Mikä ihmeen Vapaa Sana? Katso tuonnempana alhaalla.

 

What is Vapaa Sana?
Vapaa Sana is a weekly tabloid published in Toronto in Finnish and partially in English. Published since 1931, the weekly claims to be the leading Finnish language media in North America. More

This website
At vapaasana,com the paper offers a selection of material published in the Vapaa Sana. Besides this side, the company maintains also (www) finnishcanadian.com ja canadansanomat.com

Meille töihin?
Vapaa Sana ottaa vastaan Suomesta Centre for International Mobilityn harjoittelijoita. Lue tästä, mitä Vapaa Sana edellyttää.

Mikä ihmeen Vapaa Sana?
Vapaa Sana on riippumaton viikkosanomalehti, joka ilmestyy kerran viikossa Torontossa. Lehden nimi periytyy 1930-luvulta.Nimi johtaa joskus lehteä tuntemattoman pitämään Vapaata Sanaa hengellisenä lehtenä. Sitä se ei kuitenkaan ole.

Näillä sivuilla tarjoamme poimintoja sisällöstä, emme koko aineistoa. Vapaa Sana on tilauspohjainen lehti. Vuosikerta maksaa Kanadassa 100 dollaria ja GST-veron, nopeammin kirjepostina 150 dollaria.Tilaukset numeroon 1(416) 321 0808, klo 10-13 Toronton aikaa arkisin.

Yhtiömme
Kustannusyhtiö Vapaa Sana Press julkaisee viikkosanomalehtiä Vapaa Sana (Toronto) ja Canadan Sanomat (Thunder Bay). Yhtiön internetsivustot ovat www.vapaasana.com, www.canadansanomat.com ja www.finnishcanadian.com.

Yhtiön omistajapohja käsittää toistakymmentätuhatta kanadansuomalaista. Hallituksen puheenjohtaja on nyt John Majanlahti.

Kyselyjen johdosta ilmoitamme, että internetosoite vapaasana.net ei liity tämän kustannusyhtiön toimintaan.

Historiamme
Kesällä 2008 ilmestyi Lauri Toiviasen kirja Vapaan Sanan vaiheista. Tämän linkin takana voitte lukea myös VS:n 75-vuotisjuhlanumeron reportaaseja ja haastatteluja.

Torontoa uudelle?
Mitä kaupungin perinteinen suomalaiskenttä voi tarjota tulokkaalle? Kaupungin "vanhat suomalaiset" varmasti yllättävät nykysuomalaisen, mutta kokemus voi olla kiinnostavakin.

Kolumneja
Vuoden 2010 alkupuoliskolla kolumneja lehteen kirjoittaa Johannes Niemeläinen.

Re: The Change in Vapaa Sana

To Juhani — My sincerest thanks and compliments to you as Editor, for over five years of excellent and professional stewardship in compiling, editing and investigating, for your readers, previously many unknown cultural and sports activities of other Finns in Canada; along with those more familiar with this paper.
You have, probably with more bricks than kudos, tried to illustrate a part of all Finnish activities in this country, regardless of any political or religious beliefs. For this you have, in my humble opinion, been most open, frank and informative. You have also given prominence to local, world, Finland news, and cultural endeavours, good coverage to theatre in particular [and to yours truly, thanks!] ; you created and nourished an atmosphere of genuine concern for Finnishness and questioned how long it will continue to flourish; the English section will, perhaps, help, but may need more commitment to foster interest amongst the young.
Juhani, your legacy — you will be leaving us a newspaper more open and transparent to all who have Finnish roots and are willing to promote our Finnish culture in our communities.
Thanks Juhani for your informative, stimulating and interesting visit; may you continue your career in a happy environment — Henry Huhtanen

"A joint remembrance should take place on a continuing basis"

I enjoyed your Remembrance Day editorial (Vapaa Sana 45/2010). Although veterans of World War II, whichever country they served, are well into their 80’s and often 90’s, there has been an obvious division in the Finnish community of Canada which can be pinpointed to this issue.
I wish that some sort of joint remembrance can be organized on a continuing basis—at least within these senior citizens’ homes. It is important that a Finn, such as yourself, continues to play a leadership role in this dispute.
I myself am proud of my family’s long Finnish-Canadian heritage and the participation of some 2000 Finnish Canadians, such as my father, in Canada’s armed forces during World War II. Canada played a key role in the ultimate defeat of nazism in Europe and continues to commemorate this achievement on an annual basis. Our family is proud of the sacrifices of Canada’s war veterans and that millions of new Canadians have embraced this achievement as worthy of being remembered.
Finland’s great achievement in this same World War II was that it survived as a nation—smaller in size and careful of its relations with its neighbour. Survival is its own achievement even if it has taken years for the world to realize what Finland ultimately achieved. No one could say, in the first years after the war, exactly in which direction Finland would go but its political leadership would invariably make the right strategic decision. In many ways, survival is a kind of evolution—nothing too exciting to watch at any one time but ultimately satisfying over the decades when one sees what Finland achieved and compared these to the situation of other nations in what used to be Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Then one can truly appreciate survival as one would a fine wine—an exquisite taste that was worth hard work and sacrifice.
Finnish Independence: Proclamation. Sacrifice. Survival. Celebration.
Finland’s 93rd year of Independence is as good an occasion as any to salute one of the great—and continuing—achievements of the 20th century.

Lennard Sillanpää
PhD
Orleans, ON