The Great Canadian Mass Graves Hoax

215 shoes were laid around the statue of Egerton Ryerson at Ryerson University. (Shawn Goldberg via Getty Images)
Why so many journalists embraced a story as "true" even though it wasn't real.
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Last year, The New York Times dropped a bombshell headline: ‘Horrible History’: Mass Grave of Indigenous Children Reported in Canada. As other outlets picked up the shocking story, marches, protests and riots erupted across Canada. One former Canadian minister called it “Canada’s George Floyd moment.”
But according to veteran journalist Terry Glavin, the…
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