Credit to Author: Canadian Immigrant| Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 01:27:57 +0000
Our 2024 Immigrant Women of Inspiration special shines the spotlight on passionate storytellers – directors behind the camera who share authentic experiences and powerful perspectives through film.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Lisa Evans| Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 13:21:23 +0000
Filipino-born Ana Serrano is one of Canada’s well-known individuals in the realm of new media and has received numerous awards from digital, media, film and theatre industries across North America.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Vivien Fellegi| Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 16:31:52 +0000
Jamaican-born Canadian musician turned actor Mark Clennon featured as a Rising Star at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
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Read moreCredit to Author: Ramya Ramanathan| Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2023 18:29:57 +0000
Barrister and solicitor Nancy Lam decided to write her first novel, “The Loyal Daughter”, when she lost her mother. The story follows a young woman in a village in China making her way to the crowded streets of Hong Kong, who manages to immigrate to Northern Ontario, and eventually makes Toronto home.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Lisa Evans| Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 14:14:22 +0000
Red Barrinuevo came to Canada in search of freedom. Today, Barrinuevo is a proud gay man and one of Toronto’s most sought-after interior designers and home stagers. But what might sound like a glamorous career started from very humble beginnings.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Lisa Evans| Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2022 23:53:20 +0000
During the height of the pandemic, Brazilian-born Queer Canadian singer-songwriter Bruno Capinan had a dream of two enslaved men that fell in love on a slave ship travelling from Africa to Brazil. That dream would become the inspiration for Capinan’s newest album Tara Rara.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Ramya Ramanathan| Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 01:16:06 +0000
“You truly do get a better appreciation of being a Canadian citizen, the freedom of speech, access to education and the public health care. The reality is that a country like Canada offers immigrants from developing countries and their children many more more opportunities in their life,” says Trinidadian-Canadian writer who has lived in five other countries.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Ramya Ramanathan| Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 01:16:06 +0000
Veersen Bhoolai is a Canadian journalist who has worked in Print and Television. Coming from a family of lawyers, he calls himself the ‘lone wolf’ journalist in the pack. He has published two books in 2021. The first, No, I don’t work in the kitchen, Surviving war-torn Afghanistan for three years is his memoir as […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Lisa Evans| Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2022 15:32:39 +0000
Isabel Kanaan has co-created, written and is starring in ABROAD, a 12-part comedy series on OMNI Television that finds humour in the challenging situations facing immigrants from different generations.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Canadian Immigrant| Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 20:09:31 +0000
Toronto-based Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery announces an open call for applications to the 2022 RBC Emerging Artist Network, a year-long initiative developed to benefit 25 Toronto-based emerging artists.
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