{"id":368335,"date":"2018-07-06T23:49:54","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T22:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/right-wing-fascist-supporting-tilt-among-canadas-ndp\/"},"modified":"2018-07-06T23:49:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T22:49:54","slug":"right-wing-fascist-supporting-tilt-among-canadas-ndp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/right-wing-fascist-supporting-tilt-among-canadas-ndp\/","title":{"rendered":"Right-wing, Fascist-supporting Tilt among Canada\u2019s NDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In response to Ukrainian Canadian Congress campaigning, two NDP MLAs recently convinced the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission to withdraw a brand of Russian vodka from its stores. Alberta MLAs Deron Bilous and Jessica Littlewood argued that a hammer and sickle logo on a bottle of vodka was \u201c<a href=\"mailto:http:\/\/edmontonjournal.com\/news\/politics\/its-offensive-to-ukrainians-russian-vodka-brand-pulled-from-alberta-liquor-stores\">offensive<\/a>\u201c. Articulating a growing rightist effort to equate communism with Nazism in Eastern Europe, Ukrainian Canadian Congress Alberta chapter president, Olesia Luciw-Andryjowycz, told the <em>Edmonton Journal<\/em> that the hammer and sickle was akin to \u201c<a href=\"mailto:http:\/\/edmontonjournal.com\/news\/politics\/its-offensive-to-ukrainians-russian-vodka-brand-pulled-from-alberta-liquor-stores\">having a swastika<\/a> on a bottle of cognac.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first attempt by a provincial NDP to ban Russian vodka. In response to the 2014 upheaval in the Ukraine, a minister in the NDP government in Manitoba <a href=\"mailto:https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/manitoba\/manitoba-politicians-eye-provincial-ban-on-russian-vodka-1.2579310\">discussed<\/a> a provincial ban on Russian vodka. At the same time, NDP MPP Cheri DiNovo <a href=\"mailto:https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/ndp-wants-lcbo-to-suspend-sales-of-russian-standard-vodka-1.2597425\">tabled a motion<\/a> at the Ontario Legislature calling on government-run liquor stores to suspend sales of Russian Standard vodka.<\/p>\n<p>DiNovo was one of the NDP representatives that flirted with Ukraine\u2019s hard right. She <a href=\"mailto:http:\/\/theleftchapter.blogspot.com\/2016\/09\/what-is-far-right-organisation-right.html\">attended<\/a> a Ukrainian parade in Toronto where some marched behind a banner titled \u201cRight Sector Canada\u201d. Its parent organization in the Ukraine said it was \u201c<a href=\"mailto:https:\/\/mondediplo.com\/2014\/03\/02ukraine\">defending the<\/a> values of white, Christian Europe against the loss of the nation and deregionalisation.\u201d At another Toronto event NDP MP Peggy Nash <a href=\"mailto:http:\/\/rabble.ca\/blogs\/bloggers\/roger-annis\/2015\/01\/toronto-star-newspaper-running-extreme-right-ukraine\">shared a stage<\/a> with a speaker from Ukraine\u2019s Right Sector.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past four years, the NDP has backed a coup in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/07\/right-wing-fascist-supporting-tilt-among-canadas-ndp\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to Ukrainian Canadian Congress campaigning, two NDP MLAs recently convinced the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission to withdraw a brand of Russian vodka from its stores. Alberta MLAs Deron Bilous and Jessica Littlewood argued that a hammer and sickle logo on a bottle of vodka was \u201coffensive\u201c. Articulating a growing rightist effort to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-368335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}