The Tuesday morning had started with the mundane rhythm of suburbia—the clatter of coffee mugs, the distant hum of lawnmowers, and the chorus of school bus brakes. In Monroe County, Michigan, residents were going about their daily routines, oblivious to the storm about to break over their quiet landscape. At 10:47 AM, the calm was shattered not by a physical tremor, but by a digital one. The piercing, high-frequency chirp of the Everbridge emergency alert system erupted from thousands of smartphones, tablets, and home speakers simultaneously. The message, emblazoned in stark black letters on glowing screens, declared a catastrophic emergency:…

I keep returning to a single image from a day I will never quite shake. The University of Victoria campus was alive with anger and care, and I was watching from inside the First Peoples House as the crowd gathered at Petch Fountain. They were there to do something simple and profound: stand between Indigenous community members and the spectacle of denialism. OneBC representatives—Dallas Brodie, then a sitting MLA, Frances Widdowson, Tim Thielmann, Jim McMurtry, and others—had arrived with the intention of casting doubt on the discovery of 215 unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. They wanted…