Juno News - August 21, 2023


Excavation of residential school site finds nothing...what a surprise


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A recent excavation at the site of a former Indian residential school in Canada has uncovered no human remains, no mass grave full of indigenous bodies, and no evidence of crimes against humanity committed by the evil Canadian government. Is this one of the greatest hoaxes of the century?

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00:00:00.000 I have some good news to share with everyone on the program today which is
00:00:09.960 rare because the way things are going in our country each new day usually brings
00:00:14.520 fresh bad news but this new development bucks that trend a recent excavation at
00:00:20.400 the site of a former Indian residential school has uncovered no human remains
00:00:25.200 no mass grave full of indigenous bodies despite the fact that government at all 0.90
00:00:30.780 levels First Nations leadership and of course legacy media journalists
00:00:35.460 routinely told us for years that ground penetrating radar discoveries which
00:00:40.440 really weren't discoveries at all uncovered evidence of crimes against
00:00:45.240 humanity committed by the evil Canadian government this should be seen as
00:00:49.320 welcome news by everybody but for some reason the legacy media journalists
00:00:54.180 writing up this story and the First Nations chief who oversaw the
00:00:57.940 excavation of the grounds don't seem too happy about the fact that their
00:01:02.040 excavation and their dig turned up nothing but rocks maybe that's because
00:01:05.940 just like in previous excavations that turned up nothing the more people dig
00:01:10.220 for truth to find evidence of these crimes against humanity committed by the 0.90
00:01:14.680 evil Canadian government the less of it they find don't forget what happened to
00:01:18.860 this country when First Nations working hand-in-hand with legacy media
00:01:23.040 propagandists claim to have found the remains of children buried in mass graves
00:01:27.480 despite not having any proof to back it up oh and by the way the same people that
00:01:32.400 pushed this hoax are now trying to make it illegal for you to deny their baseless
00:01:36.900 claims they're calling it residential school denialism and if all of this
00:01:41.040 sounds awfully Marxist to you that's because it is drop a like in the video help us
00:01:45.480 up with subscribing to the true north YouTube channel and the comment question for the
00:01:48.660 episode is this is this one of the hoaxes of the century let me know in the
00:01:54.480 comments and let's get into it Canada descended into chaos and mayhem during
00:01:59.160 the summer of 2021 after the Kamloops First Nations announced the discovery using
00:02:05.580 ground penetrating radar of the remains of 215 children buried at the site of the
00:02:11.380 former Kamloops Indian residential school and what can only be described as one of the
00:02:15.560 most embarrassing failures of modern journalism ever seen in Canada
00:02:18.960 international news outlets and of course the legacy media in Canada who are all on
00:02:23.060 the take from the federal government ran with the claims without investigating a
00:02:26.620 single word that was uttered by these First Nations and made it seem as though
00:02:31.240 Canada was guilty of the worst crimes ever committed they had convinced Canadians 0.96
00:02:36.040 and frankly the rest of the world that mass graves full of hundreds of
00:02:40.140 indigenous children were being located everywhere in this country and that of
00:02:44.420 course the Canadian government and the Catholic Church were guilty of the worst 0.89
00:02:48.440 crimes imaginable after the Kamloops Indian residential school first 1.00
00:02:52.580 announced the apparent discovery of 215 remains of indigenous children well sure
00:02:58.760 enough of course several First Nations bands across the country announced
00:03:03.200 similar claims in Saskatchewan one First Nation claimed to have located the
00:03:07.880 remains of over 700 children in reality no First Nation had any proof that any of
00:03:13.980 these remains in fact had ever existed but that didn't stop every single
00:03:19.080 legacy media outlet in Canada and the rest of the world from reporting these
00:03:22.920 claims as if it were fact there was only one news outlet in Canada that actually
00:03:27.720 pushed back against the claims from the very beginning that outlet was true north
00:03:32.520 true north founder Candace Malcolm from the very beginning could smell that
00:03:36.260 something wasn't right here these First Nations were relying on ground
00:03:39.540 penetrating radar which produced findings that look like this ground
00:03:44.160 penetrating radar is not an excavation it's not proof and it doesn't dig up
00:03:48.360 evidence all it finds are disturbances in the ground but what followed after these
00:03:53.160 claims were made without doing any proper research or any actual excavation was
00:03:58.260 outright absurd terror reigned over Christians across the prairies in Canada
00:04:04.080 after these residential school claims were made 83 churches most of which serve
00:04:09.600 First Nations populations were burned or vandalized several completely razed to the
00:04:15.240 ground one BC civil rights activist cheered this reign of terror on and Trudeau's
00:04:20.340 former principal secretary Gerald Butts said it was understandable that people
00:04:24.900 were taking their frustration out in this way these churches many of them hundreds of
00:04:29.460 years old serving exclusively First Nations Canadians will be gone for the 0.98
00:04:34.740 rest of time thanks to these baseless and unfounded claims but again that didn't
00:04:40.680 stop the legacy media from piling on Justin Trudeau while this reign of terror was
00:04:45.480 taking place across the country plunged us into a prolonged national state of
00:04:49.920 mourning where Canadian flags were lowered at half-mast for months Canada Day the
00:04:54.840 only day of the year where Canadians are excused for showing any pride in our
00:04:58.500 country was cancelled what's worse an NDP motion was passed unanimously in the
00:05:05.160 House of Commons labeling Canada guilty of genocide oh and when I say 0.83
00:05:10.260 unanimously I mean unanimously because every single conservative MP approved
00:05:15.060 that motion oh and when Justin Trudeau wasn't busy taking photo ops kneeling
00:05:19.680 beside a supposed unmarked grave in Saskatchewan with a teddy bear in hand he
00:05:24.480 created a fake holiday called the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in
00:05:29.160 which he took off to go surfing in Tofino it might as well just be called
00:05:34.380 Canada's day for surfing because once the photo ops were done and once the
00:05:38.580 labeling of Canada as genocidal had taken place well all the actual care from
00:05:44.040 the government about dealing with actual problems faced by First Nations weren't
00:05:48.360 that necessary it was more important to go catch some waves if you take away all of
00:05:52.280 the absurd political motions labeling Canada genocidal or you take away the 0.99
00:05:56.900 stupid photo ops being done by Canadian leaders underneath it is something much 1.00
00:06:02.600 more sinister and much more concerning labeling this country as genocidal 1.00
00:06:07.400 without having any proof at all and saying Canada is guilty of these absurd
00:06:12.200 crimes is designed to strike at the very foundation of this country it's designed to
00:06:17.900 cast doubt on the existence the right to existence of this country because what is
00:06:23.480 good news to you and me is not seen as good news to people who want to rewrite
00:06:28.640 the history of this country after all I think it's wonderful that the remains of
00:06:33.440 indigenous children were not found in a recent excavation but take a look at this
00:06:38.120 CBC article announcing the results over the weekend no evidence of human remains
00:06:43.220 found beneath church at Pine Creek residential school site no evidence of human remains have
00:06:48.400 been found during the excavation of a Catholic church basement on the site of a former Manitoba
00:06:52.820 residential school 14 anomalies were detected using ground penetrating radar in the basement of
00:06:58.040 the church on the site of the former Pine Creek residential school last year survivors had
00:07:02.400 spoken about the horror stories in the basement spiritual advisors led in a pipe ceremony when the
00:07:07.640 search began and a sacred fire was led nearby to ensure elders survivors and intergenerational
00:07:13.340 survivors felt supported Nepenak the chief said that the search should be an example of how to use an
00:07:19.580 indigenous led approach that respects survivors Nepenak said that he is aware the results will feed into
00:07:26.060 a denialist narrative of what happened at residential schools and urged people to continue supporting the
00:07:32.140 search for truth the results of our excavation under the church should not be deemed as
00:07:36.860 conclusive of other ongoing searches and efforts to identify reflections from other community
00:07:42.000 processes including other ground penetrating radar initiatives let's know what the chief himself had
00:07:47.380 to say after announcing the findings or lack thereof in a recent video you tell me if you think that this
00:07:53.260 man is happy to announce that there are no remains found at this location after all in my opinion
00:07:58.800 this would be great news but but you tell me in the comments how you think this guy feels
00:08:02.980 the results of the excavation take nothing away from the difficult truths experienced by our families who
00:08:09.620 attended the residential school in pine creek we know from our observations of the public at large that our work
00:08:16.980 will feed into a denialist narrative of what happened to our families in residential school the results of our
00:08:23.360 excavation under the church should not be deemed as conclusive other ongoing searches and efforts to identify
00:08:28.980 reflections from other community processes including other gpr initiatives the true history is taking
00:08:35.620 shape incrementally and we recognize that this excavation is but a small piece of a much larger truth
00:08:42.180 the results in pine creek are not a means to deny the truths of those who survived the residential school
00:08:49.380 experience and those who did not you would be hard pressed to find a more apparent example of the great
00:08:55.700 divide between anishinaabe community values and priorities and whatever the values might be of
00:09:01.220 colonizer governments that purport to hold up the highest values of manitoba citizens this does not
00:09:07.140 mark the end of our truth finding project we will continue to engage in community engagement and we will
00:09:14.580 find a pathway forward that further helps us arrive at the truths of our history this is in no means
00:09:21.060 conclusive of our work to find the truth of the history of our residential school here in pine creek
00:09:26.820 there's no such thing as our truth there's only the truth you don't get to determine what the truth
00:09:32.340 is it just is what it is you can't shape it to fit your narrative and you certainly can't shape it to
00:09:38.180 try and deem everybody else as evil or guilty of crimes that maybe as it appears they haven't actually
00:09:44.180 committed take a look at some of these comments on twitter underneath the national post tweet of this story
00:09:50.180 chief derek nepenak expressed his disappointment and concern that actual facts may cause skepticism
00:09:56.260 to the narrative yet he seems disappointed weird yeah exactly it is strange it's the kind of thing
00:10:02.500 you'd think would be great news and this person just writes that's good news it certainly is but we're
00:10:08.660 now at a place in this country where not finding the remains of horrible crimes committed is actually
00:10:14.980 bad news because it doesn't fit the narrative that these people want and this is only the third actual
00:10:19.620 excavation after ground penetrating radar made these claims it turns out that most of the time
00:10:24.740 when these first nations make these claims and use ground penetrating radar they don't seem half as
00:10:29.780 interested to actually discover what might be underneath the soil right this in nova scotia
00:10:34.820 back in august of 2021 and what do you know after doing an excavation they found no human remains
00:10:41.460 the team of researchers searching for evidence of unmarked graves at the former
00:10:45.060 shabbana katie residential school in shabbana katie nova scotia has concluded its search without
00:10:50.420 finding graves connected to the institution a statement from the first nation wednesday said
00:10:54.580 that while the crews did find evidence of unmarked graves those graves predate the period of the
00:10:59.460 residential school by about 100 years and are connected to former landowners oh that's a bit awkward
00:11:05.540 isn't it oh what about that time that a crew in edmonton dug up claims of unmarked graves outside of a
00:11:10.580 hospital in edmonton and found nothing the worst piece of journalism from all of this came from
00:11:16.980 the new york times who ran a headline citing that mass graves were found in this country maybe one of
00:11:24.020 the worst pieces of new york times journalism ever published quite honestly i mean look at this
00:11:28.580 outrageous headline horrible history mass grave of indigenous children reported in canada no evidence
00:11:34.740 no investigation no research but of course it did do the job of making every canadian feel guilty
00:11:41.380 of things they didn't actually do it did force us all to enter a prolonged state of national mourning
00:11:46.980 which of course turned out to be completely useless because the claims so far have proven to find
00:11:52.420 nothing and even after these excavations have taken place and no remains have been found
00:11:57.460 not once do you see any remorse on the part of these first nations chiefs for leading this country
00:12:03.380 into believing that we are guilty of things that haven't actually happened nowhere does there seem
00:12:07.940 to be any actual remorse for pushing a narrative that turned out to be completely false but even if
00:12:13.300 they did show any remorse for pushing a narrative which turned out to be false it wouldn't have mattered
00:12:17.780 because the canadian establishment have moved full steam ahead in believing that canada is guilty of
00:12:22.900 genocide the federal government have accepted the findings of the trc report which accused canada of
00:12:28.420 genocide and it goes even further because look at what the canadian museum of human rights
00:12:33.300 a federally funded museum has to say about canada's role in the residential school system
00:12:38.900 we can't talk about reconciliation unless we are grounded in truth truth comes first we believe
00:12:44.660 that the indian residential school system was genocide we also believe that the policies and
00:12:49.140 practices of colonization from which the residential school system flowed were genocide and we state
00:12:54.740 this clearly and unequivocally in our exhibition rites of passage and like we've talked about in a
00:12:59.780 previous episode on this topic canada's government appointed independent special interlocutor on
00:13:05.380 unmarked graves in her final report wants to make so-called residential school denialism a crime in 0.99
00:13:11.940 this country that's right so even though we know that these claims of unmarked graves using ground
00:13:17.140 penetrating radar have turned up nothing but rocks this person kimberly murray wants to make it illegal 1.00
00:13:23.540 for any canadian to deny that genocide took place at residential schools imagine that having proof
00:13:30.020 that something doesn't exist but making it illegal to question its existence what canada is not guilty
00:13:36.260 of genocide ground penetrating radar claims have so far proven nothing so it's irresponsible for a
00:13:43.300 government official a first nations chief and even more so perhaps a legacy media journalist or a
00:13:49.300 journalist of for any publication of that matter to make ground penetrating radar claims sound
00:13:55.060 official when they're not federal politicians however at all levels just decided that you know
00:13:59.460 what putting up a fight for the truth and actually defending the historical accuracy and the record of
00:14:04.820 this country was too much they'd rather just vote for a motion that deems canada to be genocidal including
00:14:10.740 even the conservatives and while legacy media journalists continue to make these baseless claims well
00:14:17.060 christian churches that had stood for hundreds of years were burned to the ground when you realize
00:14:21.860 that tearing down statues like the statue of egerton ryerson queen victoria or queen elizabeth and
00:14:26.980 rewriting the history of this country so that they can make falsehoods and mistruths part of the actual
00:14:31.860 story of this country and criminalize anyone who dares to question it when you realize all of that is part
00:14:36.900 of the classic marxist playbook it all starts to make more sense and these claims of unmarked burials
00:14:42.820 should be taken with a level of seriousness that has yet to be shown from politicians who are actually
00:14:48.180 serious about defending this country all right everyone that's going to do it for us today on
00:14:52.580 the show reminder to let me know in the comments your answer to the comment question is this one of
00:14:57.460 the hoaxes of the century my name is harrison faulkner and this is ratio