Of missing relatives in unmarked graves...

On the other side of the paywall, you will find an outstanding piece of courageously heartfelt writing by Michelle Stirling that drives a stake into the heart of the fatuous nonsense about indigenous children’s unmarked graves while simultaneously exposing the canard that uniquely severe school punishment took place in the Indian Residential Schools.

This beautifully written piece is well worth reading.

Also worth noting is the way the privileged treatment of indigenous issues alluded to by Stirling is now in Liberal Party government overdrive.

This was best shown in this week’s federal budget, a document full of useless indigenous-only (read: racially and ethnically discriminatory) grants, as described in today’s National Post, including: $91 million for Indian Bands to “document, locate and memorialize burial sites at former residential schools” — which the parliament of Canada is on record as saying is evidence of genocide, a charge with not a shred of supporting evidence; $5 million to combat “residential school denialism,” which would include the contents of Stirlings opinion piece; $630 million for indigenous mental health problems; $168 million over the next five years to “combat anti-Indigenous racism in health care;” $5.5 million to the towards the “revitalization of Indigenous laws and legal systems” among people lacking traditional legal systems as these are generally defined; $25 million for the Indigenous justice strategy; and a $1.3 million “Red Dress Alert” which would send phone alerts to people in a region whenever an indigenous woman goes missing, just like an Amber Alert.

“No alerts for missing men and missing women of other ethnicities, of course,” says the National Post’s, Jamie Sarkonak who compiled this data but failed to mention that there are no funds for alerts about missing indigenous men, a cohort that far exceeds the number of missing indigenous women.

Please read the following compelling story with all this in mind.