Aoki had been running his small dojo out of Strathcona High School for the past 11 years when they were forced out during the first wave of the pandemic in March. It was then when he first took ...

Sensei Ali Najafi leads about 30 white-clad students through some karate manoeuvres at his dojo, or club, based at the gymnasium École des Voyageurs in the Walnut Grove neighbourhood of Langley, B.C.