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Married British zoologist - who worked for BBC alongside his wife and David Attenborough - admits raping and torturing dozens of dogs at his animal shelter in case that has shocked Australia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaroslav_Hunka
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/yaroslav-hunka-poland-minister-extradite-1.6978266
Poland's education minister says he's 'taken steps' to extradite Yaroslav Hunka
Hunka was introduced in Canadian Parliament as 'Ukrainian hero,' but served in Nazi SS unit
Poland's education minister says he has "taken steps" to effect the extradition of Yaroslav Hunka, a 98-year-old Ukrainian Canadian, to Poland after it emerged that the veteran served in the Nazi SS Galizien formation during the Second World War.
On Friday, Hunka was invited to sit in the parliamentary gallery by Speaker Anthony Rota for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's address to Parliament. Rota introduced Hunka as a "Ukrainian hero" and a "Canadian hero," prompting a standing ovation in the House of Commons.
Over the weekend, it emerged that Hunka was part of the First Ukrainian Division, also known as the Waffen-SS Galicia Division or the SS 14th Waffen Division, a voluntary unit that was under the command of the Nazis.
"In view of the scandalous events in the Canadian Parliament, which involved honouring, in the presence of President Zelenskyy, a member of the criminal Nazi SS Galizien formation, I have taken steps towards the possible extradition of this man to Poland," Przemysław Czarnek said in a social media post Tuesday.
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Arif Virani told reporters Tuesday that he can't comment on Czarnek's move because no extradition request has come across his desk and no one from the Polish government has reached out to him.
Rota apologized to the House on Monday, insisting the decision to invite Hunka, who lives in Rota's riding of Nipissing–Timiskaming, was entirely his own. Calls for Rota to step down continue to grow.
Rota said Monday that he personally regrets inviting his constituent and giving him attention after Zelenskyy's remarks by pointing Hunka out in the gallery.
"I am deeply sorry I offended many with my gesture and remarks," Rota said. "This initiative was entirely my own. I want to really tell you that the intention was not to embarrass this House."
While Rota appeared emotional as he issued his statement, he conveyed no intention to resign.
Rota expected to meet House leaders
On Monday, the Bloc Québécois requested a meeting with Rota and the other parties' House leaders, according to a letter obtained by CBC News.
The letter, from Bloc House leader Alain Therrien, said Hunka's invitation has created "a crisis of confidence without precedent" in the House of Commons. The meeting is expected to take place at noon Tuesday.
On his way into Parliament Tuesday, Rota was asked if he expects to retain his position as Speaker of the House.
"We'll have to see about that, and I'm sure you'll hear more later on today," he said.
On his way into a cabinet Meeting Tuesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he is sure that the meeting will feature "very important conversations."
"As I said yesterday, this was deeply embarrassing for the House and for Canada," Trudeau said. "It is a good thing that Speaker Rota apologized personally and I'm sure he's reflecting now on how to ensure the dignity of the house going forward."
Calls to step down
Opposition parties said it's not enough for Rota to apologize for inviting Hunka to the day's festivities.
NDP MP Peter Julian, the party's House leader, said "regretfully and sadly" Rota cannot continue in his role after this incident.
"The Speaker has to be above reproach," Julian said. "This is an unforgivable error that puts the entire House in disrepute. Unfortunately, I believe a sacred trust has been broken."
On Tuesday, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, Diane Lebouthillier and Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly told reporters that they thought Rota should resign.
On Monday afternoon, Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet issued a statement calling for Rota's resignation, saying his errors have caused damage and that he has lost the confidence of the House.
Conservative MP Andrew Scheer, the party's House leader, said he doesn't accept that Rota alone was to blame for the invitation. He said the Liberal government should have done a better job of vetting who was in attendance for Zelenskyy's speech.
"This is a grave incident," said Scheer, who was House Speaker from 2011 to 2015.
"[Rota's] statement doesn't answer the questions around how this person was allowed to be in the chamber. A straightforward Google search will show he served in this particular division. If basic, rudimentary vetting as to who might be in the gallery isn't done — that's remarkable," Scheer said.
Rota did not share invite with PMO: Speaker's office
The Speaker doesn't report to the Prime Minister's Office. While Rota is a Liberal MP, the Speaker is elected by all members of the House.
A spokesperson for the Speaker said Rota did not share his list of invitees with the Prime Minister's Office or any of the opposition parties before Friday's event.
The Speaker was allocated a set number of spots in the viewing gallery and the list of potential guests was shared with Parliament's Protocol Office, which co-ordinates the sending of invitations.
The names of confirmed guests are then passed on to the Corporate Security Office to "facilitate accreditation of guests," Amélie Crosson, the Speaker's communications director, said in a statement to CBC News.
"Mr. Hunka's son contacted Mr. Rota's constituency office and asked if it would be possible for Mr. Hunka to attend the address in the House of Commons by Mr. Zelensky. This request was accepted by the Speaker's Office," Crosson said.
>worked for BBC alongside his wife and David Attenborough
How Rota and Hunka got in touch?
In his speech to Canadian lawmakers, Zelenskiy noted that the city of Edmonton was the first to commemorate victims of the Holodomor, the mass famine inflicted on Ukrainians that killed millions in the early 1930s. The city erected a memorial in 1983 in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the famine.
But within the city there are two other memorials, one partially funded by taxpayers, that have come under greater scrutiny in recent years. Within the Ukrainian Youth Unity Complex, a bust depicts Roman Shukhevych, a known Nazi collaborator linked to massacres of Polish civilians. A second statue dedicated to the Waffen-SS Galicia division is in an Edmonton cemetery.
In July 2020, the words “Nazi war monument” were spray-painted on a cenotaph commemorating soldiers in the Galicia division in an Ontario cemetery.
In 1985, Canada’s then prime minister, Brian Mulroney, established the commission of inquiry on war criminals in Canada after an MP claimed the Nazi doctor Josef Mengele may be in the country.
https://www.rcinet.ca/en/2018/08/13/shukhevych-monument-canada-oun-upa/
Canadian monument to controversial Ukrainian national hero ignites debate
The monument to Roman Shukhevych, commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army from 1943 until his death in 1950, has stood at the entrance of the Ukrainian Youth Unity Complex in North Edmonton, Alberta, since mid-1970s. Shukhevych is lionized by some for his fight for Ukrainian independence against Poland, the Soviet Union and later Germany. But critics of the monument say it glorifies a Nazi henchman who sided with Germany in hopes of winning independence for Ukraine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desch%C3%AAnes_Commission
On the issue of the Galicia division, the commission’s head, Jules Deschênes, ruled that members “should not be indicted as a group”.
“The members of Galicia division were individually screened for security purposes before admission to Canada. Charges of war crimes of Galicia division have never been substantiated, either in 1950 when they were first preferred, or in 1984 when they were renewed, or before this commission.”
>Zelensky’s characterization of Ukrainians as having saved Jews during the Holocaust.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/speaker-anthony-rota-resignation-1.6978422
Senior Liberals join calls for Speaker to resign over inviting Ukrainian soldier with Nazi ties to Parliament
'I think it's time for him to do the honourable thing,' Liberal cabinet minister Karina Gould says
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppuku
Jew me, sue me, everybody do me.
Kick me, kike me, don't you black or white me.
The idea that these lyrics could be deemed objectionable is extremely hurtful to me, and misleading. The song in fact is about the pain of prejudice and hate and is a way to draw attention to social and political problems. I am the voice of the accused and the attacked. I am the voice of everyone. I am the skinhead, I am the Jew, I am the black man, I am the white man. I am not the one who was attacking. It is about the injustices to young people and how the system can wrongfully accuse them. I am angry and outraged that I could be so misinterpreted.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/yaroslav-hunka-poland-minister-extradite-1.6978266
"Mr. Hunka's son contacted Mr. Rota's constituency office and asked if it would be possible for Mr. Hunka to attend the address in the House of Commons by Mr. Zelensky. This request was accepted by the Speaker's Office," Crosson said.
President Joe Biden faces an incredibly difficult choice: save Hunter or his 2024 White House hopes.
It's looking increasingly likely that he can't do both.
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Fact check: RFK Jr.’s misleading viral claim about Secret Service protection
Alejandro Mayorkas had decided that Secret Service protection for him is “not warranted at this time.” Kennedy said this denial came after nearly three months with no response to his campaign’s request for Secret Service protection
To do as we tell you!
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whitecoat/peter-hotez-anti-science-rise-1.6960484
He's faced death threats, but that's not stopping vaccine scientist Peter Hotez
‘All these extraordinary gains that we've had over the last two decades … I worry about that unraveling'
In view of the scandalous events in the Canadian Parliament, which involved honouring, in the presence of President Zelenskyy, a member of the criminal Nazi SS Galizien formation, I have taken steps towards the possible extradition of this man to Poland.
https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/traffic-resumes-on-st-lawrence-seaway-after-stuck-ship-refloated-1.6576748
Traffic resumes on St. Lawrence Seaway after stuck ship refloated
The St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation says marine traffic has resumed after a ship that ran aground near Cornwall, Ont. was successfully refloated.
The NACCArgonaut, a cement carrier, was en route to Oshawa, Ont. when it ran aground between St. Regis and Cornwall islands at around 5:33 a.m. Sunday. No one was hurt, and there was no pollution to the river, but the trapped ship was impeding traffic on the Seaway. Seventeen vessels were affected by the traffic interruption Sunday and Monday.
>cement carrier ran aground
Russia’s ministry of internal affairs has placed International Criminal Court (ICC) President Piotr Hofmański on its wanted list, according to the ministry’s online database.
The site does not specify what Hofmański is wanted for, but it states he is “wanted under the article of the Criminal Code,” reported Russian state-run news site TASS. Alongside Hofmański, the ministry also added ICC Vice President Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza and judge Bertram Schmitt to the wanted list.
Moscow has been retaliating against the ICC, which back in March issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia’s Children’s Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova over the forced transfer of children to Russia since the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began last year.
Russia said it did not recognize the court’s authority and quickly responded to the arrest warrant by opening its own criminal case against the ICC prosecutors and judges.
Since then, Russia has placed several ICC officials on its wanted list, including British prosecutor Karim Khan and judges Tomoko Akane and Rosario Salvatore Aitala.
Membership alone in the Waffen SS does not, in itself, amount to a crime under international law, it must be membership as qualified by the Tribunal in Nuremberg. It implies either knowledge or participation.
https://twitter.com/CzarnekP/status/1706569136849981920
I am asking the President to urgently examine the documents whether Jaroslaw Hunke is wanted for crimes against the Polish nation and Poles of Jewish origin. The features of such crimes constitute the basis for applying to Canada for his extradition.
>National Scarf Day
During his visit to the capital of Canada, Mr. Parubiy held a number of fruitful meetings with Canadian government officials and politicians,” wrote the Embassy of Ukraine to Canada on Feb. 26, 2016. “First Deputy Speaker had a brief meeting with Canadian Prime Minister the Right Honourable Justin Trudeau and Minister of Defence the Honourable Harjit S. Sajjan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andriy_Parubiy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social-National_Party_of_Ukraine
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andriy_Parubiy
Met with Andriy Parubiy, the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, and discussed the role that Canadian election monitors played in Ukraine’s presidential elections and will play again parliamentary elections later this year. Canada stands with Ukraine and its vibrant democracy!
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/neo-nazis-far-right-ukraine/
2019
Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
Five years after the Maidan uprising, anti-Semitism and fascist-inflected ultranationalism are rampant.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/7790
Stepan Bandera becomes Ukrainian hero
Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko has conferred the rank of a Ukrainian hero to Stepan Bandera, the leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN)
"I decree to confer the rank of a Hero of Ukraine to Stepan Bandera and present a state order to him," Yushchenko said.
He said that the high rank had been conferred to Bandera for his "defending national ideas and battling for an independent Ukrainian state."
Bandera’s grandson, also named Stepan, received the award from the president, an Interfax-Ukraine reporter said.
>Bandera’s grandson, also named Stepan, received the award from the president
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-wiesenthal-slams-ukraine-award-to-nationalist-2010jan29-story.html
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, left, gives Stepan Bandera an award, the Hero of Ukraine, which was presented to his late grandfather Stepan Bandera, founder of a rebel movement that fought against the Soviet regime, in Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 22, 2010. Bandera, who was assassinated by the KGB in 1959 in Munich, was a leader of Ukraine’s nationalist movement and its insurgent army that sided with the Nazis before fighting against Hitler’s forces and the Red Army for the formation of an independent Ukrainian State.