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Canada attracts students from all over the world. At last count, there were 266,620 international students enrolled across the country, according to Statistics Canada (2016). International students have high hopes when they enroll in a Canadian college or university. Many choose Canada because of the quality of the Canadian education system and ...

The biggest challenge I encountered when moving to Canada on my own four years ago was my sense of loneliness and isolation. Even though I did meet lots of people, I realized that creating deep friendships would take more time than I anticipated. Most people already seemed to have their ...

It was September 2013, when 18-year-old Venezuelan-born Adriana Rivas first set foot in Canada to study at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick to begin her bachelor’s degree in economics and international relations. Her choice of university was determined at a university fair she attended back home. “Since this ...

In a year that has been filled with nothing but good news for Canadians on the air travel side, another announcement Wednesday can make us hope that one day we’ll no longer be amongst the most expensive countries in the world for flights. All across the globe, new airlines have been ...

Waiving fees to replace passports and other documents lost in last year’s Fort McMurray wildfire cost Ottawa almost $130,000 in forgone revenue. The May 2016 disaster displaced more than 80,000 people in the northern Alberta city for at least a month as flames consumed one-tenth of its buildings. “At that time, it ...