Opinion | Canada, Nazis and Ukraine – By Andrew Mitrovica (Al Jazeera) / Oct 5, 2023
Canada’s recent Nazi blunder raises uncomfortable questions about troubling aspects of Ukraine’s past – and present.
The perpetual outrage-du-jour circus otherwise known as Canada’s political discourse is, surprisingly, on pause.
By my count, it’s been about 48 hours or so since the bucolic capital, Ottawa, has been seized by a real or manufactured convulsion that has caused the country – thought by most outsiders to be the much larger, North American equivalent of dull, sedate Switzerland – to appear to have lost its senses.
What a welcomed relief it has been. If only for a moment, Canada has returned to its once reliably boring self.
This week’s big, devoid-of-any-rage news was the election of a new speaker of the House of Commons – a genteel, universally respected Liberal member of parliament, Greg Fergus, who is the first Black Canadian to hold the job.
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