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Food: Delicious Choices
By Stephanie Dickison Over the past 20 years, the selection and quality of ethnic food has been rising across the country. No matter where you live there are lots of good ethnic restaurants and markets.
Five of Canada’s Top Fall Festivals
As summer turns to autumn, Canadians gather to take advantage of the last of the warm weather. Some of Canada’s best festivals take place in the fall, against the colourful backdrop of red, orange and yellow leaves. Get out and join the…
Connecting Latinos
“Making a better Canada” is the name of a year-long education and outreach campaign to promote the contribution of Hispanic and Italian immigrants to Canadian nation-building. It is how Telelatino (TLN) decided to commemorate its 25 years…
Choosing a Phone
What a confusing world we live in. From one corner of the globe to the next, there are different languages, different cultures, different foods and different politics. And through all this confusion, one would hope that at least our…
Skills for Change Begins New Project to Help Newcomer Women’s Employment
March 12, 2012 - Every year, Skills for Change, a Toronto settlement agency, helps about 14,000 newcomers settle in Canada. Of that number, over 55% are immigrant women. By 2031, it is predicted that 5.8 million people out of 11.1 million…
Canadian Lifestyles, Joy of Camping in Ontario
Sioban Costelloe was born on the island of Dominica and raised in Trinidad and Tobago before migrating to Canada in 1997. Students are often asked what they did on their summer vacation. If you've never been camping, now is the time to…
Bridge to a New Career
Emmie Joaquin’s career started in the Philippines and branched out in many directions, including such roles as Public Relations Manager of a multi-national ad agency and producer and host of Good Morning Philippines weekdays.
Sports: Holy Hockey!
by William Bedford When Paul Henderson scored the winning goal in the first Canada-Russia hockey series, the whole country went on a high the like of which no drug could induce. Only a hockey game, it seems, can get Canadians en mass to…
Travel: Attractions of Eastern Canada
Canada’s Eastern-most tourist destinations are places you can only reach by air or water. Newfoundland was settled by the Viking explorer, Leif Ericsson, in 1000 A.D. If you fly to Newfoundland, you can have an amazing vacation without ever…
Canadian Lifestyles – First Impressions
Over three years ago, Sabine moved from her home country, Germany, to Toronto, where she has been working as a journalist and translator ever since. Up to this day, she still loves everything about Canada – apart from the winters. When do…