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Canada’s mass-graves scam reveals the high price of media bias

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A hoax costs taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars and incites arson attacks against dozens of churches.

This time, however, it’s not the latest headline out of Minnesota — look a little further north.

In 2021, at a time when media throughout the western world were still in a state of high agitation after the killing of George Floyd, Canadian outlets picked up on a story too sensational not to be true:

Hundreds of indigenous First Nations children had been buried in unmarked graves at residential schools run by the Catholic Church in British Columbia.

The Kamloops Indian Band sent around a press release that “confirmed” it. 

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“We had a knowing in our community that we were able to verify,” said the band’s chief, Rosanne Casimir.

“Some were as young as three years old,” she continued, asserting that “the final resting place of these children” was in the Kamloops Indian Residential School.

Only it wasn’t — no human remains have been found at Kamloops.

And the media that fanned the flames of the........

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