2008 2(29) - UCWLC

Листи. . . LettersI thoroughly enjoy your extremelyinformative and professionalmagazine. It keeps us up to dateon what is happening in Canadaas well as the world. Thank youso much. I often pass on this informationto our members, and theyare grateful. I wish to congratulatethe people involved, especially theeditor.Olya Kolomyjec, PresidentUkrainian Catholic Women’sLeague Australia,Sydney, AustraliaThe spring edition ofwas interesting, informativeand dealt with many•different subjects. I was enchantedby Victoria Kowalchuk’s “green”painting on the inside back coverwhich so creatively dealt withthe environment. I and many ofour readers can, I think, identifywith your … Last Word regarding“worrying”. When I find myselfworrying, a thought which givesme courage is, “My job is to takecare of the possible and trust Godwith the impossible.”Lillian Dzurman Yuryk, Toronto•КОРОТКО BRIEFLY● “Faith is not a historical relicbut a guide for humanity inits path to the future. A faithlessworld is not one in whichwe want ourselves or ourchildren to live.”Tony Blair, formerprime minister of Great Britain,converted to Catholicism and foundedthe Tony Blair Faith Foundation.● “The lasting accomplishmentof the sexual revolution wasto remake society accordingthe desires of corrupted adolescentmales, with plenty ofpornography, easy womenand disposable responsibilities,facilitated by contraceptionand abortion, cohabitationand divorce.The TV series Sex and theCity told the story of womenwho adapted themselves tothis world but found no happiness.The movie is about marriageand motherhood, a rathermore ancient and wiser pathin the pursuit of happiness.”Fr. Raymond J. de Sousa, Canada’sWorld Youth Day 2004 organizer● The Government of Canadawill present $10 million to theUkrainian Canadian Foundationof Taras Shevchenko toestablish an endowment fundto support initiatives relatedto Canada’s unfortunateFirst World War internmentexperience.“This resolution is suchan important step in the historyof Ukrainian Canadians,of whom thousands were unjustlyimprisoned during theFirst World War and sufferedinhuman conditions in labourcamps,” said Peggy Nash,one of Toronto’s MPs. “TheUkrainian Canadian communityhas worked for over20 years to get to this point.”● Both the Holodomor and theWorld War I internment ofUkrainians will be a compulsorycomponent of Alberta’snew Social Studiescurriculum in 2009, “Understandingsof Nationalism”.The program will explorecomplexities of nationalismin Canadian and internationalcontexts including origins ofnationalism and its influenceon nationalism on regional,international and globalrelations.● Ukraine’s government planscall for developing relationswith Ukrainian citizens livingabroad in order to retain, protectand popularize culturalachievements of the UkrainianDiaspora in the world.The law will deal with retaining,protecting and popularizingcultural achievementsof the Ukrainian Diaspora. Itforesees the production andbroadcasting of TV and radioprograms and creating a museum,entitled, “Ukrainiansin the World”, as well as theerection of monuments, andholding festivals.● The Ministry of Foreign Affairsof Ukraine submittedan official complaint againstNasha Doroha summer/2008 7