TORONTO — One frigid day in February, Kerry McLorg drove to an airport hotel here to pick up a family of Syrian refugees. She was cautious by nature, with a job poring over insurance data, but she had never even spoken to the people who were about to move into her basement.
“I don’t know if they even know we exist,” she said.
At the hotel, Abdullah Mohammad’s room phone rang, and an interpreter told him to go downstairs. His children’s only belongings were in pink plastic bags, and the family’s documents lay in a white paper bag printed with a Canadian flag. His sponsors had come, he was told. He had no idea what that meant.
The rest of this great article is >>>here<<<
I wish every American politician would read this. I wish I could send this article with all it’s beautiful pictures to all of Donald supporters. We don’t need more walls and more regulations; we need more heart and more compassion.
A must read, an eye-opener! It made my day.
“Thank you” Canada
“Thank you” New York Times!
That was amazing. If we had the same system here in the UK a whole lot more families could be accommodated.
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I wish we all would learn from this…the sooner, the better.
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I’ve *liked* this, but I’d prefer if there was a *love* button instead.
I like how balanced this article was. It’s not all unicorns and rainbows, but hard work … like all things of value. In the end, the message is clear – the world needs more compassion and less judging.
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It was an interesting article, I hope many will read it.
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I’m going to head over to read the article. I can tell already it’s going to make me smile 😀
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It will make you smile and will make you feel ashamed.
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Great article. We tried to bring some refugees to our town, but the state said we are too rural (too far from services). We were disappointed. It would have been wonderful for our community 🙂
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Canada has shown the world it does still have a soul.
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Thank you for sharing .. That last banner said it all..
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excellent- thank you for sharing
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I had to, didn’t even wait until I got permission from the NY times.
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