It was a very interesting journey – sometimes so hard; sometimes so beautiful.” Imelda came to Toronto from Mexico City 5 years ago. She raised her family and worked as a children’s therapist. She always wanted to come to Canada, and friends had told her that it was beautiful, with a happy way of life. […]
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By Lucy Slavianska Being a Canadian citizen feels so great,” says Nargas Ghafori, who came to Canada from Afghanistan in 2007 to join her husband. “I feel like a free person now. I am so proud!” Nargas’s first year in Canada, however, was challenging. “When I first came here, I felt like I was out
By Lucy Slavianska I was so excited and happy to vote for the first time in the Canadian federal elections,” says Gustavo Linares, a paralegal from Guatemala who came to Canada in 2010 and recently became a Canadian citizen. “The right to vote is a great power – to choose your members of parliament, to
By Lucy Slavianska I love Canada and I want to live here for the rest of my life”, says Marcos Garcia Hernandez, who came to Canada directly from jail after being a political prisoner in Cuba for eight years. Although he had the choice – and intention – of moving from Canada to another country,
By Melinda Maldonado Dean Khaled was early the day things didn’t go as planned. The lights were off in the classroom where he teaches French every Saturday. Then he saw some movement inside that dark room – and a group of men bursts out on a mission: to distract Khaled and stop him from setting foot
When Gerard Keledjian immigrated to Canada in 2010, he brought with him over ten years of journalistic experience. However, as the majority of immigrants, he left his professional network behind. He quickly realized that one of the major barriers internationally trained media professionals immigrating to Canada encounter – more than professionals in other industries –
By Lucy Slavianska ~New Horizons Media One day she received an email from her mother-in-law with a subject line “GREAT OPPORTUNITY” written in all capital letters. It was about The Bridge Training Program for Internationally Trained Psychologists and Allied Mental Health Professionals at the Mennonite New Life Centre. The email contained an attachment – a flyer informing
By Gerard Keledjian Ten years ago Olga Florean bought a book about a butterfly that traveled from Mexico to Lake Ontario. The butterfly faced many troubles on the way and Olga cried every time she read the story to her two daughters. She never imagined that a few years later, she will follow the butterfly and
By Gerard Keledjian Since he was a child, Rayhan Hossain liked to have options. “My father raised me that way,” he says. So, when he immigrated to Canada in 2007 from Bangladesh – where he was working in healthcare and research – he decided to do it his way and explore his options. I knew it was
Sadia’s passion for helping newcomers originates in her family story and her own experience as a child of immigrants. She was 10 years old when her parents brought her to Canada hoping to find better professional opportunities and a future for the family. Little did they know that for the next 15 years her father, a highly qualified geologist from
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