Roya Shams ran fast, then faster when she spotted the tiny woman, delicate as a sparrow, in a wheelchair at Pearson airport’s arrivals level. It was then Star editor Michael Cooke and reporter Paul Watson who travelled to Afghanistan and escorted her to Canada. “The urgency takes on a whole new dynamic.”Canada’s ‘perfect disaster’The Shams family was eligible for Canadian visas because their father had worked with the Canadian Forces. They were served tea by Afghan staff, while the Shams family hid. During her first days in Canada, Roya Shams stayed with Scrivener, and the two remain friends.

Source: thestar October 02, 2021 01:18 UTC