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Five Reasons Why I Live In Canada

March 24, 2010 – 4:31 pm | 29 Comments | 0 Read this

Canada wel­comes about 250,000 new immi­grants a year. I doubt all of them even­tu­ally stay and make Canada their per­ma­nent home. Life isn’t always easy at first and immi­grat­ing is much more than get­ting a res­i­dence per­mit. After the hon­ey­moon period, the huge­ness of the task ahead can be scary: learn­ing to live in a new lan­guage, adapt­ing to new tra­di­tions, social norms and visions, recre­at­ing a net­work of friends… I really don’t blame those who go back home.

Khatia Odzelashvili: From Georgia to Ottawa

March 20, 2010 – 6:00 am | 6 Comments | 0 Read this

Kha­tia Odze­lashvili is from Tbil­isi in Geor­gia, a coun­try located between East­ern Europe and West­ern Asia. She stud­ied law in Ger­many for four years, hop­ing to even­tu­ally come back home and work in Geor­gia. But while in Ger­many, she met her hus­band. They were both for­eign stu­dents and they decided to move some­where together to a third coun­try where they could set­tle. After much con­sid­er­a­tion, they agreed on Canada.

Mourad Regragui: From Morocco To Ottawa

March 13, 2010 – 7:13 am | 15 Comments | 0 Read this

Let me intro­duce you to Mourad, from Oujda, Morocco. Mourad applied for per­ma­nent res­i­dence through the Québec skilled worker pro­gram and was granted his visa in the sum­mer of 2009. He is a patient guy… His immi­gra­tion process took an aston­ish­ing four years and a half!

Mehmet Kaya: From Turkey To Toronto

March 6, 2010 – 11:55 am | 12 Comments | 0 Read this

Mehmet Kaya has been in Canada for just over a year, and is still get­ting used to life here. He met his wife Brenda, an ESL teacher, while she was liv­ing and work­ing in Istan­bul. One day she walked into Mehmet’s uncle’s shop, where he was work­ing, and the rest is history!

Yasmine: From Former Yugoslavia To Québec

February 27, 2010 – 12:37 pm | 12 Comments | 0 Read this

Unlike many immi­grants to Canada, Yas­mine and her fam­ily hadn’t thought of immi­grat­ing any­where. They hadn’t really cho­sen Canada either: they came as refugees after leav­ing their war-torn coun­try. Their story is truly mov­ing, from a per­fect life in for­mer Yugoslavia to com­ing as refugees in Ger­many and then Canada, where they even­tu­ally settled.

Adam and Eric: From the USA to Toronto

February 13, 2010 – 2:20 pm | 12 Comments | 0 Read this

Let me intro­duce you to Adam and Eric, for­merly of San Fran­cisco, Cal­i­for­nia, and now full-time Toron­to­ni­ans. They have been liv­ing in Canada for two years and they have the mix of pos­i­tive atti­tude and real­ist out­look on their move that make them per­fect to interview.

Ed Maruyama: From Brazil To Nunavut

February 6, 2010 – 12:51 pm | 17 Comments | 0 Read this

I had to find out who was behind these pic­tures: I con­tacted the author. His pro­file had one line: “Brazil­ian guy liv­ing in Iqaluit”. Now, I was super curi­ous. I mean, Canada is well-known to be a cold place, but from Brazil to the actual Great White North? That’s just one hell of a cul­ture shock!

Gabriel Almada: from Argentina To Canada

January 30, 2010 – 12:33 pm | 12 Comments | 0 Read this

Gabriel has an amaz­ing sense of humor. He blogs about his life as a Canadian-Argentinian in the pop­u­lar blog, Live from Water­loo, writ­ten in both Span­ish and Eng­lish. He is a must read for any prospec­tive immi­grant: he expe­ri­enced a lot, the good, the bad and the ugly.