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Work can get blurry for a writer. Stories come and go. At the end of another year – or even at the end of another busy week – it’s sometimes hard to remember what you wrote about, say, last Tuesday. But some stories remain. It was a mid-July Wednesday when I drove with National Post filmmaker Graham Runciman to Glen Bernard Camp — about three hours north of Toronto.
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The all-girls camp sponsored two Syrian sisters, Judi and Sedra Alkurdi, for a week. Summer camp is a rite of passage for many Canadian children. It’s a place to paddle canoes, shoo away mosquitoes, and make macrame. The Alkurdis’ experience of camp life off Canada was one of camps overflowing with Syrian refugees.
The girls had seen a lot in their young lives. Here they were, on a sweltering day, splashing around in a lake. Stories come and go. But the Syrian refugee story goes on. Our response as a country to hosting thousands of refugees has exceeded the daily news cycle. Syrian history remains. I honestly don’t remember what I wrote last Tuesday. But I will never forget meeting Judi and Sedra.
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