Editors’ note: Jerome Turner is a celebrated Gitxsan journalist who won the Canadian Association of Journalists’ highest honour, the President’s Award, for his ‘moral courage’ covering RCMP raids on Wet’suwet’en land defenders in 2020. Today, the Union of BC Indian Chiefs condemned a planned event at UBC, calling it an excuse to promote racist misinformation about residential schools. Turner recently hit the road to Kamloops, hot on the trail of the gang of fringe figures holding these events across British Columbia.
And alt-right conservatives continue to openly demonstrate why Canada so desperately needs a well-funded, nation-wide network of mental health sanitariums that can thoroughly protect the wider public from them.