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Re: Jim Flaherty: If Greeks Reject Austerity, Will Result In Euro Zone Restructuring

PL45 — Tue, 15 May 2012 09:33:34 -0000

Flarherty has met with both Jamie Dimon and Lloyd Blankfein in the past. If he felt the situation will be so bad worldwide why didn't the gov't arrest both Blankfein and Dimon for terrorism when they had the chance. Attacking a country with derivatives is as bad as using physical explosives.

Re: Greek Community of Toronto To Give Welcome Celebration for New Migrants

Kostatin polizos — Wed, 02 May 2012 14:21:25 -0000

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Re: Researcher Claims Ancient Greeks Made It to America Before Columbus

PL45 — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 21:47:12 -0000

Byzantine maps had the coast lines of the America's on it as well as Antarctica.

Re: Montreal Honors 2 Greek Women for Contribution to Multicultural Mosaic

Kostatin polizos — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:37:50 -0000

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Re: Researcher Claims Ancient Greeks Made It to America Before Columbus

Arionpat — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:09:32 -0000

Since Columbus is reportedly Greek what difference does it make.

Re: Researcher Claims Ancient Greeks Made It to America Before Columbus

Arionpat — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:07:51 -0000

Maybe they came with the Vikings.

Re: Researcher Claims Ancient Greeks Made It to America Before Columbus

Anastasia Damianeas — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:43:20 -0000

My husband studied for a short while in Athens with Anna Tsiropoulou-Efstathiou, and I remember that he mentioned this to me...and that Mrs. Tsiropoulou-Efstathiou had read and taught him and the other students the ancient texts. It gives me goosebumps. Thank you for sharing this article.

Re: Menegakis Hopes for Election Victory in Toronto

yahoo-MIN3NZKLRWK657QZPUGTD475WI — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:46:34 -0000

Greeks in Toronto are not mortified the Mr. Menegakis is running. This is only the opnion of the previous poster.

Re: 49 Different Types of Feta Recorded by Canadian Centre of Dairy Products

Greek reader — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 06:54:01 -0000

Original Feta is only Greek. The name is protected in Europe & should be everywhere. The same goes for Greek Yoghurt in my opinion!

Re: Toronto’s Greek Parade and the Prohibited Anti-Corruption Banner

Biblos — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:10:28 -0000

Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth.Psalm 60:4For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;Romans 1:18

Re: Toronto’s Greek Parade and the Prohibited Anti-Corruption Banner

spl12345 — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:54:50 -0000

The banner is 100% true.

Re: History of Greek Immigration in Canada

Niko — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:45:57 -0000

This is Really A Sweat Source of Info

Re: 2012 Parliamentary Banquet Honouring Prime Minister Stephen Harper

johnnychill — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:03:39 -0000

Honouring him for what? Destroying Canada?

Re: Montreal Ahepa Family Donates $130,000.00 To Giant Steps School At The 13th Annual St. Valentine’s Ball

Gr_chrisoula — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:39:53 -0000

Solidarity is one of the most humane expressions. Helping the weakest and/or the most sensitive parts of society is Doing Giant Steps towards social justice.Congratulations to the Montreal AHEPA Family for its sensitivity, helping Giant Steps.

Re: Montreal Ahepa Family Donates $130,000.00 To Giant Steps School At The 13th Annual St. Valentine’s Ball

Libi — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:00:17 -0000

Thats very nice when you have the
Montreal community helping out the Giants step school, I am sure the amount donated will go a long way

Re: Ted Manziaris; The Greek who Built an Empire Collecting Garbage

Damian_Anagnostopoulos — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:09:47 -0000

Is Turtle Island Recycling an all Canadian Company?

Re: Ted Manziaris; The Greek who Built an Empire Collecting Garbage

Damian_Anagnostopoulos — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:08:11 -0000

Where was Turtle Island Recycling founded?

Re: “The Greeks of Danforth”: A Journey into Canada’s Hellenism

TEN — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:00:48 -0000

Many of the non Greeks living on the Danforth take pride at the fact they live in Greektown too.

Re: Greek Community Hosts Event “Macedonia:The Historical Truth”

Epsilon + — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 07:55:34 -0000

Dear Readers,

No where in history has a group conquered a nation and just imposed their langauage, beliefs, and laws. Not even when the British conquered Quebec did they force, or could force, the whole population to learn english as their main language. Yes, it was the language of business, but until the "Quiet Revolution" many French people outside of Montreal spoke french exclusively. The only time the British made a conquered area "english" was when they vanquished, remember Machiavelli's "dispose and disposes" theory, when they sent the Acadians by the thousands to the now New Orleans area in order to fully, and properly conquer the French colonists. The same goes in Macedonia. Even if the kings were Greek, and the rest of the nation was non-Greek. The kings would have to learn the langauge of the locals, and follow their customs. An example of this were the Thracians that "adopted" Greek culture, but spoke a language entirely their own. Only through colonization by Athens, and Macedonia, were the Thracians "integrated" into the Greek culture. There are other cases as well in Asia Minor. Moreover, the Macedonians, like the Spartans, had their own "unique" culture compared to the "Ionian" Greeks, that were from the Athenian stock, or the "Aeolians". The Spartans and the Macedonians were distant cousins as they both "invaded" Greece around the same time, and were known as "Dorians". Remember that Greece, was not always inhabited by Greeks (that is in Herodotus as well, or JB Bury's book titled "History of Greece").

Remember that Herodotus was writing a book to propogate the Athenian "myth" of being the most civilised of the Greeks. It was a propoganda text at best. The facts are these"

1) If the Macedoians were not Greek, they definitely were not Slavs;
2) Philip, Alexander, and the other kings, especially Alexander, pushed the Greek culture throughout their conquered areas, not their ancient pseudo-culture.
3) Aristotle spoke no other language than Ionian Greek, which means he would have had to learn a barbaric langauge that he wouldn't fathom based on his writings.

In short, learn your history because it is better to be considered a fool, than to open your mouth and to confirm it.

Epsilon +

Re: Greeks in Toronto Against Bob Rae

Oakenfold1978 — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:24:24 -0000

You are totally wrong. Canada has recognized the Republic of Macedonia under its constitutional name "Republic of Macedonia". Learn how to check facts.

Re: Greek Community Hosts Event “Macedonia:The Historical Truth”

Aetos — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 21:09:18 -0000

Yes there is a State in Greece called Macedonia, just like there is a State in Greece called Peloponisos.

And Macedonia is a part of the Greek nation and it has not become an independent state or seceeded from Greece.

Re: Greek Community Hosts Event “Macedonia:The Historical Truth”

Aetos — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 21:05:43 -0000

To all those pseudo Macedonians who have been brainwashed by their government and interest groups.

Please realise who you really are.

You are not Macedonians.

Please choose a name that identifies who you are as a people.

Not steal one from the Greeks, just because it has a proud and strong history and you want to make it yours for the purpose of creating tourism to make money from. And to one day make a move to invade the Greek Macedonians so you can have access to the Aegean Sea and to Thessaloniki so you can take our homes, our beautiful beaches, hotels and others things such as our mineral and gold mining in Makedonia.

I have seen your intimadating map of your desires to take Makedonia from us Greeks.

You have offended and are stealing from us what belongs to us in pride, soul and identity.

Who am I?

I am a Makedono. A Macedonian Greek

My grandparents spoke Greek in their villages in the mountains of Macedonia and of course spoke some Turkish as they lived under the Ottoman Turkish Empire.

And might i tell you i can tell an Albanian a mile away from us Greeks they look mor like you Skopjians in a way. Have you ever noticed how the FYROM prime minister Mr Gruevski has asiatic looking eyes, it is because he has some Turkish Mongol blood in him.

Now for the name "Alexander"

A Greek name that means helper of men.

Phillip, a Greek name that means lover of horses.

I don't see any "ski's" or "nov" on the end of these names.

So stop being idiots and get yourselves a name. If you can't i have some for you to choose.

ALBURIA (from Albania and Bulgaria) which makes up your ethnic background.

WANABIA (because you want to be something that you are not).

SKUPIA

or perhaps KLEFTIA

or simply VARDARSKA.

Leave my home alone, i am not seeking yours.

Re: Greek Community Hosts Event “Macedonia:The Historical Truth”

Loni — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:20:39 -0000

Since you have no proof of any "Macedonian" identity (since all you ancestors like Tsar Samuil where Bulgarians) your last resort is to take "punch" at the Greeks. But unfortunate for you is that the Greeks and their language can be tracked through each time period, compare to you that can just track your roots to Bulgarians like Tsar Samuil , Saint Naum , Milidanov brothers ( of course all of them falsified to "ethnik Macedonians" just in Fyrom. Instead of spreading hatred towards the Greeks you should solve you self made identity problems

"The Greek War of Independence, which came to a successful conclusion in 1832, affected less than one half of the Greeks in the Turkish Empire. It did not bring freedom to the Greeks of Macedonia and Thrace, of Crete and the Aegean Islands, nor to the more than two million Greeks in Asia Minor and Constantinople."Henry Morgenthau, "I was sent to Athens", Doubleday, Doran & Company, inc (1929)

Re: Greek Community Hosts Event “Macedonia:The Historical Truth”

James Bond — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:25:09 -0000

All this! is nothing more than modern greek propaganda!

Re: Greek Community Hosts Event “Macedonia:The Historical Truth”

Mango — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:42:52 -0000

It seems that modern Greeks worry too much about who modern Macedonian ancestors were. Instead I'd worry who my ancestors were if I was a Greek. Modern Greek ancestors were not the ancient Greeks but Albanians, Turks, Vlachs, Romas, Macedonians, Bulgarians and who knows what else. Wake up, guys! Just ask your grandparents what language they spoke at home and that's what you are.