In my previous episode, I talked about how Canada has not felt like home to me for a couple of years.

Canada was the country my parents decided to refuge to for better opportunities and to flee from chaos and war. Canada was the country that made an effort to get my family and me from Lebanon during the 2006 Lebanon and Israel war. The government helped us for the first year to ensure we didn’t become homeless. 31 years after being on the face of this earth, Canada is one of the top countries that leads the world in immigration and accepting refugees.

But things are definitely not the same as it was back in the 1980s or 2006. Our government is helping bring newcomers to our country, but what about the people here in need? Our country is accepting people from all over the world that suffer from a lack of healthcare, education or hospitality. Yet, these 3 essentials are the topics that have made our country inferior to others.

In this episode of Do You Know What Blows My Foghorn, I will be discussing my opinion of what should be our nation’s priorities to better the lives of Canadians and newcomers that seek a better life. Canada should thrive in diversity and community, but is that what we truly see? Or is it more exclusion and separation?

I Identify as An Apache Helicopter

What a great time to be young! 

Post-pandemic hormones are raging across the world and our young people want to have fun. Go to a party, have a few drinks, experiment with some drugs, and find someone to hook up with. 

Damn, to be young and explore what the world has to offer. Is it all fun and games though? 

That one party you go to and a friend tells you “Try this. You will love it!” 10 years later, you loved that drug and high so much you end up homeless and chasing that high.

How about serving your country as a military personnel, or serving your community as a police officer or first responder? Maybe you just got dealt the wrong cards in life and you went from using medications for coping to abusing drugs to forget the pain. 

My friends if there is one thing that blows my foghorn it is not helping the people in need.