At Soviet time in Russia we had a joke: In the TRUTH (main Communist newspaper, called PRAVDA, translation from Russian - "truth") there are no news, and in a NEWS (another major Communist newspaper, called IZVESTIA, translated from Russian as a "news") - there are no truth. 
Since that time nothing was changed. There are no independent  journalists at all! In any country - Russia or US or Canada. Who pays money - those order a music. 
About Ms. Freeland grandfather.... I do not know, but where there's smoke, there's fire. A lot of Ukrainians most likely from western Ukraine collaborate with Nazi during Second World War and it is very well known, that a lot of those who did this, immigrate to USA and Canada when war was finished. Think again about smoke and fire.....