading them from squalor and some even into successful professional careers.

    But, for now, the “hate all white people brigade” has a lock on the residential school narrative, so good luck EVER trying to inject some balance or reality into the situation. Just like leftards don’t actually give a shit about those poor kids in Texas, their concerns for the plight of aboriginal children at these schools goes about as deep as the political points they think they can score by scraping at their bones.

    And not one in a position of power with the balls to aggressively call out these despicably woke wastes of skin.

    Sigh.

    1. ” good luck EVER trying to inject some balance or reality into the situation”
      Thru out the fifties and sixties, every fall Dad along with other members of his church would canvass the community to gather up any spare garden produce or potatoes all ‘for the children at the school’. Perhaps this bs will end like the Spanish Inquisition; we’ll be digging up the remains of those dear departed church members and put their bones on trial for their past crimes.

    1. And, and, are they financially responsible to the families of said tribes & to the tune of how much?

  15. So lying about Harper murdering the Syrian boy was fine with fellow MFM dicks and fellow-travellers but telling the truth about the ‘mass graves’ lie has him in trouble??

  16. But its not just the media, Blackface Juthtin, the Teddy-Bear-Clutching Coward of the Cottage and his Government of Shits are pushing the genocide narrative.
    To what purpose? What good can this lie possibly bring?
    Obviously nothing good. It is another step in Blacky’s dismantling of the nation so he has one single truth as a legacy: that Canada is a post-nation…and a divided, conflicted nation and a federation no more.

    1. It is a great deflection – away from a deteriorating economy, massive inflation, general lack of goods, poor stewardship, graft, collusion. There is quite a line-up.

  17. Perhaps Dear Gavin has started to sense the way the winds are blowing?
    Carefully crafted “corrections” long after the damage was done and never examining the wilful propaganda created with the false claim..
    A great way to cover his ass.
    For the Media,even more so than the politicians,are proudly self identified as The Enemy of The People..
    They know that they are lying,they know we know they are lying,yet they keep right on lying,for the handouts of tax payers money,Dear Leader rewards their “Narrative Management” with.
    Now Politicians are like nappies,full of it and needing regular changing..However the Media Party,cannot be voted in or out and we have all seen how they use their promoted politicians to enforce the Media Monopoly.
    So while politicians may be hunted for sport ,when the terror comes..Media Presstitutes are likely to be hunted without mercy…
    And they can blame their own propaganda for that..
    “Speaking Truth to Power”..
    Kinda aggravates the hell out of the tax payers,forced to fund these idiots as they shamelessly perform their assigned tasks..
    Smug and self satisfied betrayal of the social contract..The one the media sold the public on.
    For high in the feelings of betrayal,will be this consideration..
    “If the media had done their job,we would not have come to this..”
    None of this insanity ,we have been experiencing is possible,without the media’s buy in.

    So is Dear Gavin actually showing journalistic skills and practising some ethical behaviour?
    Or has he seen the dark clouds rising and is putting up a smoke screen?
    For like others here,I notice he gives zero credit to the nongovernment media of Canada,who called this BS from day one..

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