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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?

"It is difficult to overestimate the importance of the discovery of the fate of Thomas Nepinak, an eleven-year-old Indian Residential School student who died in 1944."

"Globe-style falsehoods have been exposed only because of strict and impartial research – research now rejected by mainstream journalists, most academics, aboriginal leaders, and elected politicians in favour of Indigenous pre-scientific 'ways of knowing.'"

"May 27, 2022 will mark the one year anniversary of a shocking event that changed the course of Canadian history. But is any of this true, and if so, where is the evidence?"

After decades of fruitless searches or spurious findings, the first named child being looked for by a named relative of the “15,000 to 25,000 … maybe even more” children said to be missing by Murray Sinclair, former Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, has likely been found according to the contents of a recent CBC story.

On this episode of The Candice Malcolm Show, Candice and Professor Tom Flanagan examine some of the myths perpetuated about residential schools, and discuss some ideas and solutions about how Canada can work towards bringing the living standards of First Nations people up to levels of other Canadians.

"The claim that 150,000 Indigenous children were forced to attend residential schools between 1883 and 1997 now routinely appears in the media. But how true are these incendiary claims?  At best misleading, and at worst, false."

Dr. Sarah Beaulieu of the University of the Fraser Valley, in her overview of the Kamloops ground-penetrating radar research, stated that the total number of unmarked graves at the Kamloops Indian Residential School landscape is “currently unknown,” but that 200 sites remain as targets of interest.

True North's Lindsay Shepherd covers the SAFS Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship and Frontier Centre for Public Policy event "Can We Discuss Those Unmarked Graves?"

When it comes to the coverage of graves identified near residential schools in three First Nations communities, the legacy media in Canada has done a tremendous disservice to all Canadians – especially First Nations.