We recently conducted a survey among our SAN readers with the question, “What do you miss most in Canada?” There were some very interesting and diverse answers.
Easter is the most important Christian holiday. On that day, the Lord Jesus Christ defeated death and was resurrected, giving eternal life to everyone on the earth, from first to last.
Easter is the most important Christian holiday. On that day, the Lord Jesus Christ defeated death and was resurrected, giving eternal life to everyone on the earth, from first to last.
Poet, writer, instructor, and translator, Maja Herman Sekulić studied undergraduate and master’s degrees in World Literature at the Faculty of Philology in her native Belgrade. She received a doctorate from Princeton University (USA), where she also taught as well as at Harvard and Columbia. She is a member of the Association of Writers of Serbia, the Serbian Literary Society, both the Serbian and the American PEN Centres, and the Poetry Society of America. She has published collections of poetry, novels, critiques, essays, reviews, forewords, and major translations and critical editions of works by world-class authors.
Kristina Bijelic, 25-year-old musicologist and singer, possesses one more unexpected quality: she speaks fluent, grammatically correct Serbian, and uses the occasional English expression with the obligatory explanation that she does not know the word in Serbian. She was born in Toronto. She has never lived in Serbia.
Mental illness affects all ages and genders in all ethno-cultural and sociocultural groups. Statistics show that one out of five Canadians will experience some kind of mental problem in their life.
To have goodwill, to be an aid for someone we do not personally know, to let those warm feelings of humanity well up inside of us since we have accomplished something good, presented humanity with our own, small contribution.
There is so much I can say about snowboarding and skiing, it is hard to keep it all in. The first thing to remember is that you are never too old to start, but you may be too young to start. It is also one of the few activities that the entire family can do together, regardless of ageor other physical factors.
Goals are dreams that we are prepared to work hard for
And so, we have successfully swum from 2015 to 2016. For some of us, the waters were fairly calm—for others, very stormy. But for the majority, this is the part of the year when we plan for something different and something bigger; something that we would like to accomplish in the coming months and years.
Children’s Day (Detinjci), Mother’s Day (Materice), and Father’s Day (Očevi), are our national holidays which occur in the weeks leading up to Christmas (Božić).
The ancient Slavs have always had a deep reverence for nature, especially towards trees. Once, there was even an old Serbian custom to kneel in front of a tree before it was cut down, asking it for forgiveness. However, this has almost completely disappeared from practicein modern times.
In Ontario, an option for the accommodation and care of the elderly is the retirement home “Zora,” which has existed in Kitchener for several years. The home was founded in 2014 and is operating at full capacity, much to the pleasure of our community.
The Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) is the first shareholder company in the world, and one of the oldest trading companies established on English-speaking territory that still operates today. It gets its name from the Hudson Bay which is surrounded by three Canadian provinces, Quebec, Ontario, and Manitoba, as well as the territory of Nunavut. The HBC has had a prominent position in the economic and political history of Canada.