"Oh vey!" Fell asleep in court again did we counselor?
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We believe the answer is patently obvious. Under the current MMF leadership the MWM, like the Louis Riel Institute, will remain another under ahieving organization we don't hear enough about.
For years a rumour has circulated President David Chartrand is not Metis so in the bygone days of www.CyberSmokeSignals.com we offered to pay for a genealogy search to set the record straight once and for all. Needless to say Mr. Chartrand refused our generous offer.
At the 29th MMF Annual General Assembly (Winnipeg - September, 2007) President Chartrand presented Ms Noble with an Honourary Membership in the Manitoba Metis Federation.


Good Day Folks:
Senators' travel horizons grow on taxpayers' dime
By JOAN BRYDEN Ottawa/December 15, 2009 Page A4
Senators have quietly expanded their opportunities to jet around the globe courtesy of Canadian taxpayers.
A new policy, adopted last May, gives denizens of the chamber international travel privileges not enjoyed by their elected counterparts in the House of Commons.
It enabled Liberal Senator Lillian Dyck, for instance, to embark last month on a visit to her late father's ancestral home in China.
By senators' own admission, few politicians anywhere in the world are entitled to such a perk.
Details of the policy change are contained in transcripts of meetings of the Senate's bipartisan internal economy committee, which governs the chamber's operations. The transcripts are posted on the Senate's website but had done largely unoticed.
They offer a fascinating glimpse of senators' perception of their entitlements and their awareness of the potential for a public backlash.
For instance, during a meeting in October, Liberal Senator Paul Massicote railed against the fact that some senators habitually fly business class.
"I have personally asked several senators and they have told me that they travel economy when they are paying for the ticket themselves but business class when the taxpayers are paying," he said.
"I am deeply offended when I think that the tickets are going to cost $7,000 when there are people in coach paying $800 or $700."
Nevertheless, Mr. Massicote, along with Conservative Senator Nancy Ruth, recommended the policy change to allow some international travel.
Until recently, senators abided by the same travel rules as MPs. MPs and senators alike are each allotted 64 travel points a year, each point representing one free round-trip flight. They're allowed to us up to four points to visit Washington, D.C. but the rest are to be used strictly within Canada.
Senators and MPs are permitted to travel internationally as members of inter-parliamentary associations or parliamentary committees, which are funded out of separate budgets.
Last May, the Senate's internal economy committee agreed to broaden the horizons.
The committee decided each senator may now use their annual four non-Canadian travel points to fly to New York on Un-related business, as well as to Washington. Moreover, they may apply to the committee for approval to travel anywhere else in the world.
The new policy recommended by Mr. Massicote and Nancy Ruth after a year's study was unanimously appro0ved by Liberals and Conservatives on the committee.
The Canadian Press

www.ptlaw.mb.ca; mtrachtenberg@ptlaw.mb.ca
(a) Should the Federation be required to reveal how much has been spent to date on legal fees and from where in the budget the money is being taken?
(b) Since the last MMF election (June 29, 2006) Plaintiffs Ritta Cullen, William Flett, Joyce Langan and Darryl Montgomery ceased to be Provincial Board of Directors yet continue to have their legal costs paid from public funds. Do you agree?
Sincerely,
Clare L. Pieuk
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In MMF parlance that position is referred to as Spokesperson not President who automatically sits on the Federation's Provincial Board of Directors. Over the years several have speculated Muriel Parker (former Vice-President for The Pas Region) and David Chartrand are the real "eminence gris" behind the MWM.

(http://mmf.mb.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=143&Itemid=47)
This is Anita's second term as a Board of Director. Prior to this, Anita sat as the Chairperson of the Thompson Local Management Board and was the Chairperson of the Provincial Management Board for many years. For the past 25 years, Anita has been employed with the Ma-Mow-We-Tak Friendship Centre and has held the position of Executive Director since 1993. Anita has two sons, Ryan and Bradley, and one grandson Baby Ronnie. Anita's vision is to promote the involvement of all members to ensure the best interests of Metis people are addressed and that they form an integral part of the solution.
Good Day Readers:
Found this interesting video on Truth To Power (www.accesstoinfo.blogspot.com; vicpopuli1@gmail.com).
Larken Rose, an adherent of the 861 argument, was sentenced to 15 months in prison for wilful failure to file income tax returns during five years in which the government alleged he earned approximately $500,000. He was released from jail in December of 2006.
The 861 provision is a statutory argument used by tax protesters in the United States which interprets a portion of the tax code as invalidating certain applications of income tax law. It has uniformily been held by courts to be incorrect. Persons citing the argument as a basis for refusing to pay taxes have been penalized and in some cases incarcerated. (Wikipedia)
Notice the striking resemblance to Ricky from Trailer Park Boys.
Clare L. Pieuk
If you take a few minutes to learn to navigate the site it can be a veritable treasure trove of free legal advice. AdviceScene often links with The Law is Cool (http://lawiscool.com/) operated by law students from across Canada to discuss issues of common interest.
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Clare L. Pieuk
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Fake website says Canada will reduce greenhouse gases
Posted: December 14, 2009
By Jeremy Barker
Canwest News Service
OTTAWA — A fake website that went online Monday posing as the official Environment Canada page and pledging that Canada will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% below 1990 levels by 2020 is a “childish prank,” according to the Prime Minister’s Office.
A news release posted on the website, www.enviro-canada.ca, says Environment Minister Jim Prentice has announced at the climate talks in Copenhagen that Canada will reduce emissions by at least 50 per cent by 2050.
The minister’s spokesman Bill Rodgers said the website is a fake. It is unclear where the site originated.
The website address started circulating on Twitter Monday.
Meanwhile, a fake Wall Street Journal website, www.europe-wsj.com, also appeared online Monday. It had an untrue story posted that said Canadian delegates in Copenhagen have announced a “significant shift” in the climate change stance.
Jodi Chapman clicked on a Twitter message last month to take an online intelligence test, causing her own account to be hijacked. (Andy Atkinson for the New York Times)


A special thank you to The Public Eye from the highly popular site Truth To Power ( www.accesstoinfo.blogspot.com; vicpopuli1@gmail.com) for sending along this article from the LEDUCREP. Former Manitoba Legal Aid lawyer, www.CyberSmokeSignals.com "General Legal Counsel" and now Wetaskiwin, Alberta crown prosecutor Lionel Chartrand it seems is handling some very serious cases these days.
We always knew he was destined for greatness when he scurried off to Alberta in July of 2008 not bothering to renew his license to practice here!
Sincerely,
Clare L. Pieuk
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Provincial Court Briefs - Prison for Nicorette thief/Posted by Alexandra Pope
An Edmonton man who planned to sell Nicorette gum he stole from a Leduc grocery store to buy food and drugs is hoping for a new lease on life once he gets out of prison.
Robert Pollett pleaded guilty to theft under $5,000 at provincial court in Leduc November 26 and told court he feels he is getting too old for his life of crime.
"I'm 54 years old, I need to change my life around," he said. "I need to get out and start my rehab."
Pollett was arrested on October 25 after a loss prevention officer at the Leduc Safeway spotted him attempting to leave the store with 14 packs of Nicorette gum, valued at $576.
The officer followed Pollett out of the store, past the security alarms, and arrested him in the parking lot.
Pollett turned out to be on release from two previous thefts, one in Vegreville, where he stole razor blades, and one in Red Deer, where he stole 19 Blu-Ray DVDs. Pollett pleaded guilty to those charges in Vegreville on November 2 and received an 18-month conditional sentence that would enable him to enter rehab for an addiction to alcohol and marijuana.
Crown prosecutor Lionel Chartrand (emphasis ours) said Pollett had an "extreme" record, with 37 prior convictions for theft and possession of stolen property. Pollett's defence lawyer said he is serious about cleaning up his act this time around.
Judge Marilyn White sentenced Pollett to 30 days in prison.
We'd like to briefly comment on Candidate Godon's platform as it currently stands:
I. National Identification Cards will also serve to strengthen the MMF's notoriously unreliable "official" voters list not in time for the 2010 election but beyond. According to a report which appeared on www.derrylsanderson.blogspot a few months ago, the Federation has started a program of require every menber to submit the results of a genealogy search. Problem is, it won't be completed until 2012. Question. Could each current Provincial Board of Director pass the test?
II. If Metis citizens of Manitoba, or anywhere else for that matter, wish to be considered a Nation they will require the same standards of transparency and accountability as a provincial or the federal government. CyberSmokeBlog fully endorses a third-party independent audit of MMF finances over the past 5 years with the unedited results being made public.
III. If the Louis Riel Institute is not achieving its potential it should be changed so it does.
IV. The Manitoba Court of Appeal has heard the Manitoba Metis land claims case and has yet to hand down its written decision. If rejected in large part of all, what is Candidate Godon's position? Does he favour applying to the Supreme Court of Canada for a final review?
CyberSmokeSignals supports payments to Veterans and Residential School Survivors subject, of course, to being able to prove their claims.
V. Like the American Presidency CyberSmokeBlog endoses a maximum two consecutive term for the position of President, Manitoba Metis Federation.
VI. CyberSmokeBlog agrees with the Candidate's proposal for two-year salaried positions for Provincial Board of Directors. Since each of the 7 MMF Regions have their own internal Boards seven should be sufficient to cover the province. Look at the numbers. Currently there are 23 Federation Provincial Directors. By way of comparison, we have 38 federal Cabinet Ministers and 19 for the entire provincial government. If Premier Selinger can govern all of us with only 19, surely the Manitoba Metis Federation doesn't need 23!
Sincerely,
Clare L. Pieuk
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The Announcement
www.ptlaw.mb.ca; mtrachtenberg@ptlaw.mb.ca
Sincerely,
Clare L. Pieuk


Tiger's yacht with the name "Privacy" covered by a cloth (December 10, 2009)



Tiger Woods on the cover of Golf Digest with Obama. This issue was already off the press before the auto accident and the following flood of tabloid reports. (December 9, 2009).
When Google Runs Your Life
The trio inside the Trojan horse: Rajen Sheth, Sam Schillace and Bradley Horowitz have overseen the engineering and design of Google Apps
Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin had built an impressive search engine, based on Linux. They gave away search to consumers and watched how they used it, tinkering with the engine based on their feedback. Slim revenues came from corporate purchases of search. Undisciplined though they were, Schmidt bonded with Brin and Page, traveling with them to Burning Man, a kind of geek performance-art hoedown held annually in the Nevada desert. Luckily he also defended their insistence in the face of VC pressure that Google hold on to its consumer search business when it made no money; the backers wanted the company to focus on corporate search. Schmidt recruited much of the group that made Adwords, Google's feedback-based ad auction system. In the 2004 public offering Brin, Page and Schmidt held on to most of Google's B shares, giving them inordinate voting power. (As of November 20 holdings by the trio were worth, respectively, $18.2 billion, $18.2 billion and $6.4 billion.)

Good Day Readers:
The following email has been edited in terms of its content.
Senator John Ensign, Republican of Nevada, had an affair with a former employee that was confirmed when the woman's husband found an incriminating text message. (Brendan Smialowski for The New York Times)
The 6,500-square-foot yacht has a master suite and six staterooms. It is decorated in dark cherry wood and beige marble, with leather-upholstered furniture, white carpeting and walls covered in white silk. It has a theater projection system, a gym and an eight-person Jacuzzi. It can sleep 21.

Dear Anonymous:
Deadspin's founding editor-in-chief was Will Leitch, author and a founding editor of the New York City-based culture website, "The Black Table." Leitch announced on June 5, 2008 that he would be leaving to take a position at New York Magazine. His replacement is A. J. Daulerio, former senior writer for the site. Rick Chandler and Clay Travis were the associate editors, Dashiell Bennett is now associate editor along with Drew Magary the editor-at-large. The editorial tone is similar to that of its sister site Gawker.com, sarcastic, humorous and often critical of mainstream media personalities.
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Chaos In Tigerland: A Deadspin Investigation Into The Sexual Habits Of Pro Athletes
Here's a story about three women and their relationships with Tiger Woods. One is a porn star you haven't met. The other two are rumored mistresses, but they're really much more important than that. Welcome to Tigerland.
The biggest misconception about the Tiger cheating scandal is that Rachel Uchitel and Kalika Moquin, two of the first three women named by the tabloids, were his full-time lovers. They may have been at some point (especially Rachel, some say on numerous occasions) but that was not their primary function. No, Uchitel's main job was to provide women for Tiger during his globetrotting excursions to various tournaments, charity functions and (f...)-and-run private-jet weekends with his Fortune 500 party pals that he seemed to enjoy so much.
Kalika Moquin? Many Las Vegas insiders doubt that she ever slept with Tiger. But she did set him up with some sweet VIP service at The Bank or at Bare like any good hostess would: a roomful of available girls with a certain look that Tiger wanted, flown in just for the occasion. This is the world of high-end nightclub VIP treatment, where velvet ropes guard comfy, cloistered areas with leathery couches and bottles of Grey Goose, everything catered to the wishes of the much sought-after professional athlete clientele. And, yes, sports fans, that means loading their velvet-roped stable with fake-boobied ponies to f... .
"The fact people don't understand that these affairs are well-orchestrated is pretty naive," says one VIP concierge who has worked with Uchitel (we'll call him "Serge" for the sake of not always having to say "VIP Concierge Number 1" when using his quotes). "Rachel Uchitel works for Tiger the minute he gets off the plane wherever he is: from dinner, to photos, to nightclubs, to drugs, to girls — whatever he wants."
And Tiger's a mighty whale. Serge estimates she's probably on retainer for about 10-15k per month to handle all his dirty business, and the tips for successful Tiger poontang-wrangling (among other things) could net her upwards of 50k in tips. Rachel knows not to mess around with somebody like Tiger; that whole "I didn't bang Tiger!" charade she pulled with anybody who asked after the National Enquirer tailed her to Melbourne may have been somewhat true (meaning: she's not his main chick), but Tiger's probably not concerned with whatever she has to say about their true-or-false copulation activities — he's more concerned that she knows how Tiger's been feeding off a menu of 20-and-30-something bubbleheads for years provided to him by Uchitel via her concierge service.
No, it's not exactly prostitution — but these girls are flown in from LA to Vegas for a weekend of all-expenses and free drinks and admission into this world of über-rich sleaziness. If a famous athlete takes an interest, they certainly have the option to do whatever it is they want (no pressure!). So Rachel? She basically got caught in Melbourne on one of her many girl-corralling expeditions for one of her most important clients, which is a crucial part of her job.
"She knows everybody and everybody knows her," Serge says. "The clubs pay her big money for the clients that she brings in. She's not a f...... floozy or nothing. She's a real event planner. She's not just some girl that lifts up the velvet rope and s.... guy's d.... . She's the kind of girl that when you talk to her, you know, she's all business. She's beautiful, she's smart and her agenda is to land big clients — not big boyfriends." And if Uchitel were to start dishing, then plenty of other Sportsmen of the Year — not to mention certain members of the media who cover them — would suffer a similar fate as Tiger. There are many, many, many doors that many, many, many people would prefer stay tightly closed for now.
So think of Rachel not as a spurned mistress but more as a faithful confidante in Woods' elite inner circle. She knows where all the coochie is buried (even more than we know at this time), and if there has been any kind of financial transaction made for her silence, it was done with that in mind. Another equally viable alternative is that Rachel had the good sense to know she'll have quite a career for herself in this "legit" business once all this Tiger mess has passed. She knows how to honor the omerta of all VIP hosts that Tiger paid big money for her to observe.
Same thing Kalika, whom Serge describes as a "goody-two-shoes" of the Vegas nightlife scene, someone who's so meticulous about her work that she'd never entertain the notion of sleeping with Tiger simply because it would be very bad for business. "F...... Tiger would be really terrible for her reputation as a marketing and event planner for these places. There's big money in that. She's legit, dude!" (Yes, Serge says, "Legit, dude!" just as you'd expect he would.)
The one girl who didn't surprise anyone in this mess is budding reality star Jaimee Grubbs. According to VIP Concierge # 2 (let's call him, I don't know, "Jorge"), she was wrangled for a weekend, possibly by some folks at The Bank (where Kalika just so happened to work), but she was always such an attention w.... that a kajillion-word Us Weekly article buttressed with saved text messages and voicemails fit her profile to a capital extra "E." "Everyone on the scene knew who Jaimee was in Vegas the minute she stepped off the plane," Jorge says. "She dated a guy at The Bank for a long time." She had big plans, big dreams, she was gonna be a star ... but she fell in love with Tiger while watching Angels & Demons. That'll help a career, won't it? Dum-dum.
Jaimee (and the other little yapping Tiger girls) annoyed the crap out of one of Tiger's mistresses — a person who actually considered herself a "full-time" of Tiger's thanks to years of faithful service to his virulent sexual appetite. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Veronica Siwik-Daniels aka Joslyn James, a double-D brunette whose specialties include being double-penetrated on camera in many NSFW films.
(Hi!)
But Jorge, proud Facebook friend of Miss Siwik-Daniels, said that this status update she posted on December 2 was meant for all the ladies running their mouth about her man, Eldrick.
"I find it comical when certain individuals have no life of their own and want to be ME...so terribly bad. LMAO!"
The emphasis on "ME," says Jorge, was Veronica's way of respecting her unique relationship with Tiger and not becoming part of the screeching hordes. She did not return a message left on her phone requesting comment. Good for her.
Jorge was less discreet, however, telling me that Joslyn used love to talk about "all the freaky s... Tiger dug in bed," and that every time he'd come to town he'd pay for a visit. You know, with cash.
But here's what we've learned throughout this Tiger mess, which, in many ways, may change how some of these athletes are covered. Athletes have utilized the VIP service to engage in their affairs (and meet possible mistresses) for the sake of (supposed) privacy, philandering without the hassle of having to do any work themselves to land these women. It's a dirty business all around. But what to do now, since Tiger has gone and messed it up for a bunch of people who were pretty safe from prying eyes and camera lenses whenever they stepped out on their wives and girlfriends during Vegas weekends? CHAOS REIGNS ...
Welcome to the new world, mainstream media, where the blanks are about to be filled-in. The truth will set you free.
Now, bring me the client list of Pam Trahan and let's really start some s... .
Send an email to A.J. Daulerio, the author of this post, at ajd@deadspin.com.
Dear Sir:
Our readers noted with great interest your recent comments regarding the problem of Winnipeg gangs ("What Can We Do To Stop Youth Violence?" - December 7, 2009) which impacts on everyone in the community.
Is it a lack of opportunities for our youth that cause such disillusionment and susceptibility to committing these sickening random acts of murderous violence?
It is a self-evident truth but what to do? As a candidate, we hope you will support our initiative and incorporate it into your policy platform.
On October 31, 2009 we wrote directly to Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger (CyberSmokeBlog - "Worth a try?) attaching an article from the Los Angeles Times. It described the success of Homeboy Industries a publicly funded LA program that targets youth at risk of joining gangs. Expertise and seed money is provided to assist them to establish small businesses in the process creating jobs and economic opportunity. Our question to Mr. Selinger was why not set up and test the concept here by creating a small pilot project?
A letter of appreciation was received from Mr. Selinger's Secretariat advising our missive had been passed on to the Honourable Andrew Swan, Minister of Justice from whom we're still awaiting a reply.
Hopefully, you and the yet unannounced candidate running for MMF President (http://metisonline.ca) in the upcoming election will support this initiative.
A copy of this letter has been sent to www.derrylsanderson.blogspot.com, as well as, premier@leg.mb.ca. Should a reply be received it will be published.
Sincerely,
Clare L. Pieuk
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