---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 18:55:09 -0400
Subject: Re Queens's Counsel Joel Pink's call to the cops today versus the unethical of conduct of lawyers and cops NOT upholding the law in Canada
To: cotlerirwin@gmail.com, Jody.Wilson-Raybould.a1@parl.gc.ca, Bill.Blair.a1@parl.gc.ca, jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca, mcu@justice.gc.ca, bill.pentney@justice.gc.ca, david.hansen@justice.gc.ca, jill.chisholm@justice.gc.ca, jpink@pinklarkin.com, MulcaT@parl.gc.ca, Craig Munroe cmunroe@glgmlaw.com, stephen.harper.a1@parl.gc.ca, Yves.Cote@elections.ca, Michael.Quinn@electionsnb.ca, Marc.Mayrand@elections.ca, Gilles.Moreau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
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Cc: rlarkin@pinklarkin.com, tilly.pillay@novascotia.ca, justweb@gov.ns.ca, Matt.Whitman@halifax.ca, police@halifax.ca, Peter.McLaughlin@novascotia.ca, justmin@gov.ns.ca, dpink@nsbs.org, president@uottawa.ca, mclellana@bennettjones.com, david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, dflavel@thestar.ca, lgunter@shaw.ca, info@goldentree.com, media@goldentree.com, livesey@rogers.com, derek.burney@nortonrosefulbright.com, jesse@jessebrown.ca, oldmaison@yahoo.com, rod.knecht@edmontonpolice.ca, don.marshall@edmonton.ca, geoff.crowe@edmontonpolice.ca, geoff@geoffregan.ca, SpeakersOffice3@parliament.govt.nz
Even though former Librano Ministers of Justice such as Landslide
Annie and Alan Rock can try to play dumb about my lawsuit Irwin Cotler
Jody Wilson-Raybould obviously cannot.
Earlier today I sent you all emails pointing out Mr Baconfat's recent
attack on Trudea and I and the Lawyer Joel Pink decided to call the
cops on me. So inresposnse I called the cops and some lawyers and
politicians etc and they all palyed dumb with me or failed to call
back. Now it is way past quittin time and although I see them checking
my work here and there on the internet nobody wants to talk to mean
old me as usual. While wiating for someone to act ethically I decided
to let the media know about what I know about thier industry. At the
botom of this email you will find an email I sent to the boss of the
the CBC nlast night and following proof of a little research of mine
on Paul Godfrey and cohorts you can see my exchange with Joel Pink QC
and the the cop. Please enjoy.
That said I must also say that its truly funny to me that the neo cons
old buddy Paul Godfrey can publish whatever he wishes about Arty Baby
Topham and his many neo nazi cohorts without fear of a lawsuit. Trust
that I could give a good god damn either way. However when Godfrey
blocks my emails to what is left of his questionable corporation's
herd of unethical journalists he pissed off the wrong Maritimer.His
old Dereck Burney who lives in the area of my hometown and worries
about Moose having enough sex these days should no doubt affirm that
simple fact.
Paul Godfrey endorses Patrick Brown in race to lead Ontario PCs
Nicole Thompson | April 2, 2015 | Last Updated: Apr 2 1:05 PM ET
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/this-party-needs-young-new-leadership-paul-godfrey-endorses-patrick-brown-in-race-to-lead-ontario-pcs
"Businessmen Paul Godfrey and Derek Burney announced their support
Thursday for Patrick Brown in the race for leadership of the PC Party
of Ontario Thursday.
Both Mr. Godfrey, CEO of Postmedia Network Inc., and Mr. Burney, a
former chief of staff for Brian Mulroney who went on to lead Bell
Canada and several other corporations, cited Mr. Brown’s ability to
mobilize the party and attract new members as a reason for endorsing
him"
Maritime moose sex corridor gets land donation
'When you conjure it up, you can only smile at the imagery'
The Canadian Press Posted: Jun 25, 2013 12:23 PM AT
"Derek Burney, former Canadian ambassador to the United States and
chief of staff to Brian Mulroney when he was prime minister, said when
he heard of the project he was amused and inspired."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/maritime-moose-sex-corridor-gets-land-donation-1.1366160
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Let just say that that the very sneaky Jesse Brown and his blogging
buddy Chucky Leblanc no doubt would affirm that I am just another dumb
Maritmer who just happens to know how to read and listen and remember.
Bruce Livesey says he was fired for talking to CANADALAND
http://canadalandshow.com/article/global-news-kills-koch-brothers-story-fires-journalist
Episode #: 118
The Collapse of Postmedia
Last week, Postmedia laid off 90 journalists from newsrooms across
Canada, months after absorbing the Sun newspaper chain. What if a
slow, painful death was the plan all along? The National Observer's
Bruce Livesey weighs in on the implosion of Postmedia.
http://canadalandshow.com/podcast/collapse-postmedia
The tawdry fall of the Postmedia newspaper empire
By Bruce Livesey in News | November 24th 2015
http://www.nationalobserver.com/2015/11/24/news/tawdry-fall-postmedia-newspaper-empire
"Ironically, though, the most serious threat Postmedia faces might be
from its owners and debt-holders. The company is controlled primarily
by two American hedge funds – GoldenTree Asset Management LP and
Silver Point Capital LP. Hedge funds are pools of capital that hunt
for investment opportunities, but also have a reputation for being
destructive and remorseless sharks within the financial industry.
Indeed, the hedge funds controlling Postmedia specialize in buying
so-called distressed-debt companies. For them to profit from faltering
businesses, however, often means slashing costs to the bone, sucking
out cash flow and selling off assets for scrap to recoup their
investment. “Basically that's what they do,” says Martin Langeveld, a
former American newspaper publisher and industry expert with Harvard
University’s Nieman Journalism Lab. “They take a company, they have
different ways of getting their money out even if they don't really
fix it… You are cannibalizing, you’re consolidating.”
CEO Paul Godfrey, a Tory powerbroker
“I have nothing but high regard for you and your colleagues, but I’m
very concerned we’ve got our feet stuck in cement here,” Conrad Black
was saying. It was this past July 9th and Black was participating in a
conference call with Postmedia’s top management and Bay Street
analysts. But Black was irritated with Postmedia’s executives. As a
shareholder and the newspaper chain’s former proprietor, he was
unhappy with where it was heading.
“Some of those newspapers have deteriorated a long way from what I
remember,” said Black. “Some of it you can’t avoid; some of it, you
can. But please build the quality. Otherwise, you’re going to retreat
right into your own end zone.”
On one hand, Black’s concerns about the deterioration of Postmedia are
ironic, given his notorious disdain for the journalism profession. But
few could deny Black had a point: Postmedia had fallen far from its
origins."
"In 1999, Godfrey arranged the sale of the Sun media assets to
Quebecor Inc., pocketing a personal fortune of $28-million. He left
the following year to work for Rogers, taking over as president of the
Toronto Blue Jays. In 2009, Godfrey was asked by the Aspers to become
publisher of the National Post. After CanWest went into receivership
that year, he helped assemble the consortium of American hedge funds
and other lenders to buy the newspapers and create Postmedia."
But there was a problem: Canadian tax law discourages foreign
ownership of Canadian media companies. Godfrey managed to get around
this by issuing separate shares for Canadian shareholders. This was
signed off by the Harper government, although real control of the
company remains in American hands. “It seems to flout all of the
foreign ownership provisions and Godfrey seems to have found a way
around it to satisfy the Conservatives and the Competition Bureau,”
notes John Miller, a former Toronto Star editor and former chair of
Ryerson University’s journalism program.
But what would a clutch of American hedge fund managers want with a
flailing Canadian newspaper chain in a rapidly declining industry?"
http://thievesofbaystreet.ca/contact/
To contact Bruce Livesey:
647-341-3989
livesey@rogers.com
Postmedia empire falters while CEO Paul Godfrey earns millions
Canada’s largest newspaper chain is bleeding money and readers. It’s
been hit by a wave of resignations and scandals over editorial
independence. But its greatest threat may come from the U.S. hedge
funds that control it.
http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2015/11/27/postmedia-empire-falters-while-ceo-paul-godfrey-earns-millions.html
"Former TV journalist Arthur Kent is now suing Postmedia, claiming he
was defamed by former columnist Don Martin. He is seeking $4 million
in damages."
"Steven Shapiro is the founder of GoldenTree Asset Management, one of
two U.S. hedge funds now in control of Postmedia."
http://www.thedp.com/article/2014/11/steven-shapiro-goldentree-asset-management-talk
"After receiving his JD, Shapiro worked as a bankruptcy lawyer at
Stroock & Stroock & Laven and enjoyed the finance part of his job. He
left and eventually became the director of the Media and
Telecommunications Research at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
".
The U.S. hedge fund manager backing a major newspaper merger
Steve Shapiro is the quiet guy helping guide Postmedia’s bid for the
rival Sun newspaper chain.
http://www.thestar.com/business/2014/10/24/the_us_hedge_fund_manager_backing_a_major_newspaper_merger.html
You can bet I just called the Yankee lawyer Steven Shapiro's office
and introduced myself to his assistant. She had no clue as to who i
was nor cared but she did invite my emails
http://newsmaritimes.ca/2015/12/01/senior-u-s-hedge-fund-manager-stepping-down-from-postmedia-board/
Senior hedge fund manager stepping down from Postmedia board
Category: Economic The Globe and Mail By JAMES BRADSHAW Published
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
"Steven Shapiro has held a seat on Postmedia’s board of directors since 2010"
https://www.goldentree.com/pages/6370
Whereas Mr. Shapiro was a Managing Director in the High Yield Group at
CIBC World Markets, where he headed Media and Telecommunications
Research and was involved with numerous financings for media and
communications companies in the broadcasting, publishing, cable and
telecom space he no doubt knows exactly who I am and why I was
calling.
https://www.goldentree.com/pages/2999
Paul Godfrey must admit that but he cannot stop me from contacting his
board of directors of a publicly held company Correct?
Now on to Mr Pink and his laments about mean old me.
---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 14:41:57 -0400
Subject: Yo Joel Pink Which cops did you call? I will call them as well
To:jpink@pinklarkin.com, Gilles.Moreau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, rlarkin@pinklarkin.com,
dpink@nsbs.org, jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca, mcu@justice.gc.ca, ralph.goodale.a1@parl.gc.ca, bob.paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, andrewjdouglas@gmail.com, andrew@frankmagazine.ca, gopublic@cbc.ca, Jacques.Poitras@cbc.ca
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, PREMIER@gov.ns.ca
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Joel Pink jpink@pinklarkin.com
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 18:36:27 +0000
Subject: Re: Re Sections Sections 300 and 319 of the Canadian Criminal
Code Why won't the police enforce the law or his fellow liberals at
least defend Justin Trudeau's reputation from Barry Winters obvious
malice?
To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
Since you called my office I want you to know that the police have
been notified.
Sent from my iPad
---------- Original message ----------
From: Joel Pink jpink@pinklarkin.com
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 17:41:33 +0000
Subject: Re: Re Sections Sections 300 and 319 of the Canadian Criminal
Code Why won't the police enforce the law or his fellow liberals at
least defend Justin Trudeau's reputation from Barry Winters obvious
malice?
To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
Last notice .I don't want to receive any more of your emails
Joel E Pink QC
Sent from my iPad
I can't help but wonder if Joel Pink Q.C. ever had the balls to call
the cops to complain of Frank Magazine's old pal Mr Baconfat aka Barry
Winters like Glen Canning and I did. I bet Justin Trudeau and his
buddy Premier McNeil and many others in Nova Scotia remember this
email from Mr Baconfat last summer before the writ was dropped and I
filed my lawsuit. The real question is do they recall what was in my
email that caused such a response from a pervert who claims to work
for the Department of National Defense and feeels free to harass
Rehtaeh Parson parent to this very day???
http://novascotia.ca/segalreport/
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From: BARRY WINTERS sunrayzulu@shaw.ca
Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 10:07:15 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: Re: Yo Premier McNeil Trust that my emails to the nasty
bastards within Frank magazine are not SPAM Nor was the Hard Copy I
sent to the Attorney General and the RCMP
To: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
Cc: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com, Glen Canning
grcanning@gmail.com, michael@frankmagazine.ca, blake@frankmagazine.ca, comment@contrarian.ca, andrew@frankmagazine.ca, justmin@gov.ns.ca, andrewjdouglas@gmail.com, patrick_doran1@hotmail.com, chiefape@gmail.com, john.green@gnb.ca, Jon Blanchard dexterdyne@gmail.com, aparish@burchells.ca,
greg.church@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, eps@edmontonpolice.ca, calgary police
cps@calgarypolice.ca, obscene.works@gmail.com, msegal@murraysegal.com, david.fraser@mcinnescooper.com, jpink@pinklarkin.com, premier@gov.ns.ca, peter.mackay@justice.gc.ca, steven.blaney@parl.gc.ca, pm@pm.gc.ca, Glen Muise glenmuise1000@gmail.com, justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca, MulcaT@parl.gc.ca, steve.murphy@ctv.ca, gilles.moreau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, greg.horton@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
Spam spam spam
BTW Mr Pink if you wish want to sue mean old please feel free to do so
after all you are the crooked lawyer who called the Justice Dept
lawyer Jan Jensen to the BAR, CORRECT?
FYI As you well know I tried to talked to you, Tilly Pillay QC, your
law firm partner Ray Larkin Darrel Pink today. You are on vacation and
Larkin and the other Pink lawyer would not come to the phone (Folks
should not that both were educated at the London School of Economics
and Political Sciences and Ms Tilley earned two Master of Arts degrees
from Cambridge University). It is easy for mean old me to understand
why fancy Queens Counsels find it beneath themselves to confer with a
fierce Maritime politcal animal who is merely a layman who had the
gaul to sue their boss Queen Dizzy Lizzy II.However Joel Pink
certainly knows why I have kept him in the loop and duly informed and
it is because of my many spit and chews with your malicious clients
over the years. I also know from past experience that when I litigate
against lawyer I must deal with his whole damned law firm and the Law
Soicety as well. So I called the main number of the Nova Sctia
Barrister's Society several times untill someone picked up. The lady
denied knowing who I was but how does she expect to explain some of my
emails to her Society and legions of his memebers have been published
on the Internet for years? Here is just one example.
http://thedavidamosrant.blogspot.ca/2014/04/strange-dayz-when-glen-cannings.html
Mr Larkin and the other Mr Pink can never say that they don't know
who I am now EH?
Raymond F. Larkin Founding Partner
Called to the bar: 1977 (NS); Q.C.1993 (NS)
Pink Larkin
201-1463 South Park St.
PO Box 36036, RPO Spring Garden
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 3S9
Phone: 902-423-7777
Fax: 902-423-9588
Email: rlarkin@pinklarkin.com
Website Link: www.pinklarkin.com
Law School
LL.M., London School of Economics and Political Science, 1986
LL.B., Dalhousie University, 1976
Education
B.A., Saint Mary’s University, 1969
http://nsbs.org/contact-us
http://nsbs.org/bio-darrel-i-pink-executive-director
Darrel I. Pink is Executive Director of the Nova Scotia Barristers’
Society, a position he has held since 1990. He is responsible for
carrying out the Society's Strategic Framework and currently is
leading the initiative to transform the regulation and governance of
the legal profession in Nova Scotia.
Darrel has been a regular lecturer on professional responsibility at
the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University, and a frequent
presenter to other law societies across Canada and internationally. In
2010, he spent six months on a consultancy with the Tanganyika Law
Society in Tanzania, East Africa, assisting in its efforts to
strengthen capacity in governance and regulation. From 2005 to 2007,
he participated with the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) and law
society partners in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Ethiopia, in a program
aimed at improving access to justice through legal sector development
in Eastern Africa.
Born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Darrel received his BA at Acadia
University, his LLB at Dalhousie University, and his Master of Laws in
public and comparative law at the University of London/London School
of Economics. He was called to the Bar in 1979.
Extensive community involvement includes serving on the national board
of directors for Volunteer Canada, including several years as Chair;
seven years on the board of the Metro United Way (Halifax), including
two as Chair; and on the founding Board of Directors of CanLII,
including a term as Chair.
He regularly participates in the work of the Federation of Law
Societies of Canada. He is currently a member of the Federation's
Model Code of Conduct Committee and the National Admission Standards
Steering Committee.
In 2012, he co-edited a book, Why Good Lawyers Matter (Toronto: Irwin
Law), with the Hon. Justice Thomas A. Cromwell, Supreme Court of
Canada, and David L. Blaikie, Assistant Professor, Schulich School of
Law.
Contact:
dpink@nsbs.org
902 422 1491
http://novascotia.ca/just/deputy.asp
Tilly Pillay QC
Ms. Pillay was appointed Acting Deputy Minister of Justice on May 1,
2015. She also currently holds the position of Executive Director of
the Legal Services Division at the provincial Department of Justice.
Thilairani (Tilly) Pillay
Executive Director, Legal Services Division
President
Called to the bar: 1990 (NS); Q.C.2008 (NS)
Justice (NS), Dept. of
Legal Services, 8th Flr., 1690 Hollis St.
PO Box 7, Stn. Central
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2L6
Phone: 902-424-7567
Fax: 902-424-1730
Email: pillaytp@gov.ns.ca
tilly.pillay@novascotia.ca
Nova Scotia Barristers' Society
800-2000 Barrington St.
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 3K1
Phone: 902-424-7567
Email:tilly.pillay@novascotia.ca
https://nsbs.org/sites/default/files/ftp/CallToTheBarProgram2009.pdf
Bar admission Ceremony 2009
Kenneth Rowe Hall, Pier 21
Halifax Nova Scotia
Friday, June 12, 2009
10:00 am
PRESIDING JUSTICE
The Honourable Justice
Walter R.E. Goodfellow
PRESENTING OFFICERS
Joel E. Pink QC
J. Ronald Creighton QC
"Jan Lars Jensen is the son of Knud and Birgit Jensen (deceased), and
he was born and raised in Yarrow, British Columbia. He is the husband of
Michelle Jensen and they now live in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Jan received his
Bachelor of Arts Degree in Creative Writing from the University of
Victoria in 1993 and his Law Degree from Dalhousie University in 2008.
He articled with the Atlantic Regional Office of the Federal Department of
Justice in 2008 and 2009, where his supervising lawyer was Elaine Wright.
His articling year included a secondment to the Public Prosecution Service
of Canada and a rotation with Veterans Affairs Canada. He will be associated
with the Atlantic Regional Office of the Department of Justice, Tax Law Services,
in the practice of law."
DECARATION ON ADMISSION
I, __________________________________________, swear/affirm that as a lawyer,
I shall, to the best of my knowledge and ability, conduct all matters
and proceedings
faithfully, honestly and with integrity. I shall support the Rule of
Law and uphold and
seek to improve the administration of justice. I shall abide by the
ethical standards and rules governing the practice of law in Nova
Oath of Allegiance: (optional0
I, __________________________________________, swear /affirm that as a lawyer
I shall bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the
Second, her Heirs and
Successors according to Law.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Irwin Cotler cotlerirwin@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 09:35:18 -0800
Subject: Hon. Irwin Cotler's email address / Adresse courriel de
l'hon. Irwin Cotler Re: Re Sections Sections 300 and 319 of the
Canadian Criminal Code Need I say That I am delighted the my old
political foe Ithe evil lawyer Irwin Cotler still wishes to be duly
informed?
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Please note that the new email address for the Honourable Irwin
Cotler, Chairman of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, is
irwincotler@rwchr.org
Thank you
Le mercredi 13 janvier 2016
Veuillez noter que la nouvelle adresse courriel de l'honorable Irwin
Cotler, président du Centre Raoul Wallenberg pour les droits de la
personne, est irwincotler@rwchr.org.
Merci
--
Judith Abitan
Executive Director
Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights
On 3/2/16, David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com wrote:
> Perhaps Cotler should pick up the phone and call his former minions
> within the Justice Dept ASAP N'esy Pas Mr Baconfat aka Barry Baby
> Winters?
>
> BTW Say Hoka Hey to your buddies at Teddys for me will ya? Do tell
> does Nazzy Baby still want to kill mean old me? I just called him and
> he played dumb.
>
> http://eateshite.blogspot.ca/2016/03/the-more-things-have-changed-more-they.html
>
> Tuesday, 1 March 2016
> The More Things Have Changed... The More They Have Stayed Insane
> David Amos, our little "friend" the eleven million dollar "litigator'
> and paederphile!
>
> As my friend David Amos cries "C'yall in court!"
>
> " David, I showed these e mails and others to an Edmonton area MP
> ,member of government, friend and fellow devotee of used book sales. I
> shan't articulate his name, if you will harass the owner of the public
> house I frequent, you certainly won't refrain from harassing him
> again. I told him that you have e mailed him on several occasions. He
> said that they have been for quite some time, deleted, unread.
>
> While we were waiting for food at the Community Festival, they all
> were particularly amused with your boasting and posturing about the
> "arsenal" you claim to have and you "being deadly at 500 yards, with
> your Marlin." Anne as a former Minister of Justice suggested that if
> you ever owned a FAC, or had licenced any firearms those would have
> most certainly expired and the chances given you being incarcerated in
> Chalmers Hospital, of getting your FAC renewed would be non existent.
>
> She also opined that police do not need warrants to search for
> suspected restricted or prohibited weapons or illegal weapons. I told
> her, the only place these weapons exist is in your head.
>
> It was a beautiful day and a great laugh was shared by us at the
> expense of your foolish and silly boasting about, being obviously
> emotionally disturbed, and "deadly up to 500 yards."
>
> At breakfast Sunday morning Nas , Farzan, Lori and myself laughed
> about you and your obviously dysfunctional, and diseased family. As
> Nas is well aware of your abject hatred of Jews and himself, he
> suggested informing some of the more zealous members of the JDL of the
> treat you pose. Obviously with a mind to having them deal with you.
> But I told Nas, as I told Anne the day before, you aren't a threat to
> anybody in any way. You are impotent, all mouth, mass e mailings ,
> vitriol and anti-Semitic venom.
>
> David, you may bluster and prevaricate about your "guns" and being
> "deadly with your Marlin." But alas, I have "seen the elephant " and
> hit targets shooting at me in excess of 500 metres.
>
> You stick to what you do best laddie, harass women, fuck little boys,
> make nasty phone calls, mass e mailings and complain to everyone. And
> yet still everyone will and does ignore you.
>
> Shalom, David!"
>
> http://www.teddys.ca/contact/
>
> Owner: Nasrollah Ghalehdar
> Promotions Manager: Frazan
> Phone: 780-488-0984
> Email: teddyspalace@gmail.com
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: irwin.cotler.c1@parl.gc.ca
> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 17:09:27 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: Re Sections Sections 300 and 319 of the
> Canadian Criminal Code Why won't the police enforce the law or his
> fellow liberals at least defend Justin Trudeau's reputation from Barry
> Winters obvious malice?
> To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
>
> ?Le fran?ais suit
>
> We thank you for your email correspondence to the Honourable Irwin Cotler.
> Please note that Professor Cotler will no longer be the Member of
> Parliament for the Mount Royal Constituency, and that his offices will
> be officially closed as of Thursday, October 15, 2015.
> If you were writing to Professor Cotler in his capacity as Member of
> Parliement, please contact his successor.
> For all other matters, we invite you to contact him at
> cotlerirwin@gmail.com mailto:cotlerirwin@gmail.com
>
> Thank you.
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Merci de votre correspondance courriel ? l'honorable Irwin Cotler.
> Veuillez noter que le professeur Cotler ne sera plus d?put? au
> parlement pour la circonscription de Mont-Royal, et que ses bureaux
> seront officiellement ferm?s en date du jeudi 15 octobre 2015.
> Si votre correspondance ?tait adress?e au professeur Cotler en sa
> qualit? de d?put? de Mont-Royal, veuillez contacter son successeur.
> Pour toutes autres questions, nous vous invitons ? le contacter ?
> cotlerirwin@gmail.com mailto:cotlerirwin@gmail.com.
>
> Merci
>
>
>
> On 3/2/16, David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com wrote:
>> Need I say that I enjoyed this argument? (BTW Although the lawyer
>> Dougy Baby Christie and I hated each other we did agree on the topic
>> of free speech)
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExOuYW03tvc
>>
>> Published on May 1, 2013
>>
>> Free speech lawyer Douglas Christie appeared on "Crossfire" after the
>> first Zundel trial, in 1985, and was aggressively questioned by
>> panelists Ian Mulgrew, Kathleen Mahoney and George Oake.
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExOuYW03tvc&ebc=ANyPxKrd5BZZP1slfdMF7rxOUPxL8IHFKZsSFk4U_vE24Exz-BWizgjJ_zK0AlY-ARwpuNYLV49tK0M6smgyibc76kfxHLlbUw
>>
>> Ian Mulgrew: Canadian courts wade into free-speech battle with
>> worldwide injunction against Google By Ian Mulgrew, Vancouver Sun
>> February 22, 2016
>>
>> http://www.vancouversun.com/news/mulgrew+canadian+courts+wade+into+free+speech+battle+with+worldwide+injunction+against+google/11728721/story.html#ixzz41lYc7RB7
>>
>> http://www.vancouversun.com/news/mulgrew+canadian+courts+wade+into+free+speech+battle+with/11728721/story.html
>>
>> Kathleen E. Mahoney Professor
>> Called to the bar: 1977 (BC); 1989 (AB); Q.C.2013 (AB)
>> University of Calgary
>> Faculty of Law, 4330 Murray Fraser Hall
>> 2500 University Dr. N.W.
>> Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4
>> Phone: 403-220-7254
>> Fax: 403-282-8325
>> Email: kmahoney@ucalgary.ca
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 12:54:08 -0400
>> Subject: Re: Re Sections Sections 300 and 319 of the Canadian Criminal
>> Code Why won't the police enforce the law or his fellow liberals at
>> least defend Justin Trudeau's reputation from Barry Winters obvious
>> malice?
>> To: Jody.Wilson-Raybould.a1@parl.gc.ca, Bill.Blair.a1@parl.gc.ca,
>> jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca, mcu@justice.gc.ca>, bill.pentney@justice.gc.ca,
>> david.hansen@justice.gc.ca, jill.chisholm@justice.gc.ca, jpink@pinklarkin.com, >> MulcaT@parl.gc.ca, Craig Munroe cmunroe@glgmlaw.com,
>> stephen.harper.a1@parl.gc.ca, Yves.Cote@elections.ca,
>> Michael.Quinn@electionsnb.ca, Marc.Mayrand@elections.ca,
>> Gilles.Moreau@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>> elizabeth.may.c1a@parl.gc.ca, requests@greenparty.ca,
>> eric.ferron@cef-cce.gc.ca, marc.chenier@cef-cce.gc.ca,
>> pierre.legault@justice.gc.ca, Paul.Collister@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>> radical@radicalpress.com, paul@paulfromm.com, Ezra@therebel.media,
>> gopublic@cbc.ca, Whistleblower@ctv.ca, czwibel@ccla.org,
>> joseph.hickey@ocla.ca, riana.colbert@ocla.ca, Brian Ruhe brian@brianruhe.ca
>> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, rod.knecht@edmontonpolice.ca,
>> don.marshall@edmonton.ca>, geoff.crowe@edmontonpolice.ca,
>> Geoff Regan geoff@geoffregan.ca, SpeakersOffice3@parliament.govt.nz
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: "Jensen, Jan" jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca
>> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 16:52:14 +0000
>> Subject: Automatic reply: Re Sections Sections 300 and 319 of the
>> Canadian Criminal Code Why won't the police enforce the law or his
>> fellow liberals at least defend Justin Trudeau's reputation from Barry
>> Winters obvious malice?
>> To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>>
>> I will be out of the office until Thursday March 3, 2016 and I will
>> not be checking my voice mail or email during that time.
>>
>>
>> On 3/2/16, David Amos
>>> Methinks it is because Barry Winters aka Mr Baconfat is also attacking
>>> my family and I and more importantly my lawsuit against the CROWN.
>>> What say you?
>>>
>>> The text of my filings can be found here.
>>>
>>> http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2015/09/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html
>>>
>>> Folks will have to query the docket to see the CROWN's filings
>>> as they contain an amazing amount of desperate bullshit that I could
>>> not possibly scan.
>>>
>>> This was what was said before the court during oral arguments pertaining
>>> to Federal Court File no T-1557-15
>>>
>>> Dec 14th
>>> https://archive.org/details/BahHumbug
>>>
>>> Jan 11th
>>> https://archive.org/details/Jan11th2015
>>>
>>>
>>> Trust that I talked to a lot of people about Mr Baconfat evil words
>>> yesterday and will try to talk to even more folks today. I truly
>>> believe the Muslims and First Nations folks will have something to say
>>> about Mr Baconfat's wrongs long before any so called journalist or
>>> politician or cop steps up to the plate to defend Trudeau. Am I wrong
>>> Ezzy Baby Levant and Arty Baby Topham?.Weren't both of you prosecuted
>>> and or sued for far less offences and you both have been made well
>>> aware of Mr Baconfat and his obvious malice for years CORRECT? In my
>>> humble opinion although you hate each other you both support Mr
>>> Baconfat simply because you all hate mean old me. In all honesty I am
>>> honoured that you do.
>>>
>>> Below are some of your many words on the topic of Hate Speech etc
>>> CORRECT?
>>>
>>> Published on Nov 8, 2012
>>>
>>> Free speech lawyer Doug Christie is interviewed by Sun TV"s Ezra
>>> Levant on his show The Source
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYu4e6PdPsM
>>>
>>> I HATE ARTHUR TOPHAM! – Ezra Levant on The Source Nov. 8, 2012
>>>
>>> http://www.radicalpress.com/?p=1411
>>>
>>> Arthur Topham's anti-Semitic website still on internet despite hate
>>> conviction
>>> 'I'm not happy,' says Victoria complainant CBC News Posted: Nov 23,
>>> 2015 6:35 PM PT
>>>
>>> Published on Sep 26, 2015
>>>
>>> Sep. 30, 2014, The Source with Ezra Levant (Sun News): Interview with
>>> Joseph Hickey, Executive Director of the Ontario Civil Liberties
>>> Association (OCLA) about hate speech criminal charges against blogger
>>> Arthur Topham of RadicalPress.com
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_MxPOUzZuw
>>>
>>> http://ocla.ca/about/executive-members/
>>>
>>> Summation of Arthur Topham "Hate Speech" Trial. Nov. 2015
>>>
>>> Published on Nov 9, 2015
>>>
>>> Welcome! This video is of Paul Fromm, Director of the Canadian
>>> Association of Freedom of Expression. Paul just returned after two
>>> weeks at the trial of Arthur Topham, held is Quesnel, BC, Canada. He
>>> gives his account of the trial experience as he saw it unfold and he
>>> describes key testimony such as Gilad Atzmon's who spoke in Arthur's
>>> defence.
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyoVxVJD9FI
>>>
>>>
>>> Arthur Topham's anti-Semitic website still on internet despite hate
>>> conviction
>>> 'I'm not happy,' says Victoria complainant CBC News Posted: Nov 23,
>>> 2015 6:35 PM PT
>>>
>>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/arthur-topham-harry-abrams-hate-trial-quesnel-1.3331428
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Veritas Vincit
>>> David Raymond Amos
>>> 902 800 0369
>>>
>>> Here is just one recent example of Barry Winters attack on Trudeau
>>> "The Youngers" reputation.
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>>> Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 14:17:48 -0400
>>> Subject: Attn Randy Boissonnault I have made you well aware of Barry
>>> Winters and his malice many times in the past CORRECT?
>>> To: Randy.Boissonnault@parl.gc.ca, Randy.Boissonnault.c1@parl.gc.ca,
>>> Paul.Lynch@edmontonpolice.ca, sunrayzulu@shaw.ca,
>>> John.McCallum.a1@parl.gc.ca, pm@pm.gc.ca, justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca, >>> linda.duncan.a1@parl.gc.ca
>>> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, mac@macnet.ca
>>>
>>> http://eateshite.blogspot.ca/2016/02/why-syrianterrorist-animals-over-decent.html
>>>
>>> http://sunrayzulu.blogspot.ca/2016/02/syrian-terrorists-loved-by-liberals.html
>>>
>>> Monday, 29 February 2016
>>> Syrian Terrorists loved By the Liberals Kanada's Bums Not So Much!
>>> Stalin said! "One man's death is a tragedy, the death of millions is a
>>> statistic!"
>>>
>>> I love quoting people like Stalin because my entirely uneducated
>>> little "friend" David Amos always whines, cries, and takes it all out
>>> of context. Just because he's really stupid!
>>>
>>>
>>> Kanadian "prime minister" Justin Trudeau is a very happy little monkey!
>>>
>>> Happy Sucking Monkey
>>>
>>> Millions of Syrians have "bit the dust!" Millions more Syrians will
>>> "bite the big one" unless the civilized world kills the entire Bashar
>>> Assad regime and tell Vladimir Putin to fuck himself and his "Mother."
>>>
>>> Kanada's Mackenzie King and roughly ten million Canadians stood up to
>>> Hitler and help the world rid itself of him. Liberals Trudeau the
>>> elder and younger would have tried to appease or pay him off. In fact
>>> Trudeau the elder was yellow.
>>>
>>> "Prime Minister" Justin Trudeau the younger has carried on with his
>>> family tradition of cowardice by deciding to withdraw The Royal
>>> Canadian Air Force F-18s, by cutting and running rather than fighting
>>> an enemy of humanity and reducing that "statistic" of millions of
>>> death. This is NOT unforeseen or unpredictable behavior of Justin
>>> Trudeau, he and his "father" aren't real Canadian but Quebecois.
>>> Quebec was against fighting the Germans in the Great War and the
>>> Second World War. The population of Quebec in both wars were
>>> disinterested and against conscription.
>>>
>>> Trudeau and French kanadian cowardice is nothing new.
>>>
>>> Kanadian "prime minister" Justin Trudeau and his liberal "government"
>>> have expedited the immigration of 25,000 Syrian terrorists, and muslim
>>> infiltrators. He has told the world that kanada has no stomach for
>>> doing the right thing and fighting evil, but will bring terrorists
>>> into kanada for "humanitarian reasons"...that will be the kanadian
>>> "contribution."
>>>
>>> To that end the kanadian "government" has mobilized itself, special
>>> interest groups, NGOs "activists" and other assorted do-gooders on a
>>> national scale, to house, feed, teach English, provide employment,
>>> mentors, sponsors, health-care and the opportunity live "the good
>>> life" to twenty-five thousand "refugees!" Other than building the
>>> railroad, the Trans Canada pipe-line, fight Wars or play hockey
>>> against the Russians in "72" I have never seen a kanadian government
>>> so obsessed.... And this Trudeau "government" has / is fucking it up.
>>> The "refugees are not being processed, they're waiting on military
>>> installations, the biggest photo op for a kanadian government in our
>>> history...is one big bust!
>>>
>>> In the mean time, there are hundreds of thousands of "people" on
>>> completely inadequate long term disability (a federal AISH) uneducated
>>> injuns, fat, ugly retards, uneducated chattering morons, and homeless
>>> animals everywhere, that could use a job, retraining or just clean
>>> underwear. These ugly and marginally humanoids don't vote anyway say
>>> Happy Monkey Justin Trudeau and the liberal "brain trust" doesn't give
>>> a fuck. But all these Syrian infiltrators may well become liberal
>>> voters so these animals get a priority for help over born kanadians.
>>> Justin Trudeau and the liberals would rather give a job, provide
>>> housing, health-care and succor to a terrorist than a kanadian born
>>> bum, injun, retard, fat girl, squaw,or homeless humanoid.
>>>
>>> It's all liberal politics of graft. Is it a surprise Chretien and the
>>> Trudeaus aren't Canadians but Quebecois?
>>>
>>> Thousands of evil muslim infiltrators are being housed at CF military
>>> installations and the animals are complaining. CSOR-JTF-2 and the
>>> fighting RCAF are fighting like champs making every real Canadian
>>> proud. Bug eyed John McCallum and Happy Monkey Trudeau are fucking
>>> even pacifism up.
>>>
>>> Is anyone really surprised?
>>> Posted by Seren at 16:31
>>>
>>
>
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 01:08:30 -0400
Subject: Perhaps the Tea Makers if any have survived the CBC cuts will
enjoy my work
To: alphonse.ouimet@gmail.com, ht.lacroix@cbc.ca, Melanie.Joly@parl.gc.ca, ombudsman@radio-canada.ca, ombudsman@cbc.ca, ombudsman.teamakers@gmail.com, terry.seguin@cbc.ca,
Jacques.Poitras@cbc.ca, oldmaison@yahoo.com, nmoore@bellmedia.ca, andre@jafaust.com, tglynn@stu.ca, fredericton@cinemapolitica.org, David.Coon@gnb.ca, Pam.Lynch@gnb.ca, Stephen.Horsman@gnb.ca, mhayes@stu.ca, Ezra@therebel.media
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
http://www.frederictonguild.blogspot.ca/2005/09/this-week-on-fredericton-unlocked.html
http://nbmediacoop.org/2016/01/14/unions-and-supporters-protest-nb-budget-consultation/
http://cpress.org/
http://www.theteamakers.com/about/
The Tea Makers is a web site about the CBC, started July 2005 by a
blogger writing under the pseudonym “Ouimet.” The name of the blog was
taken from the Clash song “Career Opportunities” and the pseudonym was
taken from former CBC President, inventor, and father of TV in Canada,
Alphonse Ouimet.
In August of 2005 most union employees were locked out in a bitter
labour dispute. Many of the locked-out employees took to blogging as a
way of disseminating information and passing the time. The Tea Makers
achieved some notoriety as the lone blog being written by a CBC
manager still inside the building.
Perhaps the evil old lawyer Hubby Baby LaCroix should check my work
someday soon N"esy Pas??
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:49:33 -0300
Subject: Re Phone calls and emails to and from the CRTC, CTV and CBC since
2002
To: ed@veq.ca, fcfa@fcfa.franco.ca, peter.foster@crtc.gc.ca, andre@jafaust.com
Cc: millstoneeditor@bell.net, jeanpierre.caissie@aaapnb.ca,
peter.dauphinee@gmail.com, oldmaison@yahoo.com, law@stevenfoulds.ca,
ndesrosiers@ccla.org
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/backgrnd/language/olmc_members.htm
http://www.millstonenews.com/2011/06/edith-cody-rice.html
Edith Cody-Rice - Publisher
Edith Cody-Rice is the publisher of the Millstone. She recently
retired from the position of Senior Legal Counsel to the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation where she worked for twenty-nine years. Edith
has worked extensively with journalists to help them publish their
stories. She is currently a director of the Michener Foundation which
grants awards and fellowships to outstanding journalists.
Edith is deeply interested in literature and for 19 years held
literary luncheons at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa for many of
Canada's outstanding writers. She was also on the board of directors
of the Writers' Trust of Canada for 15 years and was its chair in the
mid 1990's. She founded a very popular fundraising dinner for the
Trust in Ottawa called Politics and the Pen which raises over $200,000
per year for the Writers' Trust. She was a founding director of the
George Woodcock Fund which provides support to published writers who
face financial need while completing a book project.
Edith has also been a director of the Writers' Foundation of
Canada, the Ottawa Valley Book Festival, the Ottawa International
Writers' Festival, and is currently a board member of Puppets Up!
International Puppet Festival. Edith has been a fund raiser for the
Ottawa library.
Edith serves on the Millstone as publisher, reporter at large, book
reviewer, legal counsel and web designer.
From: Edith Cody-Rice Edith.Cody-Rice@cbc.ca
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:53:07 -0500
Subject: Calls and E-mails to CBC
To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
Cc: Rob Renaud Rob.Renaud@cbc.ca
Dear Mr. Amos:
CBC personnel have contacted me concerning your calls and e-mails to
them. As you are threatening legal action, would you kindly direct any
further calls or correspondence to me. Other CBC personnel will not
respond further to your correspondence or calls.
Edith Cody-Rice
Senior Legal Counsel
Premier Conseiller juridique
CBC/Radio-Canada
181 Queen Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 1K9
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ombudsman de Radio-Canada Ombudsma@radio-canada.ca
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:24:41 -0400
Subject: Faire suivre : Fwd: I tried to call you all The pdf files
hereto attached prove that I am no liar and the mp3 and te wav files
in the next two emails speak volumes
To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
Dear David Amos:
I acknowledge receipt of you three e-mails attached.
The Radio-Canada Ombudsman has a mandate to determine whether
information programs of Radio-Canada has broadcast fully respect
CBC/Radio-Canada*s journalism policy. Radio-Canada's Office of the
Ombudsman is completely independent of Radio-Canada program management
and thus does not intervene in the editorial process prior to the
broadcast of information programs. You can read the mandate of the
Ombudsmans web sites: http://www.radio-canada.ca/apropos/ombudsman/
and http://www.cbc.ca/ombudsman/
Best regards,
Julie Miville-Dechêne
Ombudsman, Services français
Société Radio-Canada
www.radio-canada.ca/Ombudsman
----- Original Message -----
From: David Amos
To: martine.turcotte@bell.ca
Cc: diane.valade@bell.ca
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 12:01 AM
Subject: Re: I am curious
Ms. Turcotte
Great. Thanks for the response. It saves time and unnecessary expense
and redundancy because as I said, your local ATV Station is getting a
hard copy and Mr. Pozen will receive his upon my return to the USA. I
will attach hardcopy of this email to those documents so they will
understand that I am serious about my complaints. But I will remain
true to my word and not forward this email to anyone outside of your
company. Trust that I am seeking friends not more foes. I truly
believe that CTV should capitalize on this story but I am somewhat
dubious after I saw how Bell Canada employed its media to slam the
people striking against Aliant last night. Please never forget I have
been compelled to play the wicked political game and I do understand
the argument at the bottom of this email. I am very much against the
huge mergers at the Global Level. I am certain every lawyer and
politician knows why.
Best Regards
David R. Amos
----- Original Message -----
From: martine.turcotte@bell.ca
To: motomaniac_02186@hotmail.com
Cc: bcecomms@bce.ca ; W-Five@ctv.ca
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 10:28 AM
Subject: RE: I am curious
Mr. Amos, I confirm that I have received your documentation. There is
no need to send us a hard copy. As you have said yourself, the
documentation is very voluminous and after 3 days, we are still in the
process of printing it. I have asked one of my lawyers to review it in
my absence and report back to me upon my return in the office. We will
then provide you with a reply.
Martine Turcotte
Chief Legal Officer / Chef principal du service juridique
BCE Inc. / Bell Canada
1000 de La Gauchetière ouest, bureau 3700
Montréal (Qc) H3B 4Y7
Tel:(514) 870-4637
Fax: (514) 870-4877
email: martine.turcotte@bell.ca
Executive Assistant / Assistante à la haute direction:
Diane Valade
Tel: 514) 870-4638
email: diane.valade@bell.ca
-----Original Message-----
From: David Amos motomaniac_02186@hotmail.com
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 6:12 AM
To: Turcotte, Martine (EX05453)
Cc: bcecomms@bce.ca; W-Five@ctv.ca
Subject: I am curious
Madam
I did not receive a response from you to the last email so I am not
certain if you received it. I must inform you that I will be closing
my briefcase in Yahoo for public view at the end of the week. I have a
great deal of material to add and I only wish certain parties to view
it. I opened it for you the other day as an act of good faith. Mr.
Pozen can check my work in the dockets of the various courts around
Boston they are a matter of Public Record my files are not. As you can
see by this and some following emails. I am very busy dealing with
criminal matters first before filing civil complaints in the USA. As I
told you when you called a lot has been happening. I have made a lot
of cops mad at me and I don't trust them a bit particularly after the
Police Commission is willing to check their work so i have been busy
watching my back and covering my butt. However that does not mean that
I have not thought about our conversation and was curious about a few
things.
I was glad to receive your call and impressed by the fact that you
were more than willing to receive the material and a copy of the
wiretap tape in particular. Your stated willingness to uphold the law
was a rare statement to me. However I was curious why you only
mentioned my voicemail to Mr. Pozen and not the email to your company
and the news program that it owns. Did they not inform you as well? If
they didn't I am not surprised because I have some other rather
interesting denials from the Media. the most interesting would have to
be from the PBS program called Frontline when I introduced its
producer Michael Sullivan to the US Attorney Michael J. Sullivan. Now
that is a story well worth W5 telling. Too bad they showed me their
ass. As a courtesy to you and a further act of good faith, I will not
forward this email to anyone else until after I return to the USA and
nothing has been resolved between BCE and I and I am compelled to name
it in my complaint. I would find it very hard to believe that Mr,
Pozen does not know everything he needs to know about me right now.
I had also called a lawyer, Steven Skurka who had a week long little
special on CTV . I had tried to inform him that I knew my rights his
assistant hollered at me. You from speaking to me yourself that I am
not a rude character. I found it too funny to be treated that way and
I had resolved to serve him this stuff byway of the local ATV Station
that had presented his smiling talking head to me. That is why I was
telling you that you could get this stuff from the local ATV station.
I found it quite strange that you did not rely on them to send it on
to you. Thus I must make an extra copy to comply with your request.
I know the date stamp on the forwarded email is incorrect but that is
because my old laptop goes to the first year in it when I boot up and
sometimes I am too busy or tired to bother changing it. However MSN
tracks it with the true date. Brad Smith and I have a bone to pick as
well and I have been checking his work rather closely since he ignored
my letter to him last year. His boss Bill Gates is gonna be very angry
and Brad Smith and Steve Balmer in the near future if I have anything
to do with it. If you do act ethically and immediately I will settle
with your company very cheaply in comparsion to the bottom lines of my
first two complaints. In fact I will be so impressed I will
immediatlely offer you a better job than the one you have now. Please
study the material I will provide you closely and ask me any thing you
wish.
I will do as I promised and send the material you requested as soon as
I can put it all together. Right now I am on the move and far away
from my printer. Is the following your correct address? Perhaps you
should consider sending someone to the my meeting with the Police
Commission in Fredericton next week in order to hear me speak of these
matters to law enforcement before I return to the USA. Once I do
return there I will serve the Mr. Pozen the material as promised and
call him to testify in my pending trial. The following emails should
explain some of my concerns to you. My wife will be in Canada next
week as well to pick up our kids. I will allow you to speak to her if
you wish. She has had a nervous breakdown over the legal crap and I do
have her Durable Power of Attorney pursuant to M.G.L. 201 B. Mr. Pozen
can ask Robert S. Creedon Jr. about that document. I argued it with
him before the entire Judicuary Commitee on Sept. 18th 2003.
I will call you in a minute to make certain that you get this and the
following emails.
David R. Amos
Martine Turcotte
1000 de la Gauchetiere Ouest
Floor 41
Montreal, Quebec H3B 58H Canada
Tel: (514) 870-4637
Fax: (514) 870-4877
----- Original Message -----
From: David Amos
To: W-Five@ctv.ca
Cc: bcecomms@bce.ca ; oldmaison@yahoo.com
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 1980 4:07 PM
Subject: My turn to tell a tale.
I think is time to let a little something out of the bag for the
benefit of a few Maritimers who think they know something about the
Media.I did notify CBC, the Rogers crowd and Harry Steele's folks that
I knew a little bit about the Media and that I had written a book
about it. Problem is I need an editor and I believe I may have found
one.He comes in the form of a disenchanted newspaper man. But the
thing is I want to put it on the web for all to read for free so there
is no money in it for him. So I guess I wiil sue some big company with
a Prima Facia complaint and settle for a lesser amount out of court.
Lets just say I am looking hard at you dudes. I had zeroed in on the
Yankee media long ago and I am certain folks within the Ottawa Citizen
and Democracy Watch had checked my work(Hey Duff say hey to Dan for
me) I have crossed paths with many of Globemedia's people many times
for many reasons and I can easily prove it. What I haven't bothered to
tell them that I knew the reason Gobal etc never mentioned me was
Frank McKenna and the Irving influence because basically that was a no
brainer anyway. However If Globemedia and all their cohorts didn't
think I knew about the influence Robert Pozen in Boston, you had best
think again. then give Mr. Spitzer, Mr. Galvin, Mr. Shelby and Mr.
Donaldson a call and drop my name along with Mr. Nesters and Mr.
Koski's and tell them my stuff is off to the Arar Commission I am
heading back to the USA to call Mr. Pozen and many folks he calls
friends to court. Perhaps in Ottawa Bill Rowe will truly speak for the
common man after all if the worm turns on his buddies. How do you
people sleep at night? What say you? Why not get honest with the world
and I will settle cheap? I will give one of your lawyers something
real soon before I serve Mr. Pozen his just due byway of this lawyer
Jeffrey N Carp MFS Investment Management
500 Boylston Street Boston MA 02116-3741 617-954-5747 Perhaps he
should call Putnam investments or the Brookline Savings bank and say
hey to Mr Chapman and Mr Tripp for me. I just called Bob Pozen at 617
954-5707 and introduced myself so that he can never say that he never
heard my name.
MFS set to agree to second settlement
By SINCLAIR STEWART
00:00 EST Wednesday, March 31, 2004
By SINCLAIR STEWART
00:00 EST Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Sun Life Financial Inc.'s Boston-based mutual fund arm will agree to a
$50-million (U.S.) settlement today with U.S. regulators over
allegations the firm directed trading commissions to brokerages in
exchange for preferential treatment, according to people familiar with
the matter.
Sources said Massachusetts Financial Services Co. will announce a deal
with the Securities and Exchange Commission this morning that will
also include "compliance reforms," in addition to a token $1
disgorgement penalty.
Eric Morse, a spokesman for MFS, declined to comment. A spokesman for
the SEC refused to discuss any talks with the firm.
The embattled fund company is hoping this settlement will enable it to
move beyond the intense public and regulatory scrutiny it has endured
in the past several months.
In early February, MFS agreed to a $350-million settlement with the
SEC and New York State Attorney-General Eliot Spitzer for allegedly
permitting improper trades in some of its bigger funds. That figure
included $225-million in penalties and restitution to investors, along
with $125-million in fee reductions spread out over the next five
years.
The fallout within MFS, which manages about $140-billion in assets,
was also considerable. Its two highest-ranking officials -- chief
executive officer John Ballen and president Kevin Parke -- were each
fined and slapped with temporary suspensions by the SEC, leading to
their departures from the firm. Long-serving chairman Jeffrey Shames
also retired in the aftermath of MFS's problems, and was replaced by
Robert Pozen, formerly a senior executive at Fidelity Investments and
onetime associate general counsel at the SEC.
Mr. Pozen has been charged with cleaning up the mess, and tightening
the firm's internal controls.
He has already hired new legal and compliance officers, added
monitoring staff, and imposed a ban on so-called "soft dollar"
transactions. The firm also prohibited the practice of directing
trading fees to brokerages in exchange for being placed on a preferred
list of customers and receiving better visibility for its funds.
This latter arrangement, known in industry circles as "pay for play,"
is at the centre of MFS's pending settlement with the SEC. Sources
said the current settlement talks advanced fairly quickly because of
the voluntary compliance improvements MFS has undertaken.
In a recent interview with The Globe and Mail, Mr. Pozen attacked the
basis of the regulator's case as "very weak" and said it should have
raised this as a problem when it conducted audits of the company.
Nevertheless, he said he hoped to settle the matter quickly, in large
part to avoid a costly legal battle and prevent nervous investors from
pulling their money out of MFS funds. So far, the damage has been
contained to one major client, the Illinois Teachers Retirement
System, which fired MFS last month as lead manager on a $664-million
portfolio.
The SEC is investigating about a dozen other fund companies for
directed brokerage, although sources say MFS will settle individually,
rather than as part of a group.
Last fall, brokerage powerhouse Morgan Stanley agreed to pay
$50-million to settle charges it failed to tell investors it was
promoting funds with which the firm had a special arrangement. Morgan
Stanley had a "Partners Program" of 14 funds, including MFS, that paid
"substantial" fees in return for the brokerage steering their funds to
investors, the SEC claimed.
The regulator indicated a few months ago it would begin investigating
a number of fund companies for directing commissions, but did not say
which firms it would target.
Sun Life revealed in a filing that MFS was under investigation for
this practice just a couple of weeks after its first settlement with
the SEC and Mr. Spitzer. The news came as a surprise to most
observers, some of whom criticized the insurer's CEO, Donald Stewart,
for not disclosing this probe earlier.
MFS is hoping to recoup some of the $175-million it must repay
investors under the terms of the first settlement by suing firms and
individuals that engaged in market timing and late trading of its
funds. Market timing involves making frequent trades in and out of
funds in order to cash in on minor pricing discrepancies. It is not
illegal, but is usually prohibited by many fund companies, since the
quick trading can raise administrative costs and undermine returns to
investors.
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However they shall remain there because of my status as a Canandian
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because he likely does not want to hear the matter because I have
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Canadian Media Deregulation Provides Insight Into FCC Proposal
Critics of consolidation say the integrity of the news is being
undermined by the effects of concentrated ownership
Editor's Note: This story has been updated to correct inaccuracies.
Please see the corrected version here.
The original version of this story (see below) posted on May 29, 2003
incorrectly stated that Canada's two national newspapers, The Globe
and Mail and the National Post, recently laid off their online
editorial staffs. According to globeandmail.com editor Angus Frame,
there have been no recent editorial layoffs at globeandmail.com; the
site's 18-person staff continues to write and edit stories that are
published exclusively online. The National Post did not have dedicated
online editorial staff, and did not have online editorial layoffs. The
story also failed to acknowledge that the country's largest newspaper,
the Toronto Star, also has a significant online operation.
The Federal Communications Commission is poised to unveil new media
ownership rules June 2 that some experts believe may change the face
of American journalism.
The new rules would allow media companies to own television stations
and newspapers in the same cities.
The FCC barred companies from owning newspapers and TV stations in the
same market in 1975, but big media owners like the Tribune Co., Knight
Ridder, MediaNews Group and the New York Times say it's time to lift
that ban.
They argue that cross-ownership makes for better journalism: Staffers
working for companies that own newspapers and TV stations in the same
market can work together to create richer, multimedia news reports
that can then run in the company's paper and on their stations and Web
sites.
Advocates say the synergies of convergence lead to cost savings,
increased advertising revenues and greater efficiencies.
Cross-ownership already exists in some markets: The FCC granted about
40 exemptions to the cross-ownership rule in cases where a company
already had television or radio stations and a newspaper in a single
city. The FCC also granted exemptions in larger markets after media
mergers produced cross-ownership situations.
'The concentration of ownership in a lot of major Canadian cities is
of interest for a lot reasons, but mainly because it provides too much
news coming through one pipeline.'
--Russ Mills, former publisher of the Ottawa Citizen
The Tribune Co., for example, owns television stations and newspapers
in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and Miami.
How further media consolidation and convergence would play out if the
FCC does lift the ban on cross-ownership has been the subject of hot
debate in the weeks leading up to the commission's June 2 vote.
Experts familiar with the rapid consolidation of media in Canada say
the U.S. should look northward for some lessons on what loosening
cross-ownership restrictions could mean to journalism in the U.S.
In Canada, the deregulation of cross-media ownership occurred
gradually over the last 20 years. Within the past eight years, it has
led to massive consolidation of media companies.
Most of Canada's news media -- including newspapers and broadcast
stations in all of its major cities -- are in the hands of two media
giants: CanWest Global Communications Inc., and Bell Globemedia -- a
division of the country's largest telephone company, Bell Canada.
The rapid media consolidation in Canada has inspired an
often-acrimonious debate over whether Canadian journalists are able to
report objectively on social and political issues and whether the
country's corporate media has allowed business interests to undermine
the role of journalism in a modern democracy.
"Based on the experience in Canada, dropping restrictions on
cross-ownership certainly hasn't worked out well," said Russ Mills,
former publisher of the Ottawa Citizen in Canada's capital city, who
was fired by CanWest in a fight over editorial independence.
"The concentration of ownership in a lot of major Canadian cities is
of interest for a lot of reasons, but mainly because it provides too
much news coming through one pipeline," he said. "When companies use
ownership to control the news, and they do have the ability to do so,
it hurts everyone."
Though the two media conglomerates said cross-media consolidation
would improve online journalism, many media observers say online
journalism at local papers has gone downhill in the wake of
consolidation.
The country's two national newspapers, the National Post, half-owned
by CanWest, and The Globe and Mail, owned by Bell Canada's media wing,
Globemedia, have laid off the online reporters and editors at the two
papers that once produced copy separate from print editions.
The two papers, former online staffers said, were the only ones in
Canada that were doing something other than simply repurposing content
from newspaper pages into newspaper Web sites.
Executives at Bell Globemedia and CanWest have defended the cutbacks,
saying they were a result of cost-cutting efforts and consolidations
undertaken after spending billions of dollars to acquire newspaper and
broadcasting properties.
Consolidation accelerated in 1990s
Canada's restrictions on cross-media ownership were carved largely
from regulatory decisions on broadcasting licenses made since the
1950s by the Canadian Radio-Television Commission -- Canada's version
of the FCC.
By the mid-1980s, Canadian media experts say, exceptions to
cross-media ownership rules had eroded the cross-ownership ban to the
point that it was unenforcable and largely ignored.
By the mid-1990s, consolidation of Canadian media companies had
accelerated on the strength of dot.com economics. And in 2000,
CanWest, the second largest broadcaster in the country, announced a
$3.5-billion deal to purchase a majority of the nation's newspapers --
including papers in the nation's 12 largest cities.
Within weeks, Jean Monty, Bell Canada's CEO at the time, announced
that Canada's largest phone company had set its sights on owning both
content and the multimedia pipelines into consumers' homes.
The decision prompted Bell Globemedia to purchase the Globe and Mail
and the nation's largest TV network, CTV, in 2001.
Despite the rising consolidation of media outlets, the massive
purchases of newspapers by CanWest Global and Bell Globemedia took
many Canadian journalists and media-watchers by surprise.
CanWest and Bell executives convinced Canada's CRTC that convergence
was necessary to attract advertising revenue and reduce costs if
newspapers in many Canadian communities were to survive. And they
promised that resources from new revenues would be devoted to
improving the quality and reach of journalism through the Internet.
When questions about convergence arose during CRTC hearings on both
companies' broadcast licenses shortly after their newspaper purchases,
they promised regulators that they would separate management of
news-gathering operations by their television stations and newspapers.
Officials from the Canada National Newspaper Guild complained that
keeping management separate would not prevent companies from forcing
journalists to perform work for both newspapers and television, to the
detriment of journalistic independence.
Critics -- including journalism professors, journalists, newspaper and
broadcast union officials, and some government officials -- have
argued that the quality of journalism has gone down, not up, as a
result of convergence.
Joyce Smith, an assistant professor at Canada's Ryerson University,
teaches online journalism and worked on the online staff at the Globe
and Mail before those employees were laid off last year.
She said the one opportunity to see convergence succeed might have
been missed by Bell Globemedia in its efforts to cut costs to recoup
some of what it spent on media acquisitions.
"What I found interesting was that the actual idea of convergence
wasn't a hit with people working with just the newspaper or just
television," Smith said. "Where it really happened was with the online
news team. There were things the TV folks could clearly do much better
with the online newspaper. By pooling resources, it all did work much
better.
"But in the tradition of journalism," she said, "reporters were
asking, 'What does this mean for me? Does it mean that I have to file
stories to the Web and then do stand-ups in newsroom, while doing my
piece for the deadline at the end of the day?'
"Basically, (owners) wanted reporters to be one-man bands," Smith
said. "That has been played and replayed here. It made sense from a
business model, but journalists, especially those who have been around
for a while, went into newspapers and TV for a reason. Some are great
at doing both, but not everyone has the same aptitude. And no one has
the time in the day to do it all. Some of the expectations were
outrageous."
Canada reexamining changes
While U.S. media critics and media executives have been testifying
over the past few weeks in Senate hearings on the proposed changes in
the FCC's media ownership rules, Canada is busy reexamining what has
come of its own cross-media consolidations.
Two inquiries are underway by Canadian government officials to explore
the impact of cross-media ownership and consolidation on journalistic
integrity and media responsibility.
The Canadian Senate's Committee on Transport and Communication began
taking testimony at the end of April on those issues and is expected
to report its findings within the next year.
A House of Commons committee on Canadian heritage is expected to
release an 800-page report next month on its own yearlong
investigation into the impact of media concentration and political
efforts by corporations to ease restrictions on foreign ownership of
Canadian media.
But media-watchers, who have a ringside seat on Canada's great media
debate, say they are doubtful that government investigations will
produce any new regulation on media conglomerates.
"The horse is out of the barn," said Arnold Amber, director of the
National Newspaper Guild of Canada. "But the good news is that this
has at least inspired a vigorous national debate on press freedom and
responsibility."
Amber and other critics of media convergence said promises of more
stories and better information from combining print and broadcast news
staffs have largely failed in Canada.
"Bell Globemedia is talking about restructuring and selling off its
media wing," Amber said. "The failure of convergence to bring in
revenues was primarily responsible for the resignation of Bell
Canada's CEO, Jean Monty," who stepped down in April 2002.
Geoffrey Elliot, vice-president of corporate affairs for CanWest, said
that convergence has not led to revenues, or the reduced costs, the
company had hoped for.
But Elliot, and other supporters of cross-media ownership, argues that
all sides have benefited from consolidation.
"We are a family-owned business that saw an opportunity in which the
whole was greater than the sum of the parts," Elliot said. "We saw
substantial potential synergies on the sales side by putting
television and newspaper assets together, since they both serve
primarily advertising clients as sources of revenue, and serve a
combination of local and national markets."
Amber said the companies likely saw their primary financial advantages
from a convergence of back-office technologies -- combining
circulation, sales, printing and management operations.
But it was something else that brought issues to a head in Canada over
media consolidation and sharing newsroom resources: The loss of
diversity of voices within the Canadian media took on new importance,
observers say, after a series of events that led to accusations of
censorship and political bias by CanWest's owners.
In December 2001, CanWest -- which owns 11 major dailies and 22
smaller papers in Canada -- issued a directive to its newspaper
editors that they would be expected to run three editorials per week
that reflected the position of CanWest's owners on political or social
issues.
The decision was met with a spate of criticism -- especially when
editors were told that other local editorials were not to contradict
those from corporate headquarters.
A byline strike ensued at the Montreal Gazette, and inquiries by the
newspaper guild there led to findings that work by columnists and
cartoonists was spiked when it conflicted with opinions from corporate
headquarters.
Several journalists quit; some staffers published a protest Web site.
The furor finally boiled over into the public arena last June when
Russ Mills, the publisher of the Ottawa Citizen, was fired by CanWest
for running a series of stories and an editorial that outlined alleged
political and financial irregularities in the administration of
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien.
Elliot, the CanWest vice president, said the controversy arose because
Mills failed to let CanWest's owners know in advance of the series or
the editorial -- which called on Chretien, a friend of CanWest
patriarch Israel Asper, to resign.
Mills said he had not sought permission for either the investigative
series, or the editorial, because he believed in preserving "editorial
independence."
The problem, Mills said, was that the new owners were trying to
dictate local editorial policy from corporate headquarters.
Elliot described the concern over attempts at a national editorial
policy -- which has since been largely abandoned –- as a tempest
without substance.
He said CanWest's owners were "well within their rights to propose
national editorials," and that their actions were no different that
those of other newspaper ownership groups prior to media
consolidation.
"There has never been any effort to control what was published in news
stories," he said.
Since his firing, Mills has become an outspoken critic of media
consolidation in Canada, and he testified in April before the Canadian
Senate committee conducting media hearings. He was also awarded a
Neiman Fellowship at Harvard University and is the incoming dean of
the journalism program at Algonquin College in Ottawa.
Meanwhile, Mills' firing prompted a public opinion poll by Canada's
largest media union that found that the incident had caused the public
to lose confidence in the media's editorial independence.
The results, union officials said, showed that Canadians were
concerned about press freedom and wanted the government to look into
problems associated with media concentration.
Peter Murdock, then vice-president of the communications union, told
Canada Newswire that the poll "demonstrates that Canadians want their
journalists protected from the whims and prejudice of media barons. It
is a grim warning to media corporations and government that Canadians
believe that the very integrity of the news that feeds our democracy
is being undermined by the effects of concentrated media ownership."
It is clear that online journalism at Canada's newspapers has changed
dramatically under CanWest's corporate control.
The company replaced independent newspaper Web sites with a common
site, Canada.com, which allows consumers to access local news by
clicking on the community they are interested in.
Elliot said community news on the Web site comes from local newspapers
and television stations, and said that consolidating that information
on a single Web site provides consumers better access to local news
across the country -- as well as reduces costs.
Bruce MacCormack, former head of interactive media at CanWest, said
supplementing newspaper and television content with a common Web site
has made access to news more efficient and allowed the corporation to
serve consumers better.
"The consumers of online media … were also television viewers and
newspaper readers, and at different points in the day, different media
were the best way to reach those people," MacCormack said.
"Someone watching television in the evening could be told about
stories being developed for the next day's newspaper, which is read on
the commuter train as people go to work," he said. "Then, during
working hours, the Internet was the most effective way to get them up
to date on news, and tease them for television use at night."
"These were handoff mechanisms that worked to reach people, so
consumers and the public were able to access services in the most
appropriate media, for whatever method they could best be served."
CanWest recently filed testimony with the FCC to support the
relaxation of cross-media regulations in the U.S. That testimony
challenges media critics on their central objections to cross-media
ownership.
"Today's media market is the richest and most diverse in the history
of modern media," the document says. "Cross-ownership has strengthened
media companies and encouraged greater diversity and more sources of
information.
"Experience," it adds, "simply does not support the contention of some
opponents of cross-media ownership, that consumers would have access
to fewer point of view, or would see only repackaged versions of the
same content across multimedia platforms."
Smith, the Ryerson professor -- despite her criticisms of the handling
of online media opportunities in Canada -- said she sees differences
between media ownership consolidation in Canada and in the United
States.
"In the U.S., because of the size of the market, the chance of one or
two owners gobbling up everything, I think, would be less than in
Canada," she said. "But there is some caution in that.
"If you are thinking about journalists, there are wonderful things
about operating in a converged environment. It was really exciting
thinking we could potentially have video, and it may be good for news
consumers in the sense that (online video) will be a faster way of
converging types of media.
"But you get a lot of the same stuff. There is no alternative. You are
going to lose some (editorial) voices in the process."
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The tawdry fall of the Postmedia newspaper empire
By Bruce Livesey in News | November 24th 2015
http://www.nationalobserver.com/2015/11/24/news/tawdry-fall-postmedia-newspaper-empire
“I’m not going to lose my job over a fart joke,” Dan Murphy recalls
Wayne Moriarty, editor-in-chief of The Province newspaper, saying.
It was the morning of Friday, June 22, 2012. Murphy, The Province’s
long-time staff cartoonist, was meeting with Moriarty in the editor’s
office on the fifth floor of the paper’s headquarters on Granville
Street in downtown Vancouver. The discussion between Murphy and
Moriarty was heated; after all, Moriarty was informing Murphy that an
animation the cartoonist had produced was being pulled off the web.
A few hours earlier, The Province had posted a satirical animation
created by Murphy that lampooned Enbridge Inc., the Calgary-based oil
pipeline company. Murphy had taken one of Enbridge’s commercials
promoting the benefits of the Northern Gateway pipeline – with its
Day-Glo bucolic depictions of nature and happy families – and altered
it with splotches of black ink resembling oil spills and noise effects
that sounded like breaking wind.
Animation by Dan Murphy satirizing Enbridge Northern Gateway ad
In his meeting with Moriarty, Murphy says he was told Enbridge had
complained to the Toronto head office of The Province’s owner,
Postmedia Network Canada Corp., Canada’s largest newspaper chain. He
says the order had come down to pull Murphy’s satire off the paper’s
website – and that $1-million in Enbridge advertising was at stake.
“I’m going to lose my job if we don’t take it down,” Murphy recalls
Moriarty saying.
Moriarty, who is still editor of The Province, strongly disagrees with
Murphy’s account, saying it was his decision alone to pull the
animation due to worries of infringing on Enbridge’s copyright, and
not because of orders from superiors. He says his reasons for pulling
it include: “I didn’t like it… I didn’t like that Dan went ahead and
[posted] it without any discussion prior to it going up with anybody…
[And I didn't like] Dan’s reaction following my discussion with him.
And I made a mistake. God Almighty if I could undo it, it was the
darkest part of my career.”
Enbridge also says they never complained to Postmedia. But whatever
happened in that meeting, no one disputes what followed: after the
animation was pulled, the media was tipped off and soon stories
appeared, including in The New York Times and on CBC, portraying it as
a case of corporate censorship.
Murphy continued to work for the paper and even occasionally poke fun
at Enbridge. But five months later, his position as staff cartoonist
was eradicated as a cost-cutting measure. He was offered a job on the
paper’s web desk. When Murphy asked if he could continue producing
graphics, cartoons and animations, his bosses said no, claiming union
rules.
Instead, Murphy took a severance package and left the paper – one of
more than 2,500 employees who’ve been chopped from the payroll of
Postmedia since 2010. Now Murphy believes his redundancy as The
Province’s cartoonist – a job he’d held since 1984 – was not entirely
accidental. “I think in part it was payback,” he maintains, “but in
part there was a greater move to get rid of critical voices within the
newspaper because that might piss off advertisers, in my opinion.”
Postmedia: a sinking ship embroiled in controversy
Postmedia is a national media giant with nearly 200 papers, magazines
and websites. Its dailies reach 6.3 million Canadian readers every
week, with some of its best-known papers including the National Post,
Vancouver Sun, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Regina Leader-Post,
Winnipeg Sun, The London Free Press, Ottawa Citizen and Montreal
Gazette.
But Postmedia is also a ship taking on water, due to both
self-inflicted and industry-wide wounds.
Of the self-inflicted variety, Postmedia was pilloried last month in
the run-up to the federal election after its Toronto executives
ordered 16 of its major daily newspapers to run editorials endorsing
Stephen Harper. (Postmedia did the same thing last spring during
Alberta’s provincial election, forcing its papers there to back Jim
Prentice’s Tories).
In a surprising move, John Honderich, chair of Torstar Corp., which
publishes Canada’s largest daily paper, The Toronto Star, devoted an
entire op-ed page article two weeks ago heaping scorn on Postmedia’s
decision, decrying “the negative impact this affair is having on the
newspaper industry in general. At a time when the relevance and impact
of newspapers are under attack, this doesn’t help.”
Then there was the stunning resignation of Andrew Coyne as the
National Post’s editorials and comments editor. Coyne quit on the eve
of the election – although he remains a columnist with the paper –
when his superiors told him he was not allowed to publish a column
dissenting with their endorsement of Harper. Coyne, who declines to
discuss the matter, tweeted his disapproval of the censoring, saying
“I don’t see public disagreement as confusing. I see it as honest.”
Andrew Coyne
Even supporters of the Post were shocked at how Coyne was treated.
“[Postmedia’s] handling of the Andrew Coyne affair was disgraceful,”
says Ken Whyte, the founding editor-in-chief of the National Post,
former publisher of Maclean’s magazine and currently senior
vice-president of public policy with Rogers Communications Inc. Whyte
said that the former owners of the Post, the Asper family, “even in
their worst moments would still have allowed Andrew to write a column
stating his own views and the Aspers had some pretty bad moments.”
Meanwhile, last week, the editorial board of the Ottawa Citizen
suddenly resigned without citing a reason.
The silencing of Coyne was not an isolated incident either. In August,
acclaimed novelist Margaret Atwood watched as a column she wrote for
the National Post criticizing Harper was posted on-line, then removed,
and then edited before being reposted with some of her criticisms
deleted. “Um, did I just get censored?” Atwood asked afterwards.
Three days before the election, Postmedia also permitted the
Conservative Party to buy yellow ads that covered the entire front
pages of most of the company’s major daily newspapers, direly warning
about voting for the Liberals. This action, says Marc Edge, a
Richmond, B.C.-based journalism professor and author of the 2014 book
Greatly Exaggerated: The Myth of the Death of Newspapers, suggests
Postmedia is “poisoning their brand.”
Indeed, a report released two weeks ago by the Canadian Media
Concentration Research Project shows that during both the 2011 and
2015 elections, all of Postmedia’s major dailies endorsed the Tories.
“My desk was right beside [The Province’s] editorial page editor's
desk and he’d done a number of editorials critical of different
aspects of the Harper government,” says Murphy. “I was there [in 2011]
when he got word he had to write an editorial in favour of re-electing
Harper and getting his majority.”
Postmedia’s reputational hits are stacking up. Last winter, two of its
top business columnists, Terence Corcoran and Peter Foster, and the
National Post, lost a defamation lawsuit brought by Andrew Weaver, an
esteemed climatologist at the University of Victoria and a Green Party
MLA in the BC legislature. Corcoran and Foster wrote false information
about Weaver, suggesting he exaggerated the dangers of climate change.
The judge awarded Weaver $50,000 in damages. The decision is being
appealed and Weaver will not discuss the matter.
Meanwhile, last week in a Calgary courtroom – after a seven-year
odyssey through the legal system – a defamation lawsuit against
Postmedia got underway, scheduled to unfold over the next month. The
lawsuit was launched by the journalist and war correspondent Arthur
Kent, 61, brother of former Harper cabinet minister Peter Kent. The
suit claims that former columnist Don Martin defamed Kent, that Kent
was prevented from responding to accusations leveled at him, and that
Postmedia failed to preserve evidence and dragged out proceedings.
Kent is seeking $4-million in damages, and the case could prove
embarrassing for Postmedia’s top brass.
Postmedia’s editorial woes are occurring against the backdrop of
gruesome economic realities facing the entire newspaper industry –
caused by the web’s omnivorous appetite for advertising dollars, and
by a host of innovative digital media competitors.
Since being founded in 2010, Postmedia seems to have bled copious
amounts of red ink. In its most recent financial statement, it posted
net losses of $263-million for this year alone, on revenues of
$750-million, while weighed down with $646-million in long-term debt.
Before it bought the Sun Media chain of newspapers this past year,
Postmedia’s revenues had fallen from $899-million in 2011 to
$674-million in fiscal 2014 – a plunge of 25 per cent in just three
years. Meanwhile, its shares, which rose to $17 in 2011, are now penny
stock and no longer actively trading.
This summer the company said it planned to chop $50-million in costs
over the next two years; but in its most recent conference call with
analysts, management said most of this would be cut in 12 months.
Prior to the purchase of Sun Media, the company’s workforce had shrunk
to 2,500 employees – from 5,400 five years ago.
Meanwhile, according to the Alliance for Audited Media, the
circulation of its papers continues to hemorrhage. Among its 12
leading dailies, paid circulation dropped 179,868 from 2011 to the end
of 2014 – from 1.1 million readers down to 964,341, a loss of more
than 15 per cent. Now, some experts believe Postmedia is in a death
spiral.
“They are basically built on the mass media model of
advertising-supported journalism and that's in crisis everywhere,”
says Kelly Toughill, a former deputy executive editor of The Toronto
Star and director of journalism at University of King’s College in
Halifax. “I think it's going to be difficult for them to survive.”
Ironically, though, the most serious threat Postmedia faces might be
from its owners and debt-holders. The company is controlled primarily
by two American hedge funds – GoldenTree Asset Management LP and
Silver Point Capital LP. Hedge funds are pools of capital that hunt
for investment opportunities, but also have a reputation for being
destructive and remorseless sharks within the financial industry.
Indeed, the hedge funds controlling Postmedia specialize in buying
so-called distressed-debt companies. For them to profit from faltering
businesses, however, often means slashing costs to the bone, sucking
out cash flow and selling off assets for scrap to recoup their
investment. “Basically that's what they do,” says Martin Langeveld, a
former American newspaper publisher and industry expert with Harvard
University’s Nieman Journalism Lab. “They take a company, they have
different ways of getting their money out even if they don't really
fix it… You are cannibalizing, you’re consolidating.”
CEO Paul Godfrey, a Tory powerbroker
“I have nothing but high regard for you and your colleagues, but I’m
very concerned we’ve got our feet stuck in cement here,” Conrad Black
was saying. It was this past July 9th and Black was participating in a
conference call with Postmedia’s top management and Bay Street
analysts. But Black was irritated with Postmedia’s executives. As a
shareholder and the newspaper chain’s former proprietor, he was
unhappy with where it was heading.
“Some of those newspapers have deteriorated a long way from what I
remember,” said Black. “Some of it you can’t avoid; some of it, you
can. But please build the quality. Otherwise, you’re going to retreat
right into your own end zone.”
On one hand, Black’s concerns about the deterioration of Postmedia are
ironic, given his notorious disdain for the journalism profession. But
few could deny Black had a point: Postmedia had fallen far from its
origins.
Postmedia’s roots go back to the Southam Inc. newspaper chain that was
founded more than a century ago. In 1996, Black bought the Southam
papers and soon created the National Post as its flagship paper. His
term as boss would be short-lived, however: pressed by his bankers to
chop debt, Black sold the papers to the Asper family’s CanWest Global
Communications Corp. in 2000.
Seven years later, the New York-based hedge fund GoldenTree—co-founded
by Steven Shapiro, a former manager with CIBC World Markets—began
buying up CanWest’s debt issues. As CanWest floundered, GoldenTree
acquired more of its debt. Poorly managed by the Aspers, weighed down
by $4-billion in debt and pummeled by the credit crisis, CanWest
declared bankruptcy in 2009.
A year later, GoldenTree and 19 other foreign and domestic lenders,
mostly hedge funds, paid $1.1-billion for the CanWest papers, created
Postmedia and made Paul Godfrey its CEO.
Godfrey was a curious choice to run an ailing newspaper chain facing
its worst crisis in generations. By then he was in his 70s—today he is
76—and his reputation was as a Tory political operative, not a
digital-age business wunderkind.
Paul Godfrey photo by The Canadian Press
However, Godfrey is a powerful backroom wheeler-dealer. “Godfrey’s
influence has touched almost everything in politics and economics in
this country,” notes a former reporter who once worked under him.
“In my time in politics he was very much behind the scenes,” adds
David Miller, Toronto’s mayor from 2003 to 2010, “and it's fair to say
he's been very influential on the conservative side of politics in
Toronto for a very long time.”
Son of a prominent Tory activist, Godfrey rose from city alderman in
one of Toronto’s northern suburbs to the post of Metro chairman, a
role that allowed him to direct development and infrastructure among
Toronto’s municipalities. Sociable, diligent and intelligent, Godfrey
built a network of movers and shakers in politics and business,
helping land the Toronto Blue Jays baseball franchise and get the
SkyDome stadium built. He also formed close ties to the development
industry: today he is chairman of RioCan, Canada’s largest real estate
investment trust company. “It’s all about profit with him,” says a
former Toronto Sun journalist.
In 1984, Godfrey became publisher of the Toronto Sun, a right-wing
cheeky tabloid notorious for its scantily clad “Sunshine Girls.” Eight
years later, he was CEO of the Toronto Sun Publishing Group that
controlled a small chain of papers.
It was during his stint as publisher of the Sun chain that Godfrey
first demonstrated his willingness to use his newspapers to further
his political ambitions, as he’s currently doing at Postmedia.
First, he pressed the Tory provincial government of Mike Harris to
amalgamate Toronto’s various boroughs into one big city. Then he
helped engineer the election of his friend Mel Lastman as mayor of the
new mega-city. During the 1997 Toronto election, Godfrey ensured that
only favourable stories or photos about Lastman appeared in the
Toronto Sun. When reporter Don Wanagas wrote couple of unflattering
pieces about Lastman, Godfrey had him removed as a municipal
columnist.
Lastman would go on to preside over one of the most corrupt regimes in
Toronto’s history, highlighted by the MFP Financial Services Ltd.
computer leasing and bribery scandal, where a group of city insiders
arranged to lease computers to the city that was supposed to cost
$43-million - before being inflated to $85-million. Most of the key
people in the scandal were Godfrey’s acquaintances or close friends.
“There's no question he was very influential with Mayor Lastman,” says
Miller, who was elected mayor in 2003 on a platform of cleaning up
Toronto’s city hall after Lastman. “I certainly knew as a city
councillor that Lastman’s office was in touch with Mr. Godfrey all the
time.”
Paul Godfrey (left) with Mel Lastman (centre) and Ted Rogers (right)
in 2002). Photo from Maclean's
In 1999, Godfrey arranged the sale of the Sun media assets to Quebecor
Inc., pocketing a personal fortune of $28-million. He left the
following year to work for Rogers, taking over as president of the
Toronto Blue Jays. In 2009, Godfrey was asked by the Aspers to become
publisher of the National Post. After CanWest went into receivership
that year, he helped assemble the consortium of American hedge funds
and other lenders to buy the newspapers and create Postmedia.
But there was a problem: Canadian tax law discourages foreign
ownership of Canadian media companies. Godfrey managed to get around
this by issuing separate shares for Canadian shareholders. This was
signed off by the Harper government, although real control of the
company remains in American hands. “It seems to flout all of the
foreign ownership provisions and Godfrey seems to have found a way
around it to satisfy the Conservatives and the Competition Bureau,”
notes John Miller, a former Toronto Star editor and former chair of
Ryerson University’s journalism program.
But what would a clutch of American hedge fund managers want with a
flailing Canadian newspaper chain in a rapidly declining industry?
The dying newspaper industry
Newspapers were once one of the most profitable businesses in the
world – regularly posting profit rates of 25-30 per cent. In their
heyday, big city dailies employed small armies of reporters. They had
overseas bureaus and investigative reporting units. Newspaper
proprietors were rich and feared.
“In the late 20th century, newspapers became exceedingly large and
profitable businesses,” says Marc Edge, author of Greatly Exaggerated:
The Myth of the Death of Newspapers. “That's why chains bought them
up. [But] the advent of the Internet has taken most of the classified
advertising, which is where the money was. Now newspapers are
reversing course and becoming smaller and smaller businesses.”
Indeed, the web has ravaged newspapers, with websites like Craigslist,
Google and Facebook stealing away crucial advertising dollars. From
2006 through 2013, according to the Newspaper Association of America,
U.S. print advertising revenue fell by 63 per cent. According to
Newspapers Canada, print media here had $3.8-billion in advertising
revenue in 2008; last year, it had dropped to $2.6-billion – or a loss
of $1.2-billion. Meanwhile, over the same period, advertising online
rose from $1.6-billion to $3.8-billion.
This doesn’t mean newspapers aren’t profitable. “Ninety-five percent
of the dailies in the US are profitable – maybe ninety-seven percent,”
says Ken Doctor, a leading American newspaper industry analyst. But
given shrinking revenues, the only way for them to make money is to
cut costs, in particular staff – which account for the biggest
expense.
As papers have shrunk in size, employing fewer journalists and
charging more at the corner store, they’ve become less appealing to
readers. “It's like Coke taking a two-liter bottle, cutting it in half
and offering one liter and doubling the price,” says Doctor. “That's
essentially what newspapers have done, and have suffered the
consequences.”
At Postmedia, as revenue and circulation declined, it has downsized
staff, sold off assets, consolidated and outsourced operations, cut
Sunday editions and shuttered bureaus. Now all of its dailies are
copy-edited and laid out, and even stories selected, in offices
located in a strip mall in Hamilton, Ontario.
Despite these cuts, Postmedia has never earned any net profit,
suffering combined net losses of $624-million since 2010. For the
hedge funds who control it, on the other hand, Postmedia is a
profitable investment. Because the company’s debt is owed to them,
they receive interest payments at rates ranging from 8.25 per cent to
12.5 per cent.
Thus, $340-million in interest payments from Postmedia have already
flowed to the hedge funds since 2010. By 2019, interest payments will
have totalled $650-million.
Moreover, Postmedia continues to generate cash flow, which industry
experts say is the key sum determining its health – although that
totaled only $26-million this past year. “That’s not a happy amount of
money,” says Toughill.
Earlier this year, Postmedia spent $316-million to buy the ailing Sun
Media newspaper chain from Quebecor Inc., with all of its 173 titles.
Despite adding to its debt load, Bay Street analysts hailed the
purchase, saying it would boost Postmedia’s cash flow to help pay down
debt.
But forensic accountant Alan Mak, a partner with Toronto-based
Ferguson + Mak LLP, feels the Sun Media purchase is not turning out as
expected. “I see the increase in revenue but I don't see a
corresponding increase in the cash from operating activities or their
operating profits,” he remarks, after examining Postmedia’s books.
“Which suggests to me they're not as profitable… [They’ve] made some
big bets and big investments which don't appear to be paying off as
much as I would expect.”
As long as Postmedia is paying interest on its debts and generating
cash flow, the hedge funds will remain happy. The problem, though, is
that Postmedia’s revenues keep falling. “It’s very difficult to stay
healthy when you have less money every year,” insists Toughill. “Last
year alone print advertising dropped 18 percent. That's a huge amount
of money to have disappear out of the budget in a single year.”
Thus, in order to keep interest payments flowing to their American
owners, the chain must continue cutting costs. But at a certain point,
that’s no longer an option either. “If they continue to record net
losses they will ultimately consume themselves in order to pay down
the debt – unless they can turn themselves around,” says Mitchell
Weiss, a former American financial services executive. “So they are in
a race against time.”
To stave off oblivion, Postmedia and other newspaper companies have
been trying to garner more on-line advertising and readers. But
on-line ads are far less lucrative than print ads. “[Newspapers] have
been trying to do the digital switch for more than a decade,” says
Toughill. “This is nothing new… and very few have been able to cover
their costs this way.”
Of Postmedia’s $750-million in revenues this year, only $97.6-million
came from digital sources—about 13 percent of the total—and it shows
little sign of growing dramatically.
In fact, digital advertising among newspapers is slowing, largely
because Google and Facebook are grabbing so much of it. The two
corporations together control more than 50 per cent of the on-line
advertising market.
So what’s the long-term prognosis for Postmedia? According to Doctor,
the hedge funds have likely figured out how they can get their money
back by “managing [Postmedia’s] decline profitably.” Which might mean
returning it to receivership and selling off its assets, with the
hedge funds first in line as creditors to collect.
If this is indeed the plan, the hedge funds – GoldenTree and Silver
Point Capital – aren’t saying. Both declined our requests to be
interviewed for this story.
Postmedia's journalism deteriorates
One victim of the fall of Postmedia has been its journalism.
A former National Post journalist, who spoke on condition of
anonymity, recalls that by last year, reporters were being asked to
produce more and shorter stories, with less in-depth coverage. Another
former Post reporter said “they would look for regional CBC stories,
get that and put a Post spin on it. That's how they found stories.”
Photo of Postmedia/National Post head office in downtown Toronto, by
Bruce Livesey
For 25 years, David Baines was one of Canada’s best investigative
reporters, working for the Vancouver Sun and exposing financial fraud
in BC’s business sector. Two years ago he took a buyout. “I was a very
high cost form of journalism,” notes Baines. “It was the legal
implications. I was sued twenty times and in between those lawsuits
dozens and dozens of lawyers’ letters.”
When Baines left the Sun, though, the paper did not replace him and
discontinued his beat. “They could have found someone else to do the
same thing – it wasn't rocket science,” he says. “I think they
appreciated the value of that form of journalism because they were
financing it. [But] I think maybe they were pretty relieved when I
left because with it went a huge expense item. And that's too bad
because what I tried to do was warn consumers about bad business
people and bad business deals.”
Mike De Souza joined Canwest’s News Service’s Ottawa bureau in 2006.
Back then, he says, they realized they needed to improve their
environmental coverage, so he took on the task. De Souza soon produced
scoop after scoop about how the Harper government was muzzling
scientists, sabotaging global talks on curbing greenhouse gases and
colluding with the oil industry.
One of his biggest exposés came in 2011 when De Souza revealed that
University of Calgary political scientist Barry Cooper had funneled
oil industry money to a climate change denial front group called
Friends of Science. What was more astonishing about this story was
that Cooper was, and remains, a columnist for the Postmedia-owned
Calgary Herald, where he fulminates against the environmental
movement.
Friends of Science billboard in Calgary.
Overall, De Souza’s journalism was so nettlesome to the Harper
government that then environment minister Peter Kent publicly
complained about him in 2013, saying in a letter that De Souza was an
“environmental activist.”
However, in February of 2014, Postmedia shut down its Ottawa bureau,
laying off De Souza and two other reporters. De Souza says that even
by then, “the amount of time we had to dedicate to individual beats
was decreasing and had been decreasing through the years… So all of
the subjects are being covered less than they used to be.”
Advertisers calling the shots?
Another victim of Postmedia’s crisis is the Chinese wall separating
advertisers from editorial content.
Once upon a time, newspapers could afford to alienate the odd
advertiser because there were so many others to pay the bills. No
longer. Former National Post editor Ken Whyte says it’s now
commonplace for advertisers to demand favourable editorial content in
return for their money. “Before, [newspapers] might've stood up and
said we will let that million dollars go, we won't prostitute
ourselves,” he remarks. “Now they'll see they will be way short on
their budget and need the money.”
Last year, Greenpeace stumbled across a Powerpoint presentation that
someone had leaked on-line. Produced by the Canadian Association of
Petroleum Producers (CAPP) for Postmedia’s board of directors in 2013,
the presentation proposed a close alliance between the media company
and the oil industry’s main lobby group. “We will work with CAPP to
amplify our energy mandate and to be a part of the solution to keep
Canada competitive in the global marketplace,” it said. “Postmedia
will undertake to leverage all means editorially, technically and
creatively – through the Financial Post, Postmedia market newspapers
and affiliated media partners – to further this critical
conversation.” Evidence suggests this alliance occurred, although
Postmedia said it would never surrender editorial control.
In December of 2013, the Vancouver Sun published a profile of an
Enbridge vice-president, who extolled the merits of the proposed
Northern Gateway pipeline that would run from the oil sands to the
B.C. coast.
Vancouver-based economist Robyn Allan noticed that the article claimed
Canada was losing $50-million a day by not having enough pipeline
capacity – a sum Allan knew to be fictitious. So she wrote an op-ed
piece for the Sun explaining why. “The editor was going to print it,”
she recalls, until he discovered the story Allan was responding to
was, in actuality, paid advertising by Enbridge – although not marked
as such. “It was an advertisement posing to be journalism,” says
Allan. “So he could not print my piece because it was advertising.”
Postmedia also employs a roster of columnists who, for years, have
argued that climate change is a myth and the oil sands must be
developed. These include Terence Corcoran, Peter Foster, Rex Murphy
and Lawrence Solomon at the National Post; columnists Barry Cooper and
Licia Corbella (who is also editorial page editor) at the Calgary
Herald; and Province columnist Jon Ferry, among others.
This is not to suggest op-eds and articles critical of the oil
industry and supportive of measures to combat climate change don’t
appear in Postmedia newspapers. Yet University of Victoria
climatologist Andrew Weaver’s battles with Terence Corcoran and Peter
Foster illustrates the lengths Postmedia columnists go to stake their
positions on this issue.
In 2009, a large cache of emails were leaked from the University of
East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit, an important research unit
responsible for collecting global temperature data. The emails seemed
to show imperfect data and the withholding of information by climate
scientists. Corcoran and Foster fastened onto this controversy as
further evidence that climate change was a hoax. And they targeted
Weaver, one of Canada’s leading experts on climate change, as being
party to this so-called conspiracy.
In a series of columns and articles in the Post and on-line, Weaver
(who Foster branded “Canada’s warmest spinner in chief”) was accused
of blaming the oil industry of breaking into his office, and calling
for the resignation of the head of UN’s panel on global warming –
neither of which was true.
Former Toronto mayor David Miller, now CEO of World Wildlife
Fund-Canada, argues that Postmedia’s stance on climate change
overlooks the fact that many senior executives in the oil industry
agree it’s happening. “If the Post has given… prominence to
climate-denying columnists I think that’s a poor strategic move,” he
observes, pointing out that “the vast majority of Canadians are
environmentalists.”
Indeed, with a declining and aging readership, taking political and
social positions that seem out of step with the majority of Canadians
doesn’t appear to be a recipe for attracting new readers and a broad
audience. In short, not a smart business plan. Yet the recent actions
of Paul Godfrey and his American bosses suggest they are oblivious.
Paid at least $1.4-million in annual compensation, Godfrey’s contract
was recently extended until the end of 2018. This week he is being
ushered into the Canadian News Hall of Fame (a ceremony sponsored by
both Postmedia and RioCan, the real estate investment company Godfrey
is chairman of). Postmedia did not respond to requests for an
interview with Godfrey.
Since its real owners seem to have other priorities, some worry
Postmedia is sliding into irrelevancy.
“I think ownership matters and that through a series of rather bizarre
events… we've ended up in the situation where the control of this
chain is in the hands of people who not only don't know much about
newspapers and don't have any evident expertise or concern for the
future of newspapers, but are also strangers to Canada and
uninterested, as far as I can tell, in public discourse up here,”
observes Ken Whyte, the National Post’s founding editor.
“And I think it's an unfortunate situation when such a large share of
the newsgathering capacity in Canada is subject to that kind of
ownership regime.”
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