ICYMI: October 1-6
What I produced and consumed this week.
Unravelling University Megadonor Peter Jacyk's Nazi Sympathies
In The Progress Report, Duncan Kinney and I detailed more than $1.4 million in endowments and donations in honour of Nazi collaborators to the University of Alberta’s Canadian Institute for Ukrainian Studies (CIUS). But there was a major name we left out, due to uncertainty about the extent of his connec…
How the UCP paved the way for the nation-wide assault on trans students' rights
In my forthcoming book, Kenneyism: Jason Kenney’s Pursuit of Power, I detail how remarkably successful Kenney was throughout his career in inching the Canadian political dial rightwards. Nowhere has this been more apparent in recent months than with New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs’ and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe’s all-out assault on transgender kids’ right to exist under the pretext of inalienable “parental rights.”
At The Progress Report, Duncan Kinney and I uncovered at least $1.4 million in endowments and donations honouring Nazis at the University of Alberta’s Canadian Institute for Ukrainian Studies, as the fallout from Waffen-SS veteran Yaroslav Hunka’s parliamentary standing ovation continues.
In Alberta Native News, I wrote Wab Kinew’s historic election as the first First Nations provincial premier.
I also wrote about Indigenous climate activists’ response to an Alberta Energy Regulator report concluding Imperial Oil broke no rules when it failed to notify downstream First Nations about a tailings pond spill, and the brutal beating of a Métis Catholic school student in Cochrane.
On the Forgotten Corner, Scott and I welcomed
to discuss Ukrainian diaspora organizations’ project of rehabilitating Nazi collaborators.What I’ve been reading
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