Feds say they don't support effort to include residential school 'denialism' in anti-hate bill

OTTAWA — The federal government signalled it would not support efforts to include the criminalization of statements that deny or downplay the harms of the Indian residential school system in its anti-hate bill after a Senate amendment to do so was defeated on Wednesday.It comes as the Senate has also struggled to provide senators debating the controversial legislation with upwards of 200,000 pieces of mail that it received on the bill as they prepare to cast their final vote.The legislati