A B.C. Conservative Party staffer who called the orange Survivors' flag — which honours residential school survivors — a "disgrace" and a "fake flag" on social media has been fired.

Lindsay Shepherd, who had worked as a communications officer for the B.C. Conservative caucus, faced widespread criticism after her posts on the social media platform X late last week.

Last Thursday, several NDP, Conservative and Green MLAs raised the Survivors' flag on the front steps of the legislature in Victoria, ahead of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Sept. 30.

The next day, Shepherd wrote on social media : "The Orange Shirt and the Orange Flag perpetuate untruths about Canadian history, such as the grandest lie of all that 215 children's graves were unearthed in Kamloops.

"It is a

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