immigration
Melting Plots
Two recent novels illuminate immigrants’ different experiences in English and French Canada
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Nanny’s Other Family
Canada’s live-in caregiver immigration program may not be good for the kids
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Montreal’s Irish community remembers its dead
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Re-creating Family
It took seven years for us to be reunited with our father in Canada
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The Found City
Kenya’s cosmopolitan city of refugees
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Schooling: Repeat After Me
My first teaching experience was in the late 1980s at Westwood Secondary School, located north of Toronto’s airport in Mississauga. The local population was clearly transient, “just off the plane” …
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The Brawling East End
A mosque in East London
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The Birdwatcher
Yossi Leshem saves lives by keeping his eye on the birds
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Home Away From Home in DC
washington—When I first moved to Toronto from the United States in the early 1990s, I loved watching local Buffalo news. Delightfully, it was always bad news. Murders! Arsons! Racial inequities! …
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