In today’s social media world, a YouTube video can change someone’s life dramatically in a matter of hours. For 10-year-old Maria Aragon, this happened when superstar Lady Gaga mentioned her ...

Afghanistan is about so much more than conflict. Just ask Mushfiq, a musician and visual artist who has brought the culture of his old home to his new home in ...

Atom Egoyan is one of many Canadians working in the film industry both domestically and on the international stage. However, unlike many of his contemporaries, he makes no attempts to ...

In his five short but action-packed years in Canada, Shen has gone from a computer programming masters student at Dalhousie University to a constable with the Toronto Police Service. In ...

It’s a long way from Tehran to St. John’s, but Sepideh is glad she made the trip. The Iranian-born-and-trained physician immigrated to Canada with her husband and young daughter in the ...

When she first came to Canada from Lebanon, Vivian juggled two jobs and motherhood with university classes and adjusting to life in a new country. Thirteen years later, she is a ...

For Micheline, life has taken her from Haiti to Canada and back. When she arrived in Canada she was only seven years old. As a young girl she wasn’t too concerned ...

Impressive. It’s as good a word as any to describe Naheed Nenshi’s recent victory in the Calgary mayoral election. Impressive for a number of reasons. There was the come-from-behind victory over two high ...

In the 20 years or so Shokoofeh Moussavi has been in Canada she has helped more people than most of us could hope to help in a lifetime. She came to ...

BUILDING A NEW LIFE, ONE CUP AT A TIME. Martha sees herself as a warrior. “We are fighters,” she says of herself and her husband, Frank. “You try to think that ...