Ukrainian Recipe and World cuisine

Canada is ready to open its doors to expanded immigration, but only if the immigrants already here do better.

The government is under huge pressure to increase immigration levels, according to Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney. It’s facing demands for more newcomers from business leaders and nearly every provincial premier. But before Mr. Kenney will comply, he says he wants to see more immigrants working and earning at rates close to those of Canadian-born people. That also happens to be the focus of a series of reforms he launched this spring, designed to improve economic outcomes for immigrants.

BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov on Wednesday brushed aside Western concerns about his government's treatment of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko as misguided and unwarranted, indicating that Kiev was unlikely to change its mind.

KIEV, Ukraine -- Although President Viktor Yanukovych publicly portrays his foreign policy as multi-vector – balancing between Russia and the West – in reality, there has been a substantial shift in Ukraine’s orientation toward Russia.

BRUSSELS, Belgium -- EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fule has stated that association is a common goal of Ukraine and the EU, and the rejection of this process would "betray the people and principles of the Eastern Partnership."

BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Ukraine's prime minister said Tuesday that his predecessor had been correctly convicted of abusing her powers in signing a gas deal with Russia, and invited European observers to watch her appeal.

President Viktor Yanukovych, in apparent defiance of the European Union’s pressure over the treatment of jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, said Monday he will not allow Ukraine to be “humiliated.”

Amnesty International today urges Ukraine authorities to begin implementing a law which paves the way for independent investigations into allegations of police violence ahead of the Euro 2012.

Mississauga-Erindale MP Bob Dechert is part of a group of Canadian federal politicians visiting Ukraine to conduct hearings into a number of different matters.
Dechert, who also serves as parliamentary secretary to Minister of Foreign Affairs John Baird, is part of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development.

Ontario Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Charles Sousa, and Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport, Michael Chan, have announced venue plans for the 2015 Pan and Parapan American Games. The multi-sport venue will be held in Toronto and surrounding suburbs during the summer of 2015.

The government of the United States has called on the Ukrainian authorities to release former Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko and other ex-officials of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, as well as restore their civil and political rights.

VIKTOR YANUKOVYCH deserves no reward for his heavy-handed rule as president of Ukraine. His term has brought increasing corruption, a concentration of power in the presidency and show trials of political opponents. The most worrying has been the case of Yulia Tymoshenko, a former prime minister who now languishes in prison on a seven-year sentence.

Ukraine striker Andriy Shevchenko has recovered from the health niggles that made him doubtful for the European football championship next month and expects to be fit for the tournament, he said on Monday.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said Monday that the Euro 2012 Soccer Championship will take place in Ukraine despite announcements and threats to boycott the event by several European countries to protest against the alleged maltreatment of the former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

The Euro 2012 soccer championship in June is supposed to be Ukraine’s chance to shine: forge closer ties with the West, boost its international standing and aid its struggling economy.

Tattoos aren’t just body art to some of Heather Myles’s clients – they’re also a matter of life and death.

Canada has placed third in a new international ranking of colleges and universities.

The ranking was prepared by Universitas 21, an international network of 23 leading research-intensive universities in fifteen countries. The ranking looked at various measures of what constitutes a “good” educational system.