She is an internationally recognized researcher on immigrant health. In , she was a collaborating researcher at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development and presented her work to international policy makers across UN organizations in Geneva. The African Child and Youth Migration Network is a network of around 35 researchers located worldwide.
The program seeks to socially and economically empower Black youths to contribute meaningfully to society. It is the first interdisciplinary, university-based mentorship program for Black youths in Western Canada.
Several social service agencies have used her work to inform the design and development of their programs. For example, her work on the mental health of Black youth has informed the development of interventions and the creation of a mental health clinic for Black people in Alberta.
She is also currently associate editor for the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Bukola Salami migrated from Nigeria to Canada in President, Ni-Met Metals Inc. An immigrant does not have too many choices. Failure is not an option, and success is not easy. Within a limited timeframe and with limited career choices, the immigrant must embark upon their new life in a new land and then furiously work to achieve goals. The challenges multiply multifariously when the immigrant chooses to become an entrepreneur.
Group, chose the hard path of turning into an entrepreneur when he immigrated to Canada in Three decades later, by any measurable standards, Shah is immensely successful — despite the humble beginning and limited resources. The reason for his success is simple. It is said that behind the success of every man is a woman.
Shah explains in his case there are six women: his mother, his wife, his sister, his daughter, his daughter-in-law and his granddaughter. An eager and enthusiastic believer in the power of doing good and sharing his good fortune with the society, Shah has utilized his entrepreneurial skills to contribute to the Canadian economy through Ni-Met Metals Inc.
As a philanthropist, Shah is involved with community-based organizations. He never refuses any request for philanthropic assistance, and he has made a substantive difference to the Trillium Health Partners Foundation, the Canada India Foundation and the Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce. As a public policy enthusiast, Shah has advocated for a better understanding and co-operation between Canada and India — two countries that share many commonalities. He dedicates his time and resources to promote bilateral trade, investment and runs a golf tournament, the proceeds of which are divided between families of fallen soldiers in Canada and India.
Learn more at www. Jack Rabba was born into abject poverty. During adolescence, his father was bedridden and at 13, Rabba had to take any job he could find in restaurants and hotels to support his parents and siblings. These jobs afforded him an opportunity to serve visitors from many nations, but it was the compassion and kindness of Canadians that sparked in him an undying love for our land. Rabba immigrated in with only the promise of a clerical job at a hotel, the clothes on his back and his Canadian aspirations.
Unwilling to take his opportunity for granted, he spent every moment focused on building a better life. He and his wife, Ingrid, were married at Old City Hall while they were both on their lunch break! Soon afterward, he got work as a convenience store manager.
Working long hours, Rabba was able to put a down-payment on a small convenience store in the heart of Toronto. He helped his parents and young siblings to immigrate a few years later and continued to carry his immigrant family on his shoulders while building a successful neighbourhood business. Before long he realized Torontonians were looking for more variety, so he expanded the store. Customers liked the new selection and so one small store became multiple neighbourhood markets.
In , Rabba renamed the chain and launched Rabba Fine Foods. Today, there are 36 locations across Ontario! Rabba has created thousands of jobs and he continues to give opportunity to, mentor and support new Canadians. His companies have also been proud contributors to countless charitable and community organizations. Rabba also provides hundreds of thousands of dollars of food and financial donations annually to the Mississauga Food Bank to help support the goal of ending food insecurity. Throughout it all, Rabba remains a fiercely proud Canadian who still helps immigrants establish themselves in the great nation he idolized as a youth.
By making the most of his opportunities he has managed to help improve the lives of innumerable fellow Canadians. Alwar Pillai is the co-founder and CEO of Fable, an accessibility testing platform powered by people with disabilities.
With Pillai leading the charge, Fable is helping world-renowned companies like Walmart, Shopify and Slack build products that work for everyone, and unlocking access to the digital world for millions of users. Pillai grew up in India and attended an alternative school that focused on holistic learning and abstained from academic learning.
At a young age, Pillai was made aware of her privilege and the role she can play in providing equal opportunity. Pillai is passionate about sharing the importance of accessibility and inclusive design with people all around the world. Amir Miri is an experienced realtor with a focus on the Vancouver real estate market. He holds a dual bachelor of arts with honours in hotel management and tourism from Manchester Metropolitan University and IMI University in Switzerland.
Miri comes from a family of real estate investors, architects and interior designers, giving him the ultimate real estate understanding. Miri brings constant and needed change to the real estate sector in Vancouver. With his wealth of experience and education, he has utilized strategies that have contributed to the growth of exclusive luxury hotels such as Four Seasons hotels and resorts, Intercontinental Hotel Group, Kempinski hotel groups, and Starwood hotel group.
When Miri is not helping clients get the best deals in real estate or talking at conferences, Miri sits on the board of directors at the Canadian Iranian Foundation, a charitable organization that facilitates the social and cultural integration of newly arrived immigrants in Canada.
His involvement in the Canadian Iranian Foundation, which is a non-profit organization has allowed him to help families in need and provide scholarships to students. The organization also educates and advises new immigrants about education, charitable work and social reform in Canada. Having been an immigrant himself, Miri uses his wealth of experience to train new immigrants on what they can expect in Canada.
Born with a natural interest in people and foreign communities, Ankur Mahajan stumbled upon a globe at the age of six, and could not stop wondering what happens in other parts of the world.
Following this passion, Mahajan has lived in 14 countries globally. When he got here in , starting life alone in Canada was tough for him. No one was willing to hire him without Canadian experience. So, he decided to contribute to the Canadian International Development Programs in war-torn countries.
Mahajan served for years in war-torn areas of rural Afghanistan and African nations until , while receiving recognition for numerous development initiatives related to gender equality, food security and more. Following his passion for documenting the culture of war zones and a desire to assist struggling charities, Mahajan authored his bestselling memoir Life Beyond Bullets , about humanity in diversity.
All royalties from this memoir are donated to Canadian NGOs. He continued to volunteer with humanitarian groups like the Ottawa Mission, Canadian University Service Overseas, among others. He received an Assistant Deputy Minister award for providing outstanding service as a public servant for the tumultuous year As a competitive judo athlete, Mahajan achieved successful results at the provincial and national levels, and also represented Canada internationally.
Despite exploring more than a dozen countries, Mahajan sees Canada as the home of actualization. An internationally acclaimed Indian classical vocalist, Ramneek Singh is a highly coveted musician who performs in Canada and all around the world. Rajan Mishra. The influence of many masters and decades of vocal training has given Singh the freedom to refine her own style and impart expressive feelings to technically sound renditions; her wide repertoire includes Khayal, Thumri, Bhajan, Gurbani Shabad and Sufiana.
Along with many albums to her credit, two of her recent CDs, Saanjh and Bandishein , were recorded at a state-of-the-art studio in Canada, and have been critically acclaimed for musical tonal quality, poetry and sound engineering. Her elaborate explanations of Raag and lyrics in English are integral to her successful shows, allowing her to connect with a wide range of audiences.
A guest lecturer at many universities including University of Victoria, University of Buffalo and MIT, her explanations of the art, science and emotion in her music bridge the gap between North American and Indian culture. Singh yearns to help others through the power of music.
During the pandemic, she performed more than 25 online concerts t o bring solace to her listeners all over the world. Her unique skill set, diverse background and expertise has allowed Shiyen Shu to impact the world in many different ways. As an executive coach, Shiyen Shu helps ambitious leaders and high achievers become more successful at work and in life quickly, and be able to sustain those positive changes.
Although she currently works with top leaders, she started her journey serving the most vulnerable and sick individuals in the health care industry in Toronto. She is the host and curator of the podcast Lessons in Leadership and Life that features candid conversations with top health care leaders, and has been praised for her ability to allow leaders to comfortably talk about the most sensitive issues.
She is certified project management professional PMP , and a certified yoga teacher. She blends her diverse training in executive coaching, occupational therapy, yoga, meditation and neuroscience to create a truly holistic and empowering approach for leaders and organizations.
She previously co-founded Beyond Intellect, an organization committed to holistic health and wellness. She is a lifelong learner and volunteers much of her time to mentor and coach new professional immigrants in Canada and professional students at the University of Toronto.
She is an adjunct lecturer at the University of Toronto and serves as director on the board of the Ontario Society of Occupational Therapists. Shu is a proud mother of two young girls who teach her the most important life lessons everyday. She was born and raised in the bustling city of Mumbai, India, where she was exposed early on to the diversity of life among people and the unlimited human potential to grow.
Entrepreneur City: Stratford, P. Country of Origin: China. In , Chang established the Flourish Development Group of which he is president. The group is engaged in real estate development projects, construction and property leasing. The Foxwoods Project is a commitment to the town to build a sustainable community that involves, in part, providing 30 per cent of the area as green space and building high-end energy-efficient single-family homes.
The completed development will see the construction of units. Phase 1, which is underway, involves the construction of 28 of the eventual units. To date, three different construction companies using different energy-efficiency techniques have completed 14 units, five are under construction and three more will start this year.
The completed units have been independently certified as being an average of 40 per cent more energy efficient than required by the Canada building code. Phase 1 is planned to be completed by the end of This project is an agreement with the Government of P.
Once completed, it will be P. Many energy-saving modifications have been done to these properties to provide quality service to its tenants. Gurdeep Pandher is a Yukon-based, Bhangra instructor. He creates performance pieces that bring together artists from all backgrounds while promoting inclusivity and diversity. Currently, he is best known for bringing happiness and positivity during the pandemic through his online dance classes and videos.
The dance performances and videos are watched by millions of viewers throughout the world. Although he is presently a dance instructor at Yukon University, Pandher has experience teaching Bhangra workshops at many venues in the Yukon, Canada and throughout the world.
Along with this, his sessions are a considerable workout and a fun way to introduce physical activity. For more information, please visit Gurdeep. Mauricio Ospina immigrated to Canada with nothing and elevated not only himself but also the profile of an entire community across the country — an achievement recognized by prime ministers, universities and media.
He came to Canada in with only a high school diploma and zero English. He cleaned floors the first four years in Canada — and seemed destined to continue doing so forever. Starting in , he founded four professional and business associations in Canada, all still operational. In , he created a national annual program 10 Most Influential Hispanic Canadians currently with winners from 16 countries and six provinces.
Ospina is an inductee in the Canadian Who is Who, the standard reference listing the top 10, Canadians. Like most Canadians, Oncel immigrated to Canada with big dreams hoping for a better future for herself and her family. She immigrated from Romania at a young age of 19 years old. As such, Oncel is a devoted mentor to women in various industries and always ready to answer any questions for women transitioning from education to the workforce.
At five years of age, the Tiop family immigrated to Canada as a result of the second Sudanese Civil war and concurrent political instability within Kenya. In University, Tiop undertook a number of projects.
At the ScantelburyLab, she contributes to pediatric epilepsy research. Leveraging her background in software development and strength in mathematics, Tiop was able to automate electroencephalogram analysis through the use of time and frequency analysis by way of the Fourier transform, digital filter design and Continuous Wavelet Transform.
At both the Chang-Chun Ling Lab and Paul-Arnold Lab, Tiop contributes to wet-lab research focusing on synthesis of inhibitors for tumor-associated glycosyltransferases and gene-environmental interactions in the development of psychiatric disorders respectively. Tiop is also involved in community research, specifically, the regional five-year initiative —spearheaded by the Calgary Centre for Newcomers — aiming to standardize the co-ordination of newcomer youth settlement services.
In addition to research, Tiop is actively involved in the broader technical community. With an international team of undergraduates, she successfully competed in Infosys Summer of Ideas program an international Hackathon under the theme of artificial intelligence. Her team was successful in using machine learning algorithms e.
The FHL supports new Canadian youth using sports as a tool to assist in integration, develop a sense of belonging and leadership development.
Simply put, Golden Mti attempts to address barriers to post-secondary education for BIPOC children by equipping youth with resources to succeed through professional tutors, workshops and mentorship. Leo Nupolu Johnson spent eight years in refugee camps in Ivory Coast and Ghana, having fled from civil war in his native Liberia. In , he was resettled in Canada as a government-assisted refugee. In , Nupolu Johnson founded Empowerment Squared, a charitable organization committed to building a world where everyone is empowered with the tools and opportunities to thrive and contribute to society through mentorship and access to education.
Under his leadership, the organization has assisted more than 10, newcomer youth and families with settling in Canada. The organization recently completed the groundbreaking ceremony for Liberian Learning Center which will house the only public library in the West African Nation of Liberia. He has received the J. In subsequent years, he was engaged in research and teaching at various universities, including the University of Leicester in England, the Universities of Toronto and Windsor in Canada, the University of Sindh in Pakistan and the University of Khartoum in Sudan.
In , he co-founded Calmar Orthopaedics, which offers custom-built prosthetic devices for amputees. He set up a private college in , accredited by the Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities, and produced more than 5, Network Engineers, Database Administrator and Software Engineers.
He has been active on the boards of several non-profit Canadian organizations that carry out a range of projects to help underprivileged communities. Among these is the International Development and Relief Foundation IDRF , a Canadian registered charitable organization that provides relief aid and development assistance worldwide. He has served as a member of the board of directors, was twice elected as the president, and is currently in the advisory council.
He has been associated with IDRF for the last 35 years. He continues to be active with this program as a member of the fundraising committee.
The object of the council is to promote trade between Canada and Pakistan. He has also been part of a Canadian trade delegation to Pakistan. Apart from his professional life, he writes fiction and has published two novels so far, while the next one is on its way. John Grand Priory. In the meantime, he continues to tour worldwide as soloist with different orchestras recently with Sinfonia Toronto across South America and in recitals and chamber music concerts. There are two major recording projects coming up in the near future: music of G.
Kancheli and M. He frequently gives master classes for underprivileged kids across North America and in the countries of former Soviet Union. Massa made history in , believed to be the first television news reporter in North America to wear a hijab on-air when she was hired as a video journalist for CTV News in Kitchener, Ontario. She made international headlines again after anchoring the evening newscast at CityNews Toronto in With more than a decade of experience in news, behind-the-scenes and on-air, Massa has worked for both local and national news outlets, in television and radio.
Raised in Toronto, Massa arrived in Canada from Panama with her mom and older sister when she was a year old. After winning a speech competition in the third grade, her mother suggested her outgoing daughter pursue a career on television.
Erie Maestro is passionate about early literacy and storytelling, and about community organizing and social justice work. She also introduced the Pilipino Baby Welcoming Program, which welcomed all babies to the library and organized Pilipino language storytimes inside and outside the library.
Maestro continues her advocacy for early literacy and storytelling in Pilipino even in her retirement. Maestro is a founding member and active volunteer of two grassroots organizations: Migrante BC, which protects and promotes the rights and welfare of Filipino migrants and immigrants and the Canada Philippines Solidarity for Human Rights A large part of her life in the Philippines was lived under the shadows of martial law as a student, human rights worker and organizer of the families of political prisoners where she saw firsthand the sacredness and fragility of human freedoms.
In , Maestro arrived in Nova Scotia with her young daughter and balanced her single mother roles and graduate student tasks. Her story is found in, And I will paint the sky: Women speak the story of their lives , a collection of autobiographies of Canadian women edited by Carole Trainer, and in Aboriginal and Visible Minority Librarians: Oral Histories from Canada , a collection of personal narratives edited by Lee and Kumaran. He appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada in a wide range of civil, constitutional, criminal and regulatory cases, before various provincial courts across Canada, the Federal Court, Federal Court of Appeal, and Tax Court of Canada, and before federal and provincial administrative tribunals.
Justice Jamal was born in Kenya, immigrated to England as a young child, and then immigrated to Canada at the age of He completed high school in Edmonton, Alberta. He received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Toronto, bachelor of laws and bachelor of civil law degrees from the Faculty of Law, McGill University, and a master of laws from Yale Law School, which he attended on a Fulbright Scholarship.
He served as a law clerk to Justice Melvin L. Gonthier of the Supreme Court of Canada. Artist, writer, curator City: Fort St. John, B. Country of Origin: Philippines. John, in the Peace Region of Northeast B. Her awareness of the unique challenges of immigrants allows her to personally assist newcomers in her city.
She also dreams that her art-concept for a Filipino-Canadian Friendship Monument will someday become a reality. Karla Briones arrived in Canada in a U-Haul truck with her family when she was 18, after a long five-day drive from her native country of Mexico. She and her family lived the struggles most immigrants experience: cultural, language, environmental and job security barriers. She is the founder of KB Consulting, a business consulting and strategy agency for BIPOC and underrepresented entrepreneurs where she and her team help clients launch, grow and scale businesses.
In , she launched the Immigrants Developing Entrepreneurs Academy IDEA , an online platform designed to educate and connect newcomers to the Canadian business ecosystem. Briones is also part of the team of independent business advisors at Invest Ottawa, the local economic development agency. She works with all types of entrepreneurs who are launching, building and scaling businesses.
She is a small business columnist for the Ottawa Citizen and serves on the board of directors for the Ottawa Markets and the Ottawa Board of Trade, as well as volunteering as a business mentor for Futurpreneur Canada, the Centre for Social Enterprise Development and other local entrepreneurship community groups.
Guest speaker, lecturer and generous with her advice, Briones is passionate about growing the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Canada and giving back to the country that welcomed her with open arms.
She is the lucky mom of two amazing, strong and inspiring humans: Carmen, 9, and Nayeli, 13, who also have their own business! She lovingly instills in them her Mexican roots and encourages them to use their Canadian wings to fly after their biggest dreams.
Her husband and business partner, Shawn, patiently supports, encourages and contributes to the success of it all. Working in multiple jobs helped him finance his education as an English—German translator.
This led him to work for government, law firms and real estate brokers. He made the move into land development in , securing a small bank loan to open the Nova Scotia-based company Canadian Pioneer Estates Ltd. It was his vision to bring people together from across the world in friendship and business, thereby building bridges between people.
For this purpose, he created Friends United, a philanthropic initiative to connect Indigenous art and culture with the world. He works closely with embassies around the world to promote Canada, its values, especially with a focus on Indigenous peoples.
Bouman built a corporate group of Canadian companies from the ground up, bringing prosperity to Canada and recognition for its Indigenous people. More information is available at friends-united. When Rene Blanco looked at the problem, he saw an opportunity to build a business by helping them to save time and money.
Previously, Blanco worked in Mexican agencies to provide infrastructure and services to rural communities. In , as an international EMBA student, he addressed a social problem within the underserved temporary foreign workers. They have to pay high fees and receive low exchange rates to remit their money back home.
Immigrating was integral to her personal journey of transformation after battling life-altering health issues, divorce and other challenges. She is known for her resilience, transparency, connectedness and relational strengths. Berry has a heart of service and is committed to changing and affecting lives through her work, business and community involvement. This Black immigrant woman is determined to shatter glass ceilings, bridge career gaps and aid other immigrants make their mark and experience positive transformation.
She currently leads the human resource department at Skills for Change and has more than a decade of strategic and operational experience in multiple human resource capacities across various industries. Her passion is most evident in the areas of talent management, learning and development, recruitment, coaching, DEI and employee engagement.
She also provides voluntary support to associations and groups in Jamaica to help prepare students and professionals for a career in Canada. Berry wears many hats heels including that of an entrepreneur. Ida Beltran-Lucila was an accomplished dance artist and arts administrator in the Philippines, bringing a breadth of arts experience and knowledge with her when her family moved to Edmonton, Alberta, in She has also delivered workshops on classical and modern ballet, and Philippine dance, in ballet schools, elementary and high schools, and with senior groups in the effort to promote dance as a recreational, therapeutic and educational tool.
Beltran-Lucila is a driving force in the promotion and development of Philippine art and culture, spearheading a multitude of collaborative projects like the Philippine Arts Festival, Edmonton Filipino Fiesta, Kalinangan and the Learning Table.
She is the director and writer of the documentary Paglalayag: the Philippines to Canada Journey , which chronicles the stories of migration of Filipinos in Edmonton. She is also a regular writer with the Alberta Filipino Journal and was a contributor to other publications in Alberta previously, focusing on arts and culture. Beltran-Lucila has provided a vision on how arts is a vital force in the development of a person and a community.
The majority of her community work is provided on a voluntary basis, as she holds a full-time job with Edmonton Public Schools where she has worked for 12 years now. Lanre Ajayi is a Nigerian-born visual and new media creator who uses his artistic skills to build forward thinking-communities and tell stories through lived experiences. His artistic projects are a means for educating and entertaining the many shared cultures of Canada.
He is responsible for creating platforms to share unique identities through art and cultural activities to promote equity and diversity. His creative leadership skills enable him to relate well with stakeholders at all levels and his enthusiastic spirit has led him to create community initiatives that have gained international recognition.
As the founder, artistic and creative director of Ethnik Festivals Association, he dedicates his talents to building connections and opportunities within many communities. These initiatives include working with traumatized immigrants from war-torn countries and using his arts and crafts skills as therapeutic means to heal wounds inflicted as a result of war, especially in children.
These stories have been shared internationally, and the film has been selected as a finalist entry in the Festival del Cinema Di Cefalu in Italy, as well as the SideReel Festival in the United States. His passion for building safer communities also led him to start a new initiative during the pandemic called Operation Temporarily Adopt A Mailbox Stand.
This resulted from an encounter with a mail delivery worker who was afraid to knock and deliver a parcel. Ajayi began by cleaning mailbox stands within his neighbourhood.
After recording and sharing this act, it started a ripple effect as people took up the challenge of cleaning mailboxes in their communities. His acts of service, as well as the resulting ripple effect, led to a provincial government recognition and award for acts of volunteerism during a challenging time. Sidhu differentiates herself in Parliament as someone who is focused on health care and advocating for women.
She is also the chair of the All-Party Caucus on Diabetes. She currently holds the position of vice-chair of the Status of Women Committee. Sidhu is proud to be on the Status of Women Committee, advocating for women in her riding and all across Canada. She introduced Motion in to make November of every year diabetes awareness month. Her goal was to raise national awareness of this disease and its complications. This was the first step in her fight to end diabetes and continues to be at the forefront of the LetsDefeatDiabetes campaign in Canada.
Sidhu has been an advocate for Canadians living with pre-diabetes or diabetes since becoming MP. Sidhu was born in India and immigrated to Canada in She lives in her riding of Brampton South with her husband Gurjit, twin daughters, Arshia and Amrit, and her son, Akash. Tulia Castellanos became the executive director at Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House in early , after having worked in the non-profit sector for 30 years.
She came to Canada in the early s hoping to find a safe place to rebuild her life. She restarted her career in Canada as a recipient of a federal training initiative aimed to retrain social workers with diverse cultural backgrounds to support the increasing number of refugees coming to Canada.
She has worked in multiple areas in social services but most of her work has been focused on the management, development and implementation of a broad range of community-based programs aimed to increase individual and community capacity.
Castellanos worked at Family Services of Greater Vancouver for 24 years in multiple capacities. Her last role was director of strategic community engagement, which allowed her to participate in more than 15 collaborative cross-sectorial tables all aimed to improve social conditions in their communities.
Then she moved to the Terry Fox Foundation as their national director of operations. Castellanos is passionate about newcomer families and their struggles in starting a new life. Throughout her time in Canada, she has always been involved in supporting new Canadians in multiple ways with many organizations.
She has served on several boards, including Inland Refugee, AIDS Vancouver and Vantage Point, a member-based provincial organization dedicated to strengthening capacity in the non-profit sector. Subrata Kumar Das, a celebrated author and erudite scholar, well-known organizer and spirited initiator, made history in Bangladesh in the past, is making history at present in Canada.
He has earned respect for his strong voice against discrimination and injustice. Das has not only written some outstanding books, but also encouraged many Bengalis to write books themselves. Since his arrival in Canada in , he has organized and joined a huge number of cultural, literary, social and religious activities.
Since , Das has been anchoring for a community television named NRB. During the COVID lockdown year, Das has encouraged and entertained the whole Bengali community across Canada to keep up their spirit through virtual shows. Now he is a household name among the Bengali diaspora.
Two years after his arrival in Canada, Das started reading the large quantum of Canadian literature, churning the sea of it, and grasped the essence of Canadianness that enabled him to write a superb book on CanLit, the first Bengali-language one on the genre.
Toronto International Festival of Authors have, for the first time, included Bengali language and literature in their list in and selected Das to represent Bengali literature in that international forum. Das not only participated himself, but also included 10 more Bengali writers to take part in that gala ceremony.
Salima Neek Gilani was born and raised in Thailand and immigrated to Canada in After graduating from the University of Waterloo, she embarked on a career in Canadian banking. When she realized that the ethnic food market is underserved, she set on a mission to make the authentic taste of her home country Thailand more readily available to Canadians.
Gilani launched her small business, Palette Foods in Gilani is committed to contributing to causes she resonates with in Canada. She has also served on the board of directors for Peel Seniors Link whose mission is to advance care excellence in the community by helping seniors age at home with dignity.
Gilani mentors numerous colleagues and students keen to learn from her success. Country of Origin: Colombia. Murillo immigrated to Canada in with a dream in mind: to merge her entrepreneurial background, her MBA training, and her passion to help her community. She has been working with the Latin American world in Canada, understanding its needs and bringing the community together with a beautiful project called Latincouver, a non-profit organization that has organized more than events in culture and business.
She also created Mirrai, a boutique agency that provides a full spectrum of marketing, consulting and communications services. In Latincouver, her achievements include organizing the recognized cultural festival, Carnaval del Sol, which attracts more than 80, people; the Inspirational Latin Awards, a celebration for recognizing influential Latinos in BC; and ExpoPlaza Latina seminars that address business relationships between Canada and Latin America.
Latincouver supports entrepreneurs through the Latin-Canadian Business Network. During the pandemic, Murillo innovated and changed her way of working to hold 65 events for the Carnaval del Sol. Organizers formed a partnership with more than a dozen local restaurants and artists to support them during these challenging times.
MyLatinStore is a place where entrepreneurs can feel inspired and motivated. Muhtadi Thomas immigrated to Canada from Trinidad and Tobago in He has performed extensively, both nationally and internationally.
But the journey to that moment began, in large part, during a conversation with his coach Dan Pfaff. Before he started training with Pfaff, Bailey had started a career in marketing and real estate, bought a house and a car — and was feeling burnt out.
I love being outside. I love the sunshine. Like it kind of freed me," he said. Besides, he added, he had been a leading sprinter in his youth, and he was seeing sprinters he used to beat back then make their way in the sport. So in March he shifted his focus from business to make running his full-time job.
And a little over two years later he was named the Fastest Man in the World. Bailey still hears from fans who named children or pets after him, or who left wedding ceremonies and funerals to watch the race on July 27, Though Bailey has seen the tape "a million times," every time he watches he breaks down how he could have perfected his performance. And had I done what I should have done, how much faster I would have ran. Send your memory of watching Donovan Bailey win the gold medal for the metre sprint to sunday cbc.
Revisiting the question he asked before his gold medal-winning performance — Will Canadians love a Black athlete? I was doing sports because I had a God-given gift. But I also want to use my platform for something good," he said. In the process, Bailey set a Canadian record, 0. Bailey bettered his Canadian record time when he ran 9. Bailey was the first Canadian to win gold at a World Championships.
Ben Johnson of Markham , Ontario, was stripped of his gold medal at the World Championships for taking steroids. Bailey won his opening heat of the Olympic Games on 26 July but finished second to Christie in his quarter-final heat and second to Fredericks in his semifinal heat.
Surin, meanwhile, finished a surprising fifth in his semifinal heat and failed to make the final. With the competition down to seven sprinters, Bailey once again got off to a slower start, but by the middle of the race, he had the most energy and momentum.
He caught the halfway leaders, Boldon and Mitchell, and beat Fredericks by five one-hundredths of a second to win Olympic gold. The Canadian team got off to a great start, and by the time Surin handed the baton over to Bailey, he lifted his hands in the air, knowing that Canada would win. Bailey posted a winning time of At the World Championships on 3 August , Bailey won the silver medal with a time of 9.
From to , Bailey continued to race but was plagued by injuries. In August , he finished second 9. However, in September , he tore his Achilles tendon, which forced him out of action for nine months.
In , he founded the Donovan Bailey Foundation in support of amateur athletes. See also In Conversation with Donovan Bailey. Search The Canadian Encyclopedia.
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