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Last Updated: Thursday, April 8, 2021 12:05 A long-running battle between the pastor and members of an Alberta church, who say their Charter rights are being threatened by provincial restrictions designed to fight COVID-19, and health authorities, who say the church is breaking the law, has taken another turn. On Wednesday morning, RCMP and members of Alberta Health Services moved to “physically close” the GraceLife Church west of Edmonton–erecting chain link fencing surrounding the church and its parking lot in Spruce Grove in Parkland County. “Alberta Health Services physicall...

© Clodagh Kilcoyne/Getty Images Shahrzad Rafati decided at 13 that she would one day build a global business. As Andreane Williams points out on the BBC, she was born into a family of business leaders in Tehran, but left her native country at 17 to avoid the Iran-Iraq war. She moved by herself to Vancouver to attend the University of British Columbia, having very little English. “I knew that I needed a different future, and a life where I could make a difference, and where equal was equal.”  After she graduated in 2000, Rafati studied French at the Université Paris-Sorbonne, and leader...