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Ray Mwareya

Ray Mwareya is an immigrant of colour living in Ottawa, and a journalist. His work appears in Open Canada, Friends.ca, Newsweek, Al Jazeera, Reuters, and China Dialogue. His main interest is examining the myth of Canada’s so-called liberal immigration and how it plays out from the perspective of immigrants of colour.

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Illustration of a Black man in a grocery story holding a shopping basket and a phone. A thought bubble hovers nearby with an image of money on fire.

I escaped Canada’s 6.7% inflation, and found relief in South Africa

By Ray Mwareya ● Essay ● April 20, 2022 April 22, 2022

For Black immigrants like me living in Canada, inflation is an existential threat.