Caledonia “Interlopers” coming to Woodbridge

Feb 26, 2008 Julian Fantino will soon get another chance to use his beloved term “interlopers”, only this time it won’t be Gary McHale, Mark Vandermaas, and myself he’s targeting. A convoy of Caledonia residents who have grown tired of being ignored by the Commissioner will be heading to Fantino’s neighborhood this Sunday March 2 [...]

On the eve of the 2nd anniversary of the Caledonia crisis, it’s time for the premier to apologize for a horrible wrong

CALEDONIA — If Sam Gualtieri had died when he was attacked by a pack of goons last year, would Premier Dalton McGuinty have come down for his funeral? That was the main question people here asked yesterday. If he ever decides to check out one of the province’s most embarrassing messes, the first place he [...]

Algonquin co-chief to stop her uranium protest to avoid jail

CBC News  An aboriginal leader sentenced to time behind bars for defying two court orders and blocking a prospective uranium mining site has agreed to stop participating in protests so she can avoid going to jail. Paula Sherman and Robert Lovelace, co-chiefs of the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation, were sentenced to six months in jail by Justice Douglas Cunningham [...]

Hamilton Spectator retraction re: Gary McHale

The Hamilton Spectator (Feb 13, 2008) A Dec. 4 letter to the editor described Gary McHale in a way that was not accurate. The Hamilton Spectator withdraws any suggestion that Mr. McHale has perpetrated violence in his activities at Caledonia. The Hamilton Spectator apologizes for the error.

Natives teaching children the benefits of smoking Native tobacco

Brantford Expositor – Original title “Fair will teach kids about traditional native tobacco” A nutrition fair that will also help educate kids on the difference between smoking cigarettes and using traditional native tobacco will be held Friday at Central Public School. The Ononh’kwa on: we (Original Medicine) Tobacco Wise and Nutrition Health Fair will run [...]

Crombie pushes for joint patrols

The Hamilton Spectator – with commentary added by Jeff Parkinson A plan is being promoted to have the Ontario Provincial Police and Six Nations police do joint patrols of a rural concession caught in the middle of the Caledonia land claims dispute. (Edit: A road which Six Nations has no jurisdiction over nor any right to) The [...]

Haldimand Council votes to pay for Sloat defence

CD98.9 Haldimand County council has decided to provide legal representation for one of its councillors facing a charge after a incident last summer. On January 9th, Councillor Buck Sloat was charged with assault stemming from a private complaint filed against him. Allegations are that Sloat assaulted an individual at the county offices while on break [...]

Haldimand “Should We Foot the Bill”

By Donna Pitcher At the Council meeting February 4th, 2008, council voted 6-0 in favor of having the County Lawyer represent Councilor Buck Sloat. Councilor Sloat appeared in the Cayuga Courthouse Wednesday February 6th, 2008, with the County Lawyer and Councilor Grice at his side. I don’t really have a problem with a member of [...]

Arson suspected in smoke shop fire

Daniel Nolan The Hamilton Spectator CALEDONIA (Feb 8, 2008) A smoke shop at the centre of a December fracas that led to nine arrests has been damaged by fire. Arson is the suspected cause of the fire that struck the shop at the south end of Argyle Street South, just east of Highway 6. It [...]

Gary McHale responds to David Crombie

As first posted on www.VoiceofCanada.ca here is Gary McHale’s response to David Crombie telling residents of Caledonia that no progress will be made on their behalf for years to come. Feb 08, 2007  Mr David Crombie Federal Liason for Caledonia Dear Mr. Crombie:

Councilor Sloat makes first court appearance

February 6, 2008 Deputy Mayor of Haldimand / Council member Buck Sloat made his first appearance in a Cayuga court this morning to answer to the assault charge laid I laid against him stemming from an August 2007 incident. Accompanied by Councilor Craig Grice and a Haldimand County lawyer, Sloat appeared before a Justice of the Peace [...]

National Post exposes role of corruption, mismanagement, incompetence in reserve misery

Occasionally, when I talk to people about landclaim lawlessness, their reaction is something like, ”Yeah, but look at how we (Canada) treat natives on the reserves. They don’t even have safe drinking water for God’s sake. No wonder they’re angry.” The latest installment in the National Post’s ‘Rethinking the Reserve’ series entitled, ‘Problems of Governance‘ completely destroys  [...]

Lawyer John Findley blasts Caledonia’s “real interlopers”

In ‘National Post takes the blinders off MSM,’ Jeff Parkinson and I gave some well-deserved recognition to the Post for taking a strong stand against landclaim lawlessness and political cowardice with their recent editorials and series, Rethinking the Reserve. Today, we must recognize a true, unsung Caledonia hero for his continual efforts to hold the government [...]

Another smoke shop fire in Caledonia

From CD98.9  Haldimand OPP are investigating two fires in Caledonia. Early Thursday morning police got a report of a barn fire at the Caledonia Fair Grounds on Caithness Street East. Haldimand County Fire Department extinguished the barn that stored wooden planks, straw, and utility trailers. Minutes later, firefighters and police were called to another fire [...]