Articles by Carolyn Heller

“It took me a while to feel Canadian,” writes Gael Melville in a recent Globe & Mail essay, describing her experience as an expat who relocated to Toronto from her native Scotland.
She …

Today — Monday, October 12, 2009 — is the Thanksgiving holiday in Canada.
Canadians celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday roughly six weeks earlier than Americans do. And U.S. expats always ask, “Why?â€
Here’s an excerpt from …

If you live outside of Canada and you’ve heard of Kitchener-Waterloo, it might be because of Research in Motion.
No offense to Kitchener-Waterloo, but this Ontario region’s most famous product is much better known than …

The New York Times recently featured a house for sale near the village of Knowlton in the Quebec region known as the Eastern Townships.
According to the Times article, “The housing stock in the Eastern …

The University of Regina in Saskatchewan is offering prospective students a unique guarantee:
If you don’t find a “career-oriented job” within six months of graduation, the school will give you a scholarship to cover another …