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On a warm Sunday, around midday on Aug. 26, 1979, two Metro Toronto Police officers kicked in the back door to a red brick semi-detached family home in Toronto’s Christie Pits neighbourhood. The bolted door frame of this solid, two-storey home was shattered, giving entry to the kitchen, where ...

Roya Shams ran fast, then faster when she spotted the tiny woman, delicate as a sparrow, in a wheelchair at Pearson airport’s arrivals level.She dropped to her knees and, for the first time in nearly 10 years, fell into her mother’s embrace.“Don’t cry!” Roya said. “It’s all good.”But her ...

New York’s Times Square was calm, and the silence was unsettling. Broadway was dark. There were no tourists. There were no Disney characters lurking optimistically and you couldn’t find a taxi nor a knock-off handbag. It was nearing midnight on Sept. 14, 2001.When I had arrived in the city ...

Shortly after the news came of Kabul’s fall to the Taliban, Wendy Cukier started getting email from former sponsors of Syrian refugees looking to her to do something about the humanitarian crisis coming out of Afghanistan.The Ryerson University professor quickly convened the same advocates, colleagues and friends she worked ...

With Thursday’s suicide bombing outside the Kabul airport, the much feared Taliban, too, found itself the target of terrorist attacks.After the initial euphoria of overthrowing the U.S.-supported government on Aug. 15, the militia group now has to face the music of forming a national government when there are no ...

The dead ship left for the scrapyards of Turkey in gale-force winds.A tugboat named Hellas dragged the MV Miner, a retired Great Lakes freighter, from the Port of Montreal into the rough seas off eastern Canada. But the tow line broke, turning the dead vessel into a ghost ship.Untethered, ...

“Man, it would have been a great red carpet.” That is what Mira Nair says, lamenting a bit now about the down-sized roll-out for a passion project that’s been burning inside her for more than 25 years. The long, long-awaited series adaptation of Vikram Seth’s “A Suitable Boy” — ...

Oliver Hunter de Góes is set to start school Wednesday at Mohawk College in Hamilton — from his parents’ living room in Curitiba, Brazil, some 8,250 kilometres away.The first-year journalism student is among the international students who will be learning remotely from abroad this term, and who will be ...