The Newcomers Podcast

In this episode, I'm speaking with Fatima Narvaez, who runs Women's Adventure Network, a volunteer nonprofit that gets immigrant women rock climbing in Calgary. After moving with her family from Manila, a city of 20 million, to a rural town in Manitoba...

In this episode, I'm speaking with Tim Fisher, a former colleague who works in artificial intelligence, about moving his family from Colorado, USA, to Vancouver Island, Canada. He assumed that a role like his, the kind he joked every country wants to a...

In this episode, I'm speaking with Surranna Sandy, the CEO of CivicAction, about the decades-old issue of newcomers who come here but can't seem to find jobs that let them bring their best selves to Canada. Our immigration system filters potential immi...

In this episode, I'm speaking with Ciro Muiruri, who moved to Canada in 2015 to escape an abusive husband, about the magazine article that ended her eight-year wait to find her kidnapped daughter. In February 2023, Toronto Life published Ciro's story. ...

In this episode, I'm speaking with Shari Graydon, the CEO of Informed Perspectives, about the Alberta Referendum and the cost of Quebec's referendum to the province, even though both failed. Shari was six when her family moved from Montreal to Vancouve...

In this episode, I'm speaking with Jackie Pichette, Policy Lead for Skills & Higher Education at RBC Thought Leadership, about Canada's immigration targets and how the categories added to Express Entry got in the way of what the point system was built ...

In the third episode of the collaboration between The Newcomers and Canadian Immigrant, Baisakhi Roy, Editor at Canadian Immigrant, and I chat with Veronica Sepehr, an RCIC and founder of Westdale Immigration Consulting Inc., about your next move if yo...

In this episode, I'm speaking with David Hornsby, Vice-Provost (Academic & Global Learning) and Professor in the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, about the polarizing debate over international students, the role o...

In this episode, I'm speaking with Andrew Pohlod, the Chief Operating Officer of BRIX Real Estate Group, about buying your first home in Canada, how much you need upfront, and all the little but important information you need to consider before committ...

In this episode, I'm speaking with George Carothers, the Senior Director, Ideas and Insights, at the Institute for Canadian Citizenship (ICC), about the Ready to Contribute report and how we got to the point where we have 640,000 degree-holding immigra...