Credit to Author: Vivien| Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 01:04:40 +0000
Syrian Canadian Foundation Executive Director Bayan Khatib knows what it’s like to feel utterly lost. When Khatib was a baby, her father, a Syrian political prisoner, escaped and fled to the US with her mother, leaving her behind with grandparents. By the time they reclaimed her, the couple had three more children. Khatib’s brother, jealous […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Ramya Ramanathan| Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 13:36:02 +0000
Vera Dodic, manager, Toronto Newcomer Office, asks newcomers to call the city ‘home’. Vera Dodic grew up never imagining that she would live anywhere but in Belgrade, the city where she was born in former Yugoslavia. Having worked with refugees and internally displaced people back home, She experienced first-hand the profound challenges of establishing herself […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Margaret Jetelina| Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 17:49:43 +0000
With his Toronto youth program Dare to be Different Motivational speaker, youth worker and entrepreneur Bernard Laryea remembers a time when he felt there was something missing in his life. The Ghanian-born immigrant describes it as “a passion that was burning inside him,” but was “trapped.” It was his desire to give back and inspire […]
Read moreLoizza Aquino was the Youth Award winner among this year’s RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrants When Loizza Aquino was just one- year-old, she and her family left the Philippines to start a new life in Canada. Landing in Winnipeg, Manitoba, their new surroundings were quite a contrast from their Southeast Asian roots. Yet her parents […]
Read moreRBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Trish Mandewo to run for Coquitlam City Council Zimbabwe-born entrepreneur Trish Mandewo, an RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrant (2017), has proven to be a community dynamo since arriving in Canada in 2009. Not only has she had successes as an entrepreneur, consultant and founder of Women’s Collaborative Hub, a non-profit […]
Read moreBrampton Top 40 Under 40 winner is a philanthropist at heart Kimberlee Shelley-Ajibolade sets the bar high for herself. “No matter where I am or how far I get, there’s another level I can achieve,” she says. The Jamaican-Born HR professional, community activist and author already has a list of accolades to her name at […]
Read moreDr. Mohamed-Iqbal Ravalia appointed to senate by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Among the recent appointments to the Senate of Canada is that of Dr. Mohamed-Iqbal Ravalia, an immigrant from Zimbabwe who immigrated to Canada in 1984 to flee the African country’s civil unrest. The family physician settled in Twillingate, Newfoundland and Labrador, with his wife, […]
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