How Canada got the residential school story so wrong
A new book published by True North examines how the residential school story hardened into orthodoxy — and why challenges to it sparked intense backlash.
True North and Dorchester Books have published a major new book: Dead Wrong: How Canada Got the Residential School Story So Wrong, the follow-up to the bestselling Grave Error.
In this special edition of the ‘Candice Malcolm Show,’ co-editor Dr. Tom Flanagan joins Candice to walk through the latest developments in the residential-school narrative since 2023 — including the intense backlash in Quesnel, B.C., where activists attempted to force the mayor to resign after his wife purchased copies of Grave Error for friends.
Flanagan explains how incidents like Quesnel, new unproven “discoveries,” and ongoing disciplinary cases — such as the firing of B.C. teacher Jim McMurtry for presenting historical facts — show how deeply the original Kamloops claim has shaped political and cultural institutions, even after the band itself later revised the claim to “soil anomalies.”
Featuring a special forward from Candice, and chapters from Flanagan, McMurtry, Frances Widdowson, Jonathan Kay, Cosmin Dzsurdzsa, Hymie Rubenstein, and 14 other great writers, Dead Wrong documents how the narrative spread, how it hardened into orthodoxy inside media and government, and how it continues to influence debates across Canada, including new Aboriginal title rulings in British Columbia.
The book is available now on Amazon and at JunoNews.com. Get your copy today!
Between the two books written about this fabrication, people should realize that that's what it was - a total fabrication & I'm sure there were pockets lined for those who lied about what actually happened at those sites. That's not to say there wasn't some crap going on in the schools. I'm specifically referring to the (not) graves. Where did all the millions of dollars that the Feds provided go? Nothing has been proven which to me means, there was absolutely NOTHING TRUE about the story & the Government needs to be held accountable for the taxpayer funds spent. Another waste of money to prove a negative. This government just knows how to waste money both inside & outside of Canada. It's sickening & disgusting.
HOW???
Well...
Let's start with an incompetent TURDeau supported by incompetent Ministers and MPs.
Then let's move on to a corrupt and incompetent bureaucracy.
Add a flock of virtue signalling and scared Premiers.
Add in a large helping in self-serving indigenous leaders and followers.
Mix in another large helping of woke-joke, progressive types.
Then add in an almost entire population afraid to say WTF!!!!
OK...
Got the idea??