Video Testimonials
SCENERY: White background with coloured banner and North Bay & District Multicultural Centre flower logo.
Text: Welcome to the City of North Bay
Audio: Music playing
Text: Deborah Robertson, Program Coordinator, North Bay & District Multicultural Centre.
Text: England
Scenery: Deborah Robertson being interviewed.
Deborah: Here it’s a group of people you know you have something in common with. Even it’s just the fact that you’ve emigrated to another country and that’s a pretty…that can be…it doesn’t matter where you’re from, there are similar issues involved in that move. So you have something basic in common.
Text: City is conveniently located 345 km from Toronto and 357 km from Ottawa
Scenery: Dr. Mukund Jha being interviewed.
Text: Dr. Mukund Jha, Assistant Professor, Nipissing University.
Text: India
Mukund: Initially, my wife got in touch with the Multicultural Centre and they helped her to find a job and so that was our first interaction with the Multicultural Centre.
Text: Average price of a home is $224,000
Scenery: Vicky Samuel being interviewed.
Text: Vicky Samuel. Nursing Graduate, Nipissing
Text: Rwanda
Vicky: You’re able to connect with other people. It doesn’t feel like it’s you’re just thrown into the ocean. There are services that you can use in North Bay and familiarize yourself with the culture.
Text: Population is 53,651
Scenery: Hernan Lagos being interviewed.
Text: Hernan Lagos, Sales Marketing and Leasing Professional
Text: Chile
Hernan: I came every day. I met people here. I participate in you know, the cooking club and do those stuff.
Scenery: Vicky being interviewed.
Vicky: They have a great cooking club that I love!
Scenery: Group of people in the kitchen standing around a counter with food and coffee cups.
Scenery: Natalya rolling out dough with a cooking club participant watching.
Scenery: Vicky being interviewed.
Vicky: So they schedule different people from different countries to make different foods.
Scenery: Dr. Natalya Brown being interviewed.
Text: Dr. Natalya Brown. Assistant Professor, Nipissing University
Text: Jamaica
Natalya: There's more for families here, lots to do, and good schools.
Text: 92% of residents feel safe in their neighbourhood
Scenery: Anuka Meegama being interviewed.
Text: Anuka Meegama, Business Administration Student, Nipissing University
Text: Dubai
Anuka: Ya I highly appreciate that at Nipissing University they always get you that one on one contact. They make sure that you get the one on one contact.
Scenery: Naveen Ahuja being interviewed.
Text: Naveen Ahuja, Chartered Bank Branch Manager
Text: India
Naveen: You’re so close to the nature. You’re close the family. Anywhere you work in North Bay or North Bay and Area you’re not too far away from coming back home.
Text: Average commute from home to work is 10 minutes
Scenery: Natalya being interviewed.
Natalya: You know, cafés;
Scenery: 2 people sitting & smiling in a café with coffee.
Natalya: Walking the trails behind the university;
Scenery: Group of students walking single file down a trail in the woods.
Natalya: I like to go to concerts at the Capitol Centre.
Scenery: Audience watching the orchestra perform at the Capital Centre.
Scenery: Mukund being interviewed.
Mukund: We have 2 big lakes here.
Scenery: Sailboats on Lake Nipissing.
Text: Average Summer Temperature is 23°C
Mukund: We have a ski hill right in the middle of the city.
Scenery: 4 skiers on the ski lift at Laurentian Ski Hill.
Text: Average Winter Temperature is -9°C
Mukund: We have a waterfall.
Scenery: Waterfall and bridge at Duchesnay Falls.
Naveen: This is beautiful and I saw the blue waters of Lake Nipissing and I’m thinking: “Oh my God! That’s gorgeous!”
Scenery: Family eating lunch at a picnic table at the waterfront.
Scenery: Woman kayaking on the lake.
Scenery: Mukund being interviewed.
Mukund: It’s beautiful.
Scenery: Anuka being interviewed
Anuka: Opportunities
Scenery: David Cheng being interviewed
David: Supportive.
Scenery: Prabhu Srinivasa being interviewed
Prabhu: Stressfree.
Scenery: Hernan being interviewed
Hernan: The diversity.
Scenery: Hazel Dones being interviewed
Hazel: I feel like I’m home.
Scenery: Naveen being interviewed
Naveen: Awesome, awesome, awesome! How ‘bout that!
Audio: Naveen’s laughter & music
SCENERY: North Bay & District Multicultural Centre logo on white screen with coloured band, and the website www.northbayimmigration.ca underneath and the City of North Bay logo in the bottom right hand corner.
Text: Welcome to the City of North Bay
Audio: Music playing
Text: Deborah Robertson, Program Coordinator, North Bay & District Multicultural Centre.
Text: England
Scenery: Deborah Robertson being interviewed.
Deborah: Here it’s a group of people you know you have something in common with. Even it’s just the fact that you’ve emigrated to another country and that’s a pretty…that can be…it doesn’t matter where you’re from, there are similar issues involved in that move. So you have something basic in common.
Text: City is conveniently located 345 km from Toronto and 357 km from Ottawa
Scenery: Dr. Mukund Jha being interviewed.
Text: Dr. Mukund Jha, Assistant Professor, Nipissing University.
Text: India
Mukund: Initially, my wife got in touch with the Multicultural Centre and they helped her to find a job and so that was our first interaction with the Multicultural Centre.
Text: Average price of a home is $224,000
Scenery: Vicky Samuel being interviewed.
Text: Vicky Samuel. Nursing Graduate, Nipissing
Text: Rwanda
Vicky: You’re able to connect with other people. It doesn’t feel like it’s you’re just thrown into the ocean. There are services that you can use in North Bay and familiarize yourself with the culture.
Text: Population is 53,651
Scenery: Hernan Lagos being interviewed.
Text: Hernan Lagos, Sales Marketing and Leasing Professional
Text: Chile
Hernan: I came every day. I met people here. I participate in you know, the cooking club and do those stuff.
Scenery: Vicky being interviewed.
Vicky: They have a great cooking club that I love!
Scenery: Group of people in the kitchen standing around a counter with food and coffee cups.
Scenery: Natalya rolling out dough with a cooking club participant watching.
Scenery: Vicky being interviewed.
Vicky: So they schedule different people from different countries to make different foods.
Scenery: Dr. Natalya Brown being interviewed.
Text: Dr. Natalya Brown. Assistant Professor, Nipissing University
Text: Jamaica
Natalya: There's more for families here, lots to do, and good schools.
Text: 92% of residents feel safe in their neighbourhood
Scenery: Anuka Meegama being interviewed.
Text: Anuka Meegama, Business Administration Student, Nipissing University
Text: Dubai
Anuka: Ya I highly appreciate that at Nipissing University they always get you that one on one contact. They make sure that you get the one on one contact.
Scenery: Naveen Ahuja being interviewed.
Text: Naveen Ahuja, Chartered Bank Branch Manager
Text: India
Naveen: You’re so close to the nature. You’re close the family. Anywhere you work in North Bay or North Bay and Area you’re not too far away from coming back home.
Text: Average commute from home to work is 10 minutes
Scenery: Natalya being interviewed.
Natalya: You know, cafés;
Scenery: 2 people sitting & smiling in a café with coffee.
Natalya: Walking the trails behind the university;
Scenery: Group of students walking single file down a trail in the woods.
Natalya: I like to go to concerts at the Capitol Centre.
Scenery: Audience watching the orchestra perform at the Capital Centre.
Scenery: Mukund being interviewed.
Mukund: We have 2 big lakes here.
Scenery: Sailboats on Lake Nipissing.
Text: Average Summer Temperature is 23°C
Mukund: We have a ski hill right in the middle of the city.
Scenery: 4 skiers on the ski lift at Laurentian Ski Hill.
Text: Average Winter Temperature is -9°C
Mukund: We have a waterfall.
Scenery: Waterfall and bridge at Duchesnay Falls.
Naveen: This is beautiful and I saw the blue waters of Lake Nipissing and I’m thinking: “Oh my God! That’s gorgeous!”
Scenery: Family eating lunch at a picnic table at the waterfront.
Scenery: Woman kayaking on the lake.
Scenery: Mukund being interviewed.
Mukund: It’s beautiful.
Scenery: Anuka being interviewed
Anuka: Opportunities
Scenery: David Cheng being interviewed
David: Supportive.
Scenery: Prabhu Srinivasa being interviewed
Prabhu: Stressfree.
Scenery: Hernan being interviewed
Hernan: The diversity.
Scenery: Hazel Dones being interviewed
Hazel: I feel like I’m home.
Scenery: Naveen being interviewed
Naveen: Awesome, awesome, awesome! How ‘bout that!
Audio: Naveen’s laughter & music
SCENERY: North Bay & District Multicultural Centre logo on white screen with coloured band, and the website www.northbayimmigration.ca underneath and the City of North Bay logo in the bottom right hand corner.
Audio: Music playing
Text: Hernan Lagos, Sales Marketing and Leasing Professional
Text: Chile
Scenery: Hernan being interviewed
Hernan: Santiago, Chile, South America. [Chuckles] The largest country in South America. Beautiful country between mountains and ocean.
Text: Naveen Ahuja, Chartered Bank Branch manager
Text: India
Scenery: Naveen being interviewed
Naveen: What I do as the chair of the Employers’ Council is that well we organize our regular meetings.
Text: The Employers’ Council creates and implements innovative strategies to attract, retain and integrate newcomers into the North Bay workforce
Naveen: And during our regular meetings we talk about employment status in North Bay right. What kind of jobs, what kind of skills and trying to be…basically were trying to match the right skills to the right job.
Scenery: Hernan being interviewed
Hernan: I think the city is hoping to offer more opportunities for like immigrants right so, you can see that more often now in North Bay.
Scenery: Naveen being interviewed
Naveen: Well North Bay is a kind of … it’s an interesting city. We have some really big employers like the Provincial Government and the Federal Government, as well as we have the University and we have like big corporations like big financial institutions, but then we have smaller employers as well.
Scenery: Hernan being interviewed in an office
Hernan: It’s a small town but with a lot of opportunities to work. You know like especially if you are thinking about working in big companies like international companies, there’s a lot of mining companies here, so I think that the city is growing really fast. There is more business here.
Scenery: Naveen being interviewed in an office
Naveen: Like again the perception as an immigrant is that you would be able to find a great job in the bigger cities, and not in towns like North Bay or Northern Ontario communities, but that’s totally a myth or it’s totally false. Because I was working at a local store, as I said a burger shack and somebody drove through my drive through window and offered me the job. “Do you want to work for the bank?”… I said: “working for a bank, really?” And because he realized that my customer service skills or how I remembered his order and the person drove by again a couple of months later I remembered his order for some reason and next time I remembered his name as well. So couple of times he pursued and six months later he said: “Ok, well here’s my card. You need to come and see me.” And the rest is history.
SCENERY: North Bay & District Multicultural Centre logo on white screen with coloured band, and the website www.northbayimmigration.ca underneath and the City of North Bay logo in the bottom right hand corner.
Audio: music ends
Text: Hernan Lagos, Sales Marketing and Leasing Professional
Text: Chile
Scenery: Hernan being interviewed
Hernan: Santiago, Chile, South America. [Chuckles] The largest country in South America. Beautiful country between mountains and ocean.
Text: Naveen Ahuja, Chartered Bank Branch manager
Text: India
Scenery: Naveen being interviewed
Naveen: What I do as the chair of the Employers’ Council is that well we organize our regular meetings.
Text: The Employers’ Council creates and implements innovative strategies to attract, retain and integrate newcomers into the North Bay workforce
Naveen: And during our regular meetings we talk about employment status in North Bay right. What kind of jobs, what kind of skills and trying to be…basically were trying to match the right skills to the right job.
Scenery: Hernan being interviewed
Hernan: I think the city is hoping to offer more opportunities for like immigrants right so, you can see that more often now in North Bay.
Scenery: Naveen being interviewed
Naveen: Well North Bay is a kind of … it’s an interesting city. We have some really big employers like the Provincial Government and the Federal Government, as well as we have the University and we have like big corporations like big financial institutions, but then we have smaller employers as well.
Scenery: Hernan being interviewed in an office
Hernan: It’s a small town but with a lot of opportunities to work. You know like especially if you are thinking about working in big companies like international companies, there’s a lot of mining companies here, so I think that the city is growing really fast. There is more business here.
Scenery: Naveen being interviewed in an office
Naveen: Like again the perception as an immigrant is that you would be able to find a great job in the bigger cities, and not in towns like North Bay or Northern Ontario communities, but that’s totally a myth or it’s totally false. Because I was working at a local store, as I said a burger shack and somebody drove through my drive through window and offered me the job. “Do you want to work for the bank?”… I said: “working for a bank, really?” And because he realized that my customer service skills or how I remembered his order and the person drove by again a couple of months later I remembered his order for some reason and next time I remembered his name as well. So couple of times he pursued and six months later he said: “Ok, well here’s my card. You need to come and see me.” And the rest is history.
SCENERY: North Bay & District Multicultural Centre logo on white screen with coloured band, and the website www.northbayimmigration.ca underneath and the City of North Bay logo in the bottom right hand corner.
Audio: music ends
SCENERY: White background with coloured banner and North Bay & District Multicultural Centre flower logo.
Text: Support and Settlement Services
Audio: Music begins playing
Text: Deborah Robertson, Program Coordinator, North Bay and District Multicultural Centre.
Text: England
Scenery: Deborah Robertson being interviewed.
Deborah: When I first came to the Multicultural Centre it was as a client and I was helped by a member of staff here, and had no idea that settlement centres existed. So, then I signed up as a volunteer when I wasn’t working and just got to know the work that we did. And when the job became available I was just really fortunate to be in the right place at the right time.
Text: Volunteer Opportunities
Text: Job Search Assistance
Scenery: David Cheng being interviewed
Text: David Cheng, Accountant, Pursuing CGA designation
Text: China
David: One year later when I moved to North Bay I build a new family with my current wife. But my wife still lived in China at that time. So when I need to fill out a lot of forms to get a visa for her. One day I went to the Multicultural Centre and ask for help. Taslima, a staff of the Multicultural Centre checked all of those forms for me and gave me wonderful suggestions. So with her help it took about just three months I got visa for my wife.
Scenery: North Bay and District Multicultural Centre in downtown North Bay
Text: One-on-One support
Scenery: Deborah being interviewed.
Deborah: They really helped me to kind of find different services, referrals to different places that I needed to be. When I became a Permanent Resident they helped me to get my OHIP card and my SIN number.
Text: Community Referrals
Text: Settlement Assistance
Scenery: David Cheng being interviewed.
David: They provide a program which is called Workplace Communication in Canada, to help people to improve their English skills, to develop their writing skills and to teach students like me how to handle tough situations and how to build and mentor good working relationships with other coworkers. So that is a wonderful program. I strongly recommend newcomers to participate in this program.
Text: Canadian Workplace Workshops
Text: English Language Tutoring
Text: Canadian Citizenship Preparation
Text: Matching Volunteers with Newcomers
Text: Translation Services
Scenery: Deborah being interviewed.
Deborah: I couldn’t say enough good things about the staff that we have here at the Multicultural Centre. They truly care about the clients that come through the door and they go above and beyond on a daily basis to really, to really help people.
Text: Interpretation Services
Text: Anti-Racism Lending Library
SCENERY: North Bay & District Multicultural Centre logo on white screen with coloured band, and the website www.northbayimmigration.ca underneath and the City of North Bay logo in the bottom right hand corner.
Audio: Music finishes playing
Text: Support and Settlement Services
Audio: Music begins playing
Text: Deborah Robertson, Program Coordinator, North Bay and District Multicultural Centre.
Text: England
Scenery: Deborah Robertson being interviewed.
Deborah: When I first came to the Multicultural Centre it was as a client and I was helped by a member of staff here, and had no idea that settlement centres existed. So, then I signed up as a volunteer when I wasn’t working and just got to know the work that we did. And when the job became available I was just really fortunate to be in the right place at the right time.
Text: Volunteer Opportunities
Text: Job Search Assistance
Scenery: David Cheng being interviewed
Text: David Cheng, Accountant, Pursuing CGA designation
Text: China
David: One year later when I moved to North Bay I build a new family with my current wife. But my wife still lived in China at that time. So when I need to fill out a lot of forms to get a visa for her. One day I went to the Multicultural Centre and ask for help. Taslima, a staff of the Multicultural Centre checked all of those forms for me and gave me wonderful suggestions. So with her help it took about just three months I got visa for my wife.
Scenery: North Bay and District Multicultural Centre in downtown North Bay
Text: One-on-One support
Scenery: Deborah being interviewed.
Deborah: They really helped me to kind of find different services, referrals to different places that I needed to be. When I became a Permanent Resident they helped me to get my OHIP card and my SIN number.
Text: Community Referrals
Text: Settlement Assistance
Scenery: David Cheng being interviewed.
David: They provide a program which is called Workplace Communication in Canada, to help people to improve their English skills, to develop their writing skills and to teach students like me how to handle tough situations and how to build and mentor good working relationships with other coworkers. So that is a wonderful program. I strongly recommend newcomers to participate in this program.
Text: Canadian Workplace Workshops
Text: English Language Tutoring
Text: Canadian Citizenship Preparation
Text: Matching Volunteers with Newcomers
Text: Translation Services
Scenery: Deborah being interviewed.
Deborah: I couldn’t say enough good things about the staff that we have here at the Multicultural Centre. They truly care about the clients that come through the door and they go above and beyond on a daily basis to really, to really help people.
Text: Interpretation Services
Text: Anti-Racism Lending Library
SCENERY: North Bay & District Multicultural Centre logo on white screen with coloured band, and the website www.northbayimmigration.ca underneath and the City of North Bay logo in the bottom right hand corner.
Audio: Music finishes playing
SCENERY: White background with coloured banner and North Bay & District Multicultural Centre flower logo.
TEXT: We Are Here to Help
AUDIO: Music playing
SCENERY: Prabhu Srinivasa being interviewed
TEXT: Prabhu Srinivasa, Maintenance Engineer
TEXT: India
Srinivasa: I was born in India, in Mysore, it’s a small town, now it’s not a small town, it’s a bigger town now.
SCENERY: Anuka Meegama being interviewed
TEXT: Anuka Meegama, Business Administration Student, Nipissing University
TEXT: Dubai
Anuka: So I applied to three countries, and decided to come to Canada because it’s a fairly new country compared to the other two and there are a lot of opportunities and the resources.
SCENERY: Naveen Ahuja being interviewed
TEXT: Naveen Ahuja, Chartered Bank Branch Manager
TEXT: India
Naveen: I still remember that when I came here I had like people from different groups like the church, church groups or naturalist clubs and different, people from any, everywhere!
SCENERY: Prabhu Srinivasa being interviewed.
Prabhu: And my daughter is using the Early Years Centre.
SCENERY: A picture of a group of mothers and young children playing.
Prabhu: We came to hear about that through the Multicultural Centre.
SCENERY: A photograph of the outside of the North Bay & District Multicultural Centre.
Anuka: There are a lot of events going on, and then there are a lot of activities and I met a lot of people from outside who had common interests like me and I got to network with them. I got so much opportunities to expand my business as well as my personal relationships with them.
SCENERY: Picture of Anuka smiling and holding a small child.
SCENERY: Picture of a group of women serving, eating and enjoying food.
SCENERY: Picture of a group of people walking in a wooded area.
SCENERY: Picture of an outside stage and people sitting on the grass, watching an event on Canada Day.
SCENERY: Prabhu Srinivasa being interviewed.
TEXT: The North Bay Multicultural Cricket Club hosted the first Northern Annual Cricket Tournament in the summer of 2013.
Prabhu: Cricket, one of the things which I’ve been more associated with and the Multicultural Centre has been a strong promoter of that sport in many ways.
SCENERY: Picture of a cricket match.
SCENERY: Picture of a cricket team with City of North Bay Mayor Al McDonald.
SCENERY: Prabhu Srinivasa being interviewed.
Prabhu: Even for example going on recreational and outdoor activities such as camping during the summer time, the fall time, and strawberry picking farms and Matthews Maple Syrup. SCENERY: Picture of a group of people on a wagon waiting to go strawberry picking at Leisure Farms.
SCENERY: Picture of a group of people sitting around baskets of strawberries.
SCENERY: Picture of a group of people sitting on a wagon holding pumpkins, surrounded by pumpkin fields at Leisure Farms.
SCENERY: Prabhu Srinivasa being interviewed.
Prabhu: All these were new for me when I moved here to North Bay so I got an opportunity to go to all these places, know more about Canadian culture.
SCENERY: Naveen being interviewed.
Naveen: The folks from the naturalist club, they took me around, Cache Bay, Sturgeon Falls, bird watching, all the fun activities that you can imagine. So I love being outdoors.
SCENERY: North Bay & District Multicultural Centre logo on white screen with coloured band, and the website www.northbayimmigration.ca underneath and the City of North Bay logo in the bottom right hand corner.
AUDIO: Music playing
TEXT: We Are Here to Help
AUDIO: Music playing
SCENERY: Prabhu Srinivasa being interviewed
TEXT: Prabhu Srinivasa, Maintenance Engineer
TEXT: India
Srinivasa: I was born in India, in Mysore, it’s a small town, now it’s not a small town, it’s a bigger town now.
SCENERY: Anuka Meegama being interviewed
TEXT: Anuka Meegama, Business Administration Student, Nipissing University
TEXT: Dubai
Anuka: So I applied to three countries, and decided to come to Canada because it’s a fairly new country compared to the other two and there are a lot of opportunities and the resources.
SCENERY: Naveen Ahuja being interviewed
TEXT: Naveen Ahuja, Chartered Bank Branch Manager
TEXT: India
Naveen: I still remember that when I came here I had like people from different groups like the church, church groups or naturalist clubs and different, people from any, everywhere!
SCENERY: Prabhu Srinivasa being interviewed.
Prabhu: And my daughter is using the Early Years Centre.
SCENERY: A picture of a group of mothers and young children playing.
Prabhu: We came to hear about that through the Multicultural Centre.
SCENERY: A photograph of the outside of the North Bay & District Multicultural Centre.
Anuka: There are a lot of events going on, and then there are a lot of activities and I met a lot of people from outside who had common interests like me and I got to network with them. I got so much opportunities to expand my business as well as my personal relationships with them.
SCENERY: Picture of Anuka smiling and holding a small child.
SCENERY: Picture of a group of women serving, eating and enjoying food.
SCENERY: Picture of a group of people walking in a wooded area.
SCENERY: Picture of an outside stage and people sitting on the grass, watching an event on Canada Day.
SCENERY: Prabhu Srinivasa being interviewed.
TEXT: The North Bay Multicultural Cricket Club hosted the first Northern Annual Cricket Tournament in the summer of 2013.
Prabhu: Cricket, one of the things which I’ve been more associated with and the Multicultural Centre has been a strong promoter of that sport in many ways.
SCENERY: Picture of a cricket match.
SCENERY: Picture of a cricket team with City of North Bay Mayor Al McDonald.
SCENERY: Prabhu Srinivasa being interviewed.
Prabhu: Even for example going on recreational and outdoor activities such as camping during the summer time, the fall time, and strawberry picking farms and Matthews Maple Syrup. SCENERY: Picture of a group of people on a wagon waiting to go strawberry picking at Leisure Farms.
SCENERY: Picture of a group of people sitting around baskets of strawberries.
SCENERY: Picture of a group of people sitting on a wagon holding pumpkins, surrounded by pumpkin fields at Leisure Farms.
SCENERY: Prabhu Srinivasa being interviewed.
Prabhu: All these were new for me when I moved here to North Bay so I got an opportunity to go to all these places, know more about Canadian culture.
SCENERY: Naveen being interviewed.
Naveen: The folks from the naturalist club, they took me around, Cache Bay, Sturgeon Falls, bird watching, all the fun activities that you can imagine. So I love being outdoors.
SCENERY: North Bay & District Multicultural Centre logo on white screen with coloured band, and the website www.northbayimmigration.ca underneath and the City of North Bay logo in the bottom right hand corner.
AUDIO: Music playing
SCENERY: White background with coloured banner and North Bay & District Multicultural Centre flower logo.
Text: Quality in Education
Audio: Music playing
Text: Vicky Samuel, Nursing Graduate, Nipissing University
Text: Rwanda
Scenery: Vicky Samuel being interviewed.
Vicky: I am originally from Rwanda and I grew up in Malawi and I applied to Nipissing University, did my Nursing Degree there and I’ve stayed in North Bay since then.
Text: Rajarajan Thangarasu, Mobile Applications Development Graduate, Canadore College
Text: India
Scenery: Rajarajan Thangarasu being interviewed.
Raja: My name is Raja. I’m from India. Canadore College offered me the unique program I wanted to study, which was the Mobile Applications program.
Text: Dr. Natalya Brown, Assistant Professor, Nipissing University
Text: Jamaica
Scenery: Dr. Natalya Brown being interviewed.
Natalya: I’m an Assistant Professor of Economics. So I teach mainly macroeconomics and economic development, international economics, that sort of thing.
Text: Hazel Dones, Practical Nursing Student, Canadore College
Text: The Phillipines
Scenery: Hazel Dones being interviewed.
Hazel: I’m a foreign student at Canadore College in Practical Nursing, so far.
Scenery: Vicky being interviewed.
Vicky: The school system here is more laid back and you’re on a first name basis with the professors, while at home it’s more formal and you address the professors by their last name.
Text: Nipissing University rants 1st for campus atmosphere – Globe and Mail Report 2012
Text: Nipissing University residences are the best in Canada – Globe and Mail Report 2012
Scenery: Raja being interviewed.
Raja: The class was small so that everyone had a chance to get attention from the professors. And because of the small class you can easily understand what the professor is saying.
Text: 86.8% of Canadore College graduates secure employment in their field within six months of graduation.
Scenery: Image of professor teaching a group of students in a small lecture hall at Nipissing University.
Scenery: Image of Dr. Natalya Brown lecturing to a group of students at Nipissing University.
Scenery: Image of Dr. Natalya Brown teaching at Nipissing University.
Scenery: Natalya being interviewed.
Natalya: You really get to know your students. It’s primarily undergraduates so they focus a lot on the teaching aspect. Research is definitely important, but your research and your teaching can be quite close together and not distinct, so I like that too.
Text: Nipissing University ranks 1st for student-faculty interaction – Globe and Mail Report 2012
Text: Nipissing University ranks 1st for career preparation – Globe and Mail Report 2012
Scenery: Vicky being interviewed.
Vicky: They also have the international student group that you get to meet other students from other countries. And they organize different events, like the sugar bush where Canadian Maple Syrup is made.
Text: Students attend Canadore College and Nipissing University from all over the world including: the Bahamas, United Kingdom, China, India, Italy, Jamaica, Kenya, Korea and many more
Scenery: Two students working on an engine in an aircraft hangar.
Text: In Fall 2013, Canadore College saw a 35% enrolment increase in international students
Scenery: Hazel being interviewed.
Hazel: At first, I’m so hesitant because, oh my gosh, English is my second language so what am I going to do there? Maybe I’m going to find a friend. But they are all nice. They’re so helpful too.
Scenery: Raja being interviewed.
Text: 88.5% of Canadore College students rate their program as giving them the knowledge and skills that will be useful in their future career
Raja: That College is located in an amazing place, on the hill. Behind the college there’s a small pond and they have a trail there, it was amazing. I’ve never seen a college like that. And the professors are really helpful so whatever you need apart from education and including the education, they are there to help you.
Scenery: Aerial view of Canadore College and Nipissing University campuses.
Text: Canadore College and Nipissing University are surrounded by almost 300 hectares of pristine, Canadian forest
Text: 81.9% of Canadore College students highly rate the overall quality of learning experience in their program
Scenery: Image of students eating in the cafeteria.
Scenery: Vicky being interviewed.
Vicky: Making friends was very easy because I was interested in learning. And once you find friends that are open minded, they’re willing to teach you stuff, like making your first snowman.
Scenery: Image of a snowman.
Audio: Vicky’s laughter and music.
SCENERY: North Bay & District Multicultural Centre logo on white screen with coloured band, and the website www.northbayimmigration.ca underneath and the City of North Bay logo in the bottom right hand corner.
Text: Quality in Education
Audio: Music playing
Text: Vicky Samuel, Nursing Graduate, Nipissing University
Text: Rwanda
Scenery: Vicky Samuel being interviewed.
Vicky: I am originally from Rwanda and I grew up in Malawi and I applied to Nipissing University, did my Nursing Degree there and I’ve stayed in North Bay since then.
Text: Rajarajan Thangarasu, Mobile Applications Development Graduate, Canadore College
Text: India
Scenery: Rajarajan Thangarasu being interviewed.
Raja: My name is Raja. I’m from India. Canadore College offered me the unique program I wanted to study, which was the Mobile Applications program.
Text: Dr. Natalya Brown, Assistant Professor, Nipissing University
Text: Jamaica
Scenery: Dr. Natalya Brown being interviewed.
Natalya: I’m an Assistant Professor of Economics. So I teach mainly macroeconomics and economic development, international economics, that sort of thing.
Text: Hazel Dones, Practical Nursing Student, Canadore College
Text: The Phillipines
Scenery: Hazel Dones being interviewed.
Hazel: I’m a foreign student at Canadore College in Practical Nursing, so far.
Scenery: Vicky being interviewed.
Vicky: The school system here is more laid back and you’re on a first name basis with the professors, while at home it’s more formal and you address the professors by their last name.
Text: Nipissing University rants 1st for campus atmosphere – Globe and Mail Report 2012
Text: Nipissing University residences are the best in Canada – Globe and Mail Report 2012
Scenery: Raja being interviewed.
Raja: The class was small so that everyone had a chance to get attention from the professors. And because of the small class you can easily understand what the professor is saying.
Text: 86.8% of Canadore College graduates secure employment in their field within six months of graduation.
Scenery: Image of professor teaching a group of students in a small lecture hall at Nipissing University.
Scenery: Image of Dr. Natalya Brown lecturing to a group of students at Nipissing University.
Scenery: Image of Dr. Natalya Brown teaching at Nipissing University.
Scenery: Natalya being interviewed.
Natalya: You really get to know your students. It’s primarily undergraduates so they focus a lot on the teaching aspect. Research is definitely important, but your research and your teaching can be quite close together and not distinct, so I like that too.
Text: Nipissing University ranks 1st for student-faculty interaction – Globe and Mail Report 2012
Text: Nipissing University ranks 1st for career preparation – Globe and Mail Report 2012
Scenery: Vicky being interviewed.
Vicky: They also have the international student group that you get to meet other students from other countries. And they organize different events, like the sugar bush where Canadian Maple Syrup is made.
Text: Students attend Canadore College and Nipissing University from all over the world including: the Bahamas, United Kingdom, China, India, Italy, Jamaica, Kenya, Korea and many more
Scenery: Two students working on an engine in an aircraft hangar.
Text: In Fall 2013, Canadore College saw a 35% enrolment increase in international students
Scenery: Hazel being interviewed.
Hazel: At first, I’m so hesitant because, oh my gosh, English is my second language so what am I going to do there? Maybe I’m going to find a friend. But they are all nice. They’re so helpful too.
Scenery: Raja being interviewed.
Text: 88.5% of Canadore College students rate their program as giving them the knowledge and skills that will be useful in their future career
Raja: That College is located in an amazing place, on the hill. Behind the college there’s a small pond and they have a trail there, it was amazing. I’ve never seen a college like that. And the professors are really helpful so whatever you need apart from education and including the education, they are there to help you.
Scenery: Aerial view of Canadore College and Nipissing University campuses.
Text: Canadore College and Nipissing University are surrounded by almost 300 hectares of pristine, Canadian forest
Text: 81.9% of Canadore College students highly rate the overall quality of learning experience in their program
Scenery: Image of students eating in the cafeteria.
Scenery: Vicky being interviewed.
Vicky: Making friends was very easy because I was interested in learning. And once you find friends that are open minded, they’re willing to teach you stuff, like making your first snowman.
Scenery: Image of a snowman.
Audio: Vicky’s laughter and music.
SCENERY: North Bay & District Multicultural Centre logo on white screen with coloured band, and the website www.northbayimmigration.ca underneath and the City of North Bay logo in the bottom right hand corner.