We have Trump. Canada at hashtag #welcometoCanada puts us to shame.

[madfloridian]

Justin Trudeau personally welcomes them. Read some of the tweets...they are amazing. #welcometocanada is trending now.

https://twitter.com/hashtag/WelcomeToCanada?src=tren

CBC Toronto Verified account ?@CBCToronto 7h7 hours ago

'We feel as if we got out of hell and we came to paradise' http://bit.ly/1Z4hGrT #WelcomeToCanada

The Globe and Mail Verified account ?@globeandmail 18h18 hours ago

'We came to paradise,' weary refugees tell PM after arriving in Canada http://trib.al/u20sxUQ #WelcometoCanada

A couple more interesting comments:

Julie-Anne Mauno ?@julieannemauno Dec 11

So proud to be Canadian! First refugees have arrived. I live in a country that is choosing compassion over fear. Amazing! #WelcomeToCanada

Shaun King Verified account ?@ShaunKing 14h14 hours ago

Absolutely love the warmth, love, and compassion I see being shown toward weary Syrian refugees in Canada. #WelcomeToCanada is so powerful!

[madfloridian]

1. Video..the children welcome the refugees to Canada.

[pinboy3niner]

2. Surprise wedding reception for Syrian refugees in Saskatoon

CBC December 6, 2015

A group of friends and strangers in Saskatoon came together to throw a surprise wedding party for a young Syrian couple.

Ten days after Mohamad Al-Noury, 21, and Athar Farroukh, 23, were married in Syria they had to leave their country because of bombing. They spent time in refugee camps in Lebanon before coming to Saskatoon about a year ago as refugees. Members of their immediate families are still overseas.

CBC News reporter Eman Bare met the couple while researching a story about refugee and mental health.

"I started taking pictures of them towards the end [of our interview] for my story and the woman, Athar, said that, 'I never got to have wedding pictures.' I just started thinking, and I said, 'Well I have a camera. If you want tomorrow, I can take a couple wedding-type pictures for you.'"

Bare put a post on Facebook, mentioning that plan, and soon several individuals and businesses offered to throw a surprise party for the couple.

One woman donated a wedding dress for Farroukh and a suit for Al-Noury. Another made a wedding cake. The Delta Bessborough donated a banquet room for the reception.

...


https://ca.news.yahoo.com/surprise-wedding-reception-syrian-refugees-012241770.html

[madfloridian]

3. What a great story.

[Betty Karlson]

4. Little addition from Europe if I may:

In the Netherlands, there are now waiting lists.

You see, so many people have volunteered to help Syrian refugees, that there are more volunteers than refugees. So some of the aspiring volunteers have been put on a waiting list.

Trump is the exception, not the rule.

[pampango]

5. Can we assume that Geert Wilders and his far right xenophobes are not on the list of volunteers

to help Syrian refugees?

Thanks for the information about the overall welcoming attitude of the Dutch people. Often the discontented right gets more publicity than the quietly welcoming left and middle.

[madfloridian]

6. That's amazing about the waiting lists.

Yes, good thing Trump is the exception worldwide, and not the rule.

Now as to his supporters here...they scare me to death.

[treestar]

7. I'd love a link

in real life I am inundated by idiotic right wingers making all sorts of stupid arguments for why we should not take them.

[Betty Karlson]

8. all links I could find are in Dutch, I'm afraid.

Like this one, from the politically neutral NTR-NOS:

http://nos.nl/artikel/2071454-flink-meer-vrijwilligers-voor-vluchtelingenwerk.html

[treestar]

9. Thanks though

May run it through a translator