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05.09.2007
The Katedra Foundation in Toronto has announced a program of non-governmental Teaching Fellowships tenable at Ukrainian universities. The long-term Fellowships are intended to support Ukraine’s efforts to integrate its higher learning with European and world scholarship and will allow foreign academics to teach Ukrainian and non-Ukrainian subjects in Ukrainian or English. The Foundation proposes to establish a Visiting Lectureship, first at the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA) and then at universities in Lviv, Odesa, Kharkiv and Luhansk... |
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14.08.2007
In its eleventh year, the Toronto Ukrainian Festival (Formerly the Bloor West Village Ukrainian Festival) continues to be one of the most anticipated events of the summer season. The Toronto Ukrainian Festival will be presented during Labour Day Weekend on August 31 - September 3, 2007 on Toronto’s beautiful waterfront at Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West... |
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10.08.2007
 We buried her under a maple. Seeing Mary’s grave sheltered by a tree whose leaf symbolizes our country was comforting. Nearby stands a spruce. That evergreen would have reminded her of the boreal forest she knew as a young girl. Even though she was born in Montreal Mary was branded an “enemy alien” and transported north to the Spirit Lake concentration camp, along with the rest of the Manko family. Thousands of Ukrainians and other Europeans like them were jailed not because of anything they had done but only because of where they had come from, who they were... |
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10.08.2007
 Kingston - Canada's Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Stephen Harper, has commended Stefan Kuzmyn for his decades of dedicated volunteer service on behalf of the people of Ukraine and Canada. Mr Kuzmyn, a Ukrainian nationalist, political prisoner, and survivor of several Nazi concentration camps, emigrated to Canada from a Displaced Persons camp after the Second World War... |
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10.08.2007
 Etobicoke – Over 400 patrons, guests, residents and members of the community today gathered at the Ukrainian Canadian Care Centre for a ceremonial groundbreaking and blessing on June 16. The Home with a Heart Campaign was jump started by a $1.5 million gift from philanthropists Ian Ihnatowycz, President and CEO of Acuity Investments Management Inc. and his wife, optometrist Dr. Marta Witer. This gift is the largest single donation to a Ukrainian Canadian organization... |
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11.06.2007
 The Ukrainian community gathered in the hundreds on the evening of April 27 for a candlelight vigil in front of St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church in Mississauga to mark a tragedy in the history of the Ukrainian people. On April 28, 1947 Polish military and security units began surrounding Ukrainian villages in what is now Eastern Poland and within hours Ukrainian inhabitants were evacuated from their homes and taken to train stations where they were loaded into cattle cars and shipped across the country... |
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11.06.2007
 Toronto - Victor Malarek, Senior Reporter at CTV W-FIVE, was the recipient of the 2007 John Syrnick Award for Journalism. The award, sponsored by the Ukrainian-Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko, was presented during a cocktail reception held on May 14 at the University of Toronto's Faculty Club. Introducing Victor Malarek was James Temerty who, while highlighting the recipients accomplishments, shared excerpts of Malarek's life story which had tremendous influence on his successes to date... |
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11.06.2007
Students at Toronto's Josyf Cardinal Slipyj Catholic School used their heads, noodles and a bit of Ukrainian garlic to help them raise money to offset their grade eight graduation costs. Each year graduating students learn about fundraising by thinking up creative ways to raise money. Knowing that Golden Lion Restaurant was about to launch their new catering menu the students formed an innovative partnership to provide a hot pasta lunch for the school students and staff... |
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07.03.2007
The Ukrainian World Congress marked 40 years of activity beyond the borders of Ukraine with a banquet on Saturday, March 3 in Mississauga, Ontario. Over 600 guests honoured the organization which has been the unifying voice for Ukrainians in the diaspora and their link to the Ukrainian community in Ukraine... |
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05.02.2007
 On Sunday, January 21, the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Toronto branch, recognized Ukrainian veterans of Carpathian Sich, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). the First Ukrainian Division of the Ukrainian National Army and the Canadian forces. With much pomp and ceremony, the veterans were acknowledged for their courage and determination in fighting for an independent, democratic Ukraine... |
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