Canadas mass-graves scam reveals the high price of media bias

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. The statement claimed the remains of 215 children had been found with the help of an expert using ground-penetrating radar.“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 story is finally admitting it.Even now Canada’s biggest daily paper, The Globe and Mail, phrases its retraction in cagey terms.“There has been no public confirmation of the discovery of any human remains,” the paper conceded on Saturday.Yet that funny phrasing leaves one wondering, is there private confirmation of human remains — another “knowing,” perhaps?The Globe and Mail editorial, titled “There is no reconciliation without truth,” is a masterpiece of embarrassed equivocation, lamenting conditions at Canada’s residential schools of First Nations children and even insisting that the absence of bodies “does not mean children did not die there” before finally, eight paragraphs into the story, taking a smidgen of responsibility.“The media, including the The Globe and Mail, did not initially scrutinize, much less...