Major Canadian newspaper acknowledges the falsehood of the allegations regarding mass graves of infants that were leveled against the Catholic Church and led to the burning of churches across the country - ZENIT - English
(ZENIT News / Rome, 06.10.2026).- Five years after headlines around the world announced the discovery of the remains of 215 Indigenous children at the former Kamloops Residential School, Canada finds itself confronting an uncomfortable question: what happens when a narrative embraced by politicians, media outlets, and public institutions moves faster than the evidence?
The question returned to the forefront after The Globe and Mail, one of Canada’s most influential newspapers, published a remarkable editorial acknowledging what it described as a journalistic failure in its coverage of the Kamloops story. The newspaper admitted that media organizations, including its own newsroom, largely failed to scrutinize early claims that ground-penetrating radar surveys had confirmed …