Podcasts about andrusiak

He is called the father of multiculturalism.  Senator Paul Yuzyk died July 9th, 1986.  As we approach the 35th anniversry of his passing Nasha Kasha acknowledges Yuzyk's legacy. 

A rushnychok is an embroidered cloth: a memento haded down through generations.  Here is the story of a band that wove their songs and music through that embroidery for more than a decade. 

Marten Falls First Nation is an Anishinaabe reserve located in Northern Ontario.  It's communities live on both sides of the Albany River far to the north of Thunder Bay.  This week Nasha Kasha brings us their story.  First we'll hear from Canada's top First Nations leader.

It is rare. Only a few hear it. Fewer still answer. This week, Nasha Kasha chronicles the last three years of one couple, who followed their calling into Ukrainian life.   

Mark and Marichka Marczyk have earned two Dora Awards, an Edinburgh Fringe First Award, and an Amnesty International Freedom of Speech Award.  Today on Nasha Kasha, they speak of their music and meeting at an intersection in Ukrainian history.

Friends, family and music.  They are all elements of a beautiful dance called life.  This is true, even if the dancing has to be done at a distance.  

Summer Festival organizers and performers are itching to welcome attendees back, and they hope at least part of the 2021 season can be salvaged.  As we all await post pandemic freedom, here’s a look back at a British Columbia favourite.

This week Nasha Kasha explores fusion and harmony in Ukrainian music.  We begin with a project that blends reggae with Ukraine’s iconic instrument: the bandura.

Similarities abound between Ukraine and Ireland.  We are about to discover that the two may be closer than you think.

Russia has occupied the Crimean peninsula, a part of Ukraine, for more than seven years. Today, Nasha Kasha explores the bonds between Tatars and Ukrainians.  And how both peoples again and again must grapple with an expansionist Russia.

Thursday, February 25th 2021 is the 150th birthday of Ukrainian poet Lesya Ukrainka. Her significance for Ukraine and for Europe is this week’s story on Nasha Kasha.

 Rule of Law restricts the arbitrary exercise of power by subordinating power to well-defined and established laws.  Nasha Kasha presents two judges talking about rules, fairness and life.

 Zirka is Ukrainian for a heavenly body.  The one you are about to encounter was smelted in a Sudbury Inco mine.   That’s where a foreman named Slawko Hucal worked.  Slawko and his wife raised four musicians.    Today, the band they inspired shines on. 

Around the time of the Second World War hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians united around an independence movement.  The military arm of that drive was the UPA, an insurgent army.  Today, Nasha Kasha tells the story of these partisans, who first formed ranks 78 years ago.

97 million people have been stricken with COVID worldwide.    More than 2 million have died.  Nasha Kasha hears from patients and front line practitioners, who know Covid up close.

 Odessa Ontario is 26 kilometres west of Kingston.  It is in the very heart of British Loyalist country.  Why then, in the mid-1850s, would residents accept the name of a Ukrainian port as their own? This week's episode of Nasha Kasha- a Ukrainian Almanac offers some answers.

Two days before Ukrainian Christmas, a priest, living alone in Val D’or Quebec, turned 98.  Father Lev Chayka has served mining families in three languages in northern Quebec and Ontario for almost half a century. This is his story. 

Each New Year promises renewed hope; 2021 perhaps more so than any in recent memory. Ukrainians honour an ancient feast of rebirth at this time. Today's story is about new beginnings, new lands, regeneration, and joy.

  Norilsk Russia, north of the Arctic Circle, holds the largest-known nickel, copper and palladium reserves on earth.  Built by forced labour through bouts of starvation and an ever-present intense cold; it is also one of the world's biggest polluters.  Still, one Ukrainian songwriter calls Norilsk the centre of her soul.   

It is one thing to disagree with an oppressor, quite another to do so under threat of deportation, prison or death.  Today Nasha Kasha recognizes the sacrifices and the leadership of men and women under threat and torment. 

There is evidence that the act of singing may generate droplets and aerosols. The risk of COVID-19 transmission is unclear. Still choirs cancelled practices and concerts around the world.   Nasha Kasha visited a much loved Ukrainian choir in Edmonton, and tells its story before and after the public singing stopped.

 It was South African cleric Desmond Tutu who said that you don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.  This week Nasha Kasha presents the story of just such a gift.  

 This week, Nasha Kasha hears from educators about their planning, apprehension and hopes for safe learning, as schools open across the land.  

 Picture childhood characters you read about in your first storybook.  Now image that they are real, and all grown up.  That's the story of Sonya and Alexander.  And we present it today on Nasha Kasha.

He arrived in politics waving the motto- give youth a chance.  Today we bring you the story of a public service veteran, who’s scored success upon success and now, he's back for more.

 It's all very good that Canada has four diverse seasons to spread across our stunning landscape.  But the one we call summer, is slipping away.  Nasha Kasha grabs hold of summer's warmth and innocence.  So that we can  bask in its glow before the school bell rings.

There is little scientific proof that social distancing promotes nostalgia.  However, one Canadian reporter awoke this week with a mounting urge to write about his favourite cat.  This prompted an impromptu collection of cat lore, which we are pleased to now present just for the fun of it all.

This week we bring you three elements of fun in any language.  So let's bring on the polkas and accordions and sing alongs.

A span of four years has taken theatre director Susan Ferley from London Ontario to London England, and back again to Ontario.  Her pursuit is to further education in theatre.  Now with a new theatre to manage, she has had to brake to a sudden stop, along with the rest of us.  Here is the story of her journey and her hope.

The bandura is more than the national musical instrument. It is the voice of Ukraine.  Today on Nasha Kasha we bring you the story of a builder and then the story of a virtuoso.  Each brings life to wood and fibreglass and strings.

 During the First World War, Ukrainian Canadians and others from Eastern Europe were labelled enemy aliens.  They were robbed of their freedom and imprisoned.   This year, we commemorated the 100th anniversary of the end of Canada’s first national internment. 

Today’s story had to wait a while as other reporting assignments took priority.  Now three months after being recorded, Nasha Kasha is pleased to present it.  After all, love stories should not be rushed.

In St Catharines, Ontario a Catholic priest recently posted this message to friends, who are worried about the pandemic:  “Try to keep calm, act responsibly.  God is ministering to us through the doctors, nurses and support staff … as they unselfishly care for our needs”.  Today, 35 years after his ordination, we update the story of Father Anton.

 This week we update an Acadian Ukrainian love story from the Maritimes.  Sarah and Tony, like the rest of us are living life in a time of pandemic threat.  Here's their story in song and words.

It’s the 200th edition of Nasha Kasha. There’s great music to be sure. But this party is dedicated to the community stations that host this coast-to-coast Ukrainian radio show.

Polkas and accordions and sing-alongs.  This week we bring you three elements of fun in any language.

 Rule of Law is the restriction of the arbitrary exercise of power.  This is done by subordinating it to well-defined and established laws. This week Nasha Kasha meets a dedicated Rule of Law proponent.

Today we travel up the north shore of the St Lawrence River to la Malbaie- Pointe au Pic.  It's the story of a young Ukrainian from the prairies.  He arrived speaking almost no French.  Now he is the recognized artistic ambassador for the Charlevoix region.   LI 

This week Nasha Kasha explores Ukrainian dance in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley,  It means combining choreography, cuisine and crafts.

More than a week has passed.  Western University is still in shock over the deaths of four graduate students.   It is one of 20 Canadian campuses coping with loss in the skies over Tehran.  Each shining academic star was distinct, yet they were one in their unfulfilled dreams.

Marten Falls First Nation is an Anishinaabe reserve located in Northern Ontario.  It’s communities live on both sides of the Albany River far to the north of Thunder Bay.  This week Nasha Kasha brings us their story.  We’ll also hear from Canada’s top First Nations leader.

Plagiarism, denial, even murder.    All of this mischief and treachery swirls around this week’s story on Nasha Kasha.  It begins with bells and ends with one of the world’s most endearing Christmas carols.

This week on Nasha Kasha- a closer look at relations between Canada and Ukraine.  Also we'll here what it was like for a married couple, who were sent to Ukraine during it’s recent turbulent times.

This week Nasha Kasha brings us a father and daughter story rooted in Canada’s busiest border town.  Karen and Harry love all things Ukrainian, a mother’s chicken soup, and the law.

This week, Nasha Kasha brings us the story of a Ukrainian farm family from Saskatchewan, who has blended Christian lyrics and harmonies for more than six decades of gospel singing.  

Gravity defying gymnastics, twirling regional dress.  Ukrainian dance is distinctive and regionally diversified. This week Nasha Kasha travels to Ottawa and Thunder Bay to chronicle the halting dance steps children take in their discovery of this art form.  

A stone boat sails no sea.  Rather it’s a sledge used in the back breaking toil of clearing rocks from a farm field.  Here’s a story about just such a boat and the BC vineyard it inspired.

Nasha Kasha reporter Stefan Andrusiak is vacationing in Europe.  And this week he files this on-the-road report from Italy. 

Zirka is Ukrainian for a heavenly body.  The one you are about to encounter was smelted in a Sudbury Inco mine.   That’s where a foreman named Slawko Hucal worked for 36 years.  Slawko and his wife Sonia raised four musicians.  The Inco mine is now called Vale.  And Slawko died in 2011.  But the band he inspired flies high and shines on. 

In Kamloops British Columbia, sculpted by nature, you will find sandstone pillars that stand 5 meters tall.  That’s over 16 feet. They’re called hoo-doos.   Each rests on a thick base of shale and is capped by a large stone.  Around them the wind blows tumble weeds … twirling in a Ukrainian dance.  

Over the next few months Nasha Kasha will be presenting eight full episodes from British Columbia.  This is the first, and it's from the city they call the Raspberry Capital of Canada:  Abbotsford.

Headliners are drawing crowds to festivals across Canada this summer.  But in among them, merchants also deliver on expectations.  Today on Nasha Kasha- stories about two sellers- one past, one present.

 It is rare. Only a few hear it. Fewer still answer. This week in our 120th episode of Nasha Kasha- we meet three remarkable people, who have heard a calling.

Winnipeg's North End is a large urban area located to the north and northwest of the downtown core.   The Red River flows on the eastern border and the Canadian Pacific Railway mainline sits to the south. This week, Nasha Kasha learns of the area’s history and evolution from a long time resident and film-maker.

Multiculturalism: the coming together around heritage for greater understanding.  It can be seen through many lenses and heard from many voices.  That’s the whole point.  In this episode, Nasha Kasha celebrates the idea and the diversity from a Ukrainian platform.

Queen Victoria: born May 24th two hundred years ago stood 4 feet 11 inches, and she reigned over England and its empire for more than sixty years. There is Victoria Falls in Zambia and Zimbabwe, Victoria Square in Athens, Greece. And the site of today’s Nasha Kasha episode: Victoria British Columbia.  Now meet Victoria of Victoria BC

In Ukraine, a newly elected President needs to build consensus with his parliament.  The largest voting block is loyal to the man the new president recently unseated. But parliamentary elections are only five months away.  

Today Nasha Kasha salutes volunteer emergency relief workers.   Placed “amidst the ruins” they save lives, offer survivors support, bury the dead, and they work to safeguard communities from future disasters.  

This week Nasha Kasha tells three stories about Ukrainian life in Phoenix, Arizona.  One interviewee is a little bit cool to this whole being Ukrainian thing.  Another, who is not Ukrainian is warming up to a brand new embrace.  And a family of three feels "just right".  Welcome to episode 153:  the Goldilocks edition.

 Early achievement in mathematics is a strong predictor of later academic achievement. This week Nasha Kasha introduces us to two math educators, who tell us how teaching math squares with the root of their Ukrainian culture.

April 15th, people around the world looked on in disbelief as Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris burned.  Six thousand kilometres away in Hamilton Ontario, fire wrecked a Ukrainian hall. Small by comparison, the Hamilton blaze robbed a community of archives, some rental income, and the meeting place they call "domivka".  

Community development is planned action taken to generate solutions, growth and the expansion of a community, based on best practices. The Ukrainian Canadian community is finding that getting people to care and to commit is less and less a matter of loyalty and membership.  It has far more to do with broader feelings of belonging.

One is a first-time recording artist.  The other an accomplished Music Industry teacher.  Both began recording songs in a basement studio.   Nasha Kasha is a story of dreaming big and living life along the way.  

 Recitals highlight a music school and the hard work of its students.  Attendees are mostly family and friends, who are there to lend support.  In London, Ontario one recital recently also lent support and light to the repertoire of the Ukrainian Art Song.

Greek philosopher Aristotle said there are three types of friendship.  One enjoys the benefits each person brings to it.  A second embraces the pleasure of company. The third Aristotle called friendship of the good is built on mutual respect.  This type is as individual as are you. On rare occasions a friendship embraces all three types, and this is at the heart of our Nasha Kasha story.

Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula has been the ancestral home of a Tatar people for centuries.   But for almost half of the past decade, Crimea has been occupied by Russia.  The invaders have banned the Mejlis, which is the Representative Assembly.  Crimean Tatars are now subject to arrests and attacks.  Today, Nasha Kasha explores the ties between Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians.  And how both peoples struggle with an expansionary Russian regime.  

We have just marked Valentine's Day in North America.  However, this day is celebrated differently around the world.  Let's sample how differing cultures mark their days of affection.  We'll also hear from a soulful singer named LUKA about life and music and love.

 About a dozen couples play cards each week in a Winnipeg church basement.  They know all about making the best of the hand that's been dealt.  Two years ago a fire made their church unusable.  Friendship, resolve and humour helped them regroup, and keeps them going still.  

 Words to live by grace buildings, monuments even the currency of many countries. Today, Nasha Kasha looks to Ukraine to explore why its motto proclaims glory above all.  

It was mid-January in Thunder Bay, 41 years ao.  Constable John Kusznier died in the line of fire at a brawl.  He is that city’s only police officer to have been gunned down. This report remembers him.

 The bass plays the lowest line of notes running through a musical performance.  It’s the bridge between rhythm and harmony in jazz.  And it provides a strong beat.  This week Nasha Kasha is all about the bass and one musician who is studying to master it.

After some housekeeping items, Andy Eide (4:30), who covers the Thunderbirds for ESPN 710, joins the podcast to chat about Everett's trade with Seattle to acquire Zack Andrusiak and what it means for both teams moving forward. Then Nick Patterson (19:20) comes on to talk about the upcoming trade market leading up to the Jan. 10 deadline and how Everett fits in. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts (itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tips-…d1445649208?mt=2), Spotify (open.spotify.com/show/1lUn2vgYNvG…9lRguiH2ACH_ys6w), Stitcher (www.stitcher.com/podcast/tips-talk?refid=stpr), Google Play or anywhere else you get your podcasts. Follow Josh Horton on Twitter (@joshhortonEDH) or like his facebook page (www.facebook.com/JoshHortonTips/). Further reading: Wednesday's feature on Andrusiak: https://www.heraldnet.com/sports/a-different-journey-andrusiaks-road-ends-in-everett/ Thursday's notebook: https://www.heraldnet.com/sports/silvertips-will-continue-to-lean-on-defensemen-for-power-play/ Tuesday's trade story: https://www.heraldnet.com/sports/silvertips-acquire-zach-andrusiak-from-archrival-seattle/ Thanks for listening!

One Winnipeg choir took the name of an ancient instrument- Hoosli. Another the name of an accomplished composer and choral conductor- Koshetz. As 2019 opens, Nasha Kasha brings us the story of Ukrainian Christmas and two choruses, who give this Julian calendar feast day  voice. 

Ukrainians in Canada’s four Atlantic provinces, who want to maintain their roots and language are pretty much on their own.  Canada’s Ukrainian organizations largely ignore anyone living east of Quebec City because populations are tiny.  No Ukrainian community is tinier than PEI’s.

On a recent trip to Thunder Bay, reporter Stefan Andrusiak recorded two stories.  One is about a tiny fly-in First Nations settlement.  The other is that of a First Nations parliamentarian, who also happens to have Ukrainian roots.

The tenants of the Christian Orthodox faith may be firmly rooted in centuries old scriptures and tradition.  But new-found liberation for the Orthodox Church in Ukraine is in the air.  This episode of Nasha Kasha tracks the history and explains why being self-headed is important for believers.

They are change makers for Ukraine:  entrepreneurs, civic leaders and not for profit organizers working to improve local government in a time of broad ranging reforms. This fall, 10 traveled to Canada. Nasha Kasha explores the challenges that tax them, and how Canada is helping.

Hunger is being used as a weapon in the sieges of places like Aleppo, Homs and Eastern Ghouta in Syria.  There have been food blockades in Yemeni ports.   In the 1930’s Joseph Stalin used hunger to starve the Ukrainian nation.  That starvation of millions to death has a name: Holodomor.

Born in Edmonton, based in Montreal, rooted in reggae… a song writer and recording artist known only by her first name, has expanded her influence to Ukraine.  This week, Nasha Kasha hears from Auresia and reggae with a Ukrainian vibe.

Early achievement in mathematics is a strong predictor of later academic achievement. This week Nasha Kasha introduces us to two math educators, who tell us how teaching math squares with the root of their Ukrainian culture.

 Membership in a university students club can extend horizons, build knowledge, shape social networks, even stand out on a job resume.  This week Nasha Kasha meets 3 Queens University students, who have excelled at school with benefits rife by getting busy with student life.

In 1982, the communist newspaper Pravda, reporting on Jewish refusenik activities in Leningrad, referred to Moshe Azman as an enemy of Soviet Power.  This week Nasha Kasha meets the refusenik, who went on to become chief Rabbi of Ukraine.

The Ironman competition is among Susan Koziak’s most recent professional assignments.   This week on Nasha Kasha we here of her career, her heritage and the first boy she ever kissed. Along the way Susan discovers there’s a bit of iron in all of us.

Dr. Brian Cherwick leads Newfoundland’s finest Ukrainian folk band.  Okay, … he leads Newfoundland’s only Ukrainian folk band.  The Kubasonics combine chants from centuries past, Ukrainian love songs, and a touch of punk and rock ... from the Rock.  This week, Nasha Kasha introduces a band leader, who earned his PhD in polka, and music that could only have been inspired by a kubasa (koo-bah-sah).

Odessa Ontario is 26 kilometres west of Kingston.  It is in the very heart of British Loyalist country. There is no evidence of a Ukrainian presence.  So why in the mid-1850s would the villagers name their community after a Ukrainian port?  The answer is this week’s Nasha Kasha story.  

This coming fall, voters in the province of Ontario will elect mayors, councillors, school trustees and all other elected municipal officials.  There’s a dizzying array of choices.  Nasha Kasha profiles two candidates in Hamilton with similar roots, similar opinions and aspirations.  Remarkably they have never met.   

Biking around the block or around North America:  it all begins with an intention.  This week Nasha Kasha tells the story about bike repairs in order to ride and riding in order to help repair a country.

In 1975 there was only a handful of Ukrainian families living in Moncton.  They formed a club.  More than 40 years later, newcomers from Ukraine are putting down their own roots in New Brunswick.  Viktor is an astronomer.  His wife Julia is a physicist.  This week on Nasha Kasha we'll hear why they settled in Moncton, where they're distinguishing themselves at work and at that still-thriving Ukrainian club.

Behind the scenes at an American resort, workers reveal why their disperate lives have come together in the Catskills in a place called Suzie Q.  Here’s this week’s Nasha Kasha.

Balaklava Blues is a story about Ukraine's on-going struggle to live free from Russian incursions.  It's also the story of two musicians , who have found a calling in all that strife.

 A flower is the seed-bearing part of a plant, that are typically surrounded by brightly coloured petal and a green calyx.  They bloom, they blossom and of course they flower.  This week, Nasha Kasha is dedicated to that which brings us joy in sight, smell and sometimes taste.

In Ukrainian "cha-ban" means shepherd.  "Zor-ya" means star.  In Thunder Bay, the Chaban and the Zorya dance groups have been shepherding and staring in Ukrainian performances for 50 years.  This week's episode of Nasha Kasha meets the remarkable women, who lead these groups.

Two violins, one stage.  One is in the hands of a rising virtuoso, still in school, The other played by a community orchestra member, having read the score and wanting more.  This week, Nasha Kasha tells of one orchestra and its rising strings.

Engineer, Teacher, Veterinarian.  Three women came to Canada leaving their professional qualifications in Ukraine.  Each has become a Ukrainian community leader in London, where it’s fair to say … women rule.

 It took a century, but Ukrainians of the Orthodox faith are closer than ever to realizing unity and independence for their Church.  This week Nasha Kasha examines the difficult road traveled to arrive at this intersection.

The Jack Richardson Awards honour the best, who’ve enhanced London Ontario’s entertainment scene. One of two 2018 lifetime achievement awards went to a man, who once helped the Supremes, Jimmy Ruffin, KISS, and even Liberace get through the day back in the day.

It is the most polluted city in Russia and among the ten dirtiest in the world. Still, Norilsk- a mining centre built on the misery of Stalin’s work camps did hold the admiration of one former Canadian Prime Minister. This and other stories are remembered by a song writer, who is still drawn to it despite it's cold history.

Reggae lends itself to a world of interpretations. From the melodic rock-steady of Alton Ellis to the rock and folk-influences of Bob Marley. This week, Nasha Kasha explores reggae for the Ukrainian soul in Montreal.

Easter eggs have become hallmarks of spring, brought down to us from pqgan times. Today, Nasha Kasha travels to California to hunt for Ukrainian Easter eggs, which are called py-san-kas, and to reveal the meaning behind the art of making them.