Canada stumbles into a confrontation with its own Nazi complacency

With all the Nazi rehabilitation going on in Canada these days, I guess what happened on Friday was bound to happen.

Of the more than one million Ukrainians in Canada, the one person who had the honour of being introduced in front of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky was Yaroslav Hunka, a 98-year-old who served with the SS ​​14th Waffen Division, or the First Ukrainian Division. House speaker Anthony Rota invited Hunka as he lives in North Bay, in Rota’s riding. Of the Ukrainian-born population in North Bay, there was a 1 in 40 chance that Rota would land on this former Nazi.

When Rota introduced Hunka, MPs from both sides of the aisle jumped to their feet. Applause was vigorous and longlasting. While the cameras in the House of Commons don’t show everyone, the majority of MPs who are on camera are all standing – not a single person looks to be sitting through the applause.

There is so much that can be said about this incident and indeed, I’m far from the only one typing through my anger at all of this. But what was, I think, most notable was that no one seemed to notice (aside from very online leftwing Twitter). Canadian news organizations didn’t name the man nor his military unit. No journalists online posted anything that resembled a “wait, what?” after the introduction which would have made any first-year history student pause and ask, “uhh was he a Nazi?” The decades-long process of whitewashing of Nazis in Canada has seemingly worked — it took the Associated Press to name the military division that Hunka fought with. |Read more https://noraloreto.substack.com/p/canada-stumbles-into-a-confrontation| noraloreto.substack.com/p/cana…

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Death threats, Jordan Peterson and me: My journey into the world of Pitchfork Politics

Many have written about the huge deterioration of online political discourse. It cuts across the political spectrum. As does the spread of conspiracy theory and political paranoia. But on the far right there is a disturbing pattern of how toxic online fights turn to threat.

In my case, I ran afoul of the conspiracy movement for reposting a tweet calling out Conservative candidate Roman Baber and Pierre Poilievre for exploiting the death of Sheila Lewis. Hers is the sad story. She was refused a life-saving transplant because of her paranoia over getting the COVID-19 vaccine. Ms Lewis spent her last years fighting a series of losing battles with the courts over her freedom.

It wasn’t surprising that Baber, who had been kicked out of Doug Ford’s caucus for refusing to support reasonable pandemic efforts, had championed Lewis online. What concerned me was that his post was promoted by Conservative party leader Poilievre.

“Disinformation and conspiracy costs lives,” I wrote in response.

The result was an avalanche of abuse. Then the death threats started… |Read more https://www.thestar.com/opinion/death-threats-jordan-peterson-and-me-my-journey-into-the-world-of-pitchfork-politics/article_7a0bae9a-9bed-5f17-b742-377ed69d5875.amp.html| www.thestar.com/opinion/death-…

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An Alberta Pension Plan (APP): Your Plan, Their Choice

“This report shows a made-in-Alberta pension plan could put more money in the pockets of hard-working families and business owners and improve retirement security for seniors. We want to hear from you because it’s your pension, your choice. I’m so excited to hear what Albertans think about a provincial pension plan that could benefit Albertans now as well as our future generations.”

Before the Lifeworks Report was released at 11 a.m. on Thursday, 21 September there were already commentaries and studies using information that had been provided to various parties.

In the Globe and Mail report on 21 September from Emma Graney and James Bradshaw

The day before the release, the National Post published an opinion piece by Jack Mintz, former president of the C.D. Howe Institute and erstwhile director of the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary. Mintz is a highly prolific author of academic articles and opinion pieces and believed to be associated closely with members of Danielle Smith’s inner circle. Mintz believes the APP is a “no-brainer” and is possibly a negotiating tool to use in bargaining emission reduction targets with the federal government.

After eight years of confrontation over energy regulation and climate policies, Ottawa-Alberta relations are at rock bottom. If the Trudeau government wants to avoid the further fracturing of national arrangements like the CPP, it could try reducing tensions rather than stoking them. A good start would be bilateral agreement to negotiate a realistic path to reducing emissions without the unilateral federal regulation that is squandering Canada’s resource wealth despite our allies’ obvious need for secure energy.

On the day preceding the announcement (20 September) The Globe led with an exclusive entitled “Alberta eyes more than half of CPP’s assets in report on provincial plan.” The authors James Bradshaw the institutional investing reporter and Kelly Cryderman which identified the exact number of the controversial $334-billion asset claim by the report’s authors and promoted by Alberta positions.
|Read more https://abpolecon.ca/2023/09/24/an-alberta-pension-plan-app-your-plan-their-choice| abpolecon.ca/2023/09/24/an-alb…

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