Escaping Syria: From Homs to a new home
As the plane filled with Syrian refugees began its descent into Toronto, the first glimpse of the city’s skyline below proved too much for the al-Daher family.“We all started crying,” said Salwa al-Daher as she, her husband, Hussain, and their four kids contemplated a new life in Canada, a world away from the bloodshed of their war-torn homeland and far from the despair of liv...