Our local and Provincial Governments, along with the many charitable organizations in the country have been inundated with the challenge of caring for many thousands of asylum seekers, be they political or economic. The Federal Government has responded to the public demands to assist the many homeless, destitute, and threatened peoples of many foreign lands such as Afghanistan, Syria, Congo, Nigeria, and from every corner of the globe. Promises are made reality, as these asylum seekers arrive on our land, welcomed and then left to care for themselves, or sent to various communities throughout our nation, cities not really prepared for the financial, mental, and historical demands they will face.
African migrants sleeping on Toronto’s streets, Migrants sent to hotels throughout Ontario and waiting to get the assistance and approvals needed to become members of our society. A babysitting mentality with no real wish to assist and release these people quickly and effectively.
We must call upon all levels of government to move swiftly( is this possible?) to transform our immigration system, make it more cost-effective, less costly, better communicators to all partners, and more efficient in its operations. Partners is the right term I think. Unloading migrants and asylum seekers onto the sidewalks of our cities, as they do in America these days, is bad management, ineffective, damaging to both the hosts and guests alike, and carries on a horrid tradition we have had in North America for many decades. Tradition you may ask? Well, there is the practice used by many municipalities in Canada and Cities in America where migrants, asylum seekers, and illegal migrants alike are gathered together, given some money, and put onto a bus, then sent to a larger urban center far from where they were gathered. The cost of caring for these people simply passes onto their new city hosts. Costs like medical care, housing, shelter maintenance, and staffing fall onto the larger city they arrive at. A cold, selfish approach to a problem that will not go away.
Demands, perhaps a cry for funds from good-hearted people who need to face those in need must go out to our public and corporate elites, those who determine who can be assisted, how, where, and when. Promises of charity and good-hearted humanity must become principled managed action. Cost-effective, direct, and life-giving.
A call upon the Federal Government to enact measures that would assist those carrying out the management of these people follows…
a. Calling for expedited work authorization for asylum seekers, so they can enter the workforce and ultimately leave the shelter system. Let these people work and build their lives.
b. Identify federally owned land and sites to use as temporary shelters(i.e. former military bases) as asylum seekers wait for legal status. Unused property owned by the Federal Government can be renovated and used quickly. If it could house many hundreds of our soldiers, it can also assist migrants and asylum seekers.
c. Reimbursement for the costs compounded upon Municipal, Provincial Governments, and Charitable Agencies in the effort to care for these asylum seekers. These organizations cannot deplete their budgets and reroute funds that are already allocated elsewhere to this cause. The Federal Government must short its financial promises to the world and take care of its own backyard.
d. Request substantial Federal Financial assistance for housing, schooling, healthcare, case management, and shelter.
These asylum seekers are literally fleeing for their lives, whether it be from political strife, gang violence, extreme poverty, or persecution. They are coming to this land with the same goals as our descendants, our grandparents, parents did to build a better life for their family and themselves.
With great power comes great responsibility. The Federal Government must stand up before the public, take on full responsibility for those they allow to enter our land and continue to establish a firm, well-managed partnership between all involved, local, Provincial, and National alike.
*Since Saturday morning at the least some 42,519 people have died in the region of Gaza. Palestinian & Israeli.
*The Wall Street Journal has told us that 1 Million Ukrainian’s and Russians have died since the annexation of some territory bordering Russia and Ukraine, and with the warfare escalating more soldiers and Ukrainian civilians will be dying daily. According to Hamas governments Ministry of Health over 99,637 people have been wounded in Gaza since Oct 7th,2023. According to the United Nations @19 people are killed every 24 hours in Gaza.
* Last week @ 955 Mexicans & Migrants on the move to the American Border were murdered, some horribly. That is an approximation by the Ministry of the Interior, which admits the figure is probably very low. The Government and Mexican Police simply cannot know for sure just how many migrants are being murdered, or disappeared by Mexican and International Cartels. That is approximately 46,000 people dead annually. That is a very conservative number as well.
This outrage you folks? I am upset that this sort of thing has been going on since I can form a memory. Death and destruction making the news, and becoming common place to us all. Looking at our diplomats discuss these horrible events and they don’t seem visibly disturbed at all. I know its their jobs to be calm and collected, but damn it, people are dying everywhere and I just don’t know what to say anymore. It’s like being a priest who has to tell a family why God allowed their parents to die to early and in a horrible way too. Anger towards God for allowing it to happen is the alternative to good logic, that would say shit simply does happens.
Psychologists (Psychiatry Times) tell us that during and since the pandemic 1st struck the publics attitude towards illness, death and perceived destruction have changed. Less emotion is invested in a persons social perception of loss, be it personal ,business or national in scope. People are far more distant from events, especially horrible historic events, and misinformation and social media applications introduce the public to far off concepts and easy answers to some very deep personal questions like death of a loved one-how-why-responsibility. How can I deal with obviously significant loss?
Reality has been distorted and logic often does not have a key position in decision making anymore. Death is something many of us fear. But the often caviler attitudes people have regarding the wholesale slaughter of many people seems unfathomable. One death, especially a personal loss, people can perhaps understand, but tens of thousands becomes more difficult to imagine. The mental issues people are facing is in fact real and challenging to us all. Perhaps the only thing we can all do is be human, and listen, learn and comfort others in need.
Selena Gomez is recorded saying “if you are broken, you simply do not need to stay broken”. A little help from others will certainly not hurt. If the death of many people outrages you, be outraged. Speak up, be logically emotional and talk about it. Reality bites, but only if you do not understand it. Grief is an expression of love after all.
If the world is in shambles and you cannot cope, concentrate upon your mental health issues, your family as well. Think small, not to say unimportant but surely manageable.. Think about your own local concerns and never fear of asking for help.
FORT NELSON, B.C. – Police in northeastern British Columbia say they’re searching for a man who has failed to return from a 10-day camping trip in a remote provincial park.
RCMP say Sam Benastick’s family reported him missing on Saturday, after he didn’t come home from the trip to Redfern-Keily Park, located about 250 kilometres northwest of Fort St. John.
They say Benastick started his hike on Oct. 7, his last update to his family was the following day, and he was supposed to return last Thursday.
The Mounties say Benastick is an avid hiker and camper, and he left on the trip with a tarp, a black Osprey backpack with red strings and other supplies.
They say “extensive resources” have been deployed to find him, including search and rescue personnel and the RCMP police dog services unit.
Anyone with information or who has visited the Redfern-Keily Park area since Oct. 7 is asked to contact the Northern Rockies RCMP detachment.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 21, 2024.
KITCHENER, Ont. – A sentencing hearing is underway for a man who pleaded guilty to four charges in the stabbing of a professor and two students in a University of Waterloo gender studies class.
Geovanny Villalba-Aleman pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated assault, one count of assault with a weapon and one count of assault causing bodily harm in June, roughly a year after the attack.
The Public Prosecution Service of Canada says those offences constitute terrorist activity in his case.
An agreed statement of facts previously read in court said Villalba-Aleman told police he carried out the attack because he believed post-secondary institutions were “forcing ideology” on people.
It said he told police he went into the gender studies class because of the subject matter being taught and specifically targeted the professor.
The former University of Waterloo student, who was 24 at the time of the attack, initially faced 11 charges.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 21, 2024.
