The Newcomers is a media publication where we try to make sense of the Canadian immigrant experience.

The 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.

We publish original analysis on Canadian immigration policy. We tell the stories of immigrants building lives, businesses, and communities across Canada. We produce practical guides on money, careers, and the hundred small decisions that define your first two to ten years in a new country. And we host conversations with the people shaping what immigration looks like on the ground.

We are building the most trusted source for understanding the Canadian immigrant experience.