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Greek wines attracted significant interest during a road show of Greek winemakers in North America May 2-16, organized by the Greek Wine Federation. The road show completed 10 wine tasting and educational workshops with a long waiting list for Greek...

For all of November internationally renowned artist Dimitra Theodosiou will star in the role of Queen Elisabeth in Roberto Deveraux Opera by Gaetano Donizetti.  This will be presented for the first time at the Opera of Montreal. She lives permanently in...

Notis Sfakianakis (born November 2, 1956 in Chania, Crete, Greece) and is a successful Greek singer, mainly active in the "Laiko" Greek music genre. Notis began opening for national acts like Poly Panou. He was discovered by Bourmas, the...

Toronto's favourite street festival has a whole new way to celebrate the fun and flavours of Greece and summer in the city. Every year in August, the city of Toronto flocks to GreekTown on the Danforth. Celebrating...

Vikings from Greenland were living in North America's Newfoundland 1,000 years ago according to evidence from a recent study. Newfoundland is located in Maritime Canada. Scientists have suspected for years that Vikings had settled in the area, but had not been...

Canada announced that it will finally reopen its borders to Americans beginning August 9, and reopening to those from the EU in September.

Starting on July 5, Canada will drop its stringent quarantine requirements for all fully vaccinated United States residents.

The Greek America Foundation has opened nominations for their Class of 2018 Forty Under 40, the leading recognition for North Americans of Greek descent, 40 years old and under. Previous winners have included leading medical researchers, professors, Emmy-Award winning directors...

It may sound unbelievable but a Greek-Canadian scientist is stating that the Ancient Greeks may have reached America years before the Spanish Seafarer Columbus did. Researcher of Aegean Scripts, Dr. Minas Tsikritsis, in the text by Plutarch “On the Apparent Face...

The Greek America Foundation announced a new project called Greek Foto Week that will bring together talented photographers of Greek descent from throughout North America for a one-week celebration of talent, light, imagery and color that only the lens...

The Hon. Dimitris Azemopoulos attended and addressed the official ceremony celebrating the launching of the first interdisciplinary institute on Hellenistic Age (University of Waterloo).  It is the only institute in North America to conduct interdisciplinary research focusing on the...

Juan de Fuca, or Ioannis Phokas, was an intrepid, and much underappreciated, Greek explorer and navigator who lived during the sixteenth century. De Fuca is best known for being the first to describe the Strait of Anian, which is...

Greenwood Sustainable Infrastructure LLC (GSI), one of the renewable energy subsidiaries of Libra Group, announced the construction of a 100-megawatt (MWac) utility-scale solar facility in Saskatchewan, Canada. The Iyuhána Solar (Iyuhána), a GSI-led partnership with Saturn Power Inc. and Ocean...

Polar Bear Swim: The title sort of speaks for itself, launched in Canada in 1920 by Greek immigrant Peter (Pete) Pantages.

In Canada, pizza aficionados have to thank four Greek immigrants for the country’s own unique pizza, known as Regina Pizza.