Winning advice for 2024: A conversation with Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Award recipients
First Generation

Winning advice for 2024: A conversation with Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Award recipients

B2Upper-intermediateFebruary 8, 202437 min

It’s that time of the year again! As we enter 2024, we have opened the call for nominations for the 16th annual Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards. As we embark on our journey, we’ve invited three of our top 25 award winners from 2023, Hénoc Muamba, Sobhana Jaya-Madhavan and Winston Sayson, with different backgrounds and experiences, to share their inspirational journeys and most importantly their winning advice for 2024! Their valuable tips and advice is sure to resonate with newcomers and immigrants alike.

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How can we help you? To succeed in our integration into Canada, we really need to embrace the multitude of opportunities that Canada offers us by cultivating an open mind and heart, and have a genuine curiosity and fascination about our new country. There is a lot of beautiful things to be discovered. Welcome to First Generation, a podcast series from Canadian Immigrant providing information and resources for newcomers and immigrants starting to build their lives in Canada.

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I'm your host, Ramya Ramnathan, editor of Canadian Immigrant Magazine. It is that time of the year again. With the support of presenting sponsor, Western Union, we are proud to have opened the call for nominations

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for the 2024 annual Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards. This first and only National Awards program celebrating immigrant success in Canada turns 16 this year. This year's program is also supported

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