re: The Canadian Parliament gives standing ovation to 98-year-old Ukrainian WWII veteran...

My Grandfather was US Consul there in PEI, then in Alberta and also in London, Ontario. A lot of my inherited artwork is from those places.

It's a shame that the population of Ontario sort of 'California's the country because there are good people there who find themselves outvoted by a bunch of city folks .

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Your Mom & Elementary School Principal had a similar conversation as this:

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She sure did care about his schooling though.

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Poli board

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Soccer board until your nuts drop.

Pretty cool ??

Bad memory but pretty sure Canada's political system is kind of weird to where the ruling party has some crazy way of being in power? But this is the country where the govt. had the power to freeze protesting truckers' bank accounts to stop the protesting.

From the thread on Poli:

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Formed in 1943, SS Galichina was composed of recruits from the Galicia region in western Ukraine. The unit was armed and trained by the Nazis and commanded by German officers. In 1944, the division was visited by SS head Heinrich Himmler, who spoke of the soldiers’ willingness to slaughter Poles.”

Three months earlier, SS Galichina subunits perpetrated what is known as the Huta Pieniacka massacre, burning 500 to 1,000 Polish villagers alive.

During the Nuremberg Trials, the International Military Tribunal declared the Waffen-SS to be a criminal organization responsible for mass atrocities including the “persecution and extermination of the Jews, brutalities and killings in concentration camps, excesses in the administration of occupied territories, the administration of the slave labor program, and the mistreatment and murder of prisoners.”

After the war, thousands of SS Galichina veterans were allowed to resettle in the West, around 2,000 of them in Canada. By then, the unit was universally known as the First Ukrainian Division.

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