Canada Proud: "You don't turn your back on people in need."

On 9/11, when the United States shut its airspace, 38 planes got diverted to a tiny town in Atlantic Canada called Gander, Newfoundland. The town’s population at the time was around 10,000 people. Overnight, 6,700 strangers arrived. The population nearly doubled in a few hours.

Schools, churches, and community halls were turned into sleeping areas. Bus drivers who had been on strike came off the picket lines to shuttle passengers. Pharmacies filled prescriptions for free. The ice rink at the community hall became a giant fridge because there was so much donated food. People invited strangers into their homes for showers, meals, and a bed.

The passengers were only there for four days. Twenty-five years later, many of them are still in touch with their Newfoundland hosts. One flight raised money for a scholarship fund for kids in Gander. It started at 15,000 US dollars and has since paid out over a million dollars to local students.

A musical was made about it called Come From Away. It ran on Broadway for five years.

When a reporter asked one of the Newfoundland women why they did it, she said, “You don’t turn your back on people in need.”

When will the US media remind the (remaining) MAGAts that Canada is friendly in nature? That Trump's illegal tariffs are a violation of the treaty he himself signed back in 2019 during his first term and that dairy quotas were never reached nor surpassed? Also remind them that Trump intends to reimburse the tariffs to the US corporations and businesses that passed them to consumers in higher prices, but not to the consumers?