Michael Melanson, Author at IRSRG

Gaslighters Unanimous

According to the editors, Sean Carleton and Niigaan Sinclair, "Residential school denialism is on the rise … and has been growing in intensity after t…

Michael Melanson

October 7, 2026

Who’s Afraid of Frances Widdowson: Fear and Loathing in Graverland

Last week, McNally Robinson Booksellers in Winnipeg held a launch for a newly published book co-edited by Niigaan Sinclair and Sean Carleton, Truth Be…

Michael Melanson

October 2, 2026

When the Echo Chamber Becomes a Bunker

This article was originally posted April 7, 2026 on the Pax Humanitas Substack. It has been republished with the author’s permission. In yet anoth…

Michael Melanson

April 24, 2026

Orange Is The New Brown Shirt

This article was originally published on Michael Melanson's substack Pax Humanitas. It has been republished with the author's permission. When frie…

Michael Melanson

October 4, 2025

The 215 Children’s Remains Found Claim: Was It a Hoax?

The 215 Children’s Remains Found Claim: Was It a Hoax? Memorial at former Kamloops Indian Residential School c. June 2021 (Credits: NPR.org). Th…

Michael Melanson

November 14, 2024

Sites of Truth, Sites of Conscience: the Special Interlocutor’s Historical Report

Originally published by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. It has been republished with permission. The Office of the Special Interlocutor …

Michael Melanson

July 17, 2024

Dowsing for Dollars: Is the International Commission on Missing Persons burying its brand in Canada’s hoax of the century?

Dowsing For Dollars: Is the International Commission on Missing Persons burying its brand in Canada's hoax of the century? ICMP Director-General Kath…

Michael Melanson

May 23, 2024

The Blue Quills Alleged “Communal Grave”: A Case of Premature Inference?

Sacred Heart Indian Residential School (also known as Blue Quills) at Saddle Lake, 1926. The school operated near Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta b…

Michael Melanson

February 8, 2024

Building a Canadian Blood Libel, Part 3: Convicting Canada

Read Part 2 Here. In her interim report, Special Interlocutor for Missing Children in Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites Associated with Indian Resid…

Michael Melanson

September 11, 2023

Building a Canadian Blood Libel, Part 2: Kimberly Murray

Find Part 1 here. Where Kevin Annett strikes an absurd and often unhinged figure in the residential school discourse, Kimberly Murray presents hers…

Michael Melanson

September 7, 2023