New Articles - October, 2011

Oct 15

Swedish delegation looks to Vancouver for help integrating immigrant kids

By Tara Carman, the Vancouver Sun | Link to Article

Canada is a world leader in integrating immigrant children into the school system and a delegation from Sweden was in Vancouver this

Oct 15

Strict language rules for immigrants proposed

By Thandi Fletcher, the Vancouver Sun | Link to Article

The Harper government wants to force immigrants to prove their proficiency in English or French before being able to write an exam and be considered for Canadian citizenship

Oct 14

Room for all of us: Former Gov.-Gen. on why Canada is great for newcomers

By Michael Posner, the Globe and Mail | Link to Article

In her 2006 memoir, Heart Matters, Adrienne Clarkson chronicled her remarkable journey from child of poor Chinese immigrants to television journalist to governor-

Oct 14

What’s in a name? A job, maybe

By Tavia Grant, the Globe and Mail | Link to Article

Job seekers with common anglophone names such as Greg Brown on their résumés get more responses from employers in Canada’s three largest cities than

Oct 14

Mapping our ethnicity Part 2: China comes to Richmond

By Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun | Link to Article

Jeremy Lau sometimes wishes familial duty didn’t compel him to live in central Richmond.

“I’d like a more typical North American city and lifestyle

Oct 14

Mapping our ethnicity Part 1: South Asia in Surrey

By Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun | Link to Article

METRO VANCOUVER - The sign at the top of the giant onion-domed Guru Nanak Temple in Surrey reads: One God.

The signs on the traffic-filled

Oct 13

Dispute sparks hunger strike

By Brent Richter, the Vancouver Sun | Link to Article

A New Westminster activist is preparing to spend 10 days outside without food to protest what he says is an unfair eviction and government abandonment of a valuable non-profit society.

Oct 13

Vancouver’s Chinatown becomes a national historic site

By Matthew Burrows, the Vancouver Sun | Link to Article

Two of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s top ministers joined other politicians and community members today (October 13) in announcing that Vancouver’s Chinatown will be added

Oct 11

It’s never about the awards, but they sure look pretty

By Michael Bach, HR Reporter| Link to Article

Now that it’s officially October, it’s much more challenging to recall that we did just have a summer. Most of us are back to busy and are fully ramped up for the

Oct 08

Canadians divided on multiculturalism: poll

By Randy Boswell, the Vancouver Sun | Link to Article

Forty years after the birth of official multiculturalism in Canada - proclaimed by prime minister Pierre Trudeau on Oct. 8, 1971 to be "the most suitable means of assuring

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