Category Archives: The Canadian Press

By Maan AlhmidiThe Canadian PressSat., Sept. 19, 2020 OTTAWA—Halfway through their 14-day quarantine period, Diala Charab and Yehya Al-Ayoubi are excited to start working as health-care aides after arriving Sunday from Lebanon. Despite COVID-19 travel restrictions that prevent most people from coming to Canada, the two nurses were exempted, resettled under a pilot project to bring skilled refugeesContinue reading “Admitted to Canada under pilot program, refugee nurses ready for work as PSWs”

By Maan Alhmidi The Canadian Press OTTAWA – Five years after the first of them arrived in Canada, thousands of Syrian refugees had to adapt to the COVID-19 lockdown, which brought back memories of the horrors of the war and disturbed the lives they had begun to recreate. On 10 December 2015, following a promise madeContinue reading “Syrian refugees overcoming war memories brought back by COVID-19”

Maan Alhmidi Published: August 23, 2019 Zuhair Alshaer spends most of his day editing articles and organizing interviews with politicians for his Ottawa-based Arab Canada newspaper, to introduce Arabic-speaking new Canadians to federal politics. The community Alshaer’s paper serves is growing — more immigrants are arriving in Canada from Africa, Asia and the Middle East thanContinue reading “Ethnic media aim to help maintain boost in voting by new Canadians”

Maan Alhmidi Published: August 16, 2019 at 1:20 PM A Toronto-based activist is calling on Canada’s political parties to nominate more black candidates in winnable ridings in this fall’s federal election in order to enhance the chances the community is better represented in the next Parliament. Fewer than 20 black Canadians have been nominated soContinue reading “Toronto activist calling on federal parties to nominate more black candidates”