Zelenskiy Must Adhere to Constitutional Norms
Marco Levytsky, National Affairs Editor.
Despite the humiliation of losing re-election by the biggest landslide in the brief history of independent Ukraine, and suffering much...
The View From Here: Zakerzonia
Volodymyr Kish.
This past weekend, I attended the 20th Anniversary of the Association of Ukrainians “Zakerzonia” in Toronto. The association is composed of Ukrainians and...
The View From Here: The Sheptytsky Colony – An Unrealized Dream
Volodymyr Kish.
Back in 1926, a young French priest by the name of Fr. Josaphat Jean tried to establish a Ukrainian settlement on the shores...
Refugee Crisis in Europe
Lubomyr Luciuk, Kingston, On.
Canada has been good to refugees.
I should know. My late parents were both political refugees, fleeing the Soviet and Nazi occupations that...
A Short Poetic History of Ukraine
In far off lands in days gone by
Our Slavic kin did live and die.
They broke the ground and planted crops
From endless steppes to hilly...
The View From Here: A Pidkamin Perspective
Volodymyr Kish.
My cousin Hryts in Pidkamin had been having a difficult couple of weeks when I called him the other day to catch up...
The View From Here: The only truth is music
Volodymyr Kish.
America’s famous itinerant beat poet and philosopher Jack Kerouac once said, “The only truth is music”. I know well what he meant. Words...
The View From Here: Autumn reveries
Volodymyr Kish.
On a fine day this past week, my wife and I celebrated the official end of summer, better known as the autumnal equinox....
Repercussions of the Holodomor reverberate today
Marco Levytsky, Editorial Writer.
This Saturday, November 23, people around the world commemorate the horrendous act of genocide which has come down in history to...
The View From Here: Historical Traumas
Volodymyr Kish.
I got involved last week in a Facebook dialogue that resurrected the centuries-old troubled relationship between Poles and Ukrainians. Despite being closely related...
Disappointed Again – Ukrainians After the Havana Statement of Francis and Kirill
Fr. Peter Galadza, PhD, Ottawa.
The declaration signed in Havana by Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow on February 12 has disappointed the global...
The View From Here: What’s The Word?
Volodymyr Kish.
Back some months ago, I wrote an article about some of the words used by Ukrainians living in western Ukraine that were distinctively...
The View From Here: The ignoble savage
Volodymyr Kish.
Last week marked the 75th anniversary of the DDay landings in Normandy, an event that became known, at least in the western world,...
The Other War
The fighting in the Donbas has abated significantly over the past several weeks since the debacle at Debaltseve. To Putin, a cease fire means...
Parliamentary Democracy in Ukraine
Volodymyr Kish
Ever since Ukraine freed itself from the shackles of the USSR some two decades ago, it has struggled to establish a parliamentary democracy...
The Kremlin’s Dangerous New Threat in Ukraine
Ihor Kozak, Toronto
Fighting continues to gradually intensify in eastern Ukraine. The Kremlin-backed militants are now using heavy weapons, including tanks, artillery, and ferocious Grad...
Canadian Heritage responds to last week’s editorial
Phase 2 will provide $137.5 million to arts and culture organizations.
Marco Levytsky, Editorial Writer.
It didn’t take long for the Department of Canadian Heritage to...
The View From Here: The Trouble With Borders
Volodymyr Kish.
According to the United Nations, there are 193 countries on this planet of ours. Arguably there are 195, since there are two states,...
Релігійна тематика в українській літературі, зокрема в творчості Івана Франка (закінчення)
Ярослав Стех для Нового Шляху, Торонто.
Підбиваючи підсумки до порушених питань, треба ствердити, що від смерті Шевченка ніхто з українців не здобув собі більшого признання, ніж...
A Hryts Historical Lesson
This past Sunday, it being Ukrainian Independence Day, I called my cousin Hryts in Pidkamin, Lviv region, to convey my best wishes on this...
The View From Here: A Dose of Hryts
Volodymyr Kish.
It had been a while since I last engaged in what I hesitatingly call “conversation” with my sagacious cousin Hryts, so last week...
Welcome to Our New Publication
Welcome to the brand new publication - New Pathway – Ukrainian News - a Ukrainian Canadian community newspaper which combines the tradition of two...
The View From Here: Random Thoughts
Volodymyr Kish.
Writing this weekly column is usually an easy and straightforward thing, except when it isn’t. It is easy when I have a subject...
Press Freedom Day Underscores the Necessity of Independent Media
Marco Levytsky, Western Bureau Chief.
May 3 marked the 26th annual United Nations Press Freedom Day. On this day, we:
Celebrate the fundamental principles of...
The View From Here: Hryts and the Coronavirus
Volodymyr Kish.
I heard last week that the Coronavirus had finally reached Ukraine, and as I have no shortage of family still living there, I...
The View From Here:Historical Inverse Symmetry According to Hryts
Volodymyr Kish.
I have been very caught up in trying to follow the ebb and flow of events in Ukraine and Russia for the past...
It’s About Time
Volodymyr Kish
With just a couple of weeks to go before the start of a new year, I got to thinking about just what exactly...
Time for Canada to Implement the Magnitsky Act
Marco Levytsky, National Affairs editor.
Canada has missed an opportunity to be a leader in implementing sanctions against corrupt...
Another Ukraine
For most of the past year, my thoughts and those of most other Ukrainian Canadians have been centered on our ancestral land and its...
The View From Here: Tomos
Volodymyr Kish.
This past weekend, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, signed an ecclesiastical document called a Tomos granting canonical...
