The deaths have cast a pall over university campuses across the country. The couple were computer science students from the University of Alberta. Azhdari's partner, Hamed Alibeiki, also died.Sixty-three Canadians, including two recently married couples, were among the 176 passengers who were killed when a Ukrainian jet crashed in Iran on Wednesday. “We got along so easily and pretty much within a week or two we just were hanging out every other day.”Maya Zibaie, a Grade 10 student at Northern Secondary School in Toronto, was identified by the principal as one of the passengers who died.In a letter to parents, Adam Marshall said Zibaie was new to Canada and excited about her future.We are heartbroken to learn that a number of TDSB students & their family members, along with a family member of at least one of our employees are among those who lost their lives in the crash of the UIA flight in Iran yesterday evening. Ghanimat Azhdari was a student in the department of geography and Milad Ghasemi was a student in marketing. Stagner said she was informed by the head of the lab where Naghibi worked that she was on the plane.Naghibi was a part of Windsor’s Turbulence and Energy Lab, where she worked on issues related to solar energy.Stagner said when one of her students — just starting graduate work and new to Canada — needed help, Naghibi stepped in.“Zahra was giving her advice, helping her out, letting her learn from her own work and what she’d discovered — helping her along, the next generation of researchers.

None of us did. SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEWS NEWSLETTER No one can believe it.”“Alina was a valued employee, and part of a tightly-knit team at Provincial Office,” the group’s president Harvey Bischof said in a statement, according to City News. Canadians across the country mourned lost family members and loved ones 24 of the Canadian victims hailed from EdmontonThe Iranian regime has insisted the plane's engine caught fire causing a loss of control, but has fueled suspicion of foul-play by refusing to hand over the craft's black boxes.

Paseyan said he often would go to the gym with Mousavi and described him as a nice guy who often visited his former restaurant with his family.

Mahdi Sadeghi was a board member for the Iranian association and Hajesfandiari volunteered at a Persian school.Soltani was at their home about two weeks before they left.

It is absolutely heartbreaking. At the end of the conference Uzonna told her if she ever wanted to do a doctoral program she could come to his lab in Winnipeg. He was traveling back to Canada after visiting family for the holidays.Hamidreza Setare and Samira Bashiri were living in Windsor. Siavash Ghafouri-Azar and Sara Mamani, of Montreal, were also recently married. He texted her Monday to say he hoped that she was doing well. “We were saying it’s not that bad. 'One of the reasons why you take that flight is you wouldn't want to take a flight that has a connection in the United States because international students can't do that,' he said.Bahareh Haj Esfandiari (right), 41, Mehdi Sadeghi (center), 43, and Anisa Sadeghi (being held by her father), 10, were among the deadMasoumeh Ghavi (pictured), of Nova Scotia, was studying engineering at Dalhousie University. While no words will erase your pain, we want you to know that an entire country is with you, we share your grief."

“She was respected and well-liked by all. "This is a heartbreaking tragedy. 'I am not aware of any extended family members that they have here.

READ MORE: Ontario creating scholarships to honour of victims of Iran plane crash Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Friday that Ottawa will provide $25,000 to … All 176 people on board the flight were killed when the plane crashed shortly after takeoff in Iran.Sixty-three of them were Canadian nationals, but many more called Canada their home, at least temporarily.They lived in cities like Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and Edmonton. Pictured on Facebook.Suzan Golbabapour worked as a real-estate agent and lived in Toronto with her husband.Iman Ghaderpanah and Parinaz Ghaderpanah pictured in this photo.Evin Arsalani, pictured with her husband (who was not on the plane with her).Zeynab Asadi Lari and Mohammad Asadi Lari pictured.Zahra Naghibi University of Windsor’s Turbulence and Energy Lab in Ontario.Siavash Ghafouri-Azar and Sara Mamani worked as engineers at Concordia and were returning celebrating their wedding in Iran.Dr. “They were blessed and they were blessings. Delaram Dadashnejad, 26, was studying English language at Langara College in …

It was truly a national tragedy, leaving families and loved ones in mourning across the country. It’s not fair that it happened to him.”Jude Uzonna, the Health Research Chair and an associate professor of immunology at the University of Manitoba, said he was devastated by the death of his friend and colleague Forough Khadem.He met her at a conference in Iran where she was a translator. The three British victims were later named as businessman Mohammad Reza Kadkhoda-Zadeh, 40, and engineers Saeed Tahmasebi Khademsadi, 35, and Sam Zokaei, 42. We play again. Mr Trudeau said Canada would work closely with its partners to ensure the crash is thoroughly investigated - and would be requesting the presence of Canadian officials in Tehran to assist families seeking consular assistance, as well as to participate in any investigation into the cause of the incident.To those who lost family members and loved ones, he said "your loss is indescribable". Evin Arsalani, 30, her husband, Hiva Molani, 38, and their one-year-old daughter Kurdia were killed in the crash. Newlyweds Arash Pourzarabi, 26, and Pouneh Gourji, 25, were graduate students in computer science at the University of Alberta and were also returning to Canada from their wedding. We have enabled email notifications—you will now receive an email if you receive a reply to your comment, there is an update to a comment thread you follow or if a user you follow comments. Calls for justice have continued to grow in Canada amid repeated denials from Iran that its missiles brought down a passenger jet which crashed near Tehran, killing 176 people – … According to LinkedIn, Mamani was an engineer at Bombardier and Ghafouri worked as a performance specialist at Pratt and Whitney Canada. 'The plane was in working order,' UIA company president Yevgeniy Dykhne told a briefing in Kyiv where he choked back tears.