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Four years later, the failure to ask the most basic journalism questions about residential school graves haunts the nation

Four years later, the failure to ask the most basic journalism questions about residential school graves haunts the nation

Not only was an exhausting narrative delivered through oversight, news organizations insist on letting inaccurate original stories stand

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The reclaimed cemetery and markers for 38 graves at the site of the former Regina Indian Industrial school

This week marks the fourth anniversary of the day Canada’s media broke faith with the public that funds it.

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May 27, 2021, was when the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation announced the “confirmation …

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