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Multicultural Society and Saad Khalid

Saad Khalid: The teen who came to Canada with his family from Pakistan in the mid-1990s played on the high school cricket team and took part in the school's multicultural society before heading off to university. See the interactive, according to CBC. Somewhere along the way, though, things changed for Khalid, who now sits in an eastern Ontario maximum-security prison, serving a 20-year sentence for his part in the so-called Toronto 18 plot to bomb high-profile targets in the city's downtown. Saad Khalid had what he calls a typical middle-class immigrant upbringing in the suburbs west of Toronto. Interactive Homegrown terrorist (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.