Newcomers to Canada face numerous challenges from the moment they land; most significantly managing their finances and successfully transitioning within their respective careers. In the…
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Looking Beyond the Name on a Resumé
In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare gave us the famous line “What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would…
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Study of Racism Should Look Within Brown Community
I must confess that I came to Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (To Everyone) and Kamal Al-Solaylee’s thesis as a skeptic.…
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Bridging programs are giving newcomers an opportunity to gain new skills and integrate more easily into the Canadian job market. Kamo Mailyan studied public administration,…
View More Bridging Programs Speed Up Entry to Job MarketTackling the Grim Prospects for Foreign-trained Physicians
Mohammad Shahadat Hossain is the kind of person who doesn’t just have a plan B, he has a plan C as well. In 2011, he left…
View More Tackling the Grim Prospects for Foreign-trained PhysiciansBridging Program Gives Hope to Foreign Trained Medical Professionals
Like many immigrants, Sadia Sohail was looking forward to starting a new life in Canada when she moved here with her young family in 2000.…
View More Bridging Program Gives Hope to Foreign Trained Medical ProfessionalsPico Iyer on What ‘Home’ Means to Him
Author Pico Iyer may have been based in western Japan since 1987. But he is hesitant to call the country his home; he’s been living…
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Restoring a True Canadian Narrative
It is time for Aboriginals to reclaim their power and influence in Canada. This is what author, essayist and president of PEN International John Ralston…
View More Restoring a True Canadian NarrativeConservatives received most election coverage in GTA ethnic newspapers
Toronto-area ethnic newspapers tended to cover the Conservatives more extensively than other political parties during the 2011 election, concludes a new study by Ryerson University…
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How Children Cope with Migration
A recent panel discussion on immigrant children provided interesting insights into how school-going kids cope when their families move home from one country to another. …
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