CRIME WATCH -- Blood Weekend

Written by Paul Fromm

Sunday, 07 August 2011 08:09

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email newsletter was sent to you in graphical HTML format. If you're seeing this version, your email program prefers plain text emails. You can read the original version online: http://ymlp5.com/zWwgz1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CRIME WATCH Blood Weekend Bloodletting is a fixture of that annual auditory assault of amplified steel drums known as the Caribbean Carnival, aka the-celebration-formerly-known-as-Caribana. In 1996, gang member Elrick Christian was gunned down and three bystanders were injured, including a British visitor: Nurse Cicely Malcolm, left paralyzed by the gun play, was robbed as she lay bleeding in the street. During Caribana 2005, Dwayne Taylor was shot and killed before thousands of people at Dundas Square -- one of three fatal shootings in a 12-hour period. In 2009, a visitor from Montreal was killed. On July 29 this year, Anthony Smalling was killed in a drive-by shooting in Etobicoke. Next day, a man who refused to drop his handgun after firing into the crowd was fatally shot by Toronto Police at the conclusion of the Caribbean Carnival parade. Crime scene photos show a street littered with what must be tons of food wrappers. "Two others, including a bystander, were injured in the incident. ... Despite starting three hours late, the parade had otherwise gone off without a hitch. [Well, that's some consolation]. An estimated 18,000 dancers [aka The Adoration of the Bouncing Cellulite] were joined by more than a dozen bands on the 3.5-kilometre parade route from the CNE grounds to Lake Shore Boulevard along the city's waterfront. 'This parade provides an opportunity to celebrate all things Caribbean,' Toronto Mayor Rob Ford said in a speech at the ribbon-cutting ceremony that launched the day's official events earlier Saturday. The day is a 'beautiful expression of Toronto's multiculturalism,' Ford said." (CTV, July 30, 2011) There were further beautiful expressions of Toronto's multiculturalism that weekend: "Toronto Police are seeking advice from a Crown attorney to determine if any charges apply to two men who allegedly sacrificed a sheep in a North York park for good luck. Cops found the disturbing scene in Rowntree Mills Park Friday, after tracing a car they believed was involved in a kidnapping. … Police were called by a woman claiming she saw someone trying to escape from the trunk of a car. She managed to get the licence plate and officers later found the vehicle in the … park. Officers found duct tape, binding twine and excrement inside the trunk. Moments after finding the car, two men came running towards the car and they were taken into custody, sources said. But they told officers that they had sacrificed a sheep, which they bought for about $150 from a farm near Hwy. 27 in York Region, and slaughtered it for good luck. Stunned officers found the sheep, the bloodied rock where the slaughter occurred and a ceramic bowl used in some sort of religious rite [Santeria, probably] to ensure good fortune, along with two bloodied knives and a meat cleaver. Police aren’t sure the Criminal Code covers the killing of livestock in the same manner as it would a pet and are seeking advice from a Crown, sources said." (Toronto Sun, July 30, 2011) Good grief. [This article appears in the August, 2011 issue of the CANADIAN IMMIGRATION HOTLINE. Published monthly, the CANADIAN IMMIGRATION HOTLINE is available by subscription for $30 per year. You can subscribe by sending a cheque or VISA number and expiry date to CANADIAN IMMIGRATION HOTLINE, P.O. Box 332, Rexdale, ON., M9W 5L3.] _____________________________ Unsubscribe / Change Profile: http://ymlp5.com/u.php?id=gmjhqsqgsgbbqgqu Powered by YourMailingListProvider

 

CRIME WATCH -- Blood Weekend

Written by Paul Fromm

Sunday, 07 August 2011 07:58

*CRIME WATCH* *Blood Weekend* Bloodletting is a fixture of that annual auditory assault of amplified steel drums known as the *Caribbean Carnival*,* aka*the-celebration-formerly-known-as- *Caribana*. In 1996, gang member *Elrick Christian* was gunned down and three bystanders were injured, including a British visitor: Nurse *Cicely Malcolm*, left paralyzed by the gun play, was robbed as she lay bleeding in the street. During *Caribana 2005*, *Dwayne Taylor* was shot and killed before thousands of people at Dundas Square -- one of three fatal shootings in a 12-hour period. In 2009, a visitor from Montreal was killed. On July 29 this year, *Anthony Smalling* was killed in a drive-by shooting in Etobicoke. Next day, a man who refused to drop his handgun after firing into the crowd was fatally shot by Toronto Police at the conclusion of the *Caribbean Carnival* parade. Crime scene photos show a street littered with what must be tons of food wrappers. "Two others, including a bystander, were injured in the incident. ... Despite starting three hours late, the parade had otherwise gone off without a hitch. [Well, that's some consolation]. An estimated 18,000 dancers [*aka* The Adoration of the Bouncing Cellulite] were joined by more than a dozen bands on the 3.5-kilometre parade route from the *CNE* grounds to Lake Shore Boulevard along the city's waterfront. 'This parade provides an opportunity to celebrate all things Caribbean,' *Toronto Mayor Rob Ford* said in a speech at the ribbon-cutting ceremony that launched the day's official events earlier Saturday. The day is a 'beautiful expression of Toronto's multiculturalism,' Ford said." (*CTV*, July 30, 2011) There were further beautiful expressions of Toronto's multiculturalism that weekend: "Toronto Police are seeking advice from a *Crown* attorney to determine if any charges apply to two men who allegedly sacrificed a sheep in a North York park for good luck. Cops found the disturbing scene in *Rowntree Mills Park* Friday, after tracing a car they believed was involved in a kidnapping. … Police were called by a woman claiming she saw someone trying to escape from the trunk of a car. She managed to get the licence plate and officers later found the vehicle in the … park. Officers found duct tape, binding twine and excrement inside the trunk. Moments after finding the car, two men came running towards the car and they were taken into custody, sources said. But they told officers that they had sacrificed a sheep, which they bought for about $150 from a farm near Hwy. 27 in York Region, and slaughtered it for good luck. Stunned officers found the sheep, the bloodied rock where the slaughter occurred and a ceramic bowl used in some sort of religious rite [Santeria, probably] to ensure good fortune, along with two bloodied knives and a meat cleaver. Police aren’t sure the *Criminal Code*covers the killing of livestock in the same manner as it would a pet and are seeking advice from a *Crown*, sources said." (*Toronto Sun*, July 30, 2011) Good grief. [This article appears in the August, 2011 issue of the *CANADIAN IMMIGRATION HOTLINE*. Published monthly, the *CANADIAN IMMIGRATION HOTLINE*is available by subscription for $30 per year. You can subscribe by sending a cheque or VISA number and expiry date to *CANADIAN IMMIGRATION HOTLINE*, P.O. Box 332, Rexdale, ON., M9W 5L3.]

 

The Gathering Of The Clan (And We Don’t Mean the MacGregors!)

Written by Paul Fromm

Saturday, 06 August 2011 06:11

*The Gathering Of The Clan (And We Don’t Mean the MacGregors!)* "There is nothing wrong with newcomers wishing to bring in members of their extended families. It is perfectly natural and, indeed, admirable to want to help one's relatives. The question remains, however, whether it is in the interests of Canadians to take in large numbers of individuals likely to incur major costs on the taxpayers as well as face greater problems of integration than most skilled independent immigrants. [Not to dwell on the steadily diminishing economic performance of so-called skilled newcomers in recent decades, with each new cohort underperforming the last]. As far back as the 1950s, ... it was calculated that, for every individual from one particular country who was admitted into Canada as an independent immigrant, another forty-nine gained access through sponsorship." (*Martin Collacott*, “Family Class Immigration: The Need For a Policy Review,” *Canadian Issues*, Spring 2006) The following "feel good" story, as breathlessly related by a simpering * CBC*, does not clarify by what financial means the family patriarch sponsors a seemingly endless troupe of extended family members: "A Somali-born Canadian who has brought 94 members of his family to Canada in the last decade greeted six more in Winnipeg earlier this week. 'We are the lucky family in Manitoba, or I say all of Canada,' *Marcus Askar* [resident in Canada 15 years], told *CBC News* on Tuesday night as he greeted the most recent six in his extended family to make the trip from the famine-racked country in the Horn of Africa. ... 'As a family we celebrate that family members are coming,' *Marcus Askar* said, 'but we are sorry how our people in Somalia are suffering.' [And yet], it looks like the Askar clan will be growing again soon: *Rahma Askar*, one of the new arrivals, is seven months' pregnant." (*CBC*, July 31, 2011) Meanwhile, out there in the rational world: "the United States has halted a program that united African refugees with relatives in America after *DNA*testing revealed many people were lying about family links, the *State Department* said on Wednesday. Thousands of Africans have been allowed to settle in the United States since 1990 under the family reunification program, which accepts relatives such as parents or children of people who have already been admitted into the United States as refugees, or who were granted asylum. But recent *DNA* tests on applicants in seven African countries showed only about 20 percent actually had a family relationship. ... Many of the 3,000 who were tested were from Somalia, Ethiopia, or Liberia." (*Reuters*, August 20, 2008) We shudder to think how much this Somali clan will take out of our treasury compared to the pittance they might contribute in taxes. However, the government party line is that immigration is fuelling the economic recovery – well, certainly not OURS! [This article appears in the August, 2011 issue of the *CANADIAN IMMIGRATION HOTLINE*. Published monthly, the *CANADIAN IMMIGRATION HOTLINE* is available by subscription for $30 per year. You can subscribe by sending a cheque or VISA number and expiry date to *CANADIAN IMMIGRATION HOTLINE*, P.O. Box 332, Rexdale, ON., M9W 5L3.]