Swivel Chairs and Tima Kurdi

cash register: Hair-dryer seats line the far wall, according to Huffington Post Canada. Brightly coloured gels and shampoos festoon various shelves. Shiny hydraulic swivel chairs sit in front of mirrored work stations. Sweets fill a bowl beside the cash register. He died alongside his mother and five-year-old brother who, like so many Syrian refugees before and since, were driven by desperation to attempt the dangerous boat crossing from Turkey to Greece. "I'm nobody, really. But for owner Tima Kurdi, the aunt of a toddler whose horrific death beamed a spotlight on a refugee crisis and forever altered the lives of countless Syrian migrants, this space represents her extended family future. "I'm calling it Kurdi Hair Design," says Kurdi about the salon, nestled between a children reading centre and an optometry clinic in a nondescript strip mall in Port Coquitlam, B.C. "It a family business." On Sept. 2, the lifeless body of her nephew Alan Kurdi was discovered face down on a Turkish beach. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.