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Ballsy Move by Tim Hortons’ President. Now Let’s See Whether The Food Professor Asks Him Real Questions.

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Tim Hortons Faces the Storm

“Ask why Canadians are increasingly angry every time they walk into a Tim Hortons and wonder what the hell happened to the place.”

By Donald Best

The President of Tim Hortons is on The Food Professor Podcast this week. (link at bottom)

That is a ballsy move for Tim’s Axel Schwan, and for Duncan Fulton – Chief Corporate Officer of Restaurant Brands International, Tim Hortons’ parent company – who also appears on the show.

Credit where it is due. Tim Hortons is in the middle of a growing public-relations mess over temporary foreign workers, local hiring, the visible demographic transformation of customer-facing staff, declining customer confidence, and the growing perception that many locations are no longer the clean, reliable, Canadian coffee shops that built the brand.

The Food Professor (Dr. Sylvain Charlebois) says the interview will cover Tim Hortons’ “new growth strategy, store expansion plans, Canadian employees,” and whether Dunkin’s return to Canada represents a serious threat.

Good. Ask about growth. Ask about Dunkin’. Ask about the planned new stores and renovations.

Then ask why Canadians are increasingly angry every time they walk into a Tim Hortons and wonder what the hell happened to the place.

Because that is the real story.

Dunkin’ Isn’t the Threat. Tim Hortons Is Its Own Worst Enemy.

Tim Hortons does not have a Dunkin’ problem. It has a trust problem. It has a local-hiring problem. It has a franchise-accountability problem. It has a customer-service problem. It has a cleanliness and food-confidence problem. Above all, it has a Canadian-identity problem.

For decades, Tim Hortons wrapped itself in the flag. Hockey. Small towns. First jobs. Coffee on the way to work. A doughnut after the kids’ game. The friendly local counter. The familiar voice in the drive-through. The company sold Canadians not merely coffee, but belonging.

Now many Canadians look behind the counter and see something very different from the Tim Hortons they knew and loved.

They see stores staffed by recent arrivals, international students, temporary workers, former temporary workers, and new permanent residents. They see young Canadians unable to get entry-level jobs. They see order errors, language problems, dirty tables, messy washrooms, weaker service, and a chain that often feels less like a Canadian institution and more like a foreign-labour franchise machine wearing a maple-leaf costume.

That is the issue Tim Hortons does not want to discuss in plain English.

The 3.6 Percent Talking Point Doesn’t Answer the Question

The company’s preferred answer is that only about 4,000 of its 110,000 Canadian restaurant workers are currently employed through the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. Tim Hortons says that is about 3.6 percent. It also says about 45 percent of its Canadian restaurant workers are aged 15 to 24, and that it is launching a campaign to hire 10,000 local workers.

Those are useful numbers. They are also the beginning of the questions, not the end of them.

“Current TFW” is a narrow legal category. It says nothing about how many Tim Hortons workers arrived as international students, post-graduate work-permit holders, open or spousal permit holders, refugee claimants, or other temporary residents. It says nothing about how many arrived as temporary workers and later became permanent residents. And it says nothing about how many franchise owners rely on the immigration-labour pipeline while the company points to one number and says, “See? Nothing to worry about.”

Canadians are not stupid. They also understand something Tim Hortons should not ignore:

Many customers now perceive that a growing number of franchise operators, managers, and hiring decision-makers are themselves newer to Canada, and that some locations appear to hire heavily from their own ethnic, national, religious, family, student, or newcomer networks before hiring local applicants.

The religious element should not be airbrushed out. In real life, hiring networks often run through temples, gurdwaras, churches, mosques, community associations, family circles, caste or regional connections, language groups, student networks, and immigration contacts. Pretending that religion is irrelevant is evasion.

In some communities, customers perceive that certain Tim Hortons locations are staffed overwhelmingly from one identifiable community network – Sikh, Hindu, Punjabi, Gujarati, South Asian, student, newcomer, or otherwise – while other locations reflect a different but equally narrow hiring circle. The point is not that every customer can identify the religion or background of every worker. The point is that Canadians can see when a local workplace no longer appears to hire from the local community, but instead from a closed or semi-closed network connected to the owner, manager, recruiter, school, religious community, family, or immigration pathway.

That perception may vary by location and should be tested with real data. But it is real, and it matters. When a local teenager applies to the Tim Hortons down the road and hears nothing back, while the store appears staffed almost entirely by recent arrivals from the same background as the owner or manager, the public draws its own conclusion.

Maybe the company has an explanation. Maybe the applicants were unavailable, unqualified, or unwilling to work the shifts. Maybe the franchisee hired through friends, family, college networks, or word-of-mouth because it was easier. Maybe the local labour pool was weak.

But if Tim Hortons wants Canadians to believe that local hiring is real, it must provide more than national slogans and corporate percentages. It must show whether franchisees are hiring openly, fairly, and locally, or whether some stores have become closed ethnic, religious, or newcomer employment networks operating under a purportedly Canadian brand name.

Tim Hortons’ Axel Schwan (L) RBI’s Duncan Fulton (R)

Who Paid Whom to Get the Job?

Tim Hortons already knows that foreign workers have been abused inside its own restaurants. It has happened. A Tim Hortons franchisee was stripped of his two stores after an RCMP investigation into foreign workers who said they had been cheated out of overtime pay and threatened with being sent home if they complained. So the company cannot pretend the next question is theoretical.

And the next question is worse, because it is about money flowing the other way. Has any Tim Hortons franchise owner, manager, recruiter, immigration consultant, related company, or middleman ever taken money from a foreign worker in exchange for a job? In exchange for a Labour Market Impact Assessment, the federal document an employer must obtain before it is allowed to hire a foreign worker? In exchange for work-permit support, a promotion, a better schedule, housing, or a path to permanent residency?

Start with what is already on the record. In 2024 a joint investigation by CBC News and the Investigative Journalism Foundation found an open black market in Canadian jobs. Reporters tracked more than 125 online ads across 17 cities offering LMIA-approved jobs and work permits for cash. The price ran from $25,000 to $45,000. One seller asked an undercover reporter whether she wanted the job with the LMIA, or just the LMIA without the job. The schemes came two ways. A real position, or a fake one… complete with forged pay stubs and tax slips to fake Canadian work experience.

Charging a foreign worker for one of these documents is illegal. It is fraud. The sellers were doing it in the open anyway, on Kijiji and Facebook Marketplace, because the demand is enormous.

Desperation creates a market.

For a young person overseas, a Canadian fast-food job can be the door into Canada. It can mean a work permit, Canadian experience, and a possible path to permanent residency. Families in India and elsewhere have reportedly paid ruinous sums for that door. They sell property, borrow from relatives, and empty savings to get one person into Canada.

And it has already landed inside a national restaurant chain. In Oakville, Ontario, a foreign worker said he paid his own wages for a cook job that did not really exist. He had arrived from India through a licensed immigration consultant, on a permit tied to a government letter approving his employer to hire two cooks. When he got here he was given almost no hours. Instead, he says, he was told to hand his employer about $3,000 a month in cash, which was then run back through the books as if it were his pay. The Canada Border Services Agency has a name for the trick. They call it payroll cycling. The restaurant was a franchise of a company that owns more than fifty Canadian chains. When the company was shown what was happening, it gave the franchisee ninety days to leave the system.

That is one worker, at one franchised restaurant, found because a reporter found him. Nobody at head office caught it.

Now bring it to Tim Hortons by name. A Toronto-area recruiter was fined in 2025 for charging foreign workers thousands of dollars to place them in Canadian jobs. Two of her former employees told the Globe and Mail she charged the workers for the entire process, and that she recruited foreign workers for Tim Hortons and A&W. She denied it. She was fined anyway.

She is not a special case. A Burger King franchisee who owned eleven outlets in British Columbia told the same newspaper he gets calls every week from consultants offering him money in exchange for giving their clients jobs. One offered to charge workers $25,000 a job and hand him a cut. He said it is done everywhere.

The recruiter who got caught is the symptom. The system that makes her useful is the disease.

Because Tim Hortons corporate does not have to charge a worker a dollar. It does not even have to know that anyone did. The recruiter charges the worker. The consultant charges the worker. And the franchisee, the independent owner who does the actual hiring and holds the work-permit paperwork, can take his own cut quietly, in his own store, with his own recruiter, on books head office never sees. That is exactly what the Burger King operator was offered. A cut. The franchisee is where the money changes hands. He is also the one place corporate has arranged never to look.

That Tim Hortons hiring arrangement has a name. It is called plausible deniability.

It works in layers. The worker pays a recruiter, so corporate can say it charged no one. The franchisee pockets the cut, so corporate can say it knew nothing. The store is independently owned, so corporate can say it is not responsible. Each layer covers the one beside it.

And here is the part that should bother people the most… Head office can sit on top of all of it and be telling the literal truth when it says it had no idea. The ignorance can be completely real. It is also completely built in.

The rule already closed that door. An employer is not only forbidden from charging a foreign worker. It must also ensure the people recruiting on its behalf do not. So “we use independent recruiters” does not protect the company. Under that rule, the company is responsible for what those recruiters do whether it looked or not.

Tim Hortons owner Restaurant Brands International – The Record

The chain does not stop at Tim Hortons. It is one of four brands owned by Restaurant Brands International, the Toronto company that also owns Burger King, Popeyes, and Firehouse Subs. Tens of thousands of franchised stores, the same model, the same recruiters working the same pipeline, the same wall of independent owners between the workers and the parent corporation that collects the royalties. When a Burger King operator says the kickback offers arrive every week, he is describing the system Restaurant Brands International built and profits from.

So the question is not whether one recruiter charged fees. One did, and was fined. The question is how many recruiters, consultants, and agents the Tim Hortons system relies on, how many of them charge workers behind the company’s back, and what Tim Hortons and its parent have ever done to find out. A company that audited its recruiters, demanded disclosure, and asked its own workers what they paid could answer that in an afternoon. A company that prefers not to know cannot.

Define “Canadian Employees,” Mr. President

Start with the phrase itself.

How many of your Canadian restaurant workers are citizens? How many are permanent residents, international students, post-graduate work-permit holders, or current and former TFWs?

How many stores have more than half their staff drawn from temporary residents or former temporary residents?

How many Canadian teenagers applied to Tim Hortons last year and were never hired?

How many franchisees use the TFW program, immigration consultants, or recruiters, and how many provide housing to the workers they employ? Does Tim Hortons require franchisees to disclose every recruiter, overseas agent, and related-party business involved in hiring foreign workers?

These are not “gotcha” questions. They are the questions that matter if Tim Hortons wants to keep marketing itself as a Canadian community institution.

Tim Hortons’ own recent behaviour shows that the company understands the danger. It did not announce a national campaign to hire 10,000 local workers because everything was fine. It did so because public anger was growing. The company was being mocked, boycotted, and accused of selling out Canadian young people.

“When a brand that built itself on local first jobs suddenly has to reassure the country that it still hires locals, something has gone badly wrong.”

Food Trust Is Intimate. Tim Hortons Is Losing It

The labour issue is only half the problem. The other half is customer confidence.

Food service is intimate. People eat what your employees prepare. They drink what your employees pour. They must trust your staff to wash their hands, keep washrooms clean, avoid cross-contamination, handle food properly, report illness, clean surfaces, maintain equipment, and understand customer requests about allergies, substitutions, and mistakes.

Once that trust goes, the brand goes with it.

Tim Hortons now faces a widespread perception that many locations are dirtier, sloppier, less friendly, and less competent than they used to be.

Social media is filled with complaints and videos about wrong orders, language barriers, filthy washrooms, dirty tables, poor service, and staff who appear poorly trained or indifferent. Some customers blame corporate cost-cutting. Some blame weak franchise owners. Some blame understaffing. Many directly connect the decline to rapid demographic change in staffing and ownership.

The politically correct response is to pretend this is all racism. That is lazy, dishonest, and dangerous for the brand. Customers do not need an ideology lecture when the washroom is filthy, the table is sticky, the order is wrong, and the employee at the counter cannot understand a basic question.

Culture Does Not Disappear at the Airport

Tim Hortons should not pretend that culture does not matter. Culture matters everywhere, in everything, all the time. It shapes assumptions about cleanliness, public behaviour, hierarchy, customer service, food handling, language, authority, illness, sanitation, and what is considered normal.

No serious person believes that every worker from every country arrives with identical cultural standards or hygienic habits. No serious food company should behave as if a short training session and a uniform magically erase two decades or more of hygiene assumptions, habits, and culture formed in a country where open defecation, polluted water, corruption, and low-trust public behaviour remain normal for hundreds of millions of people.

India is central to this discussion because it has become one of the major source countries for Canada’s international students, temporary workers, and new permanent residents.

India also has a recent and well-documented sanitation history that is dramatically different from Canadian expectations and standards.

India’s own government launched the Swachh Bharat Mission because open defecation is a national crisis involving hundreds of millions of people.

International agencies describe the campaign as affecting nearly 500 million people and so far providing toilet access to more than 100 million additional rural households. This campaign is still in place and has a long way to go.

Nor was the problem merely a matter of plumbing or poverty. India itself knows that sanitation is still a behavioural and cultural issue requiring an ongoing massive public campaign.

This is not an argument that every Indian worker is unhygienic. It is an argument that Tim Hortons and its franchisees have a duty to recognize reality. When a company rapidly employs large numbers of recent arrivals from countries with very different sanitation histories, language environments, and food-handling assumptions, the company must prove that training and supervision are real and ongoing.

A food-handler certificate is not enough. A checkbox training video is not enough. A manager saying “we trained them” is not enough. Tim Hortons should be able to show store-level enforcement of handwashing, glove use, washroom cleanliness, food-temperature control, illness reporting, cleaning routines, pest control, cross-contamination prevention, allergen communication, and customer-service language ability.

If a company wants the benefit of imported labour, it also owns the burden of training, testing, continual supervision, and discipline. That burden is greater, not lesser, when workers come from cultures and environments with materially different sanitation and service norms.

One Viral Hygiene Video Can Destroy a Million Dollars in Advertising

This is where the Tim Hortons brand has real exposure. A single viral video of disgusting food-handling conduct can do more damage than a million dollars in advertising can rectify.

Customers do not wait for peer-reviewed studies before deciding where to eat. They look at the washroom. They watch the counter. They notice the employee handling food. They hear the language barrier. They see the filthy, sticky table. They make a judgment and leave.

So The Food Professor should ask whether Tim Hortons tracks hygiene and language complaints by store, franchisee, and staffing model, whether it requires customer-facing employees to meet a minimum English or French standard before working the drive-through, whether stores with heavy temporary-resident staffing are audited more often, and how many franchisees have been disciplined or terminated for repeated cleanliness or food-safety failures.

Those questions go directly to corporate responsibility.

The Franchisee Dodge Won’t Cut It

Tim Hortons will no doubt say that restaurants are operated by franchisees. That answer should not be allowed to stand unchallenged. Tim Hortons corporate cannot take credit for the brand when it wants to sell hockey nostalgia, charity campaigns, and Canadian community values, then hide behind franchisees when the public asks about labour practices, dirty restaurants, housing arrangements, language barriers, and food-safety standards.

If the sign says Tim Hortons, the public holds Tim Hortons responsible.

Tim Hortons Evicts Canadian Tenants For Temporary Foreign Workers

Foreign Labour, Worker Housing, and the New Company Town

The housing issue is another serious area requiring direct questioning. There have been credible reports of franchise-linked housing arrangements for temporary foreign workers, including a widely circulated Prince Edward Island case in which a Tim Hortons franchisee was reported to have evicted Canadian tenants to make room for temporary foreign workers.

Tim Hortons should be asked about that PEI case directly.

Does corporate know which franchisees provide or control housing for foreign workers? Does it prohibit owners from profiting from housing, audit the accommodations, and require disclosure of ownership and rent deductions? Are the workers free to leave without risking their jobs? Have any long-term Canadian tenants been displaced to make room for them?

If the answer is “we do not know,” that is not good enough. A company that sells itself as a Canadian community brand cannot be indifferent if franchise owners are using foreign labour and worker housing in ways that damage local communities.

There is an ugly phrase from the old labour world: the company town. Work for the company, live in company housing, buy from the company store, and never get far enough away to be truly free. Canadians are right to recoil at any modern version of that model, especially when it is tied to low-wage foreign labour in a country already suffering a housing crisis.

Growth Into What, Exactly?

Tim Hortons should not be permitted to bury this issue under talk of “growth strategy.”

Growth into what? More stores staffed through immigration pipelines while local kids stay unemployed? More maple-leaf advertising while the community connection it sells quietly disappears?

These are the questions serious journalists should be asking.

The Food Professor Has the Right Guests. Now He Needs the Right Questions.

The Food Professor is well placed to ask them. He understands the food industry, retail, supply chains, margins, labour costs, franchise operations, and consumer confidence. That is why this interview matters. It should not become a polite corporate fireside chat in which Tim Hortons’ president recites talking points about expansion, renovations, Dunkin’, and “Canadian employees.”

“Canadian employees” must be defined. “Local hiring” must be measured. “Temporary foreign worker” must not be allowed to exclude every other temporary-resident category. And “franchisee responsibility” must not become the escape hatch through which corporate accountability disappears.

Tim Hortons has every right to defend itself.

If the company has real numbers, let Canadians see them. If franchisees are being disciplined, say how many. If local hiring is the priority, define what “local” means. And if the 3.6 percent figure is not a distraction, provide the full immigration-status breakdown of the workforce.

Canadians have a right to ask because Tim Hortons made itself part of the national story. It did not market itself as just another foreign-owned fast-food chain selling coffee-like beverages from anonymous franchise outlets. It marketed itself as ours.

That is why the anger is sharper. People are not merely disappointed in a restaurant. They feel conned by an institution that took their loyalty, wrapped itself in their flag, and then quietly adopted labour practices many Canadians believe work against their own children and communities.

Dunkin’ may return to Canada. It may succeed or fail. That is a business story.

The Tim Hortons story is larger. It is about what happens when a national brand trades on nostalgia while its customers no longer recognize the reality behind the counter.

So yes, the President of Tim Hortons going on The Food Professor Podcast is a ballsy move.

Now let’s see whether The Food Professor has the stones to ask him what Canadians are actually asking:

Who is working in Canadian Tim Hortons stores? Who is not being hired? Who is being housed, and by whom? Who is disciplining the franchisees?

And what, exactly, is still Canadian about this purportedly Canadian coffee shop?

Donald Best

 

Article Links

The Food Professor interviews Tim Hortons…
Podcast – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/axel-schwan-president-of-tim-hortons-canada-u-s/id1512660219?i=1000772171491
Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/episode/6PCVWLFJrPQNfjTiX7P5Lp
X = https://x.com/FoodProfessor
Website = https://www.dal.ca/sites/agri-food.html
The Food Professor: Dr. Sylvain Charlebois
Dr. Sylvain Charlebois is a Visiting Professor in Food Policy and Distribution at McGill University and a Professor in Food Distribution and Policy in the Faculty of Management at Dalhousie University in Halifax. He is also the Senior Director of the Agri-food Analytics Lab, also located at Dalhousie University.
Known as “The Food Professor”, his current research interest lies in the broad area of food distribution, security and safety. He is one of the world’s most cited scholars in food supply chain management, food value chains and traceability with over 775 published peer-reviewed journal articles. Dr. Charlebois is also an editor for the prestigious Trends in Food Science Technology journal.

NOTE: Author Donald Best provided a draft of this article to Dr. Charlebois on Wednesday, June 10, 2026 at about 745pm ET.

As of the posting of this article, Best has not listened to the podcast interview, which was pre-recorded some days prior to writing this article.

Best has written publicly “Looking forward to listening to the whole interview. I greatly admire The Food Professor and his work. We will see whether he covers all of the areas in my article.”

License to Kill: No Justice, No Legal Recourse in Canada’s Ostrich Cull

Guest Column by Human Rights Lawyer Bath-Shéba van den Berg

Lawyer Bath-Shéba van den Berg

British Columbia – Canadian federal government agencies culled hundreds of beautiful healthy ostriches, for ‘regulatory’ reasons.

The Supreme Court of Canada, our highest court, denied the farmers’ application to appeal. No justice, no legal course, no political recourse.

What happens to a people, to a country, when there is nowhere left to turn for help to defend our fundamental rights and freedoms – and all decisions to stamp out our fundamental rights and freedoms are justified under the auspices of regulatory frameworks? When the law is used as a tool to oppress the people instead of to protect the people, we have a problem with our social contract.

“What happens to a people, to a country, when there is nowhere left to turn for help to defend our fundamental rights and freedoms?”

I woke up to CTV News labelling protestors as ideologically motivated and potentially violent, which is mean-spirited name-calling, libellous, and wrong. Love is not ideological; it is human emotion fundamental to our survival. Angie Rasmussen, a virologist at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) at the University of Saskatchewan, is not a lawyer and she is not a politician. Yet, her words carry weight in the public as the CTV chose her to speak above everyone else: Virologist Rasmussen is said to believe that “the amount of politically driven ideologies connected to this conflict could lead to “rational arguments” being nullified.” And that “This is language that does incite violence” (CTV: Cull has Political Implications)

Rasmussen and CTV have tarred and feathered good people standing up for what is right, and what is right is to stand up for our human rights and animal rights. The two are at play here. This case is yet another grotesque example of Canadian federal government overreach and impunity.

What would be a sensationalist heading?

This case is an example of the government of Canada’s license to kill, quite literally this time. Under the invocation of the Emergencies Act in 2022, the federal government gave license to freeze people’s bank accounts,  and I called that “extra-judicial financial killing”.

Surprisingly, this CBC news release is an example of somewhat balanced journalism and provides footage of what was done on the farm. (CBC: Shots at BC Ostrich Farm)

Direct from the farmers: Save Our Ostriches

Bath-Shéba van den Berg is a Human Rights Lawyer and the founder of Egronomy Law. She is called to the Bar in both Alberta and Ontario. Her distinguished career began in international criminal law at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), where she contributed to landmark cases arising from the Balkan conflicts.

She has lectured in international law at The Hague University and served as a Rule of Law Advisor to the British Army – providing counsel on laws of war, human rights, and the counter-illegal wildlife trade.

Bath-Shéba has worked extensively across Canada, the United Kingdom, Kenya, Nigeria, Togo, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, and Afghanistan… always advancing the principles of justice, accountability, and the Rule of Law.

Since returning to Canada, she has appeared before the Federal Court, Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Court of King’s Bench of Alberta, Alberta Court of Justice, and the Calgary Indigenous Court.

Bombshell FOI Emails: Will Theresa Tam Finally Face a Reckoning?

Emails Expose Secret No-Consent RSV Palivizumab Vaccine* Experiments on Inuit Children.

What Else Are They Hiding?

by Donald Best   February 25, 2025

For three years, Canadian officials used Inuit children as guinea pigs for an experimental RSV Palivizumab vaccine* injections program – without parental consent and without the knowledge or involvement of the Inuit population. This shocking revelation, buried in newly uncovered Freedom of Information (FOI) emails, is completely unrelated to COVID-19 – yet it raises damning questions about the government’s approach to public health experiments on Indigenous communities and all Canadians.

Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, knew about the ethical concerns. So did other top public health officials. In a December 16, 2019, email to Tam and others, Dr. Tom Wong, Director General of the Office of Population & Public Health at Indigenous Services Canada, explicitly warned them that health care workers had raised serious red flags.

“Some ethical concerns were raised by health care workers regarding the guarantee of a free and informed consent from parents or caregivers, as well as the absence of involvement of Inuit population in the decision and implementation process.” — Dr. Tom Wong to Dr. Theresa Tam and others, December 16, 2019

Yet rather than halt the program, the government pressed forward. Parents were kept in the dark, as were Inuit leaders and the broader community. Worse, the experiment had already failed – the RSV Palivizumab vaccine* injections didn’t work as intended. But officials concealed this and continued using an Indigenous population as unknowing test subjects.

December 16, 2019 email confirms ‘No-Consent’ Medical Experiments on Inuit Babies

This isn’t the first time Canada’s medical establishment has used Indigenous children as test subjects without consent.

From the 1940s-50s nutritional experiments in residential schools, where researchers deliberately starved Indigenous children to study malnutrition, to the 1933 tuberculosis vaccine trials on 600 Indigenous children in Saskatchewan, where nearly 20% died, history has already proven that officials were willing to sacrifice Indigenous lives for so-called “science.” (ref **)

“The difference between medical research’s clinical trials and human experimentation is patient consent. Given the very unequal power relationships between medical staff and patients, coupled with often perplexing language barriers, and the widespread perception that many Aboriginal people would not willingly accept treatment, patient consent for treatment was often simply taken for granted.” (Lux, M. Separate Beds, University of Toronto Press, 2016, p.112)

Canada’s medical establishment deliberately starved Indigenous children in secret experiments.

The RSV Palivizumab vaccine* injection experiments on Inuit children are not an isolated incident – Canada has a documented history of using Indigenous children as non-consenting test subjects in government-run medical experiments. One of the most shocking examples took place in the 1940s and 1950s, when Canadian scientists deliberately starved Indigenous children in residential schools to study malnutrition.

Newly uncovered historical research confirms that the Canadian government and top nutrition scientists saw Indigenous children not as victims, but as research opportunities.

“Two separate long-term studies that went so far as to include controlled experiments conducted, apparently without the subjects’ informed consent or knowledge, on malnourished Aboriginal populations in Northern Manitoba and, later, in six Indian residential schools.” (Mosby, 2013, p. 145-146) (ref**)

The experiments were brutal in their design:

•Some children were fed vitamin-enriched food, while others were deliberately left malnourished as a “control group” to see how they deteriorated.
•Researchers withheld dental care, believing that “improving dental health might skew the results.”
•Some Indigenous children were subjected to these experiments for up to five years, without their knowledge or consent.

“From the perspective of Tisdall, Kruse, and the other nutrition experts involved in the study, it was clear that the levels of malnutrition witnessed… were a tragedy, but also an unprecedented research opportunity.” (Mosby, 2013, p. 152)

This wasn’t a one-time crime—it was a blueprint. Before the government starved Indigenous children in the 1940s-50s, it had already run tuberculosis vaccine trials on Indigenous children in Saskatchewan in 1933—without their parents’ knowledge.

Page References from Mosby (2013) (Available below for download)**

•Lack of Consent & Secret Experiments: p. 145-146
•Children as Test Subjects: p. 151
•Researchers Saw a ‘Scientific Opportunity’ in Malnutrition: p. 152
•Children Were Denied Treatment for Study Integrity: p. 163

These horrific practices set a clear historical precedent – one that makes the secretive RSV Palivizumab vaccine* injection experiments on Inuit children even more alarming.

If the Canadian government has done it before, what else have they done – and what are they still hiding? One thing is certain: During the COVID-19 vaccine mandates, Informed Consent wasn’t just ignored – it was obliterated.

The Sears FOI Releases: A Crack in the Wall

Bret Sears

This chilling discovery is only the beginning. Credit goes to Bret Sears, a relentless New Brunswicker who pried 1,818 pages of internal government emails loose through FOI requests – 447 pages of which are now public. Many of these emails shift focus to COVID-19 and the mRNA vaccines, hinting at what officials knew as the crisis unfolded.

Over the next year, hundreds of thousands more pages are set to be released – a potential goldmine that could expose hidden deals, suppressed risks, or even darker truths.

A New Age of Citizen Investigators

Thanks to Bret Sears (X = @Bret_Sears), everyday Canadians are now tearing into these documents at unprecedented speed. Over the past three days, I joined citizen groups using AI tools like ChatGPT and Grok to analyze hundreds of pages of the emails, associated news stories, regulations, and government policies. This isn’t like past whistleblower leaks: this is crowdsourced investigative journalism on steroids with A.I. instantly making connections that usually take weeks or months to discover.

Someone spots a red flag – “Look what I found!” – and instantly, others connect the dots, “That ties to this!”

“The truth is coming together faster than ever before. This level of synergy is something I’ve never before witnessed. Tam and her colleagues should be terrified.” Donald Best

Indigenous children in Canada’s residential schools—many of whom were subjected to secret government medical experiments without consent.

The Big Question: Could This Lead to Criminal Charges?

As a former Toronto Police Sergeant (Detective), I have one question…

If these emails or the flood still to come prove that Theresa Tam and other officials knew the mRNA injections caused significant harm and fatalities, yet continued pushing them on the public and Indigenous communities while concealing the truth – could this support criminal charges?

The answer could be yes. Potential charges could include Criminal Negligence Causing Injury or Death – and that’s just the start.

The Truth Is Breaking Free – Join the Hunt

The Tam FOI emails are now searchable.

NOTE: See Tam FOI for all released files RIGHT HERE

Below, you’ll find the first two .pdf files as released by Bret Sears. (Bret Sears can be found on X: @Bret_Sears)

Original Documents:

ReleasePackage – A-2021-000114 – 2025-02-21_Part1

ReleasePackage – A-2021-000114 – 2025-02-21_Part2

Since the government released these files as non-searchable PDFs, I have used Adobe Acrobat OCR to make them fully searchable. Now, you can use the ‘find’ function of your computer to quickly scan for key terms and find critical information.

Searchable OCR Versions:

🔍 ReleasePackage – A-2021-000114 – 2025-02-21_Part1 OCR

🔍 ReleasePackage – A-2021-000114 – 2025-02-21_Part2 OCR

The December 16, 2019 email from Dr. Wong to Dr. Tam is on page 410 / 1818 and is located in the second file (Part 2).

New Find – Report downloaded from a link shown on page 410 – OCRd and searchable:

‘Evaluation of new palivizumab immunoprophylaxis
recommendations in Nunavik infants : results for 2014
to 2017’

‘report_palivizumab_immunoprophylaxis_nunavik_infants_cor OCR’

Now It’s Your Turn

These emails are just the beginning. With each new release, the full scale of government deception may finally come to light.

Were Theresa Tam and other officials knowingly complicit in secret medical experiments on Indigenous children—without consent, without oversight, and without accountability? Did they push dangerous COVID-19 vaccines while concealing the risks?

The truth may be buried in these documents—but not for long.

Dig in. Expose what they never wanted you to see. Your work, your analysis, could be the discovery that shatters the official narrative and triggers criminal investigations into Theresa Tam and other government officials.

Good hunting.

Donald Best – February 25, 2025

NOTE: See Tam FOI for all released files RIGHT HERE

* References – RSV Palivizumab Vaccine* Injections

I had used the colloquial term ‘vaccine’ for the RSV Palivizumab Injections to communicate that these were ‘no-consent / no-knowledge’ injections, but as with the mRNA COVID-19 injections – the Palivizumab Injections are not true ‘vaccines’.

A reader and medical professional asked me to clarify that the injections were of ‘monoclonal antibodies’ and not a true vaccine. As he said…

“The real issues as you’ve identified are the ethics when parents have no knowledge of, and did not consent to, having their children injected with anything in a secret medical experiment.”

I am informed by ChatGPT… Palivizumab (brand name: Synagis) is a monoclonal antibody used to prevent severe respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections in high-risk infants and children. It is not a vaccine but works by providing passive immunity against RSV.

** References

Canada has a documented history of conducting unethical medical experiments on Indigenous children without consent. Two of the most notorious cases include:

1. Nutritional Experiments in Residential Schools (1940s-1950s):

Between 1942 and 1952, Canadian government researchers deliberately starved Indigenous children in residential schools to study the effects of malnutrition. Essential nutrients, vitamins, and even dental care were withheld from at least 1,300 Indigenous individuals—about 1,000 of them children—without informing the children or their families.

• Source: Mosby, I. (2013). Administering Colonial Science: Nutrition Research and Human Biomedical Experimentation in Aboriginal Communities and Residential Schools, 1942–1952. Histoire Sociale/Social History. PDF download

2. Tuberculosis Vaccine Trials (1933):

In 1933, Canadian researchers conducted tuberculosis vaccine trials on 600 Indigenous children in Saskatchewanwithout parental consent. Nearly 20% of the children died from preventable illnesses like gastroenteritis and pneumonia, exacerbated by the poor conditions of Indigenous reserves.

• Source: Lux, M. (2016). Separate Beds: A History of Indian Hospitals in Canada, 1920s-1980s. University of Toronto Press.

Vincent Gircys – Case Update Ottawa Police Detective Helen Grus

Detective Grus believes Police Officers should challenge unlawful orders

by Vincent Gircys – OPP (retired)

I had the opportunity to chat with Ottawa Police Detective Helen Grus following her police disciplinary hearing final submissions. This historic case involves one of Ottawa Police Service’s finest members noticing a spike in infant deaths.

Helen took action where others failed. While following a hypothesis based on the best available evidence, her preliminary inquiry was shut down, as the consequences of exposing the truth became unacceptable to the national narrative. She was subsequently silenced and charged with bringing discredit to the organization.

First and foremost, Helen is so grateful for the prayers and support she’s received throughout the process.

She is in this challenge because she believes in the principles of policing: preservation of peace, prevention of crime, and the protection of life and property. She knows there are countless amazing officers risking their lives daily to do just that.

Her heart and soul believe that when unlawful orders are given by police supervisors, officers must challenge them respectfully using the authority all officers are granted by law. It is clear that this challenging time in Helen’s life, dealing with the allegations against her, will not break her.

Although the financial costs of a legal defense are tremendous, she understands the implications this case will have on the entire Canadian police community if the truth and investigative process associated with this remain buried.

One underestimation in the attempt to silence and set an example of her was that whoever concocted the ridiculous, unprecedented Discreditable Conduct charge against Helen simply doesn’t know her. Perhaps they thought she’d take a plea and hunker down quietly. They didn’t realize that Helen doesn’t worship money; she worships God. She doesn’t love money; she loves life!

Regardless of the outcome of this disciplinary hearing, Helen seems convinced that Truth, Love, and Compassion will prevail.

This is far from over, and I have no doubt that the full version of her story will eventually become mandatory reading in every police academy across Canada, as Helen knows that Courage, Integrity, and Truth in law enforcement must and will prevail.

Ottawa Police Detective Grus Warned Chief Sloly in 2021 About Pfizer, Vaccine-Linked Myocarditis, Unexplained Infant Deaths, Evidence of Criminal Activity

Neglect of Duty: Deputy Chief Patricia Ferguson, Chief Peter Sloly, Chief Steve Bell

Neglect of Duty at the Highest Ottawa Police Ranks

During December 2021 and January 2022 meetings, Detective Helen Grus warned Chief Peter Sloly, Deputy Trish Ferguson, and other senior officers that the Pfizer vaccine had never been tested on pregnant women. As a police detective, she expressed concern for the welfare of pregnant women receiving these experimental COVID vaccines.

In the context of widespread vaccine mandates and public health policies, Detective Grus highlighted that adverse effects were going unreported, and that persons were not being informed of potential adverse effects – which she described as potentially criminal. As an example she told the senior officers of an Ottawa motorist who had a medical event and collision when driving home from being vaccinated. The motorist died 2 days later.

This from evidence presented during the internal trial of Detective Grus – who in July 2022 was charged with one count of ‘discreditable conduct’ for allegedly initiating an ‘unauthorized’ investigation into nine unexplained infant deaths. She was exploring the possibility that the vaccination status of the mothers might be a factor in the fatalities.

The internal trial resumes January 6, 2025, almost 3 years after Detective Helen Grus was suspended.

Toronto Hospital for Sick Children Advisory

In the December 2021 meeting, Detective Helen Grus also informed the Command Officers of an August 6, 2021 Toronto Hospital for Sick Children advisory* that documented a troubling pattern of child myocarditis cases associated with mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, including the following findings:

“Since April 2021, there are increasing reports of cases of myocarditis and pericarditis after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination (Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2 vaccine and Moderna mRNA-1233 vaccine).”

“International and national reports of myocarditis/pericarditis following vaccination with COVID-19 mRNA vaccines have emerged.

These reports indicate that:

• Cases have been seen after the first dose of a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine, but are more commonly reported after the second dose

• Symptom onset was typically within several days after vaccination, with most cases being reported within 7 days after vaccination

    • Cases were mainly adolescents and young adults
    • Cases were more often males compared to females”

A Cluster of Unexplained Infant Deaths

Detective Helen Grus

During the second meeting with Chief Sloly, Detective Grus informed him of how the Sexual Assault and Child Abuse unit had noticed an increase in unexplained infant deaths. Grus urged that COVID vaccines be examined as a potential contributing factor, citing them as a significant and recent variable.

So the Chief of Police and other Command officers were directly briefed by Detective Grus in December 2021 and January 2022 that medical authorities and others were already reporting serious injuries and deaths associated with the new vaccines.

The Command officers knew that there was a recent increase in unexplained infant deaths noticed by the Ottawa Police unit responsible for investigating such occurrences.

Yet – these Command officers neglected their duty and public safety. No investigation was launched.

Then when Detective Grus continued to follow the evidence to determine if there could be a connection between the experimental injections and the unexplained infant deaths – the Ottawa Police Command shut down her investigation, suspended her from duty and eventually charged her with ‘Discreditable Conduct’.

Ottawa Police Given Pfizer Documents in May 2022

During a May 12, 2022, compelled interview with Sgt. Jason Arbuthnot of Professional Standards Unit (‘PSU’), Detective Grus submitted her entire file of evidence, including Pfizer documents that revealed the manufacturer and health authorities had documented vaccine-related harms and deaths over a year earlier.

During her statement Grus further informed PSU that the clinical trials were incomplete and would not conclude until 2024. These trials explicitly excluded pregnant women and breastfeeding infants – rendering the injections experimental and untested for this vulnerable population.

Detective Grus explained that Pfizer sought to suppress its clinical trial results for 75 years, but a U.S. court ordered the reports released. The documents revealed ten pages of known side effects, including myocarditis, hepatitis, and multi-inflammatory syndrome.

She stated that knowing these serious side effects exist and suppressing or using misleading information to encourage people to get vaccinated is criminal negligence.

Neglect of Duty: Sergeant Jason Arbuthnot

Sergeant Arbuthnot didn’t follow up on the evidence. Instead he placed it in a drawer never to be looked at again. His failure to act on this evidence represents not just neglect, but a willful disregard for public welfare and justice.

Now, three years later, a growing body of reports and peer-reviewed studies validate the link between mandated mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and serious injuries and deaths.

Yet, the Ottawa Police persists in prosecuting and persecuting Detective Helen Grus, a committed officer who acted in defense of vulnerable mothers and their infants. Despite fulfilling her sworn duty, uncovering the truth, and working to safeguard public welfare, her actions have been met with systemic retaliation—an alarming reflection of an institution prioritizing self-preservation and coverups over accountability.

Mother’s Day on Parliament Hill – Honouring Ottawa Police Detective Helen Grus

Courthouse Prayers for Ottawa Police Detective Helen Grus

An Ottawa grandmother will spend Mother’s Day on Parliament Hill collecting messages of appreciation and encouragement to be delivered to Ottawa Police Detective Helen Grus. All are invited to attend at noon, Sunday May 12th. Messages and e-cards can also be emailed to MothersDayGrus@proton.me

Meela Melnik was initially skeptical about Detective Grus when in early 2022 CBC News broke the story and claimed the officer had violated rules by initiating an ‘unauthorized’ investigation into the unexplained deaths of nine Ottawa infants.

But after paying close attention to detailed reports of the case, and attending at the hearing herself, Melnik told this reporter:

“I’m spending Mother’s Day honouring Detective Grus because of my conscience and the evidence I’ve seen at her trial. Detective Grus was doing her duty investigating these nine infant deaths.

They stopped her from asking questions. They laid charges to intimidate Grus and other police officers from investigating possible connections between the Covid vaccines and injuries and deaths. It was Detective Grus’ duty to ask these questions.

Canadians should be demanding to know why the Ottawa Police interfered with Detective Grus and stopped her investigation into infant deaths. We should also be demanding to know the full story of outside influences upon the decision to prosecute Detective Grus.”   Ottawa Grandmother Meela Melnik

Melnik describes herself as “pretty ordinary, a grey-haired grandmother”. It was obvious during our interview that she is uncomfortable with taking a public stand but feels she has a duty to alert her fellow Canadians about the Ottawa Police stopping Detective Grus from continuing her investigation into the unexplained infant deaths.

Further, her attendance at the Grus Hearing convinced Melnik that the process is unjust and biased against the officer. Melnik will be attending again when the Grus Hearing reconvenes on Monday, May 27, 2024.

“I’m a police officer; I’m there to solve and help solve if somebody dies. Especially an innocent little baby … I don’t want more babies to die. Whether it’s vaccine-related or not … I’m not okay with babies dying and not getting any answers.” Detective Helen Grus during police questioning

Detective Grus Mother’s Day Cards Available Online and at Parliament Hill

Melnik will bring pre-printed and blank Mother’s Day cards to her Mother’s Day vigil on Parliament Hill so that passersby can send a Mother’s Day message to Detective Grus.

Messages and e-cards can also be emailed to: MothersDayGrus@proton.me

These will be delivered directly to Detective on the morning of Monday, May 27, 2024 when she arrives for the continuation of her Disciplinary Hearing.

“The eternal Golden Rule of Pregnancy for millennia has been you never ever introduce a novel substance in pregnancy.” Obstetrician/Gynecologist and Fetal Medicine Physician Dr.James Thorp.

Here is the Information Poster for the Detective Grus Mother’s Day Event

Grus Mothers Day Event Parliament Hill Flier

Mother’s Day Origins and Detective Helen Grus

Meela Melnik’s poster of the Mother’s Day Event for Detective Grus quotes from the 1872 Mother’s Day Proclamation ‘Appeal to womanhood throughout the world’ by Julia Ward Howe.

Melnik says that Detective Grus is a mother who should be honoured for her integrity and strength, for doing her duty in investigating sudden infant deaths and so to trying to prevent future tragedies for parents.

Maria Gutschi: Health Canada’s change to the definition of ‘Safe and Effective’ Smells of Big Pharma Intimidation

How can they keep saying “safe” and “effective”?

Because the meaning and standards used were changed

I knew from the very beginning that criticizing the “safe” and “effective” narrative using data and facts were doomed to fail. I have spent many years convincing doctors that their safe and effective drugs are not as advertised but outcome data from studies and trials can be massaged. So you end up in the battle of the experts. So I concentrated on manufacturing, and quality and we did get some traction using this approach.

However, to get at the root cause of this narrative, we need to really understand how the national regulatory authorities actually assessed these products. My colleague David Wiseman has been following the FDA process for 3 years and dissects how the FDA went off the rails. He talks about it here:

David Wiseman on Trial Site News start at 39:45 or thereabouts

I will attempt to do the same for Health Canada.

Safe and Effective is a Term Defined in Law and Regulation

Interim Order

Canada did not have existing legislation that could be applied to authorization of a drug product in the context of a pandemic. The FDA used their existing EUA developed for a pandemic, and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) used a “fast track” or accelerated pathway used many times before and just adaped to the pandemic. I think this is why the EMA’s review is the most complete.

Canada therefore, introduced a temporary emergency authorization as a new legal rule, the Interim Order (IO), for a specific one-year time period, promulgated September 20, 2020. The IO was also designed to support “intellectual property considerations” so that there would be no delay in access to COVID-19 treatments for Canadians.

“Seriously? I think there is another rabbit hole there. I worked for the patent regime in Canada as a scientific officer and this smells of intimidation by Pharma to me.”

Comparison of Interim Order to Notice of Compliance (NOC)

Here I compare in a draft document I am writing how a normal drug is assessed to receive what is called a Notice of Compliance (NOC) in order for the manufacturer to market and sell the product. This is also a ‘full approval.’ Canada does not have a separate authorization for vaccines or biologics vs regular drugs. These are all considered “drugs” under the Food and Drugs Act. The FDA grants a specific biologic authorization for biologics, vaccines and gene therapies called the Biologic License Application or BLA.

 

Do you see it?

In regulations for an NOC in C.08.002(2) you need to establish the safety of a new drug with detailed report (part 2g). And you need substantial evidence of clinical effectiveness (part 2h)

In the Interim Order the Minister MUST approve? Really? Sufficient evidence that the benefits outweigh potential risks. So no standard for establishing safety and efficacy THEN doing a benefit vs risk assessment like we do for a regular approval. Basically if a ham sandwich looked liked it did something, the Minister was required to approve.

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How the Law Society of Ontario Sent an Innocent Man to Prison to Save Three Corrupt Lawyers

Ontario Solitary Confinement Prison Cell

The client most lawyers fear – and won’t represent at any price

by Donald Best (First published 2016)

There is a class of self-represented litigants that the legal profession does not talk about or even acknowledge, at least publicly. These are the people who are ready and willing to pay a lawyer, but are forced to represent themselves because the vast majority of lawyers refuse to litigate cases involving a claim of professional misconduct against another member of the Bar.

In the past year I have spoken with dozens of such individuals. I am not a lawyer, but they appear to have good civil claims against lawyers for unethical or even unlawful conduct – apparently supported by strong evidence and backed by case law. Yet these Canadians are unable to find legal representation at any price.

Some of these victims choose to self-represent, while others abandon any thoughts of seeking justice. Increasingly, self-represented litigants are assisted behind the scenes with legal research and document preparation by lawyers who are sympathetic, but fear backlash and opprobrium from the profession if they take the case themselves.

Corrupt lawyers Sebastien Kwidzinski, Gerald Ranking & Lorne Silver lied to the courts.

The perils of challenging a lawyer in court

I approached over one hundred lawyers to petition the court to overturn my conviction for contempt. This conviction resulted from a private prosecution that was led by two senior lawyers from large Bay Street firms. All refused to take my case, even as they acknowledged its validity and the strength of the evidence against the Bay Street lawyers.

In brief: I had been convicted of contempt of court in a civil matter while out of the country, and sentenced to three months in prison. My conviction in absentia was based upon the written and oral testimony of two Toronto lawyers who swore that, during a conference call with them, I had confirmed that I had received a copy of a certain court order.

Their sworn evidence also assured the court that they had served the order upon me in Ontario via courier. (The courier company however, stated that they had never received the court order from the lawyers, and no shipping documents, signature receipt, or tracking number have ever been produced by the lawyers). An affidavit by their “private investigator” provided an expert opinion that I was deliberately avoiding service – because I use a commercial mailbox as my address.

In fact, I had not received the court order, and stated this many times clearly during the conference call (as a forensically certified recording proved). Instead I asked, many times, for the lawyers to please send me a copy.

Despite this, I was held in contempt based on the lawyers’ assertion that I had received the court order and confirmed that receipt to them during the call.

Looking for representation

I returned to Canada and hoped to put the recording of the conference call and other evidence before the court. I knew that I would face prison time for contempt if I were unsuccessful.

So I searched for a lawyer to represent me.

Many of the young lawyers I approached were sympathetic and forthright, even admitting that they were ashamed to have to turn me down. They explained that they dared not take my case because they feared the professional and social sanctions that would certainly result. Some cited conflicts of interest involving past colleagues and law firms, while others explained that they regularly receive work from the large Bay Street firms, and could not afford to jeopardize that source of business.

A surprising number of lawyers told me that it was their firm’s policy not to litigate against lawyers, or to bring motions or evidence that would harm the careers of other lawyers.

“Yes, Mr. Best, the lawyers lied to the judge to convict you, but our firm simply does not handle this type of case.”

When I explained all of the above to Ontario’s Law Society of Upper Canada and asked for assistance in finding a lawyer willing to represent me, I received a form letter referring me to the list of lawyers on the Law Society’s website {the Lawyers Referral Service).

Trying to defend myself

Since no lawyer would represent me at any price, I was forced to represent myself.

The judge {the same judge who presided over the original hearing) would not listen to the conference call recording or consider any other fresh evidence that proved that I had never received the court order, and that for the lawyers to claim otherwise was perjury. The judge also refused me permission to cross-examine the lawyers and the “private investigator” all of whom provided testimony the court relied upon to convict and send me to prison.

The judge sent me to prison.

It was while I was in prison that I finally found and retained a lawyer willing to appeal my conviction.

Mv appeal: finally represented by a lawyer

Principled Lawyer Paul Slansky Represented Donald Best

I shall never forget this moment.

When my lawyer introduced himself at the appeal hearing, opposing counsel refused to shake his hand, saying that he would not shake the hand of a lawyer who filed a motion stating that a colleague had deceived the court. And so the social and professional sanctions began: against the one lawyer I found with the courage and integrity to act on his sense of duty.

I was eventually forced to abandon my appeal because of punitive costs (that I could not pay) awarded against me earlier, and returned to prison to serve the rest of my sentence {which, as a former police officer, I served in solitary confinement). No court ever heard my certified voice recordings of the phone call with the lawyers. I was never allowed to cross-examine the lawyers and other witnesses upon whose testimony I was convicted and sent to prison.

My lawyer believes that everyone deserves Access to Justice and fair legal representation – but for over one hundred other Ontario lawyers, Access to Justice apparently ends if a litigant has evidence of misconduct by a fellow member of the Bar.

Donald Best is an Access to Justice & Anti-corruption advocate. A former Toronto Police Sergeant (Detective), he worked on deep-cover investigations against organized crime, corrupt police, and public officials. His website is DonaldBest.ca

University of Windsor Deletes Original Article, Cancels Author

The above article was originally published July 7, 2016 by the National Self-Represented Litigants Project at the University of Windsor Law School under the title The client most lawyers fear – and won’t represent at any price.

(The NSRLP article did not name the corrupt lawyers as this one does)

For the next seven years, the article was the #1 read article at the NSRLP website – a fact that was confirmed by both the NSRLP Director in a video presentation and in NSRLP Annual Reports.

In June of 2023, the National Self-Represented Litigants Project removed the article from its website and cancelled the author, Donald Best – removing all mention of him from the NSRLP website.

This was within a few days of Donald Best publishing a personal-website article featuring Lois Cardinal, a transsexual woman who self-identifies as:

“A sterilized Indian on a mission to save vulnerable children and young people from the predatory trans-industry that destroyed me.”

See Canada’s Largest Pharmacy Chain Quietly Deletes ‘Trans’ From Pride Month

NSRLP Executive Director Jennifer Lietch and many other members of the NSRLP refused to respond to written communications and phone messages from Donald Best – requesting the NSRLP to republish deleted article and about 50 public comments.

As of March 28, 2024, the University of Windsor Law School National Self-Represented Litigants Project is still banning and cancelling Donald Best.

Other Articles About The Corrupt Lawyers and Donald Best

December 24, 2018 – Cassels Brock website celebrates corrupt lawyer Lorne Silver who lied to jail a self-represented litigant

December 4, 2018 – Donald Best Receives the 2018 OCLA Civil Liberties Award

Vincent Gircys: Police Profession and Police Unions Self-Destructing Over Human Rights Violations, Woke Agendas

Four Years and Counting..

As a former police officer I’ve personally witnessed an abhorrent amount of suffering from those who lost their businesses, homes, and careers in the last four years. While a small minority of ultra wealthy gamed the system to the tune of billions, the vast majority of Canadians have not done well financially or otherwise – the result of tyrannical government decisions and those who supported the decisions by remaining silent.

“Beyond the financial losses – the Charter and Human Rights violations and Police Brutality are off the charts.”

What was once considered a noble profession no longer stands tall and true today. The trust has been broken with too many examples to list.

Guest article by Vincent Gircys

The result of that demise includes the loss of public trust, police morale decimated, replacement rates falling rapidly, an increase in sick time, and a lack of public interest in joining the profession. And, like every other civil service position, internal issues are contributing to the collapse.

One of the main issues is tribalism within the organizations based on hiring models that began almost 25 years ago. In an effort to comply with increasing international WEF commitments, policing organizations have accelerated the DEI (Diversity Equity and Inclusion) component. The hiring and promoting those who scored highest in the employment and promotion processes is taking a back seat to an approach based on gender, race, and sexual preference.

The fallout from this process and others like it is the big fat lack-of-competency elephant in the room. Nobody is talking about it on the outside.

Today, police service social media accounts are lighting up with congratulatory messages celebrating the special days dedicated to some – while intentionally ignoring others. This is itself divisive and can’t be discussed by those in public service without retribution.

Discussion of divisive comments made by the Prime Minister or others in power is also taboo in our Police services. If that isn’t enough, Bill C-63 will make sure to silence the remainder.

I recently posted my thoughts to the PAO (Police Association of Ontario) on the proven value of meritocracy where performance takes precedence. I also noted the problems associated with tribalism.

PAO President Mark Baxter

PAO President Mark Baxter chose to respond, “I understand why you’re a former forensic investigator. No room for your divisive views in our police workplaces in 2024! Let’s use today to celebrate the accomplishments women have made in policing and in all workplaces, not diminish them with your 1950’s views #IWD.”

It seems Mr Baxter doesn’t actually know me, my service contributions spanning over 32 years, my awards or my experience.

What Mark Baxter knows is at all cost he needs to defend the narrative put before him – much like the Ottawa Police Service attempting to destroy Detective Helen Grus.

Detective Grus failed to adhere to the narrative and chose to ask questions regarding the sudden and unexplained deaths of infants. No mention of that woman’s courage from Mark Baxter while celebrating Women in Policing Day.

“The response toward Detective Grus has revealed just how corrupt our Police Services and Police Associations are, and how far they are willing to go to keep specific information from surfacing.”

Many working within the Police service are aware and this fact adds to the everyday stress. I started my career in 1982 at a time when my recruiter explained only the best would be hired to complete a career exceeding 30 years of experience that most could not handle.

“I don’t subscribe at all to the dark days of 50’s style policing as Mark Baxter suggests. I also don’t subscribe to the current cult beliefs of cutting off your genitals, demanding the use of gender pronouns, tampons in men’s washrooms, men in woman’s washrooms, giving up your Charter Rights, or hiring people to perform dangerous duties with less than outstanding skills.”

If I’m in need of Police Services I’m not looking at race, gender or sexual preference. I want to know that the responding police officers are the best possible.

Ultimately our cultural changes will be decided by Canadians over a much longer time period than envisioned by those pushing the Woke Cult Agendas in the Police Service and Police Unions.

Vincent Gircys

 

About Vincent Gircys

Vincent Gircys was a serving member of the Ontario Provincial Police for 32 years. As a police Constable in one of Canada’s largest police services, he was a member of the
Emergency Response Team and later became a Forensic Reconstructionist adopting the principles of science to determine contributing factors leading to death.

Vincent was a recipient of several awards for service including the distinguished Exemplary Service Medal. He retired from law enforcement in 2015.

He has been active in fighting government and police overreach, and stands against the unjust suspension of Human and Constitutional Rights.

Vincent Circys is also a plaintiff in a civil lawsuit against Canada’s financial institutions, Justin Trudeau, several Cabinet Ministers, and others who unlawfully “identified individuals, provided financial information, interfered with private property, and seized financial products, information services of the plaintiffs including but not limited to their bank accounts and credit cards.”

Editor’s Notes

This article is based upon a major X post by Vincent Gircys on March 9, 2024.

The editor, Donald Best, made changes for grammar and clarity – that have not yet been seen or approved by Vincent Gircys. If Mr. Gircys wishes any changes, I will make them and post the revision notice.

Donald Best

Questions, Doubts, Lack of Accountability Undermine Coutts Fundraising

Coutts Four Fundraising Chaos

Declaration by Donald Best

I, Donald Best, am the sole author of this Investigation Report concerning Fundraising for the accused men commonly known as the ‘Coutts Four’: Anthony Olienick, Chris Carbert, Chris Lysak, and Jerry Morin.

I verily believe that everything in this report is accurate and true to the best of my professional abilities, and considering the sources and information available to me at the time.

Should the need arise or be required, I am willing to create a sworn affidavit based upon this report and / or testify under oath if subpoenaed.

If any person or group objects to anything in this report or that I have published or broadcast anywhere regarding the subjects and issues at hand, I can be contacted via email at:

coutts.report@proton.me

I will professionally consider all communications and especially any relevant evidence or exhibits sent to me. Should new evidence disprove anything in this report or cause me to change any reported fact or my analysis, I will prominently publish that evidence and a revised report at my website: DonaldBest.CA

This report is the result of requests from almost a hundred people (witnesses) who contacted me starting in July, 2023 and expressed concern with the fundraising activities of what I call ‘The Margaret MacKay Group’ or for brevity ‘The MacKay Group’. Some friends and family members of the four accused also contacted me.

I have never directly spoken with any of the four accused, although I have received messages through others.

The intent of this report is twofold:

1/ To document the Coutts Four joint fundraising controversy that is undermining the ability of the Coutts Accused to raise funds, and,

2/ To restore public confidence in fundraising through a recommended ‘Clean Start’ for the individual fundraising efforts of each accused. As detailed later, it is my belief that the current situation has destroyed the viability of joint fundraising for the foreseeable future.

Note: I will be further copying the text of the report into this post, but for now here is the full report in .pdf format…

20231119 – COUTTS FUNDRAISING FINAL

Donald Best

Sunday, November 19, 2023

23:20 hours Eastern

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