And to be clear, I don't agree with the Globe and Mail saying the unmarked graves are an "extraordinary assertion" - because it is explained fairly well in the research how there came to be so many unmarked graves, for anyone who cares to look into that research.
But that's the assertion they mean.
![The editorial, titled “There is no reconciliation without truth,” starts by acknowledging the thousands of confirmed deaths of Indigenous children at residential schools, as well as the serious crimes committed by church and school employees. But its main argument is that no “mass grave” was discovered at Kamloops and no bodies have been exhumed. This, to be clear, is not what the Nation announced in May 2021. Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc shared preliminary findings from a ground-penetrating radar survey identifying approximately 200 targets of interest consistent with possible burials, while stressing that its investigation was ongoing. The Nation did not announce the discovery of a “mass grave.”
Nevertheless, the Globe felt the need to offer a mea culpa in its recent editorial: “The media, including the Globe and Mail, did not initially scrutinize, much less challenge, that [mass grave] assertion.” It goes on to conclude: “Perhaps it will be proven, some day, that there are hundreds of unmarked graves at Kamloops. But it was not proven to be true in May, 2021… It is not proven to be true today… Reconciliation must be founded on the truth, wherever it leads.”
Source: https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/putting-truth-and-respect-before-reconciliation](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4od47dvjgrd72dzdj5nahlzh/bafkreicz3wtp5yjclnbc76f4nkowgipxnnxiqk65ag5pwwi55qig2yuylq)
![CBC Lite
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Ukrainian officials say they dropped four tonnes of food at 100 different locations in the Russian-occupied community of Oleshky, where there are fears that food has become so scarce that residents are resorting to foraging for weeds.
The operation, which involved several Ukrainian military units, was carried out in waves, with drones dropping boxes filled with food and cooking oil throughout the community, according to regional authorities.
Oleshky lies just three kilometres south of the Dnipro River, which forms the front line between Ukrainian forces — who control the city of Kherson and surrounding areas — and Russian forces occupying Ukrainian communities on the left bank of the river.
Before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Oleshky had a population of about 20,000. Today, Ukrainian officials estimate that about 6,000 people remain in the city and surrounding area, including approximately 200 children.
"This [aid] will give people the opportunity to live there for up to a month," Oleksandr Tolokonnikov, deputy head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration, said in an interview with CBC News. But he warned that the solution could be short-lived.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4od47dvjgrd72dzdj5nahlzh/bafkreiaeyeaqbndallunm5qoe2n2tresu7eyfiyhxdnvy5ucydw7t66fde)
![[Highlighted:] "Confronting the reality of how shit things are can really bowl you over."
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AA: Talk about your feelings and how coming to terms with your feelings was critical to arrive at these new insights and to move forward with your new plan.
TM: When I realized the things I’ve just said—that we were defeated, the climate movement was defeated, the climate catastrophe was coming—I fell into a deep, deep depression. And in that sense, it’s a warning to people. The path I’m suggesting has its pitfalls. Confronting the reality of how shit things are can really bowl you over. And one important point is: do that with other people.
I’ll tell you when the turning point came for me, when I found meaning in catastrophe. It was in the autumn of 2000, when at a Pride March, a steward was attacked and beaten to death by a right-wing assailant. That was a deeply shocking moment. And out of that came this idea that, okay, no matter how catastrophic things are, if the fascists are attacking my community, I want to organize the self-defense of my community. Fighting Nazis to defend my community is not an idea that gives me happiness or joy, but it gives me meaning and a function. It tells me who I’m gonna be when that shit happens. It isn’t the sense that we’re gonna win all these struggles, but that in these struggles I know who I will be, or who I want to be, and with whom I will be there.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4od47dvjgrd72dzdj5nahlzh/bafkreigchkinb5kux7kgkylm7sv7qx2lbknfkctwbsc62r3dcugnq5ycci)
