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socm. CANADA'S NEWSPAPER FOR UKRAINIAN STUDENTS C T K " " , '' , . ,. , .10 — . , ., . - . - . , . — ,, , , - - , () - . ,- '- ,, - . ! - ., 1 1 . , ,, - . 1 ., . , Canadian Student held Police by March - April, 1989 berated by those who~seck to belie the L V V Andrij Kudelka words of visitors to Canada & the US Vol. 21 No. 105 exhorting Ukrainians here to participate According to an Associated Press in the processes taking place there. (Moscow) report published in the Globe Skrypnyk is obviously a hot potato & Mail . April 4, Ostap Skrypnyk, a because he turned out to be a Canadian, INSIDE graduate student from Alberta University and because he was apprehended for participating in an academic exchange exercising a right considered inalienable co-sponsored by the Canadian Institute by democracies. His actions and their of Ukrainian Studies, was detained by consequences serve to prove that action Soviet police in Lviv for carrying must continue tobe taken, and a reliable posters calling for a boycott of the network of information be maintained. Editorial Pg.2 March 26 elections. SUSK should renew requests for the Letters Pg.2 The AP report drew on a story in establishment of a Canadian consulate in KGB Pg.3 Pravda Ukrajiny. which apparently took Ukraine in order to facilitate such a Rambling Mind Pg.3 exception to his 'nationalist activism' communications link, among other Pg4 while on an exchange. Skrypnyk, now things. All Western media should be Pg.4 studying history at Lviv University, notified. No time lag in information Old Wounds was taken in around midnight on March should exist, because all manner of Radicalizing Pg.5 24, when walking with V. Trubijchuk, a things can happen, only to be Confessions Pg.6 resident. They local apparently had bureaucratically rationalised later if we Malarek Pg.8 about 200 of the posters in his are not informed of them immediately. Conference Pg.9 possession. Skrypnyk was apparently This is not a matter of "revealing questioned for around an hour, but there Bloc Notes Pg.10 perestroika for what it really is." It is a is no mention of the treatment of Mr. matter of actively making the Borys Bunchuk Pg.10 is also Trubijchuk. There no mention of environment there what it should be, In the Bush Pgll whether or not Skrypnyk was charged whether as a result of the actions of the with anything, but it is stated that he Soviet authorities, in spite of them, or will be "allowed to continue his studies without reference to them at all. It is STUDENT due to 'humanitarian considerations' and time to live the rights, and not just 620 SPADINA AVE SECOND CLASS MAIL regard for bilateral relations." demonstrate about them. Anything else TORONTO, ONTARIO REGISTRATION #7606 Too right he should be allowed to is just empty ideology and fucking M5S 2H4 continue to study. Even more right, he around. We have to dance as free a dance should be free from being harassed and as our muscles and minds can allow. ned ers 0{ reasonable length which comply with Canadian libel and slander f9laws will?!!be printed unedited (save tor purposes of clarity) in this column We lette ' s but 5 - " ^r personal reasons contributoZ Zh to withhold^LSSJST-their names or use a pseudonym, this can be arranged, in all cases however we require both a genuine signature and a return address. Internment Maelstrom example "Ukrainian Canadians light on this issue and is being seeking redress", by V. Malarek, The encouraged by the CLC. Among the In the most recent issue of Besides SUSK, there are many other groups Globe & Mall. 15 January 1988, A3.) redress demands is a call for the STUDENT, Mr. Nestor Gula called and individuals which are to visit Ukraine this Thus, Mr. Gula's references to establishment of an independent for a "rational discussion of the year. These visits are more than tours. These Ukrainian Canadian coat-tail riding external economic study to events" inside the Ukrainian groups and individuals have their own agenda and not caring enough to raise the determine the economic impact of community with respect to the issue is unjustified. to accomplish while in Ukraine, whether it is the internment operations on the internment of Ukrainian Canadians to establish some sort of business ties or to Mr. Gula also appears community. Contrary to assertions and other "enemy aliens" from increase cultural ties. misinformed about the UCC's that only unnaturalized migrant 1914-1920. Several While in Ukraine these individuals and points raised by lobbying efforts. As mentioned laborers with no property of any Mr. Gula deserve further analysis and above, groups will have to deal with the government the CLC was mandated to value were interned, as early as 1915 clarification. lead itself or at the very least other agencies of the the lobbying effort. The UCC General Otter wrote that "difficulties these individuals want First of all, Mr. Gula's assertion Information Communist party. If to Bureau in Ottawa was have ... arisen in the accounting for that the Ukrainian have anything accomplished they will have to Canadian not to handle those lobbying efforts. the monies received" from the Committee (UCC) suddenly erupted However, it deal with these institutions, there is no other did help to plan a lecture internees. Over $32 000 in cash was with concern over the internment tour choice. by Dr. Luciuk in Eastern left in the Receiver-General's Office with issue is incorrect. In actual fact, the In the past, official relations any Canada as part of a nationwide (estimated present-day value - $1.5 issue has been before the representatives of the Communist Party were, UCC community lobbying and million). Professor Thompson has national executive for several to put it mildly, frowned upon by the information process. It is clear that said that the Canadian government However, months and has been raised over the the Ukrainian Community in Canada. Ukrainian Canadian lobbying sold the seized property of "enemy while it is true that the Soviet Union has not last decade. Furthermore, in efforts have been extensive and well aliens" at actions for ten cents on the reached the level of democratic freedom we December of 1987 the Civil prepared. dollar. And, as Dr. Luciuk points Liberties Commission (CLC) the enjoy in Canada, there are progressive of Although differing historical out "the human cost of these democratic developments there now. Due to UCC, placed in charge of the redress interpretations are possible, there is internment operations are, of course, this, Ukrainian Canadians should not be afraid effort, presented a brief to the no doubt that Canadians of incalculable". It is also clear that to enter into Standing Committee any dialogue with members of on Ukrainian descent were interned and most Ukrainian Canadians were the Communist Party. At one lime or another Mulliculturalism of the House of that documents prove that the federal disenfranchised by the passage of the most citizens of the Soviet were Commons which recommended that government Union was ignoring advise War Time Elections Act of 1917, of the "The Parliament of Canada officially from members Communist Party. Most British authorities that thus adding to their national acknowledge the students in Universities are members of a mistreatment Ukrainians in Canada were hostile to humiliation. Komsomol which is under the wing of the suffered by Ukrainians in Canada the Austro-Hungarian rule and Furthermore, it is worth noting Communist Party. By conducting dialogue during and after the First World War therefore "friends" of Canada. the political climate in which many with all Ukrainians we will to and that the government undertake Research be able has continued in this area Ukrainian Canadians long remained encourage them negotiations with the Ukrainian to go further with their since 1978. Two Canadian after the humiliation of internment Canadian reforms and show them the benefits closer ties Committee to redress these professors, D. H. Avery of the and disenfranchisemcnt in what was and freedom will bring. injustices". Several editorials also University of Western Ontario and J. supposed to be the "promised land" appeared in major Canadian H. Thompson of McGill University - Canada. For instance, an RCMP newspapers on this very issue long say that the Canadian internment officer in 1941 reported to his before the precedent-setting operations from 1914-1920 parallel superiors in Ottawa that many agreement between the Canadian the Japanese Canadian situation in government and the Japanese its chief characteristics. Canadian Letters Con't Pg.8 community. (See, for Further research should shed more N SUBSCRIBE! DON'T BE DISAPPOINTED! ^STUDEIMTi^ITUDIAnlTM If you are a paid member of any Ukrainian Students' Club (USK) in Canada, then you will be receiving STUDENT regularly. STUDENT is published bi-monthly by Student Newspaper Publishing. Subscription rate is S6.00 If you are not a member, for 10 issues. then you stand to miss several issues of STUDENT this year. 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