I would like to offer my sincere thanks to all of you for attending this very important roundtable with Minister Goodyear this past Friday. There were many very good ideas passed to the Minister that have a potential impact to your nations of cultural origin. Most importantly, you all had excellent suggestions on how to leverage Canadian products, institutions and knoweldge especially from Southern Ontario, which would enhance our own economic growth here at home and at the same time,

The Canada Ukraine Chamber of Commerce held its successful Fourth Annual Independence Day Golf Tournament at Royal Woodbine Golf & Country Club in Toronto on August 18, ahead of the 18^th Anniversary of Ukraine’s Independence Day celebrations on August 24.  The CUCC tournament attracted 110 players to sign up for the tee-off in Ukrainian “best ball format”. Twenty-seven men’s and women’s teams hit, hacked and putted their way around the golf course, but more importantly doing so having a good time according to Eugene Masney.