Zuzak
GRC Report; Wed., Feb. 06, 2008
(1) Holodomor: Five
articles have been added to the Holodomor
Files at
http://www.willzuzak.ca/tp/holodomor/holodomor.html
An
“action item” on e-Poshta highlights the
efforts of the Toronto Holodomor Committee to convince the Toronto
District
School Board to include the Holodomor in its Genocide Studies program.
Marco
Levytsky in an article and an editorial of the 24Jan2008 issue of the
Ukrainian
News discusses the issue in detail.
http://www.willzuzak.ca/tp/ukrnews/ukrnews.html
Also
included is an article by Will Zuzak
on the 22Jan1933 decree of Joseph Stalin to seal the borders of Ukraine
to
prevent starving Ukrainian peasants from seeking food in Belarus and
Russia; as
well as an article by Eric Margolis describing Stalin as the century’s
bloodiest figure.
(2)
Denaturalization and Deportation: The
11Jan2008 issue of
e-Poshta and the 24Jan2008 issue of the Ukrainian News indicate that
the RCMP
is once again approaching elderly Ukrainians under false pretences
searching
for “Nazi war criminals”. Ukrainians are strongly warned not to speak
to these
people without first consulting a criminal lawyer. Paul Chumak, who
appeared as
a lawyer for the defense in the 1987/88 Jerusalem Show Trial of John
Demjanjuk,
issued a warning in Ukrainian on the Kontakt TV show, as did criminal
lawyer
Iryna Revutska on the Svitohliad TV program.
(3)
John Demjanjuk: An article by Terry Kinney
in the 30Jan2008 online
issue of the
Toronto Star reports that Mr. Demjanjuk lost his deportation appeal.
His
lawyer, John Broadley, states that he will further appeal to the
Supreme Court
of the United States. See
http://www.willzuzak.ca/fc/2001/2001.html
(4) CHRC: On
03Jan2008, CBC
commentator, Rex Murphy, lambasted the Canadian Islamic community for
daring to
complain to the Canadian Human Rights Commission about an Islamophobic
article
by Mark Steyn in Maclean’s magazine. Amongst the myriad of responses,
the
cynical comment by Orest Slepokura reproduced below best expresses the
reality
of the situation:
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The way "our" free speech works
here in Canada goes like this: Those with low or little standing in
popular
opinion or the media might have their right to free speech denied with
little
or no fanfare and protest from the general run of opinion makers (i.e.
Rex
Murphy and other media lions). Ah, but... should some favourite ox of
theirs be
suddenly gored (in Mr. Murphy's case, one Mark Steyn and, by extension,
the
Macleans magazine), they'll rend their garments in public and complain
bitterly
about how those sundry misnamed "human rights" commissions are out to
gag EVEN those with far higher standing in popular opinion or media; as
though
free speech was the exclusive property and sole preserve of media
elites. In
fact, here in Canada -- which cynics among us sometimes called
"Banada" -- that's more or less what it is, or was until now.
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Wallace
Klinck also included an excellent
comment on Mr. Murphy’s diatribe. Indeed, in a letter dated 31Jan2008,
Mr.
Klinck congratulated and thanked Keith Martin, MP, for his intention to
introduce a Bill to repeal Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act.
Mr.
Klinck reproduces six letters and articles that he has written over the
years
on the CHRC and the CHRT, which he equates to Bolshevik Peoples Courts.
These
and two other articles reflecting the
views of Bishop Henry and of the four Islamic students initiating the
complaint
are archived in the CHRC files at
http://www.willzuzak.ca/tp/chrc/chrc.html
(5)
Kyiv in Monopoly game: at http://www.monopoly.com/
People are encouraged to log onto the
Monopoly website and to vote for Kyiv to become one of the 20 cities
included
in the new Monopoly World Edition game board. You may vote once a day
until
28Feb2008.
(6)
Ukraine joins WTO: On 05Feb2008, Ukraine was
officially accepted as a member of the World Trade Organization.
Congratulations to Yulia Tymoshenko ! Let us hope that she will have no
difficulty having it ratified in the Verkhovna Rada.
Respectfully
submitted
Will Zuzak, 2008-02-06