Author: Christopher Guly

Trudeau says ‘extremely troubling’ that situation is being politicized by Russia OTTAWA – The optics seemed perfect for the setting. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would make his first in-person address in the House of Commons to a joint session of Canada’s Parliament on September 22, and the speaker, Anthony Rota, would recognize a 98-year-old Ukrainian-Canadian...

OTTAWA – Canada will provide Ukraine with $374 million in new funding for military aid and $36 million as part of the recovery effort following the recent breach of the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam on the Dnipro River in southern Ukraine, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on June 10 during a surprise visit to Ukraine....

OTTAWA – Danny Schur, a music composer, film producer and screenwriter who was driven in life to bring consequential stories of his Ukrainian-Canadian community to both stage and screen and who rose to become a man of consequence within the arts community of his hometown, Winnipeg, died there on April 10. He was 56. “Our...

OTTAWA – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced further military aid to Ukraine during an April 11 visit by his Ukrainian counterpart, Denys Shmyhal, to Toronto on the day leaked highly-classified U.S. Pentagon documents revealed weaknesses in Ukraine’s weaponry and air defenses against Russia, while pro-Russian hackers targeted Canada in a cyber-attack. Mr. Trudeau said...

OTTAWA – Canada will issue new savings bonds to help raise money for Ukraine, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on October 28 in Winnipeg where he was the headline speaker at the opening of the Ukrainian Canadian Cong-ress’s three-day, 27th triennial gathering. Ukraine Sovereignty Bonds will be available at major Canadian banks, which will...

OTTAWA – “It has been a very bad year for my people,” said Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk in a recent conversation from her home in Los Angeles, where she lives with her husband, Our Lady Peace lead singer Raine Maida, and their three sons, Rowan, Lucca and Salvador. Since last May, more...

OTTAWA – “It has been a very bad year for my people,” said Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk in a recent conversation from her home in Los Angeles, where she lives with her husband, Our Lady Peace lead singer Raine Maida, and their three sons, Rowan, Lucca and Salvador. Since last May, more...

OTTAWA – Russian President Vladimir Putin’s two daughters are among 14 “close associates” of his regime who are on a list of Russians targeted in the latest round of sanctions announced by Canada’s foreign affairs department on April 19 in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Two weeks before, the U.S. government sanctioned Katerina Vladimirovna...

OTTAWA – While countries do not normally feature prominently in the Canadian government’s annual budget, this year the Russian invasion of Ukraine played a major role in the economic plan outlined on April 7 by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, whose maternal roots are in the country now under siege. “From the first day we started...

OTTAWA – At an April 1 news conference in Ottawa conducted in English, an all-female group of five members of the Ukrainian Parliament called on Canada to provide more lethal weapons and financial aid to their country while increasing sanctions against Russia, which Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called on the Group of 20...

OTTAWA – Eugene Melnyk, owner of the National Hockey League’s (NHL’s) Ottawa Senators and the son of Ukrainian-born parents, died on March 28 following “an illness he faced with determination and courage,” according to an announcement by his family and the hockey club. He was 62. Born in Toronto on May 27, 1959, Mr. Melnyk...

OTTAWA – Canada hopes to provide Ukraine with more weapons, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said at a March 24 news conference in Brussels following an extraordinary summit of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) leaders, as his government also announced further sanctions against Russia. He said that, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “has been asking for...