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theatre of the absurd False Claims Act MJ DOLAN-FLYNN'S 10 YEAR research showed the Civil War law held great potential for fighting fraud against the government.
CAMPBELL RIVER DEAD DOLANS A WESTCOAST 'Murderous Affair MJ DOLAN-FLYNN'S 10 YEAR research showed the PARLIMATERIANS HAVE FAILED TO LEARN THE LESSONS OF LINCON COUNTY Civil War law 101 AND THROUGH LACK OF IGNORANCE AND LACK OF QUALIFACTIONS HAVE REPEATED THE SAME CRIMES.
NEEDS AN IMMEDIATE INVESTIGATION. 2010-PUBLIC INQUIRY AND INVESTIGATION INTO AN US contractor MAXIMUS AND THE FEDERAL CONSERATIVE GOVERMENT OF CANADA FRAUD COVER UP Obstruct, distract and ignore.... Canadian Federal goverment policy for the last 18 years.
A SOVEREIGN GOVERMENT CONTINUALLY STEALS FROM THE PEOPLE AND THEN BILLS HONEST TAXPAYERS TO RECOVER FRAUD LOSSES THEY CREATED. 2010 - Lincoln County STYLE A 'Murderous Affair in CAMPBELL RIVER BC CANADA' GOVERMENT EMPLOYEES experienced in law , COURT, BANKING ,enforcement HAVE COMMITTED HOUSE FRAUD SOVEREIGN E crime WERE THE DEATHS OF FAMILY MEMBERS ACTUALLY COLD AND CALCULATED HITS TO HELP BURY CRIMINALLY NEGLIGENCE AND ASSIGNMENT FRAUD COMMITTED BY THE FEDERAL and BC and ALBERTA GOVERMENTS IN COLLUSION WITH CROWN BANKS AND PRIVATE INVESTORS INVOLVMENT IN ESTATE PONZIE-FRAUD ILLEGAL PROFITS MASTERMINDED BY US MAXIMUS/BC THEMIS, BMO AND ATB FINANCIAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS.?
SEEKING A FULL PUBLIC INQUIRY ON THE CORRUPTION COMING OUT OF BC AND ALBERTA LAND TITLES,CROWN FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS,AND MINISTERs who signed off on the deal and to who.. WRONGDOERS overbill the federal government and pocket the difference PROVINCIAL AND FEDERAL GOVERMENT ASSIGNMENT FRAUD “So you have standards not 1=ONCE, it happened TWO MORE TIMES PURSUANT TO A CANADIAN BC SUPREME COURT FINAL ORDER FOR A 1st MORTGAGE DEBT AND PAYMENT ENFORCED UNDER THE guise OF CHILD SUPPORT AS WAS ORDERED BY THE BC Supreme Court ,”
Mr. Phillips worked closely with Congress to revise and strengthen the False Claims Act after his research showed the Civil War law held great potential for fighting fraud against the government.
Lob-ball questions, meanwhile, was provided by Mr. Poilievre.
The 31-year-old, who is also parliamentary secretary to the Prime Minister, tried a couple of times to address Ms. Finley, rather than Mr. Sparrow.
“Order, order, order,” Mr. Szabo said, asking that Mr. Poilievre’s microphone be shut off as the Tory MP ignored him. Once he had Mr. Poilievre’s attention he reminded him that the Human Resources Minister was not the witness.
“Thank you for your advice, Chair,” Mr. Poilievre said – then proceeded to ignore that advice and ask Ms. Finley more questions.
“Order, order, order,” a clearly exasperated Paul Szabo said, killing Mr. Poilievre’s microphone for a second time.
“If we are going to have this game… I have made a decision and I have asked twice and I will ask a third time if it happens again, but at that point the only recourse that a member would have is to challenge the authority of the chair. … It is not in the best interests of this committee … to spend our time doing that.”
Over to Mr. Poilievre, who launched into a long dissertation about how he believes this marked the first time in the history of Parliament that a minister has shown up at a committee and the chairman – who the Tory MP helpfully noted is a member of the opposition – did not allow her to speak.
Mr. Polievre also stressed that the information requested by the journalist was released by Mr. Sparrow within 21 days of the request rather than the standard 90 days. “So you have standards not only met but exceeded,” he said.
SOME OF THAT DOLAN DNA FAMILY MOVED TO CANADA A 'Murderous Affair in Lincoln County': Politics, Violence, and Memory in a Civil War Era Kentucky Community Author: J. Michael Rhyne -
J. Michael Rhyne is a lecturer in the Department of History and Geography at Northern Kentucky University
Dolan was born in Ireland, and moved to the United States at the age of five with his family. Alberta crown institution - Aftermath, later life When the range war ended, Susan McSween hired attorney Huston Chapman to pursue charges against James Dolan and others, in addition to working toward amnesty for the Regulators. On February 18, 1879, ironically one year to the day from when Tunstall was murdered, Jessie Evans and Billy Campbell killed Chapman, then fled the territory. That murder also was attributed to Dolan, though his involvement was never proven. Dolan was indicted for the murder of John Tunstall, but was acquitted. Dolan later suffered from alcoholism, but did serve as the Lincoln County Treasurer for a time, as well as in the Territorial Senate. He died on his ranch in 1898, having by that time purchased all of Tunstall's property as well.
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Early life and Murphy association Dolan was born in Ireland, and moved to the United States at the age of five with his family. He served in the Union Army from 1863 until the Civil War's end, after which he moved to Lincoln County, New Mexico. He worked as a clerk for Lawrence Murphy, and by 1874 the two men were business partners in a mercantile and banking operation. The venture was highly successful and profitable, mainly due to there being no other competition.
Dolan was known as a hot-tempered man. In May 1873, Dolan attempted to shoot US CavalryCaptain James Randlett at Fort Stanton, resulting in "L. G. Murphy & Co." being evicted from the fort. On May 9, 1877, Dolan killed Hilario Jaramillo, claiming that the latter had charged him with a knife. George Peppin, a recent friend, later married Jaramillo's widow, and many suspected that the two had planned the killing of her late husband.
Competitors. Chisum’s cattle herd was the county’s largest economic enterprise. (Some said that rustling from Chisum was the second largest.) His most important competition came from the trading house of L. G. Murphy & Company, popularly known as The House. Lawrence Murphy founded his company in 1873 and sold land and goods to small ranchers and farmers and then bought their produce, including cattle. He also had a government contract to supply the nearby Mescalero Apache reservation with foodstuffs and farm equipment. This was a lucrative arrangement for Murphy and the Indian agent on the reservation because they connived to overbill the federal government and pocket the difference; moreover, the supplies they sold to the Indians were second-rate. Murphy used his economic position for political leverage and was elected a probate judge. However, he was forced to resign in 1875 when it was learned he had used the county’s taxes to pay personal debts. Two years later Murphy sold his share of The House to James J. Dolan and John Riley, who did not realize that the company was nearly bankrupt.
THE DALTON GANG The Daltons of Coffeyville, Kansas, were one of the most notorious outlaw groups in the American West; they were cousins of the Younger brothers, who rode with Frank and Jesse James. Ironically four of the Dalton brothers had experience in law enforcement before turning to crime. Frank Dalton was one of Judge Isaac Parker’s deputy marshals in the Indian Territory. In 1887 he was shot and killed trying to arrest three whiskey peddlers. Parker then appointed Frank’s brothers Bob and Gratton as deputy marshals. Emmett Dalton worked on a ranch but sometimes would help his brothers by serving on a posse. As law enforcement officers the Dalton brothers were known for being ruthless and fast with their weapons: having lost a brother to outlaws made them wary of giving chances.
The pay for deputies was abysmal: two dollars for arresting a suspect and bringing him in to Fort Smith, and, if the deputy kept his receipts, six cents a mile for expenses. A successful arrest might earn a deputy forty dollars; and unsuccessful one, as the Daltons knew, could cost him his life. Disenchanted with the legal system, the Daltons decided to switch sides. They stole some horses and then headed for California.
Abstract The 1867 assassination of Unionist James H. Bridgewater typified politically motivated community violence in central Kentucky during the Civil War Era. His assassins, members of a band of 'regulators,' viewed Bridgewater as representative of ongoing federal interference in the Commonwealth and thus a hindrance to their local agenda. Regulators used terror tactics both to stymie political competition for the building blocks of state power, including the offices of sheriff and magistrate, and to impose a white supremacist social order after the formal abolition of slavery. Like-minded partisan editors sought to legitimize both the actions of these night riders and of state and local elected officials by arguing that 'outlaws' such as Bridgewater had to die so that law and order might be restored, while assuring readers that such things did not happen to 'good citizens.' In so doing, these editors laid the foundation for a usable memory of the Civil War and Reconstruction in Kentucky. Keywords: Kentucky; Politics; Community Violence; Terror Tactics; Civil War Memory http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a758369557~frm=abslink
Phillips & Cohen LLP (http://www.phillipsandcohen.com), the nation's most successful law firm representing whistleblowers nationwide in qui tam (False Claims Act) litigation.
His practice has focused on bringing qui tam lawsuits on behalf of whistleblowers ever since the amended False Claims Act went into effect in 1986. remarkable work rooting out corporate corruption and his landmark agreements on behalf of the poor and the powerless." Mr. Phillips and his firm also handle cases involving federal tax fraud and tax underpayments. Recently, Mr. Phillips and Phillips & Cohen partner Erika Kelton were among the experts on whistleblowers and tax fraud cases who were invited to participate in a Senate Finance Committee roundtable discussion about the new federal tax whistleblower law .
Mr. Phillips has a long history of involvement in public interest law. He graduated in 1969 from the University of California School of Law (Boalt Hall), where he was an editor of the California Law Review . He then joined the Los Angles law firm of O'Melveny & Meyers as an associate.
In 1971, he co-founded the Center for Law in the Public Interest in Los Angeles, which focused on environmental, civil rights, corporate fraud and other issues. He served as its co-director for 17 years before starting his own firm in 1988. From 1988 to 1993, Mr. Phillips was an appointed member of the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference. He was appointed in 1997 by President Clinton to the President's Commission on White House Fellowships. President Obama appointed Mr. Phillips chair of the President's Commission on White House Fellowships in 2009.
Mr. Phillips is the founder of Taxpayers Against Fraud (TAF), a nonprofit, public interest organization that promotes the use of the False Claims Act and its qui tam provisions to fight fraud against the government. He currently serves on TAF's board of directors.
CONSERATIVES DROP THE LO -BALL ONCE AGAIN. WHY WOULD THIS GOVERMENT BE CONCERNED ABOUT FEDERAL GOVERMENT WASTE, WHEN THE WASTE CAN BE TURNED INTO A PRIVATE MEMBERS OVERSEAS SLUSH FOUND.
Conservative members of Canada's Parliament are considering a law based on the United States' False Claims Act.
Thursday, March 16, 2006 Canada considers adopting a False Claims Act Conservative members of Canada's Parliament are considering a law based on the United States' False Claims Act. The U.S. law allows a whistleblowers who suspects fraud against the government to file a lawsuit against the defrauding company in his name and on behalf of the government. The claim is filed in secret in court and the government, after reviewing the evidence, has the option of joining the case as co-plaintiff. If not, the whistleblower can proceed alone. If the suit is successful, the whistleblower may receive up to 30 percent of the recovery.
Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre said, "In the U.S., there is a growing sector of entrepreneurial waste-busters who see it in their self-interest to scrutinize all aspects of government spending to root out fraud and waste. That's a very good thing." He will be meeting with U.S. legislators to see about adapting the law for Canada.
Bill C-25, which would have provided some whistleblower protection
advocacy group DemocracyWatch.
Canadian Union of Public Employees
Bill C-25, which would have provided some whistleblower protection,died on the order paper when the federal election was calledthis spring. But it offered little in genuine protection anyway,says Duff Conacher, coordinator of the advocacy group DemocracyWatch. The bill did establish an agency to which whistleblowerscould turn, but did not allow anonymous reporting, a criticalelement, Conacher says. The groups' concerns are underscored by the recent firing of3 Health Canada scientists (see page 438) and the results ofa 2001 inquiry into the deaths of 12 infants at a Winnipeg hospital.The inquiry found 5 of the infant deaths might have been prevented(CMAJ 2001; 165 [9]:1 242) and recommended whistleblower protectionsto protect nurses from reprisals and encourage them to reportirregularities. Rewards should also be incorporated in legislation, says Conacher,since whistleblowing often kills careers Effective whistleblower legislation should help provide jobsecurity and "create a climate in which workers feel encouragedto report problems in the workplace, instead of feeling thatraising concerns will result in a backlash," says Doreen Meyer,spokesperson for the Canadian Union of Public Employees. --Jeanne Lenzer, Kingston, NY
Mr. Poilievre out-of-order on several occasions.
Obstruct, distract and ignore was the strategy adopted by the Conservative government today at a Commons ethics committee hearing on Access to Information.
Tory MPs attempted to block testimony and when that didn’t work they threw softball questions at the witness. Pierre Poilievre, known for his attack-dog nature, also took on the committee chair, Liberal Paul Szabo, after he called Mr. Poilievre out-of-order on several occasions.
In economics, you cannot convict your opponents of error, only convince them. Economics is not like physics; you can't conduct controlled experiments to prove or disprove your theories.
The Criminal Code of Canada protects people from the following .... For example, theft, fraud, forgery and extortion are criminal offences. ...
“Be sure brain in gear before engaging DEED FRAUD”-investigation is criminal in nature and involves the production and recording of fraudulent mortgage assignments to the QUEEN in the RIGHT OF CANADA masterminded attached and enforced by the Federal goverment of canada from 1992-2011
Ontario Government Services Minister Gerry Phillips has called on the federal government to add real estate fraud as a separate offence under the Criminal Code, which deals with fraudulent transactions involving concealment of title documents, registration of title, and sale of real property.
Under his proposed legislation, fines for real estate fraud-related offences would be raised from $1,000 to $50,000, and new "safeguards" would be introduced to prevent the fraudulent registration of documents by suspending and revoking the accounts of con artists and identity thieves.
(The proposed legislation would ensure that in situations involving fraud, title would remain with the original homeowner, whereas British Columbia's Land Title Act was amended last year to give title to the innocent purchaser.)
Has the BC premier called on deputy ministers to do things without telling their ministers?
Why does the attorney general, whose constitutional responsibilities raise him above the cabinet cabal, try to give the impression that others are making decisions that he should be making?
Bennett has said the premier has called on deputy ministers to do things without telling their ministers.
Did that play in the B.C. Rail case? Did that play in the B.C. estate DEED WACKER case?
In the gilded haste of the past decade, bankers handed out millions of mortgages — with terms good, bad and exotically ugly — then repackaged those loans for sale to investors from Connecticut to Singapore. Sloppiness reigned. So many papers have been lost, signatures misplaced and documents dated inaccurately that it is often not clear which bank owns the mortgage.… http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/nyregion/31judge.html?_r=1
“I’m a little , BC GROWN ,and my family came from somewhere near Brooklyn USA in the early 1900's. Being Irish roman catholic and a jew ,with NDP VOTING parents, doesn’t get you in the ELITE lib/con country clubs IN 2010,
The truth of the matter like my FATHER who mysteriously left what he called paradise, on DEC 8 2008......we never cared about the ELITE lib/con country clubs .
What can I tell you?” LIKE JUSTICE SCHALK SAID adding my own shrug for punctuation, “I won’t accept Corrupted Conseratives and the crony liberals (in conserative clothing ) comedy of criminal errors.”…
this is the way I, as a Commoner, not a politician or a lawyer sees ERRORS
Maximus Double Billing NJ Adoption Subsidies For Shareholder Profit Wednesday, September 22, 2010 #fullpost{display:inline;} Here we have New Jersey, double billing for federal adoption subsidies for years and they blame it on Maximus, the corporation that is suppose to be maintaining the electronic healthcare records for Medicaid, Medicare, TRICARE, and other federal social assistance programs.
“Be sure brain in gear before engaging mouth” — ARTHUR SCHACK
“In that case, our answer is very clear,” Harper said at a news conference. “We will not dispense a dime to the government of Afghanistan unless we are convinced that that money will be spent in the way that it’s intended to be spent.”Canada does not provide any direct budget support to the government of Afghanistan. Canadian aid is provided through multi-donor trust funds.
no prime minister ever SAID MORTGAGE FRAUD IS A CIVIL MATTER
I ask the Bank of CANADA to seek a full investigation. This prime minister stance on fraud is a bigger threat to the global population than was ww2.
Is the PRIME MINISTER ,due to the fact that he is only the 2nd pm who has never been to LAW SCHOOL, THAT MISINFORMED ON SECURITY LAWS?
If the PMO legal counsel is advising the PRIME MINISTER that mortgage and deed fraud are purley CIVIL MATTERS before the courts than their credentials need to be exposed. If this is what is coming out of Canadian Law schools and universities the world is in for a wake up call.
What happens when regimes steal land that is not theirs..........maybe checkout the LINCON COUNTY CIVIL WAR.
This misinformation intentional or not is incompetent and dangerous leadership on par with Sarah Palin becoming the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
Sorry Ms Palin, you should just stay with TV stuff and leave politics to those that can factually recall unfair precedent SUPREME COURT cases .
I do believe that Ms Palin has a great platform to reach AMERICANS and she needs to put CITIZENS of Alalska first.
I do think that ALASKA citizens should be aware and concerned at what's heading their way.
The players and criminals involved in this case are now firmly planted on ALASKAN soil and so is Maximus.
This should sound an alarm for vulnerable minorities with mineral oil and gas rights to not get swindled like we are in Canada by our own Goverment.
1-back up your legal rights and refuse to give any lawyer of the MAXIMUS goverment your orginal documents to titles to land, and check your chain of title at least 30 years prior to the actual purchase date of the property.
2-AND REMEMBER THAT president Obama has given you protection-called criminal laws which is more than I can say for our CEO OF Canada.
Why in the name of corporate greed would any CEO PM want to give it's potential victims legal rights that could cost the corporations billions if convicted of fraud.That would mean the ceo of Canada and his cronies would lose their illegal proceeds of crime and as well end up in the jails that they say are desperately needed.
This is about the only issue I agree with.......more jails for more crooked CROWN wrongdoers.
I will be applying to the Obama goverment for a greencard and possibly refugee status were I will pursue my law degree on AMERICAN soil in order that I can eventually return to Canada to expose in court and fine CEO's politicians and lawyers who obstruct VULNERABLE CANADIANS legal rights.
I intend to hold THIS federal goverment accountable for their debt based on mathmatical legal forensic science. in AMERICAN COURTS 1 PLUS 1=2........
NOT 1 PLUS 1=3 WITH NO EXPLANATION AND A JUST PAY EGO ATTITUDE CAUSE WE CAN AND WILL TAKE IT ANYWAY.......even if your dead!
I'm not sure if MR Harpers Goverment gets the specks and facts of this case of fraud. All goverments need to be reminded there is no stature barring enforcement of a REGISTERED CANADAIN JUDGEMENT
I challenge this Goverment to prove that the $95 a week went to the BANK of Montreal on Melville Street, Vancouver between 1992-2001 for a sum said $27,000.
How could it have possibly happened when the AMERICAN CONTRACTOR for the BC GOVERMENT in 2005, signed by legal counsel (BRENT HIRD) states Maximus was only collecting $412 a month for child support and arrears.
All levels of GOVERMeNT need to explain not just to the VICTIMS of this FINACIAL FRAUD and Abuse but to every Canadain who's private personal information is at the hands of these CRIMINAL enterprises paid for by our tax dollars.
I'm bringing this forward as a PLATFORM for the next Goverment of BC to cancel this HORRID deal put in place by MR. CAMPBELL.
Is it going to take a US lawsuit to convince this HARPER conserative GOVERMENT THAT USING CHILD SUPPORT TO INVEST IN PONZIE /HIGH INTEREST INVESTMENT SCAMS WITH ARIZONA CONS IS NOT HOW THE BC SUPREME COURT JUSTICE MEIKLEM INTENDED THE MONIES ORDERED TO BE SPENT,
Is it going to take a US lawsuit to convince this HARPER GOVERMENT THAT mortgage fraud is not a civil matter.
Is it going to take a US lawsuit to convince this HARPER GOVERMENT THAT DEED fraud is not a civil matter.
Is it going to take a US lawsuit to convince this HARPER GOVERMENT THAT DEED fraud ATTACHED IDENITY THEFT under assignment to the federal goverment is not civil matter
Is it going to take a US lawsuit to convince this HARPER GOVERMENT THAT false injury claims ATTACHED to IDENITY THEFT under assignment to the federal goverment for collection is not civil matter
Is it going to take a US lawsuit to convince this HARPER GOVERMENT THAT false claims ATTACHED to IDENITY THEFT under assignment to the federal goverment for a builders sales contract is not civil matter
Is it going to take a US lawsuit to convince this HARPER GOVERMENT THAT false claims ATTACHED to IDENITY THEFT under assignment to the federal goverment for a sale of a residential property is not a civil matter
Is it going to take a US lawsuit to convince this HARPER GOVERMENT THAT false claims ATTACHED to IDENITY THEFT under assignment to the federal goverment for a transfer of 10 acres of land is not a civil matter
Is it going to take a US lawsuit to convince this HARPER GOVERMENT THAT false claims ATTACHED to IDENITY THEFT under assignment to the federal goverment for a transfer of estate w/all liens and encumbraces is not a civil matter
Is it going to take a US lawsuit to convince this HARPER GOVERMENT THAT false claims ATTACHED to IDENITY THEFT under assignment to the federal goverment for a TAX CERTIFICATE DATING BACK TO 1969 IS NOT A CIVIL MATTER,
Is it going to take a US lawsuit to convince this HARPER GOVERMENT THAT false claims ATTACHED to IDENITY THEFT under assignment to the federal goverment for $665,000 IN CONSIDERATION IS ILLEGAL PROCEEDS OF SECURITIES FRAUD.
Is it going to take a US lawsuit to convince this HARPER GOVERMENT THAT ALTERING REGISTARS AND COURT ORDERS IS NOT A CIVIL MATTER.
Is it going to take a US lawsuit to convince this HARPER GOVERMENT THAT PERJURY IN THE FACE OF COURT IS NOT A CIVIL MATTER.
The Stephen Harper-controlled Senate corporation aka Canada, may be delivered a brutal blow by a handful of state and federal judges, who have taken a magnifying glass to the mortgage industry in Canada
Justice Schack’s take is straightforward, and sends a tremor through some bank suites: If a bank cannot prove ownership, it cannot foreclose.
Every week, the nation’s mightiest banks come to his court seeking to take the homes of New Yorkers who cannot pay their mortgages. And nearly as often, the judge says, they file foreclosure papers speckled with errors.
Confronted with a case in which Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs passed a defaulted mortgage back and forth and lost track of the documents, the judge made reference to the film classic “It’s a Wonderful Life” and the evil banker played by Lionel Barrymore.
“But as long as I am still alive , whether it is at the UN or anywhere else,I will take that stand“whatever the cost because it is the right thing to do
history shows us that the ideology of the anti-JEW/COMMONER mob tells us all too well, that those who threaten the existence of the Jewish/cOMMON people are a threat to us all.”
fact I'm a Jew because my Grandparents were.
fact prime minister said that the persecution of Jews had become a global phenomenon in which anti-Semitic ideologies targeted the Jewish people in their “homeland” and perversely exploited the “language of human rights to do so.”
whats is the pm stand who's stand is our Prime Minister taking ?
certainly not mine
CARD US VIA MAXIMUS JUST LIKE THE NATZI'S DID OR PROTECT OUR HUMAN RIGHTS
fact I'm a Jew AND i'm being targeted in my homeland that being Canada in fact by your very own elite anti commoner mob.
Maybe this Goverment should try to be accountable to it's own people.
FACT : These are our own leaders words
But as long as I am prime minister, whether it is at the UN or anywhere else, Canada will take that stand, . , whatever the cost.
Not just because it is the right thing to do but because history shows us that the ideology of the anti-Israeli mob tells us all too well, that those who threaten the existence of the Jewish people are a threat to us all.”
He said that the persecution of Jews had become a global phenomenon in which anti-Semitic ideologies targeted the Jewish people in their “homeland” and perversely exploited the “language of human rights to do so.” He stressed that “while Israel is the only country in the world under attack, is consistently and conspicuously singled out for condemnation, I believe we are morally obligated to take a stand.
“I know this because I have the bruises to show for it, that whether it is at the UN or any other international forum, the correct thing to do is simply to just go along with this anti-Israeli rhetoric, to pretend it is just about being evenhanded, and to excuse oneself with the label of ‘honest broker’... There are after all, a lot more votes in being anti- Israel than taking a stand.
“But as long as I am prime minister, whether it is at the UN or anywhere else, Canada will take that stand, whatever the cost. Not just because it is the right thing to do but because history shows us that the ideology of the anti-Israeli mob tells us all too well, that those who threaten the existence of the Jewish people are a threat to us all.”
The Stephen Harper-controlled Senate delivered a brutal blow to climate action -- and democracy itself -- this week when it killed the Climate Change Accountability Act.
The NDP private members bill, which passed the House of Commons last May, required five-year plans to tackle reductions in greenhouse gases based on targets derived from scientific advice.
Prime Minister Harper labelled the bill "irresponsible," and claimed it threatened "millions" of Canadian jobs.
The bill, however, did not dictate specific polices. It was up to the government to choose how the targets were met. The facts do not support the claim that it is impossible to meet targets without losing millions of jobs.
Sweden has reduced emissions to eight per cent below 1990 levels while growing its economy by 44 per cent over the same time period.
A carbon-reduction plan could create hundreds of thousands of jobs by eliminating waste of energy -- and 60 per cent of the energy we use is wasted.
An aggressive retrofit program would employ carpenters, electricians and other trades. Improving mass transit could cut greenhouse gases while creating jobs. Moving more goods from highway to rail transport would also improve highway safety and air quality. More jobs would be created in the shift to renewable energy.
No one denies that the bill's targets were daunting and aggressive, but it was passed by the majority of MPs before being defeated by unelected Conservative senators on the eve of United Nations climate negotiations in Mexico.
Harper has railed on about the anti-democratic nature of the Senate -- but then he stacked it and pulled a sucker-punch move that no opposition senators saw coming. The bill was defeated in a surprise vote before making it to committee.
The last time a House bill was defeated by the Senate, without being referred to committee, was more than 80 years ago.
Traditionally, the unelected Senate, recognizing it lacks legitimacy, has trod softly. There have usually been long and slow dances between the two sections of our Parliamentary system. Bills are occasionally amended in the Senate and sent back to the House for consideration. More rarely, the Senate will defeat a House bill after committee hearings.
Unlike the United States, our system of government lacks checks and balances. In Parliamentary tradition, abuse of power has been constrained by respect for unwritten rules.
For example, no prime minister ever asked the governor general to prorogue the House to avoid a confidence vote -- until Harper. No previous prime minister, anywhere in the British Commonwealth, has had the gall to break that unwritten rule. No previous prime minister has repeatedly elevated his power to dictate to the House of Commons -- whether through refusal to release documents, or refusing to honour subpoenas to PMO staff to appear before House committees or by announcing an extension to the Afghanistan mission with no vote in the House.
As egregious as it was to see the climate change bill defeated, even more breathtaking was the ruthless use of the Senate to kill a bill the prime minister couldn't defeat through democratic means.
Harper's political acumen is reportedly admired. No previous Canadian political leader has been capable of such cunning.
But Canadians must not be silent. Our climate is under assault. Democracy itself is being dismembered. The prime minister shows no compunction in breaking the unwritten rules.
A prime minister whose political tactical sense is unconstrained, constantly reaching to expand his powerful grasp on all levers of government, is a danger to our survival as a democracy.
Elizabeth May, the leader of the Green Party of Canada, is the party's nominated candidate in Saanich-Gulf Islands.
NASTY AND DIRTY FORGED DEEDS “To the extent that judges examine these papers, they find exactly the same errors that Judge Schack does,” said Katherine M. Porter, a visiting professor at the School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and a national expert in consumer credit law. “His rulings are hardly revolutionary; it’s unusual only because we so rarely hold large corporations to the rules.”
“I’m a little guy in Brooklyn who doesn’t belong to their country clubs, what can I tell you?” he says, adding a shrug for punctuation. “I won’t accept their comedy of errors.”
The banks’ reaction? Justice Schack shrugs. “They probably curse at me,” he says, “but no one is interested in some little judge.”
Little drama attends the release of his decisions. Beaten-down homeowners rarely show up to contest foreclosure actions, and the judge scrutinizes the banks’ papers in his chambers. But at legal conferences, judges and lawyers have wondered aloud why more judges do not hold banks to tougher standards.
('Justice Arthur M. Schack has won a national reputation as Don Quixote tilting at the bankers and lawyers who file foreclosure motions by the bale.');
The judge waves you into his chambers in the State Supreme Court building in Brooklyn, past the caveat taped to his wall — “Be sure brain in gear before engaging mouth” — and into his inner office, where foreclosure motions are piled high enough to form a minor Alpine chain.
('Justice Arthur M. Schack has won a national reputation as Don Quixote tilting at the bankers and lawyers who file foreclosure motions by the bale.'); The judge, Arthur M. Schack, 64, fashions himself a judicial Don Quixote, tilting at the phalanxes of bankers, foreclosure facilitators and lawyers who file motions by the bale. While national debate focuses on bank bailouts and federal aid for homeowners that has been slow in coming, the hard reckonings of the foreclosure crisis are being made in courts like his, and Justice Schack’s sympathies are clear.
He has tossed out 46 of the 102 foreclosure motions that have come before him in the last two years. And his often scathing decisions, peppered with allusions to the Croesus-like wealth of bank presidents, have attracted the respectful attention of judges and lawyers from Florida to Ohio to California. At recent judicial conferences in Chicago and Arizona, several panelists praised his rulings as a possible national model.
His opinions, too, have been greeted by a cry of affront from a bank official or two, who say this judge stands in the way of what is rightfully theirs.
HSBC bank appealed a recent ruling, saying he had set a “dangerous precedent” by acting as “both judge and jury,” throwing out cases even when homeowners had not responded to foreclosure motions.
Justice Schack, like a handful of state and federal judges, has taken a magnifying glass to the mortgage industry.
He plucks out one motion and leafs through: a Deutsche Bank representative signed an affidavit claiming to be the vice president of two different banks. His office was in Kansas City, Mo., but the signature was notarized in Texas. And the bank did not even own the mortgage when it began to foreclose on the homeowner.
Police described the scheme as "fork over between $5 and $30 or else we'll give the taxi jobs to another driver who will pay."
Taxis line up for fares at the Queen Elizabeth: Six men who worked the doors at the hotel were arrested this week and charged with extortion, intimidation and conspiracy. Police described the scheme as "fork over between $5 and $30 or else we'll give the taxi jobs to another driver who will pay." Photograph by: ALLEN MCINNIS, THE GAZETTE, The Gazette MONTREAL- Take a good look around and it seems everyone has their hand out looking for easy money these days.
First, it was rumoured kickbacks in the construction industry, then politicians and envelopes supposedly stuffed with cash, and now the whiff of scandal is tainting even doormen.
Montreal police arrested six men this week who worked the doors at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel and charged them with extortion, intimidation and conspiracy.
These doormen were alleged to have been demanding bribe money from taxi drivers in return for lucrative fares to the airport.
Police categorized the scheme as "fork over between $5 and $30 or else we'll give the taxi jobs to another driver who will pay."
As if the advent of the $7 airport bus wasn't bad enough for cab drivers (vs. a taxi flat rate of $38 from the city core), now they have to contend with greedy doormen expecting graft.
Just the tip of the iceberg, say veteran cabbies interviewed at downtown stands.
"It's all over, not just the Queen E," said a driver outside the Sun Life Building on Metcalfe St.
"The W, the Opus, the Best Western on Peel, they all ask for $5 and some drivers give $7," said Nabil Benchouk, alleging that other hotel employees practise the same scam.
"The fault is on both sides because there are drivers who give money and their card and say, 'Call me if you have airport rides,' " he added.
"There is corruption all over," said a driver on Cathcart St. who spoke on condition that no name be used. "If you refuse to pay (doormen), they call their friends who will. It's like the Mafia."
Many of the downtown hotels have a stand dedicated to one taxi company, a practice worked out with management. Because of this system, not all taxi drivers deal with hotel guests or doormen.
"I know it happens, but it never happened to me -I don't work at hotels," said a driver on de Maisonneuve Blvd.
The Queen E has a private stand staffed by taxis from one association. Independent drivers picketed the hotel in 2004 to protest the privatization of the stand.
The six arrests announced yesterday came about because of a complaint made to the Bureau du taxi et du remorquage, a city-run department that oversees cabs and tow trucks in such matters as permits and compliance with industry standards.
"We have heard about this for years, but in March 2010 we got a complaint in the form of a petition signed by many taxi drivers," said Benoit Jugand, head of the department. "Our taxi inspectors looked into the matter, and when they found it to be true, the case was transferred to the police."
Jugand said the drivers who complained showed courage, and he praised them for not backing down on their charges.
It is against a city bylaw for taxi drivers to pay to get fares, Jugand said, agreeing with driver Benchouk that both drivers and doormen are at fault.
"We are looking at both sides, and an investigation like this is never over at our level," he said.
Jugand said he has no idea what the doormen were pocketing but it must have been good money for them to take the risk.
The concierge of a downtown hotel said doormen are paid slightly more than the minimum wage ($9.50) and get tips from guests that are supposed to be declared in the same way that bar and restaurant workers declare tips.
Six employees of the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth have been suspended pending further notice, said PR spokesperson Joanne Papineau.
She would not discuss the salary scale for these unionized positions and added only that some of the men were long-time employees and some were new.
"We were made aware of this by the taxi drivers, and we have met with them to learn more," she said.
Wife's bizarre death shocks husband By MEGAN SARRAZIN, QMI Agency Police investigate the tragic death of an ATCO employee on May 17, 2010."everybody liked her."
EDMONTON - The husband of a city ATCO employee who died after being pinned by a car while taking a break outside her downtown office is taking the sudden loss of his 16-year partner "minute by minute." "It's just her and me, you know, we look after each other. She liked her job and as far as I know, we were both pretty happy," said Rob Dandy. Police were called to ATCO Centre at 10035 105 St. just after noon Monday with reports that a woman had been struck by a black 2005 Pontiac Sunfire pulling into a parking stall. Erin Dandy, a 40-year-old ATCO I-Tek employee, was rushed to hospital where she died shortly afterwards. "We had a very nice, quiet, keep-to-ourselves kind of life that was happy and uninterrupted. And this is pretty much quite devastating actually, for everyone," said her husband. They had been together for about 16 years and, "everybody liked her."
He says if there is anything to be learned from the heartbreaking death of his wife it's that people must take more care behind the wheel. Charges are pending against the male driver. The vehicle has been seized for a mechanical inspection to determine if anything went wrong mechanically in the collision, according to Karen Carlson, police spokeswoman. Funeral arrangements are still being finalized.
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Heather grew up in Montreal and was educated as a metallurgical engineer at Queen’s University. She has worked in engineering and management roles for organizations such as Texasgulf Canada (now Kidd Creek Mines) and Fording Coal Ltd. in Ontario and British Columbia respectively.
Heather has worked at Suncor since 1996 in project management and senior operations roles in Bitumen Production and the Extraction Plant. She was appointed Vice President of Employee and Community Relations in July, 2003. She assumed the role of Vice President of Operational Excellence in March of 2007.
In August 2007, Heather was appointed to the Oil Sands Secretariat within the Government of Alberta for a two year secondment.
The Secretariat coordinates and improves planning, communications and service delivery to the oil sands region. The Secretariat collaborates with ministries, industry, communities and stakeholders to facilitate a common approach to address the social, environmental and economic impacts of oil sand development.
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Jump to ... David Harper Dave has over 25 years of experience in construction management, cost engineering, scheduling, procurement, contracts administration and controls monitoring for mining, pulp paper and industrial projects. Dave joined Ledcor in 1999 as Project Manager and completed various oil and gas projects in Alberta , and went on to become the Senior Manager for a major client in Fort McMurray.
Manager of Contracts and Procurement. At Total E&P Canada, we talk about securing not only our regulatory license to operate, but also our social license to keep operating. We must merit the respect and trust of our stakeholders and create value for everyone affected by our business.
— Jean-Michel Gires, President & CEO, Total E&P Canada
Manager of Contracts and Procurement. Chris Gall is a graduate from the University of Saskatchewan (BA 1991) and has an MBA from Athabasca University (1999). For the past 15 years he has worked as a Manager and Consultant in Supply Chain Management, Contracts, Procurement and Business Integration for oil, gas and manufacturing companies worldwide. In May 2006 he joined Total E&P Canada as Manager of Contracts and Procurement. IS THIS A RELATION TO EX WIFE KELLIE ROSE WILEY 2009- MARRIED MORRIS GALL OF CALGARY http://www.nationalbuyersellerforum.ca/nbsf2008/presenters.html#jump
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Richard Betts Richard Betts is currently Manager, Procurement Services Canada – Imperial Oil Limited and Exxon Mobile Canada. Imperial Oil has been a major contributor to the growth of the Petroleum Industry and to Canada’s economic and social development for more than 125 years. Imperial pioneered development of the Oilsands of Alberta, both through its leadership role in the creation of Syncrude, and development of the large scale In-Situ Bitumen recovery at Cold Lake.
Richard graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelors of Applied Science (Chemical). He stated his career with Imperial Oil in 1973 in Sarnia as a Design Engineer.