Canada

One hundred and ten people of all ages will be dressing up in traditional Greek costumes this Sunday to take part in the celebration of the Greek Community of Toronto that will be held in Polymenakion Cultural Centre, on...

A bronze sculpture of Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, was officially unveiled Saturday afternoon on Cordova Street near Thurlow, Vancouver. The statue is a gift from the ancient city of Olympia. Dozens of people gathered at the corner of Thurlow...

Canada's Greek community held a ceremony to bid farewell to the motherland's departing diplomats at the end of their tenures in Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal. Greece's Ambassador to Canada, Eleftherios Anghelopoulos, and its Consuls General for Toronto and Montreal, Dimitris Azemopoulos and Thanos Kafopoulos, respectively were the...

A seminar organized by the Office of Educational Affairs will be presented in collaboration with the Pedagogical University of Crete, on Saturday, April 26 at the Hellenic Cultural Centre of Montreal. The seminar is entitled “Learning Greek as a Second...

A Greek student from College Platon in Montreal was selected as "teen MP" in the sole seat of Canada's Youth Parliament. According to the results of the draw -- which takes place in order to decide which students are going...

“Olympus” is a new mythological drama series from the Syfy Channel. It is a co-production between Canada and the UK and it has been announced that it will start filming this July in Vancouver. “Olympus” is written by Nick Willing,...

Greek-Canadian Montreal based director Tony Asimakopoulos decided to go the route of the ever-growing popular method of crowdfunding, so as to fund his most recent documentary project entitled “A Walk in Park Ex.” The latest project by director Asimakopoulos, who is...

After 25 years in parliament, Liberal MP Jim Karygiannis is quitting the federal political arena to join the municipal fray in Toronto. The controversial MP intends to run for city council in a ward overlapping much of the Scarborough-Agincourt riding...

The Cretan Association of Montreal will be celebrating the 400th anniversary of the death of the famous Cretan painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos a.k.a El Greco, who lived and thrived in Spain. The celebration will feature the Yiannis Smaragdis film “El...

The awards ceremony for the best composition in the Greek language held by the primary schools of Socrates and Demosthenes took place yesterday at the Hellenic Community Center of Montreal.  The theme of the composition was “My Ithaca” as...