I have a bit of experience with “carbon capture and storage” that dates back. I don’t have time to find it right now. My conclusion at the time was essentially what this author expresses:
While I share Michelle Stirling’s concern that measures to address climate change can waste a great deal of money, I’m disappointed that she neglected to say one word about CCS, or carbon capture and storage. This is an astonishing omission, as both our federal and provincial governments are giving budgetary and policy support to this costly distraction.
It’s a decade since the launch of the Boundary Dam carbon dioxide removal project managed by Sask Power, and it has never captured its promised 90% of carbon emissions. Not even close. The average capture rate, at this highly supported, much touted facility, is 57%.
Just a bad apple, perhaps? Um, no. William Burns, a founding co-director of the Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal at American University, noted that even the modest amount of CO2 stored at the Archer Daniels Midland plant in Illinois was only achieved with the help of massive taxpayer subsidies.
“We’ve been providing these subsidies for a long time — billions and billions of taxpayer dollars — and we still have very little to show for it,” Burns said. Last month Avik Dey, the CEO of Capital Power, told analysts in a conference call that the company will no longer pursue its $2.4 billion CCS project at the Genesee power plant west of Edmonton.
“Fundamentally, the economics just don’t work,” he told them.
One of the guests on the May 17th West of Centre podcast was Derek Evans, former President and CEO at MEG Energy, and the new Executive Chair at Pathways Alliance, a partnership between the six largest oilsands companies who want to work together to take carbon capture and storage to the next level. He said on that podcast that, “We’ve talked for 40 years about climate change … and we’ve done very, very little about it.”
Well, now that they want to do something about it, they want $50 billion in taxpayer support. But Ms. Stirling, concerned about costly fixes to climate change, can’t mention it? What?
Excerpt: Bill C-63 already provides that any citizen can approach any magistrate and file a restraining order against any other citizen, who they believe will say something hateful.
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Conservatives predict failure of Online Harms bill
Calgary Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner predicts the Trudeau Liberals’ federal internet censorship legislation, Bill C-63, is so flawed it will never be enforced.
Rempel Garner said cabinet had neither the integrity nor public support for such a far-reaching initiative, per Blacklock’s Reporter.
“The government is close to the end of its mandate and does not have a lot of public support across the country. The Online Harms bill “would not likely become law,” Rempel Garner told the House of Commons.
“Certainly the regulatory process is not going to happen prior to the next election even if the bill is rammed through.”
Bill C-63 would appoint a Digital Safety Commission to monitor legal but “harmful” content on Facebook, YouTube and other social media platforms.
The Trudeau Liberals in 2021 tried and failed to pass C-36, legislation that would amend the Criminal Code and grant a chief censor unprecedented powers to block websites containing legal content deemed hurtful.
“We are presently living under a government that unlawfully invoked the Emergencies Act and that routinely gaslights Canadians who legitimately question efficacy or the morality of its policies as spreading misinformation,” said Rempel Garner.
Hurtful internet content could be countered by “laws that are already on the books but have not been recently enforced due to a lack of extreme political will,” she said.
“The bill is irremediable. It is not fixable and members do not have to take my word for it.”
Attorney General Arif Virani testified March 21 at the Commons Justice Committee that he was personally terrified of the internet.
“Social media is everywhere. It brings unchecked dangers and horrific content. This frankly terrifies me. We need to make the internet safe,” said Virani at the time.
“We all expect to be safe in our homes, neighbourhoods and communities. We should be able to expect the same kind of security in our online communities. We need to address the online harms that threaten us.”
Human rights groups, lawyers and free speech advocates have condemned federal attempts at regulation of internet communication.
“Proposals fail to account for the importance of protecting the kinds of expression that are most central to a free and democratic society including journalism, academic scholarship and public interest research, debate, artistic creation, criticism and political dissent,” the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab wrote in a 2021 submission to the Department of Canadian Heritage.
The Ontario Civil Liberties Association called federal proposals “astonishing.”
Judge Brinton’s complaint raises issues about the proper functioning of the judiciary, both in Nova Scotia and across Canada. It engages the principles of individual judicial independence, judicial impartiality and, by extension, the rule of law itself. It concerns the working relationship between a chief judge and her fellow judges, and the proper scope of the chief judge’s authority within that relationship.
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) announced their role in this case, in Feb:
HALIFAX, NS: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms announces that the hearing for Judge Rickcola Brinton’s challenge to the dismissal of her complaint against former Chief Judge of Nova Scotia goes before the Halifax Supreme Court at 9:30 AM ADT on June 6, 2024. The proceedings will take place in Courtroom 701 of the Halifax Law Court – 1815 Upper Water Street, Halifax, NS. The hearing is expected to take the full day.
In 2021, the Chief Judge of the Nova Scotia Provincial Court imposed a vaccine mandate on Provincial Court Judges, only allowing those who had taken the Covid vaccine to hear cases in court.
Judge Rickcola Brinton objected to the imposition of this policy. She told her fellow judges, “I realize I may be in the minority, but I echo some of what [another judge] said, as I have concerns with medical privacy. I also know that the vaccination mandates and passports may be disproportionately impacting racialized communities. And as an essential service, will we be creating a two-tiered society for those who already feel as though we are not free to serve them?”
On this basis, she declined to share her private medical information with the Chief Judge. The Chief Judge proceeded to threaten Judge Brinton with suspension and referred her to the Judicial Council, which handles misconduct complaints against judges. Judge Brinton then went on medical leave. The Chief Judge sent written and phone communications directly to Judge Brinton’s doctor’s office, trying to get the doctor to provide details of Judge Brinton’s medical issues.
On June 7, 2023, Judge Brinton submitted a judicial misconduct complaint against the Chief Judge, alleging that the Chief Judge had applied undue pressure on Judge Brinton to disclose her vaccination status and had improperly contacted Judge Brinton’s doctor. The Chief Justice of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court received and reviewed the complaint. On October 10, 2023, the Chief Justice summarily dismissed that complaint. Judge Brinton then filed a case challenging the dismissal of her complaint against the Chief Judge.
Judge Brinton argues that the Chief Justice improperly dismissed her complaint by expressly deciding to exercise the role of a judicial review committee (normally composed of a judge, a lawyer and a lay person). Judge Brinton further argues that the Chief Justice should have given her an opportunity to respond to the Chief Judge’s submissions in which she argued that Judge Brinton’s complaint should be dismissed. Finally, Judge Brinton argues that the Chief Justice failed to engage in the required balancing process for constitutional rights and principles affected by the dismissal of her complaint, including judicial independence and the right to be free from compelled disclosure of private medical information.
Judge Brinton’s complaint raises issues about the proper functioning of the judiciary, both in Nova Scotia and across Canada. It engages the principles of individual judicial independence, judicial impartiality and, by extension, the rule of law itself. It concerns the working relationship between a chief judge and her fellow judges, and the proper scope of the chief judge’s authority within that relationship.
“Judge Brinton should be commended for taking a principled stand seeking to uphold public trust in the administration of justice, despite majoritarian sentiment at the time promoting vaccine mandates and the disclosure of private medical information,” states Marty Moore, one of the lawyers representing Justice Brinton. “The Nova Scotia Supreme Court is being asked to uphold the integrity of the process for reviewing judicial misconduct complaints, and to ensure that such complaints are fairly determined.”
A provincial court judge in Nova Scotia wants her complaint against her former employer for requesting her COVID-19 vaccine status revived, citing inappropriate dismissal.
Judge Richcola Brinton originally filed a complaint against Judge Pamela Williams last June, alleging judicial misconduct and a violation of her rights as the courts demanded unequivocal adherence to COVID-19 vaccine status disclosure.
The complaint was initially dismissed by Chief Justice Michael J. Wood in the fall of 2023, prompting Brinton to file for a judicial review of the decision.
Brinton’s legal team stated that Brinton was not given the option to respond to the submissions used in Justice Woods’ decision and that the complaint was inappropriately dismissed, during court proceedings in Halifax last week.
Justice Christa Brothers, who is overseeing the judicial review in Halifax’s Supreme Court, reserved her decision until a later date.
The Chief Judge of Nova Scotia Provincial Court – overseen by Williams until her term ended in August – imposed a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on Provincial Court Judges in 2021 that denied court entry to those who did not adhere to the requirement.
When Brinton refused to share her confidential medical records, Williams threatened her with suspension and a misconduct complaint. Williams then contacted Brinton’s doctor directly, both in writing and by phone, to request her private medical information.
“Judge Brinton should be commended for taking a principled stand seeking to uphold public trust in the administration of justice, despite majoritarian sentiment at the time promoting vaccine mandates and the disclosure of private medical information,” shared Marty Moore, a lawyer representing Justice Brinton. “The Nova Scotia Supreme Court is being asked to uphold the integrity of the process for reviewing judicial misconduct complaints, and to ensure that such complaints are fairly determined.”
Brinton has filed a separate civil suit against Williams and the provincial court, alleging that her rights to judicial independence and medical privacy were violated when Williams pressured her to disclose her COVID-19 vaccination status. A hearing on the matter is scheduled for July 2.
PUBLICLY-FUNDED HIGH-POWER TRANSMISSION LINES TO THE U.S. BORDER
Note:
– The multi-billion dollar high-power transmission line (publicly-financed) running down the centre of Alberta would have fed electricity into the privately-owned MATL (Montana Alberta Tie Ltd) running south from Lethbridge into the U.S.
– Now we need a wikileaks on the Saskatchewan connection! In 2009 we fought the “UDP Report” (Uranium Development Partnership Report). The plans for generation of nuclear power in Saskatchewan included high-power transmission lines from Saskatchewan to Alberta.
As you know, Bruce Power has been back-and-forth trying to get a foothold for nuclear reactors in either Alberta or in Saskatchewan. Whether it is the tax-payers of Alberta or the tax-payers of Saskatchewan who get to foot the bill for the very expensive high-power transmission lines (not to mention high-cost electricity from reactors that must also cover the cost of radioactive waste disposal) is a toss-up.
The article indicates that Alberta is advanced in implementing the scheme. But earlier information on Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall’s role in the Canada-U.S. Western Energy Corridor coupled with his Government’s funding of the nuke industry using the University as the back-door, keeps the ball bouncing between the provinces. It remains to be seen whether it will be the citizens of Alberta or the citizens of Saskatchewan who are the biggest suckers.
Landowners’ lawyer Keith Wilson: ‘Now we know it’s for export.’
Critics of Alberta’s program to build a $16-billion electricity transmission system without public need studies have called for a major judicial inquiry on the massive taxpayer funded project following new revelations from U.S. embassy cables released by Wikileaks.
Cables sent from the U.S. embassy in Ottawa in 2003 and 2008 show that Alberta politicians offered to export power to the United States using excess electricity generated by oil sands facilities.
Shortly after the last cable the Alberta government proposed a massive upgrade to its existing $2-billion transmission system.
Yet no other jurisdiction in Canada has proposed to build eight times its existing transmission infrastructure at taxpayers’ expense with no public needs assessments. Nor has any other province proposed to give away that very infrastructure to two private transmission companies (Atco and AltaLink) along with a promised rate of return of nine per cent.
“The cables show that the government was going to export power all along and lied about what they were doing with transmission upgrades,” says Joe Anglin, a former U.S. Marine and long-time advocate for electrical reform in Alberta.
“The cables are the hammer that nails all the supporting evidence together,” says Anglin. “We need a full judicial inquiry.”
Because many Alberta government officials repeatedly told Albertans that its unprecedented program to spend $16-billion in upgrades were all about “keeping the lights on,” Anglin also suspects that many officials may also be guilty of perjury.
‘More troubling questions’
Keith Wilson, a St. Albert lawyer who has attacked draconian legislation supporting the transmission upgrades, says the Wikileaks documents answer some questions.
The cables explain why the government proceeded with such a massive over build and why the government passed Bill 50 in 2009. That bill took away the public’s needs assessment hearings and shifted all decision making to the back-room of Alberta’s provincial cabinet.
“The Wikileaks documents answer some questions but also raise more troubling ones,” says Wilson who recently represented landowners challenging the Heartland transmission line at public hearings in April.
“I always thought the transmission upgrade was either a product of government incompetence fueled by the extravagant fantasies of engineers or it was for export. It’s just too massive for local needs. Now we know it’s for export,” says Wilson.
The documents also raise troubling questions about secret deals behind closed doors. “Clearly something happened between the Wikileaks cables and 2009’s draconian transmission bill legislation. Discussions were held and decisions were made to allocate these transmission lines and who would benefit, and we don’t know the answer to these questions.”
Premier Ed Stelmach has called Wilson “a silk suited lawyer” but hasn’t answered growing questions about power exports. (For the record Wilson says he doesn’t “even own silk underwear.”)
Cables reveal power pledges
The cables, released two weeks ago by Wikileaks, leave little doubt about the Alberta government’s export plans. In 2003 U.S. ambassador Paul Cellucci detailed a commitment by Alberta’s Energy Minister Murray Smith, who oversaw the province’s messy electricity de-regulation plans, to provide the U.S. with more electricity from oil sands cogeneration plants.
Wrote Cellucci: “Smith and others also want to make sure that the USG (United States government) is aware that over time there will be tremendous electricity co-generation available as a result of the huge thermal needs of the oil sands refining process.”
Cellucci added that “this could over time make significant new electricity exports available to the United States, but at least for now there is limited capacity to move this west and then south through British Columbia and on to our Pacific Northwest. There is almost no capacity to move it south into the U.S. Rocky Mountain states and markets further afield. Albertans see this as a promising issue for future provincial-state-Washington-Ottawa and regulator to regulator coordination.”
Shortly after this cable was filed, Smith changed the 50/50 rule for financing electrical power lines. The change placed the entire burden of transmission upgrades on Alberta ratepayers.
Separate documents found by The Tyee also confirm the province’s plans for power exports. For example, the Alberta government made a presentation promising to export at least 2.5-million MWh of electricity by 2020 to the United States at a 2006 meeting of the Oil Sands Experts Group in Houston, Texas.
Huge upgrade sold as ‘critical infrastructure’
Another 2008 U.S. embassy cable also mentions the potential of exports from Alberta’s oil sands where natural gas fired cogeneration facilities provide both steam and electricity for bitumen production and often create more power than the mega-industry can use:
“Co-generation could also make a net contribution to electricity supply, perhaps even changing the province’s traditional status from small net importer of power to net exporter if transmission capacity in Montana and Wyoming can be expanded,” says the cable.
Adds the communication: “Moreover, some in Alberta are seriously considering use of nuclear reactors to fuel bitumen extraction, which could boost the amount of power co-generated in this process.” The cable added that only a lack of transmission lines prevented such exports.
A year after this cable was sent, the Alberta government passed three controversial and interconnected bills (19, 36 and 50) that concentrated decision-making on power lines in the provincial cabinet. In particular Bill 50, the Electric Statutes Amendment Act, eliminated the requirement for public needs assessments in the province by declaring the construction of five major transmission projects as “critical infrastructure” for Alberta.
Without the construction of these five so-called critical lines, it would be impossible to move power generated in Fort McMurray or from planned nuclear plants in Peace River to U.S. markets. The plans include two hotly contested 500 kV HVDC lines between Edmonton and Calgary.
The content of the cables, however, did not surprise industry critics of Alberta’s ongoing $16 billion transmission scandal.
“It’s been known all along that there had been discussions about export schemes in place,” says Sheldon Fulton, executive director of the Industrial Power Consumers Association of Alberta. The group, which represents the province’s largest power users, opposes the transmission expansion as a dire threat to the province’s economy.
Profits would flow to SNC Lavalin
Fulton says there is room for limited upgrades but not an eight-fold increase. Current plans will bankrupt industry and ratepayers alike and come with no cost effective monitoring, he says.
“It’s essentially a public wealth transfer to one private company in Montreal,” adds Fulton. AltaLink, a transmission line owner and builder created by the Alberta government’s deregulation process, is now 100 per cent owned by SNC Lavalin, a Montreal engineering firm.
According to The Globe and Mail, AltaLink could eventually provide a 2013 profit to SNC worth more than half the company’s current bottom line if Alberta’s regulators approve all the transmission lines supported by Premier Ed Stelmach pro-transmission line legislation.
The province’s major transmission players all have ties to the Progressive Conservative Party. Patricia Nelson, a former Tory energy minister, sits on theboard of AltaLink. The company’s vice president once served on the party’s executive committee with direct access to the premier.
Key Tory party funders and supporters also sit on the boardof the Alberta’s Energy System Operator (AESO), which operates the electricity grid and determines power needs. (Even industry critics say it’s highly questionable “how independent AESO is from government and government influence.”)
In addition SNC Lavalin, the key benefactor of Alberta’s transmission overbuild, is chaired by Gwyn Morgan, a former Tory confidante of Premier Ralph Klein. Klein deregulated Alberta’s electricity markets in the early 2000s with no cost benefit analysis.
Albertans’ power rates already rising
Although de-regulation allowed oil sands producers to create their own electricity, it has dramatically increased power rates in the province.
Fulton describes the province’s transmission mega-project as “so unbelievably dramatic and out of control that people can’t believe that the government would be as dumb as it is. But the hard facts just get you.”
Unlike Alberta’s grandiose plans for $16 billion of new infrastructure, British Columbia has proposed $4.3 billion in transmission upgrades while Ontario has plans for $5.4 billion.
“That tells the whole story,” explains Fulton. “Those provinces are two-and-a-half times bigger than Alberta in terms of generation and consumption yet they are building only a third of what we are. We need a full inquiry on our transmission plans.”
Many business leaders consider the mega-transmission upgrade a dangerous threat to the economy and the future of the province.
At a May 13 hearing for the controversial Heartland Transmission line in the Edmonton area, the president of AltaSteel, Chris Jager, said the province’s power plans could triple his firm’s power bills from $15-million to $34 million by 2017.
“The approach that’s been taken here is to build 10 Cadillacs when you could use two Volkswagens. It’s overdone, it’s not well thought out and quite frankly the people that are building it have a history of spending two-and-a-half times as much,” said Jager.
‘Some of it don’t read good’
What many are now calling the transmission boondoggle has sparked widespread debate in the province.
At one recent public meeting Alberta’s Minister of Transportation Luc Oulette flew down from Edmonton in a government jet to heckle Joe Anglin, a long-time critic of the upgrades. Anglin then invited Oulette to speak.
In front of a hundred people the minister called Alberta “the fifth best emerging economy in the world” but admitted “I have a heck of a time understanding a lot of the legal stuff” in legislation and how it works. “I do question some of it and some of it don’t read good when you pick and paste pieces apart.”
In the oil sands, cogeneration, the simultaneous production of electricity and steam by the burning of natural gas, now accounts for 40 per cent of the province’s electrical generation.
Due to the uneconomic status of private transmission lines to the United States, oil sands producers have built co-generation plants primarily to satisfy on-site power and steam needs.
But 2010 study by the Oil Sands Developers Group noted that removal of public needs assessments for transmission lines with Bill 50 “could potentially reverse the trend to build capacity to meet on-site demand only and support the growth in net exports from co-generation by encouraging developers to install greater capacity.”
Alberta government denies plans to export
Although the Alberta government still denies any plan to export power (Energy Minister Ron Liepert has described the Wikileaks revelations as “boogeyman stuff”), neighboring U.S. jurisdictions contradict the government.
To date every opposition political leader in the province has condemned the transmission upgrades following the release of the Wikileaks cables.
“These documents show this government’s sales job on the need for these transmission lines to be a complete fraud,” Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith said. “If they want to have a debate about exporting electricity, let’s have that debate. Instead, they’ve deliberately and repeatedly deceived Albertans by trying to convince them they need to pay for these upgrades for their own good. We need to go back to the drawing board immediately to determine Alberta’s true transmission needs.”
In the last two weeks several new leadership candidates for Alberta’s Tory party have openly rebuked existing policies and reversed their positions on the boondoggle. Many have called for a review of legislation supporting the transmission upgrade.
“While I have never doubted the need for additional transmission capacity, I have never been persuaded of the need for two DC lines between Edmonton and Calgary, said leadership candidate Ted Morton in a statement. “I was not persuaded as a private member. I was not persuaded as a Cabinet Minister, and I am still not persuaded today.”
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Alberta Power
So THAT’S where all of Gordo’s conniving power brokers went!!
What the world needs are
What the world needs are more Wikileaks to keep corrupt politicians and their corporate owners on their toes and into jails.
What nobody dares to mention is that corporate profits are also forms of taxation and should be accountable to the public, because they all come out of our pockets, therefore should be fully justified.
They need profits to survive, but not without limits and multimillion salaries to executives.
Ed Deak.
Good reporting
Now if we could only get similar info on BC-based shenanigans… Gateway project, BC Rail, GM Place, convention centre, yadda yadda
· Van Isle
Is Site C part of this scam?
Is Site C part of this scam?
· Jeffrey J.
Thank God for Wikileaks
While the Mainstream Media (MSM) has dropped Wikileaks off the news, let us not forget the light Julian Assange has helped shine on secretive government and corporate dealings.
Wikileaks has proven that governments lie, virtually all the time. Along with their backers, large multinationals.
But as citizens, we are the vast majority of our country. We outnumber the elites by about 99 to 1.
Minority rule over the majority has always been inherently unjust, unfair, and wrong. Hence the continual bubbling of democracy around the world.
Posted May 17; Last Updated: May 17, 2011 5:26 PM MT
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Internal U.S. documents published by WikiLeaks are raising questions about whether the Alberta government plans to export electricity to the United States.
The leaked internal U.S. diplomatic cables reveal that Murray Smith, Alberta’s former energy minister, told U.S. officials in 2003 that excess electricity generated for oil sands operations could be made available for export.
According to the documents, Smith said Alberta lacked the transmission lines needed to export the power to the United States.
“But at least for now there is limited capacity to move this west and then south through British Columbia and on to our Pacific Northwest,” the cable notes.
“There is almost no capacity to move it south into the U.S. Rocky Mountain states and markets further afield.”
Opposition parties say a proposed multi-billion dollar north-south transmission line will be used to export that power even though the Stelmach government has denied it.
“There’s nothing necessarily wrong with exporting surplus power to the United States,” NDP Leader Brian Mason said.
“But by hiding it, they’re proceeding with a policy that will require Albertans through their electricity bill to pay for this transmission infrastructure which is worth billions and billions of dollars.”
On Tuesday, Premier Ed Stelmach didn’t deny discussions had taken place, but he said Albertans have nothing to fear.
“If anybody wants to export power out of the province, the cost of that transmission is borne by the exporter, not by the consumers of Alberta. That is very clear.”
He insisted the proposed transmission line between Edmonton and Calgary is to serve the province’s needs, not the U.S. market.
Police Detective Penalized for Investigating Vaccine Status of 9 Sudden Infant Deaths
Biased Justice in Canada
Ottawa police detective Helen Grus, accused of discreditable conduct allegations for allegedly investigating, the vaccination status of the parents, for 9 infants who had suddenly died during the pandemic. Despite the fact; that investigations are mandated by law for infants who die in sudden circumstances.
After a biased investigation, and biased media coverage of her case, the bias continued into the court-tribunal process. During the hearing, the prosecutor employed abuse of process, to censor detective Grus speech, in an attempt to limit what she was able to say in her own defense and prevent her from telling her story to the public.
Despite the fact; that there is now abundant scientific evidence, that the experimental vaccines caused injury and death in many recipients.
This is clearly an effort to dissuade all police officers from investigating past, and future infant deaths, as potentially vaccine related. This is very similar to medical doctors who faced punitive actions from the College of Physicians and Surgeons Ontario, for daring to question the vaccine narrative. Questions that many doctor’s have now shown to be correctly asking, about the safety or efficacy of the mandates.
View more coverage of this very alarming case here:
There’s a second story in the posting; it comes out of the U.S. The evidence is the same. Police personnel have known the link between vaccinations and SIDS for a long time. They do not talk about it, except amongst colleagues who trust each other.
(The Helen Grus story is a large warning to other police officers, if they want to keep their jobs.)
Worth noting: The real “Serpico” (born in 1936) is following the Helen Grus story, with encouragement for Helen. Some of you will know “Serpico” from the biographical movie.
Francesco Vincent Serpico is an American retired New York Police Department detective, best known for whistleblowing on police corruption. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was a plainclothes police officer working in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Manhattan to expose vice racketeering.
In the movie version, Frank Serpico (Al Pacino) is an idealistic New York City cop who refuses to take bribes, unlike the rest of the force. His actions get Frank shunned by the other officers, and often placed in dangerous situations by his partners. When his superiors ignore Frank’s accusations of corruption, he decides to go public with the allegations. Although this causes the Knapp Commission to investigate his claims, Frank has also placed a target on himself. The film is based on a true story. – – The REAL Serpico is following and offers encouragement to Helen Grus.
Sent: August 16, 2023 12:57 PM Subject: RE: Grus case update
Thanks for the Constable Helen Grus update (August 15, 2023).
3 excerpts, with thanks to the reporting by Rebel News:
Grus was censored by her superiors as she attempted to probe an unusual pattern of sudden infant deaths (a cluster of 9 SIDS deaths) following the rollout of the novel COVID vaccines.
Ottawa detective conducts alleged ‘unauthorized’ probe into the COVID-19 vaccination status of mothers whose babies died suddenly, superiors launch a vendetta against her after media leak.
(Former RCMP officer Danny Bulford attended the Police disciplinary hearing of Grus. He later testified at the
National Citizen’s Inquiry (NCI) and claims that people within the force will “self-censor themselves” out of fear. “That is one of the most chilling things I heard you say in your testimony,” replied the commissioner. The Rebel News report includes the NCI video clip.
HELEN GRUS is on trial for investigating link between infant deaths and mRNA vaccines. Social media internationally is in disbelief
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Donald Best has been a stalwart in reporting on the Grus case (below).
AND, Important interview. From the U.S. – – the last item below: Former police detective reveals 50% of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) cases happened within 48 hours post vaccine. (I would say that the SIDS information in the interview is vindication of Robert F Kennedy’s position on vaccinations. The Police investigate DEATHS. They do not investigate INJURIES.)
Please support the people who have made it possible for the world to know. Go to their on-line work. I did a paste-together of information and posted it here because I had a hard time finding it!
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The Grus case elevated to the International stage;
Chris Brunet @realChrisBrunet wrote an article about the Grus case (substack: http://karlstack.substack.com, email: chrisbrunet@protonmail.com
Chris passed his article on to “Wall Street Silver” who has a large following on social media. Between the two, the story went viral. Oct 14, 2023 1.7M Views on “Wall Street Silver” alone.
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Helen Grus is a true hero. She should be awarded the Order of Canada, instead, she is being crushed.
This is a The Dossier guest post by Christopher Brunet, a great up and coming journalist who also serves as an editor for The American Conservative. Please follow him on X (https://X.com/realChrisBrunet) and subscribe to his Substack.
I have written nearly 200 articles on Substack, but not a single one is about Covid — this isn’t my wheelhouse! That being said, I am unvaccinated, and I hold most of the opinions that you imagine an unvaccinated person would.
In this article, I am not going to do a deep dive into the science of whether mRNA “vaccines” are safe for pregnant women/infants, but suffice it to say: if I had a pregnant wife, and you tried to forcibly inject her with mRNA, I would fight you to the death.
While Covid isn’t typically my area of focus, I felt a duty to write this story because it takes place in my hometown of Ottawa, so I reached out to The Dossier because I know that they cover Covid extensively. I am willing to bet that 99% of American readers have not heard of this Canadian case, and it deserves a wider audience.
The Canadian media is trash — instead, the most comprehensive coverage of this story has come from an independent journalist, Donald Best, who has written 11 articles about it (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11). Best is a former Detective Sergeant with the Toronto Police who has spent his life investigating organized crime.
He’s attended all of Helen Gru’s court hearings in person, and shared his notes with me, which I have attempted to summarize and disseminate in a digestible, self-contained format, although in the name of brevitiy I had to cut many good points he made.
To most American readers, what you are about to read will be unfathomable; to me, a jaded, bitter, Canadian who has already fled the country for greener pastures, this story is mundane. Sadly, this is just what life is like in Canada now. The crime that Constable Helen Grus—a 20-year veteran detective with the sexual assault and child abuse unit of the Ottawa Police Service (OPS)—her two recent performance reviews in 2019 and 2021 were, “Meets and exceeds expectations; exceeds all expectations”—is accused of, is crazy.
This story makes me want to puke.
According to the Ottawa Citizen: Grus allegedly accessed case files of newborn and infant death investigations to which she wasn’t assigned and inquired with the coroner about whether the parents of babies who had died unexpectedly during the pandemic were vaccinated against COVID-19.
Investigators also alleged Grus contacted the father of a deceased baby directly on Jan. 30, 2022, to inquire about the mother’s COVID-19 vaccination status.
Yes, you read that right: in Canada, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law if you are a detective who “contacted the father of a deceased baby to inquire about the mother’s COVID-19 vaccination status.”
During the Covid era, a waiter or grocery store clerk could inquire about a parent’s vaccination status, but a detective couldn’t.
The investigation by Ottawa Police into potential links between mRNA vaccines and Sudden Infant Deaths in pregnant and breastfeeding mothers was halted due to Grus’s suspension and subsequent charges.
“Attention all Ottawa Police SIDS investigators… don’t mention the Covid vaccines again.”
— Ottawa Police Sargeant Marc-Andre Guy
Formally, Grus is charged with “ discreditable conduct” under section 2(1) of Ontario’s Police Services Act, plus, the prosecution has served her with a notice of increased penalty, which allows the OPS to seek her dismissal, demote her, or ask for a forfeiture of pay or vacation.
Of course, Canadian Redditors universally cheered *against* Grus:
One of the loudest proponents against Grus on Twitter is “Dr.” Ralph Sciullo:
I was going to reach out to “Dr.” Ralph Sciullo with a series of pointed questions, but then I googled him and saw he is a chiropractor.
Anyway, that’s the story in a nutshell: a heroic Canadian detective investigates dead babies, and immediately gets crushed by the administrative state.
The CBC Leak
On March 28, 2022, although Grus’s suspension was not yet public knowledge, CBC Ottawa published a story sourced from anonymous leaks within the Ottawa police, initiating a trial by media.
Before publishing the story, CBC gave the OPS a 24-hour deadline to respond, thus commandeering the direction and timeline of the internal investigation.
Sources also described Grus as holding anti-mask and anti-vaccine views in the workplace.
In a statement to CBC News, the Ottawa Police Service confirmed her suspension and said it “related to an ongoing conduct investigation by the professional standards unit.”
Following the CBC leak, OPS’ Professional Services Unit launched an investigation into who leaked it, but this investigation was abandoned.
During Grus’ trial in August 2023, her defence team argued that the leak is what resulted in formal charges, requested disclosure of evidence regarding why this investigation was abandoned and attempted to subpoena and cross-examine the CBC News reporter, but their request was denied.
Both Best and Grus’ lawyer contend this was an illegal leak, “Because police officers criminally gave (Yogaretnam) the information, which resulted in the public outrage, which resulted in Grus being charged,” said Best. “It’s as simple as that … The rogue Ottawa Police officers who illegally provided confidential information to Yogaretnam undoubtedly also knew and intended that their actions would cause chaos in the internal investigation. The Criminal Code Section 129 calls that ‘Obstruct Police’.”
In both her article and subsequent radio appearance, the CBC reporter disclosed the sources’ motivations for illicitly sharing confidential information with her. The CBC reporter argues that Grus victimized the parents of the deceased infants, and thus her reporting was righteous.
“I have no doubt that sources were motivated to speak about this because it’s, you know, to their mind, a further victimization of who are innocent people who are having the worst time in their lives, that it strikes really at the heart of what police are supposed to do.”
— CBC reporter
I contend the opposite: that parents would be grateful to know why their babies died.
“I don’t want more babies to die. Whether it’s vaccine-related or not, I want to try to find out why these little babies died… I’m not okay with babies dying and not getting any answers.”
— Detective Helen Grus
Aware that the investigation was proceeding without subterfuge, the CBCs reporting, thus, appears not rooted in safeguarding public interest or ensuring a thorough, unbiased probe into the allegations. It was all about bullying Grus.
Notably, the CBC relies on substantial financial support from the federal government, exceeding a billion dollars per year. Although they claim to be arms-length and impartial, in practice they are nakedly an arm of the Trudeau regime. As such, they have aggressively advocated a pro-mRNA stance and worked to silence all dissent at every opportunity.
The CBC scoop smugly states that “Coroners examine medical facts, not detectives,” insinuating that Detective Grus acted improperly by taking initiative without explicit instructions.
This is false.
Every police officer – even a lowly 21-year-old fourth-class constable on their first day on the job – has the authority and duty to independently initiate investigations. Officers routinely initiate independent investigations every day without permission or notifying other officers.’
Detective Grus did NOT disobey any oral or written orders, written procedures, standing orders, or rules and regulations of the Ottawa Police Service.
In the absence of a direct, detailed order to not do something, any police officer has not only the authority, but the SWORN DUTY to independently initiate any investigation they want – without permission, and without notifying any other police officer or supervisor.
— Donald Best
To underscore just how wrong this “she didn’t have the authority to dig on her own agency” argument is, the August 2023 trial heard that in 2018 Grus had combed through OPS records without permission to crack a cold case, which ended in apprehension and prosecution of a violent child rapist.
If she is being persecuted now, logic dictates that she should be retroactively prosecuted for that violent child rapist arrest, as well. What’s the difference?
Grus’ legal team contended that she wasn’t pursuing an “unauthorized investigation.” Instead, she was gathering evidence to present higher up the chain of command. She repeatedly tried to bring her investigation to the attention of her supervisors — for example, here is a letter she sent to the Chief of Police in September 2021, asking him, “Will Ottawa Police take full legal and financial liability for any injuries, adverse effects and/or death occurring to members following the receipt of any EUA vaccine potentially mandated?”
In response, Grus’s commanding officer “told Sexual Assault and Child Abuse detectives to avoid working alone with Grus and instead use a buddy system to avoid what Sgt. Guy described as “disruptive” conversations about Covid-19.”
In addition to the patronizing buddy system, Grus was relegated to another police station, because co-workers “feared the unvaccinated Grus could infect them.”
Part of the reason for this relegation was that her supervisors were angry that she “either lied, or found a loophole” to rent a hockey rink in Ottawa for her three boys to play hockey, while minor hockey leagues were requiring children to show proof of vaccination.
Police Used Freedom Convoy as an Excuse to Wiretap
Grus was suspended on February 4th—at the height of the Canadian trucker protest—just 10 days before Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act, and just 14 days before the infamous old-lady-trampled-by-horse incident.
During Grus’ trial, it was revealed that the Ottawa Police used the trucker protest as leverage to invoke Section 188(2), authorizing an ‘Urgent Emergency’ wiretap.
Typically, such expedited wiretap authorizations are preserved for urgent cases—abductions, terrorism, or violent organized crime—where formalities can’t forestall action. This wiretap also enveloped the communications of her family, friends, and associates, extending beyond calls to encompass emails, chats, photos, and covert activation of smartphone microphones.
“I accept the fact that there are real and dangerous criminals out there who deserve to be wiretapped. But in this particular case, the wiretap had nothing to do with justice. It had nothing to do with a danger to society. The fact that the ‘Urgent’ wiretap wasn’t followed up with a ‘real’ wiretap says it all. It was a political tool on a fishing expedition.”
— Rob Stocki, former Ottawa Police Sergeant
During the trial, Gru’s lawyer wanted to argue about the wiretap. The hearing officer, a retired police superintendent, stopped them, saying “We are not going to go any further,” because the wiretap was in relation to a criminal matter while the current tribunal served an administrative function. “Take it to the Minister of the Attorney General (of Ontario),” Grus was told.
Her prosecution then played a three-hour internal interview of Detective Grus that caused one retired RCMP observer to declare, “This is becoming a trial about Ottawa Police officers being in Neglect of Duty for failing to properly investigate Sudden Infant Deaths, and for obstructing Detective Grus’s investigations.”
In the recorded compelled statement, Grus audibly sobs while recounting her experience with officers who, during town halls, presented their vaccine injuries to the upper echelons of the police department.
“(One member) had heart issues, another swollen lymph nodes the size of a grapefruit … I’m not OK with babies dying and not getting answers … Every death is suspicious until you rule all suspicion out.”
— Detective Helen Grus
In a recent interview, famous NYPD Detective and Medal of Honor Recipient Frank Serpico vehemently criticized the Ottawa Police for their alleged cover-up in the Grus case. Serpico says, “Incompetence or criminality will go to any length not to be exposed even at the cost of innocent infant lives.”
Microsoft Teams Coverup
The Ottawa Police have canceled the ‘Teams’ internet broadcast of the Grus case while continuing to facilitate broadcasts of other disciplinary cases.
This decision inherently restricts public and media access, confining it exclusively to journalists who can physically attend the hearing, ensuring only local Ottawa journalists—scum of the earth—have first-hand access to the Grus trial.
They don’t want the internet to know about this case.
Conclusion
Grus’ trial is set to continue on Oct. 30.
With eight police witnesses yet to be cross-examined, and at least five expert witnesses, the tribunal is anticipated to extend well into 2024.
Detective Grus has already personally covered over $40,000 in legal fees, a figure that could easily exceed $100,000 depending on how long this drags on.
Let’s help her.
Here is a link to the Helen Grus Legal Defense Fund:
Should she win and have her legal costs covered, Grus has committed to refunding the donations or offering donors the option to redirect their contributions to a charitable organization.
Shocking Audio Recording Played At Ottawa Police Detective’s Trial –
Day 1 The first day of Ottawa Police Detective Helen Grus’s trial began with prayer outside the tribunal, and ended with many spectators saying they were shocked by an audio recording played by the prosecution.
Detective Grus is charged with Discreditable Conduct under the Police Services Act for the ‘unauthorized’ re-investigation of nine sudden infant deaths (‘SIDS’), where she sought to know if the mothers’ vaccination status might have been connected with the deaths.
Monday August 14, 2023 was not the trial, but a pre-trial hearing where defense and prosecution debated the adequacy of disclosure and whether defense would be able to call and cross-exam a lengthy list of witnesses.
The prosecution also played an almost three-hour recording of the the May 12, 2022 Professional Standards interview of Detective Grus that caused one retired RCMP observer to declare,
“This is becoming a trial about Ottawa Police officers being in Neglect of Duty for failing to properly investigate Sudden Infant Deaths, and for obstructing Detective Grus’s investigations.”
During the almost three-hour recording Detective Grus related how she had informed her superiors including then Chief of Police Sloly of the growing medical and scientific reports concerning Covid vaccine injuries and deaths – including to babies in the womb and newborns. Grus can be heard in the recording explaining revelations contained in Pfizer Documents, including that only one newborn baby survived of the 33 reported in the initial trial.
Audible Gasps in Public Gallery
Detective Grus sent an open letter to Chief Sloly in September of 2021 – after which her supervisor in the Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Unit (SACA) sent an email instructing her not to talk about Covid or the Vaccines in the unit.
At this revelation, audible gasps could be heard throughout the gallery – because it meant that the sergeants running the unit responsible for investigating SIDS – arbitrarily eliminated the Covid vaccine as a potential factor in all infant deaths.
This bias meant that no OPS Sudden Infant Death investigations were complete, or adhered to World Heath Organization standards. At the time she was suspended in February 2022, Detective Grus was pulling together evidence for a report to the Chief and other senior leaders that recommended changes to the SIDS questionnaire and investigation methodology of the SACA unit. Grus also found that each of he nine SIDS investigations in question was substandard in various ways.
The suspension and charges against the Detective ended any investigations by Ottawa Police into the potential that the experimental mRNA Covid injections of pregnant and breastfeeding mothers could be a factor in Sudden Infant Deaths.
Famed NYPD Detective Frank Serpico is following the Grus case, and previously declared that Ottawa Police are engaged in a cover-up of the police failure to investigate the potential connections between Covid-vaccinated mothers, and the nine sudden infant deaths. Detective Serpico stated of the cover-up “Incompetence or criminality will go to any length not to be exposed even at the cost of innocent infant lives.”
Transparency of Trial Doubtful
It became apparent during Monday’s session, that the Ottawa Police have withheld various motions and judge’s decisions from the public and the news media. This, after refusing for six months to provide any documents at all, and then only recently releasing some (but not all) the filed court documents.
The voice recording the prosecution played Monday was clearly heard by all over the room’s speaker system. This was in contrast to the proceedings where the judge, prosecutor and defense attorney are not amplified.
The audience simply cannot hear the lawyers and judge talking. The so-called open court principle is a sham when the public and press cannot hear even when attending the proceedings live.
This comes following the Ottawa Police decision to stop broadcasting the Grus hearings on the Internet – despite the fact that other cases are booked for Internet broadcast in the coming November.
There’s more in Don’s reporting. But move on – – below.
Jennifer, a former police detective in a major US city, handled over 250 SIDS death investigations. 50% of those deaths happened within 48 hours after a vaccine shot and over 70% happened within a week of a vaccine appointment. That is “statistically impossible” if the vaccines are safe. The probability of that happening by chance is less than 1.23e-64. That means that something caused these deaths to be proximate the vaccines. The only viable hypothesis is childhood vaccines are causing these deaths. Her data implies that over 86% of the SIDS deaths within the first 48 hours after a vaccine were caused by the vaccine.
(Note the interview of Rand Paul – – scroll down to the bottom.)
In an appearance on The Hill’s “Rising,” Sen. Rand Paul took aim at Dr. Anthony Fauci’s testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Monday, suggesting Fauci contradicted known facts about how the NIH responded to the pandemic.
Rand Paul Rips Fauci Testimony: NIH ‘More Secretive than the CIA’
In an appearance on The Hill’s “Rising,” Sen. Rand Paul took aim at Dr. Anthony Fauci’s testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Monday, suggesting Fauci contradicted known facts about how the NIH responded to the pandemic.
Paul addressed Fauci’s responses, suggesting they contradicted known facts about how the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) — the agency Fauci led for 38 years — and its parent agency, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), responded to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“NIH is actually more secretive than the CIA, and that’s alarming and disturbing and really should not be tolerated,” Paul told co-hosts Robby Soave and Briahna Joy Gray.
Paul addressed Fauci’s efforts to distance himself from his longtime aide David Morens, who in emails boasted that he could evade Freedom of Information Act requests by deleting any potential “smoking guns.”
Paul criticized gain-of-function research, which he said occurred under Fauci’s leadership of NIAID, and called for it to be banned. He also suggested COVID-19 emerged from a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China in late 2019.
Paul’s interview came on the heels of revelations that the NIAID received $690 million of $710 million in NIH royalty income between 2022 and 2023.
Paul has long been a critic of Fauci. In October 2021, he claimed Fauci was “spreading mistruths.” In August 2023, he said Fauci committed perjury and called on the U.S. Department of Justice to launch an investigation. In October 2023, he accused Fauci of leading the “great COVID cover-up.”
Paul calls for ‘further scrutiny or prosecution’
Paul told Soave and Gray that “one of the most surprising things” about Fauci’s testimony on Monday “was how quickly he threw his aide under the bus,” referring to Morens.
“Morens has worked for 20 years for Anthony Fauci, and in his opening statement, [Fauci] says [he] barely knew the guy,” Paul said. “Essentially, they’ve thrown David Morens to the wolves now.”
Paul said that Morens’ testimony, in which he “admitted that he destroyed evidence, that he deleted emails” and “was a personal courier and that he could take personal messages to Anthony Fauci’s house,” contradicted Fauci’s statements and is grounds for an investigation.
“His testimony directly conflicts with what Anthony Fauci said yesterday, who said he never used private email, never used a private phone,” Paul said. “And so, really I think there needs to be further investigation to find out who’s telling the truth here. If that doesn’t warrant further scrutiny or prosecution, I don’t know what does.”
Paul suggested that the subcommittee call back Morens for more questioning, “because Anthony Fauci essentially … called David Morens a liar.”
“Does … Morens wish to correct the record? Does he wish to discuss more completely what was going on with Anthony Fauci? Because Anthony Fauci basically disowned him yesterday,” Paul said.
Paul calls for ban on gain-of-function research
The House’s 17-page memo suggested that “Fauci played semantics with the definition of Gain-of-Function [GoF] research” during his January interview, finding that “Fauci intentionally avoided stating that NIAID funded GoF research on coronaviruses in Wuhan, China, by asserting that GoF is a nuanced term.”
Paul agreed with this assessment. Addressing Fauci’s Monday testimony, Paul said Fauci claims “it wasn’t gain-of-function” because “it never met the regulatory definition of the safety committee,” also known as the P3CO committee.
According to Paul, “The problem with that line of argument … is that Anthony Fauci never submitted the Wuhan research to the Safety Committee. So he can say we’re using that definition, but the committee never considered it. There was never any consideration about the safety committee of whether this was gain-of-function.”
Paul said he has been asking NIH for the past three years to provide him with evidence that the research conducted in Wuhan was not gain-of-function, but “the NIH will not reveal that to me.”
Citing the dangers of gain-of-function research, Paul called for it to be banned:
“There’s a whole group of scientists that have been debating this for over a decade, well before COVID, and many of them say that this type of research has not produced a vaccine, has not produced useful information, but that the risk greatly outweighs the knowledge that comes from this.
“We need to be treating this as something equivalent to nuclear weapons in the sense that there needs to be negotiations between countries. There needs to be, the civilized countries coming together and signing bans on this type of research.”
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Paul also suggested that the gain-of-function research in Wuhan did not meet international safety standards and that Fauci has long known that such research posed a risk.
“He said in 2012 that yes, a pandemic could occur from a lab leak. If it did though, that the knowledge gained would be worth the risk,” Paul said.
“One of the emails we got through federal court order says that if they find out they’re doing this in China in a BSL-2 [biosafety level 2], which is a lower category of safety than is required, people will freak out. That’s the words from some of the researchers going back and forth between North Carolina, China and Peter Daszak, who is the bagman collecting all the taxpayer money for this,” Paul added.
The House memo noted that Fauci acknowledged, during January’s testimony, that the lab leak “is not a conspiracy theory” — an acknowledgment he repeated during Monday’s hearing.
Despite evidence of Fauci’s knowledge of gain-of-function research and a lab leak, acknowledged by members of Congress from both parties, the U.S. Department of Energy, The New York Times and the Biden administration in its recent action against Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance, Monday’s hearing “felt partisan again,” Soave noted.
“I can only surmise that there is such a love for central authority and such a love for government being in charge of healthcare, that they see Anthony Fauci as representing central authority, the authority on healthcare that they see it as an attack on government, whereas I see it as an attack on his judgment,” Paul said.
Fauci ‘refused to admit’ he ‘oversold the power of COVID-19 vaccines’
According to the House memo, “Certain consequential COVID-era policies lacked supporting scientific evidence” — such as 6-foot social distancing policies and mask mandates. The report noted that “Fauci testified he did not recall any supporting evidence for masking children.”
Fauci acknowledged this at Monday’s hearing.
According to the memorandum, Fauci also “refused to admit that the government — including himself — oversold the power of COVID-19 vaccines,” “defended President Biden’s misleading vaccine statements” and “refused to walk back his 2021 statement that COVID-19 vaccines make you ‘a dead end to the virus.’”
Fauci continued his defense of the COVID-19 vaccines at Monday’s hearing, claiming they saved “many, many, many lives” while blaming the unvaccinated for causing 200,000-300,000 American deaths.
Sandra: to me, there is a reticence among the people interviewed to speak fully. What does “held accountable” mean? To me, it means that perpetrators pay large fines AND they go to jail. They get criminal records; they lose their status in society. Maybe we will have a list of the covid crimes, criteria for guilt. and the severity of the related punishment. Maybe the difficulty in speaking fully comes from our inability to imagine the enormity of the task-at-hand?
In the small town of Creemore, Ontario, hundreds of supporters rallied behind Dan Hartman, the father of a healthy 17-year-old teen who took Pfizer’s novel COVID-19 mRNA shot to play his beloved sport of hockey – something he will never do again because he died a month after.
Supporters of grieving Ontario father Dan Hartman gathered by the hundreds in the small hamlet of Creemore over the weekend to fundraise his lawsuit against Pfizer and Health Canada.
Hartman began a quest to find answers as to why his previously healthy, athletic 17-year-old son Sean Hartman died suddenly a mere month after he took Pfizer’s novel COVID-19 mRNA injection. After a year and a half of rolling lockdowns, school closures, and social isolation, Sean was eager to return to his beloved hockey sport during indiscriminate COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
What began as a quest for answers turned to justice-seeking efforts as Hartman has since confirmed that Sean’s autopsy tissue samples were riddled with vaccine-derived spike protein. The findings were confirmed by pathologist Dr. Ryan Cole, and are consistent with the outspoken efforts of cardiologist and internist Dr. Peter McCullough.
In a multi-million dollar lawsuit, Hartman named Pfizer Canada and Health Canada, including the Attorney General of Canada and former Health Minister Patty Hajdu, as respondents.
The claims seek damages for loss of care, guidance and companionship, shock, malfeasance in public office, deceit and fraud, negligence, punitive damages, product liability and more.
Supporters want to see Hartman successful in his endeavour to hold those responsible for the untimely and preventable death of his son accountable, especially as evidence of death continues to mount.
Hartman has an active GiveSendGo crowdfunding page and his merchandise, which he says is immune from censorship, is a great way to raise awareness for what happened to Sean.
The majority of federal agencies are paying out bonuses to most managers and executives, with some agencies even paying out bonuses to every single manager.
Managers in our bloated federal government, as inefficient as it has ever been and as terrible at delivering services as humanly possible, are getting cash kudos while you suffer an inflation crisis caused by wasteful government spending and inflationary taxes.
Today, we’ll look at which agencies and departments are the worst offenders when it comes to rewarding failure, corruption and disrespect for taxpayers.
The data used in this report comes via a response to an order paper question posed to the government by Regina Conservative MP Andrew Scheer.
And, it turns out, the majority of federal agencies are paying out bonuses to most managers. But some agencies are paying out bonuses to every single manager.
For example, 100% of managers at Statistics Canada, the Human Rights Commission, and the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, which has become the chief media censorship bureaucracy, all took performance bonuses.
Astoundingly, 100% of managers at the Public Health Agency of Canada took home bonuses. That’s the department whose reason for existence is pandemic readiness — yet were so unprepared for a pandemic it threw out much of the national medical personal protective equipment stockpile in Regina and wasted billions of dollars on unused vaccines and ventilators.
Even 100% of Veterans Affairs managers received performance bonuses, while they were counselling veterans to get assisted suicide rather than have case managers actually do their jobs and help veterans to live.
Canada Border Security Agency managers, meanwhile, received bonuses at a rate of 96% — even though the agency is in the middle of a procurement scandal over the failed COVID-era surveillance app directed at Canadian travellers called ArriveCan, where senior managers had boozy outings with IT contractors who built the app that never worked properly for millions of dollars. The app was duplicated over a weekend for tens of thousands of dollars.
Another nearly unanimous figure saw 98% of Corrections Canada execs receive bonuses — no doubt for how they handled serial killer Paul Bernardo and gay hustler/cannibal killer Luca Magnotta, putting the murderous duo in medium security behind the backs of their surviving victims.
Public Service and Procurement is, you guessed it, at 98.6% of managers are getting bonuses — it must be all the great work on procurement, fraud, and conflicts of interest over there at the department.
In the Canadian government, you can fail upward and receive cash, prizes and power. Just ask Trudeau. Have you had enough yet?
I want to be an ostrich on this one. Cover my eyes and plug my ears. But it affects Canada, too.
Ho hum, a few trillion dollars went missing (U.S.).
Jim Thorp and his wife (doctor and lawyer) used FOIA to try and find where it went.
The alternative COVID therapy, Ivermectin, was mocked by many public health institutions and denied prescription by numerous physicians and pharmacies across the nation. Research by today’s guest, Jim Thorp, M.D.., suggests that the U.S. government played a significant role in this effort, utilizing hundreds of billions in “pandemic relief funds” to suppress this medication while pushing vaccination. (I added the quotation marks)
As I understood Dr Jim Thorp to say in the interview – – in Canada there are 6 provinces (one the Federal?) Colleges of Obstetricians and Gynecologists that are part of the “relationship” wherein OB-GYN Groups Took (and still take) gross amounts of money from Government agencies to do their bidding on the vaccination – – including of pregnant women, for example – – just one of the incomprehensible outrages.
(Memorial Day (U.S.) is a federal holiday for honoring U.S. military personnel who died while serving in the U.S. Armed Forces; it is observed on the last Monday of May.)
Vera Sharav, a child survivor of the Holocaust, spoke at the recent Memorial Day rally in NYC against the WHO. Excerpt:
Obedience is the gateway to slavery. We must never ignore government infringements on our freedom and our constitutionally protected rights— or ignore the infringement of our neighbors’ rights.
Failure to speak up is to facilitate a Totalitarian dictatorship.
Vera inspires! The following is a small sample of the energy throbbing through our veins.
Ugolini quotes Canadian MP Leslyn Lewis who is well-versed on the issues surrounding the WHO. Leslyn should be celebrated. We are fortunate to have her quality in the House of Commons. On the issue of the WHO, she provides this information:
It might be good to know that Schwab will soon be gone. Hallelujah! I say “might” because it’s WORSE to know that his successor will lead the way in Public-Private-Partnerships at the Global level. Super-Corruption. We will not win this battle this year, I don’t think! Ha ha!
So where is the pressure in Canada coming from, to stop the WHO and WEF, besides from Leslyn Lewis? . . . My simple take:
Not from the Governments that are hand-in-glove with Trudeau, so :
not from the Federal Liberal-NDP Govt under Trudeau-Singh,
not from the BC NDP Govt under Eby, and
not from Doug Ford, the Progressive Conservatives of Ontario
Maybe it comes from: The leadership in Alberta and Saskatchewan (Danielle Smith and Scott Moe) have demonstrated through action, that they are strong enough to stand up to the Federal manipulations. (Health falls under Provincial jurisdiction; BUT the Feds BUY what they want with Federal transfers of money tied to Health).
In the U.S. it’s Attorneys-General who are refusing the transfer of American sovereignty to the WHO.
Governments from some other countries were the first ones to say NO to signing onto the WHO’s Pandemic Treaty. My memory does not allow me to say which countries are on the “enlightened” list!
See below, THE UNSEATING OF PREMIER EBY, NDP GOVT IN BC – – this Govt will be unseated because Eby’s agenda is the WHO’s agenda.
The next election in BC is October 19, 2024. Remember Vera Sharav’s words at the top of this page. Failure to speak up is to facilitate a Totalitarian dictatorship. There’s the legislation that the Eby Govt is passing (can’t believe it!), there is the abuse of the court system, and the persisting promotion of pharmaceutical products that have established and unequivocal records of causing great harm.
The US Dept of Health and Human Services (HHS)was created to protect the health of the U.S. people and provide essential human services. That’s no longer what it does. It must be reaching the boiling point for the HHS to have suspended the funding for EcoHealth Alliance!
Note the date, end of April. A month later it’s only gotten worse for the Eby NDP. The news yesterday (May 31), another floor-crossing: Doerkson is the third MLA to cross the floor and join the BC Conservatives since leader John Rustad was forced out by BC United leader Kevin Falcon . . .
POSITIVE GOVERNMENT POLICIES. WHERE ARE THEY COMING FROM?
Centralization of Governance (Power/Control) is anathema to democracy, it’s a strategy of Tyrants. “Strong and free” is a product of de-centralization – – dispersed control.
Speaking of EV’s and the Government’s plan for the RCMP (RCMP has to convert to EV’s – – REALITY CHECK! Great letter! (published in February, BEFORE the Govt’s edicts to RCMP).
OOPS! Did I post that? Where is it? As I recall, the word “Warning” is in the headline. A “warrning” to the Govt from the RCMP group that is tasked with the implementation plans. You can’t just make a tesla into a police car. Police cars are designed for purposes that regular cars (for you and me) are not designed for. To date, they have had special EV’s made – – at, guess what? – – huge costs so they can function as police cars. Add to that “what it’s like living in Cape Breton with an Electric Vehicle“. Oh my goodness!
