Success Stories

Maria Aragon: Canada’s 10-Year-Old YouTube Sensation
July 2011 – It only took 140 characters for Twitter to change the life of 10 year old Maria Aragon.

Shokoofeh Moussavi: Helping Immigrants in Calgary
February 2011 – Shokoofeh was a 2010 recipient of Canada’s Citizenship Award, a national honour granted to Canadians.

Coming full circle
January 2011 – For Micheline, life has taken her from Haiti to Canada and back.

Naheed Nenshi and the triumph of ideas
November 2010 – Naheed Nenshi says he wanted his campaign for mayor of Calgary to be about substance and ideas.  It worked.

Atom Egoyan: Directing his own future
September 2010 – Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, unlike many of his contemporaries, makes no attempt to camouflage his roots…

From Tehran to St. John’s
September 2008 – It’s a long way from Tehran to St. John’s, but Sepideh is glad she made the trip.

The sky is the limit
June 2008 – When Vivian first came to Canada, she juggled two jobs, motherhood and university classes. Now she is a manager in Alberta’s Department of Education.

Fresh air for the soul of this country
April 2008 – Mushfiq, a musician and visual artist, has brought the culture of his old home (Afghanistan) to his new home in Canada.

Building a new life, one cup at a time
January 2008 – Martha and Frank immigrated from Colombia in 1998 and now own a coffee company in Vancouver.

To serve and protect
March 2007 – In his five short but action-packed years in Canada, Shen has gone from a computer programming masters student at Dalhousie University to a constable with the Toronto Police Service.