What’s in a Name?: Hebrew and Arabic Names, Naming, & North American Culture
How do "foreign" names fit into North American culture? - Or, who grew up in Winnipeg, and Wajahat, who lives in the USA, both share how...
Hostess refuses to take "difficult" name
In this short opinion piece, Boluwaji Ogunyemi describes an incident in which a restaurant hostess refused to take his "difficult" name....
Why I Changed My Name to an Initial
D could never stand her first name, and constantly having to repeat and spell it out during her school years in Ontario just contributed...
Saleema Nawaz on the strange and complicated fight to take her husband’s name in Quebec
Author Saleema Nawaz could never identify with her Indian last name, the only remnant of her father who had abandoned her. Even as...
When Changing Names Means Changing Identities
"How do you say your 'real name'?"- Jessica Wei explores how Chinese Canadians and Chinese Americans live with two names, and what each...
Changed Names, Changed Identities
Why do some people change their names? This article discusses some of the reasons people in Canada choose to adopt another name and...
Vancouver city council gives the green light for project to diversify street names
The movement to make place names in Canada a more conscious celebration of our plural society is growing. http://www.cbc.ca/radio/checkup...
Every name is a 'Canadian name'
What does it mean to have a Canadian name? http://www.cbc.ca/2017/every-name-is-a-canadian-name-1.4013531
Federal government to test 'name-blind' hiring process
"Research has shown that English-speaking employers are 40 per cent more likely to pick candidates with an English or anglicized name...
Hundreds of Syrian refugees in Canada stuck with erroneous names
Not having names written correctly on official documents creates more problems than you might think at first. Waiving the fees to correct...