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    • PRESS KIT: Foreign Affairs Committee visits Tymoshenko’s jail, hospital

    Posted May 16th, 2012, in , , , ,

    PRESS KIT: Foreign Affairs Committee visits Tymoshenko’s jail, hospital
    For Immediate Release
    May 16, 2012
    The Canadian Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs continued its travels today in Ukraine, visiting the eastern city of Kharkiv.
    Wascana Liberal MP Ralph Goodale noted that that is the city where former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was jailed and is now hospitalized. To show


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    UCC & CUF Call for Long-Term Election Observers- DEADLINE EXTENDED

    Posted May 16th, 2012, in , ,

    For Immediate Release

    May 16, 2012

    Call for Long-term Election Observers for
    Ukraine 2012 Parliamentary Elections
    DEADLINE REVISED: JUNE 15, 2012

    The Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) and the Canada Ukraine Foundation (CUF), which have successfully monitored several elections in Ukraine since 2004, are organizing an Election Observer Mission for the 2012 Parliamentary Elections,


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    CANADA’S FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE BEGINS HEARINGS ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN UKRAINE

    Posted May 14th, 2012, in , ,

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    PRESS KIT: Goodale visit with Foreign Relations Committee to Ukraine – (2012)

    CANADA’S FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE BEGINS 4 DAY,
    THREE CITY, HEARINGS ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN UKRAINE

    KYIV – MAY 14, 2012- Representatives of the Ukrainian Canadian community welcomed the opportunity to participate in the visit to Ukraine by Canada’s Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs


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    UCC welcomes motion honouring Metropolitan Sheptytsky by Parliament

    Posted Apr 26th, 2012, in ,

    PARLIAMENT OF CANADA PASSES UNANIMOUS MOTION
     
    HONOURING METROPOLITAN ANDREI SHEPTYTSKY

    Met. Andrei Sheptytsky
     
    photo-Encyclopedia of Ukraine (CIUS)

    L – R: Holocaust survivor Leon Chameides rescued by Met. Sheptytsky
     
    with PM Harper and Paul Grod

    Ottawa, Canada – April 26, 2012- The Ukrainian Canadian Congress welcomes the unanimous adoption of a historic motion honouring Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky by the


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    Ukrainian Canadian Delegation Concludes Mission To Ukraine

    Posted Apr 26th, 2012, in , , ,

    Ukrainian Canadian Delegation Concludes Mission to Ukraine with Minister Oda

    Kyiv, Ukraine- April 25, 2012- On April 19 representatives from the Ukrainian Canadian community concluded a successful trip to Ukraine as members of the delegation accompanying International Cooperation Minister, the Honourable Beverley Oda’s recent mission to Ukraine. The Minister’s meetings included Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, Economy


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    Press release: Yulia Tymoshenko beating and hunger strike in Kharkiv

    Posted Apr 25th, 2012, in , ,

    http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/April2012/25/c8939.html
    WINNIPEG, April 24, 2012 /CNW/ – This morning Ukrainian Pravda in Kyiv carried the front page story of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko being beaten in her prison cell and forcibly removed against her will by prison staff to a second Kharkiv clinic, allegedly for treatment. This, despite the fact that


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    UCC Congratulates Sonja Bejzyk on GG’s Caring Canadian Award

    Posted Apr 24th, 2012, in , , , ,

    UCC Congratulates Board Member Sonja Bejzyk for
    receiving Governor General’s Caring Canadian Award

    Sonja Bejzyk

    Winnipeg, Manitoba- April 24, 2012 -  Ukrainian Canadian Congress President congratulates Sonja Bejzyk on being awarded the Governor General’s Caring Canadian Award by His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada.
    “On behalf of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress and the Ukrainian Canadian


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    UCC Donation Appeal for CMHR Campaign

    UCC Donation Appeal for CMHR Campaign

    Posted Apr 17th, 2011, in ,

    Plans regarding the content for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) were published in the Winnipeg Free Press on November 27, 2010.  To UCC’s great concern and dismay, the plans did not include the Holodomor as having a prominent space in the museum, nor did it include the Internment operations of 1914-1920. As a


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