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Home Essentials Newcomer Support is an organization that gathers household items for new immigrants and refugees in need who live in Thorncliffe Park, Flemingdon Park or Scarborough. Volunteers say they're stepping up as the housing crisis has made life more difficult for newcomers.
Parents and community organizers told CBC Toronto the gardening program is particularly important in a neighbourhood like Thorncliffe Park that is characterized by multiple high-rise buildings and a lack of space for recreation.
Walking into any Toronto hospital reminds Shakhlo Sharipova of the career she left behind. "Just the smell of the hospital brings those memories back. I feel this is my mission, this is where I belong really," she said. It's been 15 years since Sharipova entered a hospital as a working physician. She emigrated to Thorncliffe Park from Tajikistan in 2009. There, she had spent 12 years working as an ophthalmologist, specializing in glaucoma.After arriving in Toronto, her ability to continue that c
In contrast to the delay-plagued and long-overdue Eglinton Crosstown LRT, Metrolinx has been regularly checking off major milestones for another fu...
Newcomers face significant barriers to being hired in the fields they are trained in due to Canadian experience requirements. Ontario is in the process of passing legislation that seeks to ban those requirements, but experts say further supports are needed.