Article by Rebel News staff.

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On Orange Shirt Day, Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew posted a video from the cemetery of the old Brandon Indian Residential School. "Some bad people today say, 'Show me the graves,'" he said. "Right here."

His government had just announced it bought the land, a private campground, using $1.5 million in provincial money plus $400,000 from the City of Brandon, according to the CBC.

Here are the graves.

This Orange Shirt Day we are returning the Brandon Indian Residential School cemetery grounds to the Sioux Valley Dakota Nation on behalf of many First Nations whose children are buried here.

This is one of the most well documented burial grounds at a… pic.twitter.com/sWJ2vf0Lyg

— Wab Kinew (@WabKinew) September 30, 2026

Ezra Levant didn't mock the grief. More than 25 children died at the school between 1898 and 1906, according to the Manitoba Historical Society. But on Wednesday's Ezra Levant Show, he read the clippings Kinew held up as proof.

A 16-year-old with a lung hemorrhage, for whom the school called a doctor who "at once ordered his horse from the stable." A boy with bronchitis whom the principal sent home to his parents. Janet Tate, 14, whose funeral was officiated by a minister and published in the paper. Joseph Tebow, who died of tuberculosis in a Winnipeg hospital. And Ewert Fiddler, 17, killed by lightning while working a summer job on a farm.

"Not one act of malice, not one suspicious death," Ezra said. In 1901, tuberculosis killed 9,709 Canadians, and one baby in seven died before its first birthday. A 1935 United Church report found four in five children arrived at Brandon already showing signs of TB.

"Nobody, and I mean nobody, has ever said that children didn't die at residential schools," Ezra said.

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The dispute is Kamloops, where the band announced "the confirmation of the remains of 215 children." Flags flew at half-mast for more than five months. Nearly two dozen churches burned in the aftermath. The claim became "200 targets of interest," then "anomalies." 

The band has received millions from Ottawa and has never excavated. Kinew's own release says the Brandon graves were marked in 1970, long before ground-penetrating radar. "That is not a rebuttal," Ezra said. "That is a trick."

Ezra also condemned the masked Second Sons stunt in Kamloops as "rude," "gross" and "cruel," saying it was led by Jeremy MacKenzie, whom he described as an RCMP informant, and designed to discredit good-faith critics. He noted that Mark Carney rushed to condemn it, yet said nothing about antisemitic signs at Bathurst and Sheppard in Toronto, the same corner where Ezra himself was arrested in 2024 while filming a pro-Hamas rally.

Meanwhile, Bill C-254 would allow up to two years in prison for "condoning, denying, downplaying or justifying" the residential school system. Ottawa has launched a $5 million program against "denialism."

And at the University of Calgary, a masked individual doused 82-year-old Dr. Tom Flanagan while he debated students alongside Rebel News reporter Drea Humphrey. "When every grown-up in authority says the question itself is a hate crime, a kid with a water bottle thinks he's the good guy," Ezra said. "Next time it won't be water."

Real abuse happened, and Canada has paid billions in compensation. But the Truth and Reconciliation Commission itself recorded that many students had positive memories, and playwright Tomson Highway called his school years "nine of the happiest years of my life."

Ezra's closing question to viewers: "You tell me what it's called while you're still allowed to."