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Unveiled wife prayer for my husband9/11/2023 A woman came in with head scarves and shawls for sale. GHAZAL: Something very strange and interesting happened at the hair salon today. I have to use multiple VPNs, and they disconnect several times. Pretty much every application you want to use in Iran is blocked, and to get around the restrictions, we use virtual private networks. I can’t even download a movie or check social media properly with our stupid slow internet. Now I can afford to go only once or twice a month. I used to enjoy going to cafes once a week, but it has become so expensive. KIMIA, a 23-year-old graduate student who lives in Kurdistan Province: I thought I would have fun after my master’s entrance exam, but now there is nothing to do. Like many Iranians, they are trying to figure out what their lives should look like as they continue to fight for, and dream of, change. Their entries have been edited for length and clarity, and their last names are being withheld for their safety. ![]() To better understand how daily life in Iran has transformed, we asked three young women to keep a diary for five weeks. At night, Iranians chant antigovernment slogans from their rooftops. Women and girls appear in public without the hijab. To this day, acts of civil disobedience continue. Authorities have also dismantled the morality police and are trying new methods to enforce the dress code. Marches, led by women, spread across the country from September to January, and the government has cracked down violently. The protest movement - known as Woman, Life, Freedom - quickly morphed into broader demands for an end to the Islamic Republic’s rule. She had been arrested on accusations of violating mandatory-hijab rules, and a gruesome photo and video of her unconscious in a hospital bed went viral, sparking outrage and grief. Our government needs to invest in its people,” she said.The uprising began in September, after a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, died in the custody of Iran’s morality police. “If we’re going to get out of this COVID lock of being backed up, then hire more. Norman says she thinks more judges would allow the courts to tackle the delays - so she’s not waiting until death do them part. So there is political and judicial will,” she said. “Chief Justice Morawetz has indicated that the situation can’t continue as it is and he is ready to undertake broad reforms. “From our perspective, this is an all-hands-on-deck problem,” McDermott said. President Kelly McDermott said there are plenty of people frustrated at the delays, which she also said are largely thanks to backlogs from the pandemic when many courts limited their operations or moved online. Their website is calling for people to submit their own timelines in a survey in the hope that the OBA can get enough data to track the problem. The Superior Court didn’t respond to a media inquiry from CTV News.ĭelays are such an issue that the Ontario Bar Association has put out an unusual call for people’s experiences in the courts. The Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs Canada says that there are 3 vacancies out of 50 judges in Ontario’s Family Court, and 19 vacancies out of 205 positions in the Superior Court. “Some courts, including the one in Newmarket, are extremely backed up still from COVID-19,” he said.Īccording to court file numbers, Toronto has processed about 2800 family court matters this year, Brampton about 1200, Milton about 450, Newmarket about 1000, Ottawa about 1000, Hamilton around 700, and London about 600.Īnother issue is how many judges are there to handle the volume. He said some courts like Brampton move uncontested divorces through in just weeks. The delays in Norman’s case are very common, said lawyer Adam Slater who is representing the couple with ezDivorce. Her next marriage, planned at a resort in Cuba, won’t be a legal wedding unless she’s able to get some documents to the Cuban government, and that takes time too. “In theory, it was supposed to be done by June at the latest. courthouse, which seemed like an easy step given that both parties have already agreed on all aspects of the case.īut as May came and went, Norman said she hadn’t heard back, she began to get worried. The next stop is a Superior Court judge in a Newmarket, Ont. Records show it was approved by a government agency in February. Norman’s marriage with her soon-to-be ex-husband is still on the books in Ontario, long after the pair separated and jointly filed an uncontested divorce in January. I was hoping to say ‘I do’ to someone I love - and I’m so let down.” “I just want to be with him,” Norman told CTV News in an interview. ![]() An Ontario couple’s uncontested divorce case is taking so long in court that it’s interfering with the soon-to-be ex-wife’s next wedding.Īs pandemic-related delays are tying up courts in some regions, Krista Norman's plan for an August wedding is slipping through her fingers.
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