Some moments in life feel surreal, the kind that make you pause and think, “Wow, this is really happening.”

One of those moments for me was the day I got an email invitation to meet the Premier of Manitoba, Wab Kinew. Seeing him often on the news made the idea of meeting him feel almost unreal, and yet there I

When my family and I arrived in Canada in May 2023, everything felt completely new.

New city, new home and new school. It was exciting, but also a little overwhelming. I remember stepping into my high school for the first time and feeling the weight of being the only Black Muslim student in a school of over 500.

The classrooms