Aug 31, 2018

 "Mat-ka, Mat-oosh-ka, Dob-ro-diy-ka."  No matter how you say it in Ukrainian, there is a special role and respect given to the wife of a priest.  Yes.  In both the Orthodox and the Ukrainian Catholic Churches, men about to become priests are permitted to marry.

Aug 24, 2018

The Ironman competition is among Susan Koziak’s most recent professional assignments.   This week on Nasha Kasha we here of her career, her heritage and the first boy she ever kissed. Along the way Susan discovers there’s a bit of iron in all of us.

Aug 16, 2018

Dr. Brian Cherwick leads Newfoundland’s finest Ukrainian folk band.  Okay, … he leads Newfoundland’s only Ukrainian folk band.  The Kubasonics combine chants from centuries past, Ukrainian love songs, and a touch of punk and rock ... from the Rock.  This week, Nasha Kasha introduces a band leader, who earned his...

Aug 12, 2018

Odessa Ontario is 26 kilometres west of Kingston.  It is in the very heart of British Loyalist country. There is no evidence of a Ukrainian presence.  So why in the mid-1850s would the villagers name their community after a Ukrainian port?  The answer is this week’s Nasha Kasha story.

Aug 2, 2018

This coming fall, voters in the province of Ontario will elect mayors, councillors, school trustees and all other elected municipal officials.  There’s a dizzying array of choices.  Nasha Kasha profiles two candidates in Hamilton with similar roots, similar opinions and aspirations.  Remarkably they have never met. ...