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Crowdfunding Makes Greek Canadian Band’s Next Album a Reality

A Canadian band called Motion Device has managed to use a crowdfunding campaign to raise the money needed to fund its upcoming album. The band is composed of three Greek Canadian siblings, bass player Andrea, drummer David and 15-year-old...

Greek-Canadian Senator Housakos Wants Canadian Government to Recognize Pontian Greek Genocide

During a recent speech in the Canadian Senate, Greek-Canadian Senator Leo Housakos addressed his colleagues in efforts to bring to vote the need for Canada to recognize the Genocide of the Pontic Greeks from 1916 to 1923 by Turkey. Most...

Santorini Board Game Launches in Calgary After 31 Years in the Making (Video)

Gordon Hamilton, a man from Calgary, had a dream that was 31-years in the making before it became a reality -- the board game he invented and named "Santorini." The board game has made history as it came to fruition...

Greek Native Offering Language Lessons in Jasper: ‘I Just Want to Share my Culture’

Greek native Kostas Souliaris moved to Canada from Greece five years ago. He settled in Jasper, Alberta, where there is a healthy Greek population and decided that it was about time that Greek language lessons were offered in the town. Although...

How Canadian Navy Sailors Brought Christmas Joy to an Orphanage in Chania, Greece

The Lookout navy newspaper reported that Canada's Navy Vessel, the Charlottetown is "currently deployed on Operation Reassurance in support of NATO’s assurance and deterrence measures...and assigned NATO tasks." But that's not all that this vessel and her crew accomplished over the...

Tourism Minister Kountoura Visits Canada

Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura is visiting Toronto with the aim of strengthening the tourism flow from Canada in 2017. Kountoura was the key speaker at the special event titled "Window" organized by the General Consulate in Toronto to promote the...

Greek-Canadian Cameraman Wins Rory Peck Trust Award for Migrant Coverage

Last Wednesday AFPTV freelance news cameraman Will Vassilopoulos was awarded the Rory Peck Trust award for his work on the migrant crisis gripping Greece. Filming from October 2015 to March 2016, Vassilopoulos focused his footage on following migrants on their journey...

Helping Refugee Children on Lesvos: The Smile of the Child Launches Campaign for ‘The House of Canada and the Americas’

In efforts help refugee children who are currently stuck living in migrant reception centers in Greece, NPO The Smile of the Child, which helps children in need and at risk in Greece, has been overwhelmed trying to help these...

Toronto’s Greeks Line the Streets for ‘Oxi’ Day Parade

Greek-Canadians united in celebration with diaspora across the globe over last weekend as Greeks lined the streets for Oxi Day parades. Toronto hosted its annual Oxi day parade on October 30, in which some 30 different community groups participated. Churches...

Toronto City Council Votes to Release the Garden of the Greek Statues Back to Public

Back in 2004 the city of Toronto signed a deal with Muzik to allow a nightclub to be run in the Horticulture Building. One thing that was overlooked was that the Garden of the Greek Statues by artist E.B. Cox...