Syrian Refugees in Canada

Hasan Sheblack, a Syrian refugee, and Guss Ash, a Jordanian immigrant, met while working construction at the Fairmont Hotel in Vancouver. A few years later, the two are not only business partners, they consider each other “brothers.”

Canada should take in more refugees, says Tima Kurdi, the aunt of three-year-old Syrian refugee Alan Kurdi who died with his brother and mother while fleeing to Greece in 2015.

On Wednesday night, about forty refugees got the cultural experience of a lifetime as they climbed over the visitors’ bench to take the ice at Rogers Arena.

In a soft-focus dream sequence, the refugee meets his long-missing brother, dressed in a military uniform and sitting stoically in the boat. He breaks down in sobs, but is greeted with icy disdain. "Where do you think you're going?" his brother asks, slapping away his hand.