An Afghan man whose family arrived in Manitoba this week says they’re grateful to finally be in Canada after years of living in fear of the Taliban.
“I told [my] family that we found our home again,” Azizullah Mahdi said in a phone interview on Friday, after landing with his wife and their seven children at the Winnipeg Richardson International Airport Wednesday morning.
The chartered flight from Pakistan transported 256 Afghan nationals, including people who supported Canada’s mission in Afghanistan, family members of former interpreters and privately sponsored refugees arriving through the humanitarian stream, Jeffrey MacDonald, a spokesperson for Immigration, Refugees and
