Oh, the headlines two years ago were horrific – HORRIFIC.

It was every racist, oppressive, creepy boarding school nightmare scenario come to life, and just one more baseball bat to the reputation of a colonizing, supremacist Roman Catholic Church.

The Catholics had let orphaned indigenous children wallow in miserable, inhumane conditions in their “charity” schools, and when they perished in abject poverty from malnourishment, mistreatment, and disease, they dumped the little bodies in unmarked graves on the church grounds.

The proof was in the pudding – 215 little corpses. Said so right on the ground penetrating radar.

Canada mourns as remains of 215 children found at indigenous school

Unmarked graves containing the remains of 215 children have been found in Canada at a former residential school set up to assimilate indigenous people.

The children were students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia that closed in 1978.

The discovery was announced on Thursday by the chief of the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said it was a “painful reminder” of a “shameful chapter of our country’s history”.

The First Nation is working with museum specialists and the coroner’s office to establish the causes and timings of the deaths, which are not currently known.

The school was the largest one in the system and had been opened from 1890-1950. The grievance warriors of the tribe were ready to track down who the little tykes could have been, and began the process of reaching out to other First Nations. As they said, these were “undocumented” deaths, so who were these poor kids?

…The Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation said the remains were found with the help of a ground-penetrating radar during a survey of the school.

“To our knowledge, these missing children are undocumented deaths,” Ms Casimir said. “Some were as young as three years old.”

“We sought out a way to confirm that knowing out of deepest respect and love for those lost children and their families, understanding that Tk’emlups te Secwepemc is the final resting place of these children.”

At this point, no shovel has touched the sod, though. The rumored graves were still “anomalies” on the grainy grey GPR screen.

Didn’t matter. Within days, prominent Canadians were fanning the flames of righteous outrageous outrage.

FOR THE LITTLE DEAD CHILDREN and I have no idea WTF else he’s talking about. It’s Canada.

I’ve requested the Speaker allow for an Emergency Debate on the discovery of the graves of #215children

We grieve for these children and demand accountability from the federal govt

This govt must end all legal actions against Indigenous children & residential school survivors pic.twitter.com/V7Q38POQVW

— Jagmeet Singh (@theJagmeetSingh) May 31, 2021

Never late to a poseur party, that Canadian bastion of virtue signaling moral authority, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, took his shots at the Catholic Church every chance he had a mic to opine into.

How DARE they not apologize for this abomination, as he invoked his visit with the Pope for good measure.

Justin Trudeau demands Catholic Church apologise following discovery of remains at church-run school

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is “deeply disappointed” the Roman Catholic Church has not offered a formal apology in the wake of 215 children’s remains being found beneath a church-run Indigenous boarding school.

“When I went to the Vatican a number of years ago I directly asked His Holiness, Pope Francis, to move forward on apologising, on asking for forgiveness, on restitution, on making these records available, and we’re still seeing resistance from the church, possibly from the church in Canada,” Mr Trudeau said.

“As a Catholic, I am deeply disappointed by the position that the Catholic Church has taken now and over the past many years.”

Mr Trudeau said the church had been “silent” and was “not stepping up”.

Trudeau darkly hinted at taking government action if the church continued to lag.

Meanwhile, there had still not been a shovel touching sod to retrieve the bodies.

But all the flim-flamming flame throwing has real flames being fanned at historic Catholic Churches across the breadth of Canada in retaliation.

CANADA – Another Catholic church burned down. The fourth church destroyed in a week on indigenous land after the recent discovery of 2 mass graves found at former schools. pic.twitter.com/00CVMVU5dn

— ShatteredWorldMedia 🌐 (@MediaShattered) June 30, 2021

FOR THE LITTLE DEAD CHILDREN

54 Catholic churches burned or vandalized in Canada.

“I understand the anger that’s out there against the Catholic Church. It is real, and it’s fully understandable, given the shameful history."#JustinTrudeau

So burn away, they got it coming to them?#tuesdayvibe pic.twitter.com/sxhQhLmykg

— Dr. Jimmy Yam (@JimmyJoeYam) July 28, 2021

And the rhetoric poured on and the money poured in…

…That didn’t stop many in Canada from painting a demonic picture of the residential schools and those who staffed them.

“The system forcibly separated children from their families for extended periods of time and forbade them to acknowledge their Indigenous heritage and culture or to speak their own languages,” according to the website of the First Nations and Indigenous Studies of the University of British Columbia.

Assembly of First Nations Grand Chief RoseAnne Archibald told the BBC in August 2021 that the residential school policy was “designed to kill, and we’re seeing proof of that …”

Within days of the Kamloops announcement, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau decreed, partly at the request of tribal leaders, that all flags on federal buildings fly at half-staff. The Canadian government and provincial authorities pledged about $320 million to fund more research and in December pledged another $40 billion involving First Nations child-welfare claim settlements that partially compensate some residential school attendees.

And Pope Francis apologized.

…Pope Francis issued a formal apology on behalf of the Catholic Church, which ran many of the residential school facilities, and asked for God’s forgiveness.

All this, and STILL, not a shovel had touched sod.

Isn’t that weird? All this weeping and moaning and heartbreak on so many sides, but the site of the mass grave causing it still lies unexcavated over two years later? No one thought it was important enough to actually get those poor little ones out of unconsecrated ground?

WHUT?

At last. This summer, someone finally got around to digging. And digging. And digging.

And, fourteen holes later, they still didn’t have a single body.

Well, knock me over with an eagle feather.

After two years of horror stories about the alleged mass graves of Indigenous children at residential schools across Canada, a series of recent excavations at suspected sites has turned up no human remains.

…Minegoziibe Anishinabe, a group of indigenous people also known as Pine Creek First Nation, excavated 14 sites in the basement of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Catholic Church near the Pine Creek Residential School in Manitoba during four weeks this summer.

The so-called “anomalies” were first detected using ground-penetrating radar, but on Aug. 18, Chief Derek Nepinak of remote Pine Creek Indian Reserve said no remains were found.

The chief wants everyone to know that doesn’t change a damn thing about how bad the schools were.

RIGHT, BUDDY

It kind of does, because this means they weren’t the child slaughterhouses you were claiming. There is a big degree of difference in awful between “Gee, this really sucks” and “They’ve killed hundreds and thousands of children and dumped them in the yard.” Just sayin’.

With as ghastly and wild as the accusations have been, surely there would be a tiny femur or digit…

Two years ago, ground-penetrating radar (GPR) surveys revealed what were said to be mass burial sites near or on the grounds of numerous former ‘residential schools’. These schools were set up at the end of the 19th century to educate Inuit and First Nations children, in order to assimilate them into Canadian society. Undoubtedly, many indigenous children were mistreated in residential schools, but mass killings had never been alleged before.

…This is just the latest in a series of excavations of alleged burial sites at one-time residential schools. They have been undertaken at the former Mohawk school in Brantford, the former Shubenacadie Indian Residential School in Nova Scotia, the Charles Camsell Hospital in Edmonton and the Kuper Island Residential School in British Columbia. And they have all failed to unearth a single unmarked grave. This really ought to call into question the whole narrative of mass slaughter at Canada’s residential schools.

There has certainly been no shortage of people over the past two years willing to speculate about the number of indigenous children that were supposedly killed in residential schools. In June 2021, after the first claims of unmarked graves emerged, Murray Sinclair, former chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), said the residential-school death toll ‘could be in the 15,000-to-25,000 range’. Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, director of the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at the University of British Columbia, called it a ‘genocide’.

…and they’ve got bupkiss.

This entire episode is unconscionable, revolting, and disgraceful. It wasn’t a rush to judgement based on flimsy evidence – it was a high tech lynching of history and a simultaneous extortionary exercise based on NO evidence other than grievance politics.

…“I don’t like to use the word hoax because it’s too strong but there are also too many falsehoods circulating about this issue with no evidence,” Jacques Rouillard, a professor emeritus in the Department of History at the Université de Montréal, told The Post Wednesday.

…“This has all been very dark for Canada. We need more excavations so we can know the truth,” Rouillard said.

“Too much was said and decided upon before there was any proof.”

There is no gainsaying the fact that there were abuses – I’m sure awful ones sometimes – committed throughout those schools. Those are documented. They’re not burying that history and it will be remembered along with everything else. And it’s not to say researchers still won’t uncover some unmarked graves at one of these sites – I mean, what are the odds? It’s well over 100 years ago. But these disgusting, hyped up fantasies of mass slaughter and neglect for public consumption have so far been proven to be nothing more than collective hysteria.

What doesn’t need to happen is exactly what happened – a license to lie and exaggerate for effect, when there are no facts in evidence, zero documentation, no one is making the slightest effort to obtain hard evidence, and people whose property bears no blame for any of the alleged horror gets destroyed thanks to the nakedly political rhetoric of all the parties involved.

What a disgrace.