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n.s .,: Chocolate Factory

n.s .,: Fearing for their lives, the family fled to Lebanon, according to CTV. After spending nearly three years in a refugee camp, the Hadhad family was approved to come to Canada, and settled in Antigonish, N.S., earlier this year. Tareq Hadhad father Assam ran a successful chocolate factory in Damascus, Syria before it was bombed in 2013. After enduring the pain and fear of leaving their war-torn homeland, the family started over rebuilding their successful chocolate business in Canada. When he started his business in the home kitchen in Damascus he said he loved to see people happy and he knows that everyone who eats chocolate will be happy, Tareq said, adding chocolate is a symbol for sharing happiness and celebrations. In an interview on CTV Your Morning on Friday, Tareq Hadhad says business was good for his father in Syria before the war broke out. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.