Western Canada: A gut-wrenching loss of Canadian lives GlobeBC
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.This week’s downing of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 took the lives of at least 57 Canadians. But in Globe and Mail newsrooms across the country, as we scrambled to respond to the sudden loss of Canadian lives, it became gradually clearer that the toll to Canada went well beyond those 57.
The first name I googled was the first on the manifest: Abbasnezhad/Mojtaba. A young man with the same name turned up as a teaching assistant at the University of Toronto. He was later confirmed as one of the victims. There were at least 57 Canadians on that plane, but there were also 82 Iranians and many of them had strong ties to this country. Relatives and friends told us of recent weddings, of extended Canadian family, of plans to put down roots here.was especially hard hit. About 30 people were believed to be among the victims, including professors, students and staff at the University of Alberta.
When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made his first public comment about the crash, he referenced 138 people travelling to Canada. He did not distinguish between those of Canadian or Iranian citizenship.
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