Some People Are "Special", Redux

How it started:

Millions paid to a British Columbia First Nation to recover suspected children’s graves at an Indian Residential School were instead budgeted for publicists and consultants, documents show. The Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations attempted to conceal the financial records under the Access To Information Act: “We are not seeking to intervene in this matter but are trying to understand.”

How it's going:

A First Nation that announced its discovery of children’s graves at a Residential School has sought tens of millions in federal grants including the cost of building a national shrine at Kamloops, B.C. The requests followed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s 2021 pledge to “make amends” though no human remains have been recovered to date: “The department is ready to flow funds.”