Six of the victims in the Ukrainian Airline’s flight 752 hailed from North Vancouver. Members of the tight-knit community rallied around one another to mourn the loss of their neighbours and express their anger.
View More Plane Crash in Tehran Grips North Vancouver Community in Anger and SadnessCanada turned 150 on July 1. From “a few acres of snow” it has been transformed into one of the world’s most prosperous countries, consistently…
View More Celebrating Canada’s 150th birthday: Ukrainian Canadians deserve thanks
Trunk Tales: Leaving home … finding home is an exhibit that recently opened in Toronto. Through a variety of heirlooms — trunks, clothes, photos and letters—stories…
View More Embracing Gratitude over Guilt
Victoria Bechkalo, a social worker from Ukraine, and Aleksandr Aksenov, a bank analyst from Russia, had only five guests at their Toronto wedding — the…
View More A Tradition of Thrift
Did the seismic shift in Canada’s political landscape, a year ago, following the election on October 19, 2015, also trigger a shift in Canada’s diplomacy,…
View More One Year In, Big Shift in Foreign Policy
Rightly or wrongly, foreign policy is not high on the list of issues that Canadians would like to know about during a federal election campaign.…
View More Foreign Policy Debate Ignores Diaspora Nation
Flouting the conventional wisdom against summer electioneering and defying accusations of political opportunism, Stephen Harper today called a federal election for Oct. 19, 40 days…
View More ‘No Time for Risky Plans’ Harper Says, Launching Marathon CampaignThousands of Canadians originating from Eastern Europe were imprisoned within the barbed wire fences of internment camps across Canada between 1914 – 20. For decades,…
View More Understanding My Ukrainian GrandparentsUkrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Stephen Harper signed a free-trade agreement between the two countries Tuesday. Meeting in Chelsea, Quebec, the two politicians solidified…
View More Ukrainians in Kiev Unimpressed by Free Trade Deal
As mainstream media focus on the war in Ukraine and Canada’s position on it, headlines in the Eastern European diaspora media reveal some of the…
View More PULSE: Eastern Europe – What You Didn’t Read in the Mainstream