Category: Community

Highlights from Canada-wide survey of today’s Italian communities of Canada

On June 1st of 2025, the newly formed Italian-Canadian Collective, spearheaded by italocanadese founder Agata De Santis, launched its first initiative – a year-long Canada-wide survey to better understand today’s Italian-Canadian community. Via a grassroots online campaign, the Collective is delighted to announce that over 2200 individuals participated in the survey. The survey officially closed on June 21, 2026. The... Continue Reading →

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Italian Week Ottawa Features Queer Italian Voices

Since 1977, Settimana Italiana has been one of Ottawa’s most iconic summer festivals. Now commonly referred to as Italian Week Ottawa, the festival aims to showcase the many aspects of Italian culture with a variety of events over a 11-day period. Typically held in Ottawa’s Little Italy, activities can range from cooking classes, art gallery tours, pizza crawls, to bike races and Italian car parades. The 2026 lineup included something never seen in Ottawa: an event highlighting the voices of the LGBTQ+ community.

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Daniela Sfara is teaching the world what italianismo truly is

“My cooking classes are intuitive. No mixers. No measuring cups. It’s the way your Nonna’s in the small Italian village made their pasta. They understood their environment, the weather, the humidity. I don’t just teach them how to cook. I teach people to understand what they’re doing. I teach them to connect to the ingredients, to the culture behind that recipe,” explains entrepreneur and Italian culture guru Daniela Sfara.

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The Italian-Canadian Collective is a new non-profit organization founded by Agata De Santis. Based in Montreal, the Collective’s mission is to create and promote cultural projects for and about the Italian diaspora of Canada. Our first initiative is a year-long Canada-wide survey to better understand today’s Italian-Canadian community.

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Bringing community together one “Cena” at a time

On Thursday, March 13, 2025, over 260 individuals gathered at a restaurant in Montreal’s east end borough of Rivière-des-Prairies to celebrate being Italian. Nothing else. Nothing more. Conceived by Steve Vecera of Insieme Montreal, La Cena’s fifth edition was bigger than even Vecera himself anticipated. "La Cena is a chance for people to come together, to converse, and to have a great time with other Italians from the community."

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VMG Entertainment celebrates fifteen years of comedy and music

“It really started as something fun to do in my spare time. I never expected that I would be doing shows at Place des Arts, at Place Bell, in the U.S.,” explains Ralph Buttino. VMG Entertainment is probably best known for its Italian Bad Boyz of Comedy series. Buttino gambled on a unique concept: a roster of three up-and-coming standup comics of Italian origin in an Italian reception hall. Buffet dinner first, then the entertainment. Target audience: the Italian community of Montreal. It worked.

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L’eco dei dialetti: A celebration of dialects

Despite a crowded calendar of events marking Italian Heritage month, over 200 people gathered at the Columbus Centre in Toronto for an evening of music, poetry, skits and camaraderie. Organized by L'Eco Dei Dialetti, the event celebrated creative voices with a passion for dialect.

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A reinvigorated club celebrates an ancient tradition

In April, the Associazione Molisani di Ottawa hosted a banquet to celebrate a springtime tradition that dates back to the mid-800s, called la Carrese. The successful multigenerational event was a hopeful sign that the fate of this small Italian social club has turned a corner.

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New book celebrates Molisan culinary heritage

A new book created by Montrealers with origins in Molise is bringing together stories of tradition, family and cooking. The book is titled "Dalla valigia alla tavola: A journey through Molisan culinary heritage" and is published by the Federazione delle associazioni molisane del Québec.

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Saint Anthony’s Choir: 50 Years of Song

For half a century, the St Anthony of Padua Church Choir has been a source of pride for the Italian community in Ottawa. The choir’s inaugural performance took place on Christmas Eve in 1973 and marked the birth of what would become an enduring tradition of dedication and service.

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