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Dino Ari serves up pizzas and traditional Turkish food at Toronto restaurant
“This country gave me a lot of things. I have four kids and I have a good business so I owe this country." The wood-burning oven is the first indication Dino Ari’s pizza restaurant is unique. The...
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Immigrant empowering troubled youth in Winnipeg
Freddy Mahoungou. Freddy Mahoungou came to Canada in 2005 from the Republic of Congo — “it’s a small French colony different than the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is bigger,” says Mahoungou....
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Korean-born pianist Sunny Choi plays from the heart
Pianist Sunny Choi. Photo by Dan Spectrum Contemporary piano artist Sunny Choi’s concerts aren’t your typical classical performances. “When you go to a [typical] piano concert, there’s a pianist and...
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Dutch-born immigrant forms Canada’s first profit-for-non-profit enterprise
Helma Swinkels. Photo by Keith Simister From her rustic barn-turned-ceramic shop on Vancouver Island, Helma Swinkels shares how a series of fateful events and connections have helped shaped her life....
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Gentil Misigaro uses music to help others in Winnipeg
Gentil Misigaro on Winnipeg's Riel Promenade. Photo by John Woods / Reprinted from Winnipeg Free Press “Hi, my name is Gentil and I’m a musician.” These nine words helped African refugee Gentil...
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Immigrant Women of Inspiration honoured for International Women’s Day
In recognition of International Women’s Day, this Saturday, March 8, Canadian Immigrant introduces our first annual “Immigrant Women of Inspiration” special — for 2014, we chose five phenomenal...
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Khaled Youssef paints himself a new future in Edmonton
Khaled Youssef Just a toddler when he immigrated to Alberta, with his parents from Lebanon, Khaled Youssef has been on a bright entrepreneurial streak since his teens in the residential and...
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Entrepreneur Ysabel Li-Lopez invents shirt for easy breastfeeding
Peruvian-born Ysabel Li-Lopez, of Nurture-Elle in Ottawa. Ysabel Li-Lopez is a born entrepreneur. When she opened her first business at the age of 17 in Peru — a clothing company for women in their...
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Rosario Arce shares her Bolivian beats with Canada
Bolivian-born Rosario Arce Rosario Arce loves traditional Latin music. “There’s a lot of culture and history with the lyrics and the instruments,” she says. Even before the Bolivian-born singer takes...
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Sukhdev Toor’s inspiring success story (Video)
“You can never lose your vision and you have to push through obstacles. Dream big and you can achieve it.” As we prepare our list of winners this year for the Top 25 Awards, we can’t help but be...
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Hungarian-born swimmer Zsofia Balazs gives back
Swimmer Zsofia Balazs (middle) was in Brampton recently to help promote the Lifesaving Society of Ontario’s Swim to Survive+ program to students. Zsofia Balazs first stepped into a pool at the age of...
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Veterinarian success in Vancouver
Romanian-born veterinarian Marius Vasilescu. Photo by Sandra Minarik Cats, dogs, pigs, chickens — as the son of not one but two veterinarians growing up near the Danube River in the Romanian...
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Founders of a neighbourhood-locating website make the move to Canada easier...
Gustavo Burckhardt and Mauro Repacci co-founded a website to help Canadian newcomers feel at home! Photo by Riccardo Cellere Mauro Repacci and Gustavo Burckhardt know one of the greatest challenges of...
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Iraq-born investor Nawar Alsaadi’s risky business
Iraq-born investor Nawar Alsaadi. Photo by Evelien Johanna Voorberg Nawar Alsaadi compares the stock market to war. It’s a comparison that comes from an intimate knowledge of both things. Both pose...
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Travel by Dart’s Sorin Mihailovici seeks adventure and success as a new Canadian
Sorin Mihailovici is a Romanian-born journalist living in Edmonton, Alberta. Most people tiptoe around thoughts of the unknown, but Romanian-born Sorin Mihailovici doesn’t have such fears. In fact, the...
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Costumer Carmen Alatorre loves her theatrical career
Mexico-born costume designer Carmen Allatore. Growing up in Mexico City, Carmen Alatorre was surrounded by fabrics. Her mother’s home-based sewing business meant Alatorre often spent her summers...
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Immigrant artisans sharing their wares at holiday craft shows
Looking for something a little more creative for gift-giving this season? Starting in November, holiday craft fairs are a Canadian holiday tradition, and offer up many ideas for local and unique gift...
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Holistic nutritionist Audrey McDonough is known as ‘cancer coach’
American-born Audrey McDonough uses nutrition to help cancer patients. As one of the few well-known nutritional cancer coaches in the country, American-born Audrey McDonough has a pretty unique job to...
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Winnipeg immigrant Nadia Kidwai uses conversation to connect communities
Nadia Kidwai uses the power of conversation to connect. Photos by Nilufer Rahman Nadia Kidwai loves to talk — and to listen. She knows how powerful face-to-face conversations can be, particularly in a...
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A Dutch immigrant’s journey to remember
Rein Doorman. A submission by G.M. (Ine) Doorman for her late husband, Rein Doorman It was on January 20, l948, that I arrived in New York on the S.S. Veendam. I cannot recall how I found my way from...
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