Archive for November, 2009
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Inukshuk Blog Award - Immigrant Story
We find this delightful blog that has been on cyberspace for the last three years (since 2006). It is a blog about the adventures of a French Canadian immigrant who settled in English Canada; about immigration, life as a French teacher and snow !
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Inukshuk Blog Award for edutainment
We are proud to present our own award to a favourite blog that has made a big impression on us. The award is for Edutainment. For those who are unfamiliar with edutainment, it is a concept about combining education with entertainment, making it
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Prime Minister Harper visits Bollywood
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his wife made a stop at a Bollywood TV Dance Show in Mumbai during his recent trip to India. What an amusing sight it is to watch him and his wife be surrounded by dancing girls. The visit is a deliberate phot
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A Friendly Stop for New Canadian Immigrants
For new Canadian immigrants settling in British Columbia, whether you are looking for work, trying to improve your English language skills or needing settlement assistance, be sure to check out ISS of BC. ISS stands for Immigrant Services Society
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Is there a Message on Your Head?
"A head that turns head" is the tagline for a company called Bald Media in Toronto. Imagine a bald head as a blank canvas or a blank billboard, where you are free to post your company logo or advertising message. Then send this bald head to roam
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A Canadian Christmas Tradition
Every year, Canadians filled out over 700,000 shoeboxes with toys, school supplies, personal hygiene items such as soap, toothbrushes, combs, etc. through the Operations Christmas Child project run by the Christian organization Samaritan's Purse.
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Halifax Connector Program - help for new immigrants
The Halifax Connector Program is one organization that recognizes the value of skilled immigrants. For this reason, the program's main goal to put newcomers to the city directly in touch with business owners and operators, managers, civil servants,
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MOSAIC BC
MOSAIC is a multilingual non-profit organization dedicated to addressing issues that affect immigrants and refugees in the course of their settlement and integration into Canadian society. MOSAIC's mandate is to support and to empower immigrant an
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ISS of BC Immigrant Services Society of BC
Immigrant Services Society of BC (ISSofBC) was incorporated in 1972 as the first immigrant-serving agency in the province. Since that time, ISSofBC has grown to be the largest, multicultural, immigrant-serving agency in western Canada. The society pr
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