The question facing Ukrainians in Canada and abroad: Should they stay or should they go?
Now I was giving it away – free, of course – to newly arrived Ukrainians starting over in Canada. A circle, quietly completing itself.Never in our lifetimes did we imagine it would close this way. In Ukrainoznavstvo – the Tuesday evening Ukrainian studies classes generations of us reluctantly sat through – we absorbed a fairy-tale version of a free and independent Ukraine, happily ever after.
- ▪Now I was giving it away – free, of course – to newly arrived Ukrainians starting over in Canada.
- ▪A circle, quietly completing itself.Never in our lifetimes did we imagine it would close this way.
- ▪In Ukrainoznavstvo – the Tuesday evening Ukrainian studies classes generations of us reluctantly sat through – we absorbed a fairy-tale version of a free and independent Ukraine, happily ever after.
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Open this photo in gallery:A resident looks at the destruction from a Russian missile attack in Odesa, Ukraine, on July 17.Michael Shtekel/The Associated PressShareSave for laterPlease log in to bookmark this story.Log InCreate Free AccountMichael Bociurkiw is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and founder of the World Briefing report on Substack.When I sold my condo in Sidney, B.C., a few years ago and began the ritual of downsizing, it hit me somewhere between the linen and the fragile china teacups handed down to me by my mama, Vera, that much of what I owned had come from my parents, immigrants who arrived from Ukraine with next to nothing. Now I was giving it away – free, of course – to newly arrived Ukrainians starting over in Canada.
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