Month: December 2004

Teachers with the Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada program (LINC), the free English training for immigrants, want their students to get the language training they need.

Vivian Poon is playing with the toes of a flesh-coloured, latex foot that looks eerily real.

Two evenings a week classmates from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe congregate in a basement classroom at the Dalhousie Community Centre on Somerset Street.

Eli El-Chantiry came to Canada in 1975 with $20 in his pocket and three French phrases . . .