But the narrative is so poor that even the US is noticing and comparing to its own George Floyd hysteria
A Mass-Graves Myth Is Media Malpractice
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/a-mass-graves-myth-is-media-malpractice/
“Unlike the unmarked graves at Kamloops, George Floyd’s death was a reality. But the grand narrative spun by the media for years leading up to the [George Floyd] riots…was every bit as irresponsible as the narrative that sold the Kamloops hoax.”
“In 2021, at a time when media throughout the Western world were still in a state of agitation after the killing of George Floyd, Canadian outlets picked up a story too sensational not to be true…”
“Hundreds of indigenous First Nations children had been buried in unmarked graves at residential schools run by the Catholic Church in British Columbia. The Kamloops Indian Band sent around a press release that “confirmed” it.”
“We had a knowing in our community that we were able to verify,” said the band’s chief, Rosanne Casimir.””
“Only it wasn’t. No human remains have been found at Kamloops, as media that fanned the flames of the story now admit.”
“Even now, Canada’s biggest daily paper, The Globe and Mail, phrases its retraction in cagey terms. “There has been no public confirmation of the discovery of any human remains,” the paper conceded on May 30.”
“The Globe and Mail editorial, titled “There is no reconciliation without truth,” is a masterpiece of embarrassed equivocation, lamenting conditions for First Nations children at Canada’s residential schools and even insisting the absence of bodies “does not mean children did not die there” before finally, eight paragraphs into the story, taking a smidgen of responsibility…”
“The media, including The Globe and Mail, did not initially scrutinize, much less challenge” the story, the editorial board concedes.””
“The initial headlines and stories in the media simply stated as fact that the remains of 215 children had been found. Many of those early stories, including in this newspaper, made references to ‘mass graves’,” a phrase that went beyond even Chief Casimir’s claims.””
“Perhaps it will be proven, some day, that there are hundreds of unmarked graves at Kamloops”—as if the error here was being a little too hasty to declare what will sooner or later turn out to be true.””
“After all, that would be the “truth” that fits the narrative The Globe and Mail lays out in the first seven paragraphs of its story, a tale of wicked residential schools and countless First Nations children doomed to a miserable death.”
“The narrative comes first—the facts must follow. This time they didn’t, but next time?”
“The narrative isn’t going away just because its showcase story has been debunked.
The consequences of the media hype aren’t going away, either…”
“The government simply doesn’t know where the money went. As enormous as the fraud here appears to be, worse is the destruction unleashed by arsonists and vandals against Catholic Churches in the story’s wake.”