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Thoughtful people should call the 2021 Kamloops "discovery" a hoax

Thoughtful people should call the 2021 Kamloops "discovery" a hoax

A rebuttal to Joseph Quesnel's column

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Hymie Rubenstein
Aug 14, 2024
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Three writers — Brian Giesbrecht, yours truly, and Cory Morgan — have taken indigenous activist Joseph Quesnel to task for urging respectful acknowledgment of (read: capitulation to) the claim that the remains of 215 missing children were found in graves located next to the Kamloops Indian Residential School when such capitulation would be nothing short of indifference to both factual evidence and elementary logic, exacerbated by moral cowardice and misplaced empathy.

For more details about an indigenous controversy that has impacted Canada over the past three years like no other, read the four opinion pieces on the other side of the paywall.

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