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The aunt of drowned Syrian refugee boy Alan Kurdi says a controversial new cartoon from French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is "disgusting." "I hope people respect our family's pain. It's a big loss to us. We're not the same anymore after this tragedy. We're trying to forget a little bit and move on with our life. But to hurt us again, it's not fair," said Tima Kurdi from her home in Port Coquitlam, B.C. The cartoon suggests that Alan Kurdi, had he grown up, would have been like the sexual attackers in Cologne, Germany, on New Year's Eve.

Truth and little toddlers don’t count for much, when you are gung-ho to win a prime ministership for the first time The picture of the tiny lifeless body of toddler Alan Kurdi, washed up on a Turkish beach, cradled by the policeman who found him, broke the world’s heart and remains as the defining moment of the worst refugee crisis since World War II. That the Canadian New Democrat Party (NDP) would seize upon the picture in blaming the toddler’s death on the Canadian government, all to propel their leader Thomas Mulcair as the country’s next prime minister is a...

Abdullah Kurdi is responsible for the deaths of his family. Blaming anyone else is simply playing politics which, in Canada these days, is rampant The picture of Alan Kurdi, nicely dressed and lying dead on a Turkish beach, went around the world and suddenly a discussion of the war in Syria that has mostly been ignored was ignited. Alan’s death became bigger news in Canada because of the Canadian connection to the Kurdi family and the fact we are in the middle of a federal election campaign where those on the left, including the media, are suffering the pangs of...

News means telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It all went down so pat—especially if you watched it on CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) in a story that started with the Canadian television network before thanks to the Internet going worldwide: The body of dear little 3-year-old Alan Kurdi, washed up on a beach; his 5-year-old brother, Galib and mother, Rehan, drowned in a tragic attempt for a better life in Europe. Only his grieving father, Abdullah, left to take their bodies back to Kobane, Syria. All the Canadian government’s fault. What a story! And right...