The paperwork is the easy part. The quieter challenges are loneliness, starting over professionally, and becoming a slightly different person in a new language.
Newcomers arrive with a credit history of zero, which banks treat like a suspicious silence. How credit scores work, and how to build one from scratch.
A double-double, a Timbit and a national institution. A loving, slightly confused guide to Canada's favourite coffee chain for people who drink tea with condensed milk.
Sorry, eh. A newcomer's observations on Canadian apologies, line-ups, thanking bus drivers and the art of saying no without ever saying no.
A person raised in tropical Bangladesh meets freezing rain, snow banks taller than cars and locals who say "it's not too bad today" in a blizzard.
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