Refuge Canada

More are joking about moving to Canada post election. But here’s a post by someone who’s 2-years in, an LGBT emigrant escaping more than Trump…Syria. We might have more of these stories coming out of the states were it not for the reactionary votes last year against taking refugees from the war torn country. Danny Ramadan writes about what it’s like in Vancouver. -ed

On Sept 9, 2016, I marked my two-year anniversary in Canada or, as I like to call it, my Canaversary. Last year at this time I was still taking my first steps to establish myself here, trying to understand my place in this great nation I immigrated to without prior knowledge of its culture or customs.…

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