January 2021

As an immigrant, I feel I can give back something unique and special: Erika’s Story

By Miles Hamzi “If someone told me I was going to become a chef 15 years ago, I would have told them they were crazy.” Cooking was never Erika’s forte, at least not when she was working as an accomplished surgical nurse at a government hospital in Mexico. Erika and her husband came to Canada

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What Canada has done for us is beyond belief: Shahoud’s Story

By Miles Hamzi Shahoud, 38, considers himself one of 35,000 lucky Syrians who were initially chosen to resettle in Canada in December 2015. With more than 5.6 million Syrian refugees scattered around the globe, and twice as many within Syria desperately in need of humanitarian aid (according to UNHCR), Shahoud is “truly blessed” to have

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