I spent years feeling like an outsider in Canada — until my children helped me see it as home

I spent years feeling like an outsider in Canada — until my children helped me see it as home

This is a First Person column by Magdalena Olszanowski, a writer and communications professor who lives in Montreal, and is part of a Canada Day series exploring what Canada means to people across this country. For more information about CBC's First Person stories, please

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