Court gives University of Alberta permission to dissolve research fund named after Ukrainian SS veteran

The University of Alberta has received legal approval to dissolve a research trust named after Ukrainian SS veteran Yaroslav Hunka over protests from the 101-year-old's family. Court of King's Bench Justice Debra Yungwirth released her decision Friday on the fate of the Yaroslav & Margaret Hunka Ukrainian Research Endowment Fund, a $30,000 pot of money Hunka's son Martin gave to the university to fund research into Ukrainian history. "The university did not terminate the Hunka Trust because it determined that Yaroslav was a war criminal or anti-Semitic," she wrote. "The House of Commons incident, and the public response that followed, made it clear that maintaining the Hunka Trust was not in the university's best interests." The issue erupted after Yaroslav Hunka was honoured in the House of Commons.