• Re: [OT] City Councillor docked two years pay for questioning mass graves at residential school

    From The Horny Goat@lcraver@home.ca to rec.arts.tv on Sun May 24 10:53:42 2026
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    On Sun, 3 May 2026 16:25:44 -0400, Rhino
    <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

    My world works the same way. We have more than enough archeological
    skill these days to do a first class job of seeing what those
    "anomalies" are and do so in a way that respects the indigenous
    traditions. That might very well strengthen Indian claims about
    residential schools and give them more ammunition for court cases as
    well as more "victim points" for the Woke crowd. The fact that they're >blocking any attempt to verify that these are in fact bodies undermines >their own position and pisses off people like us who suspect we're being >played. It only makes sense if there were never any bodies there in the >first place.

    I was under the impression that nearly all of the residential school
    claims had been settled by 2000-2005.

    Do you know of any still pending? Because the "bodies" "found" by
    radar were subsequent to that.

    I know we have a Catholic high school about 5 miles from where I live
    that is located on the edge of the nearest reserve but was almost
    entirely NON-residential since it was less than 1/2 mile from the most
    densely populated area of the local reserve - and that when they
    brought the ground radar crews in the band council insisted they NOT
    scan a particular small area which is where several nuns were buried.

    (And as the school expanded and they started using non "holy orders"
    teachers the area of the grounds that had been the adjacent convent
    contracted. Today it is just a standard Catholic high school with a
    larger than usual portion of native kids attending)

    https://aquinas.org/
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  • From Rhino@no_offline_contact@example.com to rec.arts.tv on Sun May 24 16:09:28 2026
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    On 2026-05-24 1:53 p.m., The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Sun, 3 May 2026 16:25:44 -0400, Rhino
    <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

    My world works the same way. We have more than enough archeological
    skill these days to do a first class job of seeing what those
    "anomalies" are and do so in a way that respects the indigenous
    traditions. That might very well strengthen Indian claims about
    residential schools and give them more ammunition for court cases as
    well as more "victim points" for the Woke crowd. The fact that they're
    blocking any attempt to verify that these are in fact bodies undermines
    their own position and pisses off people like us who suspect we're being
    played. It only makes sense if there were never any bodies there in the
    first place.

    I was under the impression that nearly all of the residential school
    claims had been settled by 2000-2005.

    Do you know of any still pending? Because the "bodies" "found" by
    radar were subsequent to that.

    I have no idea if the residential schools claims have all been settled.
    It's not something I followed very closely.
    I know we have a Catholic high school about 5 miles from where I live
    that is located on the edge of the nearest reserve but was almost
    entirely NON-residential since it was less than 1/2 mile from the most densely populated area of the local reserve - and that when they
    brought the ground radar crews in the band council insisted they NOT
    scan a particular small area which is where several nuns were buried.

    (And as the school expanded and they started using non "holy orders"
    teachers the area of the grounds that had been the adjacent convent contracted. Today it is just a standard Catholic high school with a
    larger than usual portion of native kids attending)

    https://aquinas.org/
    --
    Rhino
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