JA jobs.

X · 10-17-2011, 10:55 PM

Re: JA jobs.

.. a wha kinda jobs under him desk

X · 10-17-2011, 11:06 PM

Re: JA jobs.

ok.. seriously, now having watched the entire 6 minutes.. his representation is very dissappointing..
He's obviously dillusional and mis-informed about what really happens to people who they "send" overseas.. then again, aside from farm workers, hospitality workers and probably Teachers, who else does the government "send" overseas??
Is he aware of the racial persecution and horrible working conditions that some farm workers face here in Canada?

"Minister" Pearnel Charles represents a portion of the political barnacles that Jamaica needs to be ridded of..

X · 10-18-2011, 09:34 AM

Re: JA jobs.

maybe if tribal chief Charles did some research, he'd realize most being "sent" away are not his political garrison constituents seeing "farm work.."..
maybe with some research he'd come across articles like this..

Canada's immigrants face health risks

http://www.straight.com/article-132921/immigrants-face-health-risks

Jagdeep Singh was an information-technology professional in India before he moved to Canada. He arrived in September last year, and his family joined him three months later. Singh has yet to find a job, but he sounded very upbeat when he talked to the Georgia Straight by phone from his home in Surrey. “You need some time to adapt to the way things are here,” said the

Canada's immigrants face health risks

Jagdeep Singh was an information-technology professional in India before he moved to Canada. He arrived in September last year, and his family joined him three months later. Singh has yet to find a job, but he sounded very upbeat when he talked to the Georgia Straight by phone from his home in Surrey. “You need some time to adapt to the way things are here,” said the 35-year-old father of one.

One thing that takes time to understand, according to Singh, is how the health-care system works. He noted that choosing a family doctor is a challenge. “It’s difficult to find a doctor you can trust,” he said.

When Singh learned about a health fair being organized by the Affiliation of Multicultural Societies and Service Agencies of British Columbia (www.amssa.org/healthfair2008/ ), he and his wife, Seema, decided to volunteer with the event, to be held on Saturday (February 23) at the Croatian Cultural Centre. The fair’s workshop on how to access health services fits their needs as newcomers.

New immigrants like Singh typically arrive in Canada with better-than-average health, according to a 2005 Statistics Canada study titled Dynamics of Immigrants’ Health in Canada: Evidence From the National Population Health Survey. But the same study also pointed out that this “healthy immigrant effect” diminishes over time.

When immigrants are grouped into Europeans and non-Europeans, the report suggests that people belonging to the latter category are more likely to claim later that their health has deteriorated. “Recent non-European immigrants’ higher risk of reporting a deterioration in their health is mirrored in increasingly frequent doctor contacts,” the study stated.

The study noted that immigration disrupts a person’s life. It’s a stressful process in which one loses support from an established network of family and friends. This is more telling with non-European immigrants.

Citing data from the mid ’90s, the StatsCan paper stated that “non-European immigrants were more likely than the Canadian-born population to report low social support.”

“The likelihood of a deterioration in health was also related to socioeconomic status, specifically, low education and low household income,” the study noted. “Findings from the literature on immigrants’ economic integration in Canada have shown that those with non-European origins are more likely than those with European origins to have low-paid jobs that require little education. Because immigrants with European origins share a similar culture with the Canadian-born, they may encounter fewer social, economic and lifestyle barriers than do those from non-European countries.”

According to Immigration in Canada: A Portrait of the Foreign-born Population, 2006 Census, released last year, Asians, including those from the Middle East, comprise the biggest group of newcomers to Canada. Of the 1.1 million who arrived between 2001 and 2006, six in 10 were Asians.

Ilene Hyman, an assistant professor with the University of Toronto’s department of public health sciences, took a look at existing studies on immigration and health in her 2007 paper Immigration and Health: Reviewing Evidence of the Healthy Immigrant Effect. What Hyman compiled suggested that certain immigrant subgroups appear to be more prone to some health conditions than others.

“Research on Canadians of South Asian, Chinese, and European origins suggested that South Asians, particularly females, have tended to experience an increased risk of heart disease as well as an increased risk of hypertension with increasing length of stay in Canada,” Hyman noted.

AMSSA executive director Lynn Moran told the Straight that the February 23 multicultural health fair will provide immigrants with information in various languages. Attendees may also learn such things as when to call for an ambulance or when to go to a clinic.

Moran explained that for a number of immigrants, language is a big barrier. In some cases, according to her, doctors have limited time to talk to their patients and can’t offer immigrants extra information. “A lot of health services are offered in English,” she said.

Describing herself as a bit of a foodie, Moran said that if there’s one concern immigrants need not fret about, it’s the availability of traditional food items in community stores. Often associated with a sense of well-being, such fare can at least make one feel at home.

X · 10-18-2011, 09:40 AM

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and this one..

Sorry - we can't find that page

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2010/02/15/ottawa-immigrant-health-issues.html

Immigrants struggle with declining health
Vitamin D deficiency likely a contributing factor

Some healthy people who immigrate to Canada find their health deteriorating after their arrival — an issue immigrant communities are struggling to understand and address.

"The immigrants when they come here, the first five years they are healthy," said Abdirizak Karod, director of the Somali Centre for Family Services in Ottawa.

"After that, they join the club — the Canadian club: they [are] facing…diabetes, autism, blood pressure, depression and all those things."

Abdirizak Karod, director of the Somali Centre for Family Services in Ottawa, said health problems faced by immigrants in Canada, including diabetes, depression and autism, are virtually unheard of in Somalia. Abdirizak Karod, director of the Somali Centre for Family Services in Ottawa, said health problems faced by immigrants in Canada, including diabetes, depression and autism, are virtually unheard of in Somalia. (CBC)Many of those problems are virtually unheard of in Somalia, he said.

The problem isn't limited to the Somali community.

It is well established that immigrants and refugees are healthier than the general Canadian population when they arrive, but their health declines after they start living in Canada, said Dr. Kevin Pottie, co-director of the Immigrant Health Program at the Elisabeth Bruyère Research Institute in Ottawa.

Both Pottie and Karod think changes in diet and exercise habits and vitamin D deficiency may all contribute to those health problems.

Karod said that in Somalia, exercise is a part of everyday life.
Vitamin D

Vitamin D is needed by the body to produce healthy bones. A deficiency in the vitamin can lead to osteoporosis and bone fractures in adults. In children, a deficiency can cause rickets, leading to soft bones and skeletal deformities.

The vitamin is found in foods such as milk and fish, but the human body can produce its own vitamin D in much larger amounts if the skin is exposed to the sun's ultraviolet rays. People with paler skin require less sun exposure to produce the same amount of vitamin D.

"The younger generation, they have so many sports," he said. "We have one of the best beaches in Africa, or maybe the world … The older generation, they walk a lot. That prevents a lot of the diseases that we are facing here in Canada or in Europe."

Fruit is cheap and easily available while fatty and sugary items popular in Canada are not.

Karod is also concerned about the role of vitamin D, which is produced by the human body in the presence of sunlight — something that is far more plentiful closer to the equator. People from countries like Somalia often have darker skin than the Canadian average, which makes it more difficult for them to produce vitamin D.

The vitamin is crucial to maintaining healthy bones, and vitamin D deficiency has also been linked to many other diseases such as schizophrenia and autism that are affecting immigrants from sunnier parts of the world in greater numbers.
Schizophrenia and skin colour

Dozens of studies show that rates of schizophrenia increase as you move away from the equator, said Dennis Kinney, a Harvard University genetics researcher. Kinney and his collaborators analyzed 49 studies for larger patterns and noticed that the increase was most prevalent among people with lower fish consumption, higher infant mortality and darker skin.

Dr. Kevin Pottie said a lack of vitamin D has been associated with a lot of health problems, but diet, a lack of exercise and genetics may also play a role.Dr. Kevin Pottie said a lack of vitamin D has been associated with a lot of health problems, but diet, a lack of exercise and genetics may also play a role. (CBC)Their results, published in Schizophrenia Bulletin in 2009, are consistent with the hypothesis that vitamin D plays a role, Kinney said.

Some parallel studies in Sweden are looking into the very high rates of autism among Swedish children whose families are from sub-Saharan Africa, he said.

Both schizophrenia and autism are known to have a strong genetic component.

"It turns out that vitamin D plays an important role in the regulation and expression of hundreds of genes in the body," Kinney said. "It's also very important for protecting DNA against damage and then repairing it once it occurs."

He suggested that a shortage of vitamin D could lead to mutations in egg and sperm cells and could interfere in early brain development to boost the risk of autism and schizophrenia.

'That's the risk of saying everything is vitamin D — you could miss other diagnoses.'— Dr. Kevin Pottie

Pottie said vitamin D deficiency has also been linked to other mental illnesses such as depression, as well as breast cancer, colon cancer and heart disease.

"But a lot of the … evidence is really just association," he said. "There could be a lot of other things that are playing a role there … it could be a lack of exercise, diet or genetics."

Immigrants' struggles to find a job, the stress of being separated from their families and social support networks could also have a major impact, Pottie said.

"That's the risk of saying everything is vitamin D — you could miss other diagnoses," he said.

Nevertheless, he does recommend that his darker-skinned patients take a vitamin D supplement.
Somali community pushes sports

Karod acknowledged that immigrant communities such as his need to make people aware of the benefits of taking supplements to boost their vitamin D levels, especially before pregnancy.

About 100 Somali-Canadian children and teenagers in Ottawa are being mentored in sports such as skating and skiing this winter.About 100 Somali-Canadian children and teenagers in Ottawa are being mentored in sports such as skating and skiing this winter. (CBC)Karod said Ottawa's Somali community is also working to address other factors that could play a role.

When it comes to mental illness, Karod acknowledged that cultural barriers must also be addressed.

"It is taboo in the Somali community that your child has … depression," he said.

It is important to teach parents the symptoms to ensure their children get treatment if they do suffer from mental illness.

"We're understanding now there is issues we have to deal with as a community," Karod said. "Do we need help? Yes, we need help."

The Somali Centre for Family Services is already seeing the fruits of some of its efforts. It runs recreational programs for youth every weekend, encouraging them to exercise by playing basketball and soccer — and even participating in "Canadian sports" like skiing and skating, Karod said.

More than 100 youth are being mentored in those sports this winter.

"And now it's becoming popular," Karod said. "Now, [even] the fathers are starting doing those sports."

**Wahalla** · 10-18-2011, 10:00 AM

Re: JA jobs.

Back decades ago when I applied for these jobs to do farm work I would have killed for a chance to go canada to pick apple.. and I mean kill literally....But as I was not a suffera I was not qualified...These jobs are seasonal and not a migratory..

And while the minister of labour should not act as an agency I understand the sentiment that Charles express.. And there is truth in what he said. Gvoerment cannot attract buinsess out of a vacumm... His analogy of type writers was dated but his praise of Jamaican workers are spot on, they work long hours when rewarded adequately..

Busta who no one mentions any more had a simple question in cabinet apparently: How many jobs will that create ?

Kanadas issues of health are not my concern.. Jamaicans getting jobs are..(once any one migrates to Kanada they are contaminated and become Kanadian!)

X · 10-18-2011, 02:13 PM

Re: JA jobs.

pretty myopic response.. but it would be naive to expect any better from that quarter.

take a walk to any prominently "Farm Work" destination city in Canada and do a check of just how many ex-farm workers are there marry to the fat white chick..
many simply use the program as a first step to a spousal filing for immigrant status..

Goto places in St. Catherines Ontario, even out in London (Emperah endz) and as far out along the 401 to Windsor.

to say "farm work" does not have a migotory aspect to it is to be deceptive or dillusional.

Further to that, the Minister alludes to the fact that one Jamaican does 5 jobs.. A farm worker can only (legally) work as a farm worker.. one Job.., so who is he talking about? .. or is the Minister advocating that Jamaican work illegally in a country?

one can easily extrapulate that the 5 jobs the minister alludes to is done by the despised contaminated Kanadians.. .. but then who cares..

**Cultcha** · 10-18-2011, 02:27 PM

Re: JA jobs.

The "under my desk" comment was priceless!!!!!!

Brings back memories of Bill Clinton.

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