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Apply now: Youth photography workshop

Join us for a youth photography project! Youth with refugee experience can apply to explore social justice through photography in Halifax....
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Tareq Hadhad on building a successful business in Canada as a refugee

By the Globe and Mail, February 12, 2018 My father's chocolate factory in Damascus was bombed in 2012. We left in...
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Business Voice: Apparent in Foresight

Lokapriya Jena, Business Voice, February 2018. Halifax is the Next Singapore Two years ago, as I was walking out of...
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Celebrate African Heritage Month 2018

The 2018 African Heritage Month theme “Educate, Unite, Celebrate Community” honours and pays homage to African Nova Scotians and their...
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Decade for People of African Descent recognized by Canada

PMO, Ottawa, Ontario, January 30, 2018. The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today announced the Government of Canada will officially recognize...
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January is Mentoring Month! Learn about Mentorship through ISANS

Craig Bannon and Kevin Nguyen outside the RBC branch in Bedford where Kevin started working as...
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Deadline for the Public Policy on the Age of Dependants

Do you know an affected family? Reminder! The deadline for adding a child according to the new measures: 31 January...
Scenes like this became familiar in Nova Scotia in 2016. Here, the Beechville-Lakeside-Timerberlea refugee sponsorship group welcome the Ali family after a long journey from Syria. (Elizabeth Chiu/CBC)

4,000 new immigrants called Nova Scotia home in 2017

Scenes like this became familiar in Nova Scotia in 2016. Here, the Beechville-Lakeside-Timerberlea refugee sponsorship group...
For refugee youth new to Canada, pursuing soccer dreams on Canadian soil is an opportunity that one Nova Scotia club is helping make possible. Alexa MacLean/Global

Soccer knows no language: Refugee children welcomed into Nova Scotia soccer community

By Alexa MacLean, Global News, December 22, 2017. The first time they kicked a soccer ball may have been thousands...