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Hamid Jafari

A Vancouver B.C based journalist who writes about the Iranian community in Canada, art, culture and social media trends.

May 22, 2024
Arts & Culture/British Columbia/Top Stories

Iconic Canadian author Alice Munro was also beloved by Persian readers

Former West Vancouver resident Alice Munro passed away May 13, leaving a literary legacy around the world.

May 14, 2024
British Columbia/Immigration/Politics/Top Stories

Vancouver MP joins fight to save hip-hop artist sentenced to death in Iran

Federal cabinet minister Jonathan Wilkinson is lending his voice in the effort to save Toomaj Salehi, who is on death row in

April 10, 2024
British Columbia/Economy/Immigration/Top Stories

How well is Canada’s program for Iranian temporary residents working?

Many people fleeing Iran ended up on the North Shore, but one SFU researcher has doubts about the way the Canadian government

April 9, 2024
British Columbia/Immigration/Top Stories

North Vancouver’s Mashti Café brings back banned Iranian milkshake

According to popular belief, the regime banned the drink because it was thought to enhance sexual potency.

March 20, 2024
Commentary/Top Stories

Vancouver’s Ambleside Fire Festival brings community together to celebrate spring

The annual Chaharshanbeh Suri festival at West Vancouver’s Ambleside Park allows community members to leave bad spirits behind as they welome the

March 15, 2024
British Columbia/Diaspora Affairs/Immigration/Top Stories

Vancouver businesses prepare for the bustle of Nowruz

The sizable Persian population in North Vancouver and West Vancouver celebrates the coming of spring with Nowruz celebrations.

March 14, 2024
British Columbia/Immigration/Top Stories

North Vancouver monument for Flight PS752 victims still in early planning phase

In July of 2022 City of North Vancouver council agreed to establish a memorial, but so far no artist or location has

January 8, 2024
British Columbia/Crime/Immigration/Local Journalism Initiative

Bahar Bakery & Cafe: Made with love in memory of a PS752 victim

A mother and son are fulfilling the dream of Bahareh Karami Moghadam, who died in the plane shot down by Iranian

December 8, 2023
British Columbia/Immigration/Local Journalism Initiative

‘Cautiously optimistic’: Immigrant drivers rate B.C. plan to protect gig workers

The province’s introduction of minimum wage and job protections for B.C.’s gig workers, many of them immigrants, is raising questions about equity

December 6, 2023
British Columbia/Immigration/Local Journalism Initiative

Across the divide: Serving falafel together

At Ofra's Kitchen in Vancouver, Ofra and her Iranian server-assistant welcome people, unmindful of the political tensions between Tehran and Jerusalem.

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