effen with a flaming baby koala screeching "Oi!  Get off your backsides and DONATE!" whilst riding The serpent who expulses rainbows from their cloaca of joy!

ahem.

Nice one, InannaWhimsey. 

And may I just note that wouldn't this be a cheeky way to send your pennies back to the government, now that they're supposedly being phased out?

Faerenach,

Thanks for posting this.

Canadians, do not hear "Ottawa backs down" and think it means it is done. It is not!

The governmental back down only applies to impoverished refugees resettled to Canada through government and private sponsorships.

Those who are not resettled or sponsored that way, those awaiting process or appeals and deportation are not covered and neither are those who come from Ottawa’s yet-to-be-defined “safe countries” — likely including Mexico, Hungary and Czech Republic.

How quick do we forget Veronica Castro?

So, hmm... who comes from Hungary and the Czech Republic? Oh Hungary is the #1 country of origin of refugee claimants.
Oh, the Roma, the ones the UN keeps talking about being 'targeted' and speaks of anti-Roma demonstrations and hate speech...
Some of whom live in refugee camps in Kosovo....
The folks the UN criticized France for the collective deportations of and discriminatory political speeches about...

The same folks Amnesty International cite as persecuted and targeted, resettled, evicted, deported...
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/international-roma-day-highlights-discrimination-against-european-romani-2012-04-05

Ah, maybe we only know Romani people by the deragatory term "gypsies"

Reminds me of the Holocaust and Rwanda and lessons apparently not yet learned.

Some groups of refugees will not have access to care even for serious conditions.

I know, as an ex-pat American, what it is to pray, "Dear God, let it stop bleeding, I cannot afford stitches". I have seen people tuck fat back into deep lacerations and stuff a rag into the hole. I have sat with a mother as she sobbed and prayed it was not her crying child's appendix as they had waves of excruciating pain.

I would not wish it on my worst enemy, valid claim or rejected claim....

So, I will sponsor refugees and urge others to...

Send 59 cents and say, "I wll pay for a refugee."
 

Send 2.95 and say, "we will pay for a family of five."

Send 59.00 and say, "we will pay for ten."

590.00 = 100 refugees.

Send a message loud and clear, "You keep talking about a mandate from the people. THIS IS NOT MY MANDATE!"

Chretein backed down with hockey pucks and Harper will with pennies from heaven

Thanks for this link. Will send my 59 cents.

Some further news on the subject:

http://embassymag.ca/dailyupdate/view/285

Thanks Faerenach,

That's what I like about WC- I hear of things I would have missed otherwise. I sent my 59Cents all in one cent pieces - it was quiet heavy...

"Hey, what is that clinking sound?  Who is that with that blackjack?  Is that a burglar?"

"Naw, it's just mrs.anteater with some pennies in a sock..."

Inanna,I was imagining what trouble all the pennies would make going through security in the mail department.