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My daughter and I were lucky to find a host family in Ottawa. I want to pay it forward. (Illustration by Dominic Bugatto) In March of 2022, I had just moved into a new home with my nine-year-old daughter, Miia, in Kramatorsk, an industrial city in eastern Ukraine. Miia and I led happy lives there:…
“My family bought a house in Edmonton where we could all live together” (Illustration by Adrian Hogan) Living in Canada was my older brother Kash’s dream, not mine. We grew up in Delhi, India, and when Kash was in high school, he heard about people moving to Canada for college. He dreamed of going out…
In Halifax, I was having trouble paying the bills (Illustration by Maclean’s, photograph by iStock) As a teenager in Beijing, I attended an international high school for students who wanted to go to university in Canada. My parents thought I’d have a better education in Canada, which they’d heard was a safe country with more…
In Toronto, I found a new purpose running an Indonesian restaurant (Illustration by Adrian Hogan) As early as four or five, I knew I was different. I thought the men on TV were handsome, but I was raised to believe that homosexuality was wrong. I was born into a Muslim household in Malang, Indonesia, a…
After moving to three continents, I settled down in Alberta (Illustration by Adrian Hogan) For most of my life, home always felt like a temporary place. I was born in Trichy, India, in 1994; when I was three months old, I moved to Abu Dhabi, where my dad worked as an engineer. We were treated…
“It was a big blow to see the broken system derail so many lives” (Illustration by Adrian Hogan) I was in Grade 11 when my parents started talking about sending me to Canada for college. We lived in Muktsar, a small, crime-ridden city in Punjab, India. My father was a police officer, and my mother…
“I dealt with bank statements and insurance papers, paid hydro bills and translated during doctor visits.” “I realized I had multiple roles: a child, a caretaker, a friend, and, in some ways, a therapist. I didn’t realize how much responsibility I had placed on my shoulders.” (Photography by Jackie Dives) I was born in Taipei…
“The people here are open-minded. I’m always going to art and fashion shows and concerts.” “The Eaton Centre was the first place I visited in Toronto” (illustration by Victor Kerlow) I come from a family of entrepreneurs. My dad operates a shipping company in Nigeria, and my mother has worked as a baker and a…
After three years apart, my partner and I finally reunited in Canada “I love spending time at the beach with a view of the mountains” (Illustration by Lauren Tamaki) I was born and raised in Kathmandu, where one of Nepal’s biggest religious festivals, Indra Jātrā, takes place. A chariot carrying the Kumari, the Living…
Canada is a leader in green energy. I hope more immigrants will come to help realize our goals. “This country has so many natural wonders we need to protect.” (Illustration by Victor Kerlow) I send my mother so many videos of the snow in Canada. I never saw it back home in Pakistan, where even…