I don’t ever remember having any type of thanksgiving dinner, or xmas dinner, or anything like that in our PMQ on the various bases.
I do remember going over to Sue’s family in Oshawa a couple of times when we lived on Canadian Forces Base Downsview. But Richard always felt odd, out of place, and usually agitated which always turned these dinners into a minefield of broken glass.
Not too much to update on the class action.
Still going through the appeals process.
Although the Alberta judge ruled that this class action could proceed against the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces for their bungled handling of the affair on Canadian Forces Base Namao, the CAF and the DND have dug their heels in.
The underlying goal is to have me removed as the representative plaintiff, which would more or less be the death knell for this action.
What the Canadian Armed Forces and the Department of National Defence have on their side is the frequent changes to the National Defence Act and the Criminal Code of Canada.
The DND and the CAF also seem to be leaning very heavily into the fact that the vast majority of Canadians have no recollection or knowledge of the various inquiries and hearings over the years that found the military justice system to be extremely inadequate and subject to manipulation by superior officers.
The DND and the CAF also seem to be conducting an experiment in law called “Schrodinger’s Base Brat”
Also DND and the CAF seem to be stonewalling in the search for other victims.
It’s not like the DND or the CFNIS have to take on a massive hunt for other victims.
DND and the CAF already have the names of the other ~25 victims of Captain McRae and his helpers that the base military police, the CFSIU, the modern day CFNIS, (ret) Brigadier General Daniel Edward Munro, and the various officers on the courts martial panel know.
It’s also worth wonder if the DND or the CAF have settled with previous victims of Captain McRae and his helpers.
To date the DND and the CAF have insisted that they were never responsible for the safety of children living in military housing located on military bases. The DND and the CAF have also indicated that they have no responsibility for the actions of their service members towards civilians.
Are DND and the CAF just going to run the clock out? This is a favourite tactic of the CAF and the DND. Dead plaintiffs can’t set precedents and can’t claim compensation.
I get to apply for Medical Assistance in Dying in 15 months and 21 days.
All the DND, the CAF, and the DOJ have to do is delay, delay, delay.
But Bobbie, you simply have to stay alive or you’re just going to let the DND, the CAF, and the DOJ win.
Who fucking cares?
Through the 14 years of lies, bullshit, and subterfuge since this matter began in 2011 my father has died. Master Corporal Richard Wayne Gill will not have to explain what deals he made in 1980 with the chain of command.
When my father gave his statement to the CFNIS in 2011, he contradicted social service records and medical records that existed in three provinces that he was unaware of. When I examined him for federal court in 2013, he outright contradicted his statement to the CFNIS. I first gave my social service records to the CFNIS in 2011, then again in September of 2015 when the RCMP suggested to the CFNIS to take another go at the investigation. In 2015 I even gave a copy of the examination that I gave to my father in 2013. You would think that the CFNIS would want to hear the explanation from him as to why there was such a discrepancy between his statement to the CFNIS in 2011 and his statements to social services in 1980 through 1986. Nope, the CFNIS weren’t concerned in the slightest. They had the story they wanted. And that’s all they needed.
The goal of the CAF and the CFNIS in 2011 was to bury this matter. After all the babysitter insisted during a telephone call to Master Corporal Robert Jon Hancock that “Anything he had been involved in as a youth has already been handled by the military” and “if charges were to be brought against him, a lawyer would handle that”.
What deals did the CAF and the DND make with my father in 1980 and then again in 2011? We’ll never know.
My brother died in 2024. We’ll never know what drove him to start injecting ketamine, but apparently he was suffering from major depression and anxiety due to the events of CFB Namao and the dysfunctional household that we grew up in that the CAF shielded from public social services.
What deals did the CAF and the DND make with the babysitter? Again, we’ll never know. Any agreement reached between the babysitter and the DND and the CAF will no doubt be covered by a massive Non Disclosure Agreement.
And yes, NDAs are often applied in these matters. I’m already covered by an NDA. Yeah, I can mention the existence of an NDA. But I can’t mention a single detail about it.
Does the CAF, the DND, or the DOJ have any intention of justice or compensation for the children abused on CFB Namao by an officer of the regular force that were subsequently swept under the rug and posted off to various bases across Canada?
I don’t think so.
This case is so fucking toxic for the CAF and the DND.
Up to now the DND and the CAF have been able to claim that there was never a problem with child sexual abuse on the bases in Canada simply due to the lack of prosecutions.
Meanwhile the truth is we’ll never know how many instances of child sexual abuse were swept under the rug due to the 3-year-time-bar flaw, the summary investigation flaw, the fact that commanding officers had the authority of provincial crown prosecutors to approve or disapprove of criminal code charges against their subordinates, the fact that the CAF has sole jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute service offences, that service offences included all criminal code offences, and that the military retains sole jurisdiction for historical service offences.
The other thing that the DND and the CAF like to insist upon is that all of the questionable members of the Canadian Forces or its various predecessors prior to unification in 1968 were all one-offs, like each base was operated by an independent franchisee like 7-11 stores or McDonald’s.
All of these men were recruited by the Canadian Armed Forces or the various branches that existed prior to unification in 1968. All of these men were vetted as being suitable for service. All of these men had easy access to the children of service members living on the bases in Canada.
If any of these men molested children living on Canadian Armed Forces Bases prior to 1998, charges can never be brought due to the 3-year-time-bar that existed prior to 1998 as service offences included all criminal code offences that were committed by a service member while subject to the code of service discipline. Regular force members are subjected to the code of service discipline 24/7/365 from the day they enlist until the day they retire ( or are booted from the military). The National Defence Act states that any service offence committed by a person who is no longer subject to the code of service discipline but who would have been at the time of the offence remains the jurisdiction of the Canadian Armed Forces.
There are no exceptions to this.
A sexual pervert or deviant that was a member of the Canadian Armed Forces has the right to expect their service offence to be dealt with by the defective military justice system as it was prior to 1998. Which means that the 3-year-time-bar applies as does the requirement for a summary investigation.
This is why you don’t hear of charges against members of the Canadian Armed Forces for sexual crimes against military dependents that occurred prior to 1998.
I’m definitely not a day person.
Far too many people to deal with during the day.
Night is better, but I have to deal with my daemons at night.
I’m more of a sleep person.
Anything but humans.
Humans are an evolutionary disaster.
We have brains that can remember, plan, and forecast.
But instead of using our brains to their highest potential we use our brains to lie, steal, maim, scheme, and deceive.
Some of us even hallucinate magic beings that justify our misdeeds.
Others use these magical beings to inflict their wills upon others, even with the goal of intentionally causing pain, suffering, and even death.
How much of Apple’s revenue is driven by their faux concern about “privacy” and “Security”?
My brother dropped dead of an OD last year. Cops only found his corpse after the downstairs neighbours complained of a foul liquid dripping through the ceiling. I am his only living next-of-kin, hence why I got woken up by my local police force on behalf of a police force in a difference province about 1800 km away.
Made arrangements with the coroner to have his body transported to a crematorium after the autopsy. Paid to have his body cremated. Flew to this other city on a flight booked at a bereavement rate. Booked a hotel on a bereavement rate.
When I arrived at this other city met with the landlord, checked his apartment for personal effects, grabbed his iPhone, his Apple watch, and his Macbook. Couldn’t really access much in the apartment as most of the flooring had been removed as part of the cleanup process. So I signed the paperwork authorizing the landlord to dispose of his belongings. The next day I picked up his ashes from the crematorium, filed for survivor benefits under the Canada Pension Plan, and gave the landlord a copy of his certificate of cremation and transferred the ownership of my brother’s car to the landlord for disposal.
Gave the hotel a copy of his certificate of cremation to validate the bereavement rate
Gave the airline a cpoy of his certificate of cremations to validate the bereavement rate
The crematorium had forwarded a copy of his certificate of cremation to Equifax and Trans Canada Credit.
The crematorium had also sent a copy of his certificate of cremation to the Canada Pension Plan so that they would accept my claim for CPP survivor benefits.
When I got home, I did factory restores of the three devices.
Activation lock……
Okay, fine, not a big deal. I don’t want access to his information. The life he led I’m pretty sure that some things are better left unknown, otherwise I’m pretty sure that I’d be obligated to get law enforcement involved. But I could have given the devices away.
Nope.
Apparently Apple can’t verify a death from a Death Certificate, a certificate of cremation, a coroner’s report, a phone call to the coroner, or a phone call to the investigating officer.
They need a court order…….. not for access to his information. As I said, somethings are better left unknown.
Court orders run in the neighbourhood of $10k.
I’m not great at a lot of things, but I am good with math. $10k – $2500.00 = $7500.00
So, I’d be $7500.00 in the hole for equipment that brand new was worth $2500.00
And when you consider that I am not the only person in this situation, this actually works out pretty good in Apple’s favour. Perfectly functional hardware going to the e-recycler or the landfill means devices that Apple doesn’t have to compete against. This translates into sales of new equipment.
Well, it’s your brother’s fault for not setting you up as the next of kin.
We hadn’t spoken to each other in ages. Our family was extremely dysfunctional.
But that didn’t matter to the police force that found his body.
That didn’t matter to the coroner
That didn’t matter to the crematorium
That didn’t matter to the airline
That didn’t matter to the hotel.
That hasn’t matted to the various creditors looking for payment on his massive debts
I was the only person that they could find contact information for and that was good enough to have his corpse cremated.
So it should be more than good enough for Apple to remove the activation lock from a device and allow it to be used by someone else after it has been wiped and updated.
Nope.
Gotta divert this stuff to e-waste or landfill so we don’t have to compete against it on the resale market
Every now and again something pops up that brings Richard back with full force.
I will be so very happy when I am finally freed of Richard.
I started getting into BACnet at the hospital back around 2019 when the outside contract management was replaced with in house management.
Our plant was so far in the dark ages. Pneumatics still make up the vast majority of our controls.
One of the first thing that I started doing when I became the Chief engineer was to start nibbling away at a lot of the inadequacies of our ancient automation systems. And this is where BACnet came in.
I’ve never used BACnet prior to this position. Networking I’ve done. I’ve worked with RS-485 networks before. I’ve got decent knowledge of controls. I’ve also learnt that proprietary licenced controllers are no longer the only way to accomplish automation.
One of the reasons that I’ve taken a shine to ABB drives over the last few years is that they can run by themselves without the need for expensive proprietary controllers that can only be programmed with expensive proprietary software developer kits, proprietary interfaces, and exorbitant licencing fees.
I’ve also installed various other devices that further expand the monitoring capabilities of the system.
But, there was always one piece of equipment that I could never get to work reliably.
With RS-485 networks, the network is supposed to be laid out in one continuous daisy chain. The network is not supposed to have stars or stubs.
Daisy Chain is good.
Stars, rings, backbone with stubs, backbone with stars are bad.
That’s where repeater hubs come in to play.
Or at least so I thought.
Some of the equipment would work fine on a hub, some equipment would work at super slow baud rates, and some equipment absolutely refused to operate at all.
I could never figure out what was going wrong. I thought that my dream of expanding BACnet all over the hospital was a dying dream.
Recently I happened across some documents from Texas Instruments talking about recommended design of circuits using their RS-485 transceiver chips used in communication equipment.
Up to this point in time I had always used MSA Fieldserver BACnet routers as the interface for the network loops. On the router are switches for each port.
Bias (+)
Bias (-)
Term
I had always set the positive and negative bias on, and of course the terminator resistor was turned on. I would also set the terminator resistor at the end of the loop to be on as well.
Well, being the complete idiot that I am, I never noticed that the hubs that I was using, and I’ve tried three different brands, had termination resistors, but they had no bias resistors.
I should have clued into the fact that the outputs of these hubs are galvanically isolated.
To be galvanically isolated, the outputs can’t be tied high to a common power supply nor can the outputs be tied low to a common ground. And this is why they couldn’t have biasing resistors.
This means that while the network was terminated, the 0 and 1 levels were not being defined properly and they’d go all over the place due to common mode voltage.
Some equipment like my ABB drives could handle the floating loop, but other equipment obviously expected the loop to not only be terminated, but to be biased. Equiment like the ABB drives can actually supply the bias voltages for the loop. Most of my other equipment can’t supply the bias voltages.
So, with the knowledge of my lack of knowledge in hand, and with Richard laughing widely in my brain, I soldered up a pair of 4.7k resistors with some hookup wire and some heat-shrink.
The resistors that were missing were the RFS1 and RFS2 which form the bias for the network. The two RT resistors are the termination resistors.
With this diagram as a reference, RFS1 = 4700 ohms, RT = 120 ohms, and RFS2 = 4700 ohms.
As soon as I connected RFS1 from the DC power rail to terminal (A) the LED on the port actually illuminated and started flickering on and off indicating data transmission. And once RFS2 was connected from (B) to ground the intensity of the LED changed the flashing was more defined. A check of my laptop showed that all communication errors on this node went away and all of the devices were back on line.
Why did some equipment work while others didn’t?
Simple.
The ABB, Yaskawa, and Schneider variable speed drives that I have in use at the hospital all have the capability to inject bias on to the loop.
Other equipment that I have such as the flow meters and the actuators typically don’t have the ability to inject bias into the network, and so the network common mode voltages will go all over the place. If the network is allowed to float all over the place the transceivers get confused.
But Bobbie, people make mistakes all the time, you caught this one.
No, the one problem that I face is that I have no paperwork, therefore when I make a mistake it’s because I’m an outright moron. When people with degrees and certificates create massive mistakes, fuhgeddaboudit, don’t worry about it.
It’s actually quite funny, but in a sad and tragic way.
Trades, certificate programs, diploma programs, they’re all made for people without scars. You got scars? Piss off and get outta here.
Well Bobbie, it’s your own damn fault, you should have taken a real trade when you were younger, don’t bitch at us.
Back in my day, to get into the trades you needed either the support of your family or the support of social services.
That wasn’t going to happen.
Being a military dependent is odd in the sense that because you’ve moved amongst the provinces, you’re the other province’s issue.
When I found myself unemployed during Alberta’s recession in 1991, Alberta was willing to give me a bus ticket back to Ontario.
When I first moved to Vancouver in 1992, BC Social Services was more than willing to give me a bus ticket back to Alberta.
When I moved out to Toronto in 1993, Ontario wanted to buy me a bus ticket back to Nova Scotia. Sure, I was born in Nova Scotia. Ain’t got any family out there. My father just happened to the stationed at Canadian Forces Base Shearwater when I popped out.
Your father’s employed with the Canadian Armed Forces, you don’t qualify for this aid program.
You’re a military brat, surely the Canadian Forces is the place for you.
This training program only covers you if you meet these criteria points.
You have no collateral.
You’re gonna need somebody to co-sign a loan for you.
Can’t you get a job where your employer will let you take paid time off whenever you need too?
Find your mother, she’ll fund you.
Tell your father you’re sorry for fucking with his military career when you got abused by Captain McRae and maybe he’ll give you some money.
Why don’t you shack up with someone and let them pay your bills.
What about finding a program that takes your knowledge into account?
Those programs typically existed back in the ’70s and ’80s, but they don’t exist any longer. Basically you’d have to interrupt your entire life and take a full-on trade program that may or may not give you any credit for your adult experience.
I am so looking forward to this…….
As I’ve said before, I will be so devastated if the Government of Canada falls through on implementing Medical Assistance in Dying for reasons of Mental Health.
I’ve used chatGPT for a while.
It’s interesting to use when you’re looking for random ideas or work arounds for working with Raspberry Pis or other electronics issues. When it comes to mathematics and electronics theory that’s where chat shines for me.
Chat also seems to be able to reason and learn, but in very limited means.
When I was working on a blog posting a while ago, just for shits ‘n’ giggles I asked chat if someone who was sexually abused on a Canadian military base prior to 1998 could bring charges against their abuser today.
Chat replied that yes, this was possible, Canada has no statute of limitation on criminal code offences.
So, I fed Chat the entire 1970 National Defence Act.
I asked Chat the same question again.
Chat then replied that the Canadian Armed Forces had a 3-year-time-bar on Criminal Code offences, but people who were sexually abused on base prior to 1998 could still get justice as the Canadian Forces were prohibited from conducting service tribunals for Murder, Manslaughter, or Rape.
I then fed chat the 1970 Criminal Code of Canada.
I asked Chat again, could a person today that was sexually abused as a 8 year old child on a defence establishment prior to 1985 (the year rape was removed from the criminal code) by a member of the Canadian Armed Forces, bring charges against their abuser.
Chat replied that it did not appear so as the crime of Rape was a very specific charge that could not be applied to cases involving girls under the age of 16.
I asked Chat what crimes could apply, Chat listed off:
Sexual intercourse with female 14 to 16
Sexual intercourse with female under 14
Sexual intercourse with step daughter
Sexual intercourse with foster child or ward
Incest.
(Notice how Chat seems to be assuming that only females can be victims of sexual assault)
I then asked Chat what the most disturbing thing related to the criminal code offence of Rape was. Chat replied that a husband could never be charged with raping his wife (true).
I then asked Chat what the most disturbing thing was related to the criminal code charge of Sexual Intercourse with Female under the age of 14 was. Chat replied that this charge didn’t apply to anyone if the female under the age of 14 was their wife.(again true)
It should be noted that when the criminal code refers to an age like “under 14” it means that person’s 14th birthday. The charge of “Sexual intercourse with female 14 to 16” meant sexual intercourse with a female from the day she turned 14 until the day she turned 16. Sexual intercourse with female under 14 meant sexual intercourse with any female up to the day she turned 14.
I asked chat if this meant that the Canadian Armed Forces could conduct a service tribunal (courts martial) for these crimes. Chat replied that the Canadian Forces were only barred from conducting service tribunals for Murder, Manslaughter, and Rape.
I then asked Chat how likely it was if an investigation was undertaken prior to 1998 for charges laid by the military police or the CFSIU to just simply vanish?
Chat said that this was very unlikely as the provincial crown prosecutor would be approving criminal code charges and unless there was a lack of evidence, the crown prosecutors didn’t simply dismiss charges.
I fed Chat a copy of Legislative Summary LS-311E(1998) and Bill C-25(1998) and asked Chat to digest both documents.
I asked Chat again, who decided if criminal code charges could proceed or if they’d be dismissed. Chat replied that it was the commanding officer of the accused.
I asked Chat if the Crown Prosecutor ever had any say on Code of Service Discipline matters. Chat replied that there was no mechanism for the crown prosecutor to be involved.
I asked Chat if service offences also included all criminal code offences, Chat replied that yes, according to the 1970 National Defence Act, the 1985 National Defence Act, Bill C-25(1998) and LS-311E(1998) service offences also included all criminal code offences.
I then asked Chat, could a commanding office dismiss any murder charge, and manslaughter charge, or any rape charge that had been brought against their subordinate prior to 1998.
Chat replied that there was no language in the National Defence Acts prior to 1998 to prevent this that LS-311E(1998) made it very clear that the commanding officer could dismiss all charges including charges that were purely civilian in nature.
I then asked Chat why it replied to me the way that it did when I first asked it about the ability of someone to lay charges against their abuser.
Chat replied that it can only base its answers on official documents that it has been trained upon. And these official documents it is trained on come from data that the foundation that oversees ChatGPT has approved.
When I asked it my original question, Chat was basing its responses on the current Criminal Code of Canada that was in effect when the training model was put together as well as the current National Defence Act that was in effect when the current training model was assembled.
Chat had no access to the 1970 National Defence Act, nor did it have access to the 1970 Criminal Code of Canada, the 1970 Juvenile Delinquents Act, the original 1985 Criminal Code of Canada, Bill C-25(1998) or Legislative Summary LS-311E(1998) authored by government lawyer David Goetz. Even though I was asking questions about a very specific period of time, Chat could only reason by using the data that it had been given. It’s not going to go trolling the internet to discover new models to train itself off of.
Disappointing though was the answer that I received when I asked Chat if it could use the information that I had just given it when other people ask about civilians and criminal code issues prior to 19980.
Chat replied that the documents that I gave to it cannot be verified for authenticity as they are not part of the learning model. Chat said that it treats any document that is given to it by any user them same way. Chat said that as long as as I am a registered user and my account is active, then it will remember these documents and take them into consideration when formulating responses to my questions, but that the documents and the responses they provide are only for use in my account and will never be accessible to any other user unless they input the same documents.
I asked Chat if there was any way for the Foundation overseeing chat to be asked to include these types of documents in its learning models. Not really. The Foundation avoids all outside influence. And so the truth dies on the hill of nobility.
In the aftermath of the investigation of Captain McRae in May of 1980, Captain McRae was relieved of his duties.
Major Roger Bazin was brought in to assist Captain McRae with his duties.
In the time after I had been discovered being buggered by my babysitter (McRae’s altar boy) in his bedroom in May of 1980, and before the fire at the babysitter’s PMQ on June 23rd, 1980 the babysitter had caught me in the change rooms at the base swimming pool.
He aggressively escorted me over to the sauna where there was a man waiting in the sauna for me to perform oral sex on him. The questions that the man asked about my ability to perform oral sex and the answers the babysitter gave indicated to me that this man and the babysitter weren’t just randomly in the sauna at the pool.
I turned 9 in September of 1980 if that’s any indication. The babysitter at this point in time was just weeks shy of his 15th birthday. The man had to have been in his 40s.
Anyways, when I received the 1980 CFSIU investigation paperwork in 2018 the name Bazin jumped out at me. After Bazin had retired from the Canadian Forces he was involved with paying a cash settlement to a family for inappropriate sexual relations with their son. Apparently this occurred in a small religious community in northern Ontario and the family didn’t want to make a fuss. And more importantly Bazin had been investigated in 2010 for molesting a young child on Canadian Forces Base Borden when he was the base chaplain in 1974.
The case against Bazin was strong enough that it made it to court. Sadly this case got derailed by the 3-year-time-bar.
And that’s more or less what happened with my complaint.
Apparently the CFNIS contacted Bazin and asked him if he remembered anything from Canadian Forces Base Namao. Nope. Couldn’t remember anything.
Now, what I don’t understand is why the CFNIS never went any further and tried to contact the babysitter to see who this man was that he provided me to. Was it Bazin or was it someone else?
And if it was someone else, who was it?
Was it a member of the reserves?
Was it a member of the regular forces?
Was it a civilian relative of a service member like a brother or a brother in law?
I feel pretty safe in saying that middle aged men just don’t randomly hang out in the saunas at the Rec Centres on Canadian Forces Bases hoping to get blown by 8 year old boys.
I wonder what the Canadian Armed Forces actually knew about the babysitter and the extents of what he did on CFB Namao from 1978 until 1980. I wonder why the Canadian Forces are “handling” things for him.
Did the Canadian Forces know in 1980 who this man was?
How many other kids was the babysitter pimping out to “men in saunas” and military chaplains?
When the military agreed to “handle” things for the babysitter, was the military trying to protect the babysitter, or was the chain of command trying to cover their own asses and limit their liability?
The only reason I can think of for the CFNIS in 2020 not wanting to talk to the babysitter to positively identify the man in the sauna is that this would result in yet another civil action.
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/priest-guilty-of-assault-and-sex-assault-at-nordik-spa
This apparently happened back in 2016.
Another Canadian Armed Forces military chaplain was involved with unwanted sexual touching.
I can’t be the only one sensing a trend going on here.
Captain Father Angus McRae (chaplain).
Captain McRae’s altar boy.
Brigadier General Roger Bazin (chaplain)
Corporal Donald Joseph Sullivan (instructor of altar boys)
and now Captain Jean El-Dahdouh (chaplain).
And no, these aren’t the only chaplains.
Unfortunately the way military record keeping worked is that military convictions via summary trial or courts martial were not compiled in a database or made known to the Canadian Police Information Centre (CPIC). The only way that the sexual escapades of a member of the Canadian Armed Forces ever made it into the public realm is if the member appealed their military conviction in the Courts Martial Appeal Court of Canada (CMAC). Only after the conclusion of a CMAC appeal would the fact that a courts martial occurred become public knowledge. This is how the Ontario Crown was completely unaware of Donald Joseph Sullivan’s military convictions for child sexual abuse when he was sentenced in the 2000s for sexually abusing children in the ’80s.
Who knows how many kiddie diddler chaplains there were in the Canadian Armed Forces.
Somehow Captain El-Dahdouh got the bright idea to assault women at a nordic spa in Chelsea in the province of Quebec.
Two of his known victims were 17.
Apparently the Canadian Armed Forces took swift and decisive move in 2016 of suspending the good Captain until he was convicted in 2019. Not sure if he was confined to barracks, or suspended with pay.
Going to go out on a limb here and I’ll just assume that the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service conducted one heckuva detailed investigation to see if the good Captain had any interactions with military dependents under the age of 18 on which ever bases Captain El-Dahdouh had been stationed at or had visited.
All I can say is that it’s a damn good thing that these incidents of abuse occurred OFF-BASE and after December 1998 and the passage of Bill C-25(1998).
Had these abuses occurred on base prior to 1998, then the 3-year-time-bar would have been in full effect as well as the summary investigation flaw. Even if the women had reported Captain El-Dahdouh to the military police or the CFSIU right away, the women would have had to hope like hell that Captain El-Dahdouh’s commanding officer didn’t simply dismiss the charges brought against Captain El-Dahdouh.
“He was just being overly friendly”
“He had a little too much to drink”
“Ministering to the military causes a lot of stress”
I wonder how his commanding officer would have explained this away.
Sometimes you gotta wonder what drives companies like Apple to shape their “privacy” policies like they do.
Sometime around July 31st, 2024 my brother Scott fell and died in his apartment.
Looks like he had been participating in a “Ketamine Infusion Therapy” program and became addicted to Ketamine. According to Scott’s landlord Scott had graduated from snorting Ketamine to injecting Ketamine.
His death wasn’t noticed until he started leaking through the floor into the suite below.
The VPD contacted me on August 12th, 2024 on behalf of the Edmonton Police Service to inform me of the death. They gave me the contact information for the EPS officer investigating the matter.
I contacted the EPS officer and she gave me some of the details. She asked me to contact the Alberta Coroner to make arrangements for the disposal of Scott’s body.
The Alberta coroner told me that I’d have to wait until the official cause of death was determined and then someone had to collect his body from the coroner’s office and have it buried or cremated.
I asked the coroner if they had tried to contact anyone else.
Nope. They couldn’t find anyone else.
I contacted the EPS officer and asked her if they tried to contact his former wife or any of his girlfriends or even our stepmother in Morinville, AB.
The stepmother was unreachable and the phone numbers I had for Richard were not in use anymore.
I had no contact information for the former wife or any of his girlfriends, and the police couldn’t find anything else.
I was therefore the only legal next of kin.
And the police had no indication of any other information.
So, I made arrangements with the Alberta coroner and a crematorium to have my brother’s body transferred there and I would pick the ashes up.
I made the trip up to Edmonton and went to his apartment to try to locate any documents or records.
It wasn’t safe to walk around in there as the floor had been removed from the apartment as his bodily fluids had spilt all over the place and ruined the flooring.
Even though most of the flooring had been removed, the stench of his death and decomposition was still overwhelming in the suite. I couldn’t spend more than 10 minutes in the space before becoming overwhelmed with the urge to vomit.
Apparently his cats had been shitting and pissing all over the apartment. They had found one of the cats, but the last cat was hiding out in the joist space under the floor and was continuing to shit and piss all over the place. The cats had been drinking the water out of the toilet and had emptied the toilet out to the point that sewer gas was coming into the apartment.
From what I’ve been able to piece together, Scott received an inheritance from Richard when Richard died. Scott had used his inheritance to buy this “condo”. I say “condo” as this seems to be a scam going on in Edmonton where old apartment buildings are turned into condos and the apartment suites are sold off as condo units.
Scott’s ketamine habit had increased to the point that he sold off his condo for cash and was renting it back from the person that he had sold it to. This probably explains his urgency to settle the class action lawsuit with the Canadian Forces and why he kept getting agitated when I’d inform him that the DND and the CAF were doing everything in their power to delay the initiation of settlement negotiations until after I underwent M.A.i.D..
Scott had texted me around July 29th, 2024 asking about the settlement. So I think he was at the end of his rope. His depression and his anxiety were obviously keeping him from regular employment, his Amazon business wasn’t doing good. So, I can’t help but wonder if he took the final jab of Ketamine to escape the impending collapse of his world due to all of his creditors looking for money.
I did manage to grab his iPhone, his Apple watch, and his Macbook.
Now, you’d think that it would be a simple matter to call up Apple and either get access to my brother’s accounts to at least find contact information for his friends and girlfriends and ex-wife.
Fuck no.
Why would a certificate of death and a certificate of cremation mean anything to Apple? It’s like these silly fucking companies just throw all common sense out the fucking door. It’s the easiest way for them to insulate themselves from having to give a fuck in the slightest.
I know that when Richard died, Sue gave Scott all of our childhood pictures that Richard had. Scott told me after we started talking again that he just threw the pictures in the garbage. But Scott doesn’t do shit like that. He would have scanned the pictures for himself. Just the way he was.
But again, does a certificate of cremation with my name and address listed on an official document matter?
Nope.
“We need you to go to court and become appointed as his executor”……
Fuck that.
I paid $2,500 for the cremation of a brother that I was estranged from due to our father’s shitty parenting skills.
And now Tim Cook and Apple want me to dish out $7k to $10k to be appointed his “executor”?
So far I have been contacted by just about every credit card and service provider in Canada looking for payment of his extensive debts.
The running total of his debts is over $60k.
Not being the executor means that I’m not responsible for these debts at all.
Which is great because I don’t think he had any assets. And the headache of being appointed his executor just isn’t worth the hassle of paying for a private investigator to try to track down all of his relations to see if they had a will or access to his assets.
“BuT boBbIe, If YoU dOn’T wAnT tO bE hIs ExEcUtOr WhY sHoUlD yOu HaVe AcCeSs To HiS aCcOuNt”…..
Well, the Edmonton Police Service, the Alberta Coroner, and the Alberta Government have declared that I am his sole next of kin. Why the fuck do I need a court order declaring the exact same thing?
If Scott thinks that I wrongfully had him cremated he can call the police and make a complaint.
Instead we get companies like Apple that try to absolve themselves of any responsibility by hiding behind almost insurmountable barriers.
You would think that if anyone wanted any proof of my legal relationship to my brother that it would be the Edmonton Police Service, the Alberta Coroner’s Service, or even the crematorium.
Nope, everyone was fine with me claiming my brother’s body and having my brother’s body cremated, but Apple wants to be the paragon of legal “i” dotting and “t” crossing.
If it wasn’t for Microsoft being even more dysfunctional and dystopian than Apple I would never have switched to Apple back in 2021.
And yes, this is the problem when basically two tech companies and their lawyers lock everything down.
Why does Apple do this?
Dead people don’t need privacy.
Can you imagine what would happen if the police could convince the next of kin of a cartel member or an arms smuggler to allow law enforcement to have access to their next of kin’s equipment?
Just imagine what would happen if one of Jeffrey Epstein’s multiple clients died and their estranged next-of-kin had access to their Apple account and their hardware?
Even if Apple wasn’t worried about retribution, they would surely be worried about the sale of their equipment to people wishing to hide things from prying eyes, and instead of having a policy that takes individual circumstance into account, it’s just better to have a blanket policy no matter how tone deaf the policy actually is.
What the fuck more does Apple want?
What the fuck can a court do that these documents can’t?
Beeshive 