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Change in the way N.B. counts people in jail makes the correctional system seem more crowded

January 23, 2023, 8:50 am
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Change in the way N.B. counts people in jail makes the correctional system seem more crowded

Province now counting people physically in jail and people serving sentences in the community

 
Karissa Donkin· CBC News ·
Public Safety Minister Kris Austin says New Brunswick needs a new jail because crime is on the rise, and the current facilities are overcrowded. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
 
For the last year, New Brunswick government officials have said the province needs to build a new $38-million jail in the Fredericton region because the correctional system is stretched to capacity.

The government's figures show the male correctional system had an average of 512 people in it as of Dec. 31, which would be more than 40 people over the capacity of 470.

But in reality, provincial jails were only over capacity by eight people on average during that timeframe, a CBC analysis has found.

The stark difference stems from a quiet change the province has made to the way it calculates the number of people in provincial jails.

For years, the province has published figures in its annual report that capture the number of people actually sitting inside jails.

Now, the province is also counting the number of people who aren't physically in jail, but serving their sentences in the community — and who may have to go to jail if they breach the conditions placed upon them.

It's still the responsibility of the facility to look after these folks and in the event they have to bring them back, that issue is always there too.​​​​​​
- Kris Austin

Public Safety Minister Kris Austin says the government's new method of counting the number of people in jail provides a more accurate picture of how many people fall under the system's watch.

"Whether they're actual inmates at the facility or if there are people that have been released with certain safeguards upon their release and being checked upon, it's still the responsibility of the facility to look after these folks, and in the event they have to bring them back, that issue is always there too." 

But the government's numbers don't match up with the reality of the number of people who end up spending time in provincial jail, and makes it seem like the facilities are more crowded than they actually are.

In 2019-20, the government's numbers suggest the male correctional system was responsible for 478 people on average, which would be slightly over the capacity of 470.

2013-14
396.8
403.8
2014-15
394.5
408.5
2015-16
422.6
436.9
2016-17
427
436.1
2017-18
423.1
449.4
2018-19
427.3
460.7
2019-20
436
478
2020-21
372.4
411.5
2021-22
424
463.4
2022-23
(as of Dec. 31)
478
512

 

Not all of those people breached their conditions and found themselves in jail.

In reality, only 436 people were in jail on average in 2019-20, far below the 470 capacity mark, according to numbers published in the department's own annual report.

The figures also show jails weren't at capacity during any other year dating back to 2012, when the department started publishing the average count of people in jail in its annual reports.

When presented with those findings, Austin doubled down on his government's figures.

"The numbers don't lie and they're very clear," he said. "We are over capacity."

'I don't need years of studies and research'

Experts say the government's new method is an unusual way of doing math.

"It's an improper way of calculating capacity, but it's actually a very problematic way of engaging with the goals of criminal justice and all the recent recommendations that have come out at all different levels in terms of how we should reform and improve criminal justice, and bring it closer to the justice part of criminal justice," said Adelina Iftene, a criminal law professor at Dalhousie University who has studied prison law and sentencing.

"Certainly, building more prisons is the opposite of that, and I would hazard to say that it doesn't serve anything but perhaps economical purpose."

     A professor pointed to Statistics Canada data that shows Statistics Canada data that shows the number of people serving sentences inside New Brunswick's provincial jails has been on the decline for several years. Meanwhile, the number of people serving time on remand has been on the rise. (Shane Magee/CBC)

Research shows that putting people in jail can be detrimental to their rehabilitation, Iftene said.

Instead, she said it's better for people to serve their sentences in the community, where they can access programming and support.

"They want to build more prisons anticipating that those numbers are going to be increasing, when the tendency and the recommendations is that all those numbers should be going down," Iftene said. 

"That's highly problematic because it goes in the opposite direction that every single evidence-based study is showing."

An analysis published by the University of Toronto's Criminological Highlights publication in October also concluded that putting people behind bars has little impact on whether they'll re-offend.

The researchers reviewed more than 100 different studies, involving 4.5 million people sentenced in 15 countries. 

When asked what studies or experts the government consulted when changing the way it calculates capacity, Austin said the evidence is "the numbers." 

"I don't need years of studies and research on over capacity," he said. "The numbers are clear and that is why we're building this new facility."

The government also hasn't provided records that detail what kind of evidence it relied upon in deciding to build the jail.

CBC News filed an access to information request to the Department of Justice and Public Safety last year, asking for records that detail the need for a new correctional centre, including records that discuss the business case for a new jail. The request also asked for records detailing capacity issues within the current system.

But the department is withholding all of those records, including briefing materials about the proposed new jail, arguing they could reveal "advice, opinions, proposals or recommendations developed by or for the public body or a Minister of the Crown."

It's an example of the government refusing to provide records that could show how it reached major decisions, and what kind of data it relied upon in the process. CBC has appealed the decision.

"The experts are the numbers," Austin said, when asked about the evidence and experts his government consulted.

"The numbers speak for themselves."

Austin not swayed by experts' evidence

The province claims the average population of New Brunswick's jails has increased year over year since 2013-14.

But the number of people in jail between 2015-16 and 2018-19, prior to the pandemic, was largely stable from year to year, the figures show.

Jane Sprott, a criminology professor at Toronto Metropolitan University, pointed to Statistics Canada data that shows the number of people serving sentences inside New Brunswick's provincial jails has been on the decline for several years. Meanwhile, the number of people serving time on remand, where people spend time in custody before they're convicted of a crime, has been on the rise.

The province hasn't shared data that would explain what expert evidence it relied upon when deciding to build a new jail. (CBC News file photo)

"I don't know why you'd want to expand that capacity to put more legally innocent people in prison," she said.

Sprott said there's a "volume of evidence" showing that imprisoning people is a failed policy, one that hasn't worked in the United States.

It's an argument that hasn't swayed the public safety minister.

"This concept that we should just not build any more jails and stop putting people in jail, look, it's a great concept," Austin said.

"But in reality, it just doesn't make sense. Because what we're doing is we're just going to allow people to continue to break laws with no repercussions and I don't see how that's going to make the public safer."

ABOUT THE AUTHOR


Karissa Donkin

Karissa Donkin is a journalist in CBC's Atlantic investigative unit. Do you have a story you want us to investigate? Send your tips to NBInvestigates@CBC.ca.

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David Amos
Welcome back to the circus  
 
 
 
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Who knows, Higgs may have more foresight than we think. This gaol could end out being the place of abode of his government. 


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Oh my my 
 
 
 
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Rosco holt
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You know what Higgs thinks of data.
 
 
David Amos 
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We all do 
 
 
 
Jos Allaire
It is a well-known fact already that math and numbers are not this government's forte, the same with their budgets. 
 
 
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C'est Vrai
 
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Trudeau's cabinet set for 3-day retreat in Hamilton ahead of Parliament's return

Liberal government released plan for affordability measures during September retreat

Mia Rabson· The Canadian Press ·
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured in December, will convene with his cabinet this week in Hamilton. (Blair Gable/Reuters)
 
The ongoing affordability crunch and the threat of a looming recession will be front and centre as the federal Liberal cabinet holds a post-holiday cabinet retreat this week.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his ministers will spend the next three days in a Hamilton hotel, hammering out their political and policy strategy for the weeks and months ahead. The House of Commons is scheduled to resume sitting on Jan. 30.

In a written statement last week, Trudeau said the retreat will have ministers look at ways to make life more affordable, and "seize new opportunities for Canadian workers and businesses."

He is fresh off a week of cross-country travel that focused heavily on Canada's push to expand its battery and electric-vehicle industries, including mining the critical minerals they both rely on.

But the retreat comes as Canadians continue to feel the financial pinch of more than a year of heightened inflation, and now with an economy many expect to dip into a recession this year.

"We're facing tough times right now," Trudeau said last week during a stop at a Stellantis assembly plant in Windsor, Ont.

A recession would come after three years of instability and anxiety driven first by the COVID-19 pandemic, followed by the Russian invasion in Ukraine and pandemic-related supply chain interruptions. Both contributed to inflation and subsequent interest-rate hikes to slow it down.

Members of the federal Liberal cabinet pose for a photo in October 2021. Trudeau's cabinet will spend their Hamilton retreat hammering out their political and policy strategy ahead of Parliament's return. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press)

"A lot of the prime minister's time in office has been defined by how he's had to respond to a series of emerging crises, and Canadians are starting this year looking at several once again," said Braeden Caley, executive director of the Canada 2020 think tank and a former director of communications for the Liberal Party of Canada.

Affordability was also top of mind at the last Liberal cabinet retreat in Vancouver in September. The government did put some aid on the table including temporary hikes to GST rebates and the federal housing benefit for renters. It also moved on a dental-care benefit for young children as part of the confidence-and-supply agreement the Liberals reached with the NDP last March.

Time to take stock and set new goals

The fall economic statement promised to help low- and modest-income workers with adjustments to the Canada Workers Benefit to advance the money quarterly, and to permanently end interest on federal student loans.

Carlene Variyan, associate vice-president at Summa Strategies and a former senior staffer in several Liberal ministers' offices, said if there are more measures coming it will be similar to what has already been offered.

"I think we know what the playbook is from this government on measures to to support Canadians during times of economic downturn, it's always going to be policies that are very focused on workers and delivering direct support to families rather than trickle down measures," she said.

Variyan said she expects the retreat will be a chance for the cabinet to take a step back and revisit their mandate letters, a little more than a year since they were issued after the 2021 election.

"I expect that they'll be spending a fair amount of time in Hamilton next week doing a stock take of what they've been able to accomplish in a year and what they realistically expect to be able to accomplish during the remainder of the mandate," she said.

"World events have changed a lot of dynamics, whether it's trade or economic conditions, or obviously the war in Ukraine. So how have those priorities evolved or changed?"

Trudeau spent much of the last week meeting individually with most of his ministers to start that process. There had been some speculation Trudeau would choose to rejig his team before the House returns but there will be no shuffle at this point.

Cabinet also has to keep in mind the government's confidence-and-supply deal with the NDP. New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh signalled last week that the promise to pass pharmacare legislation this year must be upheld to keep the deal going.

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Peter Van Loan

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The Honourable
Peter Van Loan
PC
Peter Van Loan - 2014 (14377788468) (cropped).jpg
Van Loan in 2014

Shadow Minister of Canadian Heritage
In office
20 November 2015 – 7 September 2018
LeaderRona Ambrose
Preceded byPierre Nantel
Succeeded bySteven Blaney
Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
In office
May 18, 2011 – November 4, 2015
Prime MinisterStephen Harper
Preceded byJohn Baird
Succeeded byDominic LeBlanc
In office
January 4, 2007 – October 30, 2008
Prime MinisterStephen Harper
Preceded byRob Nicholson
Succeeded byJay Hill
Minister of International Trade
In office
January 19, 2010 – May 18, 2011
Prime MinisterStephen Harper
Preceded byStockwell Day
Succeeded byEd Fast
Minister of Public Safety
In office
October 30, 2008 – January 19, 2010
Prime MinisterStephen Harper
Preceded byStockwell Day
Succeeded byVic Toews
President of the Privy Council
Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs
In office
November 27, 2006 – January 4, 2007
Prime MinisterStephen Harper
Preceded byMichael Chong
Succeeded byJosée Verner
Member of Parliament
for York—Simcoe
In office
June 28, 2004 – September 30, 2018
Preceded byRiding established
Succeeded byScot Davidson
Personal details
BornApril 18, 1963 (age 59)
Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
Political partyConservative
Residence(s)Sutton, Ontario
ProfessionLawyer

Peter Van LoanPC (born April 18, 1963) is a former Canadian politician who served as the Member of Parliament for the electoral district of York—Simcoe from 2004 to 2018. He was the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons from 2007 to 2008 and again from 2011 to 2015.

Biography

Born in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Van Loan is of Estonian heritage on his maternal side. His mother and grandparents fled Estonia during World War II and immigrated to Canada.

Van Loan was educated at the University of Toronto and York University and holds a bachelor's degree, a Masters in International Relations and an additional master's degree in geography. Van Loan graduated from York University's Osgoode Hall Law School and was admitted to the Bar of Ontario in 1989.

Prior to his election to public office, Van Loan was a partner and Chair of the Planning and Development Law Group at the law firm of Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP in Toronto, Ontario. Van Loan was also an Adjunct Professor of Planning at the University of Toronto. He served as president of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario during Mike Harris' term of office and then of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada for a brief period. He resigned from the latter post in 2000 after a series of disagreements with its leader, Joe Clark.

Van Loan was a key figure in the unsuccessful attempt to convince Premier of New BrunswickBernard Lord to run for the leadership of the federal Progressive Conservatives in late 2002. He was a key organizer in the "Yes" Campaign, led by Tory Leader Peter MacKay, to ratify the merger of the Progressive Conservative Party and the Canadian Alliance into the Conservative Party of Canada. Van Loan then again attempted to recruit Lord to run for the leadership of the new party, and again was unsuccessful.

In an article from January 24, 2008, Van Loan was classified as one of "Harper's 12", the twelve most influential people in Ottawa, by Maclean's Magazine. Other cabinet ministers included were Jim Prentice, John Baird, and Jim Flaherty.

On October 30, 2008, Jay Hill replaced Van Loan as Government House Leader and Steven John Fletcher took over the Minister for Democratic Reform post. Van Loan became the Minister for Public Safety, as Stockwell Day became the Minister of International Trade. On these changes Don Martin wrote: "The House of Commons might become a slightly friendlier place now that Peter Van Loan has lost the job of Question Period cheap shot specialist to become Public Safety Minister, a good move that seems to back Harper’s pledge to play nice with others during the upcoming session."[1]

On January 19, 2010, Prime Minister Stephen Harper designated Van Loan as the next Minister of International Trade.

On December 5, 2012, on the floor of the House of Commons Van Loan was involved in an altercation with NDP Leader Tom Mulcair. Van Loan crossed the aisle and used an inappropriate word during the confrontation. He was restrained by Defence Minister Peter MacKay.[2]

Van Loan was one of thirteen Canadians banned from travelling to Russia under retaliatory sanctions imposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in March 2014.[3] In response to the ban, Van Loan said that the ban was "not of serious consequence" and that he would "not be losing sleep over being on the list."[4]

On July 29, 2018, Van Loan announced that he would be retiring from politics. He retired from the House of Commons on September 30.[5] In the by-election, his seat was held for the Conservatives by candidate Scot Davidson. 

 

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Hugh Segal Receives Honorary Degree

The Honourable Hugh Segal, Senior Strategic Advisor at Aird and Berlis, received an honorary degree from Queen's University on Monday, June 4. Hugh is the fifth elected Principal of Massey College and he currently holds honorary doctorates from the Royal Military College of Canada and the University of Ottawa.

Hugh Segal

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The Honourable
Hugh Segal
OCOOntCD
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5th Principal of Massey College
In office
July 1, 2014 – June 30, 2019
Preceded byJohn Fraser
Succeeded byNathalie Des Rosiers
Canadian Senator
for Kingston—Frontenac—Leeds, Ontario
In office
August 2, 2005 – June 15, 2014
Appointed byPaul Martin
4th Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister
In office
April 14, 1992 – June 25, 1993
Prime MinisterBrian Mulroney
Preceded byNorman Spector
Succeeded byDavid McLaughlin
Personal details
BornOctober 13, 1950 (age 72)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Political partyProgressive Conservative
Alma materUniversity of Ottawa

Hugh SegalOCOOntCD (born October 13, 1950) is a Canadian political strategist, author, commentator, academic, and former senator. He served as chief of staff to Ontario Premier Bill Davis and later to Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Segal resigned from the Senate of Canada on June 15, 2014, as a result of his appointment as master (later principal) of Massey College in Toronto.[1]

Life and career

Politics and public policy

Segal was inspired by a visit from Prime Minister John Diefenbaker in 1962 to his school, United Talmud Torah Academy in Montreal.[2] Segal went on to graduate from the University of Ottawa and was an aide to federal Progressive ConservativeLeader of the OppositionRobert Stanfield in the early 1970s, while still a university student.

At the age of 21, he was an unsuccessful Progressive Conservative candidate in Ottawa Centre for the House of Commons of Canada in the 1972 general election. He was defeated again in 1974.

As a member of the Big Blue Machine, Segal was a senior aide to Ontario Progressive ConservativePremierBill Davis in the 1970s and 1980s, and he was named Deputy Minister at age 29. From 1992 to 1993, he was Chief of Staff to Prime MinisterBrian Mulroney.

Segal finished second to Joe Clark after the first ballot of the 1998 Progressive Conservative leadership election, but he chose to withdraw and support Clark (the eventual winner) in the second ballot runoff vote against third-place finisher David Orchard. He had also briefly considered running for the PC leadership in 1993.

Senate

Senator Hugh Segal, Canadian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka Shellie Viding and other delegates met E. Saravanapavan at the Uthayan newspaper premises in Jaffna, 2013

In 2005, Segal was appointed to the Senate of Canada by Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin. He was the chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee until he "reluctantly" agreed to resign in 2007 at the request of the Conservative government, which reportedly wished to appoint a more ideologically conservative senator to the role after the committee issued a report critical of the Conservative government's foreign aid policy. Segal insisted, however, that the move was an administrative one.[3] Segal later served as Chair of the Special Senate Committee on Anti-Terrorism.

In December 2013, he announced his intention to resign from the Senate in June 2014, twelve years before he would reach the mandatory retirement age of 75, to accept an academic appointment as Master of Massey College in Toronto.

Commonwealth

On July 7, 2010, he was appointed to the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group (EPG) by Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma. The group's mandate is to set out decisive recommendations on how to strengthen the Commonwealth and fulfill its potential in the 21st century. In December 2011 the federal government appointed him special envoy to the Commonwealth with the task of convincing individual countries to sign on to the EPG's 106 recommendations.[4]

Political views

Segal espouses a moderate brand of conservatism that has little in common with British Thatcherism or US neoconservatism. He is a Red Tory in the tradition of Benjamin Disraeli, Sir John A. Macdonald, John Diefenbaker and his mentors Robert Stanfield and Bill Davis. This political philosophy stresses the common good and promotes social harmony between classes. It is often associated with One Nation Conservatism. The focus is on order, good government and mutual responsibility. Individual rights and personal freedom are not considered absolute. In his book Beyond Greed: A Traditional Conservative Confronts Neo-Conservative Excess (Toronto: Stoddart, 1997), Segal sought to distinguish what he called "traditional" conservatives from neo-conservatives, notably those in the United States.

In an earlier book, his 1996 memoir No Surrender (page 225), Segal wrote: "Progressive Conservatives cannot embrace the nihilistic defeatism that masquerades as a neo-conservative polemic in support of individual freedom and disengagement." He went on to deplore "American fast-food conservatism." In a speech to the National Press Club on June 21, 1995, Segal referred to the "selfish and directionless nature of the American revolution -- which was more about self-interest, mercantile opportunity, and who collected what tax than it was about tolerance or freedom."

Segal opposed on civil liberties grounds the imposition of the War Measures Act by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in the October Crisis of 1970. He favours strengthening Canada's military and encouraging investment, while maintaining a strong social safety net. His 1998 proposal to reduce Canada's Goods and Services Tax from 7% to 6% (and then 5%) was adopted by Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party in 2005. During his leadership campaign he stated his support for capital punishment. Segal's most recent book is The Long Road Back: The Conservative Journey, 1993-2006 (Toronto: HarperCollins, 2006).

On 6 June 2012, Segal had a comment published in the National Post[5] outlining his views on Basic Income. In December 2012, Segal published an essay[6] in the Literary Review of Canada promoting the benefits of a guaranteed annual income.

Journalism

In the 1980s and 1990s, Segal became a television pundit and newspaper columnist. In the private sector, Segal has been an executive in the advertising, brewing, and financial services industries.

Publishing

Segal's book Two Freedoms: Canada's Global Future was published by Dundurn Press in April 2016.[7]

Published by On Point Press, an imprint of UBC Press on October 15 of 2019, Segal released his second book, Bootstraps Need Boots: One Tory’s Lonely Fight to End Poverty in Canada.

Academic work

Segal lives in Kingston, Ontario, and until 2014 was a faculty member at Queen's University's School of Policy Studies, and has also taught at the university's school of business. He served as president of the Institute for Research on Public Policy, a Montreal think tank, from 1999 to 2006. He sits on the board of directors and is a distinguished fellow at the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute.[8] He is also a member of the Trilateral Commission.[9]

Segal was appointed Master of Massey College in the University of Toronto (effective at the end of June 2014) and retired from the Senate in order to accept the position.[10] He retired from the Massey College position effective June 30, 2019, five years into his seven-year term, and was succeeded by Nathalie Des Rosiers.[11]

Honours

Family

He is the brother of corporate executive and former university administrator Brian Segal, and of artist Seymour Segal. He is married to Donna Armstrong Segal, a former Ontario Ministry of Health executive. They have one daughter, Jacqueline.

 

 

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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2023 15:57:03 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Merci Mon Ami
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>

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On 1/24/23, David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com> wrote:

> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: Roger Richard <rrichard@nb.aibn.com>
> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 11:45:50 -0400
> Subject: Matter 430 - NB Power 2019-2020 General Rate Application /
> Instance Nº 430 - Énergie NB Demande générale de tarifs pour 2019-2020
> To: "Mitchell, Kathleen"<Kathleen.Mitchell@nbeub.ca>
> <hanrahan.dion@jdirving.com>, "lcozzarini@nbpower.com"
> <lcozzarini@nbpower.com>, "jfurey@nbpower.com"<jfurey@nbpower.com>,
> "SWaycott@nbpower.com"<SWaycott@nbpower.com>,
> "NBPRegulatory@nbpower.com"<NBPRegulatory@nbpower.com>,
> "wharrison@nbpower.com"<wharrison@nbpower.com>,
> "bcrawford@nbpower.com"<bcrawford@nbpower.com>, "Lawton, John"
> <John.Lawton@nbeub.ca>, "Desmond, Ellen"<ecdesmond@nbeub.ca>,
> "Dickie, Michael"<Michael.Dickie@nbeub.ca>, "Young, Dave"
> <Dave.Young@nbeub.ca>, "Mitchell, Kathleen"
> <Kathleen.Mitchell@nbeub.ca>, NBEUB/CESPNB <General@nbeub.ca>,
> "heather.black@gnb.ca"<heather.black@gnb.ca>, "rdk@indecon.com"
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> "jeff.garrett@sjenergy.com"<jeff.garrett@sjenergy.com>,
> "dan.dionne@perth-andover.com"<dan.dionne@perth-andover.com>,
> "pierreroy@edmundston.ca"<pierreroy@edmundston.ca>,
> "ray.robinson@sjenergy.com"<ray.robinson@sjenergy.com>,
> "sstoll@airdberlis.com"<sstoll@airdberlis.com>,
> "pzarnett@bdrenergy.com"<pzarnett@bdrenergy.com>
>
>
> M. le Président,
>
>         Je vous écrit ce matin pour faire valoir mon indignation vis-à-vis
> les propos de NB Power concernant M. Amos le 6 février 2019.  Plus
> spécifiquement les paroles suivantes: « He might be dead before me. »
>
>         M. Amos est très habile lorsque vient le temps d’argumenter.  En
> plus, il connait très bien les lois et ses responsabilités sociales.
> M. Amos est bien plus efficace en Cour que dans une sombre ruelle…
> Jamais il aurait dit de pareils choses!
>
>         J’étais présent la soirée du 7 février 2018.  C’était une très
> longue
> journée avec le début de l’audience #375 le matin et l’intervention
> publique le soir en plus de la pluie verglaçante.  Tout le monde était
> fatigué.
>
>         Je n’ai pas entendu M. Amos dire de telles paroles.  Il est vrai
> qu’il parlait vite ce soir là.  C’était pour profiter le plus possible
> de son temps de paroles.  Après avoir reçu la transcription de la
> soirée, il a essayé à mainte reprises d’avoir une copie de
> l’enregistrement mais sans succès.
>
>         Les erreurs de transcriptions sont possibles car cela m’est arrivé
> à
> quelques reprises.  C’est pourquoi, quand j’ai la possibilité, je
> fournis un document écrit pour limiter les erreurs.  L’erreur est
> humaine et je ne m’en fait pas d’histoires.  Mais maintenant je
> réalise que c’est très dangereux.
>
>         C’est pourquoi je doute de l’intégrité de NB Power lorsqu’elle
> utilise cette technique pour faire valoir son point.  Selon moi, c’est
> un coup bas!
>
>         Je prie donc à la commission de prendre ceci en considération pour
> aider M. Amos à devenir intervenant.
>
> Cordialement vôtre,
>
> Roger Richard.
>
>
> Google Translation
>
> Mr. President,
>
> I am writing to you this morning to express my outrage at NB Power's
> remarks regarding Mr. Amos on 6 February 2019. More specifically the
> following words: “He might be dead before me."
>
> Mr. Amos is very skilled when it comes to arguing. In addition, he
> knows very well the laws and its social responsibilities. Mr. Amos is
> much more effective in Court than in a dark alley… He would never have
> said such things!
>
> I was present the evening of February 7, 2018. It was a very long day
> with the start of hearing #375 in the morning and the public
> intervention in the evening in addition to the freezing rain. Everyone
> was tired.
>
> I did not hear Mr. Amos say such words. It is true that he spoke
> quickly that evening. It was to take advantage of as much of his
> speaking time as possible. After receiving the transcript of the
> evening, he repeatedly tried to have a copy of the recording but
> without success.
>
> Transcription errors are possible because this has happened to me a
> few times. That's why when I have the possibility, I provide a written
> document to limit errors. To err is human and I don't care of stories.
> But now I realize that it is very dangerous.
>
> This is why I doubt the integrity of NB Power when it uses this
> technique to make its point.
>
> In my opinion, this is a low blow!
>
> So I urge the commission to take this into consideration to help Mr.
> Amos become an intervener.
>
> Yours faithfully,
> Roger Richard.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Macfarlane, Bruce (ECO/BCE)"<Bruce.Macfarlane@gnb.ca>
> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:19:31 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: Merci Mon Ami
> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
>
> OUT OF OFFICE ALERT:I am out of the office with no access to e-mails
> For immediate assistance, please contact Alex Vass at Alex.Vass@gnb.ca
>
>
> ABSENT DU BUREAU :Je suis hors de mon bureau aujourd'hui. Je n'aurai
> pas accès à mes courriels électroniques. Veuillez communiquer avec
> Alex Vass à Alex.Vass@gnb.ca pour obtenir de l'aide immédiate.
>
>
> On 1/23/23, David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com> wrote:
>> A Google Translation
>>
>> January 23, 2023. Case #541. Caraquet.
>>
>> Mr. President, dear Commissioners, and dear fellow citizens,
>>
>> I cannot accept the 8.9% increase in electricity rates. Even if Mr.
>> Higgs is right
>> that NB Power's huge debt needs to be brought under control is not the
>> right way to go about it. Here are some reasons why.
>>
>> Start with the NB Power Board of Directors. Why do we have Board
>> members who are non-residents of NB? Why the president of advice is an
>> American?
>>
>> Then there are the salaries of more than $100,000 among our employees.
>> It must be remembered that the upper third of the income of the
>> population is $70,000 and more per year. It means that the lower
>> two-thirds are much less. It's like NB Power is a cow
>> fat as we say in English. According to Mr. David Amos, NB Power's
>> accounting is not
>> independently verified. He is a whistleblower regarding fraudulent
>> activities
>> of the KPMJ company.
>>
>> Follows the field of research and development. NB Power, i.e. we, have
>> no the financial means to do research. Mini-nuclear power plants are a
>> beautiful example of research well beyond our means. Hydro-Québec has
>> a real laboratory, this is where people who want to do research can
>> go. Otherwise we will reliving laughable experiences as we have seen
>> with the company JOY Entertainment. As for the development, it comes
>> from the workers on the ground. For example, an editor line can see,
>> after years of experience, that a piece of equipment wears in a way
>> particular. He can realize that by moving it a little, his lifespan
>> increases. this is good, but the ego of the superiors and the
>> administration comes into play and often the idea is lost.
>>
>> Then there is the entrepreneurial spirit in big projects that does not
>> go with our ability to
>> to pay. Why renovate the Mactaquac dam when we have 5 billion in debt?
>> Why
>> we maintain the Point Lepreau Generating Station? For Americans?
>>
>> Our natural environment was my primary reason for becoming a case
>> worker. #375 and #452 even if it is very difficult for me to speak
>> publicly. In particular, the transcript of January 22, 2020 of
>> Instance #452, pages 1120 and following, should be reread.
>> Interesting, there is three years already… Electromagnetic fields are
>> creating a smog that is becoming more and more denser with serious
>> effects on everything around us, including ourselves. I you refers to
>> the documents of Dr. Héroux and Dr. Miller presented during the two
>> proceedings mentioned. With that, I would like to introduce you to
>> what an RF wave meter measures. In this room. It quantifies the level
>> of electromagnetic smog. The scale used by the device is according to
>> the recent studies which are carried out independently of the
>> industry. Not according to studies used by Health Canada.
>>
>> The transition from an analog to a digital system results in a huge
>> loss energy on several levels. Looking up a word in a dictionary does
>> not have the same expense
>> energy than looking for it on the internet. Also, the digital system
>> continues to evolve and to each time you have to buy other devices.
>> Sometimes it is the device itself that is defective! Just think of
>> your cell phones and smart meters. You have to remember that
>> mechanical counters last more than thirty years… Dr. Tatoutchoup
>> explained well why smart meters are not a good financial decision for
>> N.B. must see or review his report presented during proceeding #452.
>> This digital shift is a illusion: a false path. Moreover, remember
>> what Mr. Bill Morneau, the former Minister of federal finances, said
>> when he spoke about this energy transformation. He said that this
>> technology will allow us to save money so that we can buy more
>> “stuff”: A nice environmentalist mentality.
>>
>> Far too much emphasis is placed on electric vehicles. Maybe one day
>> this will be the reality but not in the near future. So why try to
>> pretend it's okay change our reality now? In the meantime, let's leave
>> it to others to make exorbitant expenses that are completely
>> unnecessary and let's invest when the technology is ripe.
>>
>> Humanity is growing exponentially now, but our planet is as big as
>> that! So let's try to understand the importance of accepting our
>> reality and stop believing that our needs can be met without any
>> limits. Unfortunately, our system decision-making is taken by the
>> industry. A good example is that Mr. Amos is practically the only one,
>> if not the only one intervening in this proceeding who does not
>> represent any company.
>>
>> I know I'm not telling you anything, but you had to be told for it to
>> be recorded. Thanks for taking the time to listen.
>>
>> Yours faithfully,
>> Roger Richard
>>
>>
>> Le 23 janvier, 2023. Instance #541. Caraquet.
>>
>> M. le Président, chers commissaires, et chers concitoyens,
>>
>> Je ne peux accepter l’augmentation de 8,9% des tarifs d’électricité.
>> Même si M. Higgs a raison qu’il faut contrôler l’énorme dette
>> d’Énergie NB, ce n’est pas la bonne façon de s’y prendre. Voici
>> quelques raisons pourquoi.
>>
>> Il faut commencer par le conseil d’administration d’Énergie NB.
>> Pourquoi avons-nous des membres du conseil d’administration qui sont
>> non résidents du N.-B.? Pourquoi le président du conseil est un
>> Américain?
>>
>> Ensuite il y a les salaires de plus de 100,000$ chez nos employés. Il
>> faut se rappeler que le tiers supérieur des revenus de la population
>> est 70,000$ et plus par année. Ça veut dire que les deux tiers
>> inférieurs sont beaucoup moins. C’est à croire qu’Énergie NB est une
>> vache grasse comme on dit en anglais. Selon M. David Amos, la
>> comptabilité d’Énergie NB n’est pas vérifiée de façon indépendante. Il
>> est un lanceur d’alertes concernant les activités frauduleuses de la
>> compagnie KPMJ.
>>
>> Suit le domaine de la recherche et développement. Énergie NB,
>> c’est-à-dire nous, n’avons pas les moyens financiers pour faire de la
>> recherche. Les mini-centrales nucléaires sont un bel exemple de
>> recherches bien au-dessus de nos moyens. Hydro-Québec a un vrai
>> laboratoire, c’est là que les gens qui veulent faire de la recherche
>> peuvent aller. Autrement nous allons revivre des expériences risibles
>> tel que nous l’avons vu avec la compagnie JOY Entertainment. Quant au
>> développement, il provient des travailleurs sur le terrain. Par
>> exemple, un monteur de ligne peut voir, après des années
>> d’expériences, qu’une pièce d’équipement use d’une façon particulière.
>> Il peut réaliser qu’en la déplaçant un peu, sa durée de vie augmente.
>> Ceci est bien, mais l’égo des supérieurs et de l’administration rentre
>> en jeu et souvent l’idée est perdue.
>>
>> Ensuite il y a l’esprit entrepreneurial dans de gros projets qui ne va
>> pas avec notre capacité de payer. Pourquoi rénover le barrage de
>> Mactaquac lorsqu’on a 5 milliards de dettes? Pourquoi qu’on entretient
>> la centrale de Pointe Lepreau? Pour les Américains?
>>
>> Notre environnement naturel a été ma raison première pour devenir
>> intervenant aux l’instances #375 et #452 même s’il m’est très
>> difficile de parler publiquement. En particulier, la transcription du
>> 22 janvier 2020 de l’Instance #452, pages 1120 et suivantes, sont à
>> relire. Intéressant, il y a trois ans passés déjà… Les champs
>> électromagnétiques créent un smog qui devient de plus en plus dense
>> avec des effets graves sur tout ce qui nous entoure y compris nous
>> même. Je vous réfère aux documents de Dr Héroux et Dr Miller présentés
>> lors des deux instances mentionnés.
>> Sur ce, j’aimerais vous présenter ce qu’un compteur des ondes des
>> radiofréquences mesure dans cette salle. Il quantifie le niveau du
>> smog électromagnétique. L’échelle utilisée par l’appareil est selon
>> les études récentes qui sont réalisées de façon indépendante de
>> l’industrie. Pas selon les études qu’utilise Santé Canada.
>>
>> Le passage d’un système analogique à un système numérique entraîne une
>> énorme perte d’énergie à plusieurs niveaux. Chercher un mot dans un
>> dictionnaire n’a pas la même dépense d’énergie que de le chercher sur
>> l’internet. Aussi, le système numérique continue d’évoluer et à chaque
>> fois il faut acheter d’autres appareils. Parfois c’est l’appareil même
>> qui est défectueux! On n’a qu’à penser à vos téléphones cellulaires et
>> aux compteurs intelligents. Il faut se rappeler que les compteurs
>> mécaniques durent plus de trente ans… Dr Tatoutchoup a bien expliqué
>> pourquoi les compteurs intelligents ne sont pas une bonne décision
>> financière pour le N.-B. Il faut voir ou revoir son rapport présenté
>> lors de l’instance #452. Ce virage numérique est une illusion: une
>> fausse route. D’ailleurs, se rappeler ce que M. Bill Morneau, l’ancien
>> ministre des finances fédérales, a dit lorsqu’il parlait de cette
>> transformation énergétique. Il a dit que cette technologie nous
>> permettra d’épargner de l’argent pour nous permettre d’acheter plus de
>> « stuff »: Une belle mentalité environnementaliste.
>>
>> Beaucoup trop d’importance est accordée aux véhicules électriques.
>> Peut-être qu’un jour ce sera la réalité mais pas dans un avenir
>> proche. Donc pourquoi essayer de prétendre que ça va changer notre
>> réalité maintenant? Entre temps, laissons donc aux autres de faire des
>> dépenses exorbitantes parfaitement inutiles et investissons lorsque la
>> technologie sera à point.
>>
>> L’humanité croît de façon exponentielle présentement, mais notre
>> planète est grosse comme ça! Essayons donc de comprendre l’importance
>> d’accepter notre réalité et de cesser de croire que nos besoins
>> peuvent être satisfaits sans aucunes limites. Malheureusement, notre
>> système décisionnel est pris par l’industrie. Un bel exemple est que
>> M. Amos est pratiquement le seul, si-non le seul, intervenant dans
>> cette instance qui ne représente aucune compagnie.
>>
>> Je sais que je ne vous apprends rien, mais il fallait vous le dire
>> pour que ce soit enregistré. Merci d’avoir pris le temps d’écouter.
>>
>> Cordialement vôtre,
>>
>> Roger Richard
>>
>




---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: NBEUB/CESPNB <General@nbeub.ca>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2021 19:13:33 +0000
Subject: RE: Submissions of Utilities Municipal - New Brunswick Power
– Motion for Deferral of General Rate Application- Board Matter No.
503
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>

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-----Original Message-----
From: David Amos [mailto:david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2021 3:16 PM
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Subject: Re: Submissions of Utilities Municipal - New Brunswick Power
– Motion for Deferral of General Rate Application- Board Matter No.
503

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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 14:24:18 +0000
Subject: NB Power 2019-2020 General Rate Application - Board Matter No. 430
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Fredericton councillors heckled as they approve rezoning to allow for new jail

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Fredericton councillors heckled as they approve rezoning to allow for new jail

Mayor Kate Rogers warns jeering spectators to remain respectful during meeting

 
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About 75 people filled the viewing gallery at Fredericton city hall's council chambers to watch the third and final vote on rezoning motion that would allow the construction of a jail. (Aidan Cox/CBC)

Fredericton councillors approved a zoning amendment Monday night to allow the construction of a controversial provincial jail in the city's industrial park, during an emotionally charged meeting that rang with applause and jeers from spectators.

The 7-4 vote was met by heckling from some of the roughly 75 spectators in the council chamber's third-floor viewing gallery, with someone dropping shredded pieces of paper onto city staff members one floor below.

Council's vote followed about half an hour of discussion on the third and final reading of a bylaw to amend the zoning of a 25-hectare plot of land in the Vanier Industrial Park to allow the New Brunswick government to construct a correctional centre on it.

The provincial government announced its plans in 2021 to build a new jail in the Fredericton area. The government claims it needs to relieve overcapacity at its four existing jails.

CBC News reported this week the government recently started counting people serving their sentences in the community as part of the jail population. 

Councillors Greg Ericson, Eric Megarity, Jocelyn Pike, Henri Mallet, Jason Lejeune, Steven Hicks and Bruce Grandy voted in favour of the motion, while Margo Sheppard, Cassandra LeBlanc, Ruth Breen and Kevin Darrah voted against it.

"I tried to stay neutral through the whole thing," said Kevin Darrah, whose ward includes the site of the proposed jail, speaking to reporters after the meeting.

"I'm elected as a member of government, so I do have to be as [impartial] as I can be, and I did that and I try to stay emotionally disconnected from the process, although tonight was a different story."

A bearded man wearing a polo shirt with the word Fredericton on it stands in a council chamber. Coun. Kevin Darrah voted against the motion to amend the property's zoning, arguing a jail would negatively affect the city and his own neighbourhood of Lincoln Heights. (Aidan Cox/CBC)

Darrah, who grew up in Lincoln Heights, became emotional as he spoke during the meeting about how a jail would change the city, and especially the nearby neighbourhood.

"This isn't about approving a heated parking lot next to a park for a roundhouse," Darrah said prior to the vote. 

"This is about a prison next to one of the best neighbourhoods in the city of Fredericton." Some in the audience applauded the remark. 

Facility will 'bring good jobs,' councillor says

Last November, councillors voted 6-4 in favour of the sale, valued at $1,075,000, but the transaction still hinged on councillors voting in favour of rezoning.

At the first and second reading on Jan. 9, members of the public had their chance to weigh in, with about 100 people packing the spectators' gallery at city hall.

Most councillors who spoke Monday night said the decision was a difficult one to make, considering the amount of public pushback. 

Speaking just before the vote, Pike said she heard from many residents who said they'd feel unsafe with a jail a few kilometres from their homes.

However, Pike said the jail would be a secure state-of-the-art facility that brings jobs to the city, and will ensure that area residents who become incarcerated are close to their family, as they'll no longer be jailed at the Saint John Regional Correctional Centre.

"This facility will bring good jobs into our city," she said.

"The spinoffs for our local economy will be positive and we'll ensure incarcerated individuals are provided with the absolute best environment for rehabilitation and to ensure a positive outcome."

Pike's comments were followed by a verbal outburst from someone in the gallery, prompting a stern warning from Mayor Kate Rogers.

"Everyone who's in the gallery, we are very happy that you are here to engage in this process but please be respectful of everyone who speaks," Rogers said.

"We don't all agree. You see us sitting around here — we don't all agree but we are respectful of each other and I ask the same of you."

Fight not over, homeowner says

Spectators left the council chambers immediately after the vote was cast.

Lindsay Richardson, who watched the meeting from the viewing gallery, said he was disappointed with the outcome.

A man stands in front of a crowd of people walking down stairs. Lindsay Richardson, a Lincoln Heights resident, said he and other neighbours plan on filing a court injunction to stop the provincial government from building a new jail in the Vanier Industrial Park. (Aidan Cox/CBC)

"We're gonna take it to the next level," Richardson said. "A court injunction, whatever it takes, we ain't going away."

Richardson, who lives in Lincoln Heights, said he doesn't think it's fair for property owners to have a jail built within a few kilometres of their homes.

"The property owners in the area are gonna pay the brunt. We're gonna be the ones that are gonna take the take the hit," he said.

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Opponents of Fredericton jail proposal pack council chamber to hear public comments

Motion passes first and second reading; third and final reading coming Jan. 23

 
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About 100 people filled the gallery of the Fredericton council chamber Monday night when the public got a chance to react to proposed rezoning that would allow a new jail. (Aidan Cox/CBC)
 
The gallery in Fredericton city hall's council chamber was packed Monday night as councillors heard concerns from residents about a proposal to build a new jail in the east end.

About 100 people filled the third-floor viewing gallery that overlooks councillors, as members of the public spoke largely in opposition to a proposed zoning amendment that would allow construction of a $32 million jail in the Vanier Industrial Park.

Councillors heard from 10 people, including former New Brunswick ombudsman Charles Murray, who is now the province's integrity commissioner; addictions rehab specialist Dr. Sara Davidson; public safety deputy minister Mike Comeau, and several residents of the Lincoln Heights neighbourhood.

"I have rarely felt unsafe in my community, but this proposal has forced me to think about what my life might be should this be approved," said Erin Mattinson, a 17-year resident of Lincoln Heights.

"Council members, I urge you to reject this proposal. I urge you to be the change. Let's make Fredericton a safer place to be by rejecting this rezoning proposal and changing the conversation."

The New Brunswick government announced in fall 2021 that it planned to build a new jail in the Fredericton area to relieve overcapacity at its four existing jails.

The province's desired location for the jail came out last November when Fredericton councillors were required to vote on whether to sell to the province a 25-hectare plot of land where the 100-bed jail would go.

Councillors voted 6-4 in favour of the sale, valued at $1,075,000, but it still hinged on councillors voting in favour of the land being rezoned to allow a jail.

Last December, the city's planning advisory committee recommended councillors deny the application to rezone the property.

A map showing how far away the jail would be from residential areas. The closest is 800 metres and the farthest is 1.14 kilometres                           A map of the proposed location of a provincial jail presented shows the closest homes in the Lincoln Heights neighbourhood would be about 1,137 metres away. (City of Fredericton)

On Monday, the motion to amend the zoning for the property went before councillors for first and second reading, which also gave members of the public the opportunity to raise any concerns.

Councillors voted 7-4 in favour of the motion, with councillors Steven Hicks, Jason Lejeune, Eric Megarity, Bruce Grandy, Jocelyn Pike, Greg Ericson, and Henri Mallet giving their approval.

Councillors Margo Sheppard, Kevin Darrah, who's ward covers the proposed site of the jail, Ruth Breen, and Cassandra LeBlanc, voted against the motion.

The motion still needs to be voted on following a third and final reading, which will take place during the Jan. 23 council meeting.

Concerns brought forward by speakers included fears that a jail could hurt the property values of nearby homes, while some said they would no longer feel safe with a jail located a few kilometres from where they and their children live.

Other speakers weren't against the proposed location, but were against the use of jails in general as a means to rehabilitate criminal offenders.

Murray, who served as New Brunswick's ombudsman for eight years and has been integrity commissioner for two, was the only person to address council, aside from Comeau, who spoke in favour of the rezoning proposal.

A man speaks while standing at a podium. New Brunswick integrity commissioner Charles Murray, the province's former ombudsman, spoke in favour of having a jail built in Fredericton. (Aidan Cox/CBC)

He said the nearest option now for jailing criminal offenders from Fredericton is about an hour away.

The effect is that inmates are taken away from their families and the community supports that would help with their rehabilitation and transition back into society once released.

"That's why I'd ask you to not stigmatize offenders and not see them as a danger," Murray said.

"They're our fellow citizens who will come back to our community no matter where they serve their jail time. … Do we want them to come back, having had the support and rehabilitation here, or do you want to exile them somewhere, cut them off from their family and their supports, and make their transition back that much harder? That's the real choice."

Davidson, meanwhile, spoke about her experience running River Stone Recovery Centre, a drug treatment clinic in downtown Fredericton.

She told councillors more housing and addiction supports are needed, rather than a new jail.

"Putting people with mental health issues and substance use disorder behind bars will not make our communities feel safer when the people you're incarcerating have no housing, no social programming or no social safety net to return to," Davidson said.

"It will perpetuate an endless expensive cycle that just continues to get worse."

Speaking later, Comeau said it's not an "either/or" situation between jails and drug rehabilitation, adding that the province was investing about $170 million this fiscal year in addiction and mental health supports.

Regarding the land proposed for the jail, Comeau said it would have been chosen by the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure based on a points system.

He said the selected site benefited from being at least 22 acres and accessible by road from multiple angles.

Conflict of interest accusation

Valerya Edelman, a social worker, also spoke in opposition to the proposed zoning amendment and accused Hicks and Grandy of being in a conflict of interest on the matter.

Hicks works as a probation officer with the Department of Public Safety, and Grandy is a director within the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure.

The two didn't declare a conflict of interest before the motion was read and ultimately voted on it.

The two declined interviews about the accusation, and city spokesperson Wayne Knorr forwarded the council code of conduct, outlining rules about conflict of interest.

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Turkish anger at Sweden over Qur'an burning complicates Finland's NATO bid

Finnish foreign minister muses about joining NATO without neighbour before backtracking on comment

 
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Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto, at a news conference in Helsinki, said Finland must consider joining NATO without Sweden. Haavisto later backpedalled, saying his country would still like to join the alliance alongside its Nordic neighbour. (Vesa Moilanen/Lehtikuva/AFP/Getty Images)

Finland's top diplomat appeared to suggest Tuesday that the country may have to consider joining NATO without Sweden after Turkey's president cast serious doubt on the expansion of the military alliance.

"We still have to evaluate the situation if it turns out that Sweden's application is stalling for a long time to come," Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto told Finnish broadcaster YLE.

His comment came a day after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Sweden not to expect support for its bid for NATO membership following weekend protests in Stockholm by an anti-Islam activist and pro-Kurdish groups.

It was the first time a leading government official in either country had appeared to raise doubts about joining the alliance together.

Haavisto later backpedalled, telling reporters in parliament that his comment earlier Tuesday had been "imprecise" and that Finland's ambition to join NATO jointly with Sweden remained unchanged.

He said he had spoken with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who had stressed to Haavisto that the military bloc would like to see the two Nordic nations join simultaneously.

"But of course there have been raised concerns within NATO on how the incidents in Sweden will affect the schedule," Haavisto said.

Sweden concerned by remark

The bid by Sweden and Finland to join NATO needs the approval of all existing NATO members, including Turkey, which has so far blocked the expansion, saying Sweden in particular needs to crack down on exiled Kurdish militants and their sympathizers.

Until now, Sweden and Finland have been committed to joining the alliance together, but Haavisto's comment to YLE raised concerns that Finland was considering proceeding without its Nordic neighbour.

"We are in contact with Finland to find out what is really meant," Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said in a statement to The Associated Press. "Sweden respects the agreement between Sweden, Finland and Turkey regarding our NATO membership. We have done that so far and we shall continue to do so."

WATCH | Billstrom speaks to CBC News last week about NATO bid:

Sweden, Finland NATO ratification held up by Turkey, Hungary approvals

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Rosemary Barton Live speaks with Sweden's foreign minister, Tobias Billström, in his first Canadian interview about Sweden and Finland's NATO ratification process. Their entry into the military alliance is currently being held up by Turkey and Hungary's approval.

In a memorandum of understanding signed by the three countries at a NATO summit last year, Sweden and Finland committed not to support Kurdish militant groups and to lift arms embargoes on Turkey imposed after its incursion into northern Syria in 2019.

Pro-Kurdish and anti-Turkish demonstrations in Stockholm have complicated the process. On Saturday, a far-right activist from Denmark staged a protest outside the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm where he burned the Qur'an, Islam's holy book. A separate pro-Kurdish demonstration was held later Saturday in the Swedish capital.

The Swedish government has tried to distance itself from the demonstrations, while insisting that such protests are allowed under the country's freedom of speech.

Turkey responded angrily to the protests, cancelling a planned visit to Ankara by the Swedish defence minister. Protests were held outside Swedish diplomatic missions in Ankara and Istanbul.

Erdogan slammed Swedish authorities for allowing the Qur'an-burning demonstration.

A woman speaks into a microphone as several people, including a religious figure, gather around in an outdoor setting.   An imam recites from the Qur'an during a demonstration outside the Swedish Embassy in Ankara on Tuesday. Outrage over a Qur'an-burning by a Danish-Swedish politician in Stockholm led to protests in Turkey. (Burhan Ozbilici/The Associated Press)

"It is clear that those who allowed such vileness to take place in front of our embassy can no longer expect any charity from us regarding their NATO membership application," he said.

He also criticized the pro-Kurdish demonstration, accusing Sweden of letting "terror organizations run wild on your avenues and streets." He said that if Sweden won't show respect to Turkey or Muslims, then "they won't see any support from us on the NATO issue."

One man gestures to another in front of a flag. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Finnish President Sauli Niinisto attend a joint news conference in Kyiv on Tuesday. (Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)

Matti Pesu, a researcher at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, said Haavisto's comment was "the first public signal that there is a Plan B if the Swedish NATO membership bid freezes for a longer time."

He stressed that Finland still prioritizes joining the alliance together with Sweden.

"Having Sweden as a fellow NATO ally is a vital security interest for Finland," he said. "Finland should consider other alternatives only if there was a serious possibility of a significant delay in Sweden's NATO bid and only if NATO allies welcomed Finland's entry without Sweden."

Finnish President Sauli Niinisto, who visited Ukraine on Tuesday, said he didn't expect any progress on the issue before the Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections set to be held on May 14.

Turkey and Hungary are the only NATO members that have yet to ratify Finland and Sweden's accession.

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obiously are N'esy Pas Madame Joly???
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https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2022/04/minister-anita-anand-and-her-nato.html


Friday, 1 April 2022

Minister Anita Anand and her NATO buddies should never forget what
went down one year ago


https://www.politico.eu/article/turkey-veto-finland-sweden-join-nato-erdogan/

 Turkey not ‘positive’ about Finland, Sweden bids to join NATO, Erdoğan says

Turkish president says he doesn’t want alliance to repeat ‘mistakes.’
TOPSHOT-BELGIUM-NATO-SUMMIT
Erdoğan said he doesn't like the idea of Finland and Sweden joining
NATO | Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP via Getty Images
By Laurenz Gehrke
May 13, 2022 3:27 pm


Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Friday his country doesn’t
like the idea of Finland and Sweden joining NATO.

Finland’s leaders announced Thursday their intention to pursue
membership in the transatlantic military alliance “without delay.”
Sweden is expected to follow suit in the coming days. But those moves,
which come in response to Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine, have sparked
criticism in Turkey, which has been a NATO member since 1952.


https://www.politico.eu/article/still-a-big-noise-orban-flexes-muscles-over-eu-oil-ban-plan/


 Still a big noise: Orbán flexes power over EU oil ban

Despite tension over Russia and clashes over rule of law, Hungarian PM
reminds Europe it can’t get much done without him.

BELGIUM-EU-UKRAINE-POLITICS-RUSSIA

The EU has already agreed to give Hungary two extra years, but Orbán
claims it needs five years to make the transition | John Thy/sAFP via
Getty Images
By Lili Bayer
May 10, 2022 8:25 pm

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has rarely been more isolated on
the European stage — but he has seized on plans for a Russian oil ban
to show he remains an EU power player.

Since the start of the war in Ukraine, the outspoken right-wing
populist has taken a softer line on Russia than other Western leaders,
backing sanctions on Moscow but refusing to send arms to Kyiv and
allowing state-owned and government-friendly media outlets to promote
Russia’s narrative on the war.

That stance has not only distanced Orbán from other Western capitals.
It has also put him at odds with his only reliable longtime EU ally,
Poland’s right-wing nationalist government, and drawn the ire of
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.


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 https://hungarytoday.hu/orban-nato-proposals-ukraine-russian-sanctions-energy/

Ukrainian War – Orbán: ‘Dangerous Proposals’ on NATO’s Table
MTI-Hungary Today 2022.03.22.



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Subject: Hey Jim perhaps many Yankees should say YO to Premiers Moe
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needless war breaks out overseas EH???
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/2/russia-warns-nato-against-troop-deployment-to-ukraine

Russia warns NATO against deploying troops to Ukraine

Moscow will act to ‘ensure its security’ if the alliance intervenes in
the conflict, which has seen fresh fighting.

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Subject: Re: A better question Mr Davidson is do you have a conscience???
To: Brian Davidson <brian@panoramicinvestigations.com>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>

David,

I am unclear as to the issue here. Kindly enlighten us both.

Thanks!

Jim

On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 1:02 PM Brian Davidson <
brian@panoramicinvestigations.com> wrote:

> David, I am sincerely hoping that you can enlighten me wherever I am
> ignorant in relation to the video we produced yesterday. Again, I am
> relatively new when it comes to conspiracy theory so I freely admit that I
> have limited knowledge when it comes to advanced theory... I can assure you
> that I do have a conscience, but it hasn't alerted me to any purposeful
> deception in relation to the video I produced with Jim and Joe yesterday
> therefore wherever I am wrong I am open to correction. Is it my partnership
> with Jim that you are concerned about? My relationship with Brummel? My
> lack of knowledge where you have special insights?
>
> Sincerely,
> Brian
>
 
 
 
 
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N.B. Power customers face potential $70M bill for generating station outages

January 25, 2023, 9:26 am
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For The Public Record this is my comment today posted in a CBC article about NB Power

 

David Amos

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-power-customers-bill-1.6724726
 

N.B. Power customers face potential $70M bill for generating station outages

Barring windfall, Lepreau and Bayside problems could trigger surcharges

 
Robert Jones· CBC News ·
The Point Lepreau generating station suffered a loss of power and a heavy water leak in mid December. Repairs took a little more than five weeks. (Submitted by NB Power)
 
Electricity customers, not N.B. Power, will be responsible to pay as much as $70 million in costs for extended outages at two important generating stations this winter if the losses are not offset in the next few months by some kind of financial windfall at the utility.

In an email, N.B. Power's Dominique Couture said the cost of extended outages at the Bayside natural gas and Point Lepreau nuclear generating stations in December and early January are still being tallied, but each do qualify for inclusion in new variance accounts that require customers to reimburse the utility if the accounts carry a balance by the end of October.

"Overall costs will be reported with the fourth quarter," wrote Couture about the bill for the outages.  "Replacement fuel and purchase power will impact the variance accounts,"

Last week, the Point Lepreau nuclear generating station began producing power again following a 36-day forced outage. It joined the Bayside natural gas generating station, which went back into service in early January following nearly a year of major repairs.

Both outages will add unexpected expenses to N.B. Power's current financial year and, although the utility says it doesn't yet know the full cost of that, it is likely to be close to $70 million.

In December, N.B. Power filed estimates with the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board revealing that recent Lepreau outages have been costing it "approximately $1.5 million per day" to pay for replacement power and a further $200,000 per day in actual repair costs. 

"The reliability of PLNGS (Point Lepreau nuclear generating station) largely influences the financial performance of N.B. Power as significant costs are incurred in the event of an unplanned outage," it explained in evidence describing the seriousness of any unplanned downtime at the plant.

At Bayside, repair time up until November was expected and budgeted for, but the utility has said the cost of downtime that extended past November would cost it $300,000 per day.

Four red and white smokestacks stand against the sky. The Bayside natural gas generating station (smokestack on the far right) suffered a catastrophic turbine failure last winter. It was supposed to return to service in November, but delays kept it offline until Jan. 7. (Roger Cosman/CBC)

Added together, the 36 days Lepreau was down and at least 37 days Bayside was down past its expected return in November, suggest a potential unbudgeted bill for the two  in excess of $70 million.

In the past, that would hit N.B. Power's bottom line at the end of the fiscal year, driving down its profit or causing a loss and in turn dragging down the province's financial results. 

But under a new system set up by the Higgs government to end poor financial results at N.B. Power and transfer those risks directly to its ratepayers, variance accounts have been set up to collect unexpected gains and losses in utility operations each month and let customers deal with the consequences..  

A red and white sign with black letters stands in front of an indsutrial site with billowing smoke stacks.  NB Power had to rely on the Coleson Cove oil fired generating station in Saint John to replace much of the power lost when Lepreau and Bayside were down earlier this winter, at significantly higher cost. (Roger Cosman/CBC)

At the end of each October a year's worth of unbudgeted gains and losses in the variance accounts are now added together.  If a net gain occurs, it is to be returned to customers in a rebate over a period not to exceed three years. 

However, if there is a net loss, it is to be billed to customers in a surcharge added to their normal bill.  Losses also have to be paid up within three years.

In a review of that arrangement commissioned by New Brunswick's acting public intervener Rick Williams as part of an upcoming rate hearing, utility expert Robert Knecht noted that variance accounts work to transfer financial risks "from utility to ratepayer," and also tend to muddy financial reporting.

"N.B. Power touts the new variances as a benefit for stabilizing its net income performance, which is certainly true," wrote Knecht in his analysis.

Natural Resources and Energy Development Minister Mike Holland introduced changes to New Brunswick's Electricity Act in late 2021 that require N.B. Power to set up variance accounts. The utility can now credit or bill customers directly for unexpected financial results rather than report them on its, and the province's bottom lines. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)

"However, stabilizing can be another word for concealing or distorting actual net income."

Costs from the unexpected downtime at the Lepreau and Bayside plants, plus interest, will start to be billed to N.B. Power customers beginning in April 2024, unless the utility can pile up unexpected financial gains in other areas to offset them by October

Lori Clark is the acting N.B. Power CEO, and in December told reporters that new variance accounts set up to record unexpected revenues and expenditures could help or hurt customers depending on utility performance. (Roger Cosman/CBC)

Any number of volatile events, including uncertain fuel prices, hydro flows, export prices, station reliability and other factors can add or subtract from the variance accounts until October. That could help soften any $70 million bill to customers from the Lepreau and Bayside outages, or make it worse. 

"Any variance from budget will also be included in the variance account," noted Couture.

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David Amos
Methinks everybody should pay close attention to the upcoming public hearings of Matters 541 and 529 before the EUB N'esy Pas?  
 
 
Jim Beam

Reply to David Amos
What's the big bombshell there David?
 
 
David Amos

Reply toJim Beam
Ask Higgy et al  
 
 
David Amos
Reply toJim Beam
BTW Who are you to use my first name as if we are friends particularly in light of the fact that you don't have the sand to post things with your real name???  
 
 
 
 
Wayne Mac Arthur 
... And bonuses will still be paid out !  
 
 
David Amos
Reply toWayne Mac Arthur  
They are counting on it 


 
 
On 1/25/23, David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ask yourselves why the sneaky lawyer Petey Baby Van Loan was the only
> person to block my email yesterday and now all his partners are doing
> so today
>
> Enjoy
>
> https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2023/01/yo-peter-van-loan-your-partners-mr.html
>
> Tuesday, 24 January 2023
> YO Peter Van Loan Your partners Mr Zakem and Mr Torgis should never
> deny that I called them today EH???
>
>
> Automatic reply: YO Peter Van Loan Your partners Mr Zakem and Mr
> Torgis should never deny that I called them today EH???
>
> Abigail J. Herrington
> <Aherrington@lawsoncreamer.com
>       Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 1:20 PM
> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
>
> I am travelling and in hearings on January 24 & 25, 2023. As a result,
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> Abigail
> Peter Van Loan
> From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
> The Honourable
> Peter Van Loan
> PC
> Peter Van Loan - 2014 (14377788468) (cropped).jpg
> Van Loan in 2014
>
> Shadow Minister of Canadian Heritage
> In office
> 20 November 2015 – 7 September 2018
> Leader        Rona Ambrose
> Preceded by   Pierre Nantel
> Succeeded by  Steven Blaney
> Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
> In office
> May 18, 2011 – November 4, 2015
> Prime Minister        Stephen Harper
> Preceded by   John Baird
> Succeeded by  Dominic LeBlanc
> In office
> January 4, 2007 – October 30, 2008
> Prime Minister        Stephen Harper
> Preceded by   Rob Nicholson
> Succeeded by  Jay Hill
> Minister of International Trade
> In office
> January 19, 2010 – May 18, 2011
> Prime Minister        Stephen Harper
> Preceded by   Stockwell Day
> Succeeded by  Ed Fast
> Minister of Public Safety
> In office
> October 30, 2008 – January 19, 2010
> Prime Minister        Stephen Harper
> Preceded by   Stockwell Day
> Succeeded by  Vic Toews
> President of the Privy Council
> Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs
> In office
> November 27, 2006 – January 4, 2007
> Prime Minister        Stephen Harper
> Preceded by   Michael Chong
> Succeeded by  Josée Verner
> Member of Parliament
> for York—Simcoe
> In office
> June 28, 2004 – September 30, 2018
> Preceded by   Riding established
> Succeeded by  Scot Davidson
> Personal details
> Born  April 18, 1963 (age 59)
> Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
> Political party       Conservative
> Residence(s)  Sutton, Ontario
> Profession    Lawyer
>
> Peter Van Loan PC (born April 18, 1963) is a former Canadian
> politician who served as the Member of Parliament for the electoral
> district of York—Simcoe from 2004 to 2018. He was the Leader of the
> Government in the House of Commons from 2007 to 2008 and again from
> 2011 to 2015.
> Biography
>
> Born in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Van Loan is of Estonian heritage on
> his maternal side. His mother and grandparents fled Estonia during
> World War II and immigrated to Canada.
>
> Van Loan was educated at the University of Toronto and York University
> and holds a bachelor's degree, a Masters in International Relations
> and an additional master's degree in geography. Van Loan graduated
> from York University's Osgoode Hall Law School and was admitted to the
> Bar of Ontario in 1989.
>
> Prior to his election to public office, Van Loan was a partner and
> Chair of the Planning and Development Law Group at the law firm of
> Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP in Toronto, Ontario. Van Loan was also an
> Adjunct Professor of Planning at the University of Toronto. He served
> as president of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario during
> Mike Harris' term of office and then of the Progressive Conservative
> Party of Canada for a brief period. He resigned from the latter post
> in 2000 after a series of disagreements with its leader, Joe Clark.
>
> Van Loan was a key figure in the unsuccessful attempt to convince
> Premier of New Brunswick Bernard Lord to run for the leadership of the
> federal Progressive Conservatives in late 2002. He was a key organizer
> in the "Yes" Campaign, led by Tory Leader Peter MacKay, to ratify the
> merger of the Progressive Conservative Party and the Canadian Alliance
> into the Conservative Party of Canada. Van Loan then again attempted
> to recruit Lord to run for the leadership of the new party, and again
> was unsuccessful.
>
> In an article from January 24, 2008, Van Loan was classified as one of
> "Harper's 12", the twelve most influential people in Ottawa, by
> Maclean's Magazine. Other cabinet ministers included were Jim
> Prentice, John Baird, and Jim Flaherty.
>
> On October 30, 2008, Jay Hill replaced Van Loan as Government House
> Leader and Steven John Fletcher took over the Minister for Democratic
> Reform post. Van Loan became the Minister for Public Safety, as
> Stockwell Day became the Minister of International Trade. On these
> changes Don Martin wrote: "The House of Commons might become a
> slightly friendlier place now that Peter Van Loan has lost the job of
> Question Period cheap shot specialist to become Public Safety
> Minister, a good move that seems to back Harper’s pledge to play nice
> with others during the upcoming session."[1]
>
> On January 19, 2010, Prime Minister Stephen Harper designated Van Loan
> as the next Minister of International Trade.
>
> On December 5, 2012, on the floor of the House of Commons Van Loan was
> involved in an altercation with NDP Leader Tom Mulcair. Van Loan
> crossed the aisle and used an inappropriate word during the
> confrontation. He was restrained by Defence Minister Peter MacKay.[2]
>
> Van Loan was one of thirteen Canadians banned from travelling to
> Russia under retaliatory sanctions imposed by Russian President
> Vladimir Putin in March 2014.[3] In response to the ban, Van Loan said
> that the ban was "not of serious consequence" and that he would "not
> be losing sleep over being on the list."[4]
>
> On July 29, 2018, Van Loan announced that he would be retiring from
> politics. He retired from the House of Commons on September 30.[5] In
> the by-election, his seat was held for the Conservatives by candidate
> Scot Davidson.
>
>
>
> https://www.airdberlis.com/insights/news/news-item/hugh-segal-to-receive-an-honorary-degree
> Firm News
> April 27, 2018
> Hugh Segal Receives Honorary Degree
> The Honourable Hugh Segal, Senior Strategic Advisor at Aird and
> Berlis, received an honorary degree from Queen's University on Monday,
> June 4. Hugh is the fifth elected Principal of Massey College and he
> currently holds honorary doctorates from the Royal Military College of
> Canada and the University of Ottawa.
> Hugh Segal
> From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
> The Honourable
> Hugh Segal
> OC OOnt CD
> Hugh Segal, Master of Massey College.JPG
>
> 5th Principal of Massey College
> In office
> July 1, 2014 – June 30, 2019
> Preceded by   John Fraser
> Succeeded by  Nathalie Des Rosiers
> Canadian Senator
> for Kingston—Frontenac—Leeds, Ontario
> In office
> August 2, 2005 – June 15, 2014
> Appointed by  Paul Martin
> 4th Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister
> In office
> April 14, 1992 – June 25, 1993
> Prime Minister        Brian Mulroney
> Preceded by   Norman Spector
> Succeeded by  David McLaughlin
> Personal details
> Born  October 13, 1950 (age 72)
> Montreal, Quebec, Canada
> Political party       Progressive Conservative
> Alma mater    University of Ottawa
>
> Hugh Segal OC OOnt CD (born October 13, 1950) is a Canadian political
> strategist, author, commentator, academic, and former senator. He
> served as chief of staff to Ontario Premier Bill Davis and later to
> Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Segal resigned from the Senate
> of Canada on June 15, 2014, as a result of his appointment as master
> (later principal) of Massey College in Toronto.[1]
> Life and career
> Politics and public policy
>
> Segal was inspired by a visit from Prime Minister John Diefenbaker in
> 1962 to his school, United Talmud Torah Academy in Montreal.[2] Segal
> went on to graduate from the University of Ottawa and was an aide to
> federal Progressive Conservative Leader of the Opposition Robert
> Stanfield in the early 1970s, while still a university student.
>
> At the age of 21, he was an unsuccessful Progressive Conservative
> candidate in Ottawa Centre for the House of Commons of Canada in the
> 1972 general election. He was defeated again in 1974.
>
> As a member of the Big Blue Machine, Segal was a senior aide to
> Ontario Progressive Conservative Premier Bill Davis in the 1970s and
> 1980s, and he was named Deputy Minister at age 29. From 1992 to 1993,
> he was Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
>
> Segal finished second to Joe Clark after the first ballot of the 1998
> Progressive Conservative leadership election, but he chose to withdraw
> and support Clark (the eventual winner) in the second ballot runoff
> vote against third-place finisher David Orchard. He had also briefly
> considered running for the PC leadership in 1993.
> Senate
> Senator Hugh Segal, Canadian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka Shellie
> Viding and other delegates met E. Saravanapavan at the Uthayan
> newspaper premises in Jaffna, 2013
>
> In 2005, Segal was appointed to the Senate of Canada by Liberal Prime
> Minister Paul Martin. He was the chairman of the Senate Foreign
> Affairs Committee until he "reluctantly" agreed to resign in 2007 at
> the request of the Conservative government, which reportedly wished to
> appoint a more ideologically conservative senator to the role after
> the committee issued a report critical of the Conservative
> government's foreign aid policy. Segal insisted, however, that the
> move was an administrative one.[3] Segal later served as Chair of the
> Special Senate Committee on Anti-Terrorism.
>
> In December 2013, he announced his intention to resign from the Senate
> in June 2014, twelve years before he would reach the mandatory
> retirement age of 75, to accept an academic appointment as Master of
> Massey College in Toronto.
> Commonwealth
>
> On July 7, 2010, he was appointed to the Commonwealth Eminent Persons
> Group (EPG) by Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma. The group's mandate
> is to set out decisive recommendations on how to strengthen the
> Commonwealth and fulfill its potential in the 21st century. In
> December 2011 the federal government appointed him special envoy to
> the Commonwealth with the task of convincing individual countries to
> sign on to the EPG's 106 recommendations.[4]
> Political views
>
> Segal espouses a moderate brand of conservatism that has little in
> common with British Thatcherism or US neoconservatism. He is a Red
> Tory in the tradition of Benjamin Disraeli, Sir John A. Macdonald,
> John Diefenbaker and his mentors Robert Stanfield and Bill Davis. This
> political philosophy stresses the common good and promotes social
> harmony between classes. It is often associated with One Nation
> Conservatism. The focus is on order, good government and mutual
> responsibility. Individual rights and personal freedom are not
> considered absolute. In his book Beyond Greed: A Traditional
> Conservative Confronts Neo-Conservative Excess (Toronto: Stoddart,
> 1997), Segal sought to distinguish what he called "traditional"
> conservatives from neo-conservatives, notably those in the United
> States.
>
> In an earlier book, his 1996 memoir No Surrender (page 225), Segal
> wrote: "Progressive Conservatives cannot embrace the nihilistic
> defeatism that masquerades as a neo-conservative polemic in support of
> individual freedom and disengagement." He went on to deplore "American
> fast-food conservatism." In a speech to the National Press Club on
> June 21, 1995, Segal referred to the "selfish and directionless nature
> of the American revolution -- which was more about self-interest,
> mercantile opportunity, and who collected what tax than it was about
> tolerance or freedom."
>
> Segal opposed on civil liberties grounds the imposition of the War
> Measures Act by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in the October Crisis of
> 1970. He favours strengthening Canada's military and encouraging
> investment, while maintaining a strong social safety net. His 1998
> proposal to reduce Canada's Goods and Services Tax from 7% to 6% (and
> then 5%) was adopted by Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party in
> 2005. During his leadership campaign he stated his support for capital
> punishment. Segal's most recent book is The Long Road Back: The
> Conservative Journey, 1993-2006 (Toronto: HarperCollins, 2006).
>
> On 6 June 2012, Segal had a comment published in the National Post[5]
> outlining his views on Basic Income. In December 2012, Segal published
> an essay[6] in the Literary Review of Canada promoting the benefits of
> a guaranteed annual income.
> Journalism
>
> In the 1980s and 1990s, Segal became a television pundit and newspaper
> columnist. In the private sector, Segal has been an executive in the
> advertising, brewing, and financial services industries.
> Publishing
>
> Segal's book Two Freedoms: Canada's Global Future was published by
> Dundurn Press in April 2016.[7]
>
> Published by On Point Press, an imprint of UBC Press on October 15 of
> 2019, Segal released his second book, Bootstraps Need Boots: One
> Tory’s Lonely Fight to End Poverty in Canada.
> Academic work
>
> Segal lives in Kingston, Ontario, and until 2014 was a faculty member
> at Queen's University's School of Policy Studies, and has also taught
> at the university's school of business. He served as president of the
> Institute for Research on Public Policy, a Montreal think tank, from
> 1999 to 2006. He sits on the board of directors and is a distinguished
> fellow at the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute.[8] He is
> also a member of the Trilateral Commission.[9]
>
> Segal was appointed Master of Massey College in the University of
> Toronto (effective at the end of June 2014) and retired from the
> Senate in order to accept the position.[10] He retired from the Massey
> College position effective June 30, 2019, five years into his
> seven-year term, and was succeeded by Nathalie Des Rosiers.[11]
> Honours
>
>     In 2003, Segal was made a Member of the Order of Canada which was
> later promoted to the grade of Officer.[12] Segal holds an honorary
> doctorate degree from the Royal Military College of Canada, University
> of Ottawa and Queen's University.
>     Hugh Segal was named honorary captain in the Royal Canadian Navy
> in 2004. [1]
>     He was made chair of the NATO Association of Canada in 2013.[13]
>     In 2013, Hugh Segal was honored with a Peace Patron Award by The
> Mosaic Institute, an NGO based in Toronto working to promote pluralism
> reducing conflict in Canada and abroad.[14]
>     In 2016, he was made a member of the Order of Ontario.[15]
>     In 2017 He was awarded the Canadian Forces Decoration (CD) for 12
> years service with the Royal Canadian Navy.
>
> Family
> He is the brother of corporate executive and former university
> administrator Brian Segal, and of artist Seymour Segal. He is married
> to Donna Armstrong Segal, a former Ontario Ministry of Health
> executive. They have one daughter, Jacqueline.
>
>
>
>
> YO Peter Van Loan Your partners Mr Zakem and Mr Torgis should never
> deny that I called them today EH???
> Message blocked
> Your message to pvanloan@airdberlis.com has been blocked. See
> technical details below for more information.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Ministerial Correspondence Unit - Justice Canada <mcu@justice.gc.ca>
> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 15:36:57 +0000
> Subject: Automatic Reply
> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 09:11:22 -0400
> Subject: Not long after CBC closed a comment section and erased one of
> my comments I hear Terry Seguin talking to Sophia Harris about money
> and shook my head
> To: Hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca, "Pierre.Paul-Hus.a1"
> <Pierre.Paul-Hus.a1@parl.gc.ca>, "pierre.poilievre.a1"
> <pierre.poilievre.a1@parl.gc.ca>, pierre.paul-hus@parl.gc.ca,
> ps.publicsafetymcu-securitepubliqueucm.sp@canada.ca, "ralph.goodale"
> <ralph.goodale@parl.gc.ca>, mcu <mcu@justice.gc.ca>,
> "Jody.Wilson-Raybould"<Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.ca>,
> "clare.barry"<clare.barry@justice.gc.ca>, "david.hansen"
> <david.hansen@justice.gc.ca>, Newsroom <Newsroom@globeandmail.com>,
> "Dale.Morgan"<Dale.Morgan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "david.eidt"
> <david.eidt@gnb.ca>, "serge.rousselle"<serge.rousselle@gnb.ca>,
> "brian.gallant"<brian.gallant@gnb.ca>, "David.Coon"
> <David.Coon@gnb.ca>, "blaine.higgs"<blaine.higgs@gnb.ca>,
> lorri.warner@justice.gc.ca, "jan.jensen"<jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca>,
> "Nathalie.Drouin"<Nathalie.Drouin@justice.gc.ca>, "bill.pentney"
> <bill.pentney@justice.gc.ca>, "andrew.baumberg"
> <andrew.baumberg@fct-cf.gc.ca>, "Norman.Sabourin"
> <Norman.Sabourin@cjc-ccm.gc.ca>, "Gib.vanErt"<Gib.vanErt@scc-csc.ca>,
> "marc.giroux"<marc.giroux@fja-cmf.gc.ca>, "Brenda.Lucki"
> <Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Liliana.Longo"
> <Liliana.Longo@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, washington field
> <washington.field@ic.fbi.gov>, "Boston.Mail"<Boston.Mail@ic.fbi.gov>,
> english@rcinet.ca, "kennedy.stewart"<kennedy.stewart@parl.gc.ca>,
> pvanloan@airdberlis.com, nicola.diiorio@bcf.ca, "Nicola.DiIorio"
> <Nicola.DiIorio@parl.gc.ca>, "Catherine.Tait"<Catherine.Tait@cbc.ca>,
> "sylvie.gadoury"<sylvie.gadoury@radio-canada.ca>, "Sophia.Harris"
> <Sophia.Harris@cbc.ca>, "terry.seguin"<terry.seguin@cbc.ca>
> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>, "macpherson.don"
> <macpherson.don@dailygleaner.com>, "David.Akin"
> <David.Akin@globalnews.ca>, "steve.murphy"<steve.murphy@ctv.ca>,
> news919 <news919@rogers.com>, sfine <sfine@globeandmail.com>, news
> <news@hilltimes.com>, news <news@kingscorecord.com>, newstips
> <newstips@cnn.com>
>
> Methinks the all knowing Ms Harris should review page 14 of this file
> and finally find all the documents I sent her in 2002 N'esy Pas?
>
>
> https://www.scribd.com/doc/2718120/integrity-yea-right
>
>
>
>
> https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2018/10/nobody-should-be-surprised-to-sse.html
>
> Sunday, 21 October 2018
>
> Nobody should be surprised to see the LIEbrano Propaganda Machine
> claim Trudeau The Younger has the edge on the 2019 election N'esy Pas?
>
>
> https://twitter.com/DavidRayAmos/with_replies
>
>
> David Raymond Amos‏ @DavidRayAmos
> Replying to @DavidRayAmos @Kathryn98967631 and 49 others
> Methinks the LIEbrano Propaganda Machine erased one too many comments
> after it was read by others
>
> https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2018/10/nobody-should-be-surprised-to-sse.html
>
> #TrudeauMustGo #nbpoli #cdnpoli #TrumpKnew
>
>
> Trudeau The Younger can't deny that it contained a link to this file N'esy
> Pas?
>
>  https://www.scribd.com/doc/2718120/integrity-yea-right
>
>
>
> David Amos
> Content disabled.
> @Rob Lehtisaari
>
> You should try going back a little further in history
>
> Everybody knows 44 years ago Canada had next to zero for a National
> Debt and what we did owe was to ourselves byway of the Bank of Canada.
> thanks to R.B Bennent (He also created the CBC and the Wheat Board)
> Then Trudeau the Elder decided to borrow money from Banksters and now
> look at the fix we are in.
>
> Methinks there was quite a downturn 10 years ago and that was 4 long
> years after after I ran for a seat in the 38th Parliament because
> politicians were ignoring my warning about financial issues etc These
> day the stack markets are soaring on speculation only. However what
> goes up must come down N'esy Pas?
>
> https://www.scribd.com/doc/2718120/integrity-yea-right
>
>
>
>
> David Amos
> @Rob Lehtisaari "Comprehension, or lack there of is the responsibility
> of the reader/consumer."
>
> Methinks I should ask the obvious question can you exercise your
> responsibility when legitimate replies to you are blocked?
>
> That said perhaps I should at least point out the fact that there was
> quite a downturn in the worldwide economy 10 years ago. That was 4
> long years after I ran for a seat in the 38th Parliament because
> politicians were ignoring my warnings about financial issues etc These
> days the stock markets are soaring on speculation only. However Mother
> Nature dictates that what goes up must come down N'esy Pas?
>
> On 1/25/23, David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: rrichard@nb.aibn.com
>> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 11:45:46 -0300
>> Subject: Re: Matter 452 - NB Power Application for Approval of an
>> Advanced Metering Infrastructure Capital Project / Instance nș 452 -
>> Énergie NB - Demande d'approbation d'un project d'immobilisation
>> d'infrastructure de mesure avancée
>> To: "Colleen.Mitchell@AtlanticaEnergy.org"
>> <Colleen.Mitchell@atlanticaenergy.org>, "david.sollows@gnb.ca"
>> <david.sollows@gnb.ca>, "Heather.Quinn@gnb.ca"<Heather.Quinn@gnb.ca>,
>> "Paul.Volpe@enbridge.com"<Paul.Volpe@enbridge.com>,
>> "Gilles.volpe@enbridge.com"<Gilles.volpe@enbridge.com>,
>> "dave.lavigne@enbridge.com"<dave.lavigne@enbridge.com>,
>> "gerald@kissnb.com"<gerald@kissnb.com>, "hanrahan.dion@jdirving.com"
>> <hanrahan.dion@jdirving.com>, "cstewart@stewartmckelvey.com"
>> <cstewart@stewartmckelvey.com>, "NbdotCa@hotmail.com"
>> <NbdotCa@hotmail.com>, "lcozzarini@nbpower.com"
>> <lcozzarini@nbpower.com>, "jfurey@nbpower.com"<jfurey@nbpower.com>,
>> "SWaycott@nbpower.com"<SWaycott@nbpower.com>, "bcrawford@nbpower.com"
>> <bcrawford@nbpower.com>, "lclark@nbpower.com"<lclark@nbpower.com>,
>> "NBPRegulatory@nbpower.com"<NBPRegulatory@nbpower.com>, NBEUB/CESPNB
>> <General@nbeub.ca>, "Lawton, John"<John.Lawton@nbeub.ca>, "Desmond,
>> Ellen"<ecdesmond@nbeub.ca>, "Dickie, Michael"
>> <Michael.Dickie@nbeub.ca>, "Young, Dave"<Dave.Young@nbeub.ca>,
>> "Mitchell, Kathleen"<Kathleen.Mitchell@nbeub.ca>,
>> "mikemckinley@rogers.com"<mikemckinley@rogers.com>,
>> "heather.black@gnb.ca"<heather.black@gnb.ca>, "rrichard@nb.aibn.com"
>> <rrichard@nb.aibn.com>, "geoff.flood@t4g.com"<geoff.flood@t4g.com>
>> Cc: "jeff.garrett (jeff.garrett@sjenergy.com)"
>> <jeff.garrett@sjenergy.com>, "dan.dionne
>> (dan.dionne@perth-andover.com)"<dan.dionne@perth-andover.com>, "Roy,
>> Pierre"<pierreroy@edmundston.ca>, "Robinson, Ray"
>> <ray.robinson@sjenergy.com>, "sstoll (sstoll@airdberlis.com)"
>> <sstoll@airdberlis.com>, "Zarnett, Paula"<pzarnett@bdrenergy.com>
>>
>>
>> New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board
>> PO Box 5001
>> 15 Market Square, Suite 1400
>> Saint John NB
>> E2L 4Y9
>>
>> Att: Kathleen Mitchell, Chief Clerk
>>
>>
>> Dear Ms. Mitchell,
>>
>> With all due respect, I cannot support Utilities Municipal’s Motion.
>>
>> As you know, I am placing lots of time, money and worries to stop the
>> deployment of smart meters in our province.
>>
>> Always in the past, Utilities Municipal had been timely in all it’s
>> interventions.
>>
>> Therefore, I have resorted to doubt their intentions for the delay.
>>
>> I became aware that the profit of Saint John Energy goes to Fredericton.
>>
>> Saint John Energy is essentially a part of NB Power.
>>
>> I do not see why another intervener from NB power will help matter #452.
>>
>> They had a last minute change of plan.
>>
>> Cordially yours,
>>
>> Roger Richard
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Le 28 août 2019 à 10:35, Mitchell, Kathleen <Kathleen.Mitchell@nbeub.ca>
>>> a
>>> écrit :
>>>
>>> Good morning,
>>>
>>> Please be advised that Utilities Municipal has filed a Notice of Motion
>>> for Intervener Status with the Board.  All parties have now been copied
>>> on
>>> the Notice of Motion and it is posted on the Board’s website.
>>>
>>> Parties have until 12:00 PM on Friday, August 30th to provide any
>>> comments
>>> they may have regarding Utilities Municipal’s request.
>>>
>>> ***
>>> Bonjour,
>>>
>>> Nous désirons vous informer qu’Utilities Municipal a déposé un Avis de
>>> motion pour statut d’intervenant auprès de la Commission.  Toutes les
>>> parties ont désormais reçu une copie de cet Avis de motion, qui est
>>> affiché sur le site Web de la Commission.
>>>
>>> Les parties ont jusqu’à 12 h 00 le vendredi 30 août pour soumettre des
>>> commentaires en ce qui a trait à la demande d’Utilities Municipal.
>>>
>>> Kathleen Mitchell
>>> Chief Clerk | Greffière en chef
>>>
>>> Energy & Utilities Board | Commission de l’énergie et des services
>>> publics
>>> du N.-B.
>>> 15 Market Square, Suite 1400
>>> Saint John, NB  E2L 4Y9
>>> 506-643-7324 (direct)
>>> 506-658-2504 (reception)
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>> On 1/24/23, David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> https://www.airdberlis.com/contact
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>>> Firm Contacts
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>>>     Bio
>>>
>>>     Steven Zakem is widely recognized as an expert in municipal
>>> planning.
>>>     Full bio
>>>     ZAKEM_Steve-1670_webupdate
>>>     Steven Zakem
>>>     Managing Partner
>>>         szakem@airdberlis.com
>>>         T416.865.3440
>>>     Bio
>>>
>>>     Gary reports to the Managing Partner and Executive Committee. He
>>> is responsible for all administrative departments that provide support
>>> to 190 lawyers...
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>>>     Bio
>>>
>>>     Ari is responsible for all aspects of the firm’s student and
>>> associate programs, including recruitment, supervision and
>>> professional development...
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>>>
>>>     Andrew has overall responsibility for the firm’s accounting and
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>>>     With a focus on education, innovation and collaboration, Neil is
>>> responsible for the firm's professional development activities and
>>> knowledge manageme...
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>>>         T416.865.4721
>>>     Bio
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>>>     Georgia leads and directs the planning and execution of the firm’s
>>> Human Resources function.
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>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
>>> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2023 12:00:41 -0400
>>> Subject: Re: Merci Mon Ami Interesting news
>>> To: areynolds@airdberlis.com, "blaine.higgs"<blaine.higgs@gnb.ca>,
>>> Dominic.Cardy@gnb.ca, "Holland, Mike (LEG)"<mike.holland@gnb.ca>,
>>> "Ross.Wetmore"<Ross.Wetmore@gnb.ca>, "robert.mckee"
>>> <robert.mckee@gnb.ca>, "Rene.Legacy"<Rene.Legacy@gnb.ca>,
>>> "kris.austin"<kris.austin@gnb.ca>, "michelle.conroy"
>>> <michelle.conroy@gnb.ca>, David.Coon@gnb.ca, "Mitton, Megan (LEG)"
>>> <megan.mitton@gnb.ca>, "Arseneau, Kevin (LEG)"
>>> <kevin.a.arseneau@gnb.ca>, kevhache@nb.sympatico.ca, "greg.byrne"
>>> <greg.byrne@gnb.ca>, "hugh.flemming"<hugh.flemming@gnb.ca>,
>>> MRichard@lawsociety-barreau.nb.ca, serge.rousselle@umoncton.ca,
>>> "Bill.Hogan"<Bill.Hogan@gnb.ca>, "Bill.Oliver"<Bill.Oliver@gnb.ca>,
>>> briangallant10 <briangallant10@gmail.com>, BrianThomasMacdonald
>>> <BrianThomasMacdonald@gmail.com>, "bruce.fitch"<bruce.fitch@gnb.ca>,
>>> "Macfarlane, Bruce (DH/MS)"<Bruce.Macfarlane@gnb.ca>, "Gary.Crossman"
>>> <Gary.Crossman@gnb.ca>, andrea.anderson-mason@gnb.ca, "robert.gauvin"
>>> <robert.gauvin@gnb.ca>, "Dorothy.Shephard"<Dorothy.Shephard@gnb.ca>,
>>> "charles.murray"<charles.murray@gnb.ca>, ltgov@gnb.ca,
>>> "Kelly.A.Lamrock"<Kelly.A.Lamrock@gnb.ca>, andre <andre@jafaust.com>,
>>> news@dailygleaner.com, oldmaison@yahoo.com, jbosnitch@gmail.com,
>>> "Robert. Jones"<Robert.Jones@cbc.ca>
>>> Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>, rrichard
>>> <rrichard@nb.aibn.com>, Alex.Vass@gnb.ca, SWaycott@nbpower.com,
>>> jeffery.callaghan@mcinnescooper.com, david.sollows@gnb.ca,
>>> rdk@indecon.com, pzarnett@bdrenergy.com, sstoll@airdberlis.com,
>>> dan.dionne@perth-andover.com
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Scott Stoll <sstoll@airdberlis.com>
>>> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2023 15:57:03 +0000
>>> Subject: Automatic reply: Merci Mon Ami
>>> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Please be advised that Scott Stoll has retired from Aird & Berlis LLP
>>> effective August 31st, 2022. If this is a business related enquiry,
>>> please contact Alison Reynolds at areynolds@airdberlis.com or
>>> 416.863.1500 ext. 2113.
>>>
>>> On 1/24/23, David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> ---------- Original message ----------
>>>> From: Roger Richard <rrichard@nb.aibn.com>
>>>> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 11:45:50 -0400
>>>> Subject: Matter 430 - NB Power 2019-2020 General Rate Application /
>>>> Instance Nº 430 - Énergie NB Demande générale de tarifs pour 2019-2020
>>>> To: "Mitchell, Kathleen"<Kathleen.Mitchell@nbeub.ca>
>>>> Cc: "David.Raymond.Amos333@gmail.com"
>>>> <David.Raymond.Amos333@gmail.com>, "david.sollows@gnb.ca"
>>>> <david.sollows@gnb.ca>, "Paul.Volpe@enbridge.com"
>>>> <Paul.Volpe@enbridge.com>, "dave.lavigne@enbridge.com"
>>>> <dave.lavigne@enbridge.com>, "Gilles.volpe@enbridge.com"
>>>> <Gilles.volpe@enbridge.com>, "jeffery.callaghan@mcinnescooper.com"
>>>> <jeffery.callaghan@mcinnescooper.com>, "gerald@kissnb.com"
>>>> <gerald@kissnb.com>, "cstewart@stewartmckelvey.com"
>>>> <cstewart@stewartmckelvey.com>, "hanrahan.dion@jdirving.com"
>>>> <hanrahan.dion@jdirving.com>, "lcozzarini@nbpower.com"
>>>> <lcozzarini@nbpower.com>, "jfurey@nbpower.com"<jfurey@nbpower.com>,
>>>> "SWaycott@nbpower.com"<SWaycott@nbpower.com>,
>>>> "NBPRegulatory@nbpower.com"<NBPRegulatory@nbpower.com>,
>>>> "wharrison@nbpower.com"<wharrison@nbpower.com>,
>>>> "bcrawford@nbpower.com"<bcrawford@nbpower.com>, "Lawton, John"
>>>> <John.Lawton@nbeub.ca>, "Desmond, Ellen"<ecdesmond@nbeub.ca>,
>>>> "Dickie, Michael"<Michael.Dickie@nbeub.ca>, "Young, Dave"
>>>> <Dave.Young@nbeub.ca>, "Mitchell, Kathleen"
>>>> <Kathleen.Mitchell@nbeub.ca>, NBEUB/CESPNB <General@nbeub.ca>,
>>>> "heather.black@gnb.ca"<heather.black@gnb.ca>, "rdk@indecon.com"
>>>> <rdk@indecon.com>, "rrichard@nb.aibn.com"<rrichard@nb.aibn.com>,
>>>> "jeff.garrett@sjenergy.com"<jeff.garrett@sjenergy.com>,
>>>> "dan.dionne@perth-andover.com"<dan.dionne@perth-andover.com>,
>>>> "pierreroy@edmundston.ca"<pierreroy@edmundston.ca>,
>>>> "ray.robinson@sjenergy.com"<ray.robinson@sjenergy.com>,
>>>> "sstoll@airdberlis.com"<sstoll@airdberlis.com>,
>>>> "pzarnett@bdrenergy.com"<pzarnett@bdrenergy.com>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> M. le Président,
>>>>
>>>>         Je vous écrit ce matin pour faire valoir mon indignation
>>>> vis-à-vis
>>>> les propos de NB Power concernant M. Amos le 6 février 2019.  Plus
>>>> spécifiquement les paroles suivantes: « He might be dead before me. »
>>>>
>>>>         M. Amos est très habile lorsque vient le temps d’argumenter.
>>>> En
>>>> plus, il connait très bien les lois et ses responsabilités sociales.
>>>> M. Amos est bien plus efficace en Cour que dans une sombre ruelle…
>>>> Jamais il aurait dit de pareils choses!
>>>>
>>>>         J’étais présent la soirée du 7 février 2018.  C’était une très
>>>> longue
>>>> journée avec le début de l’audience #375 le matin et l’intervention
>>>> publique le soir en plus de la pluie verglaçante.  Tout le monde était
>>>> fatigué.
>>>>
>>>>         Je n’ai pas entendu M. Amos dire de telles paroles.  Il est
>>>> vrai
>>>> qu’il parlait vite ce soir là.  C’était pour profiter le plus possible
>>>> de son temps de paroles.  Après avoir reçu la transcription de la
>>>> soirée, il a essayé à mainte reprises d’avoir une copie de
>>>> l’enregistrement mais sans succès.
>>>>
>>>>         Les erreurs de transcriptions sont possibles car cela m’est
>>>> arrivé
>>>> à
>>>> quelques reprises.  C’est pourquoi, quand j’ai la possibilité, je
>>>> fournis un document écrit pour limiter les erreurs.  L’erreur est
>>>> humaine et je ne m’en fait pas d’histoires.  Mais maintenant je
>>>> réalise que c’est très dangereux.
>>>>
>>>>         C’est pourquoi je doute de l’intégrité de NB Power lorsqu’elle
>>>> utilise cette technique pour faire valoir son point.  Selon moi, c’est
>>>> un coup bas!
>>>>
>>>>         Je prie donc à la commission de prendre ceci en considération
>>>> pour
>>>> aider M. Amos à devenir intervenant.
>>>>
>>>> Cordialement vôtre,
>>>>
>>>> Roger Richard.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Google Translation
>>>>
>>>> Mr. President,
>>>>
>>>> I am writing to you this morning to express my outrage at NB Power's
>>>> remarks regarding Mr. Amos on 6 February 2019. More specifically the
>>>> following words: “He might be dead before me."
>>>>
>>>> Mr. Amos is very skilled when it comes to arguing. In addition, he
>>>> knows very well the laws and its social responsibilities. Mr. Amos is
>>>> much more effective in Court than in a dark alley… He would never have
>>>> said such things!
>>>>
>>>> I was present the evening of February 7, 2018. It was a very long day
>>>> with the start of hearing #375 in the morning and the public
>>>> intervention in the evening in addition to the freezing rain. Everyone
>>>> was tired.
>>>>
>>>> I did not hear Mr. Amos say such words. It is true that he spoke
>>>> quickly that evening. It was to take advantage of as much of his
>>>> speaking time as possible. After receiving the transcript of the
>>>> evening, he repeatedly tried to have a copy of the recording but
>>>> without success.
>>>>
>>>> Transcription errors are possible because this has happened to me a
>>>> few times. That's why when I have the possibility, I provide a written
>>>> document to limit errors. To err is human and I don't care of stories.
>>>> But now I realize that it is very dangerous.
>>>>
>>>> This is why I doubt the integrity of NB Power when it uses this
>>>> technique to make its point.
>>>>
>>>> In my opinion, this is a low blow!
>>>>
>>>> So I urge the commission to take this into consideration to help Mr.
>>>> Amos become an intervener.
>>>>
>>>> Yours faithfully,
>>>> Roger Richard.
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: "Macfarlane, Bruce (ECO/BCE)"<Bruce.Macfarlane@gnb.ca>
>>>> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:19:31 +0000
>>>> Subject: Automatic reply: Merci Mon Ami
>>>> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
>>>>
>>>> OUT OF OFFICE ALERT:I am out of the office with no access to e-mails
>>>> For immediate assistance, please contact Alex Vass at Alex.Vass@gnb.ca
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ABSENT DU BUREAU :Je suis hors de mon bureau aujourd'hui. Je n'aurai
>>>> pas accès à mes courriels électroniques. Veuillez communiquer avec
>>>> Alex Vass à Alex.Vass@gnb.ca pour obtenir de l'aide immédiate.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 1/23/23, David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> A Google Translation
>>>>>
>>>>> January 23, 2023. Case #541. Caraquet.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mr. President, dear Commissioners, and dear fellow citizens,
>>>>>
>>>>> I cannot accept the 8.9% increase in electricity rates. Even if Mr.
>>>>> Higgs is right
>>>>> that NB Power's huge debt needs to be brought under control is not the
>>>>> right way to go about it. Here are some reasons why.
>>>>>
>>>>> Start with the NB Power Board of Directors. Why do we have Board
>>>>> members who are non-residents of NB? Why the president of advice is an
>>>>> American?
>>>>>
>>>>> Then there are the salaries of more than $100,000 among our employees.
>>>>> It must be remembered that the upper third of the income of the
>>>>> population is $70,000 and more per year. It means that the lower
>>>>> two-thirds are much less. It's like NB Power is a cow
>>>>> fat as we say in English. According to Mr. David Amos, NB Power's
>>>>> accounting is not
>>>>> independently verified. He is a whistleblower regarding fraudulent
>>>>> activities
>>>>> of the KPMJ company.
>>>>>
>>>>> Follows the field of research and development. NB Power, i.e. we, have
>>>>> no the financial means to do research. Mini-nuclear power plants are a
>>>>> beautiful example of research well beyond our means. Hydro-Québec has
>>>>> a real laboratory, this is where people who want to do research can
>>>>> go. Otherwise we will reliving laughable experiences as we have seen
>>>>> with the company JOY Entertainment. As for the development, it comes
>>>>> from the workers on the ground. For example, an editor line can see,
>>>>> after years of experience, that a piece of equipment wears in a way
>>>>> particular. He can realize that by moving it a little, his lifespan
>>>>> increases. this is good, but the ego of the superiors and the
>>>>> administration comes into play and often the idea is lost.
>>>>>
>>>>> Then there is the entrepreneurial spirit in big projects that does not
>>>>> go with our ability to
>>>>> to pay. Why renovate the Mactaquac dam when we have 5 billion in debt?
>>>>> Why
>>>>> we maintain the Point Lepreau Generating Station? For Americans?
>>>>>
>>>>> Our natural environment was my primary reason for becoming a case
>>>>> worker. #375 and #452 even if it is very difficult for me to speak
>>>>> publicly. In particular, the transcript of January 22, 2020 of
>>>>> Instance #452, pages 1120 and following, should be reread.
>>>>> Interesting, there is three years already… Electromagnetic fields are
>>>>> creating a smog that is becoming more and more denser with serious
>>>>> effects on everything around us, including ourselves. I you refers to
>>>>> the documents of Dr. Héroux and Dr. Miller presented during the two
>>>>> proceedings mentioned. With that, I would like to introduce you to
>>>>> what an RF wave meter measures. In this room. It quantifies the level
>>>>> of electromagnetic smog. The scale used by the device is according to
>>>>> the recent studies which are carried out independently of the
>>>>> industry. Not according to studies used by Health Canada.
>>>>>
>>>>> The transition from an analog to a digital system results in a huge
>>>>> loss energy on several levels. Looking up a word in a dictionary does
>>>>> not have the same expense
>>>>> energy than looking for it on the internet. Also, the digital system
>>>>> continues to evolve and to each time you have to buy other devices.
>>>>> Sometimes it is the device itself that is defective! Just think of
>>>>> your cell phones and smart meters. You have to remember that
>>>>> mechanical counters last more than thirty years… Dr. Tatoutchoup
>>>>> explained well why smart meters are not a good financial decision for
>>>>> N.B. must see or review his report presented during proceeding #452.
>>>>> This digital shift is a illusion: a false path. Moreover, remember
>>>>> what Mr. Bill Morneau, the former Minister of federal finances, said
>>>>> when he spoke about this energy transformation. He said that this
>>>>> technology will allow us to save money so that we can buy more
>>>>> “stuff”: A nice environmentalist mentality.
>>>>>
>>>>> Far too much emphasis is placed on electric vehicles. Maybe one day
>>>>> this will be the reality but not in the near future. So why try to
>>>>> pretend it's okay change our reality now? In the meantime, let's leave
>>>>> it to others to make exorbitant expenses that are completely
>>>>> unnecessary and let's invest when the technology is ripe.
>>>>>
>>>>> Humanity is growing exponentially now, but our planet is as big as
>>>>> that! So let's try to understand the importance of accepting our
>>>>> reality and stop believing that our needs can be met without any
>>>>> limits. Unfortunately, our system decision-making is taken by the
>>>>> industry. A good example is that Mr. Amos is practically the only one,
>>>>> if not the only one intervening in this proceeding who does not
>>>>> represent any company.
>>>>>
>>>>> I know I'm not telling you anything, but you had to be told for it to
>>>>> be recorded. Thanks for taking the time to listen.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yours faithfully,
>>>>> Roger Richard
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Le 23 janvier, 2023. Instance #541. Caraquet.
>>>>>
>>>>> M. le Président, chers commissaires, et chers concitoyens,
>>>>>
>>>>> Je ne peux accepter l’augmentation de 8,9% des tarifs d’électricité.
>>>>> Même si M. Higgs a raison qu’il faut contrôler l’énorme dette
>>>>> d’Énergie NB, ce n’est pas la bonne façon de s’y prendre. Voici
>>>>> quelques raisons pourquoi.
>>>>>
>>>>> Il faut commencer par le conseil d’administration d’Énergie NB.
>>>>> Pourquoi avons-nous des membres du conseil d’administration qui sont
>>>>> non résidents du N.-B.? Pourquoi le président du conseil est un
>>>>> Américain?
>>>>>
>>>>> Ensuite il y a les salaires de plus de 100,000$ chez nos employés. Il
>>>>> faut se rappeler que le tiers supérieur des revenus de la population
>>>>> est 70,000$ et plus par année. Ça veut dire que les deux tiers
>>>>> inférieurs sont beaucoup moins. C’est à croire qu’Énergie NB est une
>>>>> vache grasse comme on dit en anglais. Selon M. David Amos, la
>>>>> comptabilité d’Énergie NB n’est pas vérifiée de façon indépendante. Il
>>>>> est un lanceur d’alertes concernant les activités frauduleuses de la
>>>>> compagnie KPMJ.
>>>>>
>>>>> Suit le domaine de la recherche et développement. Énergie NB,
>>>>> c’est-à-dire nous, n’avons pas les moyens financiers pour faire de la
>>>>> recherche. Les mini-centrales nucléaires sont un bel exemple de
>>>>> recherches bien au-dessus de nos moyens. Hydro-Québec a un vrai
>>>>> laboratoire, c’est là que les gens qui veulent faire de la recherche
>>>>> peuvent aller. Autrement nous allons revivre des expériences risibles
>>>>> tel que nous l’avons vu avec la compagnie JOY Entertainment. Quant au
>>>>> développement, il provient des travailleurs sur le terrain. Par
>>>>> exemple, un monteur de ligne peut voir, après des années
>>>>> d’expériences, qu’une pièce d’équipement use d’une façon particulière.
>>>>> Il peut réaliser qu’en la déplaçant un peu, sa durée de vie augmente.
>>>>> Ceci est bien, mais l’égo des supérieurs et de l’administration rentre
>>>>> en jeu et souvent l’idée est perdue.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ensuite il y a l’esprit entrepreneurial dans de gros projets qui ne va
>>>>> pas avec notre capacité de payer. Pourquoi rénover le barrage de
>>>>> Mactaquac lorsqu’on a 5 milliards de dettes? Pourquoi qu’on entretient
>>>>> la centrale de Pointe Lepreau? Pour les Américains?
>>>>>
>>>>> Notre environnement naturel a été ma raison première pour devenir
>>>>> intervenant aux l’instances #375 et #452 même s’il m’est très
>>>>> difficile de parler publiquement. En particulier, la transcription du
>>>>> 22 janvier 2020 de l’Instance #452, pages 1120 et suivantes, sont à
>>>>> relire. Intéressant, il y a trois ans passés déjà… Les champs
>>>>> électromagnétiques créent un smog qui devient de plus en plus dense
>>>>> avec des effets graves sur tout ce qui nous entoure y compris nous
>>>>> même. Je vous réfère aux documents de Dr Héroux et Dr Miller présentés
>>>>> lors des deux instances mentionnés.
>>>>> Sur ce, j’aimerais vous présenter ce qu’un compteur des ondes des
>>>>> radiofréquences mesure dans cette salle. Il quantifie le niveau du
>>>>> smog électromagnétique. L’échelle utilisée par l’appareil est selon
>>>>> les études récentes qui sont réalisées de façon indépendante de
>>>>> l’industrie. Pas selon les études qu’utilise Santé Canada.
>>>>>
>>>>> Le passage d’un système analogique à un système numérique entraîne une
>>>>> énorme perte d’énergie à plusieurs niveaux. Chercher un mot dans un
>>>>> dictionnaire n’a pas la même dépense d’énergie que de le chercher sur
>>>>> l’internet. Aussi, le système numérique continue d’évoluer et à chaque
>>>>> fois il faut acheter d’autres appareils. Parfois c’est l’appareil même
>>>>> qui est défectueux! On n’a qu’à penser à vos téléphones cellulaires et
>>>>> aux compteurs intelligents. Il faut se rappeler que les compteurs
>>>>> mécaniques durent plus de trente ans… Dr Tatoutchoup a bien expliqué
>>>>> pourquoi les compteurs intelligents ne sont pas une bonne décision
>>>>> financière pour le N.-B. Il faut voir ou revoir son rapport présenté
>>>>> lors de l’instance #452. Ce virage numérique est une illusion: une
>>>>> fausse route. D’ailleurs, se rappeler ce que M. Bill Morneau, l’ancien
>>>>> ministre des finances fédérales, a dit lorsqu’il parlait de cette
>>>>> transformation énergétique. Il a dit que cette technologie nous
>>>>> permettra d’épargner de l’argent pour nous permettre d’acheter plus de
>>>>> « stuff »: Une belle mentalité environnementaliste.
>>>>>
>>>>> Beaucoup trop d’importance est accordée aux véhicules électriques.
>>>>> Peut-être qu’un jour ce sera la réalité mais pas dans un avenir
>>>>> proche. Donc pourquoi essayer de prétendre que ça va changer notre
>>>>> réalité maintenant? Entre temps, laissons donc aux autres de faire des
>>>>> dépenses exorbitantes parfaitement inutiles et investissons lorsque la
>>>>> technologie sera à point.
>>>>>
>>>>> L’humanité croît de façon exponentielle présentement, mais notre
>>>>> planète est grosse comme ça! Essayons donc de comprendre l’importance
>>>>> d’accepter notre réalité et de cesser de croire que nos besoins
>>>>> peuvent être satisfaits sans aucunes limites. Malheureusement, notre
>>>>> système décisionnel est pris par l’industrie. Un bel exemple est que
>>>>> M. Amos est pratiquement le seul, si-non le seul, intervenant dans
>>>>> cette instance qui ne représente aucune compagnie.
>>>>>
>>>>> Je sais que je ne vous apprends rien, mais il fallait vous le dire
>>>>> pour que ce soit enregistré. Merci d’avoir pris le temps d’écouter.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cordialement vôtre,
>>>>>
>>>>> Roger Richard
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
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>>> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2021 19:13:33 +0000
>>> Subject: RE: Submissions of Utilities Municipal - New Brunswick Power
>>> – Motion for Deferral of General Rate Application- Board Matter No.
>>> 503
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>>> Cc: NBEUB/CESPNB <General@nbeub.ca>; david.sollows@gnb.ca;
>>> cstewart@stewartmckelvey.com; hanrahan.dion@jdirving.com;
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>>> ray.robinson@sjenergy.com; pzarnett@bdrenergy.com; gerald@kissnb.com
>>> Subject: Re: Submissions of Utilities Municipal - New Brunswick Power
>>> – Motion for Deferral of General Rate Application- Board Matter No.
>>> 503
>>>
>>> Oh my my what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive
>>>
>>> On 10/21/21, Alison Reynolds <areynolds@airdberlis.com> wrote:
>>>> Good morning,
>>>>
>>>> Please see attached letter of today’s date with the submissions of
>>>> Utilities Municipal with respect to Board Matter No. 503.
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>
>>>> Alison
>>>>
>>>> Alison Reynolds
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>>> From: Alison Reynolds <areynolds@airdberlis.com>
>>> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 14:24:18 +0000
>>> Subject: NB Power 2019-2020 General Rate Application - Board Matter No.
>>> 430
>>> To: "Mitchell, Kathleen"<Kathleen.Mitchell@nbeub.ca>
>>> Cc: "david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com"
>>> <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>, "david.sollows@gnb.ca"
>>> <david.sollows@gnb.ca>, "paul.volpe@enbridge.com"
>>> <paul.volpe@enbridge.com>, "dave.lavigne@enbridge.com"
>>> <dave.lavigne@enbridge.com>, "gilles.volpe@enbridge.com"
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>>> <hanrahan.dion@jdirving.com>, "Cozzarini, Lilia"
>>> <LCozzarini@nbpower.com>, "jfurey@nbpower.com"<jfurey@nbpower.com>,
>>> "swaycott@nbpower.com"<swaycott@nbpower.com>,
>>> "NBPRegulatory@nbpower.com"<NBPRegulatory@nbpower.com>,
>>> "wharrison@nbpower.com"<wharrison@nbpower.com>,
>>> "bcrawford@nbpower.com"<bcrawford@nbpower.com>,
>>> "John.Lawton@nbeub.ca"<John.Lawton@nbeub.ca>, "ecdesmond@nbeub.ca"
>>> <ecdesmond@nbeub.ca>, "Michael.Dickie@nbeub.ca"
>>> <Michael.Dickie@nbeub.ca>, "Dave.Young@nbeub.ca"
>>> <Dave.Young@nbeub.ca>, "general@nbeub.ca"<general@nbeub.ca>,
>>> "heather.black@gnb.ca"<heather.black@gnb.ca>, "rdk@indecon.com"
>>> <rdk@indecon.com>, "rrichard@nb.aibn.com"<rrichard@nb.aibn.com>,
>>> "jeff.garrett@sjenergy.com"<jeff.garrett@sjenergy.com>,
>>> "dan.dionne@perth-andover.com"<dan.dionne@perth-andover.com>,
>>> "pierreroy@edmundston.ca"<pierreroy@edmundston.ca>,
>>> "ray.robinson@sjenergy.com"<ray.robinson@sjenergy.com>, Scott Stoll
>>> <sstoll@airdberlis.com>, Paula Zarnett <pzarnett@bdrenergy.com>
>>>
>>> Good morning,
>>>
>>> Please find attached letter of today's date and the Interrogatories of
>>> Utilities Municipal with respect to the above-noted matter.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Alison
>>>
>>> Alison Reynolds
>>> Assistant to Scott Stoll, Fiona Brown & Hon. Hugh D. Segal, OC,O.Ont
>>>
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>>> Member of Parliament
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>>> York—Simcoe         Ontario         October 14, 2008        May 1, 2011
>>> York—Simcoe         Ontario         January 23, 2006        October 13, 2008
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>>> 40th        Conservative    October 14, 2008        May 1, 2011
>>> 39th        Conservative    January 23, 2006        October 13, 2008
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>>> 40th        Minister of Public Safety       October 30, 2008        January 19, 2010
>>> 39th        Member of the Board of Internal Economy         January 4, 2007         October
>>> 30,
>>> 2008
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>>> 2007        October 29, 2008
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>>> 39th        President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada       November 27,
>>> 2006        January 3, 2007
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>>> 3,
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>>> 39th        Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs
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>>> 2018
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>>> 7, 2005
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>>> Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills Development, Social
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>>> 17, 2010    March 31, 2010
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>>>     March 31, 2010
>>> 40th        Member  Canadian Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary
>>> Association         May 19, 2009    March 31, 2010
>>> 40th        Member  Canadian Delegation to the Organization for Security and
>>> Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly       May 19, 2009    March 31,
>>> 2010
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>>>     March 3, 2009   March 31, 2009
>>> 40th        Member  Canada-Israel Interparliamentary Group  March 1, 2009
>>>     March 31, 2009
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>>> 2008        March 31, 2009
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>>> Association         May 7, 2008     March 31, 2009
>>> 40th        Member  Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association         April 1, 2008
>>>     March 31, 2009
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>>> 2007        March 31, 2008
>>> 39th        Member  Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association         October 29,
>>> 2007        March 31, 2008
>>> 39th        Member  Canada-Japan Inter-Parliamentary Group  June 6, 2006
>>>     March 31, 2007
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>>>     March 31, 2007
>>> 39th        Member  Canadian NATO Parliamentary Association         May 11, 2006
>>>     March 31, 2007
>>> 39th        Member  Canadian Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary
>>> Association         May 11, 2006    March 31, 2007
>>> 39th        Member  Canada-United States Inter-Parliamentary Group  May 11,
>>> 2006        March 31, 2007
>>> 39th        Member  Canada-Germany Interparliamentary Group         May 3, 2006
>>>     March 31, 2007
>>> 38th        Member  Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association         June 2, 2005
>>>     March 31, 2006
>>> 38th        Member  Canadian NATO Parliamentary Association         June 2, 2005
>>>     March 31, 2006
>>> 38th        Member  Canada-United States Inter-Parliamentary Group  November
>>> 24, 2004    March 31, 2005
>>> 38th        Member  Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association         October 20,
>>> 2004        March 31, 2005
>>> 38th        Member  Canadian Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary
>>> Association         October 20, 2004        March 31, 2005
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>>> October 19, 2015    General Election        York—Simcoe     Ontario         Re-Elected
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>>> October 14, 2008    General Election        York—Simcoe     Ontario         Re-Elected
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>>> June 28, 2004       General Election        York—Simcoe     Ontario         Elected
>>>
>>
>
 
 
 
 
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Bernard Thériault and his beloved Caraquet the Cultural capital of Canada in 2003 and 2009

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Methinks its more than merely interesting that this CBC dude did not mention what Mon Ami Roger Richard had to say to the EUB N'esy Pas?

David Amos

<david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>		Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 3:18 PM
To: rene.landry@radio-canada.ca, bernard.theriault@caraquet.ca, "marc.duguay@caraquet.ca \"blaine.higgs\""<blaine.higgs@gnb.ca>, Dominic.Cardy@gnb.ca, "Holland, Mike (LEG)"<mike.holland@gnb.ca>, "Ross.Wetmore"<Ross.Wetmore@gnb.ca>, "robert.mckee"<robert.mckee@gnb.ca>, "Rene.Legacy"<Rene.Legacy@gnb.ca>, "kris.austin"<kris.austin@gnb.ca>, "michelle.conroy"<michelle.conroy@gnb.ca>, David.Coon@gnb.ca, "Mitton, Megan (LEG)"<megan.mitton@gnb.ca>, "Arseneau, Kevin (LEG)"<kevin.a.arseneau@gnb.ca>, kevhache@nb.sympatico.ca, "greg.byrne"<greg.byrne@gnb.ca>, "hugh.flemming"<hugh.flemming@gnb.ca>, MRichard@lawsociety-barreau.nb.ca, serge.rousselle@umoncton.ca, "Bill.Hogan"<Bill.Hogan@gnb.ca>, "Bill.Oliver"<Bill.Oliver@gnb.ca>, briangallant10 <briangallant10@gmail.com>, BrianThomasMacdonald <BrianThomasMacdonald@gmail.com>, "bruce.fitch"<bruce.fitch@gnb.ca>, "Macfarlane, Bruce (DH/MS)"<Bruce.Macfarlane@gnb.ca>, "Gary.Crossman"<Gary.Crossman@gnb.ca>, andrea.anderson-mason@gnb.ca, "robert.gauvin"<robert.gauvin@gnb.ca>, "Dorothy.Shephard"<Dorothy.Shephard@gnb.ca>, "charles.murray"<charles.murray@gnb.ca>, ltgov@gnb.ca, "Kelly.A.Lamrock"<Kelly.A.Lamrock@gnb.ca>, andre <andre@jafaust.com>, news@dailygleaner.com, oldmaison@yahoo.com, jbosnitch@gmail.com, "Robert. Jones"<Robert.Jones@cbc.ca>, Alex.Vass@gnb.ca, SWaycott@nbpower.com, jeffery.callaghan@mcinnescooper.com, david.sollows@gnb.ca, rdk@indecon.com, pzarnett@bdrenergy.com, sstoll@airdberlis.com, dan.dionne@perth-andover.com
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https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2023/01/bernard-theriault-and-his-beloved.html
 
 
Wednesday, 25 January 2023

Bernard Thériault and his beloved Caraquet the Cultural capital of
Canada in 2003 and 2009
 
 
https://twitter.com/DavidRaymondAm1/status/1618321380881338368 

 

David Raymond Amos
@DavidRaymondAm1
Replying to@RLandry_RC
Methinks its more than merely interesting that this CBC dude did not mention what Mon Ami
@RogeraRichard had to say to the EUB N'esy Pas?@premierbhiggs@cbcjones@mikel357
@mla_mike@DavidCCoon@DominicCardy@DLeBlancNB  
 
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2023/01/bernard-theriault-and-his-beloved.html 
 
 
 

Le maire de Caraquet regrette qu’Énergie NB n’ait pas été vendue à Hydro-Québec

Des compteurs d'électricité.

Énergie Nouveau-Brunswick souhaite pouvoir augmenter ses tarifs de près de 9 pour cent.

Photo : Radio-Canada / Maya Chebl

Si la vente d'Énergie Nouveau-Brunswick à Hydro-Québec avait pu être conclue en 2010, il n'y aurait pas de demandes de hausses « exagérées » des tarifs d'électricité aujourd'hui, selon le maire de Caraquet, Bernard Thériault.

La Commission de l'énergie et des services publics du Nouveau-Brunswick tenait une consultation dans cette municipalité pour la toute première fois lundi.

Consultation de la Commission de l'énergie et des services publics à Caraquet.

Seulement une douzaine de personnes, dont un groupe d'employés d'Énergie NB, ont assisté à la consultation de la Commission de l'énergie et des services publics, lundi, à Caraquet.

Photo : Radio-Canada / René Landry

Un seul citoyen de Caraquet a pris la parole au micro : le maire Bernard Thériault. Selon lui, une augmentation des tarifs d'électricité de 8,9 % est exagérée.

L'ex-chef de cabinet de l'ancien premier ministre libéral Shawn Graham regrette qu'Énergie Nouveau-Brunswick n'ait pas été vendue à Hydro-Québec.

Bernard Thériault, au micro.

Le maire de Caraquet, Bernard Thériault, devant les membres de la Commission de l'énergie et des services publics du Nouveau-Brunswick, lundi.

Photo : Radio-Canada / René Landry

La transaction, qui avait été négociée en coulisses entre les gouvernements néo-brunswickois et québécois, avait avorté, après avoir soulevé un tollé.

Je vous dis que si ça avait été fait en 2010, on ne serait pas ici, aujourd'hui, pour débattre d'une augmentation de 9 %, affirme-t-il. Parce qu'il y avait des engagements très clairs là-dedans que les augmentations n'iraient jamais plus haut que le coût de la vie.

Un contexte défavorable

Selon lui, le contexte n'est pas du tout favorable à une telle augmentation. Il cite l'inflation, l'augmentation des évaluations foncières et la réforme municipale qui fait augmenter les taxes.

Il remet en question la gestion d'Énergie Nouveau-Brunswick. S'ils ont absolument besoin de cet argent-là, ils font preuve selon moi d'un manque flagrant de gestion efficace, précise-t-il. Parce qu'à 9 %... c'est quand même une entreprise publique.

La Commission de l'énergie et des services publics a par ailleurs annulé son forum de consultation qui devait avoir lieu à Grand-Sault, ce mardi, puisqu'aucun participant ne s'est inscrit.

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Mayor of Caraquet regrets that NB Power was not sold to Hydro-Québec

René Landry (go to the author's page)
Posted on January 23, 2023
rene.landry@radio-canada.ca

If the sale of New Brunswick Power to Hydro-Quebec could have been concluded in 2010, there would not be requests for "exaggerated" increases in electricity rates today, according to the mayor of Caraquet, Bernard Thériault .

The New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board held a consultation in this municipality for the very first time on Monday.
Consultation of the Energy and Utilities Commission in Caraquet.

Only a dozen people, including a group of NB Power employees, attended Monday's Energy and Utilities Board consultation in Caraquet.

Only one citizen of Caraquet spoke at the microphone: Mayor Bernard Thériault. According to him, an increase in electricity tariffs of 8.9% is exaggerated.

The former chief of staff of former Liberal premier Shawn Graham regrets that New Brunswick Power was not sold to Hydro-Québec.

The mayor of Caraquet, Bernard Thériault, before members of the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board, Monday.

Photo: Radio-Canada / René Landry

The transaction, which had been negotiated behind the scenes between the New Brunswick and Quebec governments, had aborted, after raising an outcry.

"I tell you that if it had been done in 2010, we would not be here today to discuss a 9% increase," he says. "Because there were very clear commitments in there that the increases would never go higher than the cost of living."

An unfavorable context

According to him, the context is not at all favorable to such an increase. He cites inflation, the increase in property assessments and the municipal reform which increases taxes.

He questions the management of New Brunswick Power. "If they absolutely need that money, I think they are showing a flagrant lack of effective management," he says. "Because at 9%...it's still a public company."

The Energy and Utilities Commission has also canceled its consultation forum which was to take place in Grand Falls on Tuesday, since no participants registered.

Read also :

    Consultations on a possible 8.9% increase in electricity rates in N.B.
    NB Power wants to increase electricity rates by 8.9%
    NB Power's failed sale called the missed opportunity of the century
 
 

Merci Mon Ami

  

David Amos

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January 23, 2023. Case #541. Caraquet.

Mr. President, dear Commissioners, and dear fellow citizens,

I cannot accept the 8.9% increase in electricity rates. Even if Mr.
Higgs is right
that NB Power's huge debt needs to be brought under control is not the
right way to go about it. Here are some reasons why.

Start with the NB Power Board of Directors. Why do we have Board
members who are non-residents of NB? Why the president of advice is an
American?

Then there are the salaries of more than $100,000 among our employees.
It must be remembered that the upper third of the income of the
population is $70,000 and more per year. It means that the lower
two-thirds are much less. It's like NB Power is a cow
fat as we say in English. According to Mr. David Amos, NB Power's
accounting is not
independently verified. He is a whistleblower regarding fraudulent activities
of the KPMJ company.

Follows the field of research and development. NB Power, i.e. we, have
no the financial means to do research. Mini-nuclear power plants are a
beautiful example of research well beyond our means. Hydro-Québec has
a real laboratory, this is where people who want to do research can
go. Otherwise we will reliving laughable experiences as we have seen
with the company JOY Entertainment. As for the development, it comes
from the workers on the ground. For example, an editor line can see,
after years of experience, that a piece of equipment wears in a way
particular. He can realize that by moving it a little, his lifespan
increases. this is good, but the ego of the superiors and the
administration comes into play and often the idea is lost.

Then there is the entrepreneurial spirit in big projects that does not
go with our ability to
to pay. Why renovate the Mactaquac dam when we have 5 billion in debt? Why
we maintain the Point Lepreau Generating Station? For Americans?

Our natural environment was my primary reason for becoming a case
worker. #375 and #452 even if it is very difficult for me to speak
publicly. In particular, the transcript of January 22, 2020 of
Instance #452, pages 1120 and following, should be reread.
Interesting, there is three years already… Electromagnetic fields are
creating a smog that is becoming more and more denser with serious
effects on everything around us, including ourselves. I you refers to
the documents of Dr. Héroux and Dr. Miller presented during the two
proceedings mentioned. With that, I would like to introduce you to
what an RF wave meter measures. In this room. It quantifies the level
of electromagnetic smog. The scale used by the device is according to
the recent studies which are carried out independently of the
industry. Not according to studies used by Health Canada.

The transition from an analog to a digital system results in a huge
loss energy on several levels. Looking up a word in a dictionary does
not have the same expense
energy than looking for it on the internet. Also, the digital system
continues to evolve and to each time you have to buy other devices.
Sometimes it is the device itself that is defective! Just think of
your cell phones and smart meters. You have to remember that
mechanical counters last more than thirty years… Dr. Tatoutchoup
explained well why smart meters are not a good financial decision for
N.B. must see or review his report presented during proceeding #452.
This digital shift is a illusion: a false path. Moreover, remember
what Mr. Bill Morneau, the former Minister of federal finances, said
when he spoke about this energy transformation. He said that this
technology will allow us to save money so that we can buy more
“stuff”: A nice environmentalist mentality.

Far too much emphasis is placed on electric vehicles. Maybe one day
this will be the reality but not in the near future. So why try to
pretend it's okay change our reality now? In the meantime, let's leave
it to others to make exorbitant expenses that are completely
unnecessary and let's invest when the technology is ripe.

Humanity is growing exponentially now, but our planet is as big as
that! So let's try to understand the importance of accepting our
reality and stop believing that our needs can be met without any
limits. Unfortunately, our system decision-making is taken by the
industry. A good example is that Mr. Amos is practically the only one,
if not the only one intervening in this proceeding who does not
represent any company.

I know I'm not telling you anything, but you had to be told for it to
be recorded. Thanks for taking the time to listen.

Yours faithfully,
Roger Richard


Le 23 janvier, 2023. Instance #541. Caraquet.

M. le Président, chers commissaires, et chers concitoyens,

Je ne peux accepter l’augmentation de 8,9% des tarifs d’électricité.
Même si M. Higgs a raison qu’il faut contrôler l’énorme dette
d’Énergie NB, ce n’est pas la bonne façon de s’y prendre. Voici
quelques raisons pourquoi.

Il faut commencer par le conseil d’administration d’Énergie NB.
Pourquoi avons-nous des membres du conseil d’administration qui sont
non résidents du N.-B.? Pourquoi le président du conseil est un
Américain?

Ensuite il y a les salaires de plus de 100,000$ chez nos employés. Il
faut se rappeler que le tiers supérieur des revenus de la population
est 70,000$ et plus par année. Ça veut dire que les deux tiers
inférieurs sont beaucoup moins. C’est à croire qu’Énergie NB est une
vache grasse comme on dit en anglais. Selon M. David Amos, la
comptabilité d’Énergie NB n’est pas vérifiée de façon indépendante. Il
est un lanceur d’alertes concernant les activités frauduleuses de la
compagnie KPMJ.

Suit le domaine de la recherche et développement. Énergie NB,
c’est-à-dire nous, n’avons pas les moyens financiers pour faire de la
recherche. Les mini-centrales nucléaires sont un bel exemple de
recherches bien au-dessus de nos moyens. Hydro-Québec a un vrai
laboratoire, c’est là que les gens qui veulent faire de la recherche
peuvent aller. Autrement nous allons revivre des expériences risibles
tel que nous l’avons vu avec la compagnie JOY Entertainment. Quant au
développement, il provient des travailleurs sur le terrain. Par
exemple, un monteur de ligne peut voir, après des années
d’expériences, qu’une pièce d’équipement use d’une façon particulière.
Il peut réaliser qu’en la déplaçant un peu, sa durée de vie augmente.
Ceci est bien, mais l’égo des supérieurs et de l’administration rentre
en jeu et souvent l’idée est perdue.

Ensuite il y a l’esprit entrepreneurial dans de gros projets qui ne va
pas avec notre capacité de payer. Pourquoi rénover le barrage de
Mactaquac lorsqu’on a 5 milliards de dettes? Pourquoi qu’on entretient
la centrale de Pointe Lepreau? Pour les Américains?

Notre environnement naturel a été ma raison première pour devenir
intervenant aux l’instances #375 et #452 même s’il m’est très
difficile de parler publiquement. En particulier, la transcription du
22 janvier 2020 de l’Instance #452, pages 1120 et suivantes, sont à
relire. Intéressant, il y a trois ans passés déjà… Les champs
électromagnétiques créent un smog qui devient de plus en plus dense
avec des effets graves sur tout ce qui nous entoure y compris nous
même. Je vous réfère aux documents de Dr Héroux et Dr Miller présentés
lors des deux instances mentionnés.
Sur ce, j’aimerais vous présenter ce qu’un compteur des ondes des
radiofréquences mesure dans cette salle. Il quantifie le niveau du
smog électromagnétique. L’échelle utilisée par l’appareil est selon
les études récentes qui sont réalisées de façon indépendante de
l’industrie. Pas selon les études qu’utilise Santé Canada.

Le passage d’un système analogique à un système numérique entraîne une
énorme perte d’énergie à plusieurs niveaux. Chercher un mot dans un
dictionnaire n’a pas la même dépense d’énergie que de le chercher sur
l’internet. Aussi, le système numérique continue d’évoluer et à chaque
fois il faut acheter d’autres appareils. Parfois c’est l’appareil même
qui est défectueux! On n’a qu’à penser à vos téléphones cellulaires et
aux compteurs intelligents. Il faut se rappeler que les compteurs
mécaniques durent plus de trente ans… Dr Tatoutchoup a bien expliqué
pourquoi les compteurs intelligents ne sont pas une bonne décision
financière pour le N.-B. Il faut voir ou revoir son rapport présenté
lors de l’instance #452. Ce virage numérique est une illusion: une
fausse route. D’ailleurs, se rappeler ce que M. Bill Morneau, l’ancien
ministre des finances fédérales, a dit lorsqu’il parlait de cette
transformation énergétique. Il a dit que cette technologie nous
permettra d’épargner de l’argent pour nous permettre d’acheter plus de
« stuff »: Une belle mentalité environnementaliste.

Beaucoup trop d’importance est accordée aux véhicules électriques.
Peut-être qu’un jour ce sera la réalité mais pas dans un avenir
proche. Donc pourquoi essayer de prétendre que ça va changer notre
réalité maintenant? Entre temps, laissons donc aux autres de faire des
dépenses exorbitantes parfaitement inutiles et investissons lorsque la
technologie sera à point.

L’humanité croît de façon exponentielle présentement, mais notre
planète est grosse comme ça! Essayons donc de comprendre l’importance
d’accepter notre réalité et de cesser de croire que nos besoins
peuvent être satisfaits sans aucunes limites. Malheureusement, notre
système décisionnel est pris par l’industrie. Un bel exemple est que
M. Amos est pratiquement le seul, si-non le seul, intervenant dans
cette instance qui ne représente aucune compagnie.

Je sais que je ne vous apprends rien, mais il fallait vous le dire
pour que ce soit enregistré. Merci d’avoir pris le temps d’écouter.

Cordialement vôtre,

Roger Richard


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Ville de Caraquet

Caraquet

To live in Caraquet is to benefit from a quality of life by having access to a community that has a rich heritage of knowledge and history, and which has kept its Acadian colors and values. Living in Caraquet is enjoying a prosperous economic climate for entrepreneurs since the city is a must in the Acadian Peninsula.

To settle in Caraquet is to open up to the culture and the arts, it is to contribute to the identity building and the blooming of the French language. Settling in Caraquet is to take advantage of the green spaces and the sea while benefiting from organized sports and leisure within the city. Whether it is summer or winter, Caraquet is inspired by the seasons.

The city is innovating and taking the pulse of its community in order to establish activities, services, and infrastructures that will attract people to move in and inspire young people to stay in Caraquet or to return when their studies are completed.

Mission

The City of Caraquet assumes its role of leader, in partnership with the members of the community, in the realization of a global and sustainable development project in order to ensure optimal quality of services to its citizens.

Our Team

On behalf of the municipality and on my own behalf, I would like to welcome you to our website, a virtual gateway to the beauty of our city. As you will notice while browsing, Caraquet is a city unlike any of its kind: Cultural capital of Canada in 2003 and 2009, Caraquet has shops for everyone's taste, an important seaport where several species of fish are unloaded, and many other charms. The sea, the artists, the friendliness, the warm hospitality of our citizens, our major attractions and our many festivals, enhanced with the vibrant colors of the Acadian flag, will make your stay with us unforgettable.

Visitors, we invite you to come and meet us to fully experience the natural, cultural and economic beauties of our wonderful part of the country. Come experience Acadia.

Investors, we have something to satisfy you! We have quality infrastructures, including our industrial park, access to the sea and Route 11, in short, everything to ensure that all your business projects are fulfilled.

I hope that your visit will allow you to better appreciate what we offer and answer all your questions about the municipality.

Bernard Thériault
Mayor of Caraquet


City council

Bernard Thériault, Mayor
Phone: 506 726-2727
bernard.theriault@caraquet.ca
Florence Albert, Councillor
florence.albert@caraquet.ca
Jean-Guy Blanchard, Councillor
jeanguy.blanchard@caraquet.ca
Louise Blanchard, Councillor
louise.blanchard@caraquet.ca
Camille Gionet, Councillor
camille.gionet@caraquet.ca
Terry Ing, Councillor
terry.ing@caraquet.ca
Kim Légère, Councillor
kim.legere@caraquet.ca
Kevin J. Haché, Mayor

General management

The designated Lead Director of the Town of Caraquet by the municipal council, Marc Duguay, administers the daily activities of the corporation. He manages a workforce of approximately 35 employees, as well as the town's operating budgets and capital works. The Lead Director sits on many committees as the town's representative. He acts as a link between the municipal council and the executive staff, and also ensures that the Council has access to the expertise and recommendations of the employees of the corporation.

To contact us: 506-726-2727

Marc Duguay, General manager

marc.duguay@caraquet.ca
Julie Jacob, Municipal secretary
julie.jacob@caraquet.ca
Daniel Landry, Economic development officer
daniel.landry@caraquet.ca
Rémi Mallet, Public Works and Water & Sewer Manager
remi.mallet@caraquet.ca
Aline Landry, Heritage officer
aline.landry@caraquet.ca
Liette Dugas
, Chief accountant

liette.dugas@caraquet.ca
Lisette Gionet, Accounting Clerk
lisette.gionet@caraquet.ca
Annie Lanteigne, Executive Assistant
annie.lanteigne@caraquet.ca
Tina Duguay, Administrative Assistant 
tina.duguay@caraquet.ca




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Bernard Thériault

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Bernard Thériault (Caraquet, November 12, 1955 - ) is an Acadian historian and politician.

After high school at the Polyvalente Louis-Mailloux in Caraquet, Mr. Thériault completed a Bachelor of Arts at the Université de Moncton and then a certificate in museum administration from the École internationale de Bordeaux in 1982. He found a job as a historian and chief curator of the Village historique acadien. He is involved in several community organizations in the Acadian Peninsula, including the Festival acadien de Caraquet, the Théâtre populaire d'Acadie, the Caraquet Chamber of Commerce, in addition to sitting on the Board of Directors of the daily newspaper L'Acadie Nouvelle. 1.

Elected Member of Parliament for Caraquet in the sweep of Frank McKenna's Liberals in the 1987 provincial general election, Mr. Thériault chaired a committee of the Legislative Assembly tasked with finding a position on the Meech Lake Accord file that took into account reservations of the new government. After several prevarications, the committee finally recommended that the government ratify the constitutional agreement in the spring of 1990.

Re-elected three times — in 1991, 1995 and 1999 — Mr. Thériault joined the Cabinet on April 27, 1994, as Minister of Fisheries, a position he held for three years. He was transferred to the Ministry of Intergovernmental and Aboriginal Affairs on July 21, 1997, a position he held until the defeat of Camille Thériault's Liberals in the 1999 general election. He also held the position of Minister of Education. for three months, in 19981.

Shortly after his departure from provincial politics, he ran as a Liberal candidate in the 2000 federal election in the riding of Acadie—Bathurst, where he was defeated by outgoing NDP MP Yvon Godin.

Thériault then redirected his career and joined the federal public service. He works at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in Moncton, where he held various positions, including a stint as special advisor to the minister on aboriginal issues and director of aboriginal fisheries for the Gulf of St. Lawrence region. His appointment will be challenged by a colleague. After investigation. it will nevertheless be confirmed on appeal to the Public Service Commission of Canada2.

New Brunswick Liberal Premier Shawn Graham appointed him chief of staff shortly after his election in 20063.

He was elected mayor of the city of Caraquet in the election of May 10, 2021 for a four-year term.4 https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1928749/elections-municipale-nouveau-brunswick- candidate [archive].

He was elected by acclamation on October 28, 2022 mayor of the new town of Caraquet (effective January 1, 2023)5, a new entity resulting from the reform of municipal governments in New Brunswick, including the former units of Caraquet, Bas- Caraquet, Saint-Simon, Pokesudie, Village-Blanchard, Evangeline, as well as elements of the former entities of Pokemouche (75%), Maltempec (15%), Parish of Caraquet (80%) and Landry Office (55%)6.
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Unnecessary public shaming or effective police tool? Warrant Wednesday gets divided reaction in N.B.

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Catherine Tait and her lawyer Sylvie Gadoury must understand why I was not surprised to see my comment about corrupt cops be blocked immediately

 

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Unnecessary public shaming or effective police tool? Warrant Wednesday
gets divided reaction in N.B.
 
 

Unnecessary public shaming or effective police tool? Warrant Wednesday gets divided reaction in N.B.

Some N.B. police forces use social media to publish names of people who have outstanding warrants

 
Lane Harrison· CBC News ·
The Kennebecasis Regional Police Force has posted this message to its Facebook page along with a list of names and sometimes the fine or jail time owed. (Kennebecasis Regional Police Force/Facebook)
 
At least two police departments in New Brunswick have begun using social media to get the public's help in finding people with outstanding warrants.

They call it Warrant Wednesday.

Each week, the Woodstock and Kennebecasis police forces publish a list of people's full names, and sometimes the fines or jail time they owe, on Facebook.

Generally, these warrants are for people who have been convicted of something like a driving offence, but haven't paid a fine or done their jail time, or haven't appeared for their court date.

Woodstock has been doing it since November 2022, while Kennebecasis began the practice in January.

"This is just a new approach when we've tried everything, people are avoiding police, and we think we owe it to the public to execute these [warrants]," said Insp. Mary Henderson of the Kennebecasis Regional Police Force.

Henderson said in the first three weeks of January, they've resolved warrants with 12 people, some of whom had more than one warrant attached to their name. 

WATCH | Will 'Warrant Wednesday' work? 

Outstanding warrant? You could be outed on Facebook

Duration 2:32
“Warrant Wednesday” is the weekly practice in at least two New Brunswick police departments of publishing on social media the names and ages of people with outstanding warrants.

So far, the department has posted lists of people convicted of impaired operation of a vehicle, driving with a suspended licence and with outstanding arrest warrants. 

Warrant Wednesday could cause harm, says ethicist 

Timothy Christie, a philosophy professor at the University of New Brunswick who writes about ethics, doesn't believe Warrant Wednesday is fair. 

He said people are held accountable for their actions through the court system and receive penalties such as fines or jail time.

"They definitely deserve those things because they went through a process in court, where that was what was determined, and it was determined as an appropriate sanction," Christie said.

"Nowhere in that sanction did it include public shaming."

Henderson, however, said Warrant Wednesday is not about shaming people. 

A man in a red scarf, black coat and dark glasses is seen standing on a sidewalk. Timothy Christie, a UNB professor who writes about ethics, thinks Warrant Wednesday may have unintended consequences for those named in the posts. (Roger Cosman/CBC)

"It is a very public venue that people get to look at, but does that outweigh the need to execute these warrants and public safety?"

Christie said that the justice system imposes punishments on people so they can correct themselves and reintegrate into society. 

"This thing that the police are doing strikes me as not helping people reintegrate into society in a meaningful way, but actually will make things more difficult for them," Christie said. 

He said life may be more difficult because being named on Facebook could impact someone's reputation.

In the foreground of the frame is a patch on the shoulder of a police officer, in the background is the computer in his car with his hands on the keys. The Kennebecasis Regional Police Force started Warrant Wednesday in January. (Roger Cosman/CBC)

"[Warrant Wednesday] doesn't contribute to any of the long-term goals we have that we use for punishing people," he said.

Henderson disagrees with his assessment.

"I don't think someone shouldn't be able to reintegrate into society," she said. "They've been given ample opportunity by our officers [to resolve their warrants]." 

She said that if someone's warrant is resolved, their name is taken off the Facebook post. 

Criminologist sees value in Warrant Wednesday

Mary Ann Campbell, director of the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies at UNB Saint John, said police are part of the community and therefore some of the work they do requires the support and aid of the community.

And she thinks this is something that could work.

"I suspect it will be more effective than not. So having a list out there, there's probably at least one person on that list that someone might call the police about and let them know where they are," she said. 

 A woman is seen from the chest up sitting in front of her desk and monitors. She's wearing a blue cardigan and white shirt.Criminology professor Mary Ann Campbell said an initiative like Warrant Wednesday can help free up time for police to work on other matters. (Roger Cosman/CBC)

She added that eliciting simple tips from the public — like a phone call saying someone might be living or working somewhere — can help departments work on other issues.

"Those types of situations can save a lot of taxpayer dollars in allowing the police to apprehend that person quickly. Then they can dedicate their time to other types of criminal matters," she said.

But it's not just about posting names. The Woodstock force also includes memes — a  visual staple on social media —in its Warrant Wednesday posts.

A meme with Spongebob looking at a wanted posted that says "Wanted, Maniac".     A meme published by the Woodstock force for Warrant Wednesday. Campbell said whoever is making the posts need to ensure the memes don't miss the mark. (Woodstock Police Force/Facebook)

The Woodstock Police Force did not provide an interview for this story. The force did not respond to a question about its use of memes sent through email prior to the publication of this article. 

Campbell said the intent is likely a way to get people to look at the list of names.

"Whether using humour for a serious topic is the best way to go, I think, is something that's open to interpretation," she said.

She said it's important that whoever is making the posts needs to consider them carefully to ensure they don't miss the mark. 

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David Amos 
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Methinks everybody knows that I have publicly shaming the police in social media etc since 2002 N'esy Pas?
 
 
 
David Amos 
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Methinks everybody knows why I enjoyed the circus today N'esy Pas? 
 
 
 
Al Clark 
Gee, suddenly con commenters aren't so law and order anymore hah ha ha !
 
 
 
Wilbur Ross
Kennebecasis had Jeff Porter on paid suspension for 2 years after he committed 81 violations of the Police Code. They let that SO slip into retirement with over a million paid while under investigation. Bet he managed to avoid being put on SO list. No shame for that Dept: KV Finest. 
 
 
Al Clark 
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Careful! Shhhhhh ;-)  
 
 
 
Wilbur Ross
Doesn't seem constitutional. Too bad this is NB; nothing will happen until one of the officers complains about a family member or friend that ends up being exposed. 
 
 
 
Robert Losier 
1000 comments and replies when I checked in just now. So I will leave it at that. 1000.
 
 
Steve Ryan 
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Partly due to the fact there's no action anywhere else.
 
 
Wilbur Ross 
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Half are your spam. 
 
 
David Amos 
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The tally was nearly 1000 12 hours ago  
 
 
 
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Immersion plan unanimously denounced as Saint John meeting draws large crowd

Minister says there’s ‘lots of time’ to opt for keeping immersion this fall

 
Jacques Poitras· CBC News ·
Parent Micah Peterson has five children in French immersion now and two more he still hopes to enrol. He spoke against the plan to axe the program. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)

The Higgs government faced another angry, skeptical crowd Tuesday night as public consultations on its plan to replace French immersion in New Brunswick schools took place in Saint John.

More than 300 people turned out, and all 27 who spoke at the meeting denounced the proposal to implement a new program in time for this fall.

"It should go without saying that reducing French immersion by 50 per cent is not going to improve French," said parent Micah Peterson, who has five children in immersion now and two more he still hopes to enrol.

He said some of his own immersion classmates from his school years are now teaching immersion to his children.

"You think they're going to be able to do that when you cut it in half? It's ridiculous." 

The immersion program works, and that is backed up with data, all caps.
- Olivia Donovan

Retired teacher Olivia Donovan of Saint John, who now supervises student teachers for the University of New Brunswick, said the province should use its massive budget surpluses to tackle problems it claims the elimination of immersion will address.

"No. 1, it is never wise to axe one program that is working to fix one that is not," she said. "It is the English prime system that needs help. The immersion program works, and that is backed up with data, all caps."

The government announced in December that it will start phasing out French immersion in September, replacing it at the kindergarten and Grade 1 levels with a program that will see all students spend half their classroom time learning English and half learning French.

That is less French than the current immersion program but more French than what non-immersion students now get.

Organizers heckled

At last week's consultation in Moncton, an angry crowd forced Department of Education and Early Childhood Development officials to scrap their "world café" meeting format in favour of letting attendees speak at will.

In Saint John on Tuesday, the crowd also heckled organizers and called for an open-microphone session. The facilitators compromised by shortening the world café portion and letting anyone who wanted to speak do so.

A woman with short white hair speaks into a microphone, crowd in the background Olivia Donovan is a retired teacher who now supervises student teachers for the University of New Brunswick. She says axing French immersion won't fix the problems with the English system. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)

The meeting was scheduled to end at 8:30 p.m. but continued until about 9:15 p.m., when no one was left at the microphones.

"I heard a lot of great comments tonight," Education Minister Bill Hogan told reporters. "I heard a lot of great concerns."

Hogan said the province's plan could still change.

"We're having consultations because nothing at this point is written in stone," he said. "If it was written in stone it would be silly to have consultations."

Reacting to criticism from one participant who had pointed out the government claims to be listening after already closing registration for French immersion this fall, Hogan told reporters even that could change. 

"There's still lots of time if we were to choose to do Grade 1 French immersion next year. Like, it's only January. So there's tons of time should we choose that path."

Timeline moved up

Last October, Premier Blaine Higgs said the replacement for immersion had to start in September 2023 because it was unlikely a major change could happen in 2024, a provincial election year.

Hogan said he hopes for a final decision by late winter or early spring.

WATCH | Skeptical crowd voices their anger at public consultation:

French immersion meeting packed with people against N.B. plan

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More than 300 people took part in Saint John as Education Minister Bill Hogan listened.

Some speakers at the Saint John meeting said they were worried about how children with learning challenges and deaf children would cope with only half their classroom time devoted to learning to read in their first language.

Others said eliminating immersion would make it harder for anglophone school graduates to compete for the government jobs that require bilingualism.

Several teachers spoke at Tuesday's session, many of them referring to a New Brunswick Teachers Association email sent Monday that warned members to stick to "pedagogical issues" if they took part in the consultations.

Ryan Murphy, a teacher at St. Malachy's Memorial High School, said he was worried about the 10 per cent of his students whose first language is neither English nor French.

A man and wioman sitting in chairs in a large meeting room. Education Minister Bill Hogan and Minister of Aboriginal Affairs Arlene Dunn listen to speakers during the public consultation session in Saint John. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)

"They are learning English as they learn to code," he said. "They are learning English as they learn a new world.

"We must consider how these students … will be affected by having to learn two new languages. Will resource supports be duplicated for French? … Will that overwhelm the already overwhelmed?"

Besides Hogan, only two Progressive Conservative MLAs attended the consultation: Arlene Dunn, a cabinet minister and member for Saint John Harbour, and Andrea Anderson-Mason of Fundy-The Isles-Saint John West, who last week urged the government to "pump the brakes" on the plan.

A final in-person consultation is scheduled for Wednesday night in Fredericton, with two more virtual meetings planned for next week.

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Jacques Poitras has been CBC's provincial affairs reporter in New Brunswick since 2000. He grew up in Moncton and covered Parliament in Ottawa for the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal. He has reported on every New Brunswick election since 1995 and won awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association, the National Newspaper Awards and Amnesty International. He is also the author of five non-fiction books about New Brunswick politics and history.

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David Amos
Methinks everybody loves a circus N'esy Pas?  
 
 
David Amos
Methinks somebody should have commented about what went on in Fredericton ce soir N'esy Pas?
 
  
Billy Popamahovilich   
Here's an idea. Have French class. Those who want to take it, take it.

Those who don't, don't. You know, like all the other Provinces.

 
Raymond Leger 
Sad state of affairs we have here in New Brunswick. 
 
 
Tom Williamson  
If you force us to learn YOUR language so that you can communicate in the language of YOUR choice then you are taking away OUR right to communicate in the language of OUR choice. Once everyone is able to speak French then there would be no need to ever speak a word of English ever again. Why is there no focus on any English language training by the French in this province?
 
 
  
 

Criticisms soar in Fredericton as speakers attack N.B. plan to replace French education

Minister says proposed program the same as French immersion but in a 'different format'

 
Aidan Cox· CBC News ·
Heather Hollett, an educator, said the province should be addressing resource and staffing shortfalls instead of trying to change the French immersion system. (Ed Hunter/CBC)

Education Minister Bill Hogan heard yet more Wednesday night from teachers and parents who are critical of a plan he's spearheading to drastically revamp French language education for anglophone students in New Brunswick.

The fourth and final in-person public consultation session on the province's proposed "innovative immersion program" drew a crowd of more than 300 people in Fredericton. 

Of the 34 speakers who rose to address the issue, not one spoke in favour of the plan — echoing the same dynamic at a meeting the night before in Saint John. 

Criticisms focused on the lack of evidence that the government presented to demonstrate the new program's merits, and concerns about adding stress to teachers who are already overwhelmed amid staff shortages and a lack of resources.

"If you decide to remodel a kitchen, one would think that they would spend time, money and other resources improving the kitchen rather than replacing the entire house," said Heather Hollett, who identified herself as an educator working in Anglophone School District West.

"Likewise, if an issue has been identified, rather than taking apart the system, I would suggest gathering data and pouring resources… into education by way of more educational assistants, behaviour mentors, support intervention workers."

Meanwhile, Donna McLaughlin, a retired teacher, said the public has yet to see the data supporting the proposed changes.

"We haven't seen the research that you are proposing. You have yet to mention who your experts are," she said.

People sit at tables in a large events room. More than 300 people showed up to a public consultation session on proposed changes to French second language education in New Brunswick. (Ed Hunter/CBC)

The New Brunswick government announced in December that it will start phasing out French immersion in September, replacing it at the kindergarten and Grade 1 levels with a program that will see all students spend half their classroom time learning English and half learning French.

That is less French than the current immersion program but more French than what non-immersion students now get.

In-person consultations on the planned changes were held in Bathurst and in Moncton last week, with participants at the Moncton session heckling Hogan and forcing the event organizers to abandon the original format in favour of one closer resembling an open-mic format. None of the roughly 20 people who spoke there were in favour of the proposed changes.

Head of language institute denounces plan

Attendees included Paula Kristmanson, director of the Second Language Research Institute of Canada at the University of New Brunswick.

Kristmanson said the institute, made up of teachers and educators at UNB's faculty of education, promotes evidence-based approaches to French second-language training, and supports well-researched initiatives to enhance it.

A woman speaks in front of a microphone. Members of the Second Language Research Institute of Canada are concerned with the proposed elimination of the current French immersion program, said Paula Kristmanson, the institute's director. (Ed Hunter/CBC)

"However, we are deeply troubled with the most recent announcement to implement one new French second language program for all in September 2023," Kristmanson said.

"Our concerns relate not only to the compressed timeline, which makes the development of any sound program practically impossible, but also to the potential elimination of French Immersion, which is the only [French second language] program that has proven results with respect to learning French second language."

Moira Buyting, who has children currently in French immersion, said she's concerned New Brunswick could become less bilingual under a program that doesn't offer as intense French second-language training as is offered with the current immersion program.

She also questioned whether teachers will have enough time to get prepared for the change in time for its planned implementation next fall.

"We have just come through two years of COVID, we continue to experience the after-effects of that with rises in absenteeism, and I feel like the system just needs to pause and catch up," she said.

"The teachers need to be rejuvenated and the kids need to just have a sense of consistency."

Program equal to French immersion: Hogan

In multiple instances during the open mic session, Hogan took the opportunity to respond to questions, and repeatedly stressed that the changes proposed by his department are not set in stone and could change based on what he hears at the consultation sessions.

A man speaking. Education Minister Bill Hogan said the program being proposed would be the same as French immersion, but in a different format. (Ed Hunter/CBC)

Speaking to reporters after the consultation session, Hogan said the current French immersion program worked well but only for a "small group of students."

With the proposed program, all students would be able to have French language education in their later years, to the point of being at least at the conversational level, Hogan said.

"It is French immersion. It's just a different form," he said.

Asked about the evidence used to justify the proposed changes, Hogan said that will be presented later this year, alongside the feedback gathered during the public consultation sessions. 

Virtual public consultations are set to be held on Jan. 31 and Feb. 2. An online survey is available until Feb. 3.

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Aidan Cox is a journalist for the CBC based in Fredericton. He can be reached at aidan.cox@cbc.ca and followed on Twitter @Aidan4jrn.

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David Amos
 
Welcome back to the circus 
 
 
Wilbur Ross

Reply to David Amos
Me thinks someone need to play circus music at these meetings 
 
 
David Amos 

Reply to Wilbur Ross
Methinks the that would be a good job for the clown named Cardy N'esy Pas?
 
 
Wilbur Ross

Reply to David Amos
haha for sure! With a little wig on and a red nose. 
 
 
David Amos 
Reply to Wilbur Ross
Methinks that whereas the new liberal leader, the leader of the Greens and the newly "Independent" MLA represent folks in the area they should have attended the meeting as well N'esy Pas?  
 
 
 
 
 
Mario Doucet 
majority of NBers don't care about language issues, this is just another political football 
 
 
Mario Doucet
Reply to Mario Doucet
that is used as a wedge issue  
 
 
Wilbur Ross
 
Reply to Mario Doucet
They care about education. Parents are strange like that. They don't want to play a game.  
 
 
Frank Uxbridge 
Reply toWilbur Ross
Ever talk to a local graduate? Clearly not. 
 
 
David Amos
Reply to Mario Doucet
Bingo
 
 
 
 
 
JOhn D Bond   
There are just under 70,000 kids in the English school system in NB.

In aggregate somewhere around 500 people have shown up at these meetings so far. So about 7/10ths of 1% of the parents of the school population if being generous.

How is this an issue, how is it that this tiny tiny minority is given such a large podium.

Seems to me this is nothing more that a tiny % or the population resisting change.

 
Frank Uxbridge  
Reply to JOhn D Bond
Yes John. Only 500 folks are affected. LOL    
 
 
JOhn D Bond
Reply toFrank Uxbridge  
Funny but what I said is only 500 showed up to complain across a few big cities. Indicating that for the vast majority this is not an issue.  
 
 
Wilbur Ross

Reply to JOhn D Bond 
Why didn't anyone show up in support of lowering the bar?  
 
 
JOhn D Bond
Reply toWilbur Ross
Or it it raising the bar for the majority that actually support the concept? 
 
 
David Amos
Reply toWilbur Ross
Good question 
 
 
 
 
Mel Faulkner
I am a retired school principal. My daughter, now 36, was raised in an English speaking home and went through the NB immersion program. At 4 years old we tried her in a fully French day care where she was uncomfortable because she had little understanding of the language. She is now a university professor, teaching French second language as well as French Literature and Culture. This was made possible by French Immersion. If she had been limited to the Higgs program she would be fully capable of ordering a hamburger. The immersion program is not the problem- it works!! To make it more inclusive, all that needs to happen is add more support for struggling students- an Educational Assistant in each classroom, French Language support similar to resource. If we applied the Higgs model to Math and every student were forced to take the same math program, we would no longer have doctors and scientists. Each student needs an individualized opportunity to reach their full potential and immersion assures that. It is the regular French second language program that is not working, so that is where the adjustments need to be made. Don't tear down one of the best programs and replace this with mediocrity. Election in two years. This must by a key issue and if Higgs proceeds, we must find a new premier who will retract this horrific decision.  
 
 
Frank Uxbridge 
Reply to Mel Faulkner  
Higgs only needs low level workers for fast food and his corporate boss. 
 
 
Marc LeBlanc  
Reply to Mel Faulkner  
I think your comment is absolutely bang on the money. I too raised children in the emersion program in an anglophone household. Had the good fortune to have teachers who challenged them to the limits of their capabilities. Passed federal BBB with very little extra study. This is about money and the premier's desire to keep you know who from having to pay their fair share of taxes under the guise of fiscal restraint. Those who equate seemingly low turnouts at these events might be missing the fact the participants are mostly anglophones who with their parents (grandparents) are voters and want nothing more than the best education for their children/grandchildren 
 
 
Samual Johnston 
Reply to Mel Faulkner 
nice story and congratulations but how many kids dropped out of immersion ? how many cannot order a burger now after having gone through it? maybe you child was more inclined to keep at French or more inclined to learn it ...... cannot just say it works when so many think it does not ---- you can say to worked for you child, that is it.  
 
 
David Amos
 
Reply to Mel Faulkner 
Methinks the moral of your story which has never changed since 1982 is that if someone wants a job as a bureaucrat in NB or with the Feds or some other fancy job financed by the taxpayer then play the game and learn the lingo just as Trudeau The Elder demanded N'esy Pas?
 
 
Mel Faulkner
Reply to Samual Johnston 
I am also a retired educator and yes I can point to hundreds of success stories from former students. Is immersion perfect? No, it needs adjusting to become more inclusive, many of the students who don't succeed and go back to the English system would benefit greatly as bilingualism would lead to higher pay and more job opportunities and industries such as the service industry. The question should be how to expand French Education so that more,if not all students, can learn the language. Not mediocrity for all as Higgs is proposing
 
 
Marc Bourque 
Reply to Mel Faulkner  
Your are an example of a parent who cared and encouraged your child to learn a second language. Others complain and the results show it as their own children haven’t learnt didly Bravo to you and your daughter!! 
 
 
Samual Johnston 
Reply to Mel Faulkner 
yes but if you are honest you could probably point to hundreds of failures as well. You have an opinion of course as do those who are wanting to implement this 'new to us' system. Unless you truly believe the government wants to harm our children's education you have to believe that this is just another system that many believe in and many do not --- same ole same ole. Is the new system not based on others that are already out there being used elsewhere? It is all a matter of opinion at this point in time. The same thing happens every time a government comes to power and decides to change the system.  

 
 
 

Teachers advised by NBTA to be careful about what they say at public hearings

Teachers' association says letter has been 'misconstrued' and was intended to encourage participation

 
Mia Urquhart· CBC News ·
Connie Keating, president of the New Brunswick Teachers' Association, said the letter was intended to 'empower teachers' to speak up during consultations over the proposed changes to French immersion. (Raechel Huizinga/CBC via Zoom)
 
Teachers thinking about attending public hearings on the plan to change the way French is taught in New Brunswick have been warned to watch what they say. 

The message was sent by email Monday to all members of the New Brunswick Teachers' Association. 

"Teachers are free to publicly express their opinions on pedagogical issues," according to the letter, a copy of which was obtained by CBC News. "Factual opinions expressed in an objective and respectful manner are critical to authentic consultation."

But teachers were reminded that "the professional hat" of teacher can never be removed.

"Given this, we advise that teachers cannot speak in any specificity regarding their individual students, or their families, as this would be a breach of confidentiality."

Teachers were also cautioned against using "words or actions that would discredit or bring disrepute to themselves, our profession or the education system." 

Doing so, it warned, "could result in sanctions from their employer or their professional association."

The letter said association officials were present as observers at the consultations held in Bathurst and Moncton. 

"There will also be staff present at this week's planned consultations in Saint John, Fredericton and the upcoming online sessions," said the message.

Letter 'misconstrued'

When contacted on Tuesday, association president Connie Keating said the letter has been "misconstrued." 

She said it was intended to "empower teachers who were concerned that they should not speak up" during consultations. 

"The NBTA encourages teachers to continue to share their professional views in a respectful way while being mindful of their position of trust as they have at the first two consultations."

Keating said staff members attended the meeting "to be supportive of teachers and witness" the Department of Education's process." 

She was not made available for an interview, as requested. 

Proposed changes criticized

Last month, Education Minister Bill Hogan announced changes to the way French is taught. The changes mean more French for non-immersion students, but less than immersion students currently receive.

The planned changes have received a lot of criticism since first announced. In a live-streamed but scripted question-and-answer session last week, Hogan said changes to the program could still be made, based on feedback from several public sessions. 

Around 300 people attended a session Monday in Moncton, where tempers flared and hecklers often disrupted the proceedings. About 20 people spoke during the two-hour event — none in support of the proposed changes. 

People lining up to enter a hotel ballroom. People lined up through the foyer and down the stairs at the Delta Beausejour Hotel to attend the in-person consultation on Monday night in Moncton. (Maeve McFadden/CBC)

In early January, the teachers' association polled its members about the proposed program. Nearly 90 per cent of the 1,462 teachers who responded "do not believe the [Department of Education] is keeping them well informed about the changes," according to Monday's email sent to teachers. 

Sixty-five per cent reported feeling "dismayed" by what the government is calling the "innovative immersion program." The email also included several quotes from teachers describing why they are dismayed, including: 

  • "We barely have time to cover everything we have to cover in English. How are we going to cover everything and then add in French as well?
  • "How is EECD going to provide a balanced, well-thought-out curriculum for the new program in such a short period of time?" 
  • "I have been teaching 25 years in kindergarten this year. I should not at this point have to worry about what I will be teaching next year. Will I be forced to retire before I am financially or emotionally ready?"
  • "It is awful, in my opinion, that we are not having conversations around the real issues … lack of EAs, lack of support services, lack of supply teachers, lack of teachers in general for that matter."
  • "It is disheartening to be part of the continual "change" culture which is the Dept of Ed. I do believe that French Immersion has resulted in numerous bilingual people entering our workforce."

The Department of Education and Early Childhood Development was asked on Tuesday morning for comment about the letter from the teachers' association but had not provided one by publication time.

Two down, two to go

Two more in-person sessions are planned this week:

  • Tuesday, Jan. 24, at the Delta Saint John. 
  • Wednesday, Jan. 25 at the Delta Fredericton. 

Each will be held from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

There will also be two virtual sessions, one on Jan. 31 and the other on Feb. 2.

The online survey will continue to be available until Feb. 3.

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Trudeau will host premiers Feb. 7 to hammer out health-care funding deal

Ottawa has said it wants its investment to go beyond short-term fixes, deliver systemic change


John Paul Tasker· CBC News ·
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will host Canada's premiers next month in Ottawa, where they will try and hammer out the final details of a new funding deal for health care. (Patrick Doyle/Reuters)

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced that he will host a first ministers' meeting in Ottawa on Feb. 7 as his government looks to finalize a deal on health-care funding with the provinces.

Trudeau also signalled there likely will be separate bilateral deals with each province and territory to address the health issues that matter most to them.

The federal government and the provinces have been in protracted negotiations for months over an increase to the Canada Health Transfer (CHT).

The premiers have been demanding a face-to-face meeting with Trudeau to press him for a multibillion-dollar increase to the funding.

WATCH | Feds 'prepared to invest' in health care: Dominic LeBlanc

Feds heading into health-care funding talks 'prepared to invest': Dominic LeBlanc

18 hours ago
Duration 9:59
"We're prepared to invest additional resources, conscious of the fiscal situation of the government," Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic Leblanc told Power & Politics on Wednesday.

The federal government has said Trudeau would not meet with his provincial counterparts until officials had negotiated some of the finer points of a deal.

"Let's be clear — providing money is certainly part of the solution. But funding alone won't solve the issues we're seeing. Canadians need to see improvements, better results and outcomes," Trudeau said Wednesday at an event at the McMaster Automotive Resource Centre in Hamilton, Ont.

Trudeau said while Canadians are rightly proud of the medicare system there's no question it needs some support.

In recent months, some emergency rooms have been shuttered because of a staffing crunch, a labour shortage that has compromised the quality of care in some jurisdictions. 

Trudeau's decision to hold a meeting with premiers signals a deal could soon be in hand — but there are still some sticking points that need to be resolved, said federal sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. 

The provinces have been demanding a big cash injection to support a system that has been undermined by COVID-19 and labour shortages.

Ottawa has said it wants its investment to go beyond short-term fixes to deliver lasting change to a system that faces a multitude of challenges — in primary care, mental health, long-term care, virtual care and data collection.

"There's so many things we need to do and we'll be doing them together," Trudeau said.

"We'll be rolling our sleeves and talking about what we're proposing for the path forward for health care in this country. We need to build a system that Canadians are going to be able to rely on to deliver results for them for years to come."

WATCH | Premiers want federal share of health-care funding bumped to 35 per cent

Premiers want federal share of health-care funding bumped up to 35 per cent

18 hours ago
Duration 7:02
"We're asking for that bottom line funding for the Canada Health Transfer to increase up to 35 per cent because it allows for us as provinces and territories to decide what is the priority within our own jurisdictions," Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson told Power & Politics on Wednesday.

Trudeau said he's not expecting a final deal will materialize after a single meeting — "We won't be signing deals at that particular moment," he said — but the meeting is a chance to discuss some of the stumbling blocks and craft language on how provinces will share data with Ottawa.

The federal government is insisting that patient data be more widely shared. 

Ottawa wants this data so that it can better track health-care performance and outcomes. They also want data to shared more efficiently between primary doctors, pharmacists, specialists and the hospital system.

Trudeau also said there will be bilateral talks on the sidelines of the Feb. 7 summit, which will offer opportunities to craft province-specific deals.

Trudeau said every province has unique needs. B.C., for example, is asking for separate funding for community health — including home support and seniors care — and mental health and addiction. Other provinces, facing a severe shortage of family doctors in some places, are seized with the issue of primary care.

Asked about the specifics of the pending agreement, Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said Ottawa will keep what it's offering the provinces under wraps until the deal is done.

"Out of respect for the work that we need to do with the provinces, we'll obviously maintain an appropriate degree of discretion as to how exactly that support will be provided to them," Duclos told reporters at the cabinet retreat.

WATCH: Federal ministers welcome health care meeting with premiers

Federal ministers welcome health care meeting with premiers

22 hours ago
Duration 1:10
Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos say they are 'looking forward' to seeing premiers in Ottawa on Feb. 7th for a working meeting on health care.

Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc has been working the phones, speaking to premiers and senior government officials about a health deal. He said some provinces are "very enthusiastic about the idea of having flexible arrangements" through bilateral deals with Ottawa.

"The bilateral agreements will offer the flexibility to respond to the specific needs of each jurisdiction," he said.

Premiers looking for funding increase

To help stabilize the system, the premiers have been asking Ottawa to dramatically increase how much it spends each year on the CHT — the block of money sent by the federal government to the provinces and territories to fund health services.

The premiers want Ottawa to increase its share of health-care costs from the current 22 per cent to 35 per cent.

The federal Liberal government has said the 22 per cent figure doesn't reflect the whole funding picture.

In 1977, some tax points were transferred from Ottawa to the provinces, which allowed them to collect a larger share of all tax revenues to fund social programs like health care. Those tax points, Ottawa argues, should count for something.

News of a meeting follows positive comments from some cabinet ministers, who've told reporters at the federal cabinet retreat in Hamilton this week that there's been meaningful progress on a deal to prop up a faltering health-care system.

While Duclos has had a testy relationship with his provincial counterparts during these talks, he signalled this week that there's been a breakthrough.

The federal government has insisted that the provinces earmark any new funds for five priority areas: reducing surgery backlogs, enhancing primary care, expanding mental health services, fixing long-term care homes and "modernizing" the system through better virtual care and data-sharing between the provinces and Ottawa.

Seeking flexibility

Some provinces, notably Quebec, have balked at the federal conditions.

However, as public pressure mounts for politicians to act, some of that opposition has become much more muted.

Quebec Premier François Legault, for example, said last week he'd be willing to share health-care data with the federal government in exchange for more cash.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has said the issue for his province isn't Ottawa's proposed conditions but rather the dollar amount.

"That's the least of our issues. Do we want a little bit of flexibility? Yeah, and I think they're willing to do that," Ford said of the Liberal government.

Duclos said there's now much less tension between Ottawa and the provinces.

"There is significant goodwill. We all serve the same people for the same purposes from the same dollars coming from the same pockets. So, we are increasingly aligned," Duclos said. "I am hopeful we will get to an agreement quite soon."

He said all sides are cognizant of "the pain many of our loved ones go through" when navigating a system that has been hobbled by COVID-19.

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Senior writer

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Perhaps Bill Morneau and the current Ministers of Health Benoît Bourque and Ginette Petitpas Taylor will explain to all why the Crown in New Brunswick will not give a homeless man Health Care Card

 

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<fin.minfinance-financemin.fin@canada.ca>		Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 9:14 AM
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I know that Billy Morneau the wealthy dude who oversees all of
Canada's financea knows we can afford such a simple thing that ALL
Canadain citizens are entitled to be they homeless or not.

Mr Morneau brags of his wonderful life while his cohorts appear to
wish that mine be miserable and short.


YO Thomas Walkom trust that I am judging Bill Morneau by what he does
NOT do and not by what he owns. I am also judging you. The Tornonto
Star is a publicly held company which has been duly informed of my
concerns since 2004 correct?

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2017/10/30/judge-bill-morneau-for-what-he-does-not-what-he-owns-walkom.html

Judge Bill Morneau for what he does, not what he owns: Walkom

It's the content of what the finance minister does not his alleged
conflict of interest in doing it that matters.


Thomas Walkom writes on political economy. The winner of two national
newspaper awards (foreign reporting and column writing), he was the
Star’s Queen’s Park columnist for eight years. He has a PhD in
economics from the University of Toronto and is author of "Rae Days:
the rise and follies of the NDP, a book on Ontario’s first New
Democratic Party government." Reach him at 416-869-4570.



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On 11/19/17, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
> Methinks the "Powers That Be" are serious when they call us old folks
> useless eaters N'esy Pas Serge Rouselle?
>
> https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/slightly-blighty/201510/why-do-patients-stop-dying-when-doctors-go-strike
>
> Why Do Patients Stop Dying When Doctors Go on Strike?
> Can psychology explain our surprise at mortality decreases when doctors'
> strike?
> Raj Persaud, M.D. and Peter Bruggen, M.D.
> Posted Oct 17, 2015
>
> Doctors in the U.K. are considering whether to strike over proposed
> changes in their contracts, and they are marching in London as part of
> the protest. What's the likely impact of withdrawing medical care on
> the health of the nation? Physicians seem to be gambling that the
> government doesn't want to alarm the electorate.
>
> But when doctors strike, the scientific research shows that patients stop
> dying.
>
> The most comprehensive review of the medical impact of doctors'
> strikes is published in the prestigious academic journal Social
> Science and Medicine. A team lead by Solveig Cunningham and Salim
> Yusuf at Emory and Georgetown Universities in the U.S. and McMaster
> University in Canada, analysed five physician strikes around the
> world, all between 1976 and 2003.
>
> Doctors withdrew their labour, in the different strikes analysed, from
> between nine days and 17 weeks. Yet all the different studies report
> population mortality either stays the same, or even decreases, during
> medical strikes. Not a single study found death rates increased during
> the weeks of the strikes, compared to other times.
>
> For example, in a strike in Los Angeles County, California in January
> 1976, doctors went on strike in protest over soaring medical
> malpractice insurance premiums. For five weeks, approximately 50% of
> doctors in the county reduced their practice and withheld care for
> anything but emergencies. One analysis, quoted by Cunningham and
> colleagues, found the strike may have actually prevented more deaths
> than it caused.
>
> The study entitled, "Doctors' strikes and mortality: A review,"
> suggests that it's the fact that elective, or non-emergency surgery,
> tends to stop during a doctors' strike, which seems to be the key
> factor. It looks like a surprising amount of mortality occurs
> following this kind of procedure which disappears when elective
> surgery ceases due to doctors withdrawing their labour. Mortality
> declined steadily from week one (21 deaths/100,000 population) to
> weeks six (13) and seven (14), when mortality rates were lower than
> the averages of the previous five years.
>
> However, as soon as elective surgery resumed, there was a rise in
> deaths. There were 90 more deaths associated with surgery for the two
> weeks following the strike in 1976 (ie when doctors went back to work)
> than there had been during the same period in 1975.
> article continues after advertisement
>
> But, unlike Los Angeles, what about the impact of doctors' industrial
> action where the majority of doctors participate, and the strike lasts
> several months?
>
> Cunningham and colleagues report on a strike in Jerusalem from 2 March
> to 26 June 1983 due to a salary dispute between the government and the
> Israel Medical Association. 8000 of Jerusalem's 11,000 physicians
> refused to treat patients inside hospitals, though many of them set up
> separate aid stations where they treated emergency cases for a fee.
>
> One analysis examined death certificates from several months
> surrounding the strike period, 16 February-3 September 1983, and from
> a control period the previous year, 17 February-3 September 1982.
> Mortality did not increase during or after the strike, even when
> elective surgery resumed.
> Raj Persaud
> Source: Raj Persaud
>
> The pre-strike deaths for the control period and the strike period
> were identical at 89; there were six fewer deaths during the strike
> than during the control period, while in the ten weeks following the
> strike, there were seven more deaths than there had been in 1982.
>
> In an example of how a doctor's strike can backfire, the authors of
> this particular mortality analysis argued this apparent lack of impact
> of the strike on mortality suggests that there was an over-supply of
> doctors in Jerusalem at the time. The problem with drawing conclusions
> remains that the strike did not involve the whole scale deprivation of
> medical services.
>
> Cunningham and colleagues point out in their review paper that
> striking physicians opened aid stations, supplementing medical care
> and preventing people from mobbing the hospitals. While physicians
> were technically on strike during the four months of the dispute, most
> did not in fact adhere to the industrial action regulations. In truth,
> most doctors in Jerusalem provided care in a private or partially
> private context, so, while participating in spirit, they did not
> actually withdraw services.
> article continues after advertisement
>
> Another intriguing study analysed changes in mortality by studying the
> Jerusalem Post's newspaper reports of funerals during another
> Jerusalem doctors' strike, this time between March and June of 2000.
> This one arose from the Israel Medical Association's conflict with the
> government's proposed wages. The hospitals in the area cancelled all
> elective admissions and surgeries, but kept emergency rooms and other
> vital departments, such as dialysis units and oncology departments,
> open.
>
> The funeral study found a decline in the number of funerals during the
> three months of the strike, compared with the same months of the
> previous three years. One burial society reported 93 funerals during
> one month of the strike (May 2000) compared with 153 in May 1999, 133
> in May of 1998, and 139 in May 1997.
>
> Cunningham and colleagues summarise their review of research assessing
> the effects of doctors' strikes on mortality, finding that four of the
> seven studies report mortality dropped as a result of medical
> industrial action, and three observed no significant change in
> mortality during the strike or in the period following.
> Raj Persaud
> Source: Raj Persaud
>
> There are several possible interpretations for this surprising
> finding. One is that as its elective or non-emergency surgery which is
> usually most effected in a doctor's strike, it could be the mortality
> findings reflect an impact of elective surgery. The findings might be
> important because they perhaps illuminate the relatively high risks of
> elective surgeries, which may actually increase mortality. If it
> wasn't for doctor's strikes, this might be a finding, ironically never
> otherwise properly highlighted.
> article continues after advertisement
>
> Another sobering possible conclusion is that the public, and perhaps
> doctors themselves, overestimate the ability of medicine to stave off
> or have an impact on mortality.
>
> However, Jonathan Gruber and Samuel Kleiner analysed the effects of
> nurses' strikes in hospitals on patient outcomes using nurses' strikes
> over the 1984 to 2004 period in New York State. The paper entitled,
> "Do Strikes Kill? Evidence from New York State," found nurses' strikes
> increase in-hospital mortality by 19.4% and 30-day readmission by 6.5%
> for patients admitted during a strike. The authors, from MIT and
> Carnegie Mellon University, conclude, in their paper published as
> National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 15855, that
> hospitals during nurses' strikes are providing a lower quality of
> patient care.
>
> It would seem the public should worry much more about nurses going on
> strike compared to doctors, yet the irony is, nurses seem to earn a
> lot less than doctors.
>
> The problem with interpreting the data, on doctors’ strikes, as
> Cunningham and colleagues point out in their review paper, in all
> medical strikes studied so far, not all doctors down tools. In the
> 1976 Los Angeles strike only 50% of physicians were involved. So
> doctors' strikes don't necessarily drastically reduce access to health
> care. Given the purpose of most strikes is to deprive management of
> the worker's labour, and it's benefits, this raises the sobering
> question of how effective a doctors' strike can ever be in comparison
> to other occupations.
>
> The very difficulty in getting physicians to withdraw their labour in
> the way other occupations can do, hints at a fundamental difference
> between what it is to be a doctor, compared to pursuing other ways of
> making a living. A doctor, the research on strikes illuminates, isn't
> something you do, it's something you are. This issue of identity is
> why it's so much more difficult for doctors to simply discontinue
> practicing medicine. It's a character flaw prone to exploitation by
> governments and employers, effectively frustrating standard union
> tactics.
>
> The Minister of Health in the U.K., Jeremy Hunt, is opposing the
> doctors and their threats of industrial action; in a recent comment
> widely reported, he explains why the state wants to change doctors’
> contracts, apparently to provide more medical cover of hospitals at
> week-ends. He said: ‘…three times less medical cover at weekends as
> they (doctors) do in weeks and that means that there's a 15% greater
> chance of you dying if you are admitted on a Sunday, compared to being
> admitted on a Wednesday.’
>
> There is indeed something paradoxical about the data showing that
> being admitted to hospital when there are fewer doctors at week-ends
> leads to greater mortality, compared to the research on doctors’
> strikes.
> Raj Persaud
> Source: Raj Persaud
>
> Could it be that the way medicine and health care are organised,
> rather than simply having lots of doctors around, is the fundamental
> issue? The UK Government may have cleverly distracted attention away
> from the deep problems over how healthcare is managed in the UK, by
> highlighting instead the issue of forcing doctors to be present at
> week-ends.
>
> Yet another irony is that the data from doctors strikes themselves
> indicate the issue isn’t as simple as just deploying more doctors
> means lives get saved.
>
> But the outcome of the current conflict between doctors and their
> state employer in the U.K. may hinge on which side the electorate
> believes is genuinely most interested in looking after patients, as
> opposed to protecting their own interests.
>
> If doctors don’t all go on complete strike, even when it could be in
> their financial interests to do so, this may signal to the public who
> to trust on this one – their doctors or their politicians.
>
> Another theory as to why patients live longer when doctors go on
> strike, is that the profession finally shakes off the shackles of its
> employer's restrictive practices, and returns, albeit temporarily, to
> practicing medicine freely, as it would really like to.
>
> And perhaps, that's actually the most effective sort of industrial
> action doctors can ever take.
>
> Follow Dr Raj Persaud on Twitter: www.twitter.com/@DrRajPersaud
>
> Raj Persaud and Peter Bruggen are joint podcast editors for the Royal
> College of Psychiatrists and also now have a free app on iTunes and
> Google Play store entitled ‘Raj Persaud in conversation’, which
> includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in
> mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world.
>
> Download it free from these links:
>
> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.raj...
>
> https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id9274662...
>
> http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/SocialSciences/ppecorino/MEDICAL_ETHICS_TEXT/Chapter_3_Moral_Climate_of_Health_Care/Reading-Death-Rate-Doctor-Strike.htm
>
>
> Chapter 3: The Moral Climate of Health Care
>
> Section. 6 Reading
>
>
>                Death Rate Drops During Doctor Strike
> http://www.heart-disease-bypass-surgery.com/data/articles/67.htm
> The June 10, 2000 issue of the British Medical journal reports on an
> interesting statistic that has occurred in Israel. It seems that three
> months ago physicians in public hospitals implemented a program of
> sanctions in response to a labor dispute over a contract proposal by
> the government.  The article stated that the Israel Medical
> Association began an action in March to protest against the treasurys
> proposed imposition of a new four year wage contract for doctors.
> Since then, the medical doctors have cancelled hundreds of thousands
> of visits to outpatient clinics and have postponed tens of thousands
> of elective operations.
>
> To find out whether the industrial action was affecting deaths in the
> country, the Jerusalem Post interviewed non-profit making Jewish
> burial societies, which perform funerals for the vast majority of
> Israelis.  Hananya Shahor, the veteran director of Jerusalems Kehilat
> Yerushalayim burial society said, "The number of funerals we have
> performed has fallen drastically."  Meir Adler, manager of the Shamgar
> Funeral Parlour, which buries most other residents of Jerusalem,
> declared with much more certainty: "There definitely is a connection
> between the doctors sanctions and fewer deaths. We saw the same thing
> in 1983 when the Israel Medical Association applied sanctions for four
> and a half months."
>
> In response Avi Yisraeli, director general of the Hadassah Medical
> Organization, offered his own explanation, "Mortality is not the only
> measure of harm to health."  He goes on to say that, "Elective surgery
> can bring about a great improvement in a patients condition, but it
> can also mean disability and death in the weakest patients."
>
>
>
> http://www.utopiasilver.com/emailtemp/articlepages/Doctor-Caused%20Disease.htm
>
> Silver Bulletin e-News Magazine
>
> Doctor-Caused Disease
> By Monte Kline
>
> One of the most common causes of disease (if not the most common
> cause) is conventional medical doctors! Sad, but too often true. The
> medical term coined to describe this problem is iatrogenic disease,
> from the Greek "iatros" meaning physician and "genesis" meaning
> origin. Thus we have doctor-caused disease.
>
> Specifically, iatrogenic disease is defined as:
> Any adverse reaction, either major or minor, to a medical or surgical
> treatment.
>
> The late Robert Mendelsohn, M.D., while Chairman of the Medical
> Licensing Committee for the State of Illinois and Associate Professor
> of Preventive Medicine and Community Health at the University of
> Illinois School of Medicine, wrote:
>
> . . . the greatest danger to your health is the doctor who practices
> Modern Medicine. I believe that Modern Medicine's treatments for
> disease are seldom effective, and that they're often more dangerous
> than the diseases they're designed to treat . . . I believe that more
> than 90% of Modern Medicine could disappear from the face of the
> earth-doctors, hospital, drugs, and equipment-and the effect on our
> health would be immediate and beneficial.
>
> DOCTORS ON STRIKE
>
> Whenever medical doctors go on strike, a most interesting phenomenon
> occurs - death rates go down! In 1976 in Bogota, Columbia medical
> doctors went on strike for 52 days, with only emergency care
> available. The death rate dropped by 35%. In 1976 in Los Angeles
> County a similar doctors' strike resulted in an 18% drop in mortality.
> As soon as the strike was over, the death rate went back to normal. A
> 50% decrease in mortality occurred in Israel in 1973 when there was a
> one month doctor's strike!
>
> HEALTH CARE CUTBACKS
>
> Since the early 1980's we've heard a lot about the impact of "managed
> care" and health care cutbacks. Medical doctors and political liberals
> are screaming that people are dying for lack of services. Actually,
> just the opposite is true. Since the "downsizing" of conventional
> medical services in the 1980's, life expectancy has made a massive
> jump both in the U. S. and Canada. No drug therapy and surgical
> technique can be shown to have statistically increased the general
> life expectancy. No generation has had its life expectancy increased
> significantly since medical doctors began using chemical treatments.
> Researchers John and Sonja McKinlay found that medical intervention
> only accounted for 1 - 3.5% of the increase in the average lifespan in
> the U. S. since 1900.
>
> DANGEROUS DRUGS
>
> Alternative cancer treatment authority, Dr. Ralph Moss, notes that a
> 1999 article in The Journal of The American Medical Association stated
> that prescription drugs kill over 100,000 people per year in U. S.
> hospitals. The F.D.A. noted that back in 1978 1.5 million Americans
> were hospitalized as a result of taking medical drugs. One in seven
> hospital beds is taken up by patients suffering from adverse drug
> reactions. The General Accounting Office stated that 51.5% of all
> drugs introduced between 1976 and 1985 had to be relabelled because of
> serious adverse reactions found after the marketing of these drugs -
> reactions like heart, liver or kidney failure, birth defects, blood
> disorders, respiratory arrest, seizures, and blindness.
>
> DRUG COMPANY BRIBERY
>
> Most people are not aware that drugs companies spend thousands of
> dollars per year on each medical doctor "selling" them on using their
> particular products. Drug companies hire "detail men" to visit
> physicians' offices and give them drug samples. These salesmen, who
> are not doctors and have no medical or pharmacological training, tell
> your medical doctor what drugs to use for what problems. Drug
> companies start this process early by offering medical students gifts,
> free trips to "conferences," and free "educational material," which
> translated means propaganda on that drug company's products. In
> Australia drug companies spend an average of $10,000 per year per
> physician marketing their products. The result of all of this is a
> massive overprescribing of drugs.
>
> The drug companies don't stop with just practicing M.D.s, though, but
> also direct major dollars toward hospitals, medical schools and
> supposedly "independent" research institutes. Medical schools, for
> example, are given grants for clinical trials, pharmaceutical
> research, or even buildings. These companies have sought to gain
> massive influence over medical teaching institutions by spreading
> their money around. Dr. Alan Levin, Adjunct Associate Professor of
> Immunology and Dermatology at the University of California states:
>
> Pharmaceutical companies, by enlisting the aid of influential academic
> physicians, have gained control of the practice of medicine in the
> United States. They now set the standards of practice by hiring
> investigators to perform studies which establish the efficacy of their
> products or impugn that of their competitors. . .
>
> HAZARDS OF HOSPITALIZATION
>
> Hospitals are a hotbed of iatrogenic disease. Every year two million
> people are admitted to hospitals with one health problem and end up
> with another health problem! According to Dr. Mendelsohn these
> doctor-caused illnesses kill as many as 20,000 people annually. A
> study in the Southern Medical Journal reported that one in five
> patients admitted to a university hospital acquires an iatrogenic
> disease, and one in thirty of these lead to death. Of these iatrogenic
> deaths, half are complications of drug therapy and 10% result from
> improper diagnostic procedures.
> Another study of 815 consecutive patients in a university hospital
> over an eight month period found that 36% had a disease caused by
> their doctor - in 2% of the cases the iatrogenic disease was believed
> to be a cause of the patient's death.
>
> If you project that figure out, assuming 2% of all hospital patients
> die from an iatrogenic disease, you get 700,000 hospital/doctor-caused
> deaths per year - one third of all deaths!
>
> HOSPITAL INFECTIONS
>
> In the 1840's Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis directed a teaching hospital in
> Vienna, where 75% of the women giving birth were dying of puerperal
> fever. He observed that doctors went from dissecting cadavers to
> delivering babies without washing their hands. Dr. Semmelweis made the
> "radical" policy change of requiring doctors to wash their hands
> before delivery a baby. An amazing thing happened - the mortality rate
> drop fifteen-fold. Unfortunately, his arrogant colleagues couldn't see
> the connection, so they dismissed him and ostracized him. The
> rejection ultimately drove Semmelweis to death in an insane asylum -
> another great moment in the history of iatrogenic disease.
>
> But doctors are enlightened nowadays about sanitation, aren't they? A
> 1981 study of washing habits in intensive care units found that only
> 28% of the doctors washed between patients in a teaching hospital and
> only 14% washed in the private hospital! Dr. Mendelsohn noted:
>
> . . . the sanitary practices of the medical personnel are often
> abominable and the hospital itself is probably the most germ-laden
> facility in town.
>
> Your chances of getting an infection in the hospital are one in 20
> with 15,000 people dying annually from hospital-acquired infections.
>
> SURGERY
>
> Dr. Arthur Mannix, Jr. declared in an article in the New York State
> Journal of Medicine:
>
> Errors in judgment or technique concerning either the anesthesia or
> the surgery, or a combination of the two, contribute to close to 50%
> of the deaths in the operating room.
>
> I think what that translates to is that disease is only responsible
> for 50% of the deaths on the operating table, while doctors are
> responsible for the other 50% of deaths.
> The McCarthy-Widmer study in the New England Journal of Medicine noted
> the following:
>
> 1. 20% of all surgery is unnecessary.
> 2. This unnecessary surgery costs consumers over $3 billion per year.
> 3. There are 2.4 million unnecessary operations annually.
> 4. This unnecessary surgery results in 12,000 unnecessary deaths each year.
>
> Another study showed that when a second specialist was consulted, 18%
> of the time he disagreed with doing the surgery.
> Hysterectomies are the most common operation today with nearly one
> million done per year. In six New York hospitals 43% of their
> hysterectomies were found on review to have been unjustified. Women
> with abnormal bleeding from the uterus or heavy menstrual blood flow
> were given the operation though other treatments or none at all would
> probably have worked as well.
>
> PROTECTING YOURSELF FROM DOCTORS
>
> "Doctors in general should be treated with about the same degree of
> trust as used car salesmen."
> - Robert Mendelsohn, M.D.
>
> 1. Caveat emptor - "Let the buyer beware." Don't assume your doctor
> knows everything, or that he or she necessarily knows what's best for
> you. Use your doctor like your lawyer or CPA - someone to give you
> counsel with you making the final decision.
>
> 2. Don't panic with sickness - Sickness is an opportunity to learn
> about your body's needs and to seek God's direction. Remember the
> story of King Asa in the Old Testament who died because he only sought
> the physicians instead of first seeking the Lord for his illness (II
> Chron. 16:12).
>
> 3. Avoid treating symptoms - There would be little iatrogenic disease
> if people were not so intent on treating symptoms. Instead you must
> get down to root causes, which usually means lifesytle change.
>
> 4. Don't "quick fix" pain - Get over the idea that pain is something
> that has to be immediately eliminated at any cost. That view
> encourages a lot of symptom treatment and resulting drug iatrogenesis.
> Pain is a warning that something's wrong. Again, seek to fix the
> underlying cause and that will fix the pain.
>
> 5. Seek appropriate health care services - The old saying says: Never
> ask a barber if you need a haircut. Don't expect anything but a
> prescription drug for symptoms when you go to a medical doctor. If you
> want to deal with underlying causes, go to the appropriate natural
> medicine doctor. Of course, if you have an emergency situation or some
> type of acute problem, conventional medicine is best equipped to deal
> with that.
>
> 6. Stimulate natural healing, don't sabotage it - Symptom treatments,
> like the frequent use of antibiotics, destroy your natural immunity,
> and thus open the door for more iatrogenic problems. Focus on
> detoxifying, correcting nutrient deficiencies, allergic desensitizing,
> and exercise to free up your body to heal itself.
>
> Contributed by Tony Isaacs
>
>
>
> When doctors go on strike does the death rate go down?
> http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2741/when-doctors-go-on-strike-does-the-death-rate-go-down
>
> January 4, 2008
> Dear Cecil:
>
> Hi, Cecil. I have come across a number of seemingly credible reports
> suggesting that every time doctors go on strike the overall death rate
> goes down, in some cases quite precipitously. Can you ascertain if
> this in fact is the case or if some other factors are at work here?
>
> — Jacob
>
> As we'll see below, Jacob, it's not really so surprising that
> mortality statistics sometimes show a drop during a doctors' strike.
> What's staggering is that a reasonable person could see such stats and
> for even an instant think: Holy crap, those doctors are killing us.
> Sure, there'll always be a few alternative-medicine fringe dwellers
> who genuinely see the medical establishment as some sinister cabal
> presiding over a high-density feedlot of human misery. But the way
> this "fact" about doctors' strikes gets passed around suggests that a
> lot more people are a little more nuts than you'd want to imagine.
>
> No one's suggesting that changes in the availability of doctors
> wouldn't affect what happens to their patients in the short term - a
> study from last May, for instance, found that in both Australia and
> the U.S. birth rates decreased from 1 to 4 percent on days when
> OB/GYNs held their annual conferences. But looking over the data on
> doctors' strikes, it's hard to see where the MDs are saving many lives
> by staying out of the OR:
>
> One example often cited is that of a monthlong strike by Los Angeles
> County physicians in 1976, during which the mortality rate for
> patients was seen to drop by 18 percent. But a 1979 study in the
> American Journal of Public Health showed that the overall area death
> rate remained unchanged, as enough personnel remained on duty to
> handle the real emergencies. Any seeming benefit to patients' health
> likely resulted from about 11,000 fewer operations (presumably
> elective) being performed that month than was typical, meaning that an
> estimated 50 to 150 patients who could have been expected to die
> didn't.
>
> A four-month Israeli doctors' strike in 1983 was found to have some
> definable effects on public health - the percentage of cesarean
> sections increased somewhat, and one study suggested hypertension
> patients might have received worse treatment - but no observed impact
> on mortality. Nonetheless, the popular wisdom saw the work stoppage as
> a disaster: a detailed study of public perceptions afterward found
> that nearly one in four urgent-care patients (or their relatives) felt
> the strike had resulted in major health problems.
>
> A 1984 doctors' strike in Varkaus, Finland, mainly meant fewer visits
> for colds and stomachaches; no significant harmful effects to the
> public were seen, researchers found, and the uptick in visits after
> the doctors returned to work suggested that patients were glad to have
> them back.
>
> Another key example used to support the proposition that fewer doctors
> means fewer deaths comes from a June 2000 article in the British
> Medical Journal written during another Israeli strike; the author
> reported that in the three months after doctors walked out death rates
> fell significantly in affected cities. However, her data was by no
> means the result of a scientific study but consisted mostly of
> anecdotal reports from funeral home directors, who claimed they'd seen
> "the same thing in 1983." What is known is that, as in the LA strike,
> many thousands of elective surgeries were postponed but emergency
> rooms and chronic care departments remained open.
>
> In 2003 a SARS outbreak closed four hospitals in Toronto, and all
> non-emergency services were suspended. Among other things, this led to
> the canceling of a quarter to a half of joint-replacement surgeries,
> 40 percent of cardiac surgeries, and as much as 93 percent of some
> outpatient procedures. The result? The greater Toronto area did see a
> slight dip in mortality rate relative to the prior two years, but so
> did the rest of Ontario, and the decrease wasn't statistically
> significant anyway.
> So despite media suggestions to the contrary, doctors' going on strike
> doesn't seem to have much effect on the death rate one way or the
> other, and any reduction seen is probably the result of postponed or
> canceled nonemergency surgeries. And that figures: any surgery is
> risky, and some common procedures (like coronary bypass or aneurysm
> repair) have a death rate you just can't ignore. But leaving the tummy
> tucks out of it, most elective surgeries boast a pretty serious
> payoff, either in quality-of-life improvement right now or in medical
> trouble avoided down the line. If 600 people die each year as a result
> of hip-replacement surgery, does that mean the 200,000-plus patients
> that pulled through were fools to go under the knife? You're welcome
> to calculate the odds however you like, and in certain cases it may
> well make sense to question the value of surgery. As a general
> proposition, though, if my health is on the line, I'm glad to hear
> that the doctor is in.
>
> — Cecil Adams
>
>
>
> On 11/19/17, Wlodzimierz Sokolowski <sowl@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
>> Wlodzimierz Sokolowski MD, 101 Henderson St., Miramichi, New Brunswick,
>> E1N
>>
>> 2R8
>> Tel: 506, 773-9731 e-mail: sowl@nbnet.nb.ca
>>
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3PNDvC-K0U   C LeBlanc & I on the
>> Youtube
>> .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mAkMDRYzTY  Bathurst NB  surgeon AB
>>
>>
>> Quoting George Orwell:  “If liberty means anything at all, it means the
>> right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
>> “Code of ethics stand as a promise to society about the integrity of the
>> profession in return for the power and authority given to the profession
>> by
>>
>> society.” (Kenny NP.)
>>
>> DOCTORS MURDERING PATIENTS.
>> Title of my dissertation is TERRORISTS' CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE CANADIAN
>> STATE ON THE LEVEL OF RURAL COMMUNITY IN NEW BRUNSWICK aimed to infringe
>> the
>>
>> SOCIAL fabric of the people living together, respecting themselves,
>> helping
>>
>> each other by allowing the foreigner far away from, who was given the
>> highest trust to pay you back by murdering his/her hosts.   In my opinion
>> it
>>
>> were the medico-legal gang guided by Komintern (foreign and communists)
>> agents implanted at the highest level of Canadian power structure,
>> Security
>>
>> and Intelligence Service (CSIS) and RCMP who  brainwashed doctors and
>> convinced the local quacks that murdering their own people to expose and
>> waste me an immigrant doctor was worth doing
>>
>> CUT to the THE CHASE
>> PHYSICIANS MURDERING PATIENTS, I am intending to make a note about.
>> "Physicians possess a unique opportunity to commit murder, both with
>> their
>> access to chemicals and their ability to sign a death certificate. . . "
>> James McGuire, Ph.D., New England Journal of Medicine, October 17, 2002,
>> Vol. 347, No. 16.
>> Privileges assigned to medical profession such as an access to
>> clients-patients intimate secrets of possible victims, a knowledge and a
>> right to use of potentially lethal poisons of many kinds, are great asset
>> for the  physician- assassin. It must be remembered that every medical
>> act
>> designed, invented, developed to help, to cure, to prevent could be
>> turned
>> into a deadly weapon. Physicians possess a unique opportunity to commit
>> murder, both with their access to chemicals, falsify documentation which
>> would become inaccessible due to THE so called medical records secrecy
>> provisions and their ability to sign falsified death certificates.
>> Anessthesiologists injecting potentially lethal drugs are in the first
>> line
>>
>> among those who could kill the patient. Therefore the old statement that
>> the
>>
>> operation was a great success, though the patient died is all the time
>> valid.
>> After four month of residency, sometime between February and April of
>> 1972,
>>
>> I was shown how to murder an older man abandoning a deeply anesthetized,
>> loaded with muscle relaxant client, whose belly was closed by the
>> surgeon.
>> The staff-man decided that he should be dead with an inoperable colon
>> cancer. The client did not die because I did not leave him, until he
>> started
>>
>> to breathe on his own.  During a summer's peek of 1972 I saw the man on a
>> porch playing with his grandchild.
>>
>> With Ontario license and ten month training in anesthesiology, I was
>> lured
>> to Hotel Dieu in Chatham   (NB), where no one had interviewed me before
>> being rendered all the physicians' privileges, but at the same time being
>> expected to fail instantly to be chased away in shame, deeply in debt.
>> Here was the dichotomy, one one side the anesthesiologists, at the
>> university teaching hospital, at Ottawa general Hospital by all means
>> were
>> encouraging me to go to a small hospital on the periphery of Canada where
>> the need for an up to date trained anesthesiologist was desperate and at
>> the
>>
>> same time branding me to be an impostor unable to function by himself,
>> absolutely alone, thus hurting or killing patients. Puppets of the
>> Bolshevik
>>
>> conspirators at the Catholic Mission Hospital Hotel Dieu in Chatham NB
>> were
>>
>> waiting for me.
>> I did not fail at Hotel Dieu in Chatham NB, though a line of patients
>> were
>> exposed to my anticipated inferior anesthesia service, expected to be
>> hurt
>> or killed.
>> Here was the point where typical Bolsheviks conspiracy started. First the
>> administrator, the leading doctors criminals and supporting them lawyers
>> were betting that I must fail as an anesthesiologist because I got only
>> ten
>>
>> months a formal training.
>> Leaders of Hotel Dieu were convinced that I am unable to measure up to
>> the
>> task and must fail delivering anesthesia, thus to hurt or kill the
>> patient.
>>
>> Weren't they terrorists? Would you hire for your own restaurant a cook
>> who
>> can hardly boil a water, or make your clients sick or poisoned? Would you
>> hire a teacher, about whom many heard that he is a pedophile, just to
>> test
>> him on the pupils you are responsible for, to get him/her expose their
>> predilections and only then to get him/her? Obviously one would do it
>> only
>> when the terrorists are at the helm.
>> For the first few days I was not given any work, did not do any
>> anesthesia.
>>
>> The conspirators were waiting until my family will arrive from Ottawa ON
>> having liquidated our nest there.
>> After three days a dentist was delegated to check me out. It was a
>> prominent
>>
>> individual, a veteran of WW2, who was overseas. The dentist knew that I
>> have
>>
>> to fail due to anticipated incompetence, and fiddling with potentially
>> lethal drugs could kill the client, a Canadian citizen, which he the
>> dentist
>>
>> was very reluctant to take part in. So he had chosen an American, a
>> medical
>>
>> doctor not practicing medicine but living as a hermit a in the bush
>> behind
>> the Trappist monastery in Rogersville NB.
>> I was prepared for a longer surgery, have intubated the client though the
>> nose, and the dentist had pulled only one tooth, obviously not a wisdom
>> tooth and in two minutes. was done with. The dentist knew w that in two
>> minutes. even the totally incompetent, moron anesthesiologist would have
>> difficulties to kill the patient.
>> After such a star I started to function as s an anesthesiologist and for
>> time being doctors criminals at Hotel Dieu took a brake, and did not try
>> to
>>
>> trip me. After few months, in the spring of 1974 I was invited to
>> Bathurst
>> NB to give surgeons a hand. First was urologist Dr. Murthy, whose client
>> I
>> had applied a spinal anesthesia making the urologist very happy.
>> However the conspirators did not give up and to make me go wrong and a
>> next
>>
>> time in Bathurst NB a senior surgeon (Dr.AB) treating me like a farm hand
>> told me, in a very bossy way, you are going to work with me today, you
>> will
>>
>> deliver anesthesia,” and ordered general anesthesia (GA): for a Ramsteadt
>> pyloromyotomy procedure,” for pyloric stenosis,  the client was a six -
>> eight weeks old boy. I delivered GA when the surgeon was faking the
>> surgery.
>>
>> The surgeon decided to whore his mission of a surgeon but he did not
>> knife
>> the infant letting me the anesthesiologist harm the infant.
>> Few months later an ENT doctor relocated from Bathurst NB expecting me to
>> deliver three, four hours GA for an ear drum transplant. Started with a
>> known person in Chatham NB, which was a brother of doctor Duffy. I did
>> not
>> have any difficulties with multiple, three to four hours lasting GA and
>> the
>>
>> ENT doctor left.
>> After this point doctors criminals at Hotel Dieu in Chatham NB and
>> backing
>> them up terrorists organizers decided to set me up to murder a patient.
>> However first we ought to purchase a house in a nice place extending our
>> property, to be taken over by a chosen locals after we were gone robbed
>> and
>>
>> in shame.  The time came  “to lose a case.”
>> This dirty job was for foreigners only. Chinese brought a Filipino, a
>> Turk
>> got the patient and I, a targeted for destruction, called by a surgeon a
>> fucken Pollack, tortured and murdered an innocent Canadian country widow
>> from Napan NB, Mrs. Susan Dickson on November 6, 1975, by injection
>> tampered
>>
>> with. Ten to twenty minutes after the murder of Susan Dickson Holet Dieu
>> in
>>
>> Chatham NB had called Maher a funeral directors to dup  STILL WARM BODY
>> OF
>> SUSAN DICKSON to be carried away. Only few minutes later Hotel Dieu had
>> called, a son of a murdered woman, Mr. Norman Dickson telling him that
>> his
>> mother had died. Norman Dickson ordered the Adams funeral directors to
>> collect the dead, but still warm, body of his mother. THE PROBLEM IS THAT
>> A
>>
>> STILL WARM BODY OF THE MURDERED AT THE HOSPITAL PATIENT WAS DUMPED ON THE
>> FUNERAL TRUCK TO BE CARRIED AWAY to MONCTON HOSPITAL  FOR AN ALLEGED
>> POSTMORTEM EXAMINATION.
>>
>> It was Mr. Norman Dickson the son of the murdered who demanded the
>> postmortem examination. It were neither the administrator nor the doctor
>> coroner in Chatham NB. There was no postmortem examination, the deceiving
>> maneuver was a brutal fraud but it was another criminal act because an
>> indignity to human body took place, when dragging a still warm body of a
>> just murdered patient to Moncton NB. It was another criminal act.
>> Criminal
>> Code (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-46) Dead body
>> 182 Every one who
>> (a) neglects, without lawful excuse, to perform any duty that is imposed
>> on
>>
>> him by law or that he undertakes with reference to the burial of a dead
>> human body or human remains, or
>> (b) improperly or indecently interferes with or offers any indignity to a
>> dead human body or human remains, whether buried or not,
>> is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term
>> not
>>
>> exceeding five years.  Date modified: 2017-09-22
>> Being set up to be a true, executioner a killer of an innocent patient,
>> my
>> human dignity and professional integrity was gang raped by the doctors
>> who
>> arranged the premeditated murder and the lawyers who allowed them, could
>> be
>>
>> encouraged them and then vigorously covering the premeditated murder of
>> an
>> innocent Canadian citizen.
>>       I, the executioner had cried murder, demanding investigation and the
>> premeditated capital crime was swept under the rug and is still there. A
>> dozen of local nurses witnessed the slaying, knowing that they can do
>> nothing about it, not sacrificing the welfare of their families,
>> demoralized
>>
>> realizing that the Canadian law on Miramichi NB was a joke.
>> For the next twenty five years I was branded and treated as a silent
>> killer
>>
>> who is going to strike again when the time would be ripe.
>> Dr Sayat, the one who had arrived on the day of Susan Dickson's murder
>> was
>> leaving and another doctor was coming. It was another immigrant doctor
>> with
>>
>> full anesthetic credentials. He tried to hide the lethal poison in the
>> inhalable container. But I was vigilant enough and cut the dental
>> extractions short.
>> In the early eighties a man with the perforated appendix since good
>> number
>> of days, belly full of pus was kept in Newcastle Hospital for days
>> expecting
>>
>> an overflowing sepsis to kill him when I had left for a conference
>> abandoning the Hotel Dieu anesthesia cover where he was transferred. I
>> was
>> supposed to travel to PEI but I did not leave and the young man did not
>> die.
>>
>> The surgeon at the Old Miramichi Hospital who kept the patient with
>> perforated appendix, had learned that I knew what he did and he hated my
>> guts, at one point calling a fucken Pollack.
>> In 1977 when I was again only delivering anesthesia because the lady
>> doctor
>>
>> was busy delivering babies they brought a doctor locum UK from and I was
>> out
>>
>> of work cut off of any income from anesthesia. Being again and again
>> badly
>> humiliated I have turned to the administrator trying to inform her about
>> me
>>
>> leaving practice of anesthesiology altogether. I was told in a brutal way
>> that I was brought to Hotel Dieu in Chatham NB to deliver anesthesia and
>> not
>>
>> to be a GP (family physician) and if I don't like such an arrangement I
>> have
>>
>> to leave
>> In February of 1984 deposition to the police in Chatham NB and the
>> consequences.
>> In 1990 racket with Mel Dickson and switching off the respirator. Legally
>> committing a murder.
>> Provocation in OR in October of 1992 with the fentanyl syringe missing.
>>
>> In mid nineties Unexpected death after an elective surgery done in Hotel
>> Dieu with me as an anesthesiologist anchored in the Old Miramichi
>> Hospital
>> in Newcastle NB.
>>
>> In 1998 AA attempted to murder and I brutalized to surrender my family
>> practice to the doctor chosen by the registrar of the College of
>> Physicians
>>
>> and Surgeons of New Brunswick (CPSNB). This time the injectable
>> anesthetic
>> was again hidden in the pentothal. I suspect it was MIDAZOLAM (VERSET)
>> which
>>
>> kept the client five days unconscious and flaccid.
>> IN 1999 an old Acadian women, called by me “a lady with the hip,” blue
>> collar Newbrunswickers were expected to be killed by me a hidden
>> assassin.
>> These very people were tortured and murdered by NB doctors in order to
>> frame
>>
>> and annihilate me an immigrant physician and these doctors were enjoying
>> high social status, generously paid by NB Medicare, no questions asked.
>> My immigrant's life on Miramichi NB, was worse than it would have been at
>> Auschwitz death camp (1940-1945) have I had found myself there. Because
>> had
>>
>> I not survive Auschwitz I would have been an anonymous hero of holocaust,
>> had I survived I would be a hero to the end of my natural life, whereas
>> here
>>
>> on Miramichi NB my human dignity and professional integrity were gang
>> raped
>>
>> and afterward I was treated like a murdering whore, all the time
>> practicing
>>
>> anesthesiology in three local hospitals and during this time more murders
>> and attempted murders and completed on my account.
>> Spectacular premeditated homicide was to clinch the project happened on
>> June
>>
>> 15, 2001 and the victim was a blue collar Acadian Mr. Mark Oliver
>> Saulnier
>> 25, but the assassin was a wrong doctor.
>> Becoming a whistle-blower on June 24, 2001 I was tried to kill another
>> patient on June 25, 2001 (Monday) Mrs. Conell from Strathadam NB
>> Taking a civic stand, protesting a senseless murder of a patient, I was
>> wasted as a professional, fired by an accountant, ostracized by the
>> Miramichi NB medical community, not reported to the College of Physicians
>> and Surgeons of New Brunswick (CPSNB) instrumental in setting up the
>> premeditated murder and cover up. CPSNB refused to hear me and did not
>> challenge my medical diagnoses rejecting the due process.  Wasted as a
>> professional I was tried to be murdered at the Miramichi NB hospital
>> twice
>> first time in 2009, second in 2012.
>> Several times I was begging to have the murder of Susan Dickson
>> elucidated
>> and since fifteen years continuously repeating the same story, which if
>> not
>>
>> true must have been considered criminal scandalous, pestiferous,
>> vexatious
>> and frivolous and I should have been severely punished for fabricating
>> evidence. But I was neither interviewed nor cross examined by
>> distinguished
>>
>> peers of mine and their dignified lawyers even once. The famous Canadian
>> Doctor, William Osler, when teaching medicine preacahed to the medical
>> students: “Listen to the patient and he/she will tell you the diagnosis.”
>> The most basic tool in the practice of medicine, taking a good history
>> and
>> law, taken a thorough interview, was never used to diagnose my claim.
>> Medical doctors murderers, were backed up by the NB lawyers criminals,
>> elected politicians, unelected civil servants and municipal police force.
>> Many years lasting hard work of the doctors murderers, setting up
>> homicides
>>
>> and cover up the tortures and assassinations, were generously paid by
>> Medicare NB and by CMPA.
>> Biological weapon was used against me triggering Rheumatoid Arthritis.
>> During the active faze my left hip was busted and an orthopedic surgeon
>> was
>>
>> pointed to do the surgery, to be followed by an overwhelming sepsis a
>> result
>>
>> of a stab wound 2 cm to the rectum inflicted by a night nurse ten hours
>> prior to surgery.
>> Who needs death penalty in NB since we have good doctors ready to help
>> and
>> Medicare NB will pay for the trouble.
>> During our stay in Canada the Polish Bolsheviks' security UB/SB knew all
>> the
>>
>> details about our whereabouts in Canada and their agents stayed in touch
>> visiting us few times. Most probably Polish UB/SBs conceived an idea of
>> murdering innocent Canadians to eliminate the traitor, but the Canadian
>> securities agencies using Canadian doctors were cooperating supplying
>> corpses.
>> Leaders of the Canadian medical profession are poorly educated in
>> humanities, ignorant in philosophy of medicine, liars, robbers, ethical
>> imbeciles, socially irresponsible cowards, arrogant racists easily
>> brainwashed, betraying the ethos of occidental medicine and keeping in
>> deep
>>
>> contempt the Code of Ethics of the CMA and WMA Declaration of Geneva
>> 1948.
>> “Code of ethics stand as a promise to society about the integrity of the
>> profession in return for the power and authority given to the profession
>> by
>>
>> society.” (Kenny NP.)
>>
>> “Fiat justitia, ruat caelum” “Let justice be done though the heavens
>> fall”
>> “Indifference is an act of complicity.”
>> "The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their
>> neutrality in times of moral crisis." Dante Alighieri
>>
>> NB health Care Industry, so far always run by a Minister of Health,
>> Red-Liberal or Blue-Conservative, totally ignorant about rules and
>> science
>> in the medical and nursing professions and other health care professions.
>> Such a minister with health portfolio are obviously puppet manipulated by
>> the big shots hidden puppeteers pulling the strings from behind the
>> curtain.
>> I have told you and wrote it a thousand times that I was upholding the NB
>> Law which is the Coroners Act of New Brunswick when I made a medical
>> diagnosis about a patient who died violently, suddenly and most
>> unexpectedly
>>
>> on the operating table at the Miramichi NB hospital on June 15, 2001.  My
>> diagnosis of the licensed to practice medicine physician in NB I then
>> was:
>> “SUDDEN VIOLENT DEATH OF A YOUNG MAN, A RESULT OF A HOMICIDE. The
>> murdered
>> man was Mark Oliver Saulnier 25 years old. The arrogant and ignorant
>> bureaucrats did not like it and had thrown me out from the medical
>> business
>>
>> for good and denied me permanently a right to make a living.
>> To waste me the local bureaucrats brought an accountant from Halifax NS
>> to
>> execute me as a professional. Leaders of the Miramichi and NB medical
>> profession neither have to discuss the matter with me nor to soil their
>> hands, because the issue of patient dying or living are not doctors
>> concern
>>
>> they would be willing discuss in public.
>> Our good NB doctors avoid talking publicly about the breach of Coroners
>> Act
>>
>> of New Brunswick or about Code of Ethics of the Canadian Medical
>> Association
>>
>> but they are most eager to talk about money they are getting from the
>> public
>>
>> purse but do not have to be accountable for.
>> Next letter is going to be about a total lack of FORENSIC SERVICE in NB
>> which puts NB two hundred years behind the developed democracies of the
>> western world, like UK, France, Germany, Austria, Poland, Czech Republic
>> etc.
>> I am deeply offended when not treated as Canadian citizen, I am since
>> forty
>>
>> years, now a senior who worked hard diligently, serving people for twenty
>> eight consecutive years, religiously observing the binding us law and
>> paying
>>
>> taxes on time. Though I do consider myself to be a model and first class
>> adopted Canadian citizen, we had also raised two Canadian Olympians, I am
>> treated by the Canadian and NB authority and people in power if I had not
>> been a Canadian citizen at all, and I resent it bitterly.
>> If this Country of Canada and Province of New Brunswick are a part of a
>> developed western democracy I have a right either to be protected or
>> punished by the law.
>> I am standing up for Canada, defending dignity of old stock Canadian
>> citizens, murdered by immigrant physicians, manipulated by big criminals
>> in
>>
>> power, on my account also an immigrant physician, aimed to be wasted. I
>> am
>> begging for an answer: soit droit fait, fiat justicia ruat caelum1.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Amos
>> Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2017 4:20 AM
>> To: sallybrooks25 ; Furey, John ; andre ; oldmaison ; david ; david.eidt
>> ;
>> serge.rousselle ; denis.landry2 ; Stephen.Horsman ; Stephane.vaillancourt
>> ;
>>
>> Mark.Blakely ; COCMoncton ; markandcaroline ; David.Coon ; martin.gaudet
>> ;
>> dan. bussieres ; macpherson.don ; Jacques.Poitras ; nmoore ; jeremy.keefe
>> ;
>>
>> tglynn ; mhayes ; leader ; Liberal / Assistance ; nbpc ; sowl@nbnet.nb.ca
>> Cc: David Amos ; wharrison ; luc.labonte ; Bill.Morneau ; postur ;
>> brian.gallant ; jake.stewart ; lionel ; birgitta
>> Subject: Yo Sally "CryBaby Brooks Need I say that I found it more than
>> merely interesting that John Furey a former Assistant Attorney General
>> used
>>
>> Morrison's judgment of you against me on All Hallow Eve?
>>
>> Trust that I also noticed that five long years after the "Occupy"
>> nonsense is history that you, Chucky Murray, Tracy Glynn, Matt Hayes,
>> Tom Mann, Pam Ross, Mark Darcy, David Coon and Wlodzimierz Sokolowski
>> MD are still the best of buddies with Chucky "The Welfare Bum"
>> Leblanc. However it appears that Mikey O'Brien, Dan Bussieres, Leanne
>> Fitch, Martin Gaudet, Sally Brooks, Evelyn Greene, Jenn Wambolt, Andre
>> Murray and Cheryl Norrad to name but a few are not. More importantly
>> nobody is quite sure that Mr Baconfat aka Barry Winters is dead yet.
>> N'esy Pas Andre Faust?
>>
>>
>>

 

Ginette.PetitpasTaylor@parl.gc.ca

<Ginette.PetitpasTaylor@parl.gc.ca>		AttachmentMon, Apr 16, 2018 at 9:58 AM
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com

On behalf of the Honourable Ginette Petitpas Taylor, I would like to acknowledge receipt of your e-mail dated April 14, 2018 and I thank you for writing.

 

As you can probably imagine, Ms. Petitpas Taylor receives a great deal of correspondence from people all across Canada and while she would like to reply to all of it, as the MP for Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe, her priority must be the concerns that are raised by her constituency.

 

Therefore, if you are a constituent of Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe, would you please provide your address including postal code and I will relay your concerns to the MP accordingly.

 

If you are not a constituent of Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe, as it is a custom and a courtesy to allow each Member to assist their own constituents, I would invite you to share your concerns directly with your local MP’s office.

 

Should you wish to contact Ms. Petitpas Taylor with comments or suggestions relating to her role as Minister of Health you may do so by e-mail at HCMinister.MinistreSC@canada.ca.

 

Respectfully yours,

Patti

 

Patti Trites

Executive Assistant/Adjointe exécutive

The Hon./l’hon. Ginette Petitpas Taylor, P.C./c.p.

Member of Parliament/députée

Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe

Constituency Office/Bureau de circonscription

272 rue St. George St., Suite 110

Moncton, NB E1C 1W6

Tel/Tél: (506) 851-4987 Fax/Téléc.: (506) 851-3273

David Amos

<motomaniac333@gmail.com>		Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 3:20 PM
To: "brian.gallant"<brian.gallant@gnb.ca>, Benoit.Bourque@gnb.ca, oldmaison@yahoo.com, andre@jafaust.com, "victor.boudreau"<victor.boudreau@gnb.ca>, "Dominic.Cardy"<Dominic.Cardy@gnb.ca>, "blaine.higgs"<blaine.higgs@gnb.ca>, "Roger.L.Melanson"<Roger.L.Melanson@gnb.ca>, "Cathy.Rogers"<Cathy.Rogers@gnb.ca>, "Pam.Lynch"<Pam.Lynch@gnb.ca>, "Bertrand.LeBlanc"<Bertrand.LeBlanc@gnb.ca>, "Ginette.PetitpasTaylor"<Ginette.PetitpasTaylor@parl.gc.ca>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, "Bill.Morneau"<Bill.Morneau@canada.ca>, yogi709@icloud.com, "David.Coon"<David.Coon@gnb.ca>, jbosnitch <jbosnitch@gmail.com>


Ricky Gautreau - 2018 PCNB Candidate/candidat Kent S.
yogi709@icloud.com
Call (506) 525-2154

http://www.greenpartynb.ca/kent_south

Alain Roussell
1009 Saint-Maurice road
Saint-Maurice, NB
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(506) 743-5212

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From: "MinFinance / FinanceMin (FIN)"<fin.minfinance-financemin.fin@canada.ca>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 13:14:32 +0000
Subject: RE: Perhaps Bill Morneau and the current Ministers of Health
Benoît Bourque and Ginette Petitpas Taylor will explain to all why the
Crown in New Brunswick will not give a homeless man Health Care Card
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

The Department of Finance acknowledges receipt of your electronic
correspondence. Please be assured that we appreciate receiving your
comments.

Le ministère des Finances accuse réception de votre correspondance
électronique. Soyez assuré(e) que nous apprécions recevoir vos
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I know that Billy Morneau the wealthy dude who oversees all of
Canada's financea knows we can afford such a simple thing that ALL
Canadain citizens are entitled to be they homeless or not.

Mr Morneau brags of his wonderful life while his cohorts appear to
wish that mine be miserable and short.


YO Thomas Walkom trust that I am judging Bill Morneau by what he does
NOT do and not by what he owns. I am also judging you. The Tornonto
Star is a publicly held company which has been duly informed of my
concerns since 2004 correct?

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2017/10/30/judge-bill-morneau-for-what-he-does-not-what-he-owns-walkom.html

Judge Bill Morneau for what he does, not what he owns: Walkom

It's the content of what the finance minister does not his alleged
conflict of interest in doing it that matters.


Thomas Walkom writes on political economy. The winner of two national
newspaper awards (foreign reporting and column writing), he was the
Star’s Queen’s Park columnist for eight years. He has a PhD in
economics from the University of Toronto and is author of "Rae Days:
the rise and follies of the NDP, a book on Ontario’s first New
Democratic Party government." Reach him at 416-869-4570.



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From: "MinFinance / FinanceMin (FIN)"<fin.minfinance-financemin.fin@canada.ca>
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 21:36:06 +0000
Subject: RE: More fuel for the fire Here are Doctors wondering Why Do
Patients Stop Dying When Doctors Go on Strike?
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>

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On 11/19/17, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
> Methinks the "Powers That Be" are serious when they call us old folks
> useless eaters N'esy Pas Serge Rouselle?
>
> https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/slightly-blighty/201510/why-do-patients-stop-dying-when-doctors-go-strike
>
> Why Do Patients Stop Dying When Doctors Go on Strike?
> Can psychology explain our surprise at mortality decreases when doctors'
> strike?
> Raj Persaud, M.D. and Peter Bruggen, M.D.
> Posted Oct 17, 2015
>
> Doctors in the U.K. are considering whether to strike over proposed
> changes in their contracts, and they are marching in London as part of
> the protest. What's the likely impact of withdrawing medical care on
> the health of the nation? Physicians seem to be gambling that the
> government doesn't want to alarm the electorate.
>
> But when doctors strike, the scientific research shows that patients stop
> dying.
>
> The most comprehensive review of the medical impact of doctors'
> strikes is published in the prestigious academic journal Social
> Science and Medicine. A team lead by Solveig Cunningham and Salim
> Yusuf at Emory and Georgetown Universities in the U.S. and McMaster
> University in Canada, analysed five physician strikes around the
> world, all between 1976 and 2003.
>
> Doctors withdrew their labour, in the different strikes analysed, from
> between nine days and 17 weeks. Yet all the different studies report
> population mortality either stays the same, or even decreases, during
> medical strikes. Not a single study found death rates increased during
> the weeks of the strikes, compared to other times.
>
> For example, in a strike in Los Angeles County, California in January
> 1976, doctors went on strike in protest over soaring medical
> malpractice insurance premiums. For five weeks, approximately 50% of
> doctors in the county reduced their practice and withheld care for
> anything but emergencies. One analysis, quoted by Cunningham and
> colleagues, found the strike may have actually prevented more deaths
> than it caused.
>
> The study entitled, "Doctors' strikes and mortality: A review,"
> suggests that it's the fact that elective, or non-emergency surgery,
> tends to stop during a doctors' strike, which seems to be the key
> factor. It looks like a surprising amount of mortality occurs
> following this kind of procedure which disappears when elective
> surgery ceases due to doctors withdrawing their labour. Mortality
> declined steadily from week one (21 deaths/100,000 population) to
> weeks six (13) and seven (14), when mortality rates were lower than
> the averages of the previous five years.
>
> However, as soon as elective surgery resumed, there was a rise in
> deaths. There were 90 more deaths associated with surgery for the two
> weeks following the strike in 1976 (ie when doctors went back to work)
> than there had been during the same period in 1975.
> article continues after advertisement
>
> But, unlike Los Angeles, what about the impact of doctors' industrial
> action where the majority of doctors participate, and the strike lasts
> several months?
>
> Cunningham and colleagues report on a strike in Jerusalem from 2 March
> to 26 June 1983 due to a salary dispute between the government and the
> Israel Medical Association. 8000 of Jerusalem's 11,000 physicians
> refused to treat patients inside hospitals, though many of them set up
> separate aid stations where they treated emergency cases for a fee.
>
> One analysis examined death certificates from several months
> surrounding the strike period, 16 February-3 September 1983, and from
> a control period the previous year, 17 February-3 September 1982.
> Mortality did not increase during or after the strike, even when
> elective surgery resumed.
> Raj Persaud
> Source: Raj Persaud
>
> The pre-strike deaths for the control period and the strike period
> were identical at 89; there were six fewer deaths during the strike
> than during the control period, while in the ten weeks following the
> strike, there were seven more deaths than there had been in 1982.
>
> In an example of how a doctor's strike can backfire, the authors of
> this particular mortality analysis argued this apparent lack of impact
> of the strike on mortality suggests that there was an over-supply of
> doctors in Jerusalem at the time. The problem with drawing conclusions
> remains that the strike did not involve the whole scale deprivation of
> medical services.
>
> Cunningham and colleagues point out in their review paper that
> striking physicians opened aid stations, supplementing medical care
> and preventing people from mobbing the hospitals. While physicians
> were technically on strike during the four months of the dispute, most
> did not in fact adhere to the industrial action regulations. In truth,
> most doctors in Jerusalem provided care in a private or partially
> private context, so, while participating in spirit, they did not
> actually withdraw services.
> article continues after advertisement
>
> Another intriguing study analysed changes in mortality by studying the
> Jerusalem Post's newspaper reports of funerals during another
> Jerusalem doctors' strike, this time between March and June of 2000.
> This one arose from the Israel Medical Association's conflict with the
> government's proposed wages. The hospitals in the area cancelled all
> elective admissions and surgeries, but kept emergency rooms and other
> vital departments, such as dialysis units and oncology departments,
> open.
>
> The funeral study found a decline in the number of funerals during the
> three months of the strike, compared with the same months of the
> previous three years. One burial society reported 93 funerals during
> one month of the strike (May 2000) compared with 153 in May 1999, 133
> in May of 1998, and 139 in May 1997.
>
> Cunningham and colleagues summarise their review of research assessing
> the effects of doctors' strikes on mortality, finding that four of the
> seven studies report mortality dropped as a result of medical
> industrial action, and three observed no significant change in
> mortality during the strike or in the period following.
> Raj Persaud
> Source: Raj Persaud
>
> There are several possible interpretations for this surprising
> finding. One is that as its elective or non-emergency surgery which is
> usually most effected in a doctor's strike, it could be the mortality
> findings reflect an impact of elective surgery. The findings might be
> important because they perhaps illuminate the relatively high risks of
> elective surgeries, which may actually increase mortality. If it
> wasn't for doctor's strikes, this might be a finding, ironically never
> otherwise properly highlighted.
> article continues after advertisement
>
> Another sobering possible conclusion is that the public, and perhaps
> doctors themselves, overestimate the ability of medicine to stave off
> or have an impact on mortality.
>
> However, Jonathan Gruber and Samuel Kleiner analysed the effects of
> nurses' strikes in hospitals on patient outcomes using nurses' strikes
> over the 1984 to 2004 period in New York State. The paper entitled,
> "Do Strikes Kill? Evidence from New York State," found nurses' strikes
> increase in-hospital mortality by 19.4% and 30-day readmission by 6.5%
> for patients admitted during a strike. The authors, from MIT and
> Carnegie Mellon University, conclude, in their paper published as
> National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 15855, that
> hospitals during nurses' strikes are providing a lower quality of
> patient care.
>
> It would seem the public should worry much more about nurses going on
> strike compared to doctors, yet the irony is, nurses seem to earn a
> lot less than doctors.
>
> The problem with interpreting the data, on doctors’ strikes, as
> Cunningham and colleagues point out in their review paper, in all
> medical strikes studied so far, not all doctors down tools. In the
> 1976 Los Angeles strike only 50% of physicians were involved. So
> doctors' strikes don't necessarily drastically reduce access to health
> care. Given the purpose of most strikes is to deprive management of
> the worker's labour, and it's benefits, this raises the sobering
> question of how effective a doctors' strike can ever be in comparison
> to other occupations.
>
> The very difficulty in getting physicians to withdraw their labour in
> the way other occupations can do, hints at a fundamental difference
> between what it is to be a doctor, compared to pursuing other ways of
> making a living. A doctor, the research on strikes illuminates, isn't
> something you do, it's something you are. This issue of identity is
> why it's so much more difficult for doctors to simply discontinue
> practicing medicine. It's a character flaw prone to exploitation by
> governments and employers, effectively frustrating standard union
> tactics.
>
> The Minister of Health in the U.K., Jeremy Hunt, is opposing the
> doctors and their threats of industrial action; in a recent comment
> widely reported, he explains why the state wants to change doctors’
> contracts, apparently to provide more medical cover of hospitals at
> week-ends. He said: ‘…three times less medical cover at weekends as
> they (doctors) do in weeks and that means that there's a 15% greater
> chance of you dying if you are admitted on a Sunday, compared to being
> admitted on a Wednesday.’
>
> There is indeed something paradoxical about the data showing that
> being admitted to hospital when there are fewer doctors at week-ends
> leads to greater mortality, compared to the research on doctors’
> strikes.
> Raj Persaud
> Source: Raj Persaud
>
> Could it be that the way medicine and health care are organised,
> rather than simply having lots of doctors around, is the fundamental
> issue? The UK Government may have cleverly distracted attention away
> from the deep problems over how healthcare is managed in the UK, by
> highlighting instead the issue of forcing doctors to be present at
> week-ends.
>
> Yet another irony is that the data from doctors strikes themselves
> indicate the issue isn’t as simple as just deploying more doctors
> means lives get saved.
>
> But the outcome of the current conflict between doctors and their
> state employer in the U.K. may hinge on which side the electorate
> believes is genuinely most interested in looking after patients, as
> opposed to protecting their own interests.
>
> If doctors don’t all go on complete strike, even when it could be in
> their financial interests to do so, this may signal to the public who
> to trust on this one – their doctors or their politicians.
>
> Another theory as to why patients live longer when doctors go on
> strike, is that the profession finally shakes off the shackles of its
> employer's restrictive practices, and returns, albeit temporarily, to
> practicing medicine freely, as it would really like to.
>
> And perhaps, that's actually the most effective sort of industrial
> action doctors can ever take.
>
> Follow Dr Raj Persaud on Twitter: www.twitter.com/@DrRajPersaud
>
> Raj Persaud and Peter Bruggen are joint podcast editors for the Royal
> College of Psychiatrists and also now have a free app on iTunes and
> Google Play store entitled ‘Raj Persaud in conversation’, which
> includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in
> mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world.
>
> Download it free from these links:
>
> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.raj...
>
> https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id9274662...
>
> http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/SocialSciences/ppecorino/MEDICAL_ETHICS_TEXT/Chapter_3_Moral_Climate_of_Health_Care/Reading-Death-Rate-Doctor-Strike.htm
>
>
> Chapter 3: The Moral Climate of Health Care
>
> Section. 6 Reading
>
>
>                Death Rate Drops During Doctor Strike
> http://www.heart-disease-bypass-surgery.com/data/articles/67.htm
> The June 10, 2000 issue of the British Medical journal reports on an
> interesting statistic that has occurred in Israel. It seems that three
> months ago physicians in public hospitals implemented a program of
> sanctions in response to a labor dispute over a contract proposal by
> the government.  The article stated that the Israel Medical
> Association began an action in March to protest against the treasurys
> proposed imposition of a new four year wage contract for doctors.
> Since then, the medical doctors have cancelled hundreds of thousands
> of visits to outpatient clinics and have postponed tens of thousands
> of elective operations.
>
> To find out whether the industrial action was affecting deaths in the
> country, the Jerusalem Post interviewed non-profit making Jewish
> burial societies, which perform funerals for the vast majority of
> Israelis.  Hananya Shahor, the veteran director of Jerusalems Kehilat
> Yerushalayim burial society said, "The number of funerals we have
> performed has fallen drastically."  Meir Adler, manager of the Shamgar
> Funeral Parlour, which buries most other residents of Jerusalem,
> declared with much more certainty: "There definitely is a connection
> between the doctors sanctions and fewer deaths. We saw the same thing
> in 1983 when the Israel Medical Association applied sanctions for four
> and a half months."
>
> In response Avi Yisraeli, director general of the Hadassah Medical
> Organization, offered his own explanation, "Mortality is not the only
> measure of harm to health."  He goes on to say that, "Elective surgery
> can bring about a great improvement in a patients condition, but it
> can also mean disability and death in the weakest patients."
>
>
>
> http://www.utopiasilver.com/emailtemp/articlepages/Doctor-Caused%20Disease.htm
>
> Silver Bulletin e-News Magazine
>
> Doctor-Caused Disease
> By Monte Kline
>
> One of the most common causes of disease (if not the most common
> cause) is conventional medical doctors! Sad, but too often true. The
> medical term coined to describe this problem is iatrogenic disease,
> from the Greek "iatros" meaning physician and "genesis" meaning
> origin. Thus we have doctor-caused disease.
>
> Specifically, iatrogenic disease is defined as:
> Any adverse reaction, either major or minor, to a medical or surgical
> treatment.
>
> The late Robert Mendelsohn, M.D., while Chairman of the Medical
> Licensing Committee for the State of Illinois and Associate Professor
> of Preventive Medicine and Community Health at the University of
> Illinois School of Medicine, wrote:
>
> . . . the greatest danger to your health is the doctor who practices
> Modern Medicine. I believe that Modern Medicine's treatments for
> disease are seldom effective, and that they're often more dangerous
> than the diseases they're designed to treat . . . I believe that more
> than 90% of Modern Medicine could disappear from the face of the
> earth-doctors, hospital, drugs, and equipment-and the effect on our
> health would be immediate and beneficial.
>
> DOCTORS ON STRIKE
>
> Whenever medical doctors go on strike, a most interesting phenomenon
> occurs - death rates go down! In 1976 in Bogota, Columbia medical
> doctors went on strike for 52 days, with only emergency care
> available. The death rate dropped by 35%. In 1976 in Los Angeles
> County a similar doctors' strike resulted in an 18% drop in mortality.
> As soon as the strike was over, the death rate went back to normal. A
> 50% decrease in mortality occurred in Israel in 1973 when there was a
> one month doctor's strike!
>
> HEALTH CARE CUTBACKS
>
> Since the early 1980's we've heard a lot about the impact of "managed
> care" and health care cutbacks. Medical doctors and political liberals
> are screaming that people are dying for lack of services. Actually,
> just the opposite is true. Since the "downsizing" of conventional
> medical services in the 1980's, life expectancy has made a massive
> jump both in the U. S. and Canada. No drug therapy and surgical
> technique can be shown to have statistically increased the general
> life expectancy. No generation has had its life expectancy increased
> significantly since medical doctors began using chemical treatments.
> Researchers John and Sonja McKinlay found that medical intervention
> only accounted for 1 - 3.5% of the increase in the average lifespan in
> the U. S. since 1900.
>
> DANGEROUS DRUGS
>
> Alternative cancer treatment authority, Dr. Ralph Moss, notes that a
> 1999 article in The Journal of The American Medical Association stated
> that prescription drugs kill over 100,000 people per year in U. S.
> hospitals. The F.D.A. noted that back in 1978 1.5 million Americans
> were hospitalized as a result of taking medical drugs. One in seven
> hospital beds is taken up by patients suffering from adverse drug
> reactions. The General Accounting Office stated that 51.5% of all
> drugs introduced between 1976 and 1985 had to be relabelled because of
> serious adverse reactions found after the marketing of these drugs -
> reactions like heart, liver or kidney failure, birth defects, blood
> disorders, respiratory arrest, seizures, and blindness.
>
> DRUG COMPANY BRIBERY
>
> Most people are not aware that drugs companies spend thousands of
> dollars per year on each medical doctor "selling" them on using their
> particular products. Drug companies hire "detail men" to visit
> physicians' offices and give them drug samples. These salesmen, who
> are not doctors and have no medical or pharmacological training, tell
> your medical doctor what drugs to use for what problems. Drug
> companies start this process early by offering medical students gifts,
> free trips to "conferences," and free "educational material," which
> translated means propaganda on that drug company's products. In
> Australia drug companies spend an average of $10,000 per year per
> physician marketing their products. The result of all of this is a
> massive overprescribing of drugs.
>
> The drug companies don't stop with just practicing M.D.s, though, but
> also direct major dollars toward hospitals, medical schools and
> supposedly "independent" research institutes. Medical schools, for
> example, are given grants for clinical trials, pharmaceutical
> research, or even buildings. These companies have sought to gain
> massive influence over medical teaching institutions by spreading
> their money around. Dr. Alan Levin, Adjunct Associate Professor of
> Immunology and Dermatology at the University of California states:
>
> Pharmaceutical companies, by enlisting the aid of influential academic
> physicians, have gained control of the practice of medicine in the
> United States. They now set the standards of practice by hiring
> investigators to perform studies which establish the efficacy of their
> products or impugn that of their competitors. . .
>
> HAZARDS OF HOSPITALIZATION
>
> Hospitals are a hotbed of iatrogenic disease. Every year two million
> people are admitted to hospitals with one health problem and end up
> with another health problem! According to Dr. Mendelsohn these
> doctor-caused illnesses kill as many as 20,000 people annually. A
> study in the Southern Medical Journal reported that one in five
> patients admitted to a university hospital acquires an iatrogenic
> disease, and one in thirty of these lead to death. Of these iatrogenic
> deaths, half are complications of drug therapy and 10% result from
> improper diagnostic procedures.
> Another study of 815 consecutive patients in a university hospital
> over an eight month period found that 36% had a disease caused by
> their doctor - in 2% of the cases the iatrogenic disease was believed
> to be a cause of the patient's death.
>
> If you project that figure out, assuming 2% of all hospital patients
> die from an iatrogenic disease, you get 700,000 hospital/doctor-caused
> deaths per year - one third of all deaths!
>
> HOSPITAL INFECTIONS
>
> In the 1840's Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis directed a teaching hospital in
> Vienna, where 75% of the women giving birth were dying of puerperal
> fever. He observed that doctors went from dissecting cadavers to
> delivering babies without washing their hands. Dr. Semmelweis made the
> "radical" policy change of requiring doctors to wash their hands
> before delivery a baby. An amazing thing happened - the mortality rate
> drop fifteen-fold. Unfortunately, his arrogant colleagues couldn't see
> the connection, so they dismissed him and ostracized him. The
> rejection ultimately drove Semmelweis to death in an insane asylum -
> another great moment in the history of iatrogenic disease.
>
> But doctors are enlightened nowadays about sanitation, aren't they? A
> 1981 study of washing habits in intensive care units found that only
> 28% of the doctors washed between patients in a teaching hospital and
> only 14% washed in the private hospital! Dr. Mendelsohn noted:
>
> . . . the sanitary practices of the medical personnel are often
> abominable and the hospital itself is probably the most germ-laden
> facility in town.
>
> Your chances of getting an infection in the hospital are one in 20
> with 15,000 people dying annually from hospital-acquired infections.
>
> SURGERY
>
> Dr. Arthur Mannix, Jr. declared in an article in the New York State
> Journal of Medicine:
>
> Errors in judgment or technique concerning either the anesthesia or
> the surgery, or a combination of the two, contribute to close to 50%
> of the deaths in the operating room.
>
> I think what that translates to is that disease is only responsible
> for 50% of the deaths on the operating table, while doctors are
> responsible for the other 50% of deaths.
> The McCarthy-Widmer study in the New England Journal of Medicine noted
> the following:
>
> 1. 20% of all surgery is unnecessary.
> 2. This unnecessary surgery costs consumers over $3 billion per year.
> 3. There are 2.4 million unnecessary operations annually.
> 4. This unnecessary surgery results in 12,000 unnecessary deaths each year.
>
> Another study showed that when a second specialist was consulted, 18%
> of the time he disagreed with doing the surgery.
> Hysterectomies are the most common operation today with nearly one
> million done per year. In six New York hospitals 43% of their
> hysterectomies were found on review to have been unjustified. Women
> with abnormal bleeding from the uterus or heavy menstrual blood flow
> were given the operation though other treatments or none at all would
> probably have worked as well.
>
> PROTECTING YOURSELF FROM DOCTORS
>
> "Doctors in general should be treated with about the same degree of
> trust as used car salesmen."
> - Robert Mendelsohn, M.D.
>
> 1. Caveat emptor - "Let the buyer beware." Don't assume your doctor
> knows everything, or that he or she necessarily knows what's best for
> you. Use your doctor like your lawyer or CPA - someone to give you
> counsel with you making the final decision.
>
> 2. Don't panic with sickness - Sickness is an opportunity to learn
> about your body's needs and to seek God's direction. Remember the
> story of King Asa in the Old Testament who died because he only sought
> the physicians instead of first seeking the Lord for his illness (II
> Chron. 16:12).
>
> 3. Avoid treating symptoms - There would be little iatrogenic disease
> if people were not so intent on treating symptoms. Instead you must
> get down to root causes, which usually means lifesytle change.
>
> 4. Don't "quick fix" pain - Get over the idea that pain is something
> that has to be immediately eliminated at any cost. That view
> encourages a lot of symptom treatment and resulting drug iatrogenesis.
> Pain is a warning that something's wrong. Again, seek to fix the
> underlying cause and that will fix the pain.
>
> 5. Seek appropriate health care services - The old saying says: Never
> ask a barber if you need a haircut. Don't expect anything but a
> prescription drug for symptoms when you go to a medical doctor. If you
> want to deal with underlying causes, go to the appropriate natural
> medicine doctor. Of course, if you have an emergency situation or some
> type of acute problem, conventional medicine is best equipped to deal
> with that.
>
> 6. Stimulate natural healing, don't sabotage it - Symptom treatments,
> like the frequent use of antibiotics, destroy your natural immunity,
> and thus open the door for more iatrogenic problems. Focus on
> detoxifying, correcting nutrient deficiencies, allergic desensitizing,
> and exercise to free up your body to heal itself.
>
> Contributed by Tony Isaacs
>
>
>
> When doctors go on strike does the death rate go down?
> http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2741/when-doctors-go-on-strike-does-the-death-rate-go-down
>
> January 4, 2008
> Dear Cecil:
>
> Hi, Cecil. I have come across a number of seemingly credible reports
> suggesting that every time doctors go on strike the overall death rate
> goes down, in some cases quite precipitously. Can you ascertain if
> this in fact is the case or if some other factors are at work here?
>
> — Jacob
>
> As we'll see below, Jacob, it's not really so surprising that
> mortality statistics sometimes show a drop during a doctors' strike.
> What's staggering is that a reasonable person could see such stats and
> for even an instant think: Holy crap, those doctors are killing us.
> Sure, there'll always be a few alternative-medicine fringe dwellers
> who genuinely see the medical establishment as some sinister cabal
> presiding over a high-density feedlot of human misery. But the way
> this "fact" about doctors' strikes gets passed around suggests that a
> lot more people are a little more nuts than you'd want to imagine.
>
> No one's suggesting that changes in the availability of doctors
> wouldn't affect what happens to their patients in the short term - a
> study from last May, for instance, found that in both Australia and
> the U.S. birth rates decreased from 1 to 4 percent on days when
> OB/GYNs held their annual conferences. But looking over the data on
> doctors' strikes, it's hard to see where the MDs are saving many lives
> by staying out of the OR:
>
> One example often cited is that of a monthlong strike by Los Angeles
> County physicians in 1976, during which the mortality rate for
> patients was seen to drop by 18 percent. But a 1979 study in the
> American Journal of Public Health showed that the overall area death
> rate remained unchanged, as enough personnel remained on duty to
> handle the real emergencies. Any seeming benefit to patients' health
> likely resulted from about 11,000 fewer operations (presumably
> elective) being performed that month than was typical, meaning that an
> estimated 50 to 150 patients who could have been expected to die
> didn't.
>
> A four-month Israeli doctors' strike in 1983 was found to have some
> definable effects on public health - the percentage of cesarean
> sections increased somewhat, and one study suggested hypertension
> patients might have received worse treatment - but no observed impact
> on mortality. Nonetheless, the popular wisdom saw the work stoppage as
> a disaster: a detailed study of public perceptions afterward found
> that nearly one in four urgent-care patients (or their relatives) felt
> the strike had resulted in major health problems.
>
> A 1984 doctors' strike in Varkaus, Finland, mainly meant fewer visits
> for colds and stomachaches; no significant harmful effects to the
> public were seen, researchers found, and the uptick in visits after
> the doctors returned to work suggested that patients were glad to have
> them back.
>
> Another key example used to support the proposition that fewer doctors
> means fewer deaths comes from a June 2000 article in the British
> Medical Journal written during another Israeli strike; the author
> reported that in the three months after doctors walked out death rates
> fell significantly in affected cities. However, her data was by no
> means the result of a scientific study but consisted mostly of
> anecdotal reports from funeral home directors, who claimed they'd seen
> "the same thing in 1983." What is known is that, as in the LA strike,
> many thousands of elective surgeries were postponed but emergency
> rooms and chronic care departments remained open.
>
> In 2003 a SARS outbreak closed four hospitals in Toronto, and all
> non-emergency services were suspended. Among other things, this led to
> the canceling of a quarter to a half of joint-replacement surgeries,
> 40 percent of cardiac surgeries, and as much as 93 percent of some
> outpatient procedures. The result? The greater Toronto area did see a
> slight dip in mortality rate relative to the prior two years, but so
> did the rest of Ontario, and the decrease wasn't statistically
> significant anyway.
> So despite media suggestions to the contrary, doctors' going on strike
> doesn't seem to have much effect on the death rate one way or the
> other, and any reduction seen is probably the result of postponed or
> canceled nonemergency surgeries. And that figures: any surgery is
> risky, and some common procedures (like coronary bypass or aneurysm
> repair) have a death rate you just can't ignore. But leaving the tummy
> tucks out of it, most elective surgeries boast a pretty serious
> payoff, either in quality-of-life improvement right now or in medical
> trouble avoided down the line. If 600 people die each year as a result
> of hip-replacement surgery, does that mean the 200,000-plus patients
> that pulled through were fools to go under the knife? You're welcome
> to calculate the odds however you like, and in certain cases it may
> well make sense to question the value of surgery. As a general
> proposition, though, if my health is on the line, I'm glad to hear
> that the doctor is in.
>
> — Cecil Adams
>
>
>
> On 11/19/17, Wlodzimierz Sokolowski <sowl@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
>> Wlodzimierz Sokolowski MD, 101 Henderson St., Miramichi, New Brunswick,
>> E1N
>>
>> 2R8
>> Tel: 506, 773-9731 e-mail: sowl@nbnet.nb.ca
>>
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3PNDvC-K0U   C LeBlanc & I on the
>> Youtube
>> .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mAkMDRYzTY  Bathurst NB  surgeon AB
>>
>>
>> Quoting George Orwell:  “If liberty means anything at all, it means the
>> right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
>> “Code of ethics stand as a promise to society about the integrity of the
>> profession in return for the power and authority given to the profession
>> by
>>
>> society.” (Kenny NP.)
>>
>> DOCTORS MURDERING PATIENTS.
>> Title of my dissertation is TERRORISTS' CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE CANADIAN
>> STATE ON THE LEVEL OF RURAL COMMUNITY IN NEW BRUNSWICK aimed to infringe
>> the
>>
>> SOCIAL fabric of the people living together, respecting themselves,
>> helping
>>
>> each other by allowing the foreigner far away from, who was given the
>> highest trust to pay you back by murdering his/her hosts.   In my opinion
>> it
>>
>> were the medico-legal gang guided by Komintern (foreign and communists)
>> agents implanted at the highest level of Canadian power structure,
>> Security
>>
>> and Intelligence Service (CSIS) and RCMP who  brainwashed doctors and
>> convinced the local quacks that murdering their own people to expose and
>> waste me an immigrant doctor was worth doing
>>
>> CUT to the THE CHASE
>> PHYSICIANS MURDERING PATIENTS, I am intending to make a note about.
>> "Physicians possess a unique opportunity to commit murder, both with
>> their
>> access to chemicals and their ability to sign a death certificate. . . "
>> James McGuire, Ph.D., New England Journal of Medicine, October 17, 2002,
>> Vol. 347, No. 16.
>> Privileges assigned to medical profession such as an access to
>> clients-patients intimate secrets of possible victims, a knowledge and a
>> right to use of potentially lethal poisons of many kinds, are great asset
>> for the  physician- assassin. It must be remembered that every medical
>> act
>> designed, invented, developed to help, to cure, to prevent could be
>> turned
>> into a deadly weapon. Physicians possess a unique opportunity to commit
>> murder, both with their access to chemicals, falsify documentation which
>> would become inaccessible due to THE so called medical records secrecy
>> provisions and their ability to sign falsified death certificates.
>> Anessthesiologists injecting potentially lethal drugs are in the first
>> line
>>
>> among those who could kill the patient. Therefore the old statement that
>> the
>>
>> operation was a great success, though the patient died is all the time
>> valid.
>> After four month of residency, sometime between February and April of
>> 1972,
>>
>> I was shown how to murder an older man abandoning a deeply anesthetized,
>> loaded with muscle relaxant client, whose belly was closed by the
>> surgeon.
>> The staff-man decided that he should be dead with an inoperable colon
>> cancer. The client did not die because I did not leave him, until he
>> started
>>
>> to breathe on his own.  During a summer's peek of 1972 I saw the man on a
>> porch playing with his grandchild.
>>
>> With Ontario license and ten month training in anesthesiology, I was
>> lured
>> to Hotel Dieu in Chatham   (NB), where no one had interviewed me before
>> being rendered all the physicians' privileges, but at the same time being
>> expected to fail instantly to be chased away in shame, deeply in debt.
>> Here was the dichotomy, one one side the anesthesiologists, at the
>> university teaching hospital, at Ottawa general Hospital by all means
>> were
>> encouraging me to go to a small hospital on the periphery of Canada where
>> the need for an up to date trained anesthesiologist was desperate and at
>> the
>>
>> same time branding me to be an impostor unable to function by himself,
>> absolutely alone, thus hurting or killing patients. Puppets of the
>> Bolshevik
>>
>> conspirators at the Catholic Mission Hospital Hotel Dieu in Chatham NB
>> were
>>
>> waiting for me.
>> I did not fail at Hotel Dieu in Chatham NB, though a line of patients
>> were
>> exposed to my anticipated inferior anesthesia service, expected to be
>> hurt
>> or killed.
>> Here was the point where typical Bolsheviks conspiracy started. First the
>> administrator, the leading doctors criminals and supporting them lawyers
>> were betting that I must fail as an anesthesiologist because I got only
>> ten
>>
>> months a formal training.
>> Leaders of Hotel Dieu were convinced that I am unable to measure up to
>> the
>> task and must fail delivering anesthesia, thus to hurt or kill the
>> patient.
>>
>> Weren't they terrorists? Would you hire for your own restaurant a cook
>> who
>> can hardly boil a water, or make your clients sick or poisoned? Would you
>> hire a teacher, about whom many heard that he is a pedophile, just to
>> test
>> him on the pupils you are responsible for, to get him/her expose their
>> predilections and only then to get him/her? Obviously one would do it
>> only
>> when the terrorists are at the helm.
>> For the first few days I was not given any work, did not do any
>> anesthesia.
>>
>> The conspirators were waiting until my family will arrive from Ottawa ON
>> having liquidated our nest there.
>> After three days a dentist was delegated to check me out. It was a
>> prominent
>>
>> individual, a veteran of WW2, who was overseas. The dentist knew that I
>> have
>>
>> to fail due to anticipated incompetence, and fiddling with potentially
>> lethal drugs could kill the client, a Canadian citizen, which he the
>> dentist
>>
>> was very reluctant to take part in. So he had chosen an American, a
>> medical
>>
>> doctor not practicing medicine but living as a hermit a in the bush
>> behind
>> the Trappist monastery in Rogersville NB.
>> I was prepared for a longer surgery, have intubated the client though the
>> nose, and the dentist had pulled only one tooth, obviously not a wisdom
>> tooth and in two minutes. was done with. The dentist knew w that in two
>> minutes. even the totally incompetent, moron anesthesiologist would have
>> difficulties to kill the patient.
>> After such a star I started to function as s an anesthesiologist and for
>> time being doctors criminals at Hotel Dieu took a brake, and did not try
>> to
>>
>> trip me. After few months, in the spring of 1974 I was invited to
>> Bathurst
>> NB to give surgeons a hand. First was urologist Dr. Murthy, whose client
>> I
>> had applied a spinal anesthesia making the urologist very happy.
>> However the conspirators did not give up and to make me go wrong and a
>> next
>>
>> time in Bathurst NB a senior surgeon (Dr.AB) treating me like a farm hand
>> told me, in a very bossy way, you are going to work with me today, you
>> will
>>
>> deliver anesthesia,” and ordered general anesthesia (GA): for a Ramsteadt
>> pyloromyotomy procedure,” for pyloric stenosis,  the client was a six -
>> eight weeks old boy. I delivered GA when the surgeon was faking the
>> surgery.
>>
>> The surgeon decided to whore his mission of a surgeon but he did not
>> knife
>> the infant letting me the anesthesiologist harm the infant.
>> Few months later an ENT doctor relocated from Bathurst NB expecting me to
>> deliver three, four hours GA for an ear drum transplant. Started with a
>> known person in Chatham NB, which was a brother of doctor Duffy. I did
>> not
>> have any difficulties with multiple, three to four hours lasting GA and
>> the
>>
>> ENT doctor left.
>> After this point doctors criminals at Hotel Dieu in Chatham NB and
>> backing
>> them up terrorists organizers decided to set me up to murder a patient.
>> However first we ought to purchase a house in a nice place extending our
>> property, to be taken over by a chosen locals after we were gone robbed
>> and
>>
>> in shame.  The time came  “to lose a case.”
>> This dirty job was for foreigners only. Chinese brought a Filipino, a
>> Turk
>> got the patient and I, a targeted for destruction, called by a surgeon a
>> fucken Pollack, tortured and murdered an innocent Canadian country widow
>> from Napan NB, Mrs. Susan Dickson on November 6, 1975, by injection
>> tampered
>>
>> with. Ten to twenty minutes after the murder of Susan Dickson Holet Dieu
>> in
>>
>> Chatham NB had called Maher a funeral directors to dup  STILL WARM BODY
>> OF
>> SUSAN DICKSON to be carried away. Only few minutes later Hotel Dieu had
>> called, a son of a murdered woman, Mr. Norman Dickson telling him that
>> his
>> mother had died. Norman Dickson ordered the Adams funeral directors to
>> collect the dead, but still warm, body of his mother. THE PROBLEM IS THAT
>> A
>>
>> STILL WARM BODY OF THE MURDERED AT THE HOSPITAL PATIENT WAS DUMPED ON THE
>> FUNERAL TRUCK TO BE CARRIED AWAY to MONCTON HOSPITAL  FOR AN ALLEGED
>> POSTMORTEM EXAMINATION.
>>
>> It was Mr. Norman Dickson the son of the murdered who demanded the
>> postmortem examination. It were neither the administrator nor the doctor
>> coroner in Chatham NB. There was no postmortem examination, the deceiving
>> maneuver was a brutal fraud but it was another criminal act because an
>> indignity to human body took place, when dragging a still warm body of a
>> just murdered patient to Moncton NB. It was another criminal act.
>> Criminal
>> Code (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-46) Dead body
>> 182 Every one who
>> (a) neglects, without lawful excuse, to perform any duty that is imposed
>> on
>>
>> him by law or that he undertakes with reference to the burial of a dead
>> human body or human remains, or
>> (b) improperly or indecently interferes with or offers any indignity to a
>> dead human body or human remains, whether buried or not,
>> is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term
>> not
>>
>> exceeding five years.  Date modified: 2017-09-22
>> Being set up to be a true, executioner a killer of an innocent patient,
>> my
>> human dignity and professional integrity was gang raped by the doctors
>> who
>> arranged the premeditated murder and the lawyers who allowed them, could
>> be
>>
>> encouraged them and then vigorously covering the premeditated murder of
>> an
>> innocent Canadian citizen.
>>       I, the executioner had cried murder, demanding investigation and the
>> premeditated capital crime was swept under the rug and is still there. A
>> dozen of local nurses witnessed the slaying, knowing that they can do
>> nothing about it, not sacrificing the welfare of their families,
>> demoralized
>>
>> realizing that the Canadian law on Miramichi NB was a joke.
>> For the next twenty five years I was branded and treated as a silent
>> killer
>>
>> who is going to strike again when the time would be ripe.
>> Dr Sayat, the one who had arrived on the day of Susan Dickson's murder
>> was
>> leaving and another doctor was coming. It was another immigrant doctor
>> with
>>
>> full anesthetic credentials. He tried to hide the lethal poison in the
>> inhalable container. But I was vigilant enough and cut the dental
>> extractions short.
>> In the early eighties a man with the perforated appendix since good
>> number
>> of days, belly full of pus was kept in Newcastle Hospital for days
>> expecting
>>
>> an overflowing sepsis to kill him when I had left for a conference
>> abandoning the Hotel Dieu anesthesia cover where he was transferred. I
>> was
>> supposed to travel to PEI but I did not leave and the young man did not
>> die.
>>
>> The surgeon at the Old Miramichi Hospital who kept the patient with
>> perforated appendix, had learned that I knew what he did and he hated my
>> guts, at one point calling a fucken Pollack.
>> In 1977 when I was again only delivering anesthesia because the lady
>> doctor
>>
>> was busy delivering babies they brought a doctor locum UK from and I was
>> out
>>
>> of work cut off of any income from anesthesia. Being again and again
>> badly
>> humiliated I have turned to the administrator trying to inform her about
>> me
>>
>> leaving practice of anesthesiology altogether. I was told in a brutal way
>> that I was brought to Hotel Dieu in Chatham NB to deliver anesthesia and
>> not
>>
>> to be a GP (family physician) and if I don't like such an arrangement I
>> have
>>
>> to leave
>> In February of 1984 deposition to the police in Chatham NB and the
>> consequences.
>> In 1990 racket with Mel Dickson and switching off the respirator. Legally
>> committing a murder.
>> Provocation in OR in October of 1992 with the fentanyl syringe missing.
>>
>> In mid nineties Unexpected death after an elective surgery done in Hotel
>> Dieu with me as an anesthesiologist anchored in the Old Miramichi
>> Hospital
>> in Newcastle NB.
>>
>> In 1998 AA attempted to murder and I brutalized to surrender my family
>> practice to the doctor chosen by the registrar of the College of
>> Physicians
>>
>> and Surgeons of New Brunswick (CPSNB). This time the injectable
>> anesthetic
>> was again hidden in the pentothal. I suspect it was MIDAZOLAM (VERSET)
>> which
>>
>> kept the client five days unconscious and flaccid.
>> IN 1999 an old Acadian women, called by me “a lady with the hip,” blue
>> collar Newbrunswickers were expected to be killed by me a hidden
>> assassin.
>> These very people were tortured and murdered by NB doctors in order to
>> frame
>>
>> and annihilate me an immigrant physician and these doctors were enjoying
>> high social status, generously paid by NB Medicare, no questions asked.
>> My immigrant's life on Miramichi NB, was worse than it would have been at
>> Auschwitz death camp (1940-1945) have I had found myself there. Because
>> had
>>
>> I not survive Auschwitz I would have been an anonymous hero of holocaust,
>> had I survived I would be a hero to the end of my natural life, whereas
>> here
>>
>> on Miramichi NB my human dignity and professional integrity were gang
>> raped
>>
>> and afterward I was treated like a murdering whore, all the time
>> practicing
>>
>> anesthesiology in three local hospitals and during this time more murders
>> and attempted murders and completed on my account.
>> Spectacular premeditated homicide was to clinch the project happened on
>> June
>>
>> 15, 2001 and the victim was a blue collar Acadian Mr. Mark Oliver
>> Saulnier
>> 25, but the assassin was a wrong doctor.
>> Becoming a whistle-blower on June 24, 2001 I was tried to kill another
>> patient on June 25, 2001 (Monday) Mrs. Conell from Strathadam NB
>> Taking a civic stand, protesting a senseless murder of a patient, I was
>> wasted as a professional, fired by an accountant, ostracized by the
>> Miramichi NB medical community, not reported to the College of Physicians
>> and Surgeons of New Brunswick (CPSNB) instrumental in setting up the
>> premeditated murder and cover up. CPSNB refused to hear me and did not
>> challenge my medical diagnoses rejecting the due process.  Wasted as a
>> professional I was tried to be murdered at the Miramichi NB hospital
>> twice
>> first time in 2009, second in 2012.
>> Several times I was begging to have the murder of Susan Dickson
>> elucidated
>> and since fifteen years continuously repeating the same story, which if
>> not
>>
>> true must have been considered criminal scandalous, pestiferous,
>> vexatious
>> and frivolous and I should have been severely punished for fabricating
>> evidence. But I was neither interviewed nor cross examined by
>> distinguished
>>
>> peers of mine and their dignified lawyers even once. The famous Canadian
>> Doctor, William Osler, when teaching medicine preacahed to the medical
>> students: “Listen to the patient and he/she will tell you the diagnosis.”
>> The most basic tool in the practice of medicine, taking a good history
>> and
>> law, taken a thorough interview, was never used to diagnose my claim.
>> Medical doctors murderers, were backed up by the NB lawyers criminals,
>> elected politicians, unelected civil servants and municipal police force.
>> Many years lasting hard work of the doctors murderers, setting up
>> homicides
>>
>> and cover up the tortures and assassinations, were generously paid by
>> Medicare NB and by CMPA.
>> Biological weapon was used against me triggering Rheumatoid Arthritis.
>> During the active faze my left hip was busted and an orthopedic surgeon
>> was
>>
>> pointed to do the surgery, to be followed by an overwhelming sepsis a
>> result
>>
>> of a stab wound 2 cm to the rectum inflicted by a night nurse ten hours
>> prior to surgery.
>> Who needs death penalty in NB since we have good doctors ready to help
>> and
>> Medicare NB will pay for the trouble.
>> During our stay in Canada the Polish Bolsheviks' security UB/SB knew all
>> the
>>
>> details about our whereabouts in Canada and their agents stayed in touch
>> visiting us few times. Most probably Polish UB/SBs conceived an idea of
>> murdering innocent Canadians to eliminate the traitor, but the Canadian
>> securities agencies using Canadian doctors were cooperating supplying
>> corpses.
>> Leaders of the Canadian medical profession are poorly educated in
>> humanities, ignorant in philosophy of medicine, liars, robbers, ethical
>> imbeciles, socially irresponsible cowards, arrogant racists easily
>> brainwashed, betraying the ethos of occidental medicine and keeping in
>> deep
>>
>> contempt the Code of Ethics of the CMA and WMA Declaration of Geneva
>> 1948.
>> “Code of ethics stand as a promise to society about the integrity of the
>> profession in return for the power and authority given to the profession
>> by
>>
>> society.” (Kenny NP.)
>>
>> “Fiat justitia, ruat caelum” “Let justice be done though the heavens
>> fall”
>> “Indifference is an act of complicity.”
>> "The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their
>> neutrality in times of moral crisis." Dante Alighieri
>>
>> NB health Care Industry, so far always run by a Minister of Health,
>> Red-Liberal or Blue-Conservative, totally ignorant about rules and
>> science
>> in the medical and nursing professions and other health care professions.
>> Such a minister with health portfolio are obviously puppet manipulated by
>> the big shots hidden puppeteers pulling the strings from behind the
>> curtain.
>> I have told you and wrote it a thousand times that I was upholding the NB
>> Law which is the Coroners Act of New Brunswick when I made a medical
>> diagnosis about a patient who died violently, suddenly and most
>> unexpectedly
>>
>> on the operating table at the Miramichi NB hospital on June 15, 2001.  My
>> diagnosis of the licensed to practice medicine physician in NB I then
>> was:
>> “SUDDEN VIOLENT DEATH OF A YOUNG MAN, A RESULT OF A HOMICIDE. The
>> murdered
>> man was Mark Oliver Saulnier 25 years old. The arrogant and ignorant
>> bureaucrats did not like it and had thrown me out from the medical
>> business
>>
>> for good and denied me permanently a right to make a living.
>> To waste me the local bureaucrats brought an accountant from Halifax NS
>> to
>> execute me as a professional. Leaders of the Miramichi and NB medical
>> profession neither have to discuss the matter with me nor to soil their
>> hands, because the issue of patient dying or living are not doctors
>> concern
>>
>> they would be willing discuss in public.
>> Our good NB doctors avoid talking publicly about the breach of Coroners
>> Act
>>
>> of New Brunswick or about Code of Ethics of the Canadian Medical
>> Association
>>
>> but they are most eager to talk about money they are getting from the
>> public
>>
>> purse but do not have to be accountable for.
>> Next letter is going to be about a total lack of FORENSIC SERVICE in NB
>> which puts NB two hundred years behind the developed democracies of the
>> western world, like UK, France, Germany, Austria, Poland, Czech Republic
>> etc.
>> I am deeply offended when not treated as Canadian citizen, I am since
>> forty
>>
>> years, now a senior who worked hard diligently, serving people for twenty
>> eight consecutive years, religiously observing the binding us law and
>> paying
>>
>> taxes on time. Though I do consider myself to be a model and first class
>> adopted Canadian citizen, we had also raised two Canadian Olympians, I am
>> treated by the Canadian and NB authority and people in power if I had not
>> been a Canadian citizen at all, and I resent it bitterly.
>> If this Country of Canada and Province of New Brunswick are a part of a
>> developed western democracy I have a right either to be protected or
>> punished by the law.
>> I am standing up for Canada, defending dignity of old stock Canadian
>> citizens, murdered by immigrant physicians, manipulated by big criminals
>> in
>>
>> power, on my account also an immigrant physician, aimed to be wasted. I
>> am
>> begging for an answer: soit droit fait, fiat justicia ruat caelum1.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Amos
>> Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2017 4:20 AM
>> To: sallybrooks25 ; Furey, John ; andre ; oldmaison ; david ; david.eidt
>> ;
>> serge.rousselle ; denis.landry2 ; Stephen.Horsman ; Stephane.vaillancourt
>> ;
>>
>> Mark.Blakely ; COCMoncton ; markandcaroline ; David.Coon ; martin.gaudet
>> ;
>> dan. bussieres ; macpherson.don ; Jacques.Poitras ; nmoore ; jeremy.keefe
>> ;
>>
>> tglynn ; mhayes ; leader ; Liberal / Assistance ; nbpc ; sowl@nbnet.nb.ca
>> Cc: David Amos ; wharrison ; luc.labonte ; Bill.Morneau ; postur ;
>> brian.gallant ; jake.stewart ; lionel ; birgitta
>> Subject: Yo Sally "CryBaby Brooks Need I say that I found it more than
>> merely interesting that John Furey a former Assistant Attorney General
>> used
>>
>> Morrison's judgment of you against me on All Hallow Eve?
>>
>> Trust that I also noticed that five long years after the "Occupy"
>> nonsense is history that you, Chucky Murray, Tracy Glynn, Matt Hayes,
>> Tom Mann, Pam Ross, Mark Darcy, David Coon and Wlodzimierz Sokolowski
>> MD are still the best of buddies with Chucky "The Welfare Bum"
>> Leblanc. However it appears that Mikey O'Brien, Dan Bussieres, Leanne
>> Fitch, Martin Gaudet, Sally Brooks, Evelyn Greene, Jenn Wambolt, Andre
>> Murray and Cheryl Norrad to name but a few are not. More importantly
>> nobody is quite sure that Mr Baconfat aka Barry Winters is dead yet.
>> N'esy Pas Andre Faust?
>>
>>
>>
>

 

 

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Once again, thank you for taking the time to write.  

Regards,  

Ginette 

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Bonjour,

Je vous remercie d’avoir écrit. Je vous remercie d’avoir écrit. Notre bureau sera fermé jusqu’au 4 janvier 2022.

 

 

Bien que notre bureau reçoive un volume considérable de correspondance, en tant que députée, j’apprécie tous les commentaires, positifs ou négatifs, sur les questions d’actualité et mon équipe et moi-même suivons attentivement ce qui est dans l’esprit de mes électeurs. 

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Encore une fois, merci d’avoir pris le temps d’écrire.  

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<David.Lametti@parl.gc.ca>		Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 4:48 PM
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Thursday, 26 January 2023

Canada to send 4 combat-ready Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine in the coming weeks
 
 
 
 

Canada to send 4 combat-ready Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine in the coming weeks

Defence minister says more tanks could be donated later but won't say how many

 
Peter Zimonjic· CBC News ·
Minister of National Defence Anita Anand and Chief of the Defence Staff Gen., Wayne Eyre announce that Canada will provide Ukraine with four Leopard 2 main battle ranks and CAF trainers. (The Canadian Press/Spencer Colby)
 
Canada will supply Ukraine with four Leopard 2 A4 main battle tanks and Canadian Armed Forces trainers to teach Ukrainian soldiers how to operate the vehicles, Defence Minister Anita Anand announced Thursday.

"These heavily armoured and highly protective vehicles provide soldiers with a tactical advantage on the battlefield thanks to their excellent mobility, their firepower and their survivability," Anand said.

"These tanks will allow Ukraine to liberate even more of its territory and defend its people from Russia's brutal invasion. These four tanks are combat-ready and will be deployed over the coming weeks." 

The defence minister said CAF members will be deployed "pending coordination with allies" to ensure that Ukrainian forces can operate and maintain the Leopard 2 tanks.

When asked why Canada was providing only four tanks — and if more tanks could be provided later — Anand said Canada would only donate vehicles it can support in the field with spare parts and training.

She also said Canada needs to ensure the CAF has what it needs to function.

"We need to make sure that our army has the right number of tanks to train and to meet our NATO commitments," she said. "So there is the possibility of further donations."

Anand said CAF will replace the tanks as soon as possible, but would not say when that would happen. 

For weeks, Ukraine has been asking its allies to supply it with up to 300 German-made Leopard 2 battle tanks. Several allies have those tanks in their inventories but were unable to donate them until Germany approved them for export.

On Wednesday, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced that his country would provide Ukraine with 14 Leopard 2 tanks from his own military.

Tanks a 'game changer': UCC

Germany made the announcement on the same day U.S. President Joe Biden told reporters in Washington that the United States will send 31 M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine.

Germany, which was reluctant to incur Russia's wrath alone by sending tanks, had said the Leopards would not be sent unless the U.S. put its Abrams on the table. The U.K. announced last week that it would send 14 Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine. 

Alexandra Chyczij, national president of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC), thanked the Canadian government for the donation. 

"The tanks that Canada and allies are providing will be a game changer in the fight for the liberation of Ukrainian territories from brutal Russian occupation," she said in a statement.

A question of maintenance 

Canada bought its Leopards from Germany during the war in Afghanistan. They're split up into squadrons of 19 tanks each, with two squadrons in Edmonton and a third at CFB Gagetown, N.B. Most of the rest are at the armour training school in Gagetown.

The Canadian Armed Forces has 112 Leopard 2s in its inventory. They include 82 designed for combat and 30 that are used for engineering purposes and recovering disabled vehicles. Many are not battle-ready because of maintenance issues. 

According to a paper published last year by the Royal Military College, "the poor serviceability rate of the Leopard 2 main battle tanks is an endemic issue and a strategic-level concern since implementation."

Two tanks carrying soldiers are shown side by side. A Canadian Forces Leopard 2A4 tank displays its firepower on the firing range at CFB Gagetown in Oromocto, N.B., in 2012. (David Smith/The Canadian Press)

The paper blamed the maintenance problems on a lack of infrastructure, technicians and spare parts.

Anand said that Canada's contribution to Ukraine's tank fleet will be assessed to ensure the tanks can be maintained on the battlefield.

"I want to stress that maintaining tanks is difficult, especially in light of the complexity of this vehicle," she said. 

"This is not just like changing oil in a car. This is a need to make sure that we have continued flow of spare parts, that are able to be received to maintain the tanks and then to utilize them where necessary."

Gen. Wayne Eyre, chief of the defence staff, said the Leopard 2 A4 tanks that Canada is providing to Ukraine are of the same make and model as the tanks that Finland and Poland are promising, which will allow Ukraine to swap parts and personnel.

Eyre said it helps that there are thousands of Leopard 2 tanks operating in the militaries of countries across Europe. 

The tanks will be challenging for Canada to deliver, Eyre said, but they can be flown to Europe in a C-17 Globemaster one at a time.

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WHO committee meets Friday to discuss whether the pandemic still represents a global emergency

January 26, 2023, 12:48 pm
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The COVID emergency might end after 3 long years — but the virus is still a threat

WHO committee meets Friday to discuss whether the pandemic still represents a global emergency

 
Lauren Pelley· CBC News ·
Toronto-based microbiologist Dr. Allison McGeer says she hopes the world learns lessons from the spread of COVID-19, regardless of whether or not it remains deemed a global emergency by the World Health Organization. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)
 
Dr. Allison McGeer spent the first few days of 2020 hoping she was wrong.

A microbiologist in Toronto, who famously survived a SARS infection in 2003, McGeer knew the strange, unexplained pneumonia spreading in China could explode into something much, much worse.

She said as much during a provincial meeting during the last week of January that year. "This is going to be awful," she recalled telling officials. "And in particular, long-term care is going to be catastrophic."

Soon after, her son asked how long the crisis would last. McGeer's grim prediction: 18 months. 

"And even that was a pretty substantial underestimate," she told CBC News recently.

It's now been more than three years since SARS-CoV-2 began its march around the world, first as a virus totally foreign to humans, and later as an evolving pathogen capable of sneaking past our sharpened immune systems, infecting even those who've built up immunity from prior infections or vaccinations.

On Friday, a World Health Organization (WHO) committee is set to meet to consider whether the COVID-19 pandemic still represents a global public health emergency.

Multiple experts who spoke to CBC News said that regardless of what WHO decides in the days ahead, COVID will remain a threat to our collective health for years to come — for a slate of different reasons — even as governments and the public move on.

"I know this is what happens at the end of pandemics," McGeer said, "but watching it in real time is a bit depressing."

WATCH | WHO to meet on whether COVID is still an emergency: 

WHO to discuss ending COVID-19 global emergency declaration

18 hours ago
Duration 2:03
The World Health Organization is preparing to decide whether to end its COVID-19 global emergency declaration later this week. But some doctors and researchers worry about what that could mean for the fight against a virus that still poses a serious threat.

COVID keeps finding new victims

There are reasons to be hopeful about the trajectory of the COVID pandemic, even though this virus has claimed millions of lives.

By now, a majority of Canadians are vaccinated, which largely protects against serious illness. Drugs like Paxlovid are available for higher-risk groups, and critical care physicians have learned how to better treat those who do fall seriously ill.

As of mid-2022, vaccinated and boosted Canadians were three times less likely to be hospitalized — and five times less likely to die — than people who hadn't gotten a single shot, federal figures show. 

Data from a B.C. research team also suggests SARS-CoV-2 has infected most of the population at least once, offering many people a blend of protective immunity through both viral exposure and vaccines. But most doesn't mean everyone, McGeer stressed.

COVID still killed hundreds of Canadians each week throughout much of the last year, and even now, the virus keeps finding new victims with grim regularity, she said, including isolated seniors and other high-risk individuals who managed to avoid the virus while taking precautions.

"We have too many older people who are as yet uninfected for it to plateau," said McGeer.

WATCH | A look at what factors into the decision: 

How WHO will decide if the COVID-19 emergency is over

17 hours ago
Duration 5:04
The World Health Organization will soon decide if COVID-19 should still be categorized as a global public health emergency. WHO COVID-19 technical lead Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove explains to Adrienne Arsenault how that decision is made.

In public remarks earlier this week, WHO director-general Tedros Ghebreyesus said since the beginning of December, the number of weekly worldwide reported deaths from COVID has been increasing, with more than 170,000 reported deaths in just the past eight weeks. 

"While I will not pre-empt the advice of the emergency committee," he said, "I remain very concerned by the situation in many countries, and the rising number of deaths."

Seniors are among the groups most vulnerable to serious health outcomes — and death — even if they're vaccinated against COVID. And yet little has been done to protect the most frail living in North American care homes, said Bill Hanage, an associate professor of epidemiology and co-director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

"I think that it's kind of crazy that we [hadn't] previously developed ways to robustly rapidly test people who work in nursing homes, to prevent them bringing in respiratory viruses," he said.

Researcher Dr. Donald Vinh, an associate professor in McGill University's department of medicine, said it's also important to recognize that individual risk can change with time.

Aside from basic aging, there's a host of ways that even low-risk individuals can eventually become more vulnerable to COVID. A healthy young woman who gets pregnant would then become higher-risk, Vinh noted. A middle-aged man who gets leukemia or lymphoma or requires an organ transplant — a similar shift. 

"We have to remember that the at-risk groups are very fluid, and you could find yourself in that at-risk group," he said.

SARS-CoV-2 keeps evolving

There's also a chance this virus could evolve to become more intrinsically severe, and capable of causing more serious disease — putting a much broader spectrum of the population at risk.

A curveball of that sort could lead to WHO naming a new variant of concern. ("Pi" is expected to come next in the organization's Greek alphabet naming convention, following Omicron.) 

So far, that's not how SARS-CoV-2 is mutating. Scientists say the reigning Omicron family of subvariants continues to shapeshift in ways that make this virus more contagious, which allows it to better lock onto our cells, sneak past our frontline defenses, and infect more and more people. 

That's countered by growing levels of immunity throughout the global population, said Hanage. 

"Unless there is a large amount of evolution on the part of the virus — which can't really be foreseen in any detail — we can expect that to continue," he added. "And so it will become more and more a part of something we live with."

Long lines at testing centres, like this one pictured in Toronto on Sept. 18, 2020, mirrored a spike in cases of COVID-19 during the first year of the pandemic. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)

Scientists are watching global virus evolution closely, in case SARS-CoV-2 mutates in a different direction, particularly given the surge of cases among China's 1.4 billion-population since the country abandoned its strict zero-COVID policies. Yet, so far, there are no early signals of a new variant, according to data released by China's government.

"Every day that goes by, the likelihood that we will get Pi, I think, declines," McGeer said.

But, as the world witnessed when Omicron first burst on the scene, it's a numbers game. The virus doesn't have to evolve to become more deadly to wreak havoc on a population level — it just has to be able to spread to as many people as possible.

Vaccines' ability to prevent transmission has 'declined'

The world is now facing the most highly-transmissible variant yet, and while vaccines still help prevent severe disease and death, their ability to protect people from infection and transmission has "declined dramatically," said researcher Akiko Iwasaki, a Sterling Professor of immunobiology and molecular, cellular, and developmental biology at Yale University.

That's giving the virus ongoing infection opportunities for the foreseeable future.

While updated bivalent mRNA vaccines are available to target both Omicron subvariants and earlier strains, by-and-large, COVID vaccines are increasingly mismatched to circulating variants, said McMaster University immunologist and researcher Matthew Miller. 

"We still need to generate better vaccines — vaccines that are longer-lasting and broader," he added. "And what the right strategy to do that will be, is still a question." (Miller's research team is working on an inhaled coronavirus vaccine, which recently entered phase two clinical trials.)

Vinh also worries that an ever-evolving virus means we'll be playing catch-up in terms of effective treatments and medications as well. 

"In fact, some of the medications that we've used over the last three years have become essentially obsolete because the virus has continuously changed," he said.

While updated bivalent mRNA vaccines are available to target both Omicron subvariants and earlier strains, by-and-large COVID vaccines are increasingly mismatched to circulating variants, said McMaster University immunologist and researcher Matthew Miller.  While updated bivalent mRNA vaccines are available to target both Omicron subvariants and earlier strains, by-and-large, COVID vaccines are increasingly mismatched to circulating variants, said McMaster University immunologist and researcher Matthew Miller.  (Craig Chivers/CBC)

COVID isn't yet seasonal or predictable 

Another challenge with COVID going forward is that the virus is unpredictable.

It echoes an old medical adage about influenza: If you've seen one flu season, you've seen one flu season. (Since no two are exactly the same.)

That uncertainty is far more pronounced with COVID. With three years of data behind us, there's still no clear seasonal winter spike or a summer lull, but rather dramatic peaks and valleys in the early years, followed by the first massive Omicron surge, and rolling waves of infections ever since.

McGeer said she's hopeful this virus will eventually settle into a more predictable pattern, though it's not happening as quickly as anyone would like. 

"But if it decides not to be seasonal," she said, "that's just going to be a little bit harder."

WATCH | Latest research on long COVID: 

Most long COVID symptoms clear up within a year, new research suggests

13 days ago
Duration 2:14
New research out of Israel suggests most symptoms of long COVID clear up within a year, but some — like weakness and trouble breathing — are more likely to persist.

Long COVID remains an enigma

Should WHO deem the global emergency over while COVID is still circulating at high levels, multiple medical experts expressed concern that it could disincentivize governments from funding research into post-COVID condition, the formal term for what's colloquially known as long COVID.

"Postacute infectious syndrome — which now includes long COVID — has been around for a very long time but hasn't been seriously studied, mostly because of lack of funding and a lack of acknowledgement," said Iwasaki.

"People are very tired of thinking about COVID, about having to wear masks or get another booster... but at the same time, from where I stand, I'm seeing so many millions of people suffering from long COVID with no good diagnosis or therapy," Iwasaki continued.

"I hope whatever declaration there is, it's not going to diminish the research that's direly needed."

WATCH | Inside hard-hit hospitals during Canada's 3rd COVID wave: 

Inside some of Canada's hardest-hit hospitals in the 3rd wave of COVID-19

2 years ago
Duration 6:36
More patients are fighting for their lives in Ontario ICUs than at any previous point in the pandemic. CBC News goes inside Toronto’s Scarborough Health Network to see the impact.

COVID won't be the last pandemic

While COVID's toll will be felt for years to come, the dynamics of this pandemic have changed dramatically since the dark days of 2020, or the devastating Omicron wave of early 2022. 

For much of that stretch, hospitals and health-care systems were overwhelmed, said Dr. Isaac Bogoch, an infectious diseases specialist with the University Health Network in Toronto.

"We were admitting adults into pediatric intensive care units. We had tents set up outside of hospitals to care for patients. We were bringing in personnel from other provinces to help out. There were few if any ICU beds left in [Ontario]. We were shoving people hundreds of kilometers away for an ICU bed," Bogoch recalled. "It was horrendous." 

There were devastating death tolls among long-term care residents in Canada, but even younger, healthier individuals were also acquiring serious COVID infections before the development of therapeutics and vaccines, he said.

The situation has since shifted. But has the world learned any lessons from COVID's darkest days — and the years of challenges still to come?

"I hope [WHO officials] acknowledge that even though it might not meet the criteria for being a public health emergency of international concern, that doesn't mean that the threat or the risk is over," Bogoch said.

     A person wears a mask emblazoned with 'COVID-19' during the first year of the pandemic. (Ben Nelms/CBC)

McGeer emphasized the critical nature of ongoing viral surveillance and sequencing, along with pandemic preparedness efforts.

But she said given the turnover in governments and public health agencies, the world's "institutional memory is probably not going to make it to the next pandemic." 

And that's a problem, since it's not if another global health threat will hit — but when.

"Pandemics are a certainty," said McGeer. "The only question is, what they'll be, and how bad they'll be."

ABOUT THE AUTHOR


Lauren Pelley

Senior Health & Medical Reporter

Lauren Pelley covers health and medical science for CBC News, including the global spread of infectious diseases, Canadian health policy, and pandemic preparedness. Her 2020 investigation into COVID-19 infections among health-care workers won best in-depth series at the RNAO Media Awards. Contact her at: lauren.pelley@cbc.ca

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David Amos
Methinks I won't hold my breath waiting to hear more nonsense from we all know WHO N'esy Pas?
 
 
 
 
 
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Province's rate-meddling partly to blame for utility troubles, N.B. Power CEO suggests

January 27, 2023, 9:46 am
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Province's rate-meddling partly to blame for utility troubles, N.B. Power CEO suggests

MLAs receive frank talk on N.B. Power troubles from acting president Lori Clark

 
Robert Jones· CBC News ·
N.B. Power acting president Lori Clark (centre) and chief financial officer Darren Murphy (right) spoke to MLAs for over 4 hours on Thursday. The two said inadequate rate increases over 12 years, including three rate freezes, helped put the utility in financial difficulty. (New Brunswick Legislative Assembly livestream)
 
Years of inadequate rate increases at N.B. Power, many imposed on the utility by interfering provincial governments, has been a key contributor to its current financial problems. two senior executives told a committee of MLAs on Thursday.

"Rates have been lower in hindsight than they otherwise should have been for the past 12 years," said acting N.B. Power president Lori Clark.

"Had we put in higher rate increases our debt would be lower."

N.B. Power was making its annual appearance in front of the Legislature's public accounts committee to answer questions about its most recent financial results.

A woman wears a black turtleneck and grey sweater, and smiles directly at the camera. Lori Clark is the acting N.B. Power CEO. She took over in July 2022 after previous president Keith Cronkhite was fired. She is the first woman to hold the position. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)

Several questions were asked about the utility's net debt load, which in September passed $5.2 billion, along with its plans for an 8.9 per cent rate increase this spring.

Clark provided answers that were more direct than previous N.B. Power presidents have supplied, telling the committee the growing debt and large rate hike are directly linked to issues, some of them political, that go back to 2011. 

She acknowledged  a number of troubles have battered N.B. Power finances in recent years, like the poor performance of the Point Lepreau nuclear generating station.  But she added that years of inadequate rate increases have left N.B. Power financially weak and time is running out on turning that around.

"We recognize rates have been low over the last 12 or 13 years and we had to get to a place where that debt was paid down so that we didn't put the utility at risk for customers" she said

Clark didn't directly criticize any particular government or minister but the time frame she picked as the source of N.B. Power's troubles, 2011 to 2022,  began with two rate freezes imposed on the utility by the former government of David Alward.

The back–to–back zero per cent increases in 2011 and 2012 were promised by Progressive Conservatives in the 2010 provincial election.  They were implemented despite a troubled  refurbishment of the Point Lepreau nuclear station going massively over budget at the time and inflation in the province totalling five per cent over those two years.

Two men in suits standing beside each other. The man on the right speaks into a microphone N.B. Power executives trace its financial troubles back to 2011. That is when the former government of Premier David Alward, which included then finance minister Blaine Higgs, made good on a campaign promise to freeze rates for two years. (CBC News)

N.B. Power endured a third rate freeze during the 2021 election year despite inflation of 3.81 per cent.  Then, with inflation running close to eight per cent this year, it was limited to a two per cent increase as the Higgs government made changes to the Electricity Act.

Over the entire 12 year period, N.B. Power figures show its rates will have have effectively shrunk, in inflation adjusted terms, by 10 per cent this year from where they started in 2011. 

N.B. Power senior vice president and  chief financial officer Darren Murphy, who sat next to Clark during the four and a half hour session with MLAs, said long term financial plans put together by the utility to deal with its debt did not anticipate those kinds of financial restrictions.

"If we looked at the rate increase profile over that time, it has been below inflation, which we would not have contemplated at that time," said Murphy.

New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs called an election in 2020. N.B. Power took a zero per cent rate increase that year but denied it was the result of any political pressures. Earlier in 2020, Higgs had said he wanted the utility to solve its debt problems 'without impacting rates.' (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press)

"We would have contemplated at least keeping up with inflation during that period."

Blaming inadequate rate increases, and by implication the governments behind many of them, has generally been a subject avoided by N.B. Power presidents and other executives in the past. 

Clark herself in October declined to talk about the issue, telling reporters she preferred "to focus on going forward," rather than assign blame about what has caused N.B. Power's problems.

But on Thursday she was less diplomatic, gently but firmly challenging MLAs who were expressing simultaneous concerns about the utility's high debt and its request for a large rate increase, to think of them as connected events.

"Can we go back to a question you asked earlier," she said to PC MLA Ross Wetmore as he began to change subjects away from the debt problem.

"We talked about debt but we didn't talk about how debt gets paid down. The way our debt gets paid down is through rates," she said.

Although not a direct challenge to the government, the comment appeared to contradict a January 2020 speech given by Premier Blaine Higgs where he told an audience he had instructed N.B. Power to "reduce their unacceptable debt level without impacting rates."

Three years later the utility's rates have barely moved as government asked, but its debt has climbed by $300 million.

Wetmore appeared to get Clark's point. 

"I'm not saying governments in the past probably shouldn't have kept their nose out of the rate increases," he said. "But that's certainly the past."

ABOUT THE AUTHOR


Robert Jones

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Robert Jones has been a reporter and producer with CBC New Brunswick since 1990. His investigative reports on petroleum pricing in New Brunswick won several regional and national awards and led to the adoption of price regulation in 2006.

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David Amos
"Lori Clark is the acting N.B. Power CEO. She took over in July 2022 after previous president Keith Cronkhite was fired."

Methinks she was following Higgy's orders when NB Power tabled the 529 and 541 Matters before the EUB N'esy Pas?

 
 
 
David Amos
FYI

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Also note, that parties are permitted to observe, but the public forum is for those not participating in the hearing.

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Mark Deckard  
If New Brunswick had gone through with the deal with Quebec a few years ago, customers' rates would be lower.  
 
 
Dan Lee
Reply to Mark Deckard   
Too many people hating the Quebecers and liberals./........thats why it wasnt sold
 
 
Toby Tolly 
Reply to Dan Lee
one of those behind our back deals 
 
 
Rosco holt 
Reply to Mark Deckard
Nope if you understood the agreement, residential customers would have paid more, while corporations enjoyed lower rates.  
 
 
Fred Brewer 
Reply to Rosco holt  
Proof please. I will wait.
 
 
David Amos  
Reply to Rosco holt 
Bingo
 
 
David Amos  
Reply to Rosco holt 
Here is the the proof Freddy is waiting to see

N.B. Power to spend $3.4 million of proposed rate hike on higher industrial subsidies

Utility's planned 8.9 per cent rate increase applies to all customers, except 6 pulp and paper mills

Robert Jones · CBC News · Posted: Oct 11, 2022

 
David Amos  
Reply to Dan Lee
Nope the Quebecers did their due diligence and backed away from the deal 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Rosco holt  
Political interference !?

No dah SHerlock.

That interference has been going on for decades and took up steam ever since the Mckenna government.

  
David Amos  
Reply to Rosco holt 
Yup 





wally corbin 
corporate rates are just going to have to go up to pay for these shortfalls. There can be no more deals.  
 
 
Rosco holt
Reply to wally corbin
That won't happen with this government. 
 
 
David Amos  
Reply to Rosco holt
Oh So True 
 
 
 
 
 
John Pokiok 
They should pay Saint John Energy to teach them how to run Electric company properly. Saint John energy has surplus of money and charges their customers less for kwh than NB Power does, now let that sink in. 
 
 
Mark Atkinson 
Reply to John Pokiok 
exactly 
 
 
Mark Atkinson 
Reply to John Pokiok  
lol, using caps lock gets your comment deactivated 
 
 
David Amos  
Reply to John Pokiok  
Dream On 
 
 
 
 
 
Alex Stevens
No more sweetheart bonus deals for executives.

No more sweetheart rate deals for big business.

It's time the Irving's pay up.

 
Rosco holt
Reply toAlex Stevens 
Good luck with that.  
 
 
David Amos
Reply to Rosco holt 
Ditto 
 


 
 
 
 
 
Stephen Gilbert
blame their incompetence on not being able to gouge the customer. their bonuses didn't seem to be affected by tough times. 
 
 
David Amos 
Reply to Stephen Gilbert
Well Put
 
 
 
 
 
Elizabeth Thimlar  
Finally, a CEO who spoke the truth.. NBPower has been a political football for all parties.. Liberals and Conservatives…. No company can survive with this type of political influence!
 
 
David Amos 
Reply to Elizabeth Thimlar
Trust that she did not speak the whole truth  
 
 
 
 
 
Daisy Dean
Ernie is looking for input from the public before the budget is finalized. There is an 8 page report as well found on the gnb website under treasury board department.  
 
 
Rosco holt
Reply to Daisy Dean   
Can Ernie's budgets be trusted?

He keep missing budget predictions by large margins. He's either incompetent or someone else is doing the books.

 
Daisy Dean 
Reply to Rosco holt 
Fuzzy math in the past that is for sure. Lou Bell argued with me yesterday, and said the budget was already done. If Lou is in the know one has to ask why is Ernie asking for public input? 
 
 
Samuel Champlain 
Reply to Rosco holt 
I hate to break this to you but the minister is not responsible for tallying up the final numbers, the department has accountants that do that and many numbers can be delayed for an entire host of reasons such as delayed payments, interest changes as a couple of the simpler examples.  
 
 
Rosco holt
Reply to Samuel Champlain 
Okay if that is the case then their accountant are incompetent and should be fired and Ernie needs to get the budget checked over before posting it.  
 
 
Samuel Champlain 
Reply to Rosco holt
They would have multiple, not just one. This is a case of be careful what you ask for. NBers wanted more transparency from gov't, the current one went from reporting yearly to quarterly on finances. Problem is, reporting every quarter means you can't always take everything into account as you can yearly. There will always be numbers you are waiting on for various reasons. 
 
 
David Amos
Reply to Rosco holt 
Methinks you should ask me what I know about beancounters N'esy Pas?  
  


 
 
Samuel Champlain 
They are in the mess they are in because of years of very poor management and bloated salaries that are way out of whack as compared to the rest of the civil service. A quick glance at Public Accounts is proof of that. 
 
 
Frank Uxbridge 
Reply to Samuel Champlain
Good work Sammy. Already deflecting for our incompetent premier. You get a treat..Sit....SIT.... there...good boy..  
 
 
Samuel Champlain
Reply to Frank Uxbridge
Higgs does not run NB Power, it is a crown corporation, but you keep obsessing you more ron.
 
 
Daisy Dean  
Reply to Samuel Champlain 
No Higgs is not CEO of NB Power, but he sure has a habit of meddling in it. All last fall he was putting his opinion out there on rate increases. Maybe he should concentrate on other areas that he is responsible for.  
 
 
Samuel Champlain
Reply to Daisy Dean
Expressing opinions is not meddling, and as premier, he is asked for his opinion on many things, it is part of the job. Maybe you should concentrate on that. 
 
 
Daisy Dean 
Reply to Samuel Champlain
So you and Higgs can express your opinions, and that is ok but not the rest of us. Sure.  
 
 
Samuel Champlain
Reply to Daisy Dean
In my reply to you I never said anything about others expressing opinions, maybe a re-read is in order.
 
 
Daisy Dean  
Reply to Samuel Champlain
It’s your tone and attitude that you use on here when you reply to others. You don’t come on here to have an argument or debate to learn anything, but to push the Pc party policies. When you can’t bully your point across you result to calling names. Debating is about discussing and listening to others views and opinions you don’t win by responding with name calling.
 
 
Chris Eidt
Reply to Samuel Champlain
Daisy Dean has nailed Samuel Champlain to the T. 
 
 
Samuel Champlain
Reply to Daisy Dean
I mock people on here who are worthy of being mocked. When the same people come on here daily making baseless posts that can't be backed in any way they are treated accordingly. I have countless times asked them to back up what they say, they can't, they continue their rants so I continue to mock them, and I always will.
 
 
Samuel Champlain
Reply to Daisy Dean
I have had several backs and forths with people who post intelligently and who disagree with me. I did not call you any names, I indicated some errors in your post, feel free to prove me wrong if you like and then you did not comprehend my reply, I thought it was fairly straight forward. I am sorry I attack those who think like you do politically, that is on them when they do it without fact, not me. 
 
 
Samuel Champlain
Reply to Chris Eidt 
Well if you say so it must be true, case closed. 
 
 
Samuel Champlain
Reply to Daisy Dean 
Like another person who was questioning me on the same thing the other day who is also on the left, I asked him why he has no issues with those who have bad attitudes but are Higgs haters, so why do you not call them out? He was not able to answer, not surprising.
 
 
Daisy Dean  
Reply to Samuel Champlain
There is nothing wrong with discussing and disagreeing as long as it is a learning experience. Name calling is not needed. Politicians no matter what party they represent need to be held accountable.
 
 
Daisy Dean  
Reply to Samuel Champlain
When they don’t respond the debate is over. Time to move on to the next one. Yes, you are always going to find people who hate politicians no matter what they do or don’t do it comes with the job. Some people just like politics, and it doesn’t matter who’s in power they just like to discuss the power and politics. 
 
 
Rosco holt
Reply to Daisy Dean 
Wasn't it this government who increase power subsidizes to mills to compete with BC. The same subs among many the the province is fighting in US court at a tune of 6 mill$ and counting.  
 
 
Daisy Dean 
Reply to Daisy Dean 
When you or anyone points out errors in my comments I acknowledge that, because that is how one learns.  
 
 
Daisy Dean 
Reply to Daisy Dean
If you point out errors in my posts or anyone else I acknowledge that. That is how one learns.
 
 
Daisy Dean 
Reply to Rosco holt
Yes pulp and paper mills owned by Irving. It was announced last October. You have a good memory. 
 
 
Samuel Champlain
Reply to Daisy Dean 
I certainly would not put you in the same category as many of the others who post nonsense on a regular basis.
 
 
David Amos
Reply to Rosco holt
Go Figure

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-power-industrial-subsidies-1.6610492

"The 8.9 per cent is to cover our current costs. We are not making significant progress on debt reduction. It is only to cover our costs," said Clark

"We decided it was in the best interests of all of our customers to put an average rate increase in place."

But in a 200-page evidence package submitted with the application to the EUB, the utility revealed it will be using $3.4 million of the $135.8 million higher rates are expected to generate to raise subsidies it supplies to six New Brunswick pulp and paper mills. "

 


 
David Stairs 
can one imagine being hired because one can fix the company problems and then not take responsibility for not being able to fix the companies problems...this is the problem...too many wanting control... 
 
 
Rosco holt
Reply to David Stairs  
We had competent CEO managing the utility but government shown him the door.  
 
 
David Amos 
Reply to Rosco holt
Methinks the only reason Clark and Murphy said what they did is because they are about to follow their old boss out the door as well The real question is how big will be their golden handshake N'esy Pas?  

 

 

N.B. Power to spend $3.4 million of proposed rate hike on higher industrial subsidies

Utility's planned 8.9 per cent rate increase applies to all customers, except 6 pulp and paper mills

 
Robert Jones· CBC News ·
Acting N.B. Power CEO Lori Clark told reporters last week that the 8.9 per cent rate increase the utility has applied for will be applied equally to all customers "across the board." (Ed Hunter/CBC)
 
New Brunswick's six pulp and paper mills will not be made to pay the same 8.9 per cent increase for electricity next April as other customers of N.B. Power, evidence filed with the Energy and Utilities Board shows.

Last week the utility announced plans to raise rates 8.9 per cent "across the board" to all customers to address its rising expenses.  Acting N.B. Power president Lori Clark said financial problems the utility faces in the next year are significant and require every customer to contribute equally to address them.

"The 8.9 per cent is to cover our current costs. We are not making significant progress on debt reduction. It is only to cover our costs," said Clark

"We decided it was in the best interests of all of our customers to put an average rate increase in place."

But in a 200-page evidence package submitted with the application to the EUB, the utility revealed it will be using $3.4 million of the $135.8 million higher rates are expected to generate to raise subsidies it supplies to six New Brunswick pulp and paper mills. 

Under a mandatory provincial requirement, N.B. Power has lost more than $100 million buying electricity from pulp and paper mills at high prices and reselling it back at a discount over the past decade. (Mike Heenan/CBC News file photo)

Part of that will cover an expected increase in the consumption of power by the mills next year, but some will partially shield facilities from having to pay the full cost of increased rates. 

The mills include three owned by J.D. Irving Ltd. in east Saint John, west Saint John and Lake Utopia, two owned by the AV group in Nackawic and Atholville and the mill in Edmundston owned by Twin Rivers.

According to N.B. Power's evidence, transfers to the mills will increase 30 per cent, from an estimated $11.3 million this year to $14.7 million next year. That will help keep the price of "firm" power supplied to the mills from rising as much as it does for other N.B. Power customers.

The subsidies are the responsibility of N.B. Power to finance, but the payments are required by provincial regulation, and the increases are not the result of business decisions made by the utility. 

"It is not discretionary," N.B. Power communications officer Dominique Couture noted in an email to CBC News.

The Irving Pulp and Paper mill overlooking the Reversing Falls in Saint John is one of six New Brunswick facilities that has electricity costs subsidized by N.B. Power. The group qualified for $10 million last year, but that will jump to $14.7 million next year. (Roger Cosman/CBC News)

The transfers occur under a ten-year-old policy the province calls the "large industrial renewable energy purchase program" that despite its name serves only pulp and paper mills. 

The regulation requires N.B. Power to buy green electricity the companies self-generate at elevated prices, and then sell it back instantaneously at a discount.

Most of the power is supplied from generators fuelled by the burning of biomass in mill boilers, with a portion also supplied by J.D. Irving Ltd.'s hydro electric dam in St. George.

 Twin Rivers operates a paper mill in Edmundston. It pays power rates that are tied to a Canadian average calculated by the New Brunswick government. The arrangement helps shield mills from rate increases that hit other N.B. Power customers. (CBC)

This year, N.B. Power is paying $110.54 per mega watt hour for what it buys. It then sells it back to the mills at an average of just over $77 per mega watt hour, according to information the Crown corporation has filed with the EUB. 

The utility is made to buy and sell at those price differences until it has lost enough money on the transactions to effectively subsidize the total power costs of the six mills, down to a level the province has declared to be a national average for pulp and paper facilities. 

The transactions are mostly on paper since electricity generated at the mills is consumed onsite and does not actually enter N.B. Power's transmission system.

Last year the scheme cost N.B. Power $10 million. This year that has increased an estimated 13 per cent to $11.3 million, and next year is budgeted to increase a further 30 per cent to $14.7 million. 

According to Couture, N.B. Power has to increase amounts it buys and sells with the mills to accommodate both higher electricity prices and the growing consumption of power by some of the facilities.

"Firm sales to program participants are increasing due to electrification and other growth, and the targeted amount of reduction is increasing, therefore increased purchases are required in order to satisfy the regulation," wrote Couture.

When he was the New Brunswick energy minister in 2012, Craig Leonard introduced subsidies for pulp and paper mills in 2012 to help companies he said were facing 'severe challenges.' Ten years later the department won't say if any updated studies have been done into whether the help is still required.

According to the province, the subsidy program is meant to help New Brunswick mills compete against facilities in other provinces that have access to lower power costs, especially in Quebec and British Columbia.

"The purpose of the Large Industrial Renewable Energy Purchase Program is to make New Brunswick's export-oriented pulp and paper sector competitive with their competitors in other Canadian provinces," the government explains in an online information sheet about the program.

The program only concerns itself with electricity costs and does not attempt to evaluate other expenses of pulp and paper mills, such as wages, wood costs, property taxes or other expenses, to assess if there might be offsetting benefits to operating in New Brunswick.

The Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development oversees the policy but it did not respond to questions about its increasing costs last week.

Last year, J.D. Irving Ltd. issued a statement in support of the program, calling it "critical to the long-term viability of New Brunswick's pulp and paper industry."

Last week, the company's vice president of communications, Anne McInerney, said electricity costs remain a concern. McInerney noted N.B. Power passed along large price spikes this year in the cost of normally cheap non-firm "surplus" energy large industrial customers often access to supplement their firm supplies 

"In some of our operations, we're paying as much as $60 million every year," wrote McInerney in an email to CBC News. 

"In fact, this summer, (non-firm) rates increased so sharply, four times higher than normal, Irving Paper temporarily ceased operations."

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Poilievre says 'everything seems broken,' Trudeau hits back

PM calls Poilievre an 'irresponsible' leader bent on exploiting anger for political gain

 
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said in a fiery speech to his caucus Friday that Canada is broken and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should step aside if he can't fix the country's problems. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)
 
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre accused the Liberal government of plunging the country into "chaos" after eight years in office, blasting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for a spike in crime, inflation woes and trouble at the country's airports.

"What's happening in our country? Seriously. Look around you," Poilievre said in a Friday speech to the Conservative caucus. "You told us better is always possible and yet everything is worse and you blame everyone else."

A Poilievre government, the Conservative leader said, would restore order and bring the economy back from the brink.

Trudeau, meanwhile, delivered a pointed speech of his own Friday. The PM argued that by courting radical elements, peddling misinformation, ignoring science and pitching questionable investments like cryptocurrency, Poilievre has placed himself outside the political mainstream.

"Mr. Poilievre has no real solutions. He's just trying to exploit people's anger and concerns," Trudeau said. "When you twist the facts or make things up for political gain, that's not responsible leadership."

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is seen speaking to the Liberal caucus on Parliament Hill. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to caucus on Parliament Hill, Friday, January 27, 2023 in Ottawa. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)

Poilievre's speech to Tory MPs and senators and Trudeau's response Friday reveal how the two leaders plan to approach the next sitting of Parliament, which resumes next week after the holiday break.

Poilievre is intent on blaming the Liberals for the country's hardships while painting a bleak picture of the future under a Trudeau-led government.

Trudeau is promising what he calls a "positive vision" for the country while also blasting his opponent as a far-right leader who won't adequately address the big challenges of our time: fighting climate change, building a more inclusive economy, fixing a health-care system on the ropes and pursuing Indigenous reconciliation.

Poilievre, Trudeau argued, doesn't offer any "constructive or positive solutions," while Liberals will "meet the moment."

WATCH | Poilievre says 'everything is worse' under Trudeau:

Addressing his Conservative caucus, Poilievre says 'everything is worse' under Trudeau

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Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre addresses his Conservative caucus and highlights crime rates during Justin Trudeau's time as prime minister.

Poilievre accused Trudeau of ducking his responsibilities as prime minister. He linked a rise in violent crimes and drug overdoses to Liberal changes to the federal Criminal Code and a more permissive approach to drug enforcement.

Citing a spate of violent attacks on Toronto's transit system, Poilievre said people are scared to ride the subway because they might get stabbed.

Between January 2016 and December 2021, nearly 30,000 Canadians died of opioid overdoses, according to federal data. There are crime-ridden homeless encampments in Canada's big cities, Poilievre said, because of Liberal policies.

"Justin tied the hands of our police and failed to hold the scumbag corporations who brought these drugs to our streets accountable," the Conservative leader said.

'Get out of the way'

Poilievre said big spending during the pandemic has pushed the national debt over the $1 trillion mark, fuelling inflation. The federal price on carbon emissions, Poilievre claimed, has left seniors in the cold.

"If you're not responsible for these things and you can't do anything about it, why don't you get out of the way and let somebody who can," Poilievre said.

"Everything seems to be broken," he added in French.

Trudeau has pushed back against Poilievre's claim that the country is in disarray.

In a speech at the Liberal Christmas party last month, Trudeau said that when Poilievre says Canada is broken, "that's where we draw the line."

"Let me be very clear for the record: Canada is not broken," he said in the Dec. 14 speech, citing post-Fiona hurricane relief and a new national child care program as examples of recent progress on his watch.

At the Liberal cabinet retreat in Hamilton this week, ministers also touted a return to normal at Canada's passport offices, a promise to fix to the air passenger bill of rights and meaningful progress on an increase to health-care funding as proof that the country is headed in the right direction.

Poilievre dismissed Trudeau's defence Friday.

"Justin says I should never mention these problems because Canadians have never had life so good," he said.

For some people, Poilievre said, the prime minister is right — the people at the Liberal Christmas party are doing just fine. "Lobbyists and Liberal political assistants here in Ottawa, they've never had it so good," Poilievre said.

The government's use of outside advisers has made people at consulting firms like McKinsey rich, Poilievre said, while working-class people skip meals to save money.

Trudeau said his government is laser-focused on rebuilding Canada's middle class.

He pointed to new investments in the automotive sector, clean technology, mining, rare earth metals and manufacturing as signs that Ottawa's industrial policy is paying off with high-paying jobs in industries of the future.

The prime minister said Poilievre can't be trusted to lead a major economy like Canada's when he was pushing bitcoin — an investment that has tanked in recent months, wiping out tens of billions of dollars in value.

"Mr. Poilievre was out talking about how we should all invest in bitcoin to opt out of inflation after he watched YouTube videos about it," Trudeau said. "Now, we all like YouTube, but it matters what content you watch and what you choose to amplify."

He also condemned Poilievre for recently speaking to the Frontier Centre for Public Policy — a group that has said it's a "myth" that the residential school system robbed Indigenous children of their childhood.

"It's just plain wrong," Trudeau said.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Canadians don't have to choose between the red and the blue team.

He said New Democrats are best placed to save a faltering health-care system and criticizing some provincial plans to send more surgeries to private clinics to help clear mounting hospital backlogs.

"That's the wrong way to do it because it will only make things worse and cannibalize workers from our existing system," he said. "We'll defend public health care."

Singh also criticized Trudeau's performance on the housing file, saying too many Canadians can't afford their rent.

"He has to invest massively to build more housing and ensure major corporations are not making huge profits because that hurts families," he said. "So far, Justin Trudeau hasn't taken this seriously."

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Trudeau government dropped the ball on fighting abuse in sport, former minister says

Kirsty Duncan says the government failed to follow through on her work after she left the post

 
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Kirsty Duncan makes an announcement about the elimination of harassment, abuse and discrimination in sport in the foyer of the House of Commons on June 19, 2018. Duncan now says her government hasn't done enough to follow through on that effort. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press)

A Liberal MP and former sport minister is again calling for a public inquiry into abuse in sport — and is accusing her own government of not doing enough to tackle the problem.

Kirsty Duncan said the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau failed to build momentum behind her efforts to prevent harassment, abuse and discrimination in sport in the years after she left cabinet — despite knowing a lot about the problem well before Hockey Canada's handling of sexual assault allegations exploded in the news last year.

Duncan said she even faced "pushback" from people within her own government when she made tackling abuse a top priority of her time as sport minister.

Duncan said she would not identify the individuals who resisted her efforts, or state whether they were in her own office or other government departments.

"It should not be a fight. I'm asking for the protection of athletes and children. There should never have been pushback," Duncan told CBC News in an exclusive interview.

"I will not stand idly by while there are athletes, children and young people hurting in this country. And I do not accept the status quo. And if I do not push for an inquiry, it means accepting the status quo. And I will not be complicit."

On Thursday, Duncan announced she's taking medical leave effective immediately on the advice of doctors to deal with a physical health challenge.

Duncan was not re-appointed to cabinet by Trudeau after the 2019 election. She was instead appointed deputy House leader for the government.

Trudeau dropped the position of sport minister from cabinet at the time and folded Duncan's responsibilities into the portfolio of the heritage minister, Steven Guilbeault.

Guilbeault's ministerial mandate letter — which outlined his key policy objectives — charged him with fostering a culture of safe sport.

'Other priorities'

In response to questions from CBC about the progress Guilbeault made on that mandate, his office pointed to a Sport Canada timeline of safe sport initiatives in the country.

The department launched a call for proposals to implement a new independent safe sport mechanism in 2020. In July 2021, Guilbeault announced that the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada (SDRCC) would receive up to $2.1 million to set up a new mechanism to oversee implementation of a new universal code of conduct in sport.

Then-minister of Canadian Heritage Steven Guilbeault responds to a question in the House of Commons on Nov. 3, 2020. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

A senior government source with knowledge of Guilbeault's portfolio concedes "other priorities required more attention" when he was heritage minister. Guilbeault's legislative priorities at the time including confronting online abuse, digital streaming regulation and copyright reform.

The source, who spoke to CBC News on the condition of confidentiality, said the department's priorities shifted when the pandemic hit in March 2020, just four months after Guilbeault was appointed minister. The source said they "totally understand" Duncan's claim that more could have been done on safe sport.

"Since 2016, our government has worked with the sport community to advance a respectful sport culture and respond to calls for action," Guilbeault's office wrote in an email to CBC News.

WATCH | Duncan says sports leaders 'want to do better' on protecting athletes:

Former sport minister says leaders 'want to do better' on preventing abuse in sport

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Duration 0:45
Former sport minister and Liberal MP Kirsty Duncan says leaders in sports 'welcome scrutiny."

Duncan said she felt her safe sport initiatives were not given the attention they deserved after she left the office.

"There was nothing in place. There was literally nothing. There didn't even seem to be policies. Some had policies, some didn't," she said. "Where was the oversight? Where was the accountability?

"I think what we've seen over the last four years, and we've certainly seen this summer, is that there remains a hugely disappointing resistance to change."

Current Sport Minister Pascale St-Onge was asked about Duncan's claim that the government isn't doing enough to protect athletes in the country.

"I can tell you that we're taking it extremely seriously," she told CBC News.

"That's why we've invested $16 million in the last budget just to create the Office of the Sport Integrity Commissioner, because we felt it was so important to have that independent mechanism. I'm also making it mandatory for all nationally funded organizations to sign up with those before the next funding cycle.

"So any organization that hasn't protected their athletes by signing up with OSIC will no longer receive the whole funding. That's the strongest tool that I have. So yes, we are taking this extremely, extremely seriously."

WATCH | Pascal St-Onge says the government takes safety in sport 'seriously':

Sports Minister Pascale St-Onge says government taking safe sport file 'extremely seriously'

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Sports Minister Pascale St-Onge says her office made it mandatory for nationally funded organizations to sign up with the Office of the Sport Integrity Commissioner in order to receive government funding.

Just weeks after Duncan was named sport minister in January 2018, an investigation by CBC News revealed that at least 222 coaches involved in amateur sports over 20 years had been convicted of sex offences involving over 600 victims under age 18.

Duncan — a former gymnast who said she experienced emotional and psychological abuse herself as an athlete — said she was shaken by that report.

She introduced a number of measures — "broad strokes," she calls them now — such as a third-party investigation unit and a national toll-free confidential helpline for victims and witnesses of abuse in sport. She also brought territorial and provincial sport ministers together in February 2019 to sign a declaration aimed at tackling and preventing harassment, abuse and discrimination in sport.

"I knew I had to address the grassroots. That's where most athletes will spend their life," Duncan said.

"Safe sport needs to be on every federal, provincial, territorial meeting year after year after year, with real goals and deliverables. I talked a lot about numbers. How can we address a problem if we don't know what that problem looks like?"

Reluctance in government

In the 2019 federal budget, the government committed $30 million over five years "to enable Canadian sports organizations to promote accessible, ethical, equitable and safe sports."

But Duncan says there was a climate of resistance to policies she was introducing, both within and outside the government.

"I don't think people understood the problem. There wasn't a lot of interest in Parliament. I asked what we were doing and I was told that we had to stop this safe sport stuff and get back to what sport was really about," she said, referring to celebrating sporting achievements.

"My answer was, 'So not protecting children?'"

CBC News reached out to the Prime Minister's Office but they declined to comment.

WATCH | Kirsty Duncan describes 'pushback' by Hockey Canada:

'Resistance in the system': Duncan said Hockey Canada resisted attempt to investigate allegations of abuse

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Liberal MP Kirsty Duncan says there shouldn't be any "pushback" from organizations over investigating claims of abuse from athletes.

Duncan said a three-page letter sent by Hockey Canada to one of her senior policy advisers reflects the tone of the opposition she faced.

The letter, first reported by the Canadian Press, was written by Glen McCurdie, then Hockey Canada's vice-president of insurance and risk management. In it, McCurdie expressed concern about some of the policies Duncan was pursuing, including the third-party investigation unit.

Glen McCurdie, Hockey Canada's former vice-president of insurance and risk management, appears as a witness at the standing committee on Canadian Heritage in Ottawa on July 27, 2022. The committee was looking into how Hockey Canada handled allegations of sexual assault and a subsequent lawsuit. (The Canadian Press)

Duncan said she never saw the letter four years ago and only read it for the first time this past summer, when the Hockey Canada controversy was playing out.

"Hockey Canada does not wish to be encumbered by a system or process that ties our hands and does not allow us to manage a situation as we deem necessary. We are simply asking that you keep this in mind as you continue to lead us in a collective Safe Sport strategy," McCurdie wrote in the letter, which was also obtained by CBC News.

Duncan said she was frustrated in 2019 by Hockey Canada's reluctance and remains just as frustrated today.

"Hockey Canada pushed back against a third party investigator and a safe sport helpline. Who would do that?" she said. "Who wouldn't want a child to be able to pick up a phone and say, 'I've had a problem'?

"I think people want to sweep this under the rug. I think people want to move on. And we can't."

In an email to CBC, Hockey Canada said the 2019 letter does not reflect the organization's current thinking or direction. 

"Hockey Canada recognizes that we need to do more to foster a safe and positive environment for all participants on and off the ice," the organization wrote.

Hockey Canada said the organization participated in the government's safe sport helpline and hired third-party investigators to look into the claims it received. Hockey Canada became a full signatory in October 2022 to the Office of the Sport Integrity Commission, which is now responsible for overseeing and investigating allegations of abuse in sport.

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  • This piece originally stated that the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada was established in 2021. It was launched in 2004.
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Canada's health-care system under threat from both Liberals and Conservatives: Singh

Federal NDP meets for 3-day caucus retreat in Ottawa

 
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New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh says Canada’s health-care system is being put at risk by both Liberals and Conservatives. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld)
 
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh kicked off a caucus retreat with MPs Wednesday by accusing both Conservatives and Liberals of putting Canada's public health-care system at risk.

Addressing a room filled with MPs, political staffers and party members, Singh accused Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of winking at efforts by conservative premiers to radically change their health-care systems.

"While (Ontario Premier) Doug Ford, (Alberta Premier) Danielle Smith and (Manitoba Premier) Heather Stefanson launch a mission to privatize public, universal Canadian health care, Justin Trudeau does nothing and (Conservative Leader) Pierre Poilievre cheers them on," Singh said on Parliament Hill. 

Ontario's Progressive Conservative government on Monday announced its plan to expand the number and range of surgeries offered at for-profit clinics in the province. Both the Alberta and Manitoba governments have mused recently about boosting private sector involvement in health care.

WATCH: NDP threatens to kill deal with Liberals over health-care crisis

NDP threatens to axe deal to keep Liberals in power over healthcare crisis

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The NDP has threatened to withdraw from its confidence-and-supply agreement to keep the Liberals in power until 2025 unless they act on the health-care crisis. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is calling on the federal government to spend more money on health care and reach an agreement with the premiers.

After Ontario's announcement, Prime Minister Trudeau said he was open to ideas to "deliver better services to Canadians in health care."

The Ontario and federal New Democrats are leaving no room for doubt about where they stand on public dollars going to the private system. They've argued expanding the private option would only intensify competition with the public sector for scarce human resources.

Singh called on the federal government to use the levers it has at its disposal to push back against provincial governments looking to private health-care institutions for solutions.

"In fact, the prime minister has the opportunity right now to protect medicare. While negotiating funding with the provinces, we all agree there should be strings attached," Singh said.

"I think one of those conditions has to be no privatization. No for-profit corporations taking over health care. No billing patients for anything. No cannibalizing hospitals, sending their nurses and doctors to for-profit clinics."

Staffing strategy needed, says labour group 

What Canada needs is a national strategy for staffing the health-care system, says the country's largest labour organization, which has close ties to the NDP.

Bea Bruske, president of the Canadian Labour Congress, said such a strategy would help governments across Canada recruit, train and retain health-care workers.

"Our public system is in dire straits, and we're calling on all levels of government to work together to make sure Canadians right across this country can rely on strong public health care," Bruske told CBC before her address to the NDP caucus on Wednesday.

Singh did not mention the need for a strategy but he echoed Bruske's focus on staffing "solutions."

"Solutions like training more nurses and doctors," the NDP leader said in his Wednesday morning keynote address. "Getting licences for health-care workers from other countries who are already here and ready to work in our hospitals."

Speaking to reporters at an EV charger manufacturing plant in Shawinigan, Que., Trudeau said Wednesday there is "some very positive momentum happening" in the ongoing federal-provincial talks over the future of the Canada Health Transfer (CHT).

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to the media after a visit to FLO, a maker of electric car chargers, in Shawinigan, Que. on Wednesday, January 18, 2023. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to the media after a visit to FLO, a maker of electric car chargers, in Shawinigan, Que. on Wednesday, January 18, 2023. (Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press)

Ottawa has demanded the provinces earmark any new federal money for five key priority areas — primary care, long-term care, mental health, virtual care and surgery backlogs.Trudeau said the two sides are "more and more in line" on the issues.

Trudeau said Ottawa's planned investments are not designed for short-term fixes to a system that has struggled in the wake of COVID-19.

The expected multi-billion cash injection should be used to spur "more innovation in the system to make sure we have the best health-care system in the world," he said.

"There's a distinction between short-term investments, the ones we need now to resolve immediate problems and what the federal government will continue to do in the coming years to build the future of the system," he said, adding that the provinces and territories already have sufficient fiscal capacity to address acute issues like labour shortages and capacity issues.

Budget will decide fate of NDP-Liberal deal, critic says

Before Singh delivered his keynote, several New Democrat MPs spoke about the state of the deal between the Liberals and the New Democrats to prop up Trudeau's minority government. All the MPs expressed optimism about where things stand, including NDP finance critic Daniel Blaikie.

In March 2022, the New Democrats signed a confidence-and-supply agreement with the governing Liberals to provide them with the votes needed to pass key legislation in exchange for the Liberals agreeing to advance a number of NDP priorities.

The upcoming 2023 federal budget will be a key factor in determining whether the NDP's agreement with the Liberals has been a success or a failure, he said.

"I think the budget is going to tell the tale about whether we're making that progress at a good rate," Blaikie told CBC News. "It's going to be a very interesting few months on the Hill here … when the budget is presented."

Blaikie was expected to brief his caucus colleagues Wednesday on negotiations he's been having with the federal government as a member of a bipartisan group formed to discuss progress on key commitments and priorities. 

Pharmacare, dental plan expansion on NDP radar

While many of those priorities don't have stated timelines, some do.

For instance, the Liberal-NDP pact committed Trudeau's government to passing a Canada Pharmacare Act in 2023, and to introducing a bulk drug purchasing plan and a national formulary by the end of the agreement.

In 2022, federal dental care coverage was expanded to cover children under 12 years old in households earning less than $90,000. An expansion to that dental coverage to cover 18-year-olds, seniors and people living with disabilities in  middle-income households was also supposed to happen this year under the Liberal-NDP agreement.

"We're expecting to see that at the beginning of 2024," Blaikie said. 

NDP MP Daniel Blaikie asks a question during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Friday, March 22, 2019. NDP finance critic Daniel Blaikie is a member of a group that discusses progress on key commitments and priorities in the supply-and-confidence agreement between the Liberals and the NDP. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)

Blaikie noted that because much of the work to prepare budgets happens months in advance, the 2022 budget was mostly assembled before the Liberal-NDP confidence and supply agreement was signed. So the upcoming budget should "tell a lot of the story" of how the NDP-Liberal agreement is holding up, he said.

"It's going to be an important moment of reflection for our caucus as we think about the next year ahead and whether the government is doing a good enough job," he said.

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More than 1,000 New Brunswickers report adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines

Of those, more than 300 considered 'serious,' says Department of Health

 
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Preliminary findings in the U.S. have prompted additional investigation into whether there is a safety concern between the Pfizer-BioNTech bivalent COVID-19 vaccine and ischemic stroke in people 65 years of age and over, which New Brunswick and Canadian officials are monitoring closely. (Kristopher Radder/The Associated Press)
 
More than 1,000 New Brunswickers have had an adverse reaction after getting a COVID-19 vaccine, and more than a quarter of them were considered "serious," according to the Department of Health.

A total of more than two million vaccines have been administered in the province, putting the incidence at roughly 0.06 per cent.

Spokesperson Adam Bowie did not provide any information about the nature of the reactions, but the Public Health Agency of Canada defines an adverse event as "any untoward medical occurrence which follows immunization." It isn't necessarily causally related to the vaccine.

The adverse event may be any:

  • Unfavourable or unintended sign (for example: skin rash).
  • Abnormal laboratory finding.
  • Symptom.
  • Disease.

An event is considered serious if it:

  • Results in death.
  • Is life-threatening, such as anaphylaxis, a severe allergic reaction.
  • Requires in-patient hospitalization or prolongation of existing hospitalization.
  • Results in persistent or significant disability/incapacity.
  • Results in a congenital anomaly/birth defect.

Bowie did not provide a breakdown of reactions by type of vaccine or by ages, either.

Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reported a possible link between ischemic strokes in people aged 65 and older and the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 bivalent vaccine, which is designed to target the Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5.

An ischemic stroke occurs when blood flow to the brain is interrupted or reduced by a blockage or clot. This prevents the brain tissue from getting the oxygen and nutrients it needs to survive.

"Although the totality of the data currently suggests that it is very unlikely that the signal in VSD [vaccine safety datalink] represents a true clinical risk, we believe it is important to share this information with the public," the U.S. health officials had said.

Monitoring the situation closely

New Brunswick Public Health, the Public Health Agency of Canada and Health Canada are all aware of the U.S. report, issued on Jan. 13, based on their vaccine adverse event reporting surveillance system, said Bowie.

"So far, these safety concerns have not been raised through other vaccine safety monitoring systems in the United States, or in other countries — including Canada," he said in an emailed statement.

"It should be noted the CDC did not recommend any changes to vaccination practices at this time, and that these adverse events have not yet been confirmed to have been caused by the vaccines administered.

If New Brunswick Public Health's recommendations regarding the safety or suitability of this vaccine were to change, that information would be communicated to the public.
- Adam Bowie, Department of Health spokesperson

"Additional analysis and reviews must be completed to further explore the causes of these reactions and that data is used as part of the continuous monitoring of the safety of these vaccines."

Still, New Brunswick and federal health officials are "monitoring this situation closely," said Bowie.

"If New Brunswick Public Health's recommendations regarding the safety or suitability of this vaccine were to change, that information would be communicated to the public," he said.

'Less than five' strokes after bivalent reported in Canada

As of Jan. 1, more than seven million doses of mRNA bivalent vaccines have been administered in Canada, and the Public Health Agency of Canada and Health Canada say they've not observed any elevated risks or safety signals for thromboembolic or vascular events following the administration of these vaccines, noted Bowie.

"Less than five" reports of ischemic stroke following the administration of an mRNA bivalent vaccine have been submitted to the federal bodies to date, he said. Only one of these involved a Pfizer-BioNTech bivalent vaccine for a person aged 65 years or older.

In New Brunswick, 1,148 adverse events related to COVID-19 vaccines have been reported to the Department of Health, from the 2,028,684 total doses administered between Dec. 14, 2020, and Jan. 14, 2023, said Bowie.

"Of those, 313 events were labelled serious in nature," he said.

Benefits continue to outweigh risks

"Evidence indicates that the benefits of COVID-19 vaccines continue to outweigh the risks of the disease," the federal website states.

Across Canada, of the 96,432,067 COVID-19 vaccines administered to date, adverse events have been reported by 53,611 people. That's about six people out of every 10,000 people vaccinated who have reported one or more adverse events.

Of those, 10,565 adverse events were considered serious in nature, an incidence of 0.01 per cent.

"Citizens should be aware that vaccine providers are legally required to report any adverse events in New Brunswick under the Public Health Act, and immunization data is regularly monitored to ensure that any unusual safety trends would be identified quickly," said Bowie.

Federal health officials also review data from provinces and territories across the country to identify any new or emerging trends, he said.

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David Amos
Oh My My Isn't this a circus
 
 
Johnny Smith 
David Amos
 3 years of it 
 
 
 
 
 
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I will give credit where credit is due.

Kudos to the CBC for (finally) reporting on the "elephant in the room", and allowing comments.

 
6 in 10,000 is not an elephant, it's a mouse.

 
How to say you didn't pass high school math without saying you didn't pass high school math.  
 
 
Johnny Smith

 
 
Larry McCarthy  
Johnny Smith 
Odd, it's always "soon"!!! How soon is soon?  
 
 
Robert Losier 
Johnny Smith 
The truth is out now. Some sites will not permit posters to show the evidence of such. 
Johnny Smith
Did Q tell you this?  
 
 
Yevgeny Zamyatin  
Larry McCarthy  
As soon as today... did you see the headline? The headline would have been flagged as DIS information last week.

 
Yevgeny Zamyatin  

Q..? The fictional character that built the cool gadgets for James Bond? What has HE got to do with Covid™...?  
 
 
Larry McCarthy  
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Did you read beyond the headline?   
 
 
David Amos
Johnny Smith 
Thats my Clan's Motto "Veritas Vincit" 
 
 
 
 
 
David Amos
Oh My
 
 
 
David Amos
Dr Russell Is back to work yet?  
 
 
Billy Popamahovilich
David Amos
She will be hosting a Mental Wellness (ironic much?) at the Shadow Lawn in Rothesay next month
 
 
David Amos
Billy Popamahovilich
They say I'm crazy but I have a good time

I'm just looking for clues at the scene of the crime

Life's been good to me so far 

 
David Amos
Billy Popamahovilich
Dr. Jennifer Russell has immunity against complaints so says College of Physicians and Surgeons
 
 
Cathy Watson  
David Amos
Who?
 
 
 
 
 
Billy Popamahovilich 
Maybe we should bring DDT back too.
 
 
David Amos
Billy Popamahovilich
Only if you know WHO and Trudeau The Younger say ok 
 
 
Joe Godin 
Billy Popamahovilich 
Actually, there was nothing wrong with DDT as it saved millions of lives - right up to when when it was banned. Then millions of lives were LOST unnecessary. 
 
Rachel Carson's, "A Silent Spring", was about as accurate as "Reefer Madness". Unfortunately, a lot of people were duped into thinking it was accurate or realistic. 
 
 
bill phemister  
Billy Popamahovilich
Yes that would be about as dumb. Maybe agent orange too. But it did save millions of lives..omg where did that come from? 
 
 
Billy Popamahovilich  
Joe Godin 
You should read up on the incidence of polio after DDT was sprayed all over everyone. 
 
 
Joe Godin
Billy Popamahovilich   
About as reputable as "A Silent Spring".

I prefer to read proper scientific reports...

 
David Amos
Joe Godin
Methinks its a small wonder that your first comment did not last long N'esy Pas?  
 
 
Joe Godin   Billy Popamahovilich 
Actually, there was nothing wrong with DDT as it saved millions of lives - right up to when when it was banned. Then millions of lives were LOST unnecessary.
Rachel Carson's, "A Silent Spring", was about as accurate as "Reefer Madness". Unfortunately, a lot of people were duped into thinking it was accurate or realistic.
 
 
Joe Godin
David Amos 
Yes, certain media hates the truth!  
 
 
 
 
 
 
Billy Popamahovilich    
Swine flu

AZT

Rotavirus

Have we learned nothing ? 

 
David Amos 
Billy Popamahovilich 
Survey Says???  
 
 
 
 
 
Louis Leblanc  
Vaccines are safe and save lives. Full stop. 
 

Billy Popamahovilich  
Louis Leblanc 
Right. The benefits (nothing) outweigh the risks (death).
 
 
Carly Wattson  
Billy Popamahovilich 
No benefits to vaccines?  
 
 
Joe Godin 
Louis Leblanc
MOST do.
Particularly the ones that stop disease transmission.
 
 
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Billy Popamahovilich 
You are clueless
 
 
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Sam Smithers
I have a clue but I don't know what to do with it Do you?  
 
 
Jim Lake 
Billy Popamahovilich
False.  
 
 
Eugene D Burles 
Carly Wattson 
The jabs in question. 
 
 
Michael Brown
Billy Popamahovilich 
Shake your head and try to understand reality. It appears you are currently unable to accept that scientists know more than you. 
 
 
Cathy Watson 
Eugene D Burles 
jAbS   
 
 
 
 
 
 
Billy Popamahovilich
Adverse reactions to this safe and effective thing are nothing but a conspiracy theory
 
 
Sarah Brown 
Billy Popamahovilich
And you know this how?  
 
 
Billy Popamahovilich  
 Sarah Brown 
See definition of sarcasm.  
 
 
Sam Smithers 
Billy Popamahovilich 
Your posts on vaxxes are nonsense.
 
 
Jim Lake 
Billy Popamahovilich
And true, vs your comment above. 
Jim Lake   
Methinks many a true word is said in jest N'esy Pas? 
 
 
Jim Lake   
Yeah, methinks you’re right, and that fact is foolish & ridiculous.

 

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Long forgotten Dorchester wharf was once heart of shire town

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Wood and stone wharf was a vital hub for people who travelled by ferry to Hopewell Cape and beyond

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The Dorchester wharf was a hub of transportation in the 1800s before the railway was built, but the crib wharf is now a very quiet, isolated spot in southeastern New Brunswick. (Khalil Akhtar/CBC)
 
On the shore of the Memramcook River, all that remains of the Dorchester wharf are stacks of logs and stones slowly being eroded by wind and waves.

"For generations and generations and generations this quiet little windy spot here on the shore of the Memramcook River, just off from Dorchester, was one of the most important centres in town," said James Upham, a Moncton historian and educator.

"There was a hotel here, there were houses. From here it's just a hop, skip and a jump to one of the most important communities in the entire vicinity, which for a very long time is the shire town of Dorchester."

According to the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, Dorchester became the shire town of Westmorland County, and an important seat of government and justice, in 1801.

archival photo in black and white of community with many wooden buildings and people on the dirt road in 1863 Dorchester was the shire town of Westmorland County in the 1800s and a busy hub. (Provincial Archives of New Brunswick)

In the 1800s, when the country of Canada was being built, there were no railways or buses, Upham explained, so this wharf was the heart of a bustling community.

"Roads are horrible," he said. "In the 1850s, '60s and '70s and prior to that — if you were getting anywhere around here, you were going by boat."

He described the large wharf in Dorchester as "an acme of civilization" that likely holds many secrets about life in the 19th century.

black and white photo showing ferry with three passengers, including two women wearing hats This photo labelled 'Ferry at Dorchester,' is from the photo album of Grace Cole Marney and was provided to the Historic Dorchester NB Facebook group by Florence and Creighton Marney. (Historic Dorchester NB/Facebook)

Known as a crib wharf, it was built from a wooden frame, or crib, that was filled with stone and other material to secure it.

"Every stone had to be gathered basically by hand," Upham said. "Backhoes don't exist. This entire thing is built load by load of stone and rubble and also garbage, which is one of the neat things about it. We're standing on a huge archaeological site too, because people chucked their stuff into these things."

A testament to communities that have disappeared

Upham is fascinated by the Dorchester wharf and said you can see similar structures up and down the Bay of Fundy and along rivers.

"They're fascinating in and of themselves because they are these still-remaining testaments, in many cases, to communities that no longer exist," he said.

"Just across from here we have Hopewell Cape. There's a gigantic similar wharf at Hopewell Cape because Hopewell Cape was the shire town of Albert County and Dorchester was the shire town of Westmorland County."

Upham explains there was a regular ferry service between the two communities. He loves to think about the people who would have passed through what is now a very quiet spot.

He imagines Joseph Salter, Moncton's first mayor, boarding the ferry when the mine he managed in Albert County had failed and he was on the way to Waverly, Nova Scotia, to take over a gold mine.

black and white photo of man with white beard and bow tie Historian James Upham imagines politicians of the day, including Moncton's first mayor, Joseph Salter, taking the ferry between the Dorchester wharf and Hopewell Cape in the 1800s before the railroad was even built. (Provincial Archives of New Brunswick)

"That's what's fascinating about a spot like this — most of the major politicians, lawyers, judges, doctors, their entourages, their families, these people all used this exact spot on a very regular basis to get around for the same reason that we use highways."

Upham likes to think of the wharf as being "like an airport."

"Everyone travelling that way waits at the same spot, whether they want to or not. The high and mighty wait and get rained on just like everyone else — plus you can laugh when they get seasick."

Upham said even the first prisoners at Dorchester Penitentiary got off the boat at the wharf when they were brought over from a jail in Saint John.

archival photo of large old stone building that is a penitentiary The first prisoners at the Dorchester Penitentiary, seen here in 1899, came to the community by boat from Saint John. (Provincial Archives of New Brunswick)

"For a very substantial period of time this was the way that you got from Dorchester to anywhere else," he said. "Even in the middle of February when it was cold and there's cakes of ice floating down this river, that was the normal way you got from place to place."

What was a vital hub now 'moulders'

Standing at the wharf today, Upham said, you can almost see the railway. Even though the advent of the train overtook boat travel, Upham pointed out that you can still tell when buildings were built based on their orientation.

"You can tell the old homes around here because they face bodies of water. The water was the highway, same as houses now tend to face the nearest road. You can tell around here because the house itself will be oriented toward the body of water, not the street."

a train engine moving through a green pasture When trains arrived, rail quickly became the preferred way to travel and wharfs like Dorchester wharf were no longer a transportation hub. In this photo, a Canadian National train passes through Dorchester in 1957. (Don Ball Jr./Classic Railway Photography/Facebook)

Upham also has personal connections to Dorchester and the Dorchester wharf. He says his great, great, great grandfather, R.A. Chapman, used to commute from Dorchester wharf to Hopewell Cape, where he had a shipyard.

"This is where he waited for his boat. He could stand here and watch and see if anything was going on at the shipyard," he said, laughing. "He could holler and say, 'Hey Dave, what are you doing?'"

He also remembers visiting the community when he was very young with his grandparents. His grandmother grew up in Dorchester because his great grandfather was a guard at the penitentiary.

"It was quite a spot, once." 

If a New Brunswick politician from 1865 could be brought back to the Dorchester wharf "through a portal in space and time," Upham imagines they would be flabbergasted that what was once a busy community is now an isolated and deserted spot.

"They'd say, 'What happened?'"

"Thousands of people have been through this exact spot over a very long period of time and now it just sits here and moulders."


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Dorchester wharf was vital transportation hub in the 19th century
James Upham is our roadside history columnist.

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Mr Upham and I should have a long talk someday  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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1 year after disrupting Alberta's border with the U.S., protesters return to Coutts

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Justin Trudeau had a bad day today as protesters across the country gathered to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Freedom Convoy.
 
 
 
 

1 year after disrupting Alberta's border with the U.S., protesters return to Coutts — where wounds remain

Village trying to move on but continued legal developments tied to massive protest have made it difficult

 
Joel Dryden· CBC News ·
During a one-year anniversary of the border blockade, in Coutts, Alta., protesters stopped at the Lethbridge Correctional Centre. (Joshua Mclean/CBC)
 
As vehicles pulled into a meeting spot on the side of the highway south of Lethbridge, Alta., it was clear that this year's convoy protest gathering would be different. As people gathered to mark its one-year anniversary, they were greeted by two RCMP vehicles at the side of the road.

There was no missing the police vehicles scattered along the highway and the helicopter in the air, or the message: The event would be permitted, a large-scale disruption would not.

One year ago, Alberta RCMP had sent out a fairly innocuous media advisory warning of heavy congestion and slow-moving traffic near the border crossing at Coutts, Alta.

"This is expected to continue for an unknown period of time," it read.

From there, what started would develop into a 17-day blockade that officials called illegal.

That protest is still viewed differently depending on who's doing the talking. Those who participated in it say they found a community for their beliefs, which involve distrust around government and public health regulation, and distrust in the media.

Many residents of Coutts — a town of just over 200 people about 100 kilometres southeast of Lethbridge, on the border with Montana — share those points of view. Others — especially seniors who live in the village — don't. They feared how the massive protest engulfed their once-sleepy village.

What's clear, one year later, is that Coutts has yet to divorce itself from the event that it became notorious for even as many feel ready to move on.

     A blockade of trucks and tractors swallowed up Coutts, Alta. for more than two weeks in 2022. (Submitted by Jake Zacharias)

"I think people just want to forget about it," said Kevin White, a local resident.

Back to Coutts

On this cold but clear Saturday, hundreds gather at the meeting point in what is obviously a sort of reunion; many recognize one another from the protests. Many honk their horns in support, while another individual knocks on windows and hands out stickers: "Protect free speech! No more government overreach." 

Twin brothers Russ and Rick Traber, who live in the area, spent a couple of days at the protest last year.

"We did go out to the blockade a couple times, just to show support," said Russ. "Yeah, wow, what a phenomenal event. Unfortunately, it ended on a real sour note."

Two men sit in a car. Twin brothers Russ and Rick Traber joined a one-year anniversary convoy intended to mark the date the protests started. (Joel Dryden/CBC)

Chris Carbert, Chris Lysak, Anthony Olienick and Jerry Morin were charged after RCMP found guns, body armour and ammunition in trailers at the protest. Each is accused of conspiring to murder RCMP officers; they are scheduled for trial in June.

Soon after the discovery of the guns, the protesters disbanded and left the site.

Many of the people who turned out Saturday were there to protest those arrests. "Free the Coutts boys" is a bumper sticker frequently spotted on local vehicles.

Closer to Coutts, most emergency vehicle access lanes and crossroads are blocked by police, who turn motorists back toward Lethbridge. 

Police officers stand in front of parked police cars on a highway road.     A large contingent of supporters of the Coutts convoy made a loop from Lethbridge to the border town on Saturday to mark the one-year anniversary. At entry points to the village, police set up a heavy presence to ensure traffic did not enter the border town. (Joel Dryden/CBC)

Things have changed

On Saturday, there was no word from the members of Coutts's village council.

At a recent meeting, its members had passed a resolution: There would be no more talking about the blockade publicly. The reason? A desire to heal the divide among residents that still persisted, a year later.

Before going silent, Mayor Jim Willett was apprehensive to hear he had been summoned to Ottawa to testify during the Emergencies Act inquiry in November. 

He had made attempts to remain measured throughout the blockade, and supported the right to protest as long as it remained legal. But his media appearances and interviews had drawn anger from protesters, and he received a death threat considered serious by RCMP. 

X  Jim Willett, mayor of Coutts, Alta., appears at the Public Order Emergency Commission in Ottawa on Nov. 9. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press)

In Ottawa, Willett told the story of a Coutts resident who is an Afghanistan veteran, who left town during the protests because they triggered her post-traumatic stress disorder.

"Older people, [we] had one lady who, somebody drove her out for a doctor's appointment or something, she would curl up in a ball," Willett told the inquiry, growing emotional as he spoke.

"But it just depends on the person. How they grew up. What their situations are. Some people, it really bothered."

And though council had stated its desire to remove itself from public debate, it has been difficult to disassociate the community from the story. New developments, legal and otherwise, continue to surface in the media.

Geoffrey Hale, a professor of political science at the University of Lethbridge, said feelings are still raw in many communities such as Coutts — something that will take time to mend.

"It takes making room for the other person, and it takes both showing and reciprocating the normal civilities of day to day life, normal kindnesses of day to day life in a small community," he said. "The longer you keep a chip on your shoulder, the more you invite other people to do the same."

Where to from here?

Inside Coutts, opinion on the convoy is divided.

Blanche Rutherford, who was visiting the local post office, says the protests gave her "an awful lot of hope and optimism." 

"A year after that, I think that the feeling is that it's not over, and we feel like we will win this," she said.

Kevin White, meanwhile, says he usually only talks to a few of his neighbours, but doesn't talk about the protests any more. He found that period of time frustrating.

"The worst thing was trying to get out of town," he said. "We really did feel like we were kind of trapped here."

A man talks to the camera. Kevin White says he thinks the village of Coutts, Alta., wants to move on from the convoy protests. (Stephanie Rousseau/Radio-Canada)

Keith Dangerfield, the owner of the community's cafe, is a vocal supporter of the protest. He rented rooms to protesters and made them sandwiches.

"I think there's some people who are on the other side of the convoy as far as politically, and I don't know if they're boycotting us or … because we've haven't got quite the business we used to have," he said. 

Back in Lethbridge, at a local trucking company, the protesters have completed their loop back from Coutts. They made a detour on the way back in, parking and honking at a local jail in support of the accused.

Now, they've gathered inside for a barbecue and a silent auction. Marco Van Huigenbos, 32, a town councillor from nearby Fort Macleod who was one of the spokespeople for the protests, takes the stage. 

Many people stand in a hall. Supporters of the Coutts, Alta., convoy protests gathered at an event in Lethbridge to raise funds for four men accused of conspiring to murder RCMP officers on Saturday. (Joel Dryden/CBC)

He also faces a charge of mischief over $5,000. On stage, he asks for those gathered to open their wallets for the accused.

"Many things have come to light. Our message down there hasn't changed," he said in an interview prior to Saturday. "We were there to hold government accountable. Whether we were successful, will be determined in the long run."

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Joel Dryden

Joel is a reporter/editor with CBC Calgary. In fall 2021, he ran CBC's bureau in Lethbridge. He was previously the editor of the Airdrie City View and Rocky View Weekly newspapers. He hails from Swift Current, Sask. Reach him by email at joel.dryden@cbc.ca

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/coutts-border-blockade-protest-new-charges-rcmp-1.6585566

Fort Macleod councillor, 2 other 'key participants' charged in Coutts
border blockades

Coun. Marco Van Huigenbos, 32, faces charge of mischief over $5,000
Meghan Grant · CBC News · Posted: Sep 16, 2022 10:39 AM MT | Last
Updated: September 16
Fort Macleod Coun. Marco Van Huigenbos, 32, has been charged in
connection with the Coutts border blockade seven months after it
ended. (Mirna Djukic/Radio-Canada)

New charges have been laid against protesters involved in the Coutts
border blockade earlier this year, including Marco Van Huigenbos, a
Fort Macleod town councillor.

Van Huigenbos, 32, who was a protest organizer, as well as Alex Van
Herk, 53, and George Janzen, 43, each face a count of mischief over
$5,000.

In a written release, RCMP called the three men "key participants of
the Coutts border blockade," which took place between Jan. 29 and Feb.
15.

The three are due in court on Oct. 4.

Van Huigenbos's lawyer, Yoav Niv, says he has not yet received
disclosure, which would shed light on why the Mounties have laid the
mischief charge. Niv went on to say his client is "presumed innocent."

    Mounties seize guns and arrest 13 protesters at border blockade in Alberta

Initially, RCMP laid charges against 14 people, including four men
facing the most serious offences, conspiracy to murder RCMP officers.

Chris Carbert, Chris Lysak, Anthony Olienick and Jerry Morin will go
on trial next June.

Two others — Luke Berk, 62, and 39-year-old Johnson Law — were accused
of less serious offences and have since seen their charges withdrawn.
Prosecutor Steven Johnston has declined to explain why the charges
were dropped.
Van Huigenbos reprimanded by town council

In March, Van Huigenbos was reprimanded for what Fort Macleod Mayor
Brent Feyter described as "unacceptable behaviour."

In a letter posted to the town's website, Feyter expressed "grave
concerns" about Van Huigenbos's role as a blockade organizer.

"To be clear, council respects the rights of peaceful protest, but
that does not extend to organizing an illegal blockade of a highway in
border crossing that halted international travel and trade for over
two weeks and disrupted our municipal neighbour, the Village of
Coutts," wrote the mayor.

    Alberta men accused in plot to murder Mounties saw undercover cops
as 'girls' who could help: court records

Van Huigenbos has a duty to act in good faith "and in the best
interests of Fort Macleod at all times," reads the letter, adding that
subsequent instances of "unacceptable behaviour may result in further
sanction."

When asked for comment Friday, Feyter issued a brief statement,
explaining that under the Alberta Municipal Government Act, Van
Huigenbos is allowed to continue serving.

"If convicted, the conviction would be reviewed to determine if the
member of council, Marco, can continue to serve," wrote the mayor.
RCMP have laid new charges against three men in connection with the
Coutts border blockade earlier this year. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian
Press)

The bulk of the charges were laid following Feb. 14 raids on trailers
that had been set up on Joanne Person's property near the protest
site. Person also faces charges connected to the blockade.

During the execution of the search warrants, police seized more than a
dozen firearms as well as ammunition and body armour.

    At the border: The trucks and tractors have left the border town
of Coutts, Alta. But for some, the protest never ended

Newly unsealed court documents show RCMP ran an undercover operation
and a rarely used "imminent harm" wiretap to justify the execution of
search warrants and the laying of charges.

RCMP believed the men accused of conspiring to murder police officers
were stockpiling weapons to arm themselves and others in preparation
for a standoff with police.

When interviewed the day after the raids, Van Huigenbos told CBC News
the protest was "infiltrated by an extreme element" and said the
remaining protesters had decided to "peacefully leave Coutts and
return to [their] families."
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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CBC Calgary crime reporter

Meghan Grant is a justice affairs reporter. She has been covering
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Saturday, 5 November 2022

Hundreds show up at Lethbridge courthouse to support men charged in
Coutts border blockade

 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/convoy-headed-to-lethbridge-courthouse-to-support-freedom-convoy-charged-1.6640337

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Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2021 22:52:23 -0300
Subject: YO Yoav Niv say Hey to Sheila Gunn Reid, her buddy Chad and
the CRA for me will ya?
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Alberta sparing no expense in effort to prosecute Mom's Diner for $1,200
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T2N 2H9

Email yoav@yoavniv.ca

Phone: 587-968-6721

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Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2021 19:47:14 -0300
Subject: Pat King should Trust the fact that I just called his Red
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https://www.bitchute.com/video/GomxWNcG1P2i/

MY TWO BITS WORTH TV Episode 17

First published at 20:47 UTC on December 20th, 2020.

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Gertjan Zwiggelaar

Gertjan

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Part Two of the Charter Challenge.
This is the preamble.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/GomxWNcG1P2i/

Need to Know (25 June 2021) with Gertjan Zwiggelaar and Maryam Henein

 First published at 12:56 UTC on June 26th, 2021.

Jim Fetzer

6596 subscribers

Gertjan provides a motive for taking down the condo, which is that
McAfee's son resided there and the hard-drives with stolen data that
would implicate Deep State officials were reported to have been stored
there. Meanwhile the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff turned in a
mediocre performance before a House committed investigating teaching
Critical Race Theory to the military and animated recruiting videos
featuring a young woman about the marriage of her mothers, where some
were asking whether an emasculated "woke" military was in the best
interest of the United States. Maryam joined late with an update about
the sentencing of Derek Chauvin, who is alleged to have been
responsible for the death of George Floyd. See my False Flags and
Conspiracies 2020 videos (especially Deception Galore) for reasons to
be skeptical at falseflagconspiracies2020.com

https://www.reddeeradvocate.com/uncategorized/author-close-to-crossing-final-literary-boundary/

Author close to crossing final literary boundary

Local author Gertjan Zwiggelaar is a couple steps closer to his goal
of writing a book in every genre.

    Advocate StaffApr. 15, 2014 9:05 p.m.

Local author Gertjan Zwiggelaar is a couple steps closer to his goal
of writing a book in every genre.

With his Journey to the Underside, published in 2012, and his Marty &
Me, Another Pirate’s Tale, published in 2013, Zwiggelaar has
respectively covered the adventure and horror/pirate categories. His
previous books, A Pirate’s Tale and Into the Game, fall into the
swashbuckling and science-fiction genres.

The Red Deer author has also written poetry, historic fiction,
non-fiction, short stories and children’s literature over the years.

While he hasn’t full tackled romance yet, Zwiggelaar feels there are
enough romantic elements in most of his books to make them also
popular with female readers.

The former Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School art and drama
teacher has never believed in limiting his scope of his interests to
just art or just writing.

He paints in a wide variety of styles, from abstracts to landscapes to
fantasy images, and has also been writing stories since childhood.

When Zwiggelaar began creating plays for high school students to
perform, he said one of them won a literary award from the Edmonton
Journal in the 1980s and this gave him encouragement.

He began his first big project, The Incredible Adventures of Princess
Kiera and her Friends, as possible successor to the Harry Potter
books. The 240,000-word tome is still being reworked by Zwiggelaar,
who would someday like to publish it.

In 2008, he discovered publisher-on-demand America Star Books, which
accepted his A Pirate’s Tale and the following three books for
publication.

The company doesn’t require authors to pre-order copies of their books
— Zwiggelaar said if the publisher thinks a book will sell, it prints
off some copies and makes them available on Amazon.com and various
other booksellers. Authors get a small royalty for each copy sold.

Zwiggelaar’s most literary output is a sci-fi adventure in the Jules
Verne vein, A Journey to the Underside, as well as Marty & Me, the
second book in a planned pirate’s trilogy. Zwiggelaar intends to put
out the final pirate book, Hanzel Sventska, a Faustian tale of someone
who sells his soul, by this summer.

He believes readers enjoy his plots because the action moves along,
without getting bogged down by small or unnecessary details. “They’re
page turners.”

lmichelin@bprda.wpengine.com

Gertjan Zwiggelaar
Artist in Red Deer, Alberta
Address: 4702 33 St, Red Deer, AB T4N 0N5
Phone: (403) 341-4517


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https://www.reddeeradvocate.com/news/trial-starts-for-red-deer-restaurant-owner-who-is-accused-of-flouting-public-health-orders/


Trial starts for Red Deer restaurant owner who is accused of defying
public health orders

Ryan Langlois’ lawyer is trying to get the ‘civil disobediance case’
thrown out of court

    Lana MichelinJun. 23, 2021 3:30 p.m.Local NewsNews

The lawyer for a Red Deer restaurant owner accused of defying public
health orders is attempting to have the court case thrown out on a
technicality.

Yoav Niv, who’s representing Mom’s Diner owner Wesley Langlois, plans
to make a submission to the judge asserting the Crown did not apply to
have Langlois’ statements declared admissible in court.

This goes against proof of identity and raises questions about whether
Langlois was the person who was ticketed, said Niv.

On Wednesday, three witnesses — a public health inspector and two
community peace officers — took the stand and identified Langlois as
the restaurant owner, who was twice ticketed in January for allowing
eat-in dining in contradiction of public health orders.

But “dock identification is not enough,” Niv maintained during
Langlois’ trial in Red Deer provincial court.

Crown prosecutor Martha O’Connor called this an “artificial argument.”

Provincial court Judge Jim Glass suggested the lawyer and the Crown
each make their own written submissions and he will consider both
sides before ruling on the matter.

Glass’s decision is expected in the latter part of July, although a
date has not yet been confirmed.

If Langlois’ trial continues, the restaurant owner is expected to take
the stand next month.

On Wednesday, the Crown called three witnesses who all testified to
seeing people eating and drinking within Mom’s Diner on Jan. 27, 28
and 30 — despite a provincial health order calling for take-out only
restaurant service during this period to reduce the spread of
COVID-19.

After several complaints about the West Park restaurant defying health
orders, health inspector Quentin Schatz said he went to investigate on
Jan. 27 and found at least 20 people consuming food inside what
appeared to be a “full” diner.

Despite speaking to Langlois about the pubic health order and taping a
closure notice on the diner’s door, Schatz testified that he returned
the next day to again find people eating inside the small restaurant.

Schatz told the court he then posted a formal closure order and
presented a copy to Langlois. Two peace officers later came by to give
the restaurant owner a $1,200 ticket for failing to comply with public
health orders.

The Crown’s next witness, Red Deer community peace officer Kenneth
Chiasson, testified that he told Langlois that he could ticket
everybody eating in his diner for defying health orders, but would
only fine him.

The aim wasn’t to be heavy-handed, said Chiasson, but to stop risky
behaviour: “I didn’t want to disrupt everything, so I started at the
top…. I figured they can’t dine if he isn’t open.”

Peace officer Benjamin Gray testified that he went to check on
activity at Mom’s Diner on Jan. 30 and saw a closed sign and the
health order still posted. But when Gray peered into the window, he
saw at least 12 people eating and drinking inside.

Gray told the court that Langlois told him he wasn’t officially open,
but was serving people who had just been at an anti-restrictions rally
earlier that day.

Gray issued Langlois another violation ticket.

In cross-examination by Niv, Gray was asked whether the diners could
have been ordering food for take-out. Gray responded that it didn’t
appear so, since the people in the restaurant were sitting at tables
and eating and drinking.

All three witnesses recalled getting some jeers and cat-calls from
diners as they performed their duties, but Langlois was unfailingly
polite. “He was completely co-operative — except for following (public
health) orders,” said Schatz.

At the start of Wednesday’s trial, Judge Glass opted to defer the
Constitutional Charter challenge portion of proceedings to allow time
for a higher court to make a ruling on a similar case — Rebecca Marie
Ingram (and two Baptist churches) versus the Medical Officer of
Health.

If Langlois’ trial ever gets to the constitutional level, Niv doesn’t
expect this portion to be dealt with until December or later.


lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Martha O'Connor
Called to the bar: 1988 (AB)
Justice and Solicitor General (AB), Dept. of
Crown Prosecutor
Special Prosecutions, Centrium Pl.
300-332 6 Ave. S.W.
Calgary, Alberta T2P 0B2
Phone: 403-297-8477
Fax: 403-355-4518
Email: martha.oconnor@gov.ab.ca


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Chad Williamson <chad@williamson.law>
Date: Fri, 7 May 2021 21:43:02 -0700
Subject: DELAYED RESPONSE TIMES Re: Fwd: YO Chad Williamson Say Hey to
Pastor James Coates and Rotten Ralphy's niece and her foes in the
RCMP, Steve Phillips, Karen Thorsrud and their bosses Kaycee Madu and
Jason Kenney for me will ya???
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To: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com

Thank you kindly for your email. Please be advised that our office is
currently dealing with extremely urgent litigation matters at this
time. Accordingly, it will be extremely difficult for us to receive,
review, and respond to emails at this time.

This email address may be only periodically monitored — or not
monitored at all — and any responses sent during this time will be on
a priority basis. We expect a sizeable backlog during this time and,
accordingly, ask that you exercise patience while we work to resolve
any backlog that develops. We will respond to emails in a priority
sequence until the backlog is cleared.

We apologize for any inconvenience and will get back to you as soon as we can.

If you require immediate assistance, please contact my assistant Susan
Richardson at susan@williamson.law or by calling the main office at
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 8 May 2021 01:46:21 -0300
Subject: Fwd: YO Chad Williamson Say Hey to Pastor James Coates and
Rotten Ralphy's niece and her foes in the RCMP, Steve Phillips, Karen
Thorsrud and their bosses Kaycee Madu and Jason Kenney for me will ya???
To: chris.scott@whistlestoptruckstop.ca

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ministry of Justice <ministryofjustice@gov.ab.ca>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 00:16:35 +0000
Subject: RE: YO Chad Williamson Say Hey to Pastor James Coates and
Rotten Ralphy's niece and her foes in the RCMP, Steve Phillips, Karen
Thorsrud and their bosses Kaycee Madu and Jason Kenney for me will ya???
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>

Thank you for contacting the Honourable Kaycee Madu, Minister of
Justice and Solicitor General. Please be advised your correspondence
has been received and is being reviewed by the Minister’s Office.
Thank you again and take care.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 8 May 2021 01:42:52 -0300
Subject: Fwd: YO Chad Williamson Say Hey to Pastor James Coates and
Rotten Ralphy's niece and her foes in the RCMP, Steve Phillips, Karen
Thorsrud and their bosses Kaycee Madu and Jason Kenney for me will
ya???
To: chris.scott@whistlestoptruckstop.ca, sheilagunnreid
<sheilagunnreid@gmail.com>, chad@williamson.law,
steve.phillips@gov.ab.ca, Karen.Thorsrud@gov.ab.ca,
ministryofjustice@gov.ab.ca, Kaycee.Madu@gov.ab.ca,
rdnews@todayville.com, news@reddeeradvocate.com
Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>, premier <premier@gov.ab.ca>
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https://www.todayville.com/court-orders-whistle-stop-cafe-to-shut-down/

https://www.reddeeradvocate.com/news/ahs-shuts-down-whistle-stop-cafe-for-defying-health-orders/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAkwAnu1-ns

EMERGENCY INJUNCTION: Whistle Stop Café owner could face jail if he
hosts weekend protest
13,971 views
May 7, 2021
Rebel News
1.46M subscribers
http://www.FightTheFines.com​
After authorities raided and seized the Whistle Stop Café, owner,
Chris Scott planned a big weekend protest. To prevent it from
happening, an Alberta court granted an emergency injunction, which
allows anyone involved with Chris'"illegal public gathering" to be
"restrained anywhere in Alberta."
FULL REPORT by Sheila Gunn Reid: https://rebelne.ws/2RxkDbi​

https://www.facebook.com/whistlestoptruckstopcafe/

https://whistlestoptruckstop.ca/
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 21:13:23 -0300
Subject: YO Chad Williamson Say Hey to Pastor James Coates and Rotten
Ralphy's niece and her foes in the RCMP, Steve Phillips, Karen Thorsrud and
their bosses Kaycee Madu and Jason Kenney for me will ya???
To: chad@williamson.law, steve.phillips@gov.ab.ca,
Karen.Thorsrud@gov.ab.ca, ministryofjustice@gov.ab.ca,
Kaycee.Madu@gov.ab.ca, edmontonprosecutions@gov.ab.ca,
dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com, howard.anglin@gmail.com,
centralpeace.notley@assembly.ab.ca,
cypress.medicinehat@assembly.ab.ca, airdrie.east@assembly.ab.ca,
lacombe.ponoka@assembly.ab.ca, brooks.medicinehat@assembly.ab.ca,
bonnyville.coldlake.stpaul@assembly.ab.ca,
theangryalbertan@protonmail.com, david.dickson@dksdata.com,
lboothby@postmedia.com, "Brenda.Lucki"<Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>,
"Bill.Blair"<Bill.Blair@parl.gc.ca>,
acps.calgaryprosecutions@gov.ab.ca, premier <premier@gov.ab.ca>
Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>, sheilagunnreid
<sheilagunnreid@gmail.com>, keean.bexte@rebelnews.com, Newsroom
<Newsroom@globeandmail.com>, sfine <sfine@globeandmail.com>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWj8rbjggxY&ab_channel=RebelNews

Jailed Alberta pastor James Coates to be RELEASED
2,889 views
•Mar 17, 2021
Rebel News
1.45M subscribers
http://www.FreePastorJames.com​
Keean Bexte provides an update on the status of James Coates, the
Alberta pastor who has been behind bars for weeks at the Remand Centre
in Edmonton. Pastor Coates was jailed for holding church services to a
full capacity crowd and not enforcing mandatory masks for all
congregants.
FULL REPORT from Keean Bexte: https://rebelne.ws/3cHDvv1


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IFOiPvROFQ&ab_channel=RebelNews

UPDATE: RCMP re-charge Natalie Klein for defying the lockdown
3,349 views
•Mar 17, 2021
Rebel News
1.45M subscribers
http://www.FightTheFines.com​
The RCMP are reissuing charges against Bladez 2 Fadez owner Natalie
Klein. The niece of former Alberta premier Ralph Klein had her charges
thrown out last week, only for the RCMP to look for a do-over after
she opened her Innisfail, Alberta barbershop in defiance of the
province's lockdown.
FULL REPORT from Sheila Gunn Reid: http://rebelne.ws/2P75CLZ


"The Honourable" Kaycee Madu, Minister of Justice and Solicitor General
Office of the Minister Justice and Solicitor General
424 Legislature Building
10800 - 97 Avenue
Edmonton, AB T5K 2B6
780 427-2339

Steve Phillips
Department of Justice and Solicitor General
Director:
Correctional Services Division
Correctional/Remand Centres
Edmonton Remand Centre
18415 127 St.
Edmonton, Alberta T6V 1B1
Phone: 780-638-5298
Fax: 780-638-5599
Email: steve.phillips@gov.ab.ca

Karen L. Thorsrud
Crown Prosecutor’s Office
11th Flr., Oxford Tower
10235 101 St. N.W.
Edmonton , Alberta T5J 3E9
Phone: 780-638-3352



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2021 18:07:51 -0400
Subject: YO Drew Barnes Remember me? Well its seems that Howie Anglin
lost another big job but he forgot his buddy Jamie Huckabay did too EH
Dave Naylor and Jason Kenney???
To: dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com, howard.anglin@gmail.com,
centralpeace.notley@assembly.ab.ca,
cypress.medicinehat@assembly.ab.ca, airdrie.east@assembly.ab.ca,
lacombe.ponoka@assembly.ab.ca, brooks.medicinehat@assembly.ab.ca,
bonnyville.coldlake.stpaul@assembly.ab.ca,
theangryalbertan@protonmail.com, david.dickson@dksdata.com,
lboothby@postmedia.com, Joshua@edmontonpianotuning.ca, premier
<premier@gov.ab.ca>, "howard.anglin"<howard.anglin@gov.ab.ca>,
premier <premier@ontario.ca>, jbaron@theccf.ca,
policyoptions@irpp.org, JKitchen@jccf.ca, Office of the Premier
<scott.moe@gov.sk.ca>, premier <premier@gov.bc.ca>, premier
<premier@gov.pe.ca>, PREMIER <PREMIER@gov.ns.ca>, premier
<premier@gov.nl.ca>, premier <premier@leg.gov.mb.ca>, premier
<premier@gov.yk.ca>, premier <premier@gov.nt.ca>, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>,
"Ian.Shugart"<Ian.Shugart@pco-bcp.gc.ca>, Newsroom
<Newsroom@globeandmail.com>, Nathalie Sturgeon
<sturgeon.nathalie@brunswicknews.com>, mcu <mcu@justice.gc.ca>,
"martin.gaudet"<martin.gaudet@fredericton.ca>,
"andrea.anderson-mason"<andrea.anderson-mason@gnb.ca>, "Ross.Wetmore"
<Ross.Wetmore@gnb.ca>, "sherry.wilson"<sherry.wilson@gnb.ca>,
jeff.carr@gnb.ca, jake.stewart@gnb.ca, "steve.murphy"
<steve.murphy@ctv.ca>, andre <andre@jafaust.com>
Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>, cps
<cps@calgarypolice.ca>, themayor <themayor@calgary.ca>, eps
<eps@edmontonpolice.ca>, "Paul.Lynch"<Paul.Lynch@edmontonpolice.ca>,
Don.Iveson@edmonton.ca, 311@edmonton.ca, Dale.McFee@edmontonpolice.ca,
blaine.higgs@gnb.ca

https://westernstandardonline.com/2021/03/ucp-caucus-rift-grows-over-kenneys-covid-lockdown/

UCP caucus rift grows over Kenney’s COVID lockdown

Medicine Hat UCP MLA Michaela Glasgo has joined colleagues Todd
Loewen, Dave Hanson, Ron Orr, Angela Pitt and Drew Barnes in
condemning current regulations.
mm

Published 5 days ago on March 4, 2021
By Dave Naylor

Drew Barnes
Free Speech is crucial component of our democracy and democratic
system. I spoke to this on March 8th 2021 in the Legislature.

cypress.medicinehat@assembly.ab.ca,
(403) 528-2191

http://www.michaelaglasgo.com/
(403) 527-5622
brooks.medicinehat@assembly.ab.ca

https://toddloewenucp.ca/
(780) 835-7211
centralpeace.notley@assembly.ab.ca

Ron Orr
(403) 782-7725
lacombe.ponoka@assembly.ab.ca

http://www.AngelaPitt.ca/
(403) 948-8741
airdrie.east@assembly.ab.ca

http://www.davehanson.ca/
(780) 826-5658
bonnyville.coldlake.stpaul@assembly.ab.ca

https://westernstandardonline.com/2021/01/exclusive-fired-kenney-chief-of-staff-lands-60k-severance-payout/

EXCLUSIVE: Fired Kenney chief of staff lands $60K severance payout

“Mr. Huckabay had served as the now-Premier’s Chief of Staff since his
time in opposition going back to 2018. Mr. Huckabay’s severance is in
the range of $60,000,” said his staff

Published 2 months ago on January 13, 2021
By Dave Naylor

Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard and the
Vice-President: News Division of Western Standard New Media Corp. He
has served as the City Editor of the Calgary Sun and has covered
Alberta news for nearly 40 years. dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com

 Jamie Huckabay

Jamie Huckabay was born and raised in Lethbridge, Alberta. He was the
Chief of Staff to the Honourable Jason Kenney, Premier of Alberta,
until January 2021. In addition to his time in public service, he is
an experienced business executive having managed small and large
organizations, from start-ups to corporations internationally.

Jamie was a Director at Taplytics, a mobile technology firm in Toronto
and San Francisco, helping global companies create digital experiences
with artificial intelligence. He was Vice President at Gerson Lehrman
Group in Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney. Building companies from the
ground up and knowing firsthand the successes and challenges of the
start-up world, Jamie was CEO of ushi.com in Shanghai, China and Head
of International at 08liter.com in Seoul, Korea. Jamie has a track
record of building strong relationships, leading cross-cultural teams
and operating in diverse markets after living and working in almost
ten countries - Canada, UK, USA, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong,
Myanmar, Korea, and China.

His personal and continued commitment to public service prompted his
return to Alberta, where he served as a key member for Jason Kenney’s
PC Leadership Campaign, leading convention operations before returning
to the team as Chief of Staff.

Jamie graduated from the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, where he
received the Faculty of Arts Gold Medal. He continued his education as
a Fulbright Scholar at Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced
International Studies (SAIS) in Washington D.C., where he earned his
Masters degree in International Relations and Economics. Jamie also
attended the University of Oxford in England. At Oxford, he received
his Master of Business Administration (MBA) graduate degree and met
his wife.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Howard Anglin <howard.anglin@gov.ab.ca>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2021 21:15:55 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: At DKS DATA we are always 'only a phone call
away' YEA RIGHT Just like you and your pal Kenney, his minion Howie
Anglin and the other corrupt cops and Premeirs are N'esy Pas Higgy???
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>

I am no longer with the Alberta Government. If you need to reach me,
please email me at howard.anglin@gmail.com. If you have ka
government-related inquiry, please contact Jamie Huckabay.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Office of the Premier <Premier@gov.ab.ca>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2021 21:15:55 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: At DKS DATA we are always 'only a phone call
away' YEA RIGHT Just like you and your pal Kenney, his minion Howie
Anglin and the other corrupt cops and Premeirs are N'esy Pas Higgy???
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>

Thank you for contacting the Premier of Alberta.

COVID-19 remains a public health threat. Mandatory health measures are
in effect across the province. For the latest and most accurate
information related to the COVID-19 response, visit
alberta.ca/covid19<http://www.alberta.ca/covid-19> and
canada.ca/covid-19<https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/coronavirus-disease-covid-19.html>.

As COVID-19 hospitalizations decline, Alberta will move ahead with its
plan to gradually ease restrictions. Details are available at A Path
Forward<https://www.alberta.ca/enhanced-public-health-measures.aspx#PathForward>.

Alberta’s COVID-19 vaccine
program<https://www.alberta.ca/covid19-vaccine.aspx> is also underway.
Albertans 75+ (born in 1946 or earlier) can book an appointment
online<https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/topics/Page17295.aspx> or
call Health Link at 811.

Workplace guidance and supports to help businesses and non-profits
affected by COVID-19 are available at
www.alberta.ca/biz-connect<https://www.alberta.ca/biz-connect.aspx>.
For information about the Critical Worker Benefit, visit
www.alberta.ca/critical-worker-benefit<https://www.alberta.ca/critical-worker-benefit.aspx>.
To connect with program staff, email
cwb@gov.ab.ca<mailto:cwb@gov.ab.ca>.

Stay safe.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Higgs, Premier Blaine (PO/CPM)"<Blaine.Higgs@gnb.ca>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2021 21:15:57 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: At DKS DATA we are always 'only a phone call
away' YEA RIGHT Just like you and your pal Kenney, his minion Howie
Anglin and the other corrupt cops and Premeirs are N'esy Pas Higgy???
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>

Thank you for taking the time to write to us.

Due to the high volume of emails that we receive daily, please note
that there may be a delay in our response. Thank you for your
understanding.

If you are looking for current information on Coronavirus, please
visit www.gnb.ca/coronavirus<http://www.gnb.ca/coronavirus>.

If this is a Media Request, please contact the Premier’s office at
(506) 453-2144.

Thank you.


Bonjour,

Nous vous remercions d’avoir pris le temps de nous écrire.

Tenant compte du volume élevé de courriels que nous recevons
quotidiennement, il se peut qu’il y ait un délai dans notre réponse.
Nous vous remercions de votre compréhension.

Si vous recherchez des informations à jour sur le coronavirus,
veuillez visiter
www.gnb.ca/coronavirus<http://www.gnb.ca/coronavirus>.

S’il s’agit d’une demande des médias, veuillez communiquer avec le
Cabinet du premier ministre au 506-453-2144.

Merci.


Office of the Premier/Cabinet du premier ministre
P.O Box/C. P. 6000
Fredericton, New-Brunswick/Nouveau-Brunswick
E3B 5H1
Canada
Tel./Tel. : (506) 453-2144
Email/Courriel:
premier@gnb.ca/premierministre@gnb.ca<mailto:premier@gnb.ca/premier.ministre@gnb.ca>



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Office of the Mayor <TheMayor@calgary.ca>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2021 21:14:10 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: [EXT] At DKS DATA we are always 'only a
phone call away' YEA RIGHT Just like you and your pal Kenney, his
minion Howie Anglin and the other corrupt cops and Premeirs are N'esy
Pas Higgy???
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>

Hello,
Thank-you for taking the time to share your concerns and feedback with
the Mayor's Office. Our team reviews all incoming messages to
determine what assistance or information we might be able to provide.
Requests for City services (i.e., bylaw concerns, water services,
etc.) are best handled by the City’s 311 service. For the most
efficient response, please reach out directly to
311<https://www.calgary.ca/cfod/csc/311.html> - 24 hours a day, 7 days
a week!
**It is important to note what each level of government is responsible
for as it relates to Covid questions/concerns. Each of these links has
the latest up-to-date information available:

  *   Municipal/Calgary<https://www.calgary.ca/csps/cema/covid19/response-to-coronavirus.html><https://www.calgary.ca/csps/cema/covid19/response-to-coronavirus.html>
  *   <https://www.calgary.ca/csps/cema/covid19/response-to-coronavirus.html>
Provincial/Alberta<https://www.alberta.ca/enhanced-public-health-measures.aspx><https://www.alberta.ca/enhanced-public-health-measures.aspx>
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<https://www.calgary.ca/citycouncil/mayor/Pages/home.aspx>

On 3/9/21, David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com> wrote:
> Feel free to enjoy a couple more blogs about you dudes
>
> https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2021/03/walter-matheson-of-rothesay-and-sheila.html
>
> Tuesday, 9 March 2021
> Walter Matheson of Rothesay and Sheila Gunn Reid of Rebel Media are
> back in my blog because of the cops and their recent actions in
> Higgy's Hood
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhyfRaKY4iY&t=1692s&ab_channel=TheAngryAlbertan
>
> Use the system to fix the system.....
>
> https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2021/03/rcmp-threaten-bc-church-with-canada.html
>
> Sunday, 7 March 2021
> RCMP threaten a BC church with Canada Revenue Agency investigation???
> NOW THATS TOO TOO FUNNY INDEED
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: "Higgs, Premier Blaine (PO/CPM)"<Blaine.Higgs@gnb.ca>
> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 16:02:40 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks your minions in the RCMP and your
> buddy Jason Kenney would be upset if Patrick King of Wexit and I had a
> little Pow Wow today EH Billy Blair?
> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
>
> Thank you for taking the time to write to us.
>
> Due to the high volume of emails that we receive daily, please note
> that there may be a delay in our response. Thank you for your
> understanding.
>
> If you are looking for current information on Coronavirus, please
> visit www.gnb.ca/coronavirus<http://www.gnb.ca/coronavirus>.
>
> If this is a Media Request, please contact the Premier’s office at
> (506) 453-2144.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> Bonjour,
>
> Nous vous remercions d’avoir pris le temps de nous écrire.
>
> Tenant compte du volume élevé de courriels que nous recevons
> quotidiennement, il se peut qu’il y ait un délai dans notre réponse.
> Nous vous remercions de votre compréhension.
>
> Si vous recherchez des informations à jour sur le coronavirus,
> veuillez visiter
> www.gnb.ca/coronavirus<http://www.gnb.ca/coronavirus>.
>
> S’il s’agit d’une demande des médias, veuillez communiquer avec le
> Cabinet du premier ministre au 506-453-2144.
>
> Merci.
>
>
> Office of the Premier/Cabinet du premier ministre
> P.O Box/C. P. 6000
> Fredericton, New-Brunswick/Nouveau-Brunswick
> E3B 5H1
> Canada
> Tel./Tel. : (506) 453-2144
> Email/Courriel:
> premier@gnb.ca/premierministre@gnb.ca<mailto:premier@gnb.ca/premier.ministre@gnb.ca>
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: Office of the Premier <Premier@gov.ab.ca>
> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 16:02:41 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks your minions in the RCMP and your
> buddy Jason Kenney would be upset if Patrick King of Wexit and I had a
> little Pow Wow today EH Billy Blair?
> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
>
> Thank you for contacting the Premier of Alberta.
>
> A state of public health emergency remains in effect in Alberta. For
> the latest and most accurate information related to the COVID-19
> response, visit alberta.ca/covid19<http://www.alberta.ca/covid-19> and
> canada.ca/covid-19<https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/coronavirus-disease-covid-19.html>.
>
> Workplace guidance and supports to help businesses and non-profits
> affected by COVID-19 are available at
> www.alberta.ca/biz-connect<https://www.alberta.ca/biz-connect.aspx>.
>
> For information about the Critical Worker Benefit, visit
> www.alberta.ca/critical-worker-benefit<https://www.alberta.ca/critical-worker-benefit.aspx>.
> To connect with program staff, email
> cwb@gov.ab.ca<mailto:cwb@gov.ab.ca>.
>
> Stay safe.
>
>
> https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-government-staff-contracts-1.5291641
>
> Contracts for Alberta government political staffers posted online
>
> List shows which staffers making more than cutoff of $111,395
> CBC News · Posted: Sep 20, 2019 12:30 PM MT
>
> https://policyoptions.irpp.org/authors/howard-anglin/
>
> Howard Anglin served as chief of staff to Jason Kenney, Minister of
> Citizenship and Immigration. He subsequently served as senior adviser,
> legal affairs and policy, and then deputy chief of staff to Prime
> Minister Stephen Harper.
>
>
>
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> On 3/7/21, David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com> wrote:
>>  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCifBUkW0_k&ab_channel=TheAngryAlbertan
>>
>> JAMES KITCHEN, Constitutional Lawyer, Explains how you can EXERCISE YOUR
>> RIGHTS!
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>> This speech was recorded live, November 14th, 2020 at the "Freezing
>> For FREEDOM!" protest at the Alberta Legislature. Join us every
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>> Legislature grounds. To learn more about the Justice Centre for
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>> Use the system to fix the system.....
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>> Welcome to another Angry Albertan Podcast! Tonights' regular guest is
>> David Dickson (dksdata.com), former police officer, cyber security
>> expert, and top-notch investigator/researcher..... Our topic for
>> tonite is using the legal process in the fight against this pandemic
>> INSANITY....... This information is presented for discussion purposes
>> ONLY. Neither David, nor myself are Lawyers, or Doctors, or
>> epidemiologists..... Information presented here may not reflect the
>> views of the World Health Organization, or the Centre for Disease
>> control.... Please consult with your lawyer, or doctor, or both,
>> before acting on any material presented in this discussion.
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>> Tonight we discuss all the relevant issues of the day... including the
>> reality that the Alberta Government has been shuffling Covid 19
>> patients out of hospitals and back into long term care homes....
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>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> Methinks we should talk ASAP N'esy Pas?
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>> Oh My My Did you or FB make my comment go "POOF" just like CBC so often
>> does???
>> Methinks Trudeau The Younger and his media buddies cannot deny that I
>> made CBC keep this comment section published while I was arguing
>> Crown's many nasty legal minions in Federal Court many moons ago N'esy
>> Pas?
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>> https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fundy-royal-riding-profile-1.3274276
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>> Fundy Royal campaign targets middle class with focus on jobs
>> Fundy Royal voters have elected Conservatives all but 1 time in 28
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>> CBC News · Posted: Oct 17, 2015 6:00 AM AT
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>> David Raymond Amos
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>> I just called your buddy Dave and left a voicemail perhaps you dudes
>> and I should talk before I send you an email??? Perhaps you call Dave
>> he should give you my cell number correct?
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>> I was there. So was Ezra Levant, and Sheila Gunn Reid.
>> So thrilled to see a Christian church make a stand!
>> #freejamescoates
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>>  29 Comments
>> David Raymond Amos
>> Did you say Hey to Ezzy Baby for me???
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>> https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/ailed-pastor-calls-in-to-service-as-gracelife-church-violates-covid-19-closure-order-for-the-sixth-time/wcm/89a6d9fe-05dc-4dc8-b414-4652c1b35252/amp/?fbclid=IwAR3L09hhx6sb9SH6C9xJx4BlMIpLIHdriwmMnlTzrHkaUSE6Eig37EgnF7U
>> Jailed pastor calls in to service as GraceLife Church violates
>> COVID-19 closure order for sixth time
>>
>> Associate pastor Jacob Spenst conducted Sunday's service, but said
>> Coates was joining in over the phone although he didn't speak
>> Author of the article: Dustin Cook
>> Publishing date: Mar 07, 2021  • Last Updated 1 hour ago  •  1 minute
>> read
>>
>> Another Sunday service at the GraceLife Church went ahead defying
>> public health orders west of Edmonton, March 7, 2021. Ed
>> Kaiser/Postmedia
>> Another Sunday service at the GraceLife Church went ahead defying
>> public health orders west of Edmonton, March 7, 2021. Photo by Ed
>> Kaiser /Postmedia
>>
>> A Parkland County church held another packed service Sunday morning
>> with its jailed pastor on the phone despite a closure order for
>> COVID-19 restriction violations.
>>
>> Vehicles packed the parking lot of GraceLife Church before the service
>> and two marked RCMP vehicles were on site. People could be seen
>> singing unmasked, breaking COVID-19 orders, on a livestream of the
>> service.
>> Distroscale
>> This was the third-straight service held without church pastor James
>> Coates who remains in the Edmonton Remand Centre. Coates was charged
>> for breaching COVID-19 orders on Feb. 7 and was taken into custody on
>> Feb. 16 after another service was held.
>>
>> Associate pastor Jacob Spenst conducted Sunday’s service, but said
>> Coates was joining in over the phone although he didn’t speak.
>>
>> RCMP spokesman Cpl. Curtis Peters told Postmedia there is no immediate
>> information on enforcement from Sunday’s service, but said there will
>> be “a fulsome update (Monday) for the media.”
>>
>> Coates is excpected to remain in custody until his trial scheduled for
>> May
>> 3-5.
>> The RCMP were watching another Sunday service at the GraceLife Church
>> that went ahead with defying public health orders west of Edmonton on
>> Sunday, March 7, 2021. Photo by Ed Kaiser /Postmedia
>> Ordered closed Jan. 29: AHS
>> The church was ordered closed by Alberta Health Services on Jan. 29 as
>> a result of continuing capacity restriction violations and not
>> adhering to physical distancing. Churches in Alberta are allowed to
>> remain open to 15 per cent capacity under the fire code.
>>
>> When the church was inspected back in January, there were more than
>> 290 people. Attendees were observed unmasked and in violation of the
>> two-metre distancing requirements between households. But the church
>> has held an in-person service each of the six weeks following the
>> order, all of them in violation of the restrictions.
>> More On This Topic
>> Supporters of jailed pastor James Coates march outside the Edmonton
>> courthouse where he was scheduled for a hearing regarding his bail
>> release conditions on Thursday, March 4, 2021. Coates is in remand
>> after failing to comply with COVID-19 public health regulations at his
>> GraceLife Church in Parkland County.
>> GraceLife Church pastor James Coates to remain in jail, trial to run May
>> 3-5
>> GraceLife Church in Parkland County defied Alberta government public
>> gathering restrictions on the weekend and held a church service.
>> Pastor of Edmonton-area church defying public health orders charged by
>> RCMP
>> Parkland County church ordered to close for repeated COVID-19
>> restriction violations, AHS and RCMP plan to attend Sunday
>> duscook@postmedia.com
>> twitter.com/dustin_cook3
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>>     The Angry Albertan
>>     ghFetSopflbaruaamrcy do2iinl3l at 6sn:3cea7so rdeePcMfd  ·
>>     Hey Alberta....
>>     The "Freedom Unity Alliance" from Calgary led by Brad Carrigan,
>> with Art Pawluski's Street Church, completely dropped the ball in
>> Edmonton last weekend.... MONTHS worth of hard work building up a
>> credible platform, from our Edmonton organizers have been flushed down
>> the toilet... in an instant. Our rallies have never received headlines
>> like this.... because we do not provoke it. If you the people,
>> actually want to beat this Covid 19 insanity.... you'd better examine
>> your "leaders." Brad Carrigan.... STEP DOWN.
>>
>>     May be an image of one or more people and text that says 'Bell
>> 3:05 PM AA 55% edmonton.citynews.caè CityNews Police swarmed,
>> threatened, a... CityNews Û Police swarmed, threatened, and pushed
>> during Edmonton's hate- filled protest Four officers were injured in
>> what Edmonton police call a "peaceful" rally Saturday. Why law experts
>> say it was anything but peaceful. Feb 22, 2021, 6:10 PM'
>>     220 Comments
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>>     David Karen Dickson
>>     While there were so many genuine people attending this rally, the
>> same cannot be said for the motivations and agendas of most of the
>> organizers. For those trying to defend the Sat 20th event, I suggest
>> doing as much research on these "leaders" for freedom as you did for
>> COVID19. It is why we cancelled our event for the 20st and will not
>> ally what we are trying to do with their causes. We have one focus -
>> the government response to COVID19 and the impact on all Canadians. We
>> have no affiliations with groups, political parties or religious
>> organizations nor are we angling for donations or subscriptions.
>> Anyone has the opportunity to present a speech for approval. The
>> choice is simple but do your homework if you really want to understand
>> where you are pledging allegiance. It took a great deal of thought,
>> research and time to decide where we would stake our name and
>> reputation. We are proud to stand with the Angry Albertan group for
>> truth, justice and liberty in what we all know is a fight for our
>> lives..
>>
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>> https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/edmonton-police-chief-says-no-evidence-of-racist-intent-behind-the-use-of-tiki-torches-at-legislature-rally?fbclid=IwAR2Y-vsxvZPqqiqQj6aRwG-b0LnTviHCqk7Sw8hDXHGNUE1bno2kWMnyfVw
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>> Edmonton police chief says no evidence of racist intent behind the use
>> of tiki torches at legislature rally
>> Author of the article:Lauren Boothby
>> Publishing date: Mar 03, 2021  •  4 days ago  79 Comments
>>
>>
>>  Police line up between counter-protesters and anti-mask protesters
>> during a rally at the Alberta legislature on Feb. 20, 2021.
>> Police line up between counter-protesters and anti-mask protesters
>> during a rally at the Alberta legislature on Feb. 20, 2021. Photo by
>> Greg Southam /Postmedia
>>
>> Edmonton’s police chief says the department doesn’t have evidence of
>> racist intent behind the use of tiki torches at a February
>> anti-lockdown rally.
>>
>> Chief Dale McFee told media Tuesday he and the Edmonton Police Service
>> don’t condone tiki torches but said some people didn’t know why they
>> were carrying them at the legislature on Feb. 20. Torches are a symbol
>> often associated with white nationalism and McFee confirmed hate
>> crimes detectives were present.
>>
>>  https://youtu.be/z3QT0i97NuM
>>
>> “Because somebody says that’s a white supremacist rally, you have to
>> have evidence that it is, because that’s not what it was … we don’t
>> have that evidence,” he said.
>>
>> McFee said EPS does not condone using the torches and if the “real
>> meaning” behind them was racist then police want to see evidence.
>>
>> “Tiki torches, certainly I denounce that, I mean there’s no place for
>> that. But that said, there’s a difference between the legal threshold
>> in relation to what is a hate crime.”
>>
>>
>> Edmonton Police
>> @edmontonpolice
>> There have been recent media reports of Chief McFee’s comments about
>> the rally at the Alberta legislature. For clarity, here are the
>> Chief’s comments from our media availability earlier today: (1/8)
>> Chief McFee comments on media story
>> youtube.com
>> 9:19 PM · Mar 2, 2021
>>
>> The protest has been widely condemned for white supremacist imagery.
>>
>> Flyers promoting the event included photos from a 2017 white
>> nationalist torch rally in Charlottesville, Va. Premier Jason Kenney
>> and Mayor Don Iveson both condemned the rally last month, saying that
>> “prominent racists” promoted the event and people from hate groups
>> like Soldiers of Odin and Urban Infidels attended.
>>
>> McFee said police need to “take the balance” at rallies, keep the
>> peace, and make sure no one gets hurt.
>>
>> He said there wasn’t any evidence at the rally meeting the definition
>> of a hate crime in the Criminal Code that would lead to a successful
>> prosecution.
>>
>> McFee also reiterated an earlier statement by EPS that the event was
>> largely peaceful, although four officers were punched in the head.
>> Police are still looking to identify the culprit and will hold that
>> person accountable, he said.
>> Racism obvious
>>
>> Evan Balgord, executive director of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network,
>> said the connection to hate at the rally is obvious.
>>
>> “When the police chief says there was no intent that this was a racist
>> rally, it was promoted as that for anyone who was paying attention,”
>> he said.
>>
>> “There’s the Charlottesville imagery, and then there’s picking
>> speakers like Kevin J. Johnston who has already been charged with hate
>> speech.”
>>
>> Johnston was previously charged with a hate crime in Ontario and
>> ordered to pay $2.5 million in a defamation lawsuit over hateful
>> comments.
>>
>> Balgord said every hate group they track has at least some involvement
>> in COVID-19 conspiracy movement.
>>
>> Far-right groups generally believe police support them, he said, and
>> so making strong statements condemning their actions and hate,
>> particularly before an event, is important.
>>
>> “Anything short of full-on condemnation they perceive as support. When
>> the police show up and let them have their rally and lead them on
>> bikes or stand around talking, they perceive that as police
>> protection.”
>>
>> Absence of strong condemnation and consequences emboldens them, he
>> said. Balgord said protesters should have been ticketed for breaking
>> the health restrictions, but Alberta sheriffs have jurisdiction over
>> the legislature grounds.
>> Chief’s comments ‘disheartening’
>>
>> Irfan Chaudhry, a hate crime and violent extremism researcher and
>> director of the office of human rights, diversity and equity at
>> MacEwan University, said the chief’s comments are probably correct
>> given the limits of the Criminal Code.
>>
>> But he said downplaying the significance of the symbols is
>> “disheartening” given recent attacks on Muslim women and an increase
>> in right-wing extremism in Alberta.
>>
>> “Symbols are power in right-wing extremism, and the power in itself is
>> by being able to deny that it’s connected to any type of … hateful
>> ideology,” he said.
>>
>> “Acknowledging the impact that the symbols have on communities of
>> colour — whether or not there’s enough evidence to proceed with any
>> charges, I think that’s another consideration — but it’s that support
>> for the community that I think is missing.”
>>
>> He would like to see more direction for how police can enforce laws on
>> hate speech in Canada.
>>
>> lboothby@postmedia.com
>> Chief Dale McFee
>>
>> On February 1, 2019, Dale McFee was sworn in as Edmonton’s 23rd Chief
>> of Police for the Edmonton Police Service.
>>
>> Chief McFee has an extensive background in policing , including 26
>> years as a police officer in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan (nine years
>> as Chief of Police) and six years as the Deputy Minister of
>> Corrections and Policing in the Ministry of Justice for the
>> Saskatchewan government.
>>
>> From 2011 to 2014 he served as President and Past President of the
>> Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police.  He has previously held the
>> positions of President of the Saskatchewan Association of Chiefs of
>> Police, President of the Saskatchewan Federation of Police Officers,
>> and Director of the Canadian Police Association.
>>
>> Chief McFee has received several commendations in his areas of
>> expertise, including the appointment and subsequent promotion by the
>> Governor General of Canada to the Officer of the Order of Merit of the
>> Police Forces.  He is a recognized Governor General Leadership
>> alumnus, former citizen of the year within his home community, and the
>> recipient of a provincial policing leadership award for “Leadership in
>> Multi-Agency Community Mobilization”.
>>
>> In addition to his extensive policing background, Dale has
>> considerable experience managing small- to mid-size businesses, and
>> has lectured nationally and internationally on the topics of
>> leadership and change management in private and public sector
>> organizations.  Chief McFee speaks with first-hand knowledge and
>> expertise about policing, community engagement, data and analytics,
>> social finance and impact investing.  He is a former member of
>> Entrepreneurs International and served in the capacity of moderator
>> for groups of business leaders within Saskatchewan.
>>
>> Dale is married with three daughters and is an active member in his
>> community.  He has considerable Board experience including three years
>> as a member of the Parkland Health Board.  He is the Past President
>> and current Director of the Western Hockey League’s Prince Albert
>> Raiders.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHM2XEOrY2M
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Risking COVID to live a normal life: JCCF Lawyer James Kitchen
>> 12,459 views
>> •Dec 21, 2020
>> Rebel News
>>
>> 333 Comments
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos 1 second ago
>> Say Hey to James and Ezzy Baby for me today will ya?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  https://www.jccf.ca/staff_members/james-kitchen-staff-lawyer/
>> James Kitchen
>>
>> James has been a lawyer with the Justice Centre since being called to
>> the Alberta bar in 2017. He holds a BA(Hons) in History and Philosophy
>> from the University of New Brunswick and earned his law degree at UNB
>> in 2016. James is a passionate advocate for the fundamental freedoms
>> of Canadians and has a particular interest in freedom of expression.
>> He lives with his wife and two children near Calgary.
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 12:14:05 -0400
>> Subject: Fwd: RE Justice Camp malicious nonsense versus the RCMP,
>> Peter MacKay Federal Court, the Canadian Judicial Council and its
>> cover up of the Monumental Newfy sexual abuse issues
>> To: JKitchen <JKitchen@jccf.ca>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 12:21:36 -0400
>> Subject: RE Justice Camp malicious nonsense versus the RCMP, Peter
>> MacKay Federal Court, the Canadian Judicial Council and its cover up
>> of the Monumental Newfy sexual abuse issues
>> To: nicole.ireland@cbc.ca, meghan.grant@cbc.ca, awoolley@ucalgary.ca,
>> koshan@ucalgary.ca, elaine.craig@dal.ca, elyn.downie@dal.ca,
>> "Kathleen.Ganley"<Kathleen.Ganley@assembly.ab.ca>, investigations
>> <investigations@cbc.ca>, cbcinvestigates <cbcinvestigates@cbc.ca>,
>> gopublic <gopublic@cbc.ca>, alison.crawford@cbc.ca, jcarpay
>> <jcarpay@jccf.ca>, HAnglin <HAnglin@theccf.ca>
>> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, "Ian.McPhail"
>> <Ian.McPhail@cpc-cpp.gc.ca>, mcu <mcu@justice.gc.ca>, "bill.pentney"
>> <bill.pentney@justice.gc.ca>, faddario@addario.ca, info@cjc-ccm.gc.ca,
>> "william.brooks"<william.brooks@fja-cmf.gc.ca>, "PETER.MACKAY"
>> <PETER.MACKAY@bakermckenzie.com>
>>
>> Judge Robin Camp's rape remarks led to appeal before Peter MacKay
>> promoted
>> him
>> Judge asked woman in sex assault case why she didn't just keep her
>> knees together
>> By Alison Crawford, CBC News Posted: Nov 18, 2015 5:00 AM ET
>>
>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/judge-robin-camp-knees-together-1.3322867
>>
>> Robin Camp, who berated sex assault complainant, says counselling will
>> make him a better judge
>> Federal Court justice will fight to keep his job at judicial council
>> hearing in September
>> By Alison Crawford, CBC News Posted: Jul 04, 2016 12:40 PM ET
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2021 18:10:31 -0400
>> Subject: Attn Mike Hovland after I heard the news on CBC we talked
>> Here is a little proof of what I told you is true Ask the media or
>> James Kitchen, Paul Claassen, Mike Lokken Artur Pawlowski and all
>> their cohorts if I am a liar or not
>> To: mike@gbflacrete.org, art@streetchurch.ca, themayor
>> <themayor@calgary.ca>, mike.lokken@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>> don.iveson@edmonton.ca, premier <premier@gov.ab.ca>, "blaine.higgs"
>> <blaine.higgs@gnb.ca>, "Mark.Blakely"<Mark.Blakely@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>,
>> "martin.gaudet"<martin.gaudet@fredericton.ca>, "Paul.Lynch"
>> <Paul.Lynch@edmontonpolice.ca>
>> Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>, JKitchen@jccf.ca,
>> "steve.murphy"<steve.murphy@ctv.ca>, media@jccf.ca, "Robert. Jones"
>> <Robert.Jones@cbc.ca>, english@rcinet.ca
>>
>> Mike Hovland
>> Address: 10201 99th Avenue
>> La Crete , Alberta T0H 2H0
>> Phone: 780-909-4499
>> Website: https://www.gbflacrete.org/
>>
>> Email: mike@gbflacrete.org
>>
>>
>> https://www.rcinet.ca/en/2021/03/05/judge-rules-edmonton-pastor-will-remain-in-jail-until-his-trial-in-may/
>>
>> Judge rules Edmonton pastor will remain in jail until his trial in May
>>
>> By Terry Haig |
>> english@rcinet.ca
>> Posted: Friday, March 5, 2021 13:45
>>
>> An Alberta pastor who has clashed for months with provincial health
>> authorities over COVID-19 restrictions will remain in jail until he
>> goes to trial in May because he refuses to follow a bail condition
>> that requires he comply with public health orders.
>>
>> The pastor, James Coates of the GraceLife Church in Parkland County
>> west of Edmonton, has been in jail for over two weeks and was
>> appealing his bail conditions.
>>
>> After hearing arguments yesterday from Coates’s lawyers, Court of
>> Queen’s Bench Justice Peter Michalyshyn dismissed the bail review this
>> morning.
>>
>> Coates is charged with violating Alberta’s Public Health Act and with
>> breaking a promise to abide by conditions of his bail release, which
>> is a Criminal Code offence.
>>
>> Supporters pray outside an Edmonton court in February after James
>> Coates was arrested for holding Sunday services in violation of
>> COVID-19 rules. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson)
>>
>> His lawyer, James Kitchen, told the court Thursday that Coates can’t
>> follow a bail condition that forbids him from holding services because
>> that would violate his conscience by disobeying God.
>>
>> “This is a matter of deep-seeded personal conscience and religious
>> beliefs for Pastor Coates,” Kitchen said.
>>
>> “He is unable to disobey the God he believes in. He is compelled to
>> obey … as [are] his congregants.”
>>
>> The prosecution argued that Coates’s release would be a danger to the
>> public.
>>
>> Outside the courthouse, dozens of Coates’s supporters gathered–many of
>> them not wearing face masks–and more than 350 attended the hearing via
>> the court’s web conferencing software.
>>
>> Some failed to mute their microphones, leading to frequent disruptions.
>>
>> Supporters rallied outside court yesterday as lawyers for James Coates
>> appealed his bail conditions. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson)
>>
>> Coates turned himself in to police on Feb. 16 and was charged with two
>> counts in contravention of the Public Health Act and charged for
>> failing to comply with a condition of his undertaking.
>>
>> He refused release, saying he could not abide by the conditions.
>>
>> Prior to his detention, his Sunday services were drawing up to 300
>> members, and in early February Coates was charged for a second time
>> for breaking the rules.
>>
>> He was fined in December and Alberta Health Services ordered the
>> church to close in January, but Coates ignored the orders.
>>
>> The church has continued to hold services, even though Coates is in
>> custody.
>>
>> With files from The Canadian Press, CBC News
>>
>> https://www.jccf.ca/alberta-court-jails-pastor-coates-through-to-may-3-5-trial/
>>
>>
>> Alberta court jails Pastor Coates through to May 3-5 trial
>>
>> Mar 5th, 2021
>>
>> EDMONTON: The Justice Centre is very disappointed to announce that
>> Justice Peter Michalyshyn of the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench in
>> Edmonton has ruled that Pastor James Coates of Grace Life Church must
>> remain in jail for the next eight weeks pending his trial, unless he
>> agrees to abide by health orders that violate his Charter freedoms of
>> conscience, religion, expression, association and peaceful assembly.
>>
>> Pastor Coates has been in custody at the Edmonton Remand Centre since
>> February 16, after he refused to sign a bail condition to comply with
>> provincial health orders that violate his Charter freedoms of
>> conscience, religion, expression, association and peaceful assembly.
>>
>> The Justice Centre filed an appeal in the Alberta Court of Queen’s
>> Bench, to seek the release of Pastor Coates from jail prior to a trial
>> date set for May 3-5, 2021, in Alberta Provincial Court in Stony
>> Plain. The Justice Centre represents Pastor Coates and Grace Life
>> Church, a large church just west of Edmonton. Alberta Health Services
>> (AHS) ticketed Pastor Coates, taken Grace Life and Pastor Coates to
>> court, and even attempted to completely shut the Church down.
>> Background information on Pastor Coates’ ordeal is available here.
>>
>> “A trial set eight weeks down the road was too long for an innocent
>> Pastor to be in jail. Pastor Coates is a peaceful Christian minister.
>> He should never have been required to violate his conscience and
>> effectively stop pastoring his church as a condition to be released.
>> In every way this was a violation of Pastor Coates’ Charter rights and
>> freedoms,” states lawyer John Carpay, president of the Justice Centre.
>>
>> “Charter freedoms do not disappear because the government declares
>> regular church services to be outlawed while allowing hundreds of
>> people to fill their local Walmarts,” notes Carpay.
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 20:22:43 -0400
>> Subject: Fwd: Yo Patrick King trust that Billy Blair the RCMP the
>> Edmonton Cops and legions of other cops on both sides of the Medicine
>> Line know my number is 902 800 0369 and some know my personal Cell
>> number
>> To: edmonton@globalnews.ca, Kris.Berezanski@edmonton.ca,
>> Carly.Robinson@citytv.rogers.com
>> Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>, office@gracelife.ca
>>
>> Artur Pawlowski
>> 1740 – 25a Street SW
>> Calgary Alberta
>> T3C 1J9
>>
>> Phone Number: 403-607-4434
>> E-mail us: art@streetchurch.ca
>>
>>
>>
>> https://globalnews.ca/news/7652604/feb-20-walk-for-freedom-covid-19/
>>
>> Protesters gather from across the province at Alberta legislature to
>> fight COVID-19 health measures
>> By Allison Bench Global News
>> Posted February 20, 2021 2:29 pm
>>
>> https://edmonton.citynews.ca/
>>
>> GraceLife church at full capacity for another Sunday service, RCMP on
>> location
>> EDMONTON (CityNews) – A church just west of Edmonton that has been
>> defying public-health guidelines held another packed service on
>> Sunday. The GraceLife church in Parkland County was at full...
>> 660 NEWS STAFF
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 12:44:21 -0400
>> Subject: Yo Patrick King trust that Billy Blair the RCMP the Edmonton
>> Cops and legions of other cops on both sides of the Medicine Line know
>> my number is 902 800 0369 and some know my personal Cell number
>> To: "Paul.Lynch"<Paul.Lynch@edmontonpolice.ca>, "Mark.Blakely"
>> <Mark.Blakely@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, mcu <mcu@justice.gc.ca>,
>> "martin.gaudet"<martin.gaudet@fredericton.ca>
>> Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>, kingpatrick278
>> <kingpatrick278@gmail.com>, premier <premier@gov.ab.ca>, "Bill.Blair"
>> <Bill.Blair@parl.gc.ca>
>>
>> Here proof of acorrupt  cop calling me recently after he falsely
>> arrested a friend of mine in front of Premeir Higgy's house
>>
>> https://archive.org/details/rothesay-cops
>>
>> You just talked to the chicken who made this video Correct?
>>
>> https://www.bitchute.com/video/eat7Meo7M6Bw/
>>
>> Scroll down and enjoy the rest of this email
>>
>> My cell is 506 434 8433 now that you know it too Perhaps you should
>> call me ASAP before anyone else gets arrested???
>>
>> Ya gotta love ethical computers Hence their owners can never cclaim
>> that they don't now the awful truth about themselves
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Bill.Blair@parl.gc.ca
>> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 16:01:19 +0000
>> Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks your minions in the RCMP and your
>> buddy Jason Kenney would be upset if Patrick King of Wexit and I had a
>> little Pow Wow today EH Billy Blair?
>> To: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com
>>
>> Thank you very much for reaching out to the Office of the Hon. Bill
>> Blair, Member of Parliament for Scarborough Southwest.
>>
>> Please be advised that as a health and safety precaution, our
>> constituency office will not be holding in-person meetings until
>> further notice. We will continue to provide service during our regular
>> office hours, both over the phone and via email.
>>
>> Due to the high volume of emails and calls we are receiving, our
>> office prioritizes requests on the basis of urgency and in relation to
>> our role in serving the constituents of Scarborough Southwest. If you
>> are not a constituent of Scarborough Southwest, please reach out to
>> your local of Member of Parliament for assistance. To find your local
>> MP, visit: https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en
>>
>> Moreover, at this time, we ask that you please only call our office if
>> your case is extremely urgent. We are experiencing an extremely high
>> volume of calls, and will better be able to serve you through email.
>>
>> Should you have any questions related to COVID-19, please see:
>> www.canada.ca/coronavirus<http://www.canada.ca/coronavirus>
>>
>> Thank you again for your message, and we will get back to you as soon
>> as possible.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>>
>> MP Staff to the Hon. Bill Blair
>> Parliament Hill: 613-995-0284
>> Constituency Office: 416-261-8613
>> bill.blair@parl.gc.ca<mailto:bill.blair@parl.gc.ca>
>>
>> **
>> Merci beaucoup d'avoir pris contact avec le bureau de l'Honorable Bill
>> Blair, D?put? de Scarborough-Sud-Ouest.
>>
>> Veuillez noter que par mesure de pr?caution en mati?re de sant? et de
>> s?curit?, notre bureau de circonscription ne tiendra pas de r?unions
>> en personne jusqu'? nouvel ordre. Nous continuerons ? fournir des
>> services pendant nos heures de bureau habituelles, tant par t?l?phone
>> que par courrier ?lectronique.
>>
>> En raison du volume ?lev? de courriels que nous recevons, notre bureau
>> classe les demandes par ordre de priorit? en fonction de leur urgence
>> et de notre r?le dans le service aux ?lecteurs de Scarborough
>> Sud-Ouest. Si vous n'?tes pas un ?lecteur de Scarborough Sud-Ouest,
>> veuillez contacter votre d?put? local pour obtenir de l'aide. Pour
>> trouver votre d?put? local, visitez le
>> site:https://www.noscommunes.ca/members/fr
>>
>> En outre, nous vous demandons de ne t?l?phoner ? notre bureau que si
>> votre cas est extr?mement urgent. Nous recevons un volume d'appels
>> extr?mement ?lev? et nous serons mieux ? m?me de vous servir par
>> courrier ?lectronique.
>>
>> Si vous avez des questions concernant COVID-19, veuillez consulter le
>> site : http://www.canada.ca/le-coronavirus
>>
>> Merci encore pour votre message, et nous vous r?pondrons d?s que
>> possible.
>>
>> Cordialement,
>>
>> Personnel du D?put? de l'Honorable Bill Blair
>> Colline du Parlement : 613-995-0284
>> Bureau de Circonscription : 416-261-8613
>> bill.blair@parl.gc.ca<mailto:bill.blair@parl.gc.ca>
>> < mailto:bill.blair@parl.gc.ca>
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Office of the Premier <Premier@gov.ab.ca>
>> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 16:02:41 +0000
>> Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks your minions in the RCMP and your
>> buddy Jason Kenney would be upset if Patrick King of Wexit and I had a
>> little Pow Wow today EH Billy Blair?
>> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
>>
>> Thank you for contacting the Premier of Alberta.
>>
>> A state of public health emergency remains in effect in Alberta. For
>> the latest and most accurate information related to the COVID-19
>> response, visit alberta.ca/covid19<http://www.alberta.ca/covid-19> and
>> canada.ca/covid-19<https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/coronavirus-disease-covid-19.html>.
>>
>> Workplace guidance and supports to help businesses and non-profits
>> affected by COVID-19 are available at
>> www.alberta.ca/biz-connect<https://www.alberta.ca/biz-connect.aspx>.
>>
>> For information about the Critical Worker Benefit, visit
>> www.alberta.ca/critical-worker-benefit<https://www.alberta.ca/critical-worker-benefit.aspx>.
>> To connect with program staff, email
>> cwb@gov.ab.ca<mailto:cwb@gov.ab.ca>.
>>
>> Stay safe.
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Office of the Mayor <TheMayor@calgary.ca>
>> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 16:00:55 +0000
>> Subject: Automatic reply: [EXT] Methinks your minions in the RCMP and
>> your buddy Jason Kenney would be upset if Patrick King of Wexit and I
>> had a little Pow Wow today EH Billy Blair?
>> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
>>
>> Hello,
>> Thank-you for taking the time to share your concerns and feedback with
>> the Mayor's Office. Our team reviews all incoming messages to
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>> Requests for City services (i.e., bylaw concerns, water services,
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>> efficient response, please reach out directly to
>> 311<https://www.calgary.ca/cfod/csc/311.html> - 24 hours a day, 7 days
>> a week!
>> **It is important to note what each level of government is responsible
>> for as it relates to Covid questions/concerns. Each of these links has
>> the latest up-to-date information available:
>>
>>   *
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>>   *
>> <https://www.calgary.ca/csps/cema/covid19/response-to-coronavirus.html>
>> Provincial/Alberta<https://www.alberta.ca/enhanced-public-health-measures.aspx><https://www.alberta.ca/enhanced-public-health-measures.aspx>
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>> The Office of the Mayor
>> Calgary Municipal Building
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>>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: "Higgs, Premier Blaine (PO/CPM)"<Blaine.Higgs@gnb.ca>
>> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 16:02:40 +0000
>> Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks your minions in the RCMP and your
>> buddy Jason Kenney would be upset if Patrick King of Wexit and I had a
>> little Pow Wow today EH Billy Blair?
>> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
>>
>> Thank you for taking the time to write to us.
>>
>> Due to the high volume of emails that we receive daily, please note
>> that there may be a delay in our response. Thank you for your
>> understanding.
>>
>> If you are looking for current information on Coronavirus, please
>> visit www.gnb.ca/coronavirus<http://www.gnb.ca/coronavirus>.
>>
>> If this is a Media Request, please contact the Premier’s office at
>> (506) 453-2144.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>>
>> Bonjour,
>>
>> Nous vous remercions d’avoir pris le temps de nous écrire.
>>
>> Tenant compte du volume élevé de courriels que nous recevons
>> quotidiennement, il se peut qu’il y ait un délai dans notre réponse.
>> Nous vous remercions de votre compréhension.
>>
>> Si vous recherchez des informations à jour sur le coronavirus,
>> veuillez visiter
>> www.gnb.ca/coronavirus<http://www.gnb.ca/coronavirus>.
>>
>> S’il s’agit d’une demande des médias, veuillez communiquer avec le
>> Cabinet du premier ministre au 506-453-2144.
>>
>> Merci.
>>
>>
>> Office of the Premier/Cabinet du premier ministre
>> P.O Box/C. P. 6000
>> Fredericton, New-Brunswick/Nouveau-Brunswick
>> E3B 5H1
>> Canada
>> Tel./Tel. : (506) 453-2144
>> Email/Courriel:
>> premier@gnb.ca/premierministre@gnb.ca<mailto:premier@gnb.ca/premier.ministre@gnb.ca>
>>
>> FYI This me debating years ago while CBC denied it and that fact I was
>> suing the Crown at the very same point in time
>>
>> https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fundy-royal-riding-profile-1.3274276
>>
>> https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fundy-royal-riding-profile-1.3274276
>>
>> https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2015/09/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html
>>
>> Trust that I don't believe what people say of you
>>
>> https://medium.com/@CanjeevaramSiva/is-pat-king-defendable-82f3f99ae4c6
>>
>> Is Pat King Defendable?
>> Siva Canjeevaram
>>
>> Siva Canjeevaram
>>
>> Sep 22, 2020·6 min read
>>
>> Who is Pat King? Probably half of Alberta and all of Red Deer know him
>> by now, and probably remember watching this video “This is going to
>> happen very soon, and if you are going to come into my rural
>> communities, I am going to be this big guy in the White Shirt,
>> ready..” and shows a video of what it appears to be an ANTIFA
>> protester beaten by a big burly guy
>>
>> https://dailyhive.com/calgary/rcmp-investigating-violence-anti-racism-rally-red-deer?auto=true
>>
>> RCMP investigating violence at anti-racism rally in Red Deer
>> Chandler Walter
>> |
>> Sep 23 2020, 9:56 am
>>
>> https://globalnews.ca/news/6119387/edmonton-wexit-support/
>>
>> Hundreds gather for Wexit rally in Edmonton as group’s leader pens
>> letter to Jason Kenney
>> By Allison Bench Global News
>> Posted November 2, 2019 9:35 pm
>>
>> #Wexit Founders Are Far-Right Conspiracy Theorists
>> VoteWexit.com creator Peter Downing is an ex-cop who thinks PM Justin
>> Trudeau is “normalizing pedophilia.”
>> SZ
>> by Steven Zhou
>>
>>
>> https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/wexit-alberta-separatism-red-deer_ca_5deeb964e4b00563b8561e08
>>
>> My Hometown Is The Epicentre Of Wexit. I Went Back To Find Out Why
>> Alberta’s problematic past and separatist movement collide in Red Deer.
>>
>>     By Mel Woods
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/alberta-pastor-charged-with-violating-public-health-act-still-in-custody-for-refusing-conditions-rcmp-1.5313426?cache=%3FclipId%3D104069
>>
>> Alberta pastor charged with violating Public Health Act, still in
>> custody for refusing conditions: RCMP
>>
>> Diego Romero
>> CTVNewsEdmonton.ca Digital Journalist
>>
>> Published Wednesday, February 17, 2021 5:32PM MST
>>
>> EDMONTON -- A pastor west of Edmonton remains in custody Wednesday
>> after he was charged with breaking Alberta's Public Health Act and
>> refusing to agree to the conditions of his release, RCMP said.
>>
>> James Coates turned himself in to police on Tuesday, two days after a
>> service Alberta Health Services and RCMP attended where he "was not
>> complying with his Undertaking release conditions" issued a week
>> earlier, police said.
>>
>> The pastor was charged with two counts of contravention of the Public
>> Health Act and failing to comply with a condition of his undertaking.
>> Related Stories
>>
>>     GraceLife pastor accused of defying health orders turns himself in
>> to police: lawyer
>>     Details of investigation into GraceLife Church expected mid-week
>> as church continues to operate
>>     Alta. faith leaders call on church to follow public health rules
>>     Pastor of church west of Edmonton charged after failing to heed
>> closure order
>>     Alta. church calls defiance of public health orders 'practical,'
>> 'not theological'
>>     Alberta church opens on Sunday despite closure order over COVID-19
>> violations
>>
>> Coates attended a bail hearing Tuesday and was to be released on
>> conditions, but was kept in custody overnight "after refusing to agree
>> to those conditions," RCMP said.
>>
>> Those conditions, his lawyer told CTV News, include stopping church
>> services, but "Coates could not, in good conscience, agree to that
>> condition."
>>
>> The pastor made a court appearance on Wednesday and was given a second
>> court appearance for next Wednesday after he continued to refuse to
>> agree to the conditions, Mounties added.
>>
>> “We’ve been consistent in our approach of escalated levels of
>> enforcement with Pastor Coates, and we were hopeful to resolve this
>> issue in a different manner,” said RCMP Insp. Mike Lokken. “The
>> Pastor’s actions, and the subsequent effects those actions could have
>> on the health and safety of citizens, dictated our response in this
>> situation.”
>>
>> On Tuesday, Coates' lawyer told CTV News his client was willing to go
>> to jail in order to do the "right thing."
>>
>> "His first obedience is to his Lord, is to his God. And normally,
>> obeying Jesus and obeying the government go right in hand," James
>> Kitchen said. "The government's forcing him in to a position where he
>> has to choose between disobeying God and obeying government, or
>> obeying God and disobeying government."
>>
>> GraceLife was first cited for hosting more than 15 per cent of its
>> capacity at a December service and the pastor was fined $1,200.
>>
>> A Court of Queen's Bench order was issued in January when it continued
>> to break COVID-19 restrictions.
>>
>> GraceLife has held services for three consecutive weeks after it was
>> ordered to close at the end of January.
>>
>> The church was not in compliance with the Public Health Act last
>> Sunday, RCMP said Wednesday.
>>
>> A day earlier in a statement, GraceLife said: "We do not see our
>> actions as perpetuating the longevity of COVID-19 or any other virus
>> that will inevitably come along. If anything, we see our actions as
>> contributing to its end – the end of destructive lockdowns and the end
>> of the attempt to institutionalize the debilitating fear of viral
>> infections. Our local church is clear evidence that governmental
>> lockdowns are unnecessary. In fact, it is also evidence of how harmful
>> they are."
>>
>> Criminal lawyer Tom Engel says the RCMP should shut down the church
>> and charge everyone in attendance.
>>
>> "Every person who is in that church knows that they are breaking the
>> law," he said.
>>
>> 'UNCOMMONLY GOOD' RELATIONSHIP WITH RCMP: KITCHEN
>>
>> Coates' lawyer told CTV News GraceLife has an "uncommonly good"
>> relationship with the RCMP because "the police have acted, in this
>> case, very differently than how they have acted with a lot of other
>> people."
>>
>> Complicating Kitchen's claim is the fact that a retired Mountie, Paul
>> Claassen, is GraceLife's chair.
>>
>> "It leads to the impression that there's a double standard, there's a
>> bias in favour of this church," Engel said.
>>
>> But in a statement, Insp. Lokken said: "Our response to the non
>> compliance of the Church has been consistent with our overall RCMP
>> strategy in the Province which is; education, an opportunity for
>> compliance, and lastly, enforcement. Parkland RCMP has managed the
>> investigation into the GraceLife Church with absolutely no influence
>> from any member of their administration or congregation, regardless of
>> any past or present affiliation with our organization.
>>
>> "The RCMP has conducted all their interactions with the Church in an
>> impartial, professional, and respectful manner.”
>>
>> With files from CTV News Edmonton's Bill Fortier and Alex Antoneshyn
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 12:14:05 -0400
>> Subject: Fwd: RE Justice Camp malicious nonsense versus the RCMP,
>> Peter MacKay Federal Court, the Canadian Judicial Council and its
>> cover up of the Monumental Newfy sexual abuse issues
>> To: JKitchen <JKitchen@jccf.ca>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 12:21:36 -0400
>> Subject: RE Justice Camp malicious nonsense versus the RCMP, Peter
>> MacKay Federal Court, the Canadian Judicial Council and its cover up
>> of the Monumental Newfy sexual abuse issues
>> To: nicole.ireland@cbc.ca, meghan.grant@cbc.ca, awoolley@ucalgary.ca,
>> koshan@ucalgary.ca, elaine.craig@dal.ca, elyn.downie@dal.ca,
>> "Kathleen.Ganley"<Kathleen.Ganley@assembly.ab.ca>, investigations
>> <investigations@cbc.ca>, cbcinvestigates <cbcinvestigates@cbc.ca>,
>> gopublic <gopublic@cbc.ca>, alison.crawford@cbc.ca, jcarpay
>> <jcarpay@jccf.ca>, HAnglin <HAnglin@theccf.ca>
>> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, "Ian.McPhail"
>> <Ian.McPhail@cpc-cpp.gc.ca>, mcu <mcu@justice.gc.ca>, "bill.pentney"
>> <bill.pentney@justice.gc.ca>, faddario@addario.ca, info@cjc-ccm.gc.ca,
>> "william.brooks"<william.brooks@fja-cmf.gc.ca>, "PETER.MACKAY"
>> <PETER.MACKAY@bakermckenzie.com>
>>
>> Judge Robin Camp's rape remarks led to appeal before Peter MacKay
>> promoted
>> him
>> Judge asked woman in sex assault case why she didn't just keep her
>> knees together
>> By Alison Crawford, CBC News Posted: Nov 18, 2015 5:00 AM ET
>>
>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/judge-robin-camp-knees-together-1.3322867
>>
>> Robin Camp, who berated sex assault complainant, says counselling will
>> make him a better judge
>> Federal Court justice will fight to keep his job at judicial council
>> hearing in September
>> By Alison Crawford, CBC News Posted: Jul 04, 2016 12:40 PM ET
>>
>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/judge-sex-assault-robin-camp-1.3663552
>>
>> Judge Robin Camp's 'insensitive, rude' comments not grounds for
>> dismissal: lawyer
>> Inquiry will determine if Camp has been remediated or should be
>> removed from office
>> By Meghan Grant, CBC News Posted: Sep 06, 2016 1:57 PM MT
>>
>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/robin-camp-judge-inquiry-calgary-1.3750135
>>
>>
>> FRANK ADDARIO
>> Phone 1.416.649.5055
>> faddario@addario.ca
>>
>>
>>
>> https://www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca/inquiries/goudge/pws/pdf/03/Frank_Addario_CLA.pdf
>>
>> http://davidamos.blogspot.ca/2006/05/mariitime-and-yankee-arseholes.html
>>
>> July 31st, 2005
>>
>> Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin,
>> C/o Norman Sabourin General Counsel and
>> Andrew Grant and Renée Maria Tremblay
>> Canadian Judicial Council
>> 150 Metcalfe Street,
>> Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0W8
>>
>> Shirley Heafey Chair of Commission
>> for Public Complaints against the RCMP
>> P.O. Box 3423 Station "D"
>> Ottawa, ON K1P 6L4
>>
>>                                  RE: Rampant Public Corruption
>>
>>  Hey,
>>
>>       Pursuant to my recent phone calls to Norman Sabourin and various
>> underlings of Shirley Heafey within the Commission for Public
>> Complaints against the RCMP over the years plus my many faxes and
>> emails please find enclosed exactly the same material received by
>> every Attorney General in Canada over the past year. The CD which is a
>> copy of a police surveillance wiretap tape # 139 is served upon you as
>> officers of the court in order that it may be properly investigated.
>> As you can see I have enclosed a copy of a letter sent to the latest
>> Attorney General Mr. Wally Opal in BC. Perhaps he should take a little
>> trip to Surrey and ask your office some hard questions. Perhaps the
>> ghost of my fellow Independent politician, Chuck Cadman may wish to
>> answer few questions now as well. Hard telling not knowing.
>>
>>       I will not bother you with the details of what I am sending to
>> you byway of the certified US Mail because I will be serving identical
>> material to many other Canadian Authorities in hand and tell them I
>> gave this stuff to you first and enclose a copy of this letter. All
>> that is important to me right now is that I secure proof that this
>> mail was sent before I make my way back home to the Maritimes. However
>> I will say I am also enclosing a great deal more material than what
>> Allan Rock had received in the UN. Some of it is in fact the same
>> material the two maritime lawyers, Rob Moore and Franky Boy McKenna in
>> particular received, while I was up home running for Parliament last
>> year. Things have changed greatly in the past year so I have also
>> included a few recent items to spice thing up for you. I am tired of
>> trying to convince people employed in law enforcement to uphold the
>> law. So all I will say for now is deal will your own conscience and be
>> careful how you respond to this letter. If you do not respond. Rest
>> assured I will do my best to sue you some day. Ignorance is no excuse
>> to the law or me.
>>
>> Veritas Vincit
>> David R. Amos
>> 153 Alvin Ave
>> Milton, MA. 02186
>>
>> Label/Receipt Number: ED71 7170 484U S
>> Detailed Results:
>>
>>
>> Delivered Abroad, August 11, 2005, 6:49 am, CANADA
>> Out of Foreign Customs, August 08, 2005, 2:37 pm, CANADA
>> Into Foreign Customs, August 04, 2005, 1:52 pm, CANADA
>> Arrived Abroad, August 04, 2005, 1:52 pm, CANADA
>> International Dispatch, August 03, 2005, 8:32 am, KENNEDY AMC
>> Enroute, August 03, 2005, 8:30 am, JAMAICA, NY 11499
>> Acceptance, August 02, 2005, 10:40 am, QUINCY, MA 02169
>>
>>
>>
>> "Heafey, Shirley"HeafeyS@cpc-cpp.gc.ca wrote:
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: "Heafey, Shirley"HeafeyS@cpc-cpp.gc.ca
>> Sent: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:10:00 -0400
>> To: "David Amos"motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>> Subject: Re: Just so you know
>>
>>
>> Just so you know, there was no message attached to the e-mail sent to
>> me. SO, in fact, I don't know what you think I should now know. Try
>> again.
>> SH
>>
>>
>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/judge-removal-canadian-judicial-council-1.3314962
>>
>> Robin Camp case: What does it take to remove a judge from the bench?
>> Only two federally appointed judges recommended for dismissal since 1971
>>
>> By Nicole Ireland, CBC News Posted: Nov 12, 2015 5:00 AM ET
>>
>> The case of a judge who asked a woman, "Why couldn't you just keep
>> your knees together?" during an Alberta sexual assault trial is
>> raising questions about what kind of behaviour warrants removing a
>> justice from the bench.
>>
>>     Judge under review for berating sex assault complainant
>>     Read the complaint against Justice Robin Camp
>>
>> Only two judges have been recommended for removal by the Canadian
>> Judicial Council — a group of federally appointed judges tasked with
>> investigating complaints about their peers — since it was created in
>> 1971.
>> Trevor Farrow
>>
>> Trevor Farrow, associate dean at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto,
>> says it's 'a good thing' that judges don't lightly recommend
>> dismissing their peers. (Osgoode Hall Law School)
>>
>> In both cases, the judges resigned before the recommendations made it
>> to Parliament, which ultimately decides whether or not to dismiss a
>> Canadian judge.
>>
>> On Monday, the judicial council announced it was reviewing the conduct
>> of Robin Camp while he was an Alberta provincial court judge in 2014,
>> when he presided over a case involving a 19-year-old woman who alleged
>> she was sexually assaulted by a Calgary man during a house party.
>>
>> According to the complaint that prompted the review, in addition to
>> the "keep your knees together" comment, Camp asked during the trial,
>> "Why didn't you just sink your bottom down into the basin so he
>> couldn't penetrate you?" (The woman alleged she was sexually assaulted
>> over a sink).
>>
>> "At numerous points during the proceeding, Justice Camp was dismissive
>> of, if not contemptuous towards, the substantive law of sexual assault
>> and the rules of evidence," the complaint said. "In particular, he
>> showed disregard, if not disdain, for the rape shield provisions under
>> the Criminal Code, the legal definition of consent to sexual touching,
>> and the Criminal Code provision and case law regarding the doctrine of
>> recent complaint.
>>
>> "His articulated disrespect for these legal rules was, in some
>> instances, combined with a refusal to apply them."
>>
>> The Canadian Judicial Council must decide whether the complaint
>> against Camp, now a Federal Court judge, has merit and, if so, whether
>> it warrants the establishment of a review panel that could call a
>> public inquiry.
>>
>> In the last four decades, the judicial council has ordered public
>> inquiries for 11 complaints against judges. Two of those inquiries are
>> still ongoing. In some cases, the judge resigned before the inquiry
>> was complete. For example, the late Judge Robert Flahiff was convicted
>> in 1999 for laundering money for a drug dealer back in the 1980s,
>> before he became a judge. He resigned before the judicial council
>> finished its inquiry.
>>
>>     Former Quebec judge convicted of money laundering dies
>>     Convicted Quebec judge resigns
>>
>> In other cases, the council recommended that the judges involved not
>> be removed from the bench — even if there had been inappropriate
>> conduct.
>>
>> "It's not a fait accompli that if you have engaged in some kind of
>> misconduct you should be removed from office," said Norman Sabourin,
>> the Canadian Judicial Council's executive director, in an interview
>> with CBC News on Tuesday. "Assessing the gravity of a misconduct is a
>> difficult exercise."
>> Media placeholder
>>
>> Canadian Judicial Council exec on review of judge's behaviour7:06
>>
>> The overarching question in making that determination, the council
>> said, is whether the judge has the required confidence of the public
>> to continue to preside in court.
>>
>> So when has the council recommended that a judge be removed? Here are
>> the two cases in which that happened. The details come from documents
>> available on the Canadian Judicial Council's website:
>>
>> Paul Cosgrove, Ontario Superior Court
>>
>> On April 22, 2004, Ontario's attorney general at the time, Michael
>> Bryant, asked the council to consider whether Judge Paul Cosgrove
>> should be removed from office based on his conduct in the murder trial
>> of Julia Yvonne Elliott.
>>
>> The attorney general said Cosgrove had ordered an "unwarranted stay"
>> of proceedings.
>>
>>     Ontario judge resigns over misconduct
>>
>> "The proceedings tarnished the administration of justice and turned
>> into an exercise of vilifying the state built on irrelevant,
>> inappropriate and harmful findings," Bryant wrote. "The proceedings
>> trivialized the charter and deprived society and the victim's family
>> of any semblance of justice."
>>
>> The attorney general's complaint alleged that Cosgrove had
>> demonstrated similar behaviour in other court cases, citing Court of
>> Appeal findings that the judge had "reduced the proceedings to a
>> 'procedural nightmare' for the Crown" and shown a "suspicious attitude
>> toward the government that caused him to misapprehend some of the
>> evidence before him."
>>
>> On March 30, 2009, after a public inquiry, the Canadian Judicial
>> Council recommended that Cosgrove be removed from office. The judge
>> resigned the following month.
>>
>> Jean Bienvenue, Superior Court of Quebec
>>
>> In December 1995, the then attorneys general of Quebec and Canada,
>> Paul Bégin and Allan Rock, asked the Canadian Judicial Council for a
>> public inquiry into the conduct of Judge Jean Bienvenue during the
>> trial of Tracy Théberge, who was convicted of second-degree murder in
>> death of her husband.
>>
>> According to the inquiry report, Bienvenue made offensive comments
>> about Jewish victims of the Holocaust and about women while sentencing
>> the accused.
>>
>> "It is said that when women ascend the scale of virtues, they reach
>> higher than men, and I have always believed this. And it is also said,
>> and this too I believe, that when they decide to degrade themselves,
>> they sink to depths to which even the vilest man could not sink,"
>> Bienvenue said.
>>
>> The judge also said: "At the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in
>> Poland, which I once visited horror-stricken, even the Nazis did not
>> eliminate millions of Jews in a painful or bloody manner. They died in
>> the gas chambers, without suffering."
>>
>> During the inquiry, Bienvenue argued that he had not meant to be
>> offensive and that he had met with the Canadian Jewish Congress. He
>> also issued a statement apologizing to women offended by his remarks.
>>
>> On June 25, 1996, four out of five members of the Canadian Judicial
>> Council committee recommended that Bienvenue be removed from office.
>> They wrote, "We believe that if Mr. Justice Bienvenue were to preside
>> over a case, a reasonable and informed person... would have a
>> reasonable apprehension that the judge would not execute his office
>> with the objectivity, impartiality and independence that the public is
>> entitled to expect from a judge."
>>
>> Bienvenue resigned before the recommendation went to Parliament.
>>
>> What does the low number of removals mean?
>>
>> The rarity of judges removing their peers from the bench is a
>> reflection of the value Canada places on an independent judiciary,
>> said Trevor Farrow, a professor and associate dean at Osgoode Hall Law
>> School in Toronto.
>>
>> "Judges don't recommend removal lightly," he said. "That's a good
>> thing when you're balancing the requirement that judges have the
>> courage and independence to make tough choices in often really
>> challenging circumstances that involve vulnerable people."
>>
>> At the same time, Farrow said, it's important that the Canadian
>> Judicial Council has "the power to recommend sanctions, including
>> removal if warranted, to maintain the public's trust and confidence."
>>
>> With files from Kathleen Harris, Alison Crawford and The Canadian Press
>>
>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/robin-camp-judge-close-knees-inquiry-1.3743554
>>
>> Federal Court judge Robin Camp faces inquiry over sexual assault trial
>> conduct
>> 7-day public hearing will determine if judge who referred to rape
>> victim as 'the accused' can remain on bench
>> By Meghan Grant, CBC News Posted: Aug 31, 2016 6:15 PM MT
>>
>> An inquiry begins Tuesday afternoon for a judge, formerly with Alberta
>> provincial court, who is facing dismissal from the Federal Court over
>> controversial comments directed at a sexual assault complainant in
>> 2014.
>>
>>     Judge Robin Camp's 'insensitive, rude' comments not grounds for
>> dismissal: lawyer
>>
>> The public hearing takes place before a panel of five — three superior
>> court judges and two senior lawyers — over the next week-and-a-half at
>> the Westin Hotel in downtown Calgary.
>>
>> "These are public hearings, they're open and they're transparent,"
>> said Johanna Laporte with the Canadian Judicial Council (CJC).
>>
>> "The council recognizes that public confidence in the justice system
>> can only be enhanced by these open proceedings and it's the council's
>> mandate to ensure that serious matters involving judges are thoroughly
>> investigated."
>>
>>     Robin Camp, who berated sex assault complainant, says counselling
>> will make him a better judge
>>     Inquiry into Judge Robin Camp to hear from advocates for sex assault
>> victims
>>
>> Alberta Attorney General Kathleen Ganley forced the inquiry in January
>> after a complaint made by two law professors at the University of
>> Calgary and Dalhousie University.
>>
>> After opening remarks by presenting counsel and Camp's lawyer,
>> intervenors — women's groups and sexual assault centres — will make
>> submissions and finally, the panel will hear from Camp himself, who
>> has previously indicated he plans to apologize.
>>
>> Panel members will then deliberate before releasing a decision —
>> likely in written form — on whether or not Camp should remain on the
>> bench at the Federal Court.
>>
>> "The inquiry is squarely tasked with determining if the facts
>> surrounding the complaint are serious enough to warrant the judge's
>> removal," said Laporte.
>> 'Why didn't you just sink your bottom down'
>>
>> During the 2014 trial, Camp asked the complainant "why couldn't you
>> just keep your knees together" during her testimony in his role as an
>> Alberta Provincial Court judge.
>>
>> The then 19-year-old woman alleged she was raped by Alexander Scott
>> Wagar over a bathroom sink at a Calgary house party. Throughout the
>> trial, Camp repeatedly referred to her as "the accused."
>>
>> "Why didn't you just sink your bottom down into the basin so he
>> couldn't penetrate you?" Camp asked the woman.
>>
>> "That kind of comment goes back to the dinosaur age as far as I'm
>> concerned," said Danielle Aubry with Calgary Communities Against
>> Sexual Abuse.
>>
>> Camp acquitted Wagar, but the Alberta Court of Appeal overturned the
>> ruling and ordered a new trial. By that time, Camp had been elevated
>> to the Federal Court.
>>
>> "When you become a judge ... that's a privilege, it's a very high
>> position," said Aubry.
>>
>> "It's incredulous to me that there are people sitting on the bench
>> that are not educating themselves about issues like sexual violence."
>>
>> In ordering a new trial, the Court of Appeal wrote that the judge's
>> comments raised doubts about his understanding of sexual assault laws.
>>
>> The Canadian Judicial Council received the initial complaint from four
>> law professors at Dalhousie University and the University of Calgary.
>> After that, dozens more flooded in.
>> Gender and sensitivity training
>>
>> In his notice of response posted to the CJC website, Camp indicated
>> that he agrees his comments were "insensitive and inappropriate," but
>> says he has undergone gender and sensitivity training.
>>
>> Camp arranged and paid for his sensitivity training himself, during
>> which he worked with a Superior Court judge, a psychologist and an
>> expert on the law of sexual assault.
>>
>> He has indicated that he wishes to remain a judge.
>>
>> The council members include Justice Austin Cullen, who will act as
>> chairperson, Justice Deborah Smith and Justice Raymond Whalen. The two
>> senior lawyers, Karen Jensen and Cynthia Petersen, were appointed by
>> the federal justice minister.
>>
>> Since the CJC was created in 1971, only two judges have been
>> recommended for removal. but both ultimately resigned before
>> Parliament, which has the final say, made its decision.
>>
>> Seven days have been set aside for the hearing but it is not expected
>> to run its allotted time. On Tuesday, it starts at 2 p.m. MT. but will
>> begin at 9 a.m. MT otherwise.
>>
>>
>>
>> Yea right tell me another one just like your former boss Landslide did.
>>
>> Tuesday, November 28, 2006
>>
>> OTTAWA — Anne McLellan has added her name to the list of former
>> Liberal cabinet ministers who say they were not fully briefed by the
>> RCMP on Maher Arar.
>>
>> McLellan was appointed public safety minister in December 2003 and,
>> shortly thereafter, called a judicial inquiry into the case.
>>
>> This fall, Justice Dennis O'Connor concluded the RCMP passed
>> inaccurate information to the United States on Arar that likely led to
>> his detention and torture in Syria.
>>
>> On Tuesday, McLellan confirmed she was briefed on the "Arar situation"
>> by RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli and former CSIS director
>> Ward Elcock.
>>
>> But she said she only learned that the RCMP had passed along false
>> information on Arar to the U.S. when the O'Connor report was released
>> in late September.
>>
>> The RCMP described Arar to U.S. authorities as an Islamic extremist
>> suspected of ties to al-Qaida, even though he was never more than a
>> "person of interest" in an RCMP national-security investigation.
>>
>> "In my presence, (neither) Commissioner Zaccardelli, nor anyone else,
>> either from the RCMP or CSIS, (ever) referred to Mr. Arar as an
>> Islamic extremist," McLellan told a Commons public safety committee
>> that has been probing the Arar affair.
>>
>> "That was an expression that was never used in relation to Mr. Arar in
>> my presence. Ever."
>>
>> McLellan's statements appear to contradict assertions by Zaccardelli
>> that he briefed the government about the mistakes by the RCMP.
>>
>> In an appearance before the same committee in late September,
>> Zaccardelli said he informed former solicitor general Wayne Easter
>> about the errors. The solicitor general was the minister in charge of
>> the RCMP before the position was abolished last year.
>>
>> But last month, Easter testified that he was never so informed.
>>
>> "There is no situation where the RCMP came to me and basically said,
>> 'We screwed up. We provided improper information,’” he said at the
>> time.
>>
>> Earlier this month, Elcock of CSIS also testified he did not learn of
>> the RCMP's mislabeling of Arar until after the O'Connor report was
>> released.
>>
>> On Tuesday, McLellan described an environment in which concern about
>> the Arar affair reached to the top of the political ladder.
>>
>> She said that soon after former prime minister Paul Martin took office
>> in December 2003, he asked her to "get to the bottom of what had
>> happened to Mr. Arar."
>>
>> Ottawa Citizen
>>
>>
>> That was what Landslide Annie had to say about the RCMP before Dion
>> was picked as leader of the liberals aweek or so ago. Ask me what I
>> sent Wayne Easter as Paul Martin was being crowned as Humpty Dumpty
>> three years ago. Clearly I sent something EH?
>>
>> Jan 3rd, 2004
>> Mr. David R. Amos
>> 153 Alvin Avenue
>> Milton, MA 02186
>> U.S.A.
>>
>> Dear Mr. Amos
>> Thank you for your letter of November 19th, 2003, addressed to my
>> predecessor, the Honourble Wayne Easter, regarding your safety. I
>> apologize for the delay in responding.
>> If you have any concerns about your personal safety, I can only
>> suggest that you contact the police of local jurisdiction. In
>> addition, any evidence of criminal activity should be brought to their
>> attention since the police are in the best position to evaluate the
>> information and take action as deemed appropriate.
>> I trust that this information is satisfactory.
>>
>> Yours sincerely
>> A. Anne McLellan
>>
>> David Amos motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 16:21:24 -0800 (PST)
>> From: David Amos motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>> Subject: Within this email is the proof that Shirley Heafey and
>> everybody else is a liar
>> To: info@bccla.org, jsliter@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>> CC: giuliano.zaccardelli@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, rod.smith@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>> stephane.vaillancourt@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, cnichols@norwellpolice.com,
>> info@pco-bcp.gc.ca
>>
>> http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2006/12/06/2654646-cp.html
>>
>> "McLellan, Anne - M.P."McLellan.A@parl.gc.ca wrote:
>> Subject: RE: Re: Lets all go through the looking glass to check the
>> Integrity of the Talking Heads in BC tonight
>> Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 15:45:08 -0500
>> From: "McLellan, Anne - M.P."McLellan.A@parl.gc.ca
>> To: "David Amos"motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>>
>> Dear Mr. Amos,
>>
>> On behalf of Ms. McLellan I would like to thank you for your email
>> message concerning the current federal election. I regret that the
>> volume of messages prevented me from responding sooner.
>>
>> Your message has been brought to Ms. McLellan`s attention, as she is
>> always pleased to receive comments, both positive and negative.
>>
>> Again, thank you for bringing this matter to Ms. McLellan`s attention.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Kirsten Odynski
>> Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> > > > From: "McKnight, Gisele"McKnight.Gisele@kingscorecord.com
>>> > > > To: lcampenella@ledger.com
>>> > > > Cc:motomaniac_02186@hotmail.com
>>> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 2:53 PM
>>> > > > Subject: David Amos
>>> > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > > > Hello Lisa,
>>> > > > > David Amos asked me to contact you. I met him last June after he
>>> > became
>>> > > an
>>> > > > > independent (not representing any political party) candidate in
>>> > > > > our
>>> > > > federal
>>> > > > > election that was held June 28.
>>> > > > >
>>> > > > > He was a candidate in our constituency of Fundy (now called
>>> > > Fundy-Royal).
>>> > > > I
>>> > > > > wrote a profile story about him, as I did all other candidates.
>>> > > > > That
>>> > > story
>>> > > > > appeared in the Kings County Record June 22. A second story,
>>> > > > > written
>>> > by
>>> > > > one
>>> > > > > of my reporters, appeared on the same date, which was a report
>>> > > > > on
>>> the
>>> > > > > candidates' debate held June 18.
>>> > > > >
>>> > > > > As I recall David Amos came last of four candidates in the
>>> > > > > election.
>>> > The
>>> > > > > winner got 14,997 votes, while Amos got 358.
>>> > > > >
>>> > > > > I have attached the two stories that appeared, as well as a
>>> > > > > photo
>>> > taken
>>> > > by
>>> > > > > reporter Erin Hatfield during the debate. I couldn't find the
>>> > > > > photo
>>> > that
>...

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<Michelle.Rempel@parl.gc.ca>		Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 3:11 AM
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On behalf of the Honourable Michelle Rempel Garner, P.C., M.P. thank you for your email. Our office appreciates the time you took to get in touch with the MP. Due to the high volume of email correspondence our office receives, below is a guide on how your email will be responded to:

 

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<charlie.angus@parl.gc.ca>		Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 3:11 AM
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Thank you very much for writing. Please know that my team have taken note your concerns and expressed views. While my staff and I read all correspondence, the volume of e-mails we receive means that some form letter campaigns and non-critic/non-riding correspondence may not receive a direct response.

 

If you are a constituent of Timmins – James Bay, my riding offices are here to help with federal issues. You can reach my team, by calling toll-free:

 

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Dancho, Raquel - M.P.

<Raquel.Dancho@parl.gc.ca>		Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 3:11 AM
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>

Hello,   

We appreciate you taking the time to contact the Office of Raquel Dancho, Member of Parliament for Kildonan—St. Paul. 

Our office receives 100’s of emails each week:  

·  If you are a Kildonan–St. Paul constituent, please reply to this email with your name and current address with postal code. This will ensure we expedite your correspondence. We may also be reached by phone at the Winnipeg office at 204-984-6322. We would be pleased to assist you. 

·   If your organization is requesting a meeting with MP Dancho, please allow 2 weeks for staff to process your request. 

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·   If you are contacting MP Dancho regarding an immigration case from outside of Canada unfortunately we are unable to assist. To avoid delays please direct your inquiry to Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada at this link: My immigration or citizenship application - Canada.ca 

Sincerely, 

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<charlie.angus@parl.gc.ca>		Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 3:11 AM
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<peter.julian@parl.gc.ca>		Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 3:11 AM
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On behalf of Peter Julian, Member of Parliament (New Westminster-Burnaby), we would like to thank you for contacting our office. Peter always welcomes and appreciates receiving your comments and suggestions, which are helpful to his work in both Canada’s Parliament and in the Riding.  

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As always, we serve the constituents of New Westminster-Burnaby with resources, questions and concerns regarding federal departments and agencies. Please don’t hesitate to be in touch with our office with your concerns. We encourage you to reach our Constituency Office team by email peter.julian.c1@parl.gc.ca and telephone: 604-775-5707. In-person appointments can be arranged when necessary, but are subject to change according to the most recent health regulations.

Stay healthy and safe in these challenging times.

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Soyez assuré que, malgré le grand nombre de courriels que nous recevons chaque jour, nous accordons toujours la plus haute priorité aux messages des commettants de New Westminster-Burnaby et que nous examinerons votre courriel le plus tôt possible. NB : veuillez-vous assurer SVP de bien nous indiquer les questions qui vous préoccupent qui relève du domaine fédéral, ainsi que votre nom, votre prénom, et adresse postale, y compris le code postal. Merci.

Comme toujours, notre bureau de circonscription est disponible pour vous aider concernant toute question ou préoccupation relevant de la compétence fédérale. Nous vous encourageons à contacter notre équipe par téléphone 604-775-5707 et par courriel peter.julian.c1@parl.gc.ca pour obtenir de l’aide. Des rendez-vous en personne peuvent être fixés en cas de besoin mais sont susceptibles d'être modifiés en fonction des règlements sanitaires les plus récents.

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Why all the talk of Jagmeet Singh??? Methinks Trudeau The Younger has to keep Yves-François Blanchet Happy Happy Happy too N'esy Pas?

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Election unlikely in 2023 despite recent political posturing, pundits say
 

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Election unlikely in 2023 despite recent political posturing, pundits say

Parliament is set to return Monday after a six-week hiatus


Darren Major· CBC News ·
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, top left, Conservative Party of Canada Leader Pierre Poilievre, top right, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, bottom left, and Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet. (Sean Kilptraick/The Canadian Press, Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press, Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press, Blair Gable/Reuters)
 
Even though federal political leaders have been using some heated, election-style language to snipe at each other in recent weeks, pundits say it's unlikely Canadians will go to the polls in 2023.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was active during the six-week parliamentary break, making stops in Saskatoon, Windsor, Ont. and Trois-Rivieres, Que. to talk up his government's accomplishments. He also occasionally took shots at Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and his recent assertion that "everything seems broken" in Canada.

"Crossing your arms and saying 'Canada is broken' is not the way to build a better future for Canadians," Trudeau said.

Poilievre, meanwhile, toured Quebec in an attempt to boost his poll numbers in that province. He also met with Indigenous leaders in Vancouver to discuss a proposed opt-in policy for First Nations to share the revenue generated by resource development on their lands.

The Conservative leader also hit back at Trudeau on Friday during an address to his caucus prior to the House of Commons' return. He blamed the prime minister for inflation, the recent travel chaos and deficit spending while appearing to goad Trudeau into an election battle.

"If you're not responsible for any of these things, if you can't do anything about it, then why don't you get out of the way and let someone lead who can?" Poilievre said as his MPs cheered and applauded.

WATCH | Poilievre says 'everything is worse' under Trudeau

Addressing his Conservative caucus, Poilievre says 'everything is worse' under Trudeau

3 days ago
Duration 1:44
Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre addresses his Conservative caucus and highlights crime rates during Justin Trudeau's time as prime minister.

Speaking to his own caucus earlier this month, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh touted his party's confidence-and-supply agreement with the Liberals, saying that the deal was "delivering for Canadians."

But Singh also indicated that he had his eyes set higher.

"We're going to fight for every bit of help and hope we can win for Canadians and then I'm going to run for prime minister of Canada," he said.

But Tim Powers of Summa Strategies said he doesn't think any of the leaders are itching for an election right now, despite their recent posturing.

"The conditions don't exist for an election this year," he told CBC. "I don't think anybody's really going to have a breakaway moment."

WATCH | How do the federal parties stack up as MPs prepare to return to Ottawa?

How do the federal parties stack up as MPs prepare to return to Ottawa?

2 days ago
Duration 10:19
Shachi Kurl, president at the Angus Reid Institute, and Éric Grenier, writer and publisher of TheWrit.ca, joined Power & Politics Friday to discuss the latest polling data.

Powers said the Liberals are unlikely to seek a new mandate with the threat of an economic slowdown this year hanging over the government's head.

"We will only have an election this year if Justin Trudeau sees the winning conditions exist for him," Powers said. "I don't think the Liberals are yet ready to manufacture an election."

Sharan Kaur of SK Consulting agreed that an election is unlikely this year. She suggested the Conservatives will still use the economy to needle the Liberals and position themselves as a government-in-waiting.

"I would say the biggest looming issue of 2023 is going to be cost of living, a potential recession, and that will probably be the main pivot point for the Conservatives," she said, adding that she thinks the Conservative Party is the only one that wants an election this year.

But Powers said Poilievre might be happy to wait and give himself more time to pitch himself to Canadians.

"I think Poilievre is content to have the time to let the Liberals age and build a brand and a platform that can be useful to him," he said.

If the Liberal-NDP deal holds for its intended duration, the next election won't happen until 2025. 

But the agreement may face a tougher test in 2023 than it did in 2022 because it includes more benchmarks for progress — including a commitment to table pharmacare legislation. Singh also threatened to pull out of the deal if the Liberals don't address the health-care crisis.

"The confidence-and-supply agreement gets a little bit more muscular [this year]," said Brad Lavigne of Consul Public Affairs.

Snow covers a fence surrounding Parliament Hill, Friday, January 20, 2023 in Ottawa. Snow covers a fence surrounding Parliament Hill on January 20, 2023. MPs are set to return to the House of Commons on Monday. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

NDP MP Daniel Blaikie told CBC News this month that the 2023 federal budget will be a key factor in deciding whether the Liberals are holding up their end of the deal.

But even if the deal falls apart this year, Lavigne said, it wouldn't necessarily trigger an election.

"If you look back at recent history, [former prime minister Stephen] Harper had minority Parliaments in which he had no such supply agreement with any one opposition party, yet he maintained the confidence of the House for many years," he said. "That is an option that is open to Mr. Trudeau as well."

Even if an election doesn't happen this year, Kaur said she doesn't expect the political posturing to stop.

"We're going to see a lot of pandering in the next year, especially around economic challenges, cost of living for people — just like the bread-and-butter issues," she said.

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Darren Major is a senior writer for CBC's Parliamentary Bureau. He can be reached via email darren.major@cbc.ca or by tweeting him @DMajJourno.

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David Amos
Methinks Yves-François Blanchet is the dude who decides when there will be an election N'esy Pas?
 
 
 
 
 

Parliament returns — with a lot of 'unfinished business' on its plate

Even if there's no election this year, the parties are busy positioning themselves for one

 
Aaron Wherry· CBC News ·
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre greet each other as they gather in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa on Sept. 15, 2022. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press) 
 
This is an excerpt from Minority Report, a weekly newsletter on federal politics. If you haven't subscribed yet, you can do that by clicking here.

When I spoke to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in December, he said "there's a lot of unfinished business." He was speaking about his decision to stay on as leader of the Liberal Party. But that statement also describes the parliamentary year that begins on Monday when MPs convene for the first time in 2023.

Last year was a reasonably productive one for Parliament. But those 12 months also left behind a sizeable pile of work that remains to be completed. And while the Liberal government has much left to do if it hopes to be re-elected, the major opposition parties can't quite claim yet that they've done all they can to make their own pitches to voters.

For those reasons, an election in 2023 seems unlikely. But it should still be a consequential year — and it will start with the legislation that was still in progress when MPs and senators broke for the holidays.

What's old is new again

Before the break, the government's newest firearms legislation (C-21) was stuck at the public safety committee as critics accused it of overreach. In the face of that criticism, Liberals said they were willing to consider feedback; it remains to be seen what kind of changes will be necessary to move the bill forward.

Bill C-11, the government's contested attempt to bring major Internet platforms under Canadian broadcast regulations, was still in the Senate in December. The upper chamber seems poised to send it back to the House with amendments — the Senate committee that studied the bill recommended a dozen changes.

Two men in suits sit alongside each other at a conference table. Minister of Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez prepares to appear before the Senate committee on transport and communications to discuss Bill C-11 on Nov. 22, 2022. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press)

If senators agree to some or all of those amendments, C-11 would become the 24th government bill the Senate has amended since Justin Trudeau began appointing independent members to the chamber in 2016.

Legislation to create a new disability benefit, meanwhile, is nearly through the House and there are three other pieces of government legislation before House committees — bills that would enact new environmental protections, reform the Official Languages Act and create a new public complaints and review commission to oversee the RCMP and the Canada Border Services Agency.

The Senate, meanwhile, is in possession of bills to create a new national council on reconciliation (which would report to Parliament on Canada's relationship with Indigenous Peoples) and establish the Online News Act, which would facilitate payments from major Internet platforms for the use of content from Canadian media outlets.

What's new is significant

Another dozen government bills are at second reading in the House — but perhaps the most interesting of those items was only just tabled in December.

Bill C-35 sets out how and under what conditions the federal government would fund child care and early learning programs at the provincial level. In effect, it would put into law what the Liberal government started when it negotiated a series of bilateral child-care funding agreements with each province. If C-35 passes Parliament, it will make it much harder for some future government to abandon the program.

But if C-35 isn't the most closely watched legislation of the spring, it will be because of what Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson is expected to table in the next several weeks: the government's "just transition" (or "sustainable jobs") legislation.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith speaks behind a lectern bearing the provincial logo. The phrase 'just transition' signals that the Trudeau government intends to phase out oil and gas jobs, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith claimed in a Jan. 10 news conference. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press)

Nothing the Trudeau government does on the question of energy and the future of the oil and gas industry in Canada is ever allowed to pass quietly. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has tried to start a fight with the federal government already over the mere name of the bill. But beyond the partisan politics, Wilkinson's bill should serve as a jumping-off point for a very real discussion about where the Canadian and global economies are headed and how Canada will get there.

The opposition agenda

With each of these bills, the Liberals will be putting some pressure on Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to either support the government's agenda or explain what he would do differently. But the Conservatives will have their own moves to make, particularly at various House committees.

The government operations committee was already investigating the creation of the government's ArriveCan app and it will begin hearings Monday on the federal government's use of private contractors and consultants like McKinsey. Conservative members of the ethics committee are also pushing for hearings into Trade Minister Mary Ng's breach of conflict-of-interest rules.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh needs to demonstrate that his party got something out of its deal with the Trudeau Liberals. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)

The NDP has shown little, if any, reluctance to go along with such investigations — and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has rivalled Poilievre lately in his willingness to denounce the Liberal government. But the New Democrats also have other things to play for lately — namely, that confidence-and-supply agreement with the Liberals.

Singh surely wants to be seen holding the government to account. He also no doubt wants to show that the NDP was able to achieve something with that deal. And he may need at least another year to do that.

The new dental benefit the government promised the NDP is still a work in progress and New Democrats have given the government until the end of this year to table pharmacare legislation, which would at least set out broad parameters for what eventually could be a national program.

Beyond Parliament Hill

And then there is merely everything else on the agenda. 

Justice Paul Rouleau has until February 6 to present cabinet with a final report from the public commission probing the government's use of the Emergencies Act to end the convoy protests that snarled downtown Ottawa and multiple border crossings a year ago. (Cabinet will then have until February 20 to release that report.) On Feb. 7, the prime minister is scheduled to meet the premiers to discuss a grand bargain on health-care funding.

Even if Trudeau and the premiers broadly agree on what to do with health care, the prime minister is signalling an increasing willingness to engage in the fight over the notwithstanding clause. And even when Trudeau's not looking for a fight, Danielle Smith will be trying to start one ahead of what could be a very consequential election in Alberta sometime this spring.

Even if that's the biggest election in Canada this year (Manitoba and Prince Edward Island are also due to go to the polls), the next 12 months will be full of the sorts of debates and challenges that leave a mark and will shape the next national vote.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR


Aaron Wherry

Senior writer

Aaron Wherry has covered Parliament Hill since 2007 and has written for Maclean's, the National Post and the Globe and Mail. He is the author of Promise & Peril, a book about Justin Trudeau's years in power.

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David Amos  
Why all the talk about what Jagmeet Singh thinks about everything?

Methinks Trudeau The Younger has to keep Yves-François Blanchet Happy Happy Happy too N'esy Pas?

 

Réponse automatique : Bill C-21: Call to Action by OFAH

Blanchet, Yves-François - Député

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Bonjour,

Nous avons bien reçu votre courriel et nous vous remercions d'avoir écrit à M. Yves-François Blanchet, député de Beloeil-Chambly et chef du Bloc Québécois.

Comme nous avons un volume important de courriels, il nous est impossible de répondre à tous individuellement. Soyez assuré(e) que votre courriel recevra toute l'attention nécessaire.

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On 12/7/22, David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com> wrote:
> https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2022/11/things-got-crazy-as-rod-giltaca-spoke.html
>
>
> Sunday, 6 November 2022
>
> Things got CrAzY as Rod Giltaca spoke to the Public Safety Committee
> on Bill C-21
>
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVucO7BQNTs&ab_channel=CBCNews
>
> Bill C-21 that would ban some hunting rifles, shotguns gets pushback
> CBC New
>  3.22M subscribers
> 16,991 views Dec 5, 2022
> The Liberal government's proposed firearms legislation which would add
> a new list of long guns to be banned is receiving widespread pushback.
> Marco Mendicino, minister of public safety, says the intent is to not
> go after law-abiding hunters while the opposition Raquel Dancho,
> Conservative public safety critic, says the Liberals are not being
> clear with Canadians on what guns will be banned.
>
> 606 Comments
>
>
> David Amos
> David Amos
> Methinks the plot thickens rather nicely N'esy Pas?
>
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrYWSQPl4u4&ab_channel=cpac
>
>
>
> MPs join Michael Serapio to debate firearms bill – December 5, 2022
> cpac
>  123K subscribers
> 13,791 views Dec 5, 2022
> MPs Rachel Bendayan (Liberal), Raquel Dancho (Conservative), and Peter
> Julian (NDP) join Michael Serapio to debate Bill C-21 and which
> firearms should and should not be banned in Canada.
>
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvN8Dck9dGc
>
>
>
> Question Period – December 5, 2022
> cpac
> 123K subscribers
> 16,317 views Streamed live 20 hours ago
> Witness all the action in the House of Commons as Canada’s elected
> officials debate the issues of the day.
>
>
> https://www.ofah.org/firearms/c21-action/
>
> Bill C-21: Call to Action
> NOTE: Due to the overwhelming use of the form, our service provider
> has shut us down. We apologize for the inconvenience. Our team is
> working to resolve the issue as soon as possible.
>
> Liberal MP Paul Chiang (Markham-Unionville) has introduced a
> significant amendment to firearms Bill C-21 at the committee stage
> that, if adopted, would significantly expand the definition of a
> prohibited firearm to include many centre-fire semi-automatic rifles
> and shotguns “designed to accept a detachable cartridge magazine with
> a capacity greater than five cartridges of the type for which the
> firearm was originally designed”.
>
> Among other things, the OFAH is concerned about:
>
>     The potential impact of adding hundreds of models and significant
> cost to the proposed buyback program
>     The impact on hunters, as many of these firearms are used by
> hunters across the country
>     The introduction of an amendment of this magnitude at such a late stage
>     The lack of transparency – there is no opportunity for individuals
> or groups to submit evidence about the amendments
>
> More information about the impact of this amendment will be available
> in the coming days as the Standing Committee on Public Safety and
> National Security continues its clause-by-clause analysis.
>
> WHAT CAN YOU DO?
>
> Below we have provided concerned citizens with an easy-to-use form to
> email their MP.
>
> How does it work?
>
>     Select your Member of Parliament from the drop-down list
>     Respectfully express your concerns in the comment box. We’ve put
> some of our comments in the box below if you’d like to use them to
> support your own commentary.
>     Hit send.
>
> NOTE: Your comments will be emailed directly to your MP, along with
> the Minister of Public Safety Marco Mendicino, all Ontario Senators,
> all members of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National
> Security, and Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau.
>
> https://www.ofah.org/zonej/executive/
>
>
>
> Here is a tip for any Proud Canadian
>
> Just Press Print on one old file of mine and give it any cop or lawyer
> or politician and demand that they explain it to you real slow
>
>  https://www.scribd.com/doc/2526023/DAMOS-Integrity-yea-right
>
>
>
> https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/guns-bill-c-21-federal-government-ottawa-windsor-1.6675455
>
> Federal gun control bill ruffles local rifle owners
> Prime minister says hunters not being targeted, vows to review
> amendments to Bill C-21
>
> Dale Molnar · CBC · Posted: Dec 06, 2022 4:00 AM ET
>
>
> Windsor author says federal legislation would ban widely owned rifle
> Duration 1:16
> A.J. Somerset shows his SKS semi-automatic hunting rifle, which is one
> of the rifles that would be banned in Canada under the proposed Bill
> C-21 in its current form. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the
> legislation is now under review to ensure it does not go after hunting
> rifles.
>  Area hunters, anglers and sport shooters are angry over proposed
> additions to the federal government's gun control legislation, Bill
> C-21.
>
> After the bill passed second reading, the Liberals introduced
> amendments to strengthen the legislation and make some long guns
> illegal.
>
> A. J. Somerset is an author on gun culture and the owner of an SKS
> semi-automatic rifle. He says it is one of the most commonly used guns
> in hunting and adding it to the list of banned weapons doesn't make
> sense.
>
> "We can say that banning assault weapons, whether you agree it's
> necessary or not, at least it's a legitimate policy goal. But the way
> in which this is being done is banning a lot of guns that really don't
> fit the definition," said Somerset.
>
>     Bill C-21 being reviewed to ensure it doesn't affect hunting
> rifles, shotguns, says Trudeau
>
>     How Bill C-21 turned from banning handguns to hunting guns
>
> Somerset surmises the SKS Soviet-era weapon was added to the list
> because of its use in recent high-profile shooting incidents.
>
>     A. J. Somerset owns one of the rifles that could be banned under
> the proposed legislation. He also authored a book on gun culture.
> (Dale Molnar/CBC)
>
> Ray Boilard, 1st vice chair of Zone J of the Ontario Federation of
> Anglers and Hunters, says Bill C-21 is going after the wrong people.
>
> "The law abiding sport shooter and hunter is not holding up corner
> stores or partaking in mass shootings," said Boilard. "The Liberal
> government with this Order in Council is not going to be taking away
> guns from the average criminal."
>
> Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday afternoon the
> government's gun control legislation is being reviewed to ensure it
> does not target legitimate gun use.
>
> Trudeau says they are not trying to target hunters and sport shooters.
>
> Boilard says he will believe the government when he sees the hunting
> long guns taken off the list.
> ABOUT THE AUTHOR
> Dale Molnar
>
> Video Journalist
>
> Dale Molnar is a video journalist at CBC Windsor. He is a graduate of
> the University of Windsor and has worked in television, radio and
> print. He has received a number of awards including an RTDNA regional
> TV news award and a New York Festivals honourable mention.
> CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices
>
>
> Comments
>
>
> David Amos
> At last a comment section to study
>
>
> Buddy Wallis
> Having Liberals write gun laws is like having someone who has never
> driven and hates cars writing all the traffic laws.
>
>
> David Amos
> Reply to Buddy Wallis
> C'est Vrai
>
>
>
> John Swanson
> Time to move to Alberta only Province with guts.
>
>
> David Amos
> Reply to John Swanson
> Madame Bell of SK stepped up to the plate and began swinging last week
>
>
> Robby Butler
> Reply to John Swanson
> We will not comply
>
>
> Stu Grimsone
> More legislation that will do nothing for Gun crimes... nobody robs a
> bank with a 4ft long shotgun that people hunt with. This is complete
> idiocy. Meanwhile, Criminals keep getting smuggled guns from the US to
> shoot up our streets and the Government has no answer for that.
>
>
>
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMVqZuO22ZA&ab_channel=BarelyTactical
>
>
> Top 5 Guns Every Canadian Owns
> Barely Tactical
> 1.1K subscribers
> 22,362 views Jan 3, 2022
> It's a brand new year so we thought we'd kick things off with a brand
> new series! This is the first video in our "Top 5" videos in which we
> look at the guns that every Canadian firearm owner likely already has
> in their collection!
>
> 143 Comments
>
>
> David Amos
> Methinks you forgot the old faithful lever action 30 30s N'esy Pas?
>
>
>
>
>  https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/federal-gun-ban-1.6674663
>
> London-area gun owners glad PM wants review after federal weapons ban
> targets ordinary guns
> 'They didn't do their homework," said Tory MP Karen Vecchio of the
> C-21 Liberal gun bill
>
> Clement Goh · CBC News · Posted: Dec 06, 2022 5:00 AM ET
>
>
> Among the rifles included in the sweeping federal weapons ban aimed at
> prohibiting military style weapons are Benelli shotguns (shown here at
> a trade show in Germany), designed for hunters, not soldiers.
> (Michaela Rehle/Reuters)
>
> Gun owners in London, Ont., say they're happy the federal government
> has agreed to review its last minute changes to a proposed list of
> banned of firearms, which many critics say would unfairly target
> hunters by outlawing ordinary guns and not "assault-style" firearms.
>
> Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the review on Monday while at
> the reopening of the CAMI manufacturing plant in Ingersoll, Ont.,
> promising his government would take a step back and give the
> controversial list a second look.
>
> Last week, Liberal MP Paul Chiang expanded the scope of the
> legislation after the bill passed second reading, introducing the
> following changes to the list of federally-banned weapons:
>
>     Any rifle or shotgun that can potentially accept a magazine with
> more than five rounds
>     Any weapon that generates more than 10,000 joules of energy
>     Any gun with a muzzle wider than 20 millimetres
>     A large number of semi-automatic firearms that do not have
> detachable magazines, including a number of long gun models in wide
> use by Canadian hunters
>
> Critics say the changes to the bill, which was originally meant to
> target handguns and powerful military-style weapons, would now ban
> everything from blackpowder muskets, semi-automatic shotguns — even
> some low-calibre varmint rifles, designed primarily to kill rodents.
>
>     How Bill C-21 turned from banning handguns to hunting guns
>
>     Why this female firearm instructor says she wants more women to
> learn the sport
>
> "Maybe they got enough backlash," said Brian Kington, a firearm and
> hunting instructor with the East Elgin Sportsmen's Association said of
> the review announced by Trudeau on Monday.
>
> "Some of the guns they got on there, they're sporting guns, hunters
> use them all the time."
>
> The expanded scope of the weapons ban was meant to build on an initial
> proposal in May 2020 that banned more than 1,500 models and variants
> of what the government considers "assault-style firearms."
>
> But critics point out that, among the weapons on the expanded list,
> are a number of semi-automatic shotguns, capable of shooting up to a
> maximum of three shots, designed for duck hunters; not soldiers.
>
> "They're not designed the way the government suggests," said Fred
> Staub, registration representative at Rueger Firearm Safety in
> Dorchester, Ont., and a member of London's gun community.
>
> Staub said the last-minute change to the list was reactionary — aimed
> at trying to keep specific weapons out of a criminal's arsenal without
> considering the potential implications for law-abiding gun owners.
>
> "Somebody goes out and commits a heinous crime using that gun, then
> they go and look at the gun the person has and says 'nobody should
> have that gun.'"
>
> "You think for a second that person wouldn't have killed somebody with
> a different gun?"
>
> Some vintage hunting rifles face prohibition for exceeding a rule that
> bans guns that produce over 10,000 joules of energy. One example is
> the Westley-Richards rifle in .460 Weatherby Magnum caliber. (Rock
> Island Auction)
>
> Last week, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino told the House of
> Commons hunters with conventional guns would not be targeted by the
> expanded list, but that wasn't the case, according to Karen Vecchio,
> the Conservative MP for Elgin-Middlesex London.
>
> "It's fine to say 'it's not affecting the rifles and shotguns of
> farmers,' but it absolutely is."
>
> "It's clear they didn't do their homework," she said. "These hunters
> are using them for hunting rabbits, small vermin, things of that
> sort."
>
> "I think what the government has done is they've come in not
> recognizing the guns they put on there."
>
> CBC News reached out to Marco Mendicino for comment, but did not
> receive a response in time for publication.
>
> According to the federal government, the amendment featuring the
> latest review of the proposed legislation will now involve
> consultations with hunting communities across the country.
> ABOUT THE AUTHOR
> Clement Goh
>
> Digital Producer
>
> Clement is a writer across TV and Digital with CBC Toronto and CBC
> London. Since 2018, he has also worked in various newsrooms across the
> GTA covering city affairs, community events and entertainment.
> Outside, he is a resident gamer and keeps his popcorn close at the
> latest movie premieres. You can reach him with tips, story ideas and
> compliments at clement.goh@cbc.ca and Twitter via @theinstaword
>
> with files from Peter Zimonjic and Evan Dyer
>
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> Fred Staub
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>
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>
>  Hey Fred Enjoy
> “A Goose That Didn’t Matter”
>
> I guess at least eight hundred ducks have fallen to my gun,
> And Charlie’s always been right there retrieving every one.
> But somehow, try as we might,no matter what our ruse,
> We failed, that old Black Lab and I, to ever get a goose.
>
> The vet had said it must be done, so bring him in on Monday.
> His eyesight’s weak and he’s too old to brave the Bay of Fundy.
> I’d picked him from the litter even though his was the runt.
> And now fourteen years later, this would be our final hunt.
> And so I asked a friend that night, who grew some corn and barley
> If I could hunt his field next day, to get a goose for Charlie.
>
> No bird came to our blind, alas, because of bluebird weather,
> But still we enjoyed the day, because we were together,
> While driving home with heavy heart, I rubbed the grizzled head,
> And looking in those big brown eyes, to him, I softly said,
> “You know a man can only do the best that he is able,
> It don’t appear there’ll be a roasted honker on our table,
> But Charlie, we’ll have porkchops, since that is your favourite treat,
> And you’ll not just have one or two, but all that you can eat”
>
> And so that night, by lantern light, we shared our final meal,
> I talked to him of days gone by, of Mallards, Scaup and Teal,
> Old Charlie wagged his tail with joy, beside his heaping platter,
> And missing from the menu was, a goose - that didn’t matter.
>
> Bill Foster
>
>
>
> https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/carey-price-gun-control-polytechnique-1.6674809
>
>
> Price apologizes, says he did know about Polytechnique shooting
> Habs goalie says he did know about the massacre after team said he did not
> Verity Stevenson · CBC News · Posted: Dec 05, 2022 3:56 PM ET
>
>
> The Montreal Canadiens say goaltender Carey Price was not aware of the
> 1989 Polytechnique Massacre when he made a post in favour of hunting
> firearms days ahead of its anniversary. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
>
> The Montreal Canadiens organization and goalie Carey Price have issued
> apologies after Price posted a message on social media in support of a
> gun lobby group that recently used "POLY" as a promotional discount
> code.
>
> The team issued a statement on Monday that Price didn't know about the
> 1989 Polytechnique Massacre or its upcoming anniversary.
>
> However, Price said Tuesday said he did know about the massacre and
> regretted the timing of his post.
>
> Price published his initial Instagram post on Saturday, just days
> ahead of the massacre's Dec. 6 anniversary. In it, Price shared his
> support for a lobby group, the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights
> (CCFR), following amendments to the federal government's gun control
> legislation, Bill C-21, last week.
>
> The amendments appeared to push the bill further by including a number
> of firearms used for hunting, a move that was swiftly condemned by
> firearm advocates and that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the
> government is looking into rectifying.
>
> Price, 35, has spoken in the past about the importance of hunting to
> him. He is a member of Ulkatcho First Nation — his mother is a former
> chief — and grew up in the small remote community of Anahim Lake in
> British Columbia.
>
> "I love my family, I love my country and I care for my neighbour. I am
> not a criminal or a threat to society. What [Prime Minister Justin
> Trudeau] is trying to do is unjust. I support the [CCFR] to keep my
> hunting tools," Price wrote.
>
> But the post also came a day after one of the survivors of the
> Polytechnique mass shooting, Nathalie Provost, denounced the CCFR for
> creating promotional code "POLY" offering customers 10 per cent off of
> merchandise.
>
>     Polytechnique mass shooting survivor slams gun rights group for
> using 'POLY' promo code
>
> Provost, who is also a spokesperson for the gun-control group
> PolySeSouvient, created by survivors of the massacre, called the
> discount code "incredibly disrespectful." The code was in reference to
> the group.
>
> Provost was shot four times by the gunman who killed 14 female
> students and injured 13 others that day.
> Team apologizes for post
>
> Monday evening, Price tweeted that he only made the Instagram post in
> reaction to the Bill C-21 amendments.
>
> "My views are my own and I do believe them. The only reason I bring up
> this issue is because it is what's being brought up now and not out of
> disrespect to anyone," Price wrote. "No, I [don't] agree with the
> promotional code either."
>
> In a statement earlier in the day, France Margaret Bélanger, the
> president of Groupe CH, the company that owns the Montreal Canadiens
> hockey team, said the group had shared negative reactions to the post
> with Price.
>
> "He was not aware of the tragic events of Dec. 6, 1989, nor of the
> coalition's recent marketing initiatives," Bélanger told Radio-Canada
> in an email.
>
> Montreal Canadiens goalie Carey Price posted a picture of himself with
> a gun and the message 'I love my family, I love my country and I care
> for my neighbour. I am not a criminal or a threat to society. What
> @justinpjtrudeau is trying to do is unjust.' (Carey Price/Instagram)
>
> Monday evening, the team issued a statement on Price's post.
>
> "The Montreal Canadiens wish to express their sincere apology to any
> and all who have been offended or upset by the discourse that has
> arisen over this matter in recent days," the statement said.
>
> The statement also recognized the National Day of Remembrance and
> Action on Violence Against Women — saying the team's thoughts are with
> the 14 women who died 33 years ago, their loved ones and survivors.
>
> The team said it made a donation to the Week of the White Rose
> campaign to send 14 underprivileged girls to Polytechnique Montréal's
> summer science camp, Folie Technique.
>
>     Events underway to honour victims of Montreal's École Polytechnique
> shooting
>
> On Tuesday, Price posted an update to his Instagram page.
>
> "I think the people of Montreal know my heart and my character and
> know I would never intentionally cause pain to those impacted by gun
> violence," he wrote.
>
> "Despite a previous statement released, I did in fact know about the
> tragedy. I have been a member of the MTL community for 15 years and I
> understand the weight this day holds within the community."
>
> Price said he stood by the opinions he shared but acknowledged that
> "amplifying any conversation around guns this week may have upset some
> of those impacted most by the events here in 1989 and to them I
> apologize."
> Coach says timing unfortunate
>
> Canadiens coach Martin St-Louis said the timing of Price's initial
> Instagram post was unfortunate but that he did not believe the player
> meant any malice by it.
>
> "I'm not sure Carey knows the full story [of the Montreal massacre]. I
> remember it clearly; I was a boarding student at Collège Notre-Dame. I
> was 14 and it really shook me," St-Louis told reporters Monday
> afternoon.
>
> The private college is next to the Université de Montréal campus where
> Polytechnique, the university's engineering school, is and where the
> mass shooting took place.
>
> "I'm not sure people outside of Quebec know all about it. Carey's a
> sensitive guy, he's a family guy. I don't think the post was made with
> malicious intentions," St-Louis added.
> Contentious gun control legislation
>
> As for the relationship between Price and the firearms advocacy group,
> Bélanger said, "I believe Carey is best positioned to answer that."
>
> Speaking in Ingersoll, Ont., Trudeau attempted to reassure gun owners
> Monday by promising the legislation is being reviewed to ensure it
> does not target legitimate gun use.
> WATCH | Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responds to C-21 amendments pushback:
> ‘We’re not going after hunting rifles or shotguns,’ PM says
> Duration 1:50
> In response to criticism of Bill C-21, Trudeau reaffirms commitment to
> go after ‘the most dangerous weapons’ and says the government is
> listening to feedback to ensure it is ‘not capturing weapons that are
> primarily hunting weapons.’
>
> He made the comments in response to widespread pushback against
> significant amendments made to Bill C-21, a bill crafted initially to
> ban handguns that the Liberals are attempting to amend with a new list
> of long guns to be banned.
>
> It's unclear whether the firearm Price is holding in the photo he
> posted is included in that list or not.
>
> Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet said on Twitter that
> Price had been convinced "that the purpose or effect of gun control is
> to harm hunting for sport, which is incorrect."
> ABOUT THE AUTHOR
> Verity Stevenson
>
> Verity Stevenson is a reporter with CBC in Montreal. She has
> previously worked for the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star in
> Toronto, and the Telegraph-Journal in Saint John.
>
> With files from Peter Zimonjic, The Canadian Press and Radio-Canada
> CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices
> Fwd: Good on you about Chinese Covid protesters
>
> Doug Wright
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> Wright Business Center
> Offices and Warehouse space for rent
> 207 - 3916  64 Ave. SE
> Calgary, AB   T2C 2B4
> 403 236 0032  Cell: 587 998 8834
> info@office-bay-rent.ca
> office-bay-rent.ca
> www.calgarycommercialspace.com
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>     Begin forwarded message:
>
>     From: Doug Wright <doug.freedom@icloud.com>
>     Subject: Good on you about Chinese Covid protesters
>     Date: December 6, 2022 at 1:17:13 PM MST
>     To: "justin.trudeau@parl.gc.ca"<justin.trudeau@parl.gc.ca>
>
>     You are the laughing stock of the world..  :)
>
>
>     Trudeau said Monday that the focus of Bill C-21 is on guns designed to
>     "kill the largest amount of people as quickly as possible.”
>
>     You mean like the kind of guns that you are sending to Ukraine?
>     The ones that you are sending that you told us were to stop the blood
> shed!
>
>     What kind of a moron are you to believe that sending more guns to
> the criminals running the Ukraine  will stop the blood shed?
>     It will create more!
>     Wake up.
>     The people are waking up!
>     Your days as leader are numbered.. or are you planing to install
> some more voting machines to steal another election?
>
>
>
>     Regards
>     Douglas Wright
>
 
 
 
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N.B. Power spent $4.6M on failed Moncton 'smart community' subdivision

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N.B. Power spent $4.6M on failed Moncton 'smart community' subdivision

Utility partnered with Siemens Canada, developer on cluster of 100 homes in Vision Lands

 
Shane Magee· CBC News ·
N.B. Power's plan called for a new Moncton subdivision with dozens of homes with roof-top solar panels like this one in Toronto. (Patrick Morrell/CBC)
 
N.B. Power says it spent about $4.6 million on a failed plan for what it hoped would be the province's first solar powered subdivision in Moncton.

The figure, over a four year period, is disclosed in responses last month to a series of questions posed by the Energy and Utilities Board as part of N.B. Power's request to raise power rates by 8.9 per cent.

Marc Belliveau, a spokesperson for the utility, declined to answer questions about how the money was spent because of the ongoing rate application. 

The board is set to hear the request in Fredericton starting Feb. 13.

Plan surfaced in 2020

Initial details of the North Branch smart community plan emerged through an N.B. Power rate hearing in 2020.

The utility had partnered with a local developer, which would build the homes, and Siemens Canada on a planned self-sufficient neighbourhood west of McLaughlin Road.

Details were vague, and landowners in the area said they weren't aware of the plan. City officials said at the time no application had been submitted for such a subdivision. 

The contract with Siemens called for construction of 100 high efficiency "near net zero" houses over three years in a single neighbourhood that would operate as an experimental "micro-grid" the utility can study.

Each home was to have solar panels, storage batteries, electric vehicle chargers and technologies installed largely at the utility's expense. 

In 2020, the utility had budgeted to spend $10.9 million on the project. Federal funding was expected to offset some of the cost. 

But last year, Brent Staeben, the utility's Smart Grid Atlantic director, told CBC the plan had been abandoned. 

"Unfortunately, the developer, Solaire Homes, was not able to construct enough homes for N.B. Power and Siemens to conduct the research we intended," Staeben wrote in an email. 

A document filed as part of the rate hike application says Siemens was able to construct hardware for the project, but the builder was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting supply chain problems and extra materials costs.

Instead, it is focusing its research on a project in Shediac where hundreds of customers are testing various technologies, and a solar farm has been constructed. 

The rate application documents show it expects to spend $18.7 million on the Shediac project over four years.

The Moncton subdivision isn't the utility's only "smart community" project that hasn't panned out. 

Another plan was to work with a First Nations community to construct a solar farm, install a battery bank, and install "smart" technology like thermostats and water heaters in various homes. 

While N.B. Power had an agreement in principle with a First Nations community, documents filed last fall say a community referendum was required.

The filing says the referendum didn't occur and the utility has been unsuccessful in getting a new agreement to proceed. The document doesn't name the community. 

The rate application documents don't list any spending on that plan. 

The City of Moncton has been seeking development in an area known as the Vision Lands for years. (City of Moncton)

The North Branch subdivision in Moncton was planned in what's known as the Vision Lands. 

The Vision Lands covers a largely undeveloped track of about 1,400 acres bounded by Mapleton Road, the Trans-Canada Highway, McLaughlin Road and Wheeler Boulevard.

For decades the city has sought to develop the area. 

Municipal planners are now updating the plans for the area in consultation with landowners. 

Among the ideas being considered is a regional park. Moncton councillors recently approved spending $150,000 for a consultant to study that idea. 

Moncton's Mayor Dawn Arnold has said she would like the city to consider a national urban park in the Vision Lands. 

Bill Budd, the city's director of planning and development, said it will likely be well into 2024 before the city has the results of Vision Land studies.

  Information Morning - Moncton

 9:41 Moncton to study creation of a new regional park for Vision Lands

Josh Adams is a senior planner for the City of Moncton.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR


Shane Magee

Reporter

Shane Magee is a Moncton-based reporter for CBC. He can be reached at shane.magee@cbc.ca.

With files from Robert Jones

CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices
 
 
 
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David Amos 
Deja Vu anyone?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/energy-efficient-environment-greenhouse-gas-solar-grid-electrical-net-zero-1.5452840

Net-zero-energy home sits empty as builder struggles to find buyers

Builder says mortgage and appraisal system keeps families out of low energy homes

Connell Smith · CBC News · Posted: Feb 06, 2020 7:00 AM AT

 
 
David Amos
FYI

Please note below the information for the Virtual Public Forum related to Matter 541 – NB Power 2023-2024 General Rate Application.

Also note, that parties are permitted to observe, but the public forum is for those not participating in the hearing.

The first session of the Virtual Public Forum will take place via Zoom videoconference on January 30th, 2023, from 2 pm until 4 pm.

Join Zoom Meeting via telephone: 855-703-8985 Canada Toll-free

Or Join Zoom Meeting via web

Meeting ID: 832 8949 3356

Passcode: 607656

 

 

 

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