Hamilton/McMaster University friends: I'm giving a talk, hosted by Mac's Indigenous Studies Department, on how to identify and confront residential school denialism on Tuesday, November 14. Hope to see you there!

Thanks to Chelsea Bird for having me on CHED 630 Edmonton to talk about debunking the "mass grave hoax" and what's needed to combat residential school denialism and put truth before reconciliation: dcs-spotify.megaphone.fm/CORU52110283...

Thanks to CBC's Daybreak Kamloops for having me on this morning to talk about Reid Gerbrandt and I's new report debunking the "mass grave hoax" and residential school denialism (segment starts at 1:21:06): www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Today, October 23, marks the 57th anniversary of Chanie Wenjack's death. Here's a piece @seancarleton.bsky.socialactivehistory.ca/blog/2018/10...

Chanie Wenjack and the Histories of Residential Schooling We Remember

Today, 23 October, is the 52nd anniversary of Chanie Wenjack’s death. Chanie (misnamed Charlie by his teachers) was a 12-year-old Anishinaabe boy who, along with two other classmates, ran away from�...

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In the end, our call is simple: we need to be precise with language and also acknowledge errors (and avoid future ones), or clarify details in a way that feeds truth, empathy and more accurate reporting — not denialism, hate and conspiracy.

We hope our report sparks a national conversation about how important language is when covering this issue.

That means that 93.5 per cent of the Canadian articles released in the spring, summer and fall of 2021 that we examined did not report the findings as being “mass graves.”