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Election Campaign: Pakistani Woman and Syrian Refugee

election campaign: These are some of the people you'll meet at Toronto's Untold Stories, a new interactive event focused on revealing stories of the city that aren't often told in the mainstream media, according to Metro News. Aanjalie Collure is the woman behind the project. A genocide survivor with PTSD. A Syrian refugee living with HIV. A young Pakistani woman looking to reconnect with her culture. She got the idea after being on the ground in New York the day Donald Trump was elected president. People didn't know anything about their neighbours. The divisive rhetoric she heard afterwards the reverberations of an election campaign that targeted immigrants, Muslims and others left her bewildered. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.