Last year a monument of interest to Edmonton’s Ukrainian community was defaced with red paint..Now, Duncan Kinney, editor of the Alberta NDP/Alberta union-affiliated publication, Progress Report, stands with a criminal charge of mischief for the incident. .That the monument was defaced is not in doubt. Whether Kinney was responsible has yet to be proved in court..What does not have to be proved however — because it’s there on the website of Progress Alberta/Progress Report for which he works — is that he wrote a dead-pan news report about the whole thing..“Edmonton’s statue of Roman Shukhevych, an infamous Ukrainian Nazi collaborator, has once again been defaced with red paint. This time, a second local monument — a memorial honouring the 14th Waffen SS Division — was targeted as well. An unknown person or persons painted the words “Nazi monument” and 14th Waffen SS Division on the latter monument, which is housed t St. Michael’s cemetery [sic] on the north side of the city.”.And so on. He had also phoned up stakeholders for reaction and went to press. .Whether Shukhevych is infamous or much to be admired is something for the Ukrainian community to determine. Whichever it may be, the monuments were on private property, which in a normally tolerant state should make it nobody else’s business..However, should it also be determined in court that the ‘unknown person or persons’ and Duncan Kinney were one and the same, this would be a pretty sad affair. Journalists are not supposed to make the news… Clark Kent does not report on Superman. That sort of thing..At the Western Standard, a stunt like that — if proved — would bring your reporting days to an abrupt end. And, with some inexplicable exceptions, even the mainstream media don’t try to defend what is clearly indefensible. (An exception would be the continued defence by the New York Times of Soviet stooge Walter Duranty, who as their Moscow bureau chief suppressed coverage of Stalin’s planned genocidal famine that killed 4 million Ukrainians in the 1930s — the Holodomor.).So, a career-ender. You would think..We shall see..For on the basis of past writings. Kinney appears to me more as an activist with a website, rather than the purveyor of “Independent journalism from Progress Alberta,” as his twitter site proclaims. If that's so, then why would he quit? It’s not as if the Progress Report has any reputation to lose: Outside the four-legs-good, two-legs-bad crowd that drinks from that particular trough, it has the credibility of a three-dollar bill. Sort of an Alberta Pravda really, owned and supported by a complex paperwork network of levers and mirrors at the centre of which one finds the NDP, the Broadbent Institute and the Alberta union movement..And by the way, what’s wrong with that?.In this country we supposedly have a constitutional right to free expression. The left doesn’t seem to be as tolerant to our right to free expression as we are of theirs, but freedom is us. If Alberta’s left-wing borg are happy to pay for the Progress Report, let ‘em, says I..Of course, if it’s found that Kinney did the job on the monument, they’d better be prepared to pay for the cleanup, too..This is what the Western Standard is up againstThe Trudeau government is funding lies and propaganda by directly subsidizing the mainstream media. They do this to entrench the powerful Eastern, woke and corrupt interests that dominate the political, social and economic institutions in Canada. Federal authorities are constantly trying to censor us and stop us from publishing the stories that they don’t want you to read. Ottawa may weaponize our taxes and police against us, but we’ve got a powerful ally on our side.You. Free men, and free women. We need you to stand with us and become a member of the Western Standard. Here’s what you will get for your membership:Unlimited access to all articles from the Western Standard, Alberta Report, West Coast Standard, and Saskatchewan Standard, with no paywall. Our daily newsletter delivered to your inbox. .Access to exclusive Member-only WS events.Keep the West’s leading independent media voice strong and free.If you can, please support us with a monthly or annual membership. It takes just a moment to set up, and you will be making a big impact on keeping one the last independent media outlets in Canada free from Ottawa’s corrupting influence.
Last year a monument of interest to Edmonton’s Ukrainian community was defaced with red paint..Now, Duncan Kinney, editor of the Alberta NDP/Alberta union-affiliated publication, Progress Report, stands with a criminal charge of mischief for the incident. .That the monument was defaced is not in doubt. Whether Kinney was responsible has yet to be proved in court..What does not have to be proved however — because it’s there on the website of Progress Alberta/Progress Report for which he works — is that he wrote a dead-pan news report about the whole thing..“Edmonton’s statue of Roman Shukhevych, an infamous Ukrainian Nazi collaborator, has once again been defaced with red paint. This time, a second local monument — a memorial honouring the 14th Waffen SS Division — was targeted as well. An unknown person or persons painted the words “Nazi monument” and 14th Waffen SS Division on the latter monument, which is housed t St. Michael’s cemetery [sic] on the north side of the city.”.And so on. He had also phoned up stakeholders for reaction and went to press. .Whether Shukhevych is infamous or much to be admired is something for the Ukrainian community to determine. Whichever it may be, the monuments were on private property, which in a normally tolerant state should make it nobody else’s business..However, should it also be determined in court that the ‘unknown person or persons’ and Duncan Kinney were one and the same, this would be a pretty sad affair. Journalists are not supposed to make the news… Clark Kent does not report on Superman. That sort of thing..At the Western Standard, a stunt like that — if proved — would bring your reporting days to an abrupt end. And, with some inexplicable exceptions, even the mainstream media don’t try to defend what is clearly indefensible. (An exception would be the continued defence by the New York Times of Soviet stooge Walter Duranty, who as their Moscow bureau chief suppressed coverage of Stalin’s planned genocidal famine that killed 4 million Ukrainians in the 1930s — the Holodomor.).So, a career-ender. You would think..We shall see..For on the basis of past writings. Kinney appears to me more as an activist with a website, rather than the purveyor of “Independent journalism from Progress Alberta,” as his twitter site proclaims. If that's so, then why would he quit? It’s not as if the Progress Report has any reputation to lose: Outside the four-legs-good, two-legs-bad crowd that drinks from that particular trough, it has the credibility of a three-dollar bill. Sort of an Alberta Pravda really, owned and supported by a complex paperwork network of levers and mirrors at the centre of which one finds the NDP, the Broadbent Institute and the Alberta union movement..And by the way, what’s wrong with that?.In this country we supposedly have a constitutional right to free expression. The left doesn’t seem to be as tolerant to our right to free expression as we are of theirs, but freedom is us. If Alberta’s left-wing borg are happy to pay for the Progress Report, let ‘em, says I..Of course, if it’s found that Kinney did the job on the monument, they’d better be prepared to pay for the cleanup, too..This is what the Western Standard is up againstThe Trudeau government is funding lies and propaganda by directly subsidizing the mainstream media. They do this to entrench the powerful Eastern, woke and corrupt interests that dominate the political, social and economic institutions in Canada. Federal authorities are constantly trying to censor us and stop us from publishing the stories that they don’t want you to read. Ottawa may weaponize our taxes and police against us, but we’ve got a powerful ally on our side.You. Free men, and free women. We need you to stand with us and become a member of the Western Standard. Here’s what you will get for your membership:Unlimited access to all articles from the Western Standard, Alberta Report, West Coast Standard, and Saskatchewan Standard, with no paywall. Our daily newsletter delivered to your inbox. .Access to exclusive Member-only WS events.Keep the West’s leading independent media voice strong and free.If you can, please support us with a monthly or annual membership. It takes just a moment to set up, and you will be making a big impact on keeping one the last independent media outlets in Canada free from Ottawa’s corrupting influence.
