Manchester bombing and Canadian colonialism (E390)

Failed on every level: That’s the verdict from victims’ families of the Manchester bombing, following a 196 page report into the mistakes which led to Salman Abedi killing 22 members of the public and injuring hundreds at an Ariana Grande concert in 2017. The report highlighted inadequate policing, shortcomings in security and insufficient planning by the venue as some of the many failings which led to the atrocity. Security expert, Chris Phillips, says his industry had warned of these security inadequacies for many years, so we invited him on to Sputnik to ask what, if any, lessons have been learned from this inquiry. 

In a grim reminder of Canada’s dark history of colonialism, 215 unmarked graves were discovered last month at Kamloops, a former residential school in British Columbia. Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde says the discovery has “woken the world up” to the cultural genocide that took place against the indigenous peoples, claiming the burial of the children is a “human rights violation of the highest order.” The discovery comes at the same time as a Canadian high school has been slated for asking children to list the benefits of being placed in one of the country’s most notorious residential schools. So, we asked RT’s Alex Mihalovich to tell us more about an education system which sent over 150,000 indigenous children to homes as part of a campaign of forced assimilation.

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