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The Center For Total Health, Washington DC
May 24, 2017
The Council of Accountable Physician Practices (CAPP) and the American Cancer Society join forces to showcase how coverage and accountable healthcare systems can improve survival and reduce morbidity for people living with complex conditions like cancer. Better Together Health 2017 featured stories of medical excellence and patient-centered care delivered by CAPP’s organized systems and medical groups, plus an exciting policy keynote and panel discussion featuring national physician leaders, policymakers and patient voices.
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
John Fleming, M.D.
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Technology Reform
The Center For Total Health, Washington DC
May 24, 2017
The Council of Accountable Physician Practices (CAPP) and the American Cancer Society join forces to showcase how coverage and accountable healthcare systems can improve survival and reduce morbidity for people living with complex conditions like cancer. Better Together Health 2017 featured stories of medical excellence and patient-centered care delivered by CAPP’s organized systems and medical groups, plus an exciting policy keynote and panel discussion featuring national physician leaders, policymakers and patient voices.
From left to right: Adam Skaggs, Sanford Lewis, Bruce Freed, Jennifer Taub, Daniel Ortiz, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Dale Ho, Monica Youn, Elizabeth Kennedy, Wendy Weiser, and Mark Ladov.
The Brennan Center for Justice held a day-long symposium on Accountability After Citizens United at the Greene Space at WNYC in New York City.
Better accountability, transparency and more detailed targets for climate action will be mandated under a new Climate Change Accountability Act.
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Feb/2018 - Canada's Minister of Justice Jody Wilson-Raybould (PC QC MP Kwakwaka'wakw First Nations) casts an adoring eye upon her beloved leader Justin Trudeau when offering her personal congratulations following his unprecedented recognition and implementation of full Indigenous rights to all First Nations people in a speech delivered in the Canadian House of Commons last week shortly after the controversial Gerald Stanley verdict came down..
news update,,
JODY QUITS ! Feb 12th 2019 - Canada's Minister of Justice (now Minister of Veterans Affairs) Jody Wilson-Raybould ( PC QC MP Kwakwaka'wakw First Nations ) has abruptly quit her Ministerial job ?
SNC-Lavalin scandal RCMP
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/poilievre-says-rcmp-cover...
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Some relevant news clippings,,
Apr 21, 2024 - Anita Anand creates some inter generational division when she blames Seniors for the housing crisis and cost of living crisis ?
www.flickr.com/photos333333333333333333333/74039487@N02/53679216053/in/photost...
April 16, 2024. - Chrystia Freeland vows to find the real killer of middle class dreams ? Short answer ,, ' try looking in the mirror' ?
www.msn.com/en-ca/news/other/michael-higgins-chrystia-fre...
A 'gift' to the Seniors from Chrystia ?
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Dec 16th 2004, Freeland resigns before she can expose a 61 billion dollar deficit,, 20 billion over the max allowed ? - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland suddenly resigns from the Trudeau cabinet ? www.cbc.ca/news
Dec 15th 2004, Sean Fraser resigns - the Liberal Housing Minister has- resigned from Trudeau's cabinet and won’t seek re-election ?
nationalpost.com/news/canada/liberal-housing-minister-sea...
Dec 16, 2024 , Chrystia Freeland' resigns . Releases a damning resignation letter over to the media..
www.cbc.ca/news/politics/chrystia-freeland-resignation-le...
Dec 15th , 2024 OTTAWA - Housing Minister Sean Fraser says he will not be running in the next federal election, citing a need to spend more time at home with his family at the house he owns .
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMP9iLnp7L0
Some relevant news clippings,,
January 11-22, 2023 - CBC doesn't seem to promote men's Hockey like the AHL, ECHL, or University level hockey ? And Canada has just won both Golds at the recent 2023 international University Hockey FISU tournament. But the Gold medal final games, in fact the whole tournament, was not telecast by the CBC ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52640201721/in/datepos...
Halifax, Canada Jan 2023 - This time around the IIHF men's World Juniors hockey tournament is being held in Canada. No games were shown on CBC, and many Canadians were unable to watch Canada's finest male Junior hockey players incl Connor Badard play in their home Country and win the Gold for Canada ?
However, although CBC ignored and failed to televise any of the IIHF men's junior hockey games played, they were sure to make daily news reports and give loads of air time focused on an alleged past scandal involving a previous men's IIHF Junior hockey team ? cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/media-centre/official-broadcaster-...
New Women's Pro Hockey PWHL - CBC giving support, full coverage, and giving the girls massive air time, TV ads, coast to coast live broadcasts, player bios and a game each week complete with hosting and analysis,, "CBC/Radio-Canada is the official broadcaster of the Professional Women's Hockey League"
However, CBC appears to show a different attitude when it comes to supporting or televising many of the pro sporting events played by male gender athletes such as Grey Cup, FIFA, Copa America international men's soccer football and men's IIHF World Juniors, and so a large Canadian fan base was unable to watch pro athletes like Acadia Axemen footballer Bailey Feltmate in the Grey Cup, or Nova Scotia's Jacob Shaffelburg in the Copa international Men's soccer tournament or Connor Badard in the IIHF World Men's Juniors hockey tournament ?
cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/media-centre/official-broadcaster-... cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/media-centre/official-broadcaster-...
CBC doesn't seem to promote Men's soccer or Men's CFL pro football ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52512969092/in/album-7...
Jun 11, 2024 - Women's new Pro soccer, the Halifax Tides, - CBC promoting and providing full media support and 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...
This year Canadian Taxpayers will pay out $1.5 billion dollars to subsidize the CBC ?
site-cbc.radio-canada.ca/documents/impact-and-accountabil...
Breathtaking salaries for CBC/Radio-Canada’s corporate management ? President and CEO Catherine Tait had a base salary range of $390,300 to $459,100 in 2019 ? That's more than the P.M. makes ? tnc.news/2022/01/26/cbc-salaries-include-125-senior-direc...
Huge bonuses for CBC brass in 2022,
nationalpost.com/news/canada/cbc-employees-paid-16-millio...
Aug 12, 2024 - CBC has paid out $18.4 million in bonuses after staff layoffs ? The bonuses went to nearly 1,200 employees ? $3.3 million went to 45 executives ?
www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbc-bonuses-catherine-tait-1.729...
Apr 04, 2025 - Mark Carney pledges a $150M boost to 'underfunded' CBC ? And,, the new Liberal government will make CBC funding statutory ? Last year CBC received an all time record 1.5 billion in taxpayer funding and their CEO Catherine Tait, made more than the Prime Minister ?
www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-carney-cbc-funding-1.7501902
June 28,2021, O Canada at the Stanley Cup Finals ? CBC plays an unsettling and unflattering version of the Canadian National Anthem on the World stage ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/51829474529/in/album-7...
July 1, 2021 - the Prime Minister of Canada will not be celebrating Canada Day this year claiming that for some Canada Day is not a day to celebrate." Wha-a-a-a-t -t-t ????? Did I hear that right ??? www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-day-political-reaction-1....
February 20th 2023 Jully " I Sung it My Way" Black makes headlines when she changes the lyrics and sings a politicized and personalized ' our home on native land' version of the Canadian National anthem at the NBA All-Star Game in Salt Lake City, Utah ?
www.iheartradio.ca/news/jully-black-sings-o-canada-with-s...
video replay of CBC's unusual version playing O Canada ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/51829474529
Jully " I Sung it My Way" Black sings her personalized and 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 the national anthem to reflect the core values of the law program at Toronto Metropolitan University www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/jully-black-tmu-law-school...
Calgary Stampede O Canada - The original version "in all thy Sons command" National anthem sung at the 2023 Calgary Stampede, www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/53044391089
Dec 16th 2023 - O Canada sung in Punjabi at the NHL Jets hockey game in Winnipeg,,,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKifMtbbyJg
Nov 4th, 2021 - Pascale St-Onge is appointed to Trudeau's Cabinet. She is the first out lesbian to become a federal Minister and also the first as Minister of Sport,
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/pascale-st-onge-making-history-as...
July 2023 - Katherine Henderson is appointed to take over and thereby become the first female CEO and President of Hockey Canada ,
www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/katherine-henderson-hockey-canad...
No more hockey fights: This league plans to ban them dailyhive.com/vancouver/hockey-fights-ban-qmjhl
Skate Canada Dec 13, 2022 - Canada ys to revolutionize male/female gender rules in international Sport ? Canadian gender trail blazers led by President Karen Butcher push to change Pairs Ice dancing competition rules from the longtime male female separate gender rule ?
theprovince.com/sports/other-sports/skate-canada-redefine...
Federal audit finds Hockey Canada did not use public funds for legal settlements .
discoverhumboldIcom/articles/federal-audit-finds-hockey-...
NHL moves away from the Pride jerseys - advocates are disappointed, www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nhl-special-jersey-announcement-re...
Nov 20th, Grey Cup 2022 - Many Canadian households unable to watch the Toronto Argos win the 2022 Grey Cup game by a score of 24 to 23 because CBC/Radio-Canada and Bell media owned CTV do not schedule nor televise this historic Canadian event for broadcast ? CBC programming has instead scheduled an unknown variety show in this time slot being held in the USA ?
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CBC quits Twitter when Twitter calls them, "a government-funded media" ?
www.cbc.ca/news/world/cbc-twitter-government-funded-media...
Apr 27th 2023 , Bill C-11 - A controversial bill to regulate online streaming becomes law. Bill C-11, which will force streaming platforms to contribute to funding Canadian content. Critics say the bill is too ambiguous, many issues unresolved.
www.cbc.ca/news/politics/c11-online-streaming-1.6824314
Nov 11th, 2023 - The Liberal Government has ordered Canadian Military not to use or recite any Christian prayers like the Lord's Prayer at this year's Remembrance Day ceremonies ?
www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/gunter-we-will-always-pray-f...
The Grey Cup Nov 19th 2023, Hamilton Canada - Why aren't CTV or CBC broadcasting the 2023 Grey Cup game for Canadians to enjoy on this Grey Cup Sunday ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/53338415225
Dec 2023 - Merry Christmas, and a ho ho ho ? CBC plays Scrooge at Xmas time as it looks at executive bonus compensation while laying off 10 per cent of its workforce right at Xmas time ? www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbc-cuts-layoffs-exec-bonuses-1....
CBC President and CEO Catherine Tait faces some angry MPs over refusal to rule out bonuses amid looming layoffs' www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuGG8quYBb4
Have a very Merry Christmas Canada ? The Canadian Human Rights Commission ( fully funded by the federal Liberal Government) declares that the celebration of Christmas is evidence of Canada’s colonialist religious intolerance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWmuDidYTiY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWmuDidYTiY
Dec 31 2023 - Question on this year's NYE ? Does CBC now view New Years Eve as a public holiday or a tradition that is now inappropriate to celebrate in Canada ? Happy New Year Canadians from your taxpayer owned billion dollar funded CBC ? For the first time ever in memory, CBC will not broadcast the traditional New Years Eve Party, stage show or countdown ? CBC says they can't afford it ? www.msn.com/en-ca/entertainment/other/cbc-to-skip-new-yea...
Bill C-18: An Act respecting online communications platforms that make news content available to persons in Canada www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/pl/charter-charte/c18_1.html
Bell media is a proud Canadian Company ? It's Super Bowl LVIII time in Las Vegas Nevada USA. Prior to the big game CTV has already been flooding the North American airways with ads promoting their full TV coverage of the upcoming American Superbowl and they do broadcast 10 straight hours of uninterrupted prime time live T.V. coverage of this American event on Superbowl Sunday 2024 ? However, on the other hand, back home in their home country of Canada, they don't broadcast anything at all, nothing (zero) blanco, zilch, silencio, not even 1 minute of TV coverage of their own 2024 Canadian Grey Cup game for their fellow Canadians to enjoy ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/53523500175/in/datepos...
Feb 2024 - Halifax Nova Scotia,
Bell media and CTV have deafened and blindfolded East Coast residents when eliminating many critical hours of local and community news programming in the Atlantic region ?
East Coast Provinces have been the target of Bell Canada Corporate decisions to cancel many prime time hours of local News ? This will leave Maritimers in a weakened and vulnerable position without their critical daily Noon news updates that are always broadcast at the noon hour all week long ? These viewers will now be forced to tune into the other station (CBC) where CBC tends to run world international news along with their own select choice of the Provincial News, along with lengthy news conferences put on by the PM or other liberal party members ?
Aside from terminating the popular weekday ATV Noon hour news show, CTV has also downsized in half the very popular and iconic , 'ATV live at five' 5 P.M. local community news program, (prompting long time popular host Jason Baxter to seek early retirement) ? To add to the devastating loss of so much important news reporting time each and every week, Bell is also terminating all of the weekend Saturday and Sunday local news reporting that is currently running on ATV ? This sudden cancellation of all weekend local news will surely threaten the safety and security of Easi Coast residents especially now that there will be a 24 hour total local news blackout for 2 full days each and every weekend and even for as much as 3 consecutive days every holiday long weekend ? It seems that arch rival CBC has now taken over major share of prime time live local news programming in the Maritimes ? Meanwhile, Bell Canada is blaming the Liberal Government's new Bill C-18 for having to slash so many prime time hours of news coverage in the Maritimes ?
broadcastdialogue.com/most-noon-local-ctv-newscasts-cance...
Halifax, Feb 1st 2024 - Bell Canada Media blames Liberal Government's new Bill C-18 for having to slash so many hours of critical local and Provincial news coverage in the Maritimes ?
broadcastdialogue.com/most-noon-local-ctv-newscasts-cance...
the Junos 2024, Halifax, Mar 24th - CBC and new Heritage Minister seem more interested in personal politics than music ? itsthe4thquarter.blogspot.com/2024/03/junos-2024-halifax-...
Angry Canadian - Canadian juno awards ? where ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNieEg-_d1k
Is this a CBC Stanley Cup cruel joke ? June 2nd, 2024 Edmonton ? Fans are upset after CBC had broadcast the first 5 games of the Men's NHL Dallas vs Oilers series, and then, without warning and for no logical reason, CBC blacked out the critical and most important climactic final game that saw Edmonton win and gain entry into the Stanley Cup finals ? It remains unclear why CBC would do this ? Was it arrogance, or was it to be mean spirited, or was it a gender bias issue due to this being Men's pro hockey, or was it maybe a lesson given out to remind Canadians just who is running this Countries main media and who controls the programming ? www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&rct=j&url=...
The Koncerned Kentvillian asks, "What kind of a Country would show sad and upsetting images of itself when playing their National Anthem on the World stage in front of an international audience ?" www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/44424045874/
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 seem 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 are able to watch many graduating university female athletes perform as CBC will provide full 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 upcoming Women's pro basketball league ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/53855066488/in/datepos...
In a groundbreaking move and for the first time ever, CBC will introduce and 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 Sports betting parlor running gambling ads during the Olympic events appropriate to the principles and high moral standard exemplified by the Olympic Games ?
The CBC sport darlings Canadian women's soccer team has been caught cheating at the Paris 2024 Olympics ? The CBC seems unusually silent on this story ? heavy.com/sports/olympics/canada-soccer-bev-priestman-dro...
2024 Paris Olympics - CBC's Olympics seems to favor female gender athletes with full game coverage of their events while the male athletes are receiving only limited coverage and short clips from their events ?
www.cbc.ca/mediacentre/program/olympic-games-paris-2024
Jul 25, the 2024 Paris Olympics - CBC airs entire start to finish Women's team soccer games, Women's beach-ball games, Women's rugby games, Women's basketball games water polo and more ? Watch CBC for live full game coverage from St-Etienne, France heavy.com/sports/olympics/canada-soccer-bev-priestman-dro...
Grey Cup Nov 17th 2024 - Everyone else is here, but where's CBC ?
Once again this year CBC will distance itself from a very identifiable and nationalistic long time Canadian sports tradition and will not cover or live broadcast the historic Grey Cup game to Canadians ? However they will be covering a relatively unknown Women's tennis sports event named after Battle of the Sexes winner and Women in sports advocate Billie Jean King currently being held in Spain ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54147303159/in/album-7...
October 27, 2024 - Demand for CBC President and CEO Catherine Tait to refund Canadian taxpayers . Why should a civil servant who works for Trudeau make more than the Prime Minister she works for ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-z1ZNza5Fk
Aug 22 2024, Minister of hypocrisy, oops I mean, Minister of Health, Mark Holland says, "All the stuff that's clearly designed to target youth — it's over," ?
Fans are confused ? After Connor McDavid and other NHL Superstar heroes played starring roles in glamorous new betMGM ads to promote gambling on their websites, numerous complaints were filed. And so they eased up on the image of a Sports hero who encourages and participates in gambling although the McDavid image itself was not totally disconnected from the gambling vice or the lucrative gambling industry ? A new corrected version will now show Connor as an ambassador for safe and responsible gambling whenever you gamble ? But isn't it still gambling ? see news article, "Connor McDavid's latest gambling ad with Bet MGM sparks outrage among his fans,"
www.sportskeeda.com/us/nhl/news-disgusted-started-gamblin...
Bell Let's Talk ! Feb 4th 2025 - U Ottawa Scotty accuses media mogal Bell Canada of hypocrisy,, www.youtube.com/shorts/31f3sZndK6w
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* News Flash * Grey Cup 2024, BC Place Vancouver - Does Bell happen to read the FLICKR comments ? Bell has made a stunning about face ? and it's good news. After years of excluding Canadian pro football CTV will, for the first time in a long time, actually broadcast this years' CFL playoffs and the Grey Cup game to Canadians. Many more CFL games are now scheduled for the CTV 2025 season, www.cfl.ca/2024/09/06/fall-is-in-the-air-the-cfl-on-ctv-i...
March 30th Vancouver B.C. Michael Bublé plugs his own outside private business products while hosting CBC's 2025 Juno Awards ? Is it appropriate for CBC to allow their salaried MC to freely advertise his own outside personal businesses ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54607761592/in/album-7...
2025 Calgary Stampede, CBC distances itself from the Calgary Stampede this year, and will not broadcast any events including the Parade ? You'll have to subscribe to a specialty channel if you are interested in this famous Canadian event ? calstampede.com/calgary-stampede-2025-how-to-watch-date-t...
July 13th 2025 - Men's Pro Rodeo and chuckwagon fans are ignored ? CBC Sports programming ignores and does not include this years fifty thousand dollar finals of the world famous Calgary Stampede, see Sunday's CBC Sports programming,, calstampede.com/shows/calgary-stampede-broadcast-schedule/
Jul 13, 2025 - Men's World Cup soccer is not broadcast on CBC ? FIFA Club World Cup Jun 15, 2025 – Jul 13, 2025 - Chelsea beats PSG 3-0 to win 2025 Club World Cup . Coldplay and Trump and 81,000 attend the final,, but is not televised ? CBC does broadcast an unknown Women's softball tournament ?
apnews.com/live/psg-chelsea-club-world-cup-updates
2025 Toronto Blue Jays - CBC doesn't broadcast Men's baseball ? www.consumersearch.com/fitness-sports/plan-viewing-blue-j...
What Is Truth ?
"If you are strictly one-sided with any opinion, you’re incredibly ignorant" .
UBC Jan 22, 2026 - Many students that attended the Canadian public grade school system during the Trudeau Liberal era ( 2015 thru 2025 ) have now reached post secondary age and are arriving at University in an indoctrinated state with strong coercive and one-sided my-opinion-only attitudes ? Violent gangs of masked and gagged orange shirted student protestors with a herd mentality, angry academic riot squads, tribalism, far left activism, thought police, propaganda posters, totalitarianism and mind control in a dangerous Authoritarian environment where free will, open debate or speaking the truth is a crime are now being seen in Canadian institutes of higher learning ? This may sound like George Orwell's 1984, but it's actually the heavily 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
Dec 16, 2024 , Chrystia Freeland' resigns . Releases a damning resignation letter over to the media..
www.cbc.ca/news/politics/chrystia-freeland-resignation-le...
Dec 15th , 2024 - Homeowner and Liberal housing Minister Sean Fraser says he is quitting his job and will not be running in the next federal election, citing a need to spend more time at home with his family at the house he owns ? .
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMP9iLnp7L0
Jan 06, 2025 - Trudeau resigns as prime minister,, Prorogues Parliament until March 24 2025,,
www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-news-conference-1.7423680
Justin says Goodbye ! Don't cry for me O my Canada !
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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.
I don't have time to put together a storyboard for this one, but i do have a plan.
DONE---Pants: 4/08 #2 pink interlock (chez ami)
DONE---Pants: 6/08 #2 pink dotty interlock (joanns)
DONE---Pants: 1/07 #14 purple baby cord (no frills)
DONE---Pants: 6/08 #2 chocolate cotton/Lycra
DONE---Pants: 1/07 #14 floral baby cord (no frills)
DONE---Pants: 6/08 #2 pink w/orange spots
---Pants: 6/08 #2 black interlock (to match a shirt from Grandma)
---Skirt: 5/06 #3 shirt with built in leggings (haven't decided the fabric yet) MAYBE
DONE---Skirt: 4/09 #6 brown floral interlock and pink/white check (modified)
DONE---Top: 4/07 #13 (t pot tunic) bird print
DONE---Top: 4/07 #13 (t pot tunic) purple ooga booga with ooga stripe
DONE---Top: 4/07 #13 (t pot tunic) Teal interlock with embroidery
DONE---Top: New conceptions Baby Essentials in chickadee fabric (is this cheating??)
DONE---Shirt: 6/08 #1 Ooga and pink dotty
DONE---Shirt: 6/08 #1 brown and pink floral pink/orange dots (joann/fabric fairy)
DONE---Shirt: 5/06 #1 pink cotton lycra with chocolate binding (chez ami)
DONE---Shirt: 5/06 #1 chocolate cotton lycra with pink binding (chez ami) (cut)
---Jacket: 4/08 #7 pink interlock (chez ami)(cut)
DONE---Dress: 1/09 #8 printed cord (joanns) (needs buttons)
---Dress:1/08 #8 (maybe!)
---Coat: 6/08 #7 (fleece with hood no collar)
---Snowsuit:6/07 #10 (wide wale cord and flannel lining)
need to buy : pink tights
Also:
DONE---2 pairs NCBE/otto combo jammies
DONE---jammies 4/08 #8 (ooga and matching stripe)
DONE---Swimsuit (jalie)
Mayor Bill de Blasio signs an NYPD accountability package, a comprehensive set of reforms including Intros 487-A, 536-B, 721-B, 760-B, 1309-B, 1962-A, after helping paint the new Black Lives Matter mural in the Bronx. Morris Avenue between 161st and 162nd Street, Bronx. Wednesday, July 15, 2020. Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.
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AUTO SAFETY: Status of NHTSA's Redesign of Its Crashworthiness Data System
Better accountability, transparency and more detailed targets for climate action will be mandated under a new Climate Change Accountability Act.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/20903
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MISSILE DEFENSE: Mixed Progress in Achieving Acquisition Goals and Improving Accountability
Better accountability, transparency and more detailed targets for climate action will be mandated under a new Climate Change Accountability Act.
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“Pork: Eat it, Don’t Spend it” was the theme of a bipartisan barbeque pork lunch hosted today by U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill and Republican Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona, to discuss the introduction of their bill to make permanent the temporary moratorium on congressional earmarks that McCaskill helped put into place in 2010.
At the lunch, which featured Arthur Bryant’s original Kansas City barbeque sauce and special guest former Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, the Senators focused on recent hearings in the House of Representatives to explore lifting Congress’ self-imposed, temporary ban on the practice of earmarking. McCaskill and Flake’s Earmark Elimination Act would permanently ban the practice.
“Earmarks are the Washington swamp creature that just never seems to die—emerging from the lower depths every few years in an effort to waste taxpayer dollars on politicians’ pet projects,” said McCaskill, who has never requested an earmark and has been the leading Democratic voice opposing them. “Our bipartisan bill would ban their return by permanently ending the practice of pork-barrel patronage so we can ensure Missourians’ taxpayer dollars are protected, and projects are prioritized on merit.”
“It’s time to stick a fork in congressional pork with a permanent ban on earmarking,” said Flake. “Republicans were beaten like a borrowed mule in the 2006 elections largely because of the corruption associated with earmarks. Let’s not test the voters again by leaving the door open for a return to the pork barrel politics that sent members of Congress to prison and saddled taxpayers with a bridge to nowhere, a teapot museum, and countless other wasteful pet projects.”
For years, the earmarking process was notorious for its secrecy and lack of oversight or accountability, with funding for politicians' pet projects often awarded based on political influence instead of on merit. McCaskill’s legislation would expand the ongoing temporary moratorium on earmarks to a permanent ban. Specifically, the legislation would ban all earmarks, and define earmarks as any congressionally directed spending item, limited tax benefit, or limited tariff benefit.
McCaskill, the Senate’s leading Democratic opponent of earmarking, has led the fight to permanently ban earmarks from the legislative process. In 2010, McCaskill worked with bipartisan colleagues to put in place the current moratorium on earmarks. Additionally, a provision included in a recent highway bill, based on legislation McCaskill introduced with Senator Flake, is allowing Missouri to claw back more than $72 million in previously unspent earmarked funds that would never have otherwise been used—giving the state the resources to spend on critically needed transportation and infrastructure projects within a 50-mile radius of the project site of the original earmark.
The DeKalb Recorders Court is in line for a major shake up following the recent grand jury investigation that found a crisis of leadership, lack of accountability and pervasive staffing and physical problems at the court.
CEO Burrell Ellis said his administration is already making changes at the court that processes more than 230,000 traffic and misdemeanor citations a year and that he will install new leadership when Chief Judge R. Joy Walker’s current four-year term ends on Dec. 31.
“I agree with the grand jury that we need new leadership at the court,” he said Tuesday.
But on other issues pertaining to technology improvements, and renovations and expansion of the court, he said he did not want to be pinned down now about what might or might not be include in his proposed 2010 budget.
“We are considering all options at this point,” he said.
Ellis said that he and the Board of Commissioners will work collaboratively to address the concerns raised in the grand jury report and that Public Safety director William Miller is already at work clarifying the management and leadership issues raised by the grand jury.
DeKalb Commissioner Sharon Barnes Sutton, who chairs the BOC’s Public Safety Committee, said she is anticipating a complete overhaul of the Recorder’s Court and is now scouring the grand jury’s recommendations to come up with policies that will eliminate the Court’s problems.
“We are going one by one at these recommendations,” she said. “At this point, it is still a work in progress. It is not a fast process.”
Barnes Sutton, who represents District 4, said many of the grand jury’s recommendations will require expenditures at a time when the county is cutting back in the face of declining revenues, but that changes at the Court has to be a top priority.
“It is something that has to be addressed,” she said. “We have to make it work.”
The court, which collects fines for traffic and code violations, projects revenues of $21.4 million in 2009. But Barnes Sutton cautions that while it is tempting to view Recorder’s Court as a revenue source, that it is court of law.
“We can’t look at every ticket as revenue,” she said.
If the Court is operating properly, the District Four Commissioner said the county will have a more realistic expectation of its operations.
The grand jury investigation came in the wake of recent indictments of three former Recorders Court employees for a ticket-fixing scam while they worked at the court; a study that found an estimated $20 million in uncollected revenue since 2000, and chronic long lines, crowded and cramped conditions at the court on Camp Circle in Decatur.
It found widespread breakdown in the court’s operations and identified a failure to address ticket fixing inside the court, exercise due diligence, adequately account for funds, follow the law and properly assess fines and enforce warrants.
Walker, who has been the chief judge since 2002 declined to speak about the report.
“Unfortunately, I am forbidden by the current administration from making any statements to the press,” she said in an e-mail.
Even though Ellis said Walker was mistaken about being forbidden to speak to a reporter, he did not give her permission to speak.
Instead in an Oct. 21 email, his communication director Shelia Trapier Edwards said that Ellis is preparing responses to the issues raised by the grand jury report.
“He wanted me to remind you that prior to issuing their report, the grand jury interviewed Judge Walker and the information obtained from her was utilized in drafting their report,” she said.
Ellis promised to provide a copy of his responses once it has been submitted to the grand jury.
Competency of leadership
In its report to DeKalb Superior Court judges at the end of its term in August, the grand jury said the Recorder’s Court’s “dysfunctional organization” precluded it from being able “to clearly fix accountability and responsibility.”
It said the employer-employee relationship between Walker and Clerk of Court Joyce Head makes it impossible “to determine where the Clerk of Court’s role and duties begin and end versus that of the Chief Judge.”
It pointed out that the current relationship between the two officials, who are both appointed by the Board of Commissioners on the CEO’s recommendations, violates DeKalb County Code, which sets the chief judge’s primary duty as the oversight of the adjudication process, and requires the clerk to keep all records of the Court, collect all costs, fines and forfeitures and remit the same within 72 hours to county’s director of finance.
“We are unable to conclude why the Clerk’s duties and responsibilities had become a part of the Chief Judge’s overall duties,” it said.
The grand jury identified the following factors it said have given rise to how important it will be address the “competency of leadership and management at the court”:
Series of failures
- Failure to address ticket fixing inside the Recorder’s Court:
The grand jury said the testimony of the Chief Judge and the Clerk provided no assurances that there had been any policy, procedural or security measures taken by the Court after the indictment of some employees for “ticket fixing.”
“The Chief Judge indicated that she had not contacted anyone concerning the matter and that no one had contacted her,” the report said. “Clearly no ‘check and balance’ system was in place at the time of the alleged criminal actions, and frankly, the grand jury finds it deleterious for the head of Recorder’s Court to fail to take any initiative, action or corrective step once her former employees were implicated.
“These corrective actions should also have included a means to better supervise probation collections to make sure no wrongdoing occurs at that point in the process.”
- Failure to exercise due dilgence:
“We are unable to understand why the Chief Judge would dismiss more than 11,000 warrants of probationers solel;y upon the recommendation of JCS probation service therby resulting in a loss of revenue (fees and fines) to the County estimated to be $2.7 million.
- Failure to adequately account for funds:
The investigation found undeposited checks amounting to more than $3.5 million that were held Recorder’s Court for more than 16 months.
“When we posed questions to the Clerk of Court as to the reasons why probation checks that were received from the previous probation company were held and not deposited, her response was they were held so the checks could be reconciled to the indvidual probationer’s file.
“However, this same documentation indicated that less than 10 percent of the probation activities were properly posted to individual defendant’s cases.
- Failure to follow the law and properly assess fines/fees:
The grand jury found that the Court was not collecting from defendants and depositing the correct fees in the Sheriff’s Retirement Fund, despite a 2004 change in the law that increased the amount from $1 to $2. It said that Recorder’s Court was still only submitting $1 to the fund despite the training the Clerk received. It also said that the monies being paid into the fund were coming from other sources, but not actually being assessed to the individual defendants resulting in loss to the county.
“We are unable to estimate how much DeKalb may owe this fund or why the delay in paying $2 into the fund,” it said.
- Technology, technology, technology:
The grand jury said the Court’s existing SAS computer system produced unreliable data but it was unable to determine if the unreliable data is due to lack of training of staff or if the system lacks the capacity to handle the volume of information. It said the fact that a former clerk from a county with similar caseload as DeKalb Recorder’s Court praised the SAS system, leads it to think the problem in DeKalb may be untrained or improperly trained staff and not the system.
- Failure to appear in court and warrants enforcement
The grand jury called for improvements for these functions of the court. It asked for a letter to be developed and mailed to any citizen who fails to appear and or pay their fines to the court. It said the the letter should inform the citizen that a warrant may be issued or their driver’s license may be suspended if the matter is not resolved. It said the Chief Judge said such a letter was tried as pilot program and resulted in 20 percent return.
“The grand jury is of the opinion that 20 percent is far better than zero percent and would encourage the Court to reconsider its refusal to institute this program.”
- Physical structure:
The Grant Jury recommends refurbishment of the current courthouse and that a fourth courtroom be acquired and staffed so that all full-time judges have a courtroom.
“There is need for considerable cleaning and painting of the facility,” it said.
- Inadequate oversight by internal audit
The grand jury said that audits of the Recorder’s Court in 2005, 2006 and 2007 by the DeKalb County Internal Audit Division were insufficient and had allowed the problems at the court to exacerbate.
“We recommend future audits be far more comprehensive and thorough.”
Noting that it had spent considerable time reviewing Recorder’s Court, the grand jury said it would be greatly disappointed “to see our work end up in a file drawer gathering dust.”
“As importantly, Recorder’s Court requires the attention of the CEO and the County Commission,” it said.
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FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION: Developing National Strategy Would Benefit from Added Focus on Community Congestion Impacts
Army Disaster Personnel Accountability and Assessment System (ADPAAS)
In the event that a manmade or a natural disaster affects the
Soldiers, civilians and dependents assigned to the 1st Mission Support
Command, Commanders Representatives (COR) must commence accountability
and assessment process using the procedures established by the ADPAAS.
This is to ensure the wellness and status of the 1stMSC personnel to determine the need for assistance. This is also done to safeguard our capabilities from the effects of a natural or manmade disaster; in order to deploy capabilities in support of civil authorities within Puerto Rico to assist.
From 29 August thru 8 September 2011, the ADPAAS Team (Ms. Mercedes Torres
Medina (ADPASS Manager) and SFC Luis A. Camacho Leon (ADPASS Alternate
Manager) visited the US Army Reserve units throughout the island and trained 38 Commanders' Representatives (COR).
These COR are the Subject Matter Experts at the Regional Support Group/Bn/unit level and are capable to train their Soldiers in the use of the ADPAAS. If necessary they can train and assign other COR’s as well.
At the end, the Army Disaster personnel Accountability and Assessment System is another way through which the US Army Reserve in Puerto Rico and the 1stMSC takes care of its soldiers, civilians and family members.
Mayor Bill de Blasio signs an NYPD accountability package, a comprehensive set of reforms including Intros 487-A, 536-B, 721-B, 760-B, 1309-B, 1962-A, after helping paint the new Black Lives Matter mural in the Bronx on Wednesday, July 15, 2020. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office
The Center For Total Health, Washington DC
May 24, 2017
The Council of Accountable Physician Practices (CAPP) and the American Cancer Society join forces to showcase how coverage and accountable healthcare systems can improve survival and reduce morbidity for people living with complex conditions like cancer. Better Together Health 2017 featured stories of medical excellence and patient-centered care delivered by CAPP’s organized systems and medical groups, plus an exciting policy keynote and panel discussion featuring national physician leaders, policymakers and patient voices.
The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) and head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, Ms. Ellen Margrethe Loej, and the U.S. Charge D’Affaires, Charles Twining, visit Malakal.
The visit featured a walking tour of the devastated center of the Upper Nile state capital, which has changed hands six times since the current conflict in South Sudan erupted in December 2013.
During their stay in Malakal, SRSG Loej and Ambassador Twining met with the Upper Nile Deputy Governor Gwinye Philip Chan and ministers of the state government to discuss reports of the continuing recruitment of child soldiers in the state and other issues of concern. The SRSG also addressed the proposed establishment of a forward operating base in Malakal Town manned by
UNMISS peacekeepers to promote a more secure and safe environment for internally displaced persons (IDPs) wishing to return to their homes on a voluntary basis.
“I expressed my grave concerns about the forcible recruitment of boys recently at the Wau Shilluk village near Malakal and elsewhere in Upper Nile State,” said Ms. Loej. “I stressed the importance of holding accountable all those who engage in this unacceptable practice, and I shared with the
Deputy Governor the assurances given by President Salva Kiir Mayardit to me last month that the boys would be rescued.”
The SRSG said she was “appalled” by the extent of the damage inflicted on the main market and teaching hospital of Malakal, a once thriving river port that was reduced to a ghost town during the intense fighting that engulfed the city in the initial three months of the conflict.
Ms. Loej and Ambassador Twining were briefed on security and humanitarian conditions in Upper Nile by the Mission’s State Coordinator Deborah Schein, representatives of UN agencies and Brig.
Gen. Bayarsaikhan Dashdondog, the Mongolian commander of UNMISS peacekeepers in Sector North which encompasses Upper Nile and Unity states and northern Jonglei state.
The SRSG and the U.S. envoy also visited the UNMISS protection-of-civilians site and met with community leaders of the IDP population, which is estimated to exceed 21,000. They were briefed on the progress of ongoing construction work to expand the area of the existing protection site before the onset of the rainy season later this year.
Here, the delegation takes part in an International Women's Day celebration in the Malakal POC site.
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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EDUCATION RESEARCH: Further Improvements Needed to Ensure Relevance and Assess Dissemination Efforts
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MILITARY SEXUAL TRAUMA: Improvements Made, but VA Can Do More to Track and Improve the Consistency of Disability Claim Decisions
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 Center For Total Health, Washington DC
May 24, 2017
The Council of Accountable Physician Practices (CAPP) and the American Cancer Society join forces to showcase how coverage and accountable healthcare systems can improve survival and reduce morbidity for people living with complex conditions like cancer. Better Together Health 2017 featured stories of medical excellence and patient-centered care delivered by CAPP’s organized systems and medical groups, plus an exciting policy keynote and panel discussion featuring national physician leaders, policymakers and patient voices.
Better accountability, transparency and more detailed targets for climate action will be mandated under a new Climate Change Accountability Act.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/20903
First Things First billboard on the eastbound Santan Freeway Loop 202.
The Fast and the Curious.
First Things First
Ready for School. Set for Life.
Learn more at www.readyazkids.com/
FIRST THINGS FIRST VISION
All Arizona's children are ready to succeed in school and in life.
FIRST THINGS FIRST MISSION
First Things First is one of the critical partners in creating a family-centered, comprehensive, collaborative and high-quality early childhood system that supports the development, health and early education of all Arizona's children birth through age five.
FIRST THINGS FIRST VALUES
We must use culturally responsive practices. Every person we work with and every person working at First Things First has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
Only through continuous improvement and innovation will we be able to maximize benefits to children and their families.
We are accountable to demonstrate that our work truly improves the lives of children and their families, and promotes support for investing in early childhood development and health.
We must be strong stewards of public and private funds demonstrating transparency and sound financial management.
Our partners, regional council members, staff and board reflect the diversity of our state and are our most valuable resources. We must develop and maintain a culture of strong collaboration and cooperation both internally and externally to best provide essential family supports while providing increased opportunities for young children to enjoy success in school and life.
The Santan Freeway Loop 202 is in the southeast valley of Phoenix. Onsite Insite offers billboards along the Santan Freeway between I-10 and the Price Freeway Loop 101 at Gila River Indian Community.
The envisaged EU banking supervision rules must be of good quality and provide for accountability. However the member states' current preferences for establishing them risk sending the wrong message, as well as perpetuating inefficiencies, warned the Parliament in a resolution approved on Thursday.
The resolution comes a day after the Commission tabled two proposals to reinforce banking supervision. It sets out some of the key concerns that MEPs want to see addressed in decisions shaping the system.
The resolution also highlights certain points of substance which should be considered in the debate on how to enact banking supervision. An important one concerns bank recapitalisations, which, the resolution suggests, could be carried out by the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). A second is the need to devise a system which will be able to address any spillover effects on non-Eurozone members stemming from the creation of a Eurozone banking union.
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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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2022-10-06: Dieudonne Boenga, Private Sector Development, and Job Creation Support Project, DRC interacts with the officials during the CSO forum.
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Better accountability, transparency and more detailed targets for climate action will be mandated under a new Climate Change Accountability Act.
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John Ellis of The Pittsburgh Foundation attends the symposium about the role of universities in supporting local accountability journalism. Photo by Molly J. Smith.
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.
Syrian activists, journalists and bloggers will provided first-person accounts of the situation in Syria at a special forum on the Opening Day of the 21st Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council: Bearing Witness: Human Rights and Accountability in Syria.
Opening Statements by
Ms. Navanethem Pillay
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Ms. Laura Dupuy Lasserre
President of the United Nations Human Rights Council
Moderator
Mr. Riz Khan
International Television Journalist and Author
Panelists
Mr. Muhanad al-Hassani
Human Rights Defender, Syria
Mr. Amer Matar
Syrian Journalist
Mr. Mohammad Abdallah
Syrian Journalist and Blogger in Exile
Ms. Lotte Leicht
Director, Human Rights Watch, Brussels Office