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The League of Ukrainian Canadians in association with the Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre are proud to announce the opening of a community exhibit at Queen's Park titled "Ukrainian Ontarians: Community and Courage." It is located on the main floor of the legislative building and will be showcased until November 2017. The exhibit traces the Ukrainian Ontarian community and their work and dedication to the protection of their new homeland. It showcases the organizational zeal of interwar Ukrainian immigrants, which paved the way for the preservation of their culture and made a marked contribution to the multicultural strength of Canada. Their involvement in Ontario’s industry, as well as their significant contributions made to Canada's efforts in WWII, have shaped a unique Ukrainian Canadian identity and pride...

The Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko (Shevchenko Foundation), and Mitacs, a national not-for-profit research and training organization, announces a new partnership that will allow Ukrainian undergraduate students to participate in research internships at Canadian universities for the first time. The agreement was signed at the Bahen Centre for Information Technology, University of Toronto by Shevchenko Foundation President Andrew Hladyshevsky and Mitacs CEO and Scientific Director Alejandro Adem. From June to September each year, top-ranked Ukraine students will participate in a 12-week research internship under the supervision of Canadian university faculty. Students are provided with professional skills training and gain valuable knowledge about Canadian industry and innovation. Interns...

On 12 June 2017 the first “legacy project” exhibit organized by Dr Lubomyr Luciuk for the Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund was unveiled in the newly renovated Canadian History Hall at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Quebec. Seen from left to right are Dr Lubomyr Luciuk, the CFWWIRF’s chairman, Ivan Grbesic, and the president of the Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko, Andrew Hladyshevsky...

Members of the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association (UCCLA) reaffirmed their commitment to correcting an historical wrong in vowing to address the situation of the rundown and overgrown internee cemetery on private land in Spirit Lake, Que...

Many of the millions of visitors to the Canadian Museum of History will remember the Ukrainian church — an artifact, not a replica, an actual full-sized building — right in the middle of the former Canada Hall. As a powerful symbol of late 19th and early 20th century settlement across the Prairies, the church of Saint Onuphrius, originally from Smoky Lake, Alberta, will remain a focal point of the new Canadian History Hall...

Over two hundred community members and friends attended Canada 150: Building the Ukrainian Story Gala and Live Auction on Friday, June 16th at the Old Mill Toronto. The evening was a celebration of this extraordinary milestone and to launch a new initiative of the BCU Foundation, the Canada 150 Fund, which will provide scholarship opportunities for Ukrainian-Canadian graduate students and young scholars encouraging research in science, technology, business, finance and other disciplines...

Bohdan Krawchenko, former director of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, recently delivered three lectures in Canada on “The Global (Dis)Order and Ukraine.” He spoke first at the J.B. Rudnyckyj Distinguished Lecture in Winnipeg on 8 March, then delivered the Annual Shevchenko Lecture in Edmonton on 10 March (sponsored by CIUS and the Ukrainian Canadian Professional and Business Association of Edmonton) and, finally, CIUS’s Wolodymyr Dylynsky Memorial Lecture in Toronto on 13 March (co-sponsored by St. Vladimir Institute). This coverage is based on Dr. Krawchenko’s talk in Edmonton, although it is much in line with his presentations on the two other occasions...

On May 28, 2017 the Ukrainian Canadian community in Hamilton commemorated the 70th anniversary of Akcja Wisla. In 1947, the Polish government deliberately forced thousands of Ukrainians off their ancestral lands. They were forced to leave their homes, valuables, and land for an uncertain future in northern and western Poland. Many of those who survived this ordeal where at the May 28 commemoration. Akcja Wisla, or Operation Vistula, was the final operation executed by the post-war Polish government in order to achieve its goal of having a mono-ethnic state. When the Second World War ended and the Yalta Conference decided the borders of the new Europe, many Ukrainians on the west side of the Curzon Line (the new border line between Poland and Ukraine) were startled to hear that they were in Poland rather than in Ukraine. Between 1944-1946 a total of 482,880 Ukrainians were relocated to the Ukrainian SSR, primarily to Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Mykoaliv and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts...

At its Annual General Meeting in Oshawa, Ontario on Saturday, May 6, 2017, the Ontario Provincial Council of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress elected Anna Kuprieieva as President. Ms. Kuprieieva is an international law specialist with expertise in international trade and investment law, corporate law, competition law, export controls and customs-related matters. She currently works for Citco Canada, a financial services company...

June 1, 2017. OTTAWA. The Ukrainian Canadian community joins Ukrainians around the world in mourning the passing of His Beatitude Lubomyr Husar, former Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Cardinal Lubomyr Husar passed away on May 31. He was 85. "We express our deep sorrow on the passing of His Beatitude Lubomyr Husar, and ask God to grant him eternal life in His Heavenly Home," stated Paul Grod, National President of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress. "Cardinal Husar was a...