EDMONTON — The University of Alberta is returning endowment funds from the family of a Ukrainian man whose military service was linked to the Nazis.
Since 2019, the university's Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies has had a $30,000 endowment carrying the name Yaroslav Hunka.
It was later revealed that Hunka had fought in a Ukrainian unit set up by Nazi Germany to fight the Soviet Union. "I want to express our commitment to address antisemitism in any of its manifestations, including the ways in which the Holocaust continues to resonate in the present."In Ottawa, an interim speaker will preside as the House of Commons resumes sitting for the first time since Rota's resignation.
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