---------- Original message ----------
From: "Gallant, Premier Brian (PO/CPM)" <Brian.Gallant@gnb.ca>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 11:53:44 +0000
Subject: RE: Heres a little Deja Vu for local fisherman,
From: "Gallant, Premier Brian (PO/CPM)" <Brian.Gallant@gnb.ca>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 11:53:44 +0000
Subject: RE: Heres a little Deja Vu for local fisherman,
Dominic Leblanc, the ghost of Keith Ashfield and YOU
to enjoy
today EH Johnny"Never Been Good" Williamson???
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Thank you for writing to the Premier of New Brunswick. Please be
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From: Brian Gallant <briangallant10@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 04:53:42 -0700
Subject: Merci / Thank you Re: Heres a little Deja Vu for local fisherman, Dominic Leblanc, the
ghost of Keith Ashfield and YOU toenjoy today EH Johnny "Never Been Good" Williamson???
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
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Information Morning - Moncton
Lobster Council of Canada urges federal government to listen to fishermen
00:00 11:24
Geoff Irvine is the executive director of the Lobster Council of Canada. 11:24
http://lobstercouncilcanada.
Geoff Irvine Executive Director
1954 Beech Street
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4B8
Email: geoff.irvine@
Phone: 902-497-9128
---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 07:53:37 -0400
Subject: Heres a little Deja Vu for local fisherman, Dominic Leblanc,
the ghost of Keith Ashfield and YOU to enjoy today EH Johnny "Never
Been Good" Williamson???
To: votejohnw <votejohnw@gmail.com>,
BrianThomasMacdonald <BrianThomasMacdonald@gmail.
"David.Coon" <David.Coon@gnb.ca>, "Dominic.Cardy" <Dominic.Cardy@gnb.ca>, "Hon.Dominic.LeBlanc" <Hon.Dominic.LeBlanc@canada.ca
"Serge.Cormier" <Serge.Cormier@parl.gc.ca>, "serge.rousselle" <serge.rousselle@gnb.ca>, "geoff.irvine@
"shediac@mfu-upm.com" <shediac@mfu-upm.com>, "Bill.Morneau" <Bill.Morneau@canada.ca>,
"brian.gallant" <brian.gallant@gnb.ca>, oldmaison <oldmaison@yahoo.com>,
andre <andre@jafaust.com>, "gabrielle.fahmy" <gabrielle.fahmy@cbc.ca>,
"Jacques.Poitras" <Jacques.Poitras@cbc.ca>, "Karen.Ludwig" <Karen.Ludwig@parl.gc.ca>, "hon.ralph.goodale" <hon.ralph.goodale@canada.ca>, "wayne.easter" <wayne.easter@parl.gc.ca>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
"Gilles.Blinn" <Gilles.Blinn@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>,
"Mark.Blakely" <Mark.Blakely@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
Interesting news today EH?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/
Lobster fishermen create wall of empty traps at protest against closures
Fishermen rally in Caraquet against latest closure of fishing area to
protect endangered whales
Elizabeth Fraser · CBC News · Posted: Jun 14, 2018 4:14 PM AT
http://davidraymondamos3.
Friday, 15 June 2018
Heres a little Deja Vu for local fisherman, Dominic Leblanc, the ghost
of Keith Ashfield and YOU to enjoy today EH Johnny "Never Been Good"
Williamson???
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---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 07:13:05 -0400
Subject: Heres a little Deja Vu for local fisherman, Dominic Leblanc, the ghost of Keith Ashfield
and YOU to enjoy today EH Johnny "Never Been Good" Williamson???
To: votejohnw <votejohnw@gmail.com>,
BrianThomasMacdonald <BrianThomasMacdonald@gmail.
"David.Coon" <David.Coon@gnb.ca>, "Dominic.Cardy" <Dominic.Cardy@gnb.ca>, "Hon.Dominic.LeBlanc" <Hon.Dominic.LeBlanc@canada.ca
"Serge.Cormier" <Serge.Cormier@parl.gc.ca>,
"serge.rousselle" <serge.rousselle@gnb.ca>, "geoff.irvine@
<geoff.irvine@
<shediac@mfu-upm.com>, "Bill.Morneau" <Bill.Morneau@canada.ca>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
oldmaison <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, andre <andre@jafaust.com>
---------- Original message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 09:46:46 -0300
Subject: Fwd: Hey Williamson your buddy Ashfield knows I tried to talk
to the local fisherman gave up and called Norway to raise some hell
To: "fundynorth@nb.aibn.com" <fundynorth@nb.aibn.com>, "David.Coon"
<David.Coon@gnb.ca>, Art MacKay <fundytides@gmail.com>,
fundyweir@nb.aibn.com, gmfa@nb.aibn.com, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>
Cc: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>,
E May <leader@greenparty.ca>, "geoff.irvine@
<geoff.irvine@
<shediac@mfu-upm.com>
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, May 4, 2012 at 8:10 AM
Subject: Hey Williamson your buddy Ashfield knows I tried to talk to the
local fisherman gave up and called Norway to raise some hell
To: "shediac@mfu-upm.com" <shediac@mfu-upm.com>, "
geoff.irvine@
"mariarecchia@nb.aibn.com" <mariarecchia@nb.aibn.com>, "
fundynorth@nb.aibn.com" <fundynorth@nb.aibn.com>
Cc: "John.Williamson" <John.Williamson@parl.gc.ca>, kentp <kentp@parl.gc.ca>,
fundytides <fundytides@gmail.com>
W all know why the Paliamentarians and the their buddy David C Coon
and his many Green Meany pals have been calling me names for years.
However it does not follow the fellas in Norway will as well. N'esy
Pas Arty Baby MacKay?
http://www.nbmediacoop.org/
http://www.ecologyaction.ca/
http://www.careerbeacon.com/
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/
http://atlanticcanadaexports.
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
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From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 07:41:28 -0300
Subject: Attn Kurt Oddekalv, Don Staniford and David Sutherland I
called you fellas from 902 800 0369 to introduce myself
To: kurt@nmf.no, dfs@dfsutherland.com, dstaniford@gaaia.org, Ashfik1a
<Ashfik1a@parl.gc.ca>
Cc: dsanderson@davis.ca, henry.brown@gowlings.com,
jbeedell@langmichener.ca, maritime_malaise <maritime_malaise@yahoo.ca>
http://salmonfarmingkills.com/
http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/case-
http://www.nmf.no/default.
http://www.tv2.no/nyheter/
BTW I am this David Amos Trust that corrupt politicians understadn
understand me very well.
http://qslspolitics.blogspot.
http://www.nycga.net/members/
David Raymond Amos posted an update 3 months, 3 weeks ago
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/lobster-traps-fishing-right-whales-1.4705828
Lobster fishermen create wall of empty traps at protest against closures
Fishermen rally in Caraquet against latest closure of fishing area to protect endangered whales
Nearly
500 fishermen brought empty lobster traps to Caraquet on Thursday to
protest against the closure of fishing areas in the Gulf of St. Lawrence
while endangered whales swim there.
The protest came after another round of fishing area closures was announced by Ottawa this week because five North American right whales were spotted between Miscou and the Gaspé Peninsula.
The closure, originally set for late Friday afternoon, will now begin Sunday at noon because of strong winds and concerns about safety, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans said.
The fishing closures are among the steps taken by the department to try to save North Atlantic right whales.
Last year, 18 endangered whales were found dead — 12 off the Canadian coast and six off the U.S.
Entanglement in fishing gear and collisions with ships were blamed in some cases.
"All the ones that were entangled in gear, it was snow crab gear out in deeper water, so why are we being targeted? Why are we closing areas right to the shore bank?"
A map shows where the fishing area closures are located. (CBC )
The closures have also applied to snow crab and other fisheries in the gulf.
Allen complained the federal government has not even talked to fishermen to come up with management plans or a protocol that would help the fishery and whales co-exist.
"I think the whole thing is a reactionary measure to the mess that was created last summer and there's no balance," he said.
"Why does it have to be one or the other? Why does it have to be just the whales or just the fishermen?"
Carl
Allen, president of the Maritime Fishermen's Union, says lobster
fishermen can co-exist with endangered whales, but they are being
ignored by the Department of Fisheries. (Gabrielle Fahmy/CBC)
Allen said the closures not only hurt fishermen and processing plant workers but also local economies on the Acadian Peninsula.
"The boys are just here for a rally to support their community and to let the world know this is having an effect on the community at large," he said.
In accusing the Department of Fisheries of ignoring their proposals for "co-habitation" with whales, the fishermen said whales don't get close to the coast anyway.
But the federal department disagrees, claiming North Atlantic right whales, especially females and their young, can frequent those waters.
Acadie-Bathurst MP Serge Cormier was in Ottawa during the protest. Fishermen greeted the news with boos. (Gabriell Fahmy/CBC)
On
Thursday, many fishermen created a wall of empty lobster traps in front
of the entrance to the building where Serge Cormier, the Liberal MP
for Acadie-Bathurst, has an office.
Demonstrators booed Cormier's secretary, when she told them the MP was in Ottawa.
Earlier this week, Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc acknowledged people are being affected by the zone closures and said the department will try to lengthen the lobster fishing season in the fall.
"I
have said over and over again, we will try and replace the number of
days of lobster fishing that they will lose because of these closures
possibly in the fall," he said.
"We think in September it might be possible to reopen the fishery."
With only about 450 left in the world, North Atlantic right whales are a protected species.
The Fisheries Department has said the closed fishing grounds in the gulf total just under 13,000 square kilometres, including the area that will close Sunday.
The most recent lobster closure will take place on Sunday at 12 p.m. (Gabrielle Fahmy/CBC)
According to some fishermen, the latest closure is the worst one yet.
Russell Vibert of Miscou Island said he will be forced to take out all 300 of his lobster traps from the water.
"There's a small little area we can move in, but it's going to be impossible for all the fishermen to fit into that area," he said.
The 50 or so fishermen from Miscou Island have about 12,000 traps, he said, and the smaller area won't accommodate everyone.
He's decided to bring his traps home.
"If we all try to fit into the area, we're going to lose our traps because they're going to get cut, they're going to get broken."
Vibert said losing two weeks of the season will impact 25 per cent of his haul. Ottawa doesn't realize the effect of the closures on the fishermen's livelihood, he said.
"It's a hard pill to swallow," said the longtime lobster boat captain.
"We're a little island in northeastern New Brunswick and it's our only livelihood and it's all we have."
Russell
Vibert, a lobster fisherman from Miscou Island, says he will be forced
to remove all of his lobster traps from the water this week. (Gabrielle Fahmy/CBC)
James Stewart, another fisherman on Miscou, said he'll wait until the last possible moment before he removes his traps.
"It's a really small piece of the pie," he said of the area left. "We'll catch all the lobsters in no time."
Meanwhile, the Lobster Council of Canada has said it wants buyers, especially in the U.S., to be aware the industry is doing everything it can to help protect the right whales — even while it costs them money.
"The place where the whales are is new, but Canadian harvesters dealing with whales is not new," said Geoff Irvine, executive director of the council.
"And that story needs to be told. And there's been some pressure from the American body politic and all of that puts pressure on us."
Over the past 12 years, he said. the Atlantic lobster industry has worked closely with government to reduce risks to whales.
Fishermen have been on the lookout for the animals, reported gear losses and imposed self-suspensions on fishing.
He said the amount of rope being used has been reduced and new gear is also being tested.
"The U.S. is our biggest market. And we want to make sure that the story gets out there that we're doing positive things up here."
The protest came after another round of fishing area closures was announced by Ottawa this week because five North American right whales were spotted between Miscou and the Gaspé Peninsula.
'Why does it have to be one or the other? Why does it have to be just the whales or just the fishermen?' - Carl Allen, Maritime Fishermen's UnionIt's the sixth closure to be announced since the beginning of lobster season, and it includes a shallow coastal area where fishermen are seeking permission to drop their traps.
The closure, originally set for late Friday afternoon, will now begin Sunday at noon because of strong winds and concerns about safety, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans said.
The fishing closures are among the steps taken by the department to try to save North Atlantic right whales.
Last year, 18 endangered whales were found dead — 12 off the Canadian coast and six off the U.S.
Entanglement in fishing gear and collisions with ships were blamed in some cases.
- Lobster and crab fishermen in Quebec 'out of options' as more zones closed off
- Fisheries minister urges Ottawa to help fishermen make up for revenue lost to Gulf closures
- Fishermen propose 'flexible' closures to protect whales and livelihoods
"All the ones that were entangled in gear, it was snow crab gear out in deeper water, so why are we being targeted? Why are we closing areas right to the shore bank?"
Allen complained the federal government has not even talked to fishermen to come up with management plans or a protocol that would help the fishery and whales co-exist.
"I think the whole thing is a reactionary measure to the mess that was created last summer and there's no balance," he said.
"Why does it have to be one or the other? Why does it have to be just the whales or just the fishermen?"
"The boys are just here for a rally to support their community and to let the world know this is having an effect on the community at large," he said.
In accusing the Department of Fisheries of ignoring their proposals for "co-habitation" with whales, the fishermen said whales don't get close to the coast anyway.
But the federal department disagrees, claiming North Atlantic right whales, especially females and their young, can frequent those waters.
Booing the government
Demonstrators booed Cormier's secretary, when she told them the MP was in Ottawa.
Earlier this week, Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc acknowledged people are being affected by the zone closures and said the department will try to lengthen the lobster fishing season in the fall.
"We think in September it might be possible to reopen the fishery."
With only about 450 left in the world, North Atlantic right whales are a protected species.
The Fisheries Department has said the closed fishing grounds in the gulf total just under 13,000 square kilometres, including the area that will close Sunday.
Leaving traps at home
Russell Vibert of Miscou Island said he will be forced to take out all 300 of his lobster traps from the water.
"There's a small little area we can move in, but it's going to be impossible for all the fishermen to fit into that area," he said.
He's decided to bring his traps home.
"If we all try to fit into the area, we're going to lose our traps because they're going to get cut, they're going to get broken."
Losing 2 weeks of fishing
Vibert said losing two weeks of the season will impact 25 per cent of his haul. Ottawa doesn't realize the effect of the closures on the fishermen's livelihood, he said.
"It's a hard pill to swallow," said the longtime lobster boat captain.
"We're a little island in northeastern New Brunswick and it's our only livelihood and it's all we have."
"It's a really small piece of the pie," he said of the area left. "We'll catch all the lobsters in no time."
Meanwhile, the Lobster Council of Canada has said it wants buyers, especially in the U.S., to be aware the industry is doing everything it can to help protect the right whales — even while it costs them money.
"The place where the whales are is new, but Canadian harvesters dealing with whales is not new," said Geoff Irvine, executive director of the council.
"And that story needs to be told. And there's been some pressure from the American body politic and all of that puts pressure on us."
Fishermen have been on the lookout for the animals, reported gear losses and imposed self-suspensions on fishing.
He said the amount of rope being used has been reduced and new gear is also being tested.
"The U.S. is our biggest market. And we want to make sure that the story gets out there that we're doing positive things up here."
Information Morning - Moncton
Lobster Council of Canada urges federal government to listen to fishermen
00:00
11:24
With files from Gabrielle Fahmy, Information Morning Moncton
———- Forwarded message ———-
From: David Amos
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:29:20 -0400
Subject: Re: ”Occupy” Wall St and the former spokesperson Bill Csapo
It appears that your email and phone number no longer function WHY???
To: wcsapo@gmail.com, RT-US , ”Frank. McKenna” ,
matt_burton1987@hotmail.com, ”birgittaj@althingi.is” , birgittajoy ,
birgitta , atlantic66girl@hotmail.com, brother.chao@gmail.com,
9.17occupywallstreet@gmail.com
lenbracken@hotmail.com, robin reid , ”j.kroes” , ”Barry.Shaw” ,
”Mackay.P” , bairdj , daniel.towsey@yahoo.com, stoffp1@parl.gc.ca
Cc: occupyfredericton , OccupyBostonMedia , OccupyS , alex_d_29@hotmail.com
From: David Amos
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:32:30 -0400
Subject: Andre meet Bill Csapo of Occupy Wall St He is a decent fellow
who can be reached at (516) 708-4777 Perhaps you two should talk ASAP
To: wcsapo
Cc: occupyfredericton
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From: Mail Delivery Subsystem
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:19:35 +0000
Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
9.17occupywallstreet@gmail.com
Technical details of permanent failure:
Account disabled
On 1/12/12, David Amos wrote:
> Franky Boy McKenna oversees this park in the Big Apple and the
> Attorney General of New Brunswick admitted long ago i had issues with
> McKenna and his bankster associates.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?
>
> http://occupywallst.org/users/
>
> From: David Amos
> Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 23:22:00 -0300
> Subject: i just called from 902 800 0369 (Nova Scotia)
> To: 9.17occupywallstreet@gmail.com
>
> http://qslspolitics.blogspot.
>
> I am the guy the SEC would not name that is the link to Madoff and
> Putnam Investments
>
>
http://banking.senate.gov/
>
> Notice the transcript and webcast of the hearing of the US Senate
> banking Commitee is missing? please notice Eliot Spitzer and the Dates
> around November 20th, 2003 in te following file
>
>
http://www.checktheevidence.
>
> From: ”Julian Assange)”
> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 18:15:46 +0000 (GMT)
> Subject: Al Jazeera on Iceland’s plan for a press safe haven
> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>
> FYI: Al-Jazeera’s take on Iceland’s proposed media safe haven
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?
>
> More info http://immi.is/
>
> Julian Assange
> Editor
> WikiLeaks
> http://wikileaks.org/
>
>
> From: Birgitta Jonsdottir
> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 07:14:02 +0000
> Subject: Re: Bon Soir Birgitta according to my records this is the
> first email I ever sent you
> To: David Amos
>
> dear Dave
> i have got your email and will read through the links as soon as i
> find some time
> keep up the good fight in the meantime
>
> thank you for bearing with me
> i am literary drowning in requests to look into all sorts of matters
> and at the same time working 150% work at the parliament and
> the creation of a political movement and being a responsible parent:)
> plus all the matters in relation to immi
>
> with oceans of joy
> birgitta
>
> Better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
>
> Andre Gide
>
> Birgitta Jonsdottir
> Birkimelur 8, 107 Reykjavik, Iceland, tel: 354 692 8884
> http://this.is/birgitta – http://joyb.blogspot.com -
> http://www.facebook.com/
>
>
>>> >> On Dec 8, 2010, at 1:35 AM, David Amos wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>> I truly enjoyed talking to you. More to the point I am happy you
>>> >>> took
>>> >>> the time to listen to mean old me. I was impressed with your openess
>>> >>> and honesty. In return I took a bit of time to study you more
>>> >>> closely
>>> >>> on the Internet and I am now even more impressed to view the artist
>>> >>> in
>>> >>> you. To hell with the politics and the money for a minute. At the
>>> >>> risk of sounding odd your sincere soul that I sensed in your voice
>>> >>> came shining through the various webpages. An honest person
>>> >>> practicing
>>> >>> the wicked art of politicking is a rare thing indeed. I must confess
>>> >>> that I grinned at the possibility of crossing paths with another
>>> >>> kindred soul when I saw you employ the expression Me Myself and I
>>> >>> because I often use that expresssion
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I also sent you another email to your politcal email address on June
>>> >>> 24th, 2010 right after you spoke on CBC. (I can resend it if you
>>> >>> wish)
>>> >>> When you folks ignored that and my calls and only sent me nasty
>>> >>> responses I gave up on Iceland and IMMI because I had made everyone
>>> >>> well aware I had no respect for Assange and corrupt parliamentarians
>>> >>> whatsoever. Assange became the big celebrity after releasing the
>>> >>> video
>>> >>> from Iraq but I felt sorry for the kid who went to jail that had
>>> >>> given
>>> >>> him the stuff. Obviously I sent you folks the email below long
>>> >>> before
>>> >>> Assange made the scene in Iceland. Rest assured that I sent him
>>> >>> evidence of my concerns about Iceland or he would not had sent me
>>> >>> his
>>> >>> bragging emails the following March.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Now that Assange is in jail with no hope of bail like I was a couple
>>> >>> of times after CBC has been yapping about him for weeks I was
>>> >>> feeling
>>> >>> a little vindictive so I opted to tease some of his friends and fans
>>> >>> (such as McCarthy and CBC) by reminding them that I was still alive,
>>> >>> not in jail and kicking like hell. (A host of cops in seven cars
>>> >>> pounced on my son (who was visiting me) and I at 2;30 in the morning
>>> >>> right after the results of the recent election was annnounced
>>> >>> Although
>>> >>> I managed to run them off this time need I say it really pissed me
>>> >>> off
>>> >>> and saddend me to put him on a bus back to Boston)
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I did not send you that email with the pdf files attached from my
>>> >>> new
>>> >>> Yahoo address but you will get it in a bit. Heres hoping you will
>>> >>> enjoy it.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Best Regards
>>> >>> Dave
>>> >>>
>>> >>> ———- Forwarded message ———-
>>> >>> From: David Amos
>>> >>> Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:33:10 -0300
>>> >>> Subject: RE: Iceland and Bankers Whereas the politicians ignore me
>>> >>> maybe some fellow bloggers will listen to me eh?
>>> >>> To: jong@althingi.is, kristjanj@althingi.is, olofn@althingi.is,
>>> >>> petur@althingi.is, rea@althingi.is, ragnheidurr@althingi.is,
>>> >>> sdg@althingi.is, sij@althingi.is, siv@althingi.is,
>>> >>> tryggvih@althingi.is, ubk@althingi.is, vigdish@althingi.is,
>>> >>> thkg@althingi.is, thorsaari@althingi.is
>>> >>> Cc: margrett@althingi.is, thorgerdur@thorgerdur.is,
>>> >>> saari@centrum.is,
>>> >>> ha030002@unak.is, svanurmd@hotmail.com, baddiblue@gmail.com,
>>> >>> dominus@islandia.is, birgitta@this.is, einar@smart.is
>>> >>>
>>> >>> ———- Forwarded message ———-
>>> >>> From: David Amos
>>> >>> Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:23:15 -0300
>>> >>> Subject: Fwd: You mentioned Iceland and Bankers just now and I
>>> >>> smiled
>>> >>> To: johanna@althingi.is
>>> >>> Cc: ”Jacques.Poitras” , Dan Fitzgerald
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> ———- Forwarded message ———-
>>> >>> From: David Amos
>>> >>> Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:52:42 -0300
>>> >>> Subject: You mentioned Iceland and Bankers just now and I smiled
>>> >>> To: wmreditor@waynemadsenreport.
>>> >>>
>>> >>>> ———- Forwarded message ———-
>>> >>>> From: David Amos
>>> >>>> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:24:42 -0300
>>> >>>> Subject: Fwd: RE: Iceland and Bankers etc I must ask the obvious
>>> >>>> question. Why have you people ignored me for three years?
>>> >>>> To: vasilescua@sec.gov, friedmani@sec.gov, krishnamurthyp@sec.gov,
>>> >>>> horwitzd@dsmo.com, wrobleskin@dsmo.com,
>>> >>>> wolfem@dicksteinshapiro.com,
>>> >>>> Lisa.Baroni@usdoj.gov, ssbny@aol.com, service@ssbla.com,
>>> >>>> rwing@lswlaw.com, rriccio@mdmc-law.com, lmodugno@mdmc-law.com,
>>> >>>> griffinger@gibbonslaw.com, mmulholland@rmfpc.com,
>>> >>>> kmalerba@rmfpc.com,
>>> >>>> tlieverman@srkw-law.com
>>> >>>> Cc: webo , John.Sinclair@nbimc.com,
>>> >>>> Norma.Kennedy@nbimc.com, jan.imeson@nbimc.com, mc.blais@pcnb.org
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> I wonder if any lawyer will bother to read this email, understand
>>> >>>> it
>>> >>>> and call me back
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> ———- Forwarded message ———-
>>> >>>> From: postur@fjr.stjr.is
>>> >>>> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 15:06:39 +0000
>>> >>>> Subject: Re: RE: Iceland and Bankers etc I must ask the obvious
>>> >>>> question. Why have you people ignored me for three years?
>>> >>>> To: David Amos
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Dear David Amos
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Unfortunately there has been a considerable delay in responding to
>>> >>>> incoming letters due to heavy workload and many inquiries to our
>>> office.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> We appreciate the issue raised in your letter. We have set up a web
>>> site
>>> >>>> http://www.iceland.org where we have gathered various practical
>>> >>>> information
>>> >>>> regarding the economic crisis in Iceland.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Greetings from the Ministry of Finance.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Tilvísun í mál: FJR08100024
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Frá: David Amos
>>> >>>> Dags: 29.01.2009 19:17:43
>>> >>>> Til: johanna.sigurdardottir@fel.
>>> aih@cbc.ca,
>>> >>>> Milliken.P@parl.gc.ca, sjs@althingi.is, emb.ottawa@mfa.is,
>>> >>>> rmellish@pattersonlaw.ca, irisbirgisdottir@yahoo.ca,
>>> >>>> marie@mariemorneau.com, dfranklin@franklinlegal.com,
>>> egilla@althingi.is,
>>> >>>> william.turner@exsultate.ca, klm@althingi.is, mail@fjr.stjr.is,
>>> >>>> Edith.Cody-Rice@cbc.ca, wendy.williams@landsbanki.is,
>>> cdhowe@cdhowe.org,
>>> >>>> desparois.sylviane@fcac.gc.ca, plee@stu.ca, ”oldmaison@yahoo.com”
>>> >>>> , ”t.j.burke@gnb.ca” , Dan
>>> >>>> Fitzgerald , jonina.s.larusdottir@ivr.stjr.
>>> >>>> Afrit: fyrirspurn@fme.is, audur@audur.is, fme@fme.is,
>>> >>>> info@landsbanki.is, sedlabanki@sedlabanki.is, tif@tif.is
>>> >>>> Efni: RE: Iceland and Bankers etc I must ask the obvious question.
>>> >>>> Why
>>> >>>> have you people ignored me for three years?
>>> >>>> ———————————————————
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> FYI Some folks in Canada are watching your actions or lack thereof
>>> >>>> more closely than others. As you well know I am one.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> http://www.topix.com/forum/
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> http://davidamos.blogspot.com/
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> You folks should not deny certain responses that I have received
>>> >>>> over
>>> >>>> the course of the last few months from your country CORRECT?
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> From: David Amos
>>> >>>> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 13:57:55 -0300
>>> >>>> Subject: Re: Regarding your enquiry to the Prime Ministry of
>>> >>>> Iceland
>>> >>>> To: postur@for.stjr.is
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Thanx
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> On 10/8/08, postur@for.stjr.is wrote:
>>> >>>> David Raymond Amos
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Your enquiry has been received by the Prime Ministry of Iceland and
>>> >>>> waits
>>> >>>> attendance.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Thank you.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> From: Fjármálaeftirlitið – Fyrirspurn
>>> >>>> Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 12:23:41 -0000
>>> >>>> Subject: Staðfesting á móttöku
>>> >>>> To: David Amos
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Fjármálaeftirlitið hefur móttekið erindi yðar. Erindinu verður
>>> >>>> svarað
>>> >>>> við fyrsta tækifæri. Vakin er athygli á heimasíðu
>>> >>>> Fjármálaeftirlitsins, http://www.fme.is. Þar má finna ýmsar
>>> >>>> upplýsingar ásamt svörum við algengum spurningum:
>>> >>>> http://www.fme.is/?PageID=863.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> The Financial Supervisory Authority (FME) of Iceland confirms the
>>> >>>> receipt of your e-mail. Your e-mail will be answered as soon as
>>> >>>> possible. We would like to point out our website,
>>> >>>> http://www.fme.is.
>>> >>>> There you can find information and answeres to frequently asked
>>> >>>> questions: http://www.fme.is/?PageID=864.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Kveðja / Best Regards
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Fjármálaeftirlitið / Financial Supervisory Authority, Iceland
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Sími / Tel.: (+354) 525 2700
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> From: David Amos
>>> >>>> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 10:53:47 -0300
>>> >>>> Subject: I just called to remind the Speaker, the Bankers and the
>>> >>>> Icelanders that I still exist EH Mrs Mrechant, Bob Rae and Iggy?
>>> >>>> To: Milliken.P@parl.gc.ca, sjs@althingi.is, emb.ottawa@mfa.is,
>>> >>>> rmellish@pattersonlaw.ca, irisbirgisdottir@yahoo.ca,
>>> >>>> marie@mariemorneau.com, dfranklin@franklinlegal.com,
>>> >>>> egilla@althingi.is, william.turner@exsultate.ca
>>> >>>> Cc: Rae.B@parl.gc.ca, Ignatieff.M@parl.gc.ca,
>>> >>>> lebrem@sen.parl.gc.ca,
>>> >>>> merchp@sen.parl.gc.ca, coolsa@sen.parl.gc.ca, olived@sen.parl.gc.ca
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> All of you should review the documents and CD that came with this
>>> >>>> letter ASAP EH?
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Perhaps Geir Haarde and Steingrimur Sigfusson should call me at 506
>>> 756
>>> >>>> 8687
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Veritas Vincit
>>> >>>> David Raymond Amos
>
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From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 00:06:21 -0300
Subject: Yo MacKay I'm watching a rerun of your Deputy Minister Robert
Fonberg bullshitting the Commitee today
To: "Mackay.P" <Mackay.P@forces.gc.ca>, robert.fonberg@forces.gc.ca,
mieke.bos@forces.gc.ca, "martin.pat" <martin.pat@parl.gc.ca>,
"Michael.Ferguson" <Michael.Ferguson@oag-bvg.gc.
Kevin.Page@parl.gc.ca, "Byrne. G" <Byrne.G@parl.gc.ca>,
fantij@parl.gc.ca, bairdj <bairdj@parl.gc.ca>, DewarP
<DewarP@parl.gc.ca>, "Harris. J" <Harris.J@parl.gc.ca>, robin reid
<zorroboy2009@hotmail.com>
Cc: jvisser@nationalpost.com, gordon.oconnor.a3@parl.gc.ca,
info@rusembassy.ca, stoffp1 <stoffp1@parl.gc.ca>, "Christopherson.D"
<Christopherson.D@parl.gc.ca>, rchedore <rchedore@mosherchedore.ca>
Th snobby bastard doesn't fool mean me anymore than you or the ex cop
Fantino orthe VERY corrupt lawyer Ward Elcock did in way back in 2003
as the War in Iraq was beginning and Harper wanted in on the fight?
Remember when CSIS boss and the RCMP worked with the liberals and
tried hardto help Ashcroft send me to Gitmo in order to shut me up?
If not ask the DFAIT who kept their jobs to check their records
closely.
How do you bastards sleep nights knowing about that you are covering
up how the DND and the Liberals helped Bush plan the War on Iraq? I
have been bitching about this for years and long before the CBC
starting reading what Wikileaks wasrelasing CORRECT?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/
http://baconfat53.blogspot.ca/
Ask your spindoctor Mr Baconfat why he bloggged about it AGAIN after I
had proven to legions of people that I had been torturing the DND and
the Military Police about his revelaions EH Petey Baby MacKay?
Remember when the lawyer Elock got the Deputy job to counsel the
mindless Gordy Baby O'Conner in 2006? I made you and your former
underlings in DEFAIT well aware I called and left the old CSIS bastard
who lied at the Arar Inquiry and a personal message. Paul Dewar should
remember it was about the same time Baird was tabling the Accountabily
Act and Flaherty was putting his first budget in print. Dewar can't
deny it. He answered me in writing. EH Dewar?
http://davidamos.blogspot.ca/
Anyway once I called our sneaky buddy maritime Brent Babock wasn't
long calling me from Boston on his Blackberry and asking me many
questions. I told him to talk to YOUR underlings in Beantown such as
Josie Maguire and the CSIS agent who met in Sheriff Cabral's Jail LONG
before when you were ever the Minister of Foreign Affairs EH Petey
Baby Mackay?
What a snob Fonberg is he fires a bnch of people then tries to strut
his stuff before Parliament and anyone watching CPAC must have noticed
it
http://blogs.ottawacitizen.
What about this stuff?
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/
He messed with Kevin Page before you had the writ dropped last year
http://www.parl.gc.ca/PBO-DPB/
http://www.theglobeandmail.
However it looks like the sneaky NDP dudes had fun embarassing him
today and want to do it again on Thursday.
http://www.cpac.ca/forms/
It was fun to watch tonight. Leave it to The Dark Lord of Subway
Stop's old buddies in the National Post to put a neocon spin in things
in order to pay back Jason Kenney for allowing a conviceted criminal
who threw away his Canadian citizenship back into Canada. Some ethical
journalist we have EH?
http://news.nationalpost.com/
http://www.theglobeandmail.
However old Elcock is much worse than the beancounter Fonberg or the
stuffy crook Conrad Black. The lawyer WARD ELCOCK is PURE EVIL.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The money he and you neocons spent on your corrupt friends from many
countries during the Olympics and the G8 and G20 meetings in 2010
should Never be forgotten by any Proud Canadian. However their are
many gohost around the world that would love to have a little pow wow
in an after life as he goes to meet his maker. Elcock is not
investigating human smuggling after CSIS and the RCMP covered up such
things for years. Of that I have no doubt. If you don't belive me ask
the Indian folks Harper keeps trying to make amends with. Lots of kids
were taken from their loving native Canadian parents and sent to
religious schools NEVER to be seen again. How does Harper and Bush or
anyone apologize to the dead?
BTW It is rather amazing how many Russians are checking my work
lately. The Russians are not dumb and they love their money just like
you do. However its more interesting that the Saudi's and Lookheed
Maritn are often checking me out since I spoke all over the world
about Prez Obama, zionists and Madoff on GCN etc in 2009.
Many Members of the Canadian House of Commons have been checking out
yur spindoctor Mr Baconfat's evil blog since he pounced on me at the
same point in time 2009. The Newfy lawyer Jack Harris and his old
client Byron Prior must agree that there are no coincidences when it
come to the actions of Mr harper and the te boyz in blue N'esy Pas?
http://www.rusembassy.ca/ru/
http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/
Veritas Vincit
David Raymond Amos
902 800 0369
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From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 16:01:13 -0300
Subject: I just called them from 902 800 0369 Both independent MPs are
entitled to the same info on May Day EH Ezzy Levant?
To: goldrp1@parl.gc.ca, bruce@brucehyer.ca
Cc: "ezra.levant" <ezra.levant@sunmedia.ca>, occupyTOmedia
<occupyTOmedia@gmail.com>, OccupyBostonMedia
<OccupyBostonMedia@gmail.com>, occupyfredericton
<occupyfredericton@gmail.com>, OccupyNS <OccupyNS@gmail.com>
http://www.petergoldring.com/
9111 118 Ave
Edmonton AB T5B 0T9
Ph. 780 495 3261
Fax 780 495 5142
goldrp1@parl.gc.ca
http://www.brucehyer.ca/
69 N. Court Street
Thunder Bay, ON
P7A 4T7
Tel: 807-345-1818
Toll-free:
1-888-266-8004
Fax: 807-345-4752
bruce@brucehyer.ca
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 15:44:18 -0300
Subject: Mr Thomson you and I just talked perhaps you should ask Mr
Harper what part of his evil spindoctors' emails blogs and emails he
doesn't think I understand?
To: pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>, MulcaT <MulcaT@parl.gc.ca>, "bob.rae"
<bob.rae@rogers.blackberry.net
<greg.weston@cbc.ca>, acampbell <acampbell@ctv.ca>,
"oldmaison@yahoo.com" <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, bmosher
<bmosher@mosherchedore.ca>, "Mackay.P" <Mackay.P@forces.gc.ca>,
counsel <counsel@barackobama.com>, patrick.j.fitzgerald@usdoj.gov
"rick. skinner" <rick.skinner@dhs.gov>, "vic.toews.c1"
<vic.toews.c1@parl.gc.ca>, "Bob.Paulson" <Bob.Paulson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
Cc: PREM Premier <premier@gov.ab.ca>, premier <premier@gnb.ca>,
gthomson <gthomson@edmontonjournal.com>
<Ken.Zielke@gov.ab.ca>, "jeff.kasbrick" <jeff.kasbrick@gov.ab.ca>
Mr Harper I made your cohorts well aware that I was playing fierce
hard ball politicking with Yankee neocons BEFORE the nasty lawyer Ezy
Levant let you take his chance to get a seat in Parliament CORRECT?
Better yet at part of this email doesn't Graham Thomson of Post Media
and Premier Redford understand?
The Edmonton Journal has published this zionist spin doctor's words
for years even when he was spinning for the liberals and putting down
his latest hero Harper
http://baconfat53.blogspot.ca/
http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/
http://www2.canada.com/
http://www2.canada.com/
http://www.edmontonjournal.
Graham Thomson (Columnist)
(780) 429-5288 gthomson@edmontonjournal.com
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 12:58:35 -0300
Subject: Fwd: A 7.62 solution for Robin Reid David Amos and Charles
Leblanc, and Stephen Harper the GOOD
To: kevin.bissett@
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: BARRY WINTERS <sunrayzulu@shaw.ca>
Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 09:49:31 -0600
Subject: A 7.62 solution for Robin Reid David Amos and Charles
Leblanc, and Stephen Harper the GOOD
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
One year tomorrow! Amos the pig, his family and Robin the cunt on the
demise! Stephen Harper the good. The blog proves his "goodness".
As my blog says "Canada's new natural governing party" Canada can
only get better and better!
http://baconfat53.blogspot.ca/
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From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 14:35:20 -0300
Subject: Its the Big May Day for the "Occupy" wackos My question do
you people remember ME?
To: michael.custardo@
occupyfredericton <occupyfredericton@gmail.com>, "oldmaison@yahoo.com"
<oldmaison@yahoo.com>, andre <andre@jafaust.com>
Cc: cuttengreen@gmail.com, "Hoyt, Len" <len.hoyt@mcinnescooper.com>,
"kevin.bissett" <kevin.bissett@
If you forgot Google
Dave Amos Olsen
and see such things as this
http://qslspolitics.blogspot.
http://www.nycga.net/members/
Trust that I remember you people
The Dark Lord of a Subway Stop who once owned some of you gets out of
jail on Friday and wants to return to Canada correct?
http://www.postmedia.com/
Brenda Lazare
Vice President, Legal Affairs
Postmedia Network Canada Corp.
blazare@postmedia.com
416-383-2379
http://shawmedia.ca/
http://foodsecurecanada.org/
http://cuttengreen.blogspot.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 13:50:54 -0300
Subject: Conrad Brock IS a Financial Advisor for another publicly held
company known as Bell Alliant EH Rick Hancox?
To: bmorrison <bmorrison@morrisonpierce.com>
<Ivan.court@saintjohn.ca>, "oldmaison@yahoo.com"
<oldmaison@yahoo.com>, jferguson <jferguson@town.ststephen.nb.
"david.barry" <david.barry@nbsc-cvmnb.ca>, jmockler
<jmockler@gmglaw.com>
Cc: Only In Saint John Tees <freeferguson@gmail.com>, "rick.hancox"
<rick.hancox@nbsc-cvmnb.ca>
This BULLSHIT T shirt artist and wannabe beancounter is defintely
playing politics
On 5/1/12, Only In Saint John Tees <freeferguson@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am a t-shirt artist . Please don't include me in your political
messages
> David Amos. I love SJ and only want to see it prosper.
> -Conrad
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 2012-05-01, at 12:02 PM, David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
http://www.cbc.ca/
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:29:00 -0300
>> Subject: I am on the phone to Mr Brown of Potash and his lawyer Zed
>> right now My # is 902 800 0369
>> To: kld@barryspalding.com
>> Cc: "Wayne.Lang" <Wayne.Lang@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>,
>> concernedcitizensofpenobsquis <concernedcitizensofpenobsquis
>>
>> Peter T. Zed, Q. C.
>> Partner
>> Practice Areas: Administrative, Utility Regulation, Commercial and
>> Commercial Litigation
>>
>> Law School: Dalhousie University
>>
>> E-Mail: ptz@barryspalding.com
>> Phone: (506) 633-4200
>>
>> Assistant: Kathryn Davison (506) 633-4286 kld@barryspalding.com
>>
---------- 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
<andre@jafaust.com>
Cc: millstoneeditor@bell.net, jeanpierre.caissie@aaapnb.ca,
"peter.dauphinee" <peter.dauphinee@gmail.com>, "oldmaison@yahoo.com"
<oldmaison@yahoo.com>, law <law@stevenfoulds.ca>,
"ndesrosiers@ccla.org" <ndesrosiers@ccla.org>
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/
http://www.millstonenews.com/
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
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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
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----- 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
· 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.
----- Original Message -----
From: R. S. Webb
To: Amos David
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 12:50 AM
Subject: Fw: possble story
----- Original Message -----
From: R. S. Webb
To: Amos David
Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 9:15 PM
Subject: Fw: possble story
----- Original Message -----
From: W-FIVE Viewer Mail
To: 'R. S. Webb'
Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 3:03 PM
Subject: RE: possble story
Dear Mr. Amos,
I would like to thank you for your email to W-FIVE, sorry for the
delay in responding.
We review every email and story idea that we receive here at W-FIVE
and give it serious consideration. Your email has been forwarded to
our executive and senior producer for review. If we are interested in
pursuing your idea further, you will be contacted by one of our
researchers.
Thanks again for your input. Your interest in our program is much
appreciated.
Sincerely,
Lisa-Marie
Production Coordinator
W-FIVE
-----Original Message-----
From: R. S. Webb [mailto:cei@nbnet.nb.ca]
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 2:28 PM
To: W-FIVE@ctv.ca
Subject: possble story
I am a Canadian Citizen who thus far, as a plaintiff, has two Lawsuits
in the US District Court of Massachucetts they are numbered 02-11686-
RGS and 02-11687-RGS. They were removed to that Court from the Norfolk
Superior Court by the US Attorney Michael J. Sullivan very improperly.
However they shall remain there because of my status as a Canandian
Citizen. Judge Sterns has not even held a Conference about the matters
because he likely does not want to hear the matter because I have
presented all Members of the Bar with their worst fear of a catch 22
problem. Accordinging to law he is late. I have complained of 47
defendants 34 of whom are State Defendants( the Attorney General, The
Commission of Judicial Conduct Board of Bar Overseers etc) and 3 are
Federal Treasury Agents. Some of the defendants are over two months
late in their answer to the Summons. The smallest suit amounts to 188
million dollars in the form of relief. There is a lot to these matters
and too much to briefly explain. But in a nutshell my wife's Aunt, who
is buried beside Rose Kennedy, left my wife some money. It was stolen
by her relatives in executing the estate. No news there. But the
crooks are very well connected politically and every part of the old
crony network in Boston covered for them. The crook and our cousin,
Charles J. Kickham Jr of the Kickham Law Office on Beacon St, has been
past President of Bar Associations. He has sat on the Board of
Governors of Harvard Law School etc. I have given much information to
many members of the press who have simply ignored some interesting
facts. What should be somewhat newsworthy is how far a wild colonial
boy has come in prosecuting Pro Se the most profund Yankee
carpetbaggers. My next two lawsuits Under title 18 are wickedly
righteous. I have left one copy of much information in Saint John New
Brunswick at a lawyer's Office, Mosher and Chedore 33 Charlotte St if
some one wishes to view them. I can be reached at this Cell number 506
434- 1379
David R. Amos
LAW
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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