Five years have now passed since the breathless announcement that more than 200 unmarked graves had been discovered at a “residential school” for Native American children in Canada. The liberal media, followed closely by liberal politicians, demanded that the Vatican apologize for this outrage. Irate demonstrators burned down Catholic churches.

Then… silence. Those sensational reports were not confirmed. Canadian government officials allocated large sums to investigate the outrage. Still… silence. To this date not one unmarked grave has been confirmed.

The Toronto Globe and Mail, which was in the forefront of the campaign to vilify the Catholic Church, now cautiously laments the failure to conduct archeological digs on the site of the alleged discovery, saying: “Five years on and with few concrete answers, a loud contingent of skeptics and denialists have [sic] grown.”

How loud is that contingent? Not loud enough to get much ink in the Globe and Mail— or for that matter in the New York Times, which also uncritically trumpeted the sensational claims.

And what is a denialist? Someone who remains unconvinced of a phenomenon for which zero evidence has been presented?