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Experience with Racism and Discrimination Time 0:02:47 Transcript As an immigrant that emigrated from one country to another, from one country to another, you are expecting challenges. You expected the worse and I was prepared for that. But the one thing that I was not prepared them was for is …
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Misconceptions about Winnipeg and Manitoba Time 0:02:43 Transcript I’m a bit of a nerd so I started to research Winnipeg—I thought I was moving to Winnipeg, let me note, my parents did not clarify that I was moving to Steinbach. (laughs) For some time they kept referring to it as Winnipeg, …
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Yogurt Day and Gathering Furniture Time 0:01:42 Transcript OA: Oh we didn’t have anything, it was an empty apartment. No spoons no plates, nothing. So we bought first our thing was in Walmart we bought spoons and plates, plates, and the only thing that I could recognize was yogurt (laughs), you …
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Advice to Potential Immigrants Time 0:01:51 Transcript I think—I think the first thing is you’re open-minded, okay. Uh you have to look at Canada do welcome you, okay. You have to come, again, not thinking what you had, what you going to have: always think what you going to have, not what you …
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Becoming a Refugee Time 1:39 Transcript Kathleen Sigurdson (KS): Because all the applications, even from those other countries—so if you were living in Qatar, you had to apply to Abu Dhabi because we didn’t have any offices there. And also when I was in Abu Dhabi, it was a time when it started, I …
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Becoming a Refugee Time 2:41 Transcript I was very young, and I wasn’t remember anything, because all I remember was my, my mom was grabbing my hands, and is told me to run. And he was grabbing me so hard, and he grabbed some of the belonging, and, we ran away. And then we were—because I was a—I …
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Becoming a Refugee CMIP 21 · My Father’s Music Time 0:03:48 Transcript Ilse Thompson (IT): And, um, we had a wonderful time. But then the day came when I met my girlfriend on the street. A girlfriend, my best friend, on the street, and she looked, didn't look at me, she didn't say hello. She was …
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Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 1:12 Transcript Hi, my name is Umeeda Switlo. When I left Uganda my name was Umeeda Umedaly. I brought this suitcase with me so that you could share with me this time, almost forty years ago, over forty years ago, that I left Uganda. And it says Umeeda Umedaly …
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Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 1:50 Transcript Yeah, so, I left. I was with uh, my Aunt Olga and my Uncle Joseph in Austria. Austria was quite amazing. I’ve never seen, I have never seen anything like that. We lived uh, we went to Salzburg, which is a beautiful city in the Alps, just a …
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Leaving Home and Coming to Canada Time 1:48 Transcript They didn’t tell us the exact reason why our family was selected and how. I even didn’t ask how our family was selected. They simply called us in their office and said, Madan, your family is selected for the settlement, as a pilot project …