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Syria: Colin Angus

Colin Angus: Not Julie Angus and Dr. Saren Azer, though. You might remember their story from mid-September. , according to Times Colonist. Angus and husband Colin Angus are, arguably, Canadas best-known Indiana Jones adventurers, rowing, rafting and cycling around the world in a series of exploits documented in book and film. She has close family in Syria, where her father was born. Here in peaceful, comfortable First World Problems-by-the-Sea, we re insulated and isolated from the grim realities of far-off lands, so much so that distant suffering can seem too foreign, too abstract to make us do anything other than shrug and turn the page. Azer is an internal medical specialist from Comox who travelled to Iraq to treat the starving, sick refugees of the war in Syria. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.