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Yamaan Alsumadi
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Yamaan Alsumadi is a nursing student attending Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ont. and has been involved in anti-racism and multiculturalism activism in the city.
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Ontario has promised to put immigrant nurses to work faster. That change is long overdue
Yamaan Alsumadi is a fourth-year nursing student at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ont. She says her classroom is filled with qualified nurses from other countries who could be working to relieve Ontario's health-care crisis, and a proposal to streamline their registration process needs to be implemented as soon as possible.
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To my fellow immigrants — If we don't vote, we get left out
Yamaan Alsumadi says new Canadians eligible to vote in Ontario's election on June 2nd, need to cast their ballot and make their voices heard.
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