Jonathan Kay: Sensational 2021 claims that unmarked Indigenous child graves had been discovered in British Columbia now seem doubtful. But saying so may soon be a criminal offence.
Jonathan Kay: Sensational 2021 claims that unmarked Indigenous child graves had been discovered in British Columbia now seem doubtful. But saying so may soon be a criminal offence.
Nothing must go against the “Oral History” of the indigenous, which the supreme court of canada said is equal to physical evidence.
And we can rest assured that odious little creep Lametti will back them all the way.
Given this dark history, it wasn’t hard to believe that some of the priests and educators who ran these schools hadn’t just been cruel and negligent (this much was already known), but also had committed acts of mass murder against defenceless children.
Sorry. But WHY is caring for poor indigenous children, who were starving, poorly fed, and freezing considered a “dark” History. And you know … it’s funny … my HS Spanish teacher had a STRICT rule – NO ENGLISH SHALL BE SPOKEN IN HER CLASS! This was in 1972. Who do I sue for her forcing me to not speak my native language? And yes … The State FORCED me to attend that Public School … and FORCED me to take a foreign language. It’s written … right there in their State curriculum. Where’s MY Truth and Reconciliation handwringing?
And did some Nuns, Priests, and Teachers abuse the children? Sheesh. Welcome to HUMAN reality. SOME people are PRICKS! I had PLENTY of them in the “white man’s” Public schools. Teachers who deliberately embarrassed me in front of the assembled class. And just LOOK at the sexual abuse of children by our mostly FEMALE public school teachers.
Just stop it. Stop accepting “narratives” as “truth”.
“I was one of the many Canadians who believed these headlines.”
Jonathan Kay admits that he is an idiot, something most have known for years..
My thought as well.
Yes,the story was ridiculous from the start. Any and all treasure hunting reality shows have demonstrated GPR and its generalization.
Only a closed and uneducated mind could think its real.
If you blame GPR you have been duped. They deliberately took something that was too complex to either explain or understand. The old appeal to authority trick. GPR is real and has many applications. It can locate graves, if they are present. But confirming grave sites takes digging – with shovels.
Will the rules of evidence in court be changed for everyone? Or do we have to say we’ve changed sex, we’ve changed race, our religion is today’s made up fiction of the day, and we’re all for big gov’t? Then the gov’t judges will nod approvingly and we can take the stand.
Canada looks nice, let’s ruin it with gov’t. er, let’s ruin it more!
So now, all a murderer need do is bury the victim in a culturally protected area and you can’t touch them or the suspect.
I will be anxious to hear the resolve when one of them want to know what’s in the ground.
This government is the most authoritarian I can recall. Their instinct is to control speech and punish dissent at every turn.
“I was one of the many Canadians who believed these headlines.”
Aren’t you a journalist? So much for George Santanya’s “Skepticism is the chastity of intellect”.
Here is a case where traditional aboriginal science and technology is an obvious better path towards the truth than the settlers’ way – as it already is for history.
An acceptable conclusion is formulated, then followed by the investigation, inevitably leading to an acceptable compensation once ratified by the required number of chiefs, elders etc. etc. (until the next round)…
The woman who was promoting the GPR results was not a geophysicist. She came from the social sciences. She took a 2 day course on how to operate a GPR. Then she became the spokesperson / expert.
Don’t knock those two-day courses, Steve. That’s how I became a neurosurgeon.
I have a bump on my head.
Trudeau give them 300 million to confirm there is actually graves and they laughed their asses off all the way to the bank. Not one shovel was purchased, why would they, kill the golden goose by proving your self wrong. Its a win, win, for the Liberals, they buy a bunch of votes, make the UCP and anybody else that doubts these claims look like a racist and all the money came from stupid taxpayers, zero money from the Liberal campaign fund.
This is pure Liberal BS and stupid Canadians just keep on letting them get away with it and it was all started by some Leftist student trying to get her Masters. Unbelievable, the natives didn’t even come up with this one but they sure made out like bandits.
yes yes yes! (to Wake up)
Jonathan Kay and his mother Barbara (see NP June 24) have questioned this issue unlike any news organization in the country. Terry Glavin would also fit in with them.
Canada is on the cusp of entertaining some dangerous legislation. State sanctioned knowledge suppression is not something you would expect to find in a modern first world country based on the rule of law and free speech.
“Canada is on the cusp of entertaining some dangerous legislation. State sanctioned knowledge suppression is not something you would expect to find in a modern first world country based on the rule of law and free speech.”
Yet it comes from your side of the political spectrum, and not ours. Curious.
fred in bc
I’ll put my Conservative credentials up against yours every day of the week fred.
You need to get a little more curious.
“I’ll put my Conservative credentials up against yours every day of the week fred.”
Oh, wow…do I owe you an apology? Have all those left-leaning posts from “abtrapper” over the past few months been *forgeries*, then? My bad.
( the ‘Progressive’ Conservative Party died 20 years ago, and for good reason. If you still call yourself a PC, you are really Liberal Lite, and no one cares what you think about the CPC…or PPC)
Reading comprehension isn’t your strong suit is it fred.
PC haha. That’s all you got? See above
And fred don’t bother apologizing, I wouldn’t accept an apology from you, but if you free you need to, to clear your conscience – fill your boots
Dorchester Review – subscription, 4 issues per year, is very sound on this topic and many others of interest to Canadians.
Been a subscriber since day one.
fred’s never heard of it…
If only Canada operated under the rule of law, embracing free speech and treating citizens as equals without regard to their race, religion, age, language, vaccination status, or gender.
What a country THAT would be…!
Wallowing in the epistemological quicksand of identity politics and group rights, the establishment will have to shut down free speech to protect its narratives. Unnecessarily buying off the media was a first step. “When you can’t win a debate, you shut it down….” – what I speculate that Katie Telford says to the Spawn-Fuhrer and her cabinet minister drones every day.
A newspaper is actually promoting censorship. The Winnipeg allegedly Free Press wants “denialists” to be dealt with by Parliament.
“Freedom of expression is a cornerstone of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. However, like all protections under the Charter, it is not an absolute right. It is subject to reasonable limits prescribed by law “as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.” Freedom of expression does not mean people can publish and disseminate falsehoods that traumatize others.
Such wanton aggression demands a legal response. Indigenous people should not be forced to disprove the malicious fabrications of those who seek to erase the black mark on Canada’s human rights record. Combating such harm deserves the attention of Parliament.”
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/editorials/2023/06/23/combating-denialism
At last count there were fourteen things you could not say in public, and number 14 was that you could not say the other 13.
But MAN O MAN did they sell alot of orange T-shirts. Nobody wants truth, they want victim or ‘moral glory for feelings umkay’ currency.
I’m going as a Super Middle Aged White Guy GPR technician in a Headdress for Halloween.
Big Chief Spendy McBlackface Hairdo can do it at least 29 times for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald, why can’t I?