We all have a certain degree of admiration for those forward-thinkers who were ahead of their time or for those…
themindunleashed.org
On
Monday, a group of robe-wearing individuals collectively known as the
“Supreme Court” said that police employees can violate your rights.
copblock.org
On
Monday, a group of robe-wearing individuals collectively known as the
“Supreme Court” said that police employees can violate your rights.
copblock.org
Could it be because we have the best food "safety" money can buy?
#EndCorruption
#EndCorruption
Can you explain this?
Hint: #ProfitsOverPeople
Hint: #ProfitsOverPeople
Is This The Reason Why Diet Soda Drinkers Are Often Overweight?
Artificial sweeteners that are meant to make watching your weight easier are actually the cause for diabetes and obesity!
Coal Ash in the Spotlight as EPA Deadline Approaches
The Conservative plan to apply religious discrimination to the selection of Syrian refugees...
unpublishedottawa.com
Book burning in the 21st century Canada. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10204521405650915&set=a.3170912827511.2152615.1106208090&type=1&theater
http://www.news1130.com/…/irreplaceable-research-lost-from…/
"Irreplaceable collections of intellectual capital built by Canadian taxpayers for future generations have been lost forever."
http://thetyee.ca/News/2013/…/23/Canadian-Science-Libraries/
"The destruction of these publicly owned collections was undertaken in haste. No records were kept of what was thrown away, what was sold, and what was simply lost. Some of the books were burned."
http://boingboing.net/…/…/canadian-libraricide-tories-t.html
"The closures fit into a larger pattern of fear and insecurity within the Harper government about how to deal with science and knowledge."
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/…/science-cuts-canada_b_453472…
"This is more than an attack on academic freedom. It is an attempt to guarantee public ignorance."
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/…/new-york-times-harper-conser…
http://www.vancouverobserver.com/.../alberta-doctor-tells...
former senior lawyer at the federal Department of Justice who sued the Attorney General of Canada on December, 2012 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=692297280868474
![harper's illegitimacy exposed by former senior lawyer at the federal Department of Justice who sued the Attorney General of Canada on December, 2012
An incredible story about harper's corruption by a credible witness
Wake up Canada
***
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression
"…Edgar Schmidt is a senior lawyer at the federal Department of Justice. In December 2012, Schmidt launched a legal case against the Attorney General of Canada, alleging that lawyers were being told not to fulfill these responsibilities unless the draft law was “manifestly” or “certainly” inconsistent with human rights law. Schmidt alleges that lawyers are told that any chance of successfully defending draft legislation against a human rights challenge that is 5% or higher is deemed sufficient to justify a decision not to advise the Deputy Minister of Justice of problems with human rights compliance. The result is that the House of Commons would not get advised accordingly…"
…
Implications and Consequences
Democracy: Inadequate examination of proposed legislation for compliance with human rights appears to infringe Canadian legal requirements that dictate the degree of scrutiny to which legislation must be subject. Falling short of the legal standard raises questions of the degree to which the rule of law is respected by the federal government of Canada.
Transparency: Suspending Schmidt from his post without pay is punitive and unnecessary. Whistleblowers who raise serious and credible issues about internal governance in the public service should be shielded from retaliation through transparent and fair procedures that protect the operations of the public service but also the public interest.
Equality: Whistleblowers are not recognized as a protected group under section 15 of the Charter (equality rights section). However, the gross imbalance of power resulting from resources brought to bear against public servants like Schmidt shows how unequal Canadian public servants are before the law in such circumstances.
…
Relevant Dates:
1998: Edgar Schmidt is hired by the Department of Justice to serve as general counsel.
December 2012: Schmidt files suit against the federal government for not following proper procedure in examining inconsistencies of bills with the Charter. As a result, Schmidt is suspended without pay.
January 2013: Justice Simon Noël of the Federal Court criticizes the federal government for suspending Schmidt.
March 2013: Justice Noël orders the government to cover the cost of Schmidt’s legal challenge, stating that the case is in “the public interest.”
Role or Position
Edgar Schmidt is a senior lawyer in the federal Department of Justice. He served in the Department since 1998. As Special Advisor to the Legislative Services Branch, Schmidt drafted legislation and provided advice, including on compliance with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
web link: http://cjfe.org/resources/features/update-canadian-whistleblower-edgar-schmidt
***
UPDATE:
Lawyers Weekly, ("State must pay costs for Schmidt case" By Cristin Schmitz, March 22 2013 issue"
"As MPs debated whether the Department of Justice is systematically violating their privileges, DOJ general counsel Edgar Schmidt got an unexpected boost in his lawsuit against his employer when the presiding judge issued a rare order compelling the state to pay for his lawyer.
Federal Court Justice Simon Noel ruled March 8 that in the interests of fairness the DOJ should pay for a lawyer for Schmidt, albeit at the federal government’s discounted rates. Schmidt, who was self-represented, quickly retained prominent Vancouver litigator Joseph Arvay, and set up a website, charterdefence.ca, to keep supporters and media up to date in his unprecedented action.
“I have no doubt that this is a meritorious case to move along,” Justice Noel said, as jubilant representatives from whistleblower groups looked on in the Ottawa courtroom…"
web link: http://www.lawyersweekly.ca/index.php?section=article&articleid=1861
***
UPDATE: Huffington Post, "Stephen Harper Failing To Protect Charter Rights, Lawyers Claim" ( 11/26/2014)
"…[Simon] Potter [a past president of the Canadian Bar Association] said his keynote address will reinforce a key point about the three branches of Canada's government: that the executive branch (the PMO), the judiciary and Parliament all have a duty to protect the Charter, which enshrines the freedom of all Canadians.
"I ask the question: do we have cause for worry these days that maybe the executive isn't being as serious about that duty as we would hope? And I conclude that the answer is yes, we do have cause for worry."
…
"…Potter planned to raise the case of former Justice Department lawyer Edgar Schmidt, who is suing the federal government for allegedly failing to routinely evaluate whether proposed legislation violates the Charter.
Schmidt alleges that government lawyers are instructed to warn the minister about possible Charter conflicts only when the violations are unambiguous, so that even if the probability is 95 per cent, there is still no need to red-flag the problem.
Potter said that amounts to the government abandoning part of its constitutional role.
"If that is so, and Mr. Schmidt's allegations are correct, what it means is that the executive has decided to take as many freedoms away from us as possible, rather than as few as possible," said Potter."
web link: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/06/26/stephen-harper-charter-rights_n_5534875.html
**
it's hard to comprehend how corrupt our system of government has become because the corruptions have become so ubiquitous
they no longer register in our waking consciousness
and their threats have become strangely rationalized even though the evidence
and proofs of the them are splayed bare-naked
for all to see, hear & smell
nothing conservative about that
and yet we sit and wait for more of the same without lifting a finger in protest
Canadians are funny in a sad kind way
our democracy is at great risk
***
harper & clark have declared war on Canada and its citizens
They are the threat that must be stopped
***
Idle No More:
Published on Nov 14, 2014
"This summer the Supreme Court of Canada made a historic ruling that the Tsilhqot'in Indigenous nation in British Columbia holds Aboriginal title to its traditional territory and ensures that First Nations with title have decision-making power. If this court decision can be implemented on the ground, it offers a chance"
web Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmWYKZwONBg
***
Recall Christy Clark FB page: SIGNUP NOW
web Link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/316129595235450/
***
#stephenharper, #MountPolley, #ChristyClark, #bcpoli, #cndpoli #canada, #qpq, #lpc, #idlenomore, #ndp,#KinderMorgan,#stopkindermorgan, #idlenomore, #burnabymountain,#senca,#pmharper,#abbotsford, #urbanism, #cities, #AbbotsfordPoli,#bced,#iwillholdtheline,#BreakShit,#Arctic,#Arcticpoli #polcan, #Canadian, #aprio,#respect,#firstnations, #tarsands,#notobigoil,#ohcanada
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"Irreplaceable collections of intellectual capital built by Canadian taxpayers for future generations have been lost forever."
http://thetyee.ca/News/2013/…/23/Canadian-Science-Libraries/
"The destruction of these publicly owned collections was undertaken in haste. No records were kept of what was thrown away, what was sold, and what was simply lost. Some of the books were burned."
http://boingboing.net/…/…/canadian-libraricide-tories-t.html
"The closures fit into a larger pattern of fear and insecurity within the Harper government about how to deal with science and knowledge."
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/…/science-cuts-canada_b_453472…
"This is more than an attack on academic freedom. It is an attempt to guarantee public ignorance."
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/…/new-york-times-harper-conser…
http://www.vancouverobserver.com/.../alberta-doctor-tells...
A northern Alberta doctor warned U.S. Senators on...
vancouverobserver.com
former senior lawyer at the federal Department of Justice who sued the Attorney General of Canada on December, 2012 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=692297280868474
harper's
illegitimacy exposed by former senior lawyer at the federal Department
of Justice who sued the Attorney General of Canada on December, 2012
An incredible story about harper's corruption by a credible witness
An incredible story about harper's corruption by a credible witness
Wake up Canada
***
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression
"…Edgar Schmidt is a senior lawyer at the federal Department of Justice. In December 2012, Schmidt launched a legal case against the Attorney General of Canada, alleging that lawyers were being told not to fulfill these responsibilities unless the draft law was “manifestly” or “certainly” inconsistent with human rights law. Schmidt alleges that lawyers are told that any chance of successfully defending draft legislation against a human rights challenge that is 5% or higher is deemed sufficient to justify a decision not to advise the Deputy Minister of Justice of problems with human rights compliance. The result is that the House of Commons would not get advised accordingly…"
…
Implications and Consequences
Democracy: Inadequate examination of proposed legislation for compliance with human rights appears to infringe Canadian legal requirements that dictate the degree of scrutiny to which legislation must be subject. Falling short of the legal standard raises questions of the degree to which the rule of law is respected by the federal government of Canada.
Transparency: Suspending Schmidt from his post without pay is punitive and unnecessary. Whistleblowers who raise serious and credible issues about internal governance in the public service should be shielded from retaliation through transparent and fair procedures that protect the operations of the public service but also the public interest.
Equality: Whistleblowers are not recognized as a protected group under section 15 of the Charter (equality rights section). However, the gross imbalance of power resulting from resources brought to bear against public servants like Schmidt shows how unequal Canadian public servants are before the law in such circumstances.
…
Relevant Dates:
1998: Edgar Schmidt is hired by the Department of Justice to serve as general counsel.
December 2012: Schmidt files suit against the federal government for not following proper procedure in examining inconsistencies of bills with the Charter. As a result, Schmidt is suspended without pay.
January 2013: Justice Simon Noël of the Federal Court criticizes the federal government for suspending Schmidt.
March 2013: Justice Noël orders the government to cover the cost of Schmidt’s legal challenge, stating that the case is in “the public interest.”
Role or Position
Edgar Schmidt is a senior lawyer in the federal Department of Justice. He served in the Department since 1998. As Special Advisor to the Legislative Services Branch, Schmidt drafted legislation and provided advice, including on compliance with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
web link: http://cjfe.org/…/update-canadian-whistleblower-edgar-schmi…
***
UPDATE:
Lawyers Weekly, ("State must pay costs for Schmidt case" By Cristin Schmitz, March 22 2013 issue"
"As MPs debated whether the Department of Justice is systematically violating their privileges, DOJ general counsel Edgar Schmidt got an unexpected boost in his lawsuit against his employer when the presiding judge issued a rare order compelling the state to pay for his lawyer.
Federal Court Justice Simon Noel ruled March 8 that in the interests of fairness the DOJ should pay for a lawyer for Schmidt, albeit at the federal government’s discounted rates. Schmidt, who was self-represented, quickly retained prominent Vancouver litigator Joseph Arvay, and set up a website, charterdefence.ca, to keep supporters and media up to date in his unprecedented action.
“I have no doubt that this is a meritorious case to move along,” Justice Noel said, as jubilant representatives from whistleblower groups looked on in the Ottawa courtroom…"
web link: http://www.lawyersweekly.ca/index.php…
***
UPDATE: Huffington Post, "Stephen Harper Failing To Protect Charter Rights, Lawyers Claim" ( 11/26/2014)
"…[Simon] Potter [a past president of the Canadian Bar Association] said his keynote address will reinforce a key point about the three branches of Canada's government: that the executive branch (the PMO), the judiciary and Parliament all have a duty to protect the Charter, which enshrines the freedom of all Canadians.
"I ask the question: do we have cause for worry these days that maybe the executive isn't being as serious about that duty as we would hope? And I conclude that the answer is yes, we do have cause for worry."
…
"…Potter planned to raise the case of former Justice Department lawyer Edgar Schmidt, who is suing the federal government for allegedly failing to routinely evaluate whether proposed legislation violates the Charter.
Schmidt alleges that government lawyers are instructed to warn the minister about possible Charter conflicts only when the violations are unambiguous, so that even if the probability is 95 per cent, there is still no need to red-flag the problem.
Potter said that amounts to the government abandoning part of its constitutional role.
"If that is so, and Mr. Schmidt's allegations are correct, what it means is that the executive has decided to take as many freedoms away from us as possible, rather than as few as possible," said Potter."
web link: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/…/stephen-harper-charter-right…
**
it's hard to comprehend how corrupt our system of government has become because the corruptions have become so ubiquitous
they no longer register in our waking consciousness
and their threats have become strangely rationalized even though the evidence
and proofs of the them are splayed bare-naked
for all to see, hear & smell
nothing conservative about that
and yet we sit and wait for more of the same without lifting a finger in protest
Canadians are funny in a sad kind way
our democracy is at great risk
***
harper & clark have declared war on Canada and its citizens
They are the threat that must be stopped
***
Idle No More:
Published on Nov 14, 2014
"This summer the Supreme Court of Canada made a historic ruling that the Tsilhqot'in Indigenous nation in British Columbia holds Aboriginal title to its traditional territory and ensures that First Nations with title have decision-making power. If this court decision can be implemented on the ground, it offers a chance"
web Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmWYKZwONBg
***
Recall Christy Clark FB page: SIGNUP NOW
web Link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/316129595235450/
***
#stephenharper, #MountPolley, #ChristyClark, #bcpoli, #cndpoli #canada, #qpq, #lpc, #idlenomore, #ndp,#KinderMorgan,#stopkindermorgan, #idlenomore, #burnabymountain,#senca,#pmharper,#abbotsford, #urbanism, #cities, #AbbotsfordPoli,#bced,#iwillholdtheline,#BreakShit,#Arctic,#Arcticpoli #polcan, #Canadian, #aprio,#respect,#firstnations, #tarsands,#notobigoil,#ohcanada
#Government,
***
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression
"…Edgar Schmidt is a senior lawyer at the federal Department of Justice. In December 2012, Schmidt launched a legal case against the Attorney General of Canada, alleging that lawyers were being told not to fulfill these responsibilities unless the draft law was “manifestly” or “certainly” inconsistent with human rights law. Schmidt alleges that lawyers are told that any chance of successfully defending draft legislation against a human rights challenge that is 5% or higher is deemed sufficient to justify a decision not to advise the Deputy Minister of Justice of problems with human rights compliance. The result is that the House of Commons would not get advised accordingly…"
…
Implications and Consequences
Democracy: Inadequate examination of proposed legislation for compliance with human rights appears to infringe Canadian legal requirements that dictate the degree of scrutiny to which legislation must be subject. Falling short of the legal standard raises questions of the degree to which the rule of law is respected by the federal government of Canada.
Transparency: Suspending Schmidt from his post without pay is punitive and unnecessary. Whistleblowers who raise serious and credible issues about internal governance in the public service should be shielded from retaliation through transparent and fair procedures that protect the operations of the public service but also the public interest.
Equality: Whistleblowers are not recognized as a protected group under section 15 of the Charter (equality rights section). However, the gross imbalance of power resulting from resources brought to bear against public servants like Schmidt shows how unequal Canadian public servants are before the law in such circumstances.
…
Relevant Dates:
1998: Edgar Schmidt is hired by the Department of Justice to serve as general counsel.
December 2012: Schmidt files suit against the federal government for not following proper procedure in examining inconsistencies of bills with the Charter. As a result, Schmidt is suspended without pay.
January 2013: Justice Simon Noël of the Federal Court criticizes the federal government for suspending Schmidt.
March 2013: Justice Noël orders the government to cover the cost of Schmidt’s legal challenge, stating that the case is in “the public interest.”
Role or Position
Edgar Schmidt is a senior lawyer in the federal Department of Justice. He served in the Department since 1998. As Special Advisor to the Legislative Services Branch, Schmidt drafted legislation and provided advice, including on compliance with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
web link: http://cjfe.org/…/update-canadian-whistleblower-edgar-schmi…
***
UPDATE:
Lawyers Weekly, ("State must pay costs for Schmidt case" By Cristin Schmitz, March 22 2013 issue"
"As MPs debated whether the Department of Justice is systematically violating their privileges, DOJ general counsel Edgar Schmidt got an unexpected boost in his lawsuit against his employer when the presiding judge issued a rare order compelling the state to pay for his lawyer.
Federal Court Justice Simon Noel ruled March 8 that in the interests of fairness the DOJ should pay for a lawyer for Schmidt, albeit at the federal government’s discounted rates. Schmidt, who was self-represented, quickly retained prominent Vancouver litigator Joseph Arvay, and set up a website, charterdefence.ca, to keep supporters and media up to date in his unprecedented action.
“I have no doubt that this is a meritorious case to move along,” Justice Noel said, as jubilant representatives from whistleblower groups looked on in the Ottawa courtroom…"
web link: http://www.lawyersweekly.ca/index.php…
***
UPDATE: Huffington Post, "Stephen Harper Failing To Protect Charter Rights, Lawyers Claim" ( 11/26/2014)
"…[Simon] Potter [a past president of the Canadian Bar Association] said his keynote address will reinforce a key point about the three branches of Canada's government: that the executive branch (the PMO), the judiciary and Parliament all have a duty to protect the Charter, which enshrines the freedom of all Canadians.
"I ask the question: do we have cause for worry these days that maybe the executive isn't being as serious about that duty as we would hope? And I conclude that the answer is yes, we do have cause for worry."
…
"…Potter planned to raise the case of former Justice Department lawyer Edgar Schmidt, who is suing the federal government for allegedly failing to routinely evaluate whether proposed legislation violates the Charter.
Schmidt alleges that government lawyers are instructed to warn the minister about possible Charter conflicts only when the violations are unambiguous, so that even if the probability is 95 per cent, there is still no need to red-flag the problem.
Potter said that amounts to the government abandoning part of its constitutional role.
"If that is so, and Mr. Schmidt's allegations are correct, what it means is that the executive has decided to take as many freedoms away from us as possible, rather than as few as possible," said Potter."
web link: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/…/stephen-harper-charter-right…
**
it's hard to comprehend how corrupt our system of government has become because the corruptions have become so ubiquitous
they no longer register in our waking consciousness
and their threats have become strangely rationalized even though the evidence
and proofs of the them are splayed bare-naked
for all to see, hear & smell
nothing conservative about that
and yet we sit and wait for more of the same without lifting a finger in protest
Canadians are funny in a sad kind way
our democracy is at great risk
***
harper & clark have declared war on Canada and its citizens
They are the threat that must be stopped
***
Idle No More:
Published on Nov 14, 2014
"This summer the Supreme Court of Canada made a historic ruling that the Tsilhqot'in Indigenous nation in British Columbia holds Aboriginal title to its traditional territory and ensures that First Nations with title have decision-making power. If this court decision can be implemented on the ground, it offers a chance"
web Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmWYKZwONBg
***
Recall Christy Clark FB page: SIGNUP NOW
web Link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/316129595235450/
***
#stephenharper, #MountPolley, #ChristyClark, #bcpoli, #cndpoli #canada, #qpq, #lpc, #idlenomore, #ndp,#KinderMorgan,#stopkindermorgan, #idlenomore, #burnabymountain,#senca,#pmharper,#abbotsford, #urbanism, #cities, #AbbotsfordPoli,#bced,#iwillholdtheline,#BreakShit,#Arctic,#Arcticpoli #polcan, #Canadian, #aprio,#respect,#firstnations, #tarsands,#notobigoil,#ohcanada
#Government,
Anti-police
social media postings have spawned a wave of arrests across the United
States in recent days, after the double murder of two New York Police
Department officers on Saturday was revealed to be predated by an
ominous...
rt.com
Only 1,000 of the marine mammals survive in the St. Lawrence estuary, and they’ve been spotted near the planned project.
takepart.com
23 hrs ·
Former
Mayor Rudy Giuliani blames peaceful protesters for the killing of two
police officers, but the leading cause of death of NYPD officers is
actually 9/11 related illnesses. That's
because Giuliani mishandled the cleanup and ignored routine and
available safety precautions in the months following the attacks. As a
result, 9/11 related illnesses have claimed the lives of hundreds of
officers, more than all police killings in the history of NYC combined.
Their blood is on his hands.
Source NY Times: http://nyti.ms/1AVB9Oj
The Peña Nieto government’s crackdown on immigrants is being carried out in direct collaboration with the Obama administration.
wsws.org|By Adam Mclean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Saxdu6ApXc8
Drug banned in US given to British soldiers on Ebola duty in in West Africa: http://www.davidicke.com/…/drug-banned-in-us-given-to-brit…/
Clean
Harbors said it has reversed its decision to burn and bury up to 100
truckloads of Love Canal waste that was to be shipped from the U.S.
to...
cbc.ca
Kim Hunter https://www.facebook.com/GMOFreeUSA/photos/a.468695639837571.108816.402058139834655/901142159926248/?type=1&theater
Experts Urge Federal Task Force: Listen to Science. Ditch Neonicotinoid Insecticides. Over 100 scientists and researchers have urged the White House Pollinator Health Task Force to take immediate action on bee-killing pesticides. In a letter dated November 24th and sent to USDA head Tom Vilsack and EPA chief Gina McCarthy, the scientists write that documented bee declines "are not sustainable," and stress that the pollinators play a crucial role "in our agricultural system and economies."
BAN NEONICS.
READ: http://www.commondreams.org/…/experts-urge-federal-task-for…
#BanNeonics #SaveTheBees #SaveOurPollinators #PollinatorHealthTaskForce #bees #pollinators #neonicotinoids #neonics #insecticides #ColonyCollapseDisorder #CCD #gmofreecanada #gmofreeusa
March Against Monsanto Saturday Oct 12th Over 500 Locations in 50+ countries. See EVENTS page for your local event. http://www.march-against-monsanto.com/
Twitter-Storm is brewing too.
Say NO To Monsanto & GMO and Tweet using the hashtag: #MarchOct12 #MarchAgainstMonsanto #MAM #NOGMO
Feel free to print and share my GMO biohazard graphics. (not for resale)
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Data linking GMOs and pesticides to human health...collective-evolution.comUnited Nations Calls for an End to Industrialized Farming https://www.organicconsumers.org/.../united-nations-calls...
For related articles and more information, please visit...organicconsumers.orgGMO contamination found in EU where it is banned. http://www.greenmedinfo.com/.../breaking-monsantobayers...
New evidence reveals that despite a ban on cultivation...greenmedinfo.com
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