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05.09.2018


Vasyl Stus, a Ukrainian martyr who was tortured to death by the Soviets in 1985, is remembered with veneration as a fearless Ukrainian freedom fighter who gave his life in the struggle to secure universal values of humanity - individual liberty and national freedom - for his countrymen and women. He was an intellectual, writer and poet, and exponent of non-violence. For his writings alone he paid the ultimate price. Subjected to sadistic physical and psychological torture he died in prison rather than renounce his struggle for freedom and justice for his nation...

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17.04.2018


The Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) welcomes the decision by the OSCE Permanent Council of 22 March 2018 to extend the mandate of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine until 31 March 2019. With this decision, OSCE participating States have once again demonstrated unwavering commitment to supporting Ukraine’s territorial integrity and its efforts to counter Russian aggression in the eastern part of the country...

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11.04.2018


A large and enthusiastic crowd gathered on the evening of Wednesday 14 March at St. John’s Cultural Centre, Edmonton, to hear Jars Balan give the 2018 Bohdan Bociurkiw Memorial Lecture on the topic “An Unorthodox History of the 1918 Founding of the Ukrainian (Greek) Orthodox Church in Canada.” Jars Balan is the Director of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, and the Administrative Coordinator of the Kule Ukrainian Canadian Studies Centre at CIUS. He has written extensively on the history of Ukrainians in Canada, and has a special interest in Ukrainian Canadian literature, theatre, and church history. In his lively presentation, Jars drew on a wide range of sources, gathered over several decades of work on the social history of Ukrainians in Canada, to present an account of the founding of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada “from the bottom up.”...

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14.03.2018


The tragedy of the Ukrainian people, who even today suffer from Russian aggression, was planned first in 1492, when Moscow devised a concept of building up its principality as an empire envisioning itself as the Third Rome. These intentions become germane vis a vis Ukrainian territory, especially after the Pereyaslav Council of 1654. The Ukrainian Cossacks found themselves in an extremely difficult situation after a long struggle with Poland. Their hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky concluded an alliance with Moscow for armed support, believing in the assurances of a consensual Orthodox alliance...

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14.03.2018


Dear Member of Parliament, Re: Canada’s G7 Presidency and international support for Ukraine I am writing to you on behalf of the League of Ukrainian Canadians (LUC) to express my support for Canada taking a leadership role in the international community’s response to Russia’s ongoing hybrid war against the West, and Ukraine in particular. Our organization fully supports the call to action initiated by the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) and UCC’s briefing note to Members of Parliament in early February 2018...

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22.02.2018


On 28 January 2018 in Rome, Italy, Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) President Eugene Czolij extended greetings on behalf of the UWC and the 20-million strong Ukrainian diaspora to His Holiness Pope Francis during the latter’s visit to St. Sofia Ukrainian Greek Catholic Sobor. In his address to the local Ukrainian community and thousands of faithful the Holy Father empathized with their anguish for their homeland that is suffering from war, prayed for an end to the war in Ukraine and called on them to not lose faith...

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10.01.2018


On a Sunday afternoon in the hall of Holy Spirit Church in Hamilton, a film premiered about Metropolitan Josyf Slipyj. U Spravakh Ryfy (“The Ryf Cases”) was presented by Ihor Yatsiv, the press secretary of Patriarch Sviatoslav. This documentary film was produced in Ukraine but uses archival material and interviews from Ukraine, Rome, Italy and the United States. The film’s title is a reference to all of the criminal investigations and operations attempting to liquidate the Church in western Ukraine during the post-war Soviet period. All of these operations were put into one KGB folder codenamed “Ryf.” It features the first years of Metropolitan Slipyj’s life until 1963, when he was finally released from the GULAG in the Soviet Union and returned to Rome...

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13.12.2017


On December 15, 2017 a delegation representing members of the National Executive of the League of Ukrainian Canadians (LUC) met with the Hon. Dave Levac, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, in his office at the Main Legislative Building, Queen’s Park, Toronto. The purpose of the meeting was to brief Speaker Levac on the situation in eastern Ukraine and Russia’s war of aggression against the Ukrainian people. The need for worldwide recognition of the Holodomor as an act of genocide and the importance of the establishment of the Holodomor Memorial in Toronto were also discussed and strongly supported by the Speaker...

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13.12.2017


On 10-11 November 2017 at The Old Mill in Toronto, Canada, the Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) held the final in a series of international conferences titled “UWC at 50 and Beyond: The Roadmap”, which summed up one half of a century of UWC activity and developed certain priorities for the future. Participating in the conference were religious and state high-ranking officials and diplomatic representatives from Ukraine and Canada, politicians, members of the leadership and representatives of UWC member organizations from Australia, Brazil, Great Britain, Greece, Estonia, Canada, Russian Federation, USA, Hungary, and Switzerland, and leaders of UWC partner organizations – International Institute for Education, Culture and Diaspora Relations of Lviv Polytechnic National University and Atlantic Council...

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03.12.2017


Toronto, ON November 8, 2017 - The Holodomor National Awareness Tour (HNAT) continued its travels across Canada this past summer, engaging communities and schools about the Holodomor, the famine genocide of 1932-1933. From Southwestern Ontario to the Maritime Provinces to Vancouver Island and back to Ontario, the Holodomor Mobile Classroom (HMC) has been on the road this summer since July visiting, communities throughout Canada, many for the first time – Moncton NB, St. John NB, Halifax NS, Sydney NS, Prince Edward Island, Victoria, Vancouver and Richmond BC. Visitors to the HMC at community events continued to express their gratitude for the opportunity to learn about this...

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