Immigrant Life

Explore immigrant life in Canada with practical tips, settlement advice, cultural insights, and helpful resources for newcomers.

How to understand your financial situation and calculate your net worth?

What is financial health? Financial health is the state and stability of your monetary affairs. There are many factors contributing to healthy financial situation. Some of the strongest indicators of financial health are: How to evaluate your financial situation? To better understand your financial situation, carry out a self-assessment and answer these key questions: What

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Canadian Thanksgiving Traditions and a Great Idea for a Thanksgiving Menu

Canadian Thanksgiving traditions date back to November, 1879, when Thanksgiving was made an annual holiday. Canadians have been celebrating it on the second Monday of October since 1957. Canadian Thanksgiving Origins It was the Indigenous peoples who held the first communal feasts to give thanks for the fall harvest well before the arrival of European

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Word of the Week: tradition

What is tradition? Tradition (Noun) is: 2. something that is handed down: We learned the Christmas traditions from our parents and they had acquired them from their parents. Adjective: traditional: The children wore traditional Ukrainian clothes during the festival. Adverbs: traditionally: Traditionally, we baked turkey on Thanksgiving Day. Collocations: Verbs that go with ‘tradition:’ Ascribe,

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Basic Life Skills: why do we need them and how to learn them

What are basic life skills? Basic life skills are a set of psychosocial and interpersonal skills that help people have fuller lives both professionally and personally. They make it possible, among other things, to think critically and creatively, communicate effectively, solve problems, build healthy relationship, understand others by empathizing with them, understand and manage oneself,

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