Arabic-Speaking People: Nova Scotia and Canadian Press

arabic-speaking people: As Immigration Minister Lena Diab told The Canadian Press recently, Diversity brings strength and we welcome that, according to The Chronicle Herald. With an increase of the numbers of Muslims and Arabic-speaking people in various parts of Nova Scotia, communities have been consistently providing positive responses in answering the varied needs of a changing population in respect to matters like language, food and religion. In Nova Scotia, the past 12 months might be remembered best as the year of the refugee, when the province welcomed some 1,500 Syrian refugees, helping chart a diverse future. We saw the depth of human kindness in thousands of bags of clothes and piles of furniture and other items dropped off when the call was issued for donations to aid Syrian refugees coming to our shores to start new lives. Diab, whose father immigrated to Canada from Lebanon, said that in her three years as immigration minister, she has never seen Nova Scotians so welcoming and so open-minded and kind-hearted in all of my life they get it, they really get it. Ms. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.