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[Michael Kane McCoy @MichaelKMcCoy]

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One of the biggest fake news hoaxes in the world finally gets buried... | BellaVita, Revolver News

The 5th anniversary of one of the biggest hoaxes ever is upon us.

Who can forget the story we were all told about 215 graves at Kamloops Residential School? It was breathlessly covered by media all over the world. It had that all-too-familiar “white man bad, minority man good” vibe. That was the story the media relentlessly pushed, even before any proof of so-called “child graves” was uncovered.

This is the type of irresponsible reporting that’s been going on for years now.

CBC:

It’s been nearly three years since the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation shared the preliminary findings of a ground-penetrating radar survey on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School that the nation said indicated the remains of approximately 200 people could be buried on the site.

To many, that day is associated with the number 215, the initial number given for the potential buried remains the First Nation said it found. Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc later clarified the survey had found about 200 potential unmarked graves on the grounds.

The announcement sparked a nationwide movement, as First Nations across the country began their own searches of residential school sites.

On Thursday, Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc will have a day of reflection to honour those findings and consider the lasting impacts of the residential school system in Canada.

“We urge everyone to set aside time for introspection, learning, and being with loved ones,” the First Nation said on its website.

“As we pause to reflect and honour the memory of Le Estcwicwéy̓ (the missing) and all those affected by the residential school system, let us also recommit ourselves to the ongoing work of reconciliation and healing.”

But the proof would never come, because the entire thing was a lie.

However, the real damage came directly from the fake news media.

Because from day one, this story was presented with such an incredible level of certainty that most people assumed the facts had already been proven. The graves of those 215 children had probably been identified and dug up, right?

Wrong.

However, the narrative was simply too perfect for the media to slow down, question it, and wait for the facts.

The white Catholic male villains were ripe and ready for the picking. So the media pounced first and asked questions later. That’s how this became one of the biggest, longest-running hoaxes ever.

Now, as we come up on the 5-year anniversary, one of Canada’s largest newspapers is admitting something that would’ve been considered unthinkable to say when this story first exploded across the globe…

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

And the fake news wasn’t just about creating a totally false narrative. It was also about boosting actual hate crimes.

Under Secretary of State:

In 2021, Canadian media and institutions basically hallucinated the discovery of 215 children’s bodies in a mass grave near a former Catholic residential school. The evidence: radar saw soil disturbances that could have been tree roots. A wave of church arsons ensued.

People making the case for censorship often urge that destructive manias like this can be suppressed/soothed if we prevent people from communicating about them. And here was a perfect case: false information was being recklessly (or maliciously) amplified, leading to literal hate crimes. Shouldn’t the censors do something?

But the mass-grave craze infected the censorship class, so opposition got targeted instead. At least one “disinformation” NGO categorized skepticism as “hate speech,” and Canada even saw efforts to criminalize so-called “denialism” (drawing an absurd comparison to the Holocaust).

Good for the Globe and Mail to come clean.

Now, the truth is officially out, thanks to these publications admitting they reported fake news.

The Globe and Mail’s editorial today, acknowledging its false reporting during the Kamloops graves moment of 2021, is a sign that we’re finally able to start telling the truth.

But there’s still a risk that the rage and panic of that summer will be forgotten, even memory-holed, because it’s embarrassing or inconvenient, and that we’ll learn nothing from it.

It’s taken me the better part of five years to write this reflection on that time and what it means.

This image below says a lot about the fake news, doesn’t it? They ran with this emotional, horrific lie for years, without one lick of evidence.

Look:

So, is this admittance the start of real healing? Meh. One thing’s for sure: it doesn’t erase the damage. This is a pattern that the media loves to follow:

- Sensationalize

- Spread fake news

- Attack anybody who questions the official story

- Put out a correction that nobody sees

And that’s the real scandal here. Countless activists, masquerading as reporters, totally ignored basic professionalism and skepticism in order to run a story based on their personal and political beliefs.

After all, this story fits a worldview that is the foundational makeup of newsrooms all over the western world. It checked all the right boxes: historical oppression, institutional guilt, child victims, and white male villains.

Once that perfect political story started taking shape, asking for evidence wasn’t important.

And that’s how fake reporting turns into truth.

The Globe and Mail deserves some small amount of credit for finally admitting what really happened.

Sadly, this admission comes after years of headlines, political speeches, outrage, and international coverage that treated an unproven claim as 100 percent proven truth.

That’s how activist journalism works.

The perfect story arrives first…

The evidence might show up later.

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[Michael Kane McCoy @MichaelKMcCoy]

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Happy 81st Birthday May 6th 2026 Bob Seger!

Seger finally achieved his commercial breakthrough with his October 1976 album Night Moves. The title track was critically and commercially well-received, becoming a No. 4 hit on the Billboard Pop Singles chart and receiving airplay on AOR radio. The album also featured "Mainstreet" (written about Ann Arbor's Ann Street), a No. 24 hit that emphasized Seger's rock credibility as well as guitarist Pete Carr's lead guitar, and "Rock and Roll Never Forgets", which peaked at No. 41 on the Billboard Hot 100. Night Moves was Seger's first top-ten album in the Billboard album chart, and as of 2006 was certified at 6 million copies in the United States, making it the biggest-selling studio album of his career.

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Conscientiousness and extroversion are down, neuroticism up, with young adults leading the charge.

This is a really consequential shift, and there’s a lot going on here, so let’s get into the weeds 🧵

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