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22.07.2011 UKRAINE CELEBRATES ІТS 20th ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE 24th August 2011 Australia's Ukrainian community will also celebrate this occasion around that date with events in all States. 20 years on, it's a good time to reflect as Ukrainians and as members of the broader Australian community as to how we have contributed to the community, how we have maintained and shared our Ukrainian religious beliefs, our heritage and ancestry over the 60 years here in Australia and the last 20 years of Independence. It's a time to ask - What can I do now to maintain and/or share, or in some cases to reconnect to these Ukrainian religious beliefs, to our heritage and ancestry ? In my home, with my peers, in my workplace, at my sports club, at my place of study - They are all places where I have a sphere of influence in promoting things Ukrainian...

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19.07.2011 52nd ANNIVERSARY OF CAPTIVE NATIONS WEEK Below, please find a President Barack Obama's proclamation for the 52nd anniversary of Captive Nations Week.. Should you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact the Ukrainian National Information Service at 202 547-0018, or by e-mail at unis@ucca.org... ..

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17.12.2010 "GENOCIDAL DENIAL CAUSES PAIN" I witnessed an odd event recently. A statesman stood hallowing a genocide's victims in the country where it occurred while its president ignored the ceremony, insisting there was no genocide. Canada's prime minister, Stephen Harper, showed respect for Ukraine's dead. Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine's president, did not. Reportedly, he has never entered the Kyiv museum to the Holodomor, the Great Famine of 1932-1933 in Soviet Ukraine. Yet Yanukovych's behaviour was all but ignored while Harper's words became the story. When he said "almost" 10 million people starved, roughly Canada's population in 1933, his critics accused him of poppycock. Scything several million off the death toll, they insisted only a few million perished -- a lesser booboo. Scholarly estimates of Holodomor-related deaths do vary. A credible study by...

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12.09.2010 JOHN YAREMKO PASSES AWAY Peacefully in his sleep on Saturday, August 7, 2010, three days short of his 92nd birthday at the Ukrainian Canadian Care Centre, Toronto. Predeceased by his wife Mary and parents George and Mary Yaremko. He is survived by brothers and sisters Anne Holota, Fred Yaremko, Lucy Migus, Jeanette Cooke, Robert Yaremko and Rosalie Yaremko. He is predeceased by siblings Mene, Michael, Lena Hish and Peter and in-laws Bob Cooke, Dennis Holota, Ronald Migus and Frances Yaremko. He is survived by many nieces and nephews. Special thanks to Guardian Angels Rose and Bill Sametz, as well as niece Hélène Yaremko-Jarvis and Gary Jarvis. Born in Welland, Ontario in a family of immigrants from Ukraine. He put himself through school while working on farms and the Steel Company of Canada during summer months and nights while attending the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall Law School...

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12.09.2010 ALUMNI HOMECOMING IN WINNIPEG A committee of Ukrainian Canadian departments and graduates at the U of M are planning to honour their outstanding alumni on September 25, 2010. This is in conjunction with the Manitoba Homecoming 2010 and the 140th Anniversary of Manitoba and it is hoped that some 250-300 graduates of Ukrainian Canadian ancestry will participate in the event. Some 12 outstanding graduates will be honoured at the Saturday evening banquet on September 25th, 6:30 PM in the Great Hall of St. Andrew’s College. The University of Manitoba has had...

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12.09.2010 UKRAINIAN FLAG-RAISING CEREMONY AT QUEEN’S PARK ATTRACTS FEDERAL AND PROVINCIAL LEADERS The Ukrainian Canadian community held a flag- raising ceremony at Queen’s Park on Tuesday, August 24 at 12:00 noon in honour of the 19th Anniversary of the Restoration of the Independence of Ukraine. The event was organized by the Canadian Conference in Support of Ukraine (CCSU): League of Ukrainian Canadians ( LUC ), League of Ukrainian Canadian Women (LUCW) and Ukrainian Youth Association of Canada (CYM). The event is supported by the Consulate General of Ukraine in Toronto and the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Toronto. Honoured guest speakers at the event included members of the provincial and federal parliaments, representatives of the Ukrainian government, the consular corps, Church and community leaders: - His Eminence and Metropolitan Nominee Archbishop Yurij of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada. - His Grace Bishop Stefan of the Ukrainian Catholic Church of Canada. - Senator Consiglio DiNino for Ontario, Member of the Canada Tibet Committee and Board Member of the Scouts Canada Foundation, who also delivered the official statement of the Rt. Hon. Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada...

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