Of all of Ukraine’s ambassadors to Canada, and Canada’s ambassadors to Ukraine, no one has served longer than Andriy Shevchenko, who returned to Ukraine last month after serving six years in the post. What is remarkable is that Mr. Shevchenko was appointed to the post in 2015 without having any previous diplomatic experience. He was...
Author: Marco Levytsky
Fifty years ago, on October 8, 1971, Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau stood up in the House of Commons and announced that multiculturalism was now an official government policy. He said that no single culture could define Canada and that the government accepted “the contention of other cultural communities that they, too, are essential elements...
Last month, Ukrainian special forces conducted a daring operation in Kabul to rescue 19 Afghan refugees, among them translators, including one whom worked for Canada’s leading newspaper, The Globe and Mail, and another who served in the Canadian military, as well as their families. They arrived in Kyiv on August 29.
This rescue was coordinated by the Ukrainian military, the office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and The Globe and Mail. Mark MacKinnon, the Globe and Mail’s senior international correspondent, not only broke the story but was integral in co-ordinating the rescue, reported CTV News.