https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/russia-banned-jim-irving-1.6464047
Irving CEO banned from Russia, says Russian Foreign Ministry
Jim Irving one of 26 Canadians on new banned list from Russian Foreign Ministry
Jim Irving, who along with his brother Robert, serves as co-CEO of J.D. Irving Ltd., appears on a list of 26 Canadians who are banned from entering Russia.
Robert Irving does not appear on the list.
The list appears to be retaliation for sanctions Canada has imposed against Russia since it invaded Ukraine in February.
Others on the banned list include Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, the wife of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Graham Bowley, husband of deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland.
The list was posted to the Russian-language version of Russia's Foreign Ministry website on the weekend. It has not yet been posted to the ministry's English or French-language websites.
CBC News has sought a response from J.D. Irving.
New Brunswick forest companies using publicly owned trees to face higher charges
2 years into record lumber prices, province moves to increase 2015 royalty rates
Details are scarce, including the size of the increase being considered.
But in an interview Monday, Mike Holland, the minister of natural resources and energy development, said two years of elevated lumber prices convinced him royalty rates on Crown timber are not adequately compensating the province for what it supplies industry.
"We need to be able to move forward and put together systems that are good for all concerned and reflect where that [lumber] pricing winds up," Holland said.
"When lumber goes from 200 bucks per thousand board feet to 1600 bucks … we need to create some sort of a mechanism that reflects that, as far as it relates to the benefit to the province."
Natural
Resources and Energy Development Minister Mike Holland said New
Brunswick's seven-year-old timber royalties are too low given what's
happened with the price of lumber. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
Slightly more than half of the wood New Brunswick forestry companies use in their operations is owned by the province. The rest comes from a variety of sources, including industry's own forest holdings and thousands of smaller independent suppliers.
Earlier this month, Statistics Canada reported lumber production in March in New Brunswick was worth $180.7 million, a record for that month. That raised total lumber production for the fiscal year ended in March to $1.6 billion.
That amount is $700 million more than New Brunswick forest companies made from lumber in the 2020 fiscal year, but without paying any more in timber royalties to the province for the wood it used.
According to New Brunswick budget and public accounts documents, the province earned an estimated $70.3 million in royalties and fees on Crown trees in the 2020 fiscal year but $68.1 million in the year just ended in March. despite the increased earnings they made possible.
New
Brunswick lumber mills earned $3 billion in revenue over the last two
fiscal years as prices for wood soared. It's $1.2 billion more than
mills made in the two years before that although prices they paid for
Crown wood they used did not change. (CBC)
Holland said New Brunswick will not necessarily adopt royalty rates on Crown timber that change monthly or quarterly to match rising and falling lumber prices, the way some provinces do, but he acknowledged New Brunswick royalties have fallen out of step with current lumber prices.
"When a new normal is established, you know, our systems must reflect that," Holland said.
"I have never been a fan of chasing commodity pricing … but when we see prices move in a direction, when you get to a baseline you've got to catch up with that."
Current royalty rates on New Brunswick timber were set in July, 2015. In that year lumber prices in North America averaged $282 US per 1,000 board feet, well below the $883 US they averaged over the past year.
British
Columbia Finance Minister Selina Robinson released figures in February
showing timber royalty revenues in that province are running $558
million above budget as high lumber prices triggered higher royalty
rates. (Mike McArthur/CBC)
Last year in British Columbia, Canada's largest forestry province, Crown royalty rates were more than triple what they were in 2015, as the government made sure to share in the financial windfall. But in New Brunswick, rates never moved.
That has confounded observers of the province's forest industry, who don't understand why the province would not raise the price of its trees as lumber companies made more and more revenue from them.
It also frustrated those who sell their own trees to mills and who complained they could not get better prices while government charged so little.
"Everyone seems to be quite dumbfounded by the situation," Rick Doucet of the New Brunswick Federation of Woodlot Owners said last fall.
"You could collect that money, put it in the coffers of the province, and the mills themselves will still be doing quite well," Doucet said. "So there was an opportunity there to do something, and it's quite perplexing as to why they didn't move on it."
Adam
Sheparski is president of Acadian Timber. It's the third-largest
landowner in New Brunswick after the province and J.D. Irving Ltd., but
earlier this month Sheparski told investors he had heard nothing about
provincial plans to raise what it charges for trees. (LinkedIn)
Holland said his department has been studying what to do about timber royalties for more than a year, but industry insiders do not appear to have been given much advance notice that a change is coming.
One of the largest sellers of trees in New Brunswick is Acadian Timber Corp. of Edmundston.
It is the second largest non-Crown owner of forest property in New Brunswick behind J.D. Irving and sells timber to mills for both pulp and lumber processing.
Two weeks ago, its president, Adam Sheparski, told investors on a conference call that the company has been pressing the province to charge more for its trees for some time but had not heard there was a plan to do that.
"There has been some quiet conversations ongoing," said Sheparski. "The continued pressure is there but nothing official as yet."
Lumber prices fell up to 35 per cent on futures markets last week, and although Holland acknowledged the province could have made more money from lumber pricing spikes over the last two years had it acted sooner, he said it took time to develop a comprehensive policy that will work in New Brunswick.
"I feel strongly that we did adopt the right approach," said Holland.
"We did exactly what we said we were going to do. Examine the tumultuous situation and come out the other end with something that's systematic."
Holland said details of the new plan are to be released within a month, he said.
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<Kevin.A.Arseneau@gnb.ca>, "robert.gauvin" <robert.gauvin@gnb.ca>,
"Furey, John" <jfurey@nbpower.com>, wharrison <wharrison@nbpower.com>,
premier <premier@gnb.ca>, "terry.seguin" <terry.seguin@cbc.ca>,
"Alex.Johnston" <Alex.Johnston@cbc.ca>, "darrow.macintyre"
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"pierre.poilievre.a1" <pierre.poilievre.a1@parl.gc.
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"Jody.Wilson-Raybould" <Jody.Wilson-Raybould@parl.gc.
"clare.barry" <clare.barry@justice.gc.ca>, "david.hansen"
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jason@boudrotrodgers.com
Monday, 5 November 2018
After reading the news this weekend about Nova Scotia LIEbranos I did
the lawyers Tilly Pillay and Adam Rodgers a favour told their
assistants I would be publishing these emails etc
Tilly Pillay is not in her office this week and things went as far as
they always do whenever I call or email her very questionable Law
Society Here hoping Adam Rodgers finally acts with some semblance of
Integrity. However after all this time I am not betting on it.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 18:22:05 -0400
Subject: Re Federal Court File No: T-1557-15 Did you order Harper and
the NDP to ignore me as well???
To: Liberal / Assistance <nbd_cna@liberal.ca>, cmunroe@glgmlaw.com, pm
<pm@pm.gc.ca>, "justin.trudeau.a1" <justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca>, mcu
<mcu@justice.gc.ca>
Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
How about Dizzy Lizzy May and the Bloc?
On 1/6/16, Cmunroe (Liberal / Assistance) <nbd_cna@liberal.ca> wrote:
> RealChange.ca | DuVraiChangement.ca
>
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> Cmunroe, Jan 6, 14:28
>
> Hello all,
>
> I would ask that you please do not respond to this e-mail (in the event that
> you were inclined to do so.)
>
> Let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
>
> Regards,
>
> Craig Munroe
> (Party Legal and Constitutional Advisor)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Amos [mailto:motomaniac333@gmail.
> Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 11:09 AM
> To: Craig Munroe <cmunroe@glgmlaw.com>; nbd_cna@liberal.ca; pm
> <pm@pm.gc.ca>; ljulien@liberal.ca; pmilliken <pmilliken@cswan.com>; bdysart
> <bdysart@smss.com>; bdysart <bdysart@stewartmckelvey.com>;
> Braeden.Caley@vancouver.ca; robert.m.schuett@schuettlaw.
> jda@nf.aibn.com; eclark@coxandpalmer.com; office@liberal.ns.ca;
> president@lpco.ca; david@lpcm.ca; emerchant@merchantlaw.com
> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>; assistance@liberal.ca; Karine
> Fortin <info@ndp.ca>; stephen.harper <stephen.harper.a1@parl.gc.ca>
> Subject: Re: Attn Dr. John Gillis Re Federal Court File No: T-1557-15 Trust
> that I called and tried to reason with a lot of Liberals begore I am before
> the court again on Monday Jan 11th
>
> On 1/6/16, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
>> BTW the nice guys who talked to me and didn't dismiss me I put in the
>> BCC line
>>
>> Dr. John Gillis
>> P.O. Box 723
>> 5151 George Street, Suite 1400
>> Halifax, Nova Scotia
>> Canada B3J 2T3
>> Tel: (902) 429-1993
>> Email: office@liberal.ns.ca
>>
>> John Allan, President
>> Liberal Party of Newfoundland & Labrador
>> T: (709) 685-1230
>> jda@nf.aibn.com
>>
>>
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>> Office of the Mayor, City of Vancouver
>> 604-809-9951
>> Braeden.Caley@vancouver.ca,
>>
>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 19:32:00 -0400
>> Subject: Re Federal Court File No: T-1557-15 the CBC, the RCMP, their
>> new boss Justin Trudeau and his Ministers of Justice and Defence etc
>> cannot deny their knowledge of Paragraphs 81, 82, 83, 84, and 85 now
>> CORRECT G$?
>> To: Paul.Samyn@freepress.mb.ca, "carolyn.bennett"
>> <carolyn.bennett@parl.gc.ca>, Doug@dougeyolfson.ca,
>> doug.eyolfson@parl.gc.ca, fpcity@freepress.mb.ca,
>> w.kinew@uwinnipeg.ca, "Paul.Lynch" <Paul.Lynch@edmontonpolice.ca>,
>> "Marianne.Ryan" <Marianne.Ryan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, sunrayzulu
>> <sunrayzulu@shaw.ca>, mcu <mcu@justice.gc.ca>, dnd_mdn@forces.gc.ca,
>> "john.green" <john.green@gnb.ca>, chiefape <chiefape@gmail.com>
>> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>, gopublic
>> <gopublic@cbc.ca>, oldmaison <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, radical
>> <radical@radicalpress.com>, newsonline <newsonline@bbc.co.uk>,
>> newsroom <newsroom@globeandmail.ca>, nmoore <nmoore@bellmedia.ca>,
>> andre <andre@jafaust.com>
>>
>> http://davidraymondamos3.
>> html
>>
>> David Raymond Amos Versus The Crown T-1557-15
>>
>> 81. The Plaintiff states that matters of harassment that the police
>> refuse to investigate would have entered the realm of ridiculous in
>> 2012 if the reasons behind the suicides of teenagers did not become
>> well known by the corporate media. In the summer of 2012 a new member
>> of the FPS who as a former member of the EPS had inspired a lawsuit
>> for beating a client in Edmonton called the Plaintiff and accused him
>> of something he could not do even if he wanted to while he was arguing
>> many lawyers byway of emails about a matter concerning cyber stalking
>> that was before the SCC. The member of the FPF accused the Plaintiff
>> of calling the boss of Bullying Canada thirty times. At that time his
>> MagicJack account had been hacked and although he could receive
>> incoming calls, the Plaintiff could not call out to anyone. The
>> Plaintiff freely sent the FPF his telephone logs sourced from
>> MagicJack after his account restored without the Crown having to issue
>> a warrant to see his telephone records. He asked the FPF and the RCMP
>> where did the records of his phone calls to and from the FPF and the
>> RCMP go if his account had not been hacked. The police never
>> responded. Years later a Troll sent Dean Roger Ray a message through
>> YouTube providing info about the Plaintiff’s MagicJack account with
>> the correct password. Dean Roger Ray promptly posted two videos in
>> YouTube clearly displaying the blatant violation of privacy likely to
>> protect himself from the crime. The Plaintiff quickly pointed out the
>> videos to the RCMP and they refused to investigate as usual. At about
>> the same point in time the Plaintiff noticed that the CBC had
>> published a record of a access to information requests. On the list of
>> requests he saw his name along with several employees of CBC and the
>> boss of Bullying Canada. The Plaintiff called the CBC to make
>> inquiries about what he saw published on the Internet. CBC told him it
>> was none of his business and advised him if he thought his rights had
>> been offended to file a complaint. It appears the Plaintiff that
>> employees of CBC like other questionable Crown Corporations such as
>> the RCMP rely on their attorneys far too much to defend them from
>> litigation they invite from citizens they purportedly serve. The
>> employees of CBC named within the aforementioned and the CBC Legal
>> Dept. are very familiar with the Plaintiff and of the Crown barring
>> him from legislative properties while he running for public office.
>>
>> 82. The Plaintiff states that any politician or police officer should
>> have seen enough of Barry Winter’s WordPress blog by June 22, 2015
>> particularly after the very unnecessary demise of two men in Alberta
>> because of the incompetence of the EPS. Barry Winters was blogging
>> about the EPS using battering ram in order to execute a warrant for a
>> 250 dollar bylaw offence at the same time Professor Kris Wells
>> revealed in a televised interview that the EPS member who was killed
>> was the one investigating the cyber harassment of him. It was obvious
>> why the police and politicians ignored all the death threats, sexual
>> harassment, cyberbullying and hate speech of a proud Zionist who
>> claimed to be a former CF officer who now working for the Department
>> of National Defence (DND). It is well known that no politician in
>> Canada is allowed to sit in Parliament as a member of the major
>> parties unless they support Israel. Since 2002 the Plaintiff made it
>> well known that he does not support Israeli actions and was against
>> the American plan to make war on Iraq. On Aril 1, 2003 within two
>> weeks of the beginning of the War on Iraq, the US Secret Service
>> threatened to practice extraordinary rendition because false
>> allegations of a Presidential threat were made against him by an
>> American court. However, the Americans and the Crown cannot deny that
>> what he said in two courts on April 1, 2003 because he published the
>> recordings of what was truly said as soon as he got the court tapes.
>> The RCMP knows those words can still be heard on the Internet today.
>> In 2009, the Plaintiff began to complain of Barry Winters about
>> something far more important to Canada as nation because of Winters’
>> bragging of being one of 24 CF officers who assisted the Americans in
>> the planning the War on Iraq in 2002. In the Plaintiff’s humble
>> opinion the mandate of the DND is Defence not Attack. He is not so
>> naive to think that such plans of war do not occur but if Barry
>> Winters was in fact one of the CF officers who did so then he broke
>> his oath to the Crown the instant he bragged of it in his blog. If
>> Winters was never an officer in the CF then he broke the law by
>> impersonating an officer. The Plaintiff downloaded the emails of the
>> Privy Council about Wikileaks. The bragging of Barry Winters should
>> have been investigated in 2009 before CBC reported that documents
>> released by WikiLeaks supported his information about Canadian
>> involvement in the War on Iraq.
>>
>> 83. The Plaintiff states that now that Canada is involved in more war
>> in Iraq again it did not serve Canadian interests and reputation to
>> allow Barry Winters to publish the following words three times over
>> five years after he began his bragging:
>>
>> January 13, 2015
>> This Is Just AS Relevant Now As When I wrote It During The Debate
>>
>> December 8, 2014
>> Why Canada Stood Tall!
>>
>> Friday, October 3, 2014
>> Little David Amos’ “True History Of War” Canadian Airstrikes And
>> Stupid Justin Trudeau
>>
>> Canada’s and Canadians free ride is over. Canada can no longer hide
>> behind Amerka’s and NATO’s skirts.
>>
>> When I was still in Canadian Forces then Prime Minister Jean Chretien
>> actually committed the Canadian Army to deploy in the second campaign
>> in Iraq, the Coalition of the Willing. This was against or contrary to
>> the wisdom or advice of those of us Canadian officers that were
>> involved in the initial planning phases of that operation. There were
>> significant concern in our planning cell, and NDHQ about of the dearth
>> of concern for operational guidance, direction, and forces for
>> operations after the initial occupation of Iraq. At the “last minute”
>> Prime Minister Chretien and the Liberal government changed its mind.
>> The Canadian government told our amerkan cousins that we would not
>> deploy combat troops for the Iraq campaign, but would deploy a
>> Canadian Battle Group to Afghanistan, enabling our amerkan cousins to
>> redeploy troops from there to Iraq. The PMO’s thinking that it was
>> less costly to deploy Canadian Forces to Afghanistan than Iraq. But
>> alas no one seems to remind the Liberals of Prime Minister Chretien’s
>> then grossly incorrect assumption. Notwithstanding Jean Chretien’s
>> incompetence and stupidity, the Canadian Army was heroic,
>> professional, punched well above it’s weight, and the PPCLI Battle
>> Group, is credited with “saving Afghanistan” during the Panjway
>> campaign of 2006.
>>
>> What Justin Trudeau and the Liberals don’t tell you now, is that then
>> Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien committed, and deployed the
>> Canadian army to Canada’s longest “war” without the advice, consent,
>> support, or vote of the Canadian Parliament.
>>
>> What David Amos and the rest of the ignorant, uneducated, and babbling
>> chattering classes are too addled to understand is the deployment of
>> less than 75 special operations troops, and what is known by planners
>> as a “six pac cell” of fighter aircraft is NOT the same as a
>> deployment of a Battle Group, nor a “war” make.
>>
>> The Canadian Government or The Crown unlike our amerkan cousins have
>> the “constitutional authority” to commit the Canadian nation to war.
>> That has been recently clearly articulated to the Canadian public by
>> constitutional scholar Phillippe Legasse. What Parliament can do is
>> remove “confidence” in The Crown’s Government in a “vote of
>> non-confidence.” That could not happen to the Chretien Government
>> regarding deployment to Afghanistan, and it won’t happen in this
>> instance with the conservative majority in The Commons regarding a
>> limited Canadian deployment to the Middle East.
>>
>> President George Bush was quite correct after 911 and the terror
>> attacks in New York; that the Taliban “occupied” and “failed state”
>> Afghanistan was the source of logistical support, command and control,
>> and training for the Al Quaeda war of terror against the world. The
>> initial defeat, and removal from control of Afghanistan was vital and
>> essential for the security and tranquility of the developed world. An
>> ISIS “caliphate,” in the Middle East, no matter how small, is a clear
>> and present danger to the entire world. This “occupied state,”
>> or“failed state” will prosecute an unending Islamic inspired war of
>> terror against not only the “western world,” but Arab states
>> “moderate” or not, as well. The security, safety, and tranquility of
>> Canada and Canadians are just at risk now with the emergence of an
>> ISIS“caliphate” no matter how large or small, as it was with the
>> Taliban and Al Quaeda “marriage” in Afghanistan.
>>
>> One of the everlasting “legacies” of the “Trudeau the Elder’s dynasty
>> was Canada and successive Liberal governments cowering behind the
>> amerkan’s nuclear and conventional military shield, at the same time
>> denigrating, insulting them, opposing them, and at the same time
>> self-aggrandizing ourselves as “peace keepers,” and progenitors of
>> “world peace.” Canada failed. The United States of Amerka, NATO, the
>> G7 and or G20 will no longer permit that sort of sanctimonious
>> behavior from Canada or its government any longer. And Prime Minister
>> Stephen Harper, Foreign Minister John Baird , and Cabinet are fully
>> cognizant of that reality. Even if some editorial boards, and pundits
>> are not.
>>
>> Justin, Trudeau “the younger” is reprising the time “honoured” liberal
>> mantra, and tradition of expecting the amerkans or the rest of the
>> world to do “the heavy lifting.” Justin Trudeau and his “butt buddy”
>> David Amos are telling Canadians that we can guarantee our security
>> and safety by expecting other nations to fight for us. That Canada can
>> and should attempt to guarantee Canadians safety by providing
>> “humanitarian aid” somewhere, and call a sitting US president a “war
>> criminal.” This morning Australia announced they too, were sending
>> tactical aircraft to eliminate the menace of an ISIS “caliphate.”
>>
>> In one sense Prime Minister Harper is every bit the scoundrel Trudeau
>> “the elder” and Jean ‘the crook” Chretien was. Just As Trudeau, and
>> successive Liberal governments delighted in diminishing,
>> marginalizing, under funding Canadian Forces, and sending Canadian
>> military men and women to die with inadequate kit and modern
>> equipment; so too is Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Canada’s F-18s are
>> antiquated, poorly equipped, and ought to have been replaced five
>> years ago. But alas, there won’t be single RCAF fighter jock that
>> won’t go, or won’t want to go, to make Canada safe or safer.
>>
>> My Grandfather served this country. My father served this country. My
>> Uncle served this country. And I have served this country. Justin
>> Trudeau has not served Canada in any way. Thomas Mulcair has not
>> served this country in any way. Liberals and so called social
>> democrats haven’t served this country in any way. David Amos, and
>> other drooling fools have not served this great nation in any way. Yet
>> these fools are more than prepared to ensure their, our safety to
>> other nations, and then criticize them for doing so.
>>
>> Canada must again, now, “do our bit” to guarantee our own security,
>> and tranquility, but also that of the world. Canada has never before
>> shirked its responsibility to its citizens and that of the world.
>>
>> Prime Minister Harper will not permit this country to do so now
>>
>> From: dnd_mdn@forces.gc.ca
>> Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 14:17:17 -0400
>> Subject: RE: Re Greg Weston, The CBC , Wikileaks, USSOCOM, Canada and
>> the War in Iraq (I just called SOCOM and let them know I was still
>> alive
>> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>
>> This is to confirm that the Minister of National Defence has received
>> your email and it will be reviewed in due course. Please do not reply
>> to this message: it is an automatic acknowledgement.
>>
>>
>> ---------- Original message ----------
>> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 13:55:30 -0300
>> Subject: Re Greg Weston, The CBC , Wikileaks, USSOCOM, Canada and the
>> War in Iraq (I just called SOCOM and let them know I was still alive
>> To: DECPR@forces.gc.ca, Public.Affairs@socom.mil,
>> Raymonde.Cleroux@mpcc-cppm.gc.
>> william.elliott@rcmp-grc.gc.ca, stoffp1 <stoffp1@parl.gc.ca>,
>> dnd_mdn@forces.gc.ca, media@drdc-rddc.gc.ca, information@forces.gc.ca,
>> milner@unb.ca, charters@unb.ca, lwindsor@unb.ca,
>> sarah.weir@mpcc-cppm.gc.ca, birgir <birgir@althingi.is>, smari
>> <smari@immi.is>, greg.weston@cbc.ca, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>,
>> susan@blueskystrategygroup.com, Don@blueskystrategygroup.com,
>> eugene@blueskystrategygroup.
>> Cc: "Edith. Cody-Rice" <Edith.Cody-Rice@cbc.ca>, "terry.seguin"
>> <terry.seguin@cbc.ca>, acampbell <acampbell@ctv.ca>, whistleblower
>> <whistleblower@ctv.ca>
>>
>> I talked to Don Newman earlier this week before the beancounters David
>> Dodge and Don Drummond now of Queen's gave their spin about Canada's
>> Health Care system yesterday and Sheila Fraser yapped on and on on
>> CAPAC during her last days in office as if she were oh so ethical.. To
>> be fair to him I just called Greg Weston (613-288-6938) I suggested
>> that he should at least Google SOUCOM and David Amos It would be wise
>> if he check ALL of CBC's sources before he publishes something else
>> about the DND EH Don Newman? Lets just say that the fact that your
>> old CBC buddy, Tony Burman is now in charge of Al Jazeera English
>> never impressed me. The fact that he set up a Canadian office is
>> interesting though
>>
>> http://www.
>>
>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/
>> launch.html
>>
>> Anyone can call me back and stress test my integrity after they read
>> this simple pdf file. BTW what you Blue Sky dudes pubished about
>> Potash Corp and BHP is truly funny. Perhaps Stevey Boy Harper or Brad
>> Wall will fill ya in if you are to shy to call mean old me.
>>
>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/
>>
>> The Governor General, the PMO and the PCO offices know that I am not a
>> shy political animal
>>
>> Veritas Vincit
>> David Raymond Amos
>> 902 800 0369
>>
>> Enjoy Mr Weston
>> http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/
>> ikileaks.html
>>
>> "But Lang, defence minister McCallum's chief of staff, says military
>> brass were not entirely forthcoming on the issue. For instance, he
>> says, even McCallum initially didn't know those soldiers were helping
>> to plan the invasion of Iraq up to the highest levels of command,
>> including a Canadian general.
>>
>> That general is Walt Natynczyk, now Canada's chief of defence staff,
>> who eight months after the invasion became deputy commander of 35,000
>> U.S. soldiers and other allied forces in Iraq. Lang says Natynczyk was
>> also part of the team of mainly senior U.S. military brass that helped
>> prepare for the invasion from a mobile command in Kuwait."
>>
>> http://baconfat53.blogspot.
>>
>> "I remember years ago when the debate was on in Canada, about there
>> being weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Our American 'friends"
>> demanded that Canada join into "the Coalition of the Willing. American
>> "veterans" and sportscasters loudly denounced Canada for NOT buying
>> into the US policy.
>>
>> At the time I was serving as a planner at NDHQ and with 24 other of my
>> colleagues we went to Tampa SOUCOM HQ to be involved in the planning
>> in the planning stages of the op....and to report to NDHQ, that would
>> report to the PMO upon the merits of the proposed operation. There was
>> never at anytime an existing target list of verified sites where there
>> were deployed WMD.
>>
>> Coalition assets were more than sufficient for the initial strike and
>> invasion phase but even at that point in the planning, we were
>> concerned about the number of "boots on the ground" for the occupation
>> (and end game) stage of an operation in Iraq. We were also concerned
>> about the American plans for occupation plans of Iraq because they at
>> that stage included no contingency for a handing over of civil
>> authority to a vetted Iraqi government and bureaucracy.
>>
>> There was no detailed plan for Iraq being "liberated" and returned to
>> its people...nor a thought to an eventual exit plan. This was contrary
>> to the lessons of Vietnam but also to current military thought, that
>> folks like Colin Powell and "Stuffy" Leighton and others elucidated
>> upon. "What's the mission" how long is the mission, what conditions
>> are to met before US troop can redeploy? Prime Minister Jean Chretien
>> and the PMO were even at the very preliminary planning stages wary of
>> Canadian involvement in an Iraq operation....History would prove them
>> correct. The political pressure being applied on the PMO from the
>> George W Bush administration was onerous
>>
>> American military assets were extremely overstretched, and Canadian
>> military assets even more so It was proposed by the PMO that Canadian
>> naval platforms would deploy to assist in naval quarantine operations
>> in the Gulf and that Canadian army assets would deploy in Afghanistan
>> thus permitting US army assets to redeploy for an Iraqi
>> operation....The PMO thought that "compromise would save Canadian
>> lives and liberal political capital.. and the priority of which
>> ....not necessarily in that order. "
>>
>> You can bet that I called these sneaky Yankees again today EH John
>> Adams? of the CSE within the DND?
>>
>> http://www.socom.mil/
>>
>>
>> 84. The Plaintiff states that the RCMP is well aware that he went to
>> western Canada in 2104 at the invitation of a fellow Maritimer in
>> order to assist in his attempt to investigate the murders of many
>> people in Northern BC. The Plaintiff has good reasons to doubt his
>> fellow Maritimer’s motives. The fact that he did not tell the
>> Plaintiff until he had arrived in BC that he had invited a Neo Nazi he
>> knew the Plaintiff strongly disliked to the same protest that he was
>> staging in front of the court house in Prince George on August 21,
>> 2014. The Plaintiff was looking forward to meeting Lonnie Landrud so
>> he ignored the Neo Nazi. Several months after their one and only
>> meeting, Lonnie Landrud contacted the Plaintiff and asked him to
>> publish a statement of his on the Internet and to forward it to anyone
>> he wished. The Plaintiff obliged Landrud and did an investigation of
>> his own as well. He has informed the RCMP of his opinion of their
>> actions and has done nothing further except monitor the criminal
>> proceedings the Crown has placed against the Neo Nazi in BC and save
>> his videos and webpages and that of his associates. The words the
>> Plaintiff stated in public in Prince George BC on August 21, 2014 were
>> recorded by the Neo Nazi and published on the Internet and the RCMP
>> knows the Plaintiff stands by every word. For the public record the
>> Plaintiff truly believes what Lonnie Landrud told him despite the fact
>> that he does not trust his Neo Nazi associates. Therefore the
>> Plaintiff had no ethical dilemma whatsoever in publishing the
>> statement Lonnie Landrud mailed to him in a sincere effort to assist
>> Lonnie Landrud’s pursuit of justice. The Crown is well aware that
>> Plaintiff’s former lawyer, Barry Bachrach once had a leader of the
>> American Indian Movement for a client and that is why he ran against
>> the former Minister of Indian Affairs for his seat in the 39th
>> Parliament.
>>
>> 85. The Plaintiff states that while he was out west he visited
>> Edmonton AB several times and met many people. He visited the home of
>> Barry Winters and all his favourite haunts in the hope of meeting in
>> person the evil person who had been sexually harassing and threatening
>> to kill him and his children for many years. The Crown cannot deny
>> that Winters invited him many times. On June 13, 2015 Barry Winters
>> admitted the EPS warned him the Plaintiff was looking for him.
>>
>> On 12/21/15, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> From: "Rabson, Mia" <Mia.Rabson@freepress.mb.ca>
>>> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 20:45:36 +0000
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>>> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
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>>> I will be out of the office until Monday, January 4.
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>>> Subject: Automatic reply: Attn Wab Kinew
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>>> I will be out of the office until Thursday, Nov. 12th. I will
>>> respond to emails upon my return. Miigwech and all the best.
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>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
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>>> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 16:45:29 -0400
>>> Subject: Fwd: Attn Wab Kinew
>>> To: mia.rabson@freepress.mb.ca, Paul.Samyn@freepress.mb.ca,
>>> "carolyn.bennett" <carolyn.bennett@parl.gc.ca>, Doug@dougeyolfson.ca,
>>> doug.eyolfson@parl.gc.ca
>>> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
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>>> http://www.winnipegfreepress.
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>>> Peacemaker
>>> Group pushes for Truth and Reconciliation chairman to get Nobel Prize
>>>
>>> By: Mia Rabson
>>> Posted: 12/19/2015 3:00 AM | Last Modified: 12/19/2015 6:12 AM
>>>
>>> " Murray Sinclair already has an impressive resumé.
>>>
>>> He's the first aboriginal judge appointed to the bench in Manitoba,
>>> co-commissioner of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry and chairman of the
>>> Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
>>>
>>> But if a group of Canadians has its way, he will get one of the
>>> highest honours in the world to add to the list: Nobel Peace Prize
>>> recipient.
>>>
>>> "He and Phil Fontaine should share a Nobel Peace Prize," said Wab
>>> Kinew, associate vice-president for indigenous relations at the
>>> University of Winnipeg.
>>>
>>> Kinew said a group of people in Winnipeg, Toronto and Ottawa are
>>> collaborating to nominate the two men, who they believe are jointly
>>> responsible for giving back hope to Canada's indigenous people that
>>> hasn't existed in a long time.
>>>
>>> "They made it into something that is peace-building and
>>> nation-building," Kinew said. "It has really transformed our country."
>>>
>>> Mia Rabson, Ottawa Bureau Chief
>>> 613-369–4824
>>>
>>> Paul
>>> Samyn, Editor
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>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 16:05:01 -0400
>>> Subject: Attn Wab Kinew
>>> To: w.kinew@uwinnipeg.ca, "Paul.Lynch"
>>> <Paul.Lynch@edmontonpolice.ca>, "Marianne.Ryan"
>>> <Marianne.Ryan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>
>>> Cc: David Amos <david.raymond.amos@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> https://baconfatreport.
>>> -to-know-anything-about-injuns/
>>>
>>> http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/about/
>>> Vice-President, Indigenous Affairs
>>>
>>> Wab Kinew
>>> phone: 204.789.9931
>>> email: w.kinew@uwinnipeg.ca
>>> Biography/Publications
>>>
>>> Executive Assistant
>>>
>>> Sarra Deane
>>> phone: 204.988.7121
>>> email: s.deane@uwinnipeg.ca
>>>
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In response to the public outcry, the Dairy Farmers of Canada lobby maintained that feeding cows palm oil is safe, but this completely misses the point. Palm oil presents a clear and present danger to the survival of a vast diversity of life on Earth. Palm oil is one of the most unsafe commodities around, and feeding it to livestock in any form should be immediately prohibited.
Farmers, in fairness, can’t do this alone. Canada’s small and organic farmers in particular have a huge role to play in re-localizing the food we eat and making Canada a more resilient and ecological nation. They deserve better options and support to ensure they don’t have to choose palm oil in the first place.
A number of commentators have defended the practice as “efficient” or “economical.” But let’s be clear — if palm oil from the rainforest for cows in the Prairies is either efficient or economical, we have a broken system, folks. Since 1970, the Earth has lost half its wildlife but tripled its livestock population. Our world’s capacity to produce food is being undermined by our failure to protect biodiversity. Buttergate typifies how we got here — the cold, hard “logic” of economics over all else. This is the logic of extinction.Canadians also shouldn’t be forced to consume palm oil in the products all around. In 2019, the federal government released Canada’s new Food Guide, which recommends more fresh fruits, vegetables and plant-based proteins. But it has since been criticized for an over-reliance on food banks as a Band-Aid to rising food insecurity during the pandemic. A better approach would be to build food resilience from the ground up and empower our local farmers, urban growers and Indigenous food producers to tackle hunger with the amazing products grown right here in Canada.
Palm oil — the facts
Palm oil is a vegetable oil made from the fruit of oil palm trees — Elaeis guineensis — which come from West Africa but were taken to Southeast Asia in the 1960s. It’s added to many of the things we use every day: shampoo, bread, toothpaste, detergent, snacks and chocolate bars. And, apparently, to feed cows
To make way for palm oil plantations, huge areas of rainforest are torn down by bulldozers or burned to the ground. In 2018, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) warned that “oil palm expansion could affect 54 per cent of all threatened mammals and 64 per cent of all threatened birds globally.”
Oil palms are grown in many tropical countries, with Indonesia by far the largest producer at 58 per cent of global production. The industry is estimated to have caused 2.3 million hectares of deforestation between 1995 and 2015 there — more than double the size of Jamaica. Most Indonesian plantations are on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo where forest destruction has pushed all three species of orangutans to “critically endangered” status. Borneo alone has lost nearly 150,000 orangutans over the last 16 years.
Deforestation is also a major cause of climate change since large areas of rainforest grow in deep, swampy peat storing huge quantities of carbon. Plantations need dry land, so companies drain the peat, making it highly flammable. Fires often rage out of control, releasing even more carbon dioxide. According to reports, more than 900,000 people in Indonesia suffered acute respiratory infections due to the smoke haze from the devastating fires of 2019, and nearly 10 million children are at risk of lifelong physical and cognitive damages due to air pollution. Indigenous communities have also been severely affected and displaced. The Dayak people, among Borneo’s original inhabitants, heavily rely on the forest for their livelihood. Their culture and way of life are threatened because of palm oil.
Palm oil is one of the most unsafe commodities around and feeding it to livestock in any form should be immediately prohibited, writes @GreenShaneM. #ButterGate #biodiversity #cdnpoli
Think global, act local
We clearly need a new vision for the food we consume — one that prioritizes resilience, accessibility, transparency and ecology. We have the right to know where our food comes from, who produced it and how it affects the planet. Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau has a mandate that talks about fighting climate change, stopping biodiversity loss and building resilience, but there is clearly some internal resistance to change.
In its excellent recent report “Making Peace with Nature,” the UN’s Environment Program recommended moving subsidies away from industrial agriculture and towards more sustainable, local and plant-based foods. Greenpeace also wrote to the minister directly in the fall with similar recommendations.
Getting dirty palm oil out of the food we eat presents a huge opportunity to show truly global leadership.
Shane Moffatt leads Greenpeace Canada’s nature and food campaign.