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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Go west, young Jew: Hamilton, London and Windsor are growing their numbers with people priced out of Toronto
Description: Many Jewish immigrants, when arriving in Canada, choose to settle in the Toronto area. But Toronto is prohibitively expensive for many people, and newcomers face even more hurdles involving work visas, new schools and social connections on top of the financial stress.
That's where the Welcome Home project comes in. The brainchild of three mid-sized Jewish communities in Ontario—Hamilton, London and Windsor—the project aims to lure immigrant Jewish families, or long-time Torontonians priced out of the housing market, to join their relatively-small-but-mighty communities down the Highway 401.
Local federations are pitching in, promising to make...