(LifeSiteNews) — A well-known independent Canadian media outlet says streaming giant Spotify has removed an episode of one of its popular shows that discussed Canada’s government-mandated and run Indigenous residential schools, citing it as “dangerous content.”
In an official statement, as noted by True North, concerning its popular The Faulkner Show, Spotify said that upon “review” of the show, the streaming service “removed the following content for violating Spotify’s Platform Rules for Dangerous Content.”
There was no explanation given for what was the dangerous content” in the show, as per True North.
The episode of The Faulkner Show featured an interview with Rodney Clifton, who used to work at a now-closed residential school. In particular, the episode had Clifton argue that “historical narratives surrounding residential schools have been distorted by far-left activists,” as per True North.
As noted by Clifton in the episode, which is still available to watch on YouTube, there were “good and bad things that happened in residential schools.”
“And the good has been out-shouted by the claims of bad and people who are getting money for saying bad things,” he said.
Clifton said that he doubts the official narrative of the legacy media and governments that there are multiple mass graves sites located at former residential school locations.
“I don’t think there’s any children that have been murdered and buried in schoolyards,” he observed.
In 2021 and 2022, the mainstream media ran, backed by the federal government, with inflammatory and dubious claims that hundreds of children were buried and disregarded by Catholic priests and nuns who ran some of the schools.
Since the spring of 2021, more than 100 churches, most of them Catholic, have been burned or vandalized across Canada. The attacks on churches came shortly after the unconfirmed discovery of “unmarked graves” at now-closed residential schools once run by the Church in parts of the country.
As reported by LifeSiteNews in August, the federal cabinet of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said it will expand a multimillion-dollar fund that is geared toward documenting thus far unfounded claims that hundreds of young children died at now-closed residential schools, some of them run by the Catholic Church.
The Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation was more or less the reason there was a large international outcry in 2021 when it claimed it had found 215 “unmarked graves” of kids at the Kamloops Residential School. The claims of remains, however, were not backed by physical evidence but were rather disturbances in the soil picked up by ground-penetrating radar.
The First Nation now has changed its claim of 215 graves to 200 “potential burials.”
As reported by LifeSiteNews, Trudeau as recently as June again falsely stated that “unmarked graves” were discovered at former residential schools.
Canadian indigenous residential schools, while run by both the Catholic Church and other Christian churches, were mandated and set up by the federal government and ran from the late 19th century until the last school closed in 1996.
While there were indeed some Catholics who committed serious abuses against native children, the unproved “mass graves” narrative has led to widespread anti-Catholic sentiment since 2021.