Canada

Greek Olympic champion and weightlifting legend Pyrros Dimas was welcomed with great enthusiasm at the first event in Western Canada co-hosted by The Hellenic Initiative Canada and the Greek Community of Calgary, on Wednesday, Oct. 2. The event featured the...

The Hellenic Community of Vancouver, British Columbia announced on Wednesday it is cancelling a rental contract with a right-wing group for the use of its premises, due to threats of violence against its members. The "UBC Free Speech club" event,...

Koimisis Tis Theotokou Greek Orthodox Church, also known as Panagitsa, in Park Extension, Montreal, was destroyed when a fire broke out on Monday, April 13. Greek Orthodox Community members in the area were devastated therefore they organized a fundraiser...

For yet another year, the Greek community of Montreal celebrated the “Oxi” national day with brilliance and mass participation on Sunday. Doxology for those who gave their life in the Albanian Front took place in Saint George Cathedral by...

When the financial crisis hit Greece four years ago, many Greeks decided to emigrate, leaving behind the Mediterranean climate of their country and choosing to move to places such as Winnipeg, Canada. Lia and Stefano Boukis left Greece a year ago after...

Greek-Canadian actress, screenwriter and director, Nia Vardalos, who wrote and starred in My Big Fat Greek Wedding, a movie about a woman of the Greek Diaspora trying to get her family to accept her non-Greek fiancé, has now been...

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 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"...

  On Christmas day, the Greek community of Montreal will offer a free meal to all the families and elderly people who find it hard to make ends meet. The meal will be served on Christmas day once the Divine...

The Greek community is celebrating the victory of Justin Trudeau, who was elected on April 14 leader of Canada’s once dominant Liberal Party on a landslide vote. Justin, son of Pierre Elliott Trudeau,  the 15th Prime Minister of Canada, won...

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...

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 theatre dance group Nefeli of the Greek Community in Toronto has begun successfully performing the comedy of Dimitris Psathas, “The robber is screaming”, with Nancy Athanasiadi leading the direction of the play. The dance theatre group will travel on...

The Greek Community of Montreal in cooperation with the Greek Congress of Quebec, the Macedonian Association “Alexander the Great”, the union “Vogatsiaton Kastorias” and the Pontian Association of Montreal “Efxinos Pontos” hosted an event yesterday under the title “Macedonia:...

Panagiotis Psomiadis, head of the Region of Central Macedonia visited the Greek community of Montreal. During his visit he talked about everyone and everything. He said that when he is not in Greece he speaks without thinking of political...