He published over a hundred refereed journal papers, mainly on biochemistry applied to wheat, and bread quality.
While at the Grain Research Laboratory in Winnipeg, he supervised postdoctoral students and visiting scientists from many countries, including Japan, the United Kingdom, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and the Netherlands.
His brother, Anthony Hlynka, was the second Member of Parliament of Ukrainian ancestry in the House of Commons of Canada (Vegreville, 1940–1949).
In 1963, he wrote and presented the Ukrainian Canadian Committee's submission to the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism in Ottawa.
His presentation received major news coverage across Canada and set the tone for all other ethnic groups to follow.
Simultaneously with the newspaper column, Dr. Hlynka had a Ukrainian language weekly commentary on radio station CKJS in Winnipeg, on the same topics.