Three nurses share the challenges to practising their profession, and how planning and financial resources helped
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What History Can Tell Us About Working as an Immigrant Nurse in Canada
Internationally-educated nurses go through several hoops to practice as registered nurses in Canada. This wasn’t the case in the early 1960s, specifically for nurses recruited from the Philippines.
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Sounding the Alarm Over Canada’s Language Gaps in Pandemic Information
Public health and safety guidelines change on a daily basis as the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps across Canada. Information is conveyed in English, French and sign language, but there’s concern that important and even life-saving information is not being translated for newcomers who don’t comprehensively understand either of Canada’s official languages.
View More Sounding the Alarm Over Canada’s Language Gaps in Pandemic InformationClosing the Immigrant Wage Gap: Is Speaking English Important?
Statistics Canada has released new data from the 2016 census that shows more than any other G8 country, Canada is a nation of immigrants. One in five Canadians (21.9 per cent to be exact) were…
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Alberta Needs to Rethink French Curriculum
Memorizing adjectives and pronouns did little more than create a resentment for having to learn French in the first place. Meanwhile, speaking the language took a backseat. The sentiment above is true for many students…
View More Alberta Needs to Rethink French Curriculum‘Ethnoburbs’: The New Face of Immigrant Cities
Queenie Lai’s parents often call her a “white girl,” because she likes eating western food. But in fact, though born in Canada, 23-year-old Lai is more in tune with her Chinese heritage than many of…
View More ‘Ethnoburbs’: The New Face of Immigrant CitiesQuebec Multiculturalism Improves Post-Referendum
Twenty years after voting in Quebec’s referendum on sovereignty, immigrants in the province say cultural relations are improving, but more progress is still needed. In October 1995, 2,362,648 Quebecers voted against the provincial government’s move…
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Spotlighting Diverse Films, Filmmakers at this Year’s Hot Docs
Diversity is a major part of the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival and it’s no wonder, with almost 200 films being screened from Canada and around the world. The festival offers a unique…
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Grammar over Substance
I felt flattered when I received a request from Oxford University Press Canada for permission to include my article “Social disconnect leads to ethnic enclaves” in an upcoming e-book. My ego was deflated when I…
View More Grammar over SubstanceCanada Before Canada
Review: The Orenda, by Joseph Boyden, Penguin Canada (Fiction, 2013) It’s easy to keep track of how long my citizenship study guide has been on my nightstand, because it arrived in the mail, acknowledging receipt…
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