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Sana wrote about the outreach of the Expatriate Parliament
The Revell exhibition not to make it to Toronto? 2010
marks the centenary of the birth of Finnish architect Viljo Revell, the
designer of the Toronto City Hall. An exhibition marking his work is under
way at the Didrichsen Art Museum in Helsinki. The intention has been that
the exhibition would move to Toronto later this year. The date and location
could not be confirmed in early March though. The plan to mark Revell’s
work with an exhibition here in Toronto has encountered financial uncertainties.
- It is possible that the event may have to be called off, if financing
cannot be arranged Maria Didrichsen, Head of Exhibitions at the Museum
told Vapaa Sana. The situation is mainly attributed to the priorities
of the City of Toronto. Other sources have been investigated as well,
but with no results so far.
The Canadian Friends of Finland Education Foundation kept its pledge A donation of half a million Candian dollars was handed over to the University of Toronto in February 2010. The CFFE had made its pledge in May 2006. Read more.
Even if they were only a nuisance The debate on whether the security surveillance papers of former NDP leader Tommy Douglas should be published or not is not one of indifference to the Finnish scene in Canada. The security wing of RCMP used to hire Canadians of Finnish extraction to keep an eye their fellow Canadians of Finnish extraction. Newly arrived Finnish immigrants of the immediate post-war era were not unwilling to participate. After all, they had been fighting the communists in Europe, why not here. And the fact that Canada had been on the other side in the war did not matter. (It was Canada who changed sides, not the Finnish immigrant..) Full publicity to the records of Tommy Douglas would open the door to full publicity to the whole collection of files. That would put the former informants in to an embarrassing situation. Vapaa Sana does not endorse full publicity to the old security documents, however wrong and against democratic principles the actions at the time were. Read the editorial.
Ottawa knows the Megan Leslie phenomenon The input in Ottawa by MP Megan Leslie (NDP, Halifax) got wider acclaim in 2009 when she was elected “rookie of the year” by other MPs, in a magazine poll. Being of Finnish-Canadian extraction she has been active in promoting the Finnish heritage in the parliamentary circles. One of her interests is the Finnish “sauna tradition”. Read this Vapaa Sana feature about a sauna party hosted by Ambassador Risto Piipponen and his wife Marjatta in December 2009. Among the invitees, including Speaker of Parliament Peter Milliken, Megan Leslie was the sauna expert. Read also this Vapaa Sana feature published in issue 03/09. - Most Canadians have social democratic values even though they do not know it, says Megan Leslie. Many of the goals of the Canadian New Democrats have been attained long ago in Finland, and part of the political consensus there.
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TV channel starts in Finland with private Canadian funding Many
of the 1950-60s emigrants Finland
and Canada are far apart on the climate issue. What do Finnish-Canadian
businessmen say? Paul
Siren Finnophile
nights meet the demand The
new professor of Finnish Studies at th U of T This high tech expert is an ambassador of Finnish values.. Riku Seppälä, 25, still an industrial engineering and management student at the Helsinki University of Technology, but already a high tech entrepreneur in Canada. - A company is being launched with a couple of friends, he explained. He also talks warmly about the Finnish educational system, worlds apart from some policies prevailing here in North America. Vapaa Sana talked with Riku Seppälä at a CFF event in Montreal. See the feature.
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