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Publication Date: August 17, 2026 - 14:37
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5 years after Taliban seized control, Afghan refugee reflects on new life in Saskatoon
August 17, 2026
Farkhunda Hashimy moved to Saskatoon with her family in 2023, escaping the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Decrees by the regime have restricted the rights and freedoms of Afghan women and girls, and stopped them from pursuing high education and careers.
An Ontario judge has sentenced a man to house arrest in a “covert scheme” to traffic handguns into Canada from the United States. Emerson Wright, 29, was charged with conspiring with his childhood friend, Dylan Crawford, to traffic firearms and possessing a firearm for the purpose of transferring it while knowingly not being authorized to do so. On his first day of trial in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Wright pleaded guilty to conspiracy to traffic in a firearm to Crawford. “Although the gravity of this offence highlights the need for punishment, it is not so pressing as to...
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