Residential Schools

Globe and Mail editorial admits Kamloops coverage lacked proof

Paul Schratz · June 5, 2026

The Globe and Mail has admitted to a “failure of journalism” in 2021 with its reporting of “mass graves” at the Kamloops Indian Residential School.

Bishop Grandin erased from Alberta neighbourhood

Another landmark distanced from key figure from Church’s western Canadian past

Quinton Amundson · March 21, 2025

A neighbourhood named after a key architect of the Roman Catholic Church in western Canada will be no more by Sept. 1, 2025, at the latest.

Public lecture at Regent College canceled amid controversy

Regent at UBC revokes invite to Nigel Biggar

Anna Farrow · February 19, 2025

A Vancouver theological college cancelled a March 6 public lecture by Oxford professor and member of the House of Lords Nigel Biggar after alumni took to social media accusing the speaker of being a residential school apologist and “mass graves denier.”

For Sugarcane, the horror is in the telling

Oscar-nominated documentary’s integrity questioned

Anna Farrow · February 12, 2025

Though much lauded, can what is documented in the Oscar-nominated film Sugarcane actually be believed?

The truth and denial dilemma

‘You can’t have reconciliation without truth’

Anna Farrow · November 21, 2024

Since the May 2021 announcement by Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Chief Rosanne Casimir that ground-penetrating radar (GPR) technology had located the remains of 215 children on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, Canada has been embroiled in difficult attempts to come to terms with claims of mass graves, murder and genocide.

Kamloops chief believes anomalies are 'unmarked burials'

Quinton Amundson · June 27, 2024

Though Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Kúkpi7 (Chief) Rosanne Casimir has stepped back on her 2021 claims of 215 bodies found in graves at Kamloops Indian Residential School (KIRS), now referring to them as "anomalies," she said investigations to date still lead to the belief they are "unmarked burials."

Editorial

Voice of truth needed

June 13, 2024

Canada’s Catholic bishops deserve full credit for sticking with their commitment to, as Edmonton Archbishop Richard Smith has framed it, walk the whole long path of Indigenous reconciliation.

Register Exclusive

Incinerated children claims 'truly laughable'

Bishop Henry shoots down B.C. chief's assertion residential school bodies burned

Quinton Amundson · June 6, 2024

Within days of the rhetorical pivot from “children” to “anomalies,” the head of the British Columbia Assembly of First Nations floated another theory on why no human remains have ever been discovered on the grounds of former residential schools.

No accounting for burial sites’ funding

Still no bodies found, where millions spent unknown

Anna Farrow · May 14, 2024

The $7.9 million allocated to the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation for “field work” at the alleged site of 215 unmarked graves in Kamloops, B.C. is only a small portion of the $110 million allocated to Indigenous communities to help them search and document burial sites at former residential schools.

Doubt, skepticism, but also relief, greet Rivoire report

Justice Denis absolved Oblates of aiding in flight of abusive priest

Quinton Amundson · March 26, 2024

Some anger has greeted the release of a report on the abuse of Indigenous children, but there has also been relief that French Oblate priest Joannès Rivoire was declared guilty of the crimes in an Oblate-commissioned report.