Raija Suomela has been living in Canada for more than three decades now, but it was not clear from the beginning that Canada would be her new home. Many factors made Suomela to stay and now she has been working for the last 15 years in Canadian Urban Institute.
The summer of 1980 was a hot one in Helsinki, when Raija Suomela and her family put their things together and prepared to move to Cana…