- The LA Times have picked up on the feud between Yushchenko and Tymoshenko.
- Meanwhile Tymoshenko and Lytvyn are proposing a new coalition between her BYuT bloc, Lytvyn’s bloc and Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine –People’s Self-Defense bloc.  No word yet from Yushchenko’s bloc.
- Some people are finally catching on why Ukraine’s nuclear disarmament of the 90’s wasn’t such a great idea.
- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has reneg’d an invitation to meet with Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko – citing conflicts and other issues are in the way.
- Russian propoganda is spewing again in the most unlikely of places, the French news agency and its syndicates are giving a small minority way too much press. The article cleverly balances itself out after some boring history and tidbits hoping you’ve turned to another story by now. It’s an old trick. (Edit: The story’s hitting home now – note the author)
- Moscow wants to keep its base in Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Sevastopol even though its lease ends in 2017. That’s no surprise, since they’re handing out Russian passports in the region expect another Georgia-type conflict there soon.
- “I officially declare the coalition of democratic forces… in Ukraine’s parliament dissolved,” Yatsenyuk announced today in the Rada.
Monthly Archives: September 2008
Photos from the Toronto Ukrainian Festival
BlogTO has put up their photos from the event.
Toronto Ukrainian Festival is Back on Bloor
When:
Friiday Sept. 12: 6pm – 1:00 am
Saturday Sept. 13: 9:00 am – 1:00 am
Sunday Sept.14: 12:00 noon – 7:00pm
Where:
Between TTC subway stations Jane & Runnymede along the Bloor-Danforth line.
Parade:
Saturday morning at 11am see the colourful parade and Festival Parade Marshall rock and roll legend – RANDY BACHMAN of Bachman Turner Overdrive. The parade starts in High Park and moves west along Bloor Street W to Jane Street and then proceeds north along Jane, ending in the parking lot of St. Pius X school. The duration of the Parade is one hour.
More info: http://www.ukrainianfestival.com
Media: City 24, Toronto Star.
TDSB will have Holodomor materials, but will not include in curriculum
Trustee Mari Rutka’s motion passed last night, but it wasn’t what the Ukrainian Canadian community was fighting for last June when it tried to include the Holodomor into the new CHG38M – Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity class this Fall.
Paraphraising the motion:
1) To establish the fourth Friday of each November as a day of remembrance and recognition of Holodomor within TDSB schools
2) To develop a secondary teaching guide and curriculum materialsfor social studies courses covering the 1930s within TDSB secondary schools and to distribute this guide and these materials to all TDSB secondary schools by September, 2009
The distributed course materials will be available for any students who want to study the Holodomor – as an independant study. How many students do extra course work on top of their course load already? While this is a step in the right direction, efforts must continue to put the Holodomor into CHG38M. Unfortunately, the course material won’t be revised again until 2011, but we’ll be there.
Holodmor will be recognized at TDSB
From The Villager:
The Holodomor… will now be recognized on the fourth Friday of November in all Toronto public schools starting this year.
The motion by Ward 12 (Willowdale) Trustee Mari Rutka to honour those who died during the Holodomor was unanimously approved at the last Toronto District School Board meeting in late August.
Recognition is nice, but education and awareness in our schools is wanted from the Ukrainian Canadian community.
“In order to support that (motion), there will be another motion to the programs committee this month to develop resource materials for teachers so they can discuss this issue with their students,” she (Rutka) said.
We’ve been told this before, the extra work students can do on their own time.
The motion to include the Holodomor into the public school board’s curriculum will be brought forward to the program and school services committee Wednesday, Sept. 10 (at 6:30pm)
Here we go again! I’ll be blogging from there for sure to keep everyone posted. For up-to-the-minute postings, watch out for me uploading pictures to Flickr and writing updates to Twitter.
Wed. Sept 10th at 6:30pm
Toronto District School Board
5050 Yonge St, North York (Google map)By car: Just north of the 401 on Yonge & North York Blvd., by Mel Lastman Square & Toronto Centre for the Arts
By subway: A quick walk from the TTC North York Centre station, one stop north of Sheppard