OP-ED: The legacy media’s failed efforts at truth-telling about residential schools

Hymie Rubenstein writes, "Half-truths or outright distortions dominate mainstream media reports about Canada’s Indian Residential Schools."

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By: Hymie Rubenstein

Hymie Rubenstein, editor of REAL Indigenous Report, is a retired professor of anthropology at the University of Manitoba and a senior fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.

That half-truths or outright distortions dominate mainstream media reports about Canada’s Indian Residential Schools has once more been …