Posts tagged Ontario
False promises finally fulfilled
Feb 5th
Canada has ambitious targets of immigration aimed at raising its population from 25 to 40 million by 2020. Behind every immigrant’s statistics, however, is a personal tale. Martin Smith tells his…
It was autumn 2004 and, after three years in North East, the marketing job, Number Two to the managing director, just wasn’t working out. And, it wasn’t the first time.
It was clear, I had to change jobs — the long hours with little or no reward were just getting me down.
I seriously started to think about my options. What did the region offer in terms of job prospects? Very little. More >
L’Étranger
Jan 4th
An outsider’s view of Canada and things Canadian…
It was my geography teacher, when I was 17, who gave me my first inkling of what it must be like to be Canadian, when he suggested that Australians had a stronger sense of national identity because they were an island continent. Canadians, on the other hand, have been separated from the most powerful nation on Earth by only a very long, often invisible line.
Forty years and numerous visits to different parts of Canada later, I think he was both right and wrong. On the one hand, no-one can deny that Canadians do More >
