Ottawa Police Const. Bargh- MISCONDUCT AGAIN!!!

Cop again eyed for misconduct

By JON WILLING, SUN MEDIA

A familiar face appeared at a police hearing yesterday to answer more allegations of misconduct.

Ottawa police Const. Daniel Bargh has not yet entered a plea to a charge of discreditable conduct under the Police Services Act. He is accused of associating with someone known to mix with members of organized crime groups.

The charge has not been proven in a tribunal.

The prosecution filed a notice of increased penalty if Bargh is found guilty.

Hearing officer Gregory Connolley adjourned the matter for a teleconference May 8 to set new dates. 

Bargh has a history of appearing as an accused at various police tribunals.

Earlier this year, he was fined five days' pay for receiving a 12-hour driving suspension at a RIDE program.

Last year, Bargh was fined for an off-duty incident at an Elgin St. bar, and in 2007 he was fined after being found guilty of roughing up a drunk homeless man.

He also faces several disciplinary charges in a separate matter connected to his alleged use of police databases. That hearing is scheduled for May 12.

Last week, when Bargh pleaded guilty to mishandling a traffic investigation, a different adjudicator told him to "get things under control because you're not heading in the right direction."

JON.WILLING@SUNMEDIA.CA 

(So... How many more chance does he get?  And this is only the stuff he's be caught for- what about everything else he has committed that has more than likely just ontinued to go unreported.  Is he really there to serve and protect?  I wouldn't want my kids coming acorss a guy like this- not in their personal lives or in any other capacity.  And dirty cops are like roaches; where you find 1 there are 100's!  They need to be shaking down this guys buddies on the force, his partner(s)... they never act alone!  This disgusts me and makes me feel ashamed!)-W

Police Officer Demoted for Excessive Force

Police Officer Demoted for Excessive Force
Daniel Proussalidis
Thursday, April 9, 2009

An Ottawa police officer will be demoted to First-Class Constable for 90 days after pleading guilty to using excessive force on an aggressive suspect last summer.

Sergeant Steven Desjourdy kicked then Tasered a woman in her jail cell as officers struggled to get control of her.

She spat on officers and struggled to get away from them.

Police arrested the woman on a charge of public intoxication as she was begging for cash outside the LCBO on Rideau Street on September 2nd.

DIESEL SPILLS INTO RIDEAU RIVER

Diesel Spill at Hurdman Yard Facility
Josh Pringle Tuesday, April 7, 2009

The City of Ottawa insists a spill of diesel at the Hurdman Yard facility has been cleaned-up.

Councillors have been advised that approximately 50 gallons of fuel spilled last Friday, with an unknown quantity entering a catch basin on property that drains to the Rideau River.

A boom was set up around the outlet to contain the spill at the river.

The Ministry of Environment, Ottawa Public Health and downstream drinking water system operators have been notified of the event.
(Just in case RAW SEWAGE isn't bad enough... CITY COUNCILLORS MUST BE FIRED! You cannot expect a city to function properly when idiots are in charge! Seriously, this is the most moronic City Council I have ever seen. They're debating building a SOCCER STADIUM... Ummm.. HELLO! WAKE THE FUCK UP! Where are your priorities?)-W

Another 23.6M Litres of RAW SEWAGE into the river!

23 Million Litres of Sewage Flows into River
Josh Pringle Tuesday, April 7, 2009

April showers and spring snowmelt has sent more raw sewage overflowing into the Ottawa River.

City Councillors have been told an estimated 23.6 million litres of raw sewage spilled into the Ottawa River between Friday and Monday.

General Manager of Environmental Services Dixon Weir says combined sewer overflow events can occur as a result of rainfall or snowmelt events.

The Ministry of Environment, Ottawa Public Health and downstream water system operators have been notified of the spills. (...and, um what EXACTLY does that do to remedy the situation? Are they just going to keep pretending it's not affecting our eco-system? WOW! MORONS RUN THE CITY OF OTTAWA!)-W

FREEDOM OF SPEECH??!! NOT IN CANADA!

Controversy helped spread message, Galloway says
By Joseph Brean and Shannon Kari, National PostMarch 30, 2009

TORONTO — Controversial British MP George Galloway took shots at Immigration Minister Jason Kenney on Monday night as he gave a speech he was not permitted to deliver in person.

"It is poetic justice that the message I would have brought . . . will now be heard and seen by so many more people than Jason Kenney could have imagined," said Galloway.

He was speaking to a Toronto audience by video link after a Federal Court judge declined to issue an injunction that would have allowed him to enter Canada Monday.

Justice Luc Martineau said Galloway has not suffered "irreparable harm" as a result of a finding by Immigration officials that prevented Galloway from entering the country to speak at a series of antiwar and pro-Palestinian rallies this week.

It is just not credible, he said, to suggest he is a threat. The real terrorists, he said, are the "right-wing occupation government in Israel. ... that you (Kenney) seem determined to be an ambassador for."

In his decision, Martineau cited a lack of information.

"A proper factual record and the benefit of full legal argument are lacking at the present time," said the judge in his ruling. "I am not ready to exempt Mr. Galloway from the provisions in the (Immigration and Refugee Protection) Act and Regulations respecting entry and examination," he wrote.

The judge issued his ruling Monday afternoon after a rare Federal Court hearing on the weekend.

Barbara Jackman, who represented Galloway and his supporters, said she was disappointed with the decision.

"The court was asked to do something courageous, to defend free speech," said Jackman, who added that she is not aware of any other British MP ever being denied entry to Canada.

Jackman smiled when asked if the decision to rule Galloway inadmissible has resulted in his receiving more publicity for his causes than if had he been admitted into the country.
"It was Mr. Kenney who brought this up in the first place," she said in reference to federal Immigration minister.

The supporters of Galloway had gone to Federal Court as a result of a letter dated March 20 that he received from a senior Canadian government official.

The letter stated Galloway was inadmissible because of his "material support" for Hamas, which has been listed as a terrorist organization.

While Galloway was informed he could seek a temporary residence permit, "it is unlikely that the application would be successful," said the letter from the Canadian High Commission in London.

After the contents of the letter were made public, Kenney denied that the Conservative government played any role in the decision. The minister indicated he would not take steps to overturn the findings and allow Galloway into the country.

Galloway participated in a convoy of food aid to Gaza earlier this year.

"Support for the Palestinians does not mean you are calling for the destruction of Israel," Jackman said outside court Monday.

Martineau noted it was not for him to decide on the credibility of what he called "hearsay" evidence against Galloway. Instead, the judge explained he was ruling on whether there were grounds for an injunction.

Galloway would have to try to enter the country and be detained, before the court could properly rule on whether immigration officials acted correctly, said Martineau.

National Post
© Copyright (c) Canwest News Service
(The Canadian Government is not only going to control what is being said in Canada- they are going to try control and limit our access to IDEAS. Without access to other people's ideas, we won't learn to analyze and critique; we will have a lower ability to reason and make informed decisions. We have the right to information and ideas; just because the idea isn't popular among them and their friends, doesn't mean they can decide for the rest of us. Last time I checked, I didn't sign myself over to the Government. I have never expressed any concern about my ability to care for myself or educate myself... Why has the Government decided to very blantantly appear to be "over-protectively parenting" us? Do they really think nobody will see beyond their rhetoric? The beauty of freedom is that we all have the choice of what we listen to, where we go, what we read, etc. So if some Canadians don't agree with his message, the answer should be clear: You don't have to listen/read/ see anything about him, unless you freely choose to do so. You can close newspapers, turn off the radio... whatever you want to do. The same should also be true if you want to hear him. Freedom implies that we have a choice. As human beings- we would like ALL of the information BEFORE we choose and we sure as hell don't want others choosing for us without our permission!)-W

GEORGE ORWELL, for those who don't know

Orwell vs. 2009??

Orwell was BRILLIANT and wrote the novel "1984" in the year 1949. He was speculating at what the world would likely be like in the year 1984 at the current rate of intrusion and oppression. Orwell's book holds several key concepts (written in 1949!) that have appeared in today's society:

Doublethink: is the act of simultaneously accepting as correct two mutually contradictory beliefs. It is related to, but distinct from, hypocrisy and neutrality

According to the novel, doublethink is:
“The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them....To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies — all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth."

Big Brother: is a fictional character in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the enigmatic dictator of Oceania, a totalitarian state taken to its utmost logical consequence - where the ruling elite ('the Party') wield total power for its own sake over the inhabitants.
In the society that Orwell describes, everyone is under complete surveillance by the authorities, mainly by telescreens. The people are constantly reminded of this by the phrase "Big Brother is watching you", which is the core "truth" of the propaganda system in this state. The physical description of Big Brother is reminiscent of Joseph Stalin or Lord Kitchener. His moustache is also similar to that of Adolf Hitler.

Newspeak: is a fictional language in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In the novel, it is described as being "the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year". Orwell included an essay about it in the form of an appendix[1] in which the basic principles of the language are explained.

Newspeak is closely based on English but has a greatly reduced and simplified vocabulary and grammar. This suits the totalitarian regime of the Party, whose aim is to make any alternative thinking — "thoughtcrime", or "crimethink" in the newest edition of Newspeak — impossible by removing any words or possible constructs which describe the ideas of freedom, rebellion and so on. One character says admiringly of the shrinking volume of the new dictionary: "It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."

The Newspeak term for the

English language is Oldspeak. Oldspeak is intended to have been completely eclipsed by Newspeak before 2050.

The genesis of Newspeak can be found in the

constructed language Basic English, which Orwell promoted from 1942 to 1944 before emphatically rejecting it in his essay "Politics and the English Language".[2] In this paper he laments the quality of the English of his day, citing examples of dying metaphors, pretentious diction or rhetoric, and meaningless words – all of which contribute to fuzzy ideas and a lack of logical thinking. Towards the end of this essay, having argued his case, Orwell muses:
“I said earlier that the decadence of our language is probably curable. Those who deny this would argue, if they produced an argument at all, that language merely reflects existing social conditions, and that we cannot influence its development by any direct tinkering with words or constructions.”

Thus forcing the use of Newspeak, according to Orwell, describes a deliberate intent to exploit this degeneration with the aim of oppressing its speakers.

all available from Wiki.com by searching for 1984 Orwell.

City reports another sewage spill; Heavy rain dumps 6.2M litres into Ottawa River

City reports another sewage spill
Heavy rain dumps 6.2M litres into Ottawa River
(In case you aren't sure.. Yes, the "M" stands for MILLION!!!)

By DEREK PUDDICOMBE, Sun Media

The mix of snow melting and the weekend rain has forced 6.2 million litres of sewage to spill into the Ottawa River.

City councillors received a memo yesterday on the latest sewage spill which totals about 50 million litres over the last month.

From last Friday into Saturday 2.8 million litres of sewage flowed into the river, while an estimated 3.4 million litres of sewage spilled into the river from Saturday into Sunday.

The city says it has informed the Ministry of the Environment’s Spills Action Centre, the Public Health department and municipal water system operators.

Last week city crews noticed a leak outside a raw sewage pumping station in Richmond Village. The city said two bolts that secured a coupling between two sewage pipes rusted, so the pipe failed and raw sewage spilled into the ground.

With the help of some financial aid from both the provincial and federal governments, the city is installing real-time controls at five downtown sewer discharge locations that will help staff better monitor and report overflows. The real-time control systems are expected to be in operation by the fall.

Ottawa’s combined sewer system allows the sanitary sewer operation to provide capacity for storm water runoff when volumes are high, particularly during a rainstorm.

Normally, raw sewage from homes and businesses flows through a dedicated pipe to a treatment plant. But in a heavy rainfall excess storm is mixed in with the sewage, and when levels are too high for the system to handle, rather than letting it back up onto city streets and into homes, the mixture enters a bypass that overflows into a nearby waterway.
(Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Canada's capital. In case you haven't figured it out yet, I live in Ottawa. Last year we had thousands of dead catfish reported along our river shores. City Officials said it was localized and that it wasn't causing that big of a problem. Let me tell you, I went for a walk along the river in the Parkdale area and there were not only 40-50 dead catfish on the shore (well beyond the geographic area designated by City Officials as "localized") in various stages of decomposition, there were 20-30 dead sea birds littering the shores as well. I can't believe this is STILL happening! We get a lot of snow EVERY YEAR. EVERY YEAR it melts away. This isn't NEWS! WAKE THE FUCK UP! I can't believe this. And we wonder why the world is going to shit? Mayor Larry O'Brien is going to court for election scandals/ corruption; we spew RAW SEWAGE by the shit-load, into our waterways; the Police run around 'above-the-law'- ILLEGALLY beating, detaining, robbing, searching, assaulting, sexually harassing, (personally heard a female officer comment on a 15yrd old boy's genetalia; We filed a formal complaint with the Ottawa Police and we were invited to a meeting and then absolutely ditched at the Elgin police station by the Sgt. in Professional Standards- despite numerous phone calls and station-wide intercom pages) humiliating, intimidating, bullying and violating CHARTER RIGHTS of citizens of this City. This is the most ridiculous place to live... unless you work for the Government and have the same mindset and life style. It's so frustrating to live in this place! It's like screaming at the top of your lungs and then you look around and nobody seems to have ears! It all seems so pointless! MORONS have taken over the world! Welcome to 1984 (Orwell) ) -W

Feds want to end two-for-one credit for criminals
By THE CANADIAN PRESS

SURREY, B.C. — Federal Justice Minister Rob Nicholson was preaching to the converted when he made a tough-on-crime announcement in Metro Vancouver, which has been in the throes of a violent gang war for three months.

Legislation introduced by the Conservative government Friday would see criminals doing more time behind bars, wiping out the current two-for-one sentencing credit given to those who spend time in jail before conviction.

Justice Minister Rob Nicholson made the announcement outside the Surrey, B.C., pretrial centre, alongside politicians and Lower Mainland police chiefs who have been trying to calm public fears after more than 40 shootings and 17 fatalities since late January.

“You know the challenges in fighting crime,” Nicholson told the group. “There have been numerous shootings here and in other parts of Canada.
“I want Canada to have confidence in the justice system.”

If the legislation passes, the general sentencing rule would count on a one-for-one basis.

Double time has been given to compensate criminals while they await trial in overcrowded provincial jails which lack rehabilitation programs.

The law would allow for a one-and-a-half-to-one ratio in circumstances where a judge could justify the higher ratio.

Nicholson said the two-for-one credit sends the wrong message to criminals.
B.C. Attorney General Wally Oppal said the new law would give more credibility to the justice system.

“This is very good law, because it addresses the subject of accountability,” he said.

Oppal, who’s a former B.C. Supreme and Appeal Court justice, told reporters he knew of instances where some inmates didn’t bother to apply for bail because the longer they stay in pre-trial, the shorter their sentences would be.

Vancouver Police Chief Const. Jim Chu welcomed the new legislation.

“The Canadian Association of Police Chiefs has long been asking for this. This legislation is important to keep the community safe and it will provide greater deterrence,” Chu said.

Earlier this month Chu admitted the Metro Vancouver area was in the middle of a “brutal” gang war.

Nicholson called on all parties in Parliament to provide unanimous consent for quick passage of the bill.

The Liberals, NDP and Bloc Quebecois have already said they have general support for the aims of the bill, but don’t plan to rubber stamp it.
(The Canadian Criminal justice system is very very slow. The 2 for 1 dead-time rule should be seen as an incentive for the Criminal Justice System to process cases in a timely manner. If a person is going to be incarcerated without a finding of guilt, for any amount of time, they should get 2 for 1. If the Government has a problem with that, hire more Judges, Lawyers etc. Until you have been involved in the System, in any way, you will not fully understand the value of 2 for 1. The abuse is by the System; not the offenders. Before you jump up and back the Tories on this one, please think about the people who have been in jail for over a year... waiting for their trial, but it never comes. The Crown doesn't have enough evidence to get a finding of guilt, so they just keep putting it over... the 'innocent, until proven guilty' person is still sitting in a cell. Taking away 2 for 1 takes away a persons right to a fair and timely trial. Look at what the Tories have been doing to the 'justice system', follow their pattern, KICK THEM OUT OF OFFICE! )-W

Ottawa Police Use Guns to Kill Animals

Cops Use Guns to Kill Animals
By Jon Willing
Ottawa Sun

Ottawa police officers fired their guns 62 times in 2008, 11 more times than the previous year.

Only once last year did an officer fire at a person. It happened at an apartment on Pinecrest Rd. and two people survived being hit by the same bullet.
The Ontario Special Investigations Unit cleared the officer of criminal responsibility.

All other firearm discharges in 2008 were to kill dangerous or injured animals, according to a police use of force report for 2008.

Officers reported 482 incidents in which they used force in 2008, a decrease of about 7% from the previous year.

The number of times police used a Taser, in 2008 more than doubled to 27. Before frontline supervisors received Tasers in November 2007, only the tactical unit carried the weapons. Police used a Taser 12 times in 2007.

There are now 130 frontline supervisors, 34 tactical officers and three professional development instructors trained to use Tasers.

(Maybe we should just put more funding into the Humane Society... I wonder how accurate these statistics are?)-W

START RECORDING!

Get out your cell phones, video cameras and recording devices- You will soon have a place to post them for all to see and as evidence in your fight against their lawless pursuit of their own greed and self-worth!

Technology is our best weapon!