By Alessia Passafiume Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty was noncommittal when asked about criminalizing residential school denialism after a group linked to white nationalism reportedly staged a demonstration in the B.C. interior over the weekend. Roseanne Casimir, chief of Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation, said a group of masked individuals dropped a banner from an overpass in Kamloops, B.C., on Sunday questioning reports of human burials at the former sites of residential schools. The demonstration — which included the display of a banner bearing the message, “Got bones?” — happened just days ahead of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a day to honour the children who attended residential schools and to remember the ones who never came home. “White supremacy will not instil fear in generations of survivors…
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