In this episode, I'm speaking with Kumaran Nadesan, who spent 15 years in the Ontario Public Service in different roles, left to co-found 369 Global and just published a book, The Impolite Canadian. Kumaran thinks that the best kind of citizen is the i...

In this episode, the third in our four-part series with Immigrant Services Society of BC (ISSofBC), I'm speaking with Ajlin Mehmedi, who fled the former Yugoslavia in her early twenties, arrived as a government-assisted refugee with an unfinished degre...

In this episode, I'm speaking with Ramon Calanza, who has worked in trucking for close to twenty years, started out as a recruiter, and now supports Toronto Business Development Centre (TBDC) with their work in the Canadian trucking industry. When most...

In this episode, the second in our four-part series with Immigrant Services Society of BC (ISSofBC), I'm speaking with Ebrahim Al-Yousefi, who fled Yemen as a child during the 2015 war, moved through Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and Egypt, and arrived in Can...

In this episode, I'm speaking with Musap Abdelhag, known across Calgary as Moose. He's a first-generation Sudanese-Canadian who grew up here as an immigrant kid, fell into the streets, went back to Sudan in his early twenties, and then moved back to Ca...

In this episode, the first in our four-part series with Immigrant Services Society of BC (ISSofBC), I'm speaking with Dacious Richardson, who came to Canada from Liberia as a refugee in 2011 and has since become a youth mentor and community leader in B...

In this episode, I'm speaking with Abhishek Asthana, co-founder of Shivani's Kitchen, who has spent the last decade learning what it takes to put an immigrant food brand on national shelves. When Sobeys came knocking during COVID and offered to carry t...

In this episode, I'm speaking with Jatin Shory, Partner- Immigration and Refugee Law at Shory Law LLP, and Table Officer (National Immigration Section), Canadian Bar Association. Hundreds of thousands of people sit in the Express Entry today without fi...

In this episode, I'm speaking with Carolyn Watson, who runs CEW Immigration Consulting and spent close to twenty years in the settlement sector before moving into immigration consulting. The work that I think usually has the biggest impact on immigrant...

In this episode, I am speaking with Templeton Sawyer, who who started his career helping newcomers find work as an employment support practitioner, and then co-founded Alive House and built its Belonging Tour, which heads to Calgary and PEI over the ne...