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The Human Factor

At the beginning of Canada’s oldest company

Sense of an Ending

Whether that nation can long endure

Those Ancient Lands

Where and when did this conflict begin?

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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Escape to Turkey

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