Jan Velinger

The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library in Toronto is one of North America's finest, home to 600, 000 books including an unmatched collection of Czechoslovak underground…

An annual conference on the state of the Czech environment has successfully wrapped up near Prague, discussing outstanding issues on cleaning up or preserving the local…

There are few things as enjoyable as a good book, but what about a whole library? The University of Toronto's Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library in Toronto, has it all: a…

The Czech National Library is setting its sights on an unprecedented prize: a surviving fragment of a translation in Latin of the famous "Chronicle of Dalimil", one of the…

A Czech-speaking customer buys a chain of homemade sausages in a trendy part of town. But, don't be fooled into thinking this is Prague: this is in fact Toronto…

Today's Spotlight is part of a new series of stories and reports about Czechs in Canada airing on Radio Prague throughout the month of March. In this edition Jan Velinger…

All of us are familiar with the Olympic Games and its many moments of sweet victory, captured in time, that slowly form part of the patchwork of nations' collective…

Staying on the subject of sport, the 20th Deaf Summer Olympics have just wrapped-up in Melbourne, Australia, games at which Czech athletes once again showed determination…