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'Bushman of the Shuswap' dies nearly two decades after dramatic capture in B.C.
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - A fugitive who evaded police as the "Bushman of the Shuswap" and later loved playing Santa and ran for mayor in his hometown of Williams Lake, B.C., has died.
John Bjornstrom's death came suddenly on Jan. 13 at age 58, according to an obituary in the Williams Lake Tribune. A celebration of life was held on Sunday, Feb. 11.
Bjornstrom escaped from jail in Kamloops and was on the lam for two years before being captured in November 2001 after a massive manhunt.
He survived by stealing food and property from dozens of cabins in the woods around Shuswap Lake, where he repeatedly eluded the RCMP but spoke with several media outlets about his underground encampment.
RCMP posed as journalists making a documentary in order to arrest Bjornstrom.
In 2004, he was sentenced to house arrest for 23 months after pleading guilty to 10 charges including break and enter.
Mayor Walter Cobb of Williams Lake said he last saw Bjornstrom in December as he sported his long white beard and a Santa suit at a community dinner hosted by the Salvation Army.
Cobb didn't know how Bjornstrom died, but said he ran into him at a Chamber of Commerce meeting last fall, where the former "Bushman" said he'd suffered a heart attack.
The obituary suggests donations go to the Heart and Stroke Foundation or the Salvation Army.
In 2014, Bjornstrom entered the Williams Lake mayoral race saying he was healthy despite a recent battle with cancer.
He finished with 91 votes and in last place among four candidates.
Cobb said he was surprised that someone who had never run for council would enter the mayoral race.
"It shows that people, while things happen in their lives, they can turn things around and do better," he said.
"I saw him as someone who was willing to stand up. Every once in a while you need that."
Bjornstrom worked as a truck driver and also drove a limousine for a local company but seemed to be a reclusive type, Cobb said.
Mary Betts said she didn't know Bjornstrom personally but her son is married to Bjornstrom's sister, though the siblings were estranged from each other.
"I think people always talked about him because he was an interesting individual," she said. "People around here liked him. He was a novelty when he first came here because of the things he had done. I mean, he had to be a smart man to do the things he had done."
Her niece lived in a trailer park across from Bjornstrom's motorhome, Betts said.
"He was very good to her, and not in a romantic way. He was just nice to her. And I know that for a special occasion he drove her somewhere in a limousine."
The obituary in the Tribune says Bjornstrom had moved from Ontario at age 12, loved the outdoors and horses, and was an accomplished bare-back rodeo star.
"John brought a smile with him everywhere he went and always had a joke to share," it says. "John was selfless when it came to his many friends at the Salvation Army Drop-in Centre, often running a coffee tab for everyone who visited for the day."
Out of the bush: The story of a KTW reporter's encounter with the Bushman of the Shuswap
Editor's note: John Bjornstrom, who became infamous roughly 20 years ago as the Bushman of the Shuswap, has died. An obituary published in the Williams Lake Tribune states Bjornstrom died suddenly Jan. 13 at the age of 58. Read about his passing by clicking here. What follows is the exclusive interview KTW secured with Bjornstrom in September 2001. Reporter Dale Steeves had travelled to a remote area of the Shuswap to interview the man who was, at the time, the most wanted person in Canada. The Bushman of the Shuswap had dominated headlines during the summer of 2001 and snaring an interview with the man the police could not find was a coup for the reporters involved. But the timing of the interview and subsequent publication was unfortunate. As Steeves ruefully noted later, his 2,000-word story landed on doorsteps on Sept. 12, 2001, the day after the most devastating terrorist attack on North American soil. by Dale Steeves KTW reporter Originally filed on Sept. 12, 2001 He appears in an instant.
Suddenly. Quietly. Out of nowhere.
He's hiked 16 hours to this meeting place, deep in the mountains overlooking Shuswap Lake.
It's the first time he's met someone in person since he escaped from Rayleigh Correctional Centre in September 1998.
"I'm the one they call Bushman," he says stretching out his hand and smiling politely. "John Lambert Bjornstrom."
He wears a thick, green-and-black checkered coat and ripped, brown trousers with jeans underneath. His black, high-top runners are tattered from the hundreds of miles he's hiked in rugged terrain.
He's armed. He carries .22 caliber rifle and a 357-handgun. Both are loaded.
Yet, his demeanour is unthreatening.
"Walk on the left side of me," he says, leading the way up a crumbling deactivated logging road. "I carry my firearms on my right side. We don't want to have an accident."
As he makes his way to a plateau on the mountain overlooking Shuswap and Hunakwa lakes, he is willing to share his stories with another human being.
Like the time he was clawed by a black bear and, last summer, when he removed a tick from a deer's ear. "The deer has hung around my camp ever since.
"Red clover, like this here, make a wonderful tea. I've eaten squirrels ... squirrel stew; stir-fry squirrel with rice. I eat rabbits, partridge and, last summer, I even had a porcupine. It was surprisingly good," he says with a laugh.
"It's very close to the taste of pork. Very difficult to skin but...."
As friendly as he seems, inside even he knows who he is, in the eyes of most in civilization - a criminal.
Since he began his adventure three years ago, Bjornstom has survived largely on the backs of cabin owners. He has enough propane tanks to last him until next winter and enough canned food to last him until February.
"I will eventually go out and get more. The trouble is I have to break into places to get them. I have a great dislike for doing that."
However, the question begs answering. Why is he out here? What purpose does he have and how has he eluded police for three years surviving in the wilderness?
As it turns out, this 42-year-old, who is arguably the most notorious fugitive in British Columbia, is on a mission. It's a quest he will say little about - just enough to grasp a sliver of understanding why he became the Bushman of the Shuswap.
There, he says, she got caught up in drugs and, unable to kick an addiction, sent him to foster care.
"The last time I saw her I was a little over six years old and she was in a hospital bed."
When he was seven, he was adopted into the family whose name he bears. His adoptive parents, Sverre and Joanna Bjornstrom, put him into his first true family environment. He was the oldest of four adopted siblings - Ronald, Ona and Jennifer.
When he was 13, the family moved from Vancouver to Williams Lake.
He dropped out of school in Grade 9. At 14, he headed to Calgary where he worked on cattle ranches until he was 18 and could drive a truck. It's a job he grew to cherish and one he would stick to most of his adult life.
From Grande Prairie to Calgary and through the United States and B.C., he hauled everything from logs to explosives.
Through the '80s, John's love life was like many truckers. His first relationship was with Luciett Bernard in Calgary. They had a daughter, Julie, who is now 20. The relationship ended because of his long days away from home.
His daughter lives in Texas and police informed him he is a grandfather of a two-year-old. "I don't know if it's a grandson or granddaughter. You see, I haven't been in contact."
Cathlene Ard was his second wife in the mid-'80s. They had Nicholas, after Bjornstrom's birth name, now 17, and Lisa Marie, 16.
"I have not seen or heard of anybody since 1989. It is hard to know you are a father and not be able to be there. You want to do something but things have happened that you can't. The only thing you have left is thought."
In 1994, a vision problem limited his driving career and he took a detective's course, starting a part-time research company, called Sir Pegasus, in Calgary.
It is his work with this company, he claims, which led him to the life of isolation he now leads. ON THE RUN In 1996, one of his contracts was with the infamous Bre-X Minerals, which collapsed after an Indonesian gold mine fiasco. To add to the mystery, on March 20, 1997 a Bre-X geologist, Michael De Guzman, fell out of a helicopter to his death.
Bjornstrom claims he was involved in the investigation of the death and found information suggesting De Guzman was killed by Indonesian businessmen and politicians.
"I found out many things contradictory to what has ever been reported. I know De Guzman, the geologist who supposedly jumped out of the helicopter, was killed. De Guzman's death was planned.
"I am fully convinced. I was coming up with the information and ties to prove it."
One Friday in January 1997, he says, three men confronted him in his office about information he had gathered. After their questions, Bjornstrom says he knew he was in trouble.
"Two of the men grabbed me and worked me over. I was bruised and sore from head to toe. They took all the hard drives from the computers I had. All the files, diskettes, any photographs concerning Bre-X Minerals."
When he woke up from his beating, Bjornstom says the threats began and he knew needed a way out.
"People would come and see me and say, 'if you say anything about Bre-X, you're finished, period, and your family is finished.' There are people who do not want me to tell what I know of Bre-X and they will go to any extent to make sure I do not." ESCAPE TO THE SHUSWAP Although Bjornstrom says he didn't know who was directly responsible for the threats or Guzman's death, fear overcame him and he fled to the Shuswap, leaving all his belongings behind.
"With no money or anything, you still have to get food so I broke into some cottages to get food. I got supplies and equipment from cottages because I thought I was going to be here for a while."
From February to the summer of 1997, he eked out an existence in the wild.
Discouraged by having to break into cabins to survive, he left and was arrested in Langley in November, charged with the break-ins and sent to Kamloops Regional Correctional Centre.
He was sentenced, transferred to Rayleigh and prepared to finish his sentence, which was to end on Dec. 15, 1998. In September 1998, Bjornstrom says, he was contacted by someone connected to Bre-X.
Again, fearing for his life he escaped from Rayleigh and walked for three days back to the Shuswap to continue a quest he will reveal little about.
As he listens closely for vehicles or the RCMP helicopter, he glances up with a look like he won't be believed.
In as honest a voice as he has, Bjornstrom explains his reasons for choosing the Shuswap.
He tells of his "psychic gift" and an inner belief someone is using the Shuswap for an illegal purpose far worse than breaking into cabins.
"Now, I am here for another reason (than Bre-X). I am here hunting someone. They use the Shuswap for their purpose and their purpose is much worse than I can ever be.
"That's all I can say. Once I have got what I'm after here, I will leave. I will turn myself in.
"It is hard to say when, but it's taken me a long time to find some of the things I do have in relation to what I'm after. I don't want them to read it, or hear it, and leave."
All Bjornstrom will say about what he is after is it is related to organized crime. The fugitive says he will do anything to complete his mission, even killing.
"I am going to evade capture. If it means shooting someone, I don't want to get into that but, if that's what it takes to evade capture, then that's what it takes. What I am after is by far more important than my capture."
Efforts by police to catch him have been futile. In July, they came close as they tried to ambush him as he picked up a cellular phone and video camera.
Expressing his desire not to harm anyone, Bjornstrom explains he could have easily shot the RCMP officers dead, but instead used bear spray. ARMED, DANGEROUS AND PREPARED His plans, equipment and strategies to avoid capture are remarkable.
His main camp is located near Hunakwa Lake. There, he has a permanent 12- by 14-foot structure built from stones and wood. Two feet of soil covers the roof.
He has stolen propane tanks to cook and heat water for bathing. He has a telescope, generators, including one powered by water, a computer, VCR, monitor, marine radio, microscope, first-aid kit and all other basic supplies.
Buried near his main camp are some of the 30 firearms and 800 rounds of ammunition he has stolen.
The rest are hidden near his eight satellite camps which cover every area of the Shuswap.
Each satellite camp has a tent and are located high in the mountains so he can look down on the valleys.
Some of the camps are built in 50-foot trees. He uses rope ladders to access them. Each camp has enough food for him to survive for weeks if needed.
His escape routes are equally as impressive.
He has sunk canoes in Shuswap and Hunakwa Lake. They are pulled up only at night when he scans the shorelines or makes his way to Sicamous for one of the three to four trips a year he makes to town.
He travels from camp to camp and smirks confidently when asked if he will be caught.
"You never know where I'm at. These people down there on the lake well, they keep looking. I don't mind. As long as they are looking for me where they think I am, I'm never going to be found.
"To the people looking for me - good hunting. I know hunting season has started now but from the way things are it looks like I'm the big game."
He laughs and then pauses because he's been asked if this is the life he wants.
"I have to (enjoy my life). I know once I'm captured and go back, my life is over.
"I do (get lonely) but I do not dwell on it. Sometimes, I do (wish for companionship) but, when I step outside my main camp or satellite camps and look around, I am not really alone. Here, I have 100 per cent air. In jail, the air is recirculated." TO THE BUSH He packs up his few belongings he has brought and apologizes to the cabin owners he has victimized - the cabin owners he knows he will have to victimize again.
"We are here, wherever we are, for a reason. There is a reason for everything and I believe there is a reason for me being here."
Then, just has he came, he's gone in an instant.
Suddenly. Quietly. Into nowhere.
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Fredericton paints crosswalks orange in honour of Truth and Reconciliation Day
Thursday, Sept. 30 marks the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
The City of Fredericton will be honouring the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation by painting two crosswalks orange.
City crews are working with community members at St. Mary's First Nations to install the two Indigenous crosswalks for Thursday, Sept. 30 — a day to recognize and reflect on the legacy of residential schools in Canada.
"We don't want it to be treated like a holiday but rather a day of reflection and remembering," said Fredericton Mayor Kate Rogers.
One crosswalk is along Queen Street outside City Hall, and the other is along Maliseet Drive in front of Chief Harold Sappier Memorial Elementary School.
It was decided to paint over the rainbow crosswalk downtown now that the Fredericton Pride celebrations have finished for the year.
The downtown location is also a popular spot for pedestrians and drivers.
"It's really just another opportunity to put something in place to cause people to pause and reflect," Rogers said.
Sept. 30 is also recognized across Canada as Orange Shirt Day, as it was the time of year when Indigenous children were taken from their families to attend residential schools. The recognition is part of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action.
"I think it's critical that we show our commitment to that process," she said.
Truth and Reconciliation Day will also be a municipal holiday for city staff in Fredericton after council voted unanimously in favour of honouring the federal holiday earlier this month.
"This symbolic gesture is just one step among many we intend to take on our long road toward reconciliation," the city said in a Facebook post.
City hall will be lit up with orange lights from Monday to Thursday. A Wolastoqey flag will be raised on Thursday, the 30th, and staff will be given orange T-shirts to wear in honour of the memory of children who were sent away to residential schools.
"We want to make this day real for people," Rogers said. "We want it to be front of mind."
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Investigative Reporting, the Murder of Annie Mae by members of AIM
Arlo Looking Cloud (born Fritz Arlo Looking Cloud; March 25, 1954) is a former Native American activist. He is perhaps best known for his involvement with the murder of fellow American Indian Movement activist Anna Mae Aquash.
Early life
Looking Cloud is a Lakota Sioux who grew up on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.[6]
Legal history
Murder of Anna Mae Aquash
Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash was a female activist within the ranks of the American Indian Movement. On 12 December 1975, Looking Cloud, along with Theda Nelson Clarke and John "John Boy Patton" Graham, forced Aquash into the back of a car and drove her to a remote part of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where Aquash was shot execution style in the back of the head and left to die.[7] Her body was discovered on 24 February 1976[8] on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation at the bottom of a ravine located in close proximity to an isolated highway.[9]
Aquash was revealed to have been shot dead; the muzzle of the gun had been pressed into the back of her neck, as the autopsy revealed.[10] The coroner's report indicated that in addition to the fatal gunshot wound, exposure contributed to the death of Aquash.[11]
Arrest
On 27 March 2003, Looking Cloud, who was a 49-year-old homeless man, was seen walking down Colfax Avenue by Denver police detective, Abe Alonzo.[4] Looking Cloud was subsequently arrested on a warrant issued by federal authorities in South Dakota, in which Looking Cloud and another man were accused of shooting Pictou-Aquash during a kidnapping in December 1975 near Wanblee, South Dakota.[12]
United States v. Looking Cloud
Darlene Nichols testified that Leonard Peltier, an AIM activist who was convicted of killing two FBI agents in the Jumping Bull Compound Shootout[13] (officially designated RESMURS by the FBI),[14] told her and Aquash that he killed two FBI agents during a June 1975 shootout (known as the Jumping Bull Compound Shootout) at a Pine Ridge ranch. According to Ecoffey's testimony, "He said the (expletive) was begging for his life, but I shot him anyway."[15] According to Nichols-Ecoffey, she, along with Leonard Peltier, her sisters Bernie Nichols-Lafferty[16] and Barbara Robideau,[17] then-husband Dennis Banks[18] and others were riding in a recreational vehicle lent to the American Indian Movement by the Hollywood actor Marlon Brando when Peltier recounted this event.[19] Nichols also testified to how she had heard Peltier say he thought Aquash was a snitch.[20]
During the trial, Nichols testified as to several incidents of violence involving the American Indian Movement. Three of these incidents, The Custer Courthouse Riot Incident which involved several hundred people, the seventy-one day occupation of Wounded Knee, and a shoot-out near her home which killed two FBI agents.[21] Nichols also discussed suspicions nearly twenty members of the American Indian Movement had of Aquash being an informant, or were at least acquainted with the rumor.[21] Nichols also testified that several members, one of whom had already threatened Aquash's life because he suspected she was an informant, took Aquash away for weeks to "watch her," explaining that was constantly under the surveillance of the American Indian Movement, was not allowed to go anywhere alone, and was not permitted to go home despite her requests to do so.[21] Mathalene White Bear, another former member of the American Indian Movement who provided shelter to Aquash in 1975, testified that Aquash believed her life was in danger as early as September of that year.[22] Darlene Nichols testified that Leonard Crow Dog and Leonard Peltier thought Aquash was an informant, and that Nichols, her daughter, and Dennis Banks, heard Peltier say he thought Aquash was an informant.[21]
For his involvement in the murder of Aquash, Looking Cloud confessed that he drove Aquash from Denver to Rapid City and then to the location where Aquash was murdered; however, he alleged that he knew nothing of the plan to execute Aquash, and that it was AIM member John Graham, alias John Boy Patton,[23] who shot Aquash.[24]
Richard Two Elk would later provide testimony in the federal trial involving the murder of activist Annie Mae Pictou-Aquash. Two Elk provided testimony which indicated that Arlo Looking Cloud contacted him around the autumn of 1994, asking for advice on how to respond to authorities who were delving deeper into the mystery of Aquash's murder, and Two Elk stated that Looking Cloud admitted to being involved in the case.[25] Two Elk stated that he believed his adopted brother was involved in the murder of Anna Mae and that over the years, Looking Cloud was only "acting on orders."[26]
In February 2004, after a federal jury (consisting of 7 women and 5 men) deliberated for seven hours, they convicted Arlo Looking Cloud in the 1975 execution-style slaying of Anna Mae Aquash.[27][28]
Appeal
In 2005, Looking Cloud appealed the verdict to the United States Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, but the appeal was struck down and his mandatory life prison term life-sentence was upheld and affirmed.[21]
Plea deal
In August 2011, U.S. District Judge Lawrence Piersol signed an order which reduced Looking Cloud's original life-sentence term to 20 years in exchange for previous testimony given to state prosecutors during December 2010 against co-conspirator John Graham.[29][30] Looking Cloud's testimony provided further insight into the murder of Aquash, with Looking Cloud alleging that he stood nearby while Graham shot Aquash.[30][31] Looking Cloud was assigned BOP# 07609-073 and released from FTC Oklahoma City on November 10, 2020.
Legacy
The court proceedings against Looking Cloud have left lingering divisions. There are some factions who believe that Looking Cloud was innocent. According to Russell Means, American Indian Movement member, racism was at the heart the federal jury conviction of Looking Cloud. He was quoted as saying, "Racism continues. Our culture is disregarded and not included, and one of the most pathetic men in the city of Denver is given the sole responsibility for the murder ordered by a leader of the American Indian Movement. I'm just thoroughly disgusted and supremely disappointed."[32]
Looking Cloud alleges he was given alcohol and heroin prior to having a confession "coerced" out of him.[33]
On 28 April 2005, in a handwritten letter, Looking Cloud alleged that his trial attorney, Timothy Rensch, conspired with Bruce Ellison, an attorney for Leonard Peltier. According to Looking Cloud, "I received a letter informing me that Vernon B. Bellecourt provided all my legal material in my case to Laliberte [Graham's attorney] in Canada, apparently getting it from Gilbert Arlo's appeal attorney. And I read Vernon and Gilbert go way back. And how hard Rensch worked to make sure Candy Hamilton couldn't mention Bruce Ellison's name. Rensch, his former law partner Leech and Ellison go way back."[34] According to Barry Bacharach, an attorney for Peltier, the testimony used to convict Looking Cloud was not based on proof or evidence of Looking Cloud for wrongdoing, but based on testimony which focused primarily on leaders and prominent activists within the American Indian Movement, Peltier included.[35]
Similarly, Looking Cloud's court-appointed attorney, Timothy Rensch, was criticized for not putting a better defense together for Looking Cloud.[36] In his appeal for a new trial, Looking Cloud also included in his appeal a new attorney, but it was also denied.[37]
And despite Looking Cloud's plea bargain which involved exchanging testimony against John Graham, the Graham Defense Committee indicated that it would help Looking Cloud form a legal appeals team. According to a representative from the Graham Defense Committee, in addition to Looking Cloud's conviction being based on a lack of forensic evidence, they also indicated that, "Yet the Graham Defense committee will help form a legal appeals team for Looking Cloud. Why help him with he implicated John? We don't believe he intended to implicate John."[36]
References
- "Commentary: Racist Trial for Aquash murder". Indianz. 10 March 2004. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
External links
John Graham is a Canadian former Native American activist. He is perhaps best known for being the person who shot and killed fellow American Indian Movement activist Anna Mae Aquash.[2][9]
Early life
Graham was born in Whitehorse,[10] Yukon, Canada and is a member of the Southern Tutchone Champagne and Aishihik First Nations[11] ethnic group.[8][3] One source indicates that Graham is from Haines Junction, Yukon.[12]
Graham's birth year falls somewhere between the years of 1954 and 1957. In 1974, when Graham participated in the Native People's Caravan in 1974, he was 17 years,[1] meaning he was either born in 1957, or would be turning 18, and thus born in 1956 and 1957. Several sources also identify Graham as being 55-years-old at the time the guilty verdict was read.[13] This would place his year of birth at 1954 (if he was 55-year-olds, and going on 56) or 1955 (if he had turned 55-years-old).
Personal life
John Graham is a father of eight who was living in Vancouver, British Columbia.[14]
Career
Graham had spent many years in the capacity of an activist. He was known to participate in Lakota resistance for traditional territories, and protesting uranium mining Northern Saskatchewan.[15]
In 1974, when Graham was 17, he participated in the Native Peoples' Caravan from Vancouver to Ottawa, an unauthorized occupation event in which 300 participants from the Caravan moved into the abandoned Carbide Mill building on Victoria Island, behind the Parliament buildings in Ottawa, for 5 months.[1] Graham was also active in protest throughout other Canadian provinces. In Vancouver, Graham also participated as a member the Beothuck Patrol, a First Nations group which conducted street level monitoring of police harassment.[1]
In June 1980, the Caravan for Survival, which included Graham as a protester, consisted of who drove from Regina, Saskatchewan, the capital city of Saskatchewan, to the northern Saskatchewan uranium boom town of La Ronge to protest the opening of government-operated Key Lake Uranium Mine Board of Inquiry.[16]
Following the conclusion of the Native Peoples' Caravan, Graham partook in his first armed occupation[1] when he traveled to the state of New York group to provide support (as general security) to the Mohawk land re-occupation at Ganienkeh, also known as Eagle Lake.
During the summer 1981, the AIM Survival Group, which included John Graham, opened the Anne Mae Aquash Survival Camp near the community of Pinehouse, located in northern Saskatchewan, on the Key Lake road, which was done to create a forum in which Native rights issues and the problems of the uranium industry could be openly discussed (it is said[by whom?] that Graham named the camp in honor of Anna Mae).[16]
During the months of May and June in 1984, John Graham spoke throughout Europe, which was organized by European anti-nuclear, native rights and environmental groups to raise understanding and awareness of on native rights and the environmental problems of uranium mining in Canada faced by the First Nations people.[17]
Legal history
Murder of Anna Mae Aquash
Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash was a prominent voice and female activist within the ranks of the American Indian Movement.
On 12 December 1975, Aquash was forced out of the home of Denver AIM Troy Lynn S. Yellow Wood despite the latter's objection that something bad would happen to Aquash, and she was taken to an apartment in Rapid City owned by Russell Means' brother, where she was interrogated and, prosecutors charge, raped by Graham.[18]
Looking Cloud, one of Graham's and Nelson-Clark's accomplices, said he heard Graham and Aquash "having sex" in the bedroom of a Rapid City apartment (whose ownership is attributed to Thelma Rios and her mother[19]); the prosecution charges that Graham raped Aquash.[18] Looking Cloud waited outside of the room while Graham raped Aquash, and Graham acknowledged in a taped interview/interrogation that Looking Cloud waited outside of the room Anna Mae was imprisoned inside of.[20]
Aquash was then forcefully moved to the Rosebud Indian Reservation where AIM supporters refused to house her.[21][better source needed] Looking Cloud, along with Theda Nelson Clarke and Graham, forced Aquash into the back of a car and drove her to a remote part of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where Aquash was shot execution style in the back of the head and left to die.[22] Her body was located nearly two months later on 24 February 1976[23] on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation at the bottom of a ravine located in close proximity to an isolated highway.[24] Aquash was revealed to have been murdered with a firearm, as the autopsy showed that the muzzle of the gun had been pressed into the back of her neck.[25] The coroner's report indicated that in addition to the fatal gunshot wound, exposure caused the death of Aquash,[26] as her body was frozen by the time it was discovered.[27]
Graham indicated that he and his family were visited several times in the Yukon during the 1990s, and allegedly threatened to charge him with murder if he did not falsely identify AIM leadership for the murder.[28][1]
Arrest
On 30 March 2003, Graham was charged with the 1975 first-degree murder/pre-meditated murder of Anna Mae[3] in the United States. Because Graham was a resident of Vancouver at the time, the case required Graham's extradition. On 1 December 2003, Graham was arrested in Vancouver for the murder of Pictou-Aquash, and his bail was set at $50,000.00.[29]
Graham resisted extradition, and despite being put under house arrest in December 2003, he filed an appeal within British Columbia to keep the case from moving forward.[30] On 23 June 2006, the presiding judge extended Graham's bail to 23 June 2006, giving Graham's lawyer, Terry LaLiberte time to file an appeal following the British Columbia Supreme Court's decision to extradite Graham.[31] Graham lost the appeal, had his bail revoked and he was taken to jail to await extradition,[30] which happened on 6 December 2007.[1]
United States v. Graham
John Graham was charged in the United States on 30 March 2003 with the 1975 first-degree murder/pre-meditated murder of Anna Mae.[3] After protracted litigation in the federal courts, the federal premeditated murder charge was dismissed in United States v. Graham, 572 F.3d 954 (8th Cir.2009).[32]
State of South Dakota v. Graham
However, before Graham could return to Canada, he was indicted by a Pennington County grand jury on state charges of premeditated murder and felony murder. The underlying felony was alleged to be the kidnapping of Aquash.[33]
On 2 December 2010, South Dakota Judge John Delaney forbade any mention of a finding in the first autopsy report for Aquash that suggests she may have had sex shortly before her death to jurors, a finding which prosecutors said originated from Graham allegedly raping Aquash during her kidnapping.[34]
On 3 December 2010, Nichols-Ecoffey testified that an AIM activist later convicted of killing two FBI agents made an "incriminating" statement in front of her and Aquash, who was later shot and killed.[34] The "incriminating" statement referred to Peltier's admission by "shooting the motherf***** that was begging for his life, and still shooting him."[35] Ecoffey, the former common-law wife of AIM leader Dennis Banks, was forbidden by Circuit Court Judge John Delaney from telling jurors exactly what she alleges group member Leonard Peltier told her six months before Aquash was killed. The judge deemed it hearsay. But under questioning from prosecutors, she was allowed to say that Peltier made an "incriminating" statement.[34]
Graham was convicted of felony murder on 10 December 2010 after jurors heard evidence that he aided in the abduction of Aquash from Denver in December 1975.[36] Graham was sentenced to minimum mandatory life in prison for the murder.[36][37]
2012 Appeal
Graham continued to maintain his innocence and attempted to secure an appeal that would grant him a release from prison. The South Dakota Supreme Court heard oral arguments regarding his 2010 conviction on 19 March 2012 in Vermillion, South Dakota.[38] Graham's attorney, John Murphy, argued that the government should not have had the authority to transfer his case from federal to state jurisdiction following his extradition to the US,[39] the South Dakota Supreme Court ruled that the state was within its rights to prosecute Graham, there was sufficient evidence to convict Graham, and his life-sentence imprisonment without parole was commensurate with the crime committed. The South Dakota Supreme Court thus dismissed the John Graham Appeal.[40] Graham is currently[when?] incarcerated at the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.[41]
2018 Appeal
On 30 March 2018, Graham appealed his conviction to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on the premise that, "the court lacked jurisdiction over him because he is a Canadian citizen whose extradition allegedly violated a treaty,".[42] Graham's legal defense argued that his 2011 conviction in South Dakota was for felony murder, a crime which does not exist in Canada, and a crime that was not mentioned his extradition request.[43] However, the Eighth Circuit ultimately upheld Graham's conviction, and his appeal was denied.[44] The three-judge panel concurred that felony murder was not written in the original extradition request authored by the United States. However, the subsequent waiver issued by Canada expanded the authority of the extradition, and, based on the Eight Circuit Court's opinion, it is beyond the Eight Circuit's jurisdiction to interpret Canadian laws.[43]
Legacy
Graham's trial and sentencing have been the subject of both scrutiny and controversy.
There are accounts which indicate that 'John Graham' and 'John Boy Patton' are not the same person. The "John Boy Patten" in question is the nephew of Theda Nelson Clarke (Patten's mother, Corky Nelson Patten, is the sister of Theda Nelson Clarke), is around the same age as Graham, and bears a striking resemblance to Graham.[45] This view is corroborated by Graham's attorney, Terry LaLiberte, who indicated that the U.S. was looking for a Caucasian male, 188 cm tall (approximately 6 ft. 2 in), weighing 87 kg (approximately 192 lbs.), and that "the guy they [the U.S.] want is six inches taller than Mr. Graham, and there is a problem with the weight and the racial description."[19] Additionally, LaLiberte has disputed that his client was known by the name John Boy Patton. "Also known by whom? We have requested that they clarify these points, and they have not proffered that evidence."[19][46]
There are also factions which claim Graham's imprisonment was the result of a corporate cover-up. Around the time Graham's appeal against extradition was denied, Cash Minerals Ltd., a Canadian-based company whose objective was to further uranium exploration in the Yukon, discovered uranium near Graham's property.[6][47]
Following Graham's extradition to the United States, the John Graham Defense Committee was formed.[48] The organization's intent is to prove his innocence. Despite Looking Cloud's plea bargain which involved testifying against John Graham in exchange for a reduction in his prison sentence, the Graham Defense Committee indicated that it would help Looking Cloud form a legal appeals team. According to a representative from the Graham Defense Committee, in addition to Looking Cloud's conviction being based on a lack of forensic evidence, they also indicated that, "Yet the Graham Defense committee will help form a legal appeals team for Looking Cloud. Why help him when he implicated John? We don't believe he intended to implicate John."[49]
See also
- American Indian Movement
- Arlo Looking Cloud
- Theda Nelson Clarke
- Darlene Nichols
- Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash
- Uranium mining and the Navajo people
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- "Independent Radiation Surveys at Niger Uranium Mines Obstructed". Wiser International. 30 January 2004. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
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- Pierre, Billie. "US Renews War on the American Indian Movement:The Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash Story". Retrieved 17 August 2016.
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- "Supreme Court of South Dakota. STATE of South Dakota, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. John GRAHAM a/k/a John Boy Patton, Defendant and Appellant. No. 25899. Decided: 30 May 2012". Case Law. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
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Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Many ghosts, politicians, journalists, lawyers, Indian Chiefs, cops,
the FBI and RCMP know why I have every right to say Hoka Hey to the
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Marilyn Sandford
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Phone: (604) 684-0778
Marilyn Sandford obtained her LLB from Dalhousie University in 1989,
after having obtained a Bachelor of Mathematics degree from the
University of Waterloo and a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) degree from
Carleton University. She was called to the bar in 1990. Since 2002 she
has been in private practice in Vancouver with the firm Ritchie
Sandford McGowan. Prior to that she was counsel with the predecessor
firms Ritchie and Co. and Gibbons Ritchie.
Marilyn's practice includes personal injury and wrongful death claims
arising from motor vehicle accidents and other mishaps. She has
experience dealing with serious head injury and amputation cases. In
addition, she represents clients facing criminal charges. She also
represents clients advancing civil constitutional claims. Marilyn has
acted as counsel at all levels of court in British Columbia, and at
the Supreme Court of Canada.
Since 2010, Marilyn has taught a course at the University of British
Columbia Faculty of Law on issues of evidence in the context of
wrongful convictions. She also acts as counsel on files with the
University of British Columbia Innocence Project, supervising and
mentoring student work.
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
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the FBI and RCMP know why I have every right to say Hoka Hey to the
very evil Yankee Tommy Boy Flanagan
Jennifer Wade, February 13, 2021
I do most certainly believe John Graham is an innocent man. His story has remained absolutely consistent from the time I met him through all the times I heard him speak.
His own lawyer at his Hearing, Terry Laliberte, once said to me as we were leaving the courthouse that as a criminal lawyer who had dealt with many cases, he had never dealt with a less criminal person than John.
I feel that it was tragic John Graham was extradited on purely circumstantial evidence because of a woman judge agreeing to the request from the United States rather than seeing that the more relevant questions were yet to be answered.
It is also bad luck that a man called Ecoffey, whom John described as a long-time enemy in the American Indian Movement but now an FBI agent, convinced Anna Mae's daughters he knew who their mother's killer was and he named John. John feels that was an act of revenge. Ecoffey is now married to Banks' widow.
All of John's family is completely behind him, and I have only heard them say what a loving and caring person he has been in their lives.
Jennifer Wade* OBC, 13 February 2021
Vancouver, BC
https://www.grahamdefense.org/news_cbc1.htm
Concerns raised over arrest of activist
CBC
NEWS
Thursday December 04, 2003 at 02:22 PM
A leading B.C. human rights advocate says Canada will be making a grave
mistake if it extradites native rights activist John Graham to the United
States. Graham was arrested in Vancouver on Monday in connection with the
high-profile murder of another aboriginal activist – Anna-Mae Pictou-Aquash.
She was shot dead in 1975 two years after joining native militants at the
occupation of Wounded Knee.
But questions about the FBI's involvement in her death have never been
answered.
Jennifer Wade, the founder of the Vancouver branch of Amnesty International,
was at the extradition hearing of Leonard Peltier – another man connected to
Pictou-Aquash.
In 1976, Peltier was sent back to the U.S., where he was convicted of the
murders of two FBI agents and sentenced to two consecutive life sentences.
The Canadian government has since lobbied for the U.S. to release him from
prison.
Now Wade says Canada will make the same mistake if it extradites Peltier's
friend, John Graham, for the murder of their colleague, Pictou-Aquash.
"She was very intelligent and knew far too much, and I think she was gotten
rid of," she says."And John Graham definitely feels it was the FBI that got
rid of her, and they're trying to pin the murder on him."
Wade notes Graham was one of the founders of the American Indian movement
along with Peltier and Pictou-Aquash.
Wade says she doesn't know why police decided to move in on Graham this
week, because he had been living in Vancouver for years.
American officials have until February to file an extradition bid for
Graham. In the meantime, he remains in custody.
https://orderofbc.gov.bc.ca/2017-recipient-jennifer-wade-vancouver/
For decades human rights advocate Jennifer Wade has steadfastly helped those in need and those facing injustices who are often unable to speak for themselves.
A founding member of Amnesty International in Vancouver, she has worked not only on behalf of prisoners of conscience all over the world, but also she has been a public spokesperson and champion for prisoners’ rights, children-in-care, and people facing injustices.
Her involvement in human rights issues began in the 60’s while studying in England, continued in the United States where she worked for the Civil Rights Movement, and has been sustained throughout her life in New York, Pakistan, Halifax and Vancouver.
She has been a supporter and board member of the United Nations Association of British Columbia, the World Federalists, and the Royal Commonwealth Society. She was also on both the local and national boards of the Elizabeth Fry Society, a group dedicated to helping women prisoners and their children.
She helped lead a successful nationwide campaign to have Bruce Curtis, a Nova Scotia teen convicted of manslaughter in New Jersey, serve the remainder of his sentence in Canada. She has devoted years to get Leonard Peltier, an American Indian activist who claims to have been falsely convicted of a murder, released from a U.S. prison. In 2009, she championed the cause of John Graham, who was similarly extradited to the U.S. to be imprisoned although he maintains his innocence in the murder of Anna Mae Aquash. She is also working on behalf of Dr. Wang Bing Zhang, a medical doctor who studied at McGill and is now imprisoned in China for his involvement in a democracy movement.
A retired English teacher, Ms. Wade has regularly assisted refugee families from Vietnam, Burma, Russia, China and elsewhere.
She championed the cause of Romanian orphan children via a project sponsored by EQUILIBRE. She also served as a board member for SOS Children’s Villages, B.C. and has hoped to help develop such a system of foster care in Canada that would create stability and permanency for neglected and abused children.
The Jennifer Wade and Family Endowment Funds provide scholarships and bursaries for students who have undergone great difficulties, or students who are the first in their families to study in B.C. at the post-secondary level. She also established an award in theatre at Langara College and an award in the Scottish Studies Department at Simon Fraser University. Two scholarships are given annually in her name at the University of New Brunswick. Another award — The Jennifer Prosser Wade and Family Award for “Courage: Where Truth speaks to Power” — has been established with the BC Civil Liberties Association.
She is a recipient of the Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers, the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, British Columbia Civil Liberties Reg Robson Award, Renate Shearer Human Rights Award and an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of New Brunswick for international justice work.
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Paul DeMain Gave Voice To Native American Issues. Now He's Ready For His Next Chapter.
Paul DeMain published News from Indian Country for 33 years. After
shuttering the newspaper, he is spending time on his land on the Lac
Courte Oreilles reservation hunting mushrooms and tapping maple trees. Rob Mentzer/WPR
Paul DeMain had been a journalist for about a year when the FBI came to serve search warrants on the chairman of the Lac Courte Oreilles tribe.
It was 1977. DeMain was in his early 20s and still new to the reservation. He’d been brought there by the tribal chairman to work as the communications director for the tribe and the editor of a new tribal newspaper, the Lac Courte Oreilles Journal American.
DeMain watched the FBI agents send those working in the office home for the day while they seized boxes of documents. He took a call from the chairman, his boss, who said he wanted to clear up "rumors" that there had been a raid. He told DeMain what to write in the press release for the Sawyer County Record.
"Blah blah blah blah blah," DeMain summarized. "There are no FBI agents here. They are not confiscating documents. They are not serving search warrants."
DeMain dutifully wrote and sent the press release.
"An hour later," he said, "I sent a second news story out, describing how the police had arrived at 11:25 a.m. and served a search warrant on the tribal government, and (FBI agents) were taking documents and records" from the chairman's office.
The moral of the story, as DeMain tells it now: "That’s the difference between a public relations employee and a newspaper editor."
DeMain made for a lousy public relations employee, but he became a great newspaper editor.
He would spend decades as one of the most prolific and important Native American journalists in the country. He would cover tribal news across the country, and break a series of stories relating to 1970s radical Leonard Peltier that challenged some deeply held loyalties. Now DeMain is at the end of his career as a newspaper publisher, and a crossroads in his life.
The 1977 FBI raid would lead to tribal chairman Odric Baker’s forced resignation the next year. DeMain would stay on with the tribal newspaper until 1983, when he'd go to Madison to serve as tribal liaison in the administration of Wisconsin Gov. Tony Earl.
Returning to Sawyer County in 1986, he would launch the News from Indian Country, an independent Native American newspaper that would grow to become one of a small handful of Native outlets with national and international reach.
For a time his company Indian Country Communications — which published the newspaper as well as special publications, a website and an internet news broadcast — would be one of the largest employers on the Lac Courte Oreilles reservation.
In August, DeMain published the newspaper's last issue. The publication saw the same declines in revenue suffered by the mainstream newspaper industry. It would have been possible to continue publishing for a few more years, DeMain said, but the trajectory was unmistakable. Its loss is a blow to independent, Native American-owned media.
But at 64, DeMain is ready for his own next chapter.
In the former offices of News from Indian Country, Paul DeMain shows the
final print edition of the newspaper, which ran for 33 years. Rob Mentzer/WPR
News From Indian Country Was An Independent Voice
DeMain was born in 1955 in Milwaukee. When he was very young, he was adopted by a family in Wausau.
Growing up on Wausau's west side, he knew all the Native American families in central Wisconsin, though his own adoptive parents were white, and he sought out connections to his Ojibwe heritage. In high school, he became passionate about journalism. And when, in 1973, activists from the radical American Indian Movement occupied the town of Wounded Knee in South Dakota, he read everything he could about the conflict.
"I was looking at the Associated Press stories that were appearing in short little columns, 2- or 3-column inches," DeMain said. They reported, more or less, "a bunch of radical Indians took over Wounded Knee and were making demands of the U.S. government," he said.
Contrast that with what he learned in a Native publication called Akwesasne Notes, which offered full-length articles rich in context and history, reflecting complexities within the Native community itself in addition to reporting on the conflict between the American Indian Movement, known as AIM, and the U.S. government.
"Looking at the difference, I thought, if I had the chance, what I ought to do is give voice to the Native community," DeMain said.
The News from Indian Country would provide a digest of stories about Native American communities from coast to coast and beyond, including stories from indigenous communities across Canada, in New Zealand and elsewhere.
The former offices of News from Indian Country, on the lower level of
this building, are vacant today. The offices were on the Lac Courte
Oreilles reservation in Sawyer County. Rob Mentzer/WPR
Patty Loew, a longtime broadcast journalist in Wisconsin who now heads the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research at Northwestern University, said its work helped to show common threads and common challenges among these disparate indigenous communities.
"I would have to read a thousand copies of the New York Times or the Washington Post in order to get the concentrated number of indigenous-related stories" that came in an issue of News from Indian Country, Loew said.
With News from Indian Country now shuttered, there remains one major national outlet focused on Native news.
Indian Country Today started as a weekly newspaper in 1981, The Lakota Times. Since turning to an online, national approach in the 1990s, it's had several iterations and ownership changes. It closed in 2017, but relaunched in 2018 after the Oneida Nation of New York donated it to the National Congress of American Indians. It's now operating on a nonprofit news model. Its editor, Mark Trahant, said it exists through a combination of grants, memberships and other income sources.
Trahant has known and worked with DeMain for years. He said DeMain's independence always sets him apart.
"(DeMain) saw this idea of being able to be independent by being private," Trahant said, as opposed to being the product of a particular tribe or nation. "That vision, I think, was really extraordinary."
Investigation Into Peltier Overturned Assumptions
Anna Mae Pictou Aquash was 30 years old in 1976 when she was shot and killed on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. She’d been active with the American Indian Movement, and was having an affair with one of AIM’s leaders, Dennis Banks. Another AIM leader, Leonard Peltier, had been arrested in Canada just weeks before on charges that he killed two FBI agents during a 1975 shootout at Pine Ridge.
Peltier would be convicted, though questions around his trial persist.
No one would be charged in Aquash’s death for decades.
Rebecca Julian, left, Anna Mae Pictou Aquash's eldest sister, and
Aquash's eldest daughter, Denise Maloney, hold a portrait of Aquash
Sunday, June 20, 2003, at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia. Carson Walker/AP Photo
When DeMain was in high school, the radicals of AIM had a romantic appeal — the "headbands and feathers and sunglasses," he said, as well as the message of resistance, of Native rights. The movement, founded in Minneapolis in 1968, bore some similarities to the Black Panther Party or other left-wing militant groups of the 1960s.
For decades, Peltier was a cause célèbre throughout the Native community and across like-minded groups. News from Indian Country published stories about the case, about fundraisers for Peltier’s legal defense, about celebrities who lent their support.
"The idea that Peltier was an innocent man was almost a universal feeling at some point," DeMain said.
By contrast, not many people outside of a few circles in the Native community people spared a thought for Aquash. To the extent anyone did think of her, many of them blamed her death, like Peltier’s conviction, on the FBI.
In early 2001, Banks’ ex-wife, Ka-Mook Nichols, visited DeMain on the Lac Courte Oreilles reservation. She had moved multiple times, in part out of fear of AIM members. She would meet him in Denver six months later for a lengthy interview. Nichols knew DeMain's reputation as a journalist. And she knew things about both Peltier and Aquash.
DeMain worked with fellow Native journalists Richard LaCourse and Minnie Two Shoes to track down multiple sources who had heard Peltier brag about killing the two FBI agents.
LaCourse, a member of the Yakama nation who lived in eastern Washington state, was the first news director of the American Indian Press Association, and has been called the dean of American Indian journalism. He died in 2001, as the story was still coming together. Two Shoes, a member of the Assiniboine Sioux nation, had been a publicist for AIM in the early 1970s before becoming a journalist. She knew Aquash personally. Two Shoes died in 2010.
Together, the three journalists spoke to countless sources, reviewed documents compiled by the U.S. Department of Justice. In January 2002, they published evidence that not only had Peltier bragged to Aquash about shooting the two agents, but also that it was that conversation that led others within AIM to kill her in order to protect Peltier.
DeMain’s reporting would spur new investigations into Aquash’s death, including the convictions of two AIM members found to have been tangentially involved. It would also change the way many saw Peltier.
DeMain’s Ojibwe name is Skabewis, which means "The Messenger." He got it from a mentor, the Lac Courte Oreilles elder James "Pipe" Mustache, for whom DeMain served as a driver for years after he came to the reservation, chauffeuring him to ceremonial functions and meeting many tribal leaders and elders in the process. It was an experience that helped define DeMain, and he still thinks often about how he can serve as a messenger to his community.
When it came to Peltier, DeMain said, "I brought a message that nobody wanted to hear."
But maybe, he adds, no one would have listened if it had come from someone else.
Paul DeMain holds a picture of James "Pipe" Mustache, who was a Lac Courte Oreilles elder and a mentor to DeMain in the years after DeMain came to the reservation. Rob Mentzer/WPR
In Search Of Mushrooms, And Life Without Newspaper Deadlines
These days, one of DeMain’s chief interests is mushrooms. Their medicinal properties haven’t been fully unlocked, he said.
"I think if they’re studied, maybe the cure for cancer, or maybe the cure for, I don’t know, some kind of ailment, like Trumpism, could be found in the mushrooms," he deadpanned.
DeMain is not shy about his left-wing politics. He was a fan of Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential primary in 2016, and he ran for state Senate himself as a Democrat in 2014.
"Curing" Trumpism is a joke, but the care for mushrooms is real.
DeMain is spending time on his land, cataloging what he has. He collects chaga mushrooms, which grow on birch, and crushes them into a pulpy substance that some say has medicinal qualities. He’s cut some long logs, drilled holes in them and inoculated them with mushroom spawn — summer white oyster, shiitake, lion’s mane — sealed over with wax. With any luck, they’ll make for tasty soups next spring.
DeMain hopes to earn some money in his new life from mushrooms, maple vinegar and other products of the woods.
He also plans to do some freelance journalism — Trahant hopes to work with him at Indian Country Today — and he earns money from occasional speaking engagements.
But there’s also a political reason behind his interest in the food sources found on his land. He’s taken an interest in the "food sovereignty" movement, which is about helping tribal communities connect with healthy, local foods. Through the cultivation of foods traditionally harvested by indigenous people, he said he hopes people learn to connect, too, with their history.
"We have a generation of young people who know how to go buy their food at Walmart and warm it up in the microwave," DeMain said.
An appreciation of the land, its natural rhythms and growing seasons, is one way to start to reverse that.
"We’re recovering our mental health, we’re recovering our history, we’re recovering our food, we’re recovering our pride at every level," DeMain said. "And it may be that the indigenous community is going to be a key to the survival of mankind in the future."
On an overcast day at the end of September, DeMain takes a delivery of chaga mushrooms to an elder on the reservation, 84-year-old Sandy Bird. She offers to pay him, and they settle on plans for her to bake him a blueberry pie instead. In her living room, they chat about politics. The governor will be visiting a tribal celebration.
"That’ll be good," Bird says. "I think he’s for the Indians."
"He’s been out and about quite a bit," DeMain agrees.
There’s a pipeline protest he’s going to attend in the Superior area. There’s a Treaty Day celebration on Madeline Island, where Ojibwe people once played massive games of lacrosse. And he’s sorting through the boxes and records of 33 years of News from Indian Country. There's no shortage of things to do.
But he’s also adjusting to life without newspaper deadlines. He’s able to pick up his grandkids from school, and to spend time on his land. His life has a different rhythm.
"I was anxious about money, anxious about shutting the business down, anxious about a lot of things," DeMain said. "The answer is to really try to live each day as it comes. I’ve got food, shelter, people who love me. I’m OK. Let’s get through today, and live it to the best."
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Tribes Push Against Northern Oil Pipelines
By Keegan Kyle
Air Date: Tuesday, July 6, 2021, 7:30am
Amid protests by tribes and environmental advocates, a Minnesota appeals court recently upheld regulatory approval of an oil pipeline leading to Superior. An opponent of Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 discusses the project and what’s next.
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CODE RED: President Biden DNR and Gov. Walz Unwilling to Stop Line 3 On-going Waters and Wetlands Contaminations
BAGLEY, MINN. – September 27, 2021 -- Enbridge Line 3 construction continues to violate federal 404 and state 401 clean water act permits in Minnesota because the DNR, MPCA and the U.S. Corps of Engineers are unwilling to stop the violators, Enbridge Line 3.
“There's a situation growing at Clearwater River crossing near Bagley and Highway 2,” reported drone photographer, Ron Turney, Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN ). “Today, I noticed lots of fluids all over the work yard. It looks like an HDD waste containment failure, new black trucks monitoring the pumps, more workers. Not sure but doesn't look good!”
New Frac-outs Reported by the Indigenous Environmental Network Monitor in Clearwater River Tributaries and the Mississippi River Headwaters
Turney has been recording and posting photos and videos about various spills, vegetation kills and frac-outs resulting from HDD drilling activities, some showing chemicals rising in the Clearwater tributary, killing all vegetation it touches. “Same color of chemical sheen as seen at Camp Firelight near the Mississippi,” said Turney, “and there's more drill fluids rising along the east easement. Notice the dark reddish mud the same color as the waste in the massive tanks.”
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Concerned Citizens Walk Across State for Pipeline Awareness
June 25, 2016
Concerned citizens a part of the 33 day walk through Wisconsin. (Photo: Doug Grandt)
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A group of concerned citizens is walking the length of a Canadian owned pipeline corridor that runs over 300 miles through Wisconsin on a diagonal from Walworth to Superior.
The purpose of the the 33 day walk is to raise awareness of proposed new construction of additional pipeline capacity that, if approved, would increase the amount of tar sands oil threefold rivaling the Keystone XL.
The walk began on Jun. 8 and will continue until Jul. 10 for it’s culmination at Superior WI.
The Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa will be hosting the group for several days near Hayward with a variety of awareness raising events including honoring Gaylord Nelson, and presenting the unique perspectives of first nation people regarding the right way to live on the land.
Wisconsin state legislators and candidates have been invited to speak at this event about how to build a socially and ecologically healthy Wisconsin. The Sacred Water Sacred Land walkers point out that the Canadian owned Enbridge pipeline company has had 800 spills in the last decade.
The Enbridge pipe rupture in Kalamazoo, Michigan destroyed the Kalamazoo River and sickened many people. There have been spills in Wisconsin also with Grand Marsh being subjected to 60,000 gallons of tars sands oil in 2012.
“Currently, solar energy systems are the fastest growing industry in the nation and all remaining available oil reserves should be used only as feed stock to transition to renewable systems,” said Juliee de la Terre, organizer and professor at Viterbo University. ”Tar sands extraction in Canada is causing atmospheric pollution that covers North America and transporting it puts everyone at risk because it contains cancer causing solvents.The oil can’t be cleaned from water bodies because it sinks to the bottom. Most of the tar sands oil is for export.”
You can find the schedule and more at 33daysontwin66.com.
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Rally takes over Victoria Law Courts entrance to support Unist’ot’en Camp
Coastal GasLink seeks injunction against blockade
Keri Coles Dec. 13, 2018 2:45 p.m.
A rally in Victoria takes over the front steps of the Victoria Law Courts Thursday to stand in solidarity with Unist’ot’en Camp. (Keri Coles/News staff)
A rally in Victoria took over the front steps of the Victoria Law Courts Thursday to stand in solidarity with Unist’ot’en – a permanent, non-violent Indigenous occupation south of Houston, B.C. set up to protect unceded Unist’ot’en territory from pipeline construction.
The Unist’ot’en Camp is along the proposed route of multiple LNG pipelines, including TransCanada Coastal GasLink who filed an application for an injunction Nov. 26 in Prince George B.C. Supreme Court to enforce access to areas blocked by the Unist’ot’en camp.
The hearing began this week, inspiring Victoria activists to head to the courthouse “in support for Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs and the Unist’ot’en Yintah.”
“We want to show our support for Unist’ot’en and the five hereditary chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en who continue to assert jurisdiction over their territories and steadfastly say ‘NO consent for fracked gas pipelines!’” said rally organizers.
RELATED: Protesters opposing LNG Canada drop banners inside B.C. legislature
Chanting “We stand with Unist’ot’en,” the group walked from the Greater Victoria Public Library over to the courthouse around noon to assemble on the front stairs of the law courts and block the front entrance.
A smaller group, dressed in court costumes and calling themselves the Supreme Court Choir, sang protest renditions of popular Christmas carols.
“We don’t give a damn for the laws of your land, now it’s time to move out of the way. It’s the most wonderful time of the year,” sang the choir.
“Some local defenders of the Unist’ot’en territory don’t want to see the pipeline put through their territory. I really admire their persistence,” said rally participant Larry Wartel.
The group denounces how “settler institutions ignore their own commitments to UNDRIP and Reconciliation in the name of corporate profit.”
RELATED: Coastal GasLink applies for injunction against Unist’ot’en
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A rally in Victoria takes over the front steps of the Victoria Law Courts Thursday to stand in solidarity with Unist’ot’en Camp. (Keri Coles/News staff)
A rally in Victoria takes over the front steps of the Victoria Law Courts Thursday to stand in solidarity with Unist’ot’en Camp. (Keri Coles/News staff)
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Victoria’s Keri Coles dies of cancer
Nov. 8, 2019 6:45 p.mKeri Coles was an inspiration to us all. She worked tirelessly to give a voice to those unable to share their stories and was a pillar in our organization. She put her heart into every story and her dedication to our craft was unwavering.
Keri got her start with Black Press Media as a reporter for the Oak Bay News before transitioning to our Greater Victoria editorial hub as a member of our breaking news team.
Shortly before being diagnosed with cancer earlier this year, Keri was named New Journalist of the Year at the B.C. and Yukon Community Newspaper Awards. During her time as a reporter in Greater Victoria, she was honoured countless times for her work at both the provincial and national levels.
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Keri’s passion was evident to everyone she met. She had a drive to live life to the fullest, laugh and explore all this world has to offer, all while always putting her family first. They were the most important part of her full life.
Keri leaves behind her 11-year-old daughter Ella Grace Coles and husband Gene Coles. She is also survived by parents Griff and Pat Tripp, brother Shawn Tripp (Nicole and sons Graden and Nolen) and grandmother Florence Keeler. She was predeceased by grandparents Jean and Cliff Tripp and Don Keeler.
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 20:22:04 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Vote Yes to End Equalization-- Guest
Speaker, MLA Drew Barnes
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Hello,
Thank you for writing. If your e-mail did not include your full name,
address, and phone number – please resend it with this information so
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 17:22:00 -0300
Subject: Fwd: Vote Yes to End Equalization-- Guest Speaker, MLA Drew Barnes
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ross.Wetmore" <Ross.Wetmore@gnb.ca>, "John.Williamson"
< John.Williamson@parl.gc.ca>
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 19:33:04 +0000
Subject: Vote Yes to End Equalization-- Guest Speaker, MLA Drew Barnes
To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
Greetings ,
Topic: VOTE YES TO END EQUALIZATION
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Tom Flanagan discusses Beyond the Indian Act
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The Macdonald-Laurier Institute
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Tom Flanagan discusses Beyond the Indian Act: Restoring Aboriginal
Property Rights, at the Rideau Club in Ottawa, March 23, 2010. An
event
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Me,Myself and I
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The Native American Journalists Association sponsored a presention
during July 2011 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida regarding the murder
investigation into the December 1975 execution of Annie Mae Pictou
Aquash by members of the American Indian Movement and its connection
with evens surrounding the imprisonment of Leonard Peltier for the
execution of two FBI agents in June of 1975.
On 8/3/17, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
> If want something very serious to download and laugh at as well Please
> Enjoy and share real wiretap tapes of the mob
>
> http://thedavidamosrant.
> ilian.html
>
>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/
>>
>> As the CBC etc yap about Yankee wiretaps and whistleblowers I must
>> ask them the obvious question AIN'T THEY FORGETTING SOMETHING????
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?
RCMP Sussex New Brunswick
>>
>> January 30, 2007
>>
>> WITHOUT PREJUDICE
>>
>> Mr. David Amos
>>
>> Dear Mr. Amos:
>>
>> This will acknowledge receipt of a copy of your e-mail of December 29,
>> 2006 to Corporal Warren McBeath of the RCMP.
>>
>> Because of the nature of the allegations made in your message, I have
>> taken the measure of forwarding a copy to Assistant Commissioner Steve
>> Graham of the RCMP “J” Division in Fredericton.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Honourable Michael B. Murphy
>> Minister of Health
>>
>> CM/cb
>>
>>
>> Warren McBeath warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca wrote:
>>
>> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:34:53 -0500
>> From: "Warren McBeath" warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>> To: kilgoursite@ca.inter.net, MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca,
>> nada.sarkis@gnb.ca, wally.stiles@gnb.ca, dwatch@web.net,
>> motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>> CC: ottawa@chuckstrahl.com, riding@chuckstrahl.com,John.
>> Oda.B@parl.gc.ca,"Bev BUSSON" bev.busson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>> "Paul Dube" PAUL.DUBE@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>> Subject: Re: Remember me Kilgour? Landslide Annie McLellan has
>> forgotten me but the crooks within the RCMP have not
>>
>> Dear Mr. Amos,
>>
>> Thank you for your follow up e-mail to me today. I was on days off
>> over the holidays and returned to work this evening. Rest assured I
>> was not ignoring or procrastinating to respond to your concerns.
>>
>> As your attachment sent today refers from Premier Graham, our position
>> is clear on your dead calf issue: Our forensic labs do not process
>> testing on animals in cases such as yours, they are referred to the
>> Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown who can provide these
>> services. If you do not choose to utilize their expertise in this
>> instance, then that is your decision and nothing more can be done.
>>
>> As for your other concerns regarding the US Government, false
>> imprisonment and Federal Court Dates in the US, etc... it is clear
>> that Federal authorities are aware of your concerns both in Canada
>> the US. These issues do not fall into the purvue of Detachment
>> and policing in Petitcodiac, NB.
>>
>> It was indeed an interesting and informative conversation we had on
>> December 23rd, and I wish you well in all of your future endeavors.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Warren McBeath, Cpl.
>> GRC Caledonia RCMP
>> Traffic Services NCO
>> Ph: (506) 387-2222
>> Fax: (506) 387-4622
>> E-mail warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>
>>
>>
>> What the hell does the media think my Yankee lawyer served upon the
>> USDOJ right after I ran for and seat in the 39th Parliament baseball
>> cards?
>>
>> http://archive.org/details/
>> 6
>>
>> http://davidamos.blogspot.ca/
>>
>> http://www.archive.org/
>>
>> http://archive.org/details/
>>
>> FEDERAL EXPRES February 7, 2006
>> Senator Arlen Specter
>> United States Senate
>> Committee on the Judiciary
>> 224 Dirksen Senate Office Building
>> Washington, DC 20510
>>
>> Dear Mr. Specter:
>>
>> I have been asked to forward the enclosed tapes to you from a man
>> named, David Amos, a Canadian citizen, in connection with the matters
>> raised in the attached letter.
>>
>> Mr. Amos has represented to me that these are illegal FBI wire tap tapes.
>>
>> I believe Mr. Amos has been in contact with you about this previously.
>>
>> Very truly yours,
>> Barry A. Bachrach
>> Direct telephone: (508) 926-3403
>> Direct facsimile: (508) 929-3003
>> Email: bbachrach@bowditch.com
>>
>
https://www.cbc.ca/news/
Flanagan regrets WikiLeaks assassination remark
Liberals file complaint with CBC ombudsman
Tom Flanagan, a former senior adviser to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, says he regrets his "glib" comment calling for the assassination of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
"It was a thoughtless, glib remark about a serious subject," Flanagan said Wednesday on the CBC's Power & Politics with Evan Solomon.
"I never seriously intended to advocate or propose the assassination of Mr. Assange. But I do think that what he's doing is very malicious and harmful to diplomacy and endangering people's lives, and I think it should be stopped."
Earlier, Flanagan said in a statement to CBC News, "If Mr. Assange is arrested on the recently announced Interpol warrant, I hope [he] receives a fair trial and due process of law."
But Mark Stephens, Assange's lawyer, told Power & Politics that Flanagan's comments are "a matter for the Candian authorities, as a criminal offence — the incitement to kill — has been committed on their soil."
In a panel interview Monday night on Power & Politics, Flanagan said U.S. President Barack Obama "should put out a contract and maybe use a drone or something."
Tom Flanagan says he 'wouldn't be unhappy' if WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange 'disappeared.'
"I think Assange should be assassinated, actually," Flanagan said with a laugh, and when asked to expand upon his answer, added that he "wouldn't be unhappy" if Assange "disappeared."
When the CBC's Solomon commented that his position was "pretty harsh stuff," Flanagan, who is known for his off-the-cuff sense of humour and often brings props to panel interviews, replied, "I'm feeling very manly today, Evan."
Although Flanagan described most of the information in the leaked U.S. cables as "harmless," he added the revelation that Arab diplomats requested the U.S. to attack Iran's nuclear facilities as secrets that "could conceivably lead to war."
"This is really not stuff that should be out," he said.
Flanagan, a University of Calgary professor who previously served as Harper's chief of staff, is no stranger to controversy and has often been at odds with his former boss and colleagues in the Conservative caucus in recent years.
Comments 'obviously tongue-in-cheek': Reid
Scott Reid, a former Liberal adviser to prime minister Paul Martin who was on the TV program's panel with Flanagan, said he believed Flanagan was being "his usual colourful and provocative self " and was "obviously talking tongue-in-cheek."
"Not for a second did I think he was suggesting seriously that someone's life be put at risk," said Reid. "He's a great guy with strong opinions, not a mean guy with lunatic opinions."
Later on Wednesday, New Democrat Paul Dewar asked the government about Flanagan's comments during question period in the House of Commons.
"Mr. Flanagan speaks for himself," Government House Leader John Baird responded. "He doesn't speak for the government and he hasn't advised the PM for years. I certainly don't share his views."
Liberal MP Denis Coderre has filed an official complaint with the CBC's ombudsman Vince Carlin regarding what he called a "declaration to incite violence."
A number of U.S. and Canadian media figures have either suggested or demanded Assange be targeted for assassination or executed in the wake of the embarrassing scandal over the hundreds of thousands of secret diplomatic messages being published online. Amid the furor, Assange's whereabouts remain unknown.
Former U.S. Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who is widely expected to run for president in 2012, has called the former computer hacker an "anti-American operative with blood on his hands" and accused Obama of not doing enough to stop the WikiLeaks founder.
"Why was he not pursued with the same urgency we pursue al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders?" she said.
Canadian author and columnist Ezra Levant questioned why the Obama administration has treated the Australian-born Assange differently than the Taliban leaders targeted for assassination, saying he and his WikiLeaks colleagues "act like spies, not journalists."
"Why is Assange still alive?" Levant wrote in his column for QMI Agency earlier this week.
"Why is he being treated as a journalist or political activist? If someone had published the intimate details of the D-Day plans during the Second World War, he would never have been seen again."
Meanwhile, Interpol has placed Assange on its most-wanted list after Sweden issued an arrest warrant against him as part of a drawn-out rape investigation.
Assange, whose whereabouts are unknown, is suspected of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion. He has denied the allegations, which stem from his encounters with two women during a visit to Sweden in August.
With files from The Associated Press
CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices
Tom Flanagan threatened me over WikiLeaks comment, Toronto woman says
Globe and Mail Update
Published December 7, 2010
A Toronto woman says she felt threatened by an e-mail response she
says she received from a former Stephen Harper adviser at the centre
of a controversy over his comments about WikiLeaks.
Janet Reymond says she felt "justifiably outraged" after Tom Flanagan
mused on a CBC political talk show last week that the founder of
WikiLeaks should be killed.
Mr. Flanagan said U.S. President Barack Obama should consider
assassinating Julian Assange because his website released thousands of
highly sensitive U.S. government documents.
Mr. Flanagan, a University of Calgary professor, has since apologized,
saying he wasn't seriously suggesting Mr. Assange should be killed.
But late last week Mr. Assange said Mr. Flanagan and others making
such statements about him should be charged with incitement to murder.
And on Monday Calgary police said they were investigating and it would
be up to the Crown to decide whether to lay charges.
In an interview Tuesday with The Canadian Press, Ms. Reymond said she
e-mailed Mr. Flanagan after his televised comment and he sent back a
one-sentence reply that said simply, "Better be careful, we know where
you live."
Ms. Reymond said she considered that a threat and immediately called
Toronto Police.
"I did. In fact when the Toronto Police came to my door it was 1:30 in
the morning and I was still up. I couldn't sleep."
Ms. Reymond said she showed the e-mail to the officer but he said it
was "borderline" whether it could be considered a threat. She also
called police in Calgary, but was told she would have to make any
complaint in person.
The e-mail that Ms. Reymond sent to Mr. Flanagan was blunt: "So you
are in favour of assassinating people that you disagree with. Does the
Reform Party have no ethical basis? Agree with us or get
assassinated?"
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Ms. Reymond says she is politically active and voted Liberal in the
last federal election. She says she retired from the insurance
industry three years ago.
She said she is not asking that criminal charges be laid against Mr. Flanagan.
"I just want an apology from him and assurance that he won't harm me."
Mr. Flanagan, a political science professor at the University of
Calgary, did not reply to requests for an interview.
A university spokesman said statements made by Mr. Flanagan do not
represent the views of the institution and no disciplinary action is
being considered.
Mr. Flanagan served as senior communications adviser for the federal
Conservatives in the 2006 election that brought Prime Minister Stephen
Harper to power.
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From: Premier of Ontario | Premier ministre de l’Ontario <Premier@ontario.ca>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 00:14:31 +0000
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks Rohinton Medhora and Aaron Shull of
CIGI should have called me back instead of calling Chief Bryan
Larkin's minions at 519-570-9777 ext. 6399 in order to make false
allegations against me N'esy Pas Spencer Tripp?
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On 9/28/21, David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
> For the Public Record this is the only person within CIGI that Ispoke
> with and I certainly did NOT threaten that lady lawyer
>
>
> Erin Uberig
> Junior Counsel
> +1 519 885 2444 ext 7292
> euberig@cigionline.org
>
>
> https://www.cigionline.org/
>
> Rohinton P. Medhora
>
> Rohinton P. Medhora is president of the Centre for International
> Governance Innovation.
> Medhora_Rohinton_P-Square.jpg
> Expertise
> International Development Monetary Policy International Trade
> +1 519 885 2444 ext 7340
> rmedhora@cigionline.org
> @rohintonmedhora
> www.linkedin.com/in/rohinton-
> High-resolution Photo
> Bio
>
> Rohinton P. Medhora is president of CIGI, joining in 2012. He served
> on CIGI’s former International Board of Governors from 2009 to 2014.
> Previously, he was vice president of programs at Canada’s
> International Development Research Centre. His fields of expertise are
> monetary and trade policy, international economic relations and
> development economics.
>
> Rohinton sits on The Lancet and the Financial Times Commission on
> Governing Health Futures 2030, as well as the Commission on Global
> Economic Transformation, co-chaired by Nobel economics laureates
> Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz. He serves on the boards of the
> Institute for New Economic Thinking and the McLuhan Foundation and is
> on the advisory boards of the WTO Chairs Programme, UNU-MERIT, and
> Global Health Centre. Rohinton is also a member of the Ontario
> Workplace Recovery Advisory Committee.
>
> Rohinton received his doctorate in economics in 1988 from the
> University of Toronto, where he subsequently taught for a number of
> years. In addition to his Ph.D., Rohinton earned his B.A. and M.A. at
> the University of Toronto, where he majored in economics.
>
> He has published extensively on these issues in professional and
> non-technical journals, and has produced several books: Finance and
> Competitiveness in Developing Countries (Routledge, 2001) and
> Financial Reform in Developing Countries (Macmillan, 1998), which he
> co-edited with José Fanelli. In 2013, he was co-editor of
> Canada-Africa Relations: Looking Back, Looking Ahead, which is volume
> 27 in the influential Canada Among Nations book series. In 2014, he
> co-edited International Development: Ideas, Experience, and Prospects
> (Oxford University Press) and Crisis and Reform: Canada and the
> International Financial System, which is volume 28 in the Canada Among
> Nations book series.
>
> More information is available on Wikipedia.
> In the News
>
> CIGI in the News
> CIGI Celebrates 20 Years of Grappling With World Problems
>
> July 30, 2021
>
> CIGI in the News
> What Will It Take For The Pandemic To End Globally?
>
> June 15, 2021
>
> CIGI in the News
> Everything You Need to Know About the WTO's COVID-19 Vaccine Patent
> Proposal
>
> May 10, 2021
> Christy Somos - CTV News
> Select Publications
> 1.
> Rohinton P. Medhora (Commissioner). 2021. "The Pandemic and the
> Economic Crisis: A Global Agenda for Urgent Action". INET Commission
> on Global Economic Transformation. Interim Report on the Global
> Response to the Pandemic..
> 2.
> Rohinton P. Medhora. 2019. "Policy choices in the 21st century – where
> to start?". Middle East Development Journal. Vo 11, No 2, 277-288.
> 3.
> Rohinton Medhora. 2019. "Bypasses to the International Monetary Fund".
> Transnational Legal Theory. Vo 10, No 3-4, 318-332.
> 4.
> Rohinton P. Medhora. 2018. "Will the Price Ever be Right? Carbon
> Pricing and the WTO". Trade, Law and Development. Maria Panezi. Vol
> 10, No 1, 19-33.
>
> https://www.cigionline.org/
>
> Aaron Shull
>
> A practising lawyer, Aaron Shull is CIGI’s managing director and
> general counsel. In addition to advising on a range of domestic legal
> and corporate matters, he has substantive expertise in international
> law, global security and internet governance.
> shull_aaron1x1.jpg
> Expertise
> International Law Internet Governance Cyber Security and Espionage
> +1 519 885 2444 ext 7478
> ashull@cigionline.org
> @shull_aaron
> www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-
> Curriculum Vitae
> High-resolution Photo
> Bio
>
> As CIGI’s managing director and general counsel, Aaron Shull acts as a
> strategic liaison between CIGI’s research initiatives and other
> departments while managing CIGI’s legal affairs and advising senior
> management on a range of legal, operational and policy matters.
>
> A member of CIGI’s executive team, Aaron provides guidance and advice
> on matters of strategic and operational importance, while working
> closely with partners and other institutions to further CIGI’s
> mission. He also serves as corporate secretary.
>
> Aaron is an expert on cyber security issues. He coordinated the CIGI
> essay series Governing Cyberspace during a Crisis in Trust. In his
> introduction, he argues that more robust international norms for cyber
> security are a national imperative for Canada.
>
> Prior to joining CIGI, Aaron practised law for a number of
> organizations, focusing on international, regulatory and environmental
> law. He has taught courses at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of
> Law, and the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and was
> previously a staff editor for the Columbia Journal of Transnational
> Law.
>
> Aaron graduated from the University of Waterloo, placing first in his
> class as a departmental scholar, with a B.A. (honours) in history and
> political science. His keen interest in international affairs and
> political history led him to pursue an M.A. in international affairs
> at Carleton University’s Norman Paterson School of International
> Affairs, where he graduated with distinction. He concurrently pursued
> his LL.B. from the University of Ottawa, where he graduated cum laude
> with first class honours. Aaron received his LL.M. from Columbia Law
> School, where he graduated as a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar.
> In the News
>
> CIGI in the News
> Experts call for an overhaul of Canada's national security policy to
> cope with an 'angry' world
>
> September 22, 2021
>
> CIGI in the News
> Why Should Canada Care About the US 2020 Election?
>
> October 27, 2020
>
> CIGI in the News
> Ransomware Attack on Construction Company Raises Questions about
> Federal Contracts
>
> January 27, 2020
> CBC- Cathatine Tunney
>
> https://www.cigionline.org/
>
> Shelley Boettger
>
> As CIGI’s chief financial officer and director of operations, Shelley
> Boettger provides corporate leadership and strategic guidance on all
> financial aspects of the organization. Shelley is responsible for the
> management of CIGI’s financial systems and investment portfolios, as
> well as for managing operations and providing financial advice to
> senior leadership.
> boettger_shelley-1x1.jpg
> +1 519 885 2444 ext 7288
> sboettger@cigionline.org
> High-resolution Photo
> Bio
>
> As CIGI’s chief financial officer and director of operations, Shelley
> Boettger provides corporate leadership and strategic guidance on all
> financial aspects of the organization. Shelley is responsible for the
> management of CIGI’s financial systems and investment portfolios, as
> well as for managing operations and providing financial advice to
> senior leadership.
>
> An expert communicator and driver of effective change management,
> Shelley brings to the organization a unique perspective as a corporate
> leader, with a focus on managing high-performing teams.
>
> Prior to her arrival at CIGI, Shelley was the director of finance for
> the Ontario Teachers Insurance Plan (OTIP). During her eight years at
> OTIP, Shelley played a pivotal role in the development and
> implementation of critical financial policies that are helping to
> ensure the ongoing success of the business. Shelley also led a variety
> of corporate projects, maintaining a focus on strategic priorities and
> making valuable contributions to the organization at each step of the
> process. During her career Shelley has also held financial leadership
> positions with the City of Kitchener and Melitron Corporation, each
> centred on building integrated financial systems, effective processes
> and key strategic planning.
>
> Shelley received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from McMaster
> University. She also holds designations as a Chartered Professional
> Accountant, Certified Management Accountant and Certified Employee
> Benefit Specialist.
>
>
> https://www.cigionline.org/
>
> Spencer Tripp
>
> Spencer Tripp leads the development of CIGI’s digital media and
> communications strategy and presence. A journalist by training and
> bilingual in English and French, Spencer brings to the role a wealth
> of strategic, creative and operational leadership experience in
> intergovernmental, governmental and international non-profit
> organizations, including NAFTA’s Commission for Environmental
> Cooperation, Greenpeace Canada and Greenpeace International.
> tripp_spencer-1x1.jpg
> +1 519 885 2444 ext 7317
> Bio
>
> Spencer Tripp leads the development of CIGI’s digital media and
> communications strategy and presence. A journalist by training and
> bilingual in English and French, Spencer brings to the role a wealth
> of strategic, creative and operational leadership experience in
> intergovernmental, governmental and international non-profit
> organizations, including NAFTA’s Commission for Environmental
> Cooperation, Greenpeace and the International Fund for Animal Welfare.
>
> His communications expertise includes strategic planning, brand
> management, crisis communications and, particularly, an exceptional
> record in media and public relations. He is recognized for his ability
> to engage diverse audiences with high impact, data-driven content
> across all channels.
>
> Prior to CIGI, Spencer was the global communications project manager
> for Greenpeace International where he set up a 24/7 international news
> and social media desk. This followed his experience at Greenpeace
> Canada where he was the communications director for Greenpeace Canada
> for seven years, managing national communications and reporting to the
> board of directors as a member of the senior management team.
>
> Among his accomplishments, Spencer produced the critically acclaimed
> documentary Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands,
> co-wrote the Global Communications Strategy for Greenpeace, developed
> a wiki of best practices in communications and launched a podcast with
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>
> Spencer holds a B.A. in journalism from Carleton University where he
> graduated with honours.
>
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> Subject: Automatic reply: ATTN Bryan M. Larkin President of Canadian
> Association of Chiefs of Police ad Director at International
> Association of Chiefs of Police should have had his buddy Cyril
> Williams do a background check on me by now EH?
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> ---------- Original message ----------
> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 20:16:07 -0300
> Subject: ATTN Bryan M. Larkin President of Canadian Association of
> Chiefs of Police ad Director at International Association of Chiefs of
> Police should have had his buddy Cyril Williams do a background check
> on me by now EH?
> To: bryan.larkin@wrps.on.ca, "Brenda.Lucki"
> <Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Bill.Blair" <Bill.Blair@parl.gc.ca>,
> washington field <washington.field@ic.fbi.gov>, arotenberg@cacp.ca,
> conference@theiacp.org, "steve.murphy" <steve.murphy@ctv.ca>,
> "stefanos.karatopis" <stefanos.karatopis@gmail.com>
> <sheilagunnreid@gmail.com>, cyril@tritonverify.com,
> karen.redman@wrps.on.ca, michael.oshea@faa.gov, Karl.Kiefer@wrps.on.ca
> Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>, publicinfo@wrps.on.ca,
> Newsroom <Newsroom@globeandmail.com>, Norman Traversy
> <traversy.n@gmail.com>, humantrafficking@theiacp.org, "Mark.Blakely"
> <Mark.Blakely@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "martin.gaudet"
> <martin.gaudet@fredericton.ca>
> mcu <mcu@justice.gc.ca>
>
> https://worldsitelink.com/
>
> According to LinkedIn Cyril Williams started working on 1993, then
> the employee has changed 7 companies and 7 jobs. On average, Cyril
> Williams works for one company for 5 years 5 months. Cyril Williams
> has been working as a Member for International Association of Chiefs
> of Police for 884 days. If you are interested in this candidate,
> contact him directly by using contact details provided by SignalHire.
> Work Experience
>
> Member at International Association of Chiefs of Police
> (Alexandria, VA, United States)
> Apr 2019 - Current
> Member CACP - Private Sector Liaison / Crime Prevention, Community
> Safety and Well Being at Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police /
> Association canadienne des chefs de police (Kanata, Ontario, Canada)
> May 2016 - Current
> Founder at Triton Canada (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
> May 2009 - Current
> Director of Loss Prevention at Rexall Pharmacy Group Ltd.
> (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada)
> Apr 2013 - Sep 2016
> Regional Director of Store Operations at Katz Group Canada
> May 2010 - Mar 2013
> District Manager at Wal-Mart (Bentonville, Arkansas, United States)
> Jan 2004 - Jan 2009
> Regional Director Loss Prevention at Walmart (Bentonville,
> Arkansas, United States)
> Jan 1994 - Jan 2004
> Associate Partner at Admiral Investigations
> Jan 1993 - Jan 1995
>
> Education
>
> Diploma at Academy Canada
>
> Current Company Information
> International Association of Chiefs of Police
>
> Name: International Association of Chiefs of Police
> Industry: Voluntary Sector
> Speciality: Police chief, Training, Law enforcement , Professional
> development , Police officer
> Location: Alexandria, VA, United States
> Employees: 100-200
> Description: The International Association of Chiefs of Police
> (IACP) is a professional association for law enforcement worldwide.
> For more than 120 years, the IACP has been launching internati...Show
> more
>
>
> https://www.theiacpconference.
>
> The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and the
> Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) are disappointed that Senate
> negotiators could not reach agreement on police reform legislation,
> and we thank all those Members of Congress who partnered with us in
> this effort. Our organizations were, and remain, committed to enacting
> carefully balanced and thoughtful legislation that promotes systemic
> criminal justice reform, while adopting a strategic approach to
> combating crime and prioritizing community and officer safety.
>
> Despite some media reports, at no point did any legislative draft
> propose “defunding the police.” In fact, the legislation specifically
> provided additional funding to assist law enforcement agencies in
> training, agency accreditation, and data collection initiatives. It is
> our joint belief that the provisions under discussion would have
> strengthened the law enforcement profession and helped improve the
> state of community police engagement without compromising management
> and officers’ rights, authorities, and legal protections.
>
> Our organizations remain steadfast in working with all interested
> parties who are willing to take a fact-based approach to enact
> effective and lasting change, to avoid a patchwork of state laws that
> do not provide uniform standards and guidance to the policing
> profession. The IACP and the FOP will continue to embrace the
> challenge, instill strong values into our agencies at all ranks, and
> hold ourselves accountable for our actions, in order to build a more
> cohesive and safer future for our communities.
>
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/
>
> Cyril Williams
>
> Member
> International Association of Chiefs of Police
> Dates Employed Apr 2019 – Present
> Employment Duration 2 yrs 6 mos
>
>
> Member
> CACP - Private Sector Liaison / Crime Prevention, Community Safety and
> Well Being
> Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police / Association canadienne des
> chefs de police
> Dates Employed May 2016 – Present
> Employment Duration 5 yrs 5 mos
>
> Triton Canada
> Founder
> Dates Employed May 2009 – Present
> Employment Duration 12 yrs 5 mos
>
> https://www.signalhire.com/
>
> Cyril Williams's email & phone
> Current Position: Member at International Association of Chiefs of Police
> Location: Greater Toronto Area, Canada Experience: 28 years
> How to contact Cyril Williams
> Get email address:
>
> cxxxxxxxxs@theiacp.org
>
> Phone number:
>
> +1-778-xxx-xx13
>
> Last updated: 2021-04-27
>
>
>
> https://portal.clubrunner.ca/
>
> Cyril Williams
>
> Cyril has been married for 19 years, he has a daughter, a brother and
> a sister. Cyril started his career in retail, worked for Walmart in
> Halifax, moved into operations. This was an exciting time for him.
> After five years he decided to start his own business. He started a
> business called Triton. Triton is a company that does background
> checks to ensure you have the most suitable staff members on your team
> when you are looking to bring new hires into your company. Cyril is
> very fortunate with everything he has done.
>
> Cyril likes fishing and hunting, he has always enjoyed social events
> and always worked for charitable organizations. He enjoys the things
> we do for our community. As a matter of fact, he worked for the Rib
> and Roll before he was a Rotarian.
>
> Cyril had a chance to look at all the Rotary Clubs in Brampton and
> decided to join the Rotary Club of Brampton. He is very proud and
> pleased to be a Rotarian.
>
> Thank you, Cyril, for choosing our Club.
>
> https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/
>
> WRPS chief named president of Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police
> Katherine Hill
>
> Katherine Hill
> CTVNewsKitchener.ca Digital Content Producer
>
> @KatherineCTV Contact
> Published Tuesday, August 25, 2020 3:51PM EDT
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 20:47:18 -0300
> Subject: ATTN Sheriff A. J. Louderback I just called Please look for
> one my documents on your desk in the morning
> To: a.louderback@co.jackson.tx.us, info@txsheriffs.org
> Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>, info@tuckercarlson.com,
> newstips <newstips@cnn.com>, newstips@fox.com
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?
>
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>
> https://www.sheriffstx.org/
>
> Jackson County
> Sheriff A. J. "Andy" Louderback
> 115 W Main #104
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> (361) 782-3371
> Fax: (361) 782-7574
> Email: a.louderback@co.jackson.tx.us
>
>
> Sheriffs' Association of Texas
> 1601 S. Interstate 35
> Austin, TX 78741-2503
> Phone: 512-445-5888
>
> ?Every Texas Sheriff, upon assuming their office, took an oath to
> uphold the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of
> the great state of Texas. Of course, the Sheriffs of Texas are
> committed to uphold their oath of office. It goes without saying that
> Texas Sheriffs recognize that Amendment II of the Constitution
> provides that “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not
> be infringed” and that Amendment IV provides that “the right of the
> people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,
> against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated…”
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "MinFinance / FinanceMin (FIN)"
> <fin.minfinance-financemin.
> Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 14:32:03 +0000
> Subject: RE: Attn John Nater Re Federal Court file No.T-1557-15 and
> your friends Peter MacKay and Justin Trudeau Gerald Butts must know if
> know if Noman Traversy is related to John Traversy formerly ofr the
> CRTC
> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>
> The Department of Finance acknowledges receipt of your electronic
> correspondence. Please be assured that we appreciate receiving your
> comments.
>
> Le ministère des Finances accuse réception de votre correspondance
> électronique. Soyez assuré(e) que nous apprécions recevoir vos
> commentaires.
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Premier of Ontario | Premier ministre de l’Ontario
> <Premier@ontario.ca>
> Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 14:31:54 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: Attn John Nater Re Federal Court file
> No.T-1557-15 and your friends Peter MacKay and Justin Trudeau Gerald
> Butts must know if know if Noman Traversy is related to John Traversy
> formerly ofr the CRTC
> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>
> Thank you for your email. Your thoughts, comments and input are greatly
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>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Newsroom <newsroom@globeandmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 14:31:56 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: Attn John Nater Re Federal Court file
> No.T-1557-15 and your friends Peter MacKay and Justin Trudeau Gerald
> Butts must know if know if Noman Traversy is related to John Traversy
> formerly ofr the CRTC
> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jason Kee <jkee@google.com>
> Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 06:31:57 -0800
> Subject: Out of the Office Re: Attn John Nater Re Federal Court file
> No.T-1557-15 and your friends Peter MacKay and Justin Trudeau Gerald
> Butts must know if know if Noman Traversy is related to John Traversy
> formerly ofr the CRTC
> To: david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>
> Thanks for your message. Please note that I will be out of the office
> from Friday, Feb 28 until Tuesday, Mar 3 and will be delayed in
> responding to emails. If your matter is urgent, please contact Colin
> McKay at colinmckay@google.com.
> Many thanks,
> Jason
>
>
> [image: Inline image 1]
>
> * • **Jason J. Kee*
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> * • *Google Canada
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> • M: 613 513 9325 <6135139325>
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>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Premier of Ontario | Premier ministre de l’Ontario
> <Premier@ontario.ca>
> Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 10:38:04 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks Peter MacKay and Mark Ellis should
> never deny that the former US Attornery Marc Litt who locked up Bernie
> Madoff was once a law firm partner of theirs as well N'esy Pas?
> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>
> Thank you for your email. Your thoughts, comments and input are greatly
> valued.
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> You can be assured that all emails and letters are carefully read,
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>
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>
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>
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>
> Merci encore pour votre courriel.
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "MinFinance / FinanceMin (FIN)"
> <fin.minfinance-financemin.
> Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 10:38:10 +0000
> Subject: RE: Methinks Peter MacKay and Mark Ellis should never deny
> that the former US Attornery Marc Litt who locked up Bernie Madoff was
> once a law firm partner of theirs as well N'esy Pas?
> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>
> The Department of Finance acknowledges receipt of your electronic
> correspondence. Please be assured that we appreciate receiving your
> comments.
>
> Le ministère des Finances accuse réception de votre correspondance
> électronique. Soyez assuré(e) que nous apprécions recevoir vos
> commentaires.
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Justice Website <JUSTWEB@novascotia.ca>
> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:21:11 +0000
> Subject: Emails to Department of Justice and Province of Nova Scotia
> To: "motomaniac333@gmail.com" <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
> Mr. Amos,
> We acknowledge receipt of your recent emails to the Deputy Minister of
> Justice and lawyers within the Legal Services Division of the
> Department of Justice respecting a possible claim against the Province
> of Nova Scotia. Service of any documents respecting a legal claim
> against the Province of Nova Scotia may be served on the Attorney
> General at 1690 Hollis Street, Halifax, NS. Please note that we will
> not be responding to further emails on this matter.
>
> Department of Justice
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Eidt, David (OAG/CPG)" <David.Eidt@gnb.ca>
> Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 00:33:21 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: Yo Mr Lutz howcome your buddy the clerk
> would not file this motion and properly witnessed affidavit and why
> did she take all four copies?
> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
> I will be out of the office until Monday, March 13, 2017. I will have
> little to no access to email. Please dial 453-2222 for assistance.
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Marc Richard <MRichard@lawsociety-barreau.
> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 13:16:46 +0000
> Subject: Automatic reply: RE: The New Brunswick Real Estate
> Association and their deliberate ignorance for the bankster's benefit
> To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>
> I will be out of the office until August 15, 2016. Je serai absent du
> bureau jusqu'au 15 août 2016.
>
>
>
>
>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
>> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 09:32:09 -0400
>> Subject: Attn Integrity Commissioner Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C.,
>> To: coi@gnb.ca
>> Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>
>> Good Day Sir
>>
>> After I heard you speak on CBC I called your office again and managed
>> to speak to one of your staff for the first time
>>
>> Please find attached the documents I promised to send to the lady who
>> answered the phone this morning. Please notice that not after the Sgt
>> at Arms took the documents destined to your office his pal Tanker
>> Malley barred me in writing with an "English" only document.
>>
>> These are the hearings and the dockets in Federal Court that I
>> suggested that you study closely.
>>
>> This is the docket in Federal Court
>>
>> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.
>>
>> These are digital recordings of the last three hearings
>>
>> Dec 14th https://archive.org/details/
>>
>> January 11th, 2016 https://archive.org/details/
>>
>> April 3rd, 2017
>>
>> https://archive.org/details/
>>
>>
>> This is the docket in the Federal Court of Appeal
>>
>> http://cas-cdc-www02.cas-satj.
>>
>>
>> The only hearing thus far
>>
>> May 24th, 2017
>>
>> https://archive.org/details/
>>
>>
>> This Judge understnds the meaning of the word Integrity
>>
>> Date: 20151223
>>
>> Docket: T-1557-15
>>
>> Fredericton, New Brunswick, December 23, 2015
>>
>> PRESENT: The Honourable Mr. Justice Bell
>>
>> BETWEEN:
>>
>> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
>>
>> Plaintiff
>>
>> and
>>
>> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
>>
>> Defendant
>>
>> ORDER
>>
>> (Delivered orally from the Bench in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on
>> December 14, 2015)
>>
>> The Plaintiff seeks an appeal de novo, by way of motion pursuant to
>> the Federal Courts Rules (SOR/98-106), from an Order made on November
>> 12, 2015, in which Prothonotary Morneau struck the Statement of Claim
>> in its entirety.
>>
>> At the outset of the hearing, the Plaintiff brought to my attention a
>> letter dated September 10, 2004, which he sent to me, in my then
>> capacity as Past President of the New Brunswick Branch of the Canadian
>> Bar Association, and the then President of the Branch, Kathleen Quigg,
>> (now a Justice of the New Brunswick Court of Appeal). In that letter
>> he stated:
>>
>> As for your past President, Mr. Bell, may I suggest that you check the
>> work of Frank McKenna before I sue your entire law firm including you.
>> You are your brother’s keeper.
>>
>> Frank McKenna is the former Premier of New Brunswick and a former
>> colleague of mine at the law firm of McInnes Cooper. In addition to
>> expressing an intention to sue me, the Plaintiff refers to a number of
>> people in his Motion Record who he appears to contend may be witnesses
>> or potential parties to be added. Those individuals who are known to
>> me personally, include, but are not limited to the former Prime
>> Minister of Canada, The Right Honourable Stephen Harper; former
>> Attorney General of Canada and now a Justice of the Manitoba Court of
>> Queen’s Bench, Vic Toews; former member of Parliament Rob Moore;
>> former Director of Policing Services, the late Grant Garneau; former
>> Chief of the Fredericton Police Force, Barry McKnight; former Staff
>> Sergeant Danny Copp; my former colleagues on the New Brunswick Court
>> of Appeal, Justices Bradley V. Green and Kathleen Quigg, and, retired
>> Assistant Commissioner Wayne Lang of the Royal Canadian Mounted
>> Police.
>>
>> In the circumstances, given the threat in 2004 to sue me in my
>> personal capacity and my past and present relationship with many
>> potential witnesses and/or potential parties to the litigation, I am
>> of the view there would be a reasonable apprehension of bias should I
>> hear this motion. See Justice de Grandpré’s dissenting judgment in
>> Committee for Justice and Liberty et al v National Energy Board et al,
>> [1978] 1 SCR 369 at p 394 for the applicable test regarding
>> allegations of bias. In the circumstances, although neither party has
>> requested I recuse myself, I consider it appropriate that I do so.
>>
>>
>> AS A RESULT OF MY RECUSAL, THIS COURT ORDERS that the Administrator of
>> the Court schedule another date for the hearing of the motion. There
>> is no order as to costs.
>>
>> “B. Richard Bell”
>> Judge
>>
>>
>> Below after the CBC article about your concerns (I made one comment
>> already) you will find the text of just two of many emails I had sent
>> to your office over the years since I first visited it in 2006.
>>
>> I noticed that on July 30, 2009, he was appointed to the the Court
>> Martial Appeal Court of Canada Perhaps you should scroll to the
>> bottom of this email ASAP and read the entire Paragraph 83 of my
>> lawsuit now before the Federal Court of Canada?
>>
>> "FYI This is the text of the lawsuit that should interest Trudeau the
>> most
>>
>>
>> ---------- Original message ----------
>> From: justin.trudeau.a1@parl.gc.ca
>> Date: Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:18 PM
>> Subject: Réponse automatique : RE My complaint against the CROWN in
>> Federal Court Attn David Hansen and Peter MacKay If you planning to
>> submit a motion for a publication ban on my complaint trust that you
>> dudes are way past too late
>> To: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com
>>
>> Veuillez noter que j'ai changé de courriel. Vous pouvez me rejoindre à
>> lalanthier@hotmail.com
>>
>> Pour rejoindre le bureau de M. Trudeau veuillez envoyer un courriel à
>> tommy.desfosses@parl.gc.ca
>>
>> Please note that I changed email address, you can reach me at
>> lalanthier@hotmail.com
>>
>> To reach the office of Mr. Trudeau please send an email to
>> tommy.desfosses@parl.gc.ca
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Merci ,
>>
>>
>> http://davidraymondamos3.
>>
>>
>> 83. The Plaintiff states that now that Canada is involved in more war
>> in Iraq again it did not serve Canadian interests and reputation to
>> allow Barry Winters to publish the following words three times over
>> five years after he began his bragging:
>>
>> January 13, 2015
>> This Is Just AS Relevant Now As When I wrote It During The Debate
>>
>> December 8, 2014
>> Why Canada Stood Tall!
>>
>> Friday, October 3, 2014
>> Little David Amos’ “True History Of War” Canadian Airstrikes And
>> Stupid Justin Trudeau
>>
>> Canada’s and Canadians free ride is over. Canada can no longer hide
>> behind Amerka’s and NATO’s skirts.
>>
>> When I was still in Canadian Forces then Prime Minister Jean Chretien
>> actually committed the Canadian Army to deploy in the second campaign
>> in Iraq, the Coalition of the Willing. This was against or contrary to
>> the wisdom or advice of those of us Canadian officers that were
>> involved in the initial planning phases of that operation. There were
>> significant concern in our planning cell, and NDHQ about of the dearth
>> of concern for operational guidance, direction, and forces for
>> operations after the initial occupation of Iraq. At the “last minute”
>> Prime Minister Chretien and the Liberal government changed its mind.
>> The Canadian government told our amerkan cousins that we would not
>> deploy combat troops for the Iraq campaign, but would deploy a
>> Canadian Battle Group to Afghanistan, enabling our amerkan cousins to
>> redeploy troops from there to Iraq. The PMO’s thinking that it was
>> less costly to deploy Canadian Forces to Afghanistan than Iraq. But
>> alas no one seems to remind the Liberals of Prime Minister Chretien’s
>> then grossly incorrect assumption. Notwithstanding Jean Chretien’s
>> incompetence and stupidity, the Canadian Army was heroic,
>> professional, punched well above it’s weight, and the PPCLI Battle
>> Group, is credited with “saving Afghanistan” during the Panjway
>> campaign of 2006.
>>
>> What Justin Trudeau and the Liberals don’t tell you now, is that then
>> Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien committed, and deployed the
>> Canadian army to Canada’s longest “war” without the advice, consent,
>> support, or vote of the Canadian Parliament.
>>
>> What David Amos and the rest of the ignorant, uneducated, and babbling
>> chattering classes are too addled to understand is the deployment of
>> less than 75 special operations troops, and what is known by planners
>> as a “six pac cell” of fighter aircraft is NOT the same as a
>> deployment of a Battle Group, nor a “war” make.
>>
>> The Canadian Government or The Crown unlike our amerkan cousins have
>> the “constitutional authority” to commit the Canadian nation to war.
>> That has been recently clearly articulated to the Canadian public by
>> constitutional scholar Phillippe Legasse. What Parliament can do is
>> remove “confidence” in The Crown’s Government in a “vote of
>> non-confidence.” That could not happen to the Chretien Government
>> regarding deployment to Afghanistan, and it won’t happen in this
>> instance with the conservative majority in The Commons regarding a
>> limited Canadian deployment to the Middle East.
>>
>> President George Bush was quite correct after 911 and the terror
>> attacks in New York; that the Taliban “occupied” and “failed state”
>> Afghanistan was the source of logistical support, command and control,
>> and training for the Al Quaeda war of terror against the world. The
>> initial defeat, and removal from control of Afghanistan was vital and
>>
>> P.S. Whereas this CBC article is about your opinion of the actions of
>> the latest Minister Of Health trust that Mr Boudreau and the CBC have
>> had my files for many years and the last thing they are is ethical.
>> Ask his friends Mr Murphy and the RCMP if you don't believe me.
>>
>> Subject:
>> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:02:35 -0400
>> From: "Murphy, Michael B. \(DH/MS\)" MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca
>> To: motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>>
>> January 30, 2007
>>
>> WITHOUT PREJUDICE
>>
>> Mr. David Amos
>>
>> Dear Mr. Amos:
>>
>> This will acknowledge receipt of a copy of your e-mail of December 29,
>> 2006 to Corporal Warren McBeath of the RCMP.
>>
>> Because of the nature of the allegations made in your message, I have
>> taken the measure of forwarding a copy to Assistant Commissioner Steve
>> Graham of the RCMP “J” Division in Fredericton.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Honourable Michael B. Murphy
>> Minister of Health
>>
>> CM/cb
>>
>>
>> Warren McBeath warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca wrote:
>>
>> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:34:53 -0500
>> From: "Warren McBeath" warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>> To: kilgoursite@ca.inter.net, MichaelB.Murphy@gnb.ca,
>> nada.sarkis@gnb.ca, wally.stiles@gnb.ca, dwatch@web.net,
>> motomaniac_02186@yahoo.com
>> CC: ottawa@chuckstrahl.com, riding@chuckstrahl.com,John.
>> Oda.B@parl.gc.ca,"Bev BUSSON" bev.busson@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
>> "Paul Dube" PAUL.DUBE@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>> Subject: Re: Remember me Kilgour? Landslide Annie McLellan has
>> forgotten me but the crooks within the RCMP have not
>>
>> Dear Mr. Amos,
>>
>> Thank you for your follow up e-mail to me today. I was on days off
>> over the holidays and returned to work this evening. Rest assured I
>> was not ignoring or procrastinating to respond to your concerns.
>>
>> As your attachment sent today refers from Premier Graham, our position
>> is clear on your dead calf issue: Our forensic labs do not process
>> testing on animals in cases such as yours, they are referred to the
>> Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown who can provide these
>> services. If you do not choose to utilize their expertise in this
>> instance, then that is your decision and nothing more can be done.
>>
>> As for your other concerns regarding the US Government, false
>> imprisonment and Federal Court Dates in the US, etc... it is clear
>> that Federal authorities are aware of your concerns both in Canada
>> the US. These issues do not fall into the purvue of Detachment
>> and policing in Petitcodiac, NB.
>>
>> It was indeed an interesting and informative conversation we had on
>> December 23rd, and I wish you well in all of your future endeavors.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Warren McBeath, Cpl.
>> GRC Caledonia RCMP
>> Traffic Services NCO
>> Ph: (506) 387-2222
>> Fax: (506) 387-4622
>> E-mail warren.mcbeath@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
>>
>>
>>
>> Alexandre Deschênes, Q.C.,
>> Office of the Integrity Commissioner
>> Edgecombe House, 736 King Street
>> Fredericton, N.B. CANADA E3B 5H1
>> tel.: 506-457-7890
>> fax: 506-444-5224
>> e-mail:coi@gnb.ca
>>
>
>
> On 8/3/17, David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If want something very serious to download and laugh at as well Please
>> Enjoy and share real wiretap tapes of the mob
>>
>> http://thedavidamosrant.
>> ilian.html
>>
>>> http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/
>>>
>>> As the CBC etc yap about Yankee wiretaps and whistleblowers I must
>>> ask them the obvious question AIN'T THEY FORGETTING SOMETHING????
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?
>>>
>>> What the hell does the media think my Yankee lawyer served upon the
>>> USDOJ right after I ran for and seat in the 39th Parliament baseball
>>> cards?
>>>
>>> http://archive.org/details/
>>> 6
>>>
>>> http://davidamos.blogspot.ca/
>>>
>>> http://www.archive.org/
>>>
>>> http://archive.org/details/
>>>
>>> FEDERAL EXPRES February 7, 2006
>>> Senator Arlen Specter
>>> United States Senate
>>> Committee on the Judiciary
>>> 224 Dirksen Senate Office Building
>>> Washington, DC 20510
>>>
>>> Dear Mr. Specter:
>>>
>>> I have been asked to forward the enclosed tapes to you from a man
>>> named, David Amos, a Canadian citizen, in connection with the matters
>>> raised in the attached letter.
>>>
>>> Mr. Amos has represented to me that these are illegal FBI wire tap
>>> tapes.
>>>
>>> I believe Mr. Amos has been in contact with you about this previously.
>>>
>>> Very truly yours,
>>> Barry A. Bachrach
>>> Direct telephone: (508) 926-3403
>>> Direct facsimile: (508) 929-3003
>>> Email: bbachrach@bowditch.com
>>>
>>
>
> http://davidraymondamos3.
>
>
> Sunday, 19 November 2017
> Federal Court of Appeal Finally Makes The BIG Decision And Publishes
> It Now The Crooks Cannot Take Back Ticket To Try Put My Matter Before
> The Supreme Court
>
> https://decisions.fct-cf.gc.
>
>
> Federal Court of Appeal Decisions
>
> Amos v. Canada
> Court (s) Database
>
> Federal Court of Appeal Decisions
> Date
>
> 2017-10-30
> Neutral citation
>
> 2017 FCA 213
> File numbers
>
> A-48-16
> Date: 20171030
>
> Docket: A-48-16
> Citation: 2017 FCA 213
> CORAM:
>
> WEBB J.A.
> NEAR J.A.
> GLEASON J.A.
>
>
> BETWEEN:
> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
> Respondent on the cross-appeal
> (and formally Appellant)
> and
> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
> Appellant on the cross-appeal
> (and formerly Respondent)
> Heard at Fredericton, New Brunswick, on May 24, 2017.
> Judgment delivered at Ottawa, Ontario, on October 30, 2017.
> REASONS FOR JUDGMENT BY:
>
> THE COURT
>
>
>
> Date: 20171030
>
> Docket: A-48-16
> Citation: 2017 FCA 213
> CORAM:
>
> WEBB J.A.
> NEAR J.A.
> GLEASON J.A.
>
>
> BETWEEN:
> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS
> Respondent on the cross-appeal
> (and formally Appellant)
> and
> HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
> Appellant on the cross-appeal
> (and formerly Respondent)
> REASONS FOR JUDGMENT BY THE COURT
>
> I. Introduction
>
> [1] On September 16, 2015, David Raymond Amos (Mr. Amos)
> filed a 53-page Statement of Claim (the Claim) in Federal Court
> against Her Majesty the Queen (the Crown). Mr. Amos claims $11 million
> in damages and a public apology from the Prime Minister and Provincial
> Premiers for being illegally barred from accessing parliamentary
> properties and seeks a declaration from the Minister of Public Safety
> that the Canadian Government will no longer allow the Royal Canadian
> Mounted Police (RCMP) and Canadian Forces to harass him and his clan
> (Claim at para. 96).
>
> [2] On November 12, 2015 (Docket T-1557-15), by way of a
> motion brought by the Crown, a prothonotary of the Federal Court (the
> Prothonotary) struck the Claim in its entirety, without leave to
> amend, on the basis that it was plain and obvious that the Claim
> disclosed no reasonable claim, the Claim was fundamentally vexatious,
> and the Claim could not be salvaged by way of further amendment (the
> Prothontary’s Order).
>
>
> [3] On January 25, 2016 (2016 FC 93), by way of Mr.
> Amos’ appeal from the Prothonotary’s Order, a judge of the Federal
> Court (the Judge), reviewing the matter de novo, struck all of Mr.
> Amos’ claims for relief with the exception of the claim for damages
> for being barred by the RCMP from the New Brunswick legislature in
> 2004 (the Federal Court Judgment).
>
>
> [4] Mr. Amos appealed and the Crown cross-appealed the
> Federal Court Judgment. Further to the issuance of a Notice of Status
> Review, Mr. Amos’ appeal was dismissed for delay on December 19, 2016.
> As such, the only matter before this Court is the Crown’s
> cross-appeal.
>
>
> II. Preliminary Matter
>
> [5] Mr. Amos, in his memorandum of fact and law in
> relation to the cross-appeal that was filed with this Court on March
> 6, 2017, indicated that several judges of this Court, including two of
> the judges of this panel, had a conflict of interest in this appeal.
> This was the first time that he identified the judges whom he believed
> had a conflict of interest in a document that was filed with this
> Court. In his notice of appeal he had alluded to a conflict with
> several judges but did not name those judges.
>
> [6] Mr. Amos was of the view that he did not have to
> identify the judges in any document filed with this Court because he
> had identified the judges in various documents that had been filed
> with the Federal Court. In his view the Federal Court and the Federal
> Court of Appeal are the same court and therefore any document filed in
> the Federal Court would be filed in this Court. This view is based on
> subsections 5(4) and 5.1(4) of the Federal Courts Act, R.S.C., 1985,
> c. F-7:
>
>
> 5(4) Every judge of the Federal Court is, by virtue of his or her
> office, a judge of the Federal Court of Appeal and has all the
> jurisdiction, power and authority of a judge of the Federal Court of
> Appeal.
> […]
>
> 5(4) Les juges de la Cour fédérale sont d’office juges de la Cour
> d’appel fédérale et ont la même compétence et les mêmes pouvoirs que
> les juges de la Cour d’appel fédérale.
> […]
> 5.1(4) Every judge of the Federal Court of Appeal is, by virtue of
> that office, a judge of the Federal Court and has all the
> jurisdiction, power and authority of a judge of the Federal Court.
>
> 5.1(4) Les juges de la Cour d’appel fédérale sont d’office juges de la
> Cour fédérale et ont la même compétence et les mêmes pouvoirs que les
> juges de la Cour fédérale.
>
>
> [7] However, these subsections only provide that the
> judges of the Federal Court are also judges of this Court (and vice
> versa). It does not mean that there is only one court. If the Federal
> Court and this Court were one Court, there would be no need for this
> section.
> [8] Sections 3 and 4 of the Federal Courts Act provide that:
> 3 The division of the Federal Court of Canada called the Federal Court
> — Appeal Division is continued under the name “Federal Court of
> Appeal” in English and “Cour d’appel fédérale” in French. It is
> continued as an additional court of law, equity and admiralty in and
> for Canada, for the better administration of the laws of Canada and as
> a superior court of record having civil and criminal jurisdiction.
>
> 3 La Section d’appel, aussi appelée la Cour d’appel ou la Cour d’appel
> fédérale, est maintenue et dénommée « Cour d’appel fédérale » en
> français et « Federal Court of Appeal » en anglais. Elle est maintenue
> à titre de tribunal additionnel de droit, d’equity et d’amirauté du
> Canada, propre à améliorer l’application du droit canadien, et
> continue d’être une cour supérieure d’archives ayant compétence en
> matière civile et pénale.
> 4 The division of the Federal Court of Canada called the Federal Court
> — Trial Division is continued under the name “Federal Court” in
> English and “Cour fédérale” in French. It is continued as an
> additional court of law, equity and admiralty in and for Canada, for
> the better administration of the laws of Canada and as a superior
> court of record having civil and criminal jurisdiction.
>
> 4 La section de la Cour fédérale du Canada, appelée la Section de
> première instance de la Cour fédérale, est maintenue et dénommée «
> Cour fédérale » en français et « Federal Court » en anglais. Elle est
> maintenue à titre de tribunal additionnel de droit, d’equity et
> d’amirauté du Canada, propre à améliorer l’application du droit
> canadien, et continue d’être une cour supérieure d’archives ayant
> compétence en matière civile et pénale.
>
>
> [9] Sections 3 and 4 of the Federal Courts Act create
> two separate courts – this Court (section 3) and the Federal Court
> (section 4). If, as Mr. Amos suggests, documents filed in the Federal
> Court were automatically also filed in this Court, then there would no
> need for the parties to prepare and file appeal books as required by
> Rules 343 to 345 of the Federal Courts Rules, SOR/98-106 in relation
> to any appeal from a decision of the Federal Court. The requirement to
> file an appeal book with this Court in relation to an appeal from a
> decision of the Federal Court makes it clear that the only documents
> that will be before this Court are the documents that are part of that
> appeal book.
>
>
> [10] Therefore, the memorandum of fact and law filed on
> March 6, 2017 is the first document, filed with this Court, in which
> Mr. Amos identified the particular judges that he submits have a
> conflict in any matter related to him.
>
>
> [11] On April 3, 2017, Mr. Amos attempted to bring a motion
> before the Federal Court seeking an order “affirming or denying the
> conflict of interest he has” with a number of judges of the Federal
> Court. A judge of the Federal Court issued a direction noting that if
> Mr. Amos was seeking this order in relation to judges of the Federal
> Court of Appeal, it was beyond the jurisdiction of the Federal Court.
> Mr. Amos raised the Federal Court motion at the hearing of this
> cross-appeal. The Federal Court motion is not a motion before this
> Court and, as such, the submissions filed before the Federal Court
> will not be entertained. As well, since this was a motion brought
> before the Federal Court (and not this Court), any documents filed in
> relation to that motion are not part of the record of this Court.
>
>
> [12] During the hearing of the appeal Mr. Amos alleged that
> the third member of this panel also had a conflict of interest and
> submitted some documents that, in his view, supported his claim of a
> conflict. Mr. Amos, following the hearing of his appeal, was also
> afforded the opportunity to provide a brief summary of the conflict
> that he was alleging and to file additional documents that, in his
> view, supported his allegations. Mr. Amos submitted several pages of
> documents in relation to the alleged conflicts. He organized the
> documents by submitting a copy of the biography of the particular
> judge and then, immediately following that biography, by including
> copies of the documents that, in his view, supported his claim that
> such judge had a conflict.
>
>
> [13] The nature of the alleged conflict of Justice Webb is
> that before he was appointed as a Judge of the Tax Court of Canada in
> 2006, he was a partner with the law firm Patterson Law, and before
> that with Patterson Palmer in Nova Scotia. Mr. Amos submitted that he
> had a number of disputes with Patterson Palmer and Patterson Law and
> therefore Justice Webb has a conflict simply because he was a partner
> of these firms. Mr. Amos is not alleging that Justice Webb was
> personally involved in or had any knowledge of any matter in which Mr.
> Amos was involved with Justice Webb’s former law firm – only that he
> was a member of such firm.
>
>
> [14] During his oral submissions at the hearing of his
> appeal Mr. Amos, in relation to the alleged conflict for Justice Webb,
> focused on dealings between himself and a particular lawyer at
> Patterson Law. However, none of the documents submitted by Mr. Amos at
> the hearing or subsequently related to any dealings with this
> particular lawyer nor is it clear when Mr. Amos was dealing with this
> lawyer. In particular, it is far from clear whether such dealings were
> after the time that Justice Webb was appointed as a Judge of the Tax
> Court of Canada over 10 years ago.
>
>
> [15] The documents that he submitted in relation to the
> alleged conflict for Justice Webb largely relate to dealings between
> Byron Prior and the St. John’s Newfoundland and Labrador office of
> Patterson Palmer, which is not in the same province where Justice Webb
> practiced law. The only document that indicates any dealing between
> Mr. Amos and Patterson Palmer is a copy of an affidavit of Stephen May
> who was a partner in the St. John’s NL office of Patterson Palmer. The
> affidavit is dated January 24, 2005 and refers to a number of e-mails
> that were sent by Mr. Amos to Stephen May. Mr. Amos also included a
> letter that is addressed to four individuals, one of whom is John
> Crosbie who was counsel to the St. John’s NL office of Patterson
> Palmer. The letter is dated September 2, 2004 and is addressed to
> “John Crosbie, c/o Greg G. Byrne, Suite 502, 570 Queen Street,
> Fredericton, NB E3B 5E3”. In this letter Mr. Amos alludes to a
> possible lawsuit against Patterson Palmer.
> [16] Mr. Amos’ position is that simply because Justice Webb
> was a lawyer with Patterson Palmer, he now has a conflict. In Wewaykum
> Indian Band v. Her Majesty the Queen, 2003 SCC 45, [2003] 2 S.C.R.
> 259, the Supreme Court of Canada noted that disqualification of a
> judge is to be determined based on whether there is a reasonable
> apprehension of bias:
> 60 In Canadian law, one standard has now emerged as the
> criterion for disqualification. The criterion, as expressed by de
> Grandpré J. in Committee for Justice and Liberty v. National Energy
> Board, …[[1978] 1 S.C.R. 369, 68 D.L.R. (3d) 716], at p. 394, is the
> reasonable apprehension of bias:
> … the apprehension of bias must be a reasonable one, held by
> reasonable and right minded persons, applying themselves to the
> question and obtaining thereon the required information. In the words
> of the Court of Appeal, that test is "what would an informed person,
> viewing the matter realistically and practically -- and having thought
> the matter through -- conclude. Would he think that it is more likely
> than not that [the decision-maker], whether consciously or
> unconsciously, would not decide fairly."
>
> [17] The issue to be determined is whether an informed
> person, viewing the matter realistically and practically, and having
> thought the matter through, would conclude that Mr. Amos’ allegations
> give rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias. As this Court has
> previously remarked, “there is a strong presumption that judges will
> administer justice impartially” and this presumption will not be
> rebutted in the absence of “convincing evidence” of bias (Collins v.
> Canada, 2011 FCA 140 at para. 7, [2011] 4 C.T.C. 157 [Collins]. See
> also R. v. S. (R.D.), [1997] 3 S.C.R. 484 at para. 32, 151 D.L.R.
> (4th) 193).
>
> [18] The Ontario Court of Appeal in Rando Drugs Ltd. v.
> Scott, 2007 ONCA 553, 86 O.R. (3d) 653 (leave to appeal to the Supreme
> Court of Canada refused, 32285 (August 1, 2007)), addressed the
> particular issue of whether a judge is disqualified from hearing a
> case simply because he had been a member of a law firm that was
> involved in the litigation that was now before that judge. The Ontario
> Court of Appeal determined that the judge was not disqualified if the
> judge had no involvement with the person or the matter when he was a
> lawyer. The Ontario Court of Appeal also explained that the rules for
> determining whether a judge is disqualified are different from the
> rules to determine whether a lawyer has a conflict:
> 27 Thus, disqualification is not the natural corollary to a
> finding that a trial judge has had some involvement in a case over
> which he or she is now presiding. Where the judge had no involvement,
> as here, it cannot be said that the judge is disqualified.
>
>
> 28 The point can rightly be made that had Mr. Patterson been
> asked to represent the appellant as counsel before his appointment to
> the bench, the conflict rules would likely have prevented him from
> taking the case because his firm had formerly represented one of the
> defendants in the case. Thus, it is argued how is it that as a trial
> judge Patterson J. can hear the case? This issue was considered by the
> Court of Appeal (Civil Division) in Locabail (U.K.) Ltd. v. Bayfield
> Properties Ltd., [2000] Q.B. 451. The court held, at para. 58, that
> there is no inflexible rule governing the disqualification of a judge
> and that, "[e]verything depends on the circumstances."
>
>
> 29 It seems to me that what appears at first sight to be an
> inconsistency in application of rules can be explained by the
> different contexts and in particular, the strong presumption of
> judicial impartiality that applies in the context of disqualification
> of a judge. There is no such presumption in cases of allegations of
> conflict of interest against a lawyer because of a firm's previous
> involvement in the case. To the contrary, as explained by Sopinka J.
> in MacDonald Estate v. Martin (1990), 77 D.L.R. (4th) 249 (S.C.C.),
> for sound policy reasons there is a presumption of a disqualifying
> interest that can rarely be overcome. In particular, a conclusory
> statement from the lawyer that he or she had no confidential
> information about the case will never be sufficient. The case is the
> opposite where the allegation of bias is made against a trial judge.
> His or her statement that he or she knew nothing about the case and
> had no involvement in it will ordinarily be accepted at face value
> unless there is good reason to doubt it: see Locabail, at para. 19.
>
>
> 30 That brings me then to consider the particular circumstances
> of this case and whether there are serious grounds to find a
> disqualifying conflict of interest in this case. In my view, there are
> two significant factors that justify the trial judge's decision not to
> recuse himself. The first is his statement, which all parties accept,
> that he knew nothing of the case when it was in his former firm and
> that he had nothing to do with it. The second is the long passage of
> time. As was said in Wewaykum, at para. 85:
> To us, one significant factor stands out, and must inform
> the perspective of the reasonable person assessing the impact of this
> involvement on Binnie J.'s impartiality in the appeals. That factor is
> the passage of time. Most arguments for disqualification rest on
> circumstances that are either contemporaneous to the decision-making,
> or that occurred within a short time prior to the decision-making.
> 31 There are other factors that inform the issue. The Wilson
> Walker firm no longer acted for any of the parties by the time of
> trial. More importantly, at the time of the motion, Patterson J. had
> been a judge for six years and thus had not had a relationship with
> his former firm for a considerable period of time.
>
>
> 32 In my view, a reasonable person, viewing the matter
> realistically would conclude that the trial judge could deal fairly
> and impartially with this case. I take this view principally because
> of the long passage of time and the trial judge's lack of involvement
> in or knowledge of the case when the Wilson Walker firm had carriage.
> In these circumstances it cannot be reasonably contended that the
> trial judge could not remain impartial in the case. The mere fact that
> his name appears on the letterhead of some correspondence from over a
> decade ago would not lead a reasonable person to believe that he would
> either consciously or unconsciously favour his former firm's former
> client. It is simply not realistic to think that a judge would throw
> off his mantle of impartiality, ignore his oath of office and favour a
> client - about whom he knew nothing - of a firm that he left six years
> earlier and that no longer acts for the client, in a case involving
> events from over a decade ago.
> (emphasis added)
>
> [19] Justice Webb had no involvement with any matter
> involving Mr. Amos while he was a member of Patterson Palmer or
> Patterson Law, nor does Mr. Amos suggest that he did. Mr. Amos made it
> clear during the hearing of this matter that the only reason for the
> alleged conflict for Justice Webb was that he was a member of
> Patterson Law and Patterson Palmer. This is simply not enough for
> Justice Webb to be disqualified. Any involvement of Mr. Amos with
> Patterson Law while Justice Webb was a member of that firm would have
> had to occur over 10 years ago and even longer for the time when he
> was a member of Patterson Palmer. In addition to the lack of any
> involvement on his part with any matter or dispute that Mr. Amos had
> with Patterson Law or Patterson Palmer (which in and of itself is
> sufficient to dispose of this matter), the length of time since
> Justice Webb was a member of Patterson Law or Patterson Palmer would
> also result in the same finding – that there is no conflict in Justice
> Webb hearing this appeal.
>
> [20] Similarly in R. v. Bagot, 2000 MBCA 30, 145 Man. R.
> (2d) 260, the Manitoba Court of Appeal found that there was no
> reasonable apprehension of bias when a judge, who had been a member of
> the law firm that had been retained by the accused, had no involvement
> with the accused while he was a lawyer with that firm.
>
> [21] In Del Zotto v. Minister of National Revenue, [2000] 4
> F.C. 321, 257 N.R. 96, this court did find that there would be a
> reasonable apprehension of bias where a judge, who while he was a
> lawyer, had recorded time on a matter involving the same person who
> was before that judge. However, this case can be distinguished as
> Justice Webb did not have any time recorded on any files involving Mr.
> Amos while he was a lawyer with Patterson Palmer or Patterson Law.
>
> [22] Mr. Amos also included with his submissions a CD. He
> stated in his affidavit dated June 26, 2017 that there is a “true copy
> of an American police surveillance wiretap entitled 139” on this CD.
> He has also indicated that he has “provided a true copy of the CD
> entitled 139 to many American and Canadian law enforcement authorities
> and not one of the police forces or officers of the court are willing
> to investigate it”. Since he has indicated that this is an “American
> police surveillance wiretap”, this is a matter for the American law
> enforcement authorities and cannot create, as Mr. Amos suggests, a
> conflict of interest for any judge to whom he provides a copy.
>
> [23] As a result, there is no conflict or reasonable
> apprehension of bias for Justice Webb and therefore, no reason for him
> to recuse himself.
>
> [24] Mr. Amos alleged that Justice Near’s past professional
> experience with the government created a “quasi-conflict” in deciding
> the cross-appeal. Mr. Amos provided no details and Justice Near
> confirmed that he had no prior knowledge of the matters alleged in the
> Claim. Justice Near sees no reason to recuse himself.
>
> [25] Insofar as it is possible to glean the basis for Mr.
> Amos’ allegations against Justice Gleason, it appears that he alleges
> that she is incapable of hearing this appeal because he says he wrote
> a letter to Brian Mulroney and Jean Chrétien in 2004. At that time,
> both Justice Gleason and Mr. Mulroney were partners in the law firm
> Ogilvy Renault, LLP. The letter in question, which is rude and angry,
> begins with “Hey you two Evil Old Smiling Bastards” and “Re: me suing
> you and your little dogs too”. There is no indication that the letter
> was ever responded to or that a law suit was ever commenced by Mr.
> Amos against Mr. Mulroney. In the circumstances, there is no reason
> for Justice Gleason to recuse herself as the letter in question does
> not give rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias.
>
>
> III. Issue
>
> [26] The issue on the cross-appeal is as follows: Did the
> Judge err in setting aside the Prothonotary’s Order striking the Claim
> in its entirety without leave to amend and in determining that Mr.
> Amos’ allegation that the RCMP barred him from the New Brunswick
> legislature in 2004 was capable of supporting a cause of action?
>
> IV. Analysis
>
> A. Standard of Review
>
> [27] Following the Judge’s decision to set aside the
> Prothonotary’s Order, this Court revisited the standard of review to
> be applied to discretionary decisions of prothonotaries and decisions
> made by judges on appeals of prothonotaries’ decisions in Hospira
> Healthcare Corp. v. Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, 2016 FCA 215,
> 402 D.L.R. (4th) 497 [Hospira]. In Hospira, a five-member panel of
> this Court replaced the Aqua-Gem standard of review with that
> articulated in Housen v. Nikolaisen, 2002 SCC 33, [2002] 2 S.C.R. 235
> [Housen]. As a result, it is no longer appropriate for the Federal
> Court to conduct a de novo review of a discretionary order made by a
> prothonotary in regard to questions vital to the final issue of the
> case. Rather, a Federal Court judge can only intervene on appeal if
> the prothonotary made an error of law or a palpable and overriding
> error in determining a question of fact or question of mixed fact and
> law (Hospira at para. 79). Further, this Court can only interfere with
> a Federal Court judge’s review of a prothonotary’s discretionary order
> if the judge made an error of law or palpable and overriding error in
> determining a question of fact or question of mixed fact and law
> (Hospira at paras. 82-83).
>
> [28] In the case at bar, the Judge substituted his own
> assessment of Mr. Amos’ Claim for that of the Prothonotary. This Court
> must look to the Prothonotary’s Order to determine whether the Judge
> erred in law or made a palpable and overriding error in choosing to
> interfere.
>
>
> B. Did the Judge err in interfering with the
> Prothonotary’s Order?
>
> [29] The Prothontoary’s Order accepted the following
> paragraphs from the Crown’s submissions as the basis for striking the
> Claim in its entirety without leave to amend:
>
> 17. Within the 96 paragraph Statement of Claim, the Plaintiff
> addresses his complaint in paragraphs 14-24, inclusive. All but four
> of those paragraphs are dedicated to an incident that occurred in 2006
> in and around the legislature in New Brunswick. The jurisdiction of
> the Federal Court does not extend to Her Majesty the Queen in right of
> the Provinces. In any event, the Plaintiff hasn’t named the Province
> or provincial actors as parties to this action. The incident alleged
> does not give rise to a justiciable cause of action in this Court.
> (…)
>
>
> 21. The few paragraphs that directly address the Defendant
> provide no details as to the individuals involved or the location of
> the alleged incidents or other details sufficient to allow the
> Defendant to respond. As a result, it is difficult or impossible to
> determine the causes of action the Plaintiff is attempting to advance.
> A generous reading of the Statement of Claim allows the Defendant to
> only speculate as to the true and/or intended cause of action. At
> best, the Plaintiff’s action may possibly be summarized as: he
> suspects he is barred from the House of Commons.
> [footnotes omitted].
>
>
> [30] The Judge determined that he could not strike the Claim
> on the same jurisdictional basis as the Prothonotary. The Judge noted
> that the Federal Court has jurisdiction over claims based on the
> liability of Federal Crown servants like the RCMP and that the actors
> who barred Mr. Amos from the New Brunswick legislature in 2004
> included the RCMP (Federal Court Judgment at para. 23). In considering
> the viability of these allegations de novo, the Judge identified
> paragraph 14 of the Claim as containing “some precision” as it
> identifies the date of the event and a RCMP officer acting as
> Aide-de-Camp to the Lieutenant Governor (Federal Court Judgment at
> para. 27).
>
>
> [31] The Judge noted that the 2004 event could support a
> cause of action in the tort of misfeasance in public office and
> identified the elements of the tort as excerpted from Meigs v. Canada,
> 2013 FC 389, 431 F.T.R. 111:
>
>
> [13] As in both the cases of Odhavji Estate v Woodhouse, 2003 SCC
> 69 [Odhavji] and Lewis v Canada, 2012 FC 1514 [Lewis], I must
> determine whether the plaintiffs’ statement of claim pleads each
> element of the alleged tort of misfeasance in public office:
>
> a) The public officer must have engaged in deliberate and unlawful
> conduct in his or her capacity as public officer;
>
> b) The public officer must have been aware both that his or her
> conduct was unlawful and that it was likely to harm the plaintiff; and
>
> c) There must be an element of bad faith or dishonesty by the public
> officer and knowledge of harm alone is insufficient to conclude that a
> public officer acted in bad faith or dishonestly.
> Odhavji, above, at paras 23, 24 and 28
> (Federal Court Judgment at para. 28).
>
> [32] The Judge determined that Mr. Amos disclosed sufficient
> material facts to meet the elements of the tort of misfeasance in
> public office because the actors, who barred him from the New
> Brunswick legislature in 2004, including the RCMP, did so for
> “political reasons” (Federal Court Judgment at para. 29).
>
> [33] This Court’s discussion of the sufficiency of pleadings
> in Merchant Law Group v. Canada (Revenue Agency), 2010 FCA 184, 321
> D.L.R (4th) 301 is particularly apt:
>
> …When pleading bad faith or abuse of power, it is not enough to
> assert, baldly, conclusory phrases such as “deliberately or
> negligently,” “callous disregard,” or “by fraud and theft did steal”.
> “The bare assertion of a conclusion upon which the court is called
> upon to pronounce is not an allegation of material fact”. Making bald,
> conclusory allegations without any evidentiary foundation is an abuse
> of process…
>
> To this, I would add that the tort of misfeasance in public office
> requires a particular state of mind of a public officer in carrying
> out the impunged action, i.e., deliberate conduct which the public
> officer knows to be inconsistent with the obligations of his or her
> office. For this tort, particularization of the allegations is
> mandatory. Rule 181 specifically requires particularization of
> allegations of “breach of trust,” “wilful default,” “state of mind of
> a person,” “malice” or “fraudulent intention.”
> (at paras. 34-35, citations omitted).
>
> [34] Applying the Housen standard of review to the
> Prothonotary’s Order, we are of the view that the Judge interfered
> absent a legal or palpable and overriding error.
>
> [35] The Prothonotary determined that Mr. Amos’ Claim
> disclosed no reasonable claim and was fundamentally vexatious on the
> basis of jurisdictional concerns and the absence of material facts to
> ground a cause of action. Paragraph 14 of the Claim, which addresses
> the 2004 event, pleads no material facts as to how the RCMP officer
> engaged in deliberate and unlawful conduct, knew that his or her
> conduct was unlawful and likely to harm Mr. Amos, and acted in bad
> faith. While the Claim alleges elsewhere that Mr. Amos was barred from
> the New Brunswick legislature for political and/or malicious reasons,
> these allegations are not particularized and are directed against
> non-federal actors, such as the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Legislative
> Assembly of New Brunswick and the Fredericton Police Force. As such,
> the Judge erred in determining that Mr. Amos’ allegation that the RCMP
> barred him from the New Brunswick legislature in 2004 was capable of
> supporting a cause of action.
>
> [36] In our view, the Claim is made up entirely of bare
> allegations, devoid of any detail, such that it discloses no
> reasonable cause of action within the jurisdiction of the Federal
> Courts. Therefore, the Judge erred in interfering to set aside the
> Prothonotary’s Order striking the claim in its entirety. Further, we
> find that the Prothonotary made no error in denying leave to amend.
> The deficiencies in Mr. Amos’ pleadings are so extensive such that
> amendment could not cure them (see Collins at para. 26).
>
> V. Conclusion
> [37] For the foregoing reasons, we would allow the Crown’s
> cross-appeal, with costs, setting aside the Federal Court Judgment,
> dated January 25, 2016 and restoring the Prothonotary’s Order, dated
> November 12, 2015, which struck Mr. Amos’ Claim in its entirety
> without leave to amend.
> "Wyman W. Webb"
> J.A.
> "David G. Near"
> J.A.
> "Mary J.L. Gleason"
> J.A.
>
>
>
> FEDERAL COURT OF APPEAL
> NAMES OF COUNSEL AND SOLICITORS OF RECORD
>
> A CROSS-APPEAL FROM AN ORDER OF THE HONOURABLE JUSTICE SOUTHCOTT DATED
> JANUARY 25, 2016; DOCKET NUMBER T-1557-15.
> DOCKET:
>
> A-48-16
>
>
>
> STYLE OF CAUSE:
>
> DAVID RAYMOND AMOS v. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
>
>
>
> PLACE OF HEARING:
>
> Fredericton,
> New Brunswick
>
> DATE OF HEARING:
>
> May 24, 2017
>
> REASONS FOR JUDGMENT OF THE COURT BY:
>
> WEBB J.A.
> NEAR J.A.
> GLEASON J.A.
>
> DATED:
>
> October 30, 2017
>
> APPEARANCES:
> David Raymond Amos
>
>
> For The Appellant / respondent on cross-appeal
> (on his own behalf)
>
> Jan Jensen
>
>
> For The Respondent / appELLANT ON CROSS-APPEAL
>
> SOLICITORS OF RECORD:
> Nathalie G. Drouin
> Deputy Attorney General of Canada
>
> For The Respondent / APPELLANT ON CROSS-APPEAL
>
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(Dine’ and Dakota) Tom is the Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network. Tom has been awarded with recognition of his achievements throughout the past 40 years as a change maker within the environmental, economic, energy and climate justice movement. From the strength of his community organizing and leadership he brought the local issues of the rights of Indigenous Peoples related to the environmental protection of land, water, air and health to the national and international levels. From his participation and leadership in the First National People of Color Environmental Justice Leadership Summit in 1991 in Washington D.C., to the 2010 World Peoples’ Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and to the recent co-formation of the United Frontline Table and its People’s Orientation to a Regenerative Economy, and its Indigenous Plank, he has been on the forefront of key moments fighting for systemic change. He co-produced an award-winning documentary film in 1999, Drumbeat for Mother Earth, addressing the effects of the bio-accumulation and biomagnification of toxic chemicals in the natural food web and bodies of Indigenous Peoples. In 2007, Tom co-founded of the Indigenous World Forum on Water and Peace lifting up the spiritual-cultural values and ethics of water policy. Tom initiated the first international Indigenous conference on the rights of Mother Earth in 2012 at the Haskell Indian Nations University and serves as a member of the Global Alliance of the Rights of Nature. Tom wrote the IEN Indigenous Principles of Just Transition as an organizing tool of using Indigenous Original Instructions as the foundation for building sustainable and healthy Indigenous communities. Tom is a recipient of numerous awards including the 2015 Gandhi Award and in 2016 was presented Sierra Club’s highest recognition, the John Muir award. Tom is a Sun Dance leader and active in his ceremonial responsibilities and is a father, grandfather and great grandfather.
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Simone is the Food Sovereignty Program Coordinator, Mining Affected Communities Mini-grants Administrator, and IEN Office Manager. She is dedicated to bringing people together across boundaries by building strong connections around food, community, health, and well-being.
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(Mdewakanton Dakota and Dine) Dallas travels extensively across Turtle Island to help fossil fuel and hard rock mining impacted communities tell their stories thru social media, video, and other forms of communication. Dallas is an IEN media team lead, working with IEN staff, board, and organizational partners from a diverse group of climate justice networks. Along with his many tasks and duties with IEN, he is also a Dakota cultural/language teacher, non-violent direct action trainer, and was one of the outstanding Water Protectors at Standing Rock/Oceti Sakowin Camp fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline. In addition, he is a co-founder of the Indigenous comedy group, The 1491s, a poet, journalist, traditional artist, powwow emcee, and comedian.
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Brenda Jo “BJ” has worked with Indigenous people and frontline communities to promote climate, racial, and energy justice for over 25 years. She assisted organizers to bring Native Americans from Standing Rock and beyond to Pittsburgh, where they conducted a Water Ceremony and led a march and demonstration of resistance against the convention of the Marcellus Shale Coalition in October 2019. BJ also back in the 1990s worked with state agencies in opposition to mountaintop removal strip mining in West Virginia. During the 2000’s she was one of 10 delegates of Indigenous Peoples from North America who traveled to Central and South America to engage with Indigenous communities on aquaculture issues as it relates to land rights/tenure, cultural self determination and food sovereignty.
BJ has worked for the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) in different capacities for 17 years, in recent years as a campaign organizer working under the banner of Save Our Roots, an IEN campaign to protect Indigenous traditional and treaty lands from genetic engineered trees in forests and tree plantations and serves on the International Campaign to Stop GE Trees steering committee. She also contributes to IEN’s Keep It in the Ground campaign focused within the Appalachia and the U.S. southern coast in opposition to oil/gas extraction and petrochemical industry expansion.
In 2020 BJ was nominated and honored as one of four EJ front line community leaders for the Fractracker Community Sentinel Award for Environmental Stewardship
Throughout all of her work, and out of a deep commitment to an equitable future for all and our Next Seven Generations, BJ skillfully connects people from distant geographies and diverse backgrounds in support of those suffering from poverty and pollution of extractive industries.
Alberto Saldamando
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(Xicano/Zapoteca) is an internationally acknowledged expert on human and Indigenous rights representing Indigenous Peoples, organizations and communities from various countries from many regions of the world, before UN and other international human rights bodies including: International Labor Organization; Interamerican Commission on Human Rights; and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Alberto began his climate change work with IEN in 2009 at the UNFCCC COP15 and currently serves as IEN’s head of delegation to UNFCCC Conferences of Parties and related fora. Alberto served as General Counsel of International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) for 18 years, and is very proud of his very active participation in the negotiations leading to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), the establishment of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, and the initial mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples.
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Panganga Pungowiyi (Pangaanga Pangawyi), They/Them/She/Her is an Indigenous mother from Sivungaq, located in the so-called Bering Strait. Panganga has been involved in many grassroots efforts seeking justice for Indigenous people including efforts to protect lands and water from extractive industry, MMIWG, and DVSA against Indigenous Womxn. Social justice and healing are recurring themes woven within Panganga’s personal and professional life. Many years were spent developing and hosting communal healing spaces for historical trauma and Colonial oppression, and most recently Panganga began training as a Tribal Healer in the so-called Bering Strait Region. Healing, justice and advocacy continues in Panganga’s role at IEN as the Climate Geoengineering Organizer.
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Debra Harry, PhD
IEN Board of Directors
Dr. Harry is an associate professor in the Department of Gender, Race, and Identity at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her research analyzes the linkages between biotechnology, intellectual property and globalization in relation to Indigenous Peoples’ rights. She has authored numerous articles including “Decolonizing Colonial Constructions of Indigenous Identity: A Conversation Between Debra Harry and Leonie Pihama”, in “The Great Vanishing Act: Blood Quantum and the Future of Native Nations, “Biocolonialism and Indigenous Knowledge in United Nations Discourse,” (2011) 20 Griffith Law Review, “Indigenous Peoples and Gene Disputes” 84 Chicago-Kent Law Review (2009). Dr. Harry is a recipient of the Nevada Department of Education Pesa Namanedu Award (2019), the Seventh Generation Fund Tradition Bearers for Biocultural Diversity Fellowship (2018), the Seventh Generation Fund Good Ancestor Award (2012), and the Kellogg Foundation National Leadership Fellowship (KNFP-14). Her teaching specialization is in Indigenous Studies, and she is playing a key role in developing Indigenous Studies course offerings at UNR. Dr. Harry earned her Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Education at the University of Auckland under the supervision of renowned Maori scholar, Dr. Linda Tuhiwai Smith. She served as an adjunct professor at UNR in 2013, was hired as a Lecturer III in 2018, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2019. Dr. Debra Harry is Numu (Kooyooe Tukadu) from Pyramid Lake, Nevada.
Manuel F. Pino
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Manuel Pino, is a professor of sociology and Director of American Indian Studies at Scottsdale Community College in Scottsdale, Arizona. Along with his contributions to IEN, he also serves on the boards of the Southwest Research and Information Center, Red Rock Foundation, as well as the Laguna Acoma Coalition For A Safe Environment, of which he is a founding member. He has served as a delegate of Indigenous Peoples at United Nations conferences, forums, and summits to include the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Manuel received the 2008 Nuclear Free Future Award for activism in Munich Germany. He has published several book chapters, and articles in academic, environmental, and Indigenous publications in both the U.S. and Canada during his thirty eight plus years of work. Manuel is currently working with former American Indian uranium miners in New Mexico, Arizona, Washington and South Dakota on health issues related to radiation exposure and in Indigenous communities opposing nuclear waste storage and mining on their lands.
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