Interim Leader of OneBC. MLA Vancouver-Quilchena. Proud mom of twin girls.
Mar 7 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Alleged Graves ‘Confidential’ (Blacklock's Report, March 6, 2026)
The Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations has censored as “confidential” its files on what a Kamloops B.C. Indian Band did with $12.1 million paid to recover alleged graves of Indian Residential School children. The Kamloops Band acknowledged February 18 it never exhumed any remains.
The department yesterday released censored reports the Kamloops Band filed regarding work on “missing children.” All details were redacted as confidential.
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The reports date from 2023, two years after Kamloops Indian Band announced its discovery of what it claimed were 215 children’s graves in an orchard. The Kamloops Band at the time had received $8,394,166 of what became a $12.1 million grant to “coordinate engagement, investigation and commemoration activities related to the 215 missing children and burial sites.” /2
Aug 14, 2025 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
BC’s Conservative Party will “keep using UNDRIP” as its guide to reconciliation.
But what is UNDRIP anyways?
Let’s see what the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples actually says and what following it might mean.
Brace yourselves.
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Article 26
Give away all the land that was “owned, occupied or otherwise acquired”. So… That’s all the land.
Haida and Cowichan? Just the beginning.
All. The. Land. 2/
Aug 8, 2025 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Silly “settlers”, you thought that you owned your homes? A British Columbia judge just decided that you don’t. Aboriginal title has been declared over private property in Richmond. Are you awake yet? 1/
The case was brought by the Cowichan Tribes to claim title over fee simple lands within Richmond.
This one case cost many millions of dollars. Dozens of lawyers took up over 500 days of court time. 2/
Mar 9, 2025 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
In 2021, the Kamloops Indian Band claimed the bodies of 215 children lay in unmarked graves at a former residential school. They received over $12 million to investigate. Yet, no remains have been found.
Where did the money go? /1
Largely to consultants. An access-to-information request reveals the band council hired at least 25 consultants and publicists. Not one excavation has occurred.
