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The Progress Report
''The Progress Report'' is a Canadian left-wing newsletter and podcast published by Progress Alberta and operated by Duncan Kinney. Organisation ''The Progress Report'' is a newsletter and podcast written and hosted by Duncan Kinney. Its work includes investigative reporting. It self-describes itself as "proudly left wing" and of focussing its reporting on marginalised people and injustice. Activities In 2021, via its Twitter channel, ''The Progress Report'' commented on how the Ukrainian Youth Unity Complex in Edmonton received Government of Canada funding for work reducing hate crimes, while also housing a statue of Nazi-collaborator Roman Shukhevych Roman-Taras Yosypovych Shukhevych ( uk, Рома́н-Тарас Йо́сипович Шухе́вич, also known by his pseudonym, Tur and Taras Chuprynka; 30 June 1907 – 5 March 1950), was a Ukrainian nationalist, one of the commanders of Na .... In 2021, ''The Progress Report'' stated that it had been refused acces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duncan Kinney
Duncan Kinney (born 1982 or 1983) is an Edmonton-based Canadian journalist and activist. He is the founder and executive director of Progress Alberta and the editor of ''The Progress Report''. Early life and education Kinney was born in and grew up in Calgary, Alberta, and has a bachelor's degree in communications and journalism from Mount Royal University. Career Kinney founded Progress Alberta in 2016, and works as the organizations executive director. He is also the editor of the left-wing media outlet ''The Progress Report.'' At ''The Progress Report,'' Kinney oversees a newsletter, a podcast, and investigative reporting. Activism, views, allegations In 2015, Kinney called upon the Alberta government to meet its promise to reduce methane output by 45% by 2025. In June 2021, Kinney satirically ran for the Senate of Canada, despite being a senate abolitionist. Kinney is a long-time critic of Edmonton Police Service, having criticised their budget, their use of armoure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Progress Alberta
Progress Alberta is a Canadian not for profit left-leaning advocacy organisation founded and operated by Duncan Kinney. Organization Progress Alberta is based in Edmonton, Alberta"Non-profit eyes legal action over inquiry." ''Globe & Mail'' oronto, Canada 20 Jan. 2020, p. A6. ''Gale In Context: Biography'', link.gale.com/apps/doc/A611740662/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=ebsco&xid=22ce47de. Accessed 20 Nov. 2022. and run by executive director Duncan Kinney. It is a political left of centre leaning advocacy organisation that was launched in 2016. History Progress Alberta threatened legal action in 2020, when it claimed it was the target of Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and his United Conservative Party who launched a public inquiry into the funding of environmental advocacy in Alberta. The inquiry focussed on how United States-based philanthropic foundations partly funded environmental activism work in Alberta. Prior to the inquiry, Progress Alberta had received tens of thousands of dol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twitter
Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company Twitter, Inc., on which users post and interact with 280-character-long messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like, and 'Reblogging, retweet' tweets, while unregistered users only have the ability to read public tweets. Users interact with Twitter through browser or mobile Frontend and backend, frontend software, or programmatically via its APIs. Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams (Internet entrepreneur), Evan Williams in March 2006 and launched in July of that year. Twitter, Inc. is based in San Francisco, California and has more than 25 offices around the world. , more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion Web search query, search queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten List of most popular websites, most-visited websites and has been de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmonton
Edmonton ( ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta. Edmonton is situated on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Metropolitan Region, which is surrounded by Alberta's central region. The city anchors the north end of what Statistics Canada defines as the " Calgary–Edmonton Corridor". As of 2021, Edmonton had a city population of 1,010,899 and a metropolitan population of 1,418,118, making it the fifth-largest city and sixth-largest metropolitan area (CMA) in Canada. Edmonton is North America's northernmost large city and metropolitan area comprising over one million people each. A resident of Edmonton is known as an ''Edmontonian''. Edmonton's historic growth has been facilitated through the absorption of five adjacent urban municipalities ( Strathcona, North Edmonton, West Edmonton, Beverly and Jasper Place) hus Edmonton is said to be a combination of two cities, two towns and two villages./ref> in addition to a series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Of Canada
The government of Canada (french: gouvernement du Canada) is the body responsible for the federal administration of Canada. A constitutional monarchy, the Crown is the corporation sole, assuming distinct roles: the executive, as the ''Crown-in-Council''; the legislature A legislature is an assembly with the authority to make law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior,Robertson, ''Crimes against humanity'', 90. with its p ..., as the ''Crown-in-Parliament''; and the courts, as the ''Crown-on-the-Bench''. Three institutions—the Privy Council ( conventionally, the Cabinet); the Parliament of Canada; and the Judiciary of Canada, judiciary, respectively—exercise the powers of the Crown. The term "Government of Canada" (french: Gouvernement du Canada, links=no) more commonly refers specifically to the executive—Minister of the Crown, ministers of the Crown (the Cabinet) and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Shukhevych
Roman-Taras Yosypovych Shukhevych ( uk, Рома́н-Тарас Йо́сипович Шухе́вич, also known by his pseudonym, Tur and Taras Chuprynka; 30 June 1907 – 5 March 1950), was a Ukrainian nationalist, one of the commanders of Nachtigall Battalion, a of the German Schutzmannschaft 201 auxiliary police battalion, a military leader of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), and one of the perpetrators of the Galicia-Volhynia massacres of approximately 100,000 Poles. Life Shukhevych was born in the city of Lviv,Kentiy, A"Roman Shukhevych" ''Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine''. 2013 in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (some sources claim his place of birth as Krakovets). Both Shukhevych's parents were involved with the Ukrainian national revival in the 19th century. The family lays claim to dozens of active community activists in politics, music, science, and art. Shukhevych received his early education outside of Lviv. He returned to Lviv to study at the Lviv Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Shukhevych Statue (Edmonton)
The Roman Shukhevych statue in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada is a controversial sculpture located near the Ukrainian Youth Association ''narodny dim'' of the Ukrainian nationalist Roman Shukhevych, a military leader of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), and one of the perpetrators of the Galicia-Volhynia massacres of approximately 100,000 Poles. Description and location The bronze bust is located on private property near the Ukrainian Youth Unity Complex in Edmonton. It was partly funded by Canadian taxpayers. The statue consists of a bust of Roman Shukhevych, the Ukrainian ultranationalist and World War II Nazi collaborator. It was erected in 1973 by Ukrainian veterans of the Second World War who emigrated to Canada. Critical reception and vandalism The Russian Embassy to Canada objected to the presence of the statue in October 2018. The Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies called for the removal of the statue in 2021, stating that the statue and anoth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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