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12.07.2010
Members of the Quebec's National Assembly today unanimously passed Bill 390 - An Act to proclaim Ukrainian Famine and Genocide (Holodomor) Memorial Day. The Bill, which was introduced in November by MNA Louise Beaudoin and received unanimous approval at first reading, commemorates victims of the Holodomor (the engineered famine in Ukraine which murdered millions of Ukrainians in 1932-33). The legislation recognizes the Holodomor as "the famine and genocide that occurred in Ukraine in 1932 and 1933 where millions of Ukrainians perished as victims of a famine deliberately induced by the Soviet regime under Joseph Stalin to quash the aspirations of the Ukrainian people for a free and independent Ukraine." The Bill further builds on the 1998 Ukrainian Presidential decree, the law adopted by... |
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25.01.2010
Liberal Foreign Affairs Critic, the Hon. Bob Rae, passed a unanimous Resolution in Parliament today to commemorate the victims of Europe's totalitarian regimes. "Millions of Canadians of Eastern and Central European descent whose families have been directly affected by either Nazi or Communist crimes have made unique and significant, cultural, economic, social and other contributions to help build the Canada we know today," said Mr. Rae. "We must unequivocally condemn the crimes against humanity committed by totalitarian Nazi and Communist regimes and offer the victims of these crimes and their family members' sympathy, understanding and recognition for their suffering... |
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05.12.2009
 James Bezan, Member of Parliament for Selkirk-Interlake, met with a group of twenty five Ukrainian youth interns of the 19th Annual Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program (CUPP). The group discussed a number of pressing issues facing the Ukrainian community and Canada-Ukraine relations including the Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement and remembrance of the Ukrainian Famine (Holodomor) and its recognition as Genocide. “If these young people are any indication, the future of the Ukraine is in very good hands,” said Mr. Bezan. “I was pleased to engage with so many intelligent and dynamic youth, to hear their stories about the issues impacting their country, and how we can strengthen relations between our nations.” The CUPP internship program... |
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06.09.2009
 Further demonstrating his commitment to the Ukrainian Canadian community, the Honourable John Yaremko has pledged $100,000 over the next five years in support of the work of the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Foundation. Speaking on behalf of Mr. Yaremko, his friends, Bill and Rose Sametz, confirmed that the former Ontario cabinet minister and recent recipient of the Paul Yuzyk Award for Multiculturalism, who has long admired UCCLF for the work it has done in recalling Canada's first national internment operations... |
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02.12.2008
Today, Dave Levac, MPP Brant was presented with a prestigious award from the League of Ukrainian Canadians for his outstanding work on the Holodomor, the man-made famine in Ukraine from 1932 to 1933. Also, present at the awards ceremony... |
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07.05.2008
 On April 17 Member of Provincial Parliament for Brant, Mr. Dave Levac, tabled a Private Member’s bill introducing The Holodomor Memorial Day Act. The Act would recognize the fourth Saturday in November each year as Holodomor Memorial Day “to commemorate the genocide by famine that occurred in Ukraine from 1932 to 1933.” “We have lost the adults who lived through this calamity... |
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12.06.2007
A Crimes of Communism Seminar will be held on Monday June 11, 2007 from 1 to 5 PM at the Lithuanian Centre at 1 Resurrection Road north ofBloorjust west of Islington Ave. in Toronto. Keynote speaker will be the prominent Swedish Member of Parliament Goran Lindblad who is also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. In January 2006 Lindblad initiated a Condemn Communism resolution at the European Parliament. A second speaker will be Andrew Gregorovich who will speak on Communist Crimes in Ukraine... |
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07.03.2007
 The McGill Ukrainian Students’ Association (MUSA) organized a series of events during “McGill Ukrainian Week 2007”, a tradition that dates back to 1953 on McGill campus. During the week of January 18-28 events included a talk by Prof. Yarema Kelebay marking the 75th anniversary of the 1932-33 famine-genocide titled... |
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07.03.2007
 Montreal's Ukrainian Canadian Congress hosted Nigel Linsan Colley from the United Kingdon, the great nephew of Welsh journalist Gareth Jones, who was the first Western journalist to expose the 1932-1933 famine-genocide in Soviet Ukraine. After Gareth’s visit to the Soviet Union in l933, "Gareth had conveyed to a friend that the Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs... |
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05.02.2007
 NDP MP Peggy Nash (Parkdale – High Park) on December 7 introduced a Private Member’s Bill, Bill C-394, that will allow any Canadian citizen or landed immigrant to sponsor, once in their lifetime, one family member from outside the family class as defined in the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act... |
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