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By openly using Nazi imagery, these units violate Ukraine's own 2015 memory laws, which explicitly ban the propaganda of the Nazi regime and the public use of its symbols. The law describes such acts as an insult to the memory of millions of victims and have penalties of up to five years in prison.

Yet no one is prosecuted.

Why?

Because the Zelensky government

and President Volodymyr Zelensky himself as commander-in-chief

have made a political bargain with the far right. Since 2022, far-right activists and networks have flooded into the security and defense sector. In conditions of total war and chronic manpower shortages, this alliance became politically convenient, perhaps even inevitable. Now it is becoming entrenched.

Canadian military police, and its unit, the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service (CFNIS), have faced increasing criticism of widespread incompetence and bungling of investigations.

In January 2025, a judge stayed assault and sexual assault charges against a Canadian Forces member after determining that military police had tampered with evidence and showed bias in their investigation. Superior Court of Ontario Justice Cynthia Petersen noted in her written decision that the misconduct by the CFNIS "in this case is so egregious and systemic that it shocks the community's conscience."

In June 2025, the MPCC issued a report that painted Canada's military police leadership as shutting down complaints and mismanaging investigations to the point where a criminal convicted of attempted murder almost went free.

"The government is moving forward in a way that is more indicative of an authoritarian approach rather a democratic approach," says Kwan. "Bill C-22 is an indication of that. Civil liberties organizations have said the bill is one of the most significant expansion of state surveillance authority in Canada in decades. They're even saying that it's the most invasive piece of legislation to come forward."

Even the Canadian Chamber of Commerce seems to think so. "You wouldn't have thought that they would be against a banker prime minister's legislation, the CCC, representing 200,000 businesses with a network of over 400 chambers of commerce and boards of trade across the country, said they are fundamentally opposed to this bill. They oppose the breaking of encryption and other essential zero knowledge security tools to provide the government and law enforcement with unfettered access to digital systems."

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Alberta’s cold climate is better suited to a hyperscale data centre than Utah’s desert ecosystem, but the project still carries environmental risks. The University of Calgary estimates that the Wonder Valley project could produce up to 33 million tons of emissions per year. This would completely undo Alberta’s progress in reducing its emissions over the last twenty years; between 2005 and 2023, the province reduced its emissions by roughly 29 million tons. Researchers warn that “a handful of data-centre projects could raise emissions levels to those of twenty years ago—when we burned coal to power the grid.”

The Alberta government has opted not to conduct an environmental impact assessment for the project. The federal government has not yet determined whether to conduct their own assessment.