It's a wonderful Thanksgiving for Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy, who spent more than 400 days in an Egyptian jail.

The former Al Jazeera bureau chief in Cairo has returned to Canada and is walking with his wife Marwa in the streets of Toronto.

They will live in Vancouver, where Fahmy has lined up a job as an adjunct professor at the UBC graduate school of journalism.

His freedom came after a concerted campaign by his legal team, family, and supporters around the world, as well as the Canadian government.

Today, Fahmy tweeted a joyous message to his followers over Twitter.

https://twitter.com/MFFahmy11/status/653595609065254916

Last month, Eyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sissi issued a pardon after Fahmy and fellow journalists Baher Mohamed and Peter Greste were convicted a second time on charges of terrorism-related offences and spreading false news.

The trio have consistently maintained that they were working as journalists and that the charges were bogus.

Meanwhile, Fahmy has sued Al Jazeera in B.C. Supreme Court, alleging that the Qatar-based network's actions led to him being jailed in Egypt. 

He and his supporters have also created the Fahmy Foundation for Free Press to advocate for other journalists who've been jailed around the world.

Fahmy recent spoke out in London on behalf of the Washington Post's Jason Rezaian, who has since been convicted on espionage charges in Iran. 

The Guardian quoted Washington Post editor Martin Brown describing this weekend's conviction of Rezaian as "contemptible" and "an outrageous injustice".