Another week, another church burned to the ground in Canada
Another church burned to the ground, this time in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, on Truth and Reconciliation Day. That's well over 100 Canadian churches vandalized or torched. If they were mosques, it would be national news. Instead, silence.
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Article by Rebel News staff.
Tonight on The Ezra Levant Show: another Christian church in a prairie town of 5,000 has burned to its foundations. It went up on Truth and Reconciliation Day. The courthouse sits across the street. The RCMP detachment is a couple hundred yards down the road.
The All Saints Orthodox Church in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, was built by Ukrainian settlers and dates to 1958. Police discovered the fire around 2 a.m. By then, the building was already consumed. A day and a half later, only scraps of wall are left standing. That same day, members of the community had been repainting the front steps, sprucing the place up.
Yellow police tape still rings the site. That suggests investigators are treating the ruins as a crime scene, or at least haven't closed the file. Rebel News has written to the police and the fire chief asking whether they believe this was arson. Neither has answered yet.
Meadow Lake borders the Flying Dust reserve. White and Indigenous neighbours have lived side by side here for more than a century. In the hours after the fire, locals came by the ruins, almost to pay their respects. Several were Indigenous. One couple said they had never attended the church. They still believed it was arson. Many of the churches burned in recent years served Indigenous congregants too. A couple of other churches nearby were untouched. Why this one? Nobody knows.
It isn't the area's first. In 2022, Meadow Lake RCMP called a church fire on Waterhen Lake First Nation suspicious. In September 2024, St. George Anglican Church in Loon Lake, built in 1939, burned to the ground. A man was later charged with arson.
Then there's the timing. This fire came on Truth and Reconciliation Day, the one day a year when churches are most loudly blamed for genocide. Could it be random? Sure. There is no public evidence yet of who lit the match. But the political climate is on the record. Gerald Butts, Justin Trudeau's former right-hand man, once called church burnings "understandable." If residential schools are framed as genocide and churches as accomplices, arson stops being an outrage. It becomes expected theatre.
Canada has now seen well over 100 churches vandalized, partly burned or levelled to the foundation. Call it what it is: a slow-motion pogrom against Christians. Synagogues have faced their own slow-motion Kristallnacht. But imagine 100 mosques torched. It would lead every newscast. There would be a joint task force of RCMP, CSIS and local police. The prime minister would hold press conferences.
Instead, silence. The CBC, probably the only mainstream outlet with local reach up here, ran nothing. The local paper and a couple of independents ran small mentions. The political class said nothing at all.
The pattern runs coast to coast. In Saint-Simon, New Brunswick, a community of a few hundred, a local man who had attended the church his whole life has been arrested and charged with arson. He allegedly filmed himself burning it. He is said to have been radicalized among self-described Indigenous warriors in British Columbia before coming home to do it. Rebel News reporter Alexa Lavoie has been covering that case closely.
Then there's the Google problem. Search the name of the Meadow Lake church and the first hit is a different All Saints Ukrainian Orthodox church, in rural Alberta. Unrelated. Also torched. People from the nearby reserve were charged. That's how tall the pile of burned churches has grown. Search for one and you find another.
Churches in towns like Meadow Lake are not just places to pray. They are the daycare, the school, the concert hall. They host the weddings, the funerals, the coming-of-age rites. Seventy years of that civic life vanished overnight. It died without a funeral.
That's why Rebel News goes to every church burning in Canada. The rest of the media won't. Getting to Meadow Lake meant a flight from Toronto to Saskatoon, then a rental car north. Seven hours each way. To follow Rebel's church-fire reports and chip in for the travel, go to SaveOurChurches.ca.
Truth and reconciliation, honestly pursued, means finding out what really happened at the residential schools. Some atrocities did occur, as they have at religious and secular boarding schools elsewhere. But truth does not mean laundering every abuse into a uniquely Canadian genocide. It does not mean comparing those schools to the murder of six million Jews, as activists have done in recent weeks.
The record is more complicated than the official line. The Cold Lake band once petitioned the government for a residential school so its children could learn the skills of the modern world. One senior Alberta lawyer has said that without his residential school, he never would have become a lawyer. Yet a man who wore a T-shirt asking for evidence of the Kamloops mass-graves claim was fired and humiliated. That isn't testing a claim. That's enforcing one.
Nor does the "racist Canada" story fit the history. Canada was part of the British Empire that abolished the slave trade in 1807. It was the end of the line on the Underground Railroad. Grafting George Floyd-era cultural Marxism onto that history isn't reconciliation. It's permanent division along racial lines.
You can condemn arson and condemn violence against Indigenous people in the same breath. What you can't do is call church burnings understandable. Not while All Saints sits behind yellow tape. Not when it burned on the very day churches are most loudly blamed. Whoever did this is evil. The hope is it wasn't political terrorism timed to Truth and Reconciliation Day.
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Michael Guillery commented 2026-10-05 22:29:41 -0400 FlagInteresting how negative treatment of First Nations is pushed. However, that treatment is not the full story. Actual (real) Christians respected and uplifted First Nations. Also note these points. The First Nations did not manage most of the land. Secondly, they often savagely warred with one another. Thirdly, their women and children were treated as chattels. In other words, their history is not so different to that of other civilizations, some of which still live far below true Christian values. -
Lizabeth Sawyer commented 2026-10-05 21:27:38 -0400 Flag“Truth” seems to be missing from Truth and Reconciliation Day. But why should any Canadian be surprised? This day arose from the New Communist Party of Canada (previously known as the Liberal Party) In fact it seems like truth runs off the backs of Liberals and Leftists like water off off a duck.
