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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/new-brunswick-public-library-director-kevin-cormier-1.5477991
Librarians making noise about new head of New Brunswick public library service
Liberals call on government to rescind Kevin Cormier's appointment, given apparent lack of qualifications
· CBC News · Posted: Feb 28, 2020 12:30 PM AT
Kevin Cormier, whose appointment took effect Feb. 18, has not responded to requests for an interview. (Kevin Cormier/Facebook)
The New Brunswick government's decision to appoint a non-librarian to run the province's 64 public libraries has become a national issue among librarians.
Kevin Cormier was named executive director of the New Brunswick Public Library Service last week and the librarian social media community has been abuzz ever since about his apparent lack of training or experience.
"Librarians in the province, well, in the region, are quite concerned," said Phil Taber, a librarian at the University of New Brunswick Saint John campus, who has been following the issue closely.
And that concern has spread to the "national library audience," he said.
"Librarians have a sensitivity to these issues no matter where they're happening really in North America."
So to lead the provincial system, "it's really a dramatic shortcoming that [he] has."
Cormier has not responded to requests for an interview.
11 applicants
Eleven people applied for the job that pays up to $114,000 a year, said Erika Jutras, spokesperson for the Department of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour, which libraries fall under.
She declined to reveal whether any of them were interviewed, or to disclose any information about their qualifications.
"To protect the privacy of the applicants we cannot release anymore details," she said.
The Liberals are calling on the government to rescind Cormier's appointment, calling it "bizarre."
'Slap in the face'
He called it a "slap in the face" for the applicants.
"This
smells of more bad politics from the Higgs government where only
political allies are given plum high-paying jobs," he alleged.
The acting deputy minister Dan Mills said earlier this "there was no patronage involved" and it's a "non-partisan role."
Cormier has worked in
various progressively responsible roles in the New Brunswick public
service for more than 15 years, said Mills.
Cormier's LinkedIn profile lists his education as a single year at York University's Schulich School of Business in Toronto (2005) and two years at the Moncton Flight College (1998-2000).
He spent the past year at the government's Executive Council Office and was previously the CEO of Kings Landing historical settlement near Fredericton for seven years.
11 applicants
"Librarians in the province, well, in the region, are quite concerned," said Phil Taber, a librarian at the University of New Brunswick Saint John campus, who has been following the issue closely.
And that concern has spread to the "national library audience," he said.
"Librarians have a sensitivity to these issues no matter where they're happening really in North America"
Phil Taber, a librarian at UNBSJ, says a library science degree 'signifies something,' it's not just 'a hoop to jump through.' (Submitted by Phil Taber)
Taber said he bears "no animus towards this fellow," but even an entry-level position typically requires an undergraduate degree, followed by a master's degree, which is usually two years and includes an apprenticeship.
So to lead the provincial system, "it's really a dramatic shortcoming that [he] has."
Eleven people applied for the job that pays up to $114,000 a year, Erika Jutras, a spokesperson for the department told CBC News on Wednesday.
She declined to reveal whether any of them were interviewed, or to disclose any information about their qualifications.
"To protect the privacy of the applicants we cannot release anymore details," she said.
Cormier was appointed the head of the library service through the Corporate Talent Management Program. The program provides current and aspiring executives in the upper pay bands with "opportunities to further develop their executive competencies within and/or outside their current department," according to the government's website.
The executive director position was posted as an open competition from Nov. 1 until Nov. 25 "with the intention of providing sufficient opportunity for the ad to be seen and for interested individuals to apply," said the department spokesperson.
In
addition to posting the competition through the regular distribution
channels, the department also shared the competition with the
following library groups:
- New Brunswick Public Library Service staff,
- Atlantic Provinces Library Association,
- University of Toronto,
- La Fédération des milieux documentaires,
- Corporation des bibliothécaires professionnels du Québec (CBPQ),
- University of Western Ontario,
- McGill University,
- and Partnership Job Board of the British Columbia Library Association.
Librarians making noise about new head of New Brunswick public library service
Liberals call on government to rescind Kevin Cormier's appointment, given apparent lack of qualifications
The New Brunswick government's decision to appoint a non-librarian to run the province's 64 public libraries has become a national issue among librarians.
Kevin Cormier was named executive director of the New Brunswick Public Library Service last week and the librarian social media community has been abuzz ever since about his apparent lack of training or experience.
On Friday, the Atlantic Provinces Library Association issued an open letter expressing "concerns" to Department of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour Minister Trevor Holder, who is responsible for libraries in the province.
"We see no substitute for a solid grounding in the principles of library service, experience working with the public in a library, or progressive responsibility for the administration of a library system," wrote president Trecia Schell on behalf of the association that represents roughly 400 library workers and supporters across the region.
"We respectfully request a clarification of [Cormier's] professional qualifications and experience as they related to NBPLS' commitment towards achieving excellence in library service provision to the public," wrote Schell, who has a master's degree in science, a PhD and a master's of library and information studies.
Trecia Schell, a librarian at the Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library, is president of the Atlantic Provinces Libraries Association, which represents about 400 library workers and supporters. (Nova Scotia Provincial Library)
She copied the letter to Premier Blaine Higgs, the leaders of the other political parties, the chair of the New Brunswick Public Libraries Board, the chair of the New Brunswick Public Libraries Foundation, and the chair of the Canadian Federation of Library Associations.
Neither a department spokesperson nor Cormier responded to a request for an interview Friday. Cormier has not spoken publicly since the controversy began.
Cormier's LinkedIn profile lists his education as a single year at York University's Schulich School of Business in Toronto (2005) and two years at the Moncton Flight College (1998-2000).
He spent the past year at the government's Executive Council Office and was previously the CEO of Kings Landing historical settlement near Fredericton for seven years.
11 applicants
"Librarians in the province, well, in the region, are quite concerned," said Phil Taber, a librarian at the University of New Brunswick Saint John campus, who has been following the issue closely.
And that concern has spread to the "national library audience," he said.
"Librarians have a sensitivity to these issues no matter where they're happening really in North America."
Phil Taber, a librarian at UNBSJ, says a library science degree 'signifies something,' it's not just 'a hoop to jump through.' (Submitted by Phil Taber)
Taber said he bears "no animus towards this fellow," but even an entry-level position typically requires an undergraduate degree, followed by a master's degree, which is usually two years and includes an apprenticeship.
So to lead the provincial system, "it's really a dramatic shortcoming that [he] has."
Eleven people applied for the job that pays up to $114,000 a year, Erika Jutras, a spokesperson for the department told CBC News on Wednesday.
She declined to reveal whether any of them were interviewed, or to disclose any information about their qualifications.
"To protect the privacy of the applicants we cannot release anymore details," she said.
On Thursday, the Liberals called on the government to rescind Cormier's appointment, describing it as "bizarre."
'Slap in the face'
He called it a "slap in the face" for the applicants."This smells of more bad politics from the Higgs government where only political allies are given plum high-paying jobs," he alleged.
The acting deputy minister Dan Mills said earlier this "there was no patronage involved" and it's a "non-partisan role."
Liberal MLA Guy Arseneault said Cormier's qualifications appear to fall 'woefully short.' (Gary Moore/CBC)
Cormier was appointed the head of the library service through the Corporate Talent Management Program. The program provides current and aspiring executives in the upper pay bands with "opportunities to further develop their executive competencies within and/or outside their current department," according to the government's website.
The
executive director position was posted as an open competition from Nov.
1 until Nov. 25 "with the intention of providing sufficient opportunity
for the ad to be seen and for interested individuals to apply," said
the department spokesperson.
In
addition to posting the competition through the regular distribution
channels, the department also shared the competition with the
following library groups:
- New Brunswick Public Library Service staff,
- Atlantic Provinces Library Association,
- University of Toronto,
- La Fédération des milieux documentaires,
- Corporation des bibliothécaires professionnels du Québec (CBPQ),
- University of Western Ontario,
- McGill University,
- and Partnership Job Board of the British Columbia Library Association.
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382 Comments Plus many more that went "POOF"
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David Amos
Methinks Higgy's minions and a lot of other folks must be enjoying the spit and chew with Johnny Never Been good at High Noon In "The Place to Be" N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Welcome to the circus
This is the best joke I read today spoken by a bad actor.
"The acting deputy minister Dan Mills said earlier this "there was no patronage involved" and it's a "non-partisan role."
David Amos
Reply to @David Amos: Methinks to be fair to Higgy and considering my call to this dude a couple of days ago and talking to his assistant this is pretty funny too N'esy Pas?
"This is a joke, an embarrassment for the government and the people of New Brunswick," Guy Arseneault, the Opposition Liberal critic for Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour said in a statement on Thursday."
David Amos
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Methinks Higgy should understand why I just called and left a voicemail sticking my hand out to Phil Taber, a librarian at UNBSJ. Nobody should deny that have we have the love of history and suspenders in common N'esy Pas?
David Amos
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Reply to @Johnny
Horton: Methinks its high time for you change your fancy blue knickers,
take your meds and have a nap N'esy Pas?David Amos
Oh My My blocked out of the gate again
Ben Haroldson
Reply to @David Amos: Happening more and more here too. 14 + tracking companies that are on here every day seem to have free reign though.
David Amos
Reply to @Ben Haroldson: Methinks some of the nervous campers are reading my Tweets and my blogs N'esy Pas?
Ben Haroldson
Reply to @David Amos: Makes you wonder, some days you can say it, other days you can't.
David Amos
Reply to @Ben Haroldson: Methinks politicking is such that it depends very much on what one are saying about whom N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin
Reply to @David Amos: who cares.
David Amos
Reply to @Marc
Martin: Methinks its obvious that you are digging deep to see what you
missed Best check my blog to review the juicy stuff about you
SANB/liberal dudes N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin
Reply to @David Amos: Me, SANB, the dudes and pretty much everyone except for your 15 voters dont care...
David Amos
Oh My My Methinks things can change quickly after dinner in the Maritimes I see the article has added the not so happy face of Guy Arsenault and the opinion of Trecia Schell president of the Atlantic Provinces Libraries Association. I also see that Higgy's old buddy Lou has entered the fray and does not seem to be impressed with her favourite political party. Perhaps she will vote for the PANB next time N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @David Amos: Methinks to be fair to Higgy I should ask Trecia Schell and her pals if they recall how I did my best to defend the libraries on the Rock from the liberals not all that long ago N'esy Pas?
Johnny Horton
Reply to @David Amos:
Gee what a shock, a bunch of professionals complaining they didn’t get the job and might be managed by someone not them.
Shocking I tell Y’s shocking,
David Amos
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Reply to @Johnny Horton: Methinks its high time for some fellow minion working for the Irving Clan to change your fancy blue knickers, make you take your meds and read you a bit of Ayn Rand to make your drowzy then tuck you into the sack for long winter's nap N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @Johnny Horton: Why is it I am not surprised that my reply went "Poof"
Marc Martin
Reply to @David Amos: no one cares
David Amos
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Reply to @Johnny
Horton: Methinks I should have no doubt whatsoever that you heard of my
Father and my Step Father and know my Sister the lawyer, her hubby and
his law firm partner quite well. FYI Father and Sister share the same
birthday which today. I would lay odds my Father and Step Father are
rolling in their graves laughing at your nonsense while my Sisterand her
legal beagle buddies are trying to figure out who you are N'esy Pas?
David Amos
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Reply to @Marc
Martin: Methinks I should lay odds that you have already checked my blog
to see what went "Poof" and whether or not I mentioned you
SANB/liberal dudes N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @Marc Martin: You do
Marc Martin
Reply to @David Amos: I am a caring person.....but in this case i really dont care..
David Amos
Reply to @Marc Martin: BS
Marc Martin
Reply to @David Amos: Cry me a river..
David Amos
Reply to @Marc
Martin: Methinks you wife should ask you why you are crying over your
keyboard at midnight on Friday night instead of paying attention to her
Perhaps she should call Johnny "Never Been Good" Horton so he can sing
you two some sad country and western song N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin
Reply to @David Amos: At least i got a * her* beside me...
David Amos
Reply to @Marc Martin: For how long?
Marc Martin
Reply to @David Amos: why dont you tell us one of you imaginary stories?
David Amos
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Reply to @Marc
Martin: Methinks whereas the stock markets are taking a nose dive you
can Google the following for a bed time story for your wife to enjoy and
explain to you real slow sometime N'esy Pas? Trump Michael Cohen NAFTA FATCA
David Amos
Reply to @Marc Martin: You will have to look in my blog
David Amos
Methinks even Higgy must have noticed that Kevin Cormier will attack my words elsewhere but not where the article is about him N'esy Pas?
"Kevin Cormier
Reply to @Lou Bell: To each MLA their own. Of course, MLAs should be more defensive when it comes to their ridings (though some MLAs in the past could care less).
David Amos
Reply to @Kevin Cormier: Who are you to try to give me or the MLAs I run against advice?
Kevin Cormier
Reply to @David Amos: I am much like you, full of opinions with a touch of self-interest. One may say that you are better because of your bid to be elected.
David Amos
Reply to @Kevin Cormier: I had no false illusions about ever being elected I did so to protect my Clan and support my litigation. In fact In 2006 I clearly told Steve Murphy on live CTV ews why I was running for public office while everybody laughed at me CORRECT?"
Johnny Horton
David Amos
Reply to @Johnny Horton: Why is that I am not surprised to see my reply go "Poof"
Johnny Horton
It’s very disturbing how in 2020 people jump all over a news story, consider it de facto truth and think it’s therefore okay to run a person through the mud
Joe Campbell
Kyle Woodman
The only reading Johnny does is on right wing internet forums. He doesn't posess the critical thinking skills tonfor his own opinion. He claims to have Ayn Rand but admits he's never read one of her books. Intelectual laziness is the sign of an amateur.
Methinks it should be a small wonder to anyone why so many of my replies to an Irving shill go "poof" N'esy Pas?
Chantal LeBouthi
The acting deputy minister Dan Mills said earlier this "there was no patronage involved" and it's a "non-partisan role."
BS BS BS
Kyle Woodman
Amateurs make decisions with their gut. Professionals make decisions based on vast knowledge and experience with the subject matter. Only an amateur wouldn't understand the difference.
Johnny Horton
McKenzie King
This guy didn't have any of the qualifications listed in the job posting. If you're not going to follow the posting, what's the point of paying someone to come up with one? Time to let this guy go. Maybe the private sector can offer him a job he's not qualified for.
Kyle Woodman
Johnny doesn't undedstand what the problem is because he has never been a professional and thinks amateur hour is the way to go.
Terry Tibbs
Justin Gunther
Who hired this man? Tim Hortons may have a managerial position for them too.
Terry Tibbs
Justin Gunther
Marc Martin
Reply to @David Amos: Not interested in a blogger with less then 10 followers..
David Amos
Reply to @Marc Martin: Then why do your cohorts go there so much?
David Amos
Methinks even Higgy must have noticed that Kevin Cormier will attack my words elsewhere but not where the article is about him N'esy Pas?
"Kevin Cormier
Reply to @Lou Bell: To each MLA their own. Of course, MLAs should be more defensive when it comes to their ridings (though some MLAs in the past could care less).
David Amos
Reply to @Kevin Cormier: Who are you to try to give me or the MLAs I run against advice?
Kevin Cormier
Reply to @David Amos: I am much like you, full of opinions with a touch of self-interest. One may say that you are better because of your bid to be elected.
David Amos
Reply to @Kevin Cormier: I had no false illusions about ever being elected I did so to protect my Clan and support my litigation. In fact In 2006 I clearly told Steve Murphy on live CTV ews why I was running for public office while everybody laughed at me CORRECT?"
Johnny Horton
Reply to @David Amos:
OMag.
There’s like only one person named Kevin Cormier in the world. Gotta be the same guy,
OMag.
There’s like only one person named Kevin Cormier in the world. Gotta be the same guy,
David Amos
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Reply to @Johnny
Horton: Methinks you have some sort of stake in this matter that goes
deeper than merely being an Irving Shill. The number of comments you
have posted in all the articles about him speaks volumes to me. Trust
that I would not be surprised to find out that you are his daddy N'esy
Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @Johnny Horton: Why is that I am not surprised to see my reply go "Poof"
Johnny Horton
It’s very disturbing how in 2020 people jump all over a news story, consider it de facto truth and think it’s therefore okay to run a person through the mud
Joe Campbell
Reply to @Johnny Horton: That is journalism, only 1/3 of the story.
Samual Johnston
Reply to @Johnny
Horton: true in many cases but in this case there deff is enough
information to at least require clarification from the government. News
is often all we have.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Joe Campbell:
Yet to read the lynching here, it’s like it is engraved as truth on a stone tablet.
Yet to read the lynching here, it’s like it is engraved as truth on a stone tablet.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Samual Johnston:
Sorry, it’s really nobody’s business why someone does or does not get hired,
Sorry, it’s really nobody’s business why someone does or does not get hired,
Joe Campbell
Reply to @Johnny Horton: I am guilty of that at times!
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Joe Campbell:
Sadly we all are. We are human.
But this story and the posts in my opinionn go way too far against a specific individual. Many things ding said about kevinnsre just down right nasty and opinion based and not fact.
Sadly we all are. We are human.
But this story and the posts in my opinionn go way too far against a specific individual. Many things ding said about kevinnsre just down right nasty and opinion based and not fact.
David Amos
Reply to @Joe
Campbell: Methinks I should admit that at least you are honest about it
particularly in light of the fact that the Irving shill you are agreeing
with is not N'esy Pas
Joe Campbell
Reply to @Johnny
Horton: Again only part of the story, journalism for the most part are
very one sided I feel they are too lazy to get all of the facts and do a
full impartial piece.
Samual Johnston
Reply to @Johnny
Horton: it is everybody’s business when it is a public position paid by
tax payers money....you cannot possibly agree with what you said. Not
if you believe in any sort of transparency and a democratic government.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @David Amos: I am not an Irving man!
David Amos
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Reply to @Johnny
Horton: What have you said of other people in this article or Madame
McGraw earlier this week? Methinks everybody knows you are a rather
profound hypocrite trying to get last word to say the least N'esy Pas?
Samual Johnston
Reply to @Johnny
Horton: not to care if a person get a job through fair competition vs
political connections.. as long as they are doing a decent job...the
next logical step would be to be ok with a government picking our MLA’s
and MP’s as long as they are doing a decent job. After all it is just
another job and an election is just another job selection process.
David Amos
Reply to @Joe Campbell: Yea Right
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Joe Campbell:
So if it is only one sided why is it that everyone is declaring it fact? I mean that’s clearly unethical.
So if it is only one sided why is it that everyone is declaring it fact? I mean that’s clearly unethical.
Joe Campbell
Reply to @Johnny Horton: Whoever said journalism is ethical. It is about rating and see how much crap can we stir up.
Samual Johnston
Reply to @Johnny
Horton: news is all we have to go on unless the government gives out
more information. It is a public position as such the public has a right
to ask questions if there is the appearance of wrong doing
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Samual Johnston:
Disagree. A public position does not mean an individuals orovacy rights should be able to be violated.
Disagree. A public position does not mean an individuals orovacy rights should be able to be violated.
David Amos
Reply to @Joe Campbell: Methinks this domain claims to ethical N'esy Pas?
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Johnny Horton:
So the bean counter in the department of transportation being a public employee should be required to reveal their life story to any journalist or citizen that wants to know why got the job, what they did in the past etc.
So the bean counter in the department of transportation being a public employee should be required to reveal their life story to any journalist or citizen that wants to know why got the job, what they did in the past etc.
Joe
Campbell
Reply to @David Amos: Youthink everything!
David Amos
Reply to @Samual Johnston: Methinks old Sammy Baby has never heard of social media N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @Joe Campbell: Pretty much
David Amos
Reply to @Joe
Campbell: Methinks the ladies Norma McGraw and Trecia Schell should
agree with my opinion of your friend N'esy Pas?
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Samual Johnston:
Huh?
We elect government leaders. We do not elect employees. No it’s not s logical step
.
Huh?
We elect government leaders. We do not elect employees. No it’s not s logical step
.
Joe Campbell
Reply to @Johnny Horton: Government leaders.....that is a stretch!
Johnny
Horton
Reply to @Samual Johnston:
The difference is an mla is the boss. The last step. They are responsible for employees under them and should be free to do so, don’t like the mls and what they do, replace them.
But we certainly shouldn’t be hiring employees through elections. That’s even worse S popularity and money bought you the job problem than what you call a problem now.
The difference is an mla is the boss. The last step. They are responsible for employees under them and should be free to do so, don’t like the mls and what they do, replace them.
But we certainly shouldn’t be hiring employees through elections. That’s even worse S popularity and money bought you the job problem than what you call a problem now.
David Amos
Reply to @Johnny
Horton: Methinks all the folks who don't bother to vote would agree that
you get the governments you deserve N'esy Pas?
Johnny
Horton
Reply to @Joe Campbell:
Then do your duty as a citizen and vote them out and put in someone who is a leader. If you don’t do thst, you’ve really got nothing to complain about as thst is your number one job as a citizen in a democracy,
Then do your duty as a citizen and vote them out and put in someone who is a leader. If you don’t do thst, you’ve really got nothing to complain about as thst is your number one job as a citizen in a democracy,
Johnny
Horton
Reply to @David Amos:
I think sir thst is the first thing we have ever agreed on,
I think sir thst is the first thing we have ever agreed on,
David Amos
Reply to @Johnny Horton: You lose buckwheat
Joe
Campbell
Reply to @Johnny
Horton: My belief is that if you do not vote you have no place to
complain but of course if you do vote than complain away. That is why I
join in the conversations. I earned that right!
David Amos
Reply to @Johnny
Horton: Methinks a noname dude will never confess how many times have
you and your cohorts made fun of me as I ran for public office 7 time
since 2004 and sued the Queen in 2015 N'esy Pas?
Joe
Campbell
Reply to @David Amos: How did that turn out for you?
Johnny
Horton
Reply to @Joe Campbell:
I think all it entitles you to is a vote in the next election and a duty to do better as clearly last time you did poorly in your choices.
I think all it entitles you to is a vote in the next election and a duty to do better as clearly last time you did poorly in your choices.
Joe
Campbell
Reply to @Johnny Horton: Agree to disagree
David Amos
Reply to @Joe
Campbell: Methinks you have read my words then you should know that I
appealed a decision I won in 2016 Now that matter is destined for the
Supreme Court while I file 3 more lawsuits in Federal Court N'esy Pas?
Joe
Campbell
Reply to @David Amos: Oh...good for you! Have fun with that!
Samual Johnston
Reply to @Johnny
Horton: an election is just a big hiring process....In all democratic
governments the hiring process is suppose to be open and
transparent..cannot be argued unless you are arguing just to argue
David Amos
Reply to @Joe Campbell: I am Trust that I will mention you and this domain within one of the lawsuits
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Samual Johnston:
I do not agree. I do not believe it is anybody’s business why pencil pusher X got their job.
But then again we do live in a world where our privacy continues to be stripped a226 and the masses accept and encourage it.
I do not agree. I do not believe it is anybody’s business why pencil pusher X got their job.
But then again we do live in a world where our privacy continues to be stripped a226 and the masses accept and encourage it.
David Amos
Reply to @Samual
Johnston: Methinks I know ont thing for certain and that is you buddy
Johnny Never been Good never voted for me and many folks know the awful
truth is I am honoured by that simple fact N'esy Pas?
Johnny Horton
Reply to @David Amos:
Of course I didn’t vote for you,
You are on public record the only reason you run is to further your own agenda aka aka lawsuits.
Of course I didn’t vote for you,
You are on public record the only reason you run is to further your own agenda aka aka lawsuits.
Samual Johnston
Reply to @Johnny
Horton: Will you agree if the detail of the article are correct as in
the list of requirements, his education, etc....then indeed there is
enough to at least be concerned about in terms of how he was hired and
it does require a deeper review by the government...even of internal and
no details are released they need to do and say more than they have.
Samual Johnston
Reply to @Johnny
Horton: and you don’t agreed there needs to be a process in place to
ensure there was a fair competition for that pencil pusher...
David Amos
Reply to @Johnny Horton: BINGO
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Samual Johnston:
Education can be replaced with experience and things done in life, that’s standard in every hire.
Education can be replaced with experience and things done in life, that’s standard in every hire.
David Amos
Reply to @Johnny Horton: Clearly you read one the lawsuits I filed in the USA in 2002
Samual Johnston
Reply to @Johnny
Horton: it can be yes but in this specific case there is no combination
of education and experience related specifically the library sciences
as was a requirement originally.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Samual Johnston:
Are they doing their job correctly? If yes, then no I see no reason for a review. If not, fire them mans still no reason for a review.
Are they doing their job correctly? If yes, then no I see no reason for a review. If not, fire them mans still no reason for a review.
Samual Johnston
Reply to @Johnny
Horton: if you applied for a government job and you met every
requirement listed and it was awarded to a politicians friend and you
were told yeah you are more qualified on paper but we want to see if
this guy can do it so we hired him as he is MLA’s X friends brothers
son? Would it bug you at all?
Kyle Woodman
The only reading Johnny does is on right wing internet forums. He doesn't posess the critical thinking skills tonfor his own opinion. He claims to have Ayn Rand but admits he's never read one of her books. Intelectual laziness is the sign of an amateur.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Kyle Woodman:
Sorry i’m a left libertarian. The individual should be free to do as they wish, there should be a astute but it should be there to only help the most dependent of society who cannot possibly survive otherwise,
Sorry i’m a left libertarian. The individual should be free to do as they wish, there should be a astute but it should be there to only help the most dependent of society who cannot possibly survive otherwise,
Kyle Woodman
Reply to @Johnny Horton:
Astute = State Or aka government or some such functionality,
Astute = State Or aka government or some such functionality,
David Amos
Reply to @Johnny
Horton: Methinks some folks are enjoying watching an Irving shill
trying to seem like wiseguy to a kid who far more clever than he is
N'esy Pas?
Johnny
Horton
Reply to @David Amos:
Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me.
Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me.
David Amos
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Reply to @Johnny
Horton: Is that the best you got before High Noon at the OK coral in
SANB/liberal notion of "The Place To Be"? Methinks it should be a small wonder to anyone why so many of my replies to an Irving shill go "poof" N'esy Pas?
Kyle Woodman
Reply to @David Amos: I take that as a high compliment Mr. Amos.
David Amos
Reply to @Kyle Woodman: You should particularly after how you have treated me
David Amos
Reply to @Kyle
Woodman: You really should check out my blog after the dust settles on
Johnny Never Been Good's nonsense if only to read what you cannot right
now. Trust that you will enjoy it
Chantal LeBouthi
The acting deputy minister Dan Mills said earlier this "there was no patronage involved" and it's a "non-partisan role."
BS BS BS
Johnny
Horton
Reply to @Chantal LeBouthi:
Got some actual facts that prove otherwise? A PC donation slip should do it,
Got some actual facts that prove otherwise? A PC donation slip should do it,
David Amos
Reply to @Chantal
LeBouthi: Methinks much to an Irving shill's chagrin I have proven many
times that I Wholeheartedly Agree With You N'esy Pas?
Kyle Woodman
Amateurs make decisions with their gut. Professionals make decisions based on vast knowledge and experience with the subject matter. Only an amateur wouldn't understand the difference.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Kyle Woodman:
Professionals make biased decisions favouring their craft, and rarely understand the larger picture outside their specialty,
Do you have an architect in charge of a new buildings department. No, you have someone who understands finances, time constraints, people, Joe to get many parts moving and working together, otherwise all you’d ever have is masterpiece buildings sitting on the drawing board.
Professionals make biased decisions favouring their craft, and rarely understand the larger picture outside their specialty,
Do you have an architect in charge of a new buildings department. No, you have someone who understands finances, time constraints, people, Joe to get many parts moving and working together, otherwise all you’d ever have is masterpiece buildings sitting on the drawing board.
Kyle
Woodman
Reply to @Johnny Horton: You're wrong Johnny. Running your mouth won't change a thing.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Kyle Woodman:
I think the millions of failed businesses and endeavours all started by a peofewsional nicely proves my point. Seen the failure rate of restaurants started by a cook or waiter who thought they could do it better? The failure rate of drafts people businesses who are expert st the craft and no clue what marketing is?
I think the millions of failed businesses and endeavours all started by a peofewsional nicely proves my point. Seen the failure rate of restaurants started by a cook or waiter who thought they could do it better? The failure rate of drafts people businesses who are expert st the craft and no clue what marketing is?
Kyle
Woodman
Reply to @Johnny Horton: even your strawman arguments are amateurish.
David Amos
Reply to @Kyle
Woodman: Methinks if you keep it kid Johnny Never Been Good will have a
stroke like my evil enemy Barry WInters in Edmonton did. Everybody knows
after I discussed his actions on the record in Federal Court in front
of 2 memebers of the RCMP in Fat Fred City the cops out west pretended
to be ethical and finally arrested him N'esy Pas?
McKenzie King
This guy didn't have any of the qualifications listed in the job posting. If you're not going to follow the posting, what's the point of paying someone to come up with one? Time to let this guy go. Maybe the private sector can offer him a job he's not qualified for.
Johnny
Horton
Reply to @McKenzie King:
Why have interviews then. Have a list of qualifications and have a computer program count the number of checked boxes.
Why have interviews then. Have a list of qualifications and have a computer program count the number of checked boxes.
David Amos
Reply to @Johnny
Horton: Methinks you need to calm down before you have a stroke and
can't call a taxi to take you to the Sussex hospital N'esy Pas?
Kyle Woodman
Johnny doesn't undedstand what the problem is because he has never been a professional and thinks amateur hour is the way to go.
Terry Tibbs
Reply to @Kyle Woodman:
Maybe an Alfred E Newman look alike is a qualification?
Maybe an Alfred E Newman look alike is a qualification?
Terry Tibbs
Reply to @Kyle Woodman:
This isn't too hard to figure out.
Somebody promised this guy a job.
The end is in sight for Mr Higgs and crew.
The usual hiding spots (NB Power and NB Health) are very visible at the moment.
So they stashed him here.
And somebody looking to move up "dropped a dime" on them.
This isn't too hard to figure out.
Somebody promised this guy a job.
The end is in sight for Mr Higgs and crew.
The usual hiding spots (NB Power and NB Health) are very visible at the moment.
So they stashed him here.
And somebody looking to move up "dropped a dime" on them.
Kyle Woodman
Reply to @Terry Tibbs: that's how i see it. One of the applicants is the whistle blower.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Kyle Woodman:
Yes you got a person who lost their chance st the job and is bitter. You also have suited a government employee who felt forced to resign.
Yep, ain’t gonna be noz bias from them. Ain’t gonna be noz personal axe to grind against the guy,
I mean seriously, is that what people call facts in 2020. I guess our library system has fail3$ to teach research and facts, just like our education system. Maybe the libraries really do need a shake up.
Yes you got a person who lost their chance st the job and is bitter. You also have suited a government employee who felt forced to resign.
Yep, ain’t gonna be noz bias from them. Ain’t gonna be noz personal axe to grind against the guy,
I mean seriously, is that what people call facts in 2020. I guess our library system has fail3$ to teach research and facts, just like our education system. Maybe the libraries really do need a shake up.
David Amos
Reply to @Terry Tibbs: Methinks Johnny Never Been Good don't like the spotlight on himself N'esy Pas?
Terry Tibbs
Reply to @Kyle Woodman:
Or the Liberal leadership hopeful directly below who is a bit shy on qualifications himself.
Or the Liberal leadership hopeful directly below who is a bit shy on qualifications himself.
Terry
Tibbs
Reply to @David Amos:
No Idea? Not wishing to hear an Irving shill I banished him, as should everyone, leaving him to talk to himself.
No Idea? Not wishing to hear an Irving shill I banished him, as should everyone, leaving him to talk to himself.
David Amos
Reply to @Terry
Tibbs: Methinks many would agree that this clown helps to make Higgy's
circus even more entertaining N'esy Pas?
Justin Gunther
Who hired this man? Tim Hortons may have a managerial position for them too.
Terry Tibbs
Reply to @Justin Gunther:
Which time?
Tim Hortons might need a few managers?
Which time?
Tim Hortons might need a few managers?
David Amos
Reply to @Justin Gunther: Methinks the same dudes who enlisted Johnny Never Been Good to write spin in his defense N'esy Pas?
Justin Gunther
Get
rid of him if for no other reason than the Kings Landing book selling
stupidity, and his passive aggressive response to whoever it was who
called him out on it.
I hear Tim Hortons is hiring Kevin.
Kyle Woodman
I hear Tim Hortons is hiring Kevin.
Kyle Woodman
Reply to @Justin
Gunther: he'd have tough competition without service industry
experience. Seems he's only qualified for political hackery and
bootlicking.
Johnny
Horton
Reply to @Justin Gunther:
Every library in the province has purged their book collection. I guess we should get rid of every librarian,
Every library in the province has purged their book collection. I guess we should get rid of every librarian,
David Amos
Reply to @Johnny
Horton: Methinks the Irving Clan and their buddy Higgy should rid
themselves of a certain spin doctor N'esy Pas?
Johnny Horton
So I was reading this book and this line leaped out at me, summing up the majority of posters on this topic.
“People harbored their opinions based on hearsay, rumor, grudges and long-held loyalties”.
I don’t think it really mattered who was hired, all the same characters would have found some issue.
Samual Johnston
Reply to @Johnny
Horton: i made my comments based on the facts presented in the
article...but yes some see a last name and assume....I was still right
on this one though...factually that is l o l
David Amos
Reply to @Samual
Johnston: Methinks some folks will certainly understand why its too bad
so sad for you that I don't care my Chiac offends you and the
SANB/ilverals.
I trust that Higgy's buddy Mr. Cormier is at least clever enough to understand that I am having some fun with clowns in the circus we are paying dearly for N'esy Pas?
I trust that Higgy's buddy Mr. Cormier is at least clever enough to understand that I am having some fun with clowns in the circus we are paying dearly for N'esy Pas?
Reply to @David Amos: You seem like an angry person...
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Samual Johnston:
Right, SO A news article is the truth. An unbiased full accounting of ALL THE FACTS.
Come on Sam, you ain’t that dumb.
Right, SO A news article is the truth. An unbiased full accounting of ALL THE FACTS.
Come on Sam, you ain’t that dumb.
Samual Johnston
Reply to @Johnny Horton: ok assume they are the truth...then you agree it was a wrong move
David Amos
Reply to @Marc Martin: You have no idea who I am
David Amos
Reply to @Johnny Horton: Methinks you have no idea what the truth is but the awful truth is Sam is that dumb N'esy Pas?
Johnny Horton
Schell can say whatever she wants, her organization doesn’t pay for our library system. Nor gives it even a dollar.
David Amos
Reply to @Johnny
Horton: Methinks everybody knows some of the lady's associates live,
work and pay taxes in New Brunswick More importantly they have real
names We have the the right to ask who is the noname Irving shill who to
dares to put people down for having an opinon about a very questionable
hiring of a political insider N'esy Pas?
Robert L. Brown
You people do not understand he has a french last name and that is the only qualification he needs to work for the province
Marc Martin
Reply to @Robert L. Brown: I think you need to ask your buddy Higgs about this one.
David Amos
Reply to @Marc Martin: Why don't you ask him?
David Amos
Reply to @Marc Martin: That how you got your job correct?
Marc Martin
Reply to @David Amos: I dont have your connections..
David Amos
Reply to @Marc Martin: Try telling me something I don't already know
Marc Martin
Reply to @David Amos:
Of course...... that must be how i got my job.... wich job do i have
again? Working for SANB? Working for the province ? Working for dudes?
Its hard to keep up with all your imaginary stories....
Marc Martin
Reply to @David Amos:
You got so many connections you contacted every Marc Martin across the
province by email, phone or whatever except for me....
David Amos
Reply to @Marc Martin: I know who you are by process of elimination dummy
Samual Johnston
Reply to @Marc Martin: am tempted to unblock him so I can read what is going on...sounds interesting that or cra cra.
David Amos
Reply to @Samual Johnston: Methinks you are way past too late N'esy Pas?
Samual Johnston
Ok one more try for Johnny.The job posting listed "essential qualifications" as a master's degree in library and/or information studies from an American Library Association-accredited program.
Cormier's LinkedIn profile lists his education as a single year at York University's Schulich School of Business in Toronto (2005) and two years at the Moncton Flight College (1998-2000).
A combination of education, training and experience may be considered, it said.
Ok you say experience...let’s agree kings landing experience ok for the business side of things
In no way can you or anyone say he has any experience or education in library sciences let alone a masters degree.
So the combination of education and experience does not exist.
Marc Martin
Reply to @Samual Johnston: is this your 400 post on the subject?
Samual Johnston
Reply to @Marc Martin: I am determined to get Johnny to agree
David Amos
Reply to @Marc
Martin: Methinks even though you SANB'liberal dudes are late to the fray
I bet your are hell bent on surpassing his tally N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin
Reply to @Samual Johnston: There is nothing to debate its not hard to see its a government apointee.
Marc Martin
Reply to @David Amos: SANB, the dudes and me , we dont care...
Samual Johnston
Reply to @Marc Martin: well that is my point....it is clearly a misuse of power by someone
Marc Martin
Reply to @Samual Johnston: Yep.
Samual Johnston
Reply to @Marc Martin: I cannot see Amos post. Had to block... the nesy pas was too much me thinks
Marc Martin
Reply to @Samual Johnston: He is supposed to send a Sheriff to get me...
David Amos
Reply to @Samual Johnston: Now thats funny
David Amos
Reply to @Marc
Martin: Methinks you should clue in your new buddy that the minions
working for Higgy and Vickers understand why I don't care if Sammy Baby
ever reads any of my words as long as they do N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin
Reply to @David Amos: Pretty sure Higgy, Vickers and their minion dont care.
Terry Tibbs
Reply to @Samual Johnston:
Maybe the government wanted an Alfred E Numan look-alike?
The man certainly has that qualification.
Maybe the government wanted an Alfred E Numan look-alike?
The man certainly has that qualification.
David Amos
Reply to @Marc Martin: Methinks they care that I am playing you SANB/liberal dudes like a fiddle and so do you N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin
Reply to @David Amos: I am pretty sure no one cares..
David Amos
Reply to @Marc Martin: Veritas Vincit
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Samual Johnston:
It does not work that way Samuel, nor should it. Qualifications is a whole and not some line by line item. Saying experience doesn’t mean you need exact comparative experience to achieve line item. Otherwise you might as well leave off the whole experience part.
The whole purpose of adding in experience as a factor is to get away from line item fascination and focus on the candidate as a whole rather than simply checking some boxes.
I do not believe the hEad of any large multi part department, business, whatever, needs to be a professional in that field. In fact I honestly believe it’s better if they are not. Based on past experiences and learning, you will not convince me otherwise on that point.
I also want to make it clear I’m arguing the process and have all along, I was not in the interviews and I will not presume either way on if any specific person should or not get the job. Same as ethically nobody else here posting should.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Samual Johnston:
I also think if a person can do a job competently is far more important than how they got the job
I don’t really care if someone got a job through patronage or nepotism as long as they do the job decently,
Samual Johnston
Reply to @Johnny
Horton: ok you are arguing your overall philosophical point of view re
hiring processes not the facts Of this case per say....so regardless of
your beliefs you can at least admit given the requirements listed in the
job description this individual does not fit the position.
David Amos
Reply to @Johnny Horton: "Same as ethically nobody else here posting should"
Methinks a lot of folks laughed to read that load of BS I am certain they agree that noname dude should not dare to have the standing to use the word ethics as you put down real people all day long If you had any sense of integrity at all you would use your real name as per the rules of this domain N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin
Reply to @David Amos: No one cares
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Samual Johnston:
Samuel, I don’t know the facts. I’ve got a news story with one side of the situation reported. I also have no idea what got edited in or out of said story by the suthor or his bosses,
Samuel, I don’t know the facts. I’ve got a news story with one side of the situation reported. I also have no idea what got edited in or out of said story by the suthor or his bosses,
David Amos
Reply to @Marc
Martin: Methinks your buddy Johnny Never Been Good and all the other
SANB/liberal dudes certainly do. Even you must have noticed how he
attacked Madame McGraw and I until the story in the Acadie Nouvelle
about the 2 other board members Jean-Marie Nadeau (Moncton) and Sonia
Roy (Restigouche-Est) came forward to say that there was no vote Then
johnny clammed up N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @Johnny Horton: Methinks you wish to ignore the story about Marie Nadeau and Sonia Roy N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin
CoRservative appintees nothing new here...
David Amos
Reply to @Marc Martin: You are
Marc Martin
Reply to @David Amos: were is the sheriff?
David Amos
Reply to @Marc Martin: His name is Oram remember???
Marc Martin
Reply to @David Amos: No idea who Oram is, is he one of your imaginary friends?
Marc Martin
Reply to @Marc Martin: I call him Georgey Boy Trust that he is no friend of mine but he may wish to get know you better soon
Marc Martin
Reply to @David Amos: You said that a year ago...
David Amos
Reply to @Marc
Martin:Methinks you know as well as I that I never mentioned Oram until
this week. Although you try to pretend to not know who he is, you no
doubt know Oram and I have had issues since he got his fancy job N'esy
Pas?
Marc Martin
Reply to @David Amos: I have never heard this imaginary story before, please go on...
David Amos
Reply to @Marc Martin: I don't care what you pretend to not know
Marc Martin
Reply to @David Amos: Please tell me one of your imaginary stories i need to go to sleep.
David Amos
Reply to @Marc Martin: Trump Michael Cohen NAFTA FATCA
Lou Bell
Appears being bilingual trumps all.
Marc Martin
Reply to @Lou Bell: You mean having connections with the CoRservatives trumps all...
David Amos
Reply to @Marc Martin: You should know
Marc Martin
Reply to @David Amos: cry me a river
David Amos
Reply to @Marc
Martin: Methinks its rather obvious that you are crying enough for both
of us I on the other hand am very much enjoying the circus for rather
obvious reasons as well N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin
Reply to @David Amos: I dont care..
David Amos
Reply to @Marc Martin: If that was remotely true then why continue dogging me 24/7???
Marc Martin
Reply to @David Amos: Dodging you?
Terry Tibbs
Reply to @Lou Bell:
Not at all. If you are talking "appearance", google Alfred E Neuman, and if look alike is a qualification this guy qualifies.
Not at all. If you are talking "appearance", google Alfred E Neuman, and if look alike is a qualification this guy qualifies.
David Amos
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Reply to @Marc
Martin: Methinks you should have your English wife read what I wrote
then explain the expression "dogging" to you real slow N'esy Pas?
Paul LaFrance
Why not hire someone outside. They do not need a librarian but someone who can control and council the librarians. It would show better as the librarians would now be be more accountable for results. I've had librarians that were a great resource in the private sector, but noticed less then stellar [performance at the library level. This should be a wake up call to them to be more accountable for results. If needed they should be charging accordingly rather than being on the dole. Please accept the challenge.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Paul LaFrance:
At ,east someone gets it.
At ,east someone gets it.
Samual Johnston
Reply to @Paul
LaFrance: someone outside the current civil service may make sense but
no someone outside the profession. Especially not in this manner.
David Amos
Reply to @Paul LaFrance: Yea Right
Terrt Tibbs
Reply to @Paul LaFrance:
Very likely this guy was promised a job of some kind by somebody, as things aren't looking too rosey for Mr Higgs and company at the moment, it became important to jam this guy somewhere before there was no jamming to be done.
Evan Day
Reply to @Paul
LaFrance: lol. Those wild and out of control librarians! What a crazy
bunch! *eyeroll* There’s no excuse for appointing someone who has ZERO
professional qualifications to an executive level position. Anyone with a
library card is more qualified than this guy.
Roy Kirk
Normally they'd have given him a do-nothing job at NB Power. Too much heat to do that now, so head of libraries will do. It's not like qualification matter . . . In this place!
David Amos
Reply to @Roy Kirk: BINGO
Johnny Horton
Stock markets crashing. Possible pandemics. Billions starving on the planet. Millions displaced by war,
And all people can do for a week is complain some civil servant got a job.
Someone I was just taking to pointed out this nice little first world hypocrisy,
Lou Bell
Reply to @Johnny
Horton: And yet you've no concern with NB taxpayers paying 114,000 to an
unqualified appointee. People like this is why we're at where we are.
Look at what's leading America ! look at what we just got rid of as
leader of the liberals ! A pah pet at best !
Johnny
Horton
Reply to @Lou Bell:
Someone is going to get the job and it’s going to pay that. Fact.
If he is qualified or not depends on one’s opinion, fact¡
Someone is going to get the job and it’s going to pay that. Fact.
If he is qualified or not depends on one’s opinion, fact¡
Samual Johnston
Reply to @Johnny
Horton: will you at least admit there is the appearance of
abnormalities here. A listed job with detailed qualifications in a
very unique and specialized field. Then the job is awarded to this guy
sans the listed requirements after receiving many applicants. If
they said look we had 10 other applicants but none had the
qualifications or nine were suited for the position or we strongly
believe this guy was the best choice....... again I know ya love to
argue but you have to at last admit something seems a bit off here.
David Amos
Reply to @Johnny Horton: Cry me a river
Ben Haroldson
Another gov't appointment that will result in a wrongful dismissal suit before it's over, and probably litigation for defamation.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Ben Haroldson:
Yes many posters here are more than guilty of demotion toward Cormier.
Yes many posters here are more than guilty of demotion toward Cormier.
Ben Haroldson
Reply to @Johnny
Horton: From what i see, they are complaining about the actions of the
hirer, an unnamed gov't official that doesn't want to own up to his/her
actions, the same thing we see time and time again. Said part is,
Cormier will pay the price , and then he will rightfully go after us
(taxpayers) who pay the hirers (politicians).
Ben Haroldson
Reply to @Ben Haroldson: sad
David Amos
Reply to @Ben Haroldson: Not on my watch
Kyle Woodman
The only book Johnny has ever read is Atlas Shrugged.
Johnny Horton
Kyle Woodman
The only book Johnny has ever read is Atlas Shrugged.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Kyle Woodman:
Never read it. Can’t stand her. Do not confuse objectivism, which is Americas version of libertarianism, with actual Libertarianism. The two have little in common.
Never read it. Can’t stand her. Do not confuse objectivism, which is Americas version of libertarianism, with actual Libertarianism. The two have little in common.
Kyle Woodman
Reply to @Johnny Horton: How were you able to form an opinion without reading the book?
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Kyle Woodman:
Maybe the dozens of thesis and reports on the work.
Maybe the dozens of thesis and reports on the work.
Terry
Tibbs
Reply to @Kyle Woodman:
Magic?
Magic?
David Amos
Reply to @Terry
Tibbs: Methinks the young fella has helped to put the fancy blue
knickers of Johnny Never Been Good in quite a knot ce jour N'esy Pas?
Johnny Horton
Yep crickets from the peanut gallery once it was pointed out our head librarians aren’t even librarians themselves.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Johnny Horton:
Shouldn’t be surprised though. Kind of kills the witch hunt
Shouldn’t be surprised though. Kind of kills the witch hunt
Ben Haroldson
Reply to @Johnny Horton: A lot of head nurses aren't nurses either
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Ben Haroldson:
Here’s a shock. The position isn’t head librarian.
The local nursing homee board doesn’t have any nurses or doctors on it, yet the get the job done,
Here’s a shock. The position isn’t head librarian.
The local nursing homee board doesn’t have any nurses or doctors on it, yet the get the job done,
Evan Day
Reply to @Johnny Horton: Then why was a MLIS an essential requirement of the job?
David Amos
Reply to @Evan Day: Good question
eddy watts
I should head to NB....where even a lowly bin-diver like myself, can aspire to be a brain surgeon...love NB politics.
Johnny
Horton
Reply to @eddy watts:
It’s not a librarian job. The job is to manage sll aspect of the library systems.
It’s not a librarian job. The job is to manage sll aspect of the library systems.
Samual Johnston
Reply to @Johnny
Horton: I know you love to debate but on this one surly you agree they
should have a background related to libraries --- not a librarian per
say but some one who has studied the library sciences....it is an actual
degree and one can assume having it would be mandatory for the
position....like the job description stated
Ronald Parker
Reply to @Samual Johnston: He won't.
David Amos
Reply to @Ronald Parker: Of course not
Johnny Horton
The duties of the position have zero to do with librarianship.
René Ephestion
Reply to @Johnny
Horton: I'm amazed at how many posts you do or answer... seriously you
should be a lawyer, you've got an answer for everything.
Ronald Parker
Reply to @René Ephestion: I told him to run for office.
Gary Melanson
Reply to @René Ephestion: Must be Cormier's banker!
Johnny Horton
Reply to @René Ephestion:
Then you ainn’t been paying attention. Amos dwarves me. Kyle and Terry also post ridiculously,
Then you ainn’t been paying attention. Amos dwarves me. Kyle and Terry also post ridiculously,
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Gary Melanson:
No simply someone who loves to point out hypocrisies.
No simply someone who loves to point out hypocrisies.
David Amos
Reply to @René Ephestion: Methinks many would agree that you two deserve each other N'esy Pas?
Kyle Woodman
Reply to @Johnny Horton: I'm sorry if ypu find the truth ridiculous. Maybe it's your perspective that needs adjustment.
Johnny Horton
I can list at least five current NB libraries in our communities who has a head “librarian” - who is not a librarian, nor even have any masters degrees.
So the hypocrisy of librarians demanding the head be a librarian is utter nonsense.
eddy watts
Reply to @Johnny Horton: name them...ummm no Shakespeare.
David Amos
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Reply to @eddy watts: Therein lies the rub Methinks I should ask johonny "Never been Good" what is the good of all his rhetoric if we cannot find some fun with it? Whereas this supposed to a "Just Democracy" that believes in "Free Speech" I am certain the librarians would enjoy a few quotes from Shakespeare now and then N'esy Pas?
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
Act 1 Scene 3
POLONIUS
Yet here, Laertes? Aboard, aboard, for shame!
The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail
And you are stayed for. There, my blessing with thee.
And these few precepts in thy memory
Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
60Nor any unproportioned thought his act.
Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel,
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
65Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
Bear ’t that th' opposèd may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear but few thy voice.
Take each man’s censure but reserve thy judgment.
70Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not expressed in fancy—rich, not gaudy,
For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
And they in France of the best rank and station
Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
75Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
80Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell. My blessing season this in thee.
David Amos
Reply to @David Amos: A modern translation of the old Bard's wise words
POLONIUS
You’re still here? Shame on you—get on board! The wind is filling your ship’s sail, and they’re waiting for you. Here, I give you my blessing again. And just try to remember a few rules of life. Don’t say what you’re thinking, and don’t be too quick to act on what you think. Be friendly to people but don’t overdo it. Once you’ve tested out your friends and found them trustworthy, hold onto them. But don’t waste your time shaking hands with every new guy you meet. Don’t be quick to pick a fight, but once you’re in one, hold your own. Listen to many people, but talk to few. Hear everyone’s opinion, but reserve your judgment. Spend all you can afford on clothes, but make sure they’re quality, not flashy, since clothes make the man—which is doubly true in France. Don’t borrow money and don’t lend it, since when you lend to a friend, you often lose the friendship as well as the money, and borrowing turns a person into a spendthrift. And, above all, be true to yourself. Then you won’t be false to anybody else. Good-bye, son. I hope my blessing will help you absorb what I’ve said.
POLONIUS
You’re still here? Shame on you—get on board! The wind is filling your ship’s sail, and they’re waiting for you. Here, I give you my blessing again. And just try to remember a few rules of life. Don’t say what you’re thinking, and don’t be too quick to act on what you think. Be friendly to people but don’t overdo it. Once you’ve tested out your friends and found them trustworthy, hold onto them. But don’t waste your time shaking hands with every new guy you meet. Don’t be quick to pick a fight, but once you’re in one, hold your own. Listen to many people, but talk to few. Hear everyone’s opinion, but reserve your judgment. Spend all you can afford on clothes, but make sure they’re quality, not flashy, since clothes make the man—which is doubly true in France. Don’t borrow money and don’t lend it, since when you lend to a friend, you often lose the friendship as well as the money, and borrowing turns a person into a spendthrift. And, above all, be true to yourself. Then you won’t be false to anybody else. Good-bye, son. I hope my blessing will help you absorb what I’ve said.
David Amos
Reply to @David Amos:
Methinks it strange that the old Bard's original words were somehow
offensive yet can be sourced from any library on the planet N'esy Pas?
Samantha Jones
Librarians are a profession as are Engineers,Doctors,Lawyers,Nurses and Teachers,to name a few.
Other countries such as UK,US,NZ and Australia would not condone this appointment.
We need to interview every qualified librarian in the department for this job,and yes many of them are bilingual,and readvertise the job for qualified outside candidates.
This individual can be redeployed elsewhere at a much lower salary consumate with his qualifications.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Samantha Jones:
We have head librarians of our branches who aren’t even librarians,
We have head librarians of our branches who aren’t even librarians,
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Samantha Jones:
As the person will be managing peole and budgets, snd not running an actual library, the most certainly should have skills in management and not librarianship. The duties have zero to do with librarianship.
As the person will be managing peole and budgets, snd not running an actual library, the most certainly should have skills in management and not librarianship. The duties have zero to do with librarianship.
Ben Haroldson
Reply to @Johnny Horton: And head nurses that aren't nurses.
Marc Martin
Reply to @Samantha
Jones: Come on now dont compare librarians to doctors, nurse, engineers
and teachers..they get paid 15 an hr to greet people and place book on
shekves..
Clive Gibbons
Reply to @Marc Martin: But if you apply for a job in a library, they are still asking for a masters degree.
David Amos
Reply to @Clive Gibbons: Is that true?
Johnny Horton
People here must live horrendously boring lives. No career variations and growth allowed. Start off as an accounts receivable clerk, better hope the government starts an accounts receivable department to get s promotion.
Larry Larson
Reply to @Johnny
Horton: How you can actually try to justify this is beyond reason! At
minimum the job calls for a Master's Degree in Library Science and he
doesn't even have a Bachelor's in anything!
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Larry Larson:
Or work experience. It’s roght in the job requirements,
Or work experience. It’s roght in the job requirements,
Ronald Parker
Reply to @Larry Larson: your best not to engage with him Larry.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Ronald Parker:
Don’t care. I can still post and will. At least until the stupidity of this stops. Because Thst is sll it is is a partisan witch Hunt.
Don’t care. I can still post and will. At least until the stupidity of this stops. Because Thst is sll it is is a partisan witch Hunt.
Ronald Parker
Reply to @Johnny Horton: Go for Johnny, looks like everyone agrees with you.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Ronald Parker:
Unlike most of the hive mind, I don’t need social media approval to justify my life,
Unlike most of the hive mind, I don’t need social media approval to justify my life,
Ronald Parker
Reply to @Johnny Horton: That's great social media is overrated.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Ronald Parker:
Yet here you are posting on it,
Yet here you are posting on it,
Larry Larson
Reply to @Johnny
Horton: Wow the fake name thinks a CBC news site is social media? No
wonder you can't see a political appointment when it is staring you in
the face.
Winston Smith
Reply to @Johnny Horton:
"Work Experience" is a pretty wide net Einstein. Pretty much everyone qualifies.
"Work Experience" is a pretty wide net Einstein. Pretty much everyone qualifies.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Larry Larson:
so·cial me·di·a
/ˌsōSHəl ˈmēdēə/
noun
websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.
so·cial me·di·a
/ˌsōSHəl ˈmēdēə/
noun
websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Larry Larson:
so·cial net·work·ing noun
the use of dedicated websites and applications to interact with other users, or to find people with similar interests to oneself.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Larry Larson:
So yes, this is social media. Thanks for playing though,
So yes, this is social media. Thanks for playing though,
Ronald
Parker
Reply to @Johnny Horton: are you finding people with similar interests to your self..... does not look like it.
David Amos
Reply to @Ronald
Parker: Methinks whereas his boss Higgy put a "Stay" on my Medicare Card
it follows that his mindless minion Kevin Cormier would not permit me
to have a Library Card N'esy Pas?
Johnny Horton
this fixation that a boss needs to be an expert in the field they manage is beyond absurd,
Larry Larson
Reply to @Johnny Horton: Wow, just wow!
Ronald
Parker
Reply to @Larry Larson: He's pulling you in Larry.
Johnny
Horton
Reply to @Larry Larson:
If I were s plumber say and works for this multiple unit business, I wouldn’twant plumber running the whole show. I’d want someone capable of managment, marketing, finances and peole.
If I were s plumber say and works for this multiple unit business, I wouldn’twant plumber running the whole show. I’d want someone capable of managment, marketing, finances and peole.
David Amos
Reply to @Ronald
Parker: Methinks Johnny "Never Been Good" is clever enough to know his
goose is cooked Its time for the Irving shill to dream up a new name and
go on and on and on. However he can't change his writing style so
easily N'esy Pas?
Luc Belisle
Reply to @Johnny
Horton: Work experience is one of the best ways to develop competence
and skills. Employees need to be allowed to grow and move forward in
their career. Every competent organization understands that. Also, we
all know there are competent employees who may not have alot of
education while others with all sorts of academic credentials may not be
so competent. This being said, I have my doubts that this guy would be
an advocate for the profession of librarian as this is an often
missunderstood profession. I also believe that a government who needs to
reduce its deficit may salivate over the idea of getting librarians off
its payroll.
Samual Johnston
Reply to @Johnny
Horton: Strongly disagree--the civil service is where the experts are
suppose to be - a minister of Environment with no Environment
background can be expected but the head of the Environment waste water
section really should have strong education and experience in waste
water management. ( I think this argument will ring true for you )
Johnny Horton
So the head of cannabis nb needs to be a stoner
The head of nb liquor an alodholic
The head of nb power and lepreau a nuclear physicist
The head of transportation and roads a race car driver,
...
David Amos
Content disabled
Reply to @Johnny
Horton: Methinks its high time for you change your fancy blue knickers,
take your meds and have a nap N'esy Pas?Samual Johnston
Reply to @Johnny Horton: yep you are bored. -- you arguments while not always correct are usually a lot more sound
Johnny
Horton
Reply to @Samual Johnston:
Yep the stupidly on this file and peole demanding it be s librwrisn is beyond boring,
Yep the stupidly on this file and peole demanding it be s librwrisn is beyond boring,
Samual Johnston
Reply to @Johnny
Horton: somewhere in this list I replied to you---I think I can win you
over....the one re civil servant being the experts - I do think running
the libraries is a lot more difficult than running NB Liquor - I think a
degree/experience in business/sales etc will land you the NB liquor job
but for the libraries there is so much an uneducated person would just
take too long to catch up on...thus the degree requirement
Johnny
Horton
Reply to @Samual Johnston:
I disagree.
The job is about where libraries will be. overall budgeting. The big picture. QEach library does it’s own internal budgeting with money allotted,
It really has zero to with a library skill set.
I disagree.
The job is about where libraries will be. overall budgeting. The big picture. QEach library does it’s own internal budgeting with money allotted,
It really has zero to with a library skill set.
Samual Johnston
Reply to @Johnny
Horton: I know you will reconsider when you read the more recent
comments....is about leading the library’s future growth it is really
more of a highly detailed and specific area
Marc Martin
Reply to @Johnny Horton: ha ha ha
David Amos
David Amos
Reply to @Marc Martin: You have to check my blog to read my reply which you may enjoy
Murray Brown
Cut your losses Mr. Higg's... Your boy can always work for the Conservative party as a political hack. He's more than qualified for that position.
David Amos
Reply to @Murray Brown: True
Daniel Rawlins
Acting Deputy Minister Dan mills said, "there was no patronage involved" and it's a "non-partisan role.".
It may be a 'non partisan role'(job, position) but it certainly appears that at least some level of partisanship was involved in the process. It also seems that more emphasis was placed on 15 years in the public service than was placed on actual qualifications which I assume comes as no surprise to anyone who ever applied for a public service job who was not already in the public service or had no 'connection' to anyone in that 'service'.
Johnny
Horton
Reply to @Daniel Rawlins:
The person I s not going to be working in a library. Same as the point the person did not work in a house as an actor in kings landing and was not an actor before he got the job running kings landing,
Progressing from a museum to library managment is not a huge leap.
The person I s not going to be working in a library. Same as the point the person did not work in a house as an actor in kings landing and was not an actor before he got the job running kings landing,
Progressing from a museum to library managment is not a huge leap.
Winston Smith
Reply to @Johnny Horton:
And yet so few of us can make that leap. He's a magic man.
And yet so few of us can make that leap. He's a magic man.
David Amos
Reply to @Johnny
Horton: Methinks many would agree that your buddy Cormier was a very bad
actor at Kings Landing Hence it follows Higgy's pick of the litter
won't be any better acting like he knows how to run the libraries N'esy
Pas?
Marc Martin
Reply to @David Amos: we dont care..
David Amos
Reply to @Marc
Martin: Methinks "WE" as in YOU are being a little redundant and very
dumb as you continue to dog me late at midnight on a Friday night
instead of paying attention to your long suffering English wife N'esy
Pas?
Daniel Rawlins
When an applicant for a public service job meets none of the posted essential qualifications for the job posted yet is the one to land the job one can only conclude it is not what you know but who you know that swings the privilege balance in your favour.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Daniel Rawlins:
Yet he did meet them. As one of those requirements was work expei nice. Snd msnsging s museum is not Thst fsr from a library,
Yet he did meet them. As one of those requirements was work expei nice. Snd msnsging s museum is not Thst fsr from a library,
Larry Larson
Reply to @Johnny Horton: He does NOT have the basic education requirements. Being a CONServative do not qualify you for jobs!
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Larry Larson:
Being able to read does. And the application specifically
Says work experience will be considered in place of other wuslfcstiond,
Being able to read does. And the application specifically
Says work experience will be considered in place of other wuslfcstiond,
Daniel
Rawlins
Reply to @Johnny Horton:
I'm no expert but it seems to me that being executive director of the 'province's' 52 public libraries, 11 public school libraries and a virtual library branch in 2020+ seems a 'big step' from managing one 1900 historical attraction and spending a year at the Government's Executive Council Office... I wonder which one gave him the most experience to win him the executive director job, not a lot of executives at Kings Landing....
I'm no expert but it seems to me that being executive director of the 'province's' 52 public libraries, 11 public school libraries and a virtual library branch in 2020+ seems a 'big step' from managing one 1900 historical attraction and spending a year at the Government's Executive Council Office... I wonder which one gave him the most experience to win him the executive director job, not a lot of executives at Kings Landing....
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Daniel Rawlins:
Perhaps. But I doubt there are many steps inbetween.
It’s no uncommon at the managing s unit level to a promotion needing to be a big step as there are usually no inbetween steps to go to.
Perhaps. But I doubt there are many steps inbetween.
It’s no uncommon at the managing s unit level to a promotion needing to be a big step as there are usually no inbetween steps to go to.
Daniel
Rawlins
Reply to @Johnny Horton:
Let us hope you are right that he was the best applicant for the job... time will tell; these are precarious times for Libraries.
Let us hope you are right that he was the best applicant for the job... time will tell; these are precarious times for Libraries.
David Amos
Reply to @Daniel
Rawlins: Methinks everybody knows taking a few swings past the patronage
waterhole is par for the course with every political party as the they
play the wicked game worldwide The trick is not to get caught by big
media before an election N'esy Pas?
Kyle Woodman
Reply to @David Amos: David gets it.
Larry Larson
Reply to @Johnny
Horton: If it was a Liberal who got that job with none of the
educational requirements you would be ranting for his removal!
David Amos
Reply to @Larry Larson: YUP
Fred Brewer
The deafening silence from our elected officials is telling. Normally they have a spin story but not here. Total silence from Higgs and his merry band of pranksters. There can only be one reason for this. It cannot be spun. It was totally wrong and they know it. They are hoping it will just go away if they ignore it. They may be right, but it will resurface at election time and that's when it will hurt the most Mr. Higgs. The voters won't forget this blatant patronage of an unqualified individual.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Fred Brewer:
Maybe because despite all the whacked out conspiracy theories there
Is nothing to spin snd someone who managed museum now manages s librwry gasp such a huge chsnge in jobs.
Maybe because despite all the whacked out conspiracy theories there
Is nothing to spin snd someone who managed museum now manages s librwry gasp such a huge chsnge in jobs.
David Amos
Reply to @Fred Brewer: Who are you to judge? All I have ever heard coming from your corner in reply to me has been crickets
Justin Time
So we have a person that appears to have completed just one year of a two year program in business , appointed to not one but two jobs for which he had almost zero academic qualifications. But he obviously has political qualifications. Patronage in this province is so out of control and the civil service is so bloated that is little wonder the province is almost bankrupt. Blue or Red makes no difference.
David Amos
Reply to @Justin
Time: I remember an old joke about Trudeau The Elder installing swimming
pool at 24 Sussex Drive and hiring a lifeguard who could not swim
because he was the only bilingual applicant. Methinks to be fair the
same joke applies to Higgy 45 years later N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @Justin Time: Methinks you must recall the Joker Justin Thyme N'esy Pas?
3 days ago
Justin Time
Reply to @Justin Thyme 'YOU IMPOSTOR! The real Justin Time.lol "
Justin Thyme
Reply to @Justin Time:
"I use a "nom de plume " because under the current government's clear lack of impartiality I would not want anyone I know to be affected by my criticism. I do not trust them to not be vindictive. We should meet for a beer sometime"
Too Too Funny Indeed
Methinks he who laughs last laughs best N'esY Pas?
rick haars
The competition was shared with all those listed and they could only come up with this Cormier guy. Ya right.
David Amos
Reply to @rick haars: Methinks Cormier was the only applicant with as Conservative pedigree who could speak French N'esy Pas?
Joe Campbell
Wait.....people still go to libraries?
rick haars
Reply to @Joe Campbell: Used to.
Fred
Brewer
Reply to @Joe Campbell: Perhaps if you actually walked into a library you could see just how busy and how useful they are.
David Amos
Reply to @Fred
Brewer: Methinks that you have no idea how far a library is from my
abode. Trust that even you could not walk that distance and get back the
same day You ain't a super senior N'esy Pas?.
Elitasia Laurentientide
All about who you know...and having the right surname...
David Amos
Reply to @Elitasia Laurentientide: Oh So True
Joe Campbell
Must be one of Higgs friends!
David Amos
Reply to @Joe Campbell: Doya think?
Joe Campbell
Reply to @David Amos: Sarcastic much!
Joe Campbell
Reply to @David Amos: Must have felt threatened.
Joe Campbell
Reply to @David Amos: Sarcastic much!
David Amos
Reply to @Joe Campbell: YUP particularly with Campbells It is the nature of my Clan since that massacre long ago
Joe Campbell
Reply to @David Amos: Must have felt threatened.
rick haars
Welcome to NB. Keeps on happening to everything and anything. Guess I'll just stop going to the library now.
rick haars
Reply to @rick haars: Actually have stooped going a couple of weeks ago. Now it'll be a permanent thing.
rick haars
Reply to @rick haars: Stopped.
David Amos
Reply to @rick haars:
Methinks if i went to a library Higgy would try to have me arrested
like he is doing at the EUB and the hospitals right now N'esy Pas?
Darrell Christie
This is a joke that is not funny.
David Amos
Reply to @Darrell Christie: Welcome to the circus
Darrell Christie
Reply to @David Amos:
Thanks David ... I have been aware of your commenting on these boards
for a long while now, and I would have appreciated a Nesy Pas :)
David Amos
Reply to @Darrell Christie: Methinks your wish should be my command N'esy Pas?
Joseph Vacher
language trumps qualifications yet again in NB
David Amos
Reply to @Joseph Vacher: YUP
Chris Stonehouse
"Hi! I'm a warm body!"
"Great! You're hired!"
David Amos
Reply to @Chris
Stonehouse: However methinks the warm body must speak French Hence
Cormier and Savoie are rare dudes within Higgy's ranks N'esy Pas?
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My non-library interests include small-scale farming, the history of roads and road-building, colonial settlement and agriculture in the Maritimes, and suspenders (which, I assure you, are superior to belts).
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Reply to Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks most folks should realize that René Ephestion is just another SANB/liberal dude like you but at least he has a real name N'esy Pas?
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/new-brunswick-public-libraries-board-rene-ephestion-kevin-cormier-1.5475283
Chair of New Brunswick Public Libraries Board requests immediate meeting with new exec
René Ephestion is worried about Kevin Cormier's apparent lack of library training or experience
· CBC News · Posted: Feb 25, 2020 9:30 PM AT
René Ephestion, chair of the New Brunswick Public Libraries Board, said Kevin Cormier doesn't appear to be a good fit for the job on paper, but once he meets with him in person, he may discover he has a good strategy for the province's libraries. (René Ephestion Facebook page)
The chair of the New Brunswick Public Libraries Board says he wants to meet with the new executive director of the provincial library service immediately.
René Ephestion says he has requested a face-to-face meeting with Kevin Cormier to discuss his "vision" for the province's 64 public libraries.
"I need to know his intentions."
Ephestion said only learned of Cormier's appointment last week through a CBC report and is worried about his apparent lack of library training or experience.
The former Liberal leadership candidate said he fears Cormier was brought in to "cut more."
The
Department of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour, which
libraries fall under, has declined an interview and did not respond to
Ephestion's concerns about future cuts.
But acting
deputy minister Dan Mills did email a statement Tuesday evening about
the controversial appointment, saying Cormier has worked in "various
progressively responsible roles in the New Brunswick public service for
over 15 years."
"There was no patronage involved in this appointment as it is a non-partisan role and filled through a civil service hiring program," said Mills. "Furthermore, the minister has had no involvement in this process."
Cormier has not responded to requests for an interview about his new job, which pays up to $114,000 annually.
Kevin Cormier's appointment last week as executive director of the New Brunswick Public Library Service has come under fire, given his apparent lack of library training or experience. (Kevin Cormier/Facebook)
The New Brunswick
Public Libraries Board's mandate is to advise the minister on policy,
service levels and provincial standards for public libraries and library
services.
Ephestion,
who has served on the board for three years and has only one
month left as chair, said he knows how important the libraries are to
the communities they serve and how passionate the employees are about
the services they provide.
For
immigrants looking to connect with their community, for example,
libraries are often the first place they'll go, said Ephestion, who is
from France.
"You meet
people, your kids can read, you can take [out] books about your
community, about your new country. And there are a lot of activities
that you can do in the public library to build your network," he said.
Libraries [provide] a common good for the communities and we need [an executive director] who knows this value.
- René Ephestion, New Brunswick Public Libraries Board chair
"This
is the place where I received my first ticket for Kings Landing, for
Village [Historique] Acadien and where I can know more about the
province [where] I choose to live."
Many
of the homeless people who used the temporary emergency shelter in
Moncton where he used to work also frequented the local library to read
or use the computers, he said.
"Libraries [provide] a common good for the communities and we need [an executive director] who knows this value."
Board powers unclear
Ephestion
said he has not yet received a response to his meeting request from
Cormier, but after they meet he will brief the other board members and
they will decide on next steps.
He could not immediately say what, if any, action the board could take if it's not satisfied with the appointment.
He was unaware of the board ever facing such a situation before.
The Department of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour did not respond to a request for information.
The
job posting for the New Brunswick Public Libraries Service executive
director position listed "essential qualifications" as a master's degree
in library and/or information studies from an American Library
Association-accredited program.
The competition for the library position also called for a minimum of eight years of "progressively responsible related work experience," including at least three years of management experience in a "complex operational environment involving responsibility for human and financial resources."
A combination of education, training and experience may be considered, it said.
Cormier spent the past year as a strategic adviser in the Executive Council Office. He was previously the chief executive officer of Kings Landing Corporation.
The New Brunswick Public Libraries Board is composed of 10-14 members appointed by the minister of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour, according to the government's website.
Five members are elected by the regional forums, while up to nine may be appointed by the minister to represent the general public.
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David Amos
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Methinks René Ephestion should read Kevin Cormier's comments to me ASAP N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Methinks we have heard enough from these SANB liberals for awhile N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Methinks René Ephestion the former wannabe liberal leader and bigtime SANB dude siezed the day and got himself in the news again N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @David Amos: How was the non Canadain citizen Ephestion appointed chair and by whom?
Paul Eric Lagace
Reply to @David Amos: Bizarre, n'est-ce pas ? ― Strange, isn't it?
David Amos
Reply to @Paul Eric Lagace: Nope Chiac
Pierre LaRoches
Liberal plant on the board, making noise so maybe next time he is allowed to run for the party that forced him out of the running last time.
David Amos
Reply to @Pierre LaRoches: Bingo
Barbara Canuski
The Chair should have demanded to meet with the Premier and seek an explanation how Cormier was the most qualified candidate.
Terry Tibbs
Reply to @Barbara Canuski:
How soon you forget "the chair" was a Liberal leader hopeful who couldn't run because he wasn't a Canadian citizen.
He may be a citizen now, but has he any qualifications to be "the chair"?
How soon you forget "the chair" was a Liberal leader hopeful who couldn't run because he wasn't a Canadian citizen.
He may be a citizen now, but has he any qualifications to be "the chair"?
David Amos
Reply to @Terry Tibbs: Nope
Kyle Woodman
"The books are to remind us what a--es and fool we are. They're Caeser's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, "Remember, Caeser, thou art mortal." Most of us can't rush around, talking to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book. Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore."
Ray Bradbury
Ben
Haroldson
Reply to @Kyle Woodman: what have you been reading?
Kyle Woodman
Reply to @Ben
Haroldson: have you never heard of Fahrenheit 451??? Great book. They
probably have several copies at your local library.
David Amos
Reply to @Kyle Woodman: Veritas Vincit
June Arnott
He has friends, not qualifications. Sickening how these jobs continue to go to people with no clue. NB Power is another one
David Amos
Reply to @June Arnott: Oh So True
Rhonda Phillips
Meanwhile back at the hospital/clinic/private practice.
What’s the annual wage for a new doctor of any kind?
David Amos
Reply to @Rhonda
Phillips: My question why do I have to pay the doctors anything for
their services? Just because my political foes put a "Stay" on my
Medicare Card my taxpayer funds still made certain they got paid anyway
Correct?
David Amos
Reply to @Rhonda Phillips: Methinks you my understand why it irritates me that people such as Cormier and this social climber from France make fun of my plight while they enjoy all the my native land has to offer without much effort on their part N'esy Pas?
Toby Tolly
René Ephestion .... i know hes liberal , but is he a citizen yet?
René Ephestion
Reply to @Toby Tolly: yes
René Ephestion
Reply to @Toby Tolly: and ?
Troy Murray
Reply to @René Ephestion: do you want his job?
Toby Tolly:
Reply to @René Ephestion: well
I didnt know it was a 2 part question
but
I heard you on the radio this am
I didnt understand your english clearly
I didnt know it was a 2 part question
but
I heard you on the radio this am
I didnt understand your english clearly
David Amos
Reply to @René Ephestion: Remember me? We spoke on the phone when you were a wannabe liberal leader Correct?
David Amos
Reply to @René
Ephestion: For the record my question was as follows because you were
not a Canadian citizen 3 years ago CORRECT?
"How was the non Canadian citizen Ephestion appointed chair and by whom?"
"How was the non Canadian citizen Ephestion appointed chair and by whom?"
Troy Murray
Reply to @Toby Tolly: He is Canadian
David Amos
Reply to @Toby Tolly: I had trouble talking to René Ephestion on the phone because he was trying too hard to play dumb just like politicians, bureaucrats, lawyers and cops do. So I gave up on his ethics and considered him to be just another political player wanting on the gravy train.
Methinks Ephestion knows as well as I that nothing has changed my mind about him in fact he just complained of that fact N'esy Pas?
Misuta Moto
It seems that everything would grind to an immediate halt in the Maritimes if it wasn't for blatant patronage. I mean, they don't even try to hide it anymore.
Dotty Gaudet
Reply to @Misuta
Moto: Not like the previous government hiding all their patronage.
This government doesn't hide things any more. They are open with the
people and they still get hounded.
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Misuta Moto: If they have ever tried to hide it, they sure did not do a good job at it.
David Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks you SANB dudes turned patronage into a fine art N'esy Pas?
Samual Johnston
Things like this are so preventable.....now they have to either defend a bad decision or remove him. Remove means give him another cushy job in return for not suing them.
Kyle Woodman
Reply to @Samual Johnston: Another total bonehead move on the part of Higgs government. Things are piling up quick.
Samual Johnston
Reply to @Kyle Woodman: I don’t see it as unique to Higgs. It is just government as a whole these days. Depressing
Kyle Woodman
Reply to @Samual
Johnston: Brian Gallant had instituted a policy within GNB that no
appointments could be made under Deputy Minister level. They had to go
through open competition. That's what happened in this case, but they
just appointed the guy anyways. I would find it hard to believe that
there weren't other more qualified applicants. It's a sham and a slap in
the face to real professionals.
Samual Johnston
Reply to @Kyle
Woodman: agreed that is how it should work but do you really believe
Gallant did not get around it? Credit for trying but still not
transparent enough.
Kyle Woodman
Reply to @Samual
Johnston: in my experience things were much different under gallant.
Sure he had some buddies in premiers office, but it wasn't as pervasive
throught the organization. The trough has gotten alot larger under
Higgs.
Kyle Woodman
Reply to @Samual
Johnston: If you're going to do cronyism, at least have your cronies
meet the basic qualifications of the job you're giving them. Maybe the
problem is that the library sciences community isn't full of crony type
people to hire. At least not conservatives.
Samual Johnston
Reply to @Kyle
Woodman: I don’t know if the trough is larger or just the news coverage
is better. Social media etc getting the word out instantly.
Gallant had some good ideas but the old guard of the party kept a firm
hand on him.
Samual Johnston
Reply to @Kyle Woodman: agree he deff was one of the the worst choices possible.
David Amos
Reply to @Samual Johnston: Relax its just a circus
Greg Blake
There are reports that when Mr Cormier was at King's Landing he closed their research library and sent the books to Value Village. This hiring of a totally unqualified person should be protested by all library users.
Kyle Woodman
Reply to @Greg Blake: library users are a constituency you don't want to mess with.
David Amos
Reply to @Kyle Woodman: Why is it that your hero Ephestion don't scare me?
Kyle Woodman
Reply to @David Amos:
I don't know much about Ephestion. I'm happy to see as a newcomer he is
politically active. We desperately need more diverse voices in that
sphere. Good for him!
René Ephestion
Reply to @David Amos:
Clearly I am an obsession for you, you keep talking about me all the
time, to answer one of your obsessive questions "yes, I am a Canadian
citizen". Find other things to criticize me now.
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @René Ephestion: I can attest that you are more Canadian than he is.
Michel Forgeron
Reply to @René Ephestion:Ne t,en fais pas Rene. Some individuals here are just compelled to answer every post.
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Michel Forgeron: and always see the glass half-empty. What a negative bunch!
David Amos
Reply to @René Ephestion: Clearly you jerked the wrong old dog's chain with that narcissistic BS N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @Michel
Forgeron: BTW I still ain't got my Medicare Card but I just paid another
emergency room bill while your buddy Deschamps wants me committed to
the mental ward. Trust would pay for that malicious nonsense
David Amos
Content disabled
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks most folks should realize that René Ephestion is just another SANB/liberal dude like you but at least he has a real name N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: "I can attest that you are more Canadian than he is."
Methinks everybody knows the score between you and I by now but that was particularly offensive and you meant it to be that way N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @René Ephestion: Methinks you should arrange a meeting with your buddy Deschamps and I N'esy Pas?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/kevin-cormier-kings-landing-library-darrell-butler-1.5476542
New head of public library service got rid of 'hundreds' of books at Kings Landing library
Kevin Cormier removed significant books worth $60K, says former employee who found some at Value Village
· CBC News · Posted: Feb 27, 2020 6:00 AM AT
Kevin Cormier, appointed executive director of the New Brunswick Public Library Service last week, previously served seven years as the chief executive officer of Kings Landing Corporation, the historical settlement near Fredericton. (Kevin Cormier/Facebook)
The new head of the New Brunswick Public Library Service got rid of a significant collection of books at the Kings Landing library when he was in charge of the historical settlement, according to a former employee.
Darrell Butler helped build up the Kings Landing library over more than 40 years as the chief curator and manager of heritage resources.
The books dealt with topics such as the history of agriculture, wagons, furniture and ceramics, and staff used them for research and reference, said Butler.
"The books were very specialized and, well really, they were collectors' items, some of them individually worth over $100," he said.
But in 2016, when Kevin Cormier was the CEO of Kings Landing, Butler discovered some of the books for sale at Value Village in Fredericton.
He also found some books that had been donated to Kings Landing by a prominent citizen in memory of her mother, he said.
Butler estimates "hundreds" of books worth "well over $50,000-$60,000" were lost.
"I was quite concerned about it and I wrote to the chairman of the board of directors of Kings Landing," said Butler, who was on extended leave at the time because of a heart condition.
"Unfortunately
I never heard back from them," Butler added. "But three days later
Kevin Cormier called me and demanded I return my BlackBerry and my
computer to Kings Landing."
Darrell Butler, former manager of heritage resources for Kings Landing, said the loss of the specialized books from the library was 'tragic.' (Submitted by Darrell Butler)
Cormier has not responded to requests for interviews.
Last
week, he was named executive director of the province's 64 public
libraries. It's a contentious appointment given his apparent lack of library training or experience.
The
current CEO of Kings Landing, Mary Baruth, confirmed in an emailed
statement that "several years ago, senior management" directed the
collections manager to review the library's books, magazines,
periodicals and journals "for their relevance to the collection."
'Extraneous' books donated
"Sources that contained information related to the mandate, and that could be used as reference material, were kept for use in the reference library and/or collections centre," said Baruth.
Those deemed "extraneous" were boxed and donated to the Canadian Federation of University Women's annual book fair in Fredericton, she said.
"It is our understanding that some of these materials donated to the book sale may have eventually made their way to other used book retailers, charity and consignment shops."
Baruth could not explain why the collection was purged since she was not with Kings Landing at the time. But she did say, "It is not unusual for libraries and museums to periodically review reference materials as new editions and digitized versions become available and to discard or donate reference materials not related to their mandate to charitable causes so that others may benefit from their use."
She continued: "Kings Landing has an extensive primary archival and library collection that is the cornerstone of its history, research, exhibit and interpretation plan and it remains intact."
'It's tragic'
Butler disagrees. He contends only about one-third of the collection remains.
"It's tragic," he said. "It was a very good research library. It was specialized. We had journals and texts that you couldn't get anywhere else in New Brunswick."
He cites as an example being able to compare farm wagons in New Brunswick to those in England to see the cultural influences.
"Without those books, it's gone," said Butler. "You don't have it. And it's not [all] online, as people said to me at the time," If the information is online, he said, it doesn't go into the same level of detail as some of the publications.
If the Kings Landing library couldn't keep all of the books for some reason, Butler questions why they weren't instead donated to the New Brunswick Museum or the New Brunswick Public Library Service.
"I guess what I'm saying is that perhaps Kevin wasn't quite as aware of the value of the research library at Kings Landing as one would expect him to be if he had a strong history and museum background."
Retired over difference of views
Butler said he retired because he didn't agree with some of the other controversial changes Cormier was making, which included cutting back on re-enactments and replacing them with static exhibits.
"I just said I couldn't be associated with it because I was the person … that was responsible for the historical accuracy of Kings Landing and the approach he was using was contrary to everything that I knew about historical settlements and how they should operate," said Butler.
Last March, Cormier announced plans to resume using costumed characters in the three old houses.
Although Cormier didn't have experience in museums, he did do research, attend conferences and get up to speed "as best he could" when he worked at Kings Landing, said Butler.
But
"his vision for Kings Landing was unorthodox," focused more on it being
a tourist attraction than a place to teach people about New Brunswick
history, he said.
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David Amos
Methinks even Higgy must have noticed that Kevin Cormier will attack my words elsewhere but not where the article is about him N'esy Pas?
Johnny
Horton
Reply to @David Amos:
Kevin just became the hero of many an NBer for putting Amos in his pls e,
Kevin just became the hero of many an NBer for putting Amos in his pls e,
David Amos
Reply to @Johnny
Horton: Methinks Franky Boy McKenna knows why I am honoured by the fact
that some people are so stupid they attack me while the clever ones play
dumb Nesy Pas?
val harris
Fire this clown before he does more damage
David Amos
Reply to @val harris: Relax and enjoy the circus We already paid the entrance fee
Gabriel Boucher
Reply to @David Amos: Being passive about the situation isn't going to solve the problem one bit
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Gabriel Boucher:
You had your say st the last election. You’ll have your next say at the next election.
You had your say st the last election. You’ll have your next say at the next election.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/inclusion-policy-education-nb-cardy-1.5473448
Education minister calls for review of classroom inclusion policy
Policy will be reviewed to provide clarity on what exactly inclusion in education means
CBC News · Posted: Feb 24, 2020 10:54 AM AT
Education Minister Dominic Cardy said it's time to take a closer look at classroom composition in New Brunswick. (Maria Jose Burgos)
Education Minister Dominic Cardy is calling for a review of New Brunswick's inclusive education policy.
Cardy said maintaining the status quo is no longer an option when it comes to the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development's inclusive classroom policy, which, he said, isn't working effectively for students with developmental disorders, other students in the classroom and teachers.
"The teachers are concerned that they're going to violate the inclusion policy if they discipline a child for acting out," Cardy said, adding students and teachers need to leave some classrooms several times a day or multiple times a week because a student is misbehaving.
"We also have instances of violence against teachers [such as] biting, kicking, punching, spitting, teachers being urinated on."
Green paper tours leads to need for review
Cardy decided a review into the policy was necessary while on a province-wide tour seeking feedback on his green paper on education reform. The 25-page document discusses eliminating grade levels, introducing second language programming in daycares and using more artificial intelligence in the classroom.
On the tour, some parents expressed concerns about schools not having the proper supports and resources in place for children with special needs.
Education Minister Dominic Cardy sought input on his green paper on education reform during a recent province-wide tour. (Hadeel Ibrahim/CBC)
Sharron Gerrits, a Saint John mother of a boy with down syndrome, asked how Cardy planned to address the fact that there are not enough resources to make the inclusion model work.
"We hear students that are ... falling through the cracks," Gerrits said. "Every time we hear how important those supports are, but nothing ever changes."
Cardy said classrooms have been following an "old industrial era" model. Although schools are progressively changing, he said more needs to be done to accommodate children who learn differently and protect teachers from violent outbursts.
"The difficulty is if you don't have the resources, obviously kids with behavioural issues have behavioural issues, and if they don't have proper supports then that can cause huge disruption in classrooms," Cardy said.
New Brunswick's inclusive education policy was last updated in September 2013.
The policy review will be conducted by the education department. George Daly, the deputy minister for the department and the former head of the NBTA, will be constructing a timeline for the review, which will begin sometime this summer.
With files from Information Morning Fredericton, Elizabeth Fraser
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Terry Tibbs
We are still missing the most important thing that is causing our students to be sub-standard.
There should be a policy of no promotion without merit, like there used to be, worked well for us, so what is the problem?
This pushing students through the system does no one any favours.
Terry Tibbs
Reply to @Terry Tibbs:
An educational system with no goals to be achieved is little more than a very expensive daycare.
An educational system with no goals to be achieved is little more than a very expensive daycare.
David Amos
Reply to @Terry Tibbs: "There should be a policy of no promotion without merit,"
Methinks that political policy should apply to Cardy's #1 cheerleader and fellow butter tart consumer Kevin Cormier N'esy Pas?
Methinks that political policy should apply to Cardy's #1 cheerleader and fellow butter tart consumer Kevin Cormier N'esy Pas?
Terry Tibbs
Reply to @David Amos:
And let in a bit of "the real world" into our education and politics?
Maybe we ARE running a very expensive daycare?
And let in a bit of "the real world" into our education and politics?
Maybe we ARE running a very expensive daycare?
David Amos
Methinks Mr Cardy missed being in the news so he chowed down a pile of butter tarts and thought something the media might repeat It appears to have worked like charm N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @David Amos:
"The difficulty is if you don't have the resources, obviously kids with
behavioural issues have behavioural issues, and if they don't have
proper supports then that can cause huge disruption in classrooms,"
Cardy said.
Need I say DUHHHH???
Need I say DUHHHH???
James
Vander
Reply to @David Amos: Yup, career politician. All he needs is a clipboard to complete the look.
Kevin Cormier
Reply to @James
Vander: I've never seen a politician with a clip board, even "career"
politicians (though I am unsure of what those politicians are since they
must be elected/re-elected which makes for a heck of a "career")
David Amos
Reply to @Kevin Cormier: Methinks you should ask Cardy to explain his career to you N'esy Pas?
Kyle Woodman
Reply to @David Amos: Licking boots is a good job for some.
Kevin Cormier
Kudos to Min. Cardy for tackling this. I agree, as parent of students, that the policy is flawed. My kids often tell me of issues/distractions, I couldn't imagine trying to learn in that environment. Our kids need to compete on the world scale, we need an educated population. They need to receive primary education for secondary advancement and can not be behind when the take their seat on their first day of university.
David Amos
Reply to @Kevin
Cormier: Methinks i should ask if you are the same Kevin Cormier who was
just put in charge of 64 libraries across New Brunswick N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply
to @David Amos: Methinks that whereas nearly 3 hours have passed and
all I hear is the proverbial crickets I am left to presume the you are
the same Mr Cormier who shared many butter tarts with Cardy and the boyz
in blue in the backrooms of in the Executive Council Office N'esy Pas?
Brian Robertson
Finally.
This is long overdue.
I just hope any review is open and honest, and has no time for emotion and political correctness.
This is long overdue.
I just hope any review is open and honest, and has no time for emotion and political correctness.
Terry
Tibbs
Reply to @Brian Robertson:
Cardy has had that job how long? And it took this long for the light to come on?
Cardy has had that job how long? And it took this long for the light to come on?
Tom Simmons
Reply to @Terry
Tibbs: He has to do due diligence. He had meetings with all state
holders (even though I'm sure he knew he wanted to review this policy).
Now opposition can't say he didn't speak with all those affected
parties. This is how government works. It's going to get changed, if
they can hold onto power.
Michel
Jones
Reply to @Tom Simmons: Hopefully they will hang on to power because they seem to have plans, they are trying at least.
Terry Tibbs
Reply to @Tom Simmons:
Mr Cardy has been too busy stroking his vaccination itch. This is not rocket science, you simply look at what others are doing successfully, and play monkey see, monkey do. There is no need for the wheel to be re-invented in NB, and unless butter tarts are involved, Mr Cardy is not up to that job.
Mr Cardy has been too busy stroking his vaccination itch. This is not rocket science, you simply look at what others are doing successfully, and play monkey see, monkey do. There is no need for the wheel to be re-invented in NB, and unless butter tarts are involved, Mr Cardy is not up to that job.
Tom Simmons
Reply to @Terry
Tibbs: Monkey see monkey do? OK. Unfortunately there are
teachers/students who don't know anything but an inclusion system, and
have no idea what another system would even look like. I'm guessing your
over 45 and remember a different system. Younger people need to be
shown a "new way" but it can't be just forced on them, it needs to be
implemented in this fashion.
rayma allaby
Reply to @Michel
Jones: what is their plan take the special needs kids out of the
classroom and warehouse them in schools where they get zero school
instruction...that is what we had before.
David Amos
Reply to @Terry Tibbs: Methinks Mr Cardy's butter tarts help him to think but he ain't had an original thought yet N'esy Pas?
Terry Tibbs
Reply to @Tom Simmons:
Oh, yes a different system.
Inclusion until grade 5, then student separation depending on ability/aptitude. 3 different streams, grade 10 high school graduation, grade 12 high school graduation, grade 13 high school graduation, specifically trades, college, university, destinations.
Oh, yes a different system.
Inclusion until grade 5, then student separation depending on ability/aptitude. 3 different streams, grade 10 high school graduation, grade 12 high school graduation, grade 13 high school graduation, specifically trades, college, university, destinations.
Tom Simmons
Reply to @Terry Tibbs: What is your plan then? Status quo which is a gong show.
Terry Tibbs
Reply to @Tom Simmons:
I can live with the way I was educated, or he just needs to find a place that manages to successfully educate their children, then all he has to do is copy what they are doing (that monkey see, monkey do thing I mentioned) and we would be good to go.
I can live with the way I was educated, or he just needs to find a place that manages to successfully educate their children, then all he has to do is copy what they are doing (that monkey see, monkey do thing I mentioned) and we would be good to go.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/kevin-cormier-new-brunswick-public-library-executive-director-1.5470064
Qualifications of new head of public library service questioned
Kevin Cormier, in charge of 64 libraries across New Brunswick, is former CEO of Kings Landing
· CBC News · Posted: Feb 24, 2020 6:00 AM AT
Kevin Cormier is the executive director of the New Brunswick Public Library Service, effective Feb. 18. (Kevin Cormier/Facebook)
The new person in charge of the province's 64 public libraries does not appear to have any library training or experience.
Kevin Cormier was appointed executive director of the New Brunswick Public Library Service last week.
The job posting listed "essential qualifications" as a master's degree in library and/or information studies from an American Library Association-accredited program.
Cormier's LinkedIn profile lists his education as a single year at York University's Schulich School of Business in Toronto (2005) and two years at the Moncton Flight College (1998-2000).
The competition for the library position, which comes with an annual salary of up to nearly $114,000, also called for a minimum of eight years of "progressively responsible related work experience," including at least three years of management experience in a "complex operational environment involving responsibility for human and financial resources."
Cormier spent the past year as a strategic adviser in the Executive Council Office, working on corporate governance and accountability with agencies, boards and commissions of the public service.
He was previously the chief executive officer of Kings Landing Corporation and made some contentious changes during his seven years at the historical settlement near Fredericton, at least one of which was reversed following public outcry.
His other work experience includes three years in advertising and several years in various marketing-related positions — all in senior roles, including owning his own marketing company.
'Puts the library system at risk'
Courtney Pyrke, who has a master's degree in library science from the University of Western Ontario, worked at the Saint John Free Public Library for about 18 months and is now doing her PhD at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John, called the appointment surprising and disappointing."It doesn't sound like he has any experience even working in a library let alone having a degree in library science, so I think that's troublesome for the profession to not really understand, I guess, the theoretical concepts of librarianship," said Pyrke.
"I
mean not understanding how collection development works, not
understanding how community outreach works — it kind of puts the library
system at risk."
It would be like hiring an economist to head a social work department.
- Joann Hamilton-Barry, retired director, Saint John Free Public LibraryJoann Hamilton-Barry, who recently retired as the director of the Saint John Free Public Library after 33 years, said when other provinces and municipalities have hired non-librarians to head up library systems, "it didn't usually go well."
"It would be like hiring an economist to head a social work department. It's just not usually done."
Pyrke compared
it to hiring somebody without a medical degree or experience in the
medical field to run a medical system and said it "looks bad on the
profession."
"I think
just to not have that skill set or even have an understanding of the
skill set that's needed to work as a librarian, that kind of calls into
question the types of people that they're going to hire moving forward,"
she said.
"Like for me as a librarian, it makes me not want to work in that system."
Filled through talent program
The Department of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour declined an interview about Cormier's appointment to the Fredericton-based job that required written and spoken "competence" in both English and French.
But in an emailed statement, spokesperson Leigh Watson said the department is "confident that his past experience, skills and abilities will serve the public library service very well."
Watson declined further comment, referring to it as "an internal human resources matter."
Pressed further, the acting communications director for the department, Erika Jutras, said the position was advertised as a competition and ultimately filled by the deputy minister through the Corporate Talent Management Program.
Liberal MLA Guy Arseneault said the government should base its hiring decisions on qualifications alone. (Ed Hunter/CBC)
The Corporate Talent Management Program provides current and aspiring executives in the upper pay bands with "opportunities to further develop their executive competencies within and/or outside their current department," according to the government's website.
"We have an
outstanding workforce and expertise in [the New Brunswick Public Library
Service] across the province, along with committed local, regional, and
provincial stakeholders," Jutras said in an emailed statement.
"Mr. Cormier has the training, experience and leadership we are looking for at this time."
Cormier did not respond to a request for an interview.His predecessor, Sylvie Nadeau, retired.
Hires should be based on qualifications
Guy Arseneault, the Official Opposition's critic for Post-Secondary Education, said he could not speak to Cormier's resumé, but "government hires should be based on qualifications alone."
"We have seen this government make some questionable hires for high-paying jobs," Arseneault, the MLA for Campbellton-Dalhousie, said in an emailed statement. "If this is another political hire then it just further tarnishes Blaine Higgs's image.
"I hope that he was not hired to implement the rumoured cuts to library services."
In some jurisdictions, such as British Columbia, the legislation governing the public library service clearly stipulates the director must be "a qualified librarian."
An inter-office memo announcing Cormier's appointment said he "brings a diverse background to the role."
When he was CEO at Kings Landing near Fredericton, Cormier came under criticism for replacing some historical re-enactments and costumed actors with static exhibits. (Sarah Petz/CBC )
The Feb. 20 memo, obtained by CBC News, describes Cormier, as a "team-oriented, creative and dynamic individual who is an outside the box thinker."
In 2018, Cormier made headlines when some re-enactments at Kings Landing were replaced, under his leadership, with static exhibits, prompting public meetings and online petitions.
Critics said character interpretation gave guests a better understanding of what rural life was like in the 19th century, and was crucial to the popular tourist attraction being an authentic historic settlement.
Last March, Cormier announced plans to start using costumed characters in the three old houses again.
In his LinkedIn profile, Cormier describes himself as "a passionate fella."
"Whether it be leading teams and organizations in government and private sector through effective change management, developing new products or ways to experience them, building relationships with partners or facilitating relationships between brands and audiences — I love making awesome things happen."
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David Amos
Check the first link CBC offers as a related story
Methinks a lot of us said a lot on this topic 7 months ago and it never even slower Higgy down with his blatantly obvious political patronage N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Methinks whereas all I hear is the proverbial crickets after nearly 3 hours I am left to presume that the dude singing Cardy's praises in another article is the same Kevin Cormier who shared many butter tarts with Cardy and the boyz in blue in the Executive Council Office N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Methinks nobody should be surprised about things He was probably the only bilingual applicant with the proper PC pedigree However the Liberal MLA Guy Arseneault should be far or concerned about the health care in his neighbourhood rather than who is overseeing the well being of our old books N'esy Pas?
David Amos
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Is not even noon and a 100 comments thus far Yet still nobody has bothered to call me back Surprise Surprise Surprise
Mark Curran
CBC wants a liberal government
Mark Curran
Reply to @Mark Curran: cbc likes to silence logic
Mark Curran
Reply to @Mark Curran: I'm going to sue cbc
David Amos
Reply to @Mark Curran: Methinks it may be wise to check my work first N'esy Pas?
maggie short
this is a terrible appoinment in a province of educated citizens. saint john new brunswick established the first free public library , the first free public education (many other education first the historic outcome of the united empire loyalists from new york)....libraries are changing but one needs an education that includes library systems throughout canada. the saint john public library today houses significant historical records of new brunswick ...this library is a significant keeper of our history.
Mark Curran
Reply to @maggie
short: you have no idea what hes capable of and just responding to the
outcry. Library sciences has nothing to do with marketing or sales
Kyle
Woodman
Reply to @Mark Curran: Where did Cormier get his marketing degree again?
Mark Curran
Reply to @Kyle Woodman: some people have talent Kyle. You're not one of them
Kyle
Woodman
Reply to @Mark Curran: I'm a professional. I have credentials and talent thank you very much.
David Amos
Reply to @Kyle
Woodman: "Friendly out-going individual who is team and success
oriented. Diligent worker and determined to persevere in any environment
or scenario. Adaptable and resilient with interpersonal relationships
with co-worker and customer alike." AND Who also has a bad habit of
offending people online
Samantha Jones
As a citizen I would like the following answered:
How many individuals applied for this position with MLIS qualifications
How many were interviewed
How many were internal employees
How many were external applicants
How many hours were spent by HR on this process
So GNB please respond.
David Amos
Reply to @Samantha Jones: Good luck with that
Terry Tibbs
Reply to @Samantha Jones:
Whos on first.
Nathalie Richard
Reply to @Samantha Jones:
David Amos
Reply to @Nathalie Richard: Say what?
Fred Brewer
Reply to @Samantha Jones: Samantha, these are all excellent questions and one would hope the CBC would follow up. But please know that any citizen can file a freedom of information request under the Right to Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Your questions are generic and are not a violation of anyone's privacy as you are not asking for names of the applicants.
https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/departments/finance/office_of_the_chief_information_officer/content/rti/request.html
Rod McLeod
Given his ECO background, it's safe to say this guy is a professional desk filler. The skills are schmoozing and office hopping looking for a better cheque.
David Amos
Reply to @Rod McLeod: BINGO
David Amos
Reply to @David Amos: That and who his fat daddy knows
Kyle Woodman
Reply to @Rod McLeod: ECO is where incompetance thrives.
Kyle Woodman
Reply to @Rod McLeod: ECO is where incompetance thrives.
June
Arnott
wish I had friends in high places to get me a job that pays over 100K and I have no qualifications for
Mack Leigh
Reply to @June
Arnott: Unfortunately you would have to also change your last name .,
and become one of the " chosen " here , in this place.
Marc Martin
Reply to @Mack Leigh: What does having to change your name have to do with anything ?
Tim Yates
Reply to @Marc Martin: I think "Mack means you would have to change your name to "Mark" ;-)
David Amos
Reply to @Mack Leigh:
Methinks the mindless minions with the SANB prove on a daily basis that
political science in New Brunswick ain't rocket science N'esy Pas?
Danny Devo
Higgs is disgusting!
Fred Brewer
Reply to @Danny Devo: Agreed. It would appear his hiring policy can be encapsulated with just three words. OINK, OINK, OINK.
David Amos
Reply to @Danny Devo: Methinks many folks who don't bother to vote would agree that they all are N'esy Pas?
Mark Tyson
A
word to the wise here. Never ever put people in positions of power in
any company other than marketing and advertising who's only background
is just that . Why? Because that is all they know ! I was in the beer
trade for thirty years.In the end it became painfully and I do mean
painful that marketeers were the tail wagging the dog. Not only did they
design our labels and beer boxes,they got it into their tiny little
heads that marketing should direct how the product should taste !
Run
that forward to today and golly gee wiz both Labatt and Molson in
Canada and Bud,Coors,Miller etc have been trending downward and losing
market share to much smaller breweries since 1988 .It was obvious in
1986 when B.C. got its first micro brewer that the writing was on the
wall,to me at least,that once the consumer gets a 'taste' of what a beer
or stout can really taste like it . It was just a matter of time and
here we are today.
The man has zero
qualifications to hold this position. Zero ! Don't let the government do
this otherwise you will end up with libraries made up of magazines
instead of books and after a few years there will be an announcement
that half or more of your libraries will be gone. Cons hate knowledge
and if you have not figured that out yet you better wise up and soon.
David Amos
Reply to @Mark Tyson:
Methinks many folks would agree that there is not one wiseguy in the
New Brunswick government or its opposition N'esy Pas?
Reply to @David Amos: Too bad you can't get elected, oh wise one!
David Amos
Reply to @Marguerite
Deschamps: Methinks you know why I ran as well as I and it had nothing
to do with being elected N'esy Pas?
Ben Haroldson
14 tracking companies on here this morning.
David Amos
Reply to @Ben
Haroldson: Methinks Higgy's minions can blame me for that because my
Tweet about this nonsense out of the gate N'esy Pas?
June Arnott
Reply to @Ben Haroldson: whats a tracking company
David Amos
Reply to @June Arnott: The dudes who are following my blog about this nonsense
Mack Leigh
Oh look !!!!!!!!!!! A Francophone who speaks French but does not have the required qualifications got a top government job ---- how novel, here in NB..
Kyle Woodman
Reply to @Mack Leigh:
I have bilingual friends with a Masters Degrees in Library Science that
would have loved this job. They spent their whole careers moving
towards a position like that. Must be disenfranchising.
Justin Time
Reply to @Mack Leigh: Try putting an anglophone (bilingual or not) in charge of Village Historique Acadien. See how that goes.
Mack Leigh
Reply to @Justin Time: And the forced social engineering, apartheid-style governing continues.
Mack Leigh
Reply to @Justin Time: And yet they had absolutely no problem putting this guy in charge of King's Landing.
Barbara Canuski
Reply to @Kyle
Woodman: This just sends a strong message to civil servants that
government is not a merit-based organization where advancement based on
qualifications and hard work will pay off. No wonder so many civil
servants just phone it in.
Marc Martin
Reply to @Mack Leigh: Yawnnnn...
David Amos
Reply to @Marc Martin: Methinks you still have that bitter taste in your mouth from eating his cornflakes N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin
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CoRservative appointed employee.
Mack Leigh
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Reply to @Marc Martin: Yawnnnnnn!!!!!
Reply to @Marc Martin: Yawnnnnnn!!!!!
Marc Martin
Content disabled
Reply to @Mack Leigh: Someone pissed in your cornflakes this morning buddy ?
Reply to @Mack Leigh: Someone pissed in your cornflakes this morning buddy ?
David Amos
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Reply to @Marc Martin: Methinks you should know you ate them N'esy Pas?
Reply to @Marc Martin: Methinks you should know you ate them N'esy Pas?
Marc Martin
Another Higgy appointee.
Mack Leigh
Reply to @Marc Martin: Yawnnnnn---your bias is showing yet again , ole boy..
Marc Martin
Reply to @Mack Leigh: Higgs is that you ?
David Amos
Reply to @Marc Martin: Methinks he went "Poof" after you stole his cornflakes and gobbled them down N'esy Pas?
Barbara Canuski
Hiring like this happens all the time. The public rarely learns of it except when someone leaks it.
Us civil servants have been watching it for years regardless of who is in power.
David Amos
Reply to @Barbara Canuski: Oh So True Which begs the question who leaked this and why?
Justin Thyme
This is so obviously a political/friend appointment it's pathetic. I really thought the Higgs government was above this. It's so dissapointing. NB will be the laughing stock of the national and international library community. Would you let a grocery store manager take out your appendix?
Greg Smith
Reply to @Justin
Thyme: If Higgs actually closed all the ER’s, that might have been the
only way to have an appendectomy performed!
Justin
Time
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Reply to @Justin Thyme: YOU IMPOSTOR! The real Justin Time.lol .
Reply to @Justin Thyme: YOU IMPOSTOR! The real Justin Time.lol .
David Amos
Reply to @Justin
Time: Methinks I should ask the obvious question how can he be an
imposter when that is not your real name? However it is indeed too funny
that such a name has broken the rules twice N'esy Pas?
Justin Thyme
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Reply to @Justin Time: Justin, I use a "nom de plume " because under the current government's clear lack of impartiality I would not want anyone I know to be affected by my criticism. I do not trust them to not be vindictive.
We should meet for a beer sometime.
David Amos
Reply to @Justin
Thyme: Methinks Higgy and his minions know i never had a beer in my life
but feel free to call me and we can talk of coffee sometime soon.
Everybody knows that my contact number can be found at the bottom of my
lawsuit against the Queen in Fat Fred City Federal Court File No
T-1557-15 N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @Justin Thyme: "I use a "nom de plume " because under the current government's clear lack of impartiality I would not want anyone I know to be affected by my criticism. I do not trust them to not be vindictive. We should meet for a beer sometime"
Too Too Funny Indeed
David Amos
Reply to @Justin Time: Methinks he who laughs last laughs best N'esY Pas?
'YOU IMPOSTOR! The real Justin Time.lol "
'YOU IMPOSTOR! The real Justin Time.lol "
Gary Melanson
What a bad joke!!!!!
David Amos
Reply to @Gary Melanson: Relax Never forget that this is just a circus
Fred Brewer
So despite a public outcry that reversed one of his Kings Landing decisions, the PC government feels this man is qualified despite having absolutely no qualifications in Library Sciences. Way to go Mr. Higgs. I guess bilingual was all you needed to see on that resume.
Michael Milne
Reply to @Fred
Brewer: That is the number one problem, simply there are not enough
francophones to fill all the positions when two thirds of the province
is anglophone, so underqualified people who happen to speak English and
French get the job or the French voters go crazy - it is time to change
the bi-lingual policy and fix it long term through immersion from
kindergarden - other countries do it, so should we.
Marguerite
Deschamps
Reply to @Fred
Brewer: The leader of the PA, le crisse d'hostie, might have had
something to do with this hiring, don't you think?
Marc Martin
Reply to @Michael Milne: zzzzzzzzzzz..That kind of thinking is old and has been proven false move on.
David Amos
Reply to @Marguerite
Deschamps: Methinks the bilingual Mr Cormier knows somebody who knows
somebody who knows somebody in the SANB and that person likely knows you
N'esy Pas?
Terry Tibbs
Reply to @David Amos:
4th removed? Wanna bet it's closer than that?
4th removed? Wanna bet it's closer than that?
Kyle Woodman
Reply to @Fred
Brewer: Not True I actually know several bilingual people in this
province with masters in Library Science. They would have loved that
job.
Fred
Brewer
Reply to @Kyle Woodman: What??? I did not say that qualified bilingual persons did not exist. Please re-read my comment.
David Amos
Reply to @Terry Tibbs: Nope Methinks you and the mob know that I am a far better gambler than that N'esy Pas?
Mack Leigh
" Government should hire based on qualifications alone " said the kettle to the pot..... All is well here in NB, they hired a person that is a francophone and speaks french... What could be more perfect, after all it is language over everything else here in good ole NB.
Justin Time
Reply to @Mack Leigh: La Patente is alive and well in New Brunswick.
Terry Tibbs
Reply to @Mack Leigh:
Or, in other words, the tail wags the dog once again.
Or, in other words, the tail wags the dog once again.
Edward J Clement
Reply to @Mack Leigh: Agreed - French speaking trumps all with government positions.
David Amos
Reply to @Mack Leigh: Methinks its a proper start for the circus in Fat Fred City first thing Monday morning N'esy Pas?
Jerry Dion
"Guy Arseneault, the Official Opposition's critic for Post-Secondary Education, said he could not speak to Cormier's resumé, but "government hires should be based on qualifications alone."
"We have seen this government make some questionable hires for high-paying jobs," Arseneault, the MLA for Campbellton-Dalhousie, said in an emailed statement. "If this is another political hire then it just further tarnishes Blaine Higgs's image"
This is cute coming from the liberals who have and I'm sure would still do it. Got to love politics.
David Amos
Reply to @Jerry Dion: Welcome back to the circus
David Amos
FYI I just called Guy Arseneault's office to remind him byway of his nice assistant of an email I sent him in October of 2018 Methinks he will never call me back because he knows that I still don't have a Medicare Card and he won't want to discuss that simple fact N'esy Pas?
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> Ties matter: Green MLA will represent New Brunswickers by sporting
> their neckties
>
>
> Kevin Arseneau doesn't own many ties — so he's calling on his
> constituents for ties meaningful to them
> Jacques Poitras · CBC News · Posted: Oct 18, 2018 2:40 PM AT
>
> Green Party MLA Kevin Arseneau doesn't wear ties. But he's going to
> have to if he plans to represent his constituents in the legislative
> assembly. (Tori Weldon/CBC)
>
> As soon as Kevin Arseneau realized he'd been elected as the new Green
> Party MLA for Kent North, he knew he had a problem.
>
> He was going to have to start wearing neckties.
>
> "One of my first questions to the clerk was, 'What are the other
> options?'" he said. "I was kind of looking for a creative way to get
> out of it, but there's not really any way out of it."
> CBC News
> Green MLA makes call out for ties
> 00:00 01:02
> Kevin Arsenault doesn't like ties, but he'll wear meaningful ones for
> his MLA job. 1:02
>
> Green MLA Kevin Arseneau says he'll put Kent North first
> Brian Gallant, Blaine Higgs urged to form a grand coalition to
> govern New Brunswick
> Unfilled Speaker's chair could bring on another election — this fall
>
> The rules of the legislative assembly require men to wear ties if
> they're in the chamber during official business.
>
> But Arseneau, a 33-year-old organic farmer from Rogersville, owns
> exactly two ties — each of which he has worn exactly once.
>
> "I got married without a tie," he said.
> 'I'm not wearing it for me'
>
> He complained on Twitter, tongue-in-cheek, about the stuffy
> requirement, and in response received two ties in the mail from one of
> his fans, Louisiana-based Cajun singer and activist Zachary Richard.
>
> And that gave Arseneau an idea.
>
> "The tie means nothing for me, absolutely nothing for me. I'm not
> wearing it for me. I'm not going to go shop for some ties and blow my
> money on some ties," he said.
>
> "I'm thinking to myself: 'Why am I wearing a tie? I'm wearing a tie so
> I can be in the legislative assembly and defend my constituents and
> defend the people who elected me, so why don't I wear their ties
> instead?'"
> Having meaningful ties
>
> Arseneau posted to Facebook to ask that his constituents mail him ties
> — ties that are meaningful to them somehow.
>
> And, he said, he plans to find a way to pass on why the ties matter.
>
> "I might as well, if I have the tie on, know what it means and what it
> stands for," he said. "I definitely want to tell those stories."
>
> Before posting the request, the rookie MLA checked with the ethics
> commissioner on the restrictions on accepting gifts.
>
> My biggest problem now is I've got to learn how to tie the knot. I
> haven't done that yet.
> -Kevin Arseneau, MLA
>
> So he's stipulating that he'll send back any ties from people or
> businesses who have dealings with the government, or that exceed the
> maximum allowable value for a gift: $250.
>
> "I hope there are not ties that are worth that kind of money," Arseneau
> said.
>
> No ties have arrived yet, but Arseneau said he has received many
> messages that some are on the way.
>
> "My biggest problem now is I've got to learn how to tie the knot. I
> haven't done that yet," he said. "I was hoping Zachary sent them with
> the knot already in. I'm going to be looking at YouTube videos or
> asking my dad or [Green Leader David Coon] for some pointers."
>
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