Woman shares joy of art with seniors through program
By Edna Manning for The Saskatoon Sun
January 8, 2012 -- Roma Nowakowski is an accomplished artist who has been painting for more than 50 years. She is also a dedicated volunteer, eager to give of her time and energy to help others.
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Winter issue of Visnyk now available online
20-page issue includes info on: UCC-SPC's new Skype-based Consular Consultation Service; UCC-SPC Nation Builders & Community Recognition Awards Luncheon; Events During National Holodomor Awareness Week in Saskatchewan; St. Petro Mohyla Institute's 95th Anniversary Celebrations and more.
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Winnipeg hosts conference on Ukrainians in Canada during WWII
A group of scholars met in Winnipeg on 11–12 November to examine issues related to Ukrainian Canadians and the Second World War. The gathering was a joint initiative of the Kule Ukrainian Canadian Studies Centre at CIUS, the Centre for Ukrainian Canadian Studies at the University of Manitoba, and the Oseredok Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre in Winnipeg. Additional financial support was provided by the Wasyl Topolnicki Memorial Fund and the University of Manitoba’s Department of German and Slavic Studies.
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Misconceptions of the Ukrainian Genocide By: Jane Last
In the dictionary(1) Genocide is defined as, "The deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group." And never has there ever been a more textbook example than the Holodomor of Ukraine, which had more total casualties than all the countries which fought in World War I combined(2).
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Train of Ukrainian Pioneers Project gathers Ukrainian-Canadian Immigration History
The Historical Train of Ukrainian Pioneers, a venture undertaken by the Embassy of Ukraine in Canada, embarked upon a cross-Canada journey by train on June 24 until July 8 to collect documents and artifacts representing a cross-section of the personal immigration experiences of the Ukrainians who started coming to Canada in 1891. (Photo by David Sorochuck) Read the Full Story
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