Yaroslav Hunka, right, waits for the arrival of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the House of Commons in Ottawa on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. Patrick Doyle/The Canadian Press.

The price of forgetting our past

Forgetfulness of the past is more likely to produce conflict than remembering it is. Reimagining history as a Disney-like conflict between good and evil is more likely to lead you into error than facing up to it with all its unhappiness and failures.

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‘Sheer carelessness’: David Frum discusses Canada’s Nazi-unit war veteran controversy

This is the forty-first episode of The Hub’s bi-weekly series featuring Sean Speer in conversation with leading author, journalist, and thinker David Frum. The two discuss the political controversy in Canada over the attendance of a Ukrainian man who fought for a Nazi unit at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s speech to the Canadian Parliament and what the episode tells us about the priorities of Canada’s political class.