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“There is no intention to correct, including by many people in the media who by this time know that they got the story wrong” - Jonathan Kay

“There is no intention to correct, including by many people in the media who by this time know that they got the story wrong” - Jonathan Kay

Quillette editor tries to make sense of journalists’ refusal to admit they spread social panic and misinformed the nation about Residential school bodies

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When Chief Rosanne Casimir of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation announced four years ago that ground penetrating radar (GPR) technology had located the remains of 215 children on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, journalist Jonathan Kay believed …

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