Paul Jané

Erstwhile Chief Editor, CBC/Radio-Canada SYNC.

[Robyn Urback @RobynUrback]

We should all be shocked that the guy who has a bronze bust of himself outside of the Court doesn't think there is a problem with him staying on the case

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

This whole racist TTC plan seems to involve putting little animal symbols on things, because apparently they think indigenous people are all four-year olds who don’t understand how words and street signs work, and so they need to look at little pictures

[Christopher Nardi @ChrisGNardi]

That hot person who reached out on LinkedIn or Indeed to offer you a job that feels “too good to be true”?
They may be a Chinese intelligence agent, warns Canada’s spy agency.
My latest: https://t.co/Ovuog6NLCj

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Under Siege 3 is just him versus his own arteries.

[Matt Gurney @mattgurney]

We should!

[Terry Glavin 格立文 @TerryGlavin]

I am so done with these people. The harm they've done to genuine abuse victims, to my country, to reconciliation, is incalculable. All to protect themselves from accountability for the lies they've been telling. https://t.co/8sLvdtPEEV

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

My latest for @quillette, on lessons for journalists to prevent the next unmarked-graves-type social panic. Lesson #1: Stop treating Indigenous sources as if they were sacred mystics who channel unfalsifiable "knowings." Like all of us, they make mistakes
https://t.co/qCAjdH4lYO

[Melissa Mbarki @MelissaMbarki]

No “mass grave” was discovered at the site of the Kamloops Indian residential school five years ago. Even the Tkemlúps te Secwepemc Nation at Kamloops refuted that characterization within a week of the initial round of shocking headlines. Ever since, the Tkemlúps have gone back and forth on the subject, aided by $12.1 million in federal funds, from “probable burials” to graves to “signatures that resemble burials.”

The hundreds of graves “found” at Marieval in Saskatchewan, where Trudeau famously posed kneeling at a gravesite holding a teddy bear, were ordinary burials in a Cowessess community cemetery where gravestones had been removed. Cowessess elder and former Marieval student Lloyd Lerat said this about the graves: “We’ve always known these were there.… It’s just the fact that the media picked up on unmarked graves, and the story actually created itself from there because that’s how it happens.”

The 182 graves “discovered” near the old St. Eugene’s residential school in B.C. at the Ktunaxa community of ʔAq’am were burials in a former pioneer cemetery later associated with a hospital and a Catholic mission that had lost its wooden crosses to grass fires over the years. “There’s no discovery, we knew it was there, it’s a graveyard,” Sophie Pierre, a former St. Eugene’s student who served for 25 years as the Ktunaxa tribal chair, explained later. “The fact there are graves inside a graveyard shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone.”

The 160 “unmarked graves” reported on Penelakut Island were not newly discovered. Some were associated with a cemetery, others were inferred from ground penetrating radar research, and more were the result of archeological surveys on the island’s foreshore. Twenty years earlier the RCMP had excavated a rumoured residential-school burial site on the island and came up with nothing.

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

Wow. The editorial board of the Globe & Mail just flat out admitted that it screwed up by failing to scrutinize the false 2021 claims that “unmarked graves” had been “confirmed” at Kamloops. It’s taken five years, which is a disgrace, but give them credit for finally saying it

[Matt Gurney @mattgurney]

Remember how excited everyone was a year ago to get rid of all these idiotic internal barriers? We flaked out. It was too hard or locally controversial.

We are our own worst enemies. Hands down. Trump is simply daring to jab at the wounds we’ve inflicted on ourselves.

[Terry Newman @terrynewman]

Terry Glavin: The Kamloops 'graves' and the poisoned chalice of 'reconciliation'

Genuine victims of residential schools have lost the most over false claims of a 'mass grave'
https://t.co/G8EUzK5xTW

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

One nice thing is that Trudeau is likely to live long enough to realize that this will indeed be the only thing he's remembered for. In 50 years, people in remote Balkan villages who can't identify Canada on a map will somehow know that one of Canada's leaders was "the Katy Perry blackface guy."

[Paul Vieira @paulvieira]

"Canada’s political class has spent decades avoiding clear and honest intellectual engagement. It has been sacrificed at the altar of conflict avoidance and by the acceptance of canned platitudes carefully crafted to say precisely nothing at all."
https://t.co/ahAgpNPXZ7

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

Steven Guilbeault is leaving federal politics, and not a moment too soon.

He may go down as one of the ministers who most aggressively weaponized science, funding questionable research groups like the Canadian Climate Institute and other pet projects to reinforce a single “climate crisis” narrative.

Anyone claiming Guilbeault truly believed in science is fooling themselves. He treated science like a buffet — picking only what supported his agenda. That’s not science.

He even misquoted me in the House of Commons, attributing claims to me that I have never said or published. That alone tells you everything you need to know about how evidence and dissent were handled under his watch.

Good riddance.

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

The "unmarked graves" at Kamloops Indian Residential School were found at a depth of 3 feet, running in an east-west direction.

They just so happened to be found in a field with a septic system buried at 3 feet, and running in an east-west direction.
https://t.co/sHCr86k1Ge

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

I love how the esteemed “judges” appear with a wall of shoes, symbolizing those 215 “unmarked graves” in Kamloops they haven’t quite gotten around to finding. Looks very professional and impartial

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

update: @globeandmail deleted all 5/22 posts falsely claiming “remains” of 215 kids were found in Kamloops (including LinkedIn/Threads posts I noted)
if they have enuf self-respect to do this, y havent they corrected their similarly error-riddled Kamloops stories from last 5 yrs?

[Cristian Campos @crpandemonium]

Efectivamente, lo contamos hoy en El Español, Zapatero impidió el desalojo de una casa okupada porque una de las okupas era su hija.

[Chris Selley @cselley]

Disrupting an airport for Gaza IN SPAIN is like marching for abortion rights in Manhattan.

[Jamie Sarkonak @sarkonakj]

In the early 1900s, an Indian anti-British movement had been using North America as a staging ground to plot a violent anti-Empire revolution. The Komagata Maru was bringing more adherents to Vancouver.

Turning it away was a matter of national security. It was NOT a tragedy.