A useful explainer.
Leroy Little Bear: "Navajo doesn't have to refer to mathematics. Navajo language can explain [knowledge], Blackfoot can explain it, Cree can explain it, Mohawk can explain it without [mathematics]." So aboriginal groups didn't develop mathematics because they didn't need it? pic.twitter.com/COEPoOoXsB
— Frances Widdowson (@FrancesWiddows1) June 14, 2026
“Neutrality is a luxury that archaeologists are not afforded and they cannot be apolitical in the face of politics,” she wrote….
Five years of national angst and anger over the “discovery” of “graves” at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School was driven by an archeological report by a self-proclaimed activist archeologist and critical theory advocate Sarah Beaulieu. Her PhD thesis, completed in 2019, glorified her social warrior/critical theory credentials.
In her thesis, Archaeology of Internment at the Morrissey WWI Camp, insight into Beaulieu’s philosophy is revealed in chapter two under the headings “Critical Theory” and “Applications of Critical Theory within Modern Conflict Archaeology.”
Critical theory, she explained, has a dual purpose: exposing ideologies (or regimes/governments) that justify oppression and forcing a commitment from the “practitioner” (in this case Beaulieu) to act against the oppression once it has been exposed.
“Through the application of critical theory, researchers gain an understanding of how certain groups have become exploited. This understanding allows the researcher to use this knowledge and critique gained through research to strive to end such oppressive forces,” wrote Beaulieu, a professor at Fraser Valley University.
“Critical archaeologists thus take part in an emancipatory archaeology to serve marginalized societal groups and challenge the dominant class.”
I’ve linked to the archived page, but if you have a couple of bucks to spare, consider subscribing to the National Post. They’re the only ones with the cajones to take these hoax mongers on, and it costs nearly nothing.
The key to allowing a myth to become as pervasive and as thoroughly embedded in a culture as the myth of residential school mass graves, it seems, lies with getting enough people to buy into the notion of a secularized version of original sin.
The Kamloops fiasco has changed this nation for the worse. Canadians were made by their government to feel shamed, demoralized and bitter in being labelled génocidaires. The breadcrumb trail from these feelings leads directly to the media. Sorry, but a head must roll for that. Reconciliation? When First Nation leaders join other Canadians in calling for an annulment of the genocide resolution, we will know that the reconciliation process has begun.
TTC wants to “decolonize wayfinding”
You don’t have a serious transit system because you don’t have a serious TTC Board. pic.twitter.com/tINV7JWgaY
— IntegrityTO (@integrity_to) June 4, 2026
The people who can’t keep a water treatment plant from catching fire: Mark Carney says Canada will build new data centers in full partnership with indigenous peoples.
Will the Senate send Chief Aaron Pete to jail for residential school ‘denialism’?
The CBC is standing by its reporting on a self-described human rights tribunal that is “indicting” the Canadian government for alleged abuses and “genocide” in the residential school system, despite failing to note that the group’s lead prosecutor has a suspended law licence and that the organization has no legal authority in Canada.
Always interesting to see how Canada’s "unmarked graves" social panic (2021-2026) looks to people outside our borders https://t.co/z5xjSndoHT
— Jonathan Kay (@jonkay) June 1, 2026
I’d rather that the Supreme Court ruled that aboriginal title doesn’t apply to government land either, since the acceptance of that precedent has already saddled taxpayers with billions of dollars in undeserved payouts, but at least someone finally drew a line in the sand.
The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld a ruling that Aboriginal title cannot be declared over private land, in a decision the federal government says will have an impact on the Cowichan Tribes case in British Columbia.
When Winnipeg police laid out the largest drug seizure in Manitoba history last week — more than 525 kilograms of cocaine, methamphetamine and fentanyl, 14 firearms, and $825,000 in cash — the bricks of narcotics and the row of guns drew the cameras. A quieter item in the evidence locker did not: 1.35 million contraband cigarettes.
To a former senior Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) organized crime investigator who has spent decades tracing the illicit tobacco trade, that detail was perhaps the most revealing thing in the multi-agency probe. Illegal cigarettes, he told The Bureau, are the connective tissue of the networks that flood hard drugs from China and Mexico into Canadian communities. If tobacco produced on Indigenous lands fueling fentanyl production does not register with citizens, he says, the one billion in tax dollars lost every year in Ontario alone should at least raise eyebrows.
A month ago, I offered some predictions about how Canadian journalists would cover the five-year anniversary of the country’s infamous “unmarked graves” social panic, which began on May 27, 2021. On one hand, this kind of important landmark would be difficult for news outlets to ignore. (After all, this was considered the Canadian “Story of the Year” at the time.) On the other hand, any intellectually honest retrospective that these outlets produced would require at least some passing explanation as to why the entire Canadian media establishment had fallen hook, line, and sinker for a story that turned out to be fake—something that most journalists have so far proven unwilling to do.
On Wednesday, it will have been exactly five years since the Kamloops First Nation in British Columbia claimed it has found 215 unmarked graves of Indigenous children on the grounds of the community’s former residential school. In the weeks that followed, gullible reporters transformed the narrative into a kind of horror-movie script, complete with mass murdering priests and midnight burials.
It all turned out to be complete nonsense. In five years, not a single actual grave has been found.
Danielle Smith is making some news.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she’s open to having a “conversation” with her fellow premiers about rewriting parts of the constitution relating to Indigenous treaty rights.
Smith told reporters on Friday that Section 35 of the constitution, which governs Crown-Indigenous relations, has been stretched beyond recognition by the courts.
She said that an Alberta judge’s decision earlier this month to throw out a petition for a binding referendum, on the grounds that the province failed to meet its duty to consult with First Nations, was a prime example of this overreach.
CBC: Leaders across the political spectrum are responding today to news that Alberta’s fall referendum will now decide whether Albertans want a vote on separatism.
Nenshi eh… responds.
Changing place names isn’t cheap, and it’s not made any better when the new names are often jibberish. But all levels of government in Canada seem to be happy to accept this new millstone around their necks.
The replacement of Powell River is already occurring, piece by piece and without public consultation. Powell River General Hospital was renamed in 2022, followed by the school board, both replacing “Powell River” with the name “qathet,” which means “working together.” Furthermore, the regional Vancouver Island University satellite campus was renamed to “tiwšɛmawtxʷ,” meaning “house of learning,” to eliminate references to Israel Powell, a controversial colonial official.
Until I see this published in the precolonial Mississauga Nishnaabe alphabet, I’m calling prank.
The author uses her “intersecting lenses of being a chronically ill neurodivergent Two-Spirit Mississauga Nishnaabe Lucbanin artist and scholar” to convey the importance of “ancestral knowledge encodements” through beadwork.
I’m aware of the arguments that colonialists stole land from indigenous folks, but I didn’t know that they deserve some form of reparations for the ocean winds that we are apparently stealing as well. Can anyone make this make sense?
“We’ve seen a lot of positive momentum in advancing economic reconciliation in renewable energy projects as well as other sectors,” congress co-chair Bob Gloade, chief of the Millbrook First Nation in Nova Scotia, said in a statement.
“However, there is a lot of work left to be done. There needs to be committed focus on integration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous businesses in the offshore wind energy sector.”
Joffre Lakes Provincial Park, located just east of Pemberton in British Columbia, announced that it will be closed to the public for two periods this summer to allow Indigenous people to “connect with the land.”
The announcement was made by B.C. Parks on Thursday, and will take place from June 20 to 27, and from September 8 to 30.
Kamloops Residential School
Death of Pupils 1935-1945Lets look through them all, it won't take long pic.twitter.com/9P39xqvq7d
— The Reclamare (@TheReclamare) May 9, 2026
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IMPORTANT CORRECTION🚨
CONSERVATIVE CONFERENCE DID NOT BEGIN WITH LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT…🚨 THIS IS FALSE NEWS…🚨
CONSERVATIVE CONFERENCE INVITED 🏳️⚧️ GENDERWANG 🏳️⚧️ IDEOLOGUE WHO BEGAN WITH LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT…
Pleasing your enemies does not turn them into friends: The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies”.
Canada’s largest Conservative networking conference begins with a pathetic land acknowledgement, declaring Ottawa to be the “never surrendered homeland of the Anishinàbe Algonquin Nation.”
This is so embarrassing. pic.twitter.com/46R0x5SJZj
— Harrison Faulkner (@Harry__Faulkner) May 8, 2026
That the Scott Moe government hasn’t shut down genderwang indoctrination in Saskatchewan schools remains a mystery for the ages.
It’s free money on the table, Premier Moe.
Well Canada has made international headlines again
Not in a good way
Saskatchewan school kids had to be pulled out of a bizarre and perverted play involving drag queens and indigenous land claims
No, This is not fake news pic.twitter.com/aVax5rppgx
— Yukon Strong 🫎 (@YukonStrong) May 7, 2026
