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As a refugee, I learned what it means to be Canadian in a small prairie community
This is a First Person column by Vien Huynh-Lee, who lives in Ottawa, and is part of a the FAQ. One of the first gifts I received when I arrived in Canada was a red Air Canada blanket. I was one year old, and it was wrapped around me when my family landed at Montreal airport in November 1979. We were some of the 60,000 refugees brought to this country in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. We arrived in Canada with one bag each. My father had $100 in his pocket. After another flight to Winnipeg and a bus to Brandon, Man., our family's sponsors picked us up at the station and drove us away from the bright lights of the city and into a prairie landscape blanketed with snow, me still wrapped tightly in this blanket. My mother wept from the shock of being in a country so unlike the high-density, warm city she'd been forced to leave due to war. My dad comforted her, assuring her that our family was safe and pointing out that at least we didn't have to worry about mosquitoes! Our destination was the tiny village of Birtle, Man. Population in 2021: 625, and I remember it being even smaller growing up. We'd spent the last six months in a refugee camp and our family didn't speak English. Over the next year, our sponsors helped us adapt to life in Canada, taught my parents English and helped secure a job for my dad. We also became wrapped up in one another's lives — my mom exchanging spring rolls for cookies with the other moms in our sponsorship group, while I played with their young children. In 1982, we moved to Rossburn, Man., another small community, to launch my parents' restaurant. I had early memories of being different, surrounded by light hair, fair skin and noses with bridges. And there were times when those differences were made very apparent to me as classmates walked past me with their finger pressing down their nose while they muttered "flat nose" so the teacher couldn't hear. One day in Grade 3, a classmate yelled "Chink!" at me during class. I froze as my classmates laughed. Without hesitation, my teacher disciplined the perpetrator loudly and firmly. Although at times I felt alone, as members of my family were some of the few racialized people in our village, that teacher made me feel seen and protected. I felt it when I was with youth leaders from church making muffins in their home, when I was with our family friends at their farm, hopping on hay bales, or when I was making a piñata in my childhood best friend's kitchen. While ignorance and indifference could have isolated me in small-town prairie life, it was the warmth of this community that kept me safe and secure. These values are embodied in the Air Canada blanket I was wrapped in as a baby. It represents the generosity of Canadians who took a risk and extended their compassion to strangers, accepting them into their lives and hearts. It represents my parents' bravery and foresight in wanting and fighting for better lives for their children. The maple leaf at the corner hasn't faded with age. Most importantly, it still represents love, generosity and bravery, which is what took me to the Ottawa airport in February 2016. When Canada announced it would bring in 25,000 Syrians escaping the civil war, I knew I had to act. The image of two-year-old Alan Kurdi's lifeless body washed up on a beach in Turkey made me reflect deeply on the dangerous journey that my family took by boat across the South China Sea several decades ago. We were fortunate when most were not. I knew I had to step up. It was my turn to welcome an unknown family. Along with the sponsorship group from the Ottawa Chinese Alliance Church, I stood holding welcome signs in Arabic for a Syrian family of six. I greeted them with a Syrian welcome, "Maharbah," and a box of Timbits was passed around. It occurred to me that this moment speaks to what Canada is: A group of Chinese people holding Arabic welcome signs, greeting a Syrian family with Timbits. They are all now part of our community's fabric — like my family, they're woven into the bright red and white blanket that is Canada.
CTV News
4 hours ago
- CTV News
Bell, Telus continue to cast blame for 911 outage in Manitoba
Bell and Telus continue to spar over who is responsible for a 911 outage earlier this year. Two of the largest telecom companies in Canada continue to point fingers at each other over a 911 outage that left dozens of Manitobans unable to reach emergency services, including the family of a man who suffered a fatal heart attack. The outage took place on March 22 and lasted for 38 hours and 45 minutes. Telus has said 59 people tried calling 911 during the outage, placing a total of 177 calls. None got through. Among those 177 calls were the desperate pleas for help from the family of Dean Switzer. Switzer suffered a heart attack at his home outside Fisher Branch on March 23. His family and friends—all Telus customers—tried calling 911 about 18 times but were unable to get through. READ MORE: 'Hang up, try later': Manitoba family unable to contact 911 during deadly heart attack In the months since the outage, Telus and Bell have filed reports and issued several statements to media – both placing the blame on the other. The most recent of which came on June 28, when Bell—CTV's parent company—filed its incident report with the CRTC. Bell—Manitoba's 911 network provider—said one of its 911 routes required a reset, which took four minutes to complete. When resets are required, Bell said it has a second route through which carriers can send 911 calls. It noted no other carriers had problems placing 911 calls the night of the outage. After the reset, Bell claimed Telus stopped sending 911 calls through Bell. 'It is only when Telus took action on its side of the network that calls then resumed,' Bell said in the report. 'This indicates the underlying issue as to why Telus ceased sending traffic following the reset is likely within Telus' network, as it was resolved through actions on the Telus side of the network.' Bell alleged Telus did not have a proper fail-safe in place and did not appropriately report the severity of the incident. Telus previously issued a report to the CRTC saying a technician was sent out to investigate the outage the night it happened. 'The Telus technician who attended to the outage did not follow the accepted protocols between Bell and Telus to alert about an outage affecting 911 circuits and did not follow Telus' standard practices by failing to escalate the issue with the company,' the report reads. The technician has since been disciplined, Telus said. In a statement to CTV News sent Thursday, Telus said there is 'no evidence' to suggest its 911 services would have been disrupted had the initial Bell outage not taken place. '…action was required by both Bell and Telus to bring Telus' 911 connectivity back online, as it was the sequencing of the reset that fully restored service,' the company said in a statement. 'We have been transparent about the process failure on our side, acknowledging that our outage notification procedures with Bell were not properly followed.' -With files from CTV's Danton Unger and Devon McKendrick
CTV News
6 hours ago
- CTV News
Residents evacuated as firefighters secure unstable building in Plateau
The Montreal fire department (SIM) was dispatched to an apartment building at risk of collapsing Friday evening in the Plateau-Mont-Royal borough. The building is located at the corner of Parc Avenue and Van Horne Avenue. Firefighters evacuated more than 15 people from adjacent buildings as a precaution. The fire department said it was securing the area and assessing the situation.
