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By Nina Green
The CBC continues to publish misleading articles on deaths at Indian residential schools, the latest being this highly misleading article on Sturgeon Lake with the headline:
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation says 62 potential unmarked graves found on northern Alberta reserve
On 5 November 2021 there were 27 names on the National Centre For Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) list for the Indian residential school at Sturgeon Lake, two of them duplicates.
Official Province of Alberta death certificates were located for 21 of the remaining 25. See attachments.
The death certificates establish (1) that these children died of disease, mostly of TB, (2) that the causes of their deaths were duly recorded in official provincial government records at the time, (3) that there was nothing nefarious about their deaths, and (4) that the children were buried by their families in the community cemetery on the Indian reserve at Calais and in other known cemeteries.
The CBC article provides none of this factual evidence, despite the fact that all these Alberta death certificates have been in the possession of the University of Manitoba at its National Centre For Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) since 2014 (see attachment from the TRC report).
When will the CBC finally start fact-checking these misleading stories before publishing them, and misinforming Canadians?
And when will the University of Manitoba release all the death records in its NCTR files which establish that there is not a single missing Indian residential school child, and not a single nefarious Indian residential school death?
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CBC has been at the centre of residential school misinformation for two decades. Respected historian the late JR Miller said that no Indian parent was forced to send their child to a residential college school. CBC continues to report “150,000 forced to attend”. Many of us have advised CBC of this misinformation but they don’t care. They have an agenda that is apparently more important to them than telling the truth
Not one unmarked burial site found, let alone a "mass grave". When is CBC and the First Nations of Canada going to stop perpetuating these lies?
They are the victim fantasies of attention-seeking money grubbers
Find an actual set of remains, not in a former cemetery, then come back to the table.