Lucky ones went with a backpack; Others with only the clothes on their backs, since their lives depended on it! When they arrived an unknown land, some had to sleep rough, with no loonie, and neither food nor water! No border remembers their names No anthems rise when they stand, The wind never asks for…
Photo credit: Global News Quebec discriminated against female refugee claimants by introducing regulations that denied them access to subsidized daycare spaces, Canada’s highest court said Friday, leading to strong rebukes from members of the provincial government. The Canadian Press reports that in an 8-1 ruling, the court said that blocking female refugee claimants from subsidized daycare threatens to marginalize…
Photo credit: UNHCR The number of Ukrainian refugees intending to return home is decreasing as the duration of displacement grows, yet many remain ready too return immediately once the security situation improves, stated UNHCR Representative in Ukraine Bernadette Castel-Hollingsworth in an interview with the Infofax-Ukraine agency. She reported that UNHCR has just completed its seventh round of…
Photo credit: Reuters The UN refugee agency has said that nearly 100,0000 people have been displaced within Lebanon and tens of thousands of Syrian refugees there have fled back over the border. calling the situation in the region a “major humanitarian emergency”. Aaia One reports that Israel has issued large-scale evacuation orders for southern Lebanon…
I was at a naming ceremony today. To say I wasn’t the happiest will be an understatement of the year. The parents are so-called Christians. Why I doubt their Christianity will soon be apparent. By the way, I used to think it was only the Pentecostal churches that weren’t doing things the way we used…
In my secondary school days, I was a major fan of the James Hadley Chase thrillers. What attracted me to the series was the fact that the writer of the series himself was a ‘dribbler’ because you never knew where a particular a story would end until you finished reading it. One of the series…
