Refugee/Migrant Crisis
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No idea, I see you drew a blank, me to. Big mystery may never be solved.
All we manufacture is oil and gas and grain. Perhaps you mean Ontario.
http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2014/10/24/canada-loses-ford-motor-company-investment-to-mexico/
Canada loses Ford Motor Company investment to Mexico
All we manufacture is oil and gas and grain. Perhaps you mean Ontario.
http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2014/10/24/canada-loses-ford-motor-company-investment-to-mexico/
Canada loses Ford Motor Company investment to Mexico
You know, basket weaving, meat packing, saddle soaping, belt buckle silvering ... all of that heavy Alberta industry that went to Mexico.
I know a company in Calgary that makes steel gym lockers.
Heavy industry ...
'Stealing' is not in the list even if it is an industry in the east, try again. Beside Quebec is better at it than the English. Must be the extra whine they throw in for free.
You mean, like Ontario was for the first 120 years of Confederation?
Do you want your region to grow or not?
So not the mainstay to the economy like Ontario?
You mean, like Ontario was for the first 120 years of Confederation?
Do you want your region to grow or not?
You mean, like Ontario was for the first 120 years of Confederation?
Do you want your region to grow or not?
I live in Sask. we have a pretty good mix from Agriculture-Mining-Manufacturing-Oil/Gas, the good news is we are just scratching the surface in Oil. We came through the resource down turn in the best shape our budget will be balanced this year, and we have the lowest debt to GDP in the country.
My Dad's from Saskatchewan and I have all sorts of familty out that way ... including some landmarks in Regina that carry my surname ... named after my immigrant, politician grandfather.
It used to be a poor province and over the last two or three decades, has become a rich one (as Newfoundland did during the same period).
In your Grandfathers time we were the richest in the West, Socialism weakened us starting with Tommy, although he did a lot to strengthen the rurals infrastructure and health care, the biggest damage to the province was made by a Tommy wannabe in Allan Blakeney that took socialism to near Communist levels
You were wealthy in Saskatchewan until the Great Depression and accompanying devastating drought. It took close to a half century to get back into the "rich" column. It was grim there in the thirties and my dad carried the scars of it for the rest of his life.
Are either of you old enough to comprehend the money crash was an engineered event?
The topsoil blowing away was an unintended consequence I hope it was meant to stop people from being able to grow their own food without the fertilizers that just got developed by the petro industry. 1937 hemp was made illegal to help the same petro industry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fertilizer#North_America_and_other_European_Countries
North America and other European Countries
Founded in 1812, Mirat, producer of manures and fertilizers, is claimed to be the oldest industrial business in Salamanca (Spain).
Other European and North American fertilizer companies developed their market share, forcing the English pioneer companies to merge, becoming Fisons, Packard, and Prentice Ltd. in 1929.[citation needed] Together they produced 85,000 tons of superphosphate/year in 1934 from their new factory and deep-water docks in Ipswich. By World War II they had acquired about 40 companies, including Hadfields in 1935,[citation needed] and two years later the large Anglo-Continental Guano Works, founded in 1917.[citation needed]
The post-war environment was characterized by much higher production levels as a result of the "Green Revolution" and new types of seed with increased nitrogen-absorbing potential, notably the high-response varieties of maize, wheat, and rice. This has accompanied the development of strong national competition, accusations of cartels and supply monopolies, and ultimately another wave of mergers and acquisitions. The original names no longer exist other than as holding companies or brand names: Fisons and ICI agrochemicals are part of today's Yara International[18] and AstraZeneca companies.
Major players in this market now include the Russian fertilizer company Uralkali (listed on the London Stock Exchange), whose former majority owner is Dmitry Rybolovlev, ranked by Forbes as 60th in the list of wealthiest people in 2008.
The topsoil blowing away was an unintended consequence I hope it was meant to stop people from being able to grow their own food without the fertilizers that just got developed by the petro industry. 1937 hemp was made illegal to help the same petro industry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fertilizer#North_America_and_other_European_Countries
North America and other European Countries
Founded in 1812, Mirat, producer of manures and fertilizers, is claimed to be the oldest industrial business in Salamanca (Spain).
Other European and North American fertilizer companies developed their market share, forcing the English pioneer companies to merge, becoming Fisons, Packard, and Prentice Ltd. in 1929.[citation needed] Together they produced 85,000 tons of superphosphate/year in 1934 from their new factory and deep-water docks in Ipswich. By World War II they had acquired about 40 companies, including Hadfields in 1935,[citation needed] and two years later the large Anglo-Continental Guano Works, founded in 1917.[citation needed]
The post-war environment was characterized by much higher production levels as a result of the "Green Revolution" and new types of seed with increased nitrogen-absorbing potential, notably the high-response varieties of maize, wheat, and rice. This has accompanied the development of strong national competition, accusations of cartels and supply monopolies, and ultimately another wave of mergers and acquisitions. The original names no longer exist other than as holding companies or brand names: Fisons and ICI agrochemicals are part of today's Yara International[18] and AstraZeneca companies.
Major players in this market now include the Russian fertilizer company Uralkali (listed on the London Stock Exchange), whose former majority owner is Dmitry Rybolovlev, ranked by Forbes as 60th in the list of wealthiest people in 2008.
The biblical locusts sure as hell were. We have family photos of the front steps of their house black with grasshoppers.
My dad used to get tense every summer when it didn't rain for two, three weeks. My mother pointed the phenomenon out to me. Then they moved to the dry BC interior, generally near Kamloops. The anxiety never quite went away. "PTSD lite"
Big problems currently at the moment with migrants arriving at Dover from Calais.
Why is it the case that so many people are risking their lives crossing the 21 miles from France to Britain when Britain is quitting the EU on 29th March? Haven't they read the apocalyptic warnings from the Remainers?
Why is it the case that so many people are risking their lives crossing the 21 miles from France to Britain when Britain is quitting the EU on 29th March? Haven't they read the apocalyptic warnings from the Remainers?
Grampa said he use to autopsy the dead cows and found their stomachs 1/2 full of grasshoppers, when he got blown out of the West side of the province he moved to the East side where grass would grow as high as a cow's belly, but so did the stones Lol. We seen another grasshopper infestation in the 80's as well
Spanish police discover two African migrants hidden inside mattresses
Associated Press
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Published:
January 1, 2019
Updated:
January 1, 2019 12:04 PM EST
A migrant is transferred at the Centre for Temporary Assistance to Foreigners (CATE) in San Roque, after arriving on board the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms in the southern Spanish port of Algeciras in Campamento near San Roque, with 311 migrants on board,on December 28, 2018. (JORGE GUERRERO/AFP/Getty Images)
MADRID — Desperate to reach Europe from North Africa, two African migrants were discovered by police attempting to cross the Spanish border hidden inside a pair of mattresses.
A video shot by a mobile phone of the move Sunday went viral in Spain. It showed agents of Spain’s Civil Guard taking two mattresses off the top of a van and cutting them open to reveal two young men inside.
The Civil Guard told The Associated Press on Tuesday the incident occurred at a border crossing from Morocco to Melilla, one of two Spanish cities on the North African coast.
The two migrants told the police they each paid 4,500 euros ($5,100) to a human trafficker to attempt the crossing. The driver of the van fled on foot when agents asked to inspect his cargo. The two men were taken to a migrant holding centre.
Also Tuesday, Spain’s maritime rescue service said its craft saved 111 migrants trying to cross the Strait of Gibraltar or nearby waters.
#Breaking: Illegal migrants between the Moroccan/Spanish border are being smuggled in furnitures by human trafficking smugglers. Here you see border security in #Spain cutting 2 mattresses and taking out the Illegal Migrants.
pic.twitter.com/FJv2MZ8n7r
— Happening Now (@HappeningNow__) January 1, 2019
Over 2,200 migrants died trying to reach Europe across the Mediterranean Sea in 2018, according to the U.N. Refugee Agency.
Following crackdowns on immigration by Italy and other countries, Spain has become the preferred route to Europe for migrants and their traffickers, who often pack them into boats unfit for open waters.
The U.N. said over 62,000 migrants arrived in Spain in 2018 after making the dangerous trip across the Mediterranean, while another 6,723 came over land. Melilla itself received over 5,000 migrants in 2018.
http://twitter.com/i/videos/tweet/1080140963039858689
http://torontosun.com/news/world/sp...two-african-migrants-hidden-inside-mattresses
Associated Press
More from Associated Press
Published:
January 1, 2019
Updated:
January 1, 2019 12:04 PM EST
A migrant is transferred at the Centre for Temporary Assistance to Foreigners (CATE) in San Roque, after arriving on board the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms in the southern Spanish port of Algeciras in Campamento near San Roque, with 311 migrants on board,on December 28, 2018. (JORGE GUERRERO/AFP/Getty Images)
MADRID — Desperate to reach Europe from North Africa, two African migrants were discovered by police attempting to cross the Spanish border hidden inside a pair of mattresses.
A video shot by a mobile phone of the move Sunday went viral in Spain. It showed agents of Spain’s Civil Guard taking two mattresses off the top of a van and cutting them open to reveal two young men inside.
The Civil Guard told The Associated Press on Tuesday the incident occurred at a border crossing from Morocco to Melilla, one of two Spanish cities on the North African coast.
The two migrants told the police they each paid 4,500 euros ($5,100) to a human trafficker to attempt the crossing. The driver of the van fled on foot when agents asked to inspect his cargo. The two men were taken to a migrant holding centre.
Also Tuesday, Spain’s maritime rescue service said its craft saved 111 migrants trying to cross the Strait of Gibraltar or nearby waters.
#Breaking: Illegal migrants between the Moroccan/Spanish border are being smuggled in furnitures by human trafficking smugglers. Here you see border security in #Spain cutting 2 mattresses and taking out the Illegal Migrants.
pic.twitter.com/FJv2MZ8n7r— Happening Now (@HappeningNow__) January 1, 2019
Over 2,200 migrants died trying to reach Europe across the Mediterranean Sea in 2018, according to the U.N. Refugee Agency.
Following crackdowns on immigration by Italy and other countries, Spain has become the preferred route to Europe for migrants and their traffickers, who often pack them into boats unfit for open waters.
The U.N. said over 62,000 migrants arrived in Spain in 2018 after making the dangerous trip across the Mediterranean, while another 6,723 came over land. Melilla itself received over 5,000 migrants in 2018.
http://twitter.com/i/videos/tweet/1080140963039858689
http://torontosun.com/news/world/sp...two-african-migrants-hidden-inside-mattresses
GIESBRECHT: "Anchor Relatives” - The Newest Game in Town
Brian Giesbrecht
Published:
January 4, 2019
Updated:
January 4, 2019 7:00 AM EST
A family approaches the unofficial border crossing at the end of Roxham Rd. in Champlain, N.Y. (Charles Krupa/AP)
Want to enter Canada illegally (“irregularly”, if you prefer)? Buy a plane ticket from Nigeria or Haiti (more than half of Canada’s illegal migrants came from there) to the United States. Then make your way to the Canadian border. Avoid crossing into Canada at a regular border crossing (if you do, you will be sent back to America by virtue of The Safe Third Countries Agreement). Getting into Canada is easiest if coached by someone who has already participated in this fraudulent process.
Once in Canada, migrants navigate through paperwork and procedures for getting welfare and housing. Commencing the process sets in motion an elephantine hearing process involving a labyrinth of hearings and appeals, taking at least the two or three years. And all of this through a bogus claim.
Migrants from Haiti and Nigeria are not legitimate asylum seekers – they are not fleeing because they fear persecution or death. They come to Canada here because they like their social and economic prospects better here. That is why they buy their airline ticket and plan and commit a bogus plan to claim that they were ‘forced’ to flee and seek asylum. They are economic migrants, pure and simple. While no one can blame them for trying to improve their lives, they abuse a system designed to provide legitimate asylum seekers with sanctuary.
The abuse of our generous asylum system now makes it more difficult for legitimate asylum seekers to find sanctuary. Legitimate immigration applicants can wait much longer, years, to be approved and enter Canada legally. There are thousands upon thousands of legitimate applicants waiting in difficult places for years to enter Canada. They follow the rules. It is grossly unfair to them, the legitimate applicants, to let opportunists jump the queue.
To make matters even worse, the federal government has accepted the concept of the “anchor relative”. This means illegal queue-jumping migrants can call up relatives back home and suggest that they follow their path – get on an airplane and ‘come on down’. Their relatives can be allowed into Canada to pursue their own bogus claims – without even having to go through the illegal entry process that their relative navigated through. The use of the “anchor relative” tool by illegal migrants has made a mockery of our entire immigration system.
When the system was working well, and was seen to be fair, Canadians welcomed immigrants. We are a country of immigrants, and we need more skilled, peaceful people who legally fulfill the requirements to enter.
Now, we currently have 65,000 illegal migrants in Canada waiting up to three years for the ridiculously-clogged hearing system – to even hear their cases. Meanwhile, thousands of legitimate applicants (for temporary or permanent residence in Canada) must wait – unnecessarily and too often cruelly in dangerous and shabby conditions.
Canada signed on to the United Nations Global Pact on Migration. But signing on to a nice sounding but essentially meaningless document is not taking appropriate action. It is simply an empty excuse for doing nothing about a very real problem that is in urgent need of attention.
Brian Giesbrecht, a retired judge, is a senior fellow at Frontier Centre for Public Policy
http://torontosun.com/news/national/giesbrecht-anchor-relatives-the-newest-game-in-town
Brian Giesbrecht
Published:
January 4, 2019
Updated:
January 4, 2019 7:00 AM EST
A family approaches the unofficial border crossing at the end of Roxham Rd. in Champlain, N.Y. (Charles Krupa/AP)
Want to enter Canada illegally (“irregularly”, if you prefer)? Buy a plane ticket from Nigeria or Haiti (more than half of Canada’s illegal migrants came from there) to the United States. Then make your way to the Canadian border. Avoid crossing into Canada at a regular border crossing (if you do, you will be sent back to America by virtue of The Safe Third Countries Agreement). Getting into Canada is easiest if coached by someone who has already participated in this fraudulent process.
Once in Canada, migrants navigate through paperwork and procedures for getting welfare and housing. Commencing the process sets in motion an elephantine hearing process involving a labyrinth of hearings and appeals, taking at least the two or three years. And all of this through a bogus claim.
Migrants from Haiti and Nigeria are not legitimate asylum seekers – they are not fleeing because they fear persecution or death. They come to Canada here because they like their social and economic prospects better here. That is why they buy their airline ticket and plan and commit a bogus plan to claim that they were ‘forced’ to flee and seek asylum. They are economic migrants, pure and simple. While no one can blame them for trying to improve their lives, they abuse a system designed to provide legitimate asylum seekers with sanctuary.
The abuse of our generous asylum system now makes it more difficult for legitimate asylum seekers to find sanctuary. Legitimate immigration applicants can wait much longer, years, to be approved and enter Canada legally. There are thousands upon thousands of legitimate applicants waiting in difficult places for years to enter Canada. They follow the rules. It is grossly unfair to them, the legitimate applicants, to let opportunists jump the queue.
To make matters even worse, the federal government has accepted the concept of the “anchor relative”. This means illegal queue-jumping migrants can call up relatives back home and suggest that they follow their path – get on an airplane and ‘come on down’. Their relatives can be allowed into Canada to pursue their own bogus claims – without even having to go through the illegal entry process that their relative navigated through. The use of the “anchor relative” tool by illegal migrants has made a mockery of our entire immigration system.
When the system was working well, and was seen to be fair, Canadians welcomed immigrants. We are a country of immigrants, and we need more skilled, peaceful people who legally fulfill the requirements to enter.
Now, we currently have 65,000 illegal migrants in Canada waiting up to three years for the ridiculously-clogged hearing system – to even hear their cases. Meanwhile, thousands of legitimate applicants (for temporary or permanent residence in Canada) must wait – unnecessarily and too often cruelly in dangerous and shabby conditions.
Canada signed on to the United Nations Global Pact on Migration. But signing on to a nice sounding but essentially meaningless document is not taking appropriate action. It is simply an empty excuse for doing nothing about a very real problem that is in urgent need of attention.
Brian Giesbrecht, a retired judge, is a senior fellow at Frontier Centre for Public Policy
http://torontosun.com/news/national/giesbrecht-anchor-relatives-the-newest-game-in-town