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2024-01-10 Repeal Bill 36   the Health Professions & Occupations Act  (HPOA).  First class tyranny. (Civitas #1)

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Feb 122024
 

CIVITAS 

  1. The body of citizens who make up a state, especially a city state, commonwealth, or the like.
  2. Citizenship, especially as imparting shared responsibility, a common purpose and sense of community.

 

UPDATE:    Geez!  These guys (Tedros from the W.H.O. in this case) are slithery snakes!  “My reply” to Tedros is below.  Just in case there’s anyone still standing who thinks that the Director-General of the W.H.O is to be believed.

2024-01-08 Watch: ‘A Terrible Truth’: COVID Response Was About Profits and Power, Bret Weinstein with Tucker Carlson. With many thanks to CHD.

(  [00:36:25]  is for locating the Tedros words in the video)

Re:  Tedros [00:36:25]   (Director-General of the World Health Organization since 2017) . . . The claim that the accord will cede power to W.H.O. is quite simply false. It’s fake news. Countries will decide what the accord says and countries alone and countries will implement the accord in line with their own national laws. No country will cede any sovereignty to W.H.O.

MY REPLY:   The Legislation is already in place!  We’re fighting hard to get it repealed, in  B.C., Canada.

In November 2022 the Provincial Government of British Columbia enacted the Health Professions and Occupations Act (HPOA), a.k.a. Bill 36.

Do the health care providers in my community know what’s going on, that affects them

  • at the LEGISLATURE?
  • In the COURTS?

If YOU sometimes USE healthcare services,  do you have any clue about the Legislation that is enacted (has Royal Assent) in B.C, and how much CHOICE you have, if the Government decides to start issuing orders?  . . .  read on.

HPOA  does this, unbelievably.  Item #8 is what Tedros denies

1. All BC practitioners must now follow health guidelines set by political appointees for their patients or risk penalties including loss of license to practice.

2. Non–compliance with Ministry therapeutic guidelines may result in fines up to $200,000 or $500,000 (corporations) and incarceration up to 6 months or 2 years.1

3. Anonymous complaints to the Colleges can result in summary suspension of licensure to practice before the complaint is investigated.2,3

4. Appointees chosen by politicians may now enter a healthcare practice, seize patient records and restrict access to that facility without a warrant or court order.4

5. Refusal to accept all Ministry mandated vaccines and therapies will likely result in delicensure.5

6. College advisory boards will now consist of government appointees only.6

7. All “self–regulatory” healthcare professions in BC will be governed entirely by politicians and their agents, using appointees selected by the Ministry of Health.7

8. The Cabinet and the Minister of Health can adopt as law in BC any regulations, codes, standards or rules enacted in foreign jurisdictions or international bodies.8

Tedros:  “The claim that the accord will cede power to W.H.O. is quite simply false. It’s fake news. Countries will decide . . .  “

Bill 36, the Health Professions and Occupations Act (HPOA),  is already in place in B.C.   There are many questions and contradictions in the story of its creation.  . . .  read on.

The Health Professions & Occupations Act

Bill 36 was one of the largest bills ever passed in British Columbia, consisting of 645 sections and 276 pages, . . . read more at The Canadian Society for Science & Ethics in Medicine      https://www.cssem.org/about-us.

STATUS OF BILL 36, B.C. Health Professions & Occupations Act.

The Act was passed in November, 2022.  It received Royal Assent, meaning it’s fully operational.

Doctors’ insights on case against Bonnie Henry’s two-year vaccine mandate for healthcare workers

Youtube coverage at the Legislature, Drea Humphrey from Rebel News. Hear what very reasonable Doctors have to say: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh9p4u4fJhM&list=PL2HWRRSziC_FxsJ40Y3ZFiWPmSQxzjtxJ&index=7

 

The Canadian Society for Science & Ethics in Medicine      https://www.cssem.org/about-us

The counsel for the group of doctors bringing the case against the two-year mandate for healthcare workers used public health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry’s contradictory statements to argue the case.

                                                                                                                              

  1. CSSEM –  The Canadian Society for Science & Ethics in Medicine   Who are they?

A comprehensive source of information and resources for Bill 36.

See https://www.cssem.org/_files/ugd/80db6e_9ff1aa4a5b9d40339da613e48afa4dbb.pdf

Also,  see “Our (CSSEM) Members”   – –   https://www.cssem.org/about-us

      2.   A legal Analysis of Bill 36 by Vancouver lawyer Gail Davidson, found thru the CSSEM website

https://rumble.com/v3tyogq-bc-physicians-and-health-professionals-meeting-re-bill-36-october-26-2023.html  

A not-uncommon reaction to the Legislation is “Nah. That can’t be true.”

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2023-11-15 Doctors warn British Columbians about the province’s tyrannical health care act. I think You will want to see this.  (Bill 36)

The take-away from the interviews:  Few Doctors and other healthcare workers KNOW ABOUT BILL 36, and what the legislation does.

 

2023-11-29 B.C.: Bonnie Henry (B.C. Chief Medical Health Officer) named as defendant in class-action lawsuit over her role in COVID-19 vaccine mandate

 

ONTARIO COURT CASES AGAINST DOCTORS   (Regulating and reporting is by Province. )

2023-02-19   Ontario Doctors who Dissented from Covid-19 Doctrines Fight for their Professional Lives. by Jason Unrau. C2C Journal.

2024-02-09 Solitary Confinement, Alberta. My letter to Professor Doob.

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From: Sandra Finley
Sent: February 9, 2024
To: Tony Doob
Subject: Solitary Confinement Alberta

Dear Professor Doob,

I lifted a copy of your participation in the Proulx Roundtable 2022 and posted it on my website . . .  I hope that’s okay with you. . . .

2022-06-17  Can solitary confinement be reformed or abolished in Canada?   with thanks to McGill University’s Faculty of Law

The unveilings of February 6th, 2024 at the Lethbridge Court House lend urgency to the need for public awareness.  There has to be a thunderous call for ACCOUNTABILITY.

Jerry Morin of the Coutts Four was in solitary confinement for 74 days. 

When Marco saw the two in the court room on the 6th February, 2024,  he saw “broken men”.  Strong young family men, broken.  Broken by the legal system.

I write in regard to the Coutts border crossing incidents and fall-out.  I am not an Albertan;  I have long been concerned about the legal system in Canada.  I live in B.C.

If your information source for what happened in 2022 February at Coutts, and subsequently in the Lethbridge Court House, Calgary Remand Centre,  and other Alberta prisons  – – if your info comes from mainstream media you will be ill-informed.

I have traveled to Lethbridge Provincial Court 3 times, so I could see first-hand what’s going on.  My first impression only gets reinforced:  ineptitude is the kindest word I can use.  An accurate description is “what one would expect in a police state”.

The BEAUTIFUL COMPETENCE is in using the legal system as a tool to silence unwanted voices and thwart justice.  It is a system of violence.

I kind of know Marco Van Huigenbos, and have respect for him – –

Marco attended the PLEA BARGAIN hearing, Court of Kings Bench, Lethbridge on Feb 6th;  he reported on it in a comprehensive podcast (Jason Lavigne’s podcast).

2024-02-06 Marco van Huigenbos describes the situation: two of the Coutts 4 are now free, after 223 days in remand (jail) in Alberta.

Marco is solid.  He is level-headed, explains the proceedings and answers questions competently.  Some may remember him from the Rouleau Commission hearings.

I encountered Marco in person more than a year ago.  I wanted to help with his legal bills.  Marco insisted that the money go to help the guys who were locked up in remand.  Marco is charged but not jailed – – so “free”.  The Coutts 4 were prevented from working to support their families.  The terms of their incarceration prevented them from seeing their wives, etc.   The circumstances of their arrests looked sketchy to me (and still do).  The Plea Bargain reinforces the perception.

Marco is a natural leader, in his early thirties, originally from the Netherlands, has a young family, is a Town Councillor for Fort McLeod, not too far from Coutts.   He faces charges laid 2 years ago,  still waiting to be heard.   I won’t go into the outstanding cases on the Lethbridge docket, and abuses, not in this communication.

UPDATE TODAY:  2024-02-09 This is the most accurate written coverage I’ve read on this subject: Conspiracy Charges Dropped, Chris Lysak, Jerry Morin Released after Agreeing to Plea Deals

It is difficult NOT to draw conclusions about an intention to use Coutts as theatre to create fear.

The photo of the “weapons” laid out on a table in front of an RCMP cruiser is proving, now with public awareness, to have been staged.  (Marco speaks to this in the podcast.)

The partner of one of the Plea Deals, Jaclyn Martin, was also charged back then, 2 years ago.  I believe that Jaclyn and Jerry have 3 children.  Jaclyn wasn’t jailed;  what I know about her situation is god-awful, and very sketchy, too.  I think she is a straight-shooter.  Not making up anything – – she’s originally from a rural New Brunswick family that likes hunting.  She fell for this Albertan guy.   When the guys aren’t working, they socialize with other couples in the area who have young families, they like the out-of-doors, have friends who sit around campfires.  They happen to like skeet-shooting.  Skeet-shooters have guns.  Nothing illegal about that.

I am from the rural west.  My Dad had a shooting range in the basement of his store (sounds unlikely but it was a large cement basement that had water seepage problems.  During the winter months with minus 20 and 30 degree temperatures outside,  friends of my Dad sometimes got together to target shoot in the store basement.  I tagged along more than once.

(INSERT:  I added the following paragraph in an edit of the original.  It helped me overcome the sadness of what’s been done at Coutts.)

My Dad was a hunter;  we ate wild geese and ducks, partridge, which evolved to catching wild, wounded birds when the hunters from central Canada and the U.S. left after hunting season.  The birds were kept in a hen house, watered and fed over winter.  Some recuperated and joined the flocks migrating north in the spring.  Others were put out on the dugout until winter freeze.

The offspring of maimed birds that mated on the dugout joined the migrations going south in the fall.  Some returned to the area in the spring, nested and continued the cycle.  They visited their maimed parents on the dugout.

Many hunters from the city were undiscerning “shooters”.  Dad was able to catch and house a wounded swan, mistaken for a snow goose.  You aren’t allowed to shoot swans.  A wounded bufflehead was taxidermied after he died and is still “with our family”.  And so on.  When I was in grade 4, by my Dad’s invitation I skipped school to join him and my brothers.  We went “hunting” in the South Saskatchewan River Valley on a beautiful fall day.  We tramped through the hills and ravines, didn’t actually shoot anything!  Just had a grand time in the out-of-doors.

Jerry Morin of the Coutts Four was in solitary confinement for 74 days.

When Marco saw the two in the court room on the 6th February he used the word “broken”.  They have been broken by the legal system.   

Marco presses for Accountability – – there has to be an Inquiry.

Covid – – everything is so connected.  (I am currently reading RFK’s “Wuhan Cover-Up”.  And repeat – –  everything is so connected.)

Professor Doob,  I hope your voice is strong.  It is needed.   Maybe my letter to you can be helpful in some way.

Best wishes,

Sandra Finley

www.sandrafinley.ca (an old blog)

250-594-9898

2019-06-28 A Korean-Canadian opera singer rediscovers her voice in small-town Saskatchewan​, CBC

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Feb 102024
 

The Sunday Magazine

CBC Radio
When Jaesook Ahn moved to Eastend, Sask., she thought her singing career was over. Now, she’s regaining her voice. (David Gutnick/CBC/Submitted by Jaesook Ahn )

Originally published on Sept. 9, 2018.

When Jaesook Ahn was growing up in South Korea, she dreamed of becoming an opera singer and of performing on stages around the world.

She went to a top-notch opera school in St. Petersburg, Russia, and spent a decade training. She mastered Tchaikovsky, Verdi and Mozart, earned a PhD, and returned to Seoul to sing professionally.

She never imagined that one day she would sing in a church in a small Saskatchewan town.

‘If my mind is sad, I can’t sing’

Eastend, Sask., population 503, is tucked into the bottom west corner of the province in the Frenchman River Valley. Tourism Saskatchewan calls it the “Valley of Hidden Secrets.” One of those secrets is that Jaesook, now known as Jenny, calls it home.

In 2017, Jenny and her husband Eddie were living in Vancouver when Eddie decided he wanted to go into business on his own. A friend told him that Eastend’s only grocery store was for sale. He snatched it up, and the couple moved to the small Saskatchewan town.

Jenny and Eddie moved to Eastend, Sask., in 2017 to run a grocery store. (David Gutnick/CBC)

Jenny didn’t bother to bring her musical scores. She assumed her singing career was over.

She began helping in the store, working the cash, filling the shelves, and — on Tuesdays — making and selling homemade sushi.

Jenny makes sushi at Hidden Valley Foods in Eastend. (David Gutnick/CBC)

When she tried to sing in her new home, her voice seemed blocked. She thought she was ready to move on.

“If my mind is sad, I can’t sing,” she told The Sunday Edition‘s documentary producer David Gutnick.

An impromptu concert

When Gutnick met Jenny and learned about her former career, he asked to hear her sing. She decided to give it one last go.

They found an accompanist in pianist Beth Lundsten, and downloaded two scores from the internet — O Mio Babbino Caro by Puccini and Dong Shim Cho by the Korean composer Sung-Tae Kim.

Jenny and her accompanist, Beth Lundsten, practise at the church in Eastend. (David Gutnick/CBC)

Jenny and Beth practised a couple of times and then arranged to meet Gutnick in the church for what was planned as a private recording session.

But somehow, word got out. The church was full. Jenny was the star of an impromptu concert. And she was surprised and delighted to find that her voice was as powerful and musical as ever.

The audience gave her a standing ovation.

Sunday Edition2:05  Jenny performs for her community

An excerpt from David Gutnick’s documentary “How Jenny Got Her Voice Back”

Jenny still works at Hidden Valley Foods, but her talent is no longer an Eastend secret. She is now planning to give a full concert for all her neighbours, customers and friends in the months to come.

Update June 28, 2019: Jenny put on a full concert for the community in March, as a fundraiser for the Wallace Stegner House, an artists’ retreat in Eastend, Sask. The local T.rex Discovery Centre was packed with locals and people who had driven in from farms and towns across southern Saskatchewan. Jenny sang in English, Italian, Russian and Korean, performing excerpts from well known operas, and even a tune by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

Jenny Ahn performed to a full house at the T.rex Discovery Centre in Eastend, Sask., in March. (Submitted by Jenny Ahn)

Click ‘listen’ near the top of this page to hear David Gutnick’s documentary How Jenny Got Her Voice Back.

2024-02-09 This is the most accurate coverage I’ve read on this subject: Conspiracy Charges Dropped, Chris Lysak, Jerry Morin Released after Agreeing to Plea Deals

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Feb 092024
 
With thanks to Ray McGinnis
Two of the four men at the Coutts blockade arrested in February 2022, accused of conspiracy to commit murder and mischief –
Chris Lysak and Jerry Morin – are free
Published on February 9, 2024
Ray McGinnis
Civil Liberties | Commentary | Justice

Two of the four men at the Coutts blockade arrested in February 2022, accused of conspiracy to commit murder and mischief – Chris Lysak and Jerry Morin – are free men. They were released on February 6, 2024. They remained in custody in remand centres for 723 days. While in custody, Morin was in solitary confinement for 74 days.

After relying on legal aid lawyers with little results, in November 2023 Lysak crowdfunded for better counsel. His new lawyer Daniel Song brought a section 8 charter application to examine the Crown’s case against his client. Suddenly, the Crown dropped conspiracy to commit murder of police, and mischief charges, against both Lysak and Morin. The Crown got a plea deal from Lysak and Morin on minor firearms charges. These charges the two pled guilty to were never part of the original indictment that prompted their arrests.

Lysak and Morin are now reunited with their families and will begin the long journey to rebuild their lives. Both are fathers. Morin is a lineman and Chris Lysak is an electrician.

Lysak pled guilty to improper storage of a firearm which was properly registered under his name and legally purchased. The Crown also dropped charges against Chris Lysak for uttering threats.

Though the RCMP released a shocking photo of a stash of weapons around a table with an RCMP cruiser in the background, the majority of weapons on display turned out to have no connection to any of the four men arrested on conspiracy to commit murder charges. The RCMP photo was taken before Jerry Morin was arrested west of Calgary around noon on February 14, 2022. Morin was on the way to work for a rancher on a farm when he was arrested by a SWAT team.

These men were in deteriorating health and facing financial ruin. And the Crown knew this. Once they pled guilty to the minor charges, they were free men.

Dropping conspiracy to commit murder of police officer charges by the Crown is significant. News of the arrests was pointed to in the Rouleau Report as key to its justifying invocation of the Emergencies Act on February 14, 2022, by the Liberal government. Now that these charges are dropped it appears the Crown and the RCMP never had evidence to convict the accused of conspiracy to commit murder. Instead, they put them through gruelling custody in remand centres, hoping to break them. The decision to deny them bail for nearly two years was politically motivated. They were deemed too dangerous to be granted bail on one day. Then on the next they were released and deemed no threat to the public.

Lysak and Morin refused earlier offers to plea guilty. But after two years the strain of the whole ordeal led them to agree to a coerced confession to new charges in order to survive.

The plea deal was struck in a courtroom outside of the courtroom where the pre-trial motions were set to begin at 10 AM on February 6. The dropping of serious charges and confession to new minor firearms charges, and release of these two men came as a surprise.

A friend of Chris Lysak, Fort Macleod councillor Marco Van Huigenbos, said “723 days pretrial is a travesty of justice in Canada, and it has to be treated as such. There has to be a full inquiry into these prosecutions.”

Is all that is required to deny bail for those accused of serious crimes to argue that their release will undermine confidence in the justice system? The justice system is not immune from corruption or politicization. What confidence can citizens have in it? It appears lawfare is alive and well in Canada. The case of the Coutts Four shows that the Crown have the power to lay serious charges against citizens and let them linger for years in custody without bail or trial. This

Is all that is required to make the Crown walk back charges of conspiracy to commit murder a smart lawyer who knows how to make a section 8 charter application?

On January 15 Chris Carbert was denied bail for the second time. The lawyer who successfully represented Chris Lysak, Daniel Song, is now being considered to represent Chris Carbert (along with his existing lawyer) at the upcoming February 20 court hearing. The remaining ‘Coutts Two’ – Chris Carbert and Tony Olienick – will be at that hearing. Olienick has just hired a new lawyer who needs to get up to speed on the details of the case.

Is the Crown now proceeding with a charge of conspiracy to commit murder against Carbert and Olienick, when it has conceded that Lysak and Morin were not part of a conspiracy? Carbert and Olienick are scheduled to stand trial in June.

Ray McGinnis is a senior fellow with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. His forthcoming book is Unjustified: The Emergencies Act and the Inquiry that Got It Wrong

2022-06-17 Can solitary confinement be reformed or abolished in Canada? with thanks to McGill University’s Faculty of Law

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Feb 092024
 

Despite new legislation against solitary confinement,

data paint a bleak picture of what goes on behind the walls of Canadian penitentiaries

 

INSERT:  You will hear Professor Jane Sprott ask,”Does anyone care?”

 

Photo: Owen Egan

A matter of human dignity

“If a society can recognize that even someone guilty of a serious crime possesses inalienable constitutional rights, and human rights, that is a sign of that society’s commitment to human dignity,” said Professor Mugambi Jouet in introduction of this year’s Proulx Roundtable.

Solitary confinement is increasingly recognized as a human rights violation and form of torture, in violation of the U.N. Nelson Mandela Rules on prisoners’ rights. Yet it remains commonplace in the prisons of Canada and numerous democratic societies. “Our prisons are places of despair for countless prisoners,” Jouet said. “The situation evokes a lack of ambition, a failure of the imagination, and endemic injustices.” Abolishing solitary confinement, he said, could perhaps serve as a stepping stone towards a more equal and humane justice system.

To tackle this timely subject, Professor Jouet welcomed eminent criminologists Professor Emeritus Anthony Doob, University of Toronto, and Professor Jane Sprott, Ryerson University. They presented an overview of their research on “structured intervention units” – Canada’s attempt at reforming solitary confinement – which has garnered attention from scholars, practitioners, and the media, given its profound implications for Canadian criminal justice.

Photo: Owen Egan

Bill C-83: An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act and another Act

In 2019, Bill C-83 was introduced and became law. It was hailed by the government as abolishing solitary confinement. The new law replaced administrative and disciplinary segregation with “structured intervention units” that would provide inmates at least four hours a day outside their cells, two hours of which had to involve meaningful human contact. This baseline meant that the Mandela rules’ definition of solitary confinement would no longer be met, as it sets its threshold at two hours or less out-of-cell per day.

Professors Doob and Sprott described their findings on the state of solitary confinement since the law was adopted. Their analysis of “structured intervention units” utilization data painted a bleak portrait of Correctional Services Canada’s willingness to reform. Professor Doob, who chaired the panel responsible for overseeing the implementation of the reform, shared his personal experience dealing with an institution unwilling to submit to external oversight.

Effective reform would require strong political leadership, they underlined, a dire perspective given the lack of voter appeal of the matter. Nonetheless, during the question period, Doob confided his faith in the power of incremental change, while Sprott reminded attendees that society as a whole stands to gain from a more humane and effective rehabilitation system for people who will one day reintegrate our communities.

 

Watch the 2022 Proulx Roundtable on Solitary Confinement

 

2024-02-08 Two of the Coutts Four released in a shocking twist in the case. The unravelling of the Coutts Four case. Troy Media, by Ray McGinnis.

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Two of the Coutts Four released in a shocking twist in the case

By | Feb 8, 2024

Reading Time: 4 minutesJustice system under scrutiny after the Crown drops conspiracy charges against two of the Coutts Four

Ray McGinnisTwo of the four men at the Coutts blockade arrested in February 2022, accused of conspiracy to commit murder and mischief – Chris Lysak and Jerry Morin – are free men. They were released on Feb. 6. They remained in custody in remand centres for 723 days. Morin was held in solitary confinement for 74 days.

Lysak first relied on legal aid lawyers but with little result, so in November 2023, he crowdfunded for better counsel. His new lawyer, Daniel Song, brought a section 8 charter application to examine the Crown’s case against his client.

Out of the blue, the Crown dismissed conspiracy to commit murder of police officers and mischief charges against both men. Instead, the Crown reached a plea deal with them on minor firearms charges. Interestingly, these charges, to which the two pleaded guilty, were never part of the original indictment that led to their arrests.

Lysak and Morin are now reunited with their families and will begin the long journey to rebuild their lives. Both are fathers. Morin is a lineman and Chris Lysak is an electrician.

NOTE:  the story continues below, after the “Related Stories”.

 

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Lysak admitted guilt to improper firearm storage despite the firearm being registered under his name and purchased legally. The Crown also dropped charges against him for uttering threats.

Despite the RCMP releasing a shocking photo of a stash of weapons around a table with an RCMP cruiser in the background, most of the weapons displayed were found to have no link to any of the Coutts Four. The RCMP photo was captured before Morin’s arrest on Feb. 14, 2022, by a SWAT team on Highway 22A while he was en route to work on a barn for a rancher.

Although Lysak and Chris Carbert were classmates during elementary school, the Coutts Four – Tony Olienick, Carbert, Lysak, and Morin – had never crossed paths prior to Feb. 9, 2022. None of them had previous criminal records.

Lysak and Morin were free men once they pled guilty to the minor charges.

The Crown dropping conspiracy to commit murder of police officer charges is significant. The Rouleau Report pointed to the arrests in Coutts as key to its justification of the Trudeau government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act on Feb. 14, 2022. Now that these charges are dropped, it appears the Crown and the RCMP never had evidence to convict the accused of conspiracy to commit murder.

Instead, they subjected them to gruelling custody in remand centres, hoping to break them. The choice to withhold bail for almost two years was politically driven. They were considered too risky for bail one day, only to be released the next after suddenly deemed harmless to the public.

Initially, Lysak and Morin had declined offers to admit guilt. But after two years, the strain of the whole ordeal led them to agree to a coerced confession to the new charges in order to survive.

The plea deal was negotiated in a courtroom separate from where pretrial motions were scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. on Feb. 6. The dismissal of the serious charges, the admission to new minor firearms charges, and their subsequent release came as a surprise.

A friend of Lysak’s, Fort Macleod councillor Marco Van Huigenbos, said, “723 days pretrial is a travesty of justice in Canada, and it has to be treated as such. There has to be a full inquiry into these prosecutions.”

Is all that is required to deny bail for those accused of serious crimes to argue that their release will undermine confidence in the justice system? The justice system is not immune from corruption or politicization. What assurance can citizens have in its integrity? It appears lawfare is alive and well in Canada.

The Coutts Four case highlights how the Crown can levy grave charges against individuals and leave them to linger in custody for years without bail or trial. Is this enough for the Crown to now retract charges of conspiracy to commit murder? Perhaps a skilled lawyer who understands how to file a Section 8 Charter application can make a difference.

On Jan. 15, Chris Carbert was denied bail for the second time. Daniel Song, who successfully represented Chris Lysak, is now being considered to represent Carbert (along with his existing lawyer) at the upcoming Feb. 20 court hearing. Olienick – who will also be at that hearing – has just hired a new lawyer who needs to get up to speed on the details of the case.

Is the Crown now proceeding with a charge of conspiracy to commit murder against Carbert and Olienick despite admitting that Lysak and Morin were not involved in any conspiracy?

Carbert and Olienick are scheduled to stand trial in June.

Ray McGinnis is a senior fellow with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. His forthcoming book is Unjustified: The Emergencies Act and the Inquiry That Got It Wrong.

2024-02-06 Marco van Huigenbos describes the situation: two of the Coutts 4 are now free, after 223 days in remand (jail) in Alberta.

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Feb 062024
 

This is very serious shit.

Marco van Huigenbos attended at Court in Lethbridge on Feb 6th.  Two of the Coutts 4 were entering a plea deal.  Marco does an excellent job of explaining the situation, the ramifications.

Near the end of the interview Marco speaks to the condition of the men after two years in remand.

Everybody should hear this.

Interview with Jason Lavigne:   https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2055309163

 

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MARCO VAN HUIGENBOS  is himself being prosecuted as an “organizer” of what happened at Coutts.  It’s pretty clear that he fell into the role of emissary between the assembled protestors and the police because he is thoughtful and articulate.  He was asked to present in person – – you may recall his testimony – – to the Inquiry into the Invocation of the Emergencies Act (a.k.a. the “Rouleau Commission”).

EARLIER POSTINGS, MARCO VAN HUIGENBOS

            1. 2023-09-05 COUTTS, AB,   7 Court cases in Lethbridge: Artur Pawlowski again; Marco van Huigenbos; Prosecution of “Coutts 4” (in jail for well over a year without trial); case of Jaclyne Martin, partner of Jerry Morin. Morin is one of the “Coutts 4”.
            2. 2023-09-08 Ft MacLeod Councillor speaks on the plight of the Coutts 4, Marco Van Huigenbos

 

2024-02-06 Sask Court of Appeal hears challenge to Saskatchewan’s Covid gathering limits. From JCCF

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Feb 062024
 

Court to hear challenge to Saskatchewan’s Covid gathering limits

Thanks to JCCF.

SASKATOON, SK: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms announces that the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal will hear the appeal of Jasmin Grandel and Darrell Mills on Tuesday, February 6, 2024, at 10 AM CT, at 520 Spadina Crescent East, in Saskatoon. Ms. Grandel and Mr. Mills challenge Saskatchewan’s former ban on outdoor gatherings of more than 10 persons as an unjustified violation of their Charter freedom of peaceful assembly and other Charter rights and freedoms.From March 17, 2020, until July 11, 2021, Saskatchewan imposed various prohibitions on outdoor gatherings, including limiting them to only 10 people. At the same time, Saskatchewan allowed more than 10 people to meet indoors. Jasmin Grandel and Darrell Mills attended various peaceful outdoor protests in 2020 and 2021, resulting in hefty fines for violating Public Health Orders.At the time, Jasmin Grandel was a kinesiology student at the University of Regina, with a young son in kindergarten. She was concerned with the inconsistency of the Public Health Orders and with their detrimental psychological and economic effects. She feared that the Orders would negatively impact small businesses, leading to unemployment and poverty for families.Darrell Mills, who also participated in peaceful outdoor protests, is a resident of Saskatoon with 30 years of experience in mechanical construction. He is certified in Mask Fit Testing and trained in supplied air breathing systems. He was concerned about the negative health impacts of improper mask use.While outdoor gatherings were restricted to a maximum of 10 persons for certain periods, the province permitted numerous public indoor gatherings that far exceeded 10 persons. At the same time, Saskatchewan Chief Medical Health Officer Dr. Saqib Shahab stated that “outdoor gatherings while observing physical distancing are better than indoor gatherings.” On June 5, 2020, then-Regina Police Chief Evan Bray, along with many other officers, attended a large Black Lives Matter rally in Regina with hundreds of people, thereby violating existing public health orders and garnering significant media attention. At the time, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said, “…my assumption is that the law enforcement officials have used their judgment with respect to this particular rally…” Dr. Shahab called it a “special event,” and no one was charged with breaching public health orders. Six months later, numerous Saskatchewan residents were charged and prosecuted for violating public health orders because they, like participants in the Black Lives Matter rally, had peacefully protested outdoors.In April 2021, lawyers provided by the Justice Centre filed a constitutional challenge to the restrictions on outdoor gatherings, on behalf of Ms. Grandel and Mr. Mills. The Originating Application challenges these restrictions for violating the Charter freedoms of thought, belief, opinion and expression, association and peaceful assembly. The Application also suggests that pro-freedom protests against government lockdown policies have been especially targeted by law enforcement.At trial, an eminent infectious disease specialist provided expert evidence that outdoor transmission of Covid was negligible, where physical distancing could be practiced and where single-day gatherings with no indoor component could take place. The government did not present evidence that Covid was transmitted at outdoor gatherings. Instead, they relied on the ‘precautionary principle’ put forward by its public health expert that lockdown measures should be taken even if “cause and effect” had not been fully established scientifically.“It appears that lockdown harms were not considered by the government or by the court, when applying this ‘precautionary’ principle. Neither the Saskatchewan government nor the lower court wanted to take precautions against the physical, mental, social, financial and economic harms that lockdowns inflicted on people,” stated John Carpay, president of the Justice Centre. On September 20, 2022, Justice D. B. Konkin of the Court of King’s Bench of Saskatchewan upheld the government’s restrictions on outdoor gatherings as justified violations of Charter freedoms. Justice Konkin assessed only the breach to freedom of expression, representing only one of the various Charter rights alleged to be breached by the Applicants. In his decision, he wrote, “In a state of public health emergency wreaking severe havoc on the health of Saskatchewan residents, Sask [sic] was burdened with the immense task of balancing multiple interests.”Andre Memauri, lawyer for Ms. Grandel and Mr. Mills, stated, “Our infectious disease specialist made it clear at the lower court that the outdoor transmission of Covid-19 was negligible, much like every other respiratory illness in history. There was no compelling basis for the Saskatchewan government to impose such extreme restrictions on people’s rights to assemble, express themselves and associate outdoors. The rule of law means that laws should be enforced equally, but the Saskatchewan Government encouraged and supported Black Lives Matter protests outdoors in large numbers while ticketing people who six months later protested the violations of their Charter freedoms.”

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