CUPP Students Learn About the History of The New Pathway

Andrij Makuch, a New Pathway Board Member, and New Pathway’s Associate Editor Olena Wawryshyn on October 12 gave a  presentation about the Ukrainian-Canadian newspaper to participants of the Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program (CUPP). 

At a meeting and dinner at St. Vladimir Institute in Toronto with students who took part in the latest CUPP session, Makuch, a  Research Co-ordinator with the CIUS Ukrainian Canadian Program, spoke about the 76-year history of New Pathway in the context of the history of Ukrainians in Canada. Wawryshyn offered the students tips on becoming journalists and correspondents for New Pathway and other Western newspapers.

They were joined by Andrij Tron, Treasurer and a Past President of the Toastmasters club at St. Vladimir Institute, who spoke about the benefits of membership in this international public speaking club and how students could join or form clubs in Ukraine.

CUPP offers students from Ukraine the opportunity to serve as interns with Canadian MPs in Ottawa, thereby giving Ukraine’s future leaders first-hand knowledge of the workings of a Western government.  The meeting with the students took place two days before they departed back to Ukraine.