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Michael Higgins: Teacher fired for speaking truth on Kamloops gets day in court

'There needs to be an accounting,' Jim McMurtry told the Post

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For refusing to jump on the Kamloops “mass graves” narrative bandwagon, high school teacher Jim McMurtry was sacked by educational authorities, abandoned by his union and refused a hearing before a labour relations board.

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Now, five years after first being walked out of a classroom as Indian residential school hysteria swept Canada, McMurtry is heading to B.C. Supreme Court in a case that he hopes will expose the truth about Kamloops.

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McMurtry’s case illustrates how those in power were quickly captured by the ideology surrounding Kamloops, were eager to punish those who presented a different — although truthful — account and were determined to alienate dissenters.

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