About The Newcomers
The Canadian immigrant experience is a layered one. It involves paperwork and grief, ambition and loneliness, reinvention and loss, sometimes all in the same week. The dominant stories about immigrants tend to flatten all of this into two categories; the struggling victim or the inspiring success story. I don’t think either version is honest or useful.
At The Newcomers, we try harder. We publish original analysis on Canadian immigration policy. We tell the stories of immigrants building lives, businesses, and communities across the country. We produce practical guides on money, careers, and the hundred small decisions that shape your first years here. We host conversations with the people changing what immigration actually looks like on the ground.
Some of what we cover has clear answers. How to file your taxes as a newcomer. What the latest Express Entry draw means for your PR application. How to read a Canadian pay stub. We make sense of those so you don't have to figure them out alone.
Other things don't have clear answers at all. What it means to raise children between two cultures. How to carry an identity shaped in one country while building a life in another. Whether belonging is something you earn or something you decide.
We try to make sense of those too, knowing we won't always get there. The trying is the point. We are building the most trusted source for understanding the Canadian immigrant experience. If you’re a newcomer or an immigrant, we’re here to help you go from settling to integrating into Canada. If you’re a Canadian, we’re here to show you the country through the eyes of the people choosing it everyday.
Come make sense of it with us.
Dozie Anyaegbunam,
Managing Editor, The Newcomers
The Newcomers
Where we try to make sense of the Canadian immigrant experience.
Who we serve
Three kinds of readers find their way here. Most of us are a bit of all three, or lean one way or another depending on what year of this we're in.
Settlers are in their first two years. The SIN, the phone number, the bank account, the apartment near a decent school.
Everything is a form they've never filled out before, often handled while dragging tired kids onto a bus because the car and the domestic help got left behind in the move.
They want the answer that gets them through this week, and they want it from someone who's already been through it.
Builders are three to ten years in. The paperwork is behind them, and the harder questions have moved in.
They landed the job, but the Canadian experience everyone promised would unlock the career hasn't quite done it.
They're raising kids who sound more Canadian than they do. They came here to start over, and now they have to decide what that means.
Elders have been here long enough that others come to them for answers. They mentor, sit on boards, and get asked to speak for whole communities.
They've watched the policy change again and again over the past decade and they remember what the system used to be.
They listen to the podcast and read our op-eds because we still talk to the person who landed last Tuesday, and they don't want to lose touch with that.
If you see yourself in one of these, you’re in the right place.
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