201611.09
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The Sculpture of the Greek Immigrant!

In Montreal… a city that welcomed the Greek immigrants, and every immigrant, with open arms, offering them new horizons and opportunities … The Lyceum of Greek Women of Montreal and the Hellenic Community of Greater Montreal combine their efforts to offer the “Sculpture of the Immigrant,” an emblematic creation by renowned contemporary Greek sculptor, George…

201611.09
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Caregivers must learn to dance in the rain (part I)

by Eleni Fakotakis-Kolaitis Director of HSSQ If you are taking care of an elderly relative (father, mother, husband or wife) who is losing their autonomy and are depending more and more on you to help take care of them on a regular basis, you are considered a natural caregiver as opposed to a paid caregiver….

201611.09
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HSSQ—Empowerment services to natural caregivers of the elderly (Part II)

by Eleni Fakotakis-Kolaitis Director of HSSQ We offer individual consultation, information and support to caregivers of the elderly who live in Laval.  Our intervention counselors have received intensive training on the subject of Alzheimer disease.  We continue to sensitise the Greek community to the needs of natural caregivers of the elderly. We do this through…

201610.13
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A Message from the President – October 2016

Dear friends, As fall slowly begins to enter this month, the HCGM is hard at work organising several important events: our first-ever televised Marathon and the celebrations of Thessaloniki’s liberation on October 26, 1912 and the Hellenic Epic of October 28th 1940. On October 16th, the Hellenic Community of Greater Montreal’s (HCGM) Fundraising Committee is…

201610.05
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TeleMarathon 2016

“Kyrie, It is Zeus’ anathema on our epoch for the dynamism of our economies and the heresy of our economic methods and policies that we should agonize between the Scylla of numismatic plethora and the Charybdis of economic anaemia. It is not my idiosyncrasy to be ironic or sarcastic but my diagnosis would be that…