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Two Biggest Criminal Organizations in Canada: The Toronto and Catholic Children’s Aid Societies?                                                                                

                       Two Biggest Criminal Organizations in Canada: The Toronto and Catholic Children’s Aid Societies?

Mr. Lemay state: “The children and families we serve have a right to privacy” The farce of the right to privacy in Canada; It is a convenience for the government and private institutions to commit all kinds of atrocities on defenseless families. The trafficking of children for profit is destroying tens of thousands of children and parents annually.

Children's aid families’ names posted online

A Brockville-area children's aid society reels after names of 285 clients were posted on Facebook.

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By: Laurie Monsebraaten Social justice reporter, Published on Mon Apr 18 2016

Police are investigating an unprecedented security breach at a Brockville-area children’s aid society after an electronic file containing the names of 285 families involved with Family and Children’s Services of Lanark, Leeds and Grenville was made available on Facebook.

The breach was discovered Monday at 1:42 p.m. after both a client and a community member called the society to complain that a link to the confidential report was posted on the Smith’s Falls Swapshop Facebook page, executive director Ray Lemay told the Star Monday night.

The society doesn’t know how long the link had been on the members-only page or if it has been shared more widely, he said.

“We’re looking into whether it has gone any further than that. But we are not sure at this point,” Lemay said.

Publishing or otherwise identifying families involved with child protection agencies contravenes the provincial Child and Family Services Act and carries fines of up to $10,000 and three years in jail.

The names were part of a statistical report to the society’s community board of directors on new cases between April and November 2015, Lemay said.

A link to the report was obtained by someone — “likely a disgruntled client” — who hacked the secure portal for board members on the society’s website, he said. No staff or board members are suspected of the breach, he said.

“Our suspicion, which is a fairly firm suspicion, is that it is a current client who is very disgruntled, very unhappy with us,” he said. “We have contacted the police. Our lawyer has sent a letter to the website owner as well as to this individual telling them what they are doing is, we think, illegal.”

Staff will begin calling all 285 families to tell them about the privacy breach first thing Tuesday morning, Lemay added.

“I apologize for this — we will act to ensure that this doesn’t happen again. The children and families we serve have a right to privacy — and they deserve respect,” Lemay said in a statement released Monday night. “Moreover, that someone would inappropriately obtain, then post this document on the Internet purposefully, is deeply troubling. Furthermore, this action is likely in direct contravention to the Child and Family Services Act and directly harms the children and families we serve.”

“Because of the nature of our work, emotions regarding CAS can run high,” Lemay added. “That said, there is no excuse for a person to deliberately expose our clients in this way.”

The society also takes responsibility for the security breach.

“Obviously there was a lapse at our end. That portal was not secure enough. The information should simply not have been accessible,” Lemay said in an interview. “We acknowledge that. There’s no doubt about our mistake in this, too.”

Lemay, who retired in 2014 as executive director of the Prescott-Russell children’s aid society after 30 years in the field, came out of retirement recently to lead the Lanark, Leeds Grenville society.

“This is very much a first, as far as I can tell,” he said of the incident.

The Ontario Association for Children’s Aid Societies, which represents the province’s 47 societies, said a privacy violation of this magnitude is unprecedented.

“We can’t even acknowledge that somebody is in our care when the media asks about it, even if it is all over social media,” spokeswoman Caroline Newton said.

“This is totally unacceptable,” she added. “The police are involved, as this is very serious. (The society) will be taking steps to figure out what happened and to fix it. And they will work with the people affected.”

Barbara Goderre, administrator for the 13,000-member Smith’s Falls Swapshop Facebook page, said she had no idea the link was related to a confidential children’s aid report.

“If I’d have known, I would have been all over that,” she said in an interview. “It’s awful that someone would do something like that.”

A police spokeswoman declined to comment on the case.

 

“CANADIAN MAINSTREAM MEDIA AN INSTRUMENT OF MIND CONTROL”

                                             The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants. Bertrand B de Vieuzac

Canada is one of the richest countries on the planet! Why did the government neglect toward the class most vulnerable of our society? 'Golden Years,' slogan created by the government and used by the propagandistic media to confuse the public the lack of respect, care, abuse and ill treatment by the government institutions against the elderly.

Seniors the 'new face of homelessness’ in Canada

June Chua

Daily Brew

April 12, 2016

 

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By June Chua

The number of seniors who are homeless in Canada is rising dramatically, according to new research.

“They are the new face of homelessness,” said researcher Victoria Burns, who did her PhD on aging and homelessness at McGill University. Burns is talking about people 50 and over — many who have become homeless for the first time.

Burns participated in a larger Canada-wide study that has put together new research on the issue of late life homelessness.

She refers to a one-night homeless count in March 2015 in Montreal which helped researchers examine how many were chronically homeless or were part of the “invisible” homeless population (people who lived in substandard housing or had been evicted due to other circumstances).

“[The count found out] that those 50-plus accounted for 41 per cent of homeless residents,” Burns told Yahoo Canada News. “That means that age group quadrupled over a 20-year period in Montreal.”

The rise in homeless seniors is borne out across the country, according to Amanda Grenier, director of the Gilbrea Centre for Studies in Aging at Hamilton’s McMaster University. She is the lead investigator in a massive study of late life homelessness, which began in 2012 — a study that Burns helped out with.

“It’s a trend because there are, overall, more older people in our society,” Grenier told Yahoo Canada News. “But also, we have older people who fall into it due to circumstances, such as having a precarious job, or they simply can’t pay for the rising cost of their housing or sickness.”

Grenier said the surge in seniors being homeless is common across the country.

In Toronto, homelessness among those 50-plus went from five per cent in 2009 to 10 per cent in 2013, according to the latest statistics the researchers collected.  

The Greater Vancouver Shelter Strategy has found that those 55 and older comprised 11 per cent of people in the city’s emergency shelters in 2013 and estimates that seniors could make up 23 per cent of the shelter population this year.

Gap in services

“The problem is we have division of services where we have services for seniors and then separate emergency shelter services focused on younger populations,” Grenier said. “There is a gap for older people who find themselves without housing suddenly.”

Nathan Vedoya, the manager of shelters for the Hope Mission in Edmonton, says his organization is seeing an older population as well.

“We do have a steady flow of seniors coming in and if we aren’t able to care for them, we re-direct them to a hospital if it’s a health issue or other agencies who work closely with seniors,” Vedoya told Yahoo Canada News.

“We also have a large number of people in their 40s and early 50s so we are trying hard to assist them so they don’t end up chronically homeless as they age.”

Many who are suddenly homeless late in life, according to Vedoya, experience something “episodic,” such as a medical condition, or they are laid off or have a divorce triggering a downward spiral.

“Several years ago, I had a client whose wife had passed away, he also had some medical injury, his business turned sour and he didn’t have the right insurance for that and he was deep in debt. When his medical prescriptions ran dry, he became addicted to crystal meth and alcohol,” Vedoya said.

“[He’s now about 65 years old] and he’s chronically homeless. We do what we can for him but there is deep emotional and physical pain there.”

Skyrocketing housing costs

In Montreal, Burns points out that the cost of housing is skyrocketing. The average amount of social assistance that most seniors in Quebec get is about $630 a month, “that’s barely enough for rent here,” she said.

“There is a lack of good quality social housing. The average wait in Montreal is five to seven years. When you’re old, you really need the stability of a home.”

Grenier says Canada needs to think about “the risks that lead people to homelessness.”

“In our study, we found that people only have enough assets to last them two months. So if you lose your job or have to care for a spouse, you could end up in debt and without housing.”

As with Burns, Grenier also suggested policies in which governments tackle the topic of long-term solutions for housing and support for older people and not a system of shelters that are barely able to care for them.

Canadian two Biggest Criminal Organizations: The Toronto and Catholic Children’s Aid Societies!!!

"Canadian Media an Instrument of Mind Control"

JUSTICE FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY MUST HAVE NO LIMITATIONS

Simon Wiesenthal

Kids in care 'a billion-dollar business'

Conference in Winnipeg focuses on needs of First Nations children

                                     By: Alexandra Paul
Posted: 04/12/2016 5:46 PM | Comments: 14

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Cindy Blackstock, executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada, with National Chief Perry Bellegarde during a news conference in January to discuss discrimination against First Nations children in care.

A national advocate for First Nations children wants Manitoba to come clean on what it’s doing with federal child tax credits when kids in the province are put into care.
"We’re talking millions and millions of dollars... I don’t know what the exact amount is in Manitoba," Cindy Blackstock, the executive director for the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada, said in an interview with the Free Press.

Most provinces set aside the federal child tax credits in separate trust funds for wards when they age out, or put them in collective funds to be used for extra tutoring, summer culture camps and the like.
In Manitoba, the money is commonly referred to as a special allowance, but indigenous child and family service agencies have long complained they don’t know what the province uses the funds for. The practice is called a "penalty clawback."
A provincial spokesman said the province is expected to comment on the practice but no comment was issued Tuesday.
Considered an influential voice for social justice and indigenous issues, Blackstock came to the public’s attention when she confirmed Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, under former prime minister Stephen Harper, had used surveillance to listen to conversations following a human rights complaint filed by her and the Assembly of First Nations.
Her tribunal victory sharpened her focus on racial discrimination against First Nations children in Canada, including in Manitoba.
"That money is allocated for the child themselves," Blackstock said.
"Parents are given it to be able to (spend) on a child. In my view, that money is a kid’s money, especially when we’re talking about the most disadvantaged children.
"That money should not be used to subsidize government budgets," she said.
This year, under changes by the Liberal government under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, child tax credits will be paid in a single cheque worth $6,400 for a child under age five and $5,400 for children under age 17 in families with $30,000 or less in annual income.
Today, Blackstock is expected to outline her concerns over First Nations child welfare at a conference hosted by the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs running Tuesday through Thursday at the Marlborough Hotel.
The Bringing Our Children Home conference is expected to focus on community-based strategies based on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommendations and Blackstock’s Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruling.
In January, the tribunal found Canada racially discriminates against First Nations children by underfunding child welfare services on reserves. It said the practice must stop.
The human rights case showed federal funding for First Nations child welfare systems runs from 22 per cent to 34.8 per cent less than what provinces themselves spend to maintain child welfare systems. In 2012, the shortfall added up to $108 million less in First Nations child welfare funding. In its March budget, Ottawa added $71 million to First Nations child welfare funding.
Manitoba has more than 10,000 children in care, and about 90 per cent of them are indigenous, meaning Manitoba First Nations have the highest rates of child apprehension in Canada. Apprehension refers to a policy of last resort, where children are removed for their own safety from their families and often their communities.
Tuesday, First Nations leaders shared Blackstock’s sentiments.
"Child welfare and the institutionalization of children is a billion-dollar business in our province. This system feeds children into other institutionalizing industries such as justice, health and (social) services," Cora Morgan, AMC’s First Nations child advocate, said in a statement to announce the conference.
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