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Country Music

Please stand and remove your cynicism

Bountiful Diversity

A leading Québécois scholar’s appreciative look at Canada’s biggest province

Rinkside Reading

What does hockey’s literature say about the sport?

Yadi Sharifirad

Yadi Sharifirad was a colonel and squadron commander fighter pilot in the Iranian Air Force in the 1970s and ’80s. After being imprisoned and tortured, he eventually escaped Iran with his family and now lives in Vancouver.

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Yadi Sharifirad

Escape to Turkey

An Iranian father places his teenage son in the hands of smugglers. June 2010