It is a standard Canada Day but to me, it feels special and extra-Canadian. Ten years ago, I was taking the Oath of Citizenship.
It is a standard Canada Day but to me, it feels special and extra-Canadian. Ten years ago, I was taking the Oath of Citizenship.
Quick exercise—make a list of your friends and acquaintances. Now look at it. How many of them would you feel comfortable asking a favour from?
There are plenty of attitudes I can’t stand in North America, but this is the Canada I’m proud of—kind, welcoming, helpful and understanding.
If I out myself as a Canadian, I know I’m about to be quizzed.People have comments about France, but they sure have a lot of questions about Canada.
Please, tell me I’m not the only one!
I made many mistakes over the years, especially when I first came to Canada. Maybe these “lessons learn” can help you?
The couple, a man and a woman, were sidewalk experts. That alone was noteworthy. But then, something strange happened.
What did you learn as a traveller or as an immigrant? What learning experience was the the most useful to you?
“Please, don’t call the police!”
This is the first thing she ever said to me when, one evening, I passed her on the pathway leading up to Madison Park, one of the neighbourhood’s playgrounds.
I have an accent. Scratch that—I have accents, one in every language I speak.
I’m not selfish, uncharitable or useless. Also, if you call me names, you’re an ass and if you make it to Canada, I hope the hockey team you may end up supporting loses for five seasons in a...
Every day, I receive two of three emails or comments from strangers asking me to map out their destiny.
This is how my last visit to my family doctor went.
Leaving, travelling, immigrating to Canada—these were all my choices. Choices I’m proud of because they were mine but also choices that affected those around me, and I have to live with this.
Maybe Canada is your dream too. Just make sure you know what you really want.
It’s not just a trip, it’s an existential journey because I’m Feng’s wife, Mark’s mother, because I’m also a sister, a grand-daughter, a niece, and because deep down I’m still a little girl who wants...
SOPA is funded by the Government of Canada: it is free to join and access the services offered to permanent resident about to land in Canada.
He was walking fast, hands in pockets, hood on and head down to shield his face from a strong Northern wind that was brining the day’s frigid temperatures to the minus twenties.
There are some aspects of Canadian life I’m rediscovering with pleasure. No, not snow.
For many expats and immigrants, seasonal small talk can bring mixed emotions. Indeed, many of us don’t celebrate major holidays at “home.”
As I was drafting the "5 Mistakes I Made in Canada", I realized that I did make good decisions along the way. May they inspire you!
Moving to a new country is one of these big decisions where your life can get awesomely better, awfully worst or more realistically, waver between these two extreme case scenarios.
A few days before the unavoidable departure, it still feels unreal to think that Monday, we are in France and on Tuesday, we will be in Canada. My brain can't compute this logical fact.
Every day, I mindlessly reply to questions that can sound very strange out of context and may be puzzling to newcomers.