UHN Home Podcast
1) Episode 9 - Roseli's story
When Roseli Melo came to Canada in 2008 from Brazil, her goal was to give her then-teenaged daughter an international education. A single mom from the age of 25, Roseli was no stranger to overcoming c...Show More
2) Episode 8 - Milos' story
When he first landed in Toronto, ON after a flight from his home city of Belgrade, Serbia, Milos Popovic’s main concern was where he was going to sleep that night. “My situation was a little bit nuts,...Show More
3) Episode 7 - Nigil's story
It was a shared love for the 70s rock band, Dire Straits, that first formed a friendship between Dr. Nigil Haroon and UHN’s Dr. Robert Inman. At the time, Dr. Haroon was finishing up his rheumatology ...Show More
4) Episode 6 - Sia's story
For Sia Maro, Canada is a land of freedom and opportunity. Now an administrative assistant in the Toronto Western Management Office, Sia originally came to Canada for university. She saw something uni...Show More
5) Episode 5 - Xavier's story
Xavier Revelo arrived to Canada in the midst of the Canada Day parade in 2012. What stuck out to him about his new home was its diversity. “I remember driving into downtown Toronto, and there was a hu...Show More
6) Episode 4 - Joanna's story
Joanna Vautour considers her home to be Serpent River First Nation, located midway between Sault Ste. Marie and Sudbury. There, amongst the sounds of the highway, the sights of the cedars, raspberries...Show More
7) Episode 3 - Veronica's story
Veronica Marcos has worked at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre for nearly as long as she has been in Canada: more than 40 years. After immigrating to Canada from a small town in mainland Portugal i...Show More
8) Episode 2 - Diego's story
Dr. Diego Delgado has travelled all around the world, but Canada is the only place he wants to be. Now a cardiologist specializing in advanced heart failure and cardiac transplantation at the Peter Mu...Show More
9) Episode 1 - Mojgan's Story
Mojgan Nemati, a web developer at the University Health Network, left her home in Tehran, Iran 13 years ago. She talks about the realities of being an immigrant in Canada, and how finding home in a ne...Show More
10) UHN HOME - The Trailer
You are listening to UHN Home, where we're telling stories to celebrate Canada's 150th birthday. Every week, we'll tell you the stories of people who came from all around the world to work at the nati...Show More