ONE BILLION RISING- THE SHAME- THE SHAME- THE BAD- OUR CANADA-WHEN FREE SPEECH CROSSES THE LINE- CANADA'S SUPREME COURT HELD AGAINST A HOMOSEXUAL HATER.... AND SUPREME COURT CANADA SHOULD ALSO RULE ON THIS...
THIS IS NOT FREE SPEECH... THIS IS HATE AGAINST WOMEN...imho
POSTER SHOULD READ..... DON'T BE THAT GUY- WHO RAPES
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‘Don’t be that girl’ posters in Edmonton spark debate
By Patricia Kozicka Global News
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EDMONTON – Posters spreading a message that Edmonton police have been trying to fight for years with their "Don’t be that guy" campaign is generating mixed reviews, as well as a conversation in our city about sexual assault.
The Mens Rights Edmonton association is taking responsibility for the campaign. One of its members, who did not want to identify himself, says this poster campaign was intended to counter the "Don’t be that guy" campaign that he says made "rape into a gendered issue."
"We don’t blame victims for anything, we’re simply looking for an accurate discourse on the subject."
The subject was thrust into the spotlight on Tuesday afternoon, when a Women’s Studies instructor at the University of Alberta posted the following tweet:
"I think there are real barriers for women who have been sexually assaulted to come forward, and I think things like this cause more barriers, more hassles for women. Because it requires real courage to come forward," he told Global News.
Calgary Communities Against Sexual Abuse (CCASA) also responded to the campaign with a blog post, writing: "This poster which has mimicked itself after the "Don’t Be That Guy" Campaign has crossed a line by using incorrect information to try to make a point that is absolutely false, inaccurate and 100% incorrect."
"I think what their campaign is saying is that women lie about rape, about sexual assault to get back at a boyfriend," said Karen Smith, executive director of the Sexual Assault Centre of Edmonton. She cited national statistics as evidence that false reports don’t actually happen as often as some people may think.
"One to two percent of sexual assaults reported to the police would be false. And that would be the same for any other crime that would be reported to the police."
The same figure was also used by Acting Insp. Sean Armstrong of the Serious Crime Branch, which includes the Sexual Assault Section. Armstrong says that in the four and a half years he worked as a sexual assault detective, he came across only one false report.
"And I dealt with numerous files; many, many, many files. So they’re extremely rare."
But the group’s message is seeing its fair share of support, as well.
http://globalnews.ca/news/706030/dont-be-that-girl-posters-in-edmonton-spark-outrage/
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ONE BILLION RISING- breaking the chains of abuse against girls and women and little boys 2
Married to a monster: 'Life with Billy' and the story of Jane Hurshman
Life with Billy (TV 1994) Based on a true Story
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CANADA'S VICTIMS- IT'S TIME THE VICTIMS CAME FIRST...
Advocates at odds over victims' rights bill
Federal ombudsman for victims of crime has 30 recommendations for bill
Violence Against Women in Canada statistics:
• 677,000 adults, mostly women, reported sexual assault in past five years
• 1.2 million reported intimate partner violence in past five years
• 70 per cent of women who reported spousal assault were working
• 71 per cent had college or university degrees
• 57 per cent who reported sexual assault were working
• 29 per cent were students
• One-third who reported sexual assault had household incomes of $100,000 or more
Source: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/07/10/pol-victims-rights-bill.html
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and.... the monsters who beat and abuse their women.... who have been able 2 hide behind the law 4 way 2 many years.... fix this sheeeet..
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Married to a monster: 'Life with Billy' and the story of Jane Hurshman
Darrell Squires
November 20, 2007, was the 25th anniversary of the groundbreaking "not guilty" verdict in Jane Hurshman's first-degree murder trial in Liverpool, N.S.
On its publication in 1986, Brian VallÉe's book "Life with Billy" publicized in detail Jane's hell-on-earth marriage to Billy Stafford. It was a story of abuse under the thumb of a violent psychopath and sexual sadist.
Republication of the book "Life with Billy" in 2008, in a special commemorative edition, brings together the subsequently published "Life after Billy," published in 1993 - a year after Jane's suicide, and "Life and Death with Billy," which combined the two previous books in a single volume.
The new edition gives the complete story of Jane's life and death.
Even though she eventually served time in prison for manslaughter, the initial verdict of "not guilty" in the murder trial of Jane Stafford (nÉe Hurshman) in 1982 was a pivotal decision that helped change Canadian law as it applies to battered women who kill their spouses.
The Nova Scotia Supreme Court ordered a new trial when the Crown successfully appealed the verdict, ruling that the evidence of Billy Stafford's brutality against Jane served only to create sympathy for the accused.
Another ruling of the appeal court rejected Jane's argument of self-defense, on the basis that her husband was asleep in his truck when she shot him - and was therefore of no immediate threat.
But these developments led in 1990 to the landmark Supreme Court of Canada ruling that a battered woman should be allowed to use a plea of self-defense for killing her abuser, even if an attack against her was not in progress or imminent. It also ruled that evidence of "battered wife syndrome" and evidence of the deceased's character were admissible in support of the self-defense plea.
As Brian VallÉe's account of her life makes clear, Jane Hurshman was a victim of many betrayals during her life.
Very little about "Life with Billy" makes for easy reading, and even professionals who work with victims of spousal abuse, and who are familiar with its horrors, are likely to find particular passages and descriptions difficult to absorb.
Billy Stafford brutalized not only Jane, but also their young children.
And even though Jane Hurshman's life ended tragically, it still carries a powerful message of hope - especially in light of Jane's career as an advocate on behalf of abused women.
Ask for this book at your public library.
Darrell Squires is assistant manager of Public Information and Library Resources Board, West Newfoundland-Labrador division. You can contact him at: dsquires@nlpl.ca or by phone at 634-7333.
http://www.thewesternstar.com/Opinion/Columnists/2009-10-17/article-1483208/Married-to-a-monster%3A-Life-with-Billy-and-the-story-of-Jane-Hurshman/1
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AND... MORE DISGRACE...
Violence against women: Canada needs federal strategy, report says
Lack of data, national policy thwarts progress to end violence against women, says report from Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Violence Against Women in Canada statistics:
• 677,000 adults, mostly women, reported sexual assault in past five years
• 1.2 million reported intimate partner violence in past five years
• 70 per cent of women who reported spousal assault were working
• 71 per cent had college or university degrees
• 57 per cent who reported sexual assault were working
• 29 per cent were students
• One-third who reported sexual assault had household incomes of $100,000 or more
Source: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/07/11/violence_against_women_canada_needs_federal_strategy_report_says.html
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PAEDOPHILE/PAEDOPHILE/PAEDOPHILE
AND..... THE DISGRACE..THE DISGRACE OF PAEDOPHILE EVIL- WILLIAM FENWICK MACKINTOSH- again free 2 rape little boys of Canada, California and India...
Crown’s workload, extradition delays blamed in MacIntosh case
CANADA CHILD ABUSE HEALING MONUMENT- TORONTO-CANADA
July 10, 2013 - 3:30pm By DAVID JACKSON Provincial Reporter
UPDATED 8:59 p.m. Wednesday
Justice Minister Ross Landry apologized to Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh’s victims Wednesday as the Public Prosecution Service acknowledged it didn’t stay on top of the case like it should have.
Canada Child Abuse Monument- the quilt- Martin Kruze - We Remember -GOD BLESS THE THOUSANDS AND THOUSAND OF KIDS THAT DIDN'T SURVIVE
Landry released the service’s review of the file and the reasons for the lengthy delay in bringing MacIntosh to trial. The review points to a heavy workload in the Port Hawkesbury Crown office and issues around the federal responsibilities for extradition and passport renewal.
The first complaint about the businessman molesting boys in the Port Hawkesbury area was made in 1995, but MacIntosh, by then working in India, didn’t go to trial until 2010. His convictions on 17 sexual offences were eventually overturned because of the delay.
"We know that the role we played in the delay is unacceptable, and we know that letting these courageous men down is unacceptable," said Martin Herschorn, director of the Public Prosecution Service.
The report says Richard MacKinnon, the only Crown attorney in Port Hawkesbury at the time, handled about 1,000 cases a year before a second prosecutor was added in 1997.
That was why followup with complainants and the lead RCMP investigator was slow, the report says.
It also describes the mysterious renewal of MacIntosh’s passport — twice — while a warrant was out for his arrest, the federal Justice Department’s strict requirements for extradition, and the delays in meeting those requirements.
"Nova Scotia is deeply sorry for what’s occurred here," Landry said.
"Nova Scotia is owning its part, and we expect the federal government to do the same."
Landry wrote to federal ministers Wednesday, asking for reviews of the International Assistance Group, a division of the federal Justice Department that handles the extradition process, and Passport Canada.
The case started in 1995 when Dale Sutherland told British Columbia RCMP that MacIntosh had sexually assaulted him in the 1970s in Nova Scotia. In December 1995, two charges were laid against MacIntosh, who had moved to California and then to India in 1994.
The RCMP issued a warrant for MacIntosh’s arrest in early 1996 and asked Canadian immigration and passport officials in late 1997 to red-flag MacIntosh, whose passport had just been renewed in May 1997.
The report says the passport office started an application to have it revoked, but the application was withdrawn in early 1998 for unknown reasons.
MacKinnon started talking to the International Assistance Group in August 1997 about extraditing MacIntosh. Herschorn, then the deputy director of the prosecution service, made a formal request a year later.
The extradition was slowed down on several fronts, the report says. An affidavit from Sutherland identifying MacIntosh was required, but Sutherland couldn’t pick him out of a photo lineup because of the poor quality of a photo of MacIntosh faxed to British Columbia. Officials didn’t get a better photo until May 2000.
As well, if someone is extradited, they can only be tried on charges laid by the time of the extradition.
As the International Assistance Group waited for identification information, more people came forward with complaints about MacIntosh, pushing the RCMP investigation into 2001. By then, the Mounties had laid 43 charges.
For the extradition, the International Assistance Group required an affidavit from each complainant, sworn before a judge, not a notary public. The report says the Crown started sending letters to the complainants, who lived as far away as Florida and B.C., in May 2002.
Meanwhile, MacIntosh’s passport was again renewed.
The Crown couldn’t reach four complainants. It sent along the other information to the International Assistance Group in June 2003 but didn’t hear back. The Crown contacted the IAG in May 2004 and was told an affidavit from the lead RCMP investigator would do, in the absence of paperwork from the four complainants who couldn’t be reached.
It took two years to get that affidavit completed. During that time, the investigator had been transferred out of province, and MacKinnon had taken a six-month leave.
The report also says it took 11 months for the government of India to act. And it details MacIntosh’s defence motions that held up his trial after he was brought back to Canada in 2007.
MacIntosh, 69, was eventually convicted on 17 counts from two trials in 2010. The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal overturned the convictions in December 2011, saying his charter rights had been violated because of the undue delay in going to trial.
The provincial Crown lost its appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada in April of this year.
Contacted in Alberta on Wednesday, Sutherland sounded immensely frustrated with the whole matter and said there are still missing details about the delays.
"Where do I go from here? I don’t know," he said. "I want answers. I think people should be held accountable, and I don’t think it should be just simply pointed at the prosecuting attorney because he didn’t do his job quick enough.
"Maybe he should have, but there’s some other people in higher positions that really need to be held accountable."
MacKinnon, appointed a provincial court judge in 2009, "was not in a position to comment at this time," said John Piccolo, a spokesman for the Nova Scotia judiciary.
Kenneth Haley, the chief Crown attorney for Cape Breton in the early years of the MacIntosh case, is now a Nova Scotia Supreme Court justice.
Liberal justice critic Michel Samson said having an agency review its own conduct isn’t good enough and there should be an independent inquiry.
"I think there’s more questions that need to be answered, and the only way to give satisfaction to Mr. MacIntosh’s victims, to the community and to all Nova Scotians is to have an independent party look at this," he said.
Progressive Conservative MLA Chris d’Entremont said a third-party review is warranted, given the complexity of the case and the multiple agencies involved.
The RCMP, which also released a report on its handling of the case, didn’t contribute to the delay, the province said.
Herschorn said the prosecution service is taking steps to prevent such delays in the future. They include having an electronic alert when cases haven’t returned to court for eight months, and making delayed cases a regular agenda item at Crown attorneys’ management meetings.
Carole Saindon, a spokeswoman with the federal Justice Department, said officials will review the report and the IAG will look at its processes.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1141090-crown-s-workload-extradition-delays-blamed-in-macintosh-case
AND.... PAEDOPHILE/PAEDOPHILES/PAEDOPHILES AND BLACK ON BLACK CHILD ABUSE...
NOVA SCOTIA HOME 4 COLOURED CHILDREN- opened 1921
Letters allowed into evidence in Home case
July 10, 2013 - 12:26pm EVA HOARE STAFF REPORTER
Residents’ lawyer says documents support bid for class-action suit against province
Lawyer Ray Wagner, who represents former residents of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children, speaks with media at the Law Courts in Halifax last month. Wagner and his clients received good news Wednesday when letters that could undermine the province’s case against a proposed class action involving the Home were allowed into evidence. (CHRISTIAN LAFORCE / Staff)
Letters that could undermine the province’s case against a proposed class action involving the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children were allowed into evidence on Wednesday.
Justice Arthur LeBlanc made the ruling after lawyers for the province battled in Nova Scotia Supreme Court against their admission.
One letter in particular, from Peter McVey, the province’s lawyer on the case, appeared to directly connect Children’s Aid Societies to government. It said the societies were an "administrative arm" of government.
On the face of it, that seems to contradict the province’s long-held stance that it wasn’t linked to the societies, one of which ran the home, and therefore wasn’t liable for any abuses that allegedly happened there.
But LeBlanc decided to let that letter and another, which also states the province had an oversight role in the societies’ operation, into the court record.
"If these are admissions of fact, … then they are to be admitted for the truth of the admission," LeBlanc said, adding they’re "probative and are not prejudicial."
He said the letters would carry less weight if they were deemed "legal" admissions.
LeBlanc said he would reserve his decision on whether the letters would be labelled as findings of fact or legal admissions.
It wasn’t clear when that decision would come, but Ray Wagner, who represents the residents, said a ruling could be wrapped into the final certification decision or made on its own.
If the letters are deemed to be "fact," then they’ll have a "much more powerful impact" on his case, Wagner said. "We would argue the issue has been decided for all time."
McVey had wanted the letters barred, saying they weren’t relevant. He said his was written in 2011 and applied only to the present-day situation.
But Wagner disagreed, saying McVey’s missive was part of a string of letters that dealt with abuse going back decades.
McVey also said the information in the letters is contained in statutes already in the judge’s possession.
If the case could be argued on such statutes, Wagner, on rebuttal, said his team has already met the criteria for certification.
"We’ve accomplished our goals (from) what we’ve heard today," he said.
Catherine Lunn, the other provincial lawyer on the case, contended that the law states the province has legal immunity from being sued for anything that happened before Nov. 1, 1951. As a result, she argued the time frame for the proposed class action should be limited to between 1951 and the late 1980s.
Right now, the time frame extends from 1921 to 1990.
Lunn said Nova Scotia is one of the few provinces that didn’t adopt a British-made workaround that allowed people to sue the Crown via a "right of petition."
Outside court, Wagner said the action, which involves two clients who were at the home before the 1950s, could still proceed on other grounds, such as a breach of fiduciary duty.
And, in some cases, the alleged abuse spanned from before 1951 into the 1950s, meaning it’s still eligible, he said.
Because the case is so diverse, with residents alleging abuse at the hands of other residents, Lunn said there is a "conflict." As a result, she said it shouldn’t be allowed to proceed.
Lunn also appeared to lament the amount of time a class action could take.
"I’ve had a researcher working for almost two years at the archives (on) document production," Lunn told LeBlanc.
She suggested a few "test cases" should go forward instead.
LeBlanc wondered how the length of a class action would differ from the amount of time Wagner has said the 56 concurrent individual home cases would take to wend their way through the court system.
Wagner has previously said he would be at least 114 years old before the individual home cases ended and a class action is the most efficient way to proceed.
On alleged underfunding at the orphanage, McVey said politicians made "economic" decisions when turning down some financial requests, and discrimination had nothing to do with it.
In many cases, the home’s board secured more money after asking government for it, he said, adding that per diem rates went up from 1977 through to 1979.
"Is this evidence of underfunding, of discrimination, as alleged?" the provincial lawyer asked.
The case resumes today and runs through Friday.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1141055-letters-allowed-into-evidence-in-home-case
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/11/23/bc-polygamy-ruling-supreme-court.html
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