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When we witness a human crisis happening in another part of the world, Canadians, for the most part, find it hard to sit idly by and not take action. Last fall, with citizens continuing to flee war-torn Syria, the world saw heart-breaking evidence of the tragedy unfolding there. The photo of Alan Kurdi, a Syrian toddler found face down, dead on a Turkish beach, was impossible to ignore. Canadians vowed to take action, and the