Coming soon: OPERATION 🇨🇦 NAVY WATCH
October 19, 2021Reading Time: < 1 minute A year ago I decided to join the Royal Canadian Navy as a Public Affairs Officer. While I wait for my files to come back from the Ottawa office, I am working on a series titled “OPERATION 🇨🇦 NAVY WATCH”. This is going to be a monthly show that focuses on everything related to the Royal Canadian Navy. Stay tuned for the first episode, coming at the end of October! ~Kate
Op. Unifier rotates in Ukraine, outgoing commander speaks on Ukraine’s NATO interoperability
Reading Time: 6 minutes Ukraine’s NATO interoperability was one of the topics that the outgoing commander of Op. Unifier LCol. Melanie Lake discussed with the Ukrainian Canadian community upon returning from Ukraine The International Center for Peacekeeping and Security held…
Cultural Heritage as an Element of National Security: the Crimea Lens
Reading Time: 6 minutes Fourth of Five Articles. Highlights from the “Cultural Heritage as an Element of National Security: the Crimea Lens”, prepared by Dr Kateryna Busol, CDS expert and Alina Frolova, Deputy Chairwoman of the Board at Centre for…
Ukrainian Canadian community reflects on Petro Jacyk ’s life
Reading Time: 6 minutes One hundred years ago, a prominent philanthropist and leading Ukrainian Canadian businessman Petro Jacyk was born. One hundred years afterwards, the world can finally see Petro Jacyk’s English translation project of Hrushevsky’s History of Ukraine-Rus’, produced…
Sanctions against Russian defence industry
Reading Time: 5 minutes Third of Five Articles Highlights from the “Sanctions policies against Russian defense industry enterprises”, prepared by Oleksandr Khara, Fellow, CDS and Andrii Klymenko, Editor-in-Chief, BlackSeaNews Russia’s distorted perception of the security issues pushes it to wage…
Multiculturalism in practice for Ukrainian Canadians
Reading Time: 4 minutes “Canadians choose their identity, selecting what is important to them in the mosaic” This year marks a half-century since Pierre Trudeau announced Canada’s policy of multiculturalism in the House of Commons in 1971. In his speech,…
UCC launches Internment Education Campaign
Reading Time: 2 minutes On October 1, the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) launched the Internment Education Campaign. This campaign aims to reach thousands of Canadians on various media platforms with an emphasis on mobile devices and social media. “We have…
Russia’s potential military threat from occupied Crimea
Reading Time: 5 minutes Second of Five Articles around Crimea Highlights from the “Scenarios for Russia’s use of its military potential from occupied Crimea”, prepared by Andrii Ryzhenko, Fellow, CDS and Ihor Kabanenko, ret. Admiral, Ukrainian Navy. Russia sees Crimea…
Threads That Connect: Edmonton celebrates Ukrainian heritage through fashion
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Threads That Connect 2021 Project, a year-long celebration of Ukrainian embroidery and textiles, has wrapped up in Edmonton, culminating in a fashion show at MacEwan University’s Allard Hall, Sept. 10. “The project had many moving…
Federal parties fill in UCC’s 2021 Survey
Reading Time: 11 minutes The day after Canada’s federal election this year, Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) congratulated Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party of Canada on their victory. “We look forward to working with Canada’s new government,” stated…
Reimagining NATO’s purpose
Reading Time: 4 minutes NATO ’s relevance in today’s world has been at the centre of political and international security discussions. “NATO is in danger of losing its collective relevancy for all its members,” said Dr. Sara Moller, an assistant…
