Is an associate professor making up numbers for attention? — (Updated Feb 1st 2021 and again on Feb 8th: Substantial changes were made to reflect a longer history of Darryl’s estimate than previously thought.) Darryl Leroux wont provide a source for his claim of “13 million people in Canada today who are French-Canadian and who have some minimal amount of…

iPolitics, Chief Lance Haymond and Darryl Leroux are wrong — Updated Jan 19th: Clarifying language to make it absolutely clear the iPolitics story was 100% bogus. The Algonquin National Secretariat (ANS) admits the genealogical report on Justin Trudeau was wrong. 6 Years of Misinformation Claims of Indigenous ancestry were first published in a March 2016 iPolitics story titled Justin Trudeau qualifies as Algonquin under…

Originally published: Montreal 1937 [LE PETIT JOURNAL] — (NOTE: I am translating and re-publishing this 1937 story as a reminder of the long history of French journalists using flawed genealogy to call Métis frauds.) The leader of the North West Rebellion was actually the son of an Irishman, Louis Riel, and the grandson of Jean-Baptiste Lagimodière, the famous…

On being a multi-generational “Pretendian” — My mom told me I was “MÉTIS” (French for “mixed”) growing up. She wrote in the family genealogy that my great-grandmother was “SANG AMERINDIAN”. The knowledge and the unanswered questions have been a bit of a curse. Growing up in the suburbs of Ottawa (Algonquin word “adawe”, means “to trade”)…

Fact-checking a public shaming (with responses) — In Michelle Latimer’s career, she has given over 70 interviews or media appearances — half occurring in a three month press blitz starting August 2020. I have compared primary sources — what she has actually said — versus the top ten rumors about her online. …

Darryl Leroux’s mission to redefine (and erase) hundreds of thousands of Indigenous people. — There is decades-long debate of who is or who is not Métis. Darryl Leroux, Associate Professor in the department of Social Justice and Community Studies at St. Mary’s University has garnered a following among those coalescing around a narrow definition of Métis. “The broadest definition of Métis would include everyone…

Family trees in a world of DNA and family secrets. — Genealogy is complicated. Done poorly, it can hypnotize people into false sense of certainty. Every minute someone spits into an ancestry test resulting in a digital slap in the face. Quietly, millions of people have been forced to reconcile what they previously knew with what they now know regarding family. …

Publicly broadcasting genealogical quackery — Over the last two years, the government-funded Crown corporation CBC has ramped up enforcement of a narrowed definition of Indigenous with a clever use of non-Indigenous reporters, lateral violence and arguments founded in Eugenics. TRIGGER WARNING. Topics include: mental health, systemic racism, sexism, antisemitism, genocide and white supremacy. As someone…

Fifty cartoons reimagined as realistic portraits with the help of neural-networks. — Using Artbreeder and Photoshop I’ve created fifty fake school photos. The portraits and clothing are inspired by obscure, split-second references as well as flashbacks / flashforward / dream sequences in 90s cartoons. All characters are aged as if they were late High School/ University.