Students and teachers, researchers, real estate agents, entrepreneurs, refugee support workers, brothers, sisters, husbands and wives. Two were newly wed. One was a baby girl
On Thursday morning, at 8:29 a.m., Muhammad Lila, a Canadian journalist, began a series of tweets about the scope of a Canadian disaster that happened Wednesday in a Ukrainian plane above Iran.
Sixty-three Canadian citizens died Wednesday when Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 crashed outside Tehran. As many as 75 more had ties to this country. They were students and teachers, researchers, real estate agents, entrepreneurs, refugee support workers, brothers, sisters, husbands and wives. Two of them were newly wed. One was a baby girl.
Their families, their friends and their colleagues now form an archipelago of grief that touches every corner of this country. Almost half the Canadian victims lived in Edmonton. Dozens studied, taught, or worked in Toronto. There were victims from B.C. and Manitoba, from Nova Scotia and Quebec. “And now my memory collapses,” Aleksandar Hemon wrote in an essay about the death of his young daughter, from cancer. “Her indelible absence is now an organ in our bodies, whose sole function is a continuous secretion of sorrow.”
But what strikes instead, scrolling through the photos of these happy strangers who might have been our friends, are the little moments they’ll never now live. Life is not a LinkedIn profile, after all. It can’t be reduced to a summary of goals achieved.
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