Credit to Author: Gu Zhenzhen| Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2023 21:05:32 +0000
Chinese-born Canadian Gu Zhenzhen shares her feelings of emptiness as her children move away from home. But then, she reminds herself that she is walking in her parents’ shoes. Zhenzhen moved to Canada in 1990 to begin a new life.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Canadian Immigrant| Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2022 17:26:47 +0000
Tanzania-born Emil Rem, an accountant and the author of two books —Heart of New York and Chasing Aphrodite shares tips on moving forward from a toxic relationship. Funny how your perspective changes when you have kids. Mom, a Muslim within a close-knit community in Africa decided to divorce my Dad (“because he was a bum […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Canadian Immigrant| Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2022 18:49:55 +0000
“My art with the clouds is a beautiful way to invite people to self-love and tolerance. Like the clouds we are all different but that’s what makes us beautiful. You want to see variety in the clouds…”
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Read moreCredit to Author: Ramya Ramanathan| Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2020 01:51:11 +0000
I grew up in Dhaka, Bangladesh and moved to Canada in 2017, after marrying a Canadian immigrant. Initially, I was perplexed by the massive differences here with regard to the weather, landscape, food and demography, and expected to face many obstacles. But, in spite of the differences and the obstacles in my way, I must […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Guest Author| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 11:02:58 +0000
[By Zhenzhen Gu] I have always had a passion for writing. When I was young, my mother encouraged me. So did my junior high teacher. When my first piece appeared in China Daily (overseas edition), I was thrilled, even though it was just the size of tofu. After that, I was hungry for more. I experienced the […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Canadian Immigrant| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 15:08:32 +0000
My name is Patricia Marie-Antoinette Mayaza Mwilu Kumbakisaka, and I am a proud Canadian-Congolese-Romanian. How often do you see Romanians with last names such as ‘Kumbakisaka’? You are probably used to see last names like ‘Florescu’ or ‘Stefanescu’. People call me the ‘citizen of the world’, ‘global citizen’ or the ‘United Nations’. When you first hear […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Margaret Jetelina| Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 21:15:23 +0000
Young professional from India Amit Kalra shares his first six months in Canada The last year of my life has been a roller-coaster ride. Being a new immigrant in Canada, my voyage here has been full of surprises. I vividly remember the day, I received my passport with visa stamp on it, and I had […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Margaret Jetelina| Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 19:26:36 +0000
Growing up in two cultures and finding my own identity along the way I was born in a tiny little village in India with a population of approximately 2,000 people. Everyone knew each other by their first name and the whole village was our community. It was the happiest childhood one could wish for. My […]
Read moreAs a proud new citizen of Canada, I took a VIA Rail train trip on “The Canadian” this past May, which you can board at Vancouver and take all the way to Toronto, and back again. It is advertised as a “trip of a lifetime.” And it was — all 4,466 kilometres each way. A trip […]
Read moreLife experience has taught me that being gay is a part of nature and God’s plan. It is not an illness that needs to be treated or changed. I am writing this because I feel it is time for the major faiths of the world to embrace and accept gays and lesbians and this includes […]
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