Tuesday, 3 October 2023

Tax System Broken 9/25/23


Tuning in to the September 25, 2023 St. Catharines City Council meeting to get first hand information on our broken tax system we first had to endure a (22) minute time killing monologue from Mayor Siscoe, most of which the world could easily live without.

Following the usual pontificating of dubious pandering for more taxpayer funding the council finally turned its attention to the broken tax system very late in the evening when viewers had ceased paying attention or have given up altogether.

How do we know that the Tax System is broken?

We know because the councilors said so!

Mayor Siscoe claimed that he has been saying the Tax System is broken ever since he headed up the Tax Committee. A Tax Increase of 10.5% tells us exactly what he and his comrades did to fix our broken Tax System.

Astounding! Listening to Council sounded like a child explaining that the smashed item shattered on the floor as "It Fell"!

What the clever councilors failed to address is how the Tax System became broken, when the Tax System became broken and who broke our Tax System? 

It Gets Worse!

During the non-productive debate on what can be done with our 'broken tax system' we had some councilors stating emphatically that nothing can be done including Councilor Ratzlaff actually calling the motion for starting tax debates from Zero increase as moved by Kushner and Garcia 'cowardly'. 

To call anyone professing their desire to come to terms with our broken tax system 'cowardly' clearly illustrates their dearth of historical knowledge such as the brilliant work of Adam Smith titled 'The Wealth of Nations' or even the gist of Oswald Spengler's massive work 'Decline of the West'. 

Perhaps they could take a few minutes to google Sir Winston Churchill's take on 'Trying to create prosperity by raising taxes'. Ayn Rand's book titled 'Atlas Shrugged' is a valuable source regarding the cost of bloated governance.

But fear not friends, our clever councilors have the opportunity to address the (eight hundred pound gorilla) in the room at their special meeting to be held October 18, 2023. 

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Saturday, 23 September 2023

What at night seems so exciting is uninviting in the light!

The City of St. Catharines is not satisfied with their bylaw enforcement fine penalties jumping from $91,000 in 2018 to $432,000 so far this year!

The St. Catharines Regime is so unhappy with 450% jump in 'fine revenue' that they are illegally removing what little protection Citizens have from our Court system leaving us at the mercy of the desperate regime!

It means that the regime can do whatever it wants to you because their assessment leaves you guilty until you prove otherwise and to prove your innocence you will have to retain a lawyer and sue the city to get redress! 

A very onerous proposition! 

In the light of day this reversal of fortune is very 'uninviting' and drives another nail in the demise of freedom

The dots started to connect predicated on the St. Catharines Mayor Siscoe joining the cacophony of Regional Council voices calling for control on free speech.

It was also disconcerting to witness Mayor Siscoe supporting Fort Erie Mayor Redekop's bid to piggyback on the gender war as an excuse to expand his tyranny over the rest of Niagara's Citizens. 

Mayor and Regional Councilor Siscoe failed in his duty to even inquire into very serious criminal code violations perpetrated by the Regional Regime!

Perhaps 'News Alert Niagara' has become too sensitive to the machinations of government because of past and current abuses. As an example we share this blue link to the most disgusting story of municipal abuse we have ever covered! 

'News Alert Niagara' can only try to alert the population even in the face constant municipal abuse and in the lack of factual information denied by the regime's so-called 'Citizens First'! 

We Report ~ You Decide


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Eleven more St. Catharines bylaws subject to new fine system (stcatharinesstandard.ca) 

Thursday, 14 September 2023

OH DARN !

Some of the poor little darlings of our bloated Niagara Regional Council are feeling abused to the point where they are now considering a "Citizens Code of Conduct" in a putrid effort to broadly curtail 'Freedom of Speech' predicated on the sins of a few!

Regional Councilor Laura Ip says she didn't sign up for abuse from members of society with cartoons and sexual comments.
Question: Is Councilor Ip the only female councilor being so harassed? Why?

Is this the Laura Ip that also sits on the so-called civilian oversight committee of the NRPSB and says nothing about actual and real crime and corruption as silently condoned by her and her ilk of fellow Regional Councilors! 

Regional Councilor Ip should count her blessings that she is not Premier or Prime Minister.

Then we hear from the lousy tyrant of Fort Erie, Wayne Redekop who wants control over the public so he can abuse them the way he abuses his Fort Erie Constituents.
Sadly, there are always disgusting authoritarian savages ready to cover their own asses by subjugating Citizen's freedom!
Perhaps the concerned Regional Councilors should consider adding to their 'Citizen Code of Conduct' a Councillor 'Code of Conduct' because it's the conduct of some councillors that causes the problem in the first place.

While Ezra Levant of Rebel News discussed Rebel News' victory over Trudeau's Minister Steven Guilbeault, who was ordered by the Court to unblock Ezra on Twitter and pay Rebel News $20,000, our Niagara Regime actually broke the law by illegally interfering with emails sent to our elected officials from their constituents.

News Alert Niagara has made it possible for anyone, including our Regional Councilors, to peruse story after story of the Regional Regime's conduct of  Deceit, Lies, Perjury, Theft, Criminal Conspiracy, Crime & Corruption. 

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Saturday, 19 August 2023

Government Crime Sanctioned

As previously reported, the Niagara Regional Secret Police refused to investigate serious criminal activity.

News Alert Niagara reported the criminal activity to every department including the Niagara Regional Secret Police Service Board and even to the Office of the Independent Police Review Director (OIPRD) and all the way to the Premier of Ontario!

At every turn we received excuses as to why the reported criminal activities could not or should not be investigated.

We did NOT create the law in question. Nor did we set the penalty of years in prison plus severe monetary fine.

We foolishly believed that reporting criminal activity was somewhat and somehow meaningful and that reporting serious criminal activity meant something in a civilized society. It appears that we were mistaken!

However, we even wasted our effort to send the following letter (Twice) informing our esteemed Regional Councilors of criminal activities! Only one Councilor responded... 

Dear Regional Councilor

Now that you have been made aware of criminal activity in the Niagara Regional Government and the refusal of the Nagara Regional Police to investigate this criminal activity, please explain what you have done on behalf of your constituents regarding criminal activities or even if you have spoken up on behalf of your constituents about criminal activities.

https://newsalertniagara.blogspot.com/2023/07/does-niagara-reginal-government-stoop.html

News Alert Nagara has a duty to inform Niagara Citizens what action you have or have not taken against criminal activities in our Regional Government or the fact that our Niagara Regional Police refuses to investigate serious criminal activity. Criminal activity that carries prison time of ten years for the crime of interference and/or interception of emails!

A non-response will be categorized as your failure to your constituents in the face of criminal activity.

Respectfully,

Preston Haskell, Editor

The final straw was the following response from the OIPRD as follows:

Section 60(4) of the Police Services Act allows the Director to decide not to deal with a complaint if, having regard to all the circumstances, in his opinion, dealing with the complaint is not in the public interest

According to OIPRD Director Stephen Leach, investigating the interception of emails from citizens to their elected officials is not in the public interest!

The much ballyhooed Ontario Ombudsman's Office, who received a copy of this article failed to even respond to our complaint or acknowledge that they even heard from us!

Every single politician making claims of protecting constituents from crime has bothered to ask about this article!

According to john Locke, Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Obviously the over-abundance of costly levels of oversight bodies act AGAINST the public interest when it comes to criminal activity perpetrated by Government!

News Alert Niagara considers this episode to be an extraordinary example of wilful dereliction of duty by all concerned both hired and elected.

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Monday, 7 August 2023

The Other Team

How long after a person is hired or elected before they start swinging for the  'Home Team', the 'Ruling Team', the 'Team in Charge', the Team that now has become the antithesis of the very oath they swore to uphold. How long before they accept inhospitable conduct, lies, deception and perjury. When did they acquiesce to empire building, triple digit tax increases and an obscene overload of politicians & bureaucrats! What compels  them to sit in silence as abuse is piled onto the other team including physical assault and even criminal activity!

How is it that the most scenic and beautiful region in the world can be drowned in such a deep political cesspool of failure, excuses and blaming of others?

'News Alert Niagara' decided to look around in an attempt to find a comparable city to St. Catharines. We found Ajax in the Region of Durham situated just across Lake Ontario. In fact Ajax sits on the shore of Lake Ontario just like St. Catharines.

However, that is where the similarity ends! https://durhampost.ca/ajax-council-approves-2-31-rise-in-property-tax 


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Tuesday, 25 July 2023

Niagara Regime admits failure

They admit their failure by proposing what they are going to do in the future!

As outlined in “Growing Better Together: Council Strategic Priorities 2023-2026”, councillors will focus on creating and promoting a regional government that is Effective, Green and Resilient, Equitable, and Prosperous. 

What they are proposing to do in the future is exactly what they should have been doing since their inception in 1970!


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The Niagara Independent

Monday, 10 July 2023

Does Niagara Regional Government stoop to Criminal Activity?

Good 'ole Lying Lieberal, little Jimmy (
Doolitle) Bradley, Niagara Regional Chairman Stated that Oversight and Scrutiny are not only unnecessary but bothersome!

WOW!

What kind of pampered politician would consider Oversight and Scrutiny of government as unnecessary and bothersome only to prove the necessity by resorting to criminal activity to conceal conduct?

Perhaps, fifty years of unaccountable elitist behavior has shaped his arrogant opinion. 

We may never know the reason Bradley proceeded down the road of criminal activity to shield against public scrutiny of his regime, but we do know what lead News Alert Niagara to follow step by step through a myriad of roadblocks to its logical conclusion of criminal corruption.

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Having gone through the stage of apprising the Niagara Regional Police (NRP) of serious crime, a crime that carries a ten year prison sentence, a crime much different than inconveniencing 1700 motorists to find a handful of somewhat over the limit drinking drivers who must be shamed publicly in the news media without ever stating their level of intoxication. 

Not only did we do our duty of informing the NRP, which we did to no avail, but we also reached out to  the NRPSB, the so-called civilian service board with NO civilians (only political hacks) where we were equally rebuffed on their stated opinion that they have no mandate to tell the police how to do their job. 

We did NOT ask the NRPSB to tell the police how to do there job! 

We asked them to bring our concerns of serious crime to the NRP.

When we finally caved to their stonewalling we asked if we could present to the board only to receive the following, "In consultation with the Board Chair and Board Vice-Chair, your request to make a presentation is declined because the Board has no legislative jurisdiction over operational policing matter..."

That is where it stayed until we finally hand delivered our written request, which could not be emailed to the Niagara Regional clerk's office, predicated on criminal activity.

The response to the hard copy of our request;  

 Good morning Mr. Haskell, 

The Clerk’s Office is in receipt of your letter (attached) alleging possible criminal activity by Niagara Regional Government. Based on your correspondence, it isn’t clear if you want to engage with someone in our Communications Department with respect to this matter so I have copied Sean O’Brady, Associate Director, Strategic Communications and Public Affairs, failing which criminal matters fall under the jurisdiction of the Niagara Regional Police therefore you may wish to redirect your correspondence accordingly. 

Our hand delivered hard copy to the clerk's office did produce results! 

Suddenly email communication opened up as if someone tipped off the perpetrator that citizens were on to their criminal activities.

Of the thirty-one elected officials that make up the political body of the Niagara Regional Government  only twelve bothered to even read your request.                    .              
Of the twelve Councillors that did respond their common theme was to take our request to the police.

One Regional Councillor promised to get our message of crime and corruption to the office of NRP Chief MacCulloch. Still Waiting!

Then there was a single Councillor who offered assistance in getting our request to the right people including our MPP.

In our effort of exposing political corruption in Niagara we have encountered Lies & Liars, Perjury & Perjurers, Physical Assault, failed Arrest attempt, Theft of journalist's equipment, Municipal abuse, Human rights deniers and now we have apparently arrived at criminal code violations aided and abetted by a police state that decides which law they wish to enforce!

Now that we know who the police 'Serve and Protect' we must assume their exponentially outrageous empire building that could be considered as an overly expensive protection racket!

Make no mistake, News Alert Niagara will climb this corruption empire to the bitter end!

Exculpatory Links:

https://newsalertniagara.blogspot.com/2023/02/who-was-lady-who-said-law-is-ass.html

https://newsalertniagara.blogspot.com/2023/03/a-fully-funded-
empire-apparently-no.html

News Alert Niagara: Official Public Persecution


https://newsalertniagara.blogspot.com/2023/04/police-state.htm
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https://newsalertniagara.blogspot.com/2021/03/justice-in-lawless-frontier.html 


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