Commentary by: Oksana Bashuk Hepburn in Toronto Canada turned 150 on July 1. From “a few acres of snow” it has been transformed into one…
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Embracing Gratitude over Guilt
Trunk Tales: Leaving home … finding home is an exhibit that recently opened in Toronto. Through a variety of heirlooms — trunks, clothes, photos and…
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A Tradition of Thrift
Victoria Bechkalo, a social worker from Ukraine, and Aleksandr Aksenov, a bank analyst from Russia, had only five guests at their Toronto wedding — the…
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One Year In, Big Shift in Foreign Policy
Commentary by Bhupinder Liddar Did the seismic shift in Canada’s political landscape, a year ago, following the election on October 19, 2015, also trigger a…
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Foreign Policy Debate Ignores Diaspora Nation
by Ranjit Bhaskar in Toronto Rightly or wrongly, foreign policy is not high on the list of issues that Canadians would like to know about…
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‘No Time for Risky Plans’ Harper Says, Launching Marathon Campaign
by iPolitics Flouting the conventional wisdom against summer electioneering and defying accusations of political opportunism, Stephen Harper today called a federal election for Oct. 19,…
View More ‘No Time for Risky Plans’ Harper Says, Launching Marathon CampaignUnderstanding My Ukrainian Grandparents
by Michelle Loughery (@mlougherymurals) in Vernon, British Columbia Thousands of Canadians originating from Eastern Europe were imprisoned within the barbed wire fences of internment camps across…
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by Jane Lytvynenko (@JaneLytv) in Kiev, Ukraine Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Stephen Harper signed a free-trade agreement between the two countries Tuesday. Meeting in…
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PULSE: Eastern Europe – What You Didn’t Read in the Mainstream
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…
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Almost Two-thirds of Tories Oppose Victims of Communism Memorial
by Janice Dickson Opposition to the Harper government’s planned Memorial to the Victims of Communism is staggering — with even the Prime Minister’s supporters strongly…
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