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Former Kelowna Owls’ high school football star Taylor Loffler has resurrected his collegiate gridiron career as the defensive starting safety for the UBC Thunderbirds, who play Montreal Carabins for the Vanier Cup national championship in Quebec City on Saturday. Read about Loffler’s journey from being an NCAA recruit to Boise State to now playing for UBC on page A20.
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Kelowna-Lake Country MP Stephen Fuhr is defending the federal Liberal government’s change to its promise to take in 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of the year. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Tuesday that Canada will not be able to meet the target by Dec. 31 because the infrastructure needed to receive that many refugees is not in place across the country. But he said 10,000 refugees will be accepted before the end of the year, with the remaining 15,000 here by the end of February.
Kelowna-Lake Country MP says 10,000 Syrian refugees will arrive in Canada by year end, 15,000 more by the end of February. “Trudeau’s been calling for 25,000 refugees since March,” Fuhr told the Kelowna Capital News on Wednesday. “If the (former Conservative) government had started working on it then, we could have done it (met the Dec. 31 deadline.)” He said while the proper security screening can be done in time, the intake plan is limited by the inability of municipalities across the country to absorb that many refugees. B.C. has been asked to take in 3,500 refugees from civil war and
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terrorist attacks in Syria and Iraq and is ready to do so, Premier Christy Clark says. “The federal government has asked us to welcome 3,500 refugees as part of this, and we’ve said yes, we think we can do that,” Clark said Wednesday. “We’ve set a million dollars aside and the federal government has also said they’re going to restore the resettlement funding that was cut not that long ago. “We are going to fund their children when they go to
school, of course, and support them in finding the counselling services, the housing and general settlement services that they need.” Fuhr said the refugee issue has been what he has heard the most about from constituents since settling into office following his surprise defeat of long-time Conservative MP Ron Cannan. He said, as the prime minister has stated, this is a national effort, not just a government effort, and following an analysis of the situation the government felt it was best to delay taking 15,000 of the 25,000 refugees before the end of February, 2016.
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