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The Holodomor Commemoration in Manitoba

November 25, 2021 The Holodomor genocide commemoration: the Ukrainian Canadian Congress – Manitoba representatives and Cathy Cox, The Honourable Minister of Sport, Culture and Heritage paid tribute to victims and survivors of The Holodomor. The Holodomor, also known as the Terror-Famine or the Great Famine, was a man-made genocide in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to […]

A CANADIAN WAR STORY

In commemoration of the Ukrainian Canadian contribution to the Allied victory in the Second World War and in honour of Remembrance Day the Canadian Ukrainian Congress – Manitoba Provincial Council presents: A CANADIAN WAR STORY A documentary film by John Paskievich Produced by the Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre PLACE: Winnipeg Art Gallery’s Muriel […]

Shevchenko Commemoration 2021

Taras Shevchenko – the most prominent Ukrainian poet and a major figure of the Ukrainian national revival. Born a serf, Shevchenko was freed in 1838 while a student at the St. Petersburg Academy of Art. His first collection of poems, entitled Kobzar (1840; “The Bard”), expressed the historicism and the folkloristic interests of the Ukrainian Romantics, but […]

The Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine

The Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine  (Ukrainian: Акт проголошення незалежності України) was received by the Ukrainian parliament on 24 August 1991. The Act re-established Ukraine’s state independence. The act was introduced in the aftermath of the 19 August coup attempt, when hardline Soviet Union Communist leaders sought to regain central Communist Party control over the USSR.

In response (within a stressful 11-hour extraordinary session), the Supreme Soviet (parliament) of the Ukrainian SSR, overwhelmingly approved the Declaration Act in a special Saturday session.

PRESS ARTICLES ON THE CRISIS

RUSSIA UNLEASHES DEMONS Winnipeg Free Press – 14 March 2014 Lubomyr Luciuk Let us consider the dismemberment, the cutting into pieces, or, better put, the mutilation of a country. Yelping that Crimea’s Russian majority was under threat from gangs of rampaging “neo-Nazis, nationalists, and anti-Semites,” spewing out of Kyiv’s Euromaidan and headed south, Vladimir Putin, […]

PETITIONS OF SUPPORT

Petition for CRTC to revoke Canadian broadcast licenses for Russian state news channels    Please sign the petition “Petition for CRTC to revoke Canadian broadcast licenses for Russian state news channels”. It’s time for Canadians to receive objective news and not Russian propaganda. We need your support. You can read more and sign the petition […]

UCC-MBC appreciates for all the support these organizations have been giving for all past years!