Canada

Ottawa police began arresting Freedom Convoy protestors on Thursday, after threatening to do so earlier this week. Authorities first arrested Tamara Lich and Chris Barber. Lich, who leads the Freedom Convoy, was said to be detained for "aiding and abetting...

Police in Ottawa threatened protestors with arrest on Wednesday if they continued to block off the downtown area of the city. "You must leave the area now. Anyone blocking streets, or assisting others in the blocking of streets, are committing...

The protest by the "Freedom Convoy" against a vaccine mandate has forced Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson to declare declared a state of emergency on Sunday. The protest by the Freedom convoy has blocked much of the center of the Canadian...

A Greek-Canadian father who lives in East York, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto, has now fulfilled his quest to bicycle 450 km to raise money to help save his son, who suffers from a  rare disease. Terry Pirovolakis had never...

Ottawa resident Dimitra Georgiou, one of five daughters of Antonios and Areti Hatzis, told a touching story about how her parents saved two Jewish boys and their grandomother from the Holocaust in Greece. “Our parents were very, very, courageous to...

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne was one of the thousands of attendees at the Ottawa Greek Festival, according to the National Herald. The Ontario Premier posted a photograph from her visit to the Greek feast on her personal Twitter account commenting:...

On May 8, Dr. and Mrs. Andreas Vikis hosted a reception in honor of the High Commissioner of the Republic of Cyprus, H.E. Mr. Pavlos Anastasiades and his wife Maria. The reception was also a celebration of the recent...

A delegation of NGO "The Smile of the Child" arrives on an official visit in Montreal and Ottawa from May 5-8 and May 9-10, respectively. The purpose is to inform and encourage the local Greek community, as well as other child...

Greek-Canadian artist Katerina Mertikas has created a beautiful painting called Honoring My Father depicting Cpl. Nathan Cirillo being saluted by his son in front of Ottawa’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier monument. Cpl. Nathan Cirillo was killed on the morning...

“It would take a lifetime to teach someone about Greece, but to fall in love with it, takes only a few minutes” said Christine Cushing, the famous Canadian chef, in the residence of the Greek ambassador in Ottawa, in...

A "conference day" on Greek-speaking education will take place in Ottawa, on Saturday the 19th of October. It will be organized by the Greek Embassy in Canada, in cooperation with the Office of the School Counselor of Canada and...

An evening dedicated to longevity on the subject of the Greek- Mediterranean cuisine is organized at the residence of the Greek Ambassador Eleftherios Angelopoulos, in Ottawa, on Thursday, the 17th October. The aim of the evening is to raise money...

The French channel TV5 broadcast a one-hour documentary about the work of 10 diplomatic missions in Canada on July 4, aiming at shedding light on the role that Embassy officials play at all levels, and included Greece's representation in...

The Greek community of Ottawa warmly received the President of the Greek Parliament Evangelos Meimarakis, who arrived in the Canadian capital on May 26 for a series of contacts with the parliamentary leadership of Canada. In the crowded and enthusiastic...

The Ottawa Marathon, which will take place this weekend, was inaugurated with a torch relay and the Olympic cauldron lighting ceremony. The flame arrived from Marathon, Athens, through the Mayor of Marathon Iordanis Louizos and the representative of National...