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Filipino Health Care Workers Show the Contribution of Newcomers in helping to save Canadian lives during COVID-19

According to the WHO, on December 31st of 2019, WHO’s Country Office in the People’s Republic of China picked up a media statement by the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission from their website on ‘viral pneumonia’ in Wuhan, People’s Republic of China. The Country Office notified the International Health Regulations (IHR) focal point in the WHO Western Pacific...

Growing up in Canada is a privilege for me. I am originally Iraqi and I have lived in Egypt until the age of 11 when I moved to Ottawa. My family and I migrated to Canada in order to live a better, safer life. Life back in Iraq was hard for me and my family. Although I was very young, I felt how dangerous and unsafe it was for my family and I to live there. I felt as if I will not have a future there, and that my family and I had to move somewhere that will promise us a better life. We chose Canada...

In recognition of the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women, please see our events calendar for upcoming presentations on topics such as taking action against gender-based violence; emerging needs of women as a result of the global pandemic; how to ensure an equitable future; intergenerational transmission of domestic violence and gender.

Additionally, we have curated e-learning resources covering newcomer gender in a range of topics of interest to our members. You can...

Celebrating Refugee and Migrant Children in Canada: Part 1

Children, particularly migrant or refugee children, face a specific set of challenges in our modern world. Whether it be language struggles, difficulties fitting in with schoolmates, or simply culture shock, newcomer children are in a unique predicament. I remember, when I was 16, one of my high school friends, who immigrated to Canada from Korea, told me how she had to help her parents file their taxes, talk to their phone providers...

Remembering that newcomers to Canada have also fought beside their Indigenous and Canadian-born consoeurs and confreres for this country

From Reflection and Remembrance to Building and Strengthening the Canadian Mosaic

Throughout Canada’s history, new and first-generation Canadians have fought for their adoptive homeland. During the First, and Second World War, of the hundreds of thousands who enlisted to fight, many were from Central and Eastern Europe, the West Indies and Asia. All of whom chose...