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Newcomers: Call Centre Graduate Finds Her Voice
by Chris Dart If you ask Gauri Guha what she does for a living, she’ll tell you she’s a call center manager at Scotiabank. If you ask her what she does, she’ll reveal something completely different.
Home is where the heart is
By Sabine Ehgoetz What makes you feel at home at a particular place on earth? The roof above your head? Not necessarily. Your family? Most likely. But isn't there something else you need so that your world feels complete? Something…
Full-Service Welcome Centre to Help Immigrants in York Region
When Tatiana Kopylova immigrated to Canada from Russia, she wanted to improve her English skills and get help with her job search. Alone in this new country, she had nowhere to turn for support or answers to the many questions she had about…
Newcomers: Bringing a Love for Food to The Table
Roger Mooking, host of cooking show Everyday Exotic on the Food Network, understands that if there’s one thing that everyone in the world has a shared passion for, it’s simple, delicious, puts-a- smile-on-your-face, good food. His…
Coming home – to a foreign country
We have all heard of people who were born in the wrong body, forever trapped, not feeling happy with who they are, forever longing to be someone else. But what if you were born in the wrong country? Not because it is a war zone, where there…
Sun Shines Everywhere
by Ling Wang It's time again to reflect upon the past and plan ahead, and my 6-year-old daughter and I look back on the past months since we arrived in Canada from China. In the summer of 2006, we were reunited with my beloved husband in…
The Social Service Worker-Immigrants and Refugees Program at Seneca College
In the mid-1990’s, Canada’s oldest educational TV service, TVOntario launched two popular blocks of children’s programming. GisE8le’s Big Backyard, then known as The Nook, was a big hit with the pre-school crowd. The Space ran after school.…
Immigrating: Go West
by Dale Sproule In the 1850’s when the American west was first being settled, an Indiana newspaper ran a famous story called, “Go West, Young Man, and Grow Up with the Country.”
Immigrating: The Maytree Foundation and TRIEC Generating good ideas that lead to good jobs for…
by Theresa Wojtasiewicz You have decided that Canada is where there are better job opportunities and a better life for you and your family. You have a good education acquired in your country of origin, with one or more degrees from…
Buying a home in Canada
Buying a home is an exciting experience that can be both rewarding and challenging – and potentially even more challenging for someone who is new to Canada. If you are a newcomer to Canada, and you are thinking about becoming a homeowner,…