My Friend Nick Noorani, www.nicknoorani.com, announced he has left the Toronto Star’s Canadian Immigrant Magazine.

He’s the first to tell you it was time to go and it was good for both sides.

Nick was the Founder and Publisher of The Canadian Immigrant Magazine and author of the best seller Arrival Survival Canada. He’s been a sought after speaker, writer and media personality from CTV’s Canada AM to the CBC’s The National. He won the 2006 Entrepreneur of the Year Award for his ‘new’ venture The Canadian Immigrant Magazine which he started in a tiny office on Commercial Drive in Vancouver’s east side. Going national was a logical and needed direction. Read the rest of this entry

(I can’t remember the source for this, I didn’t write it!)

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking Read the rest of this entry