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one of the most read topics here is the subject of bad police officers in Canada
Filed under: Civil servants,Liberals,Ministers,NDP,News and politics,Police,Politicians,Public Servants,Top posts — thenonconformer @ 1:37 am
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All Police force members are to held accountable for their actions on the job. And Members of the Police forces should be held to a higher standard when it comes to the law because of the trust we put in them to enforce the law. They should get severely punished for their failure to do so, especially in circumstances where they abuse their position to try and cover up their very poor behaviour. Abuse of authority and Manipulation of the truth is well worthy of jail time for all bad police officers too.
A democratic, free nation never needs to fear any oppression, perversity intimidation even by police or the state. Free speech is still a valid right for all too, not just for the bad persons, cops.. escalating violence by anyone leads to more violence. The use of police force — against minorities and whites alike — is so poorly monitored that there is no precise accounting of how many citizens are abused, killed by officers, much less the RELATED crucial details which tend to be manifested only by the fact that citizens are posting unsettling cellphone Police videos and pictures of police brutality and because of the many the records are visible mostly from news media reports, some crucial details. Still details of the race of officers and suspects, often are missing. But still Canada has an ugly history of police abuses now too. The Police can do their part to repair their tarnished images by firstly to acknowledging that the person 's rights, as an equal the one right in front of them a person that the Police force is supposed to be serving and protecting. even to protect people under arrest. And people around the world are demanding more accountability from the Governments , Civil and public servants, Police and all professionals too
Few bad police officers are ever charged and found guilty.. Less than one percent.. Face it one of the most read topics here is the subject of bad police officers in Canada which clearly indicates the citizens concern on this topic too. . The Police in Canada as well do owe a "special duty" to the "justice system,", "Citizens" and all members of the police owe a special duty to be faithful to the justice system and the taxpayers .
"When the perpetrators of any crime are police officers sworn to uphold the law, the objective of their denunciation also has heightened significance. "Public confidence in the honesty of the police is fundamental to the integrity of the criminal justice system.". .
All persons in leadership office do also now have to face higher penalties as an example standard now too. It is clearly established, accepted fact by most people is that all persons in leadership civil and public servants cops, teachers, ministers, politicians included are always to be exemplary in behavior, conduct and they do need to maintain their high standards even out of their working hours, and thus to do so they now are also to be exemplary judged, prosecuted for their own wrong doings with a higher standard over those of us ordinary folks. . . Unacceptably too many officers facing criminal or police act charges remain suspended for years, using loopholes and stall tactics to stay on the payroll as long as possible before resigning or retiring. Officers convicted criminally are still paid, unless they are incarcerated and can't report for duty, because only a police act conviction can lead to termination. Many officers facing criminal or police act charges remain suspended for years, using loopholes and stall tactics to stay on the payroll as long as possible before resigning or retiring. Officers convicted criminally are still paid, unless they are incarcerated and can't report for duty, because only a police act conviction can lead to termination. .
Yes now what also has already raised the ire of the Citizens is that taxpayer's cover costs for officers who are charged, but not convicted, of a criminal or disciplinary offence especially at a time when there is some criticism about the ever-increasing police budget. It is absurd that police are suspended with full pay while the local authorities, the Justice Department investigate , the court as well, all which can take years even. Paid leaves are unacceptable. The manner in which the administrations, criminal justice system handles cases involving police officers is driven by anything but the principle hat we are all equal in the eyes of the law.. Yes when the Police or the senior public officials are under investigation by the police, they should, at the very least be suspended at least with half-pay until the investigation concludes, to maintain public confidence in the system. . .
Four years after one of Hamilton's highest-ranking police officers was suspended with pay, he has collected more than half a million dollars in salary and is eligible to retire without ever answering to his police act charges. Due to legal delay tactics and a controversial ruling by an adjudicator, are paving the way for Inspector David Doel to stave off his hearing until he can retire . If that happens, he will get his full retirement package, keep the money he "earned" while suspended and the 13 charges he faces — including having pornography on his police computer, having sex on duty and using police equipment to spy on an alleged former lover — will vanish. http://www.thespec.com/news-story/4232642-handcuffed-how-accused-cops-avoid-a-date-with-discipline/
After almost $600,000 in salary paid to him during more than four years of suspension, disgraced Hamilton police inspector David Doel is … comfortably retired. http://www.thespec.com/news-story/4442557-clairmont-retirement-saves-disgraced-hamilton-cop-from-charges/
And what constitutes even for the RCMP "gross misconduct" and a firing offence? Sexual incidents involving members are not tolerated. Neither, for that matter, are most cases of drunk driving and assault. But criminal convictions do not always lead to dismissals, and internal RCMP sanctions, if they result at all, can be weak. Serious cases of RCMP misconduct are not unusual, particularly, it seems, in B.C., where court documents outline serious indiscretions and allegations. Reporters have also obtained lists of RCMP adjudication board decisions that describe shocking behaviour and admissions by officers on active duty http://www.bcpolicecomplaints.org/bc_police_complaint_commissioner_stan_lowe_rollie_woods_coverup_vancouver_vpd_taylor_robinson_brutality.html . .
The Police Managers, Politicians, Police Unions, the Police themselves are Facing Nation Wide Outrage , Public Anger Canada wide is an UNDENIABLE problem in how the police do their jobs. . So how do the administrators deal with it? They threaten laws suits against those who try to complain..
All Police officers do not only need to maintain the respect and good will of citizens to do their job effectively, they also depend on that good will in their salary, pensions and benefits, in which they have been even far more successful than other public employees in recent years. . The undeniable present lack of trust of police by the minority community is also unacceptable. .
When Police enforcement goes bad, the police and the police unions historically close ranks around suspect officers Police PR and these Police cover-ups will not do. . It is important for the police unions, Police managers to become honestly self-critical about police conduct and to not blindly defend each and every egregious incident by officers.
And the criminal justice system should be doing what it was supposed to do, carry out real, valid justice against the police now too. . These total ongoing increasing costs in defending bad officers which will also next result in fewer officers on the street . All Police criminal trials can be expensive. A multimillion-dollar legal bill for five former Toronto police drug squad officers is absurd. John Schertzer and four other officers were convicted in June of attempting to obstruct justice. Three of the officers were also convicted of perjury…
All police divisions need to hire, train, supervise, retain, to property train and/or supervise officers and to conduct a fair and impartial investigation even against police officers, . Any Police officers can even be charged for "unlawful detention, battery, false arrest and unreasonable search and seizure, the use of excessive and deadly unjustified, unreasonable, and illegal use of excessive force, including deadly force .
About the money. Looking more at concerns that many citizens have raised in recent years about police practices, many are about money and police departments' roles in collecting it—whether to supplement their own or their municipality's budget. Even there is a concern about the usage of radars, automated speed cameras and whether their use was being driven by public safety goals or a desire to maximize revenue and not reducing the deaths of citizens in car accidents. The re is serious concerns about the immoral behavior by the Police department and court system aimed at advancing revenue collection rather than public safety—and that fact that too many of those efforts were managed to ensure that the Police department was "bringing in revenue at the desired rate." Creating a way for police activities to become partially self-funding, and setting them up in that way that as rather "criminals" seems to be politically attractive and has the approval of the Police itself.
It is too common for small towns even like Canmore Alberta to falsely raise revenues from traffic enforcement..
Watch out for the RCMP speed trap in Canmore , Alberta as you leave Banff park.. it generates the RCMP millions and millions of dollars per year. ( Revenue generating ) "Speed limits in the mountain parks are set with an eye toward preventing collisions with wildlife." ( and how often does that occur? once a year?).
Canmore the home of the perverse Canmore Traffic court, and RCMP traffic ticket revenue generation as I have already written about.
Police do love to lie and say that all accidents are mostly speed related, to justify their fat cow cash grabs, especially in Alberta and in Ontario now too.. they lump all of their homemade statistics as the accidents, deaths related all to speeding.. but not in reality to drunk driver, bad drivers, road rage, poor roads, bad snow cleaning.. This is also still simply not acceptable. There is a direct link between DRIVING and collisions. The MORE you drive, the more likely you are to be involved in a collision and the more likely you are to get seriously hurt . So the police will now give tickets to all drivers https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2013/06/20/watch-out-for-the-money-making-speed-traps/ .
About the municipalities and their false collection of revenue through traffic fines these municipalities "victimize those whom they are designed to protect." and these practices are "immoral." The additional taxation of the citizens through traffic enforcement is unacceptable even if it s falsely being carried out Canada wide. What's the point of fining people for violating the rules of the road? Surely it is to ensure motorists are driving safely and not endangering others. That obvious point, it seems, is lost on Canada's municipal and provincial governments, which are increasingly treating traffic tickets as just another source of revenue http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/national-post-view-raising-revenue-on-the-roads .
About 10 years ago, police charged an Alberta driver with careless driving for flashing his headlights at oncoming drivers to warn them of a speed trap ahead. The driver fought the ticket. At trial, the Crown argued that flashing high beams was dangerous because it might startle other drivers thereby distracting them and causing accidents. The judge wasn't buying that. He ruled that drivers flashed their lights at one another for plenty of reasons, some of which enhanced safety — such as reminding another motorist to dim his brights. Besides, the judge added, the government's principal purpose in setting up speed traps was to ensure drivers operated their vehicles at a safe rate of speed. It was not to raise money through fines. So since light-flashing motorists served the same purpose as government speed traps — keeping traffic within the speed limit — the government had no authority to end the practice of one driver giving another a heads-up. http://www.edmontonsun.com/2014/10/23/revenue-crucial-for-photo-radar-gunter
Speeding is not a major cause of vehicular accidents but drunk driving rather is. https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/?s=speeding
Winnipeg residents are up in arms because the city has been collecting record amounts of money from fines on drivers who break the rules, in part because it has refused to let drivers know what the rules actually are. Revenue received from photo-radar tickets increased 25 per cent between 2013 and 2014, generating $14.6 million last year — the equivalent of a $22-a-year tax for every resident. The city also took in $4.5 million from other types of traffic tickets. Part of the increase was due to the introduction of new rules lowering the speed limit in school zones and doubling fines in construction zones. http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/winnipeg-traffic-tickets
Photo radar's real goal.. Are motorists school-zone scoff laws or haplessly feeding a cash cow? http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/analysis/photo-radars-real-goal-299297351.html . .
Even the RCMP are known to be unprofessional as well as cost ineffective.. even alcoholics and so are many other police forces in Canada now too. I have dealt with the RCMP 6 times and rigthfully have no respect left for the incompetent, lying , pretentious RCMP. In fact I had been abused by the RCMP in Canmore Alberta twice and next I saw firsthand how the RCMP lied, covered up their own.. Say no to an RCMP police State https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/rcmp-managers-abuse-their-employees-and-get-a-ridiculous-punishment-for-it-next-too/ .
The per versed municipal courts too often do lie at the heart of this corrupted police, justice system now too.. Their criminals out of citizens who want to abide by law and then they the citizens can't get jobs that would bring in taxes clearly has the devil's support. . These municipal officials need to be charged with corruption and racketeering. https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2013/07/15/they-often-do-steal-the-designated-monies/ .
While the goal of having every call for Police service fast and effectively, actively engaging diverse communities, preparing for security threats like terrorism, and responding to societal problems as varied as drug abuse, mental illness, youth violence and human trafficking, having discretionary resources to allow the police flexibility in their efforts to do all those different tasks seems to be a viable goal, the devil is always in the false diversions, Promotions and empire building. These are certainly competing goals here. If the Police Management, officers start getting overly rewarded for how much revenue they bring in, the legitimate concern becomes whether their law enforcement action will become driven more by the goal of revenue and less by the goal of public safety, service as is too often the case. They should not be forced to think more like a sales person than a public servant. . It shouldn't be a surprise that the prospect of police departments generating revenue would seem like a great idea to municipal leaders and to the police leadership. As the ability to achieve promotional goals is significantly driven by having the monetary resources available to do so.
During the financial crisis, Provincial, federal and local budgets are hit hard. The pain of tight budgets has been felt across the board in many jurisdictions and the resources available to police departments fell, requiring changes like service and staff cuts."
Yes the citizens rightfully do the government, police, courts, to be effective at minimal cost, thereby limiting the burden of taxes on the public. But Citizens "wouldn't expect other public mission agencies—the public health department, for example—to become profit centers, and we shouldn't expect that from law enforcement." . A Perceptions of police officers as merely collection agents rather than public protectors cannot help but undermine that legitimacy and trust. Too many citizens have lost confidence in the police amd the justice systems. . . Amongst the major Citizens concerns are all of the related taxpayer's is the high legal costs of the lawyers with their high lawyer. rates for a start , example of $470 per hour and hourly rates of $275 for a lawyer with six years experience, $260 for a first-year lawyer, $230 for an articling student and $235 for a law clerk should make us more costs conscious as well . Among the absurd legal fees approved this year was a bill of $280,000 for the successful defence in provincial court of a constable charged with assault bodily harm during the arrest of a suspected drug dealer. "The fees were substantial due to the protracted period of time it took to conclude the matter," . And even if acquitted of criminal charges, all charged police officers accused of wrongdoing should be the focus of a coroner's inquiry, a civil suit or a complaint to a civilian review agency. . see also https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/so-who-realy-protects-the-canadian-citizens-from-the-too-often-bad-cops-bad-rcmp/ .
Needless to say police resources are often misused where even the mayors do instruct the police to find out all they can about their opposition members too. " and it all is still unacceptable! Free speech is a right for bullies, crooks, abusers only it still seems in Canada now. Police already have arrested me for complaining about the Calgary Police in the Calgary Police chief office even.. the charge was talking out loud in a public place.. Many people are shocked to discover free speech is not being allowed too often in many places in Canada, on the net, in churches, letters to governments, to the news editors too… the police have visited me or objected now at least 7 times in response to my writings.. still decades later I am still rightfully openly complaining about the much too many bad police supervisors and the too many bad acts of the so called professionals, the police included. The abuse of the citizens is not acceptable anywhere. . .
THERE ARE MUCH TOO MANY BAD COPS IN CANADA -FIRE THEM ALL NOW
No cop is above the law. Too bad for them they are paid to work still too.
Police still fail to catch most of the real criminals including the car thieves, and the Fraud perpetrated over the Internet which still is a growing citizen concern in Canada and throughout the world. The police always claim they lack resources, they will never have enough resources if they reuse to do a decent days work for their pay. http://postedat.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/the-police-cannot-get-the-crimminals/ .
"A new Alberta police database will track citizen's every interaction with police, and it can be used without a warrant or even a supervisor's permission".. they had an old system already do doing this too.. the police falsely too often do not observe the laws.. . The Alberta government has passed new legislation designed to reduce the number of complaints against police officers. The changes, which include new restrictions on who can launch a complaint, more powers to dismiss frivolous complaints and provisions to shorten appeals, are Unacceptable. .
Alberta is clearly another police state.. where I got arrested for failing to pay a speeding ticket, 3 tickets from the same cop in Alberta even, and twice on the same spot in Canmore, Alberta by the RCMP, I next got no tickets for decades in Quebec and elsewhere. Ironically the same Conservatives who preach the letter of the law approach on others, tend not to practise it too often themselves, tend to feel falsely they are above the law.. the law of personal accountability. I even got arrested in the Calgary Chief of police office for talking too loud, I had said you cops are crooked while trying to file my rightful police complaint. http://postedat.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/the-police-cannot-get-the-crimminals/
LAZY, INDIFFERENT, IMMORAL, BAD POLICE, BAD JUSTICE MINSTERS, BAD SOLICITOR GENERALS is not a new aspect in Ottawa, Ontario, Alberta, Quebec, BC, and in the rest of Canada. A useless , no good, bad Conservative politician is not any better for any of us over a useless , no good, bad Liberal politician in Canada now too.
SO NEVER EXPECT A FULL HONEST INVESTIGATION WHEN CLEARY THE RESULTS WILL SHOW BAD COPS, BAD ATTORNEY GENERALS, BAD MINISTERS WHO HAVE NOT BEING DOING A GOOD JOB. ALL UNACCEPTABLE. NOW WHY IS IT BAD PEOPLE DO NOT CHANGE NEXT BESIDE THE FACT THEY LIKE TO DO BAD THINGS, IT IS ALSO CAUSE THEY FALSELY REFUSE TO ADMIT THE THINGS THEY DO ARE BAD.
https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/25147/
You know I get a kick out of those lying spin doctors, police officers, bad cops, union representatives, police lovers, bad PERSONS who STILL DO say that ALL OF bad people, INCLUDING the ALCOHOLICS, the bad cops and their bad supervisors too they can always be rehabilitated, retrained.. and how many millions of them now has this happened to them.. almost none.. a bad apple tends to get worse..
NOW WHY IS IT BAD PEOPLE DO NOT CHANGE NEXT BESIDE THE FACT THEY LIKE TO DO BAD THINGS, IT IS ALSO CAUSE THEY FALSELY REFUSE TO ADMIT THE THINGS THEY DO ARE BAD.
The RCMP maximum 10 days punishment is always absurd, permanent dismissal is what is always needed with the bad cops and their clearly bad superiors who had managed and hired them too.. Bad solicitor generals and bad Justice Ministers, bad Premiers, bad Prime Ministers as well should all be fired ASAP. The Canadian Justice is too often an empty one. The establishment cover ups for it's own and prevails. Imagine that we have liars for justice Ministers and cops too.
DON'T BE STUPID AND BELIEVE ALL THE LYING SPINS AS TO WHY IT TAKES SO LONG TO INVESTIGATE THE BAD COPS.. I have had many experiences in laying simple complaints against bad cops that never got anywhere cause the investigators were clearly pretenders.. in Contrast the investigations of all citizens clearly would not take so long..
Decades and decades later the police are still covering up for their own again and again but the police are not the only bad professionals who do this these days as well, so do the Hospitals, doctors, nurses, civil and public servants, governments… When it comes to dealing with the rightful needs, complaints of the ordinary citizens our Canadian civil and public servants, politicians and their representatives too, and most church pastors now too, they are still mostly unacceptable liars and PRETENDERS, LAZY, GOOD FOR NOTHING PERSONS, and that has been mostly my undeniable experiences the last 4 decades now too.. How about having now some real professionalism.
https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2010/11/04/cnadian-governments-ignorance/
They the police are an essential part of our community for sure, but they all also do need to be fiscally responsible . . We do till do need to Manage EVEN the RCMP more effectively. There are about 19,200 regular members and another 3,760 civilians in the RCMP. RCMP racks up $800M in overtime in 5 years The total does not include extra duty pay for standby or operational readiness. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/12/04/rcmp-overtime-costs-harris.html
Now "it's also true that the police costs in general, and the related police salaries in particular, are now out of control. My very contacts with the police for decades have also left me seriously wondering what these people do. As far as I am concerned they are all already overpaid. . Most police officers are very well compensated overall, with too many making well over $100K per year, and they still do get a very generous pensions and many paid days off. Right now they are also paying retired officers, who are collecting their full pensions, $75 an hour to walk around the airport and babysit crime scenes. That's all thus the equivalent of $150K per year. . The total spending on police services nationally has doubled since 1997, is reaching $12-billion. While the average Canadian income has grown by 11 per cent over the past decade, the average police salary has grown by 40 per cent. . The cost of Policing is doing to municipal budgets what health care is doing to provincial budgets: threatening to consume them." Both systems do need better cost control management too..
Canada's Police Among the Best Paid in the World. While the volume and severity of crime in Canada have been steadily declining for the last decade, police strength has gone in the other direction. There are now 200 officers for every 100,000 people – an increase of 9 per cent since 2001, though homicides rates are at their lowest in more than 30 years. Some high-crime cities, such as Regina and Winnipeg, have high police strength, but so, too, do cities such as Toronto and Montreal, which rank low on the crime-severity index. The number of Criminal Code incidents per officer has declined steadily since peaking 20 years ago . Unlike other public-sector employees, many municipal police forces continue to receive annual raises that outpace inflation. From 2009 to 2011, expenditures on police salaries and benefits increased by 5 per cent across the country, while other police operating expenditures fell 4 per cent, Statistics Canada reports.
A first-class officer in Canada's big cities now earns $80,000-$90,000 a year on average – before overtime and benefits. That makes them among the most generously compensated police in the world. During this year of hard-pressed public finances, the Toronto Police Association negotiated an 11.5-per-cent pay increase over the next four years for its members. Officers get 18 annual days of sick leave, and can bank unused leave, half of which can then be paid out in salary. They can retire at 50, with full pensions, after 30 years of service. http://terrywhitehead.ca/canadas-police-among-the-best-paid-in-the-world/
The cost of policing cannot continue to rise indefinitely in Canada, or cities will end up bankrupt. Pools, camps, parks and libraries will have to close. There are other municipalities with the largest police officers per 100,000 population and they have still some of the worse crime statistics. Adding more police officers especially bad ones does not necessarily guarantee that we yield better results. .
LAZY, INDIFFERENT, IMMORAL, BAD POLICE, BAD JUSTICE MINSTERS, BAD SOLICITOR GENERALS is not a new aspect in Ottawa, Ontario and in the rest of Canada. SO NEVER EXPECT A FULL HONEST INVESTIGATION WHEN CLEARY THE RESULTS WILL SHOW BAD COPS, BAD ATTORNEY GENERALS, BAD MINISTERS WHO HAVE NOT BEING DOING A GOOD JOB. ALL UNACCEPTABLE.
The sad truth about how many Canadian cops get convicted for on-duty shootings? None.. says it all too..
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Filed under: Liberals,Ministers,NDP,News and politics,Politicians — thenonconformer @ 4:16 pm
Tags: abuse, abuses, accountability, Canada, Canadian Government, CBC, civil and public servants, Conservative Party of Canada, Crown corporation, ex Prime Minister, Stephen Harper
The mostly Ungodly western media reports how many Muslims are being killed while neglecting to write about how many Christians are also beng killed in the same Islamic Countries.
Hollywood actor John Rhys-Davies has accused Western leaders of losing their "moral compass" by failing to cast judgment on Islamic extremism and turning a blind eye to the persecution of Christians in the Middle East and Africa. Rhys-Davies, condemned the "extraordinary silence in the West" amid the rising persecution of Christians at the hands of Islamic extremist groups like ISIS and Boko Haram. "Basically, Christianity in the Middle East and in Africa is being wiped out – I mean not just ideologically but physically, and people are being enslaved and killed because they are Christians. And your country and my country (Wales) are doing nothing about it?" According to a recent report from the New York Times, less than 500,000 Christians remain in Iraq today – a stark contrast from the 1.5 million in 2003. Additionally, nearly a third of Syria's Christians, about 600,000, have found themselves with no choice but to flee the country, driven out by extremist groups. In north-eastern Nigeria, thousands of minorities have been killed or displaced by Boko Haram. Since launching military operations in 2000, the group often targets Christians in an attempt to rid the region of religions other than Islam, the BBC reports. – The persecution of Christians continues to increase, "and the rate of increase is accelerating." "It used to mean several years in a forced labour camp. Now it means watching your loved ones being beheaded."
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Canada is a professing Christian country yet the CBC bashes the Christians and falsely promotes gays and unacceptable talks very little about Christianity even which for the last 2000 years has rightfully opposed gays and gay marriages.. The CBC is FALSELY anti Christian or why then is the CBC giving so much publicity, programming rather to the Jews, Muslims too as even the CBC spy series X Company is full of Jewish Propaganda, where they have to bash US ALL with the Jews being persecuted over and over on our heads , but how many non Jews, the Christians were killed by the NAZIS, Jews and are still being killed by the Muslims today. DOES THE CBC HAVE A MAJOR SHOW ON THIS TOO . CHRISTIAN PERSECUTIONS? NO!
THE CBC CROWN CORPORATION SHOULD GET IT'S OWN HOUSE IN ORDER AND PRAYER IS NEEDED HERE FOR SURE.
At the CBC disrespectful behaviour, unacceptable negative behaviour that created an intimidating, humiliating, hostile or offensive work environment, and sexual harassment and what else such as abuse of funds existed all because the CBC managers didn't do their jobs.
The government and the CBC had failed to eliminate the false, immoral cultures of "entitlement" and fear at the public broadcaster . The revelations of CBC's past abuse nightmares may only be beginning .
The CBC managers, STARS, EMPLOYEES seemed to falsely think they are above the rules . Never.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (French: Société Radio-Canada), officially branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation (state sponsored) that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster. The English- and French-language services units of the corporation are commonly known as CBC and Ici Radio-Canada respectively, and both short-form names are also commonly used in the applicable language to refer to the corporation as a whole, The CBC employs commercial advertising to supplement its CITIZEN'S, federal funding on its television broadcasts. Crown corporations have been a part of Canadian life for almost a century, STILL there has been debate about whether they should exist at all. Crown corporations are created through either an Act of Parliament or by articles of incorporation under the Canada Business Corporations Act. They are accountable to Parliament through the minister responsible for that particular corporation. The minister responsible, with approval of the federal cabinet, appoints the corporation's board of directors, and the cabinet (technically, the "governor in council") appoints the CEO and determines the rate of pay for all directors and the CEO. The board and MPs have some input into the appointment of CEOs and board chairs, but the government makes the ultimate decision. All have to undergo an annual audit, and most have to submit annual corporate plans, operating budgets and capital budgets for approval by the minister responsible, who then tables them in Parliament. As of 2011-12, they also have to submit quarterly financial reports. The MOSTLY STILL USELESS CANADIAN government can intervene in the management of a Crown corporation by having the minister responsible issue a directive to the board of directors ordering them to take some specific action. The CBC HAD its government funding slashed by $115-million beginning in 2014, the reduction is about 10 per cent of the $1.1-billion the public broadcaster has received annually from the federal government in recent years. It needs more serious cuts still too.
A damning report on the CBC finds that even the "management's clear, direct failure to effectively deal with Mr. Ghomeshi's negative behaviour gave him licence to continue" and many persons unacceptably suffered as a direct result. Ghomeshi himself had clearly also had fallen short of the decent, moral "behavioral standard" as even defined in the employee code of conduct and anti-discrimination and harassment policy, management, and even the CBC union, did not properly handle complaints and "missed opportunities" to conduct proactive investigations into what they were hearing; and this was all down to "host culture," which was the CBC's way of saying that at CBC, MANAGERS, Radio, stars were pretty much untouchable. It's all indefensible. There NOW STILL ought to be a massive parade of pink slips, not just two sacrificed token executives as the BAD manager were not eager for any outside revelations of the truth in the CBC , AND ALL THIS is just the tip of much larger abuse revelations, facts.. Their tolerating the unacceptably poor, bad behaviour from all managers, employees did the CBC organization no good especially EVEN in the long run. Allowing any of them to NOW remain in the work place will still not only damage internal workings, it will have negative public repercussions. The CBC brand damage, EXPOSED bad reputations, of all of this is permanent too.
A Rubin's report said that CBC management knew about Mr Ghomeshi's behaviour, or should have known. It said the members of management did not take steps to stop it. The CBC had workplace policies to provide a safe, DECENT environment even free of harassment, but that Managers wrongfully were not following them: Employees have said they were reluctant to complain because of "a lack of trust and confidence in the complaint process "also.
A majority of witnesses said Mr Ghomeshi engaged in "a pattern of behaviour and conduct" that was "deeply disrespectful to employees". That behaviour included playing pranks and cruel jokes, yelling, humiliating and belittling others, and in a small number of cases, sexually harassing colleagues. "We saw no compelling evidence that Mr Ghomeshi was ever told his behaviour would have to improve, or he would have to refrain from certain types of behaviour, or else face disciplinary action including termination," the report said. CBC president Hubert Lacroix described the findings by lawyers Janice Rubin and Parisa Nikfarjam, released on Thursday, as "troubling and disappointing." The CBC's ugliest secret, until Ghomeshi blew himself out of the water, is that it tolerated, even condoned, a radio show host who abused his colleagues.
The CBC's failure to rein in Ghomeshi showed the Management OWN utter disregard for respect and safety in the workplace. And the abuse continued for years. The report faults CBC for failing to properly respond on "at least" three occasions to "allegations and concerns regarding problematic behaviour." "While Mr. Ghomeshi's star was allowed to rise, his problematic behaviour was left unchecked."
NOW the CBC needs to clean up its act. The report makes REAL suggestions including the naming of a workplace ombudsman, a confidential hotline to report abuse, better staff training and workplace surveys and spot audits. It's all good. CBC BAD attitudes clearly need adjusting. The CBC should start there.;
Canada is a professing Christian nation where 75 percent of Canadians consider themselves Christians.. It may sound alarmist but yet one of the biggest THREAT that Christianity and Christians today are facing is the invasion of their churches by Jews who also continue to bring their ungodly values, false Judaic doctrines with them, and they the Jews do often try to thrust them unto Christians.
Jews UNDER STALIN were behind a Jewish revolution that put the Russian Orthodox Church. Russian sovereignty itself on the brink of extinction which was a planned, designed program of destruction of Russia's national culture, national education, national production and the national financial system.
History shows that 100,000,000 Christian innocents were exterminated by the Anti-Christian Jewish Red Commissars in Russia under the orders of Trotsky, the Jewish Commissar of Commissars. The Jews prefer to remind us solely of the Holocaust .. And Spielberg will never Direct a "Schindler's List" Movie for the Christian or their genocide. Why is that? Because Jews did it
Christians were murdered in the USSR under Jewish Marxism between 1917-1945, and many of the Marxists came to Russia from New York to do this to Christians in 1917 after Jacob Schiff, the Jewish anti-Christian maniac banker who owned The Guaranty National Trust, the largest bank in the United States, financed Lenin and Trotsky $35 million for the Red Revolution and the mass killing of these Christian souls. We must never forget this. http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-occupiedgovernments-USSR-Jewish-Bolshevism-Jewish%20Role.html .
The Bolshevik/Jewish/Communist experiment that wrought such brutal calamity in the Ukraine, including that 1932-33 politically motivated and artificially caused famine . The Holodomor "Extermination by hunger" or "Hunger-extermination" in Ukraine was a man-made , the Russian Stalin with his Jewish supporters, famine in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1932 and 1933 that killed an estimated 2.5–7.5 million Ukrainians, with millions more counted in demographic estimates. Is the reasons the Jews are still generally hated so much in Ukraine . Explains why so many Ukrainians supported Hitler and his Nazis during world war II as well. Many Jewish authors and writers are very anti-Ukrainian, with as much vehemence against Ukrainians as anti-Semitism. This Ukrainian genocide that began in 1929 with the massive waves of deadly deportations of Ukraine's most successful farmers (kurkuls, or kulaks, in Russian) as well as the deportations and executions of Ukraine's religious, intellectual and cultural leaders, culminating in the devastating forced famine that killed millions more innocent individuals. The genocide in fact continued for several more years with the further destruction of Ukraine's political leadership, the resettlement of Ukraine's depopulated areas with other ethnic groups, the prosecution of those who dared to speak of the famine publicly, and the consistent blatant denial of famine by the Stalin's Jewish backed Soviet regime. Up to 30 million people are estimated by historians to have died between 1918 and 1956 in Stalinist repression, civil war, famine and collectivization, although the true figure may never be known. The predominance of Jews among Bolshevik leaders, and the frightful crimes and cruelty inflicted by Stalin's Cheka on Ukraine, the Baltic states and Poland, led the victims of Red Terror to blame the Jewish people for both communism and their suffering. As a direct result, during the subsequent German occupation of Eastern Europe, the region's innocent Jews became the target of ferocious revenge by Ukrainians, Balts and Poles. While the world is by now fully politicised with the destruction of Europe's Jews by the Germans, the story of the numerically larger holocaust by the Nazis in Eastern Europe such as Ukraine has been suppressed, or ignored.
https://putin1hero.wordpress.com/2015/05/08/west-and-ukraine-are-looking-dumber-and-dumber-liars/
If the Jew influenced US government and the Jew-dominated Ukraine government and Israel succeed in starting WWIII for the Jew´s dream of a New Jewish World Order and world domination then that will be the end of this world. https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2014/08/01/invaded/
It is undeniable that today's Israel treats Palestinians in a very similar way to how Jews were treated in Germany in the 1930s
The Ongoing false Jewish Assault on Christianity
The wolves have already entered the sheep-fold, and most of the sheep are unaware that the intent of the wolves is to DEVOUR them!
What the Cause of Christ has endured at the hands of Jews, through the centuries, far surpasses ANYTHING the Jewish people have suffered . The TRUTH is that throughout history, the Jews have been persecuting Christians, and it is the Christians, and NOT the Jew who are the REAL VICTIMS!
Jewish based leaders and not just Muslims are part of those groups who want to destroy all Christians and their nations so so they could control ALL of the world even today.
The goal of the Jews in Jesus' time was the extermination of Christ, Christians AND Christianity.
The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia was Jewish! Lenin was a Jew. Stalin was a Jew. Karl Marx (author of the Communist Manifesto) was a Jew. Leon Trotsky (real name – Bronstein) the head of the Red Army was a Jew, as were close to 80% of ALL the Bolshevists who murdered the Czar and his family and took over Russia by force. No informed person who is knowledgeable and truthful denies the Jewish character of Communism. Out of the 545 members of the bureaucracy of Russian Revolutionary Bolshevism, 454 were Jews and there were only 23 Russians in the group The Russian Empire was destroyed by the Red Jewish supporters in the early 1900s because Russian Christians did not possess sufficient spiritual vitality to resist the onslaught. Its gorgeous temples were turned into museums, brothels, and centers of entertainment and vice. Its wealth was confiscated. Its priests and other leaders were put to death. Its members were slaughtered by the millions.
"Why should we believe in God? We hate Christianity and Christians. Even the best of them must be regarded as our worst enemies. They preach love of one's neighbor, and pity, which is contrary to our principles. Christian love is a hindrance to the revolution. Down with love of one's neighbor; what we want is hatred. We must know how to hate, for only at this price, can we conquer the universe. We have done with the kings of the earth; let us now deal with the kings of the skies. The anti-religious campaign must not be restricted to Soviet Russia: it should be carried on throughout the entire world. The fight should also be developed in the Moslem and Catholic countries, with the same ends in view and by the same means." Lunatcharski
Germans were industrious, clean, organized, intelligent, and a strong Christian nation. For all those reasons – the Jews HATED the Germans! Germany went into Russia in WORLD WAR II to try to save the millions of Germans who had been living in the Ukraine for several hundreds of years, having been invited there by the Czar to farm the land. When the Communist, Jewish Bolshevists took over, they started killing and starving these Germans in the Ukraine. Germany went into Russia as a Rescue Mission. The same thing happened in Poland. As the Jews running Poland, started killing the Germans who were now under their control. The Danzig corridor, the life-line between Germany and Poland, was closed off, prohibiting Germans from getting back to Germany. So the German Nation went on a Rescue Mission into Poland in an attempt to SAVE the Germans living there.
In the first twelve chapters of the book of Acts, of the New Testament, five specific persecutions, sponsored by Jews against the group of new Christian believers, are recorded.
First persecution: Acts 4:1-22.
Second persecution: Acts 5:17-41.
Third persecution: Acts 7:54-60
The Fourth persecution: Acts 8:1-3.
Fifth persecution: Acts 12:1-19.
St. Justin said in the middle of the second century: "The Jews were behind all the persecutions of the Christians. They wandered through the country, everywhere hating and undermining the Christian faith."
Tertullion said about the same time, "The Jews formed the breeding ground of all anti-Christian action."
The Jews had invaded, and took over, even the Catholic Church over time even since the Inquisition, the international Jewry told the rank and file Jews to pretend to convert, then get inside the Catholic church and take it over. They had influenced and changed it's theology as well adding the mosaic priesthood system, décor.
The Jews had invaded, and changed even the evangelical Church to produce the false dispensational teachings, doctrines.
U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and the leader of the U.S.S.R., Joseph Stalin, WERE ALSO ALL JEWISH!
U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, was ALSO a Jew, Explains why he hated the Russians so much too.
"Even a casual reading of the Old and New Testaments will show that the Jews are a disobedient and rebellious people. Nowhere in Scripture are Christians required to excuse and condone their evil deed simply because of their culture or perceived "nationality." 'Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! … And say, if we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Wherefore you are witnesses unto yourselves, that you are the children of them that killed the prophets. Fill up then the measure of your fathers. You serpents, you veneration of vipers, how can you escape the damnation of hell?"
13 "But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut off the kingdom of heaven from people; for you do not enter in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.
14 [Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense you make long prayers; therefore you will receive greater condemnation.]
15 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you travel around on sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.
16 "Woe to you, blind guides, who say, 'Whoever swears by the temple, that is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple is obligated.'
23 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.
25 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of robbery and self-indulgence.
27 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.
29 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous,
Nothing has changed here.. Nothing is different today. Virtually all Jewish leaders disdain "Gentiles" as unclean. And undeniably too the Jew is a "Christ hater." The spirit of Judaism is one of direct antagonism Jesus Christ, Christianity.
"Behold I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them shall you scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city; That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom you slew between the temple and the altar." Matthew 23:35
"When Jesus accused them of killing Abel, He was seeing beyond their particular nationality. He was seeing beyond the garb of flesh that they were wearing. He was looking deep into their souls. He was seeing the demonic poison that was stored up in their life stream. He knew that the same Satanic hatred for the program of God that took the life of Abel was to reach its climax in the murder of the Messiah and His apostles.
"In the twenty-third chapter of Matthew, we find Christ charging the Jews with the same sin that was laid against Cain – namely, that they had become the instruments of Satan for the destruction of the plan of human redemption. The poison of the serpent had been handed down until that hour; it was flowing in their vein; the blood of the righteous Abel was upon them; they were cooperating with Satan; they had permitted themselves to become a party to the same crime of which Cain was guilty: they were trying to destroy the Saviour of the world even as Cain tried to destroy the line (through Abel) from which the Redeemer was to be born."
The Talmud even teaches that the Jewish nation is the only nation selected by God, while all the remaining ones are contemptible and hateful. That all property of other nations belongs to the Jewish nation, which consequently is entitled to seize upon it without scruples. Than an orthodox Jew is not bound to observe principles of morality towards people of other nations, and on the contrary, he even ought to act against morality, if it is profitable for himself or for the interest of the Jews in general.
History also PROVES conclusively that for OVER 2,000 years, that the JEWS also have been still persecuting and KILLING the Christians! and not just the Muslims..
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PM Stephen Harper's Patronistic Appointments
Filed under: Liberals,Ministers,News and politics,Public Servants — thenonconformer @ 3:14 pm
Tags: A BETTER GOVERNMENT, accountability, Alcohol, alcoholics, Canada, Canadian Government, Canadian Politics, civil and public servants, Conservative Party of Canada, Corruption, ex Prime Minister, Stephen Harper
PM Stephen Harper promised in his election campaign to never appoint senators – zero senators. Since his promise, he appointed 59 senators – the likes of Patrick Brazeau, Duffy, and Walin in exchange for political favors. On that one promise alone, he lied 59 times!
Don Meredith, appointed to the Senate by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in 2010, has been kicked out of the Conservative caucus, Meredith, 50, is an ordained minister at a Pentecostal church in Vaughan, Ont. He ran unsuccessfully for the Tories in Toronto Centre in a 2008 by-election. The development comes as the Toronto Star reported Wednesday night that an 18-year-old woman alleged she had an inappropriate sexual relationship with Meredith, which began when she was 16.
Mint chairman Jim Love expensed luxury trips with wife to global conferences. Toronto lawyer Jim Love flew business class with his wife, slept at Hyatt and Four Seasons hotels, and spent a day on a boat trip to the Great Barrier Reef and a night having dinner at a crocodile farm, according to travel receipts and conference programs.. Love, appointed chair of the mint's board of directors in 2009 by the Conservative government, billed the mint $44,566 for his and his wife's flights, hotels, taxis and meals for the two trips. His term ended last year. They were joined by the mint's then-CEO, Ian Bennett, and his wife, who also enrolled in the tour — at a further cost to the Canadian Mint. Two years later, it was more of the same: Love and his wife attended the next Mint Directors Conference, in Vienna in 2012. They again went on the post-conference tour, a voyage by train through the Austrian countryside followed by a couple nights in Salzburg. The total bill for their business-class airfares and hotel stays during the conference: $21,967. Under PM Stephen Harper overstuffed piggies at the public trough. We have a huge deficit that has ballooned under the Harper government. Tax breaks for the wealthy on the backs of the middle classes taxpayer, so cut the outrageous expense accounts of the 'appointed' ones. It is the responsibility of government to fill positions. However, a responsible government would select someone who is decent. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mint-chairman-jim-love-expensed-luxury-trips-with-wife-to-global-conferences-1.3116573
The RCMP wants to review findings on all 30 senators flagged for questionable expenses should start of with it's own personnel as well.
I am not guilty is what most people say when they are accused of wrong doings.. even convicted felons.. Look undeniably now 2/3 of Canadians think that Wallin, Duffy are also now guilty of abusing the taxpayer's money in the Senate, of living high on the Hog at the taxpayer's expenses.. Expense reporting the policy is clear. All fraud, cheating, lying, stealing is wrong.. Nigel Wright and Mike Duffy, etc., acted on their own volition and like it or not, they are alone firstly responsible, guilty, accountable .How much common sense does it now take that Cheating, lying, committing frauds, abusing your expense account is wrong now? Not much..so why cannot some see this? they love the rewards their stealing brings them.
What has these people going clearly is their false love of money.. what it can buy for them.. Face it their being threatened with expulsion from the Senate and the related loss of the pay cheques is really what has brought on their false rages.. outbursts, denials.
https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/i-cannot-trust-you-for-you-lie-to-me-all-the-time/
It is ironic that Prime Minister Stephen Harper well known for his own past dislike of the sensate and it's members next appointed some of the worst senators himself.. Wallin is being investigated by the RCMP . Stephen Harper campaigned on reforming the senate and promised not to appoint any senators. Once he achieved power, he has done the opposite. He has appointed more senators than any other prime minister in our history. Harper has made 59 appointments (including Nancy Greene Raine) – here's a list: http://www.parl.gc.ca/parlinfo/compilations/senate/Senate_NominationByPM.aspx
Mike Duffy, a partisan Conservative operative, facing Mr. Duffy himself is facing alleged accusations embezzlements relating to expense accounts and Of course, it's the morality, the integrity of the Conservative Party hierarchy, that is now also on trial.With the pay, perks and pensions of a Senate appointment, one would think that Pamela Wallin, Mike Duffy, et al would be satisfied too…
Harper appointed Duffy to the Senate in late 2008, despite the fact Duffy had lived in the Ottawa area for decades. Duffy was a well-known former TV broadcaster who went on to be featured prominently at Conservative events and in promotional materials. Prime Minister Stephen Harper distanced his party from Sen. Pamela Wallin — who was once a top Conservative fundraiser — after the RCMP alleged in court documents that she defrauded taxpayers for at least one partisan fundraiser.
Court documents made public showed one of the 150 expense claims that caught the RCMP's attention included a trip to Burlington, Ont., on Sept. 16, 2010, for an event for Conservative MP Mike Wallace. When asked by Deloitte auditors whether it was a fundraiser, Wallin allegedly replied that "she assumed 'people paid for dinner,'" RCMP Cpl. Rudy Exantus wrote in the court documents, adding that the event was a fundraiser to "amass funds for the next election." The RCMP allege this claim, along with 24 others, are evidence of fraud and breach of trust. The RCMP alleged Wallin charged the Senate for travel related to her work on the board of directors for Porter Airlines and wealth management firm Gluskin Sheff & Associates. The Mounties also allege that on some trips to Toronto, Wallin took care of her personal affairs, pointing to notes in her calendar for medical and dental appointments, birthday parties, a book launch, hair appointments, dry cleaning, and "picking up candle holders."
The RCMP also alleged that Wallin "misrepresented" some of her events to Deloitte auditors. In once case, Wallin told auditors she met with Barrick Gold founder Peter Munk in March 2010. Munk told the RCMP he was in Switzerland at the time. "Upon discovering that (Wallin's expenses) were not proper and correct, this party has taken the appropriate action," Harper said. "Ms. Wallin has not been a member of this caucus for two years and she is going to face full accountability for her actions." Wallin remains suspended without pay from the Senate, and was booted from the Conservative caucus in May 2013, one day after Sen. Mike Duffy left the Tory fold
Mr. Harper could try to claim he is not responsible for any of their actions, but he cannot denied he appointed them.. "More serious for the Conservatives is that the Senate scandal might reopen the vault on the larger abuse-of-power narrative that has dogged the Harper government. It may be seen as a microcosm of the serial breaches of the public trust: the undercover dirty tricks, the smear campaigns against opponents, the altering of official documents, the democracy-shredding omnibus bills. If you wanted to go into detail, you could fill an entire page of news print with the ethical transgressions of this government that have undermined the democratic process. They've become so common they hardly make news any more." On the moral bankruptcy charts, this same Party government is leagues ahead of its forerunners. had promised to be different than all the others even. https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/i-am-not-guilty/
So go ahead Mike AND Pamela, ETC. continue to make yourself Canada's biggest laughing stock.. a big joke, a con, and do find out some more the hard way that a good name is worth more over all the money one can steal..
Now we had the cases of the clear breach of trust and fraud investigation in Quebec City halls that and mostly still all those bad people had refused to admit they had stolen taxpayers money, yes even all those crooked Montreal City hall workers, and the city of Laval, leaders now too. And there now are too many more persons like that now..
https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2013/02/09/while-scandals-and-corruption-are-nothing-new-in-politics-they-are-still-unacceptable/
"Going all the way back to the 1950s, ethics has been a major player in the fate of our governments. A prime reason for the defeat of the Liberals in 1957 was the defiant invoking of closure by the Louis St. Laurent government in the TransCanada Pipeline debate. A series of scandals involving his Quebec ministers were instrumental in preventing Lester Pearson from ever winning a majority. In 1984, Pierre Trudeau saddled successor John Turner with a tawdry list of patronage appointments. They hung over Mr. Turner like a dead skunk in his subsequent demolition at the hands of Brian Mulroney.
The Mulroney government's reputation was then damaged by ministerial scandals. Sleaze, real or imagined, tarred Mr. Mulroney's own reputation, contributing to his decision to step down in 1993 when his popularity was below sea level. And we all know the impact of the sponsorship scandal on the Liberals of Mr. Chrétien and Paul Martin."
Also "For the Conservatives, the danger is in evidence that suggests the government was trying to protect a political asset. Mr. Duffy was a valuable celebrity fundraiser who raked in cash for the party through recorded messages and events, and played host to the Prime Minister for fake interviews at what the Tories like to call "message events." And when Mr. Duffy's expense scandal first blew up, when allegations emerged that he claimed a housing allowance for his home in Ottawa although he had lived in the city for decades, the Conservatives' first instinct was to protect him. Mr. Duffy has in the past said his partisan work is relevant: he asked the Conservative Party to pay his questioned Senate expenses, saying he incurred them doing party business. The PMO responded by trying to get Mr. Duffy out of trouble."
In spite of past promises Harper unleashes flood of patronage Stephen Harper once said he had no plans to stack the Senate with unelected representatives, suggesting it was "a dumping ground for the favoured cronies of the prime minister." Next when he's actually a prime minister, he's done exactly what he said he wouldn't do. The Harper cabinet unleashes flood of patronage The rush of appointments followed a little-noticed series of judicial appointments to superior courts across the country in July.That round brought the total number of superior court judges appointed by the Harper government to 201 since 2006. It also further fuelled opposition claims that the prime minister has abandoned election promises of transparency and merit-based public-service and judicial appointments. Conservative appointments to courts, boards, quasi-judicial tribunals and Crown corporations now total an estimated 3,000 since Harper became prime minister. The Tories are also closing in on the Liberals in the Senate after Harper's appointment of nine senators Thursday, including at least two close advisers. Several of the earlier judicial posts went to lawyers with Tory connections.
https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/in-spite-of-past-promises-harper-unleashes-flood-of-patronage/
Self serving sadly seems to describe too many of our politicians, ministers, civil and public servants https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2015/04/02/self-serving-sadly-seems-to-desribe-too-many-of-our-politicians-ministers-civil-and-public-servants/
A professing Canadian Christian, of the bad Christian Missionary Alliance church, a loser, the Prime Minister Stephen Harper did next again what he said he would not do before, he appointed 18 Conservatives to the Senate had even lied to us, he next did not keep his promises of full transparency, or full accountability, and even that he would stop the perverse patronage hiring system, deal adequately with a bad lobbying system, and what else? After insisting he would never appoint people to an un-elected Senate, the prime minister sent a staggering 18 curly-tailed snorters to the Red Room, confirming his election pledges aren't worth the paper they're written on. Harper talks a good talk when it comes to populace issues like balancing the books, Senate reform and fixed election dates. But when it comes time to stand up and defend those principles in the real world of governing, Harper turns into a mashed potato.
Harper's own recent appointment of senators indicates clearly still that Harper cannot be trusted to work with the opposition parties as a minority government. Harper had once sold himself to Canadians as a different kind of politician, one who'd refrain from using patronage appointments to the Senate. A man who could be trusted to keep that and other promises.. Instead, Harper has fast become the kind of governing politician he once professed to abhor — one who routinely breaks his word.
"Other examples include the $300-million fall election call, which broke Harper's promise to stick to his own fixed election law and failed to deliver the majority he'd gambled on; Harper also reneged on his pledge not to impose new taxes on income trusts and his vow to exclude nonrenewable natural resources like oil and natural gas from the equalization formula — a decision critics say has cost Saskatchewan $800 million a year. All Canadians saw again now was yet another prime minister rewarding mostly partisan party loyalists with a plum $130,000-a-year job and lavish perks.
Yes Stephen Harper the Prime Minister he too now has showed us all he really was a liar, no better than the rest, and he has continued wrongfully too to hire more of his conservative friends into good government jobs.. so now do rightfully fire him. http://thenonconformer.blogspot.com/2008/01/canadian-citizens-point-of-view.html
The New Conservatives are just as disgusting as the bad Liberals they had replaced.. MONTREAL — A little more than a year ago, Saulie Zajdel joined Stephen Harper for a happy-hour pub stop in Montreal as perhaps the Conservatives' best hope to win their first seat in this city in a quarter-century. Today, Zajdel is under arrest.
https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/pub-meetings/
Politicians, civil and Public servants Pigging out, living high on the hog, or getting drunk and patronistic hiring practices, are clearly an unacceptable abuse. A Liberal alcoholic politician is now just as bad as a Conservative alcoholic politician firstly.. and lies just as much..
https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/harpers-patronage-hirings-alcoholics/
The whole truth comes out why you hired bad people or about the drunk drivers, poor now removal, road accidents, recession, Stephen Harper, city halls corruptions.. but first can you tell me why the poor managers allow all these civil bad public servants, senators, aides, MPs, MLA's, MPP's in municipalities, provinces, Canada wide, fly all over the country, world wide, eat fine food, drink alcohol, in fine restaurants at taxpayer's expense while the country is in a big recession? The sad Unacceptable taxpayer's money abuses.
https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/clearly-an-unacceptable-abuse/
The continual mismanagement, budget deficit, tax payer money abuses and has there been even any changes in all this really? We all really still do need still a full review of the waste, fraud, and abuse that has plagued governmental efforts. What is also needed is a enforced, real program to remove public officials from office that take our money and abuse it, spend it on their own false pet projects while many of our people still are not getting the help that they need. You also did notice the cops do too often still not practice what they preach to others they themselves still do like to speed, and how many like to drink and drive still too?
https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/the-whole-truth-comes-out/
People in leadership office do have to face higher penalties as an example now too. It is clearly established, accepted fact by most people that those in leadership civil and public servants cops, teachers, ministers, politicians included are always to be exemplary in behavior, conduct and they do need to maintain their high standards even out of their working hours, thus to do so they are also to be exemplary judged, prosecuted for their own wrong doings with a higher standard over those of us ordinary folks. So where is it?
" ReformaCon's do not Stand on Guard for anyone but themselves and the corporations who bought and paid for their allegiance to decimate Canadian values and democratic rights. "
https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/political-corruptions-is-still-a-canada-wide-event/
https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2012/11/10/why-the-ongoing-obsessesion-with-political-corruptions-fraud-etc/
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Self serving sadly seems to describe too many of our politicians, ministers, civil and public servants
Filed under: Civil servants,Conservatives,Liberals,Ministers,NDP,News and politics,Police,Politicians,Public Servants — thenonconformer @ 4:31 pm
Tags: A BETTER GOVERNMENT, abuse, abuses, accountability, bad, Bad Cops, Canada, Canadian Government, Canadian Politics, Conservative Party of Canada, CRTC, ex PM Stephen Harper, liars
Good Intentions in reality Aren't Always Good! It is an unacceptable reality that many persons, civil and public servants, politicians, Nurses, Doctors, pastors, take the Money but few next do the work promised so they are liars.
(Proverbs 22:1 KJV) A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold. (Ecclesiastes 7:1 KJV) A good name is better than precious ointment; and the Day of death than the day of one's birth. https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/most-politicians-civil-and-public-servants-think-the-rules-dont-apply-to-them/
A bad reputation even brings one great personal sorrow.. It now does not take anyone too long time to realize how many of our mostly self serving politicians, ministers, civil and public servants are big liars while they claim they are there to work on our behalf.. Their high, above average salaries confirm this truth too.
1 Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of … For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
1 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 2 Timothy 3
The fault itself does not lie in the money, but in them that desire it. How they sell their souls at all costs to get the money. Now the road to righteousness is paved with the love of humanity. The road to Hell, arrogance is paved with an attitude of-
exultant
pompous
big-headed
conceited
crowing
egotistic
egotistical
full of hot air
hifalutin
know-it-all
on ego trip
puffed-up
self-aggrandizing
self-applauding
smart-alecky
stuck-up
swollen-headed
too big for one's britches
vain glorious
windbag
boastful
bragging
high-sounding
inflated
overblown
presumptuous
Does this describe some of them to you too?
God's warning The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions!
"Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?' And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness'" (Matt. 7:21-23).
1 Samuel 2:3 Talk no more so very proudly, let not arrogance come from your mouth; for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
Romans 12:3 For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think,
Proverbs 8:13 The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.
Isaiah 13:11 – And I will punish the world for [their] evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
Luke 18:9-14 – And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
Mark 7:20-23 And he said, "What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person."
Proverbs 27:2 Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
Galatians 6:7-8 Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.
Luke 10:27 And he answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself."
Hebrews 13:5 Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you."
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BKFC 11
Miles McDonald is a former U.S. Army infantryman turned finance manager, professional mixed martial artist, husband, and father.
On March 14, "The Warrior" McDonald seeks to prove exactly what type of warrior he truly is as he steps into the squared circle, toeing the line against fellow bare knuckle newcomer, Jacob Akin.
"I was doing the MMA scene, and getting really heavy into jiu jitsu, and competing," McDonald said. "I ended up losing really bad a few years ago for LFA and it kind of just messed with me mentally."
"I also became a father of twins at that exact same time, so I kind of lost my fire, my passion, if you will for combat sports," McDonald continued. Then I heard something about bare knuckle boxing and I was like 'well….are you kidding me?' I looked into a little bit, reached out to my buddy and manager and I said ' I want to do this. I don't care what we've got to do, let's make it happen.' Through a lot of consistency and tenacity, we eventually ended up getting a three-fight deal with Bare Knuckle FC."
But the deal did not come easy. While McDonald may have signed on the dotted line, the true fight was at home, winning over his wife's support. As with any new combat sport, unless there is familiarity with what it is all about, it is hard to immediately win over hearts and minds. McDonald's wife was no different, but with a little persuasion and reassurance that bare knuckle is legally sanctioned he was able to gain her trust.
"My wife said 'hell no,'" McDonald said. "Originally when I told her about the promotion she had seen something and goes 'what does BK stand for?' I didn't tell her it was "Bare Knuckle" at the time. I said something like, 'Oh, it is Boxing Kings Fighting Championship.' Eventually I had to break the news to her that it is "Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship.' When I did that she said, 'hell no, absolutely not. But through consistency and her seeing my passion for it and my desire to compete, she's a good woman, and she's letting me do it."
The 28-year-old McDonald is currently training with Team Fusion and Mosford Boxing, both in his home state of Missouri.
"Cardio is going to be a huge thing for me. I've always been big on cardio. I am conditioning my hands, doing push-ups on my knuckles and things like that. As far as the sparring and training aspect of it, instead of using 12-ounce gloves, I am simply using 4-ounce gloves. That way I don't hurt my partner, but when I slip, it is a true slip oppose to when you slip on a 12-ounce gloves you are still gonna get hit if it were a bare knuckle. Just head movement, lot of head movement."
McDonald's competitive nature is what drives him. His willingness to fight is evident by his service to his country and having five professional and four amateur MMA bouts under his belt.
But how will he fare in bare knuckle?
"I love to compete. I'm just a naturally competitive person. I flipped a Monopoly board over once on my grandma (jokingly laughs). I just don't like to lose. When I heard about this bare knuckle and started looking into it, it did something to me. When I stepped away from the sport to be a full-time dad, I didn't miss training. When I got back to it for bare knuckle, that fire, that flame was back, immediately. The old Miles was back."
"I'm expecting a lot of energy, a lot of excitement. It's a great promotion to be a part of. They are on the right track of doing everything right. I'm just super ecstatic that I get to be a part of it. Really no expectations as far the fight itself goes. Obviously I want to win. I don't know anything about my opponent either though. It's kind of just one of those things where I'm just going to show up. I know what I am capable of and what I can do to win. I'm just gonna go out there and do it."
"BKFC 11" will be broadcast across the United States and Canada, exclusively on pay-per-view through MultiVision Media, Inc., on all major television distribution outlets for $29.99. It will also be available to BKFC's international broadcast partners worldwide and via stream to all in-home and out-of-home connected devices through FITE.
The main event will see the BKFC debut of Wichita native and 2016 Olympic bronze medalist for the U.S. Nico Hernandez in a flyweight fight, while Wichita native and former Bellator veteran Dave "Caveman" Rickels competes in a 165-pound bout in the co-main event. Plus, the hard-hitting bare knuckle heavyweight contender Sam Shewmaker returns to action in a special attraction.
Tickets for the live event are on sale this Thursday, January 30 at 10 a.m. CT and can be purchased online at www.selectaseat.com, by phone at 855-733-SEAT (7328) and in-person at the Select-A-Seat Box Office at INTRUST Bank Arena.
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Local PVC prices in Italy have sustained their softening trend in December, although other products, namely PP and PE, have shrugged off the bearish trend regardless of the lower monomer costs in the region, as per the pricing service of ChemOrbis. The ongoing weakness of the PVC market in Italy is also defying the global upturn, which has been in place since mid November in the nearby Turkish market.
This situation has caused Italy's local PVC market to lose its traditional premium over the rest of the globe. Comparing Turkey's average import PVC k67 range for European and US origins (including customs duties if applicable) on CFR basis with Italy's average local k67 range, the premium has neared zero as of this week, as can be seen from the graph below created by ChemOrbis Price Wizard. A similar situation was in place the last time in July and early August, when Italy was trading at a discount when compared to Turkey and this was followed by higher prices in September after players returned from summer holidays.
European PVC offers, which are one of the main sources of supply for Turkey, have been rising in the past few weeks with the recent k67 offers touching the $1100/ton threshold on CFR Turkey, cash basis. When converted to the euro with the 1.30 parity, it corresponds to €846/ton, which is way above the low end of the current local market range for k67 in Italy.
PVC offers from an official distributor of a West European producer are forming the low end of the overall k67 range in Italy. He informed that they have finished their deals this week with €20/ton decreases from last month. "We have had to apply these discounts in order to generate some demand and make some sales." According to the distributor, the outlook is foggy for January with some buyers pre-buying ahead of the possible January hikes while others are expecting rollovers and they keep their stocks low.
Purchasing some cargoes at the low end of the k67 range, a pipe manufacturer also told ChemOrbis, "We feel that firmer prices are on the horizon as was the case in January 2012, even though there are some opposing views in the market." He also highlighted that the construction sector has been showing a really bad performance, which results in consistently low demand. "We hope to see a pick-up in the months ahead," he commented.
Indeed, the weak stance of the PVC market may really be attributed to the poor economic conditions of the country as PVC is the most sensitive to economic developments. The Italian economy shrank by 0.2% in the third quarter from the second quarter, when it decreased a revised 0.7%, according to the announcement of the National Statistics Institute Istat in November. Another economic indicator, the industrial output index, was revealed early this week showing a decrease of 1.1% in October when compared to September while the confidence index for November in the Italian construction sector declined 1.72% month over month after a stronger month on month fall of 5.45% in October.


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In this article we will highlight parallels between sport strategy and trading strategy. Why? Because surprisingly, we understood that a good strategy in business, it has an excellent applications in sport and vice versa. If you are a winner in sport, you can be as well in trading business. Not by chance, many sport champions, become successful traders and businessmen.
Let's start with the trading strategies, focused in the UK market.
Like every other UK trader, whether you are a novice trader or talented expert in the field of forex, you come with your own unique trading style. No two traders are alike, even if they are following the same rules and information, each person's trading results would most likely be different from the other.
There are many ways traders can enter and take part, however, each trader does have his own way of achieving his goals on this global stage. Understanding your trading style is an essential part of your success. Here we will take a more in-depth look at the most common trading styles traders adopt. There are no particular rules that confine any trader to any of the below, find what suits you best and enjoy your trading experience.
Manage your risk – Extremely important for every trader to master: "Minimize risk and Maximize returns". Make use of entry orders and stop losses as they are available to you on the platform, this way you will not exceed the available capital in your trading uk account.
Traders that keep and hold positions open form long periods of time, these time spans can stretch over months even years, mostly on the study of fundamental factors that are affecting the markets. For long term traders generally more capital is required from the onset, as most investors trust their positions need to withstand or 'ride-out' a number of market changes during the term that the position is open. The idea behind long term trading is to build your returns gradually over a period of time.
Use a small amount of leverage – Stick to volumes that make up a small percent of your equity, this way you will be able to sustain an intra-day or intra-week volatility.
Keep your SWAPS in mind – Swaps are fees that are charged by all forex brokers for holding positions open overnight. There are instances that you may incur positive swaps however most of the time it is negative, so be well prepared for these expenses.
Volatility is measured by the expected daily price range (which are the active hours of the day trader). The higher the volatility the higher the profit potential as well as the loss ratio.
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McMurdo Station, Ross Island, Antarctica, October 12, 2008
McMurdo Station, Ross Island, Antarctica
McMurdo Station in Antarctica gives one the impression of an impermanent, transient establishment nestled at the base of volcanic cinder cones, an isolated ice civilization at the edge of the unknown. On the horizon is an unbelievable landscape composed of the peaks and glacial valleys of the Transantarctic Mountains rising up from across the frozen ocean of McMurdo Sound. Diesel smell from generators drifts through the air and rusty-red volcanic rocks mixed with snow crunch under your feet. The metallic shipping-container-like buildings are numbered, but they all look the same if you are new here. As you fly over in a helicopter, you can see what these buildings look as shown in the postcard above. The science building, the Crary Lab, is absolutely gorgeous and consists of research labs and a basement full of sea-water aquaria that contain strange, seemingly extraterrestrial, organisms: giant sea spiders, sputnik-like sponges, and fish with "antifreeze" in their blood.
MacTown, as McMurdo is called by the inhabitants, was established in 1956 by the United States Antarctic Program and is run by the National Science Foundation to investigate a wide range of science in extreme conditions, from physics to biology. About 1300 people are here in the Austral Summer (October-January), with the majority of residents comprising carpenters, food service professionals, technical engineers, helicopter aviation experts, and other highly trained support individuals that are essential to achieve high-quality science. Without them, there would be no science. Everyone works like a tightly interwoven civilization despite the extreme weather conditions, cramped dormitories, and lack of privacy. It is awe inspiring to watch and to participate in such an endeavor.
Environmental resources are highly protected here under the auspices of the Antarctic Treaty, and MacTown boasts one of the most amazing recycling systems I have ever seen. Approximately 65% of the 3.5 million pounds of waste is recycled every year. Water and everything else is intensely conserved. You become very aware of not wasting anything, including dental floss! Sorting centers exist in all labs and dormitories, and strict allegiance to recycling is followed. Large cardboard containers (called "triwalls") exist outside most buildings where recyclable materials or wastes are packed for shipment (see postcard). Everyone takes mandatory environmental safety and awareness training. I have my work cut out for me, as after the enviro-training, I have to be trained to survive in snow and ice conditions! I am not sure how I will respond to such conditions, because I have only experienced working in hot tropical locales!
U.S. Antarctic Program
McMurdo Station
Fish Antifreeze
Underwater guide to Ross Island and McMurdo Sound
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The Pawtucket Red Sox, in conjunction with Above the Noise Foundation, are pleased to announce that Macklemore will perform at McCoy Stadium on Saturday, September 29. Gates will open at 4:00 pm and show time is at 5:00 pm. Multi-platinum artists Fitz and the Tantrums, along with local rock band PVRIS, and legendary blues artist James Montgomery, will be among the opening acts.
Tickets for the show are on sale now at the PawSox Box Office at McCoy, on-line at www.pawsox.com, or over the phone by calling (401) 724-7300. Tickets start at just $59. General admission tickets are priced at $59 apiece while reserved green seats are $85. Tickets to stand on the field are $150 while VIP tickets near the stage in a pit area are priced at $250.
VIP and Sponsorship packages with opportunities to meet the performers, tent VIP access catered dining, and more are also available. There is no PawSox game at McCoy on September 29 and no beer, wine, or other alcohol will be sold anywhere on the premises.
The Above the Noise Foundation is a New England based not for profit organization that hosts drug-and-alcohol-free music festivals that inspire, empower, and provide funding to U.S. cities battling the national addiction epidemic. This inaugural "Recovery Fest 2018" features national recording star Macklemore appearing at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The show will also feature several well-known musical acts including Fitz and the Tantrums, as well as local band PVRIS, local blues artist James Montgomery, and more.
"It's an honor to partner with an organization that is making such a wonderful statement through the power of music," said PawSox President Dr. Charles Steinberg. "Like baseball, music unites us, and we are pleased to be able to use our ballpark to bring together so many people from so many walks of life who share a desire to improve our community, and share a desire to enjoy the performance of Macklemore."
Proceeds from the event will go towards the Above the Noise Foundation, which provides funding to regional grassroots organizations working to address the addiction crisis in their community. More than 75 New England and Tri-state Area based non-profits will benefit from the concert including: Anchor Recovery Community Centers, R.E.S.T. and Push Hope in Rhode Island, Magnolia New Beginnings, Namastay Sober, and South Shore Peer Recovery in Massachusetts, SOS Recovery Center in New Hampshire, Tri Circle Inc. in Connecticut, and New Jersey Recovery Advocates in New Jersey.
"Nearly every person I know has been touched in some way by the opioid epidemic in America," said Kristen Williams-Haseotes, President and Founder, Above the Noise Foundation. "Recovery Fest 2018 will allow those in recovery, their families, and those supporting them to stand together and celebrate recovery through the healing power of music."
GEMINI, Macklemore's first solo effort in 12 years, was released in September of 2017. It debuted at #2 on the Billboard Top 200 chart and #1 on the charts for Rap, R&B/Hip-Hop, and Independent Albums. The album includes singles "Glorious" (featuring Skylar Grey), "Marmalade" (featuring Lil Yachty) and "Good Old Days" (featuring Kesha).