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… of money. One day, I went on a land visit with my father on his bicycle. That time my father told me that you become a researcher, not like me. After that I participate a lot in the …
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… My name is Dil Darjee. I was born in Bhutan. I moved to Nepal and settled in the Refugee Camp in the eastern part of Nepal. In the camp, … are two organizations set up, UNHCR (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) and IOM (International Organization for …
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… Transcript I still remember the day when I received my acceptance letter to the University of Guelph. I had tears in my eyes and I jumped … I became a more social individual, and I wanted to give back to the community. Currently, I am a part-time student at the University of …
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… my Oma made the decision to move with her new husband to Canada. They left the Netherlands in 1949, not knowing if they would see their … saw a stained-glass window with her family name on it. Together we visited the war memorial that contains her brother’s name, and the … old memories. I realized that even though my grandparents chose to come to Canada to pursue new opportunities, they also gave up a lot to …
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… drove us out of the country and we became refugees overnight. This unpleasant experience in her school was a sensitive issue with both my … I was born and brought up in Uganda. Immediately the question was “how come you are not black?” My answer was just like in Canada, Africa has …
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Zaynna Khalife, Ardavan Taraporewala, Linette Doherty and Howard Dai in The New Canadian Curling Club . Photo by @stoometzphoto For a lot of people, curling is a mystery . It doesn’t look very athletically demanding, and yet - as many Canadians have discovered while flipping through TV channels - …
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… more than a year, I'm still missing my home in China. I now can be called a CFA which is come from away. Spring Festival is coming. Chinese people usually get …
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… Time 0:02:42 Transcript Where are you from? Sounds simple? But it’s not. It was 1992, a year that brought a war to the country … either black or white. I was both and I was none. I needed to leave. Coming to Canada as a war refugee, I wasn’t happy about parting with my …
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… 0:03:13 Transcript I grew up in the capital of Peru. When I was little, I watched my neighbours selling many things in the street to … behind my back? My husband was working for a Canadian engineering company who offered him a job in Montreal. This was the kind of …
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… that French is an opportunity for me, Ottawa is moving up on the scale. There are so many things to consider when deciding what university … and cousins, we began our journey to Canada. In Detroit we were stopped because we did not know much English. They took my dad inside to …