By Ryan Van Horne, My East Coast Experience, July 13, 2018. There is a shortage of family doctors in Nova Scotia, but international medical graduates (IMGs) struggle to find opportunities to get licensed here. That’s a painful pill to swallow for IMGs, who have to wait patiently for residency spots … Read more
Seventeen Internationally Educated Nurses (IENs) attended a full-day health assessment workshop as part of ISANS’ IEN Orientation Program that took place at Nova Scotia Community College – Ivany Campus Nursing Lab on Friday, May 4, 2018. The workshop had IENs practice clinical assessments on simulated mannequins and work on case … Read more
NSCC is partnering with organizations including ISANS to support student success and reduce barriers to education for former refugees.
ISANS receives plaque created in memory of pharmacist and volunteer Craig Ennett.
Get to know pharmacy owner Ghada Gabr, who works with ISANS to help internationally-trained pharmacists prepare to work in Canada.
Last week, the Nova Scotia Apprenticeship Agency (NSAA) and ISANS celebrated the successful completion of the Work-based Trades Practical Assessment pilot project and the launch of a new program video. The project was funded by NSAA and trade participants are ISANS clients. Minister of Immigration, the Honourable Lena Metlege Diab, … Read more
ISANS teams up with Nova Scotia Community College to provide customized training to new Canadians. It’s been a trying journey, but after fleeing Syria and spending five years in Jordan, 21-year-old Fadi Almouazzen has settled in Canada with his family and found a career path he loves: auto mechanics. This … Read more
by Kayla Hounsell, CTV Atlantic. As Syrain newcomers lose federal funding, there are questions over how many will rely on provincial assistance. Watch the video…
By Moira Donovan, CBC News, 03 August 2016. With over 20 years of experience as a mechanic in three countries, there isn’t much about working on cars that Mohamad Malli doesn’t know. But since he arrived in Nova Scotia in January, the language barrier was one problem that Malli, who … Read more
by Laura Whitman, Chronicle Herald, 11 July 2016. Sometimes it’s a long road from one job to the next. For auto mechanic Bala Khalas, it’s led from a garage in Jordan to a car dealership in Dartmouth. Khalas is one of four recent immigrants who have just gone through the … Read more
News Release – March 9, 2016—Halifax, NS – Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister John McCallum today congratulated the Prince George Hotel as one of the winners of the 2016 Employer Awards for Refugee Employment for their outstanding efforts to help refugees settle in Canada by finding jobs and obtaining employment … Read more
by Cheryl Bell, Dalhousie News, 26 February 2016. Deo Butoyi slips into the Monday evening clinic at Dalhousie’s Faculty of Dentistry quietly, and matter-of-factly takes his place in the dental chair. He is wearing a plaid shirt, jeans and sneakers. He pulls on the blue protective glasses that will shield … Read more