AUDIO: ‘I miss them a ton’: Canadian immigrant aches to see his family amid pandemic travel restrictions
While his father is sick back in Colombia, Cambridge resident Guillermo Wilches longs to travel home to take care of his parents.
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Economic integration: A daunting challenge for new immigrants to Canada
Canadians think immigrants have it easy, getting lots of handouts from the government, but nothing could be further from the truth.
AUDIO: Scores of recent immigrants attend Global Skills Conference
The yearly gathering was aimed at helping newcomers to Canada network with potential Waterloo Region employers.
Global Migration Film Festival seeks to build bridges of understanding
The festival, which runs between Nov. 29 and Dec. 18, captures “the promise and challenges of migration” and “the unique contributions migrants make to their new communities.”
Racism is still rampant in U.S.
BY WENDY HUENUL-VALDES For four years now, ever since the death of Trayvon Martin and the acquittal of the man who shot him, racial tensions in the United States have been high. With the help of social media, the Black Lives Matter movement hit everyone’s phone screens and, like all movements, there was opposition. People who thought they were helping and trying to unify the country (I’m assuming they had … Continued
