{"id":47587,"date":"2022-06-02T17:23:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T15:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=47587"},"modified":"2026-06-02T01:39:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T23:39:58","slug":"the-biggest-fake-news-in-canadian-history-that-fueled-a-brutal-anti-christian-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/02\/the-biggest-fake-news-in-canadian-history-that-fueled-a-brutal-anti-christian-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"The biggest fake news in Canadian history that fueled a brutal anti-Christian campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So-called \"blood libels\" fueled anti-Jewish violence centuries ago. Today, in the 21st century, these libels are directed against Christians.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/01\/19\/the-6-communist-and-37-islamic-regimes-that-most-persecute-christians-in-2022\/\">The 6 communist and 37 Islamic regimes that most persecute Christians in 2022<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/12\/09\/spain-is-one-of-the-five-european-countries-that-most-violate-the-freedoms-of-christians\/\">Spain is one of the five European countries that most violate the freedoms of Christians<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>The New York Post uncovers \"the biggest fake news in Canada\"<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, the American newspaper New York Post published this news: <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/27\/kamloops-mass-grave-debunked-biggest-fake-news-in-canada\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\"\u2018Biggest fake news story in Canada\u2019: Kamloops mass grave debunked by academics\"<\/a>. In it, journalist Dana Kennedy explains: <em>\"One year ago today, the leaders of the British Columbia First Nation Band Tk\u2019eml\u00faps te Secw\u00e9pemc <strong>announced the discovery of a mass grave of more than 200 Indigenous children detected at a residential school<\/strong> in British Columbia.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That band called the discovery \"Le Esccwicw\u00e9y\u0313\" (the disappeared). <em>\"What\u2019s still missing, however, according to a number of Canadian academics, is proof of the remains in the ground,\"<\/em> the New York Post notes. <em>\"Since last year\u2019s announcement, <strong>there have been no excavations at Kamloops nor any dates set for any such work to commence. Nothing has been taken out of the ground so far<\/strong>, according to a Tk\u2019eml\u00faps te Secw\u00e9pemc spokesman.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52116010597_1a83beea22_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">A monument to Saint John Paul II next to a Polish Catholic parish in Edmonton, Alberta, vandalized in the wake of the grave hoax (Photo: Canadian Press\/Rex).<\/div>\n<p><big>\"Not one body has been found\"<\/big><\/p>\n<p>And then what about all the supposedly buried children that some media claimed were under those schools? The New York Post states: <em>\"<strong>The alleged burial ground<\/strong>, which is said to include 215 bodies \u2014 some as young as 3 years old \u2014 <strong>was located with the help of ground-penetrating radar<\/strong> at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, which was run by the Roman Catholic Church from 1890 to 1978. <strong>The number of bodies was based on irregularities in the ground ascertained by the radar waves<\/strong>, according to an anthropologist hired by the band to scan the site.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A dozen academics have disputed the alleged revelations. <em>\"<strong>Not one body has been found<\/strong>,\"<\/em> according to Jacques Rouillard, professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Montreal. <em>\"<strong>After \u2026months of recrimination and denunciation, where are the remains of the children buried at the Kamloops Indian Residential School?<\/strong>\"<\/em>, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Una docena de acad\u00e9micos han puesto en duda las supuestas revelaciones. <em>\"<strong>No se ha encontrado ning\u00fan cuerpo<\/strong>\"<\/em>, dijo Jacques Rouillard, profesor em\u00e9rito en el Departamento de Historia de la Universidad de Montreal. <em>\"<strong>Despu\u00e9s de... meses de recriminaciones y denuncias, \u00bfd\u00f3nde est\u00e1n los restos de los ni\u00f1os enterrados en la Escuela Residencial Ind\u00edgena de Kamloops?<\/strong>\"<\/em>, a\u00f1adi\u00f3.<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52117270699_d66f317ff3_o.png\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">The Polish Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity, in Orlow, Saskatchewan, burned down during the wave of anti-Christian violence that was unleashed after the spread of the hoax of the graves (Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsworld.com\/2021\/07\/breakingnews-another-historic-church.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Catholic News World<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p><big>A year later, the promoters of the hoax still do not publish their report<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The Tk\u2019eml\u00faps te Secw\u00e9pemc gang confirmed to the New York Post that <strong>no bodies have yet been exhumed from the Kamloops school<\/strong> and no dates have even been set for excavations to begin. It also added that <strong>the ground-penetrating radar report on which those claims were based has not yet been released<\/strong>, but may be at some point in the future. This is a report that <strong>has served to accuse Canada, and in particular the Catholic Church, of committing \"genocide\"<\/strong>, but almost a year after the alleged discovery of bodies, the promoters of the investigation have not even published that report.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Post explains the origin of that hoax: <em>\"On May 17, 2021,<strong> the band hired Sarah Beaulieu, a young anthropologist from the University of the Fraser Valley, to scan and survey the site.<\/strong> Beaulieu scanned the site between May 21 and May 23 and the band announced her shocking findings on May 27. <strong>Beaulieu said that remote sensors picked up \u201canomalies\u201d and what are called \u201creflections\u201d that indicate the remains of children may be buried at the site.<\/strong>\"<\/em> The newspaper has noted that Beaulieu has not responded to emails sent to him. The New York Post adds that <strong>Beaulieu filed <em>\"a report on her work in July 2021 that did not include specific evidence.\"<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><big>The same system was used to claim that there were 800 more graves at other sites<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Following the Kamloops discovery, other researchers using the same ground-penetrating radar system <strong>have claimed to find unmarked suspected graves of an additional 800 residential school children in British Columbia and Saskatchewan.<\/strong> However, Tom Flanagan, emeritus professor of political science at the University of Calgary, has denounced: <em>\"This is the biggest fake news story in Canadian history,\"<\/em> Flanagan told The Post. <em>\"All this about unmarked graves and missing children triggered a moral panic. <strong>They have come to believe things for which there is no evidence and it\u2019s taken on a life of its own.<\/strong>\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p><big>The wave of anti-Christian and anti-Canadian hate and violence that unleashed the hoax<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Already in February 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrumpet.com\/25282-the-canadian-genocide-hoax\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Trumpet newspaper spoke of the \"Canada genocide hoax\"<\/a>, <strong>recalling the consequences of that false news:<\/strong> <em>\"Statues of John A. Macdonald (Canada\u2019s first prime minister), Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II were torn down. Some statues were even beheaded.<strong> Dozens of Catholic schools were destroyed by arson; so were churches of various denominations.<\/strong> The Canadian flag was run at half-mast for months. <strong>Canada Day was canceled and the nation accused of cultural genocide and erasure.<\/strong> The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights even said Canada was guilty of \u201ca large-scale human rights violation.\u201d\"<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4701\/40110206401_07631d8b3b_o.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">The government of leftist Justin Trudeau used the hoax of the graves to further its ideological agenda (Photo: The Canadian Press\/Todd Korol).<\/div>\n<p><big>The complicity of the main Canadian media and the role of the Trudeau government<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The Trumpet also asked: <em>\"<strong>Why was Canada\u2019s mainstream media suppressing the most important facts<\/strong> while broadcasting a message of shame, outrage and national humiliation? It\u2019s because <strong>they, in alliance with and funded by Justin Trudeau\u2019s Liberal government, have an agenda to fundamentally transform Canada.<\/strong>\"<\/em> The Trumpet recalled that in a 2015 New York Times interview, <strong>Justin Trudeau said: <em>\"There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada\"<\/em><\/strong>, and stated that, consequently, that makes Canada <em>\"the first postnational state.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Trumpet added: <em>\"<strong>Trudeau\u2019s vision is to remove the last vestiges of its identity as a British Commonwealth member.<\/strong> He led the way in declaring Canada as a systemically racist, colonial nation last summer. <strong>Canada\u2019s media ran with this message despite lacking evidence to support these claims. Any dissent was silenced as racist<\/strong> and another sign of why Canada needed to be fundamentally changed. This message of shame and humiliation to Canadians, despite the essence of the story being a lie, <strong>accelerated the media success of cementing control over Canadians.<\/strong>\"<\/em> A control that has a political purpose: <em>\"This media control is being<strong> used to push a radical-left agenda.<\/strong>\"<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52117271484_3177f74922_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">The Catholic parish of San Juan Bautista de Morinville, in Alberta, burned down on June 30, 2021 during the wave of anti-Christian violence that was unleashed after the hoax of the graves (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CQwkO1yBjZz\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LifeGod62<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p><big>The Spanish media that spread the hoax are now silent<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Canada is not a unique case in the media field. <strong>In Spain, many media spread the hoax of the graves, but very few have revealed the lie.<\/strong> In fact, it has been religious information media that have reported. The Catholic newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/infovaticana.com\/2022\/01\/24\/enterramientos-clandestinos-de-indigenas-en-canada-todo-era-falso\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Infovaticana already advanced it in January<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/infovaticana.com\/2022\/06\/02\/la-mayor-fake-news-de-canada-la-fosa-comun-de-kamloops-desacreditada-por-academicos\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">today it has returned to give news about it<\/a>. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infocatolica.com\/blog\/notelacuenten.php\/2201290606-era-mentira-no-encuentran-nin\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Infocat\u00f3lica<\/a> blog also published the information in January. Likewise, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.religionenlibertad.com\/video\/137102\/canada-indigenas-mentira.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Religi\u00f3n en Libertad revealed the hoax in April<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.religionenlibertad.com\/papa_francisco\/983335529\/francisco-visitara-canada-quema-60-iglesias-bulo-genocidio.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a few weeks ago he spoke about it again<\/a> before the next visit of Pope Francis to Canada, pointing out <em>\"<strong>the burning of 60 churches for a hoax of genocide<\/strong>.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>However, <strong>the big Spanish media that spread the hoax have hidden the truth about it.<\/strong> One of the media outlets that most helped to spread this false news in Spain, the socialist newspaper <strong>El Pa\u00eds, known for its militant anti-Catholicism, has not published even a brief news about the denial of the hoax.<\/strong> The so-called \"fact-checkers\", most of them from the left and who censor uncomfortable news on Facebook, have not issued a single report on the hoax. <strong>It is the old Goebbelian technique of \"lie, something remains\" fueling once again hatred and violence against Christians.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So-called \u00abblood libels\u00bb fueled anti-Jewish violence centuries ago. Today, in the 21st century, these libels are directed against Christians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10712],"tags":[16725,1479,10424,10976,11446,16726,16724],"class_list":["post-47587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-religion-eng","tag-anticatholicism","tag-canada","tag-catholic-church","tag-christianophobia","tag-justin-trudeau","tag-kamloops","tag-tkemlups-te-secwepemc"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-11 23:57:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}