Lebanese diaspora frustrated, frightened as country excluded from ceasefire
Members of the Lebanese diaspora in the National Capital Region say they’re upset that the country has apparently been excluded from a ceasefire deal between the United States and Iran, and are fearing for their loved ones as Israeli strikes continue.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/lebanese-diaspora-ottawa-gatineau-9.7159336?cmp=rss

Greenwood exploring whether to relocate a cemetery from its base
Some locals don't want to see their ancestors moved from their final resting place. Others think about how it would remove barriers to visiting their loved ones.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/greenwood-relocating-a-cemetery-feasibility-study-9.7158271?cmp=rss

Iranian-Canadians voice fear, uncertainty after ceasefire announcement
Iranian-Canadians in Vancouver and Toronto welcome a temporary ceasefire but fear for loved ones as uncertainty lingers after Trump’s threats.
#Canada #Politics #World #Iran
https://globalnews.ca/news/11768576/iranian-canadians-ceasefire-reaction/

Iranian-Canadians voice fear, uncertainty after ceasefire announcement
Iranian-Canadians in Vancouver and Toronto welcome a temporary ceasefire but fear for loved ones as uncertainty lingers after Trump’s threats.
#Canada #Politics #World #Iran
https://globalnews.ca/news/11768576/iranian-canadians-ceasefire-reaction/

Iranians in Manitoba concerned about loved ones amid escalating war
There are thousands of miles between Majid Kermani and his family, but they couldn't be closer to top of mind as the war in Iran rages on.
#Canada #Iranwar
https://globalnews.ca/news/11766673/iranians-in-manitoba-concerned-loved-ones/

Iranians in Manitoba concerned about loved ones amid escalating war
There are thousands of miles between Majid Kermani and his family, but they couldn't be closer to top of mind as the war in Iran rages on.
#Canada #Iranwar
https://globalnews.ca/news/11766673/iranians-in-manitoba-concerned-loved-ones/

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

   Almost everybody is deeply affected when some one he loves suffers from cancer. Most people are moved when they see the sufferings of unknown patients in hospitals. Yet when they read that the death-rate from cancer is such-and-such, they are as a rule only moved to momentary personal fear lest they or some one dear to them should acquire the disease. The same is true of war: people think it dreadful when their son or brother is mutilated, but they do not think it a million times as dreadful that a million people should be mutilated. A man who is full of kindliness in all personal dealings may derive his income from incitement to war or from the torture of children in “backward” countries.
   All these familiar phenomena are due to the fact that sympathy is not stirred, in most people, by a merely abstract stimulus. A large proportion of the evils in the modern world would cease if this could be remedied.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Good Life, Part 1, ch. 2 “The Aims of Education” (1926)

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When my dad died, I was an ocean away trying to build a new life in Canada. That changed me
When her father died in Nigeria, Stella Igweamaka wasn't able to immediately head home for his funeral. Gratitude for the opportunity she's received in Canada is tangled with the pain of separation from her loved ones.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/first-person-grieving-from-a-distance-9.7135005?cmp=rss

When my dad died, I was an ocean away trying to build a new life in Canada. That changed me
When her father died in Nigeria, Stella Igweamaka wasn't able to immediately head home for his funeral. Gratitude for the opportunity she's received in Canada is tangled with the pain of separation from her loved ones.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/first-person-grieving-from-a-distance-9.7135005?cmp=rss

'We're still a mess': N.S. man who lost 3 loved ones in crash speaks out over driver's sentence
A Nova Scotia man who lost three loved ones in a fatal 2023 crash says the 4½-year sentence the person who caused the crash received is not harsh enough. "We all got hard lives," says Adam Gabriel. "That gives him no right to do what he did."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/adam-gabriel-tyler-strong-sentence-9.7124140?cmp=rss