Welcome to the very first edition of SOKondaire! A magazine written and produced by the Socrates-Demothenes High School class. You can look for our next edition in a couple of months for more fun news stories as they relate to our SOKondaire world! : ) Enjoy! PDF version
Magic Mission is proud to announce the “Love and Solidarity” luncheon, which will be held on November 13, 2016, at the Hellenic Community Centre “Adrian Maris” at 1:00 p.m. “La Comité de soutien aux Organismes d’aide à l’enfance en Grèce”, known as Magic Mission, was established in 2012, under the auspices of the Hellenic Community…
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…
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….
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…
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…
“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…
On September 27th, for the fifth consecutive year, the “Alexandria” cross-country race was held at the Centre de la Nature in Laval. More than 1,100 HCGM “Socrates-Démosthène” school students, from all campuses, participated in the annual race, dedicated to Alexander the Great. The “Alexandria” race was first organised by the Demosthenes School of the former…
Recently, the annual examinations results of the Certificates of Attainment in Greek, were published in our Greek media platform. Given this opportunity, we present to you the background and the usability of this Certificate. The HCGM is the sole examination centre in Quebec and the HCGM schools focus on the appropriate preparation of their students,…
We are pleased to inform you on the progress of Panagitsa’s reconstruction. Once the project started, our civil engineers observed that the existing foundations did not have the required reinforcements. As such, new directives were issued for the partial demolition of the existing foundations, in order to pour them anew and reinforce them as required….
