In a letter personally addressed to our parish priest, Fr. Jaroslaw Buciora, MPP Effie Triantafilopoulos describes how the province plans to include the Holodomor in the Gr. 10 curriculum throughout Ontario.

Dear Father Jaroslaw,

Today, Education Minister Stephen Lecce announced that the Ontario government is introducing new mandatory learning in the Grade 10 Canadian History course about the Holodomor famine and its impact on the Ukrainian community in Canada.  

The new curriculum will teach students about the adverse consequences of extreme political ideologies like those from Stalin’s totalitarian communist regime ensuring students learn from history especially amid Russia’s ongoing illegal war in Ukraine.  

Beginning September 2025, the new learning will strengthen students understanding of foundational Canadian values including democracy, freedom, human rights, and the rule of law.  

To reinforce this learning, our government is also announcing an investment of $400,000 to the Canada-Ukraine Foundation to support the Holodomor Awareness Tour Bus, which includes a 40-foot mobile classroom designed to engage thousands of students through interactive hands-on lessons.  

All these actions are part of our government’s commitment to uphold Canadian values, educate students of the perils of far-left extremism, and affirm our ongoing support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and security.  

Please do not hesitate to contact our office, if we can be of any assistance on this or any other matter.

About the Canada-Ukraine Foundation Holodomor Program

(As excerpted from their newsletter)

The Canada-Ukraine Foundation is also deeply grateful to the Government of Ontario for reinforcing this learning by investing $400,000 to support the Holodomor National Awareness Tour and the Holodomor Mobile Classroom (HMC) that will enable the HMC to travel to schools across the province and engage students in grades 6 to 12 through the experiential learning directly linked to the Ontario curriculum.

The Canada-Ukraine Foundation developed Holodomor National Awareness Tour in 2014 to foster education and bring awareness of the Holodomor to Canadians. To date, the Holodomor Mobile Classroom engaged over 70,000 people across Canada and had visited more than 500 schools.

The Holodomor Mobile Classroom is a unique learning environment that uses cutting-edge technology to fully immerse and assist students in learning about the Holodomor in a digital classroom on wheels.

The fusion of technologies and interactive content that was developed for this program, defines an entirely new way to conduct lessons allowing both the facilitator and students to actively engage with each other.