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`VERY UGLY SILENCE' BROKEN AS MPPS COME TOGETHER TO MARK UKRAINE FAMINE |
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Sometimes, from out of the daily grind of governing, the posturing and theatrics, the run-of-the-mill taxing and spending, the routine announcing and denouncing, there arises a transcendent moment. Yesterday, it occurred when MPP Dave Levac left his seat and met in the middle of the Legislature floor colleagues Frank Klees and Cheri DiNovo. There, the three legislators shook hands, hugged briefly (if perhaps just a bit awkwardly), then turned to lead the chamber in applauding the Ukrainian-Canadian visitors in the galleries... |
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Published Tuesday, April 21 2009 |
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RUSSIAN “NATIONAL IDENTITY” AND THE UKRAINE-EU PIPELINE DEAL |
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Ukraine's gas pipeline deal with the EU on March 23 led to an avalanche of Russian outrage that had less to do with the agreement, but exposed the Kremlin's use of Russian national identity. Russia apparently felt 'betrayed' by Europe and Ukraine. Russian state-controlled media attacked its exclusion from the negotiations, maintaining that without Russia the modernization of the pipelines would not be viable, cast doubt on the viability of the plans and vilified the $5 to 7 billion promised by the EU as far too little. On March 23 Rossiya TV said the EU had forgotten that the pipelines are “mere junk without gas...” |
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Published Tuesday, April 21 2009 |
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RUSSIA FUMES OVER GAS BILL FROM UKRAINE |
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Russia threatened to fine Ukraine for failing to buy enough natural gas in the first quarter, increasing pressure on its neighbor at a time when the World Bank said Kiev's economy was contracting fast. Alexei Miller, chief executive of Russia's state-run gas giant OAO Gazprom, said in an interview that the corporation was in talks with its Ukrainian counterparts regarding possible sanctions over lower-than-agreed-upon gas imports... |
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Published Tuesday, April 21 2009 |
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STEVE PETERS' LETTER TO PREMIER |
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Please find enclosed a letter from Mr. Peter Kryworuk, Chairperson of the London Holodomor Committee. As you will read in the letter, the London Holodomor Committee has written to you and copied the offices of members of provincial parliament in the London region requesting that the provincial government supports Private Member's Bill 147, Holodomor Memorial Day Act, 2009. As you are likely aware, this bill was jointly introduced for First Reading by Mr. Dave Levac, M.P.P. Brant, Mr. Frank Klees, M.P.P. Newmarket-Aurora and Ms. Cheri DiNovo, M.P.P. Parkdale-High Park on February 18, 2009... |
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Published Monday, April 20 2009 |
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ONTARIO RECOGNIZES HOLODOMOR: HISTORY |
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Published Tuesday, April 14 2009 |
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ONTARIO RECOGNIZES HOLODOMOR |
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All Parties Unanimously Support Legislation that Commemorates Victims of the Man-Made Famine of April 9, 2009 Queen’s Park – Making history today, MPPs from all sides of the Legislature unanimously support the first tri-sponsored Private Member’s Bill of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Bill 147, the Holodomor Memorial Day Act passes third reading at Queen’s Park today. The co-sponsors, lead by Dave Levac, Liberal MPP for Brant, along with Cheri DiNovo, NDP MPP for Parkdale-High Park, and Frank Klees, PC MPP for Newmarket-Aurora joined forces on February 18, 2009 to introduce Bill 147 which commemorates victims of the man-made famine of Ukraine. The legislation provides for the declaration of Holodomor Memorial Day on the fourth Saturday in November in each year in the
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Published Thursday, April 09 2009 |
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THE HOLODOMOR MEMORIAL DAY ACT PASSES THIRD |
UKRAINE’S EURO-ATLANTIC FUTURE: INTERNATIONAL FORUM |
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On 30-31 March 2009, Ukraine's Euro-Atlantic Future: International Forum III was held in Brussels. The two-day conference brought together key government and non-government representatives of Ukraine, the European Union, Canada and the United States to examine Ukraine’s readiness to assume a place in the Euro-Atlantic world. To facilitate the said examination, the event ran a number of plenary and focus sessions, and "special" functions. In total, nearly thirty speakers addressed the Forum proceedings, among them: high-ranking Ukrainian diplomats from the NATO, EU, US and Canada offices (including the Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada Ihor Ostash); members of the Ukrainian Parliament... |
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Published Tuesday, April 07 2009 |
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UKRAINIANS MARK BICENTENNIAL OF GOGOL'S BIRTH |
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An exhibition has opened in the Ukrainian capital to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of the writer Nikolai Gogol. Gogol's personal letters, essays, and short stories, some of them never seen by the public, are on display at a two-week exhibition that began in Kyiv on March 31. Olha Hinzburg, the chief of Ukraine's State Committee on Archives, told RFE/RL that on display at the exhibition are draft manuscripts of Gogol's most famous novels... |
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Published Tuesday, April 07 2009 |
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INTERNATIONAL FORUM: UKRAINE’S EURO-ATLANTIC FUTURE |
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First of all, I would like to state that it is a great honour for me to partake in this Forum; thank you kindly for the invitation. Secondly, I would like to use this unique opportunity to briefly address the topic of Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic integration, as a Director (International Relations) of the League of Ukrainian Canadians and as a representative of the International Conference in Support of Ukraine, and in addition, on behalf of the broader Ukrainian Diaspora. In my presentation, I will be focusing on the following two aspects of Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic integration... |
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Published Tuesday, April 07 2009 |
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UKRAINE’S EURO-ATLANTIC FUTURE: INTERNATIONAL FORUM III |
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Ukraine's Euro-Atlantic Future: International Forum III was held in Brussels at the Euro-Parliament's venerable Eastman Building on March 30-31, 2009. The two-day conference heard over 30 government and major non-governmental speakers from Ukraine as well as Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic neighbors and partners, including Canada, the EU, NATO and the US. Nearly 100 members of Brussels' EU & NATO diplomatic corps registered to be participants in the event. The forum program consisted of eight plenary sessions and three focus sessions. During the eight plenary sessions... |
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Published Tuesday, April 07 2009 |
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