Hey, he was also chancellor of the University of Alberta
Also
Membership in the Order of Canada is only effective during the honoree’s lifetime, so Savaryn, who died in 2017, cannot have his award rescinded.
“The Constitution of the Order of Canada terminates an individual’s membership to the Order upon their death and does not allow to retroactively revoke appointments of deceased persons,” the Governor General’s office said in the statement. “The Chancellery is committed to working with Canadians to ensure our honours system is reflective of Canadian values.
“Historical appointments to the Order of Canada reflect a specific moment in time and would have been based on limited information sources available at that time.”
I just checked the Barbara pit Wikipedia page and it's so friggin funny how it makes it seem that the victims were lil smol bean cuddly puppies that were just trying to defend their land from communism.
Is it just me or is an "apology for any distress or pain this may have caused" bullshit couched in leftish language?
Like, it's basically "I'm sorry you feel that way" but with a feigned concern for the "distress or pain". And it's not at all apologizing for having done it in the first place, just for how people reacted to it.
I see this shit everywhere in corporate (and I guess government) apologies and it feels so slimy.
Take a business English class if you wanna have a stroke. It's all like this. I especially liked the good news, bad news, good news format. Cause the good news is only good to the company and the bad news is how they are gonna screw you harder. It's so transparent even the textbook admitted it.
And the only reason they are apologizing now is because how this story has blown up. He's been in the Order of Canada since 1987. 36 years knowing full well that he served with the Waffen-SS.
Why don’t they strip them off all honors, do a retroactive review of the government and purge all ukronazi elements? That would require effort and would weaken support for Ukraine so they will never do that
In a wide-ranging interview in the East Village on Tues., Feb. 15, 2022, Walter Zaryckyj (pronounced "Zarisky"), the executive director of the Center for U.S. Ukrainian Relations and a former New York University political science professor, talks at length about Russia's threatened invasion of Ukraine. He discusses the five possible invasion scenarios and also puts the current situation into historical context, including the connection to the forced Ukrainian famine of the 1930s that was perpetrated by Stalin. The most likely scenario that will happen if Putin takes aggressive action, he said, is that Russia will take over breakaway areas in eastern Ukraine. But to try to conquer all of Ukraine, including Kyiv, its capital and most populous city, Russia would need to bring in a much larger occupation force of 500,000 troops, which it is not currently in a position to do, Zaryckyj says. The interview runs 51 minutes. (Video by The Village Sun)
He was writing for the Atlantic Council in 2015 lmao
yeah it really is..i found this one on internet archive, not even looking for it, just researching something totally different--probably because whoever uploaded it painstakingly typed up the whole vile transcript of this "1989 Tribute to Adolf Hitler speech"
I wonder if there will be any reckoning for Freeland's relationship with these dusty nazis being ideological in addition to familial. Probably asking too much of libs
yeah the lib response has already been to start rehabilitating the necessary ideological commitments of the dusty nazis, they're getting real close to rehabilitating the ideology itself.
Well it's interesting in a way because a mass shooting, as bad as it is, only takes a few minutes to happen. This takes decades to happen. First you have to bring the nazi into your country. Then you have to let them get really old. And then you have to ignore them and let them ferment. And then you have to pickle them in vinegar to preserve them. Finally, when they've reached the proper age, you take them out of your wine cellar and bring them into the Canadian parliament. You declare them to be a vintage 1945 banderite and then pin several medals on their chest for the excellent pickling job you've done.
honestly even as the lib hawks are rushing to get swastika tattoos, it's probably a good thing that the government is apologizing profusely and saying they'll do something about it.
Alberta is, of course, a mining and other resource extraction colony. Who better to install as leadership than a settler colonialist finance imperiailst?