Questioning narrative of “unmarked graves” may soon be illegal in Canada

By Lindsay Shepherd

Perhaps you’ve seen the explosive claim all over the legacy media that “residential school denialists” have been showing up in the wee hours of the night at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, shovels in hand, ready to dig for graves.

“Denialists entered the site without permission,” special interlocutor for unmarked graves Kimberly Murray said in her June 2023 interim report.

“Some came in the middle of the night, carrying shovels; they said they wanted to ‘see for themselves’ if children are buried there.”

It’s a compelling account – but it’s not really true.

The Kamloops RCMP told True North “At this time, there is no indication that these events have been reported to the Tk’emlúps Rural RCMP Detachment.”

This week, on CBC Radio, Tk’emlúps chief Rosanne Casimir downgraded the original claim after being prompted for more details on the shovel-wielding grave-diggers: “someone even showed up with a shovel in hand,” she said.

Because the original sensational claim in the governmental report was uncritically repeated by the legacy media, Canadians are now under the impression that gangs of “denialists” are showing up to the school in the night, trying to dig up graves with shovels.

But it turns out, according to the chief herself, one single person showed up with a shovel (perhaps as a symbolic gesture) and was presumably immediately turned away by security.

It’s similar to when the Tk’emlúps nation announced back in May 2021 that they discovered the “remains” of 215 children, and then in July downgraded their claim to 200 “targets of interest,” and eventually stopped providing any updates at all.