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Showing posts with label Charity Begins At Home. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Charity Begins At Home. Show all posts
Sunday, October 02, 2011
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Friday, June 10, 2011
The Canadian Way...
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
As Misguided As It Might Seem We Have An Obligation...
...to try and help and I guess if we help even one child to survive that is a measure of success.
Lorne Gunter: Why Haiti can’t recover
Haiti been misruled for so long by drug lords, kleptocrats and voodoo cults that it lacks the ability to rebuild itself even with aid donations.
Of all the words I’ve read to describe post-quake Haiti, the most apt is “dystopian.”
Haiti is not only the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere, it is also the most wretched and dysfunctional. By nearly every measure — stability of civil society, corruption, GDP, per capita income — Haiti is in the bottom 10% of nations worldwide. The UN’s human development index pegs it at 145th of 169 studied. The only greater cesspools are in Africa.
Every tropical storm that blows through proves deadly because over the past couple of decades Haitians have completely denuded their country’s mountain forests for timber and firewood. The Dominican Republic, which occupies the eastern half of the island of Hispaniola — Haiti takes up the western half — watches the rains come and go. Meanwhile, in Haiti every thunderstorm washes more hillside into the valleys and onto the coastal plains, submerging shantytowns and washing away souls in its path. Read More »
Travers: Slow Haiti recovery gives Harper second chance
Haiti one year later Land disputes and rubble have stalled the job of rebuilding Haiti
Why has Haiti's recovery stalled?
Monday, September 27, 2010
Politicians Setting Priorities...
...espousing concerns about "snarled traffic" on a Sunday in a city that views motorists as the enemy the other six days as opposed to local charities getting $2.7M that doesn't come out of the coffers of Silly Hall.
Take marathons off city streets — Ford
By IAN ROBERTSON, Toronto Sun
Mayoral candidate Rob Ford offered an alternative to closing streets for marathons like the one that snarled traffic on Sunday.
Records set at waterfront marathon
By IAN ROBERTSON, Toronto Sun
Last Updated: September 26, 2010 8:05pm
As Kenneth Mungara crossed the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon finish line Sunday, he clasped his hands and offered a prayer of thanks.It was the third time the Kenyan outpaced runners in the annual event. And he covered the 42.1-kilometre course in 2:07:57 hours — breaking his previous record, in 2009, by 34 seconds.
This year, Mungara had more than 20,000 participants behind him.
Officials said the 21st running of the marathon had its most successful year, raising more than $2.7 million for 127 local charities and setting several course records.
Highlights include:
• A dramatic final sprint won Sharon Cherop, also from Kenya, the women’s title, running one second ahead of Tirfi Tsegaye, of Ethiopia.
• Hamilton resident Reid Coolsaet, of the Speed River Track Club in Guelph, came 10th, with the fastest time ever by a Canadian on Canadian soil — in 2:11:22 hours, achieving the Canadian Olympic standard for the 2012 Games. His time eclipsed the mark of 2:11:34 previously set in 1995 by Peter Fonseca, Ontario’s labour minister.
— Half-Marathon Highlights
• Ed Whitlock, of Milton ran a world-record for 79-year-olds, finishing in 1:34:27 hours. He holds the world-record for the fastest marathon in the 70-plus category, set in 2004.
• Dagim Yeshitela, of Mississauga, won the men’s half-marathon in 1:03:24 hours.
• The women’s race was won by Nicole Stevenson of Toronto, in 1:18:06 hours.
For further details on the race and its winners, check the website: http://www.stwm.ca.
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Take marathons off city streets — Ford
By IAN ROBERTSON, Toronto Sun
Mayoral candidate Rob Ford offered an alternative to closing streets for marathons like the one that snarled traffic on Sunday.
Records set at waterfront marathon
By IAN ROBERTSON, Toronto Sun
Last Updated: September 26, 2010 8:05pm
As Kenneth Mungara crossed the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon finish line Sunday, he clasped his hands and offered a prayer of thanks.It was the third time the Kenyan outpaced runners in the annual event. And he covered the 42.1-kilometre course in 2:07:57 hours — breaking his previous record, in 2009, by 34 seconds.
This year, Mungara had more than 20,000 participants behind him.
Officials said the 21st running of the marathon had its most successful year, raising more than $2.7 million for 127 local charities and setting several course records.
Highlights include:
• A dramatic final sprint won Sharon Cherop, also from Kenya, the women’s title, running one second ahead of Tirfi Tsegaye, of Ethiopia.
• Hamilton resident Reid Coolsaet, of the Speed River Track Club in Guelph, came 10th, with the fastest time ever by a Canadian on Canadian soil — in 2:11:22 hours, achieving the Canadian Olympic standard for the 2012 Games. His time eclipsed the mark of 2:11:34 previously set in 1995 by Peter Fonseca, Ontario’s labour minister.
— Half-Marathon Highlights
• Ed Whitlock, of Milton ran a world-record for 79-year-olds, finishing in 1:34:27 hours. He holds the world-record for the fastest marathon in the 70-plus category, set in 2004.
• Dagim Yeshitela, of Mississauga, won the men’s half-marathon in 1:03:24 hours.
• The women’s race was won by Nicole Stevenson of Toronto, in 1:18:06 hours.
For further details on the race and its winners, check the website: http://www.stwm.ca.
Your Comments
Friday, July 30, 2010
Depressing To Be Sure But...
...what is the solution? Many will say increase fiscal aid but this is a cop out.
DiManno: The cruel life of 'child witches' in Africa
Fri Jul 30 2010
Children as young young as 4 and 5 are condemned as wiches and tossed onto the scrapheap of street life to fend for themselves, chased by predators. Where so many children die bearing children
Bombs that kill kids
Thu Jul 29 2010
Cluster bombs have maimed and killed their way from Afghanistan to Zambia, leaving a trail of civilian casualties in their wake. The most vulnerable are children, who have little chance against showers of deadly shrapnel that slice through limbsby Rosie DiManno
Monday, July 19, 2010
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Normalcy Returns To Haiti...
...can aid now be reduced?
Haiti protests call for president's ouster amid gunfire, tear gas
Friday, March 19, 2010
Is There A Message Here For Canada?
A messiah is not enough
Timothy Garton Ash
Obama's outstretched hand of friendship has been bitten or brushed aside. But it's not all his faultWednesday, February 03, 2010
Let's Start With Keeping More Our Tax $$$ At Home...
...and quit trying to impress "the Joneses" of the world.
Jeffrey Simpson
Our politicians need expert help in dealing with the costs of aging
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Any Bets On Which Of These Two Committments Will Happen
Stephen Harper pushes G8 to help world's poorest women and kids
Tue Jan 26 2010
Canada intends to champion a new international agenda to improve the health of women and children in the world's poorest...Haiti: 10 years and $10 billion in aid?
Tue Jan 26 2010
Many of the world's richest nations have committed to rebuilding Haiti's broken buildings and society, but have remained...
Saturday, January 23, 2010
$100M+ Per Year Buys A Large Chunk Of Compassion
Limiting compassion towards Haiti
There needs to be a limit on Canadian compassion towards Haiti.
We reached it this week when Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff and the NDP’s Jack Layton called on the federal government to massively expand the definition of who can immigrate to Canada under the family reunification program.
This would fast-track thousands of immigrants into our country sponsored by members of Canada’s 135,000-strong Haitian community.
Ignatieff said in light of the devastating earthquake and “the exceptional humanitarian situation,” he “can’t understand why the government doesn’t seize the opportunity to show Canadian generosity and compassion.”
Immigration Minister Jason Kenney rejected the idea of loosening immigration rules. He’s right.
“Massive resettlement is not a solution to natural disaster,” Kenney warned. “The solution is reconstruction ...” Exactly.
We cannot solve every global catastrophe by throwing open our doors to the victims.
Our immigration and refugee system is already a mess.
We’ve lost track of tens of thousands of now-missing deportees.
People who aren’t deserving get into Canada all the time, while many who follow the rules wait for years to be admitted, if ever. Making things even worse isn’t the answer.
Canada takes a back seat to no nation in what it is has done for Haiti, from the outpouring of generosity by its citizens in donating to the relief effort, to the deployment of our military and aid workers to deal with the emergency and plan for the difficult, long-term recovery.
Even before the earthquake, Canada had already earmarked $555 million in aid for Haiti from 2006 to 2011, second only to our spending in Afghanistan. International observers credit us with taking a “leadership role” in Haiti, not just over the last few days, but for years.
Looking forward, our government should commit to specific projects to help rebuild Haiti and oversee them to ensure they are completed, rather than started and forgotten as has occurred in other natural disasters.
The government has also said it will expedite the adoption of Haitian children who were already in the process of qualifying to come to Canada. That’s appropriate.
But throwing open our doors to the world every time there’s a natural disaster is an impractical, foolish and ultimately dangerous idea.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
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