Plane crash devastates Iranian-Canadian community

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Many of the victims in the Ukraine International Airlines crash in Iran were Canadian or returning to Canada, and many were Iranian-Canadians. Host Marco Werman speaks to Payman Parseyan, former president of the Iranian Heritage Society in Edmonton.

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