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ICYMI: April 28 - May 4

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May 05, 2024
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Lev Golinkin vs. the Whitewashers

Jeremy Appel and Lev Golinkin
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May 4, 2024
Lev Golinkin vs. the Whitewashers

Lev has the distinction of being the first journalist to report that Yaroslav Hunka, the man who received a standing ovation in Canadian Parliament during Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit in September, was a veteran of a Nazi unit. We spoke about the crimes of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and SS Galicia Division, why some Ukrainian diaspo…

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My Afternoon with Ukrainian Nationalists in Edmonton

Jeremy Appel
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May 1, 2024
My Afternoon with Ukrainian Nationalists in Edmonton

This article is co-published with the Progress Report, an Edmonton-based independent news outlet. Tl;dr Royal Military College professor Lubomyr Luciuk spoke at Edmonton’s Ukrainian Yout…

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“That little glimmer of hope there just flies away”

Jeremy Appel
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April 30, 2024
“That little glimmer of hope there just flies away”

This piece was originally published in the Progress Report. Tl;dr Provincial funding for a program that provided homeless Indigenous people with temporary housing in a trailer outside NiGiNan Housing Venture’s Pimatis…

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For Alberta Native News, I wrote about a Calgary judge ruling that a class-action defamation suit a residential school survivor filed against a Catholic priest, the Archdiocese of Edmonton and the Oblate Fathers of Assumption Province can proceed.

In his latest piece for Jacobin on Canada’s catastrophic MAiD regime, friend of The Orchard David Moscrop quotes yours truly:

A libertarian ethos partially underwrote the fact that not many people blinked when MAiD was initially rolled out. Taking a more expansive view of rights, many of those not swayed by rote libertarianism were convinced that concerns over bodily autonomy and compassion were reason enough to adopt MAiD. However, in the absence of a robust welfare state, and in the face of structural poverty and discrimination, particularly toward disabled people, there is no world in which the MAiD program can be understood to be “progressive.”

Indeed, last year, Jeremy Appel argued that MAiD was “beginning to look like a dystopian end run around the cost of providing social welfare.” Initially supportive, he changed his mind on MAiD as he considered that the decisions people make are not strictly speaking individual but are instead collectively shaped and sometimes “the product of social circumstances, which are outside of their control.” When we don’t care for one another, what do we end up with?

“I’ve come to realize,” wrote Appel, “that euthanasia in Canada represents the cynical endgame of social provisioning with the brutal logic of late-stage capitalism — we’ll starve you of the funding you need to live a dignified life [. . .] and if you don’t like it, why don’t you just kill yourself?”

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