Editorial: Feds need to listen on immigration levels : canada - "There is a difference between. The parties that are being referenced in this article are actually far right tracing their roots back to European neo-Nazi movements. The one in power in Italy right now is a descendant party of Mussolini's party that literally created fascism."
The people who claim this get upset when you say the Democrats were the ones supporting slavery
Refugees in Toronto sleeping on streets a 'crisis' - "Toronto’s new mayor called the number of refugee claimants sleeping outside a shelter in downtown Toronto a “crisis” while calling for new federal money to pay for asylum seekers in the city’s shelter system — money that the federal government gave no sign they would hand over."
Refugees sleeping on streets a 'crisis,' new Toronto mayor Olivia Chow says : CanadaHousing2 - "This is actually more cruel to the refugees as our winter will soon start to set in. They would be better off sleeping on the streets in their home country than in a Canadian winter."
Refugees sleeping on streets a 'crisis,' new Toronto mayor Olivia Chow says : CanadaHousing2 - "The government approved close to a million Ukrainian refugees. Where are they all going to go?"
Refugees sleeping on streets a 'crisis,' new Toronto mayor Olivia Chow says : CanadaHousing2 - "The article quotes a refugee from Uganda, a landlocked African country bordering Kenya. https://www.unhcr.org/ke/figures-at-a-glance The link shows refugees and asylum seekers in Kenya, of which a number come from Uganda. Would it be less expensive to assist this person in Kenya, to provide financial support to the Kenyan government with refugee claims, or to have this person live on the streets in one of the most expensive cities in the world? Even with all the possible corruption and theft of money, it is much less expensive to support an average lifestyle in Kenya. The GDP per capita in Kenya is around 4% of Canada. So, as a rough number, we could provide an average lifestyle for about 25 refugees in Kenya compared to 1 in Canada. Which is more humanitarian?"
Refugees sleeping on streets a 'crisis,' new Toronto mayor Olivia Chow says : CanadaHousing2 - "Canadians are on the streets too where is their press conference?"
Liberals 'resettling' asylum seekers by dumping them on the pavement - "Despite allowing record numbers of refugee claimants to enter Canada in recent years, many of whom arrive in or head to Toronto, there’s a grand total of zero federally funded shelters for refugees in the city."
Opinion: Alberta, and the rest of Canada, are woefully unprepared for the coming immigration boom - The Globe and Mail - "ISC said they will receive less money from Ottawa – which makes up the majority of their funding – this fiscal year than last year. Contract updates from the federal government don’t reflect increased demand even as Alberta’s largest city grows by leaps and bounds, and so job vacancies won’t be filled... “You’ve got this talent pool that Canada says they want in their country, but we’re doing very little even at the basic level of language, employment services and housing.”"
Sabrina Maddeaux: Liberals 'resettling' asylum seekers by dumping them on the pavement. Dire scene in Toronto as dozens of migrants forced to live on the sidewalk for weeks. : Canada_sub - "Hope every Liberal who voted for Trudeau is opening their doors to these people and accepting them with open arms. After all, they are the ones who agreed with him, so they can foot the bill and help support their "leader"."
"Funny how nobody was "forced" to get vaccinated (because they were only incentivized, then coerced, and sometimes threatened with destitution and social exclusion), but not being given free lodging for showing up is being "forced" to live on the streets."
If it's something liberals approve of, you're never forced to do it, even if you are threatened with social exclusion, bankruptcy and denied medical care and 30% of Democrats wanted to take away your children and 60% wanted to lock you at home (while they pretend you just couldn't eat in a restaurant). But if it's something liberals approve of, not giving you free stuff "forces" you to do things
Mass Immigration Doesn’t Work in Sweden - "Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson publicly denounced his country’s poor management of immigration this week in a landmark opinion piece for the Swedish daily newspaper Aftonbladet. The article is just the latest sign of a political volte face in the Scandinavian country’s infamous immigration outlook... In an article titled “Three Things are Required to Put Sweden Back Together,” Kristersson lays out a radical reform to his nation’s immigration policies outlining his wish to see Swedish migration policy become the strictest in Europe. While not denouncing immigration entirely, Kristersson stresses the need to update integration policies and clamp down on bogus asylum seekers clogging up the country. Kristersson also calls for new citizenship tests that prioritise knowledge of the Swedish language among new arrivals, in the hope of reducing the number of refugees excluded from Swedish society... Despite earning a reputation as a “humanitarian superpower” in the 2010s for generous asylum acceptance rates, Sweden has experienced a significant electoral backlash against immigration driven by a surge in crime and recent rioting by Islamists. Kristersson promised a “paradigm shift” in Sweden’s handling of immigration upon entering power last year, vowing to end decades of liberal immigration policy spearheaded by the Social Democrats. Kristersson also referenced Danish asylum policies as a model for Sweden to follow in the coming decade, with Denmark praised for its strict management of asylum intake. Opinion polling has shown a public preference for more stringent border control as the Sweden Democrats pile pressure on Kristersson’s government not to submit to new EU migration quotas. On the European stage, Sweden has used its presidency of the EU Council to harden the bloc’s resolve against illegal immigration as the government warned that unemployment among certain immigration groups posed a major fiscal problem to the country’s finances."
The rise of Sweden as Europe's gun crime capital - "Sweden is the only European country in which fatal shootings have significantly increased and, having been a country with one of the lowest gun violence rates in Europe, they now have one of the highest, in the space of just two decades... The majority of shootings in Sweden are however related to organised crime. With 8 in 10 shootings linked to organised crime, gun homicides have increased, whilst familial/domestic-related gun homicides have decreased. Justice Minister Morgan Johansson argued that “over the last 20 years… Sweden has seen organized crime become established in a way that it wasn’t before, closely associated with the drug trade”, which led to proliferated gun violence. In recent years, the epicentre of this gun violence has been focused in the metropolitan areas of Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö but is increasingly spreading across the country. As the rates of gun violence ricochet throughout the country, the nature of this violence has also changed to become more destructive and deadly. Since an escalation in shootings in 2010, Swedish criminologist Ardavan Khoshnood has witnessed a shift: whereas in the past gunshots to arms, hands, and legs were common, he is now seeing an increased amount of shots to the head and has stated that gangs are now “shooting to kill” – a worrying development in Sweden’s gun violence epidemic. Several factors have facilitated this drastic rise in gun crime across Sweden. Firstly, the escalation in fatalities as a result of gun violence can partly be attributed to Sweden’s somewhat “lax” criminal sentencing laws: teenagers may receive a maximum sentence of only 4 years for gun-related murder, meaning they are the ideal recruits for gangs and are actively sought out as a result. Secondly, according to police reports, the increase in gun violence has been aided by a high inflow of trafficked weapons originating from the western Balkans. It is abundantly clear that criminal sentencing laws need to be reformed and that greater effort is made to tackle the influx of illegal weapons. Finally, in recent years, this violence has been partly linked to inadequate integration of the migrant population within Sweden. It is estimated that 20% of Sweden’s 10.5 million population was born abroad, with a mix of European migrants and those from countries such as Syria, Somalia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. The government claims that gang crime, driven by the drug trade, is linked to the poor integration of Sweden’s large migrant community. Indeed, former Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson has stated that “integration has been too poor at the same time as we have had a large immigration” creating “parallel societies in Sweden” with “completely different realities”. These so-called “parallel societies” have created gaps in which criminal enterprises have flourished and subsequently so has gun crime. Swedish police have labeled at least 61 areas, all with high immigrant populations as “vulnerable” to criminal activities. A study conducted between the years 2006 and 2014 found that a shooting was close to 5 times more likely to occur in an area labeled as socially vulnerable. Furthermore, the report published by the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention argues that “the increase in gun homicide in Sweden is closely linked to criminal milieux in socially disadvantaged areas”."
Of course, the solution is even more progressive policies. Then liberals will say they weren't liberal enough
Sweden has become a gangster’s paradise – and a case study in how not to integrate migrants - "In London, a city with about the same population as Sweden, no one was shot dead in the six months leading up to spring last year. In the next six months, four were shot dead in Södertälje, a city half an hour’s drive south-west of Stockholm. Since then, things have become far worse. A gangland war erupted on Christmas Day and warring factions have been rampaging around the city in a manner resonant more of 1930s Chicago than contemporary Scandinavia. Gangsters use bombs to send each other warnings; assassins to shoot one another dead. There were 61 fatal firearms attacks last year, six times more than the combined total for Denmark, Finland and Norway... For those of us who zoom in and out of Sweden’s national debate, the most striking aspect is the language. Events that ought to scandalise an entire country are now being reported as part of everyday life. “For me, it has become normal,” said an eyewitness quoted in a report after last weekend’s murder of a 15-year-old in a shopping centre in Skogås, a suburb of Stockholm. “It’s the third or fourth time it’s happened and took place close to the shopping centre, so it wasn’t that shocking.”... Yes, the 2015 asylum wave saw Sweden import all kinds of criminality among the record numbers of people it took in. But Germany took in even more and doesn’t have such problems. Sweden’s police has seen its budget rise by 75 per cent in recent years but is still losing. Worse, they’re not sure how to win. Max Åkerwall, a Stockholm police chief, spoke about it earlier this week. Locking up a gang leader, he said, creates a vacuum which leads to a violent power struggle among rival factions (police have counted 52 gangs). Hence more bombs, guns and murders. So it’s not a matter of a few Mr Bigs. It’s the emergence of a whole subculture of violence, unwittingly incubated by Sweden’s liberal immigration and criminal justice system... The phrase “no-go” area is deeply controversial in Sweden but certainly applies to neighbourhoods where authorities – even ambulance workers – cannot go for fear of attack... If you allow people smugglers to pour tens of thousands of usually male asylum seekers into a system unable to absorb them, you fill up edge-of-town estates where organised crime is the big business. Police in Germany and Britain are more used to dealing with imported bad guys – jihadis and other assorted terrorists – and our laws are harsher. Sweden’s courts have always been keener on the wellbeing of offenders, especially the young. A few years ago, a law was passed declaring that arrest, detention or imprisonment of anyone under 18 should only take place “as a last resort”. This delighted the gangsters, who quickly took it as a licence to use children as their foot soldiers. Police say that children account for most of those arrested for gang-related violence, with about 1,200 of these so-called “child soldiers” now at large. In England, the age of criminal responsibility is 10. In Sweden, it’s 15: no one under that age can be sentenced to any punishment. Half of those arrested in raids after Stockholm’s post-Christmas murders are school-aged. Their trademark weapon is the thermos bomb: homemade and carried in flasks which, in a child’s hand, don’t look suspicious... Sweden was late to allow police to bug mobile phones, late to subject 19-year-old murderers to life sentences. Lise Tamm, a former chief prosecutor, complained about the “naivety” of the system as a whole. Thousands of decent people, she said, are being left in the lurch “as we protect the integrity of criminals and ignore the victims”. You can see her frustration. There are plenty of calls for laws to change – but must a whole country abandon its liberal values to adjust for a new criminal minority? Then again, Sweden is running out of options"
I remember when a Swede mocked me for saying grenade attacks were a problem, and called them firecrackers
Migrant clans' war-like violence tops Swedish voters' concerns - "Sweden - one of the richest and most egalitarian countries in the world - now tops the European rankings for fatal shootings... While the violence was once contained to locations frequented by criminals, it has now spread to public spaces, sparking concern among ordinary Swedes in a country long known as safe and peaceful... Jacob Fraiman, an ex-gangster who now helps other criminals leave that life behind, says even he is shocked by the level of violence. 'I'm from another generation, obviously we had weapons too. But it wasn't often you had to shoot someone', he tells AFP in Sodertalje, an industrial town south of Stockholm with a large immigrant population... At the police station in Rinkeby, one of Stockholm's disadvantaged suburbs, 26-year-old patrol cop Michael Cojocaru says he and his colleagues regularly encounter brutal violence reminiscent of war and seize assault weapons, grenades and explosives. 'You'll see wounds, people who've been shot with AK47s, who've been stabbed, people who have war wounds', he tells AFP. 'It's like a totally different society ... another type of Sweden'."
Analysis: Gang crime looms over election in Sweden as shootings spread - "A report last year from the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention showed that, of 22 European countries with comparable data, only Croatia had more gun deaths per capita over the last four years, a stark contrast to two decades ago when Sweden was toward the bottom... "Where maybe 10 years ago they gave someone a beating, they then switched to shooting each other in the legs. Now they shoot each other in the head," Forssten said, adding that the violence was often caused by turf-wars over drug sales."
Sweden's Top Cop Has 'No Explanation' Why Country Is Being Swept With Crime - "Outside Sweden, such areas where violence runs riot are known as "no-go zones" and even "ghettos", but the country's authorities stick to the more euphemistic "exclusion zones" or "parallel societies". The list currently features 61 entries, clouded with crime, unemployment and lawlessness. When asked why Sweden's peers are free of such problems, Thornberg said that he "doesn't really have a good explanation for that either" and suggested that this should be "researched". Remarkably, in 2022, the small immigrant-packed area of Jarva in Greater Stockholm alone had as many fatal shootings as the whole of Norway."
Migrant crisis: Berlin pool workers 'sick with stress' over feces on the wall and constant sexual assaults from 'Arab migrants and Chechens' - "Employees of an outdoor swimming pool complex in Berlin have penned a letter to Der Tagesspiegel newspaper complaining about perpetrators they describe as “mainly Arab migrants and Chechens” who are engaging in sexual harassment of women and mass brawls on the premises, while also leaving the complexes in disgusting conditions. The letter comes after yet another fight broke out between migrant youths at the Berlin Columbiabad in the borough of Neukölln on Sunday which resulted in the popular public pool being cleared of visitors and shutting early. The complex announced on Wednesday that the pool will be closed for the rest of the week, citing staff shortages after a number of employees called in sick with stress... Employees recounted conversations with some of the youths attending the complex during which they were told they deserved “to be spat on and beaten,” while another threatened that “New Year’s Eve-like conditions will prevail here,” a time of the year which has now become notorious in Germany with migrant riots and sexual harassment of women... Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has responded to the letter and stated that she backs having a permanent police presence at “problem” pools in Germany. However, in an opinion piece for German newspaper Junge Freiheit, Henning Hoffgaard mocks Faeser’s stance, writing: “The same interior minister who thinks border controls are the devil’s stuff now wants police controls at outdoor pool property boundaries. Will she notice the contradiction herself? Probably not.” The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which has been rapidly rising in the polls across the country, pinned the blame on the federal government which has long advocated a policy of open borders and mass immigration, and claimed that ordinary Germans are now paying the price... Ronald Glaeser, the leader of the AfD parliamentary group in the Berlin state parliament, also stated: “Anyone who doesn’t want to protect their border will have to close outdoor pools later. This is the logic of illegal mass immigration to our country. A handful of new lifeguards would just be tinkering with symptoms. We need a turning point for open borders.”"
Damn colonialism!
ATHENS: 35-year-old Bangladeshi Man Arrested For The Murder Of Cuban Transgender Woman - "A 35-year-old man from Bangladesh, who was earlier brought in as a suspect in the murder of the 46-year-old transgender Anna Ivankova on July 10 in her apartment in an Athens neighbourhood, was arrested by the Greek police. The body of the 46-year-old woman was found in a pool of blood, in a ground-floor apartment in the area of Agios Panteleimon on Phylis and Magnisias Street, by the landlady who went to the apartment to collect the rent."
Comment (in response to TRA histrionics): "This whole story is actually pretty ridiculous. Marxist feminists are protesting about the murder of a trans person which was trying to escape socialism (immigrant from Cuba) which was murdered by a Muslim illegal immigrant, which the Marxist feminists protest about not being allowed to freely enter the country."
Belgium Parliament Introduces Bill Making Islamophobia a Crime - "Five French-speaking Belgian provinces have changed religious holiday names to secular ones, also recognizing Muslim holidays... A group of Belgian lawmakers have proposed a bill that would deem Islamophobia a crime punishable by fines and/or imprisonment. Six senators of the Belgian Parliament drafted the resolution that would categorize a person who “ considers Islam to be violent, threatening or supportive of terrorism”or “considers Islam to be a political ideology used for political and military purposes to establish its hegemony” as an islamophobe, and liable for prosecution under this law, if passed. Opponents of the bill say it would be a ‘devastating blow to free speech’ in Belgium. The French-speaking region of southern Belgium known as Wallonia has officially assigned the four major Christian holidays (Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving and All Saints Day – known as Halloween in the US) secular names in a move that critics claim is catering to the atheistic views of the Socialists and the influence of the Muslim elements of its population... "school calendars within Belgium's French speaking community will permanently use the following terminology: the Christian holiday previously known as All Saints Day (Congés de Toussaint) will now be referred to as Autumn Leave (Congé d'automne); Christmas Vacation (Vacances de Noël) is now Winter Vacation (Vacances d'hiver); Lenten Vacation (Congés de Carnaval) is now Rest and Relaxation Leave (Congé de détente); and Easter (Vacances de Pâques) is now Spring Vacation (Vacances de Printemps).”... The mayor of Brussels, Freddy Thielemans, is a Socialist and more than half of the eleven council members are either Socialists or Muslims – or both. The Council has moved to refrain from the display of any religious holiday décor in the city, and replaced some with modern art works to give the metropolis a more ‘avant – garde character’; although, according to the Brussels Nieuws, one Council member from the Christian Democratic and Flemish Party, Bianca Debaets, argued that it was the ‘religious sensitivities of the Muslims’ that prompted the display of the cubical ‘light’ sculpture in place of a religious-toned display – a Christmas tree. The efforts of making Belgium more ‘Islam-friendly’, however, leaves many Muslims still feeling alienated from the greater Belgian society. The article by Soeren Kern states: “According to a new survey of Muslim youth in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking northern half of Belgium, only 30% of Muslim males between the ages of 15 and 25 feel as though they are accepted by Flemish society. This figure drops to 25% for Muslim females in the same age group.” “The survey, which was published by the daily newspaper Gazet van Antwerpen on April 19, shows that 60% of Muslim youth believe that they will never be integrated into Belgian society. One in three of those surveyed say that he or she has been discriminated against at school, and one in five say they have been discriminated against at work. More than 50% say they have been victims of racism. Although 93% of those surveyed have Belgian citizenship, 42% of them say they consider themselves to be foreigners.” “The results are virtually unchanged from a similar survey conducted in 2005, and imply that years of government efforts to make Belgium more multicultural have done nothing to change the minds of Muslim youth... “This definition of Islamophobia, which is based on a 1997 report published by the London-based Runnymede Trust, would effectively outlaw any critical discussion of Islam in Belgium [and label it as] ‘combating racism’."
From 2013
Not ideal for workers to be transported on lorries, but there are concerns ban will have knock-on effects: Govt - "It is “not ideal” for workers to be transported on lorries, but there are genuine concerns from employers about the knock-on effects of a ban, said several government agencies. On Wednesday morning, the authorities said in a joint statement: “If the companies are unable to operate their businesses, there will be knock-on effects on society, including delays affecting new housing projects, polyclinics and MRT lines, as well as higher costs for all Singaporeans. “Their employees – both Singaporean and migrant workers – would also risk losing their jobs if the companies close down.”... In the past five years, people on board lorries – including those sitting in the front passenger cabins – formed, on average, about 4 per cent of the total injured from road traffic accidents each year. Meanwhile, motorcycles accounted for the highest proportion of injuries, at about 50 per cent yearly. The statement said: “Hence, our efforts will remain evidence-based and focus on improving safety for all road users."... A significant number of companies, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, have been grappling with post-pandemic cost increases and business disruptions, and are trying their best to stay afloat and complete their projects on time. “Beyond financial costs, there are also structural and operational challenges, including the availability of alternative modes of transportation,” the statement added. For instance, buses may not be suitable for specialist trades, which often require transporting a small crew of workers with equipment or goods, or both, to several locations in a day. “The situation is exacerbated by a shortage of bus drivers in Singapore, as we had seen with school buses.”"
The people who lobby for this will complain when construction costs go up, and blame greedy companies
This looks like one of those measures that looks good but has little practical effect. The fact that it's safe enough for NSmen despite the SAF fetishising safety suggests that it's not actually unsafe
Ironically, the very workers this is supposed to protect may not support this, as their wages will go down and/or some of them will lose their jobs
Maybe Singapore should ban motorcycles to protect motorcyclists
Julio Rosas on Twitter - "Mayor Eric Adams complains border states have created a "funnel" right to NYC, a sanctuary city, and warns the border crisis could "decimate" the city due to the cost of taking care of everyone."
Racist! Why does he hate immigrants?
Canada Tests the Limits of Its Liberal Immigration Strategy - WSJ - "the intake of newcomers is increasing so rapidly that analysts and newly arrived immigrants say it is adding fuel to an overheated housing market, straining a stressed healthcare system and clogging up roads in cities unaccustomed to traffic jams. It is also prompting immigrants to think twice about choosing Canada... The country’s housing prices remain among the highest in the world even after a rapid and hefty rise in interest rates, according to data compiled by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. The price of a Canadian home sits 36% above 2020 levels because residential construction can’t keep up with population growth, analysts say. “This is what happens when our government decides to triple the rate at which our population is growing without giving any thought to where everyone will live,” said John Pasalis, president of Toronto real-estate brokerage Realosophy Realty... new polling released last month from Ottawa-based Abacus Data reflects skepticism, with 61% of citizens saying the government’s plans are too ambitious because of the negative impact on housing and healthcare. The Canadian Medical Association said the country’s population-to-physician ratio ranks 29th out of 36 developed-world economies, while data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development show Canada’s hospital-bed capacity is one of the lowest on a per-capita basis among rich-world economies... As immigration has surged, Canada’s gross domestic product per capita—widely used by economists to measure a country’s standard of living—has declined. National Bank Financial said last month that Canada’s per-capita output is on track to fall 1.7% in the second quarter from a year ago, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts Canada’s GDP-per-capita growth could be one of the lowest among developed-world economies over the next four decades."
More international students are turning to food banks - "A growing genre of videos on YouTube and TikTok is angering some Canadians who say international students are being encouraged to abuse food banks in order to get “free groceries.”... a SaltWire report highlighted that the on-campus food bank at Cape Breton University was attracting more students, almost all of whom are international, and some may not necessarily require the assistance."
Sir Walter Raleigh 🏴 on X - "Dua Lipa and Rita Ora are pro open border liberals when it comes to Britain, the place that gave them a privileged upbringing away from their war-torn country. But when it comes to Kosovo/Albania they immediately turn into ethnic nationalists. Remarkable double standard."
James Kirkpatrick on X - "Just as everyone is conservative about the things they actually care about, everyone is an ethnonationalist about the nation they really belong to."