Daniel: From Paraguay to Montreal

Daniel, from Paraguay, isn’t afraid of new chal­lenges: he chose to set­tle in Que­bec, Canada’s fran­coph­one province, even though French is not his mother tongue. He is also very patient and waited for two years before he was finally granted per­ma­nent res­i­dence status.

Jean-Paul and Emma: From France to Montreal

Emma and Jean-Paul were ideal can­di­dates: there are both young and highly-educated French cit­i­zens with degrees and expe­ri­ence in needed fields. They were selected eas­ily and nine month later, they were land­ing in Montreal.

Neeraj: From India to Toronto

Born 200 kilo­me­ters North­west of Mum­bai, Neeraj was raised in India. When his par­ents decided to move to Canada in the mid-1990s, he was trans­planted into a totally dif­fer­ent cul­ture. Maybe that’s what prompted his wan­der­lust sev­eral years later.

Nelson: From Venezuela to Toronto

This sec­ond inter­view of the series is the chance to meet a very new immi­grant cou­ple: Nel­son and his wife, from Venezuela, landed in Toronto just a few weeks ago. Com­ing to Canada had been a life­long dream for Nel­son, who wanted to com­plete his stud­ies here.

Nui: From Thailand to Ottawa

We will start today with Nui, from Thai­land, who recently arrived in Ottawa. After years on the move around the world, Nui and her Canadian-German hus­band decided to set­tle in Canada. They lived in Kingston for a while and are now in Ottawa, where Nui is launch­ing her small business.

How to… Report Scams

So, you got scammed and now it’s too late. You feel angry and embar­rassed and you wish you had trusted that gut feeling.

What can you do now?

Two words: report it.

The steps you need to take mostly depend on the type of fraud and on the nature of the scam.

How to Avoid... Phone Scams

How many times a day does this sce­nario hap­pen to you? The phone rings and you drop what­ever you were doing to pick it up, only to hear a famil­iar pause, and then a mechan­i­cal voice reel­ing off a script.

“I’m not inter­ested, thank you”. You hang up and sigh. Bloody telemarketers.

How to Avoid... Scammers

Recently, an unbe­liev­able story made the head­lines in France. For three year, a num­ber of inter­nauts sup­ported Noa, a bub­bly seventeen-year old blog­ger, in her fight against can­cer. One day, Noa passes away from the ill­ness, announces Salomé, her twin sis­ter. Salomé, a ski cham­pion, starts blog­ging as well and gath­ers quite a fol­low­ing among peo­ple still dis­traught by Noa’s tragic death.