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A parade celebrating Greek National Independence Day will take to the streets Sunday, March 23, at noon starting at Eastern High School. The event will be held during the weekend. In addition to the parade, a gala is to take...

The Greek community of Toronto will play host for recently arrived Greek immigrants on May 3 at 6:30pm. The purpose of the meeting, titled "Aid," is to welcome Greeks migrating to Canada due to the financial crisis, and to inform them about...

The Greek Community of Toronto celebrates 150 years of operation, by putting on two theatrical plays featuring the groups “Nefeli” and “Ellinakia” (Little Greeks). The group "Nefeli," under the guidance of director Nancy Athan-Milonas, will present an adaptation of "Lysistrata"...

Toronto’s Greek community is holding its annual ‘NO’ (OXI) parade on Sunday, Oct. 28, at 1 p.m. The event takes place on Danforth Avenue and honours the veterans of the 1940 event in which Greece refused the Italian ultimatum of...

On Monday, January 24th Greece's Ambassador to Canada, Eleftherios Angelopoulos, conducted a brief visit to Toronto.  Toronto holds the largest Greek community in Canada. The schedule of Ambassador Angelopoulos was organized by consul general Dimitris Azemopoulos.  It included visits with scienists, entrepreuners,...

On Sunday April 18, after ten years, elections were held in order for the new President and the new executive board of the Greek community in Toronto to be appointed. All 20 candidates from Professor George Gekas’ group were...

The rich history of the Greeks in Canada is being cataloged and digitized at York University by the Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF). The HHF Greek Canadian Archives (HHF GCA) announced recently a series of significant milestones in its ongoing mission...

Greek Canadian billionaire Steve Apostolopoulos has emerged as the latest bidder for the NFL's Washington Commanders, US media report. Apostolopoulos is the managing partner of Triple Group of Companies, a Toronto real estate firm. He is also the co-founder and...

The Hellenic Initiative Canada is partnering with the Delphi Economic Forum of Greece for the inaugural Toronto Economic Forum, a conference that will bring together government and business representatives from Greece and Canada. The conference will take place on October 17-18...

To commemorate the anniversary of the Smyrna Catastrophe exactly a hundred years ago, the Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF) has produced its latest historical podcast series Exodus: The Stories of 1922. In the days, weeks, and months that followed the Great...

The living memories of Toronto's 1918 anti-Greek riots may have faded, but the city's Greeks still remember the disturbing events of that day.

The story of Father Nicholas Salamis, a Greek Orthodox priest, is also the story of Greek Canadians, from the time of the first immigrants

The Hellenic Heritage Committee of Toronto will mark the bicentennial of the beginning of the Greek War of Independence with the dedication of a new plaque at a historic Greek community center in the city on October 30. The year...

A Greek Orthodox nonprofit in Toronto that owns churches and schools and hosts the gigantic "Taste of the Danforth" Greek folk festival every summer might soon be forced to sell one of its properties due to a precipitous drop...

The CANVAS cannabis store in Ontario is expanding, with a new location in Mount Dennis in Toronto and its Greek-Canadian owner will donate 50 per cent of profits from its opening days to a local food bank. The community-focused CANVAS...