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• guyaneseonline  On 01/11/2019 at 12:54 am

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  Media Release -2019-01-07

  7th Annual One Love Gala – Rehab
  Saturday, February 2nd 2019 at 6:00 p.m. at Elite Banquet Hall, 1850 Albion Road, Etobicoke, ON

  (Toronto, ON) Former inmates, current chaplains, award-winning leaders and entertainers will be coming together for the 7th year in a row.

  This year’s keynote address will discuss: The indispensable nature of Diversity Chaplains in the Canadian Prisons! The Keynote will be delivered by the Associate Chaplain and Director of Interfaith Engagement at Northwestern University, Tahera Ahmed.

  The Gala was founded seven years ago when Chaplaincy in Canada was under serious threat. The Chaplaincy community collaborated together in order go beyond simply advocating for the continuation of the crucial services in Canadian Prisons, to one that celebrates Chaplaincy and it’s ability to rehabilitate incarcerated individuals.

  In Canada, the criminally convicted and jailed individuals may get a second chance. This is reflective to the teachings of our Faiths. Chaplains do not sit in the jury box nor are in the business of judging even the convicted. We have witnessed that many inmates who were once behind-bars have successfully reintegrated into society. Their stories inspire us all. For many, these transformative years have renewed their faith and given them a chance to forgive. We will celebrate their success on their journey of redemption.

  One Love Gala 2019 Rehab will be held on Saturday, February 2nd 2019 at 6:00 p.m. at Elite Banquet Hall, 1850 Albion Road, Etobicoke, ON. The name of the gala was inspired by Bob Marley’s song, One Love!
  A number of inmates and chaplains as well as entertainers are in the line up.
  Charity of choice this year is Looking at the Stars Foundation that take classical music into prisons for free.
  For more information or for interview requests please contact:
  Habeeb Alli or Julianne Martin
  Co-Chair Chaplains and Event Organizers
  Direct: 416-823-1738
  Email: bookhabeeb@gmail.com
  Website: onelovegala.org
  FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/OneLoveCanada150

• guyaneseonline  On 01/15/2019 at 7:28 am

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• Norman  On 02/02/2019 at 9:26 am

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  Participation in our democracy seems to be driven by the instant-gratification worlds of Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook and the 24-hour news cycle. We’re using modern technology to revert to primitive kinds of human relations. The media knows what sells – conflict and division. It’s also quick and easy. All too often anger works better than answers; resentment better than reason; emotion trumps evidence. A sanctimonious, sneering one-liner, no matter how bogus, is seen as straight talk, while a calm, well-argued response is seen as canned and phoney. It reminds me of the old practical joke: Why do you take such an instant dislike to people? It saves a lot of time.
  What happened to factual, down-the-middle reporting? That’s hard to even define, between truth and lies, gets murkier every day. We can’t survive without a free press, dedicated to preserving that fine line and secure enough to follow the facts where they may lead. It means when you find a mountain to expose in one person or party, you have to pick a molehill on the other side and make it into a mountain to avoid being accused of bias. Folks from both sides of the 2 party system should look at the movie “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?” They’ll learn how to live and let live.

  HATRED CORRODES THE CONTAINER
  ITS CARRIED IN

  I heard this a few days ago and made it this headline
  It’s very applicable today with the poisons of all kin’
  The social network should be a place of sanity
  But all they crow, sow and preach is brutality
  Some are just out to make darn mischief and trouble
  With their smartphone drinking their double-double
  They should spend their time on other troubling issues
  Like the refugee problem, the homeless and child abuse
  I’m sure they are adept in their dog’s po-po sniffing
  In a home needing airing and a good shampooing
  The word hatred, rhymes with dead
  Indeed it has brought so much woe
  From the beginning of the get go
  Hatred and envy, friends of greedy
  From the very beginning, of the days of reckoning
  When Kane slew Abel, this I think was no fable
  Then Adam went and ate the forbidden fruit
  Since then man start eating leaves and root
  Some take away and some others demand
  Then they start to covet one another’s land
  There’s so much hate amongst men
  Who are so different from women
  If we had more women at the helm
  We would not have this problem
  But men deliberately do keep women
  From the top jobs only good for lichen
  Or so they think, cause they stink
  Or are they really very afraid
  She can be more than a maid
  And would be better, than their jet setter
  That she has better skill, and have more of a will
  To negotiate for peace, really mark her crease
  Where peace is the concern, and not leave us to burn
  Look at the history of war, at home and very far
  Men’s choices suck in every clime
  They screwed everyone all the time
  War driven stubborn and very mulish
  Peace is something they don’t relish
  The men at the top have failed mankind
  They have to be a woman they can find
  To right the wrongs of the world
  And let sanity for once unfurled
  In this so-called modern world generation
  Only a few centuries ago of emancipation
  When the Pilgrims came and set up house over here
  In North America being kicked out from over there
  Giving them with the Indians their first Thanksgiving
  Then putting the blacks into slavery and the rest is history
  They were white saw nothing wrong with black slavery
  Like the Indian slavery, they herded them into the reservation
  It was really Apartheid but then it was called Segregation
  Yes these are the folks who once owned slavery
  These are the same people managing the 2 party
  They are the corroded containers of hatred
  And you naively thought slavery was dead
  Think again the Democrats hate every Republican
  The blacks still hate the whites opposing as they can
  The politics reveal dumb contentions over every triviality
  And the poor taxpayer suffers alongside very senselessly.
  Let’s examine the truth of this dictum
  And really make sure it’s not so dumb
  The latest Baby Boomer generation was a failure
  Kids with weakness and a stubborn streak of anger
  They gave us drugs and a laissez-faire attitude
  Their kids were fat and pompous and darn rude
  The containers of corrosion of every city
  Since then our society has lost its sanity
  Our politicians’ behaviours went down the drain
  Our men and women argue as if they have no brain
  The global nicety has gone and we’re only warring
  We’ve become nations at times fighting over nothing
  Kids leave their homes in their teens as they lie so sly
  Would sleep on the pave waiting for their parents to die
  These are the last remnants of our corroded containers
  Our present-day politicians, civil servants and lawyers
  No wonder the world is in such a very sad state
  Its because we’ve not eradicated the darn hate
  We’re still struggling to draw a line of demarcation
  As we continue to suffocate our mental regurgitation.