Credit to Author: Baisakhi Roy| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2024 14:15:22 +0000
Erregue founded Laberinto Press: to amplify the voices of “hyphenated” Canadians — people with rich, layered identities who are not often represented in mainstream literature.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Lisa Evans| Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 15:37:57 +0000
Maria João Maciel Jorge, who now goes by M.J., arrived with an illusion of a dream but no concrete plan. Today, she’s an associate professor of Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian Studies and the associate dean of global and community engagement at York University.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Lisa Evans| Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 15:37:57 +0000
Maria João Maciel Jorge, who now goes by M.J., arrived with an illusion of a dream but no concrete plan. Today, she’s an associate professor of Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian Studies and the associate dean of global and community engagement at York University.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Lisa Evans| Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 15:37:57 +0000
Maria João Maciel Jorge, who now goes by M.J., arrived with an illusion of a dream but no concrete plan. Today, she’s an associate professor of Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian Studies and the associate dean of global and community engagement at York University.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Canadian Immigrant| Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 01:27:57 +0000
Our 2024 Immigrant Women of Inspiration special shines the spotlight on passionate storytellers – directors behind the camera who share authentic experiences and powerful perspectives through film.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Lisa Evans| Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 13:21:23 +0000
Filipino-born Ana Serrano is one of Canada’s well-known individuals in the realm of new media and has received numerous awards from digital, media, film and theatre industries across North America.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Vivien Fellegi| Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 16:31:52 +0000
Jamaican-born Canadian musician turned actor Mark Clennon featured as a Rising Star at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
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Read moreCredit to Author: Ramya Ramanathan| Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2023 18:29:57 +0000
Barrister and solicitor Nancy Lam decided to write her first novel, “The Loyal Daughter”, when she lost her mother. The story follows a young woman in a village in China making her way to the crowded streets of Hong Kong, who manages to immigrate to Northern Ontario, and eventually makes Toronto home.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Lisa Evans| Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 14:14:22 +0000
Red Barrinuevo came to Canada in search of freedom. Today, Barrinuevo is a proud gay man and one of Toronto’s most sought-after interior designers and home stagers. But what might sound like a glamorous career started from very humble beginnings.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Lisa Evans| Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2022 23:53:20 +0000
During the height of the pandemic, Brazilian-born Queer Canadian singer-songwriter Bruno Capinan had a dream of two enslaved men that fell in love on a slave ship travelling from Africa to Brazil. That dream would become the inspiration for Capinan’s newest album Tara Rara.
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