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In the Kingdom of God everybody is accountable to somebody. The Angels in Heaven respond to our command. The book of Matthew states that "he will give the angels charge over thee" which means the Angels are accountable to our command WHEN it lines up with the word of God. We as Christians are accountable to GOD. Romans 12 says "present your bodies a living sacrifice holy and acceptable TO GOD" which means we have to be accountable for what we do with our bodies. How we use our hands, eyes, ears, and most importantly OUR MOUTH. But this is the blessed part about accountability. Did you know that even God is accountable? Yes he's King of Kings, Lord of Lords, the King of this World and the World to come and at the name of Jesus EVERY knee shall bow and tongue confess that he's lord. However, this unmatched King, omnipresent God, all powerful Lord and Savior is still yet accountable. He's accountable to his word! Thats why in Isaiah 46 he challenges us by saying "Put me in remembrance of my word", as well as in Malachi when he says "try me and see if I will not open up the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing. The reason God places such a demand on accountability is because the Kingdom of God will always be about serving others. Wives submitted to Husbands, Husbands submitted to God, children obeying the parents, church members submitted to leaders, leaders submitted to Pastors, Pastors to Bishops/Apostles Bishops/Apostle to God. Many christians cant serve others because they dont serve God. They can't submit to leadership because they wont submit to God, and lastly their never accountable to anyone because there not accountable to God. There's always favor and blessings on the life of a Submissive Saint. You can't expect God to be accountable to his word when you're not accountable to NO ONE #stopchurchhoppingandgetstable
V.l.n.r.: Procureur-generaal van Oekraïne Iryna Venediktova, Openbaar Aanklager van het Internationaal Strafhof Karim A.A. Khan, Europees Commissaris van Justitie Didier Reynders, de Nederlandse minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Wopke Hoekstra, de Nederlandse minister van Justitie en Veiligheid Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius.
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From left to right: Prosecutor General of Ukraine Iryna Venediktova, Public Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim A.A. Khan, European Commissioner of Justice Didier Reynders, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Wopke Hoekstra, Dutch Minister of Justice and Security Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius.
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The Netherlands, The Hague, July 13th 2022
The Government of the Netherlands is hosting, together with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the European Commission, an Ukraine Accountability Conference at ministerial level at the World Forum in The Hague on 14 July.
Photo: Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2022
Op 9 juni 2017 vond in de Tweede Kamer in Den Haag de tweede editie van Accountability Hack plaats, een hackathon waar met open data de prestaties van de overheid in kaart worden gebracht. Accountability Hack is een initiatief van de Algemene Rekenkamer en de Tweede Kamer samen met het CBS en de ministeries van Binnenlandse Zaken, Buitenlandse Zaken, Financiën en Infrastructuur en Milieu. De hackathon werd georganiseerd in samenwerking met Open State Foundation. Kijk voor meer informatie op accountabilityhack.nl/
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Matthew John James Brassard
The 31st edition of the 2023 FISU Winter World University Games is set for January 11-22, . The preliminary round will be played in Canton, NY, before moving to Lake Placid’s historic Olympic Center 1980 Rink for the medal rounds
*note* Gold medal game (in fact the whole 2023 FISU tournament ) not shown nor supported by CBC and the other major Canadian media stations ? Canadian Taxpayers donate over $1.2 billion per year to the CBC.
site-cbc.radio-canada.ca/documents/impact-and-accountabil...
Results from games played at SUNY Canton Roos House
Thur Jan 12th - UKR 1 vs Canada 6
Fri Jan 13th - SWE 3 vs Canada 10
Sun Jan 15th - Japan 2 vs Canada 8
Tues Jan 17th - Latvia 0 vs Canada 9
Wed Jan 18th - Czech 0 vs Canada 4
Results from Olympic Center Lk Placid : final scores
Sat Jan 21,2023 Men's semis KAZ 1 vs Canada 4
Jan 21, 2023 Women's Gold medal game Japan 0 vs Canada 5
Sun, Jan 22,2023 Men's bronze medal KAZ 8 vs Japan 1
Sun Jan 22,2023 Men's Gold medal game USA 2 vs Canada 7
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UNB selections: Winter World University Games
Brady Gilmour Forward UNB Grafton, ON #19
Austen Keating Forward UNB Guelph, ON #9
Adam McCormick Defence UNB Waterville, NB #8
AUS selections:
Justin MacPherson Defence SMU East Gwillimbury, ON
Matt Welsh Goaltender SMU Halifax, NS
Andrew Coxhead Forward SMU Bedford,NS
Liam Hawel Forward StFX Arnprior, ON
Matthew Struthers Forward StFX Milton, ON
Kyle Maksimovich Forward UPEI Hamilton, ON
TJ Shea Forward UPEI Tignish, PEI
Matthew Brassard Defence UPEI Barrie, ON
Justin Bergeron Defence UQTR Magog, QC
Kyle Bollers Forward Toronto Oshawa, ON
Brett Davis Forward Manitoba Oakbank, MB
Jared Dmytriw Forward Saskatchewan Craven, SK
Kai Edmonds Goaltender TMU Ottawa, ON
Noah King Defence Calgary Winnipeg, MB
Simon Lafrance Forward UQTR Saint-Eustache, QC
Zachary Lavigne Forward UQTR Drummondville, QC
Jacob Paquette Defence Queen’s Ottawa, ON
Roddy Ross Goaltender Saskatchewan Meadow Lake, SK
Scott Walford Defence McGill Coquitlam, BC
Jonathan Yantsis Forward Queen’s
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Feb 24, 2022 - Wolfville, N.S. Acadia University. The Acadia University Professors strike enters its 4th week ?
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Sept 30th 2022 - Acadia Axeman hockey at Andrew H. McCain Arena goes paperless ? The Official program is no longer handed out to the customer ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52395343477
January 22, 2024 - Canada sets two-year cap on foreign students. The cap will result in a decrease of 35% in approved study permits.
www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68059996
Dec 14,2021 - Don't all members matter at Acadia Athletics ? Discrimination shown against community members during Covi. A posted official notice reads : "The Athletics complex will be closed to community drop-ins, community memberships, and external rentals until further notice , However,, Acadia staff, faculty and students, with proof of double vaccination, will continue to access the fitness center, the pool and the arena for skating. "
International student fallout hits the bottom line.. Atlantic universities depend on international students for about 30 per cent of their enrollment.
universityaffairs.ca/news/international-student-fallout-h...
Feb. 28, 2026. Dalhousie inks new nursing degree agreement with university in India to create dual-degree program in nursing.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/dalhousie-dual-nursing...
May 11th 2023 - A new policy has been announced at Acadia where almost half the available seats for a new Course are to be set aside and reserved only for members of certain racial or ethnic groups as specified by the University ? The PC Government announced that a new nursing program is to be offered at Acadia University where approximately 50 percent of the seats are reserved only for African, Mi'kmaq and Indigenous students. The total number of annual seats is set to increase to 63 ? Bearing in mind a current health care system worker crisis and urgent need for nursing grads, is it really wise or responsible to install race or ethnic restrictions that can eliminate many of those wanting to be a nurse ? www2.acadiau.ca/about-acadia/newsroom/news-reader-page/ac...
Dec 27, 2021 - Playing the race card ? The Liberal Provincial Government of Nova Scotia could be on a slippery slope when using race to determine and to cull applicants for vital health services due to limited supplies during a national public health emergency ?
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The Supreme Court says colleges and universities can no longer take race into consideration as a specific basis for granting admission,
www.cnn.com/2023/06/29/politics/affirmative-action-suprem...
Free University for some ? B.C. university waives tuition for local First Nation students,
bc.ctvnews.ca/that-s-reconciliation-b-c-university-waives...
Aug 2023 - A new physician assistant program at Dalhousie U open to 24 students per year with preference given to applicants from Nova Scotia, atlantic.ctvnews.ca/n-s-invests-5-6-million-for-first-phy...
Oct 10, 2025 - The race card has been played in setting membership pricing rates ? A local Halifax gym R-Studio executes exclusive lower race-based membership charge ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsHpxm3yb7c&t=20s
June 11, 2025 - Maritime students struggle to find summer jobs,
www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/article/mission-impossible-mariti...
Tim Horton's appears to use racial profiling in its hiring policies ?
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Canada's Gen Z can't find jobs,, www.cbc.ca/news/business/youth-unemployment-rate-1.7549979
The concerned Kentvillian must ask, " why is it that every time that you gas up at Milne Court Petro-Can, New Minas Ultramar, KVille Ultramar, and now the Big Stop, or go to the KFC for chicken, or Mary Browns, or the Burger King, or Subway, or all of the 3 Timmies for coffee, or Walmart, oe Needs, or receive a parcel from amazon, or attend the cash register post to pay a bill at many other downtown stores, it feels like you're suddenly in a foreign country ? " What has happened to all of the friendly locals that used to man these positions and was one of the main reasons we frequented these business establishments ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54418705157/
Chamber of Commerce Kentville, NS
448 Main St, Kentville NS B4N
Kody Bloise . Liberal Party
Can there be an identity crisis looming in the town of Kentville ?
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Canada's post-secondary industry predicts a storm ahead, as budget cuts shrink courses, staff,
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/post-secondary-cuts-1.7387175
U of T Toronto, Jun 27, 2023 - " She Sung it her Way "
Jully Black sings her own personalized, politicized, 'our home on native land' version of the Canadian National anthem in a performance at Toronto university graduation. Black was asked to perform her new way of singing Canada's national anthem to reflect the core values of their law program ? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/jully-black-tmu-law-school...
March 18, 2025 - Professors, students say Nova Scotia university bill threatens academic freedoms,
www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nova-scotia/article/professors-st...
March 4th, 2025 - Trump issues ban on 'illegal' college protests as he threatens students with arrest and deportation
www.lbc.co.uk/usa/politics/trump-issues-ban-on-illegal-co...
April 9, 2025 - Trump administration freezes $1 billion in funding for Cornell University, $790 million for Northwestern University ,,
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/us/cornell-northwestern-federal-fu...
Jan 20,2026 - Trump hates wind turbines ? ‘so pathetic and so bad’ .. And so does Hall's Harbour ,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wkHCSbSwkw
5th Mar 5th, 2025 - U.S. funding freeze affecting both American and international exchange students and major US scholarship funders
monitor.icef.com/2025/03/us-funding-freeze-affecting-both...
Trump protecting historic statues - enacts 10 years in jail penalty for harming or defacing historical statues,,
www.cbsnews.com/video/trump-signs-executive-order-enactin...
February 10, 2025 - Acadia University in Wolfville announces permanent pool closure, discontinues varsity swim team - will close its swimming pool on June 15, 2025,
Students chose Acadia because of the swim team and many parents got calls “from their kids – in tears – devastated.”
Acadia Aquatics,
recreation.acadiau.ca/aquatics.html
How not to park at Hennigers farm Market Greenwich,
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April 13, 2025 - Eight programs suspended at P.E.I. college over drop in international students,
www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/prince-edward-island/article/pei-...
Sept 13th, 2025 - Acadia Axemen and Dal Tigers hockey teams ignore the Dal strikers picket line to play an Exhibition game at Dalhousie University ?
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Town of Wolfville breaking the law, obstructing traffic, while creating a safety hazard ? And making trip to and from hockey games a real challenge ?
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Sep 29, 2025 - Wolfville now studying ways to solve traffic congestion along Main Street ?
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/wolfville-nova-scotia-...
CBC launches Olympic games gambling ? In a groundbreaking move and for the first time ever, CBC has introduced and will include gambling in its coverage of the 2024 Olympic games ?
2024 Paris Olympics - It appears that CBC has partnered with one particular online Casino company and BetRivers is running sports betting ads during the televising of Olympic sporting events ? Is the inclusion of a casino and a Sports betting parlor that runs betting ads during Olympic events appropriate to the principles and high moral standard exemplified by the Olympic Games ?
Are University student loans being gambled away ?
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Feb 4th 2025, Bell Let's Talk ? Abandoning your Unionized telephone workers, refusing to talk to them and leaving them out on the Street for 5 Months does not contribute to good mental health ? U Ottawa Scotty suggests that the internet, mobile phones and Social media are also taking a heavy toll on the mental health and overall mental well being of today's society ? And so maybe there's some hypocrisy shown by the giant media mogul Bell Canada who could be the biggest contributor and profit taker from this national crisis ? www.youtube.com/shorts/31f3sZndK6w
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This year Canadian Taxpayers will pay $1.5 billion dollars to subsidize the CBC ?
site-cbc.radio-canada.ca/documents/impact-and-accountabil...
June 28,2021, O Canada at Stanley Cup Finals ? CBC plays upsetting version of the Canadian National Anthem on the World stage ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/51829474529/in/album-7...
January 11-22, 2023 - CBC doesn't seem to want to push or promote the men's hockey leagues like AHL, ECHL, or the University level ASU and U Sports hockey ? Canada has won both Golds at the recent 2023 international University Hockey FISU tournament. But Gold medal final games, in fact the whole tournament, were not telecast on CBC ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52640201721/in/datepos...
July 5th, 2024 Jacob Shaffelburg (Pt Williams Nova Scotia) Men's soccer - Unfortunately, CBC doesn't seem to support or sponsor men's soccer and will not be broadcasting the Men's Copa soccer tournament ? However, you can still enjoy soccer on CBC as they will be giving support and full coverage to the Women's National team and to the new start-up Women's pro soccer league ? www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/cbc-radio-canada-broadcast-agree... ? -
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June 29th, 2024 - Bailey Feltmate (Acadia U, Wolfville N.S.) - CBC doesn't appear to support men's football anymore, and so most Canadians won't be able to watch graduating male university athletes like Bailey perform in the pros ? However, fans will be able to watch graduating university female athletes perform as CBC is providing cross Canada media support and live coverage of the new start-up Women's pro soccer league, the new Women's pro hockey league, and the upcoming Women's pro basketball league ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/53855066488/in/datepos...
Jun 11, 2024 - Acadia's Mya Harnish joins new Women's Pro soccer team, the Halifax Tides. CBC will provide full media support and full coverage for the brand new start-up Women's Pro soccer league. CBC will broadcast eight regular-season matches. A "Game of the Week" will co-stream simultaneously on CBC Gem and NSL.ca,
www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/cbc-radio-canada-broadcast-agree...
Thanks to CBC, fans will now be able to follow female Acadia University athletes like Mya Harnish, who has now turned Pro . www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54482565652/in/photost...
Lost in Space________Episode # 1_______Death to Deniers !
Danger - Will Robinson, Danger ! Sensors detecting thought-police !
These fine ladies want prison sentences handed down to individuals who dare to be themselves and to think differently from them calling anyone with a different opinion from theirs to be a denier or a hater ?
No one can deny the existence of residential schools. And so why are an infinitesimal tiny minority like Leah Gazan (NDP), Lindsay Mathyssen (NDP), Nahanni Fontaine (NDP) and Kimberley Murray (Liberal Government investigator) so dissatisfied and why are they trying to force their own radical ego-driven personal viewpoint based on unproven allegations on everyone else ? Why do they want you to think the same way that they think, believe in the same way that they believe, and be forced by law into accepting their individual self-centred and self-serving narrative, (that they get paid to expound) as being Gods' truth, and if you dare resist them you are then to be called a hater and a denier and a criminal that could be sent to jail for up to life in prison under the law enshrined in their new Bill C-63 or C-9 ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZU7NEzs3Gk
Was it a hoax ? Residential schools. After three years of searching for bodies, at the cost to taxpayers of $216.5 million, not a single set of human remains have been found.
thecatholicherald.com/article/failure-to-find-bodies-ends...
What Is Truth ?
"If you are strictly one-sided with any opinion, you’re incredibly ignorant".
UBC Jan 22, 2026 - Many students that grew up attending the Canadian public school system during the Trudeau Liberal era ( 2015 thru 2025 ) are now reaching post secondary age and are arriving at University in a heavily indoctrinated state with coercive and one-sided my-opinion-only attitudes ? Violent gangs of masked and gagged orange shirted student protestors, tribalism, far left activism and propaganda posters hanging in an Authoritarian environment where free will, open debate or speaking the truth is has become a crime are now being seen in our Canadian institutes of higher learning ? This scenario may sound Orwellian, but it's actually the billion dollar public funded University of B.C. campus in Vancouver ?
Frances Widdowson, "Without truth and without freedom, our Universities will die." Frances visits UBC. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihsLPodE9R0
U of Vic claims 250 vs Frances and Dallas who say Zero ?
What Is Truth ?
Dec 3rd 2025, Frances and Dallas visit the University of Victoria B.C. and discover that U of Vic is conducting mass indoctrination of impressionable young minds ? Open free thinking and free speech are discouraged here ? Asking questions that might ruffle some feathers or challenge the status quo no longer wanted on this campus - By challenging the indoctrinated dogma taught at this publicly owned B.C. University can bring on abuse and the Police called in to cart you off to jail ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=u53G5WBpVmc
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSRn8BzpvLc
Feb 24th, 2026 - "You're not welcome here !" Welcome to the University of Lethbridge where they ignore manners, disregard etiquette and the students use loud ancient tribal war cries and the continuous monotone of Indian tom-tom drumming to drown out the opposition during debate ? Once you take UofL's Indoctrination 101 course, 2 plus 2 may no longer equal 4 ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2Moi7VM7xI
Mar 23,2026 - " my spider sense is tingling "
Is Mt. Royal College in Calgary making the kids Crazy ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPQNM063-lY
UBC Jan 22,2026 - Counter viewpoint reporters attacked and must run for their lives ?
UBC zombie apocalypse, Jan 22,2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfIpTnyH_Zg
"What are they doing to our kids" ?
Many Parents contribute for years into Registered Education Savings Plans that are turned over to the Universities on behalf of their Children,
www.canada.ca/en/services/benefits/education/education-sa...
March 12, 2026 - They're Selling out Vancouver ? NDP Provincial Government insults all Canadian veterans who fought to secure this Nation ? Spencer Herbert and his NDP party appears to have self-appointed themselves to give away Canada without permission ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVTzJWE86go
March 12, 2026 - What Spencer Herbert is doing to his Province and his Country is illegal in other Canadian Provinces ? www.fasken.com/en/knowledge/2026/01/new-brunswick-court-o...
March 12, 2026 - Secret liberal backroom land transfer deals snuck in while the Eby provincial NDP government pretends to look the other way ? Indians may now own rights to Vancouver ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT2DqPzulos
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/musqueam-rights-r...
March 09, 2026, Canada’s Bill C-3 ("An Act to amend the Citizenship Act") - New Liberal legislation allowing Canadian citizenship to be passed down over multiple generations from as far back as caveman days, means many millions all over the world are now eligible to be Canadian. www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7120945
March 14, 2026 - Italy Restricts citizenship for those born abroad. Italy has enacted ruling that tells millions with Italian roots that they have lost the right to citizenship -
www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/italy-ruling-tells-millions-...
March 12, 2026 - Acadia University reducing staff levels amid ‘financial pressures’ ? 31 positions were eliminated.
www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nova-scotia/article/acadia-univer...
Mar 4th, 2026 - Canada grants $100 million in scholarships for India students ? This comes on the heels of PM Carney's trip to India.
www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx1VHElLBjsSwpz5-CK3P4SsNdrZmGdelS
feb 25, 2026 - Drastic University cuts are implemented in latest Provincial budget. Tim Houston's PC government is reducing funding for all Universities in Nova Scotia incl the PhD programs in education at Acadia,
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Grant-R...
February 26, 2026 - Vulnerable hard hit Nova Scotia university students who struggle daily with the high cost of living in Nova Scotia prepare for a week-long strike to protest the provincial education cut, the cuts to advanced education grants, and they are demanding tuition reductions and divestment from fossil fuel dollars,
globalnews.ca/video/11708934/n-s-university-students-prep...
March 15, 2026 - Dalhousie University students vote to join the Nova Scotia student strike, www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nova-scotia/article/dalhousie-uni...
March 13, 2026 - Nova Scotia First Nation asserts Indian control over cannabis-related activities on their traditional lands, tells government and RCMP to stay out of cannabis and tobacco sales ? www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nova-scotia/article/ns-first-nati...
Closed museums, torn down statues, are all erasing a peoples' proud history ? March 04, 2026 - Halifax Nova Scotia - P. C. Provincial Government minimizes the importance of preserving the Provinces history and dismisses those who strive to preserve, protect, honor and record it ? Artists, cultural and heritage workers, arts organizers, and their allies rally in Halifax over the latest Tim Houston PC worst in history 130 M cuts to the essential funding needed for arts, culture, tourism, and heritage sector programs ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQjKntnV55c
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/55129846907/in/dateposted
Mar 10, 2026 - Following a loud public outcry, the Premier agrees to restore some of the funding cuts made. The disabled, some seniors, some first nation Indigenous, and ( although we just finished celebrating Black History for a Month ) the African Nova Scotians will be granted reprieves and their funding will be RESTORED, however, the arts, culture and heritage communities will NOT be getting their CUTS IN FUNDING back ?
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/tim-houston-budget-cut...
When you are accountable to someone that thing makes you committed. The result is: your efficiency increases. ift.tt/1XLOqoE
This image is excerpted from a U.S. GAO report:
www.gao.gov/products/GAO-17-317
HIGH RISK SERIES: An Update
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President van Oekraïne Volodymyr Zelensky, minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Wopke Hoekstra en de deelnemers aan de conferentie nemen samen een moment stilte in acht.
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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, Dutch Minister of Foreig Affairs Wopke Hoekstra and the conference participants observe a moment of silence together.
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The Netherlands, The Hague, July 14th 2022
The Government of the Netherlands is hosting, together with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the European Commission, an Ukraine Accountability Conference at ministerial level at the World Forum in The Hague on 14 July.
Photo: Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2022
The conflict in Syria continues to claim staggering numbers of lives, with attacks against civilians having intensified in recent weeks. On Sept 21, Syrian opposition leaders and human rights activists participated in a special panel during the 30th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council to highlight the importance of accountability and redress for victims of the conflict.
The event was organized by No Peace Without Justice and the Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational and Transparty (NRPTT), together with the Euro-Syrian Democratic Forum. The U.S. Mission was among the cosponsors who also included Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Netherlands, Turkey, USA and the National Coalition of Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces.
The discussion was co-Chaired by Niccolò Figà-Talamanca, Secretary General No Peace Without Justice and Hussein Sabbagh, Secretary General of Euro-Syrian Democratic Forum. Participants included Hisham Marwah, Vice President of the National Coalition of Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces, Samir Altaqi, Orient Research Centre, Mohammed Nehad Nader, Brigadier-General (rtd.) of the Syrian Army, Raheb Alwany, Human Rights Defender, Stephen Rapp, former Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, former US Ambassador on War Crimes Issues.
U.S. Mission Photo/Eric Bridiers
Op 9 juni 2017 vond in de Tweede Kamer in Den Haag de tweede editie van Accountability Hack plaats, een hackathon waar met open data de prestaties van de overheid in kaart worden gebracht. Accountability Hack is een initiatief van de Algemene Rekenkamer en de Tweede Kamer samen met het CBS en de ministeries van Binnenlandse Zaken, Buitenlandse Zaken, Financiën en Infrastructuur en Milieu. De hackathon werd georganiseerd in samenwerking met Open State Foundation. Kijk voor meer informatie op accountabilityhack.nl/
De Oekraïense president Volodymyr Zelensky spreekt via een videoverbinding met de deelnemers van de conferentie.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to conference participants via video link.
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The Netherlands, The Hague, July 14th 2022
The Government of the Netherlands is hosting, together with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the European Commission, an Ukraine Accountability Conference at ministerial level at the World Forum in The Hague on 14 July.
This image is excerpted from a U.S. GAO report:
www.gao.gov/products/GAO-23-105450
Thrifty Food Plan: Better Planning and Accountability Could Help Ensure Quality of Future Reevaluations
Note: While the process is presented in this graphic linearly, according to the Thrifty Food Plan, 2021 report, the approach to creating the Thrifty Food Plan Market Baskets was more iterative. After completing initial phases of analysis, initial modeling results led to updates to the model's inputs and constraints.
Véronique Thouvenot, ITU
This session features some of the innovative ICT applications for RMNCH, and highlight efforts of international organizations to foster the use of ICT to better implement the recommendations of the Commission on Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health.
Day 2
14 May 2013
ITU/ J.M. Planche
Upon founding the Light Foundation, Matt dreamed about starting a camp where young men could learn lifelong skills that would help them be R.E.A.L (Responsible, Ethical, Accountable, Leaders). For its 10th consecutive year, the Light Foundation’s premier program, Camp Vohokase has done just that.
Each year, Matt chooses four incoming high school freshmen from an at-risk community and asks them to commit the next four years to our leadership program, which includes 10 days at Chenoweth Trails each summer. There are always 18 boys in camp, four from each grade level, with each group coming from a different part of the country. Those locations, all with a connect to the Light Foundation, include Greenville, Ohio, where Matt grew up; Woonsocket, Rhode Island, close to where Matt holds his signature fundraising event; New Orleans, Louisiana, where a like-minded charity had asked for help; West Lafayette, Indiana, where Matt attended Purdue; Gloucester, Worcester and New Bedford, Massachusetts, all close to where Matt played during his NFL years; Hammond, Indiana, where Matt’s wife Susie grew up and identified a need for support; and new this year, Washington D.C, where the treasurer of the board resides.
The young men are required to keep good academic standing, complete a yearly community service project back home, and check in with our head counselors on a frequent basis. Program Director Edgar Flores tracks the kids’ progress year-round. He also does quarterly visits in order to foster the ongoing relationship between the campers, their class, and the foundation. By interacting with them in their own space, we can learn more about their behaviors and how those connect with their personal situations. By entering their homes, we often have the chance to stand as a united front with their parents or guardians in ensuring they’re doing exactly what they need to do to succeed. These visits are critical in reassuring to the young men that we are committed to them and serve as a true support system and not just a summer camp counselor. Not to mention, we have a lot of fun! They bond over some good grub and connect about what’s going on in their lives at that moment. Past day trips during a visit have included: Dave & Buster’s, paint balling, laser tag, amusement parks, farms, and bowling. We do try and balance the fun with more educational opportunities like volunteer community service projects, visiting local museums, or making a college visit for some of our juniors and seniors.
In return of having a good academic standing, the campers spend ten days among nature enjoying all that our beautiful facility has to offer whether it be skeet shooting, woodworking, canoeing, archery, fishing, dirt biking, etc. Despite all the fun we have here, the young men are responsible for daily chores, site visits to area businesses, and the completion of a service project around Darke County. Each night of the stay is reserved for fireside chats. These chats are structured to help create a dialogue about the very real and difficult issues these young boys face back home.
For a lot of these kids, all they need is an opportunity. We use the outdoors as a real teaching tool and a way to get kids to open up. And with us, these kids aren’t given anything. We make them work for everything they achieve. But through that they understand and value hard work, they learn work ethic, and they become proud of what they do, and want to share their accomplishments. Our hope is that after four years, each young man graduates from the program ready to become leaders in their own communities, equipped with the necessary tools and a heart for service.
In the past 11 years, 30 at-risk young men have graduated from Vohokase Cultural Leadership Camp with the tools to tap into their greatest potential as people and community leaders.
The Government of the Netherlands, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the European Commission are hosting an Ukraine Accountability Conference at ministerial level at the World Forum in The Hague, The Netherlands, on 14 July 2022. European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders, Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim A.A. Khan QC and Attorney General of Ukraine Iryna Venediktova at the press conference.
South Sudan needs to move ahead now and enforce Justice and accountability, the top United Nations Diplomat, Ambassador Samantha Power, said on Saturday September 3, 2016, shortly after meeting with the council of ministers in Juba.
“For as long as armed actors, rape, loot and kill with impunity, for as long as they are not held accountable, it will be very hard for the cause of peace to take hold here,” Ambassador Power told the council of Ministers in Juba.
Security Council delegates reiterated that the United Nations and member states remain committed to see an end to violence so that people can begin to recover from years of conflict and alleviate the suffering of the people.
Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Wopke Hoekstra verzorgt de openingsspeech. De volledige tekst staat op www.government.nl/ministries/ministry-of-foreign-affairs/... of bekijk de video van de toespraak op youtu.be/BJPEOAvQQ7Q
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Opening speech Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Wopke Hoekstra www.government.nl/ministries/ministry-of-foreign-affairs/... or watch the video of the speech on youtu.be/BJPEOAvQQ7Q
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The Netherlands, The Hague, July 14th 2022
The Government of the Netherlands is hosting, together with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the European Commission, an Ukraine Accountability Conference at ministerial level at the World Forum in The Hague on 14 July.
Europees Commissaris van Justitie Didier Reynders, de Nederlandse Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Wopke Hoekstra en Openbaar Aanklager van het Internationaal Strafhof Karim A.A. Khan.
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European Commissioner of Justice Didier Reynders, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Wopke Hoekstra and Public Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim A.A. Khan.
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The Netherlands, The Hague, July 14th 2022
The Government of the Netherlands is hosting, together with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the European Commission, an Ukraine Accountability Conference at ministerial level at the World Forum in The Hague on 14 July.
In the first few weeks of Cadet Basic Training the new cadets were trained on how to respond to a nuclear, chemical or biological attack. During the Goeke Challenge, the squads were tasked with taking appropriate measures in a simulated attack by donning their protective masks, evacuating any casualties and performing Soldier First Responder to them while communicating a nine-line medical evacuation report. Photo by Mike Strasser, West Point Public Affairs
The brain science is clear. The youth brain is uniquely different than that of an adult. That reality has profound implications for how we educate, discipline and nurture our children in our schools, justice system and our community.
This conference featured a series of brief, dynamic and interactive presentations from some of the leading experts in the field on this important topic. DMPS was well-represented as Superintendent Ahart, Principal Craig Leager, and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant Stephanie McFarland spoke to the crowd of approximately 800 in attendance at the Community Choice Credit Union Convention Center.
Learn what’s happening locally and, most important, learn what you can do to create a safe community where every child counts!
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Kimberly Szydlowski, 52nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron 480th Aircraft Maintenance Unit F-16 crew chief and native of St. Louis, Mo., checks out a launch kit from the equipment supply line at Souda Bay, Greece, Aug. 20, 2014. The different kits have a varying amount of equipment inside — ranging from as few as 20 pieces to more than 700 — and the maintainers must take accountability for the equipment they check out. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Daryl Knee/Released)
Supporting Social Accountability For Better Results Event at the 2012 Spring Meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. on April 19, 2012. Photo by Ryan Rayburn/World Bank
The Inspection Panel is completing 25 years in its role, as an accountability mechanism of the World Bank. As you are aware, the Bank’s failure to comply with its operating policies was seen by the entire world in the Bank’s financing with the Sardar Sarovar Dam project on River Narmada. The tenacity of massive grass-roots uprisings from our communities in the 80’s and the sustained hard work of our social movements along with our resoluteness to link it with international coalitions to question the hegemony of the Bank, subsequently led the Bank, for the first time, to commission an independent review of its project. The Independent Review Committee (Morse Committee) constituted by the Bank in 1991 to review the social and environmental costs and benefits of the dam, after years of consistent struggle by Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save Narmada Movement) and its allies led to a demand from the civil society around the globe for the creation of a grievance redressal system for project-affected communities, which ultimately pressurized the Bank to constitute the Inspection Panel in 1993. We expected this might be a crucial backstop and an opportunity for us to raise our issues of livelihoods, economic loss, displacement from our lands, alienation from natural resources, destruction of environment and threat to our biodiversity and cultural hotspots, where Bank invested in large, supposedly ‘development’ projects like mega dams, energy and other infrastructure projects. Yet, the outcome we expected rarely delivered sufficient remedy for the harm and losses people have experienced over the years.
A number of accountability mechanisms over the next couple of decades in several development finance institutions were formed following the model of World Bank, commonly known as ‘Independent Accountability Mechanisms’[IAMs]. Each year the number of complaints rise which is an indication of the increasing number of grievous projects happening around the world. While IAMs of most MDBs are advertised to provide strong and just processes, many of our experiences imply that the banks are accommodating practices which suit their own needs and their clients, which are borrowing countries and agencies, and not the people for whom the IAMs were built to serve.
Many a time, we have been disappointed by these mechanisms, since these are designed by the banks who are lending for disastrous projects in our lands. And as a result, the already existing narrow mandate of IAMs is further restricted.
In our efforts to hold the lending bank accountable, the communities are always presented with the arduous process of learning the complex formalities and detailed procedures to initially approach the IAMs and get our grievances registered. Our many years’ time and energy then is channelised into seeing through the various cycles of these complaint handling mechanisms, that our entire efforts go into this process, and often our complaint gets dropped off in midst of the procedural rules of the IAMs. People are made to wait many months to clear procedural levels and our cases with the IAMs get highly unpredictable. Further, we face intimidation and reprisals from the state and project agencies for having contacted the IAMs who themselves do not possess any authority to address the violations hurled out to us when we seek dignity, fair treatment and justice from them. There are many of us who feel a loss of morale after long years of struggling with lenders when we fail to see concrete benefits or changes in our circumstances, by which time considerable irreplaceable harm is already done to our lives, environment and livelihoods.
In this manner, our immediate and larger goal of holding banks for their failure to consult with and obtain consent from communities before devising action plans for our lands, water and forests is deflected in the pretext of problem-solving and grievance hearing offered to us in the name of IAMs.
With over 50 registered complaints sent to different IAMS from India in the past 25 years, many more left unregistered due to technical reasons and only a few got investigated, assessed and monitored at different levels, we have a baggage of mixed experiences with the IAMs. A few of the prominent cases from India apart from Narmada project are Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project [WB’s IP], Tata Mega Ultra-01/Mundra and Anjar [IFC’s CAO & ADB’s CRP], India Infrastructure Fund-01/Dhenkanal District [IFC’s CAO], Allain Duhangan Hydro Power Limited-01/Himachal Pradesh [IFC’s CAO] and Mumbai Urban Transport Project (2009) [WB’s IP].
As we now know, what is being witnessed recently is an influx of approved and proposed investments majorly in energy, transport, steel, roads, urban projects, bullet trains, industrial zones/corridors, smart cities, water privatization and other mega projects in India. This has been financed from different multilateral and bilateral sources, foreign corporations, private banks as well as Export-Import Banks (ExIm Banks). It has become a brutal challenge for communities, social movements and CSOs, with lenders and governments constantly shutting their eyes and ears to us who demand accountability for their actions. A compelling and timely need has arisen among diverse groups amongst us to gather together and critically analyze the various trajectories of our engagements with accountability mechanisms of MDBs in order to bring together past 25 years’ learning, insights and reflections of various actors of this accountability process. This urging demand is also an attempt to define the collective experiences in India among our social movements, projected-affected communities and CSOs with IAMs and lending banks, especially appropriating the global political opportunity of Inspection Panel celebrating its 25 years this year.
Speakers:
Thomas Franco, Former General Secretary, AlI India Bank Officers’ Confederation
Arun Kumar, Eminent scholar, Former Professor Jawaharlal Nehru University
C.P. Chandrashekar, Economist, Professor Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Sucheta Dalal, Managing Editor, Moneylife
Soumya Dutta, National Convener, Bharat Jan Vigyan Jatha
Dunu Roy, Hazards Center, New Delhi
Medha Patkar, Senior Activist, Narmada Bachao Andolan
Tani Alex, Centre for Financial Accountability
M J Vijayan, Activist and Political commentator
Joe Athialy, Centre for Financial Accountability
Anirudha Nagar, Accountability Counsel
Madhuresh Kumar, National Alliance of People’s Movements
A J Vijayan, Chairperson, Western Ghats and Coastal area Protection Forum
Meera Sanghamitra, National Aliance of People’s Movements
Vimal bhai, Matu Jan Sangathan, Uttarakhand
Daniel Adler, Senior Specialist, Compliance Advisor Ombudsman
Joe Athialy, Centre for Financial Accountability
Birgit Kuba, Operations Officer, Inspection Panel
Anuradha Munshi, Centre for Financial Accountability
Bharat Patel, General Secretary, Machimar Adhikar Sangharsh Sangathan,Gujarat
Awadhesh Kumar, Srijan Lokhit Samiti
Amulya Kumar Nayak, Odisha Chas Parivesh Surekhsa Parishad, Odisha
Dr. Usha Ramanathan, Legal Scholar
Manshi Asher, Himdhara Environment Research and Action Collective, Himachal Pradesh
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Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Wopke Hoekstra verzorgt de openingsspeech. De volledige tekst staat op www.government.nl/ministries/ministry-of-foreign-affairs/... of bekijk de video van de toespraak op youtu.be/BJPEOAvQQ7Q
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Opening speech Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Wopke Hoekstra www.government.nl/ministries/ministry-of-foreign-affairs/... or watch the video of the speech on youtu.be/BJPEOAvQQ7Q
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The Netherlands, The Hague, July 14th 2022
The Government of the Netherlands is hosting, together with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the European Commission, an Ukraine Accountability Conference at ministerial level at the World Forum in The Hague on 14 July.
Photo: Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2022
President van Oekraïne Volodymyr Zelensky, minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Wopke Hoekstra en de deelnemers aan de conferentie nemen samen een moment stilte in acht.
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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, Dutch Minister of Foreig Affairs Wopke Hoekstra and the conference participants observe a moment of silence together.
The Netherlands, The Hague, July 14th 2022
The Government of the Netherlands is hosting, together with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the European Commission, an Ukraine Accountability Conference at ministerial level at the World Forum in The Hague on 14 July.
Accountable Care Organizations and Competition Policy
January 24, 2011, 12:00pm -1:30pm
To view a video of this event, click here: http://www.americanprogress.org//events/2011/01/aco.html
The Affordable Care Act provides an opportunity to create integrated, cost effective, high quality health care systems for Medicare recipients—and eventually all Americans—through the creation of Accountable Care Organizations, or ACOs. One of the most challenging questions facing ACOs is how to provide integration without sacrificing competition and the decreased cost and increased quality it produces. The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Department of Justice have already been carefully scrutinizing these issues. Will some ACOs threaten competition and eventually raise costs for consumers? To what extent can ACOs overcome the barriers set up by current antitrust regulation? How should the lessons from health care reform educate the role of antitrust enforcement and regulation? How should we approach health care antitrust issues in an era of ACOs?
We were joined for a discussion of these and other questions related to implementing the Accountable Care Act in a way that enhances competition, provides better care, and lowers costs.
Supporting Social Accountability For Better Results Event at the 2012 Spring Meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. on April 19, 2012. Robert Zoellick, President, The World Bank; Maya Harris, Vice President, Democracy, Rights and Justice Program, Ford Foundation; Laila Iskandar Kamel, Managing Director, Community and Institutional Development Group, Egypt; Corazon “Dinky” Juliano Soliman ,Secretary, Department of Social Welfare and Development, Philippines; Sam Worthington, President and CEO, InterAction. Photo by Ryan Rayburn/World Bank
Accountable Care Organizations and Competition Policy
January 24, 2011, 12:00pm -1:30pm
To view a video of this event, click here: http://www.americanprogress.org//events/2011/01/aco.html
The Affordable Care Act provides an opportunity to create integrated, cost effective, high quality health care systems for Medicare recipients—and eventually all Americans—through the creation of Accountable Care Organizations, or ACOs. One of the most challenging questions facing ACOs is how to provide integration without sacrificing competition and the decreased cost and increased quality it produces. The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Department of Justice have already been carefully scrutinizing these issues. Will some ACOs threaten competition and eventually raise costs for consumers? To what extent can ACOs overcome the barriers set up by current antitrust regulation? How should the lessons from health care reform educate the role of antitrust enforcement and regulation? How should we approach health care antitrust issues in an era of ACOs?
We were joined for a discussion of these and other questions related to implementing the Accountable Care Act in a way that enhances competition, provides better care, and lowers costs.
U.S. Army Soldiers from the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Squadron 91st Cavalry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team takes accountability after an airborne jump during a training exercise at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany, October 5, 2011. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Ashley Webster)
The Inspection Panel is completing 25 years in its role, as an accountability mechanism of the World Bank. As you are aware, the Bank’s failure to comply with its operating policies was seen by the entire world in the Bank’s financing with the Sardar Sarovar Dam project on River Narmada. The tenacity of massive grass-roots uprisings from our communities in the 80’s and the sustained hard work of our social movements along with our resoluteness to link it with international coalitions to question the hegemony of the Bank, subsequently led the Bank, for the first time, to commission an independent review of its project. The Independent Review Committee (Morse Committee) constituted by the Bank in 1991 to review the social and environmental costs and benefits of the dam, after years of consistent struggle by Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save Narmada Movement) and its allies led to a demand from the civil society around the globe for the creation of a grievance redressal system for project-affected communities, which ultimately pressurized the Bank to constitute the Inspection Panel in 1993. We expected this might be a crucial backstop and an opportunity for us to raise our issues of livelihoods, economic loss, displacement from our lands, alienation from natural resources, destruction of environment and threat to our biodiversity and cultural hotspots, where Bank invested in large, supposedly ‘development’ projects like mega dams, energy and other infrastructure projects. Yet, the outcome we expected rarely delivered sufficient remedy for the harm and losses people have experienced over the years.
A number of accountability mechanisms over the next couple of decades in several development finance institutions were formed following the model of World Bank, commonly known as ‘Independent Accountability Mechanisms’[IAMs]. Each year the number of complaints rise which is an indication of the increasing number of grievous projects happening around the world. While IAMs of most MDBs are advertised to provide strong and just processes, many of our experiences imply that the banks are accommodating practices which suit their own needs and their clients, which are borrowing countries and agencies, and not the people for whom the IAMs were built to serve.
Many a time, we have been disappointed by these mechanisms, since these are designed by the banks who are lending for disastrous projects in our lands. And as a result, the already existing narrow mandate of IAMs is further restricted.
In our efforts to hold the lending bank accountable, the communities are always presented with the arduous process of learning the complex formalities and detailed procedures to initially approach the IAMs and get our grievances registered. Our many years’ time and energy then is channelised into seeing through the various cycles of these complaint handling mechanisms, that our entire efforts go into this process, and often our complaint gets dropped off in midst of the procedural rules of the IAMs. People are made to wait many months to clear procedural levels and our cases with the IAMs get highly unpredictable. Further, we face intimidation and reprisals from the state and project agencies for having contacted the IAMs who themselves do not possess any authority to address the violations hurled out to us when we seek dignity, fair treatment and justice from them. There are many of us who feel a loss of morale after long years of struggling with lenders when we fail to see concrete benefits or changes in our circumstances, by which time considerable irreplaceable harm is already done to our lives, environment and livelihoods.
In this manner, our immediate and larger goal of holding banks for their failure to consult with and obtain consent from communities before devising action plans for our lands, water and forests is deflected in the pretext of problem-solving and grievance hearing offered to us in the name of IAMs.
With over 50 registered complaints sent to different IAMS from India in the past 25 years, many more left unregistered due to technical reasons and only a few got investigated, assessed and monitored at different levels, we have a baggage of mixed experiences with the IAMs. A few of the prominent cases from India apart from Narmada project are Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project [WB’s IP], Tata Mega Ultra-01/Mundra and Anjar [IFC’s CAO & ADB’s CRP], India Infrastructure Fund-01/Dhenkanal District [IFC’s CAO], Allain Duhangan Hydro Power Limited-01/Himachal Pradesh [IFC’s CAO] and Mumbai Urban Transport Project (2009) [WB’s IP].
As we now know, what is being witnessed recently is an influx of approved and proposed investments majorly in energy, transport, steel, roads, urban projects, bullet trains, industrial zones/corridors, smart cities, water privatization and other mega projects in India. This has been financed from different multilateral and bilateral sources, foreign corporations, private banks as well as Export-Import Banks (ExIm Banks). It has become a brutal challenge for communities, social movements and CSOs, with lenders and governments constantly shutting their eyes and ears to us who demand accountability for their actions. A compelling and timely need has arisen among diverse groups amongst us to gather together and critically analyze the various trajectories of our engagements with accountability mechanisms of MDBs in order to bring together past 25 years’ learning, insights and reflections of various actors of this accountability process. This urging demand is also an attempt to define the collective experiences in India among our social movements, projected-affected communities and CSOs with IAMs and lending banks, especially appropriating the global political opportunity of Inspection Panel celebrating its 25 years this year.
Speakers:
Thomas Franco, Former General Secretary, AlI India Bank Officers’ Confederation
Arun Kumar, Eminent scholar, Former Professor Jawaharlal Nehru University
C.P. Chandrashekar, Economist, Professor Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Sucheta Dalal, Managing Editor, Moneylife
Soumya Dutta, National Convener, Bharat Jan Vigyan Jatha
Dunu Roy, Hazards Center, New Delhi
Medha Patkar, Senior Activist, Narmada Bachao Andolan
Tani Alex, Centre for Financial Accountability
M J Vijayan, Activist and Political commentator
Joe Athialy, Centre for Financial Accountability
Anirudha Nagar, Accountability Counsel
Madhuresh Kumar, National Alliance of People’s Movements
A J Vijayan, Chairperson, Western Ghats and Coastal area Protection Forum
Meera Sanghamitra, National Aliance of People’s Movements
Vimal bhai, Matu Jan Sangathan, Uttarakhand
Daniel Adler, Senior Specialist, Compliance Advisor Ombudsman
Joe Athialy, Centre for Financial Accountability
Birgit Kuba, Operations Officer, Inspection Panel
Anuradha Munshi, Centre for Financial Accountability
Bharat Patel, General Secretary, Machimar Adhikar Sangharsh Sangathan,Gujarat
Awadhesh Kumar, Srijan Lokhit Samiti
Amulya Kumar Nayak, Odisha Chas Parivesh Surekhsa Parishad, Odisha
Dr. Usha Ramanathan, Legal Scholar
Manshi Asher, Himdhara Environment Research and Action Collective, Himachal Pradesh
The Government of the Netherlands, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the European Commission are hosting an Ukraine Accountability Conference at ministerial level at the World Forum in The Hague, The Netherlands, on 14 July 2022.
© Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2022
Upon founding the Light Foundation, Matt dreamed about starting a camp where young men could learn lifelong skills that would help them be R.E.A.L (Responsible, Ethical, Accountable, Leaders). For its 10th consecutive year, the Light Foundation’s premier program, Camp Vohokase has done just that.
Each year, Matt chooses four incoming high school freshmen from an at-risk community and asks them to commit the next four years to our leadership program, which includes 10 days at Chenoweth Trails each summer. There are always 18 boys in camp, four from each grade level, with each group coming from a different part of the country. Those locations, all with a connect to the Light Foundation, include Greenville, Ohio, where Matt grew up; Woonsocket, Rhode Island, close to where Matt holds his signature fundraising event; New Orleans, Louisiana, where a like-minded charity had asked for help; West Lafayette, Indiana, where Matt attended Purdue; Gloucester, Worcester and New Bedford, Massachusetts, all close to where Matt played during his NFL years; Hammond, Indiana, where Matt’s wife Susie grew up and identified a need for support; and new this year, Washington D.C, where the treasurer of the board resides.
The young men are required to keep good academic standing, complete a yearly community service project back home, and check in with our head counselors on a frequent basis. Program Director Edgar Flores tracks the kids’ progress year-round. He also does quarterly visits in order to foster the ongoing relationship between the campers, their class, and the foundation. By interacting with them in their own space, we can learn more about their behaviors and how those connect with their personal situations. By entering their homes, we often have the chance to stand as a united front with their parents or guardians in ensuring they’re doing exactly what they need to do to succeed. These visits are critical in reassuring to the young men that we are committed to them and serve as a true support system and not just a summer camp counselor. Not to mention, we have a lot of fun! They bond over some good grub and connect about what’s going on in their lives at that moment. Past day trips during a visit have included: Dave & Buster’s, paint balling, laser tag, amusement parks, farms, and bowling. We do try and balance the fun with more educational opportunities like volunteer community service projects, visiting local museums, or making a college visit for some of our juniors and seniors.
In return of having a good academic standing, the campers spend ten days among nature enjoying all that our beautiful facility has to offer whether it be skeet shooting, woodworking, canoeing, archery, fishing, dirt biking, etc. Despite all the fun we have here, the young men are responsible for daily chores, site visits to area businesses, and the completion of a service project around Darke County. Each night of the stay is reserved for fireside chats. These chats are structured to help create a dialogue about the very real and difficult issues these young boys face back home.
For a lot of these kids, all they need is an opportunity. We use the outdoors as a real teaching tool and a way to get kids to open up. And with us, these kids aren’t given anything. We make them work for everything they achieve. But through that they understand and value hard work, they learn work ethic, and they become proud of what they do, and want to share their accomplishments. Our hope is that after four years, each young man graduates from the program ready to become leaders in their own communities, equipped with the necessary tools and a heart for service.
In the past 11 years, 30 at-risk young men have graduated from Vohokase Cultural Leadership Camp with the tools to tap into their greatest potential as people and community leaders.
"Ma in una risposta di trenta secondi: che cosa potrebbe imparare la politica italiana dagli eventi seguiti all'inaugurazione di Obama?"
"Utilizzare la piattaforma neutrale della tecnologia moderna, per massimizzare la accountability, quindi mettere in grado il popolo di esercitare il diritto di controllo disintermediato."
Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Wopke Hoekstra verzorgt de openingsspeech. De volledige tekst staat op www.government.nl/ministries/ministry-of-foreign-affairs/... of bekijk de video van de toespraak op youtu.be/BJPEOAvQQ7Q
===English===
Opening speech Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Wopke Hoekstra www.government.nl/ministries/ministry-of-foreign-affairs/... or watch the video of the speech on youtu.be/BJPEOAvQQ7Q
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The Netherlands, The Hague, July 14th 2022
The Government of the Netherlands is hosting, together with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the European Commission, an Ukraine Accountability Conference at ministerial level at the World Forum in The Hague on 14 July.
No movement. I suppose I'm not surprised, considering the chocolate involved the past week. Soldier on!
The Inspection Panel is completing 25 years in its role, as an accountability mechanism of the World Bank. As you are aware, the Bank’s failure to comply with its operating policies was seen by the entire world in the Bank’s financing with the Sardar Sarovar Dam project on River Narmada. The tenacity of massive grass-roots uprisings from our communities in the 80’s and the sustained hard work of our social movements along with our resoluteness to link it with international coalitions to question the hegemony of the Bank, subsequently led the Bank, for the first time, to commission an independent review of its project. The Independent Review Committee (Morse Committee) constituted by the Bank in 1991 to review the social and environmental costs and benefits of the dam, after years of consistent struggle by Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save Narmada Movement) and its allies led to a demand from the civil society around the globe for the creation of a grievance redressal system for project-affected communities, which ultimately pressurized the Bank to constitute the Inspection Panel in 1993. We expected this might be a crucial backstop and an opportunity for us to raise our issues of livelihoods, economic loss, displacement from our lands, alienation from natural resources, destruction of environment and threat to our biodiversity and cultural hotspots, where Bank invested in large, supposedly ‘development’ projects like mega dams, energy and other infrastructure projects. Yet, the outcome we expected rarely delivered sufficient remedy for the harm and losses people have experienced over the years.
A number of accountability mechanisms over the next couple of decades in several development finance institutions were formed following the model of World Bank, commonly known as ‘Independent Accountability Mechanisms’[IAMs]. Each year the number of complaints rise which is an indication of the increasing number of grievous projects happening around the world. While IAMs of most MDBs are advertised to provide strong and just processes, many of our experiences imply that the banks are accommodating practices which suit their own needs and their clients, which are borrowing countries and agencies, and not the people for whom the IAMs were built to serve.
Many a time, we have been disappointed by these mechanisms, since these are designed by the banks who are lending for disastrous projects in our lands. And as a result, the already existing narrow mandate of IAMs is further restricted.
In our efforts to hold the lending bank accountable, the communities are always presented with the arduous process of learning the complex formalities and detailed procedures to initially approach the IAMs and get our grievances registered. Our many years’ time and energy then is channelised into seeing through the various cycles of these complaint handling mechanisms, that our entire efforts go into this process, and often our complaint gets dropped off in midst of the procedural rules of the IAMs. People are made to wait many months to clear procedural levels and our cases with the IAMs get highly unpredictable. Further, we face intimidation and reprisals from the state and project agencies for having contacted the IAMs who themselves do not possess any authority to address the violations hurled out to us when we seek dignity, fair treatment and justice from them. There are many of us who feel a loss of morale after long years of struggling with lenders when we fail to see concrete benefits or changes in our circumstances, by which time considerable irreplaceable harm is already done to our lives, environment and livelihoods.
In this manner, our immediate and larger goal of holding banks for their failure to consult with and obtain consent from communities before devising action plans for our lands, water and forests is deflected in the pretext of problem-solving and grievance hearing offered to us in the name of IAMs.
With over 50 registered complaints sent to different IAMS from India in the past 25 years, many more left unregistered due to technical reasons and only a few got investigated, assessed and monitored at different levels, we have a baggage of mixed experiences with the IAMs. A few of the prominent cases from India apart from Narmada project are Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project [WB’s IP], Tata Mega Ultra-01/Mundra and Anjar [IFC’s CAO & ADB’s CRP], India Infrastructure Fund-01/Dhenkanal District [IFC’s CAO], Allain Duhangan Hydro Power Limited-01/Himachal Pradesh [IFC’s CAO] and Mumbai Urban Transport Project (2009) [WB’s IP].
As we now know, what is being witnessed recently is an influx of approved and proposed investments majorly in energy, transport, steel, roads, urban projects, bullet trains, industrial zones/corridors, smart cities, water privatization and other mega projects in India. This has been financed from different multilateral and bilateral sources, foreign corporations, private banks as well as Export-Import Banks (ExIm Banks). It has become a brutal challenge for communities, social movements and CSOs, with lenders and governments constantly shutting their eyes and ears to us who demand accountability for their actions. A compelling and timely need has arisen among diverse groups amongst us to gather together and critically analyze the various trajectories of our engagements with accountability mechanisms of MDBs in order to bring together past 25 years’ learning, insights and reflections of various actors of this accountability process. This urging demand is also an attempt to define the collective experiences in India among our social movements, projected-affected communities and CSOs with IAMs and lending banks, especially appropriating the global political opportunity of Inspection Panel celebrating its 25 years this year.
Speakers:
Thomas Franco, Former General Secretary, AlI India Bank Officers’ Confederation
Arun Kumar, Eminent scholar, Former Professor Jawaharlal Nehru University
C.P. Chandrashekar, Economist, Professor Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Sucheta Dalal, Managing Editor, Moneylife
Soumya Dutta, National Convener, Bharat Jan Vigyan Jatha
Dunu Roy, Hazards Center, New Delhi
Medha Patkar, Senior Activist, Narmada Bachao Andolan
Tani Alex, Centre for Financial Accountability
M J Vijayan, Activist and Political commentator
Joe Athialy, Centre for Financial Accountability
Anirudha Nagar, Accountability Counsel
Madhuresh Kumar, National Alliance of People’s Movements
A J Vijayan, Chairperson, Western Ghats and Coastal area Protection Forum
Meera Sanghamitra, National Aliance of People’s Movements
Vimal bhai, Matu Jan Sangathan, Uttarakhand
Daniel Adler, Senior Specialist, Compliance Advisor Ombudsman
Joe Athialy, Centre for Financial Accountability
Birgit Kuba, Operations Officer, Inspection Panel
Anuradha Munshi, Centre for Financial Accountability
Bharat Patel, General Secretary, Machimar Adhikar Sangharsh Sangathan,Gujarat
Awadhesh Kumar, Srijan Lokhit Samiti
Amulya Kumar Nayak, Odisha Chas Parivesh Surekhsa Parishad, Odisha
Dr. Usha Ramanathan, Legal Scholar
Manshi Asher, Himdhara Environment Research and Action Collective, Himachal Pradesh
Rajendra Pawar and Alec Erwin, considering the day's discussions. Can the PIAC's e-skills council make a difference and help thousands of South Africans learn the skills they'll need, not just to work in IT companies but to be informed and active citizens
who can both demand better services from their government and contribute their own efforts to the South African economy.
Openbaar Aanklager van het Internationaal Strafhof Karim A.A. Khan
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Public Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim A.A. Khan
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The Netherlands, The Hague, 20220714
The Government of the Netherlands is hosting, together with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the European Commission, an Ukraine Accountability Conference at ministerial level at the World Forum in The Hague on 14 July.
Photo: Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2022
Accountable Care Organizations and Competition Policy
January 24, 2011, 12:00pm -1:30pm
To view a video of this event, click here: http://www.americanprogress.org//events/2011/01/aco.html
The Affordable Care Act provides an opportunity to create integrated, cost effective, high quality health care systems for Medicare recipients—and eventually all Americans—through the creation of Accountable Care Organizations, or ACOs. One of the most challenging questions facing ACOs is how to provide integration without sacrificing competition and the decreased cost and increased quality it produces. The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Department of Justice have already been carefully scrutinizing these issues. Will some ACOs threaten competition and eventually raise costs for consumers? To what extent can ACOs overcome the barriers set up by current antitrust regulation? How should the lessons from health care reform educate the role of antitrust enforcement and regulation? How should we approach health care antitrust issues in an era of ACOs?
We were joined for a discussion of these and other questions related to implementing the Accountable Care Act in a way that enhances competition, provides better care, and lowers costs.
Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Wopke Hoekstra schudt de hand van Tobias Lindner, de Duitse Minister van Staat bij het Federaal Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken.
===English===
Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra shakes hands with Tobias Lindner, the German Minister of State at the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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The Netherlands, The Hague, July 14th 2022
The Government of the Netherlands is hosting, together with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the European Commission, an Ukraine Accountability Conference at ministerial level at the World Forum in The Hague on 14 July.
The Inspection Panel is completing 25 years in its role, as an accountability mechanism of the World Bank. As you are aware, the Bank’s failure to comply with its operating policies was seen by the entire world in the Bank’s financing with the Sardar Sarovar Dam project on River Narmada. The tenacity of massive grass-roots uprisings from our communities in the 80’s and the sustained hard work of our social movements along with our resoluteness to link it with international coalitions to question the hegemony of the Bank, subsequently led the Bank, for the first time, to commission an independent review of its project. The Independent Review Committee (Morse Committee) constituted by the Bank in 1991 to review the social and environmental costs and benefits of the dam, after years of consistent struggle by Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save Narmada Movement) and its allies led to a demand from the civil society around the globe for the creation of a grievance redressal system for project-affected communities, which ultimately pressurized the Bank to constitute the Inspection Panel in 1993. We expected this might be a crucial backstop and an opportunity for us to raise our issues of livelihoods, economic loss, displacement from our lands, alienation from natural resources, destruction of environment and threat to our biodiversity and cultural hotspots, where Bank invested in large, supposedly ‘development’ projects like mega dams, energy and other infrastructure projects. Yet, the outcome we expected rarely delivered sufficient remedy for the harm and losses people have experienced over the years.
A number of accountability mechanisms over the next couple of decades in several development finance institutions were formed following the model of World Bank, commonly known as ‘Independent Accountability Mechanisms’[IAMs]. Each year the number of complaints rise which is an indication of the increasing number of grievous projects happening around the world. While IAMs of most MDBs are advertised to provide strong and just processes, many of our experiences imply that the banks are accommodating practices which suit their own needs and their clients, which are borrowing countries and agencies, and not the people for whom the IAMs were built to serve.
Many a time, we have been disappointed by these mechanisms, since these are designed by the banks who are lending for disastrous projects in our lands. And as a result, the already existing narrow mandate of IAMs is further restricted.
In our efforts to hold the lending bank accountable, the communities are always presented with the arduous process of learning the complex formalities and detailed procedures to initially approach the IAMs and get our grievances registered. Our many years’ time and energy then is channelised into seeing through the various cycles of these complaint handling mechanisms, that our entire efforts go into this process, and often our complaint gets dropped off in midst of the procedural rules of the IAMs. People are made to wait many months to clear procedural levels and our cases with the IAMs get highly unpredictable. Further, we face intimidation and reprisals from the state and project agencies for having contacted the IAMs who themselves do not possess any authority to address the violations hurled out to us when we seek dignity, fair treatment and justice from them. There are many of us who feel a loss of morale after long years of struggling with lenders when we fail to see concrete benefits or changes in our circumstances, by which time considerable irreplaceable harm is already done to our lives, environment and livelihoods.
In this manner, our immediate and larger goal of holding banks for their failure to consult with and obtain consent from communities before devising action plans for our lands, water and forests is deflected in the pretext of problem-solving and grievance hearing offered to us in the name of IAMs.
With over 50 registered complaints sent to different IAMS from India in the past 25 years, many more left unregistered due to technical reasons and only a few got investigated, assessed and monitored at different levels, we have a baggage of mixed experiences with the IAMs. A few of the prominent cases from India apart from Narmada project are Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project [WB’s IP], Tata Mega Ultra-01/Mundra and Anjar [IFC’s CAO & ADB’s CRP], India Infrastructure Fund-01/Dhenkanal District [IFC’s CAO], Allain Duhangan Hydro Power Limited-01/Himachal Pradesh [IFC’s CAO] and Mumbai Urban Transport Project (2009) [WB’s IP].
As we now know, what is being witnessed recently is an influx of approved and proposed investments majorly in energy, transport, steel, roads, urban projects, bullet trains, industrial zones/corridors, smart cities, water privatization and other mega projects in India. This has been financed from different multilateral and bilateral sources, foreign corporations, private banks as well as Export-Import Banks (ExIm Banks). It has become a brutal challenge for communities, social movements and CSOs, with lenders and governments constantly shutting their eyes and ears to us who demand accountability for their actions. A compelling and timely need has arisen among diverse groups amongst us to gather together and critically analyze the various trajectories of our engagements with accountability mechanisms of MDBs in order to bring together past 25 years’ learning, insights and reflections of various actors of this accountability process. This urging demand is also an attempt to define the collective experiences in India among our social movements, projected-affected communities and CSOs with IAMs and lending banks, especially appropriating the global political opportunity of Inspection Panel celebrating its 25 years this year.
Speakers:
Thomas Franco, Former General Secretary, AlI India Bank Officers’ Confederation
Arun Kumar, Eminent scholar, Former Professor Jawaharlal Nehru University
C.P. Chandrashekar, Economist, Professor Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Sucheta Dalal, Managing Editor, Moneylife
Soumya Dutta, National Convener, Bharat Jan Vigyan Jatha
Dunu Roy, Hazards Center, New Delhi
Medha Patkar, Senior Activist, Narmada Bachao Andolan
Tani Alex, Centre for Financial Accountability
M J Vijayan, Activist and Political commentator
Joe Athialy, Centre for Financial Accountability
Anirudha Nagar, Accountability Counsel
Madhuresh Kumar, National Alliance of People’s Movements
A J Vijayan, Chairperson, Western Ghats and Coastal area Protection Forum
Meera Sanghamitra, National Aliance of People’s Movements
Vimal bhai, Matu Jan Sangathan, Uttarakhand
Daniel Adler, Senior Specialist, Compliance Advisor Ombudsman
Joe Athialy, Centre for Financial Accountability
Birgit Kuba, Operations Officer, Inspection Panel
Anuradha Munshi, Centre for Financial Accountability
Bharat Patel, General Secretary, Machimar Adhikar Sangharsh Sangathan,Gujarat
Awadhesh Kumar, Srijan Lokhit Samiti
Amulya Kumar Nayak, Odisha Chas Parivesh Surekhsa Parishad, Odisha
Dr. Usha Ramanathan, Legal Scholar
Manshi Asher, Himdhara Environment Research and Action Collective, Himachal Pradesh
The Government of the Netherlands, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the European Commission are hosting an Ukraine Accountability Conference at ministerial level at the World Forum in The Hague, The Netherlands, on 14 July 2022.
© Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2022
Accountability Colloquium (ACIII) participants group photo, taken at the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in San Remo, Italy, 2 June 2015
Nov 18th, 2022 Aitken University Centre Fredericton New Brunswick - StFX vs UNB Reds
Samuel Richard - Subway First Star
final : StFX 2 UNB Reds 4
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Feb 24, 2022 - Wolfville, N.S. Acadia University. The Acadia University Professors strike enters its 4th week ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/51901774104
Sept 30th 2022 - Acadia Axeman hockey at Andrew H. McCain Arena goes paperless ? The Official program is no longer handed out to the customer ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52395343477
January 22, 2024 - Canada sets two-year cap on foreign students. The cap will result in a decrease of 35% in approved study permits.
www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68059996
Dec 14,2021 - Don't all members matter at Acadia Athletics ? Discrimination shown against community members during Covi. A posted official notice reads : "The Athletics complex will be closed to community drop-ins, community memberships, and external rentals until further notice , However,, Acadia staff, faculty and students, with proof of double vaccination, will continue to access the fitness center, the pool and the arena for skating. "
International student fallout hits the bottom line.. Atlantic universities depend on international students for about 30 per cent of their enrollment.
universityaffairs.ca/news/international-student-fallout-h...
Feb. 28, 2026. Dalhousie inks new nursing degree agreement with university in India to create dual-degree program in nursing.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/dalhousie-dual-nursing...
May 11th 2023 - A new policy has been announced at Acadia where almost half the available seats for a new Course are to be set aside and reserved only for members of certain racial or ethnic groups as specified by the University ? The PC Government announced that a new nursing program is to be offered at Acadia University where approximately 50 percent of the seats are reserved only for African, Mi'kmaq and Indigenous students. The total number of annual seats is set to increase to 63 ? Bearing in mind a current health care system worker crisis and urgent need for nursing grads, is it really wise or responsible to install race or ethnic restrictions that can eliminate many of those wanting to be a nurse ? www2.acadiau.ca/about-acadia/newsroom/news-reader-page/ac...
Dec 27, 2021 - Playing the race card ? The Liberal Provincial Government of Nova Scotia could be on a slippery slope when using race to determine and to cull applicants for vital health services due to limited supplies during a national public health emergency ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/51782360402/in/album-7...
The Supreme Court says colleges and universities can no longer take race into consideration as a specific basis for granting admission,
www.cnn.com/2023/06/29/politics/affirmative-action-suprem...
Free University for some ? B.C. university waives tuition for local First Nation students,
bc.ctvnews.ca/that-s-reconciliation-b-c-university-waives...
Aug 2023 - A new physician assistant program at Dalhousie U open to 24 students per year with preference given to applicants from Nova Scotia, atlantic.ctvnews.ca/n-s-invests-5-6-million-for-first-phy...
Oct 10, 2025 - The race card has been played in setting membership pricing rates ? A local Halifax gym R-Studio executes exclusive lower race-based membership charge ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsHpxm3yb7c&t=20s
June 11, 2025 - Maritime students struggle to find summer jobs,
www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/article/mission-impossible-mariti...
Tim Horton's appears to use racial profiling in its hiring policies ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54605482350/in/album-7...
Canada's Gen Z can't find jobs,, www.cbc.ca/news/business/youth-unemployment-rate-1.7549979
The concerned Kentvillian must ask, " why is it that every time that you gas up at Milne Court Petro-Can, New Minas Ultramar, KVille Ultramar, and now the Big Stop, or go to the KFC for chicken, or Mary Browns, or the Burger King, or Subway, or all of the 3 Timmies for coffee, or Walmart, oe Needs, or receive a parcel from amazon, or attend the cash register post to pay a bill at many other downtown stores, it feels like you're suddenly in a foreign country ? " What has happened to all of the friendly locals that used to man these positions and was one of the main reasons we frequented these business establishments ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54418705157/
Chamber of Commerce Kentville, NS
448 Main St, Kentville NS B4N
Kody Bloise . Liberal Party
Can there be an identity crisis looming in the town of Kentville ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52094330358/in/album-7...
Canada's post-secondary industry predicts a storm ahead, as budget cuts shrink courses, staff,
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/post-secondary-cuts-1.7387175
U of T Toronto, Jun 27, 2023 - " She Sung it her Way "
Jully Black sings her own personalized, politicized, 'our home on native land' version of the Canadian National anthem in a performance at Toronto university graduation. Black was asked to perform her new way of singing Canada's national anthem to reflect the core values of their law program ? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/jully-black-tmu-law-school...
March 18, 2025 - Professors, students say Nova Scotia university bill threatens academic freedoms,
www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nova-scotia/article/professors-st...
March 4th, 2025 - Trump issues ban on 'illegal' college protests as he threatens students with arrest and deportation
www.lbc.co.uk/usa/politics/trump-issues-ban-on-illegal-co...
April 9, 2025 - Trump administration freezes $1 billion in funding for Cornell University, $790 million for Northwestern University ,,
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/us/cornell-northwestern-federal-fu...
Jan 20,2026 - Trump hates wind turbines ? ‘so pathetic and so bad’ .. And so does Hall's Harbour ,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wkHCSbSwkw
5th Mar 5th, 2025 - U.S. funding freeze affecting both American and international exchange students and major US scholarship funders
monitor.icef.com/2025/03/us-funding-freeze-affecting-both...
Trump protecting historic statues - enacts 10 years in jail penalty for harming or defacing historical statues,,
www.cbsnews.com/video/trump-signs-executive-order-enactin...
February 10, 2025 - Acadia University in Wolfville announces permanent pool closure, discontinues varsity swim team - will close its swimming pool on June 15, 2025,
Students chose Acadia because of the swim team and many parents got calls “from their kids – in tears – devastated.”
Acadia Aquatics,
recreation.acadiau.ca/aquatics.html
How not to park at Hennigers farm Market Greenwich,
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54788130883
April 13, 2025 - Eight programs suspended at P.E.I. college over drop in international students,
www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/prince-edward-island/article/pei-...
Sept 13th, 2025 - Acadia Axemen and Dal Tigers hockey teams ignore the Dal strikers picket line to play an Exhibition game at Dalhousie University ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54784598896/in/photost...
Town of Wolfville breaking the law, obstructing traffic, while creating a safety hazard ? And making trip to and from hockey games a real challenge ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54710009955/in/photost...
Sep 29, 2025 - Wolfville now studying ways to solve traffic congestion along Main Street ?
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/wolfville-nova-scotia-...
CBC launches Olympic games gambling ? In a groundbreaking move and for the first time ever, CBC has introduced and will include gambling in its coverage of the 2024 Olympic games ?
2024 Paris Olympics - It appears that CBC has partnered with one particular online Casino company and BetRivers is running sports betting ads during the televising of Olympic sporting events ? Is the inclusion of a casino and a Sports betting parlor that runs betting ads during Olympic events appropriate to the principles and high moral standard exemplified by the Olympic Games ?
Are University student loans being gambled away ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54775209530/in/photost...
Feb 4th 2025, Bell Let's Talk ? Abandoning your Unionized telephone workers, refusing to talk to them and leaving them out on the Street for 5 Months does not contribute to good mental health ? U Ottawa Scotty suggests that the internet, mobile phones and Social media are also taking a heavy toll on the mental health and overall mental well being of today's society ? And so maybe there's some hypocrisy shown by the giant media mogul Bell Canada who could be the biggest contributor and profit taker from this national crisis ? www.youtube.com/shorts/31f3sZndK6w
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/51844732131/in/album-7...
This year Canadian Taxpayers will pay $1.5 billion dollars to subsidize the CBC ?
site-cbc.radio-canada.ca/documents/impact-and-accountabil...
June 28,2021, O Canada at Stanley Cup Finals ? CBC plays upsetting version of the Canadian National Anthem on the World stage ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/51829474529/in/album-7...
January 11-22, 2023 - CBC doesn't seem to want to push or promote the men's hockey leagues like AHL, ECHL, or the University level ASU and U Sports hockey ? Canada has won both Golds at the recent 2023 international University Hockey FISU tournament. But Gold medal final games, in fact the whole tournament, were not telecast on CBC ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52640201721/in/datepos...
July 5th, 2024 Jacob Shaffelburg (Pt Williams Nova Scotia) Men's soccer - Unfortunately, CBC doesn't seem to support or sponsor men's soccer and will not be broadcasting the Men's Copa soccer tournament ? However, you can still enjoy soccer on CBC as they will be giving support and full coverage to the Women's National team and to the new start-up Women's pro soccer league ? www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/cbc-radio-canada-broadcast-agree... ? -
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/53839077022/in/photost...;
June 29th, 2024 - Bailey Feltmate (Acadia U, Wolfville N.S.) - CBC doesn't appear to support men's football anymore, and so most Canadians won't be able to watch graduating male university athletes like Bailey perform in the pros ? However, fans will be able to watch graduating university female athletes perform as CBC is providing cross Canada media support and live coverage of the new start-up Women's pro soccer league, the new Women's pro hockey league, and the upcoming Women's pro basketball league ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/53855066488/in/datepos...
Jun 11, 2024 - Acadia's Mya Harnish joins new Women's Pro soccer team, the Halifax Tides. CBC will provide full media support and full coverage for the brand new start-up Women's Pro soccer league. CBC will broadcast eight regular-season matches. A "Game of the Week" will co-stream simultaneously on CBC Gem and NSL.ca,
www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/cbc-radio-canada-broadcast-agree...
Thanks to CBC, fans will now be able to follow female Acadia University athletes like Mya Harnish, who has now turned Pro . www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54482565652/in/photost...
Lost in Space________Episode # 1_______Death to Deniers !
Danger - Will Robinson, Danger ! Sensors detecting thought-police !
These fine ladies want prison sentences handed down to individuals who dare to be themselves and to think differently from them calling anyone with a different opinion from theirs to be a denier or a hater ?
No one can deny the existence of residential schools. And so why are an infinitesimal tiny minority like Leah Gazan (NDP), Lindsay Mathyssen (NDP), Nahanni Fontaine (NDP) and Kimberley Murray (Liberal Government investigator) so dissatisfied and why are they trying to force their own radical ego-driven personal viewpoint based on unproven allegations on everyone else ? Why do they want you to think the same way that they think, believe in the same way that they believe, and be forced by law into accepting their individual self-centred and self-serving narrative, (that they get paid to expound) as being Gods' truth, and if you dare resist them you are then to be called a hater and a denier and a criminal that could be sent to jail for up to life in prison under the law enshrined in their new Bill C-63 or C-9 ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZU7NEzs3Gk
Was it a hoax ? Residential schools. After three years of searching for bodies, at the cost to taxpayers of $216.5 million, not a single set of human remains have been found.
thecatholicherald.com/article/failure-to-find-bodies-ends...
What Is Truth ?
"If you are strictly one-sided with any opinion, you’re incredibly ignorant".
UBC Jan 22, 2026 - Many students that grew up attending the Canadian public school system during the Trudeau Liberal era ( 2015 thru 2025 ) are now reaching post secondary age and are arriving at University in a heavily indoctrinated state with coercive and one-sided my-opinion-only attitudes ? Violent gangs of masked and gagged orange shirted student protestors, tribalism, far left activism and propaganda posters hanging in an Authoritarian environment where free will, open debate or speaking the truth is has become a crime are now being seen in our Canadian institutes of higher learning ? This scenario may sound Orwellian, but it's actually the billion dollar public funded University of B.C. campus in Vancouver ?
Frances Widdowson, "Without truth and without freedom, our Universities will die." Frances visits UBC. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihsLPodE9R0
U of Vic claims 250 vs Frances and Dallas who say Zero ?
What Is Truth ?
Dec 3rd 2025, Frances and Dallas visit the University of Victoria B.C. and discover that U of Vic is conducting mass indoctrination of impressionable young minds ? Open free thinking and free speech are discouraged here ? Asking questions that might ruffle some feathers or challenge the status quo no longer wanted on this campus - By challenging the indoctrinated dogma taught at this publicly owned B.C. University can bring on abuse and the Police called in to cart you off to jail ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=u53G5WBpVmc
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSRn8BzpvLc
Feb 24th, 2026 - "You're not welcome here !" Welcome to the University of Lethbridge where they ignore manners, disregard etiquette and the students use loud ancient tribal war cries and the continuous monotone of Indian tom-tom drumming to drown out the opposition during debate ? Once you take UofL's Indoctrination 101 course, 2 plus 2 may no longer equal 4 ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2Moi7VM7xI
Mar 23,2026 - " my spider sense is tingling "
Is Mt. Royal College in Calgary making the kids Crazy ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPQNM063-lY
UBC Jan 22,2026 - Counter viewpoint reporters attacked and must run for their lives ?
UBC zombie apocalypse, Jan 22,2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfIpTnyH_Zg
"What are they doing to our kids" ?
Many Parents contribute for years into Registered Education Savings Plans that are turned over to the Universities on behalf of their Children,
www.canada.ca/en/services/benefits/education/education-sa...
March 12, 2026 - They're Selling out Vancouver ? NDP Provincial Government insults all Canadian veterans who fought to secure this Nation ? Spencer Herbert and his NDP party appears to have self-appointed themselves to give away Canada without permission ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVTzJWE86go
March 12, 2026 - What Spencer Herbert is doing to his Province and his Country is illegal in other Canadian Provinces ? www.fasken.com/en/knowledge/2026/01/new-brunswick-court-o...
March 12, 2026 - Secret liberal backroom land transfer deals snuck in while the Eby provincial NDP government pretends to look the other way ? Indians may now own rights to Vancouver ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT2DqPzulos
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/musqueam-rights-r...
March 09, 2026, Canada’s Bill C-3 ("An Act to amend the Citizenship Act") - New Liberal legislation allowing Canadian citizenship to be passed down over multiple generations from as far back as caveman days, means many millions all over the world are now eligible to be Canadian. www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7120945
March 14, 2026 - Italy Restricts citizenship for those born abroad. Italy has enacted ruling that tells millions with Italian roots that they have lost the right to citizenship -
www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/italy-ruling-tells-millions-...
March 12, 2026 - Acadia University reducing staff levels amid ‘financial pressures’ ? 31 positions were eliminated.
www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nova-scotia/article/acadia-univer...
Mar 4th, 2026 - Canada grants $100 million in scholarships for India students ? This comes on the heels of PM Carney's trip to India.
www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx1VHElLBjsSwpz5-CK3P4SsNdrZmGdelS
feb 25, 2026 - Drastic University cuts are implemented in latest Provincial budget. Tim Houston's PC government is reducing funding for all Universities in Nova Scotia incl the PhD programs in education at Acadia,
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Grant-R...
February 26, 2026 - Vulnerable hard hit Nova Scotia university students who struggle daily with the high cost of living in Nova Scotia prepare for a week-long strike to protest the provincial education cut, the cuts to advanced education grants, and they are demanding tuition reductions and divestment from fossil fuel dollars,
globalnews.ca/video/11708934/n-s-university-students-prep...
March 15, 2026 - Dalhousie University students vote to join the Nova Scotia student strike, www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nova-scotia/article/dalhousie-uni...
March 13, 2026 - Nova Scotia First Nation asserts Indian control over cannabis-related activities on their traditional lands, tells government and RCMP to stay out of cannabis and tobacco sales ? www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nova-scotia/article/ns-first-nati...
Closed museums, torn down statues, are all erasing a peoples' proud history ? March 04, 2026 - Halifax Nova Scotia - P. C. Provincial Government minimizes the importance of preserving the Provinces history and dismisses those who strive to preserve, protect, honor and record it ? Artists, cultural and heritage workers, arts organizers, and their allies rally in Halifax over the latest Tim Houston PC worst in history 130 M cuts to the essential funding needed for arts, culture, tourism, and heritage sector programs ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQjKntnV55c
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Mar 10, 2026 - Following a loud public outcry, the Premier agrees to restore some of the funding cuts made. The disabled, some seniors, some first nation Indigenous, and ( although we just finished celebrating Black History for a Month ) the African Nova Scotians will be granted reprieves and their funding will be RESTORED, however, the arts, culture and heritage communities will NOT be getting their CUTS IN FUNDING back ?
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/tim-houston-budget-cut...
2019-02-11, President of the African Development Bank Group, Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina sharing stage with H.E. Letsie III, King of Lesotho, and Amira El Fadil, Sudanese government; H.E. Dr. Mokgweetsi E.K Masisi, President of the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) at The African Leaders For Nutrition Continental Nutrition Accountability Scorecard.
Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Wopke Hoekstra verzorgt de openingsspeech. De volledige tekst staat op www.government.nl/ministries/ministry-of-foreign-affairs/... of bekijk de video van de toespraak op youtu.be/BJPEOAvQQ7Q
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Opening speech Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Wopke Hoekstra www.government.nl/ministries/ministry-of-foreign-affairs/... or watch the video of the speech on youtu.be/BJPEOAvQQ7Q
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The Netherlands, The Hague, July 14th 2022
The Government of the Netherlands is hosting, together with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the European Commission, an Ukraine Accountability Conference at ministerial level at the World Forum in The Hague on 14 July.
“There's no word for accountability in Finnish. Accountability is something that is left when responsibility has been subtracted.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasi_Sahlberg quoted in www.bravenewwork.com