Courtesy of Western University
Madiha Salman, a Western University civil engineering PhD candidate, was among the four killed in Londonâs worst mass killing while on a walk with her family Sunday evening. She was 44.
Her husband Salman Afzaal, a physiotherapist who graduated from Westernâs health sciences program in 2010, their 15-year-old daughter Yumna Salman and Afazaalâs mother were also killed in the attack.Â
The coupleâs nine year-old son, Fayez Afzaal, was the only survivor. He is currently in hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.Â
Salman is remembered as âa scholar and pillar of the cityâs Muslim community, friend and colleague,â according to the London Free Press.Â
OTTAWA - A settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit against the federal government involving hundreds of First Nations people left out of residential-school compensation.
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The prime minister and the leader of the Official Opposition spoke in the House of Commons Tuesday evening during a take-note debate on the discovery of unmarked graves near the site of a former Kamloops residential school.
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Opposition parties criticized the Liberal government’s budget Tuesday, with the Conservatives saying it plunges Canada into too much debt and the NDP saying it doesn’t go far enough to target society’s wealthiest.
Conservative leader Erin O’Toole told reporters Tuesday his party hasn’t yet decided whether to support the Liberal budget. But with the NDP already having pledged to vote in favour, there is little danger the budget could bring down the minority government.
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