Canadian Mainstream outlet City News has deleted a post on social media after they falsely stated 215 graves were found at the site of a former residential school.
To this day, not one body has been identified at any former residential school in Canada.
Yet City News, a subsidiary of Rogers, stated on Tuesday that “May 27 marks a grim anniversary,” adding that “Three years ago Monday, hundreds of unmarked graves were discovered at a residential school site in Kamloops.”
Social media users were quick to point out that the claim is wildly false, as not even one body has been identified at any residential school site — ever.
A community note was attached below the article to indicate the correction, which is X’s fact-checking and context-providing tool that better informs readers of the truth.
“No remains have been recovered nor have any graves been identified at this time,” the note read.
Subsequently, City News deleted the post on X.
However, the article still exists on its website, with an editors note at the very bottom that reads:
“An initial version of this article stated the Tk’emlups te Secwépemc initial findings, which the Nation said 215 graves had been discovered at the Kamloops Residential School. Since May 2021, the Tk’emlups te Secwépemc have revised this position, stating that 200 “anomalies” and suspected burial sites have been located using ground penetrating radar.”
City News ironically laments over “misinformation”
The revised article ironically speaks of misinformation and denialism while simultaneously stating “The suspected grave sites of 215 children, believed to be as young as three years old, were found by the Nation on the site of what was once Canada’s largest Indigenous residential school.”
The article also has “read more” options, including false headlines “Discovery of children’s remains at former Kamloops school an ‘unthinkable loss’” and “Remains of 215 children found at former residential school.”
Earlier this month, the Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations reported that they’ve spent $7.9 million towards locating Indigenous children’s bodies, despite the fact that nothing has been found.
Last year, the results of the four week excavation at a former Manitoba residential school site were announced quietly late Friday afternoon, which turned up nothing but dirt and rocks.
At least 83 churches have been burned to the ground or vandalized in Canada since 2021, ever since mainstream media outlets like City News and CBC have been hellbent on perpetuating the unproven mass graves claim.
