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Screening Room: A Syrian Refugee in "Welcome to Canada"

By David Schonauer   Friday December 2, 2016

Director Adam Loften’s short documentary Welcome to Canada tells the story of Mohammed Alsaleh, a young Syrian refugee granted asylum in Canada in 2014. After fleeing torture and imprisonment by the Assad regime, Alsaleh counsels newly-arrived Syrian refugee families with the same Vancouver-based NGO that aided him during his own …

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