Naheed Nenshi and Immigrant Services

Calgary city hall: The mayor was also there to greet and offer advice, along with representatives from Immigrant Services and the Calgary fire and police departments, according to CBC. Hundreds filled the atrium including many children. Appropriately the original people of Alberta greeted these new Canadians to Calgary city hall with Native Elders in attendance. Naheed Nenshi told the crowd it about being inclusive. Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi welcomes a new family from Syria. Mayor Nenshi welcomed hundreds of new Canadians at a ceremony Saturday. "We're here today to officially welcome you to Calgary," Nenshi said. "To officially welcome you to a place where every single one of us, every single one of us regardless of where we came from, what we look like or how we worship, every single one of us, has the opportunity right here, right now to live a great Canadian life." He told the audience the story of his own family immigration and years later how his father proudly watched his son become mayor 20 months before he passed away. "That story may sound extraordinary in its details but what extraordinary about that story is just how ordinary it is here in Canada." The mayor introduced Emad Alsheblak and his family, including wife Walaa and their young children Ghazal, Ahmad and three-month-old Omar. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.