In November 2024, Canadian veterans went on a special trip to Cyprus to commemorate 60 years of peacekeeping on the island. We learn more about that trip and the role Canada’s peacekeepers played in Cyprus. Guests include Walter Dorn, of the Royal Military College of Canada,  Lieutenant General Marc Caron (ret), Lieutenant Colonel Ron Bragdon (ret) and Colin Stewart, Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary-General  in Cyprus and Head of United Nations Forces in Cyprus.

Cyprus and its politics and economics since 1974. The role Canadian peacekeepers played in Cyprus and efforts to bring lasting peace through a bizonal bicommunal federation. With guests Iasonas Rodopoulos, York University, Professor Erol Kaymak, Centre for Applied Turkey Studies at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs and Dr. Rita Severis, Centre of Visual Arts & Research (CVAR.)

The 1974 invasion created many Cypriot refugees – both Greek and Turkish. This episode examines the Cypriot diaspora across the globe, how it maintains its ethnicity and ties with the island. With guests  Theo Xenophontos, York University, Neophytos Loizides, the University of Warwick, Sophia Papastavrou, World Vision Canada and Filiz Hilmi. 

The events that led to the Turkish invasion of Cyprus on July 20, 1974 and what happened to Cypriot citizens on both sides of the Green Line. With guests Prof. Sakis Gekas, the HHF Chair in Modern Greek History at York University, and George Soleas. 

The Republic of Cyprus gained its independence from Great Britain in 1960. This episode looks at the road to nationhood and how coexistence between the ethnic Greek and ethnic Turkish populations was troubled from the start. With guests Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos, the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and Professor Erol Kaymak, Centre for Applied Turkey Studies at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs.

Everything you need to know about Cyprus: its distinctiveness, culture, history and how it fits into a larger Hellenic world. With guests Neophytos Loizides, the University of Warwick, and Elisseos Kyrillou. 

The aftermath of the Athens Polytechnic student uprising and the return to democracy. 

On November 14, 1973, students barricade themselves inside the Athens Polytechnio. In the end, there would be bloodshed, but history was made. 

How people in the arts reacted to the military dictatorship and how counterculture tried to drown out that resistance.

As many Greeks flee the military dictatorship, places like Toronto take on an important role in the resistance.