Worse Than Hitler! Pierre Poilievre called out for Truth and Reconciliation Day photos with Inuk elder

OTTAWA – Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre found himself the subject of online criticism after posting photos with an Inuk elder alongside a caption about meeting with Algonquin elders on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

Poilievre posted two photos to X, formerly known as Twitter, on Saturday with a caption about joining Algonquin elders and leaders at the eternal flame on Parliament Hill to mark the holiday at an event hosted by the Algonquin Nation and the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.

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Canada’s Sikhs under pressure amid row with India

For decades, Canada was a safe haven for Sikhs. Many left their native India in the 1980s and ’90s after thousands died there during armed struggles for an independent Sikh state called Khalistan. Nearly 800,000 Sikhs live in Canada today, the largest community outside India.

While the Sikh separatist movement is hardly visible in India anymore, it is still very much alive within the diaspora in Canada. The relationship between India and Canada has been tense for many years because of this.

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Family of man who fought in Nazi unit unaware Hunka would be honoured in Parliament, friend says

‘The family is in hiding here in North Bay,’ friend says amid the international controversy

A longtime friend says the Hunka family was unaware 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka would be honoured in Parliament last week in front of Ukraine’s president, setting off an international controversy.

Barb Bonenfant, who lives in North Bay, Ont., told CBC News that Hunka’s daughter-in-law sent her a message on Sunday after the public backlash began.

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Philip Cross: Young people’s unhappiness isn’t older generations’ fault

Statistics Canada last week released a sobering but hardly surprising study of the current state of young people in Canada. Many cannot find affordable housing, forcing 43 per cent of 20 to 29-year-olds to live with their parent(s). Nearly 40 per cent believe they can’t afford to have a child over the next three years. Others are having trouble entering the labour market, a problem shared by most youth cohorts but which seems particularly challenging today because of technology. More broadly, Statcan notes young people’s mental health has been declining steadily since 2003, with feelings of loneliness rising and attachment to community declining.

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Canada Nazi row puts spotlight on Ukraine’s WWII past

When Canada’s parliament praised a Ukrainian war veteran who fought with Nazi Germany, a renewed spotlight was put on a controversial part of Ukraine’s history and its memorialisation in Canada.

Yaroslav Hunka, the Ukrainian veteran who was applauded in parliament this week, served with a Nazi unit called the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS – also known as the Galicia Division – that was formed in 1943.

His appearance was criticised by Jewish groups and other parliamentarians alike. MP Anthony Rota, who invited him, has since resigned as the Speaker of the House of Commons, saying he deeply regretted the mistake.


Also … Nazis in Canada? The truth behind the demonization of Yaroslav Hunka

I don’t know Yaroslav Hunka personally, but I know… or knew… many like him. Most of them are dead, now. I know their stories. And I know where their bodies are buried.

Mr Hunka is a Canadian citizen, who lives near North Bay, Ontario. More specifically, he is a Ukrainian-Canadian, born 98 years ago in what was then a part of Poland known to some as “Galicia”, but to its natives as Ukraine.

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UK: Indian envoy blocked from entering Sikh temple — reports

Radical Sikh activists stopped the Indian High Commissioner to the UK, Vikram Doraiswami, from entering a Sikh temple in Scotland on Friday, media reports said.

An unverified video posted on Instagram showed a man confronting the Indian envoy at the Glasgow gurdwara, a Sikh temple, from entering the temple.

India media reported that the government had raised the issue with the UK’s Foreign Office, with The Hindu newspaper reporting that the Indian envoy was invited by the Guruwara committee but two people stopped him.

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Head of Canadian Ukrainian group defends man who fought for unit created by Nazis

The president of the Ukrainian National Federation of Canada is defending a Second World War veteran of a Nazi unit who was recently lauded as a hero in Canada’s Parliament.

Jurij Klufas has not met 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka but says the veteran is being treated unfairly. He says Hunka was fighting for Ukraine – not Germany – and that countries, including Canada, have cleared his division of war crimes.

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Ex-RCMP intelligence official accused of leaking had Leak ‘authority to do everything he did’

Lawyers for Cameron Ortis, the former RCMP intelligence director accused of leaking top-secret information, are expected to argue that their client had “authority to do everything he did” when his long-awaited trial gets underway next week.

Ortis, who was the head of the RCMP’s national intelligence co-ordination centre at the time of his arrest, is going to trial on six charges, including four counts of violating the Security of Information Act.

I get the feeling he will beat the charges because conviction would likely expose the incompetence of higher ups.

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Hunka said in essay that he enlisted in Nazi unit to protect homeland

Since he was celebrated in Parliament, kicking off a political firestorm in Ottawa and outrage around the world, the public has heard nothing from Yaroslav Hunka, the 98-year-old who served in a Nazi unit during the Second World War.

But a dozen years ago, Mr. Hunka wrote an essay about his time in the Waffen-SS Galicia Division for an American online magazine focused on Ukrainian war veterans – a piece that provides some insight into what he says were his reasons for enlisting.

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GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau ducks when there’s bad news

While I wish I’d thought of it first, the best description of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s performance over the past few days during Canada’s global diplomatic disaster, goes to former Conservative senator Linda Frum, who tweeted on ‘X’:

“Have a look: on Friday Trudeau and his deputy PM were thrilled to use @ZelenskyyUa visit to mount an election-style rally w/ Toronto’s Ukrainian community. When there was glory to be had, it belonged to them. The mess that’s left behind belongs to Canada.”

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The ugly week that was

It has been a very bad couple of weeks for social cohesion in Trudeau’s Canada.

But I am pleased to witness Trudeau’s weaponized use of identity politics blowing up in his face.

To recap…

Junior tossed a hand grenade into the middle of relations with India over his support of resident Sikh separatists.

He offended parents in general by defaming them as bigots because they stood up for parental rights. Now members of the Muslim diaspora are demanding a formal apology.

Then came the topper, his government invited a Ukrainian man with an indisputable association with the Waffen SS to be honored in parliament.

Backed into a corner Trudeau offered his usual mealy mouthed non-apology to all who were offended.

All of this obscuring this week’s upcoming “National Day for Truth and Reconciliation” a celebration of the anti-Christian church burnings Trudeau triggered by supporting the fake graves mania.

No one wins in Trudeau’s genocidal nation of Canada.

We are being deliberately manipulated into a permanent state of racial and sectarian tension.

And that’s how they want us, scared and malleable.

Liberal party policies have resulted in large swaths of society conditioned to believe they possess a permanent entitled victimhood.

Our history and heritage are trampled, our institutions made hollow and our social and economic security crushed under a wave of mass immigration that benefits only the Corporate class and their minion politicos.

This is not the Canada I grew up in. It is not the Canada any of us deserve.

I have never seen the comments section of this blog as inflamed as it was this week.

Reader has been pitted against reader all of it tied to Trudeau’s Photo-Op gone wrong.

My view remains unchanged.

There were no easy choices in that time and place.

The Waffen-SS Galicia Division did commit war crimes.

Poles and Jews are rightfully indignant that a member of the Waffen SS was honored in parliament.

Not every man who volunteered for what came to be known as the 1st Ukrainian Division was a Nazi or personally committed war crimes.

We have not heard the last of it.

There are calls for new inquiries and for old reports to be re-opened with all information withheld to be made public.

No doubt new wounds will be inflicted and old ones re-opened.

But we should not forget our history good or bad.

Operation Keelhaul is one example: The repatriation of Russian POWs turned out to be a ghastly and grisly process. Some of the men simply committed suicide rather than return. The world hardly knew what was happening, though details managed to trickle out here and there.

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Only One Submarine in Canada’s Costly Naval Fleet Has Been to Sea in Years: Records

Only one of the vessels in Canada’s expensive submarine fleet has been to sea in recent years. Submarine maintenance and upgrade costs have surpassed $3 billion, records show.

An inquiry tabled in the Commons revealed the Royal Canadian Navy stated that only one vessel, HMCS Windsor, has been at sea since Dec. 1, 2021, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter. The submarine was at sea for 43 days last year.

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WARMINGTON: Homeless enjoy fancy food as Anthony Rota’s garden party cancelled

Let them eat scallops!

Make that seared and crusted scallops, poached shrimp, pulled beef barbacoa and, of course, lamb meatballs.

The homeless will be eating well in Ottawa Friday. Or maybe, more accurately, they are enjoying the spoils of Canada’s parliamentarians.

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