Bruce Smith: Building our Community

Bruce Smith, Scotiabank’s Staffing and Planning Senior Manager, is considered a champion to new immigrants. In 2012 Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia presented Bruce with the Dick Smyth award…

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Junhee Choi: Sprouting in a new city

Junhee Choi’s enthusiasm bubbles to the surface in conversation. The owner of “New Sprout,” a yoga and nutrition business, has a busy life full of challenges.  “I have a passion…

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Gina Moynan: Adapting Your Skills

After several trips to Canada as a tourist, British-born Gina Moynan decided she wanted to make it her home. “I liked the environment and I always had the desire to…

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Maliha Azhar: Living Between Two Places

Maliha Azhar is living between two countries – Canada and her native Pakistan. She came to Canada with her family in July 2008 in the Provincial Nominee Program. Her parents…

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Min Li

Min Li’s voyage to Nova Scotia from China was different than most new arrivals—she came by car. She and husband, Shiyuan, son Jack, now 10, and daughter Ryann, 3, had…

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Samson Woidgberiel

“Uncle Samson, do this. Uncle Samson, do that.” Those are magical words to Samson Woidgberiel, who arrived in Halifax as a refugee in 2016 to live with his sister and…

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Amardeep Sharma

When Amardeep Sharma speaks, enthusiasm about his new life in Canada is palpable. Living in Nova Scotia only since December 2016, he has already found a rewarding job as a…

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Inna Morgulis: Dream Job

Inna Morgulis has her dream job, happily settled at Capital Health as a research assistant in the cardiology department. “This is my kind of job,” she says, explaining that she…

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