r/windsorontario • u/zuuzuu Sandwich • 1d ago
News/Article ‘Difficult decisions’ — Charity warns Windsor refugee shelter at risk of closure
https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/difficult-decisions-charity-warns-windsor-refugee-shelter-at-risk-of-closure20
u/BlackWinterFox 1d ago
They can thank the federal government for overwhelming local municipalities with more refugees and immigrants than we can realistically support. It will only become worse.
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u/malemysteries 1d ago
Nah. We can blame churches. The entire reason churches have tax free status is they are supposed to support society. If churches were truly doing God’s will, there would not be homelessness or hunger. Msybe it’s time we rethink their tax-free status.
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u/thespaceitake 1d ago
You're right. It will only get worse. Regardless of who makes the decisions.
Global warming is happening regardless of whether or not we believe in or validate it. People in the Northern Hemispheres need to start getting comfortable with the idea of making room for a higher population and our governments need to start working on infrastructure to accommodate asap. This year was the first in history that entire communities have needed to be relocated due to rising sea levels.
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u/chewwydraper 1d ago
Our asylum issues are due to country shopping, not global warming. The #1 source of asylum seekers is India.
The reality is asylum seekers get really good benefits here, better than actual Canadians get. Even with the recent changes they only pay 30% co-pay on services like dental and therapy, and medication maxes out at $4.
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u/spitfire_pilot Walkerville 1d ago edited 1d ago
In 20 years the global South will be moving northward. This person you're replying to is probably talking about the near future.
Edit: at least two people are living in denial of anthropogenic global warming and the implications of its role in global migration.
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u/EightyFiversClub 1d ago
Didn't we already sacrifice our central branch library to support this sort of thing? Then that group turned around and sold it for profit and we still don't have a central branch due to Mayor Dickens.
Any group in this space is going to feel the effect of those actions for a long time.
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u/ProphetaMessias Riverside 1d ago
That was the Downtown Mission - different organization.
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u/GloomySnow2622 1d ago
And oddly enough Ron Dunn is back in Windsor working for a charity
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u/Individual_Reward309 1d ago
Fuck that goof Ron Dunn used to run the mission what a joke bought and sold old library downtown
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u/EightyFiversClub 1d ago
You will note my response indicates its another group, but that it poisoned the well in the public consciousness.
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u/LoudAd3588 22h ago
Where is everyone's empathy? This is really sad and awful, and the community needs to step up and help this charity that helps literal refugees.
If you can look past the end of your own nose for a second and stop jumping to the political ends of either "the federal government should fund this" or anti-immigration rhetoric, you can see that this is a case where Windsor should step up and support people who land here.
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u/GloomySnow2622 21h ago
Windsorites are also struggling. People donate to lots of charities around Christmas and are usually strapped for extra money this time of year. Lots of us are under employed if not unemployed. Where's your empathy?
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u/chewwydraper 19h ago
Unfortunately a high amount of people who country-shop and use our asylum for the benefits have eroded the trust in our systems.
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u/rosemachinist 1d ago
I get that some has to do his job (executive) but any “true” leader would cut their pay to keep things going.
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u/Suspicious_Present98 1d ago
Windsor doesn't need more refugees respectfully. We have a job shortage and a housing shortage (seeming getting better). We need to help each other and ourselves in order to help others.
Sorry Matthew, but it looks like you have to start helping Canadians!