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After one of BC's 87 MLAs was expelled from the Conservative caucus for insulting residential-school survivors in a podcast interview, two others resigned in solidarity (!)

People out in the boonies seem to be getting excited about whether or not the unmarked graves at one specific school have been found (AFAIK nobody says "yes"), not that for 90 years Canada operated a system that ripped children from their homes, tried to destroy their cultures and languages, exposed them to cold, hunger, disease, and abuse, and did not even provide meaningful education. Nobody disputes that, nor that thousands of First Nations children died early deaths because of this system. So I think its a double alternate-reality: people who have convinced themselves that debating about that one specific school is a cutting point, and people who have convinced themselves that mocking survivors is much more acceptable than it actually is. Maybe they found some social-media troll who claimed that the graves had definitely been found and convinced themselves that anyone off their social media service care what the troll says.

A report that a ground-penetrating radar survey had found possible unmarked graves at a residential school brought the schools to the attention of many settler-Canadians. Its well documented that many children died at these schools and many were disappeared, the only questions are about the details (say, the difference between an unregistered cemetery with wooden crosses which rotted and an unmarked grave).

Meanwhile I see even Canadians who don't acknowledge that our choices were dealing with orange Julius while prorogued and holding a Liberal leadership race, or dealing with him in the middle of a Federal election which a Trumpist was almost certain to win. No good options since the PM did not resign in summer 2024 or summer 2023 and since the US election went the way it di.

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