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The day of Oct. 21, 2023, started out well for Adam Gabriel and his family. Gabriel, then a resident of Springhill, N.S., had driven to the Annapolis Valley for the day with his wife, Amanda, to see their son play in an Acadia Axemen university football game. By the time …
Read More »As Iranian Canadians mark 40 days of mourning, fate of some loved ones still unknown
LISTEN | Canadians are slowly learning what happened to friends and family in Iran: The Current24:19Canadians desperate for information about friends and family in Iran Late at night on Jan. 10, Dr. Alireza Golchini was arrested by security forces in the city of Qazvin, Iran. His cousin Nima Golchini, who …
Read More »Toronto Maple Leafs player pays tribute to late grocery store worker who loved team
A Toronto Maple Leafs player paid tribute over the weekend to a grocery store worker and fan who died suddenly last week and is being remembered as a warm, friendly face who loved the team. On Saturday, Bobby McMann honoured Kevin Wilson with a walk-on tribute, showing up to a …
Read More »Called narco-terrorists by Trump administration, men ‘executed’ in Venezuela are mourned by loved ones
One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet. And a fourth was a down-on-his-luck bus driver. The men had little in common beyond their Venezuelan seaside hometowns and the fact all four were among …
Read More »Liam Johnston died on the job at 27. His loved ones want to see change and accountability
Emily Gofton can’t forget the morning that changed her life in June 2023. “When I got the call, I knew immediately … that gut feeling,” the 24-year-old recalls. The voice on the other end of the phone said her boyfriend Liam Johnston, 27, a plumbing apprentice, had been buried in …
Read More »Sudanese Canadians say barriers to filing federal paperwork are harming efforts to get loved ones safe refuge
Some Sudanese Canadians are calling out Ottawa for rejecting their applications to privately sponsor loved ones fleeing conflict without making it clear what’s missing in their paperwork or how they can fix any errors. Samah Mahmoud is a London, Ont., immigration consultant whose own application for her sister was rejected. Mahmoud …
Read More »A year after their loved one died in hospital, N.S. family struggles to understand what went wrong
Every time they walk by the bedroom of their 30-year-old daughter, Shavonne, at their home in Westville, N.S., Wesley and Sheila Lees feel heartbreak from her loss and the way she died. The room is how she left it, with a cherished doll on her bed and posters of her favourite movie, Frozen. …
Read More »Sudanese Montrealers grow anxious as Quebec offers no solution to help loved ones flee war
When Sudanese Montrealer Thowiba Mansour found out that the federal government had set up a temporary program to reunite people in the war-torn country with their Canadian families, she was so excited that she couldn’t sleep. “I was very happy, I was just planning how I would get my family …
Read More »‘He just loved music’: Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Guthro dies at age 62
Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Guthro has died at the age of 62 following a battle with cancer. J.P Cormier, a fellow Cape Breton artist and close friend of the late Guthro, said he heard of his death Wednesday morning after receiving a call from Guthro’s family. “We knew this was coming, …
Read More »Canadian families who lost loved ones on flight PS752 seek justice in World Court
Vancouver resident Arman Abtahi can’t remember much about the tragic day he learned that his brother Mehran, a post-doctoral environmental engineer at the University of British Columbia, was killed in the downing of Ukraine Airlines flight PS752. The shock was so severe, Arman said, that much of that horrific day …
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