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Canada Mourns Ukrainian Airlines Crash Victims

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   "Everything that's related to war and people trying to kill each other
   for the sake of land or oil, it's always stupid," Danny Gonzalez told
   Canada CTV News about Iran shooting down a Ukrainian jet that killed
   all 176 people on board.

   Canada is coping with the news that 57 of the victims were Canadians.
   Many of them were Iranian-Canadians who had gone to Iran for the
   holidays and were on the first leg of their return home on the
   Kyiv-bound jet.

   "They came to Canada for a future; there is no future in Iran,"
   Mahnuash Jannesar, the co-owner of a combination grocery-restaurant in
   Edmonton, told The New York Times about her customers who died in the
   doomed flight. "It's so sad."

   Gonzalez said he started working at a Toronto advertising studio last
   year on the same day as Alvand Sadeghi, one of the victims. Sadeghi's
   wife, sister and 5-year-old niece were also killed in the crash.

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