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Sister of Canadian military adviser fears looming deportation, Taliban reprisal
Published Aug 08, 2025 • 3 minute read Canadian soldiers help a comrade get on a helicopter after he was injured in an IED blast during a patrol outside Salavat, in the Panjwayi district, southwest of Kandahar, Afghanistan, Monday, June 7, 2010. Photo by Anja Niedringhaus / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OTTAWA — The sister of a man who worked as an interpreter for the Canadian Armed Forces during the war in Afghanistan says she fears she will be deported back to her former home, where she could face violent reprisal at the hands of the Taliban. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account The mother of six and her children escaped the war-torn country by fleeing to Turkey in 2018 — too early to qualify for a special temporary program that helped bring family members of military language and cultural advisers to Canada. That program only applied to family members who were still in Afghanistan on or after July 22, 2021, shortly before Kabul fell to the Taliban. While her brother told The Canadian Press most of her children have now married Canadians — which permits them to apply to come to Canada — she and her unmarried 22-year-old son believe they face deportation after receiving a notice from the Turkish government this week denying them refugee status, and after being told verbally by Turkish officials that they must leave the country. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. She said she believes the Taliban killed her husband in 2013 because her brother helped Canadian troops. The Canadian Press has agreed to not publish her name because of the threat she faces from the Taliban. 'My whole family has been crying,' she said in Pashto, interpreted by her brother. 'They're in immense stress. I'm still thinking, what will happen to me?' Her brother said she and her son do not know if they have the means to file an appeal of the immigration decision, which must be done within two weeks. She said that while they have been living in Turkey for years, they have faced discrimination, have been unable to find proper work and have nothing to return to in Afghanistan. Her brother, a Canadian citizen who was given the code name 'Sam' by the Canadian military, worked on the ground in Afghanistan 15 years ago helping Canadian troops navigate the country as a language and cultural adviser. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'If she were to be deported, she will clearly be executed by the same government, by the same people that we fought … that were at that time insurgents, and now they are in power,' said Sam, adding he suffers from PTSD due to his service. The Canadian government hired several dozen Afghan language and cultural advisers during the war to act as the military's eyes and ears in the field. Many have come back to Canada only to face immense struggles in getting access to social supports, such as health care. Sam said he has taken his case to senior officials in Ottawa for years and even wrote to Prime Minister Mark Carney. He said he constantly ran up against bureaucratic roadblocks and officials keen to redirect him to other offices. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. He said his family and those of two other Afghan language and cultural advisers were barred from coming to Canada through Ottawa's special temporary program, which shut down in 2023. He said he and the other two advisers challenged the matter in Federal Court, arguing that Canada discriminated against them. They argued that the federal government set relatively generous terms for a special program for Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion and imposed more rigid conditions on the program for the families of Afghan language and cultural advisers. That court challenge failed earlier this summer. Because the judge in the case found the application moot, it can't be appealed. 'Right now, it just has to be a political move of the government doing the right thing … taking care of the people whose families are at risk due to service to Canada,' said Nicholas Pope, a lawyer for the three former military advisers. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'It's really devastating,' Pope said of the sister's situation. 'This is just a massive failure of the system.' 'Sam' has been pressing Ottawa to help his family since the Taliban took over Afghanistan in 2021. He enlisted the help of his local MP, Conservative Scott Reid, who raised the issue in Parliament. He said that after the court challenge ended, he sought help from a local church to no avail. He said he does not know where else to turn for help. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada did not respond by deadline when asked about the case. 'Sam' said he now 'wholeheartedly' regrets working with the Canadian military. 'They just lied to us. They put us in a situation where they used us and now here's the rewards of it,' he said. 'My only question (to the government) would be … was it worth it for me to go and save so many lives, and then at the same time sacrifice my own family?'
Toronto Sun
20 hours ago
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Virginia Giuffre's family speaks out against any deal for jailed Ghislaine Maxwell
In this Aug. 27, 2019, photo, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who says she was trafficked by sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, holds a news conference outside a Manhattan court where sexual assault claimants invited by a judge addressed a hearing following Epstein's jailhouse death in New York City. Photo by Bebeto Matthews / Files / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The family of Virginia Giuffre spoke out against any clemency for convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell that would ultimately see her released from a U.S. prison. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Giuffre's brother Sky Roberts and his wife, Amanda Roberts, appeared Wednesday on CBS Mornings following reports that Maxwell's attorney sought immunity for the jailed Jeffrey Epstein associate in exchange for testimony in front of the U.S. House Oversight Committee. Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking and other crimes after being found guilty in June 2022 of helping Epstein recruit, groom, and abuse victims, was moved from a low-security facility in Tallahassee, Fla., to an all-women, minimum-security federal prison camp in Texas last week. Maxwell is also urging the Supreme Court to hear her appeal of her conviction. The prison transfer, confirmed by the Bureau of Prisons, followed U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's questioning of Maxwell and her lawyer for nine hours over two days. President Donald Trump also mused that he has the authority to pardon Maxwell as calls for the release of the Epstein files continues to grow across Democratic and Republican lines, as well as a many voters. 'People need to see the real truth and the humans that were actually affected by this … those are the testimonies that need to come to the forefront and come to light,' Amanda Roberts told show co-host Gayle King. 'It would be a travesty, it makes me sick, it makes survivors sick, it's a slap in the face, the idea that she (Maxwell) could potentially get a pardon. Survivors are saying no, no to leniency. No to a pardon. Will you silence them again?' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Ghislaine Maxwell 'was an active participant and a ringleader' in the abuse carried out by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Virginia Giuffre's sister-in-law tells Gayle King. Giuffre, who died by suicide in April, was one of Maxwell and Epstein's most vocal accusers. Sky… — CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) August 6, 2025 While Maxwell has been subpoenaed to testify in front of Congress, she said she would assert her Fifth Amendment rights unless granted immunity from prosecution. Giuffre, who died by suicide in April while living in Australia, previously told King that Maxwell is 'vicious' and 'worse than Epstein.' Giuffre's brother questioned the possibility of any backdoor deals to spring Maxwell from prison after she was moved to a minimum-security prison. 'For her to be moved to a minimum-security prison … it's highly convenient that after she had these conversations with various members of the administration that there's now being some sort of preferential treatment going on,' Sky Roberts said. Roberts and his wife said they are willing to testify in front of Congress to give voice to Giuffre's accusations against Maxwell. Read More Toronto Maple Leafs Columnists Celebrity Toronto & GTA Editorial Cartoons
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a day ago
- Automotive
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Toyota reports 37% drop in profit, cuts its forecast due to Trump's tariffs
Published Aug 07, 2025 • 2 minute read A Toyota logo is shown at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Sept. 13, 2023. Photo by Paul Sancya / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TOKYO —- Toyota's profit plunged 37% in the April-June quarter, the company said Thursday, cutting its full year earnings forecasts largely because of President Donald Trump's tariffs. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account The Japanese automaker said it based its report on the assumption that Trump's tariffs on exports from Japan, including autos, would be 12.5% starting this month. As of now they stand at 15%. The world's top automaker also makes vehicles in Mexico and Canada. Toyota's profit in the last quarter totaled 841 billion yen, or US$5.7 billion, down from 1.33 trillion yen in the same period the year before. Its quarterly sales rose 3%. The status of those exports is unclear since Mexico and Canada are beneficiaries of the U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement, renegotiated from a 1990s pact during Trump's first term in office, that eliminated most tariffs and trade barriers between the three countries. Toyota Motor Corp.'s April-June profit totaled 841 billion yen ($5.7 billion), down from 1.33 trillion yen in the same period of 2024. Quarterly sales rose 3% to 12 trillion yen ($82 billion). Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Toyota said the tariffs cost its quarterly operating profit 450 billion yen ($3 billion). Cost reduction efforts and the negative impact of an unfavorable exchange rate also hurt its bottom line. The company, which makes the Camry sedan and Lexus luxury models, forecast a 2.66 trillion yen ($18 billion) profit for the full fiscal year ending in March 2026, down from an earlier forecast for a 3.1 trillion yen ($21 billion) profit. Toyota earned nearly 4.8 trillion yen in the previous fiscal year. 'Despite a challenging external environment, we have continued to make comprehensive investments, as well as improvements such as increased unit sales, cost reductions and expanded value chain profits,' Toyota said in a statement that outlined its efforts to minimize the impact of the tariffs. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. At the retail level, Toyota sold 2.4 million vehicles globally, with sales growing in Japan, North America and Europe from the previous year, when global retail totaled 2.2 million vehicles. Analysts say Toyota is likely among the worst hit by the tariffs among global companies, even compared with other Japanese automakers. Also Thursday, Toyota announced it was building a new car assembly plant in Japan that it expects to have up and running in the early 2030s. It is acquiring a site in Toyota city, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, where the automaker is headquartered. The models to be produced there are still undecided, but the plant will be part of the company's plan to maintain a production capacity of 3 million vehicles in Japan, according to Toyota. Billed as 'a plant of the future,' it will also feature new technology tailored for what Toyota said will be a diverse work force. Sunshine Girls Sunshine Girls World World Canada
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Helicopter crash in Ghana kills ministers of defence and environment and 6 others
Published Aug 06, 2025 • 1 minute read In this image taken from video, people work at the site of a military helicopter crash in Sikaman near Adansi, Ashanti region, Ghana, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025. Photo by Hafiz Tijani / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ACCRA, Ghana — A military helicopter crashed in Ghana on Wednesday, killing all eight people on board, including the West African country's defence and environment ministers and two other top officials, the government said. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account The crash was one of Ghana's worst air disasters in more than a decade. The Ghanaian military said the helicopter took off in the morning from the capital, Accra, and was heading northwest into the interior toward the gold-mining area of Obuasi in the Ashanti region when it went off the radar. The wreckage was later found in the Adansi area of Ashanti. The cause of the crash was not immediately known, and the military said an investigation was underway. Defence Minister Edward Omane Boamah and Environment Minister Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed were killed, as well as Samuel Sarpong, vice-chair of the National Democratic Congress ruling party, Muniru Mohammed, a top national security adviser, and the four crew members. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Mourners gathered at the Boamah's residence as well as at the party's headquarters, and Ghana's government described the crash as a 'national tragedy.' State media reported that the aircraft was a Z-9 helicopter that is often used for transport and medical evacuation. An online video of the crash site shows debris on fire in a forest as some people circle around to help. In May 2014, a service helicopter crashed off Ghana's coast, killing at least three people. In 2012, a cargo plane overran the runway in Accra, the capital, and crashed into a bus full of passengers, killing at least 10 people. RECOMMENDED VIDEO Editorial Cartoons World Celebrity Canada Wrestling
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2 days ago
- Business
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Trump announces Apple investing another $100 billion in U.S. manufacturing
Published Aug 06, 2025 • 3 minute read President Donald Trump shakes hands with Apple CEO Tim Cook in the Oval Office, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025, in Washington. Photo by Alex Brandon / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Apple CEO Tim Cook joined President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday to announce a commitment by the tech company to increase its investment in U.S. manufacturing by an additional $100 billion over the next four years. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. 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Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account 'This is a significant step toward the ultimate goal of ensuring that iPhones sold in the United States of America also are made in America,' Trump said at the press conference. 'Today's announcement is one of the largest commitments in what has become among the greatest investment booms in our nation's history.' As part of the Apple announcement, the investments will be about bringing more of its supply chain and advanced manufacturing to the United States as part of an initiative called the American Manufacturing Program, but it is not a full commitment to build its popular iPhone device domestically. 'This includes new and expanded work with 10 companies across America. They produce components — semiconductor chips included — that are used in Apple products sold all over the world, and we're grateful to the President for his support,' Cook said in a statement announcing the investment. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The new manufacturing partners include Corning, Coherent, Applied Materials, Texas Instruments and Broadcom among others. Apple had previously said it intended to invest $500 billion domestically, a figure it will now increase to $600 billion. Trump in recent months has criticized the tech company and Cook for efforts to shift iPhone production to India to avoid the tariffs his Republican administration had planned for China. While in Qatar earlier this year, Trump said there was 'a little problem' with the Cupertino, California, company and recalled a conversation with Cook in which he said he told the CEO, 'I don't want you building in India.' India has incurred Trump's wrath, as the president signed an order Wednesday to put an additional 25% tariff on the world's most populous country for its use of Russian oil. The new import taxes to be imposed in 21 days could put the combined tariffs on Indian goods at 50%. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Apple's new pledge comes just a few weeks after it forged a $500 million deal with MP Materials, which runs the only rare earths producer in the country. That agreement will enable MP Materials to expand a factory in Texas to use recycled materials to produce magnets that make iPhones vibrate. Speaking on a recent investors call, Cook emphasized that 'there's a load of different things done in the United States.' As examples, he cited some of the iPhone components made in the U.S. such as the device's glass display and module for identifying people's faces and then indicated the company was gearing to expand its productions of other components in its home country. 'We're doing more in this country, and that's on top of having roughly 19 billion chips coming out of the U.S. now, and we will do more,' Cook told analysts last week, without elaborating. News of Apple's latest investment in the U.S. caused the company's stock price to surge by 5% in Wednesday's midday trading. That gain reflects investors' relief that Cook 'is extending an olive branch' to the Trump administration, said Nancy Tengler, CEO of money manager Laffer Tengler Investments, which owns Apple stock. Despite Wednesday's upturn, Apple's shares are still down by 15% this year, a reversal of fortune that has also been driven by the company's botched start in the pivotal field of artificial intelligence. 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