If people can contact The Academy, various media outlets - your own local ones and national here and in the US, and share these articles it would help. Post these on your social media. It's really maddening now because this is awards season, so their hype is really taking off. However, we must try. It would help it Roman Catholic groups would speak out as well. Get hold of JD Vance - I believe he is a Catholic. Thank you for wanting to do something!! :)
Do you object to being quoted? I have already sent objections to SD61 about the orange shirt book and Downie and Boyden's (how disappointing) book. I have grandchildren who will be entering the school system in the next couple of years and want to do what I can.
No problem at all! Like most people, when school trustees etc see names like "National Geographic" on something, it sounds like a high integrity show filled with facts - it is astounding to realize no one ever fact-checked it. Was it laziness, fear of being called racist, or intentional? We may never know.
well, NatGeo published a similarly fact-deprived but overly ideological article about the Alberta "tar sands" a few years ago. I cancelled my subscription at that point.
An Indigenous baby is found in a cold incinerator.
The mother left him there.
The father has 17 children.
A film on this true story is made in which the villain is…
a priest.
The mother and father get gobs of praise and government handouts.
The church is disparaged.
THE END
what can we do about this? any suggestions?
If people can contact The Academy, various media outlets - your own local ones and national here and in the US, and share these articles it would help. Post these on your social media. It's really maddening now because this is awards season, so their hype is really taking off. However, we must try. It would help it Roman Catholic groups would speak out as well. Get hold of JD Vance - I believe he is a Catholic. Thank you for wanting to do something!! :)
Also, pls contact your regional and local school divisions as they want to run this film in every school!
Do you object to being quoted? I have already sent objections to SD61 about the orange shirt book and Downie and Boyden's (how disappointing) book. I have grandchildren who will be entering the school system in the next couple of years and want to do what I can.
No problem at all! Like most people, when school trustees etc see names like "National Geographic" on something, it sounds like a high integrity show filled with facts - it is astounding to realize no one ever fact-checked it. Was it laziness, fear of being called racist, or intentional? We may never know.
well, NatGeo published a similarly fact-deprived but overly ideological article about the Alberta "tar sands" a few years ago. I cancelled my subscription at that point.