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The Vancouver comedy club Little Mountain Gallery cancelled prominent Canadian comic Sophie Buddle's performance in May after a fellow comic complained about an 'offensive' joke she made referencing residential schools.

"The National Post also fell into the trap of implicitly accepting all the accusations made in the skewed and biased 2015 six-volume final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada detailing the history, operation, and legacy of the country’s IRSs as gospel truth."

Attempts to criminalize the truth about Canada’s Indian Residential Schools (IRSs) began in earnest in October 2022 when NDP MP Leah Gazan got the House of Commons to unanimously recognize that genocide occurred at residential schools.

Despite an explosive claim in a government report that shovel-wielding “denialists” attempted to dig up alleged remains on the grounds of a former residential school, the RCMP says it has received no reports of such.

Despite an explosive claim in a government report that shovel-wielding “denialists” attempted to dig up alleged remains on the grounds of a former residential school, the RCMP says it has received no reports of such.

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights was hit with a fact check on Twitter over a claim that “215 children were discovered in unmarked graves” at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in 2021. 

The Tseshaht First Nation of central Vancouver Island, BC announced on Tuesday afternoon they believe 67 children died while attending the Alberni Indian Residential School (AIRS).

"When I read a recent opinion piece by Doug Cuthand, the indigenous affairs columnist for the Regina Leader-Post, I couldn’t help but reflect on what I knew about his late father, Reverend Canon Stan Cuthand."

The federal government announced on Saturday it signed an agreement for a $2.8 billion trust fund for Indigenous bands who were seeking reparations for what they describe as the damage caused to their people through the residential school system.

What really happened in May of 2021 when the world's media lost their minds and disseminated false headlines claiming mass graves of murdered children were uncovered in Kamloops, BC?