May 14, 2024 | Community Stories, Media Releases
Toronto, ON – Ukrainians and friends of Ukraine gathered at the Art Gallery of Ontario on May 9 for the Tryzub Awards Gala in a show of solidarity with the people of Ukraine. The 2024 Gala, dedicated to the Crimean Tatar people on the 10th anniversary of Russia’s...
Apr 9, 2024 | Community Stories
The 10th KOBZAR Book Award Presentation was a great success! 150 guests from across Canada gathered on March 21 at Winnipeg’s Canadian Museum for Human Rights to celebrate our Canadian storytellers. The Ukrainian story in Canada spans over 130 years from the first...
Nov 5, 2023 | Community Stories
Lviv oblast – Edmonton * Shumka Ukrainian Dancers Andriana and Osyp Slavych shared this story with us along with a beautiful poem. “We are new to Canada, we came here a year ago, on June 8, 2022. Osyp is 12 and Andriana is 13. We both are students of St. Theresa...
Oct 31, 2023 | Community Stories
Kyiv – Hamilton * Ukrainian Youth Association of Canada (CYM), Hamilton Branch Dmytro Kyianytsia shared the following story. “I arrived in Canada from Kyiv on June 19, 2022, with my mother and sister. Three months later our father joined us. We settled in Hamilton,...
Oct 31, 2023 | Community Stories
Nova Kakhovka – Regina * Chaban Ukrainian Dance Association Sofiia Baranovska shared her story as follows. “I am from the especially beautiful and ever-blossoming city Nova Kakhovka, Kherson oblast (province) in the southern part of Ukraine. My hometown has been...
Oct 31, 2023 | Community Stories
Sarny – Edmonton * Plast Ukrainian Youth Association, Edmonton Branch The Kutsyi Family shared its story as written below. “We are the Kutsyi family – Oleksandr and Inna with five energetic children, Evelina, Iliia, Anna, David, and Mariia, who arrived in Edmonton in...