Communities

The first thing Zhen Li decided to do after settling down in his rented apartment on the first day he landed in Canada was to grab a local newspaper. “I’m pretty disoriented to basically everything,” says the 31-year-old former IT…

Doris Bercarich is the Kitchen & Cooking Coordinator for Field to Table, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to working with communities to improve access to healthy and affordable food. She works as a chef, leads the Toronto…

Western Union provides a good model for any company that aims to provide services to newcomers. You must win over your customers. And since Western Union provides money transfers and other financial services to so many countries around the…

On my way out of Mr. India Grocers I glanced upon a newspaper placed strategically by the exit counter. Taking a closer look I saw on its cover, two attractive black women wearing South India’s famous Kanjeevaram silk sari.

You might think that an agency called Catholic Community Services of York Region would be more interested in serving people of the Catholic faith, but executive director Roger Manning stresses that this is not the case. “We are not religion…

by Dale Sproule Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) is always looking for the most effective ways to provide services for newcomers. Together with the Province of Ontario (through the Canada- Ontario Immigration Agreement), they…