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Do you have another less biased source? From Wikipedia: > The Fraser Institute is a conservative Canadian public policy think tank registered as a charity. T

Do you have another less biased source? From Wikipedia: > The Fraser Institute is a conservative Canadian public policy think tank registered as a charity. This is the first time I am hearing about the mass graves being a hoax.

gruez 11mo ago
Not the OP, but >As of April 2025, no bodies have been exhumed from the suspected gravesites, largely due to a lack of community consensus on whether to investigate detected anomalies at the risk of disturbing burials.[9] As of January 2024, at least three official excavations had been performed with no bodies discovered, though at least one excavation only investigated a portion of the reported ground anomalies at that site.[10][11][12] Disputes regarding the conclusiveness of the evidence has helped spawn a movement of denialism about the existence of some or all residential school burial sites.[9][13][14] Indigenous groups and academics have dismissed claims of a "mass grave hoax", saying that claimed discoveries of mass graves were present in a minority of stories published by mainstream media and that there had been public misinterpretation of what had actually been announced in 2021.[15 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_gravesites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_sc... It sounds like the "mass" part of the "mass graves" is disputed, and there's motte-and-bailey on both sides (eg. "you must think nobody/bazillion died in residential schools") muddying the dispute.
Steven420 11mo ago
Only four supposed mass graves have been investigated and all four found no bodies. There is no credible evidence that says there are mass graves
- pcthrowaway 11mo ago
  It wasn't exactly a "hoax" though, more like sensationalized reporting. Like "so-and-so identified a site where we believe there could be bodies buried" turned into "mass grave uncovered" Some potential burial sites were investigated, no bodies were found. Unmarked graves in association with residential schools certainly have been found in Canada, and since proving a negative in regards to these claims is untenable, the media is generally reluctant to say "see, there were no mass graves after all"
  - Steven420 11mo ago
    Where have unmarked residential school graves been found? Also investigating other supposed grave sites have been disallowed by their respective tribes
    - pcthrowaway 11mo ago
      Here's one from Saskatchewan for example: https://web.archive.org/web/20170408082324/http://www.sicc.sk.ca/archive/saskindian/a75sep3006.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20170408082324/http://www.sicc.s...
pyuser583 11mo ago
How do you feel about Quillette? https://quillette.com/2025/02/27/four-years-zero-graves-now-what/ https://quillette.com/2025/02/27/four-years-zero-graves-now-...
- gruez 11mo ago
  >[Quillette] has been described as libertarian-leaning;[2][3][4] the Columbia Journalism Review called Quillette "the right wing's highly influential answer to Slate",[5] and it has been criticized as an "anti-PC soapbox"[6] and for being "reflexively contrarian".[7] People who were skeptical at The Fraser Institute are probably also skeptical of Quillette

gruez 11mo ago

Not the OP, but >As of April 2025, no bodies have been exhumed from the suspected gravesites, largely due to a lack of community consensus on whether to investigate detected anomalies at the risk of disturbing burials.[9] As of January 2024, at least three official excavations had been performed with no bodies discovered, though at least one excavation only investigated a portion of the reported ground anomalies at that site.[10][11][12] Disputes regarding the conclusiveness of the evidence has helped spawn a movement of denialism about the existence of some or all residential school burial sites.[9][13][14] Indigenous groups and academics have dismissed claims of a "mass grave hoax", saying that claimed discoveries of mass graves were present in a minority of stories published by mainstream media and that there had been public misinterpretation of what had actually been announced in 2021.[15 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_gravesites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_sc... It sounds like the "mass" part of the "mass graves" is disputed, and there's motte-and-bailey on both sides (eg. "you must think nobody/bazillion died in residential schools") muddying the dispute.

Steven420 11mo ago

Only four supposed mass graves have been investigated and all four found no bodies. There is no credible evidence that says there are mass graves

pcthrowaway 11mo ago
It wasn't exactly a "hoax" though, more like sensationalized reporting. Like "so-and-so identified a site where we believe there could be bodies buried" turned into "mass grave uncovered" Some potential burial sites were investigated, no bodies were found. Unmarked graves in association with residential schools certainly have been found in Canada, and since proving a negative in regards to these claims is untenable, the media is generally reluctant to say "see, there were no mass graves after all"
- Steven420 11mo ago
  Where have unmarked residential school graves been found? Also investigating other supposed grave sites have been disallowed by their respective tribes
  - pcthrowaway 11mo ago
    Here's one from Saskatchewan for example: https://web.archive.org/web/20170408082324/http://www.sicc.sk.ca/archive/saskindian/a75sep3006.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20170408082324/http://www.sicc.s...

pyuser583 11mo ago

How do you feel about Quillette? https://quillette.com/2025/02/27/four-years-zero-graves-now-what/ https://quillette.com/2025/02/27/four-years-zero-graves-now-...

gruez 11mo ago
>[Quillette] has been described as libertarian-leaning;[2][3][4] the Columbia Journalism Review called Quillette "the right wing's highly influential answer to Slate",[5] and it has been criticized as an "anti-PC soapbox"[6] and for being "reflexively contrarian".[7] People who were skeptical at The Fraser Institute are probably also skeptical of Quillette