Letter from the Editor, April 2019.
SAN’s purpose is to capture the reader's interest, to fulfill their expectations, and to get them actively involved with the topics that we include in each issue. This time we gave our readers the opportunity to vote for a cover on Facebook. Thank you to everyone who voted and selected this issue’s cover.
I invite all readers and friends of SAN magazine to respond to a short poll which we will send out soon. Your thoughts and suggestions will greatly contribute to the magazine’s continued development in a direction that appeals to all of our readers.
In this issue we are publishing an interview with Mr. Tomas Saras, the president of the National Ethic Press and Media Council of Canada. This organization, of which SAN has always been a member, is vitally important for the involvement of ethnic minorities in the media and in political activities. Canada is a country in which people of many different backgrounds live and respect each other. Diversity and cosmopolitanism have become the protective banners that represent our city, Toronto, which is the most multi-lingual city in Canada. Likewise, it is among the most multi-lingual cities in the world, alongside Singapore, New York, Sao Paolo, Sidney, and Dubai. In Toronto, over 200 different languages are spoken, and 45% of the population regularly speak a native tongue that is not English or French, whereas 51.5% represent the so-called “visible minorities.” According to data from the Statistics Canada census of 2016, around 29000 people declared their native language to be Serbian, around 5000 declared it to be Serbo-Croatian, and around 6000 declared it to be Bosnian.
In this issue you will have the opportunity to read interesting facts about famous Canadians, songs of famous bands (with Serbian translations) which mention Toronto, and a report about Edmonton, which will definitely get you wanting to visit Alberta’s capital. You will find an interview with Gordana Slepcev, a successful woman from our native country who is the director of a gold mine in Newfoundland, as well as an interview with Ivana Petrović, a renowned violinist who recently performed in Toronto. We are also continuing to report on the Serbian community in the US, and in this issue we have written about the Carica Milica Choir from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. You will also find several articles which I believe will be emotional reads. One is on the revival of commemorating Serbian rural customs surrounding Easter celebrations, another was written by one of our young journalists who recently experienced the presence of violence in his high school. Finally, you will find another moving story about Serbia and Serbs in our Diary of a Serbophile column.
I invite all of our readers and friends to sign up for a digital and/or print subscription to SAN through our website: https://www/sanmagazine.ca/rs/subscribe. By subscribing, you can help us cover the costs of this non-profit organization of Serbs in diaspora, composed of volunteers and other supporters.
As always, SAN is open to new collaborators. We would love to hear from you!
Toronto, March 2019.
Vesna Nedić
Editor-in-Chief
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