For those who have not heard of the fog-bank that has obscured the Fiat Lux motto1 — Let there be light — of the University of Lethbridge (and to be fair, much of academia worldwide), it's worth a look at this classic example of gas-fogging with DARVO2 from the University of Lethbridge, February 4th, 2026.
You've never heard of DARVO!? In short, DARVO3 is a tactic where an offender or offenders who might face consequences for bad behavior vigorously deny "the bad" and attack the victim of their behavior in a concerted campaign to reverse victim and offender in their own minds and in the minds of any observer.
Thus the calm, reasoning, but stubborn Frances Widdowson who visited the University of Lethbridge on invitation from an emeritus ULeth professor to debate him and any other believer in the Residential School4 genocide narrative was surrounded for many hours by a cacophonous rabble who had no interest in hearing or letting others hear anything that did not affirm their belief in the mass graves claim that to date has no evidence to sustain it.5
So much for fiat lux for the administration and students who knee-jerked at “triggering” descriptions of Widdowson’s presence on campus. To their credit, the majority of the ULeth student-body did not join the noisome fray, but how revelatory of academia that so few had the courage or fool-hardiness to question the imposed narrative.6
Frances Widdowson, a former (censored, fired) professor at MRU-Calgary, uses a strategy called Spectrum Street Epistemology7 designed to rationally debate controversial issues in an endeavour to arrive at truth and to counter the pervasive “closing of the academic mind.” One of those controversies that Widdowson has become known for is questioning the Residential School mass grave narrative that was adjudged and promulgated by (to put it bluntly):
• devotees and servitors of planned polarization8 (including the MSM & gov’t. officials9);Yes, there have been many offences and admissions of early “cultural genocide” or attempts thereat over the years, but this latest shift to physical genocide with mass graves has been spread and believed without evidence12 and, perhaps more importantly, without comparative evidence of child deaths at residential schools vis-à-vis non-residential child deaths on reservations over the same period. The damage to Canada's reputation by these unproven allegations has been enormous.
• many psy-oped, guilt-ridden, or virtue-signaling descendants of “white colonialists”; and
• some indigenous10 members & tribes too ready to adopt “black thinking”11 about Residential Schools.
Too date, after nearly five years of claims, funding, and “investigation,” the Residential School mass graves' narrative remains unverified — i.e., no actual remains or skeletons from mass graves of any kind — just belief and affirming hope that there must be evidence; although some tribal leaders are slowly backing away from mass grave claims, yet without apology or global retraction.13
Perhaps it is time for academia to cease teaching and affirming black-and-white thinking where they castigate colonial history and romanticize all things indigenous. Fiat lux looks at both the good and the bad in every history when seeking truth. Black-and-white thinking does not advance fiat lux — "Let there be light.” It is divisive, abusive, and riddled with falsehoods, justifications, and DARVO. No group or people or history is all black or all white. We are flawed humans whatever our skin colour, heritage, or culture. Native elites and non-elite natives alike are as susceptible to corruption, complicity, compromise, ego, greed, self-deception, manipulation, abusive behavior, self-service, etc., etc., as every non-native is. Human nature is ethnic blind. Looking 360° is not hate speech; however, speech or action that obstructs fiat lux is. There are many noble, honorable indigenous men and women who know the good, the bad and the ugly of their history. They know the prevalence and wounds of conflict: whether white on native, native on white, native on native, or tribe on tribe. Truth seekers want the truth, warts and all.
For the most part, history has been brutal at some time or other for every group. We can acknowledge and grieve for the crimes and sins of the past without being forced to accept beliefs and narratives without proof.
Professors who promote "black and white" ideology are servitors of Fiat Tenebris / Tenebrae — Let there be dark / darkness. How many indigenous would ULeth allow to speak freely in classrooms if they said that not all residential schools were horrible — that some parents desired the schools and that some “survivors” have good and grateful memories of their residential school days. This in no way says that bad things didn't happen. They did, but good things also happened. To deny the good is not “Truth and Reconciliation”; and is not Fiat Lux.
How many professors or students do you allow the freedom to say what they think and see that differs from the authorized narrative? How many are free to criticize indigenous elites that administer their reservations? How many are allowed to talk about the living conditions on many reservations? Or the amount of money that flows to improving conditions that do not get improved? Let noble, honorable indigenous leaders and students come forward to petition for rational, honorable debate about this and other divisive controversies.
And please, ULethbridge, quit gas-fogging yourselves, your students, and the public. Apologize for the February 4 DARVO. How can you possibly hold up Fiat Lux when you delibertly triggered reactive, disrespectful, censoring confrontations?
Perhaps as a test of your Fiat Lux, ULeth could take-up full spectrum thinking by viewing these two recent documentaries and then holding Spectrum Street Epistemology sessions exploring the Lux and the Tenebris:
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Making a Killing: FULL DOCUMENTARY FILM
(Making a Killing | Dec 2, 2025 | Time 1:21:11 min.) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSRn8BzpvLc&t=75s
FULL DOCUMENTARY: The Real History of Slavery
(Matt Walsh | Feb 18, 2026 | Time 44:03 minutes) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UivhqdhcHNI&t=2373s
1. Fiat Lux – Let there be Light
2. Doxxing the Mockery of Fiat Lux at
https://moc-n-dox.blogspot.com/2026/02/doxxing-mockery-of-fiat-lux.html
3. ● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO
DARVO (an acronym for "Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender") is a reaction that perpetrators of wrongdoing, such as abusers or sexual offenders, may display in response to being held accountable for their behavior.[1] Research indicates that it is a common manipulation strategy of psychological abusers.[2][3][4]
Process
DARVO is a tactic used by a perpetrator to avoid accountability for their actions.[5] As the acronym suggests, DARVO commonly involves these steps:
1. The perpetrator denies the harm or abuse ever took place.[6]
2. When confronted with evidence, the perpetrator then attacks the person that they had harmed, or are still harming. The attacker may also attack the victim's family or friends.[7]
3. Finally, the perpetrator claims that they were or are actually the victim in the situation, thus reversing the positions of victim and offender.[2][4] It often involves not just playing the victim but also victim blaming.[3]
● https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/DARVO
Etymology
Acronym of “Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender”. Coined by Jennifer J. Freyd in “Violations of power, adaptive blindness, and betrayal trauma theory” (1997), Feminism & Psychology.
These tactics are similar to other techniques used by perpetrators to avoid accountability by manipulating observers' perceptions of events
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_system
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/timeline/residential-schools
5. • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXjUGLwQDaI (Sept 7, 2023)
No Human Remains Found in Canada's "Mass Graves" | EWTN News Nightly
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVB6EeyJhBU (OANN May 13, 2024)
$8 Million to Prove Canadian Mass Graves Hoax... Is a Hoax! No Bodies Found
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd062L8YZOU (Feb 20, 2025)
Behind Canada’s ‘moral panic’ around suspected graves at residential schools
• https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/03/07/will-the-myth-of-canadas-mass-graves-ever-die/
Will the myth of Canada’s ‘mass graves’ ever die?
There is still no evidence that thousands of indigenous children were dumped in unmarked graves.
6. Denialism
• https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/residential-school-denialism-explainer-1.7485959
• https://beyond.ubc.ca/8-ways-to-confront-residential-school-denialism/
• https://www.bcafn.ca/news/fnlc-calls-canada-prioritize-legislation-create-legal-protections-against-residential-school
• https://theconversation.com/confronting-residential-schools-denialism-is-an-ethical-and-shared-canadian-responsibility-265127
Example of one who would listen:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3sz4fuOmew&t=41s
Spectrum Street Epistemology at the University of Lethbridge: Residential School Genocide?
(Frances Widdowson | Feb 8, 2026 | Time 20:32 min.)
On February 4, 2026, Frances Widdowson had a fantastic #SpectrumStreetEpistemology session with a student from the University of Lethbridge. Widdowson was intending to do the session with University of Lethbridge Professor Emeritus Tony Hall, but university administrators notified numerous faculty and students about Widdowson's presence and a mob shut down the discussion with loud drumming. Some students showed Widdowson signs saying that they "hope your ears bleed".
7. Spectrum Street Epistemology
• https://www.streetepistemology.com/
Street Epistemology is a conversational approach that helps people critically reflect on the quality of their reasoning through thoughtful, civil conversations. It offers a novel yet accessible way for nearly anyone who wants to explore their own or others’ beliefs while prioritizing autonomy, authenticity, accuracy, and attentiveness.
• https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Street_Epistemology
Street Epistemology is a reasoned conversation about the basis for belief.
More formally described, Street Epistemology is a conversational tool that helps people reflect on the quality of their reasons and the reliability of the methods used to derive one's confidence level in their deeply-held beliefs.[1]
An epistemology is a way of knowing. Street Epistemology (SE) applies Socratic methods to explore questions of belief. It explores the basis we have for the beliefs we hold.
SE is a practice. It is a collection of skills and techniques that you can apply during sincere conversations to explore important topics and discover new insights. While your objectives may differ, Street Epistemology is generally used to understand a claim (generally a proposition), identify the actual reasons and reliability of the methods used to support the claim, and determine if one's confidence in the claim is justified.
• The Official YouTube Channel of Street Epistemology
https://www.youtube.com/c/streetepistemology
• https://www.streetepistemologyinternational.org/
• https://faithandselfdefense.com/2018/04/27/street-epistemology-basic-tactics-part-one/
• https://www.facebook.com/StreetEpistemology/
• https://conversational-leadership.net/street-epistemology/
• https://boghossian.substack.com/p/how-to-play-spectrum-street-epistemology
“Spectrum Street Epistemology (SSE) is an engaging, non-threatening way to understand the reasons people have for their beliefs and to help them calibrate the confidence in those beliefs to the reasons they have for believing. This brief video will explain how to host an SSE event.”
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3FZMvelAKw
“Philosopher Peter Boghossian leads a live Street Epistemology session with conference attendees, demonstrating how to have productive conversations across disagreement. In this interactive workshop, participants physically position themselves on a spectrum from "strongly agree" to "strongly disagree" on claims related to gender ideology.“
8. https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2024/11/planned-polarization-way-of-history.html
9. Pro-belief / reporting concerning mass graves
• https://yellowheadinstitute.org/2022/residential-school-graves-canadas-slow-genocide-the-international-criminal-court/ | May 4, 2022 | by Selen Kazan
• https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/canada-residential-schools-indigenous-children-unmarked-graves-m0x5vm6p0?
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The buried horrors of Canada’s residential schools
The discovery of more than a thousand unmarked graves at former schools for indigenous children has rocked the nation. Sarah Baxter speaks to former pupils about the terrible abuse they suffered
• https://www.thetimes.com/world/canada-world/article/dozens-of-unmarked-graves-found-at-another-canadian-boarding-school-for-indigenous-children-bm7kkh607?gclsrc=aw.ds&&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=21336839644&adgroupid=&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=&utm_term=&gad_source=5&gad_campaignid=21334289028&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3e3SzNvykgMVGhqtBh3PbyWaEAAYASAAEgJL-_D_BwE
• https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2021/07/01/more-graves-are-found-at-canadian-schools-for-the-indigenous?utm_medium=cpc.adword.pd&utm_source=google&ppccampaignID=18798097116&ppcadID=&utm_campaign=a.22brand_pmax&utm_content=conversion.direct-response.anonymous&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=5&gad_campaignid=18804755252&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3e3SzNvykgMVGhqtBh3PbyWaEAAYAiAAEgIFDPD_BwE
• https://chrr.info/resource/debunking-debunking-the-mass-grave-hoaxa-report-on-media-coverage-andresidential-school-denialism-in-canada/
• https://chrr.info/resource/fighting-denialism-and-standing-up-for-the-truth-about-residential-schooling-by-kimberly-murray/ September 24, 2025
• chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://chrr.info/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Interview-w-Kimberly-Murray_Sept-2025.pdf
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_gravesites
• https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/funding-ends-for-national-advisory-committee-on-residential-school-missing-children-1.7460534
• https://un.arizona.edu/search-database/un-experts-call-canada-holy-see-investigate-mass-grave-indigenous-school
• https://worldwithoutgenocide.org/genocides-and-conflicts/american-indian/american-and-canadian-indigenous-boarding-schools-and-mass-graves
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN7rKm0OXvo
60 unmarked graves of Indigenous children were found in Canada
• https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1524504992259/1557512149981
Missing children and burial information - Based on data provided October 2025
• chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://irshdc.ubc.ca/files/2021/06/Terminology_2021.pdf
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS IN RELATION TO TERMINOLOGY AND THE DISCOVERY OF UNDOCUMENTED BURIALS AT THE KAMLOOPS INDIAN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL
• https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60395242
Dozens more graves found at former residential school sites | 15 February 2022
• https://www.chrc-ccdp.gc.ca/resources/newsroom/investigate-grounds-every-residential-school-canada
• https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1012100926/graves-found-at-new-site-canadian-indigenous-group-says
• https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/3/canada-calls-grow-uncover-more-residential-school-mass-graves
• https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/interlocutor-kimberly-murray-historical-report-1.7253567 (July 3, 2024)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUTfeDtgBx4 (CTV News May 28, 2021)
B.C. residential school survivor recalls 'horrific' mistreatment
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNHNlN2ijHc
• https://fncaringsociety.com/reconciling-history/people-history
Canada honours the lives of 215 children found buried in a mass grave (CTV News May 30, 2021)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVogX0-5RLk (Vice News Sep 30, 2021)
Thousands of Kids Died in Residential Schools, Now They're Being Found
REPORT:
Executive Summary Final Report on the Missing and Disappeared Indigenous Children and Unmarked Burials in Canada
chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://osi-bis.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/3.OSI-Executive-Summary.pdf
[SMS: Does not appear to name any missing or disappeared children, just allege there are many from the testimony of 19 survivors? Were there any “survivors” who testified as being beneficiaries of the system? Report does not seem to be about children but how to re-indigenize Canada. ]
10. Another view of “Indigenous” [An umbrella term that binds diverse groups with diverse languages, customs, traditions, histories, and ways into a seemingly homogeneous collective.]
Not Indigenous… Don’t Lose Your Cultural Identity Navajo Teaching
(Navajo Traditional Teachings | Feb 19, 2026 | Time 13:10 min.) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuLg5nCftvY
11. • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_(psychology)
Splitting, also called binary thinking, dichotomous thinking, black-and-white thinking, all-or-nothing thinking, or thinking in extremes, is the failure in a person's thinking to bring together the dichotomy of both perceived positive and negative qualities of something into a cohesive, realistic whole. It is a common defense mechanism,[1] wherein the individual tends to think in extremes (e.g., an individual's actions and motivations are all good or all bad with no middle ground). This kind of dichotomous interpretation is contrasted by an acknowledgement of certain nuances known as "shades of gray".
• https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/black-and-white-thinking
12. Pro-Proof or No-proof:
• https://www.fraserinstitute.org/commentary/claims-about-unmarked-graves-dont-withstand-scrutiny (December 11, 2025 )
• https://www.thefp.com/p/the-great-canadian-mass-graves-hoax?utm_source=google&utm_medium=paid-search&utm_campaign=dsa&utm_adgroup=all&utm_term=&utm_matchtype=&gad_source=5&gad_campaignid=23366241107&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIn5PZnNzykgMVoBatBh1lFA2oEAAYASAAEgJY0PD_BwE&hide_intro_popup=true
The Great Canadian Mass Graves Hoax: Why so many journalists embraced a story as "true" even though it wasn't real. By Bari Weiss 09.24.22 —International
• https://www.ncregister.com/news/three-years-later-canada-mass-graves-remain-unproven (October 18, 2024 )
• https://www.wsj.com/opinion/canadas-unproven-mass-grave-scandal-free-speech-law-history-50e13231
Progressives want to outlaw ‘denialism,’ but no actual remains have been found. (Oct. 13, 2024 )
• https://angusreid.org/canadians-require-proof-of-kamloops-anomaly/
Two-thirds want additional evidence before accepting that soil anomalies represent unmarked graves at Kamloops school
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/53485/are-there-mass-graves-of-indigenous-children-in-canada
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXjUGLwQDaI (Sept 7, 2023)
No Human Remains Found in Canada's "Mass Graves" | EWTN News Nightly
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVB6EeyJhBU (OANN May 13, 2024)
$8 Million to Prove Canadian Mass Graves Hoax... Is a Hoax! No Bodies Found
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd062L8YZOU (Feb 20, 2025)
Behind Canada’s ‘moral panic’ around suspected graves at residential schools
• https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/03/07/will-the-myth-of-canadas-mass-graves-ever-die/
Will the myth of Canada’s ‘mass graves’ ever die?
There is still no evidence that thousands of indigenous children were dumped in unmarked graves.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8nsZ2Gatsk
Have Canadians been lied to about residential schools?
13.• Behind Canada’s ‘moral panic’ around suspected graves at residential schools (Toronto Sun - Feb 3, 2025)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd062L8YZOU
• https://globalnews.ca/news/11672945/kamloops-indian-residential-school-site/
B.C. First Nation says there may never be ‘full consensus’ on potential burial site - Excavation of suspected unmarked graves has not begun
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted February 18, 2026
• https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kamloops-residential-school-search-9.7094671
