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www.theglobeandmail.com Governor-General Mary Simon apologizes for Waffen-SS veteran’s 1987 Order of Canada appointment

Peter Savaryn, former chancellor of the University of Alberta and veteran of Nazi-led division, was appointed to the order by governor-general Jeanne Sauvé

Governor-General Mary Simon apologizes for Waffen-SS veteran’s 1987 Order of Canada appointment

It just doesn't stop, does it?

"Mr. Savaryn was a leading Progressive Conservative in Alberta and prominent member of Edmonton’s Ukrainian community who championed multiculturalism and played a key role in establishing schools with Ukrainian-language instruction. He also set up the Edmonton branch of the Ukrainian scout group Plast, whose participants included Chrystia Freeland, now Deputy Prime Minister.

In a 2013 interview with the newspaper Ukrainian Weekly, Ms. Freeland recalled attending the youth group there. “Plast was a very important part of my life growing up,” she said. “I grew up in a Ukrainian community and was active in Plast.”"

One more damning connection of Freeland to her family's Nazi past.

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Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez Introduce Resolution Apologizing for 1973 Chilean Coup
  • In what way is the USA a force for good? This isn't the only coup that they have orchestrated, they have not only continued to do so since and will likely perform more in the future.

    This is not to mention the other countless atrocities committed under its flag.

  • "Soviet Media's Portrait of the United States" (1986) Reel America Preview
  • This was absolutely laughable! Everything that they said on the state of the USA was true then and even more true today. Hilarious how the presenter refutes the Soviet claims by merely saying "no, that's not true" without any substance.

    I showed it to my mum who grew up in the Soviet Union and she came to the same conclusion. It reminded her of some old magazines from the 1970s called Крокодил, (Crocodile) that she has which have some more humourous commentary on the US that she'll be sharing with me.

  • Community for Russian language learners and masters @lemmygrad.ml shroobinator @lemmygrad.ml

    Good resources for learning at an odd level?

    To preface this, I was born to a Russian (Soviet) immigrant mother and an English speaking father in Canada. So I was raised always exposed to Russian culture and the language to the point that I spoke Russian exclusively while I was getting the first grips of language as an infant.

    For most of my life, I've only been able to use basic phrases and find it very difficult to hold a conversation, but I can get the gist of what the other person is talking about and I would often have to resort to responding in English.

    I have a very good grasp at the alphabet, but have some difficulties pronouncing new words with many consonants in sequence.

    This is a really long winded way to say that I feel overwhelmed with the amount of improvement that I need to make, and that I'm looking to be pointed in the right direction to start making progress.

    Спасибо товарищ! 🫡

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    What did you do this weekend?
  • Yesterday, I spent the day with my girlfriend and my roommate, we went to a local Filipino festival (both of them are Filipino), kinda boring, mostly just groups recruiting and realtors peddling their services. Otherwise a good day.

    Today, I went for a 25km bike ride around the city, along the beach to the main university for the region for lunch. Total 140m elevation gain. Feeling proud of myself, not the longest ride, but one of the toughest hills I've done so far. (NW Marine Drive towards UBC for any locals, feel free to send a message if you are!)

  • How to host and promote a website with educational resources?
  • I am a big proponent of using UI libraries. I started with bootstrap after learning it from scratch, and I'm glad that I did, since you will certainly need to make tweaks and you should know what's going on in the backend of what's being obfuscated to be able to make those adjustments.

    So I would say yes, at least learn a bit of it so you're not trusting it blindly. In terms of pragmatism and ease of building it, definitely.

    I would take a look at material-ui as well, I personally think it looks better, but it's up to you.

  • A marxist city district: you're in control, now what?
  • I'm very proud of you all!

    I know that this isn't the revolutionary vanguard party moment that upheaves the foundation of Antwerp, but it is proof enough that collective action can provide material improvements to the lives of regular people.

    I commend you for the progress that you've made thus far and hope you can work even further to achieve your goals.

    🫡

  • How to host and promote a website with educational resources?
  • Absolutely! I'm open to any and all questions, I don't have much of an outlet for this sort of stuff these days, so I'm happy to contribute.

    If you have any concerns about the design/UX, send those over as well, I can pass them along to my partner who works in that field.

  • How to host and promote a website with educational resources?
  • 1 - I'd recommend namecheap (approx USD1.50/mo) for your host, as I would assume it'll just be a static site without any dynamic content (databases, accounts, etc.). Most likely all you'll need is a text editor and a webserver that you can use on your local machine (apache, nginx) for testing. Feel free to ask me any questions on the development side of things, I've made some decent sized web development projects.

    2 - I'm not personally familiar with it, but you could try hosting your videos on a peertube instance.

    3 - I don't think it should be an issue, but study up on the copyright laws in your country and the exact licenses that the media that you'll be posting carry.