Jeremy Mackenzie and everybody else knows why Paul Palango's opinion of the Mass Casualty Commission, the Emergency Measures Act and the RCMP mean less than nothing to me Correct?
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the Sunday Night Show -Jan 28 2024- Emergency Measures Act, Desmond Report, James Smith Cree Nation
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In this weekly series, I’m joined by investigative journalist Paul Palango and legal analyst Adam Rodgers to discuss Canadian stories of crime, corruption, and items of public interest.
In this episode we discuss;
the unjustified use of the emergency measures act
the upcoming Lionel Desmond Inquiry Report
the inquiry into the James Smith Cree Nation Massacre
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From: "Levy, Bryn" <BLevy@postmedia.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 18:41:08 +0000
Subject: Re: I just called Jeremy Mackenzie (639 318 9073 and his
lawyer Mr Foda AGAIN Correct?
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
I can confirm that Mr. Foda indicated he was Mackenzie's lawyer at the hearing I attended/ covered in 2022.
Beyond that: I do not know the status of Mr. Mackenzie's legal situation, or who he may have representing him; his charges in Saskatchewan were stayed earlier this year. I dont' have any further knowledge of his legal situation beyond that.
From: "Levy, Bryn" <BLevy@postmedia.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 18:41:08 +0000
Subject: Re: I just called Jeremy Mackenzie (639 318 9073 and his
lawyer Mr Foda AGAIN Correct?
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Im sorry - I'm not sure what you're asking me:
I can confirm that Mr. Foda indicated he was Mackenzie's lawyer at the hearing I attended/ covered in 2022.
Beyond that: I do not know the status of Mr. Mackenzie's legal situation, or who he may have representing him; his charges in Saskatchewan were stayed earlier this year. I dont' have any further knowledge of his legal situation beyond that.
Here is an article re: the charges being stayed. (I did not write
this/I did not attend this hearing, so cannot answer questions beyond
the information in this article.)
BRYN LEVY
REPORTER/WEB EDITOR
Saskatoon StarPhoenix
T: 1.306.657.6406
C: 1.639.471.3542
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Subject: I just called Jeremy Mackenzie’s number 639 318 9073 and left
a voicemail then spoke briefly with his lawye Mr Foda correct?
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Diagolon leader Jeremy Mackenzie to challenge decision denying him bail
Bryn Levy | Posted: Oct. 28, 2022, 10:49 a.m.
Jeremy MacKenzie, the founder of the online group “Diagolon” was
arrested in September 2022 in Cole Harbour, N.S., on a Canada-wide
warrant related to charges stemming from an alleged Nov. 2021 assault
near Viscount, Sask.(Jeremy MacKenzie/Facebook)
Jeremy MacKenzie, the founder of the online group “Diagolon” was
arrested in September 2022 in Cole Harbour, N.S., on a Canada-wide
warrant related to charges stemming from an alleged Nov. 2021 assault
near Viscount, Sask. - Jeremy MacKenzie / Facebook
The leader of a Canadian far-right group is set to challenge a judge’s
decision to keep him in custody while awaiting trial.
Jeremy Mackenzie, 36, faces assault and weapons charges in connection
with an incident near Viscount, Sask. in November 2021.
He was denied bail on Oct. 7 by a Saskatoon provincial court judge.
The reasons for that decision are protected by a court-ordered
publication ban, which is a standard measure in most bail proceedings
meant to protect an accused’s right to a fair trial.
Mackenzie’s previous defence lawyer was granted leave to withdraw on
Oct. 13, after telling court he’d been fired.
At Thursday’s hearing, Toronto-based defence lawyer Sherif Foda
indicated he will represent Mackenzie, and that his client will seek a
review of the Oct. 7 bail decision. Mackenzie is due back in court
Nov. 10.
Court previously heard there is an ongoing investigation into how
audio recordings from Mackenzie’s bail hearing found their way online
in violation of the publication ban — an offence punishable by up to
two years in jail and a $5,000 fine.
Mackenzie is the self-proclaimed leader of Diagolon, a group described
in a 2022 House of Commons report as a violent extremist organization.
Its name refers to a fictional country comprised of provinces and
states without COVID-19 mandates, forming a diagonal line across North
America.
He is also charged with harassment and intimidation in connection with
an anti-mask protest outside the home of Nova Scotia’s chief medical
health officer in March, and faces 13 firearm-related charges in Nova
Scotia after a police search in January.
RCMP have said they are also reviewing an allegation that Mackenzie
made rape threats against Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s wife
during a livestream video in September.
There has also been suggestion of a link between Diagolon and the case
of four men charged with conspiracy to commit murder after a February
RCMP raid against an anti-mandate blockade of a Canada-U.S. border
crossing at Coutts, Alta.
Mounties reported seizing items including 13 long guns, handguns, a
machete, a large quantity of ammunition and body armour. A tactical
vest seized at the scene had a Diagolon patch on it — a white diagonal
line across a black rectangle. The four suspects are scheduled for
trial in 2023.
With Canadian Press files
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'What isn't wrong with journalism today?' asks Dalton Camp lecturer
https://stephenkimber.com/no-
No offence intended, Mr. Rudderham
One shouldn’t mess — litigiously speaking — with Parker Rudderham. The
Cape Breton businessman who owns Frank Magazine — a publication with
its own storied courtroom history — sometimes seems as (in)famous for
his legal battles as his business successes and philanthropic
donations.
On October 30, 2012, to cite but one recent example, his hometown
newspaper, the Cape Breton Post, scored a two-for-one story that
began: “A prominent Cape Breton businessman’s company pleaded guilty
to tax evasion Tuesday, the same day he was issued a ticket for his
involvement in a fatal motor-vehicle accident.”
The Canada Revenue Agency claimed Rudderham’s Montreal-based
Professional Pharmacy Wholesale Service had “voluntarily violated” tax
laws by claiming over $1 million in false expenses. Rudderham pleaded
guilty in court but not guilty in the court of public opinion,
stressing to a reporter he’d have fought the accusation if he hadn’t
been in the middle of selling the company.
Although Rudderham was tight-lipped that day about the motorcycle
accident — he had been fined $399.91 under the Motor Vehicle Act for
failing to drive in a “careful and prudent manner” — he later
announced he’d fight the charge. The widow of the motorcyclist then
filed suit against him.
And so it goes. Without pretending to be exhaustive, some cases from
Rudderham’s docket: In 2003, he was sued by his ex-employer for
allegedly violating his employment contract. In 2007, he sued “an
ex-wife’s family member for defamation.” In 2011, he threatened to sue
the Halifax Herald over its coverage of firings at Frank. In 2013,
Frank reported Rudderham sued his second cousin over a $27,000 debt.
All of which by way of saying it is with some trepidation one
questions Parker Rudderham.
Still, I was intrigued by his latest legal to-and-fro. Rudderham is
suing a Cape Breton woman and son for alleged “cyberbullying” tweets
about him. The defendants dispute that and counter the province’s
Cyber Safety Act violates Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
It’s not the first time a prominent, well-connected individual has
invoked our new cyberbullying law against those they claim have
criticized them. Is that really who the law was intended to protect?
Will the law — and its good intentions — survive a Charter challenge?
No offence intended, Mr. Rudderham.
STEPHEN KIMBER, a Professor of Journalism at the University of King's
College in Halifax and co-founder of its MFA in Creative Nonfiction
Program
https://ukings.ca/people/
Stephen Kimber
stephen.kimber@ukings.ca
902 422-1271 ext. 150
https://www.saltwire.com/
Widow of motorcyclist killed in accident suing Frank Magazine owner
Posted: Sept. 16, 2013, midnight
SYDNEY, N.S. — The widow of a Nova Scotia man killed while attempting
to turn his motorcycle onto his street has filed a civil suit against
the driver of the vehicle that struck the bike.
In a statement of claim filed with the Supreme Court this week, Carol
MacDonald is seeking unspecified damages from Sydney businessman
Parker Rudderham, CEO and president of Montreal-based Professional
Pharmacy Wholesale Services Ltd. and owner of the Halifax-based Frank
Magazine.
Rudderham was already charged under the Motor Vehicle Act with failing
to drive in a careful and prudent manner and paid a fine of $399.91.
The suit outlines several allegations, including Rudderham failed to
drive in a prudent manner, failed to maintain a proper lookout and
failed to take proper defensive driving techniques in a bid to avoid
an accident.
None of the information outlined in the statement of claim has been
proven in court.
The accident occurred Sept. 14, 2012, as 67-year-old John MacLeod
MacDonald was attempting to turn his motorcycle off Grand Lake Road
onto Kytes Hill Drive.
In attempting to make the turn, MacDonald was struck from behind by a
2012 Cadillac Escalade driven by Rudderham.
A defence response to the action needs to be filed within 15 days.
https://www.saltwire.com/
Cape Bretoners react to Frank Magazine closure
Christopher Connors | Posted: a day ago
Gerry Rendell, owner of John's Barber Shop, prepares to cut the hair
of longtime customer Jody Merriam. For decades, copies of Frank
Magazine were strewn on a table in the lobby of the iconic Sydney
River shop. The self-described collection of “news, satire, opinion,
comment, and humour,” shut down Wednesday after 35 years. Chris
Connors/Cape Breton Post
Gerry Rendell, owner of John's Barber Shop, prepares to cut the hair
of longtime customer Jody Merriam. For decades, copies of Frank
Magazine were strewn on a table in the lobby of the iconic Sydney
River shop. The self-described collection of “news, satire, opinion,
comment, and humour,” shut down Wednesday after 35 years. Chris
Connors/Cape Breton Post
SYDNEY RIVER, N.S. — John's Barber Shop has been a Sydney River
institution for more than 50 years.
And along with the décor — walls covered with Toronto Maple Leafs
memorabilia photos and newspaper clippings featuring local people and
their accomplishments — there was one other constant: a round wooden
table covered with dozens of copies of Frank Magazine.
Jody Merriam, who was waiting for a haircut Thursday, was suspired to
hear the Halifax publication known for its brash reporting of
political scandals and regional gossip was shutting down after 35
years.
Merriam said he always leafed through the magazine while waiting for
his turn in the barber’s chair.
“It was for the humour and the gossip that they provided,” he said.
“It’s just human nature — the cover shows all these people that you
know and you see on the news — people across Nova Scotia that are high
up — and they’re printing stuff in this magazine that is detrimental
to them probably, to their character and everything like that. It
didn’t matter what stature you held, your dirty laundry was aired out
in this magazine.”
Frank Magazine Atlantic has closed. - submitted
NOT A FAN
Gerry Rendell took over John's Barber Shop after his father, John
Rendell, died in 2021. By that time, the COVID-19 pandemic had forced
them to remove their magazines and they still mainly operate by
appointment so people aren’t lingering in the lobby.
While his father enjoyed the magazine, Gerry said he was never a fan.
“Dad had his own thoughts on it — he thought it was entertaining, it
kept you in touch with what was going on behind the scenes here. I
didn’t really agree with it because they focused on the negative and
I’m an optimistic person,” he said, adding that they always removed
any copies that criticized their customers.
“I read the stories too but anytime we had somebody who was in here
and a story was based on them, we would take that magazine out of
respect,” he said.
“It happened with clientele who came in — obviously I’m not going to
mention any names — but you didn’t want people talking about these
people when they came in; we’re not a place of gossip here, it’s a
place to get a haircut and what’s said here stays here.”
OWNED BY CAPE BRETONER
Self-described as a collection of “news, satire, opinion, comment, and
humour,” Frank was established in 1987 and had been owned by prominent
Cape Breton businessman Parker Rudderham since 2010. Rudderham did not
respond to a request for an interview as of press time.
Paul Palango, a former Globe and Mail editor who has been writing for
Frank in recent years, told SaltWire Media on Wednesday that he
believes Frank’s closure was a result of Colchester County politicians
lobbying to have the publication banned from some local stores as a
result of its coverage of the 2020 mass killings.
- Chris Connors is a multimedia journalist with the Cape Breton Post.
https://www.nsbuzz.ca/life/
Nova Scotia Buzz
Frank Magazine Says Goodbye After 35 Years
Frank Magazine Says Goodbye After 35 Years
by Nova Scotia Buzz
Posted September 14, 2022
The Halifax edition of Frank Magazine has shuttered its social media
accounts and posted a message on their website.
“We regret to announce the death of Frank Magazine, 35, which occurred
on September 14, 2022.” the Magazine said.
Frank began publishing in 1987 and was well known for printing
political scandals and regional gossip.
More recently, the magazine has been known for its reporting on the
Nova Scotia mass shooting. It obtained and was the first to release
security video of the shooter being shot by RCMP at the Irving Big
Stop in Enfield. The Magazine also appealed a decision by the Mass
Casualty Commission to not release the security videos of the shooters
death publicly. They were backed by several other media outlets and
won the appeal.
The magazine said subscribers can claim the balance owing on their
subscription by calling 1-877-633-9595.
buzz@nsbuzz.ca
https://www.saltwire.com/nova-
Frank Magazine goes belly up
Chris Lambie |clambie@herald.ca
Posted September 14, 2022
Frank Magazine Atlantic has closed.
Frank Magazine Atlantic published this image in announcing it has closed.
Stuffed shirts and political hacks, breathe easy.
Halifax-based Frank Magazine which billed itself as a collection “of
news, satire, opinion, comment, and humour,” has shut down.
“We regret to announce the death of Frank Magazine Atlantic, 35, which
occurred on September 14, 2022,” says a note on the publication’s
website.
“Stricken with a rogue’s gallery of grievous and irremediable medical
conditions, death was quick and (mostly! - ed.) painless.”
'It’s been going on for a number of weeks'
Managing editor Andrew Douglas could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
“Stricken with a rogue’s gallery of grievous and irremediable medical
conditions, death was quick and (mostly! - ed.) painless.”
'It’s been going on for a number of weeks'
Managing editor Andrew Douglas could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
“I didn’t know it was that precarious a situation,” he said.
'It is a big loss'
The closure is a loss for Nova Scotia, Palango said.
“Frank was a part of the journalistic ecosystem here and it is a big
loss,” he said.
“They reported on stories that weren’t on the agenda, basically. They
were out scouting for stories that should be reported and that weren’t
reported. Stories that were on the edge.”
Politicians blamed
Palango, who reported extensively on the Nova Scotia mass murders of
April 2020 for Frank, credited Douglas for his journalistic chops.
He blamed the Frank closure on Colchester County politicians who
banded together to get Frank banned from some local stores last year
over their coverage of Dartmouth denturist Gabriel Wortman’s murders
of 22 people and the horrific aftermath. “I want to congratulate
them,” Palango said. “They’re very successful because they killed
Frank and I hope they’re happy.”
https://surge105.ca/2022/09/
After 35 Years, Frank Magazine Says Goodbye To Halifax
By Amy Chabot
Sep 15, 2022
Love them or hate them, for 35 years Frank magazine has been breaking
stories in Halifax.
Frank started in 1987 and was well known for printing political
scandals and regional gossip. So much gossip!!!!
As of yesterday, Frank is no more!
“We regret to announce the death of Frank Magazine, 35, which occurred
on September 14, 2022.” the Magazine said.
David T.S. Fraser
@privacylawyer
Didn't expect this ... Frank Magazine Atlantic (@Frank_Mag) is shutting down.
Sreencap of the following announcement: "We regret to announce the
death of Frank Magazine Atlantic, 35, which occurred on September 14,
2022. Stricken with a rogues' gallery of grievous and irremediable
medical conditions, death was quick and (mostly! - ed) painless."
who knows?
@slg2021
I think @Frank_Mag is done
Image
In the last couple of years they reported on Nova Scotia mass
shooting. It obtained and was the first to release security video of
the shooter being shot by RCMP at the Irving Big Stop in Enfield. The
Magazine also appealed a decision by the Mass Casualty Commission to
not release the security videos of the shooters death publicly. They
were backed by several other media outlets and won the appeal.
https://www.frankmagazine.org/
The magazine said subscribers can claim the balance owing on their
subscription by calling 1-877-633-9595.
https://www.halifaxexaminer.
The vile racism and misogyny that was Frank Magazine
Morning File, Thursday, September 15, 2022
September 15, 2022 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments
News
1. Frank
Frank Magazine announcing its own death
Frank Magazine has died.
The magazine announced its own death on its website, and then deleted
its social media accounts. No explanation was provided for the
closure.
Frank was started in 1987 by David Bentley, Lyndon Watkins, and Dulcie
Conrad. Bentley was the primary operator of Frank, having used the
proceeds of his sale of The Daily News to finance the new magazine.
(There’s a publication with the same name in Ottawa; the two are not
now related.)
Bentley infused Frank with the spirit of the English tabloids. Frank
scoured assessment and court records to satirically take on the
business and political elites, and otherwise reported on their private
lives. This was in stark contrast to the existing news media, which
were timid and overly deferential to the powerful.
There’s a complicated ownership history, but in 2004, Frank was
purchased by John Williams. Williams was especially good at revealing
the sex abuse scandals of the Catholic Church. His work was important,
and I valued the publication.
I was friendly with Williams. It was clear the enterprise was
exhausting him, and he complained that it wasn’t working financially.
So I wasn’t surprised in 2010 when he sold it. I congratulated him on
his work, and wished him the best. Williams then made a run at a gay
publication called Gaze*, but subsequently left journalism completely.
I haven’t kept up with him, but I’m told he’s doing well. I’m glad.
While I wasn’t surprised that Williams sold Frank, I was surprised
about who bought it: Parker Rudderham, the Cape Breton businessman
with a reputation for his many engagements in the court system.
Soon after Rudderham bought Frank there was a mass exodus and/or
firing (depending on whom you talk to) at Frank. My understanding is
that staff were upset at the increasingly misogynistic turn of Frank.
Four reporters left: Mairin Prentiss, Jacob Boon, Neal Ozano, and Dan
Walsh, leaving editorial control of the magazine in the hands of the
sole remaining reporter, Andrew Douglas. Rudderham reportedly
threatened to sue the Chronicle Herald over its reporting on the staff
issues.
In the wake of that episode, the little publication that had been
punching up for the previous 14 years began aggressively punching
down, attacking unions, women, immigrants, and (especially) people of
colour.
Much of that ugly “reporting” was directed at my friend and colleague, El Jones.
“They drew me as a monkey,” Jones tells me, referring to a cartoon
published in the magazine, which was reminiscent of 19th century
cartoons representing Black people as beasts. Publication of the
cartoon resulted in Frank being yanked completely from the stands at
Atlantic News and pulled off prominent display in other outlets.
“Frank spent years following me around in public, taking pictures of
me walking on the street, reposting private posts from my social media
and making fake identities to come on my page, turning up at award
events to harass and post about me and nobody else, and on and on and
on,” continues Jones. “What great political project was involved in
Andrew Douglas walking by Venus Envy and tweeting about how he saw a
book on interracial sex, adding, ‘don’t tell El Jones’?”
“I also note that the very thing they are now being credited with —
fierce criticism of the RCMP — is the very thing they harassed me
over,” she adds. “When Black and Indigenous women said and say the
police are corrupt and not accountable, Frank put us on the cover and
degraded us. And the very next week, they could write about the
police, and get praised. This is a great example of how racism and
misogynoir work — I am ‘crazy,’ a ‘cop hater’ and ‘disgusting’ when I
make informed critique of the police, but when white men critique the
police, they are fantastic journalists.”
It wasn’t just Jones that Frank attacked. I won’t get into all the
details of its coverage of Rehtaeh Parsons, but will note that Douglas
decided the real guilty party was not the boys who assaulted Rehtaeh,
but rather her mother, Leah Parsons, for improper parental
supervision. “My mother wouldn’t have given me the chance to kill
myself,” wrote Douglas. “She would’ve done it for me.”
Then there was this February 25, 2016 tweet from @Frank_Mag (the
entire account was deleted yesterday), after Halifax Transit named one
of the ferries in honour of civil rights activist Viola Desmond:
Next year during Black History Month, we’ll all be able to ride
Viola Desmond. Several times a day, if that’s what you’re in to.
I’m just scratching the surface. The magazine was filled with such
vile shit issue after issue.
But it turns out that being overtly and proudly sexist and racist is a
rotten business model — why pay for that shit when you can get it for
free from your asshole uncle on Facebook?
I have no knowledge of the finances of Frank, but under Douglas’s
reign, the publication increasingly felt like a vanity project for
Rudderham. I don’t know how much money he lost on Frank, but evidently
he has recently decided that it was too much of a money hole, so he
pulled the plug.
About that RCMP reporting. I won’t air dirty laundry in public. My
relationship with writers — why I publish them, why I sometimes decide
to stop publishing them — is not the public’s business. Suffice it to
say that as an editor I have many concerns — reputational value,
reliable sourcing, accuracy, how issues are framed, the potential for
litigation, and more — and I have not just the right but the
responsibility as editor to exercise my judgment on these things.
I reported critically on the RCMP long before the mass murders of
April 2020 — as I detailed in the Dead Wrong series, the RCMP
knowingly left Glen Assoun, an innocent man, in prison rather than let
an investigator cast doubt on Assoun’s conviction — and I’ve been
reporting critically on the RCMP in relation to the mass murders. But
I do so fairly, accurately, and with facts I find properly sourced.
Competition in the news business is good, as it sharpens all of us,
keeps us on our toes. I criticize other publications, but when they
close or downsize, I usually lament the loss, praise the past
reporting, and worry for the reporters’ futures.
Not this time. Not after what was done to my friend. Not after the
mean-spirited attacks on women and victims of sexual abuse. Not after
the proudly racist commentary.
Frank and its vile writers can rot in hell.
Nova Scotia’s Frank magazine, a mix of news, satire and humour, ceases
publication
By The Staff The Canadian Press michael.macdonald@
Posted September 15, 2022 11:05 am
Andrew Douglas, managing editor of Frank Magazine, arrives at
provincial court in Halifax on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016. The
Halifax-based satirical magazine Frank has announced its demise after
more than three decades of publication.(THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew
Vaughan) Andrew Douglas, managing editor of Frank Magazine, arrives at
provincial court in Halifax on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016. The
Halifax-based satirical magazine Frank has announced its demise after
more than three decades of publication.(THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew
Vaughan)
The Halifax-based satirical magazine Frank has announced its demise
after more than three decades of publication.
A notice on the publication’s website says the publishers “regret to
announce the death of Frank Magazine Atlantic … which occurred on
September 14, 2022.”
A photo montage depicting the cartoon figure who appeared on the
magazine’s masthead, lying in a coffin with his eyes closed,
accompanies the announcement.
The website says the publication, which is distinct from the
Ottawa-based magazine of the same name, had operated for 35 years.
It was widely sold at supermarket checkouts and was available online
for a subscription fee, and the announcement says subscribers will be
reimbursed.
The editor of the publication, Andrew Douglas, was not immediately
available for comment.
A photo depicting the cartoon figure who appeared on the magazine’s
masthead lying in a coffin accompanied the announcement of the
magazine ceasing publication.
A photo depicting the cartoon figure who appeared on the magazine’s
masthead lying in a coffin accompanied the announcement of the
magazine ceasing publication. Frank Magazine
The magazine has received praise and criticism over the years for its
journalism, with some commentators noting that in the past it would
break stories that other media then followed.
Stephen Kimber, a faculty member at the University of King’s College
school of journalism, writing and publishing in Halifax, said he used
to frequently purchase the magazine, regarding it as something of “a
guilty pleasure.”
“It had a heyday when they were satirical, they were nasty, and they
would uncover things people didn’t want uncovered, but they had a
focus on politicians, businessmen and media stars,” he said in an
interview on Thursday.
“There was a period when they were breaking stories,” he recalled,
referring primarily to the 1990s.
“They did some of the first stories about (former premier) Gerald
Regan’s issues with women, they did stories about (former premier)
John Buchanan’s trust funds. They were an important journalistic
publication in this province for a period of time.”
More recently, the publication was the first to publish a story
revealing that senior members of an internal RCMP team tasked with
providing information to Nova Scotia’s mass shooting inquiry were
married to two top female officers involved in the response. The two
Mounties on the team were subsequently replaced due to conflict of
interest concerns.
However, Kimber said in recent years he felt the emphasis often
shifted too far away from knocking the powerful off their pedestals.
“Many of those being exposed were ordinary people who had nothing to
say in terms of public policy or business or anything else,” he said.
“I stopped making it a regular thing to buy.”
In 2017, the magazine came under criticism for a cartoon that depicted
El Jones, an African Nova Scotian poet who was attending a
demonstration, as having a jutting chin and sloping forehead.
The magazine modified the image after critics described the image as
racist and launched campaigns to remove the magazine from stores.
Douglas also apologized to readers, saying, “In our mind, we didn’t
use (a) racist character, but having said that we also understand that
can be totally subjective.”
Jones, who is now the Nancy’s chair in women’s studies at Mount Saint
Vincent University, said in an interview at the time she viewed the
image as a throwback to racist images in magazines in the 1800s that
depicted African men and women as having features closer to primates
than Caucasians.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 15, 2022.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/
Nova Scotia's Frank magazine ceases publication
The publication had operated for 35 years
Michael Tutton · The Canadian Press · Posted: Sep 16, 2022 3:28 PM AT
The Halifax-based satirical magazine Frank has announced its demise
after more than three decades of publication. A notice on the
publication's website says the publishers "regret to announce the
death of Frank Magazine Atlantic ... which occurred on September 14,
2022." (www.frankmagazine.ca)
The Halifax-based satirical magazine Frank has announced its demise
after more than three decades of publication.
A notice on the publication's website says the publishers "regret to
announce the death of Frank Magazine Atlantic ... which occurred on
September 14, 2022."
A photo montage depicting the cartoon figure who appeared on the
magazine's masthead, lying in a coffin with his eyes closed,
accompanies the announcement.
The website says the publication, which is distinct from the
Ottawa-based magazine of the same name, had operated for 35 years.
It was widely sold at supermarket checkouts and was available online
for a subscription fee, and the announcement says subscribers will be
reimbursed.
Media law experts say decision to publish 911 calls not a matter
for investigation
The editor of the publication, Andrew Douglas, was not immediately
available for comment.
Praise and criticism over the years
The magazine has received praise and criticism over the years for its
journalism, with some commentators noting that in the past it would
break stories that other media then followed.
Stephen Kimber, a faculty member at the University of King's College
school of journalism, writing and publishing in Halifax, said he used
to frequently purchase the magazine, regarding it as something of "a
guilty pleasure."
"It had a heyday when they were satirical, they were nasty, and they
would uncover things people didn't want uncovered, but they had a
focus on politicians, businessmen and media stars," he said in an
interview on Thursday.
"There was a period when they were breaking stories," he recalled,
referring primarily to the 1990s.
Frank Magazine pleads not guilty to breaching publication ban
"They did some of the first stories about [former premier] Gerald
Regan's issues with women, they did stories about [former premier]
John Buchanan's trust funds. They were an important journalistic
publication in this province for a period of time."
More recently, Frank was the first to publish a story revealing that
senior members of an internal RCMP team tasked with providing
information to Nova Scotia's mass shooting inquiry were married to two
top female officers involved in the response. The two Mounties on the
team were subsequently replaced due to concerns about conflict of
interest.
Andrew Douglas, the editor of the publication, was not immediately
available for comment. (CBC)
However, Kimber said in recent years he felt the emphasis often
shifted too far away from knocking the powerful off their pedestals.
"Many of those being exposed were ordinary people who had nothing to
say in terms of public policy or business or anything else," he said.
"I stopped making it a regular thing to buy."
In 2017, the magazine came under criticism for a cartoon that depicted
El Jones, an African Nova Scotian poet who was attending a
demonstration, as having a jutting chin and sloping forehead.
The magazine modified the image after critics described the image as
racist and launched campaigns to remove the magazine from stores.
Douglas also apologized to readers, saying, "In our mind, we didn't
use [a] racist character, but having said that we also understand that
can be totally subjective."
Jones, who is now the Nancy's chair in women's studies at Mount Saint
Vincent University, said in an interview at the time she viewed the
image as a throwback to racist images in magazines in the 1800s that
depicted African men and women as having features closer to primates
than Caucasians.
CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices
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The Mass Casualty Commission held its final research and policy
roundtable today. This one was focused on civilian oversight advice
for the Commissioners, and featured 19 speakers, in addition to the
moderator.
The biggest news of the day may have been the sudden announcement that
Frank Magazine was not going to be publishing any more issues. Frank
has been a unique and important source of investigative reporting on
the MCC over the past two years, and on all things Nova Scotia for 35
years. There will be a large void to fill.
The MCC learned today that much of the current civilian oversight of
the RCMP is quite limited in its ability to hold the force to account,
and very little of that oversight is local to Nova Scotia. There will
be an afternoon session tomorrow, featuring a presentation from the
Avalon Sexual Assault Centre and input from other "justice related"
organizations. There are four days of proceedings on the calendar for
next week, though there are no details available as to what will be
taking place during those sessions.
14 Comments
David Amos
David Amos
Why act so surprised? I suspect that you or at least some of your fans
must have watched your buddies Palango and Bonaparte in YouTube on
Sunday night Correct? Methinks it was blatantly obvious the glass
pumpkin was revealing to Palango and his pal that Rudderham was about
to give Andy Baby the boot N'esy Pas?
Jean Mac Aulay
Jean Mac Aulay
Thank you for the summaries! I have enjoyed hearing your views on the
MCC. Sorry for the death of Frank's Magazine.
David Amos
David Amos
"Thank you for the summaries!" Ditto "I have enjoyed hearing your
views on the MCC." Me Too "Sorry for the death of Frank's Magazine."
Nay Not I
ck
ck
As always great insight. After all that has been brought to the table
for RCMP the only way to fix the process is start at the top and work
down. They seem to have been allowed over time to do things their way
and DON'T QUESTION OUR STRUCTURE.......
David Amos
David Amos
Methinks many agree that we should defund the Crown Corps commonly
known as the RCMP and CBC ASAP N'esy Pas?
NS citizen
NS citizen
Frank magazine did some good work to be sure, I wrote an essay in
defense of Frank months back, but Andrew Douglas allowed his political
biases to alienate his own audience. He doxxed a bunch of people who
donated to a protest in defense of charter rights that were under
attack (attacks no one could reasonably justify in a free and
democratic society because they weren't based on evidence or sound
reasoning) he hyper focused on Jeremy McKenzie as what seemed like
dozens of people made public claims they'd cancel subscriptions over
those two things alone, refused to cover the attack on Salman Rushdie
by an Islamic extremist, refused to cover the Kamloops hoax where
there was no bodies discovered, refused to cover laif Marouf being
paid by government to spread hate and evil, and meanwhile he was
bemoaning Pierre povilierre, Jordan Peterson and basically tried to
cultivate some kind of elitist illiberal partisans who apparently
weren't willing to pay for a subscription. It's a shame to see someone
self sabotage a magazine so bad but in my view he became an enemy of
free speech pushing a silence of tyranny, tried to portray a lot of
speech outside of the coercive conformity of the epistemic tribalism
of the left, as violence. It's a good lesson for him. Good opportunity
to be less of a censorious joke in the future. Portray words as
violence and the people will repudiate you as harmful trash and an
attack on our democracy based on pluralism. He can take the lesson
that the onus on tolerance in democratic pluralisms IS ON THE
LISTENER.
David Amos
David Amos
Well put but trust there is a LOT more to Andy Baby's story
Brian Henley
Brian Henley
So sorry to learn about the news re Frank Magazine. Tough news
David Amos
David Amos
I'm not in fact that news made my day
cyndi
cyndi
God got them for lying about me, my daughter and my now deceased ex husband!!!!
David Amos
David Amos
I don't know about any of that but I suspect it was the devil in mean
old me that killed Frank Magazine
Ken Triol
Ken Triol
#Cyndi was that a recent article? I was a recent reader of Frank
cyndi
cyndi
@Ken Triol jeannie found it for me in last Nov issue!!!
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No Harry Potter magic here just the Hells Angels by Paul Palango
April 18/19 Mass Shooting
August 23, 2022
NO HARRY POTTER MAGIC HERE, JUST THE HELLS ANGELS
By Paul Palango
The deliberate murkiness about Gabriel Wortman’s associations with
criminals in the years prior to his deadly killing sprees has led to
much speculation about what he was really doing. The RCMP says it
couldn’t find any serious organized crime connections in Wortman’s
past. The Mounties couldn’t figure out where his money came from. The
Mass Casualty Commission – the Spinquiry, as we call it – isn’t all
that curious about any of it, either.
We don’t know precisely what Wortman was doing all those years before
he killed 22 people on April 18 and 19, 2020, but several police
sources have provided Frank Magazine with a potentially helpful road
map.
It begins with Hogwarts.
We’re not talking about Harry Potter’s magic school, but rather
Project Hogwarts, a joint-forces police operation that began in Nova
Scotiain 2016.
The information about Project Hogwarts was provided to Frank Magazine
by a group of current and former law enforcement officers who are
familiar with aspects of what had taken place. One of them is Jimmy
McNulty, the pseudonym we use for a source we’ve been talking to for
this story since almost the beginning.
“In 2015, the Atlantic provinces started seeing a new stage in the
proliferation of outlaw motorcycle gangs,” said Jimmy McNulty. “The
Hells Angels were moving east, setting up in Charlottetown and Nova
Scotia. The Red Devils, the Angels’ number one support club, set up
shop in Musquodoboit Harbour. Another support club, the Gatekeepers
MC(I remember those guys!-ed.) started opening up clubhouses around
the province. They were supported by the Sedition MC and the
Darksiders MC.”
It had been about 14 years since the Hells Angels had been driven out
of Nova Scotia after a series of devastating police actions, and now
the gang was coming back to town, not only in the Maritimes but also
across the country. It was part of a strategy to control the illegal
drug trade from coast to coast.
The RCMP was on the case. In fact, then Commissioner Robert Paulson
had made taking down the Hells Angels his number one crime-fighting
priority in Canada. RCMP projects were being initiated everywhere to
counter the threat.
“People were noticing that the bikers were setting up shop and began
to complain about it all,” McNulty said. “By the spring of 2016,
police forces in Nova Scotia, led by the RCMP, tried to tackle the
issue. A provincial biker enforcement unit called the CFSEU (Combined
Forces Special Enforcement Unit) was set up as part of RCMP federal
operations. It was called Project Hogwarts.
“Our intention was to show the outlaw motorcycle gangs that we always
control the grounds in our area,” McNulty said. “Our media mouth
pieces used fear tactics to rouse the public about the dangers and we
began our policing.”
Stories to that end, like one by Keith Doucette of The Canadian Press
in late 2016, began sounding the alarm.
“It doesn’t sit well with me for them to be here because I know what
they bring with them,” Doucette wrote, quoting RCMP Corporal Andy
Cook. “I’ve seen them in action, and they bring violence with them and
they bring drug trafficking with them.”
Stephen Schneider, a criminology professor at St. Mary’s University,
told Doucette that the Hells Angels were looking to not only control
the Canadian market but were likely also planning to set up an export
market.
“They are certainly operating pill presses out in B.C. and perhaps
they want to start setting up production facilities in the Maritimes
so they actually can start exporting,” Schneider was quoted as saying.
Throughout 2016 and 2017, the pages of Frank were littered with biker
stories, not only big-picture stuff like who was pulling the strings
in Nova Scotia — full-patch London, Ont. HA David (Hammer) MacDonald
was one of the top guys — but identifying the comings and goings of
many of the smaller players on the ground here, from Annapolis County
to Sydney.
Project Hogwarts was lead by RCMP Inspector Alfredo Bangloy. The
“brains” of the operation was RCMP Sgt. Angela Hawryluk. Other
members of the original team included then-Cpl. (now Sgt.) Mike Kerr,
RCMP constables Chris Dodge, Scott Morrison, Peter Hurley and Colby
Smith. Halifax Police officers on the team included Detective
constables Steve Fairbairn, Nathan Cross, Curtis Osmond, Mike Carter,
Cory Simmonds and Rebecca Trueman. A civilian working with the unit
was Ellen Urquhart.
As the team conducted its surveillance, they became aware of then
47-year-old Robin Moulton, a high-profile Hells Angels Nomad from New
Brunswick, making his presence known in Nova Scotia. The Nomads are
elite Hells Angels members who have no set club house and are said to
have earned their ranking by having killed for the club, although
Moulton does not appear to have ever been charged with murder.
Moulton’s lawyer, T.J. Burke did not respond to a request for comment
on this or previous stories.
“We focused a lot on Moulton and even put a tracker on his vehicle,”
McNulty said. “We followed him back to New Brunswick and were able to
identify various real estate and businesses to which he was
associated.
“The investigation was proceeding smoothly until the RCMP brass in New
Brunswick caught wind that we had expanded into New Brunswick and were
chasing bikers on their turf. They were pissed,” McNulty said. “They
wanted to shut us down.”
Before that happened, a parallel operation to Hogwarts was set up in
New Brunswick – Operation Trident.
The Nova Scotia CFSEU investigation is archived in the RCMP’s PROS
record system under file number 2016-979629, McNulty said. The New
Brunswick one is filed in the PROS system as 2016-1141937. Frank
Magazine will be filing a request to see those files in due course.
In 2016, the outlaw-biker obsessed Commissioner Paulson put assistant
commissioner Larry Tremblay in charge of the New Brunswick RCMP. A
former member of the Canadian Navy, Tremblay joined the RCMP and rose
through the ranks. Between 2004 and 2008 he was seconded to the
Canadian Security Intelligence Service. In Ottawa, Tremblay ran
national security, financial crimes and serious organized crime
investigations until 2014. He then moved into protective services,
hobnobbing with the political elite, overseeing security for the Prime
Minister, Governor General and Parliament, a tried-and-true
steppingstone to the upper echelons of the RCMP.
Tremblay had no sooner hit the ground in New Brunswick when he began
to put in place his own hand-picked team to take on the Hells Angels.
Many of them were trusted French speakers, like then Staff-Sgt.
Dustine Rodier, who took command of the Hampton, N.B. detachment,
which was at the centre of the action. people he believed he could
trust. McNulty said that many of the investigators from Hogwarts and
Trident were rolled into two new operations: Projects
J-Thunderstruckand J-Thunder.
Project J-Thunderstruck targeted Hells Angels Nomad Emery “Pit” Martin
who was operating in Northern New Brunswick, along the border with
Quebec.
Project Thunder’s focus was on his fellow Nomad Robin Moulton and the
Red Devils, in particular, in Southern New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
It could be reasonably argued that creating large interprovincial
operations made sense, considering that the entire population of the
Maritimes is less than that of the city of Toronto.
The new investigators added to the investigation roster included
Inspector Deanna Hill, Inspector Ron DeSilva, Staff Sergeants Bruce
Reid, Sgt. Eric Lanteigne and Constable Julie Messina. Other key
players included Fredericton Sgt. Mike Berry and Corporal Gerard
Crispo. There were additional investigators from RCMP federal
services, Fredericton Police, the Canadian Border Security Agency and
other policing jurisdictions.
Here’s where the investigations started to get tricky.
“Any RCMP investigation of outlaw bikers requires an informant,
someone the Mounties can control,” McNulty said.
In early 2017, he said, the team was told that the RCMP indeed had a
new informant for Project Thunder.
“We were told that they had someone in the Truro-Portapique area who
was tied into MS-13 and the Angels,” McNulty said. “The Mounties were
hot on it.”
For those familiar with this ongoing saga, the El Salvadoran street
gang Mara Salvatrucha or MS-13 – “the most notorious street gang in
the Western Hemisphere” – is linked to precisely one person in that
area – Wortman’s friend and handyman Peter Alan Griffon.
The RCMP and the Spinquiry have all but made the 42-year-old Griffon
invisible in spite of his obvious credentials as a witness that many
in the public would like to see testify. Griffon was reportedly
working on Wortman’s property in the hours leading up to the beginning
of the massacres. He called Lisa Banfield’s phone on a number of
occasions. Griffon also told police that he was the person who applied
the RCMP decals to a decommissioned police car, creating the near
perfect replica of an RCMP cruiser that Wortman used during his
13.5-hour spree. Griffon was never charged and his current whereabouts
are unknown.
Parole Board of Canada documents describe the circumstances of his
2014 arrest as part of an investigation into MS-13 elements in
Edmonton.
“In December 2014 police were conducting an investigation into a known
Security Threat Group(STG). You came to their attention through this
investigation and on the same day, police stopped a vehicle you were
driving. The vehicle was searched and police found cash, a baggie with
3 grams of cocaine, a black backpack containing approximately 800
grams of cocaine, more cash, a score sheet, a portable hard drive and
a camera. Police also located multiple cell phones in the vehicle.
“A short time later, police searched a warehouse where you were
living. A number of items were found, including multiple firearms and
ammunition, approximately 4 kilos of cocaine, $30,000 in cash and
various paraphernalia used to buff, package, and traffic cocaine. You
did not have a licence to possess any of the weapons and admitted to
the police that you worked for a cocaine distribution operation and
his job was to store, process, distribute, and transport cocaine to
traffickers.”
Griffon languished in an Alberta jail for several years, partly
because of a day parole violation, and eventually received a
relatively short sentence of two years, eight months and nine days.
The obvious problem with Griffon being the sole RCMP informant was
that in 2017 he was still imprisoned in Alberta and didn’t win his
parole until August 2018. Once he was paroled, Griffon was allowed to
move back to live in his parents’ house, which was located several
hundred meters south of Wortman’s cottage at 200 Portapique Beach
Road.
“We didn’t get a name on the informant, but I firmly believe it was
Wortman and that he was the one who supplied the hydraulic pill
presses to the Hells Angels. He fit the profile perfectly,” McNulty
said.
The danger for the police, McNulty added, was that Wortman was also a
criminal who might have been playing both sides at the same time.
Wherever the truth lies, McNulty said that there was likely a natural
evolution of the relationship between Wortman and the RCMP. Wortman
had family members who were Mounties and he associated with police
officers on a regular basis. It likely all began with a simple
relationship, exchanging information with police officers such as
Halifax constable Barry Warnell and RCMP constable Greg Wiley, who
visited Wortman 16 times until early 2017.
“The thing to note is that Wiley told the MCC that he had no notes
about their conversations, which I find hard to believe. That’s not
the way the Mounties roll. They report everything,” McNulty said.
“What Wiley did say was that he would check in with Wortman about
minor criminal activity in the community. That tells you something
right there.”
McNulty and their group believe that as Project Thunder got off the
ground, the RCMP relationship with Wortman moved to the next level –
agent.
“That’s where the big money is,” McNulty said. “He would have had a
professional handler at that point. I believe that Mountie was
Constable Peter Hurley. That was his specialty. He was the kind of
handler who promised the moon to potential informants and even more so
to agents, but the RCMP is notorious for not following through.”
Once New Brunswick took over, Inspector DeSilva, then head of the
Federal Serious and Organized Crime Unit, assumed the handler
responsibility, McNulty said.
We may never know the true story. It would be a criminal offense for a
Mountie to reveal the identity of an informant or agent, even after
they are dead. The RCMP undercover manual instructs members to lie to
everyone but a judge about such matters.
What we do know is what we are allowed to know.
When Moulton was arrested in August 2017, he was charged with
possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking and possession of
a restricted firearm – a 9 mm Beretta. Not much considering all the
effort when you think about it.
At the time of his arrest, CBC News asked then Fredericton Police
Chief Leanne Fitchabout the investigation. She said: “Getting down
into the weeds of any particular aspect of ongoing or past or present
issues could jeopardize investigations and officer and public safety,
so I won’t be commenting on any specifics.”
In 2018, Moulton received a rather short sentence of four years and six months.
There was a good reason why that happened, McNulty said.
“The agent was still in place and the RCMP couldn’t reveal everything
they knew because that would point to the agent, so they left
important things out so they could continue their investigation,”
McNulty said. “It could be argued that there was a miscarriage of
justice. Moulton’s lawyer wasn’t given all the facts about what the
police had been doing.”
The twin projects concluded on April 9, 2020 with the announcement by
Inspector DeSilva that two more Hells Angels member and two Red Devils
had been arrested in New Brunswick over the previous seven weeks.
DeSilva went out of his way to link the arrests to the previous ones
of Moulton and Martin, three and two years earlier, respectively. In
October, 2021 Martin received a seven-and-a-half year prison term for
cocaine trafficking and acting in the benefit of a criminal
organization.
“One of the most dangerous times is the end of an operation,” another
police source said, echoing the thoughts of others. “By that time, the
bad guys, especially the bikers, usually have a good idea about who
the rat was.”
Nine days after the projects closed, Wortman began his rampage.
From the closed and dangerous world of outlaw bikers, I continue to
hear stories about how Wortman was identified as a snitch and had his
life threatened over what happened to Moulton, Martin and the others.
No one yet will go on the record, which comes as no surprise,
considering the, um, grave consequences.
As for the Mounties, they have their own Hogwarts thing – a magical
ability to make controversies disappear into the wind.
In the spring of 2020, around the time of the massacres or shortly
afterward, multiple sources say that Hurley was transferred to
Ferryland, a small RCMP detachment on the Avalon Peninsula in
Newfoundland, about an hour’s drive south of St. John’s. In recent
months, he has taken down his social media.
Others, such as Staff-Sgt. Reid were not so lucky. Shortly before 2
p.m. on October 25, 2019, he committed suicide at a baseball diamond
in Rothesay, N.B. Reid suffered from typical psychological maladies
affecting many police officers, but those who knew him closely say he
was particularly distraught over his unheeded warnings about
significant failings in the overall Hells Angels’ investigations.
According to sources in New Brunswick, Reid believed a number of
people – as many as four – had been murdered during the course of the
investigation largely due to the RCMP’s shortcomings. Reid told people
that he was worried sick about one of the agents that the force had
employed. He strongly believed that the person was dangerous and
unsuited to the task, but that no one would listen to him.
Fifteen months after the massacres, New Brunswick Attorney General
Hugh Flemming took the unprecedented step of having Asst. Commissioner
Tremblay removed from his posting. Flemming stated in a letter to RCMP
Commissioner Brenda Lucki that he had “lost faith” in Tremblay, but
gave no specifics about the roots of his dissatisfaction.
Nova Scotia’s underperforming boss, Assistant Commissioner Leona (Lee)
Bergerman, was allowed to resign, as were a significant number of her
underlings who were involved in the RCMP response to the massacres.
Before she retired Sgt. Hawryluk was the Mountie in charge of writing
the informations to obtain search warrants in the post-massacres
investigation. She became a vocal critic of Frank Magazine and me, to
the point of lambasting a small store owner near where she lived over
his selling my recent book, 22 Murders.
The other trick that the RCMP employs when faced with embarrassment is
to promote those who might have failed and safely bury their possible
transgressions in the upper echelons of the force. For example, Chief
Superintendent Chris Leatherwas moved to a federal policing leadership
role in Ottawa.
Staff-Sgt Rodier was promoted to Inspector and was running the
Communicatons wing and 911 operations for the RCMP on the weekend of
the massacres. After that debacle she received another promotion to
Superintendent.
Superintendent Darren Campbell was given a bump to Chief
Superintendent and placed in charge of operations in New Brunswick.
His new boss was now Assistant Commissioner Deanna Hill. She was a key
player in Projects Thunder and Thunderstruck and afterward was placed
in charge of the RCMP in Newfoundland.
“Tremblay put his people in place all over the Maritimes so that he
could control things” McNulty said. “After he was pushed out, they
brought back Deanna Hill to replace him. It’s just a continuation of
what had been going on. You can’t help but think that they’ve put
people in place to protect the untold story that scares the shit out
of all of them.”
Next there is DeSilva. We don’t know yet what he really did – and the
RCMP would never confirm or deny if he was Wortman’s handler -- but
the Mounties obviously thought he did a terrific job. DeSilva was
named Officer of the Year in 2017 and eventually was promoted to
Superintendent. He is currently the officer in charge of the Codiac
Detachment, essentially the municipal police for Moncton and its
sister communities of Dieppe and Riverview. That’s where at least
three of the four murders may have taken place.
One might think that the Mass Casualty Commission might be interested
in poking around in all this, but one of its three Commissioners is
Leanne Fitch who, to echo her CBC quote, is not the kind of person who
likes “getting down into the weeds” of police investigations. The
entire Commission appears to be laser focused on not getting to the
bottom of the story, having avoided any potentially embarrassing
exploration like that for about six months.
Its circular logic goes something like this: “We can’t explore
anything that we haven’t been able to document, and we are not going
to search for documents that we haven’t been told about because our
mandate is not to find fault or cause trauma.”
Our mandate is quite the opposite.
If you can lend us a hand, please step forward and tell us what you
know. The greater community would appreciate it very much.
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The Media and the Murders by Rick Howe
August 6, 2022
The media and the murders
by Rick Howe
Most Nova Scotians today know the basics of what transpired April
18th and 19th, 2020 when something snapped in the mind of Dartmouth
denturist Gabriel Wortman, who, dressed as an RCMP officer and
driving a replica RCMP vehicle, launched a two day murderous rampage
that left 22 Nova Scotians and one unborn child dead and the gunman
himself killed by the RCMP.
It was the worst mass killing in Canadian history and it happened here
at home. You might think getting the full story behind what happened
would be a priority for the mainstream media. Sadly that has not been
the case.
Even as the Mass Casualty Commission promises to get to the truth of
what happened that tragic weekend, many Nova Scotians remain
skeptical. There are some who believe the Commission is party to a
cover-up and there never was any intention to reveal the whole truth
about the actions of Gabriel Wortman and Canada’s national police
force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Critics believe this has become an effort to deflect from the
relationship between them. Why isn’t Wortman’s criminal record and his
association with a criminal motorcycle gang not part of the MCC
inquiry? The critics believe there is an effort to cover-up the
RCMP’s involvement or relationship with Wortman and his relationship
with the Hells Angels. Was Gabriel Wortman a confidential police
informant? Yet there is little effort by the mainstream media to get
to the real story, beyond the pablum fed to them by the RCMP and the
MCC.
I’ll give the Chronicle Herald a thumbs up for facts unearthed by its
reporters in the thousands of documents dumped online by the
Commission, seemingly an effort to bury pertinent details. The CBC’s
Elizabeth McMillan has, through freedom of information requests, also
revealed new details. However, it stops there.
The mainstream Nova Scotia media need to wake up to the very real
possibilities this is much more than just one man’s two day killing
spree. Serious questions need to be asked and revealed about events
leading up to that weekend, the April weekend itself and the days and
weeks following the murders.
Where is CTV’s Rick Grant when you need him?
Sadly, those days of investigative reporters breaking news stories are
long gone. Halifax’s all-news talk station has no reporters. When was
the last time CTV, CBC or Global broke a major story? CTV for example,
has done a reasonable job reporting details from the testimony before
the Mass Inquiry Commission, but in the days following the mass
killings, the mainstream media continued to accept the narrative
presented by the RCMP even as details were few, including no accurate
account of the number of people killed. Radio, television and
newspaper reports often included verbatim RCMP news releases. It was
left to the alternative media to carry the ball.
Thanks to online sites like Little Grey Cells and quasi-news
organizations like the Halifax Examiner, and especially Frank
Magazine, we began getting details not provided by the RCMP. We were
beginning to realize the Mounties were holding key facts from the
public.
Frank’s release of the 911 calls from Wortman’s victims and video from
his take-down at the Big Stop in Enfield were major scoops. And
Frank’s Paul Palango has been ruthless is revealing more details about
Wortman, his criminal record and his association with motorcycle
gangs and police. He has been a thorn in the side of the RCMP to the
point where the RCMP’s media co-ordinator referred to Palango as “an
asshole.” He alone has kept this story fresh in the minds of those who
follow alternative media.
Then there’s the Lisa Banfield story. Wortman’s long-time companion
was indeed a victim of abuse, but the MCC’s decision not to allow
cross examination by lawyers for his victims because she was a victim
was more evidence for those screaming cover-up. Any effort to question
her about her story the night the massacres began was denied.
Why? She is a key witness who could provide more details about what
might have set Wortman off and her story about escaping handcuffs
while locked in the gunman’s RCMP replica police cruiser and spending
the night huddled inside a log in the woods is sketchy at best. And
again it is only Frank and Paul Palango who are asking questions
about her claims. The Examiner’s Tim Bousquet bought into the MCC’s
version of events and recently told a critic to “fuck off.”
Palango told me quite emphatically this is a story about the failure
of police, but he thinks the mainstream media has lost interest.
Palango says he has no doubt a cover-up is underway. He got support
for his claims from an unlikely source, retired CTV anchor Steve
Murphy. In two commentaries Murphy agreed there is more to this story
than we are being told and suggested the so called conspiracy
theorists were on the right track. Murphy also said Lisa Banfield
should have been cross-examined by family lawyers. Outside of his
comments, it has been crickets from the mainstream media.
”There is no longer a sense of pursuit,” Palango told me.
“It’s like the instinct had been bred out of reporters. No one is
doing anything.”
So many questions need answers. Why did the Mounties call for help
from the RCMP in New Brunswick? Why not seek aid from nearby police in
Truro or Amherst? Why were highway blockades not set up? Why was a man
with known ties to the Hells Angels and a neighbour and a friend of
Wortman’s evacuated with his father and mother from their home in
Portapique while four children whose parents had just been murdered
huddled in one home for hours? Why was Constable Heidi Stephenson,
basically a traffic cop, looking for a killer alone in her police
car? Was the gunman a police confidential informant? What was Gabriel
Wortman’s connection to the Hells Angels?
The truth is out there. But is the Nova Scotia media up to the task
of unravelling the full story behind this terrible tragedy? Stay
tuned. There’s clearly a lot more to learn.
tips@frankmagazine.ca
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>> Saturday, 10 September 2022
>>
>> Need I remind Pierre Poilievre et al that some folks have a long
>> memory and keep good records as well?
>>
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?
>>
>> The Writ Podcast - Episode #60: Pierre Poilievre, Week 1
>> 3,606 views
>> Sep 16, 2022
>> Éric Grenier
>> 1.35K subscribers
>> Shannon, Supriya and Aaron join me to chat about Poilievre's first
>> week as leader and the Trudeau government's inflation relief plan.
>>
>> https://www.thewrit.ca/
>>
>> Pierre Poilievre won the Conservative leadership race with more
>> support on the first ballot than any previous leadership candidate for
>> the Conservative Party or its predecessors. It was a big win.
>>
>> His first week, though, did not go so smoothly after one Quebec MP,
>> Alain Rayes, quit caucus, citing Poilievre’s tone and style of
>> politics as the reason. That the party had to subsequently apologize
>> for text messages sent to party members in Rayes’s riding asking them
>> to call his office to voice their displeasure made Rayes’s point for
>> him.
>>
>> Meanwhile, at a Liberal caucus retreat in New Brunswick, Justin
>> Trudeau announced new measures meant to provide relief from inflation
>> — an issue Poilievre has been hammering the government over for
>> months. Jagmeet Singh of the NDP was quick to claim credit.
>>
>> So it’s been a bit of a week.
>>
>> To discuss it all, I’m joined this week by the CBC’s Aaron Wherry,
>> Shannon Proudfoot, reporter with The Globe and Mail and Supriya
>> Dwivedi, Director of Policy and Engagement at the Centre for Media,
>> Technology and Democracy, and Senior Counsel for Enterprise Canada.
>> Supriya is also the co-host of the Seriously Podcast.
>>
>>
>> 152 Comments
>>
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> Welcome to the Circus
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> Davey Baby and I go back to 2004
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Floyd Anderson
>> Floyd Anderson
>> The journalist who interrupted him apologized for his rude behavior.
>> Take it as that. He was very rude.
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> True
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?
>>
>>
>>
>> Poilievre Derangement Syndrome returns with a VENGEANCE
>> 24,985 views
>> Premiered Sep 16, 2022
>> True North
>> 84.2K subscribers
>> The legacy media’s knives are out for Pierre Poilievre since winning
>> the Conservative leadership race less than one week ago. From heckling
>> the Carleton MP during his first presser to criticizing his move into
>> the official residence of the Leader of the Offical Opposition, it’s
>> clear Poilievre Derangement Syndrome is back with a vengeance!
>>
>> This week on Fake News Friday, Andrew Lawton and Harrison Faulkner
>> look into the legacy media’s most ridiculous takes on Poilievre’s win
>> and their rush to defend Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
>>
>> Also on the show, the legacy media rallies behind the need for King
>> Charles II (not III) to address colonialism and reparations. This may
>> prove to be difficult considering he hasn’t been around since the 17th
>> Century!
>>
>>
>>
>> 500 Comments
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> Welcome to the Circus Davey Baby and I go back to 2004
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?
>>
>>
>>
>> The Writ Podcast - Episode #59: One last look at the Conservative
>> leadership race
>> 1217 views
>> Sep 8, 2022
>>
>> Éric Grenier
>> 1.3K subscribers
>> Stephanie Levitz, Tim Powers and Chad Rogers join me to discuss what
>> to expect when the next leader of the Conservative Party is revealed
>> on Saturday.
>>
>> https://www.thewrit.ca/
>>
>> The Conservative leadership race will be finally coming to a close on
>> Saturday when the winner will be announced in Ottawa.
>>
>> The safe bet is that Pierre Poilievre will win — perhaps even on the
>> first ballot. But what will the results mean not only for the
>> consensus front runner, but for Jean Charest, Leslyn Lewis, Roman
>> Baber and Scott Aitchison?
>>
>> Does it matter if Poilievre wins on the first ballot? What’s next for
>> Charest should he lose? What will the results mean for Lewis and the
>> social conservative wing of the party?
>>
>> And did Baber and Aitchison succeed in what they set out to do by
>> launching their long-shot candidacies?
>>
>> To answer these questions and lots more, I’m joined this week by Tim
>> Powers of Summa Strategies, Chad Rogers of Crestview Strategy and
>> Stephanie Levitz of the Toronto Star.
>>
>>
>> 15 Comments
>>
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> Methinks Tim Powers of Summa Strategies, Chad Rogers of Crestview
>> Strategy and Stephanie Levitz of the Toronto Star must have read the
>> email I sent on September 12th by now N'esy Pas?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> Survey Says???
>>
>> Brent Clouda
>> Brent Clouda
>> Poilievre
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> @Brent Clouda Thats easy to predict after the fact
>>
>> Brent Clouda
>> Brent Clouda
>> @David Amos I voted for him
>>
>> Highlighted reply
>> Brent Clouda
>> Brent Clouda
>> @David Amos And I"m going to vote for him again, Pierre Poliievre
>> for Prime Minister. That is if the NDP/Liberal socialist party, ever
>> allow the peasants to vote again.
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> @Brent Clouda I have been running against all of them since 2004
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> @Brent Clouda Enjoy
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> Kings County Record June 22, 2004
>> Raising a Little Hell- Lively Debate Provokes Crowd
>>
>> By Erin Hatfield
>>
>> "If you don't like what you got, why don't you change it? If your
>> world is all screwed up, rearrange it."
>>
>> The 1979 Trooper song Raise a Little Hell blared on the speakers at
>> the 8th Hussars Sports Center Friday evening as people filed in to
>> watch the Fundy candidates debate the issues. It was an accurate, if
>> unofficial, theme song for the debate.
>>
>> The crowd of over 200 spectators was dwarfed by the huge arena, but as
>> they chose their seats, it was clear the battle lines were drawn.
>> Supporters of Conservative candidate Rob Moore naturally took the blue
>> chairs on the right of the rink floor while John Herron's Liberalswent
>> left. There were splashes of orange, supporters of NDP Pat Hanratty,
>> mixed throughout. Perhaps the loudest applause came from a row towards
>> the back, where supporters of independent candidate David Amos sat.
>>
>> The debate was moderated by Leo Melanson of CJCW Radio and was
>> organized by the Sussex Valley Jaycees. Candidates wereasked a barrage
>> of questions bypanelists Gisele McKnight of the Kings County Record
>> and Lisa Spencer of CJCW.
>>
>> Staying true to party platforms for the most part, candidates
>> responded to questions about the gun registry, same sex marriage, the
>> exodus of young people from the Maritimes and regulated gas prices.
>> Herron and Moore were clear competitors,constantly challenging each
>> other on their answers and criticizing eachothers’ party leaders.
>> Hanratty flew under the radar, giving short, concise responses to the
>> questions while Amos provided some food for thought and a bit of comic
>> relief with quirky answers. "I was raised with a gun," Amos said in
>> response to the question of thenational gun registry. "Nobody's
>> getting mine and I'm not paying 10 cents for it."
>>
>> Herron, a Progressive Conservative MP turned Liberal, veered from his
>> party'splatform with regard to gun control. "It was ill advised but
>> well intentioned," Herron said. "No matter what side of the house I am
>> on, I'm voting against it." Pat Hanratty agreed there were better
>> places for the gun registry dollars to be spent.Recreational hunters
>> shouldn't have been penalized by this gun registry," he said.
>>
>> The gun registry issues provoked the tempers of Herron and Moore. At
>> one point Herron got out of his seat and threw a piece of paper in
>> front of Moore. "Read that," Herron said to Moore, referring to the
>> voting record of Conservative Party leader Steven Harper. According to
>> Herron, Harper voted in favour of the registry on the first and second
>> readings of the bill in 1995. "He voted against it when it counted, at
>> final count," Moore said. "We needa government with courage to
>> register sex offenders rather than register the property of law
>> abiding citizens."
>>
>> The crowd was vocal throughout the evening, with white haired men and
>> women heckling from the Conservative side. "Shut up John," one woman
>> yelled. "How can you talk about selling out?" a man yelled whenHerron
>> spoke about his fear that the Conservatives are selling farmers out.
>>
>> Although the Liberal side was less vocal, Kings East MLA Leroy
>> Armstrong weighed in at one point. "You’re out of touch," Armstrong
>> yelled to Moore from the crowd when the debate turned to the cost of
>> post-secondary education. Later in the evening Amos challenged
>> Armstrong to a public debate of their own. "Talk is cheap. Any time,
>> anyplace," Armstrong responded.
>>
>> As the crowd made its way out of the building following the debate,
>> candidates worked the room. They shook hands with well-wishers and
>> fielded questions from spectators-all part of the decision-making
>> process for the June 28 vote.
>>
>> Cutline – David Amos, independent candidate in Fundy, with some of his
>> favourite possessions—motorcycles.
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> The Unconventional Candidate
>>
>> David Amos Isn’t Campaigning For Your Vote, But….
>>
>> By Gisele McKnight
>>
>> FUNDY—He has a pack of cigarettes in his shirt pocket, a chain on his
>> wallet, a beard at least a foot long, 60 motorcycles and a cell phone
>> that rings to the tune of "Yankee Doodle."
>>
>> Meet the latest addition to the Fundy ballot—David Amos.
>>
>> The independent candidate lives in Milton, Massachusetts with his wife
>> and two children, but his place of residence does not stop him from
>> running for office in Canada.
>>
>> One has only to be at least 18, a Canadian citizen and not be in jail
>> to meet Elections Canada requirements.
>>
>> When it came time to launch his political crusade, Amos chose his
>> favourite place to do so—Fundy.
>>
>> Amos, 52, is running for political office because of his
>> dissatisfaction with politicians.
>>
>> "I’ve become aware of much corruption involving our two countries," he
>> said. "The only way to fix corruption is in the political forum."
>>
>> The journey that eventually led Amos to politics began in Sussex in
>> 1987. He woke up one morning disillusioned with life and decided he
>> needed to change his life.
>>
>> "I lost my faith in mankind," he said. "People go through that
>> sometimes in midlife."
>>
>> So Amos, who’d lived in Sussex since 1973, closed his Four Corners
>> motorcycle shop, paid his bills and hit the road with Annie, his 1952
>> Panhead motorcycle.
>>
>> "Annie and I rode around for awhile (three years, to be exact)
>> experiencing the milk of human kindness," he said. "This is how you
>> renew your faith in mankind – you help anyone you can, you never ask
>> for anything, but you take what they offer."
>>
>> For those three years, they offered food, a place to sleep, odd jobs
>> and conversation all over North America.
>>
>> Since he and Annie stopped wandering, he has married, fathered a son
>> and a daughter and become a house-husband – Mr. Mom, as he calls
>> himself.
>>
>> He also describes himself in far more colourful terms—a motorcyclist
>> rather than a biker, a "fun-loving, free-thinking, pig-headed
>> individual," a "pissed-off Maritimer" rather than an activist, a proud
>> Canadian and a "wild colonial boy."
>>
>> Ironically, the man who is running for office has never voted in his
>> life.
>>
>> "But I have no right to criticize unless I offer my name," he said.
>> "It’s alright to bitch in the kitchen, but can you walk the walk?"
>>
>> Amos has no intention of actively campaigning.
>>
>> "I didn’t appreciate it when they (politicians) pounded on my door
>> interrupting my dinner," he said. "If people are interested, they can
>> call me. I’m not going to drive my opinions down their throats."
>>
>> And he has no campaign budget, nor does he want one.
>>
>> "I won’t take any donations," he said. "Just try to give me some. It’s
>> not about money. It goes against what I’m fighting about."
>>
>> What he’s fighting for is the discussion of issues – tainted blood,
>> the exploitation of the Maritimes’ gas and oil reserves and NAFTA, to
>> name a few.
>>
>> "The political issues in the Maritimes involve the three Fs – fishing,
>> farming and forestry, but they forget foreign issues," he said. "I’m
>> death on NAFTA, the back room deals and free trade. I say chuck it
>> (NAFTA) out the window.
>>
>> NAFTA is the North American Free Trade Agreement which allows an
>> easier flow of goods between Canada, the United States and Mexico.
>>
>> Amos disagrees with the idea that a vote for him is a wasted vote.
>>
>> "There are no wasted votes," he said. "I want people like me,
>> especially young people, to pay attention and exercise their right.
>> Don’t necessarily vote for me, but vote."
>>
>> Although…if you’re going to vote anyway, Amos would be happy to have
>> your X by his name.
>>
>> "I want people to go into that voting booth, see my name, laugh and
>> say, ‘what the hell.’"
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> @Brent Clouda Ask your hero why CBC always denies that I am running
>> https://www.cbc.ca/news/
>>
>> (I posted this twice and it was blocked twice eed I say I now know why?)
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> @Brent Clouda Did you block my last 2 replies???
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Sylvius the Mad
>> Sylvius the Mad
>> The voting process was surprisingly complicated. I really thought the
>> complexity of the ballot and the voting procedure would suppress voter
>> turnout.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Justin H
>> Justin H
>> News flash 📸 Pierre Poilievre wins 🏆
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> The Writ Podcast - Episode #50: Down goes Patrick Brown
>> 860 views
>> Jul 7, 2022
>> Éric Grenier
>> 1.35K subscribers
>> Catherine Cullen, Tim Powers and Chad Rogers are back to discuss the
>> latest drama in the Conservative leadership race.
>>
>> https://www.thewrit.ca/
>>
>> Late on Tuesday night, Patrick Brown was booted from the Conservative
>> leadership contest for his campaign’s alleged breaking of the rules
>> that govern political financing. Brown denies the allegations and puts
>> the blame on Pierre Poilievre’s campaign for engineering his ouster.
>>
>> This story is far from over, as it appears Brown might go to the
>> courts to challenge his disqualification. Meanwhile, the other
>> campaigns need to re-calibrate and figure out where they go from here.
>>
>> There’s a lot to discuss. So, this week I’m joined by Tim Powers of
>> Summa Strategies, Chad Rogers of Crestview Strategy and Catherine
>> Cullen, senior reporter with CBC News, to break it all down.
>>
>> https://summastrategies.ca/
>> https://www.crestviewstrategy.
>>
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>> Subject: Automatic reply: I bet after the Wannabe Mayor Mark Sutcliffe
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>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?
>>
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>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>>> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2021 14:48:36 -0300
>>> Subject: Fwd: [Non-DoD Source] Fwd: Methinks the evil lawyer Howie
>>> Cooper made a deal with the VERY NASTY FBI dudes in Beantown N'esy Pas
>>> Howie Anglin?
>>> To: nia_ig.fct@navy.mil, washington field
>>> <washington.field@ic.fbi.gov>, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>, "Ian.Shugart"
>>> <Ian.Shugart@pco-bcp.gc.ca>
>>> Cc: "Brenda.Lucki" <Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Jonathan.Vance"
>>> <Jonathan.Vance@forces.gc.ca>, "Greta.Bossenmaier"
>>> <Greta.Bossenmaier@hq.nato.int
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: NIA_IG <nia_ig.fct@navy.mil>
>>> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2021 11:03:08 +0000
>>> Subject: RE: [Non-DoD Source] Fwd: Methinks the evil lawyer Howie
>>> Cooper made a deal with the VERY NASTY FBI dudes in Beantown N'esy Pas
>>> Howie Anglin?
>>> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>>>
>>> Dear David Amos,
>>> The Naval Intelligence Activity (NIA) Office of the Inspector General
>>> (IG) reviewed your email and attached .WAV file provided to the NIA
>>> Hotline on 2 April 2021. I found no connection to the United States
>>> Navy or United States Naval Intelligence.
>>>
>>> Naval Inspectors General exist to improve the efficiency and
>>> effectiveness of US Navy Programs, and strive to eliminate and prevent
>>> waste, fraud, and abuse with their respective departments. Naval IGs
>>> are restricted to assessing matters falling within the purview of
>>> their respective commanders.
>>>
>>> Citing the lack of an apparent connection to the US Navy or Naval
>>> Intelligence, I am unable to provide further assistance, or provide
>>> direct referral to any other agency or activity.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>>
>>> Mark Koneda
>>> Investigator
>>> Naval Intelligence Activity
>>> Office of the Inspector General
>>> NIA_IG@navy.mil
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>>> any action in reliance on this information is prohibited. If you
>>> received this email in error, please notify this office by email or by
>>> calling (301) 669-3030.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>>> Sent: Friday, April 2, 2021 12:50 PM
>>> To: NIA_IG <nia_ig.fct@navy.mil>
>>> Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>> Subject: [Non-DoD Source] Fwd: Methinks the evil lawyer Howie Cooper
>>> made a deal with the VERY NASTY FBI dudes in Beantown N'esy Pas Howie
>>> Anglin?
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Art.McDonald@forces.gc.ca
>>> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 13:49:10 +0000
>>> Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks the evil lawyer Howie Cooper made a
>>> deal with the VERY NASTY FBI dudes in Beantown N'esy Pas Howie Anglin?
>>> To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
>>>
>>> The Acting Chief of the Defence Staff is LGen Wayne Eyre, he may be
>>> reached at wayne.eyre@forces.gc.ca.
>>>
>>> Le Chef d'état-major de la Défense par intérim est le LGen Wayne Eyre.
>>> Il peut être rejoint au wayne.eyre@forces.gc.ca.
>>>
>>> Art McD
>>> He/Him // Il/Lui
>>> Admiral/amiral Art McDonald
>>>
>>> Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS)
>>> Canadian Armed Forces
>>> art.mcdonald@forces.gc.ca<
>>> 613-992-5054
>>>
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>>> 613-992-5054
>>>
>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> > > > From: "McKnight, Gisele" McKnight.Gisele@kingscorecord.
>>>> > > > To: lcampenella@ledger.com
>>>> > > > Cc:motomaniac_02186@hotmail.
>>>> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 2:53 PM
>>>> > > > Subject: David Amos
>>>> > > >
>>>> > > >
>>>> > > > > Hello Lisa,
>>>> > > > > David Amos asked me to contact you. I met him last June after
>>>> > > > > he
>>>> > became
>>>> > > an
>>>> > > > > independent (not representing any political party) candidate in
>>>> > > > > our
>>>> > > > federal
>>>> > > > > election that was held June 28.
>>>> > > > >
>>>> > > > > He was a candidate in our constituency of Fundy (now called
>>>> > > Fundy-Royal).
>>>> > > > I
>>>> > > > > wrote a profile story about him, as I did all other candidates.
>>>> > > > > That
>>>> > > story
>>>> > > > > appeared in the Kings County Record June 22. A second story,
>>>> > > > > written
>>>> > by
>>>> > > > one
>>>> > > > > of my reporters, appeared on the same date, which was a report
>>>> > > > > on
>>>> the
>>>> > > > > candidates' debate held June 18.
>>>> > > > >
>>>> > > > > As I recall David Amos came last of four candidates in the
>>>> > > > > election.
>>>> > The
>>>> > > > > winner got 14,997 votes, while Amos got 358.
>>>> > > > >
>>>> > > > > I have attached the two stories that appeared, as well as a
>>>> > > > > photo
>>>> > taken
>>>> > > by
>>>> > > > > reporter Erin Hatfield during the debate. I couldn't find the
>>>> > > > > photo
>>>> > that
>>>> > > > > ran, but this one is very similar.
>>>> > > > >
>>>> > > > > Gisele McKnight
>>>> > > > > editor A1-debate A1-amos,David for MP 24.doc debate
>>> 2.JPG
>>>> > > > > Kings County Record
>>>> > > > > Sussex, New Brunswick
>>>> > > > > Canada
>>>> > > > > 506-433-1070
>>>> > > > >
>>>> > > >
>>>> > >
>>> Raising a Little Hell- Lively Debate Provokes Crowd
>>>
>>> By Erin Hatfield
>>>
>>> "If you don't like what you got, why don't you change it? If your
>>> world is all screwed up, rearrange it."
>>>
>>> The 1979 Trooper song Raise a Little Hell blared on the speakers at
>>> the 8th Hussars Sports Center Friday evening as people filed in to
>>> watch the Fundy candidates debate the issues. It was an accurate, if
>>> unofficial, theme song for the debate.
>>>
>>> The crowd of over 200 spectators was dwarfed by the huge arena, but as
>>> they chose their seats, it was clear the battle lines were drawn.
>>> Supporters of Conservative candidate Rob Moore naturally took the blue
>>> chairs on the right of the rink floor while John Herron's Liberalswent
>>> left. There were splashes of orange, supporters of NDP Pat Hanratty,
>>> mixed throughout. Perhaps the loudest applause came from a row towards
>>> the back, where supporters of independent candidate David Amos sat.
>>>
>>> The debate was moderated by Leo Melanson of CJCW Radio and was
>>> organized by the Sussex Valley Jaycees. Candidates wereasked a barrage
>>> of questions bypanelists Gisele McKnight of the Kings County Record
>>> and Lisa Spencer of CJCW.
>>>
>>> Staying true to party platforms for the most part, candidates
>>> responded to questions about the gun registry, same sex marriage, the
>>> exodus of young people from the Maritimes and regulated gas prices.
>>> Herron and Moore were clear competitors,constantly challenging each
>>> other on their answers and criticizing eachothers’ party leaders.
>>> Hanratty flew under the radar, giving short, concise responses to the
>>> questions while Amos provided some food for thought and a bit of comic
>>> relief with quirky answers. "I was raised with a gun," Amos said in
>>> response to the question of thenational gun registry. "Nobody's
>>> getting mine and I'm not paying 10 cents for it."
>>>
>>> Herron, a Progressive Conservative MP turned Liberal, veered from his
>>> party'splatform with regard to gun control. "It was ill advised but
>>> well intentioned," Herron said. "No matter what side of the house I am
>>> on, I'm voting against it." Pat Hanratty agreed there were better
>>> places for the gun registry dollars to be spent.Recreational hunters
>>> shouldn't have been penalized by this gun registry," he said.
>>>
>>> The gun registry issues provoked the tempers of Herron and Moore. At
>>> one point Herron got out of his seat and threw a piece of paper in
>>> front of Moore. "Read that," Herron said to Moore, referring to the
>>> voting record of Conservative Party leader Steven Harper. According to
>>> Herron, Harper voted in favour of the registry on the first and second
>>> readings of the bill in 1995. "He voted against it when it counted, at
>>> final count," Moore said. "We needa government with courage to
>>> register sex offenders rather than register the property of law
>>> abiding citizens."
>>>
>>> The crowd was vocal throughout the evening, with white haired men and
>>> women heckling from the Conservative side. "Shut up John," one woman
>>> yelled. "How can you talk about selling out?" a man yelled whenHerron
>>> spoke about his fear that the Conservatives are selling farmers out.
>>>
>>> Although the Liberal side was less vocal, Kings East MLA Leroy
>>> Armstrong weighed in at one point. "You’re out of touch," Armstrong
>>> yelled to Moore from the crowd when the debate turned to the cost of
>>> post-secondary education. Later in the evening Amos challenged
>>> Armstrong to a public debate of their own. "Talk is cheap. Any time,
>>> anyplace," Armstrong responded.
>>>
>>> As the crowd made its way out of the building following the debate,
>>> candidates worked the room. They shook hands with well-wishers and
>>> fielded questions from spectators-all part of the decision-making
>>> process for the June 28 vote.
>>>
>>> Cutline – David Amos, independent candidate in Fundy, with some of his
>>> favourite possessions—motorcycles.
>>>
>>> McKnight/KCR
>>>
>>> The Unconventional Candidate
>>>
>>> David Amos Isn’t Campaigning For Your Vote, But….
>>>
>>> By Gisele McKnight
>>>
>>> FUNDY—He has a pack of cigarettes in his shirt pocket, a chain on his
>>> wallet, a beard at least a foot long, 60 motorcycles and a cell phone
>>> that rings to the tune of "Yankee Doodle."
>>>
>>> Meet the latest addition to the Fundy ballot—David Amos.
>>>
>>> The independent candidate lives in Milton, Massachusetts with his wife
>>> and two children, but his place of residence does not stop him from
>>> running for office in Canada.
>>>
>>> One has only to be at least 18, a Canadian citizen and not be in jail
>>> to meet Elections Canada requirements.
>>>
>>> When it came time to launch his political crusade, Amos chose his
>>> favourite place to do so—Fundy.
>>>
>>> Amos, 52, is running for political office because of his
>>> dissatisfaction with politicians.
>>>
>>> "I’ve become aware of much corruption involving our two countries," he
>>> said. "The only way to fix corruption is in the political forum."
>>>
>>> The journey that eventually led Amos to politics began in Sussex in
>>> 1987. He woke up one morning disillusioned with life and decided he
>>> needed to change his life.
>>>
>>> "I lost my faith in mankind," he said. "People go through that
>>> sometimes in midlife."
>>>
>>> So Amos, who’d lived in Sussex since 1973, closed his Four Corners
>>> motorcycle shop, paid his bills and hit the road with Annie, his 1952
>>> Panhead motorcycle.
>>>
>>> "Annie and I rode around for awhile (three years, to be exact)
>>> experiencing the milk of human kindness," he said. "This is how you
>>> renew your faith in mankind – you help anyone you can, you never ask
>>> for anything, but you take what they offer."
>>>
>>> For those three years, they offered food, a place to sleep, odd jobs
>>> and conversation all over North America.
>>>
>>> Since he and Annie stopped wandering, he has married, fathered a son
>>> and a daughter and become a house-husband – Mr. Mom, as he calls
>>> himself.
>>>
>>> He also describes himself in far more colourful terms—a motorcyclist
>>> rather than a biker, a "fun-loving, free-thinking, pig-headed
>>> individual," a "pissed-off Maritimer" rather than an activist, a proud
>>> Canadian and a "wild colonial boy."
>>>
>>> Ironically, the man who is running for office has never voted in his
>>> life.
>>>
>>> "But I have no right to criticize unless I offer my name," he said.
>>> "It’s alright to bitch in the kitchen, but can you walk the walk?"
>>>
>>> Amos has no intention of actively campaigning.
>>>
>>> "I didn’t appreciate it when they (politicians) pounded on my door
>>> interrupting my dinner," he said. "If people are interested, they can
>>> call me. I’m not going to drive my opinions down their throats."
>>>
>>> And he has no campaign budget, nor does he want one.
>>>
>>> "I won’t take any donations," he said. "Just try to give me some. It’s
>>> not about money. It goes against what I’m fighting about."
>>>
>>> What he’s fighting for is the discussion of issues – tainted blood,
>>> the exploitation of the Maritimes’ gas and oil reserves and NAFTA, to
>>> name a few.
>>>
>>> "The political issues in the Maritimes involve the three Fs – fishing,
>>> farming and forestry, but they forget foreign issues," he said. "I’m
>>> death on NAFTA, the back room deals and free trade. I say chuck it
>>> (NAFTA) out the window.
>>>
>>> NAFTA is the North American Free Trade Agreement which allows an
>>> easier flow of goods between Canada, the United States and Mexico.
>>>
>>> Amos disagrees with the idea that a vote for him is a wasted vote.
>>>
>>> "There are no wasted votes," he said. "I want people like me,
>>> especially young people, to pay attention and exercise their right.
>>> Don’t necessarily vote for me, but vote."
>>>
>>> Although…if you’re going to vote anyway, Amos would be happy to have
>>> your X by his name.
>>>
>>> "I want people to go into that voting booth, see my name, laugh and
>>> say, ‘what the hell.’"
>>>
>>
>
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Sent: November 22, 2023 12:29 PM
To: ragingdissident@protonmail.com <ragingdissident@protonmail.
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<motomaniac333@gmail.com>; Levy, Bryn <BLevy@postmedia.com>;
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Subject: I just called Jeremy Mackenzie (639 318 9073 and his lawyer
Mr Foda AGAIN Correct?
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2022 14:32:24 -0400
Subject: I just called Jeremy Mackenzie’s number 639 318 9073 and left
a voicemail then spoke briefly with his lawye Mr Foda correct?
To: ragingdissident@protonmail.com
Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>, blevy@postmedia.com,
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Diagolon leader Jeremy Mackenzie to challenge decision denying him bail
Bryn Levy | Posted: Oct. 28, 2022, 10:49 a.m.
Jeremy MacKenzie, the founder of the online group “Diagolon” was
arrested in September 2022 in Cole Harbour, N.S., on a Canada-wide
warrant related to charges stemming from an alleged Nov. 2021 assault
near Viscount, Sask.(Jeremy MacKenzie/Facebook)
Jeremy MacKenzie, the founder of the online group “Diagolon” was
arrested in September 2022 in Cole Harbour, N.S., on a Canada-wide
warrant related to charges stemming from an alleged Nov. 2021 assault
near Viscount, Sask. - Jeremy MacKenzie / Facebook
The leader of a Canadian far-right group is set to challenge a judge’s
decision to keep him in custody while awaiting trial.
Jeremy Mackenzie, 36, faces assault and weapons charges in connection
with an incident near Viscount, Sask. in November 2021.
He was denied bail on Oct. 7 by a Saskatoon provincial court judge.
The reasons for that decision are protected by a court-ordered
publication ban, which is a standard measure in most bail proceedings
meant to protect an accused’s right to a fair trial.
Mackenzie’s previous defence lawyer was granted leave to withdraw on
Oct. 13, after telling court he’d been fired.
At Thursday’s hearing, Toronto-based defence lawyer Sherif Foda
indicated he will represent Mackenzie, and that his client will seek a
review of the Oct. 7 bail decision. Mackenzie is due back in court
Nov. 10.
Court previously heard there is an ongoing investigation into how
audio recordings from Mackenzie’s bail hearing found their way online
in violation of the publication ban — an offence punishable by up to
two years in jail and a $5,000 fine.
Mackenzie is the self-proclaimed leader of Diagolon, a group described
in a 2022 House of Commons report as a violent extremist organization.
Its name refers to a fictional country comprised of provinces and
states without COVID-19 mandates, forming a diagonal line across North
America.
He is also charged with harassment and intimidation in connection with
an anti-mask protest outside the home of Nova Scotia’s chief medical
health officer in March, and faces 13 firearm-related charges in Nova
Scotia after a police search in January.
RCMP have said they are also reviewing an allegation that Mackenzie
made rape threats against Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s wife
during a livestream video in September.
There has also been suggestion of a link between Diagolon and the case
of four men charged with conspiracy to commit murder after a February
RCMP raid against an anti-mandate blockade of a Canada-U.S. border
crossing at Coutts, Alta.
Mounties reported seizing items including 13 long guns, handguns, a
machete, a large quantity of ammunition and body armour. A tactical
vest seized at the scene had a Diagolon patch on it — a white diagonal
line across a black rectangle. The four suspects are scheduled for
trial in 2023.
With Canadian Press files
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Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2022 20:45:51 -0300
Subject: YO Paul Palango Go Figure why I introduced you to Emily Bell
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Friday, 27 September 2019
'What isn't wrong with journalism today?' asks Dalton Camp lecturer
https://stephenkimber.com/no-
No offence intended, Mr. Rudderham
One shouldn’t mess — litigiously speaking — with Parker Rudderham. The
Cape Breton businessman who owns Frank Magazine — a publication with
its own storied courtroom history — sometimes seems as (in)famous for
his legal battles as his business successes and philanthropic
donations.
On October 30, 2012, to cite but one recent example, his hometown
newspaper, the Cape Breton Post, scored a two-for-one story that
began: “A prominent Cape Breton businessman’s company pleaded guilty
to tax evasion Tuesday, the same day he was issued a ticket for his
involvement in a fatal motor-vehicle accident.”
The Canada Revenue Agency claimed Rudderham’s Montreal-based
Professional Pharmacy Wholesale Service had “voluntarily violated” tax
laws by claiming over $1 million in false expenses. Rudderham pleaded
guilty in court but not guilty in the court of public opinion,
stressing to a reporter he’d have fought the accusation if he hadn’t
been in the middle of selling the company.
Although Rudderham was tight-lipped that day about the motorcycle
accident — he had been fined $399.91 under the Motor Vehicle Act for
failing to drive in a “careful and prudent manner” — he later
announced he’d fight the charge. The widow of the motorcyclist then
filed suit against him.
And so it goes. Without pretending to be exhaustive, some cases from
Rudderham’s docket: In 2003, he was sued by his ex-employer for
allegedly violating his employment contract. In 2007, he sued “an
ex-wife’s family member for defamation.” In 2011, he threatened to sue
the Halifax Herald over its coverage of firings at Frank. In 2013,
Frank reported Rudderham sued his second cousin over a $27,000 debt.
All of which by way of saying it is with some trepidation one
questions Parker Rudderham.
Still, I was intrigued by his latest legal to-and-fro. Rudderham is
suing a Cape Breton woman and son for alleged “cyberbullying” tweets
about him. The defendants dispute that and counter the province’s
Cyber Safety Act violates Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
It’s not the first time a prominent, well-connected individual has
invoked our new cyberbullying law against those they claim have
criticized them. Is that really who the law was intended to protect?
Will the law — and its good intentions — survive a Charter challenge?
No offence intended, Mr. Rudderham.
STEPHEN KIMBER, a Professor of Journalism at the University of King's
College in Halifax and co-founder of its MFA in Creative Nonfiction
Program
https://ukings.ca/people/
Stephen Kimber
stephen.kimber@ukings.ca
902 422-1271 ext. 150
https://www.saltwire.com/
Widow of motorcyclist killed in accident suing Frank Magazine owner
Posted: Sept. 16, 2013, midnight
SYDNEY, N.S. — The widow of a Nova Scotia man killed while attempting
to turn his motorcycle onto his street has filed a civil suit against
the driver of the vehicle that struck the bike.
In a statement of claim filed with the Supreme Court this week, Carol
MacDonald is seeking unspecified damages from Sydney businessman
Parker Rudderham, CEO and president of Montreal-based Professional
Pharmacy Wholesale Services Ltd. and owner of the Halifax-based Frank
Magazine.
Rudderham was already charged under the Motor Vehicle Act with failing
to drive in a careful and prudent manner and paid a fine of $399.91.
The suit outlines several allegations, including Rudderham failed to
drive in a prudent manner, failed to maintain a proper lookout and
failed to take proper defensive driving techniques in a bid to avoid
an accident.
None of the information outlined in the statement of claim has been
proven in court.
The accident occurred Sept. 14, 2012, as 67-year-old John MacLeod
MacDonald was attempting to turn his motorcycle off Grand Lake Road
onto Kytes Hill Drive.
In attempting to make the turn, MacDonald was struck from behind by a
2012 Cadillac Escalade driven by Rudderham.
A defence response to the action needs to be filed within 15 days.
https://www.saltwire.com/
Cape Bretoners react to Frank Magazine closure
Christopher Connors | Posted: a day ago
Gerry Rendell, owner of John's Barber Shop, prepares to cut the hair
of longtime customer Jody Merriam. For decades, copies of Frank
Magazine were strewn on a table in the lobby of the iconic Sydney
River shop. The self-described collection of “news, satire, opinion,
comment, and humour,” shut down Wednesday after 35 years. Chris
Connors/Cape Breton Post
Gerry Rendell, owner of John's Barber Shop, prepares to cut the hair
of longtime customer Jody Merriam. For decades, copies of Frank
Magazine were strewn on a table in the lobby of the iconic Sydney
River shop. The self-described collection of “news, satire, opinion,
comment, and humour,” shut down Wednesday after 35 years. Chris
Connors/Cape Breton Post
SYDNEY RIVER, N.S. — John's Barber Shop has been a Sydney River
institution for more than 50 years.
And along with the décor — walls covered with Toronto Maple Leafs
memorabilia photos and newspaper clippings featuring local people and
their accomplishments — there was one other constant: a round wooden
table covered with dozens of copies of Frank Magazine.
Jody Merriam, who was waiting for a haircut Thursday, was suspired to
hear the Halifax publication known for its brash reporting of
political scandals and regional gossip was shutting down after 35
years.
Merriam said he always leafed through the magazine while waiting for
his turn in the barber’s chair.
“It was for the humour and the gossip that they provided,” he said.
“It’s just human nature — the cover shows all these people that you
know and you see on the news — people across Nova Scotia that are high
up — and they’re printing stuff in this magazine that is detrimental
to them probably, to their character and everything like that. It
didn’t matter what stature you held, your dirty laundry was aired out
in this magazine.”
Frank Magazine Atlantic has closed. - submitted
NOT A FAN
Gerry Rendell took over John's Barber Shop after his father, John
Rendell, died in 2021. By that time, the COVID-19 pandemic had forced
them to remove their magazines and they still mainly operate by
appointment so people aren’t lingering in the lobby.
While his father enjoyed the magazine, Gerry said he was never a fan.
“Dad had his own thoughts on it — he thought it was entertaining, it
kept you in touch with what was going on behind the scenes here. I
didn’t really agree with it because they focused on the negative and
I’m an optimistic person,” he said, adding that they always removed
any copies that criticized their customers.
“I read the stories too but anytime we had somebody who was in here
and a story was based on them, we would take that magazine out of
respect,” he said.
“It happened with clientele who came in — obviously I’m not going to
mention any names — but you didn’t want people talking about these
people when they came in; we’re not a place of gossip here, it’s a
place to get a haircut and what’s said here stays here.”
OWNED BY CAPE BRETONER
Self-described as a collection of “news, satire, opinion, comment, and
humour,” Frank was established in 1987 and had been owned by prominent
Cape Breton businessman Parker Rudderham since 2010. Rudderham did not
respond to a request for an interview as of press time.
Paul Palango, a former Globe and Mail editor who has been writing for
Frank in recent years, told SaltWire Media on Wednesday that he
believes Frank’s closure was a result of Colchester County politicians
lobbying to have the publication banned from some local stores as a
result of its coverage of the 2020 mass killings.
- Chris Connors is a multimedia journalist with the Cape Breton Post.
https://www.nsbuzz.ca/life/
Nova Scotia Buzz
Frank Magazine Says Goodbye After 35 Years
Frank Magazine Says Goodbye After 35 Years
by Nova Scotia Buzz
Posted September 14, 2022
The Halifax edition of Frank Magazine has shuttered its social media
accounts and posted a message on their website.
“We regret to announce the death of Frank Magazine, 35, which occurred
on September 14, 2022.” the Magazine said.
Frank began publishing in 1987 and was well known for printing
political scandals and regional gossip.
More recently, the magazine has been known for its reporting on the
Nova Scotia mass shooting. It obtained and was the first to release
security video of the shooter being shot by RCMP at the Irving Big
Stop in Enfield. The Magazine also appealed a decision by the Mass
Casualty Commission to not release the security videos of the shooters
death publicly. They were backed by several other media outlets and
won the appeal.
The magazine said subscribers can claim the balance owing on their
subscription by calling 1-877-633-9595.
buzz@nsbuzz.ca
https://www.saltwire.com/nova-
Frank Magazine goes belly up
Chris Lambie |clambie@herald.ca
Posted September 14, 2022
Frank Magazine Atlantic has closed.
Frank Magazine Atlantic published this image in announcing it has closed.
Stuffed shirts and political hacks, breathe easy.
Halifax-based Frank Magazine which billed itself as a collection “of
news, satire, opinion, comment, and humour,” has shut down.
“We regret to announce the death of Frank Magazine Atlantic, 35, which
occurred on September 14, 2022,” says a note on the publication’s
website.
“Stricken with a rogue’s gallery of grievous and irremediable medical
conditions, death was quick and (mostly! - ed.) painless.”
'It’s been going on for a number of weeks'
Managing editor Andrew Douglas could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
“Stricken with a rogue’s gallery of grievous and irremediable medical
conditions, death was quick and (mostly! - ed.) painless.”
'It’s been going on for a number of weeks'
Managing editor Andrew Douglas could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
“I didn’t know it was that precarious a situation,” he said.
'It is a big loss'
The closure is a loss for Nova Scotia, Palango said.
“Frank was a part of the journalistic ecosystem here and it is a big
loss,” he said.
“They reported on stories that weren’t on the agenda, basically. They
were out scouting for stories that should be reported and that weren’t
reported. Stories that were on the edge.”
Politicians blamed
Palango, who reported extensively on the Nova Scotia mass murders of
April 2020 for Frank, credited Douglas for his journalistic chops.
He blamed the Frank closure on Colchester County politicians who
banded together to get Frank banned from some local stores last year
over their coverage of Dartmouth denturist Gabriel Wortman’s murders
of 22 people and the horrific aftermath. “I want to congratulate
them,” Palango said. “They’re very successful because they killed
Frank and I hope they’re happy.”
https://surge105.ca/2022/09/
After 35 Years, Frank Magazine Says Goodbye To Halifax
By Amy Chabot
Sep 15, 2022
Love them or hate them, for 35 years Frank magazine has been breaking
stories in Halifax.
Frank started in 1987 and was well known for printing political
scandals and regional gossip. So much gossip!!!!
As of yesterday, Frank is no more!
“We regret to announce the death of Frank Magazine, 35, which occurred
on September 14, 2022.” the Magazine said.
David T.S. Fraser
@privacylawyer
Didn't expect this ... Frank Magazine Atlantic (@Frank_Mag) is shutting down.
Sreencap of the following announcement: "We regret to announce the
death of Frank Magazine Atlantic, 35, which occurred on September 14,
2022. Stricken with a rogues' gallery of grievous and irremediable
medical conditions, death was quick and (mostly! - ed) painless."
who knows?
@slg2021
I think @Frank_Mag is done
Image
In the last couple of years they reported on Nova Scotia mass
shooting. It obtained and was the first to release security video of
the shooter being shot by RCMP at the Irving Big Stop in Enfield. The
Magazine also appealed a decision by the Mass Casualty Commission to
not release the security videos of the shooters death publicly. They
were backed by several other media outlets and won the appeal.
https://www.frankmagazine.org/
The magazine said subscribers can claim the balance owing on their
subscription by calling 1-877-633-9595.
https://www.halifaxexaminer.
The vile racism and misogyny that was Frank Magazine
Morning File, Thursday, September 15, 2022
September 15, 2022 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments
News
1. Frank
Frank Magazine announcing its own death
Frank Magazine has died.
The magazine announced its own death on its website, and then deleted
its social media accounts. No explanation was provided for the
closure.
Frank was started in 1987 by David Bentley, Lyndon Watkins, and Dulcie
Conrad. Bentley was the primary operator of Frank, having used the
proceeds of his sale of The Daily News to finance the new magazine.
(There’s a publication with the same name in Ottawa; the two are not
now related.)
Bentley infused Frank with the spirit of the English tabloids. Frank
scoured assessment and court records to satirically take on the
business and political elites, and otherwise reported on their private
lives. This was in stark contrast to the existing news media, which
were timid and overly deferential to the powerful.
There’s a complicated ownership history, but in 2004, Frank was
purchased by John Williams. Williams was especially good at revealing
the sex abuse scandals of the Catholic Church. His work was important,
and I valued the publication.
I was friendly with Williams. It was clear the enterprise was
exhausting him, and he complained that it wasn’t working financially.
So I wasn’t surprised in 2010 when he sold it. I congratulated him on
his work, and wished him the best. Williams then made a run at a gay
publication called Gaze*, but subsequently left journalism completely.
I haven’t kept up with him, but I’m told he’s doing well. I’m glad.
While I wasn’t surprised that Williams sold Frank, I was surprised
about who bought it: Parker Rudderham, the Cape Breton businessman
with a reputation for his many engagements in the court system.
Soon after Rudderham bought Frank there was a mass exodus and/or
firing (depending on whom you talk to) at Frank. My understanding is
that staff were upset at the increasingly misogynistic turn of Frank.
Four reporters left: Mairin Prentiss, Jacob Boon, Neal Ozano, and Dan
Walsh, leaving editorial control of the magazine in the hands of the
sole remaining reporter, Andrew Douglas. Rudderham reportedly
threatened to sue the Chronicle Herald over its reporting on the staff
issues.
In the wake of that episode, the little publication that had been
punching up for the previous 14 years began aggressively punching
down, attacking unions, women, immigrants, and (especially) people of
colour.
Much of that ugly “reporting” was directed at my friend and colleague, El Jones.
“They drew me as a monkey,” Jones tells me, referring to a cartoon
published in the magazine, which was reminiscent of 19th century
cartoons representing Black people as beasts. Publication of the
cartoon resulted in Frank being yanked completely from the stands at
Atlantic News and pulled off prominent display in other outlets.
“Frank spent years following me around in public, taking pictures of
me walking on the street, reposting private posts from my social media
and making fake identities to come on my page, turning up at award
events to harass and post about me and nobody else, and on and on and
on,” continues Jones. “What great political project was involved in
Andrew Douglas walking by Venus Envy and tweeting about how he saw a
book on interracial sex, adding, ‘don’t tell El Jones’?”
“I also note that the very thing they are now being credited with —
fierce criticism of the RCMP — is the very thing they harassed me
over,” she adds. “When Black and Indigenous women said and say the
police are corrupt and not accountable, Frank put us on the cover and
degraded us. And the very next week, they could write about the
police, and get praised. This is a great example of how racism and
misogynoir work — I am ‘crazy,’ a ‘cop hater’ and ‘disgusting’ when I
make informed critique of the police, but when white men critique the
police, they are fantastic journalists.”
It wasn’t just Jones that Frank attacked. I won’t get into all the
details of its coverage of Rehtaeh Parsons, but will note that Douglas
decided the real guilty party was not the boys who assaulted Rehtaeh,
but rather her mother, Leah Parsons, for improper parental
supervision. “My mother wouldn’t have given me the chance to kill
myself,” wrote Douglas. “She would’ve done it for me.”
Then there was this February 25, 2016 tweet from @Frank_Mag (the
entire account was deleted yesterday), after Halifax Transit named one
of the ferries in honour of civil rights activist Viola Desmond:
Next year during Black History Month, we’ll all be able to ride
Viola Desmond. Several times a day, if that’s what you’re in to.
I’m just scratching the surface. The magazine was filled with such
vile shit issue after issue.
But it turns out that being overtly and proudly sexist and racist is a
rotten business model — why pay for that shit when you can get it for
free from your asshole uncle on Facebook?
I have no knowledge of the finances of Frank, but under Douglas’s
reign, the publication increasingly felt like a vanity project for
Rudderham. I don’t know how much money he lost on Frank, but evidently
he has recently decided that it was too much of a money hole, so he
pulled the plug.
About that RCMP reporting. I won’t air dirty laundry in public. My
relationship with writers — why I publish them, why I sometimes decide
to stop publishing them — is not the public’s business. Suffice it to
say that as an editor I have many concerns — reputational value,
reliable sourcing, accuracy, how issues are framed, the potential for
litigation, and more — and I have not just the right but the
responsibility as editor to exercise my judgment on these things.
I reported critically on the RCMP long before the mass murders of
April 2020 — as I detailed in the Dead Wrong series, the RCMP
knowingly left Glen Assoun, an innocent man, in prison rather than let
an investigator cast doubt on Assoun’s conviction — and I’ve been
reporting critically on the RCMP in relation to the mass murders. But
I do so fairly, accurately, and with facts I find properly sourced.
Competition in the news business is good, as it sharpens all of us,
keeps us on our toes. I criticize other publications, but when they
close or downsize, I usually lament the loss, praise the past
reporting, and worry for the reporters’ futures.
Not this time. Not after what was done to my friend. Not after the
mean-spirited attacks on women and victims of sexual abuse. Not after
the proudly racist commentary.
Frank and its vile writers can rot in hell.
Nova Scotia’s Frank magazine, a mix of news, satire and humour, ceases
publication
By The Staff The Canadian Press michael.macdonald@
Posted September 15, 2022 11:05 am
Andrew Douglas, managing editor of Frank Magazine, arrives at
provincial court in Halifax on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016. The
Halifax-based satirical magazine Frank has announced its demise after
more than three decades of publication.(THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew
Vaughan) Andrew Douglas, managing editor of Frank Magazine, arrives at
provincial court in Halifax on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016. The
Halifax-based satirical magazine Frank has announced its demise after
more than three decades of publication.(THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew
Vaughan)
The Halifax-based satirical magazine Frank has announced its demise
after more than three decades of publication.
A notice on the publication’s website says the publishers “regret to
announce the death of Frank Magazine Atlantic … which occurred on
September 14, 2022.”
A photo montage depicting the cartoon figure who appeared on the
magazine’s masthead, lying in a coffin with his eyes closed,
accompanies the announcement.
The website says the publication, which is distinct from the
Ottawa-based magazine of the same name, had operated for 35 years.
It was widely sold at supermarket checkouts and was available online
for a subscription fee, and the announcement says subscribers will be
reimbursed.
The editor of the publication, Andrew Douglas, was not immediately
available for comment.
A photo depicting the cartoon figure who appeared on the magazine’s
masthead lying in a coffin accompanied the announcement of the
magazine ceasing publication.
A photo depicting the cartoon figure who appeared on the magazine’s
masthead lying in a coffin accompanied the announcement of the
magazine ceasing publication. Frank Magazine
The magazine has received praise and criticism over the years for its
journalism, with some commentators noting that in the past it would
break stories that other media then followed.
Stephen Kimber, a faculty member at the University of King’s College
school of journalism, writing and publishing in Halifax, said he used
to frequently purchase the magazine, regarding it as something of “a
guilty pleasure.”
“It had a heyday when they were satirical, they were nasty, and they
would uncover things people didn’t want uncovered, but they had a
focus on politicians, businessmen and media stars,” he said in an
interview on Thursday.
“There was a period when they were breaking stories,” he recalled,
referring primarily to the 1990s.
“They did some of the first stories about (former premier) Gerald
Regan’s issues with women, they did stories about (former premier)
John Buchanan’s trust funds. They were an important journalistic
publication in this province for a period of time.”
More recently, the publication was the first to publish a story
revealing that senior members of an internal RCMP team tasked with
providing information to Nova Scotia’s mass shooting inquiry were
married to two top female officers involved in the response. The two
Mounties on the team were subsequently replaced due to conflict of
interest concerns.
However, Kimber said in recent years he felt the emphasis often
shifted too far away from knocking the powerful off their pedestals.
“Many of those being exposed were ordinary people who had nothing to
say in terms of public policy or business or anything else,” he said.
“I stopped making it a regular thing to buy.”
In 2017, the magazine came under criticism for a cartoon that depicted
El Jones, an African Nova Scotian poet who was attending a
demonstration, as having a jutting chin and sloping forehead.
The magazine modified the image after critics described the image as
racist and launched campaigns to remove the magazine from stores.
Douglas also apologized to readers, saying, “In our mind, we didn’t
use (a) racist character, but having said that we also understand that
can be totally subjective.”
Jones, who is now the Nancy’s chair in women’s studies at Mount Saint
Vincent University, said in an interview at the time she viewed the
image as a throwback to racist images in magazines in the 1800s that
depicted African men and women as having features closer to primates
than Caucasians.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 15, 2022.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/
Nova Scotia's Frank magazine ceases publication
The publication had operated for 35 years
Michael Tutton · The Canadian Press · Posted: Sep 16, 2022 3:28 PM AT
The Halifax-based satirical magazine Frank has announced its demise
after more than three decades of publication. A notice on the
publication's website says the publishers "regret to announce the
death of Frank Magazine Atlantic ... which occurred on September 14,
2022." (www.frankmagazine.ca)
The Halifax-based satirical magazine Frank has announced its demise
after more than three decades of publication.
A notice on the publication's website says the publishers "regret to
announce the death of Frank Magazine Atlantic ... which occurred on
September 14, 2022."
A photo montage depicting the cartoon figure who appeared on the
magazine's masthead, lying in a coffin with his eyes closed,
accompanies the announcement.
The website says the publication, which is distinct from the
Ottawa-based magazine of the same name, had operated for 35 years.
It was widely sold at supermarket checkouts and was available online
for a subscription fee, and the announcement says subscribers will be
reimbursed.
Media law experts say decision to publish 911 calls not a matter
for investigation
The editor of the publication, Andrew Douglas, was not immediately
available for comment.
Praise and criticism over the years
The magazine has received praise and criticism over the years for its
journalism, with some commentators noting that in the past it would
break stories that other media then followed.
Stephen Kimber, a faculty member at the University of King's College
school of journalism, writing and publishing in Halifax, said he used
to frequently purchase the magazine, regarding it as something of "a
guilty pleasure."
"It had a heyday when they were satirical, they were nasty, and they
would uncover things people didn't want uncovered, but they had a
focus on politicians, businessmen and media stars," he said in an
interview on Thursday.
"There was a period when they were breaking stories," he recalled,
referring primarily to the 1990s.
Frank Magazine pleads not guilty to breaching publication ban
"They did some of the first stories about [former premier] Gerald
Regan's issues with women, they did stories about [former premier]
John Buchanan's trust funds. They were an important journalistic
publication in this province for a period of time."
More recently, Frank was the first to publish a story revealing that
senior members of an internal RCMP team tasked with providing
information to Nova Scotia's mass shooting inquiry were married to two
top female officers involved in the response. The two Mounties on the
team were subsequently replaced due to concerns about conflict of
interest.
Andrew Douglas, the editor of the publication, was not immediately
available for comment. (CBC)
However, Kimber said in recent years he felt the emphasis often
shifted too far away from knocking the powerful off their pedestals.
"Many of those being exposed were ordinary people who had nothing to
say in terms of public policy or business or anything else," he said.
"I stopped making it a regular thing to buy."
In 2017, the magazine came under criticism for a cartoon that depicted
El Jones, an African Nova Scotian poet who was attending a
demonstration, as having a jutting chin and sloping forehead.
The magazine modified the image after critics described the image as
racist and launched campaigns to remove the magazine from stores.
Douglas also apologized to readers, saying, "In our mind, we didn't
use [a] racist character, but having said that we also understand that
can be totally subjective."
Jones, who is now the Nancy's chair in women's studies at Mount Saint
Vincent University, said in an interview at the time she viewed the
image as a throwback to racist images in magazines in the 1800s that
depicted African men and women as having features closer to primates
than Caucasians.
CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
MCC Day 70 - Police Oversight Advice and the Untimely Death of Frank Magazine
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Sep 14, 2022
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The Mass Casualty Commission held its final research and policy
roundtable today. This one was focused on civilian oversight advice
for the Commissioners, and featured 19 speakers, in addition to the
moderator.
The biggest news of the day may have been the sudden announcement that
Frank Magazine was not going to be publishing any more issues. Frank
has been a unique and important source of investigative reporting on
the MCC over the past two years, and on all things Nova Scotia for 35
years. There will be a large void to fill.
The MCC learned today that much of the current civilian oversight of
the RCMP is quite limited in its ability to hold the force to account,
and very little of that oversight is local to Nova Scotia. There will
be an afternoon session tomorrow, featuring a presentation from the
Avalon Sexual Assault Centre and input from other "justice related"
organizations. There are four days of proceedings on the calendar for
next week, though there are no details available as to what will be
taking place during those sessions.
14 Comments
David Amos
David Amos
Why act so surprised? I suspect that you or at least some of your fans
must have watched your buddies Palango and Bonaparte in YouTube on
Sunday night Correct? Methinks it was blatantly obvious the glass
pumpkin was revealing to Palango and his pal that Rudderham was about
to give Andy Baby the boot N'esy Pas?
Jean Mac Aulay
Jean Mac Aulay
Thank you for the summaries! I have enjoyed hearing your views on the
MCC. Sorry for the death of Frank's Magazine.
David Amos
David Amos
"Thank you for the summaries!" Ditto "I have enjoyed hearing your
views on the MCC." Me Too "Sorry for the death of Frank's Magazine."
Nay Not I
ck
ck
As always great insight. After all that has been brought to the table
for RCMP the only way to fix the process is start at the top and work
down. They seem to have been allowed over time to do things their way
and DON'T QUESTION OUR STRUCTURE.......
David Amos
David Amos
Methinks many agree that we should defund the Crown Corps commonly
known as the RCMP and CBC ASAP N'esy Pas?
NS citizen
NS citizen
Frank magazine did some good work to be sure, I wrote an essay in
defense of Frank months back, but Andrew Douglas allowed his political
biases to alienate his own audience. He doxxed a bunch of people who
donated to a protest in defense of charter rights that were under
attack (attacks no one could reasonably justify in a free and
democratic society because they weren't based on evidence or sound
reasoning) he hyper focused on Jeremy McKenzie as what seemed like
dozens of people made public claims they'd cancel subscriptions over
those two things alone, refused to cover the attack on Salman Rushdie
by an Islamic extremist, refused to cover the Kamloops hoax where
there was no bodies discovered, refused to cover laif Marouf being
paid by government to spread hate and evil, and meanwhile he was
bemoaning Pierre povilierre, Jordan Peterson and basically tried to
cultivate some kind of elitist illiberal partisans who apparently
weren't willing to pay for a subscription. It's a shame to see someone
self sabotage a magazine so bad but in my view he became an enemy of
free speech pushing a silence of tyranny, tried to portray a lot of
speech outside of the coercive conformity of the epistemic tribalism
of the left, as violence. It's a good lesson for him. Good opportunity
to be less of a censorious joke in the future. Portray words as
violence and the people will repudiate you as harmful trash and an
attack on our democracy based on pluralism. He can take the lesson
that the onus on tolerance in democratic pluralisms IS ON THE
LISTENER.
David Amos
David Amos
Well put but trust there is a LOT more to Andy Baby's story
Brian Henley
Brian Henley
So sorry to learn about the news re Frank Magazine. Tough news
David Amos
David Amos
I'm not in fact that news made my day
cyndi
cyndi
God got them for lying about me, my daughter and my now deceased ex husband!!!!
David Amos
David Amos
I don't know about any of that but I suspect it was the devil in mean
old me that killed Frank Magazine
Ken Triol
Ken Triol
#Cyndi was that a recent article? I was a recent reader of Frank
cyndi
cyndi
@Ken Triol jeannie found it for me in last Nov issue!!!
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No Harry Potter magic here just the Hells Angels by Paul Palango
April 18/19 Mass Shooting
August 23, 2022
NO HARRY POTTER MAGIC HERE, JUST THE HELLS ANGELS
By Paul Palango
The deliberate murkiness about Gabriel Wortman’s associations with
criminals in the years prior to his deadly killing sprees has led to
much speculation about what he was really doing. The RCMP says it
couldn’t find any serious organized crime connections in Wortman’s
past. The Mounties couldn’t figure out where his money came from. The
Mass Casualty Commission – the Spinquiry, as we call it – isn’t all
that curious about any of it, either.
We don’t know precisely what Wortman was doing all those years before
he killed 22 people on April 18 and 19, 2020, but several police
sources have provided Frank Magazine with a potentially helpful road
map.
It begins with Hogwarts.
We’re not talking about Harry Potter’s magic school, but rather
Project Hogwarts, a joint-forces police operation that began in Nova
Scotiain 2016.
The information about Project Hogwarts was provided to Frank Magazine
by a group of current and former law enforcement officers who are
familiar with aspects of what had taken place. One of them is Jimmy
McNulty, the pseudonym we use for a source we’ve been talking to for
this story since almost the beginning.
“In 2015, the Atlantic provinces started seeing a new stage in the
proliferation of outlaw motorcycle gangs,” said Jimmy McNulty. “The
Hells Angels were moving east, setting up in Charlottetown and Nova
Scotia. The Red Devils, the Angels’ number one support club, set up
shop in Musquodoboit Harbour. Another support club, the Gatekeepers
MC(I remember those guys!-ed.) started opening up clubhouses around
the province. They were supported by the Sedition MC and the
Darksiders MC.”
It had been about 14 years since the Hells Angels had been driven out
of Nova Scotia after a series of devastating police actions, and now
the gang was coming back to town, not only in the Maritimes but also
across the country. It was part of a strategy to control the illegal
drug trade from coast to coast.
The RCMP was on the case. In fact, then Commissioner Robert Paulson
had made taking down the Hells Angels his number one crime-fighting
priority in Canada. RCMP projects were being initiated everywhere to
counter the threat.
“People were noticing that the bikers were setting up shop and began
to complain about it all,” McNulty said. “By the spring of 2016,
police forces in Nova Scotia, led by the RCMP, tried to tackle the
issue. A provincial biker enforcement unit called the CFSEU (Combined
Forces Special Enforcement Unit) was set up as part of RCMP federal
operations. It was called Project Hogwarts.
“Our intention was to show the outlaw motorcycle gangs that we always
control the grounds in our area,” McNulty said. “Our media mouth
pieces used fear tactics to rouse the public about the dangers and we
began our policing.”
Stories to that end, like one by Keith Doucette of The Canadian Press
in late 2016, began sounding the alarm.
“It doesn’t sit well with me for them to be here because I know what
they bring with them,” Doucette wrote, quoting RCMP Corporal Andy
Cook. “I’ve seen them in action, and they bring violence with them and
they bring drug trafficking with them.”
Stephen Schneider, a criminology professor at St. Mary’s University,
told Doucette that the Hells Angels were looking to not only control
the Canadian market but were likely also planning to set up an export
market.
“They are certainly operating pill presses out in B.C. and perhaps
they want to start setting up production facilities in the Maritimes
so they actually can start exporting,” Schneider was quoted as saying.
Throughout 2016 and 2017, the pages of Frank were littered with biker
stories, not only big-picture stuff like who was pulling the strings
in Nova Scotia — full-patch London, Ont. HA David (Hammer) MacDonald
was one of the top guys — but identifying the comings and goings of
many of the smaller players on the ground here, from Annapolis County
to Sydney.
Project Hogwarts was lead by RCMP Inspector Alfredo Bangloy. The
“brains” of the operation was RCMP Sgt. Angela Hawryluk. Other
members of the original team included then-Cpl. (now Sgt.) Mike Kerr,
RCMP constables Chris Dodge, Scott Morrison, Peter Hurley and Colby
Smith. Halifax Police officers on the team included Detective
constables Steve Fairbairn, Nathan Cross, Curtis Osmond, Mike Carter,
Cory Simmonds and Rebecca Trueman. A civilian working with the unit
was Ellen Urquhart.
As the team conducted its surveillance, they became aware of then
47-year-old Robin Moulton, a high-profile Hells Angels Nomad from New
Brunswick, making his presence known in Nova Scotia. The Nomads are
elite Hells Angels members who have no set club house and are said to
have earned their ranking by having killed for the club, although
Moulton does not appear to have ever been charged with murder.
Moulton’s lawyer, T.J. Burke did not respond to a request for comment
on this or previous stories.
“We focused a lot on Moulton and even put a tracker on his vehicle,”
McNulty said. “We followed him back to New Brunswick and were able to
identify various real estate and businesses to which he was
associated.
“The investigation was proceeding smoothly until the RCMP brass in New
Brunswick caught wind that we had expanded into New Brunswick and were
chasing bikers on their turf. They were pissed,” McNulty said. “They
wanted to shut us down.”
Before that happened, a parallel operation to Hogwarts was set up in
New Brunswick – Operation Trident.
The Nova Scotia CFSEU investigation is archived in the RCMP’s PROS
record system under file number 2016-979629, McNulty said. The New
Brunswick one is filed in the PROS system as 2016-1141937. Frank
Magazine will be filing a request to see those files in due course.
In 2016, the outlaw-biker obsessed Commissioner Paulson put assistant
commissioner Larry Tremblay in charge of the New Brunswick RCMP. A
former member of the Canadian Navy, Tremblay joined the RCMP and rose
through the ranks. Between 2004 and 2008 he was seconded to the
Canadian Security Intelligence Service. In Ottawa, Tremblay ran
national security, financial crimes and serious organized crime
investigations until 2014. He then moved into protective services,
hobnobbing with the political elite, overseeing security for the Prime
Minister, Governor General and Parliament, a tried-and-true
steppingstone to the upper echelons of the RCMP.
Tremblay had no sooner hit the ground in New Brunswick when he began
to put in place his own hand-picked team to take on the Hells Angels.
Many of them were trusted French speakers, like then Staff-Sgt.
Dustine Rodier, who took command of the Hampton, N.B. detachment,
which was at the centre of the action. people he believed he could
trust. McNulty said that many of the investigators from Hogwarts and
Trident were rolled into two new operations: Projects
J-Thunderstruckand J-Thunder.
Project J-Thunderstruck targeted Hells Angels Nomad Emery “Pit” Martin
who was operating in Northern New Brunswick, along the border with
Quebec.
Project Thunder’s focus was on his fellow Nomad Robin Moulton and the
Red Devils, in particular, in Southern New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
It could be reasonably argued that creating large interprovincial
operations made sense, considering that the entire population of the
Maritimes is less than that of the city of Toronto.
The new investigators added to the investigation roster included
Inspector Deanna Hill, Inspector Ron DeSilva, Staff Sergeants Bruce
Reid, Sgt. Eric Lanteigne and Constable Julie Messina. Other key
players included Fredericton Sgt. Mike Berry and Corporal Gerard
Crispo. There were additional investigators from RCMP federal
services, Fredericton Police, the Canadian Border Security Agency and
other policing jurisdictions.
Here’s where the investigations started to get tricky.
“Any RCMP investigation of outlaw bikers requires an informant,
someone the Mounties can control,” McNulty said.
In early 2017, he said, the team was told that the RCMP indeed had a
new informant for Project Thunder.
“We were told that they had someone in the Truro-Portapique area who
was tied into MS-13 and the Angels,” McNulty said. “The Mounties were
hot on it.”
For those familiar with this ongoing saga, the El Salvadoran street
gang Mara Salvatrucha or MS-13 – “the most notorious street gang in
the Western Hemisphere” – is linked to precisely one person in that
area – Wortman’s friend and handyman Peter Alan Griffon.
The RCMP and the Spinquiry have all but made the 42-year-old Griffon
invisible in spite of his obvious credentials as a witness that many
in the public would like to see testify. Griffon was reportedly
working on Wortman’s property in the hours leading up to the beginning
of the massacres. He called Lisa Banfield’s phone on a number of
occasions. Griffon also told police that he was the person who applied
the RCMP decals to a decommissioned police car, creating the near
perfect replica of an RCMP cruiser that Wortman used during his
13.5-hour spree. Griffon was never charged and his current whereabouts
are unknown.
Parole Board of Canada documents describe the circumstances of his
2014 arrest as part of an investigation into MS-13 elements in
Edmonton.
“In December 2014 police were conducting an investigation into a known
Security Threat Group(STG). You came to their attention through this
investigation and on the same day, police stopped a vehicle you were
driving. The vehicle was searched and police found cash, a baggie with
3 grams of cocaine, a black backpack containing approximately 800
grams of cocaine, more cash, a score sheet, a portable hard drive and
a camera. Police also located multiple cell phones in the vehicle.
“A short time later, police searched a warehouse where you were
living. A number of items were found, including multiple firearms and
ammunition, approximately 4 kilos of cocaine, $30,000 in cash and
various paraphernalia used to buff, package, and traffic cocaine. You
did not have a licence to possess any of the weapons and admitted to
the police that you worked for a cocaine distribution operation and
his job was to store, process, distribute, and transport cocaine to
traffickers.”
Griffon languished in an Alberta jail for several years, partly
because of a day parole violation, and eventually received a
relatively short sentence of two years, eight months and nine days.
The obvious problem with Griffon being the sole RCMP informant was
that in 2017 he was still imprisoned in Alberta and didn’t win his
parole until August 2018. Once he was paroled, Griffon was allowed to
move back to live in his parents’ house, which was located several
hundred meters south of Wortman’s cottage at 200 Portapique Beach
Road.
“We didn’t get a name on the informant, but I firmly believe it was
Wortman and that he was the one who supplied the hydraulic pill
presses to the Hells Angels. He fit the profile perfectly,” McNulty
said.
The danger for the police, McNulty added, was that Wortman was also a
criminal who might have been playing both sides at the same time.
Wherever the truth lies, McNulty said that there was likely a natural
evolution of the relationship between Wortman and the RCMP. Wortman
had family members who were Mounties and he associated with police
officers on a regular basis. It likely all began with a simple
relationship, exchanging information with police officers such as
Halifax constable Barry Warnell and RCMP constable Greg Wiley, who
visited Wortman 16 times until early 2017.
“The thing to note is that Wiley told the MCC that he had no notes
about their conversations, which I find hard to believe. That’s not
the way the Mounties roll. They report everything,” McNulty said.
“What Wiley did say was that he would check in with Wortman about
minor criminal activity in the community. That tells you something
right there.”
McNulty and their group believe that as Project Thunder got off the
ground, the RCMP relationship with Wortman moved to the next level –
agent.
“That’s where the big money is,” McNulty said. “He would have had a
professional handler at that point. I believe that Mountie was
Constable Peter Hurley. That was his specialty. He was the kind of
handler who promised the moon to potential informants and even more so
to agents, but the RCMP is notorious for not following through.”
Once New Brunswick took over, Inspector DeSilva, then head of the
Federal Serious and Organized Crime Unit, assumed the handler
responsibility, McNulty said.
We may never know the true story. It would be a criminal offense for a
Mountie to reveal the identity of an informant or agent, even after
they are dead. The RCMP undercover manual instructs members to lie to
everyone but a judge about such matters.
What we do know is what we are allowed to know.
When Moulton was arrested in August 2017, he was charged with
possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking and possession of
a restricted firearm – a 9 mm Beretta. Not much considering all the
effort when you think about it.
At the time of his arrest, CBC News asked then Fredericton Police
Chief Leanne Fitchabout the investigation. She said: “Getting down
into the weeds of any particular aspect of ongoing or past or present
issues could jeopardize investigations and officer and public safety,
so I won’t be commenting on any specifics.”
In 2018, Moulton received a rather short sentence of four years and six months.
There was a good reason why that happened, McNulty said.
“The agent was still in place and the RCMP couldn’t reveal everything
they knew because that would point to the agent, so they left
important things out so they could continue their investigation,”
McNulty said. “It could be argued that there was a miscarriage of
justice. Moulton’s lawyer wasn’t given all the facts about what the
police had been doing.”
The twin projects concluded on April 9, 2020 with the announcement by
Inspector DeSilva that two more Hells Angels member and two Red Devils
had been arrested in New Brunswick over the previous seven weeks.
DeSilva went out of his way to link the arrests to the previous ones
of Moulton and Martin, three and two years earlier, respectively. In
October, 2021 Martin received a seven-and-a-half year prison term for
cocaine trafficking and acting in the benefit of a criminal
organization.
“One of the most dangerous times is the end of an operation,” another
police source said, echoing the thoughts of others. “By that time, the
bad guys, especially the bikers, usually have a good idea about who
the rat was.”
Nine days after the projects closed, Wortman began his rampage.
From the closed and dangerous world of outlaw bikers, I continue to
hear stories about how Wortman was identified as a snitch and had his
life threatened over what happened to Moulton, Martin and the others.
No one yet will go on the record, which comes as no surprise,
considering the, um, grave consequences.
As for the Mounties, they have their own Hogwarts thing – a magical
ability to make controversies disappear into the wind.
In the spring of 2020, around the time of the massacres or shortly
afterward, multiple sources say that Hurley was transferred to
Ferryland, a small RCMP detachment on the Avalon Peninsula in
Newfoundland, about an hour’s drive south of St. John’s. In recent
months, he has taken down his social media.
Others, such as Staff-Sgt. Reid were not so lucky. Shortly before 2
p.m. on October 25, 2019, he committed suicide at a baseball diamond
in Rothesay, N.B. Reid suffered from typical psychological maladies
affecting many police officers, but those who knew him closely say he
was particularly distraught over his unheeded warnings about
significant failings in the overall Hells Angels’ investigations.
According to sources in New Brunswick, Reid believed a number of
people – as many as four – had been murdered during the course of the
investigation largely due to the RCMP’s shortcomings. Reid told people
that he was worried sick about one of the agents that the force had
employed. He strongly believed that the person was dangerous and
unsuited to the task, but that no one would listen to him.
Fifteen months after the massacres, New Brunswick Attorney General
Hugh Flemming took the unprecedented step of having Asst. Commissioner
Tremblay removed from his posting. Flemming stated in a letter to RCMP
Commissioner Brenda Lucki that he had “lost faith” in Tremblay, but
gave no specifics about the roots of his dissatisfaction.
Nova Scotia’s underperforming boss, Assistant Commissioner Leona (Lee)
Bergerman, was allowed to resign, as were a significant number of her
underlings who were involved in the RCMP response to the massacres.
Before she retired Sgt. Hawryluk was the Mountie in charge of writing
the informations to obtain search warrants in the post-massacres
investigation. She became a vocal critic of Frank Magazine and me, to
the point of lambasting a small store owner near where she lived over
his selling my recent book, 22 Murders.
The other trick that the RCMP employs when faced with embarrassment is
to promote those who might have failed and safely bury their possible
transgressions in the upper echelons of the force. For example, Chief
Superintendent Chris Leatherwas moved to a federal policing leadership
role in Ottawa.
Staff-Sgt Rodier was promoted to Inspector and was running the
Communicatons wing and 911 operations for the RCMP on the weekend of
the massacres. After that debacle she received another promotion to
Superintendent.
Superintendent Darren Campbell was given a bump to Chief
Superintendent and placed in charge of operations in New Brunswick.
His new boss was now Assistant Commissioner Deanna Hill. She was a key
player in Projects Thunder and Thunderstruck and afterward was placed
in charge of the RCMP in Newfoundland.
“Tremblay put his people in place all over the Maritimes so that he
could control things” McNulty said. “After he was pushed out, they
brought back Deanna Hill to replace him. It’s just a continuation of
what had been going on. You can’t help but think that they’ve put
people in place to protect the untold story that scares the shit out
of all of them.”
Next there is DeSilva. We don’t know yet what he really did – and the
RCMP would never confirm or deny if he was Wortman’s handler -- but
the Mounties obviously thought he did a terrific job. DeSilva was
named Officer of the Year in 2017 and eventually was promoted to
Superintendent. He is currently the officer in charge of the Codiac
Detachment, essentially the municipal police for Moncton and its
sister communities of Dieppe and Riverview. That’s where at least
three of the four murders may have taken place.
One might think that the Mass Casualty Commission might be interested
in poking around in all this, but one of its three Commissioners is
Leanne Fitch who, to echo her CBC quote, is not the kind of person who
likes “getting down into the weeds” of police investigations. The
entire Commission appears to be laser focused on not getting to the
bottom of the story, having avoided any potentially embarrassing
exploration like that for about six months.
Its circular logic goes something like this: “We can’t explore
anything that we haven’t been able to document, and we are not going
to search for documents that we haven’t been told about because our
mandate is not to find fault or cause trauma.”
Our mandate is quite the opposite.
If you can lend us a hand, please step forward and tell us what you
know. The greater community would appreciate it very much.
paulpalango@protonmail.com
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The Media and the Murders by Rick Howe
August 6, 2022
The media and the murders
by Rick Howe
Most Nova Scotians today know the basics of what transpired April
18th and 19th, 2020 when something snapped in the mind of Dartmouth
denturist Gabriel Wortman, who, dressed as an RCMP officer and
driving a replica RCMP vehicle, launched a two day murderous rampage
that left 22 Nova Scotians and one unborn child dead and the gunman
himself killed by the RCMP.
It was the worst mass killing in Canadian history and it happened here
at home. You might think getting the full story behind what happened
would be a priority for the mainstream media. Sadly that has not been
the case.
Even as the Mass Casualty Commission promises to get to the truth of
what happened that tragic weekend, many Nova Scotians remain
skeptical. There are some who believe the Commission is party to a
cover-up and there never was any intention to reveal the whole truth
about the actions of Gabriel Wortman and Canada’s national police
force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Critics believe this has become an effort to deflect from the
relationship between them. Why isn’t Wortman’s criminal record and his
association with a criminal motorcycle gang not part of the MCC
inquiry? The critics believe there is an effort to cover-up the
RCMP’s involvement or relationship with Wortman and his relationship
with the Hells Angels. Was Gabriel Wortman a confidential police
informant? Yet there is little effort by the mainstream media to get
to the real story, beyond the pablum fed to them by the RCMP and the
MCC.
I’ll give the Chronicle Herald a thumbs up for facts unearthed by its
reporters in the thousands of documents dumped online by the
Commission, seemingly an effort to bury pertinent details. The CBC’s
Elizabeth McMillan has, through freedom of information requests, also
revealed new details. However, it stops there.
The mainstream Nova Scotia media need to wake up to the very real
possibilities this is much more than just one man’s two day killing
spree. Serious questions need to be asked and revealed about events
leading up to that weekend, the April weekend itself and the days and
weeks following the murders.
Where is CTV’s Rick Grant when you need him?
Sadly, those days of investigative reporters breaking news stories are
long gone. Halifax’s all-news talk station has no reporters. When was
the last time CTV, CBC or Global broke a major story? CTV for example,
has done a reasonable job reporting details from the testimony before
the Mass Inquiry Commission, but in the days following the mass
killings, the mainstream media continued to accept the narrative
presented by the RCMP even as details were few, including no accurate
account of the number of people killed. Radio, television and
newspaper reports often included verbatim RCMP news releases. It was
left to the alternative media to carry the ball.
Thanks to online sites like Little Grey Cells and quasi-news
organizations like the Halifax Examiner, and especially Frank
Magazine, we began getting details not provided by the RCMP. We were
beginning to realize the Mounties were holding key facts from the
public.
Frank’s release of the 911 calls from Wortman’s victims and video from
his take-down at the Big Stop in Enfield were major scoops. And
Frank’s Paul Palango has been ruthless is revealing more details about
Wortman, his criminal record and his association with motorcycle
gangs and police. He has been a thorn in the side of the RCMP to the
point where the RCMP’s media co-ordinator referred to Palango as “an
asshole.” He alone has kept this story fresh in the minds of those who
follow alternative media.
Then there’s the Lisa Banfield story. Wortman’s long-time companion
was indeed a victim of abuse, but the MCC’s decision not to allow
cross examination by lawyers for his victims because she was a victim
was more evidence for those screaming cover-up. Any effort to question
her about her story the night the massacres began was denied.
Why? She is a key witness who could provide more details about what
might have set Wortman off and her story about escaping handcuffs
while locked in the gunman’s RCMP replica police cruiser and spending
the night huddled inside a log in the woods is sketchy at best. And
again it is only Frank and Paul Palango who are asking questions
about her claims. The Examiner’s Tim Bousquet bought into the MCC’s
version of events and recently told a critic to “fuck off.”
Palango told me quite emphatically this is a story about the failure
of police, but he thinks the mainstream media has lost interest.
Palango says he has no doubt a cover-up is underway. He got support
for his claims from an unlikely source, retired CTV anchor Steve
Murphy. In two commentaries Murphy agreed there is more to this story
than we are being told and suggested the so called conspiracy
theorists were on the right track. Murphy also said Lisa Banfield
should have been cross-examined by family lawyers. Outside of his
comments, it has been crickets from the mainstream media.
”There is no longer a sense of pursuit,” Palango told me.
“It’s like the instinct had been bred out of reporters. No one is
doing anything.”
So many questions need answers. Why did the Mounties call for help
from the RCMP in New Brunswick? Why not seek aid from nearby police in
Truro or Amherst? Why were highway blockades not set up? Why was a man
with known ties to the Hells Angels and a neighbour and a friend of
Wortman’s evacuated with his father and mother from their home in
Portapique while four children whose parents had just been murdered
huddled in one home for hours? Why was Constable Heidi Stephenson,
basically a traffic cop, looking for a killer alone in her police
car? Was the gunman a police confidential informant? What was Gabriel
Wortman’s connection to the Hells Angels?
The truth is out there. But is the Nova Scotia media up to the task
of unravelling the full story behind this terrible tragedy? Stay
tuned. There’s clearly a lot more to learn.
tips@frankmagazine.ca
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Frank Magazine
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fax: (902) 423-0281
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>> Saturday, 10 September 2022
>>
>> Need I remind Pierre Poilievre et al that some folks have a long
>> memory and keep good records as well?
>>
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?
>>
>> The Writ Podcast - Episode #60: Pierre Poilievre, Week 1
>> 3,606 views
>> Sep 16, 2022
>> Éric Grenier
>> 1.35K subscribers
>> Shannon, Supriya and Aaron join me to chat about Poilievre's first
>> week as leader and the Trudeau government's inflation relief plan.
>>
>> https://www.thewrit.ca/
>>
>> Pierre Poilievre won the Conservative leadership race with more
>> support on the first ballot than any previous leadership candidate for
>> the Conservative Party or its predecessors. It was a big win.
>>
>> His first week, though, did not go so smoothly after one Quebec MP,
>> Alain Rayes, quit caucus, citing Poilievre’s tone and style of
>> politics as the reason. That the party had to subsequently apologize
>> for text messages sent to party members in Rayes’s riding asking them
>> to call his office to voice their displeasure made Rayes’s point for
>> him.
>>
>> Meanwhile, at a Liberal caucus retreat in New Brunswick, Justin
>> Trudeau announced new measures meant to provide relief from inflation
>> — an issue Poilievre has been hammering the government over for
>> months. Jagmeet Singh of the NDP was quick to claim credit.
>>
>> So it’s been a bit of a week.
>>
>> To discuss it all, I’m joined this week by the CBC’s Aaron Wherry,
>> Shannon Proudfoot, reporter with The Globe and Mail and Supriya
>> Dwivedi, Director of Policy and Engagement at the Centre for Media,
>> Technology and Democracy, and Senior Counsel for Enterprise Canada.
>> Supriya is also the co-host of the Seriously Podcast.
>>
>>
>> 152 Comments
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>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> Welcome to the Circus
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> Davey Baby and I go back to 2004
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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>>
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>> Floyd Anderson
>> Floyd Anderson
>> The journalist who interrupted him apologized for his rude behavior.
>> Take it as that. He was very rude.
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> True
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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>>
>> Poilievre Derangement Syndrome returns with a VENGEANCE
>> 24,985 views
>> Premiered Sep 16, 2022
>> True North
>> 84.2K subscribers
>> The legacy media’s knives are out for Pierre Poilievre since winning
>> the Conservative leadership race less than one week ago. From heckling
>> the Carleton MP during his first presser to criticizing his move into
>> the official residence of the Leader of the Offical Opposition, it’s
>> clear Poilievre Derangement Syndrome is back with a vengeance!
>>
>> This week on Fake News Friday, Andrew Lawton and Harrison Faulkner
>> look into the legacy media’s most ridiculous takes on Poilievre’s win
>> and their rush to defend Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
>>
>> Also on the show, the legacy media rallies behind the need for King
>> Charles II (not III) to address colonialism and reparations. This may
>> prove to be difficult considering he hasn’t been around since the 17th
>> Century!
>>
>>
>>
>> 500 Comments
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> Welcome to the Circus Davey Baby and I go back to 2004
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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>>
>>
>> The Writ Podcast - Episode #59: One last look at the Conservative
>> leadership race
>> 1217 views
>> Sep 8, 2022
>>
>> Éric Grenier
>> 1.3K subscribers
>> Stephanie Levitz, Tim Powers and Chad Rogers join me to discuss what
>> to expect when the next leader of the Conservative Party is revealed
>> on Saturday.
>>
>> https://www.thewrit.ca/
>>
>> The Conservative leadership race will be finally coming to a close on
>> Saturday when the winner will be announced in Ottawa.
>>
>> The safe bet is that Pierre Poilievre will win — perhaps even on the
>> first ballot. But what will the results mean not only for the
>> consensus front runner, but for Jean Charest, Leslyn Lewis, Roman
>> Baber and Scott Aitchison?
>>
>> Does it matter if Poilievre wins on the first ballot? What’s next for
>> Charest should he lose? What will the results mean for Lewis and the
>> social conservative wing of the party?
>>
>> And did Baber and Aitchison succeed in what they set out to do by
>> launching their long-shot candidacies?
>>
>> To answer these questions and lots more, I’m joined this week by Tim
>> Powers of Summa Strategies, Chad Rogers of Crestview Strategy and
>> Stephanie Levitz of the Toronto Star.
>>
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>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> Methinks Tim Powers of Summa Strategies, Chad Rogers of Crestview
>> Strategy and Stephanie Levitz of the Toronto Star must have read the
>> email I sent on September 12th by now N'esy Pas?
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>> David Amos
>> David Amos
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>> Brent Clouda
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>> Poilievre
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>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> @Brent Clouda Thats easy to predict after the fact
>>
>> Brent Clouda
>> Brent Clouda
>> @David Amos I voted for him
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>> Brent Clouda
>> Brent Clouda
>> @David Amos And I"m going to vote for him again, Pierre Poliievre
>> for Prime Minister. That is if the NDP/Liberal socialist party, ever
>> allow the peasants to vote again.
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> @Brent Clouda I have been running against all of them since 2004
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>> David Amos
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>> @Brent Clouda Enjoy
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>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> Kings County Record June 22, 2004
>> Raising a Little Hell- Lively Debate Provokes Crowd
>>
>> By Erin Hatfield
>>
>> "If you don't like what you got, why don't you change it? If your
>> world is all screwed up, rearrange it."
>>
>> The 1979 Trooper song Raise a Little Hell blared on the speakers at
>> the 8th Hussars Sports Center Friday evening as people filed in to
>> watch the Fundy candidates debate the issues. It was an accurate, if
>> unofficial, theme song for the debate.
>>
>> The crowd of over 200 spectators was dwarfed by the huge arena, but as
>> they chose their seats, it was clear the battle lines were drawn.
>> Supporters of Conservative candidate Rob Moore naturally took the blue
>> chairs on the right of the rink floor while John Herron's Liberalswent
>> left. There were splashes of orange, supporters of NDP Pat Hanratty,
>> mixed throughout. Perhaps the loudest applause came from a row towards
>> the back, where supporters of independent candidate David Amos sat.
>>
>> The debate was moderated by Leo Melanson of CJCW Radio and was
>> organized by the Sussex Valley Jaycees. Candidates wereasked a barrage
>> of questions bypanelists Gisele McKnight of the Kings County Record
>> and Lisa Spencer of CJCW.
>>
>> Staying true to party platforms for the most part, candidates
>> responded to questions about the gun registry, same sex marriage, the
>> exodus of young people from the Maritimes and regulated gas prices.
>> Herron and Moore were clear competitors,constantly challenging each
>> other on their answers and criticizing eachothers’ party leaders.
>> Hanratty flew under the radar, giving short, concise responses to the
>> questions while Amos provided some food for thought and a bit of comic
>> relief with quirky answers. "I was raised with a gun," Amos said in
>> response to the question of thenational gun registry. "Nobody's
>> getting mine and I'm not paying 10 cents for it."
>>
>> Herron, a Progressive Conservative MP turned Liberal, veered from his
>> party'splatform with regard to gun control. "It was ill advised but
>> well intentioned," Herron said. "No matter what side of the house I am
>> on, I'm voting against it." Pat Hanratty agreed there were better
>> places for the gun registry dollars to be spent.Recreational hunters
>> shouldn't have been penalized by this gun registry," he said.
>>
>> The gun registry issues provoked the tempers of Herron and Moore. At
>> one point Herron got out of his seat and threw a piece of paper in
>> front of Moore. "Read that," Herron said to Moore, referring to the
>> voting record of Conservative Party leader Steven Harper. According to
>> Herron, Harper voted in favour of the registry on the first and second
>> readings of the bill in 1995. "He voted against it when it counted, at
>> final count," Moore said. "We needa government with courage to
>> register sex offenders rather than register the property of law
>> abiding citizens."
>>
>> The crowd was vocal throughout the evening, with white haired men and
>> women heckling from the Conservative side. "Shut up John," one woman
>> yelled. "How can you talk about selling out?" a man yelled whenHerron
>> spoke about his fear that the Conservatives are selling farmers out.
>>
>> Although the Liberal side was less vocal, Kings East MLA Leroy
>> Armstrong weighed in at one point. "You’re out of touch," Armstrong
>> yelled to Moore from the crowd when the debate turned to the cost of
>> post-secondary education. Later in the evening Amos challenged
>> Armstrong to a public debate of their own. "Talk is cheap. Any time,
>> anyplace," Armstrong responded.
>>
>> As the crowd made its way out of the building following the debate,
>> candidates worked the room. They shook hands with well-wishers and
>> fielded questions from spectators-all part of the decision-making
>> process for the June 28 vote.
>>
>> Cutline – David Amos, independent candidate in Fundy, with some of his
>> favourite possessions—motorcycles.
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> The Unconventional Candidate
>>
>> David Amos Isn’t Campaigning For Your Vote, But….
>>
>> By Gisele McKnight
>>
>> FUNDY—He has a pack of cigarettes in his shirt pocket, a chain on his
>> wallet, a beard at least a foot long, 60 motorcycles and a cell phone
>> that rings to the tune of "Yankee Doodle."
>>
>> Meet the latest addition to the Fundy ballot—David Amos.
>>
>> The independent candidate lives in Milton, Massachusetts with his wife
>> and two children, but his place of residence does not stop him from
>> running for office in Canada.
>>
>> One has only to be at least 18, a Canadian citizen and not be in jail
>> to meet Elections Canada requirements.
>>
>> When it came time to launch his political crusade, Amos chose his
>> favourite place to do so—Fundy.
>>
>> Amos, 52, is running for political office because of his
>> dissatisfaction with politicians.
>>
>> "I’ve become aware of much corruption involving our two countries," he
>> said. "The only way to fix corruption is in the political forum."
>>
>> The journey that eventually led Amos to politics began in Sussex in
>> 1987. He woke up one morning disillusioned with life and decided he
>> needed to change his life.
>>
>> "I lost my faith in mankind," he said. "People go through that
>> sometimes in midlife."
>>
>> So Amos, who’d lived in Sussex since 1973, closed his Four Corners
>> motorcycle shop, paid his bills and hit the road with Annie, his 1952
>> Panhead motorcycle.
>>
>> "Annie and I rode around for awhile (three years, to be exact)
>> experiencing the milk of human kindness," he said. "This is how you
>> renew your faith in mankind – you help anyone you can, you never ask
>> for anything, but you take what they offer."
>>
>> For those three years, they offered food, a place to sleep, odd jobs
>> and conversation all over North America.
>>
>> Since he and Annie stopped wandering, he has married, fathered a son
>> and a daughter and become a house-husband – Mr. Mom, as he calls
>> himself.
>>
>> He also describes himself in far more colourful terms—a motorcyclist
>> rather than a biker, a "fun-loving, free-thinking, pig-headed
>> individual," a "pissed-off Maritimer" rather than an activist, a proud
>> Canadian and a "wild colonial boy."
>>
>> Ironically, the man who is running for office has never voted in his
>> life.
>>
>> "But I have no right to criticize unless I offer my name," he said.
>> "It’s alright to bitch in the kitchen, but can you walk the walk?"
>>
>> Amos has no intention of actively campaigning.
>>
>> "I didn’t appreciate it when they (politicians) pounded on my door
>> interrupting my dinner," he said. "If people are interested, they can
>> call me. I’m not going to drive my opinions down their throats."
>>
>> And he has no campaign budget, nor does he want one.
>>
>> "I won’t take any donations," he said. "Just try to give me some. It’s
>> not about money. It goes against what I’m fighting about."
>>
>> What he’s fighting for is the discussion of issues – tainted blood,
>> the exploitation of the Maritimes’ gas and oil reserves and NAFTA, to
>> name a few.
>>
>> "The political issues in the Maritimes involve the three Fs – fishing,
>> farming and forestry, but they forget foreign issues," he said. "I’m
>> death on NAFTA, the back room deals and free trade. I say chuck it
>> (NAFTA) out the window.
>>
>> NAFTA is the North American Free Trade Agreement which allows an
>> easier flow of goods between Canada, the United States and Mexico.
>>
>> Amos disagrees with the idea that a vote for him is a wasted vote.
>>
>> "There are no wasted votes," he said. "I want people like me,
>> especially young people, to pay attention and exercise their right.
>> Don’t necessarily vote for me, but vote."
>>
>> Although…if you’re going to vote anyway, Amos would be happy to have
>> your X by his name.
>>
>> "I want people to go into that voting booth, see my name, laugh and
>> say, ‘what the hell.’"
>>
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> @Brent Clouda Ask your hero why CBC always denies that I am running
>> https://www.cbc.ca/news/
>>
>> (I posted this twice and it was blocked twice eed I say I now know why?)
>> David Amos
>> David Amos
>> @Brent Clouda Did you block my last 2 replies???
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Sylvius the Mad
>> Sylvius the Mad
>> The voting process was surprisingly complicated. I really thought the
>> complexity of the ballot and the voting procedure would suppress voter
>> turnout.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Justin H
>> Justin H
>> News flash 📸 Pierre Poilievre wins 🏆
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> The Writ Podcast - Episode #50: Down goes Patrick Brown
>> 860 views
>> Jul 7, 2022
>> Éric Grenier
>> 1.35K subscribers
>> Catherine Cullen, Tim Powers and Chad Rogers are back to discuss the
>> latest drama in the Conservative leadership race.
>>
>> https://www.thewrit.ca/
>>
>> Late on Tuesday night, Patrick Brown was booted from the Conservative
>> leadership contest for his campaign’s alleged breaking of the rules
>> that govern political financing. Brown denies the allegations and puts
>> the blame on Pierre Poilievre’s campaign for engineering his ouster.
>>
>> This story is far from over, as it appears Brown might go to the
>> courts to challenge his disqualification. Meanwhile, the other
>> campaigns need to re-calibrate and figure out where they go from here.
>>
>> There’s a lot to discuss. So, this week I’m joined by Tim Powers of
>> Summa Strategies, Chad Rogers of Crestview Strategy and Catherine
>> Cullen, senior reporter with CBC News, to break it all down.
>>
>> https://summastrategies.ca/
>> https://www.crestviewstrategy.
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Premier of Ontario | Premier ministre de l’Ontario
>> <Premier@ontario.ca>
>> Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2022 22:18:56 +0000
>> Subject: Automatic reply: I bet after the Wannabe Mayor Mark Sutcliffe
>> reviews a couple of clips fom his own show he will remember me EH Rob
>> Moore and Mr Jones???
>> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>>
>> Thank you for your email. Your thoughts, comments and input are greatly
>> valued.
>>
>> You can be assured that all emails and letters are carefully read,
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>>
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>>
>> Merci encore pour votre courriel.
>>
>>
>> ---------- Original message ----------
>> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>> Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2022 19:18:24 -0300
>> Subject: I bet after the Wannabe Mayor Mark Sutcliffe reviews a couple
>> of clips fom his own show he will remember me EH Rob Moore and Mr
>> Jones???
>> To: mark@marksutcliffe.ca, Jim.Watson@ottawa.ca,
>> endottawaelectiongambling@
>> info@bobchiarelli.ca, mayor@brandonbay.ca, catherine@mckenney2022.ca,
>> celinedebassige@yahoo.ca, contact@macdonald4mayor.com,
>> jreg4mayor@gmail.com, jacobsolomonmayor@gmail.com,
>> info@mikeforottawa.ca, kadri4mayor@kadri.ca, voteparam@gmail.com,
>> denise.batters@sen.parl.gc.ca, "kevin.waugh" <kevin.waugh@parl.gc.ca>,
>> "andrew.scheer" <andrew.scheer@parl.gc.ca>, "Warren.Steinley"
>> <Warren.Steinley@parl.gc.ca>, "fraser.tolmie"
>> <fraser.tolmie@parl.gc.ca>, "Rosemarie.Falk"
>> <Rosemarie.Falk@parl.gc.ca>, info@tessafranklin.com,
>> lstinson@bell.net, lainejohnson4college@gmail.com
>> laura@laurashantz.ca, info@arieltroster.com, info@jeffleiper.ca,
>> info@menard2022.ca, electyvette@yvetteashiri.ca,
>> info@horizonottawa.ca, communitysolidarity.ottawa@
>> <oldmaison@yahoo.com>, andre <andre@jafaust.com>, andrew
>> <andrew@frankmagazine.ca>, Newsroom <Newsroom@globeandmail.com>, pm
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>> <premier@ontario.ca>, cathyforkanata@gmail.com,
>> christine.moulaison.kn@gmail.
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>> vote.othmanalhusain@gmail.com, voteroberthill@gmail.com,
>> theresakavanagh@rogers.com, info@delvasontarioparty.ca,
>> info@patmcgarry.ca, wendy@wendydavidson.ca, vote@jamesdean.ca,
>> info@josephbenami.ca, michaelwoodottawa@gmail.com,
>> goingthextramyles@gmail.com, "rob.moore" <rob.moore@parl.gc.ca>,
>> "Robert. Jones" <Robert.Jones@cbc.ca>
>> Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>, "Candice.Bergen"
>> <Candice.Bergen@parl.gc.ca>, "pierre.poilievre"
>> <pierre.poilievre@parl.gc.ca>, "jake.stewart"
>> <jake.stewart@parl.gc.ca>
>>
>> https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/
>>
>> Meet the candidates for mayor and councillor in the city of Ottawa
>> election
>>
>> Mark Sutcliffe is a broadcaster and entrepreneur. He co-founded the
>> Ottawa Business Journal and worked on Newstalk 580 CFRA and CityNews.
>> For more information, visit marksutcliffe.ca.
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?
>>
>> CPAC Nov 8th short
>> 9 views
>> Nov 10, 2015
>> David Amos
>> 28 subscribers
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?
>>
>> Sept 25th CPAC
>> 22 views
>> Nov 9, 2015
>> David Amos
>> 28 subscribers
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>>> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2021 14:48:36 -0300
>>> Subject: Fwd: [Non-DoD Source] Fwd: Methinks the evil lawyer Howie
>>> Cooper made a deal with the VERY NASTY FBI dudes in Beantown N'esy Pas
>>> Howie Anglin?
>>> To: nia_ig.fct@navy.mil, washington field
>>> <washington.field@ic.fbi.gov>, pm <pm@pm.gc.ca>, "Ian.Shugart"
>>> <Ian.Shugart@pco-bcp.gc.ca>
>>> Cc: "Brenda.Lucki" <Brenda.Lucki@rcmp-grc.gc.ca>, "Jonathan.Vance"
>>> <Jonathan.Vance@forces.gc.ca>, "Greta.Bossenmaier"
>>> <Greta.Bossenmaier@hq.nato.int
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: NIA_IG <nia_ig.fct@navy.mil>
>>> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2021 11:03:08 +0000
>>> Subject: RE: [Non-DoD Source] Fwd: Methinks the evil lawyer Howie
>>> Cooper made a deal with the VERY NASTY FBI dudes in Beantown N'esy Pas
>>> Howie Anglin?
>>> To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>>>
>>> Dear David Amos,
>>> The Naval Intelligence Activity (NIA) Office of the Inspector General
>>> (IG) reviewed your email and attached .WAV file provided to the NIA
>>> Hotline on 2 April 2021. I found no connection to the United States
>>> Navy or United States Naval Intelligence.
>>>
>>> Naval Inspectors General exist to improve the efficiency and
>>> effectiveness of US Navy Programs, and strive to eliminate and prevent
>>> waste, fraud, and abuse with their respective departments. Naval IGs
>>> are restricted to assessing matters falling within the purview of
>>> their respective commanders.
>>>
>>> Citing the lack of an apparent connection to the US Navy or Naval
>>> Intelligence, I am unable to provide further assistance, or provide
>>> direct referral to any other agency or activity.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>>
>>> Mark Koneda
>>> Investigator
>>> Naval Intelligence Activity
>>> Office of the Inspector General
>>> NIA_IG@navy.mil
>>> (301)669-3030 (unclass)
>>> TSVOIP 560-3030
>>>
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>>> information contained in this email and any accompanying attachments
>>> may contain Inspector General sensitive or pre-decisional information,
>>> which is protected from mandatory disclosure under the Freedom of
>>> Information Act (FOIA, 5 USC Section 552). It should not be released
>>> to unauthorized persons. If you are not the intended recipient of this
>>> information, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or the taking of
>>> any action in reliance on this information is prohibited. If you
>>> received this email in error, please notify this office by email or by
>>> calling (301) 669-3030.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
>>> Sent: Friday, April 2, 2021 12:50 PM
>>> To: NIA_IG <nia_ig.fct@navy.mil>
>>> Cc: motomaniac333 <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
>>> Subject: [Non-DoD Source] Fwd: Methinks the evil lawyer Howie Cooper
>>> made a deal with the VERY NASTY FBI dudes in Beantown N'esy Pas Howie
>>> Anglin?
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Art.McDonald@forces.gc.ca
>>> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 13:49:10 +0000
>>> Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks the evil lawyer Howie Cooper made a
>>> deal with the VERY NASTY FBI dudes in Beantown N'esy Pas Howie Anglin?
>>> To: motomaniac333@gmail.com
>>>
>>> The Acting Chief of the Defence Staff is LGen Wayne Eyre, he may be
>>> reached at wayne.eyre@forces.gc.ca.
>>>
>>> Le Chef d'état-major de la Défense par intérim est le LGen Wayne Eyre.
>>> Il peut être rejoint au wayne.eyre@forces.gc.ca.
>>>
>>> Art McD
>>> He/Him // Il/Lui
>>> Admiral/amiral Art McDonald
>>>
>>> Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS)
>>> Canadian Armed Forces
>>> art.mcdonald@forces.gc.ca<
>>> 613-992-5054
>>>
>>> Chef d’état-major de la Defense (CÉMD)
>>> Forces armées canadiennes
>>> art.mcdonald@forces.gc.ca<
>>> 613-992-5054
>>>
>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> > > > From: "McKnight, Gisele" McKnight.Gisele@kingscorecord.
>>>> > > > To: lcampenella@ledger.com
>>>> > > > Cc:motomaniac_02186@hotmail.
>>>> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 2:53 PM
>>>> > > > Subject: David Amos
>>>> > > >
>>>> > > >
>>>> > > > > Hello Lisa,
>>>> > > > > David Amos asked me to contact you. I met him last June after
>>>> > > > > he
>>>> > became
>>>> > > an
>>>> > > > > independent (not representing any political party) candidate in
>>>> > > > > our
>>>> > > > federal
>>>> > > > > election that was held June 28.
>>>> > > > >
>>>> > > > > He was a candidate in our constituency of Fundy (now called
>>>> > > Fundy-Royal).
>>>> > > > I
>>>> > > > > wrote a profile story about him, as I did all other candidates.
>>>> > > > > That
>>>> > > story
>>>> > > > > appeared in the Kings County Record June 22. A second story,
>>>> > > > > written
>>>> > by
>>>> > > > one
>>>> > > > > of my reporters, appeared on the same date, which was a report
>>>> > > > > on
>>>> the
>>>> > > > > candidates' debate held June 18.
>>>> > > > >
>>>> > > > > As I recall David Amos came last of four candidates in the
>>>> > > > > election.
>>>> > The
>>>> > > > > winner got 14,997 votes, while Amos got 358.
>>>> > > > >
>>>> > > > > I have attached the two stories that appeared, as well as a
>>>> > > > > photo
>>>> > taken
>>>> > > by
>>>> > > > > reporter Erin Hatfield during the debate. I couldn't find the
>>>> > > > > photo
>>>> > that
>>>> > > > > ran, but this one is very similar.
>>>> > > > >
>>>> > > > > Gisele McKnight
>>>> > > > > editor A1-debate A1-amos,David for MP 24.doc debate
>>> 2.JPG
>>>> > > > > Kings County Record
>>>> > > > > Sussex, New Brunswick
>>>> > > > > Canada
>>>> > > > > 506-433-1070
>>>> > > > >
>>>> > > >
>>>> > >
>>> Raising a Little Hell- Lively Debate Provokes Crowd
>>>
>>> By Erin Hatfield
>>>
>>> "If you don't like what you got, why don't you change it? If your
>>> world is all screwed up, rearrange it."
>>>
>>> The 1979 Trooper song Raise a Little Hell blared on the speakers at
>>> the 8th Hussars Sports Center Friday evening as people filed in to
>>> watch the Fundy candidates debate the issues. It was an accurate, if
>>> unofficial, theme song for the debate.
>>>
>>> The crowd of over 200 spectators was dwarfed by the huge arena, but as
>>> they chose their seats, it was clear the battle lines were drawn.
>>> Supporters of Conservative candidate Rob Moore naturally took the blue
>>> chairs on the right of the rink floor while John Herron's Liberalswent
>>> left. There were splashes of orange, supporters of NDP Pat Hanratty,
>>> mixed throughout. Perhaps the loudest applause came from a row towards
>>> the back, where supporters of independent candidate David Amos sat.
>>>
>>> The debate was moderated by Leo Melanson of CJCW Radio and was
>>> organized by the Sussex Valley Jaycees. Candidates wereasked a barrage
>>> of questions bypanelists Gisele McKnight of the Kings County Record
>>> and Lisa Spencer of CJCW.
>>>
>>> Staying true to party platforms for the most part, candidates
>>> responded to questions about the gun registry, same sex marriage, the
>>> exodus of young people from the Maritimes and regulated gas prices.
>>> Herron and Moore were clear competitors,constantly challenging each
>>> other on their answers and criticizing eachothers’ party leaders.
>>> Hanratty flew under the radar, giving short, concise responses to the
>>> questions while Amos provided some food for thought and a bit of comic
>>> relief with quirky answers. "I was raised with a gun," Amos said in
>>> response to the question of thenational gun registry. "Nobody's
>>> getting mine and I'm not paying 10 cents for it."
>>>
>>> Herron, a Progressive Conservative MP turned Liberal, veered from his
>>> party'splatform with regard to gun control. "It was ill advised but
>>> well intentioned," Herron said. "No matter what side of the house I am
>>> on, I'm voting against it." Pat Hanratty agreed there were better
>>> places for the gun registry dollars to be spent.Recreational hunters
>>> shouldn't have been penalized by this gun registry," he said.
>>>
>>> The gun registry issues provoked the tempers of Herron and Moore. At
>>> one point Herron got out of his seat and threw a piece of paper in
>>> front of Moore. "Read that," Herron said to Moore, referring to the
>>> voting record of Conservative Party leader Steven Harper. According to
>>> Herron, Harper voted in favour of the registry on the first and second
>>> readings of the bill in 1995. "He voted against it when it counted, at
>>> final count," Moore said. "We needa government with courage to
>>> register sex offenders rather than register the property of law
>>> abiding citizens."
>>>
>>> The crowd was vocal throughout the evening, with white haired men and
>>> women heckling from the Conservative side. "Shut up John," one woman
>>> yelled. "How can you talk about selling out?" a man yelled whenHerron
>>> spoke about his fear that the Conservatives are selling farmers out.
>>>
>>> Although the Liberal side was less vocal, Kings East MLA Leroy
>>> Armstrong weighed in at one point. "You’re out of touch," Armstrong
>>> yelled to Moore from the crowd when the debate turned to the cost of
>>> post-secondary education. Later in the evening Amos challenged
>>> Armstrong to a public debate of their own. "Talk is cheap. Any time,
>>> anyplace," Armstrong responded.
>>>
>>> As the crowd made its way out of the building following the debate,
>>> candidates worked the room. They shook hands with well-wishers and
>>> fielded questions from spectators-all part of the decision-making
>>> process for the June 28 vote.
>>>
>>> Cutline – David Amos, independent candidate in Fundy, with some of his
>>> favourite possessions—motorcycles.
>>>
>>> McKnight/KCR
>>>
>>> The Unconventional Candidate
>>>
>>> David Amos Isn’t Campaigning For Your Vote, But….
>>>
>>> By Gisele McKnight
>>>
>>> FUNDY—He has a pack of cigarettes in his shirt pocket, a chain on his
>>> wallet, a beard at least a foot long, 60 motorcycles and a cell phone
>>> that rings to the tune of "Yankee Doodle."
>>>
>>> Meet the latest addition to the Fundy ballot—David Amos.
>>>
>>> The independent candidate lives in Milton, Massachusetts with his wife
>>> and two children, but his place of residence does not stop him from
>>> running for office in Canada.
>>>
>>> One has only to be at least 18, a Canadian citizen and not be in jail
>>> to meet Elections Canada requirements.
>>>
>>> When it came time to launch his political crusade, Amos chose his
>>> favourite place to do so—Fundy.
>>>
>>> Amos, 52, is running for political office because of his
>>> dissatisfaction with politicians.
>>>
>>> "I’ve become aware of much corruption involving our two countries," he
>>> said. "The only way to fix corruption is in the political forum."
>>>
>>> The journey that eventually led Amos to politics began in Sussex in
>>> 1987. He woke up one morning disillusioned with life and decided he
>>> needed to change his life.
>>>
>>> "I lost my faith in mankind," he said. "People go through that
>>> sometimes in midlife."
>>>
>>> So Amos, who’d lived in Sussex since 1973, closed his Four Corners
>>> motorcycle shop, paid his bills and hit the road with Annie, his 1952
>>> Panhead motorcycle.
>>>
>>> "Annie and I rode around for awhile (three years, to be exact)
>>> experiencing the milk of human kindness," he said. "This is how you
>>> renew your faith in mankind – you help anyone you can, you never ask
>>> for anything, but you take what they offer."
>>>
>>> For those three years, they offered food, a place to sleep, odd jobs
>>> and conversation all over North America.
>>>
>>> Since he and Annie stopped wandering, he has married, fathered a son
>>> and a daughter and become a house-husband – Mr. Mom, as he calls
>>> himself.
>>>
>>> He also describes himself in far more colourful terms—a motorcyclist
>>> rather than a biker, a "fun-loving, free-thinking, pig-headed
>>> individual," a "pissed-off Maritimer" rather than an activist, a proud
>>> Canadian and a "wild colonial boy."
>>>
>>> Ironically, the man who is running for office has never voted in his
>>> life.
>>>
>>> "But I have no right to criticize unless I offer my name," he said.
>>> "It’s alright to bitch in the kitchen, but can you walk the walk?"
>>>
>>> Amos has no intention of actively campaigning.
>>>
>>> "I didn’t appreciate it when they (politicians) pounded on my door
>>> interrupting my dinner," he said. "If people are interested, they can
>>> call me. I’m not going to drive my opinions down their throats."
>>>
>>> And he has no campaign budget, nor does he want one.
>>>
>>> "I won’t take any donations," he said. "Just try to give me some. It’s
>>> not about money. It goes against what I’m fighting about."
>>>
>>> What he’s fighting for is the discussion of issues – tainted blood,
>>> the exploitation of the Maritimes’ gas and oil reserves and NAFTA, to
>>> name a few.
>>>
>>> "The political issues in the Maritimes involve the three Fs – fishing,
>>> farming and forestry, but they forget foreign issues," he said. "I’m
>>> death on NAFTA, the back room deals and free trade. I say chuck it
>>> (NAFTA) out the window.
>>>
>>> NAFTA is the North American Free Trade Agreement which allows an
>>> easier flow of goods between Canada, the United States and Mexico.
>>>
>>> Amos disagrees with the idea that a vote for him is a wasted vote.
>>>
>>> "There are no wasted votes," he said. "I want people like me,
>>> especially young people, to pay attention and exercise their right.
>>> Don’t necessarily vote for me, but vote."
>>>
>>> Although…if you’re going to vote anyway, Amos would be happy to have
>>> your X by his name.
>>>
>>> "I want people to go into that voting booth, see my name, laugh and
>>> say, ‘what the hell.’"
>>>
>>
>
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