(This story may be triggering for some readers. The Indian Residential School Survivors Society can be reached at 1-800-721-0066 and there’s a 24-hour crisis line at 1-866-925-4419.)
B.C.’s largest university is receiving blowback over an upcoming livestreamed event.
UBC Students for Freedom of Expression plans to host a panel discussion with filmmaker and former Rebel Media worker Lauren Southern, Republic of Kanata convener Kevin Annett, and George Brown, who’s identified as a residential-school survivor on the club’s Facebook page.
It’s being promoted on the group’s YouTube channel as “An Honest Conversation on Canadian Residential School and Mass Graves”.
Southern created a film called “The Canadian Mass Grave Hoax”, which is available on YouTube.
Her appearance on the panel has led to a call for anyone associated with UBC to register their opposition with the UBC’s president’s office.
Tagging: @politicsofcanada
Update: UBC reviewed it, said it wasn’t anyone there who booked it, and cancelled it.
Also I am very glad the Strait’s article called out all the widely-available information she ignored with her bullshit.