Michael Ignatieff’s Offensive Remarks Still a Problem
By Ihor Cap
The whole Ignatieff-Ukrainian mess started just after the Liberal Leader’s trip to Ukraine. From then, it resurfaced again with Dr. Ignatieff’s “uncontested nomination” to the Liberal Party of Canada. Ukrainians were upset that two perfectly qualified Ukrainians were “snookered” out of their nominations in the Etobicoke-Lakeshore Riding to make room for Dr. Ignatieff, writes Myron Kuropas in The Ukrainian Weekly.
Soon after, the demotion of Ukrainian-Canadian Liberal MP Critic for Citizenship, Immigration & Multiculturalism Borys Wrzesnewskyj to the backbenches caused quite a stir in the Ukrainian community and some grief for the Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada Michael Ignatieff as he scrambled across Canada to patch things up with leaders in the Ukrainian ...

Transportation Service Technician/Teacher Crisis
By Fred Hines, Chairman AIPC
The Transportation/Heavy Duty industry is experiencing a technician shortage, and all predictions indicate it is going to get worse. While it is possible to export vehicle, equipment, and parts manufacturing, it is not possible to export vehicle service. Primarily, the shortages are occurring for two reasons: technician retirement and a lack of young people entering the field. Age and/or health issues are causing many technicians to retire. Other younger techs may consider a career change because health problems have reduced their efficiency. The transportation service fields are very damaging to a person’s back, knees, and hands. Typically, the problems start to appear in the mid 40’s and gradually get worse.
Why are young people not entering the field? First, is the public’s perception ...

Ukrainians... Victorious or Victims of War?
By Vasyl Chervoniy 
Translated by Ihor Cap and Dariya Dyryk-Cap
What prompted me to write is the large-scale propagandist campaign with anti-Ukrainian undertones, dedicated to the so-called Victory Day inundating all the Ukrainian TV channels and Ukrainian cities.
Not even in the days of Scherbitsky or Kuchma were there such loud panegyrics to the "liberators" as during Yushchenko’s rule.  It stretched a whole three weeks, and this, on the 18th year of Ukrainian Independence!
My relatives, like most Ukrainians, fought against fascism in the Red Army, as well as in the ranks of UPA. That is why it is easy for me to speak on the subject of war with any audience. However, I will no longer tolerate the belittlement of Ukrainians by downplaying their contribution as far as ridding Europe of German fascism and ...

College graduates continue to get jobs
(Toronto, April 7, 2009) – An Ontario college education continues to provide an excellent pathway to success in the workforce, the most recent independently collected provincial data shows.
New Key Performance Indicators (KPI) data released today indicated that 88.9 per cent of 2007-2008 graduates in the labour force found work within six months of graduating.
As well, 93.3 per cent of employers were satisfied or very satisfied with the quality of the graduates they hired.
"The strong education and training provided at Ontario’s 24 public colleges continues to get high marks,” said Anne Sado, president of George Brown College and chair of the colleges' committee of presidents, which is meeting today. “Colleges continue to provide students with the higher education they need to fulfil their career ambitions.”
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Ontario must commit to doubling apprenticeship completion rate
(MARKHAM, May 7, 2009) - The Ontario government must protect apprenticeship training during the recession and commit to doubling the number of people who successfully complete apprenticeship programs by 2020, says a new report from business, education and labour leaders.
“Apprenticeship training in Ontario was falling behind during the good times and is particularly at risk during this recession,” said Ian Howcroft, vice-president, Ontario division, of Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters. “To ensure Ontario has the skilled workforce it needs to support an economic recovery, the province must protect apprenticeship training and take immediate steps to help greater numbers of people complete their apprenticeship programs.”
The call to improve apprenticeship training is among the recommendations in ...

Joint College Academic Upgrading, Job Connect Apprenticeship Training Conference - June 2007
By Linda Franklin, President and CEO
June 6, 2007
Good morning.
I’m delighted to have this opportunity to speak to you this morning on behalf of Colleges Ontario. After four months as President and being so new to the education sector, I can tell you that one of my greatest achievements to date is that I’ve learned about half of the acronyms in the college system so that I can participate in discussions with some measure of understanding…
Speaking of which, I regret that I was unable to join you earlier for the conference as I’ve been in CoP meetings these past two days.
However, it is better late than never, as they say, and I do want to share with you a little bit about what your association – Colleges Ontario – has been doing to advance the college ...

HOLODOMOR: METAGENOCIDE IN UKRAINE – ITS ORIGINS AND WHY IT’S NOT OVER
Seventy-five years after the most brutal ethnic genocide in history, Russia’s goal to eradicate all things Ukrainian remains.
Article by Peter Borisow, New York, New York
Canadian American Slavic Studies, Vol. 42, No. 3, (Fall 2008). Pg. 251-265
Charles Schlacks, Publisher, Idyllwild, CA
As Ukrainians wind up the 75th Year to Commemorate the Holodomor, they can look back on the real progress that they have made in educating people around the world about the genocide in Ukraine in 1932-1933. Well over thirty-five countries as well as the European Union have recognized the inhuman sufferings during the Holodomor and many, including the United States House of Representatives, have agreed it was deliberate genocide against the Ukrainian people.
A massive Holodomor Memorial Complex is being built ...

‘There will be no forgiveness’
by James Marson, Kyiv Post, Staff Writer   
Thousands came to the Bykivnya mass grave northeast of Kyiv on May 17 to remember an estimated 100,000 victims of Stalin’s repressions.
Late at night at the end of the 1930s, tram number 23 would rattle its way from Kyiv to Brovary with a grim cargo on board: dead bodies. Victims of the NKVD, the predecessor of the KGB, they were on the way to be tossed into mass graves at Bykivnya forest.
On May 17, several thousand people gathered at the memorial center in the forest to mark Ukraine’s Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repression and remember those destroyed by the Soviet machine.
“Here, at Bykivnya, Stalin and his monstrous hangmen killed the bloom of Ukraine,” said President Victor Yushchenko in a speech at the event. “There is no ...

Why Obama Can't Reset Relations with Putin's Russia
By Alexander Motyl
U.S. President Barack Obama wants to "reset" America's relations with Russia, but the nature of the Russian regime won't permit much change. Obama can easily reject the style and correct the mistakes of his predecessor, George W. Bush, but doing so will not alter the fact that Putin's Russia must engage in imperialist rhetoric and pursue great-power aspirations in order to legitimize itself. As long as Russia insists on imperial dominance over the former Soviet states, U.S.-Russia relations can improve only marginally.
Under Vladimir Putin's guidance, Russia has moved decisively away from democracy. Democratic institutions are at best moribund; the party of power, United Russia, controls politics; civil society and the press are severely circumscribed; the siloviki-members of the military and secret ...

The Manitoba Children’s Museum: A Funtastic Family Destination!
By Ihor Cap
Few museums are open to children year round. The Manitoba Children’s Museum is the fifth such museum in Canada and the first of its kind in Western Canada. The Museum is a registered, charitable, not-for-profit 4,000-square foot space complex located in the historic Forks area in downtown Winnipeg. Government funding only represents 16% of the yearly budget. Linda Isitt and her friends first entertained the concept of a museum for kids back in 1982. It was incorporated as a charitable organization a year later. Linda became its Executive Director. The Museum first opened its doors to a wide-eyed audience of 65,000 in 1986. Today, some 130,000 children and families visit the Children’s Museum every year. Slide Show and Video Coming Soon!

Veselka Ukrainian Festival in Teulon Manitoba
By Ihor Cap




It  happens  every  year  since 1989, and this year was no different. They come from all over. They come  for the food, they come to buy souvenirs and gifts, they come to watch the children, teens and young  adults perform on stage, and they watch the awards ceremonies with nail biting interest, but mostly they  come to have fun!  Where?  They all come to the Veselka Ukrainian Festival in Teulon Manitoba.  Hundreds upon hundreds of Ukrainian dancers make there way up onto the stage in front of an  audience of eager parents, guests and festival visitors. Over 500 dancers graced the stage at the  Teulon-Rockwood Arena to do their “gig” and compete with other 4 to 26+ year olds in their age  category. Then, they ...

 

By Masha TOMAK

“When in the time of Cossackdom foreign envoys saw the Cossacks dance in the Sich, they were  stunned: what they saw looked like a dance, and yet it exhibited so much power and strength. The  Cossacks practiced this dance with their weapons every day as a way of military training,” said  Volodymyr Sherstiuk, president of the Kyiv Combat Hopak Federation, referring to the beginnings of the  ancient Ukrainian martial art. “Ancient historians called it a combat dance. Every empire of the time  wanted to have Zaporozhian Cossacks in its army.”

By Volodymyr SERHIICHUK

HISTORICAL FACTS TESTIFY: STALIN “CARED” ABOUT ALL PEOPLES BUT PAID ESPECIALLY CLOSE “ATTENTION” TO UKRAINIANS

By Ihor Cap

“The origin of the name Sorrento-Surrentum - is poetically dated back to the Sirens who, legend has it, lived in the rocks of the gulf, from where they tried in vain to ensnare Ulysses with their deadly song” (Kina Italia, undated, p. 5). The song of the Sirens may not have ensnared Ulysses, but it had no trouble luring us there.  We took the train to Sorrento from Naples and we we’re glad we came. In fact, we survived it without any deadly consequences.

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Who Designed the World’s Smallest Robot?
 
 
By Ihor Cap
 
 
“Super size that for you?” says the Fast Food vendor at the shopping mall food court. “We have a pocket version of that, if you’re interested,” declares the shop assistant. Our world is busy super sizing or extra sizing all sorts of goodies to serve up BIG deals for its customers. There is also much activity around downsizing and miniaturizing to make small things even smaller. One of the most contentious and fascinating declarations that abound the internet is the claim to the world’s smallest robot. 
 
So, who designed the smallest robot? Well, after perusing a few articles and videos on the subject, the answer to this question largely depends on how you define robot to begin with. Are we talking about a stationary robot or a mobile one? Does it ...

By: Lex5 Braxtor5

Central heating systems have different implications not only on your household and your wallet but also on the environment. Have you ever thought about it? Or have you ever wondered how these heating  systems actually function?

by Phil McKenna

New wind turbine installations continued to grow by leaps and bounds in 2008, but King Coal still reigns supreme.

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Widgetbox is excited to announce the launch of the Blidget Pro - the next-generation of our successful Blidget tool and our first subscription-based service

by Ihor Cap

The New York Times reporter Andrew E. Kramer accused Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin of plagiarism in his January 28, 2009. article entitled “Putin’s Grasp of Energy Drives Russian Agenda.“

The building where over 700 children starved to death in 1932–33 is still there

By Olha BOHLEVSKA, Zaporizhia