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TORONTO — His wife had changed, Peer Khairi told an Afghan counsellor in the months before he killed her. Randjida Khairi was starting to believe she deserved equal rights.

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His six children had changed, too. They did not listen to him; they were more “adaptive” to Canadian culture than he was.

In a Toronto courthouse Wednesday counsellor Neelab Subhani revealed these grim insights into Mr. Khairi’s mind, citing a meeting with the accused just months before he slit his wife’s throat.

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“He said he’s not happy from his life, from being in Canada,” said Ms. Subhani, who works for the Afghan Women’s Organization, a group that helps link new immigrants with employment, housing and other services.

“It was hard for him to adapt to the new environment. [His children] were more adaptive to the school, language, everything,” Ms. Subhani testified.