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The Forgiveness Fallacy: Standing by our Painful Truth; An Introduction to Aletheia Therapy

By way of an introduction: Why Do We Tolerate the Destruction of Children, and Those Who Are Responsible?

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - Homeless, starving, plagued by alcoholism and drug addiction; Harry Wilson is still alive, somehow.

Neither his present suffering, nor his childhood rape and torture by a United Church clergyman with an electric cattle prod, has caused him to collapse...

The Diamond Jubilee... A Farewell To Monarchy

"Like the Vatican, the Crown is above the natural law of the land. Canadian courts refuse to hold it responsible for crimes against indigenous people..." - Kevin Annett

(SASKATCHEWAN) - My father was an imperialist.

He was raised in Tory Ontario in a Baptist family that was perhaps embarrassed by the listing in the family Bible of the rebel Philip Annett who, four generations earlier, had seized the family flintlock and hastened to join William Lyon MacKenzie during the abortive rebellion of 1837.

The Mass Graves at Brantford

An Update from the ITCCS Indigenous Elders Advisory Council and Kevin Annett.

(BRUSSELS) - The first successful uncovering of apparent mass graves at a former Indian residential school in Canada began in October, 2011.

The location is the “Mush Hole” Mohawk Institute: the former Church of England (Anglican) facility in Brantford, Ontario.

Notes on a Snowbird Stock Market... Heading South

"I wouldn't belong to a club that would have me for a member" - Groucho Marx

(SASKATCHEWAN) - There's an old adage on Wall Street – not unlike Groucho's bon mot above – that if you can get stock in a hot new IPO, you shouldn't.

The most recent example, of course, was the over priced, over-pitched and over-supplied Facebook stock issue, which soared only to plummet, as in the favored journalistic verbs, in its first two trading days.

The Third Industrial Revolution

A Farewell to Daddy Warbucks in The Post-America World...

(SASKATCHEWAN) - My friend Tom sent me one of those email chain letters the other day, the kind that most of us exchange from time to time.

This one was full of current economic and social truisms with which we're all familiar.

A Public Declaration to Joseph Ratzinger, Bishop of Rome, and the Catholic College of Cardinals

We have instructed all of our member organizations to commence such citizens’ arrests of your guilty clergy.

(BRUSSELS) - A Public Declaration to Joseph Ratzinger, Bishop of Rome, and the Catholic College of Cardinals:

From The Executive Council of The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State. Be Warned: Child Raping Catholic Priests and their Protectors will now be Arrested on sight.

It`s a church! No, it`s a state! Stop! You`re both right!

Why We are Still in the Middle Ages: The Vatican Inquisition Strikes Back.

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - Paolo Gabriele is languishing in a secret church prison tonight in Vatican City after being arrested by church police for having some of the Pope’s private papers in his possession.

The Pope’s former butler and a father of three children is threatened with thirty years in a papal jail for having uncovered some of Joseph Ratzinger’s dirty secrets.

An Undercover Report... Prince Charles, Camilla and The Musical Ride

For the benefit of our American, British, Australian and European readers, The RCMP Musical Ride is an internationally acclaimed mounted troop precision drill...

(OTTAWA) - The Shield has long been privy to news inside the Force because of an exclusive contact imbedded deep within.

That source revealed that it's expected that a special ceremony will take place during the royal visit, with the RCMP Commissioner presenting His Royal Highness Prince Charles with the Mounties' most prestigious award.

Two Studies in Transparency... An Apology for JP Morgan Chase

JP Morgan Chase's trades were built around contracts tied to corporate bonds.

(SASKATCHEWAN) - Last week, a brace of headlines twitterpated the financial world.

One was out of romantic Italy, the other on the Street of Dreams, both dealing with the venerable bank/dealer/trader/broker with the curious amalgam of the oldest family escutcheon on Wall Street.

Justice is Blind (Not To Mention Deaf and, Especially, Dumb)

'Justice is mine' - the Lord

'Go for it, sir. It sure as hell isn't ours'. - The Editor

(SASKATCHEWAN) - Gather 'round, kiddies, amateur historians and law students, while we explore in the following seminar the question of which – U.S. or Canadian law – is the stupider, or given a global context, the stupidest.