Archive for the famous canadian immigrants Category
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Olivia Chow says goodbye to Jack Layton
All Canadians watched Olivia Chow's grief as she shared a moment in front of her husband's Jack Layton's casket on Parliament Hill. The two have been together for 25 years, married for 23 years since 1988 working hand in hand, dedicated to the w
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Maria Aragon, a Filipino-Canadian from Winnpeg became international star
When Prince William and Kate Middleton attended the July 1 Canada Day celebration, Maria Aragon, a Filipino-Canadian sang Canada's national anthem "O Canada", in both English and French. Meeting celebrities and royalties is not something
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Scarlett Johansson - Canadian Immigrant?
In the movie "The Proposal" Ryan Reynolds plays an American who works for a Canadian (Sandra Bullock) working illegally in the USA who needed an immigrant visa, and ended up proposing to Ryan Reynolds in order to become an American immigrant. In r
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Naheed Nenshi - first Muslim mayor of a Canadian major city
On October 18, 2010 at the Calgary municipal election, a son of immigrant parents won over 39% of the votes to become the first Muslim mayor of a major Canadian city. The victory was compared to US President Obama's election victory, as the ne
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Emma Donoghue - Irish Canadian immigrant author
Welcome to the strange little world of ROOM, the seventh book of Irish Canadian author, Emma Donoghue. The book "Room" revolves around the story of Jack and Ma, who live in a locked room that measures eleven foot by eleven. When Jack turns
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Afghan-Canadian immigrant is Oprah of Afghanistan
Vancouver-raised Mozhdah Jamalzadah immigrated to Canada at the young age of five with her parents and two younger brothers from war-torn Kabul, Afghanistan. Eventually, they settled in Vancouver, BC, where Mozhdah Jamalzadah attended high schoo
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Famous Canadian-Iranian Immigrant Nazanin Afshin-Jam
A "difficult-to-pronounce" or an "foreign-sounding name" did not stop Nazanin Afshin-Jam becoming famous in her adopted country of Canada. Canadian-Iranian Immigrant Nazanin Afshin-Jam immigrated to Canada with her family at a young age of 2. Ble
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Filipino Canadian Literary Star - Miguel Syjuco
From the country that produced Imelda Marcos, lover of shoes; Andrew Cunanan, serial murderer who killed Versace; Lea Salonga, lead singer of Broadway play Saigon, and Manny Pacquiao, world lightweight boxing champion.... now comes Miguel Syjuco, the
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Croatian Canadian Entrepreneur
He is famous as a successful Canadian entrepreneur, but today Robert Herjavec is more famous internationally, as one of the dragons in the Canadian Dragon Den, or one of the sharks in the USA TV show Shark Tank. Robert Herjavec is a Croatian-Canad
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