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Yasamin Zia: Zia and Stone Road

yasamin zia: Today my friends and I were at Walmart and as we approached the cashier she immediately started disrespecting us and giving us attitude, Zia wrote in the post, according to Guelph Mercury. The employee refused to cash them out and told them they weren't citizens, she said. On Tuesday evening, Yasamin Zia took to social media to publicly express her disgust with the way she was treated by an employee at the big-box retailer on Stone Road. You're not Canadian citizens, I need to see pictures of your citizenship, you can't pay for this, Zia wrote, quoting the cashier in the online post. I'm appalled, this was my first time getting discriminated against my skin colour, she wrote. This is when a manager got involved and cashed them out, assuring Zia and her friends the situation would be dealt with. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.