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…
Read MoreMaliha 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…
Read MoreMin 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…
Read MoreSamson 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…
Read MoreAkshay Gupta: Wanderlust and Education
As a teenager studying in the evenings, Akshay Gupta would look out his window in India and see jetliners taking off from a nearby airport. He would read the airlines’…
Read MoreAmardeep 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…
Read MoreInna 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…
Read MoreSimon Mutabazi: From Rwanda to Halifax
It was a long road from Simon Mutabazi’s homeland of Rwanda to Halifax. He left his war-torn country in 1994 for Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, and then…
Read MoreEdgar Sosa & Leticia Delgado
Chocolate, blueberries, or cranberries? These may be unlikely decisions for someone who spent years studying cells, immunology, and cancer therapies, but in 2016 when Edgar Sosa’s wife, Leticia Delgado, was…
Read MoreYukang (Patrick) Peng
Thank you for teaching us Chinese. You are a great professor and we had great fun learning!” That’s one of several compliments that Yukang (Patrick) Peng received on a thank-you…
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