Tag: smg_canada

One late January afternoon, my wife, our one-year-old daughter and I were standing in front of the window of a suburban Calgary hotel, just staring at the snow and freezing weather outside, when the phone rang. It was my mother, calling from Islamabad. Even though she and my sister ...

“We will not be silenced,” chanted several hundred protesters outside the Indian consulate in Vancouver on Saturday, waving signs with the face of murdered B.C. Sikh temple president Hardeep Singh Nijjar and calling him a martyr for advocating for the right to self-determination for his people. Protesters mostly wore ...

The five-day search and rescue mission for a submersible carrying five people to the Titanic wreck came to a tragic close Thursday, as officials announced all aboard had died following a “catastrophic implosion.”While an investigation is already underway, authorities are looking for answers into what exactly happened to the ...

The five passengers trapped aboard the Titan, the OceanGate submersible, are dead, the U. S. Coast Guard said Thursday, after parts of the sub were discovered in a field of debris on the Atlantic Ocean floor, near the wreckage of the Titanic.Its occupants were believed to include British billionaire ...

CALGARY—It was seen as that most Canadian of tragedies — a tightknit hockey team on an icy highway, headed to a game, struck down when a tractor-trailer slammed into their bus. Five years on, the sorrow of that moment continues to balloon outward, swallowing up years and space. This ...

What propels newcomers to Canada’s borders? How can we manage the humanitarian challenges and tap into the promise of new arrivals? The Star series Crossroads looks at the changing landscape facing migrants, law enforcement and policymakers. Second of three parts. Mohammad Azimi was wading through the water to get ...

Canadian academia should stop hosting major international conferences until the federal government can sort out visa problems that are preventing some of the world’s best and brightest from showing up and taking part.That’s the contention by a group of six dozen scholars who say they’ve been ashamed and frustrated ...

OTTAWA—Twenty-six-year-old Mariam was a doctor in her native Syria. She treated dozens of patients every day for more than three years.“I used to measure blood pressure, deliver babies and do endoscopies,” she said of her medical training, which required two years of hands-on experience.In Ottawa, however, she worked as ...

OTTAWA — MPs unanimously adopted a motion calling to resettle 10,000 Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims who have fled China’s persecution, in Canada.The motion recognizes China’s treatment of the Uyghurs as genocide and calls on the federal government to resettle Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims over two years, starting ...

A former Afghan platoon commander says he was doing manual labour on the Iranian island of Kish when he received a phone call. He says he listened carefully as a former comrade made a proposal: Join a new army and fight for a new cause. That army was Russia’s, ...