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    Freed Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy sets sights on change

    By ILINA GHOSH Staff Reporter Recently freed Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy thanked his supporters Tuesday, while criticizing the Harper government’s lack of effort and diplomatic bungles during his detainment in Egypt. “While you here, citizens in Canada and around the world, clearly understood the urgency of the situation we faced in prison in Egypt, the Harper government did not,” Fahmy said at a press conference at the Ryerson University School of Journalism organized by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression.   Fahmy, 41, was working for Al Jazeera when he was arrested in Egypt in 2013 and put on trial for…