Friday, March 8, 2013

ONTARIO COALITION AGAINST POVERTY

OCAP, HAS STAGED A SIT IN, AT METRO HALL, BY
MAKING A PUBLIC STATEMENT, TO THE POLITICIANS,
AT TORONTO CITY HALL.

ROB FORD, TORONTO MAYOR, IS ALSO NOT HAVING IT. BUT WHO CARES
ABOUT WHAT HE THINKS.
Activists Demand More Shelter Beds, For the Homeless and An Increase In Welfare Benefits.

The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, has taken on Toronto City Council and The Mayor, Rob Ford, over more shelter beds and welfare benefits, for the poor and homeless. That's a good thing right? but Toronto's bulbous Mayor, Rob Ford, is not accepting any of this goodwill gesture, on behalf of the most vulnerable, in this society. He has demanded that the protesters leave city hall.

The Toronto police has moved in, since yesterday, to remove the occupy protesters from Toronto City Hall. And since last night, every single one of them, has been removed unto the street, by the police. But OCAP protesters and the other activists, are adamant, about what they want, the Toronto Mayor and the rest of Toronto City Council, to do, in order to meet their demand, regarding their latest gesture, on behalf of the poor. Some are even questioning if OCAP, is also being sincere, or if this is also another publicity grabbing stunt, by them. This is also Rob Ford's accusation, against OCAP members, which I also think is baseless. The needs of the poor and homeless in the city, should, in fact, be a priority, but it is also not, based on the actions of the Toronto Mayor and his colleagues. Part of OCAP's demand, is for the city to provide more shelter beds, for the homeless. But the mayor, Rob Ford, also claim that this is not necessary and a waste of tax payer's money. Where does he get off saying that, or speaking on behalf of all tax payers? To me, Rob Ford, despite his position as the Mayor, is also not qualified to speak on our behalf. He gave up that right, by insisting on putting his own opinions and beliefs, time and time again, before the public, and to also make that decision on our behalf. Rob Ford is bad for Toronto.

According to Toronto's Mayor Rob Ford, OCAP is also wrong about the city, being without shelter beds. Ford says that, “OCAP is wrong about access to beds. Every single night there are empty beds in our shelter system,” Ford said. “On average, about 3 to 4 per cent are empty every night.”

I have news for Rob Ford, who I also think should be homeless, even for just one night in the cold, just to understand the plight of the poor and homeless, in the city. There is a lack of shelter beds in the the city of Toronto, for the homeless and this has also been a long standing issue.

Rob Ford can also call the shelters, in Toronto, on any given night and they will also tell him, that they are also full to the capacity. So Rob Ford do not know what he is talking about. As for his talk about "saving tax payers money", why didn't he think of that recently, when he also gave himself a three percent raise in his salary?. The hypocrite that he is, he cannot identify with anything, that also does not personally, affect him. We have long known this. And many Torontonians are also not willing to over look this flaw, with him any longer.

Speaking, of Rob Ford's flaws, a recent allegation has come out, against the Mayor, for sexual misconduct and possible sexual assault, against a fellow mayoral candidate. The allegation was made public, today in fact, as I'm writing this article, and also from a woman, Sarah Thompson, who has alleged that Rob Ford, has touched her inappropriately and has also made a suggestive comment, to her, that was also inappropriate. The woman's claim is also actually pretty "revealing" about the latest of the Toronto Mayor's rude conduct. She is also a part of his team, so why should she also tell a lie, about the mayor now?

How did the Toronto Mayor, Rob Ford, also get back into office, after being booted out, should also be a testament to the corruption, that is also prevalent, with Canadian politicians and the justice system overall. The Mayor, has had some very serious accusations, about his conduct while in office and anyone one else, would have also been gone by now.

I think that I will reiterate, some of them here, as a reminder, of exactly who we have in office, as mayor right now. Accusations of domestic abuse, by the Mayor's wife, after she also called 911 and the police, in 2008 and charges of assault and uttering death threats, against his wife, Renata, were also laid against Mayor, Rob Ford, in 2008 and that those charges, were also subsequently dropped, against Rob Ford, in 2008. In 2011, the police were also called numerous times, to the home of the Toronto Mayor, for "domestic" reasons, in October 2011, and again on December 25, 2011, Christmas Day, the police were also at the Mayor's home, again, when Rob Ford's mother in law, called the police, after claiming that, "the Mayor had been drinking and wanted to take his children to Florida, against his wife's wishes". This is not a happy home, from the look of things.

I did not even go into the Mayor's distant past, regarding his drunk driving and drug conviction, charges, in the US in 1999, before he was a mayor. Nor will I also go into details, about his more recent vulgar behaviour, in the last couple of years, while still a mayor, which every one also knows about by now. The bottom line is that he is not fit to be mayor, or to represent Toronto, let alone to
speak on behalf, of the poor and homeless, which he also cannot identify with, on any level.

I have also said to a friend, when the Toronto Mayor, Rob Ford, was also put back into office, in January of 2013, after being kicked out in 2012, on conflict of interest charges, against him, that there would also be more scandals, in the future about him and the latest one, is also not surprising. Can so many people be wrong about him?. I don't think so. No one really believes in him, or that he can also do a good job, as the mayor, for Toronto. No one, that is, beside Rob Ford and his brother, Councillor Doug Ford, who both run City Council, like it is a family business.

OCAP, should also ignore the rants, of Mayor Rob Ford and stick to their agenda, regarding the plight, of the poor and homeless, in the city. I don't think that all of city council, also, share the mayor's views, on that issue either.






THE TORONTO POLICE CORRUPTION

The Toronto Police 14 Division, In the Hugues Idholo Case.

The corruption involved, in lthe laying of charges, against some Toronto police officers, from 14 division, who were involved in the arrest of a man, Hugues Idholo Yala, after he had made death threats to kill my animal, to me and also to the police.
The police tried to cover it up and later lied about the death threats that were told to them directly, by this person and for which I am also a witness to this fact.
-they never charged him with the uttering of those death threats, nor with the other offence of assault with a weapon, when he also came towards me with the knife demanding that I bring my cat out so that he could kill the animal and making statements like,
"I am going to kill it right now, I don't care, call the police", which the police also heard during the 911 call that I had also made to the police, regarding that incident.
the police then released the man, under a form 10, immediately back into the property, where I also live after he had made his death threats against my animal, because my animal is also my property.

Obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice charges against 14 division police officers, in this case, were also denied by the Justices of the Peace, at the courthouse.

The man had told the police that he intended to kill the animal and the police also refused to charge him with the death threats. They only charged him with "threatening an animal". I was a witness, to that fact and also heard the man, Hugues Idholo Yala, telling the police offiers, as they handcuffed him, proably to prevent him from futher carrying out his threats to harm my animal at that time. The man, kept saying that he did not care and that he was going to kill my cat, directly to the police officers, who attended the 911 call that I had also made to the police. The threats were also caught on the 911 tapes, as the man also shouted his death threats to kill my animal while I was on the telephone with the 911 dispatcher.

The Man who made the death threats, Hugues Idholo, was released by the police, soon afer his arrest, back on to the property, where the victims live.

The Police also did not have any information on their data base regarding the man that they had also arrested. Not even an event number. Inquiries were also made into this:

1.Why did They not Charged The Suspect With Making Death Threats, which was also heard by the police themselves?
2. Why did they release a man who made death threats back on to the property where the victim also lives and without any conditions that he also had to comply with?

The information that I will provide regarding the Toronto police latest actions will also show that I am treated differently, by the police and this is of course not new information.

On Monday July 9, 2012 the police was called by me on a 911 call regarding death threats that were made by a man advancing towards me with a knife and also threatening to kill my animal, immediately. I called 911 and while I was talking to the dispatcher, the man Hugues Idholo Yala, who the police also called "Idholo Huges" in their report, and also in court documents, to protect his refugee application status, also continued to threaten death, towards the animal. Caught also on the 911 tape. Making comments like "I don't care, call the police, I am going to kill your cat right now". Other witnesses there claimed that they also tried to restrained him while I was on the phone with the police. I asked the police dispatcher if she could hear the threats and she said yes and that the police was also discharged and on the way. They attended in a few minutes, told the man to lay down on the floor and handcuffed him. All the while that they were doing so, he was still making the death threats
.
The man Hugues Idholo Yala was then taken to the 14 division police station and also released a short time later, to the same address where we both lived. I was shocked by the actions of the police to release someone who they had witnessed making threats to commit murder, back to the address where the victim also lives.

The Toronto police, later erased his comments, from the 911 tape, claiming that it was to "protect his privacy", after I also requested the 911 tape from the police headquarters.

But there was also more to come from the police. They also did not charge him with making the death threats, which they also heard, but according to the two police sergeants that I have also spoken to, he was charged with "threatening an animal". I was told by a sergeant, at that same division, that "the matter was discussed at the station and that was the charge that was laid".

They also made the decision, to release him on a form 10, with a promise to appear, in several weeks to the court, and with no other conditions. He was allowed to have daily contact with the victim, to remain in the same dwelling and to not even keep the peace, or to be without any further weapons, ot to stay away from drugs or alcohol. Standard procedures to safeguard the public, in a charge for violence, which the Toronto police 14 divison, did not even bother to take, regarding the man Hugues Idhole, in this case. Albeit that they were also a direct witness to his violence, regarding his comments, to kill an animal and to cause harm or injury, in the process.

Incidentally, when I called the police back on July 11, for more information, on the specific charge, a police sergeant there named Jackson, also told me that the court, also does not have the information as yet, about the accused, after the incident, when I asked if I could also called the court, to get that information. The information concerning his arrest and also charge, including the event number was also not in that police division's data base. I had to call back several times and also waited for a long time on the telephone, to eventually get the little bit of information that I did. And this was not from the 14 division police either, but police headquarters, about the accused, because they apparently had a different system, that records all calls and were able to pull that information up, though both the police dispatcher and the 14 division police, claim that they also did not have.

ONTARIO COALITION AGAINST POVERTY

THE ONTARIO COALITION AGAINST POVERTY, OR OCAP, HAS STAGED A SIT IN AT METRO HALL, BY ALSO MAKING A PUBLIC STATEMENT, TO THE POLITICIANS, AT TORONTO CITY HALL.

ROB FORD, TORONTO MAYOR, IS ALSO NOT HAVING IT. BUT WHO CARES
ABOUT WHAT HE THINKS.













Activists Demand More Shelter Beds, For the Homeless and An Increase In Welfare Benefits.

The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, has taken on Toronto City Council and The Mayor, Rob Ford, over more shelter beds and welfare benefits, for the poor and homeless. That is a good thing right? but Toronto's bulbous Mayor, Rob Ford, is not accepting any of this goodwill gesture, on behalf of the most vulnerable, in this society. He has demanded that the protesters leave city hall.

The Toronto police has moved in since yesterday, to remove the occupy protesters, from the Toronto City Hall.  And since last night, every single one of them, has been removed unto the street, by the police. But OCAP protesters and the other activists, are also adamant about what they want the Toronto Mayor and the rest of the Toronto City Council to do, in order to meet their demands, regarding their latest gesture. And also on behalf of the poor. Some are even questioning, if OCAP is also being sincere, or if this is also another publicity grabbing stunt, by them?. This has also been Rob Ford's accusation, against OCAP.  The needs of the poor and the homeless in the city, should, in fact, be a priority, but it is also not, based on the actions of the Toronto Mayor and his colleagues. Part of OCAP's demand, is for the city to provide more shelter beds, for the homeless. But the Mayor, Rob Ford, also claim that this is not necessary and a waste of tax payer's money. Where does he get off saying that?, Or speaking on behalf of all tax payers?  To me, Rob Ford, despite his position as the Mayor, is also not qualified to speak on our behalf.  He gave up that right, by insisting on putting his own opinions and beliefs, time and time again, before the public, and to also make that decision on our behalf.  Rob Ford is bad for Toronto.

According to Toronto's Mayor, Rob Ford, OCAP is also wrong about the city, being without shelter beds. Ford says that, “OCAP is wrong about access to beds. Every single night there are empty beds in our shelter system,” Ford said. “On average, about 3 to 4 per cent are empty every night.”

I have news for Rob Ford, who I also think should be homeless, even for just one night in the cold, just to understand the plight of the poor and homeless, in the city. There is a lack of shelter beds in the the city of Toronto, for the homeless and this has also been a long standing issue.

Ford can also call the shelters, in Toronto, on any given night and they will tell him, that they are also full to the capacity. So Rob Ford do not know what he is talking about. As for his talk about "saving tax payers money", why didn't he think of that recently, when he also gave himself a three percent raise in his salary?. The hypocrite that he is, he cannot identify with anything, that also does not personally, affect him.  We have long known this. And many Torontonians are also not willing to over look this flaw, with him any longer.

Speaking, of Rob Ford's flaws, a recent allegation has come out against the Mayor, for sexual misconduct and possible sexual assault, against a fellow mayoral candidate. The allegation was made public, today in fact, as I'm writing this article, and also from a woman, Sarah Thompson, who has alleged that Rob Ford, has touched her inappropriately and has also made a suggestive comment, to her, that was also inappropriate.  The woman's claim is also actually pretty "revealing" about the latest of the Toronto Mayor's rude conduct.  She is also a part of his team, so why should she also tell a lie, about the Mayor now?

How did the Toronto Mayor, Rob Ford, also get back into office, after being booted out, should also be a testament to the corruption, that is also prevalent, with Canadian politicians and the justice system overall.  The Mayor, has had some very serious accusations, about his conduct while in office and anyone one else, would have also been gone by now.

I think that I will reiterate, some of them here, as a reminder, of exactly who we have in office, as Mayor right now. Accusations of domestic abuse, by the Mayor's wife, after she also called 911 and the police, in 2008 and also charges of assault and uttering death threats, against his wife, Renata, were also laid against Mayor, Rob Ford, in 2008. And that those charges, were also subsequently dropped, against Rob Ford, in 2008.  In 2011, the police were also called numerous times, to the home of the Toronto Mayor, for "domestic" reasons, in October 2011. On December 25, 2011, Christmas Day, the police were also at the Mayor's home again, when Rob Ford's mother in law, called the police, after claiming that, "the Mayor had been drinking and wanted to take his children to Florida, against his wife's wishes". This is not a happy home, from the look of things.

I did not even go into the Mayor's distant past, regarding his drunk driving and drug conviction, charges, in the US in 1999, before he was a mayor. Nor will I also go into details, about his more recent vulgar behaviour, in the last couple of years, while still a mayor, which every one also knows about by now. The bottom line is that he is not fit to be mayor, or to represent Toronto, let alone to speak on behalf, of the poor and homeless, which he also cannot identify with, on any level. Rob Ford is also a millionaire.

I have also said to a friend when the Toronto Mayor, Rob Ford, was also put back into office, in January of 2013, after being kicked out in 2012, on conflict of interest charges against him, that, there would also be more scandals, in the future about him. And the latest one is also not surprising. Can so many people be wrong about him?. I don't think so.  No one really believes in him, or that he can also do a good job, as the Mayor, for Toronto, because of his personal habits. No one, that is, beside Rob Ford and his brother, Councillor Doug Ford, who both run City Council, like it is a family business.

OCAP, should also ignore the rants, of Mayor Rob Ford and stick to their agenda, regarding the plight, of the poor and homeless, in the city. I don't think that all of City Council, also share the mayor's views, on that issue either.







Saturday, March 2, 2013

IT IS NOT ALL TALK. VIEW THE EVIDENCE OF CORRUPTION, FOR YOURSELF


Justice of the Peace Cremisio, at Old City Hall Court House in Toronto


EVIDENCE FOR CORRUPTION AND SYSTEMATIC ABUSE, IN THE CANADIAN COURTS


PARKDALE INTERCULTURAL ASSOCIATION

A WASTE OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FUNDING.

CHARGES LEVIED AGAINST THIS GOVERNMENT FUNDED ORGANIZATION
FOR CORRUPTION AND ABUSE OF POWER.

THE ORGANIZATION, SHOULD NO LONGER, BE FUNDED, BY THE
CANADIAN GOVERNMENT'S, CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION AND
ALSO BY THE CITY OF TORONTO, AS WELL AS OTHER PRIVATE SPONSORS.



What They Say And What They Do Are Two Different Things.

Abusive and Incompetent staff, who cover up their wrong doings, in clever ways. By lying about it and by blaming the clients, who use the centre.

Who ridicules and also mocked some of the clients.
Who uses mentally disabled clients, to occupy the computers all day.
Who also condoned violence at the Centre, against clients, by other clients and who themselves
also implicated in those actions.
Who has also been blamed, for being racist, to some of the clients.
Who spends their time, chatting, in each other's office, instead of working.
Who lies openly about their actions, when confronted about it, to save their jobs. (Which are not worth saving).
Who has no clue how to deal, with different members, of the community, let alone to effectively run the programs at the centre.
Who has also been accused, of serious breach of privacy, regarding the clients' personal information.
The list goes on. But what it indicates, in general, is corruption and also breach of public trust.


There are many organizations like this one in Canada, which also recieve public and private funding and which has not shown, that it is also deserving of such funding. Worst for this organization, in particular, is the real casuse for concern, regarding this agency, which is the lack of competence, on the part of the staff, as well as the lack of integrity, in the personal characters, of those staff, who also run the agency, on a daily basis, beginning with its director, Michael Nguyen and also its managers, Marek Kurek, Tsering Norzom Thonsur, especially, as well as other staff at that facility, Tsering Choedon Arya and Lin Tong, who are settlement workers and who are all fairly new immigrants to the county, themselves and has no real knowledge of Canadian society, as well as the Canadian law.

In short, this also does not benefit the clients, who use the centre, which is also located in an area, Parkdale, which has a large and diversified community, made up of different groups of people.
Therefore, when situations comes up, they also do not know how to address it. And in other circumstances, they have also created for themselves, they also cover up for each other, in those situations. We are talking about lying, abusive behaviour towards the clients, who has used the centre and a host of other inappropriate behaviours. None of which also seem to get to the attention, of the Board of Directors, for this organization, either. Because true to the way the organization is run, it gets covered up, at the bottom and all the way up to the director, Michael Nguyen.

The Parkdale Intercultural Association, actually has two separate locations, in the same area, of Parkdale, which many people thinks are also unnecessary. The centre with the most problems, is located at the 1257 Queen Street West, location in Toronto. That is where the complaints about staff's misconduct, are coming from the most. The managers at that location, Marek Kurek and Tsering Norzom Thonsur, are also known to act unprofessionally and hasn't got a clue about how to manage the centre.

Some have even shown their true characters in the ways that many people will also find to be quite shocking, as well as unprofessional, regarding the way, that they also go about managing the centre. Abusing clients and lying to cover up their actions. At the top of the list, are the following staff: Marek Kurek, Tsering Norzom Thonsur, Lin Tong, Tsering Choedon Arya and a few others. After those complaints, about the staff, at the Parkdale Intercultural Association, began coming out, the director, Michael Nyguyen, also promised that he would also be recommending, that those staff, get further training.
Despite what the director, Michael Nyguyen has also said, it has never happened and the unprofessionalism and corruption, involved wih their actions, has also continued to the present.

From time to time, I like to expose those organizations and the people within it, who have wasted the tax payer's money and also continue to exist, much to the detriment of society. This is also one such organization. The Parkdale Intecultural Association, should no longer be allowed to continue, with its present staff, or to continue to receive public funding, for doing a lousy job. The public demands that the staff, be professional and to know what they are doing, which is not the case with this organization. Personally, I think that the staff, should also be fired. Certainly there are other more qualified people to fill those jobs, left vacant when the current staff is fired, which they also deserved to be. It may also want to consider having a staff, who also better reflect the community. In other words, the staff should also be more diversified. Since so many different kinds of people would also like to use this centre. It is a pity that they also have to receive substandard service, because of the current staff, and the board should also take those complaints, about them seriously enough, to make the changes, that are also neccessary, in this case.









HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES BY THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT

All Human Rights Agencies, in Canada, currently support the Canadian Government's, human rights abuse, by not reporting such abuse, except a few cases regarding the First Nations People, who also have a legitimate claim to human rights abuse. But it is as if others don't exist in this society as well.

Primarily among them is Amnesty International who condone the actions of the Canadian Government by suppressing evidence of human rights abuse in this country that have far exceeded what is considered as tolerant by the U.N. (no human rights abuse is tolorant) by either not reporting such human rights violations fully or by not offering their services to the victims of human rights abuse in Canada. In fact it is official that Amnesty International in particular do not investigate certain cases of human rights abuse in Canada. That is their official statement on the matter. Instead it has been focusing on those human rights cases that have already gained international attention to bring more focus to those cases of human rights abuse.

Amnesty International is not alone in this. There are many other human rights groups operating inside of Canada whose mandate it is to not document or expose human rights abuse by the Canadian government. That is the official statement of most of them. They do not support any individual cases of human rights abuse by the Canadian government. As a result victims of human rights abuse by the Canadian government usually do not have the advantage of having their cases recognize because such cases are not acknowledged in Canada and this is because of the Canadian government's official position on the matter.

When asked it will declare that such individual cases of human rights abuse do not exist n Canada. Victims of human rights abuse by the Canadian government are now taking their cases international to bring awareness to the problems that they face in this country. And in regards to those human rights organizations operating inside of Canada, some of these organizations in Canada do not in fact represent the interest of human rights actions worldwide.

There is a strong suspicion of the motives of some of those organizations and the public should be aware that not all of them really deliver on their promise to help those who fall victims of their government's or others violations of their basic human rights. I regards to individual cases, most victims of human rights abuse in Canada have no voice and suffers silently. They usually have no where to turn when their rights are violated. It is the same for some groups as well. The legal system often fail them as well. In many cases there is a conspiracy that exist among Canadian government officials to prevent such persons or groups from exercising their democratic rights. These Canadian government officials are to beblamed for the disregard for the administration of justice in those cases because of the level of corruption involved.

They are both trying to cover up their actions and to maintain the image that they have both here and internationally. Keep in mind taht some Canadian government officials have held some high positions in some of these human rights organizations including the U.N. and their influence is still felt whether it is acknowleged or not. I hold them as hypocrites because of the high positions that they hold and their professed concerns in regards to human rights worldwide they still fail to acknowledged these same human rights issues regarding their own nation. They are mainly responsible for the world believing that human rights abuses do not exist in this country as well. Their influence is felt both inside and outside of Canada. Victims of human rights abuse in Canada should be aware of the obstacles that they face by the Canadian government directly.

One of these obstacles is the Canadian government's open denial of those cases of human rights abuse in its own country even though it also knows that this is a lie that it has cultivated over time to protect its image both here and abroad. The human rights agencies operaiting inside of Canada are just to be blamed for this blatant lie that have been formulated by the Canadian government to avert attention away from its own human rights violations in its own country. You can help stop human rights abuse by the Canadian government which are directed at both individuals as well as groups of people by exposing such cases of human rights abuse and by supporting those victims who most of the time do not have any other means of having their cases heard or dealt with. In individual cases of human rights abuse in this country, many lives are destroyed that way. Individuals who have been the target of human rights violations by the Canadian government directly or through some other means are most often ignored regarding their cases.

As I am aware of many such cases it would seem appropriate to mention that this is also a tactic that is used by the government to avert attention away from the problem of human rights abuse in this country. It would be rewarding for those victims to see that accountability is made in regrds to this government owning up to the role it has played in such cases. Another very disturbing factor that almost always seem to appear in those cases is that racism also plays a role as well. There is an undeniable fact that most cases of human rights abuse in Canada involved those who are considered a minority. That is those persons who are non white. This does not take away from the fact that other members of Canadian society who are white and also suffers because of human rights buse. But in most individual cases as well as those cases involving groups of people, the overwhelming majority are non white. Even in cases where the human rights abuse are based on other factors, race often played a crucial role in those cases as well. For example, among targeted groups, such as prisoners in Canadian jails, there is undeniable evidence that race also plays a role in how they are treated.

There are many cases of specific groups in those institutions who are targeted, the most notable among them are Blacks, Native Canadians and other minorities. The Canadian government's denial of these evidence is one reason why it should now be investigated for those human rights violations committed in its own country against both individuals as well as groups. Every one generally agrees that human rights abuse which is the focus of many organizations as well as countries because of the fact that as human beings it is recognized as an inherent right of each person. Yet there is a disparaging difference in how each person or groups of peole are treated in regards to this depending on the different factors involved. Each organization or country deals with victims of human rights abuse differently and it seemed to be based on factors which are often beyond the control of the person or the victims of human rights abuse themselves. The Canadian government is no different.

It has been guilty of perpetrating some of the worst forms of human rights violations against both individuals as well as groups of people in its own country. It is time that this fact get recognized by the International community and this government is made accountable for its actions. The world Human Rights organizations such as the U.N. and others as well as the world community can no longer ignore the many complaints which have been maade by those living in this country. Human rights abuse by the Canadian government is a serious concern that should not be ignored any longer. Just ask the victims.

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Report on The State of Racism in Canada (Reprinted here).

February 2007
Chapter I: Human Rights
Introduction
In its 2002 report to the CERD Committee1, NARCC had this to say about the human rights
protection system in Canada:
Canada has an international reputation of being a promoter and protector of human
rights. But under that facade lies many problems, particularly for those individuals and groups who are vulnerable targets of discrimination.
On paper, Canada has a well-established human rights protection system. Our
Constitution contains a Charter of Rights and Freedoms (the "Charter"), which, among
other things, grants every individual in Canada equal protection and equal benefit before and under the law.2 The Canadian Charter applies to all laws and government actions.
Apart from the Charter, individual victims of discrimination could also seek protection
and redress under federal and provincial human rights laws.
….
[I]t is our position that the human rights system in Canada is both ineffective and
inadequate. The system itself in fact has become, in some instances, a barrier for people
facing racial discrimination and other forms of discrimination to access justice.
…..
In December 1998 the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights reminded
Canada of its obligation to ensure that its human rights machinery comports with its
treaty commitments, stating in its Concluding Observations on Canada's Report:
...enforcement machineries provided in human rights legislation need to be
reinforced to ensure that all human rights claims are not settled through
mediation and be promptly determined before a competent human rights tribunal,
with the provision of legal aid to vulnerable groups.3
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In April 1991, the Human Rights Committee, in its concluding observations on Canada's
fourth report on its implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights stated:
The Committee is concerned with the inadequacy of remedies for violations of
articles 2, 3 and 26 of the Covenant. [These are the anti-discrimination articles.]
The Committee recommends that the relevant human rights legislation be
amended so as to guarantee access to a competent tribunal and to an effective
remedy in all cases of discrimination.4
Since then, the Canadian human rights legislation has not been strengthened. On the
contrary, in some provinces including Ontario and British Columbia, there has been
serious set back in terms of progress and advancement of human rights. The change in
political government in both of these provinces, each with a distinctively anti-equity
agenda, has moved the provinces back at least 20 years in the area of human rights.
Unfortunately, these comments still ring true five years after the last report submitted by the
Canadian Government. The Government of Canada has taken no initiatives to implement any of
the recommendations put forward by Justice La Forest who conducted a comprehensive review
of the Canadian Human Rights system and produced a comprehensive report in 2000 entitled
“Promoting Equality”. Nor has the Government of Canada committed to substantially increase
funding to enable the human rights system to adequately handle its burdensome caseload.
More disturbingly, in some respects, the situation in Canada has become worse.
Cancellation of the Court Challenges Program
Canadians may well enjoy constitutionally entrenched Charter rights, but launching a Charter
challenge to enforce such rights is a luxury that few people could afford.
Among the least able to do so are the racialized communities.
As of September 25, 2006, the ability of members of these communities to launch Charter
challenge has been undercut even further. On that day, the Government of Canada killed the one
program that supports disadvantaged groups in their fight for equality.
Since 1989 the Court Challenges Program has been the key source of support for equity seeking
groups who dare to challenge the Canadian Government for discriminating against the most
vulnerable in our society. The Program made it possible for immigrants and refugees, racialized
communities, women, people with disability, gays and lesbians, and others from marginalized
communities, to not only read about their rights on paper, but to take action to enforce them.
The Government of Canada, by its own admission, particularly when it is appearing before the
various UN treaty bodies, including the CERD Committee, has often referred to the Court
Challenges Program to demonstrate how advanced the human rights protection system is in
Canada, and how committed that the Government of Canada is to the fundamental principles and
values enshrined in the Charter.
This is evidenced also in the Government’s 17th and 18th report where the Government once
again listed the Court Challenges Program as a shining example of measures taken by Canada to
provide “effective protection and remedies” for victims of racial discrimination.5
Yet the Government of Canada decided to eliminate all funding to the Court Challenges
Program, because in the words of the Chair of the Treasury Board, it does not make sense for the
Government to subsidize lawyers to challenge the Government's own laws in court. If minority
groups had problems enforcing their Charter rights before September 25, 2006, the difficulties
they are going to face will be that much greater after that fateful date.
In cancelling the Court Challenges Program, the Government of Canada has thus violated Article
6 of ICERD, which provides:
Article 6
States Parties shall assure to everyone within their jurisdiction effective protection and
remedies, through the competent national tribunals and other State institutions, against
any acts of racial discrimination which violate his human rights and fundamental
freedoms contrary to this Convention, as well as the right to seek from such tribunals just
and adequate reparation or satisfaction for any damage suffered as a result of such
discrimination.
Cancellation of the Law Commission of Canada
On the very same day that the Government of Canada announced its cancellation of the Court
Challenges Program, it also announced that it would cancel all funding to the Law Commission
of Canada.
The Commission has gone through a number of changes as successive governments in power try
to curtail the influence of an agency that has dedicated itself to conducting high quality legal
research on how the law should best be used as a means for social change. At the time of its
cancellation, the Commission was looking at issues such as the changing workplace and its
impact on vulnerable workers (including immigrant and racialized workers) and the impact of
globalization on domestic laws. By cutting all funding to the Commission, the Government of
Canada has thus eliminated an important tool for many non-governmental organizations in the
social justice movement to engage in proactive measures to address racism and other forms of
5 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination – Seventeenth and Eighteenth
Reports of Canada, at p.21
Community Response to 2007 CERD Report Canada – February 2007
www.ocasi.org 9
discrimination. This decision of the Government of Canada is inconsistent with Article 2(1)(c)
of the ICERD, which states:
Article 2
1. States Parties condemn racial discrimination and undertake to pursue by all
appropriate means and without delay a policy of eliminating racial discrimination
in all its forms and promoting understanding among all races, and to this end:
(c) Each State Party shall take effective measures to review governmental, national
and local policies, and to amend, rescind or nullify any laws and regulations
which have the effect of creating or perpetuating racial discrimination wherever
it exists;
Redress and Reparation
On a more positive note, we want to acknowledge the efforts by the Canadian Government to
address a long standing issue facing the Chinese Canadian community, namely, Redress for the
Chinese Head Tax and Exclusion Act. We commend the Government of Canada on having
finally agreed to provide an apology to the community for the historical injustice, and to provide
financial redress for the few surviving head tax payers and widows. It has taken the Government
of Canada 20 years to resolve this issue, and many head tax payers and widows had passed on
without ever seeing justice done.
We urge the Committee to call on the Government of Canada to continue its consultations with
the Chinese Canadian community and other communities who have suffered historical injustices
with a view to developing community based projects to educate all Canadians about the history
of Canada and to address contemporary forms of racism facing these communities

CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE USE OF BLACK MARKET PROJECTS, THAT INVOLVED TORTURE.

BLACK MARKET PROJECT. SECRET WEAPONS THAT ARE USED BY THE POLICE.

The truth should be exposed, on the use of illegal black market projects, such as the psychological weapons, that are currently being used, by the Canadian government and its police agencies, against many individuals and the unsuspecting public, in general, because of the damage that it has also caused to those persons, that has also, virtually, been denied, by those who has used such methods, to both terrorized and also to cause injury, as well as to punish, those who has fallen victim to them, by also using those illegal methods against them. Including this writer.

Most people are aware of MKULTRA, a diabolical conception, that was first implemented, by the U.S. government and made useful in Canada, where it was also used, to carry out heinous attacks against innocent person, who were also used as guniea pigs, in those experiment. by those who has had access to it, upon innocent people, and was also utilized by the police, especially, to punish those, that they've also deemed, are a threat to them, or who has challenge them, in any way. Since Canada is also a police state, its use of those illegal methods, against those who has questioned its actions, has also been unchallenged and it has also continued to use such methods, without any intervention from human rights agencies, when this has also been reported by individuals, who has been subjected to those treatments.

Those victims has also suffered irreversible damage and those who are responsible, has also committed the "perfect crime", because to prove its existence, many of the victims are also disbelieved and the perpetrators are allowed, to get away with their crimes. Some victims also figt back. The internet is now full of stories of people who has been exposing these crimes against humanity, in this country.


PUSHING THROUGH, WITH MY CLAIM, AGAINST CANADA, WITH THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT.

I am being persistent, regarding to my claim, before the International Criminal Court of Justice, for crimes against humanity, that were committed against me, by the Canadian government, through its persecution of me.

THERE ARE OTHER TORTURE VICTIMS, BESIDE MAHER ARAR AND THE OTHER MORE WELL KNOWN CASES, INVOLVING THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT. THE WORLD NEED TO START LISTENING TO THE VICTIMS.


Not only did that government, carried out torture and other crimes against humanity, against me, but it has also tried to cover up its actions, by trying to sabotage my efforts, in bring those charges against the Canadian gocvernment, before any international courts, or human rights governances, or bodies. Including the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the International Court of Justice, currently. The Canadian government's actions against me, of course, is based on punishing me, for speaking out about its actions, publicly, through my blog and as a human rights activist, in that country.

In the meantime, it continues to violate my rights, in every way possible. And at times, it even mocks my effort, to bring those persons, who are also directly responsible, for those acts, to justice. This would of course involved the police and others working with them. The police and the government, has also carried out every human rights violations, under international laws, against me. From the acts of physical and psychological torture, to others, involving trying to prevent me, from having, the very basic rights, of any human being.

This also included the right to be protected, in the Canadian courts, involving my case, where I also encountered systematic racism and other human rights violations, on top of the judges' personal bias. The Canadian police is also actively involved, in carrying out the daily persecution of me, and especially those involving psychological torture and working with others to accomplish this goal. Still the international human rights bodies, are also silent on these issues, involving the Canadian government's human rights abuse, and the individual claims, that are also coming out of that country, involving individuals like myself, who are the target of that government. And while those international human rights agencies, continued to remain silent, those human rights violations, has also continued.

why do those same human rights protection agencies, also not take those accounts, seriously, concerning the Canadian government, human rights abuse and why are they still protecting that government's actions? Why are they still ignoring those claims, against the Canadian government, that are also coming out of that country, from people like myself? The Hypocrisy, of the Canadian media, has also led others, to believe otherwise. The Canadian government, punishes anyone, who would speak out, against its actions, openly, as I have also done, through my blog. It has also carried on a secret campaign, to silence those critics, of the government, directly.
And it has also done so, openly, while the rest of the world is watching.


Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner, for Human Rights.


The United Nations Front Woman, To Hide Its Complacency, on Human Rights Abuse.

Many people do not know that the United Nations is actually a front organization, for the New World Order and that it only gets people to run it who are also a part of the agenda. Hence no one should also be surprised about Navi Pillay, the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights. This woman knows how to go with the program. She neither cares about the protection of human rights, but in some cases, has also ignored some of those countries which also has a high incidences of human rights abuse, such as Canada.
These organizations like to put the "right people", in those positions, who the public will also not suspect, of even going along with human rights abuse, but which is the very opposite. Navi Pillay, is one such person.
The woman is as corrupt as the organizations that she also represents. Anyone who believes that the United Nations is there to protect human rights, also need to wake up and face reality. That is not its purpose. Its purpose is to act as if it does. In this way, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is doing a "good" job, in deceiving the public.

Quote Of The Day

"I am from Germany and Canada, tainted, beyond belief".
Professor Ewe Rhindhart

Exposing Racism in Canada

I have reprinted here a report on Canada's position on racism.
Report on the State of Racism in Canada February 2007
As reported by the OCASI, MTCSALC and SALCO groups and also submited as a joint report to the United Nations CERD Committee.
Among those issues addressed are:

1. The Status of Compliance by the Canadian Government with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

2.OCASI Asks The Ontario Government To Act To End Racial Profiling:
OCASI writes to Ontario Attorney General Michael Bryant, in response to the preliminary findings of the Kingston Data Collection Project conducted by the Kingston Police.

3. The Ontario Government Response to OCASI's Call to End Racial Profiling

4. New Racism Policy falls short:
The newly released policy on racism does not go far enough to state that racism in any form is unacceptable and must be eliminated.

5. Racial Profiling of Canadians:
OCASI calls on both the Federal and Ontario Provincial levels of government to demonstrate how and when they will act to protect all Canadians from racial profiling.

6. OCASI Response to Speech from the Throne:
OCASI is deeply concerned that anti-racism and equity for immigrants and refugees received barely a nod in the Speech from the Throne.

7. OCASI Asks Ontario Government To Act To End Racial Profiling
OCASI writes to Ontario Attorney General Michael Bryant, in response to the preliminary findings of the Kingston Data Collection Project conducted by the Kingston Police.

8. Toronto Police Services and Racial Profiling
OCASI and some of its member agencies came together to call on the Premier to take a leadership role in responding to the findings of the Toronto Star.
OCASI is concerned about the ongoing racial profiling by police services across Ontario and at Canadian ports of entry.

9. Racial Profiling Of Black Youth Is Not The Answer To Gun Violence:
OCASI condemns Toronto City Councillor Michael Thompson's comments that police should target young black men in order to find illegal guns.
They found that residents of African/Black origin receive harsher treatment than White residents, and are over represented in Police statistics of charges and arrests

Other Previous Reports on Human Rights Protection in Canada
In a 2002 a report to the United Nations CERD Committee, the following report was prepared on Canada's human rights protection system:

1. "On paper, Canada has a well-established human rights protection system...It is our position, that the human rights system in Canada, is both ineffective and inadequate. The system itself in fact has become, in some instances, a barrier for people facing racial discrimination and other forms of discrimination to access justice".
3."Canada has an international reputation of being a promoter and protector of human rights. But under that facade lies many problems, particularly for those individuals and groups who are vulnerable targets of discrimination...".

Further:
In December 1998 the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
reminded Canada,of its obligation to ensure that its human rights complies with its treaty commitments, stating in its Concluding Observations on Canada's Report, the following: 1. That enforcement machineries provided in human rights legislation need to be reinforced to ensure that all human rights claims are not settled through
mediation and be promptly determined before a competent human rights tribunal,
with the provision of legal aid to vulnerable groups.

2. The (Human Rights Committee), is concerned with the inadequacy of remedies for violations of articles 2, 3 and 26 of the Covenant. (These are the anti-discrimination articles). The Committee recommends that the relevant human rights legislation be amended, so as to guarantee access to a competent tribunal and to an effective remedy in all cases of discrimination.

3. Since then, the Canadian human rights legislation has not been strengthened. On the contrary, in some provinces including Ontario and British Columbia, there has been serious set back in terms of progress and advancement of human rights. The change in political government in both of these provinces, each with a distinctively anti-equity agenda, has moved the provinces back at least 20 years in the area of human rights.

4. The Government of Canada has taken no initiatives to implement any of
the recommendations put forward by Justice La Forest who conducted a comprehensive review of the Canadian Human Rights system, entitled "promoting Equality".

5. The Government of Canada has not committed to substantially increase
funding to enable the human rights system to adequately handle its burdensome caseload.

6. More disturbingly, in some respects, the situation in Canada has become worse.

7. Cancellation of the Court Challenges Program:Canadians may well enjoy constitutionally entrenched Charter rights, but launching a Charter challenge to enforce such rights is a luxury that few people could afford.
Among the least able to do so are the racialized communities.
8. As of September 25, 2006, the ability of members of these communities to launch Charter challenge has been undercut even further. On that day, the Government of Canada killed the one program that supports disadvantaged groups in their fight for equality. Since 1989 the Court Challenges Program has been the key source of support for equity seeking groups who dare to challenge the Canadian Government for discriminating against the most vulnerable in our society... to take action to enforce them.

9. The Government of Canada, by its own admission, particularly when it is appearing before the various UN treaty bodies, including the CERD Committee, has often referred to the Court Challenges Program, to demonstrate how advanced the human rights protection system is in Canada, and how committed that the Government of Canada is to the fundamental principles and values enshrined in the Charter.

10. The Government of Canada decided to eliminate all funding to the Court Challenges
Program, because in the words of the Chair of the Treasury Board, it does not make sense for the Government to subsidize lawyers to challenge the Government's own laws in court.
If minority groups had problems enforcing their Charter rights before September 25, 2006, the difficulties they are going to face will be that much greater after that fateful date.
In cancelling the Court Challenges Program, the Government of Canada has thus violated Article 6 of ICERD, which provides: States Parties shall assure to everyone within their jurisdiction effective protection and remedies, through the competent national tribunals and other State institutions, against any acts of racial discrimination which violate his human rights and fundamental freedoms contrary to this Convention, as well as the right to seek from such tribunals just and adequate reparation or satisfaction for any damage suffered as a result of such discrimination.

Cancellation of the Law Commission of Canada.
On the very same day that the Government of Canada announced its cancellation of the Court Challenges Program, it also announced that it would cancel all funding to the Law Commission of Canada.The Commission has gone through a number of changes as successive governments in power try to curtail the influence of an agency that has dedicated itself to conducting high quality legal research on how the law should best be used as a means for social change...By cutting all funding to the Commission, the Government of Canada has thus eliminated an important tool for many non-governmental organizations in the social justice movement to engage in proactive measures to address racism and other forms of discrimination
5 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination –Seventeenth and Eighteenth
Reports of Canada,
Community Response to 2007 CERD Report Canada – February 2007

This decision of the Government of Canada is inconsistent with Article 2(1)(c)
of the ICERD, which states:
Article 2
1. States Parties condemn racial discrimination and undertake to pursue by all
appropriate means and without delay a policy of eliminating racial discrimination
in all its forms and promoting understanding among all races, and to this end:
(c) Each State Party shall take effective measures to review governmental, national
and local policies, and to amend, rescind or nullify any laws and regulations
which have the effect of creating or perpetuating racial discrimination wherever
it exists;

SAY NO! TO CANADA'S HUMAN RIGHTS MUSEUM

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights, that was built, supposedly, in order to present the Canadian government's views, on that subject, has also stirred up a lot of controversy and rightly so.

Many believed that it is a hypocritical action, on the part of the government and that its real purpose, is to hide its own human rights abuse, from the rest of the world. We should all denounce this act of hypocrisy, on its part. We know who are also behind this project. And also kept insisting on more funding for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. None other than some very prominent jewish organizations, in fact. It is their very narrow view of the human rights abuse situation in Canada, that has also led them to exclude other victims of human rights abuse, in fact, more qualified victims of human rights abuse, such as Canada's First Nations People and Blacks, who were also once slaves, in Canada. This group is still asking, for millions of dollars more, in funding for the museum, while at the same time, excluding other groups, in the exhibition, of the museum. Not fair, by any means.

On behalf of all the victims of human rights abuse in Canada, I declare that this museum does not tell the whole story of its human rights abuses, committed both in its own counry and abroad. Many people have either suffered, and has also died, as a result of its actions and until many of its laws are repealed to include some kind of compensation for the victims of human rights abuse, this museum, is, instead, a testament, to its own atrocities, that were perpetrated against those victims.

UN HAS FOUND CANADA, TO BE COMPLICIT, IN TORTURE.

CANADA IS TO BE BLAMED FOR TORTURE, SAYS THE UNITED NATIONS. 

The Canadian delegation, to the United Nations, has also asked the UN's Committee Against Torture, to "Consider Ottawa's "generous" donations, to the United Nations and Canada's "exemplary record of promoting and protecting freedom".

To Which the UN has also responded that:

Canada should not rely on “diplomatic assurances and monitoring arrangements” with its allies to reduce the risk of torture in foreign jails, Mr. Grossman said.

I have to wonder which human right organizations, has also made up the delegation, to the United Nations, in regards to that?. I can also think of a few of them whose position, on Canada's human rights record, would also mimic that statement, to the very last word or letter. Amnesty International, is the first to come to mind, here. But there are also others, such as Human Rights Watch and Transparency International, to name a few.

“But it’s not such a burden to comply, and we need to treat everybody in the same way.”

Claudio Grossman, a legal scholar, who heads the UN Committee Against Torture, said he also rejects Ottawa’s position, that human-rights treaties, generate too much paperwork and should not apply to the broad range of issues, reviewed, by the committee in Geneva.

I was in the room, and I found the tone and tenor quite surprising,” said Alex Neve, secretary-general of Amnesty International Canada. “That’s not common from a Western country.”

Ezat Mossallanejad, a policy analyst with the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture, said some Canadians may bridle at the notion of UN experts making policy recommendations, but that ultimately it strengthens the international system.

PARKDALE INTERCULTURAL ASSOCIATION

A WASTE OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FUNDING.

CHARGES LEVIED AGAINST THIS GOVERNMENT FUNDED ORGANIZATION
FOR CORRUPTION AND ABUSE OF POWER.

THE ORGANIZATION SHOULD NO LONGER BE FUNDED, BY THE
CANADIAN GOVERNMENT'S, CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION AND
ALSO BY THE CITY OF TORONTO, AS WELL AS OTHER PRIVATE SPONSORS.


What They Say And What They Do Are Two Different Things.

Abusive and Incompetent staff, who cover up their wrong doings, in clever ways. By lying about it and by blaming the clients, who use the centre. 
 
Who ridicules and also mocked some of the clients.
Who uses mentally disabled clients, to occupy the computers all day.
Who also condoned violence at the Centre, against clients, by other clients and who themselves
also implicated in those actions.
Who has also been blamed, for being racist, to some of the clients.
Who spends their time, chatting, in each other's office, instead of working.
Who lies openly about their actions, when confronted about it, to save their jobs. (Which are not worth saving).
Who has no clue how to deal, with different members, of the community, let alone to effectively run the programs at the centre.
Who has also been accused, of serious breach of privacy, regarding the clients' personal information.
The list goes on. But what it indicates, in general, is corruption and also breach of public trust.


There are many organizations like this one in Canada, which also recieve public and private funding and which has not shown, that it is also deserving of such funding. Worst for this organization, in particular, is the real casuse for concern, regarding this agency, which is the lack of competence, on the part of the staff, as well as the lack of integrity, in the personal characters, of those staff, who also run the agency, on a daily basis, beginning with its director, Michael Nguyen and also its managers, Marek Kurek, Tsering Norzom Thonsur, especially, as well as other staff at that facility, Tsering Choedon Arya and Lin Tong, who are settlement workers and who are all fairly new immigrants to the county, themselves and has no real knowledge of Canadian society, as well as the Canadian law.

In short, this also does not benefit the clients, who use the centre, which is also located in an area, Parkdale, which has a large and diversified community, made up of different groups of people.
Therefore, when situations comes up, they also do not know how to address it.  And in other circumstances, they have also created for themselves, they also cover up for each other, in those situations. We are talking about lying, abusive behaviour towards the clients, who has used the centre and a host of other inappropriate behaviours.  None of which also seem to get to the attention, of the Board of Directors, for this organization, either. Because true to the way the organization is run, it  gets covered up, at the bottom and all the way up to the director, Michael Nguyen.

The Parkdale Intercultural Association, actually has two separate locations, in the same area, of Parkdale, which many people thinks are also unnecessary.  The centre with the most problems, is located at the 1257 Queen Street West, location in Toronto. That is where the complaints about staff's misconduct, are coming from the most. The managers at that location, Marek Kurek and Tsering Norzom Thonsur, are also known to act unprofessionally and hasn't got a clue about how to manage the centre.

Some have even shown their true characters in the ways that many people will also find to be quite shocking, as well as unprofessional, regarding the way, that they also go about managing the centre.  Abusing clients and lying to cover up their actions. At the top of the list, are the following staff: Marek Kurek, Tsering Norzom Thonsur, Lin Tong, Tsering Choedon Arya and a few others. After those complaints, about the staff, at the Parkdale Intercultural Association, began coming out, the director, Michael Nyguyen, also promised that he would also be recommending, that those staff, get further training.
Despite what the director, Michael Nyguyen has also said, it has never happened and the unprofessionalism and corruption, involved wih their actions, has also continued to the present.

From time to time, I like to expose those organizations and the people within it, who have wasted the tax payer's money and also continue to exist, much to the detriment of society. This is also one such organization.  The Parkdale Intecultural Association, should no longer be allowed to continue, with its present staff, or to continue to receive public funding, for doing a lousy job.  The public demands that the staff, be professional and to know what they are doing, which is not the case with this organization.  Personally, I think that the staff, should also be fired. Certainly there are other more qualified people to fill those jobs, left vacant when the current staff is fired, which they also deserved to be.  It may also want to consider having a staff, who also better reflect the community.  In other words, the staff should also be more diversified. Since so many different kinds of people would also like to use this centre. It is a pity that they also have to receive substandard service, because of the current staff, and the board should also take those complaints, about them seriously enough, to make the changes, that are also neccessary, in this case.