The Spirit of Giving

[bcholmes]

Canadians have donated $20 million. Not the government. Individual donations. Some days I think that there might be hope for the human race after all.

Plus $40 million from the feds, and a combined $18 million from BC, Ontario and Alberta.

Comments

[iamjw.livejournal.com]

"Mankind at its most desparate is often at its best. When the physical is reduced to an ugly irrelevance the possibilities of blinding human beauty emerge" - Sir Bob Geldof

[wild-irises.livejournal.com]

Individual Americans are also giving a great deal, though I haven't seen numbers. The Amazon.com number was over $5,000 yesterday, and I'm sure that's the tip of the iceberg.

Our government, however, seems to think it's poorer than yours ... *growl*

[lovecraftienne.livejournal.com]

Of course it's poorer...there are foreign places to go, brown people to kill. It's just rush rush rush all the time.

:/

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

i've already bitched about the stinginess of the shrubwad regime elsewhere, but here i'd just like to say:

serious icon love.

even though it is OH SO VERY WRONG. :)

[rosefox]

UK individual giving was around a million pounds an hour at one point.

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

That's quite something. I am pleasantly surprised.

[drakkenfyre.livejournal.com]

I was so surprised that Alberta's gov't gave $5 million--as much as Ontario's. Maybe Ralph saw some sort of vision or heard some clanking chains. Maybe a morsel of undigested food...