BC Mayor Censured, Stripped of Budget Over Book on Residential Schools

Published on May 3, 2024

A mayor in British Columbia has seen his travel budget removed along with being banned from committees after allegedly distributing a book on residential schools that criticizes the media response to alleged unmarked graves linked to residential schools in Kamloops and elsewhere. Quesnel Mayor Ron Paull was accused of attempting to hand out copies of the book “Grave Error: How the Media Misled Us (and the Truth about Residential Schools)” by Thomas Flanagan and C.P. Champion. The book, which contains a series of essays, is critical of the media’s response to the announcement of the discovery of the alleged grave sites in May 2021....

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