Canadian content creator talks about his love for, and challenges with Canada

Yahoo

26-06-2025

When Canadian nurse Hamza Aziz started asking strangers one simple question on camera—'What motivated you?'—he didn't anticipate launching a viral movement. In less than two years, his social media pages accumulated over 2.5 million followers and he was able to raise close to a million dollars for people in need.
Aziz is now one of Canada's most impactful digital storytellers—and he's just getting started, he told Yahoo Canada.
n our new series 'My Canada", we spotlight Canadians —born-and-raised to brand new — who share their views on the Canadian dream, national identity, and the triumphs and tribulations that come with life inside and outside these borders.
I'm happy to be Keny cause, you know, like, the, the perfect example is my dad.
He gave up his education back home in Pakistan to come to Canada just for him to work in, in a factory, so his kids could have a better life, right?
So for me to be Canadian, it's basically, we have these opportunities that other people in other countries don't have, and we, you know, it's, it's up to us to take it and to Take those opportunities and do something with it.
And I'm proud to be Canadian because uh, I would not have these opportunities if I was in another country.
The biggest challenge was just dealing with a little bit of, uh, bit of racism growing up.
And even till now, it's actually quite bad.
I, I've noticed in the past year, I don't know, maybe some stuff's going on, uh, locally in Canada.
There's so much like hate and racism going right now on social media, and you'll notice, especially, I even experienced.
the size of South Asian now, even the public for some reasons.
Uh, but it's like, I, I want to show that like, listen, there's people from all around the world that live in Canada, and they all have these amazing stories.
And as I said from the start, you should never judge a book by its cover, and these people are all doing these like different odd jobs that, you know, like, just to support their families and, uh, it's, uh, and that's, that's what I do.