This is the best summary I could come up with:
The University of Alberta is returning a $30,000 donation it received from the family of Yaroslav Hunka, saying it regrets any harm it may have caused by accepting the endowment in his name.
“On behalf of the university, I want to express our commitment to address anti-Semitism in any of its manifestations, including the ways in which the Holocaust continues to resonate in the present.”
Hunka, a 98-year-old Ukrainian Canadian, was invited to Ottawa last week for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s address to Parliament, where Hunka was given a standing ovation after being pointed out by Speaker Anthony Rota.
It later emerged that the man Zelenskyy and others were applauding served in the Waffen-SS Galicia Division, or the SS 14th Waffen Division, a voluntary unit that was part of Adolf Hitler’s forces during the Second World War.
At the University of Alberta, people can make donations that are then invested on their own, or pooled with other endowments, to generate interest that can be used to fund bursaries and researchers.
Over the last decade, ending in March of last year, the university’s endowment has earned an average annual return of 9.6 per cent.
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Wait, paying the Nazi’s back? Just don’t commemorate them and use that money for a good cause. Or even go ahead and use it towards an anti-Nazi cause. Just seems like worst of all worlds to be giving the Nazi the money now that you already have it.
The university said Hunka’s family made the donation to the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the university in 2019.
Rota at least apologized almost immediately. Four years to finally come up with an apology? And that’s it? Rota also lost his business over it. The University of Alberta is going to continue on as if nothing happened?
What would you like them to do, Rocket?
I would like to continue to not care.
However, as for what the public wants, shutting down the University for good would keep with what Rota had to do. The public agreed that was the right move and there is no reason for them to change their mind now.
As for the 1,400-some-odd other days that they sat on this without doing anything, that is a great question. There is no such precedence for what the public believes is the right move. I have no knowledge of what the public might want here.
Yeah let’s just shut down one of the most prominent institutions in our country because they checks notes took a donation from someone, and when it became common knowledge that that person was not a fan favourite, they returned it.
You’re an idiot. The two things are not the same.
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