Quillette Podcast

Canada’s Unmarked-Graves Social Panic (2021-26) Explained

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Show Notes

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay discusses the underlying societal factors that caused his country's journalists, politicians, and academics to uncritically accept false claims that the bodies of 215 Indigenous children had been found on the grounds of a former school. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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