Canada cries for humanity: The Tehran air crash victims followed a path of hope to Canada. We learn much by walking in their footsteps

Numerous studies attempt to calculate the so-called opportunity costs of war. What is the opportunity cost of Mansour Pourjam, an Ottawa dental technician, a Carleton University alumnus and proud single dad? Many in the Iranian community take comfort from the leadership Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has shown since the tragedy. Just days after Iran’s admission of responsibility, the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, lashed out in a rare and fiery sermon calling the downing of the jet “an excuse to undermine” the Revolutionary Guard, and condemning the legions of protesters in his country as “stooges of the United States.”