Juno News co-founder Candice Malcolm on the legacy of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and why we cannot have TRUE reconciliation as a nation while distorting history and dividing Canadians
I recently read the book "Grave Error," by C.P. Champion and Tom Flanagan, which really opened my eyes on this issue. The book compiles rigorous research by retired judges, lawyers, academics, and researchers from the Indian Residential School Research Group, challenging the narrative of Canada’s Indian Residential Schools (IRS). The book’s hard research, grounded in historical records and archival analysis, disputes claims of unmarked graves and mass murders. It emphasizes that ground-penetrating radar (GPR) anomalies, like the 215 reported at Kamloops in 2021, are unreliable without excavation, as GPR only detects soil disturbances such as roots, old trenches, or debris not actual graves or human remains. Despite over $320 million in federal funding since 2021, forensic tests have found no mass graves or secretly buried children.
Excavations, such as Pine Creek in 2023, uncovered only animal bones and artifacts, while a single jawbone fragment at Star Blanket in 2023, dated to circa 1900, remains unlinked to the school. The book refutes claims of thousands of "missing children," attributing them to poor record-keeping, with most deaths due to diseases like tuberculosis, not murder. It criticizes the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s "cultural genocide" label as exaggerated, evolving into baseless physical genocide accusations. These claims often rely on unreliable, decades-old survivor memories without physical corroboration. The authors’ meticulous research, including legal and historical scrutiny, deems the approach unscientific, favoring emotional testimonies over forensic evidence. Canada’s global reputation has been tarnished by "mass graves" and "genocide" headlines, sparking church arsons and condemnation. This moral panic has upset Canadians, diverting focus from Indigenous issues like poverty and education. All Canadians, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, demand truth and reject slow, decade-long excavations that risk fading from public memory.
To quote band member Irene Andreas, "so please, people, do not make up stories about residential school children being put into unmarked graves. No such thing ever happened." The media’s use of misleading terms like "mass graves" fueled hysteria without awaiting excavation to verify GPR findings. The Government of Canada, under Trudeau, exacerbated this by lowering flags and issuing apologies based on unverified claims. Both must be held accountable for spreading unproven narratives, undermining truth and reconciliation, while swift, transparent investigations are needed to restore trust.
The thing I have the most difficulty with is, if you sent your child to a boarding school and they never returned, would you not go to the boarding school and the police to report them missing. 215 children were not reported missing. Funny, that.
Welcome to National BS day brought to us by the biggest piece of BS that this country has ever had as PM and propagated to by pretty much... ALL the complicit MSM who have totally forgot how to do their own homework.
See what hundreds of millions buys.
Today is a prime example.
Truth and actual historical facts no longer mean a thing in what used to be Canada.
It's all about Liberal BS and the Indigenous re-writing of history also to their own advantage of (now) BILLIONS of dollars.
This article is so well written and so true, but I am afraid to share it on my social media. Even though it badly needs to be shared everywhere.
If I post it, I know I will be hated. I have indigenous people in my family, so my family will disown me.
And this is the scary part — that we must feel afraid to express our opinions for fear of being hated and persecuted and disowned.
In her article, Candice Malcolm suggests it will soon be too late if we don’t act now. Tragically, I think it already is too late. I think we have lost this country because of the lies and propaganda. What is going to happen to us white folks on the right is scary to think about.
To save this country, we needed to catch this 10 years ago and we didn’t.
I have indigenous in my family too. Sharing this may surprise you. Many indigenous are not buying into the lies. If some are, this will hopefully make think.
Not a chance with my family… They all got handed $100,000 each recently and that was not the first time. They grew up in the same type of neighbourhood I did went to the same school as I did, had the same entitlement I did, but because they are part indigenous the government and its wisdom just handed them all $100,000. Just like that. Well heck, I might be celebrating this stupid orange day too if somebody wanted to hand me all that money. And they will get more in the future. For doing nothing. I also have an indigenous friend who is a drug addict and got his hundred thousand dollars recently and within months it was spent on drugs and a motel rooms. It’s all gone now. But he will get more.
I will cheerfully celebrate reconciliation day when Canada is reconciled for the billions and billions of dollars that we have spent to keep a specific race alive. I am tired of reconciling every April at tax time to have part of my taxes seized to perpetuate systemic racism. It is time for one Canada, one class of citizen period.
So refreshing to hear truthful words on this subject. Especially after waking up to the garbage being spewed across our entire country by CBC this morning. Candice, yours are not just truthful words, but thoughtful, meaningful, and FAR more uniting than CBC can even image. But let's face it. Their goal was never to unite in the first place. Their mission has been, and CLEARLY still is to divide and conquer, on behalf of those that feed them, using identity politics and intersectionality, in a sick way of worshipping victimization to pit each community in our country against the other.
The vast majority of Canadians don't hate or fear males, females, black, white, indigenous, European, Asian, gay, lesbian, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, nor does the vast majority of Canadian give a hoot what sexual preference anyone has. BUT, we're slowly learning to hate the Marx-inspired WOKE crowd that is trying their damnedest to indoctrinate us with enough BS propaganda into hating and fearing each other.
I love your last paragraph! I was born here is Canada and am now 68 years old. I have seen much change in society regarding exceptance and tolerence of our differences. In the past the majority ruled but it appears that has changed. When minority groups first stood up we all listened with open minds and became excepting. I truly felt I lived in a country that did not hold prejudice. Today that prejudice has turned onto the same people that made the choice to abandon hate and open their arms to the minority. We are seen as villians. The accuser are now the perpetrator of prejudice. All be it, it is in it's early stage, but I fear for the direction our path is leading. Especially now when sex change options have been made possible for our children without parental consent. My hope is this issue, once again about a minority group, will make us all stand up for one united cause. Our children!
What a pile of BS. There is only one truth. Not "my truth" or "your truth",, only THE TRUTH. If the Indians want their own land, give it to them with no support from Canada. Erect border stations outside the reserves that they must pass through to visit Canada. No benefits whatsoever.
But here’s the problem with that idea Dennis,… They don’t just want parts of Canada that can be sectioned off… they want ALL of it, and they won’t stop until they get it.
We don't have to let them. Let them have the reservations and put the borders up. Check out what Dr Bruce Pardy of Queens University has to say about Indian Rights. Another great reason for Alberta Separation.
First - We the People of #Canada know we are on the wrong path, now we the People must remove the #Left (bad) and control the Right, to respect and benefit the People and Country of Canada, otherwise, revolution is our best solution.
I can think of one prominent example in the modern day of where this "sins of the predecessors" is a common practice; North Korea. If a North Korean commits a crime against the leader or his party's ideology, their entire family (including offspring, and sometimes for multiple generations) can be held liable for that crime and be forced to join the perpetrator in their punishment.
That's the logical end-point of the line of thinking that pervades this outlandish practice of berating people for alleged crimes that their forebears committed. The lack of evidence supporting these claims of genocide notwithstanding, the power to accuse, to condemn, and indeed to imprison lies with those who hold these beliefs, and their calls to action will only continue to escalate until that power is taken from them.
But their forbears did not commit any offences in that at the time - during the 1800s, the belief was that the “natives” would be better prepared for “modern” life if they got a traditional education. You cannot blame people born 200 years ago for having ideas that we disagree with now. And I have heard people who attended the schools say that they were treated well and the teachers or nuns or whoever they were, were kind people. Obviously some were not kind.
I agree; there was no systemic offence committed, especially in the historical context, and that the individual offences committed were few and far between. The point I was bringing up was less about the facts that counter the "genocide" narrative, those facts on which we likely agree, and more about the idea that the people who perpetuate the false narrative of genocide care little for these facts in the first place. I also worry that they don't care for the foundations of justice as it is meant to be carried out under Canadian law and tradition. They are discarding the idea of personal accountability and instead want to make us accountable by reason of blood relation.
I wish we could all be treated equally but we never will. For some reason, we are indebted to First Nations People forever.
Let's have a look at the facts.
I pay my for own hydro.
I pay my for own housing.
I pay my for own recreation.
I pay for my own groceries.
I pay for my own education.
I pay for my own dental.
I pay for my own clothing.
I have listed a few things above that I purchase if I can afford to but for some reason I'm expected to pay for all these things for the First Nations People through taxes.
It would be great if we could all contribute to society since we all use the police services, heath care services, roads and highways, schools, etc. That sure would lighten the burden on working Canadians.
Let's look at the grave scam that cost Canadians millions of dollars in compensation for the buried rocks. That was a serious government error paying for a false narrative.
Let's look at the 117 churches damaged or destroyed because of the buried rocks.
On a different note, CBC recently reported that First Nations People were disproportionately in the jail and prisons. CBC would like you to be leave that they were wrongfully arrested because of their race. That is simply not true. There is lots of First Nations People in the jail system because of their behavior, not because of a corrupt Justice system. At least First Nations People have folks incorporated into the Justice system to discuss their hardships with the Judges before sentencing. This is to help them get lighter sentences. This is not the way a responsible Government should function. Why should a First Nations person and a white man get different sentences based on race for the same offense.
There is lots of White and Black children that have had a difficult upbringing and have been abused sexually, mentally and physically. This should not give anyone a free pass with the Justice system.
Im sure, there was First Nations children that never came home. I know that is true. Vaccines were not well known and deadly diseases were abundant. These diseases were not discriminatory. They took White kids, Black kids and First Nation kids.
I do not beleave that the children were taken from First Nations families with the intent to harm them. I think the intent was to teach them a new language, skills and assist with education. I do not think it was right but we must move forward. Our First Nations people have been given more opportunities than the White and Black children of our country. If my boys would have been blessed with free University, they would not be working in the trades, they would be Doctors or Lawyers.
Every human being on the earth needs to feel valued and they must have purpose in the life. If First Nations People could separate themselves from the free way of life and work with Society, they would have a meaningful life and be a contributor to society. They would be equal to all other races and would no longer need to be provided for. I think they would be a much better Nation if they didn't need to rely on us for everything.
Oh well, there is much more facts that we could discuss but that's alot to absorb.
Candice, I admire your ability to clearly state relevant facts and their broad implications in this article, without resorting to hype and conjecture. I also admire your courage to say what needs to be said despite a mountain of media induced hate and misinformation. The country is failing as you say and too few people are aware how bad it is and why.
If I may add a 5th Do NOT: Do NOT use the phrase “first nations”. I have never used it.
If you have any doubts that this has been a massive, tragic psy-op, read ‘Grave Error”. Frances Widdowson, the canceled professor mentioned by Candice, is one of the essayists in the book. The essays, btw, are all scholarly and of high caliber. Also keep in mind that the perps are not everyday Indians but a collection of true haters: hard left agitators and lawyers.
Happy Lies and Propaganda Day to all those who are working so that government employees can have another paid day off to go shopping.
I recently read the book "Grave Error," by C.P. Champion and Tom Flanagan, which really opened my eyes on this issue. The book compiles rigorous research by retired judges, lawyers, academics, and researchers from the Indian Residential School Research Group, challenging the narrative of Canada’s Indian Residential Schools (IRS). The book’s hard research, grounded in historical records and archival analysis, disputes claims of unmarked graves and mass murders. It emphasizes that ground-penetrating radar (GPR) anomalies, like the 215 reported at Kamloops in 2021, are unreliable without excavation, as GPR only detects soil disturbances such as roots, old trenches, or debris not actual graves or human remains. Despite over $320 million in federal funding since 2021, forensic tests have found no mass graves or secretly buried children.
Excavations, such as Pine Creek in 2023, uncovered only animal bones and artifacts, while a single jawbone fragment at Star Blanket in 2023, dated to circa 1900, remains unlinked to the school. The book refutes claims of thousands of "missing children," attributing them to poor record-keeping, with most deaths due to diseases like tuberculosis, not murder. It criticizes the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s "cultural genocide" label as exaggerated, evolving into baseless physical genocide accusations. These claims often rely on unreliable, decades-old survivor memories without physical corroboration. The authors’ meticulous research, including legal and historical scrutiny, deems the approach unscientific, favoring emotional testimonies over forensic evidence. Canada’s global reputation has been tarnished by "mass graves" and "genocide" headlines, sparking church arsons and condemnation. This moral panic has upset Canadians, diverting focus from Indigenous issues like poverty and education. All Canadians, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, demand truth and reject slow, decade-long excavations that risk fading from public memory.
To quote band member Irene Andreas, "so please, people, do not make up stories about residential school children being put into unmarked graves. No such thing ever happened." The media’s use of misleading terms like "mass graves" fueled hysteria without awaiting excavation to verify GPR findings. The Government of Canada, under Trudeau, exacerbated this by lowering flags and issuing apologies based on unverified claims. Both must be held accountable for spreading unproven narratives, undermining truth and reconciliation, while swift, transparent investigations are needed to restore trust.
Well said. Thank You.
The thing I have the most difficulty with is, if you sent your child to a boarding school and they never returned, would you not go to the boarding school and the police to report them missing. 215 children were not reported missing. Funny, that.
Well said.
Trudeau took a lyin' knee and the natives took our wallets.
🎯🎯🎯🎯
Welcome to National BS day brought to us by the biggest piece of BS that this country has ever had as PM and propagated to by pretty much... ALL the complicit MSM who have totally forgot how to do their own homework.
See what hundreds of millions buys.
Today is a prime example.
Truth and actual historical facts no longer mean a thing in what used to be Canada.
It's all about Liberal BS and the Indigenous re-writing of history also to their own advantage of (now) BILLIONS of dollars.
I am ashamed of myself.
This article is so well written and so true, but I am afraid to share it on my social media. Even though it badly needs to be shared everywhere.
If I post it, I know I will be hated. I have indigenous people in my family, so my family will disown me.
And this is the scary part — that we must feel afraid to express our opinions for fear of being hated and persecuted and disowned.
In her article, Candice Malcolm suggests it will soon be too late if we don’t act now. Tragically, I think it already is too late. I think we have lost this country because of the lies and propaganda. What is going to happen to us white folks on the right is scary to think about.
To save this country, we needed to catch this 10 years ago and we didn’t.
Yes, past the point of no return now. Thank you for your heartfelt comments. To me they represent reality.
I have indigenous in my family too. Sharing this may surprise you. Many indigenous are not buying into the lies. If some are, this will hopefully make think.
Not a chance with my family… They all got handed $100,000 each recently and that was not the first time. They grew up in the same type of neighbourhood I did went to the same school as I did, had the same entitlement I did, but because they are part indigenous the government and its wisdom just handed them all $100,000. Just like that. Well heck, I might be celebrating this stupid orange day too if somebody wanted to hand me all that money. And they will get more in the future. For doing nothing. I also have an indigenous friend who is a drug addict and got his hundred thousand dollars recently and within months it was spent on drugs and a motel rooms. It’s all gone now. But he will get more.
I just tried to share on Facebook but we can not post political content unless of course that content is aligned with the liberal propaganda
I will cheerfully celebrate reconciliation day when Canada is reconciled for the billions and billions of dollars that we have spent to keep a specific race alive. I am tired of reconciling every April at tax time to have part of my taxes seized to perpetuate systemic racism. It is time for one Canada, one class of citizen period.
Exactly, where You and I and all Canadians. Stand in equal ground. No One better than You and I and No one worse than You and I.
The Trojan Horse is in our midst. Too late.
So refreshing to hear truthful words on this subject. Especially after waking up to the garbage being spewed across our entire country by CBC this morning. Candice, yours are not just truthful words, but thoughtful, meaningful, and FAR more uniting than CBC can even image. But let's face it. Their goal was never to unite in the first place. Their mission has been, and CLEARLY still is to divide and conquer, on behalf of those that feed them, using identity politics and intersectionality, in a sick way of worshipping victimization to pit each community in our country against the other.
The vast majority of Canadians don't hate or fear males, females, black, white, indigenous, European, Asian, gay, lesbian, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, nor does the vast majority of Canadian give a hoot what sexual preference anyone has. BUT, we're slowly learning to hate the Marx-inspired WOKE crowd that is trying their damnedest to indoctrinate us with enough BS propaganda into hating and fearing each other.
I love your last paragraph! I was born here is Canada and am now 68 years old. I have seen much change in society regarding exceptance and tolerence of our differences. In the past the majority ruled but it appears that has changed. When minority groups first stood up we all listened with open minds and became excepting. I truly felt I lived in a country that did not hold prejudice. Today that prejudice has turned onto the same people that made the choice to abandon hate and open their arms to the minority. We are seen as villians. The accuser are now the perpetrator of prejudice. All be it, it is in it's early stage, but I fear for the direction our path is leading. Especially now when sex change options have been made possible for our children without parental consent. My hope is this issue, once again about a minority group, will make us all stand up for one united cause. Our children!
Common sense is not common anymore and lies have replaced truth. It’s time to change this!
Another statutory holiday, four weeks after Labour Day and two weeks before thanksgiving. How convenient!
Candice, you are 100% correct herein 🎯🎯🎯
What a pile of BS. There is only one truth. Not "my truth" or "your truth",, only THE TRUTH. If the Indians want their own land, give it to them with no support from Canada. Erect border stations outside the reserves that they must pass through to visit Canada. No benefits whatsoever.
But here’s the problem with that idea Dennis,… They don’t just want parts of Canada that can be sectioned off… they want ALL of it, and they won’t stop until they get it.
We don't have to let them. Let them have the reservations and put the borders up. Check out what Dr Bruce Pardy of Queens University has to say about Indian Rights. Another great reason for Alberta Separation.
I'm no fan either. I do put most of the blame on the liberal party for the mess we are in as a country
I put ALL of the blame there and with the NDP.
First - We the People of #Canada know we are on the wrong path, now we the People must remove the #Left (bad) and control the Right, to respect and benefit the People and Country of Canada, otherwise, revolution is our best solution.
Well said . Thanks
I can think of one prominent example in the modern day of where this "sins of the predecessors" is a common practice; North Korea. If a North Korean commits a crime against the leader or his party's ideology, their entire family (including offspring, and sometimes for multiple generations) can be held liable for that crime and be forced to join the perpetrator in their punishment.
That's the logical end-point of the line of thinking that pervades this outlandish practice of berating people for alleged crimes that their forebears committed. The lack of evidence supporting these claims of genocide notwithstanding, the power to accuse, to condemn, and indeed to imprison lies with those who hold these beliefs, and their calls to action will only continue to escalate until that power is taken from them.
But their forbears did not commit any offences in that at the time - during the 1800s, the belief was that the “natives” would be better prepared for “modern” life if they got a traditional education. You cannot blame people born 200 years ago for having ideas that we disagree with now. And I have heard people who attended the schools say that they were treated well and the teachers or nuns or whoever they were, were kind people. Obviously some were not kind.
I agree; there was no systemic offence committed, especially in the historical context, and that the individual offences committed were few and far between. The point I was bringing up was less about the facts that counter the "genocide" narrative, those facts on which we likely agree, and more about the idea that the people who perpetuate the false narrative of genocide care little for these facts in the first place. I also worry that they don't care for the foundations of justice as it is meant to be carried out under Canadian law and tradition. They are discarding the idea of personal accountability and instead want to make us accountable by reason of blood relation.
This one article was worth the cost of a full year’s subscription to Juno news. Keep up the good work ( fight).
Good afternoon, folks,
I wish we could all be treated equally but we never will. For some reason, we are indebted to First Nations People forever.
Let's have a look at the facts.
I pay my for own hydro.
I pay my for own housing.
I pay my for own recreation.
I pay for my own groceries.
I pay for my own education.
I pay for my own dental.
I pay for my own clothing.
I have listed a few things above that I purchase if I can afford to but for some reason I'm expected to pay for all these things for the First Nations People through taxes.
It would be great if we could all contribute to society since we all use the police services, heath care services, roads and highways, schools, etc. That sure would lighten the burden on working Canadians.
Let's look at the grave scam that cost Canadians millions of dollars in compensation for the buried rocks. That was a serious government error paying for a false narrative.
Let's look at the 117 churches damaged or destroyed because of the buried rocks.
On a different note, CBC recently reported that First Nations People were disproportionately in the jail and prisons. CBC would like you to be leave that they were wrongfully arrested because of their race. That is simply not true. There is lots of First Nations People in the jail system because of their behavior, not because of a corrupt Justice system. At least First Nations People have folks incorporated into the Justice system to discuss their hardships with the Judges before sentencing. This is to help them get lighter sentences. This is not the way a responsible Government should function. Why should a First Nations person and a white man get different sentences based on race for the same offense.
There is lots of White and Black children that have had a difficult upbringing and have been abused sexually, mentally and physically. This should not give anyone a free pass with the Justice system.
Im sure, there was First Nations children that never came home. I know that is true. Vaccines were not well known and deadly diseases were abundant. These diseases were not discriminatory. They took White kids, Black kids and First Nation kids.
I do not beleave that the children were taken from First Nations families with the intent to harm them. I think the intent was to teach them a new language, skills and assist with education. I do not think it was right but we must move forward. Our First Nations people have been given more opportunities than the White and Black children of our country. If my boys would have been blessed with free University, they would not be working in the trades, they would be Doctors or Lawyers.
Every human being on the earth needs to feel valued and they must have purpose in the life. If First Nations People could separate themselves from the free way of life and work with Society, they would have a meaningful life and be a contributor to society. They would be equal to all other races and would no longer need to be provided for. I think they would be a much better Nation if they didn't need to rely on us for everything.
Oh well, there is much more facts that we could discuss but that's alot to absorb.
By for now.
Rocky
Candice, I admire your ability to clearly state relevant facts and their broad implications in this article, without resorting to hype and conjecture. I also admire your courage to say what needs to be said despite a mountain of media induced hate and misinformation. The country is failing as you say and too few people are aware how bad it is and why.
I have NOTHING orange. Zip, nope, nada!
If I may add a 5th Do NOT: Do NOT use the phrase “first nations”. I have never used it.
If you have any doubts that this has been a massive, tragic psy-op, read ‘Grave Error”. Frances Widdowson, the canceled professor mentioned by Candice, is one of the essayists in the book. The essays, btw, are all scholarly and of high caliber. Also keep in mind that the perps are not everyday Indians but a collection of true haters: hard left agitators and lawyers.