Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Saturday, June 7, 2014
Confronting Soharwardy : Prime time : SunNews Video Gallery
Confronting Soharwardy : Prime time : SunNews Video Gallery
God bless you Ezra, for standing up against radicalism, and telling it like it is. May God keep you, and protect you.
God bless you Ezra, for standing up against radicalism, and telling it like it is. May God keep you, and protect you.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Getting use to new blog format
It is going to take time to get used to this new blog format. Haven't been on here in a long, but hope I'll master it soon.
Friday, January 10, 2014
Update
First time on here in a while. I finally got the computer out of the boxes and had to go to the FIRE FOX browser instead of Internet Explorer. Sofar, it seems to work just fine. So, will probably be back on here posting articles, and maybe, raising issues on concerns.
Monday, September 26, 2011
Saturday, September 17, 2011
LeBlanc | City man said he feared going back to jail A1By HEATHER MCLAUGHLIN mclaughlin.heather@dailygleaner.com
LeBlanc | City man said he feared going back to jail
A1By HEATHER MCLAUGHLIN
mclaughlin.heather@dailygleaner.com
Blogger Charles LeBlanc was released from custody Friday morning after being charged by the Fredericton Police Force with creating a disturbance on Queen Street
Stephen MacGillivray/The Daily GleanerCharles LeBlanc is seen leaving the provincial courthouse after he was released with conditions Friday. "This is one of the roughest feelings I ever had in my life, the last 48 hours," said a tired-looking LeBlanc as he talked to reporters outside the Queen Street courthouse.
Provincial court Judge Denis Lordon released him on an undertaking to keep the peace, to be of good behaviour and to stop using a bullhorn in the downtown to broadcast his beef with Fredericton police.
LeBlanc is scheduled to appear in provincial court Oct. 28 at 1:30 p.m. for a trial after pleading not guilty to causing a disturbance.
He was arrested by Fredericton police Wednesday for shouting through a bullhorn outside the police station. He's upset with the police because it issued a $140 municipal bylaw ticket to him for riding his bicycle on the sidewalk. The ticket was issued on the basis of a third-party complaint.
LeBlanc said he hopes he can find a lawyer to take his case. Friends of the social assistance recipient are offering to help him, LeBlanc said, but he doesn't want to represent himself in court because of the importance of his case, which he believes is a freedom of speech case.
LeBlanc claimed the ticket was instigated by Dan Bussieres, the sergeant-at-arms of the New Brunswick legislature. LeBlanc has had a running battle with Bussieres because he banned him from the legislature in 2006.
LeBlanc frequently mocks Bussieres on his blog, and he called him his sworn enemy Friday.
"I won't even entertain that question," Bussieres said Friday when asked for a response to LeBlanc's accusations. "So it's a crime to file a complaint against Charles LeBlanc?"
LeBlanc began his protest against the Fredericton Police Force for issuing the ticket because he said the force has a double standard.
He tried to lay a third-party jaywalking complaint by supplying police with video evidence of Speaker Dale Graham and deputy premier Paul Robichaud crossing the street illegally, but the force wouldn't issue them tickets.
"We can't have a two-tiered system, one for the filthy rich and one for the filthy poor. I was forced to protest on the street because they won't listen," he said.
LeBlanc claims the Fredericton Police Force is out to get him since he recorded video footage of Fredericton police officers using force to arrest a Quebec soldier in the Tannery bar district. An officer was found not guilty after trial of using excessive force.
LeBlanc is also upset about how he was treated in jail because he was refused access to his own medications.
"When you're in jail, you don't really know what's going on in the outside world. I have ADHD and I'm on medication at night to sleep, and the medical staff at the Saint John regional correction denied me from having my prescription and from having my inhaler.
"They said use another inhaler. I was in pain. I didn't sleep good ... I only slept about six hours the last 48. It wasn't good, and there will have to be an investigation."
LeBlanc said when he's rested, he will seek a meeting with provincial Health Minister Madeleine Dube to demand an investigation into the actions of medical staff at the Saint John Regional Correctional Centre.
LeBlanc said he would have preferred not to have to sign an undertaking that he wouldn't use a bullhorn in the downtown area, but he feared spending more time in jail.
"The last time I was in jail was in Phoenix, Ariz., in 1978, and I think it was better in Phoenix (than) in Saint John. I'm a strong supporter of freedom of speech, but when you're told if you don't sign these papers you can be remanded in custody for another month, moi, with no medication, I would have died," he said.
"It's a scary, scary case because it could set a precedent across Canada. If I represent myself, I might blow this case."
LeBlanc has had skirmishes with police in the past. In 2006, he was arrested when he blogged at a demonstration at the Atlantica business conference in Saint John. He was acquitted of the charge.
LeBlanc also shows up frequently at public events in Fredericton, at city council and does street interviews with local politicians.
About 20 of his friends attended his Friday court appearance.
A1By HEATHER MCLAUGHLIN
mclaughlin.heather@dailygleaner.com
Blogger Charles LeBlanc was released from custody Friday morning after being charged by the Fredericton Police Force with creating a disturbance on Queen Street
Stephen MacGillivray/The Daily GleanerCharles LeBlanc is seen leaving the provincial courthouse after he was released with conditions Friday. "This is one of the roughest feelings I ever had in my life, the last 48 hours," said a tired-looking LeBlanc as he talked to reporters outside the Queen Street courthouse.
Provincial court Judge Denis Lordon released him on an undertaking to keep the peace, to be of good behaviour and to stop using a bullhorn in the downtown to broadcast his beef with Fredericton police.
LeBlanc is scheduled to appear in provincial court Oct. 28 at 1:30 p.m. for a trial after pleading not guilty to causing a disturbance.
He was arrested by Fredericton police Wednesday for shouting through a bullhorn outside the police station. He's upset with the police because it issued a $140 municipal bylaw ticket to him for riding his bicycle on the sidewalk. The ticket was issued on the basis of a third-party complaint.
LeBlanc said he hopes he can find a lawyer to take his case. Friends of the social assistance recipient are offering to help him, LeBlanc said, but he doesn't want to represent himself in court because of the importance of his case, which he believes is a freedom of speech case.
LeBlanc claimed the ticket was instigated by Dan Bussieres, the sergeant-at-arms of the New Brunswick legislature. LeBlanc has had a running battle with Bussieres because he banned him from the legislature in 2006.
LeBlanc frequently mocks Bussieres on his blog, and he called him his sworn enemy Friday.
"I won't even entertain that question," Bussieres said Friday when asked for a response to LeBlanc's accusations. "So it's a crime to file a complaint against Charles LeBlanc?"
LeBlanc began his protest against the Fredericton Police Force for issuing the ticket because he said the force has a double standard.
He tried to lay a third-party jaywalking complaint by supplying police with video evidence of Speaker Dale Graham and deputy premier Paul Robichaud crossing the street illegally, but the force wouldn't issue them tickets.
"We can't have a two-tiered system, one for the filthy rich and one for the filthy poor. I was forced to protest on the street because they won't listen," he said.
LeBlanc claims the Fredericton Police Force is out to get him since he recorded video footage of Fredericton police officers using force to arrest a Quebec soldier in the Tannery bar district. An officer was found not guilty after trial of using excessive force.
LeBlanc is also upset about how he was treated in jail because he was refused access to his own medications.
"When you're in jail, you don't really know what's going on in the outside world. I have ADHD and I'm on medication at night to sleep, and the medical staff at the Saint John regional correction denied me from having my prescription and from having my inhaler.
"They said use another inhaler. I was in pain. I didn't sleep good ... I only slept about six hours the last 48. It wasn't good, and there will have to be an investigation."
LeBlanc said when he's rested, he will seek a meeting with provincial Health Minister Madeleine Dube to demand an investigation into the actions of medical staff at the Saint John Regional Correctional Centre.
LeBlanc said he would have preferred not to have to sign an undertaking that he wouldn't use a bullhorn in the downtown area, but he feared spending more time in jail.
"The last time I was in jail was in Phoenix, Ariz., in 1978, and I think it was better in Phoenix (than) in Saint John. I'm a strong supporter of freedom of speech, but when you're told if you don't sign these papers you can be remanded in custody for another month, moi, with no medication, I would have died," he said.
"It's a scary, scary case because it could set a precedent across Canada. If I represent myself, I might blow this case."
LeBlanc has had skirmishes with police in the past. In 2006, he was arrested when he blogged at a demonstration at the Atlantica business conference in Saint John. He was acquitted of the charge.
LeBlanc also shows up frequently at public events in Fredericton, at city council and does street interviews with local politicians.
About 20 of his friends attended his Friday court appearance.
Government may bypass FSIN, Premier says
By JASON WARICKAND DAVID HUTTON, The StarPhoenix September 16, 2011 •Story•Photos ( 1 )•Video ( 1 ) ICON
Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations interim Chief Morley Watson speaks to the media about SIGA and FSIN issues at the FSIN offices on Packham Avenue on Thursday.Photograph by: Gord Waldner, The Starphoenix, The StarPhoenixThe provincial government may start to bypass the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations (FSIN) and deal more directly with tribal councils and individual First Nations “who are doing great things,” in light of recent revelations about the FSIN and its Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority (SIGA), Premier Brad Wall said Friday.
“What we’ve seen in the last number of months at the FSIN, first with the chief (Guy Lonechild) situation and now with SIGA, gives this government pause,” Wall told reporters Friday in Saskatoon.
“At the end of the day, we want results for First Nations people. . . . Perhaps the best way to achieve that is to work directly with the First Nations and tribal councils, and less with the FSIN.”
Wall said he has “some real concerns” about Edward “Dutch” Lerat’s continued involvement with SIGA and will be writing to ask officials to reconsider who’s in charge of that file.
“It just isn’t giving anyone any confidence,” Wall said.
Wall said there are also concerns about recent reports of heavy administration costs for a SIGA fund meant to benefit First Nations sports and culture programs and a questionable insurance settlement SIGA accepted following a $1.2-million ATM scam.
“I think we have some real concerns about what’s happening at SIGA in a general sense,” Wall said.
“Obviously, given the events of the past in this province in SIGA, we have a real concern about the people the FSIN has assigned to basically be in charge of the file. I think a lot of people in the province would have that concern as well.”
Wall noted the five-year gaming agreement between the province and the FSIN is up for renewal before the end of this calendar year. Wall said if his party remains in power after this fall’s election, it will be “asking some very pointed questions.” Wall added that’s already happening to an extent.
“(The government is) asking some very pointed questions about where the dollars are going and about whether or not this is the right action to take, to have Mr. Lerat, who obviously has a history with respect to SIGA.”
Wall repeated his position that the FSIN is “not a government in and of themselves. They are an association.”
Federal Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Minister John Duncan was not available Friday to discuss the FSIN, but his office issued the following statement: “Our department is monitoring this situation and we will ensure that the terms and conditions of any funding agreements we have with this organization are respected.”
The StarPhoenix revealed this week that Lerat, now an FSIN vice-chief, has been active on SIGA policy matters as recently as this week, even though he still has an open lawsuit against SIGA and the FSIN. The wrongful dismissal suit stems from his firing as SIGA CEO in 2000 after hundreds of thousands of dollars could not be traced.
FSIN vice-chief Morley Watson was asked about Lerat’s involvement at a news conference Thursday. Watson, who is serving as interim chief of the FSIN following the recent buyout of former chief Lonechild, said Watson assured him the lawsuit would be withdrawn. As of Friday afternoon, however, the lawsuit remained active at Saskatoon’s Court of Queen’s Bench. Lerat’s Regina lawyer could not be reached for comment.
© Copyright (c) The StarPhoenix
Read more: http://www.thestarphoenix.com/news/Government+bypass+FSIN+premier+says/5416387/story.html#ixzz1YEQvkz8M
Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations interim Chief Morley Watson speaks to the media about SIGA and FSIN issues at the FSIN offices on Packham Avenue on Thursday.Photograph by: Gord Waldner, The Starphoenix, The StarPhoenixThe provincial government may start to bypass the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations (FSIN) and deal more directly with tribal councils and individual First Nations “who are doing great things,” in light of recent revelations about the FSIN and its Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority (SIGA), Premier Brad Wall said Friday.
“What we’ve seen in the last number of months at the FSIN, first with the chief (Guy Lonechild) situation and now with SIGA, gives this government pause,” Wall told reporters Friday in Saskatoon.
“At the end of the day, we want results for First Nations people. . . . Perhaps the best way to achieve that is to work directly with the First Nations and tribal councils, and less with the FSIN.”
Wall said he has “some real concerns” about Edward “Dutch” Lerat’s continued involvement with SIGA and will be writing to ask officials to reconsider who’s in charge of that file.
“It just isn’t giving anyone any confidence,” Wall said.
Wall said there are also concerns about recent reports of heavy administration costs for a SIGA fund meant to benefit First Nations sports and culture programs and a questionable insurance settlement SIGA accepted following a $1.2-million ATM scam.
“I think we have some real concerns about what’s happening at SIGA in a general sense,” Wall said.
“Obviously, given the events of the past in this province in SIGA, we have a real concern about the people the FSIN has assigned to basically be in charge of the file. I think a lot of people in the province would have that concern as well.”
Wall noted the five-year gaming agreement between the province and the FSIN is up for renewal before the end of this calendar year. Wall said if his party remains in power after this fall’s election, it will be “asking some very pointed questions.” Wall added that’s already happening to an extent.
“(The government is) asking some very pointed questions about where the dollars are going and about whether or not this is the right action to take, to have Mr. Lerat, who obviously has a history with respect to SIGA.”
Wall repeated his position that the FSIN is “not a government in and of themselves. They are an association.”
Federal Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Minister John Duncan was not available Friday to discuss the FSIN, but his office issued the following statement: “Our department is monitoring this situation and we will ensure that the terms and conditions of any funding agreements we have with this organization are respected.”
The StarPhoenix revealed this week that Lerat, now an FSIN vice-chief, has been active on SIGA policy matters as recently as this week, even though he still has an open lawsuit against SIGA and the FSIN. The wrongful dismissal suit stems from his firing as SIGA CEO in 2000 after hundreds of thousands of dollars could not be traced.
FSIN vice-chief Morley Watson was asked about Lerat’s involvement at a news conference Thursday. Watson, who is serving as interim chief of the FSIN following the recent buyout of former chief Lonechild, said Watson assured him the lawsuit would be withdrawn. As of Friday afternoon, however, the lawsuit remained active at Saskatoon’s Court of Queen’s Bench. Lerat’s Regina lawyer could not be reached for comment.
© Copyright (c) The StarPhoenix
Read more: http://www.thestarphoenix.com/news/Government+bypass+FSIN+premier+says/5416387/story.html#ixzz1YEQvkz8M
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