Tag: Reality Check

Justin Trudeau says his ‘heart breaks’ with more Indigenous graves found

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau lays a teddy bear at a small flag at the site of a former residential school where ground-penetrating radar detected a potential 751 unmarked graves, in Cowessess First Nation, Saskatchewan.

Is it any surprise that British Colonial settler territories have so much in common? Australian history with it’s “stolen generations” had very similar experiences even if the specific details differed. However Canada doesn’t have the denialist racist attitudes expressed by the Murdoch media organization when it comes to resisting the re-investigation of their history.

The Kuper Island Indian Industrial School was operated by the Roman Catholic Church from 1890 until 1969, when the federal government took it over. The school was closed in 1975 and the building was demolished in the 1980s.

Source: Justin Trudeau says his ‘heart breaks’ with more Indigenous graves found

This is reality and Trump is real what he says isn’t

Fact check: Trump’s half-truths and false statements at Nato summit | World news | The Guardian

Donald Trump speaks during a press conference on the second day of the Nato summit in Brussels, Belgium, on Thursday.

Here is a list of fact checks on some of the US president’s claims on Thursday:

REALITY CHECK : NOTHING HAPPENED: LIAR”S POKER

Trump: ‘Yesterday I let them know that I was extremely unhappy at what was happening and they have substantially upped their commitment’

Nothing has changed since Trump arrived in Brussels.

Trump: ‘We have a very, very strong Nato, much stronger than it was two days ago’

There is no empirical measure of this claim for increased strength.

via Fact check: Trump’s half-truths and false statements at Nato summit | World news | The Guardian