Tag: ITC2

VANCOUVER—At the South Vancouver Neighbourhood House, Indigenous Elders Al Houston and Travis Angus are taking centre stage.The pair walk into the full meeting room and smudge it, with the ritual burning of sacred plants.“If we’re going to listen to one another, we’re going to be able to keep going ...

They didn’t stand a chance.Sean Petrie left a trail of three deaths, multiple serious injuries and several terrorized witnesses in his wake as he drove from Mississauga to Milton to Hamilton where he was shot dead in an “exchange of gunfire” with police.Why the 40-year-old gunman went on his ...

It is not often I get actually star-struck — after all the years of being in the celebrity trenches — but it happened Saturday.Ladies and gentleman, Jemima Khan. I mean, there are stars — and then there are witnesses to history, not to mention, the truest sort of ambassadress ...

As the nine-year-old boy was shoved and pushed by the sea of desperate people behind him, his head kept turning, looking back for his parents and two younger brothers as they fell further and further behind him.When Hadisullhaq Afghanfar finally got past the front gate of the Kabul airport ...

He spent two years working alongside Canadian soldiers in Kandahar as an interpreter and a food-supply contractor.Weeks before Afghanistan fell to the Taliban last August, the 34-year-old man had already applied to Ottawa’s special programs to resettle former Afghan interpreters and locally engaged staff to Canada. The Department of ...

Pakistani entrepreneur Nazakat Nawaz had the money, so the process of moving to Quebec as an investor to start a new life in Canada seemed straightforward.The province wanted net assets of $1.2 million, two years of management experience and a five-year, interest-free investment of $800,000 entrusted with the province. ...

For 47 days, Hussain watched from behind the curtains of his family’s tiny suite as Taliban soldiers passed by their window.The former Afghan interpreter for the Canadian Forces, his wife and their five children, all under the age of 10, had hunkered down in lodgings arranged by Canadian war ...

Canada-bound Afghan interpreter Kohistany breathed a sigh of relief when he made it through the gate of the Kabul airport on Aug. 24 after months of playing cat-and-mouse with Taliban insurgents.“We finally got out of hell. Tears just started streaming down my face,” said the 42-year-old man, who worked ...

The arrival of new refugees and asylum-seekers dropped steeply in most parts of the world last year.According to the UN Refugee Agency’s annual global trends report, released Friday, there were 1.5 million fewer people who fled their homelands in 2020 than forecast. However, that’s not because the world was ...

Growing up, Hangama Amiri was always on the move with her family, searching for peace and security.And the UNHCR was always part of the young Afghan refugee’s journey.So, when the United Nations refugee agency invited her to design the 2021 World Refugee Day emoji for Twitter, she says, she ...