Heller’s saga began when he spoke up about the wording in the Indigenous competency course mandated for all lawyers by the B.C. Law Society. As things stood back then, all members of the profession had to read through materials endorsed by their professional overseers to maintain the ability to practice — only, the course materials were objectively false. The thousands of professionals gatekeeping everything from real estate deals to criminal sentencing — professionals from which the next generation of B.C.’s judges would be drawn — were being told to internalize the unproven claim that the bodies of children were found at the Kamloops residential school grounds.
Sorry, But I’m Turning My Brain Off Now
The answer to this question is obvious to any sane person, but then again you have to look at who we’re dealing with here.
The federal government’s hate speech legislation “hadn’t done the legislative analysis” on whether residential school denialism should be considered as such, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Rebecca Alty said on Thursday.
Left Coast, Lost Cause
We are governed by a secret cabal of our enemies.
Without legislative approval or a public mandate, the BC NDP government—apparently enabled by the federal government—is negotiating a secret agreement with a tiny, remote Indigenous community that aims to recognize legally unproven Aboriginal title, transfer lands, share revenue and cede unprecdented governance authority over 11 per cent of the province in one of Canada’s most mineral-rich districts, containing an estimated value of known deposits exceeding C$1 trillion.
That’s trillion with a ‘t.’
The end goal of the so-called “foundation agreement” is the recognition of Tahltan Nation rights and title over “Tahltan territory,” defined repeatedly as its entire legally unproven territorial claim spanning 96,000 square kilometres, according to public documents and other heavily redacted files obtained under a Freedom of Information request by the Public Land Use Society.
“The [foundation agreement] negotiations will be based upon recognition of Tahltan Aboriginal Title and Rights in Tahltan Territory,” reads a 2020 “shared prosperity agreement” that defines the geographic area as “the traditional territory identified by the Tahltan.”
Tahltan’s territorial claim spans an area larger than Portugal, including 70 per cent of the Golden Triangle, one of the richest mineral districts in Canada, which the BC Geological Survey estimated in 2021 to hold a total contained metal value of C$1.28 trillion. […]
The Tahltan Central Government is the administrative governing structure for the Tahltan and Iskut Indian bands representing two clans who together make up the Tahltan Nation with 636 people living on reserve and 2,444 registered members living elsewhere.
The most stubborn obstacle to securing recognition of Tahltan title may might not be having to prove it in court—both senior levels of government appear inexplicably eager to dispense with the constitutional standard of proof, as they did with Haida title. Nor have governments openly expressed any concern for the public interests or the usurping of its governance authority over Crown land. Rather, the biggest pushback may come from neighbouring Indigenous communities.
Via Juno News.
Some Unmarked Graves Are More Equal Than Others
After purchasing a property in Port Colborne, Ontario and beginning construction of their future home, the Reios discovered ancient human remains on the site. Since then, they have been ordered to fund an archaeological investigation that could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, or even exceed $1 million.
Despite legislation that allows the government to step in when compliance would impose an undue financial burden, provincial officials refused to provide assistance.
The Canadian Constitution Foundation is supporting their court challenge, toss a few bucks their way if you can afford to.
More Pavilions At Folkfest
One day, a Prime Minister Singh will rise in Parliament to announce “wasn’t us who stole your land.”
First Nations Accounting Principles
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
Indigenous Ways Of Graphics Processing
Randy Boissonnault, Call Your Teepee
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.
Things You’re Gonna See On The CBC
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.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
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
Small Victories
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.
Smoke Signals
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.
“In that April 21 column, I tried to imagine how Canadian media outlets would square this circle.”
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.
Ransom Demands
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.”
Where Would We Be Without Oral History?
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
Threadrolled here.
The Calls Are Coming From Inside The House (Bumped)
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
Left Coast, Lost Cause
It appeared to be a timely bit of good news in BC’s glacial 35-year modern treaty talks, when David Eby’s NDP government introduced two new treaties for provincial approval in April, with a third expected to follow shortly.
That moment of apparent progress came as Eby was forced into a series of humiliating back-downs on his efforts to rein in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and its threat to upset the legal basis of British Columbia’s existence. The political leadership of BC’s 203 indigenous communities simply vetoed Eby’s proposed changes and deferrals, raising the question of whether the province has lost its authority to govern.
Treaties hammered out over decades with the K’omoks First Nation on Vancouver Island and the Kitselas First Nation on the northwest coast were tabled in the BC legislature for ratification, with a third treaty for the Kitsumkalem First Nation in the northwest expected to follow. The protests began even before they were introduced.
Left Coast, Lost Cause
On 24 October 2019, B.C.’s left-wing New Democratic Party (NDP) government enacted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA), requiring the government to take “all necessary measures” to ensure its laws are consistent with UNDRIP. British Columbia thereby became the first jurisdiction on the planet that not only endorsed UNDRIP in the abstract (as Trudeau and other national leaders had done) but actually cemented its guarantees into law. In 2021, the province added a further legislative amendment explicitly requiring that “every Act and regulation must be construed as being consistent with UNDRIP.”
Behind the scenes, then-Premier John Horgan and his cabinet were assuring legislators that the law would simply ensure that B.C. took advice and guidance from Indigenous groups. But as judges (predictably) concluded, that’s absolutely not what the law says.
We Are All Treaty People
More Pavilions At Folkfest
One day a Canadian Prime Minister will stand up in Parliament to say, “Wasn’t us who stole your land”.
Her name is Bernadette Anderson, and she drops truth bombs about First Nation chiefs, the Indian Act and a century of corruption.
She's from BC. I wish she was on X. https://t.co/RRbkAQ6cMI pic.twitter.com/Nh24SFxIY7
— Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker (@Martyupnorth) March 13, 2026