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Soccer Pitch: Soccer and School

soccer pitch: It has been a win-win proposition at the Clayton Park school, especially on the soccer pitch, where it recently celebrated provincial championship victories for both the boys and girls soccer teams, according to The Chronicle Herald. The school enrolment and the overall population of Clayton Park reflect a surge in immigration that is helping the province overcome demographic aging and chart a positive course for the future. And nowhere is multiculturalism making its presence felt more than at Halifax West High School. The Halifax West boys soccer team represents almost as many countries as players. More immigrants came to our shores in the first six months of 2016 than in all of last year or in any year of the past decade 3,418 immigrants touched down in Nova Scotia between January and June. As 16-year-old Ayoub Al-arabi, a 16-year-old native of Libya who moved to Canada as a three-year-old, told The Chronicle Herald John Mac Neil, I d say, this year, we have a lot more enthicity within our team. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.