Sam

This is a map of all the residential schools in Canada:

[link to the article it’s attached to, it’s interactable there, so you can get a better look around]

Each dot on this map represents a residential school. Blue dots mean the school is considered completely searched. Yellow dots mean they are either in the process of being searched or there are plans to be searched. Red dots indicate that no search has happened and that no search is currently planned

There were more than 130 residential schools in Canada. This map suggests that only six have been fully searched, and a little more than a dozen partially searched (I counted 15 yellow dots). That leaves at least 109 schools completely untouched.

Let that sink in; if 6,000-7,000 unmarked, indigenous children’s graves were found by searching less than a fifth of all the schools, how many are still undiscovered.

Wikipedia estimates that the body count could be over 50,000, and honestly, that could be a low estimate

Some examples:

Grabbing a mobility device (wheelchair, cane, walker, etc) without permission is assault.

Pushing someone’s wheelchair without permission is kidnapping.

Service dog teams are not required to carry any paperwork or certificates with them.

It’s also a good time to look at laws that need to be changed or better enforced:

People on disability income cannot get married without losing their benefits.

People on disability income cannot have more than $2000, including property value (my $300 mattress counts against it), which means they cannot save money if they don’t know about ABLE accounts.

Airlines habitually break the law by mistreating passengers’ wheelchairs.

Accessible construction is still considered an afterthought rather than a cornerstone of design. And no matter what construction companies say, it’s only more expensive to be accessible if you’re tearing up existing features to add ramps and such later, rather than doing it from the get-go.

Disabled people are routinely murdered by doctors who determine that they have no “quality of life” and are better off dead.