#Fraser Committee

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2023 or last week

That's not really matters', what is interesting is that Caitríona has a very high level of privacy in her movements or travels

She has a private life that is completely away from notice and attention, no press, no ordinary people, no fan who meets her by chance

Wow.. as if she had the invisibility power since 2019.

Dear Privacy Level Anon,

We're going to do things a bit differently, this time, with an audio answer. Nice to meet you, by the way:

For those who need a transcript, here goes:

'Your charade has very simple answers:

No Press? The Press would have to actually care or be sold a juicy tip/story, about that elusive B-lister who is such a compelling Claire Fraser (huh?) from Outlander ('wait a minute, that nice, secksay series around 2016, right?'). Press interest is, however, likely to immediately jump up, the minute she lands a better PR team and/or a part in a really relevant cinema project. Let's see what those two next movies bring, Anon.

No Ordinary People? Imagine you're Jane Doe (aka, an Ordinary Person), traveling from 🛫 London to 🛬Bangkok. Upon arrival at 🏯Suvarnabhumi Airport , while waiting in line for the notoriously looooong passport control (full profile pic included), you spot C (or S, or C and S, or C and S and Boos 1, 2, 3... 554). They vaguely remind you of someone. That someone could be anyone from a) your cousin Matilda's co-worker you have been briefly introduced to, three years ago; b) someone who looks like your homeland's host of 'Who Wants To Be a Millionaire' TV show (totally random example, here); c) someone who looks like that actress you once saw in that TV series which name you can't really remember. Ultimately, the fact that you are unable to put a name on that face really irritates you. Your feet hurt, you are sleepy, grumpy and you need to go to the bathroom ASAP (🚨🚨🚨🚨). Meanwhile, S and C kiss, Boo #456 is as unhappy as you and wants his blankie. Did I mention you need to use the 🚻 (somewhere far away from 🛃) ASAP? S and C 💋💋💋💋 some more. YOU NEED TO USE THAT TOILET AND YOU'RE STUCK IN THAT STUPID LINE. Boo #433 wants their mommy's attention NOW (🥹🍼🤦‍♀️), so you sympathize a bit ('what a cute 👶, just like his/her parents') but you are really focused on your 🧻problem. By the time you dragged your 🧳to the 🚕 area, in the thick, humid heat at Arrivals, you'd have forgotten everything about it, but remember every single second of your Passport Control Ordeal.

No Fan? Outside of these Tumblr/X/Instagram jihadist pockets, no casual 🪭 would probably ask for a pic, provided they remember the name of the series (it is really poor taste to go for it and candidly tell her/them something like ' oooh, I remember you from The Last Kingdom, such a wonderful series'). Out of those who still go for it, I bet the farm:

85% keep The Nice Pic tucked in their iPhones and just randomly share at the next school bake sale/corporate teambuilding/ Rotary Club meeting with random people saying random things like 'oooh, she's nice, wait a minute, wasn't she in The Last Kingdom'?

10% foolishly post on X or Instagram, to be immediately greeted by The Fandom Vigilantes, courtesy of alerts installed on their own iPhones: 'where was it/ when was it/was she alone/yes? why?/no? why and with whom/ what did she say/ did she say anything/ why didn't she say anything'. If, by a very probable misfortune, what you have to dish out does not click with the Greeting Committee's agenda, expect to be: a) treated like a 5 year old idiot or a tortured POW ('was she alone...? was she alone...? are you sure she wasn't alone...? ARE YOU SURE SHE WASN'T ALONE? ANSWER ME, WAS SHE ALONE?'); b) Caitsplained she is married to someone else and what you saw is an optical illusion; c) perhaps even forced to adjust your own narrative (maybe that 6′ 3" Viking was Tony McGill, after all? 😵). You immediately regret posting it on your public Social Media accounts, erase the pic and go private. By the time you do it (12 hours from posting), it would have been dutifully screencapped, in a middle of a full blown Fandom Skirmish.

5% know what Tumblr actually is (at a minimum) and/or are actively involved in its Fandom Subset. The minute they post is the start of just another Nagasaki episode. The DM inbox will explode with a rich array of pleas/insults/more Caitsplaining. Comments will range from the ecstatic to the revoltingly vulgar. And remember (LOL for weeks):

The Fandom will eventually never forgive you for sharing.'

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What David Bowie song would your OC's love or relate to in their very soul? Ya books are amazing and deserve to win awards, especially Future Ghosts!!!

this might be my favorite question i've ever gotten about my ocs so congratulations, you win!!!! at everything!!!! bonus points for having the coolest profile picture!!!

also thank you x10000. your compliment makes me want to fly to the moon!!! out of joy!!!!!

rosie - i think it is very easy to say that rosie is obsessed with rock 'n' roll suicide for obvious reasons, but also just because it's absolutely amazing. i also think she loves hallo spaceboy just for the pure chaos of it. she loves cat people (putting out fire) and rebel rebel, too.

fraser - fraser loves it ain't easy, cygnet committee, changes, blackout, and the secret life of arabia. and if he hadn't died 10 years and a month before the release of blackstar, he would love lazarus and dollar days.

warren - something in me tells me that warren absolutely loves every single song on station to station. especially tvc15. i don't know why. he just does. i can feel it in my bones. and i also think he loves life on mars? and space oddity because they make him imagine movies in his head, and he loves doing that. he also likes i'm afraid of americans because he is afraid of americans. as well as all other people too, but especially americans. and of course starman because sometimes he feels like a starman.

juni - june absolutely loves lady grinning soul, time, and the prettiest star. i also think birdie played lady stardust and rebel rebel so many times that juni was bound to love them since she was a baby. she's obsessed with the lyrics of bowie's parts in under pressure. and i don't say that solely because i am, i swear. "love's such an old-fashioned word, and love dares you to care for the people on the edge of the night" destroys her. especially older juni.

mazzy - mazzy loves let's dance, cracked actor, and dancing in the street. she dances around to them over and over in her room. she sometimes lays in her bed, staring at her ceiling, thinking about how badly she wants to be an avenger while listening to heroes on repeat. also, beauty and the beast. "there's slaughter in the air / protest on the wind / someone else inside me / someone could get skinned" and "someone fetch a priest / you can't say no to the beauty and the beast". the beauty and the beast??? the crying girl and the winter soldier??

ruth - i was only gonna do my published ocs but i am doing ruth anyway because she was a bowie girl when bowie was alive!!! im so jealous of her... (no i'm not; lots of people in the 80s would want to skin me alive i bet) but anyway, ruth loves changes, speed of life, teenage wildlife, and ashes to ashes. she doesn't know it yet, but she'll spend a lot of time listening to five years pretty soon. thinking lots about the end of the world and all.

that's obviously not all my ocs but i have like 100000 of them, so i'm not gonna do all of them, but if you have a specific one you're curious about that i didn't answer for, lmk and i'll answer for them!!

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Transit workers in the Comox Valley and Campbell River — neighbouring regions on the northern half of B.C.'s Vancouver Island — walked off the job Friday, citing unfair wages and excessive overtime.  Unifor Local 114's bargaining committee had come to two negotiated agreements with the employer, Pacific Western (PW) Transit, but members overwhelmingly rejected both.  More than 70 employees — which includes bus and handyDART operators, mechanics, cleaners and support staff — say they want wage parity with transit workers in other B.C. communities like Victoria, Whistler, and the Fraser Valley.  They say better wages would also help with recruitment and retention, which would mean existing employees would have to work less overtime. 

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Discharge Petition for H.R. 7152, the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Record Group 233: Records of the U.S. House of RepresentativesSeries: General Records

This item, H.R. 7152, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, faced strong opposition in the House Rules Committee. Howard Smith, Chairman of the committee, refused to schedule hearings for the bill. Emanuel Celler, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, attempted to use this discharge petition to move the bill out of committee without holding hearings. The petition failed to gain the required majority of Congress (218 signatures), but forced Chairman Smith to schedule hearings.

88th CONGRESS. House of Representatives No. 5 Motion to Discharge a Committee from the Consideration of a RESOLUTION (State whether bill, joint resolution, or resolution) December 9, 1963 To the Clerk of the House of Representatives: Pursuant to Clause 4 of Rule XXVII (see rule on page 7), I EMANUEL CELLER (Name of Member), move to discharge to the Commitee on RULES (Committee) from the consideration of the RESOLUTION; H. Res. 574 entitled, a RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF THE BILL (H. R. 7152) which was referred to said committee November 27, 1963 in support of which motion the undersigned Members of the House of Representatives affix their signatures, to wit: 1. Emanuel Celler 2. John J. Rooney 3. Seymour Halpern 4. James G Fulton 5. Thomas W Pelly 6. Robt N. C. Nix 7. Jeffery Cohelan 8. W A Barrett 9. William S. Mailiard 10. 11. Augustus F. Hawkins 12. Otis G. Pike 13. Benjamin S Rosenthal 14. Spark M Matsunaga 15. Frank M. Clark 16. William L Dawson 17. Melvin Price 18. John C. Kluczynski 19. Barratt O'Hara 20. George E. Shipley 21. Dan Rostenkowski 22. Ralph J. Rivers[page] 2 23. Everett G. Burkhalter 24. Robert L. Leggett 25. William L St Onge 26. Edward P. Boland 27. Winfield K. Denton 28. David J. Flood 29. 30. Lucian N. Nedzi 31. James Roosevelt 32. Henry C Reuss 33. Charles S. Joelson 34. Samuel N. Friedel 35. George M. Rhodes 36. William F. Ryan 37. Clarence D. Long 38. Charles C. Diggs Jr 39. Morris K. Udall 40. Wm J. Randall 41. 42. Donald M. Fraser 43. Joseph G. Minish 44. Edith Green 45. Neil Staebler 46. 47. Ralph R. Harding 48. Frank M. Karsten 49. 50. John H. Dent 51. John Brademas 52. John E. Moss 53. Jacob H. Gilbert 54. Leonor K. Sullivan 55. John F. Shelley 56. 57. Lionel Van Deerlin 58. Carlton R. Sickles 59. 60. Edward R. Finnegan 61. Julia Butler Hansen 62. Richard Bolling 63. Ken Heckler 64. Herman Toll 65. Ray J Madden 66. J Edward Roush 67. James A. Burke 68. Frank C. Osmers Jr 69. Adam Powell 70. 71. Fred Schwengel 72. Philip J. Philiben 73. Byron G. Rogers 74. John F. Baldwin 75. Joseph Karth 76. 77. Roland V. Libonati 78. John V. Lindsay 79. Stanley R. Tupper 80. Joseph M. McDade 81. Wm Broomfield 82. 83. 84. Robert J Corbett 85. 86. Craig Hosmer87. Robert N. Giaimo 88. Claude Pepper 89. William T Murphy 90. George H. Fallon 91. Hugh L. Carey 92. Robert T. Secrest 93. Harley O. Staggers 94. Thor C. Tollefson 95. Edward J. Patten 96. 97. Al Ullman 98. Bernard F. Grabowski 99. John A. Blatnik 100. 101. Florence P. Dwyer 102. Thomas L. ? 103. 104. Peter W. Rodino 105. Milton W. Glenn 106. Harlan Hagen 107. James A. Byrne 108. John M. Murphy 109. Henry B. Gonzalez 110. Arnold Olson 111. Harold D Donahue 112. Kenneth J. Gray 113. James C. Healey 114. Michael A Feighan 115. Thomas R. O'Neill 116. Alphonzo Bell 117. George M. Wallhauser 118. Richard S. Schweiker 119. 120. Albert Thomas 121. 122. Graham Purcell 123. Homer Thornberry 124. 125. Leo W. O'Brien 126. Thomas E. Morgan 127. Joseph M. Montoya 128. Leonard Farbstein 129. John S. Monagan 130. Brad Morse 131. Neil Smith 132. Harry R. Sheppard 133. Don Edwards 134. James G. O'Hara 135. 136. Fred B. Rooney 137. George E. Brown Jr. 138. 139. Edward R. Roybal 140. Harris. B McDowell jr. 141. Torbert H. McDonall 142. Edward A. Garmatz 143. Richard E. Lankford 144. Richard Fulton 145. Elizabeth Kee 146. James J. Delaney 147. Frank Thompson Jr 148. 149. Lester R. Johnson 150. Charles A. Buckley4 151. Richard T. Hanna 152. James Corman 153. Paul A Fino 154. Harold M. Ryan 155. Martha W. Griffiths 156. Adam E. Konski 157. Chas W. Wilson 158. Michael J. Kewan 160. Alex Brooks 161. Clark W. Thompson 162. John D. Gringell [?] 163. Thomas P. Gill 164. Edna F. Kelly 165. Eugene J. Keogh 166 John. B. Duncan 167. Elmer J. Dolland 168. Joe Caul 169. Arnold Olsen 170. Monte B. Fascell [?] 171. [not deciphered] 172. J. Dulek 173. Joe W. [undeciphered] 174. J. J. Pickle [Numbers 175 through 214 are blank]

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I.8.1 Is the Spanish Revolution inapplicable as a model for modern societies?

Quite the reverse. More urban workers took part in the revolution than in the countryside. So while it is true that collectivisation was extensive in rural areas, the revolution also made its mark in urban areas and in industry.

In total, the “regions most affected” by collectivisation “were Catalonia and Aragón, where about 70 per cent of the workforce was involved. The total for the whole of Republican territory was nearly 800,000 on the land and a little more than a million in industry. In Barcelona workers’ committees took over all the services, the oil monopoly, the shipping companies, heavy engineering firms such as Volcano, the Ford motor company, chemical companies, the textile industry and a host of smaller enterprises … Services such as water, gas and electricity were working under new management within hours of the storming of the Atarazanas barracks … a conversion of appropriate factories to war production meant that metallurgical concerns had started to produce armed cars by 22 July … The industrial workers of Catalonia were the most skilled in Spain … One of the most impressive feats of those early days was the resurrection of the public transport system at a time when the streets were still littered and barricaded.” Five days after the fighting had stopped, 700 tramcars rather than the usual 600, all painted in the black-and-red colours of the CNT-FAI, were operating in Barcelona. [Antony Beevor, The Spanish Civil War, pp. 91–2]

About 75% of Spanish industry was concentrated in Catalonia, the stronghold of the anarchist labour movement, and widespread collectivisation of factories took place there. As Sam Dolgoff rightly observed, this “refutes decisively the allegation that anarchist organisational principles are not applicable to industrial areas, and if at all, only in primitive agrarian societies or in isolated experimental communities.” [The Anarchist Collectives, pp. 7–8] According to Augustin Souchy:

“It is no simple matter to collectivise and place on firm foundations an industry employing almost a quarter of a million textile workers in scores of factories scattered in numerous cities. But the Barcelona syndicalist textile union accomplished this feat in a short time. It was a tremendously significant experiment. The dictatorship of the bosses was toppled, and wages, working conditions and production were determined by the workers and their elected delegates. All functionaries had to carry out the instructions of the membership and report back directly to the men on the job and union meetings. The collectivisation of the textile industry shatters once and for all the legend that the workers are incapable of administrating a great and complex corporation.” [Op. Cit., p. 94]

Moreover, Spain in the 1930s was not a backward, peasant country, as is sometimes supposed. Between 1910 and 1930, the industrial working class more than doubled to over 2,500,000. This represented just over 26% of the working population (compared to 16% twenty years previously). In 1930, only 45% of the working population were engaged in agriculture. [Ronald Fraser, The Blood of Spain, p. 38] In Catalonia alone, 200,000 workers were employed in the textile industry and 70,000 in metal-working and machinery manufacturing. This was very different than the situation in Russia at the end of World War I, where the urban working class made up only 10% of the population.

Capitalist social relations had also penetrated the rural economy by the 1930s with agriculture oriented to the world market and approximately 90% of farm land in the hands of the bourgeoisie. [Fraser, Op. Cit., p. 37] So by 1936 agriculture was predominately capitalist, with Spanish agribusiness employing large numbers of labourers who either did not own enough land to support themselves or where landless. The labour movement in the Spanish countryside in the 1930s was precisely based on this large population of rural wage-earners (the socialist UGT land workers union had 451,000 members in 1933, 40% of its total membership, for example). In Russia at the time of the revolution of 1917, agriculture mostly consisted of small farms on which peasant families worked mainly for their own subsistence, bartering or selling their surplus.

Therefore the Spanish Revolution cannot be dismissed as a product a of pre-industrial society. The urban collectivisations occurred predominately in the most heavily industrialised part of Spain and indicate that anarchist ideas are applicable to modern societies Indeed, comforting Marxist myths aside, the CNT organised most of the unionised urban working class and, internally, agricultural workers were a minority of its membership (by 1936, the CNT was making inroads in Madrid, previously a socialist stronghold while the UGT main area of growth in the 1930s was with, ironically, rural workers). The revolution in Spain was the work (mostly) of rural and urban wage labourers (joined with poor peasants) fighting a well developed capitalist system.

In summary, then, the anarchist revolution in Spain has many lessons for revolutionaries in developed capitalist countries and cannot be dismissed as a product of industrial backwardness. The main strength lay of the anarchist movement was in urban areas and, unsurprisingly, the social revolution took place in both the most heavily industrialised areas as well as on the land.

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Rosemary Brown (June 7, 1930 - April 26, 2003) has the distinction of being the first Black woman in Canada to be elected to public office. She was elected to the British Columbia Legislative Assembly (1972-86). She was the first woman to run for the leadership of a federal political party, finishing a close second in the New Democratic Party leadership race in 1975.

She was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and came to Canada in 1951. She completed a BA at McGill University. She received an MSW at the University of British Columbia. She was known as a dynamic social activist, a writer, a feminist as well as a politician.

She was active in the British Columbia Council of Black Women and the National Black Coalition of Canada. She worked with the Vancouver Children’s Aid Society, and Simon Fraser University’s counseling service, and developed a volunteer-driven counseling outreach program. She was a founding member of the Vancouver Status of Women Council and helped train volunteers for the Vancouver Crisis Centre.

She was re-elected to the legislative assembly in 1979 and 1983. She sponsored legislation that created a provincial committee to eliminate sexism in textbooks and educational curricula. She was instrumental in establishing the Berger Commission on the Family, and in introducing legislation that would prohibit discrimination based on sex or marital status. Her efforts contributed directly to an increase in the number of women represented on boards, commissions, and directorates throughout British Columbia. She left politics to become a professor of Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University.

She was awarded a Human Rights Fellowship by the United Nations. She received the National Coalition of Canada Award and the Black Historical and Cultural Society of British Columbia Award. She was named an officer of the Order of British Columbia, and the Order of Canada. She held an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Mount St. Vincent University in Nova Scotia. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Canada, WTF? Part II

By Genevieve Gluck November 12, 2024

An eyewitness has come forward to reveal that a trans-identified male pedophile brutally assaulted a female inmate while housed in a women’s prison in British Columbia, Canada. The woman sustained broken ribs during the horrific attack.

Adam Laboucan, who is Canada’s youngest dangerous offender, was handed a rare indeterminate sentence after being convicted of the violent rape of a 3-month-old infant. Sometime in 2018, Laboucan began to identify as transgender and changed his name to Tara Desousa. It was around this time that Laboucan was transferred into the Fraser Valley Institution for Women (FVI) in Abbotsford, which features a unit for mothers and infants.

The Mother-Child Program at FVI takes place in a house comprised of facilities such as a shared kitchen, lounge and bathroom, as well as multiple bedrooms. It is situated within a compound of similar housing units, arranged to look much like a neighborhood.

As previously reported by Reduxx, Laboucan has been observed leering at and making aggressive remarks towards the children at the FVI Mother-Child unit, leading to anger and concern from the female inmates.

Reduxx spoke with women’s rights advocate Heather Mason, herself a former inmate, who has been documenting instances of trans-identified males being transferred into women’s prisons in Canada. Mason has been instrumental in bringing to light several cases of violent male criminals abusing or antagonizing incarcerated women.

According to Mason, Laboucan “would stare in the windows of the [Mother-Child] house and always be loitering around it,” a situation which caused the women to feel anxious and afraid for the safety of the young children in the Mother-Child Program.

In 2018, soon after he was transferred into FVI, a female inmate responded to Laboucan’s disturbing behavior by defending another woman and her baby, demanding that he desist in his threatening conduct and calling him a “pedophile.”

It was at that point, explains Mason, that Laboucan “picked her up, threw her, and then charged at her once she was on the ground and continued the assault.” After prison guards intervened, the female inmate who had been attacked was punished by being placed in segregation for “inciting” his assault against her. This is despite the fact that she had suffered from multiple fractured ribs.

Speaking to Reduxx, a witness to the assault recalled the incident.

“[She] actually had broken ribs. I was on the inmate committee at that time, and the guards wouldn’t do anything except blame the woman for instigating the fight because she called Tara a pedophile,” the inmate, who will be referred to as Angela to protect her privacy, says.

“I talked to the warden and said, ‘this is a proper term that Tara will be referred to in the public, so why is it okay for Tara to beat this woman for it and have no consequence?” she added.

Angela decided to come forward to confirm the attack, which had previously been vaguely cited in an April 2018 Parole Board decision denying his appeal for release. According to the Toronto Star, Laboucan was found to be “unable to manager [his] anger after [he flung another inmate by her hair, then kicked her in the face.” The decision referred to Laboucan with feminine pronouns.

Additionally, the Parole Board had sympathetically highlighted Laboucan’s Indigenous heritage as a mitigating factor in his violent behavior.

“The board found that you have experienced negative intergenerational effects as a result, and acknowledged the linkage between your involvement in the criminal justice system and a number of elements in social and family history, including your substance abuse issues.”

As part of her reason for coming forward, Angela recounted another incident she had witnessed in which a different trans-identified male transfer, known as Coco Tallulah, beat a female inmate so horrifically that she suffered a miscarriage. The assault occurred in 2020, and Tallulah was transferred back to a men’s prison in 2021.

“As a mother who had her child in prison, I feel that having all these sexual predators there with babies and kids is insane, like Tara,” said Angela. “He shouldn’t be in a women’s prison. Maybe they could make a trans or gender-neutral prison, but to put them in a woman’s prison doesn’t make sense.”

She added: “The violence that happens to women from these men in jail is ridiculous. The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) doesn’t do anything to stop it and blames the women as aggressors in almost every situation.”

In 1997, Adam Laboucan sexually assaulted a three-month-old baby boy in Quesnel, British Columbia. Laboucan was 15-years-old at the time and had been hired to babysit the child. The infant was so brutally injured by the attack that he had to be flown to Vancouver, 410 miles away, to undergo reconstructive surgery.

After committing the horrific assault, Laboucan “mutilated himself and ate his own flesh,” according to news reports.

During the trial, an expert witness stated that Laboucan displayed “everything from transsexual to pedophilic tendencies.” A forensic psychiatrist who examined Laboucan testified that even he believed himself to be a danger to the public. “He said he was not planning a life of crime, but he felt he had no way to control the flood of violent, murderous fantasies,” Dr. Ian Postnikoff told the B.C. Supreme Court.

The forensic psychiatrist said that he believed intensive treatment would be necessary. “With the history and severity of the offenses of Mr. Laboucan, it’s difficult to say how long his treatment would last,” he said. “He’s not a regular sexual offender. I would say it would be a very long time, possibly years. I would be very, very concerned to hear that Laboucan would be released into the community in the near future.”

According to a 1999 news report by the CBC, clinical psychologist Dr. Steve Sigmond testified in court that when he examined Laboucan in 1997, the teen had also admitted to drowning a 3-year-old boy in Quesnel in 1993. Laboucan was 11 when he allegedly committed the killing, and no charges were ever lodged against him because under the law, an accused must be at least 12 years old.

Laboucan filed a request for temporary leave from Fraser Valley in order to attend a cultural ceremony in Vancouver hosed by the Circle of Eagles Lodge Society. According to the Circle of Eagles website, their purpose is to “support Indigenous Brothers and Sisters leaving federal institutions and those dislocated from society, to reintegrate into Community by providing respectful holistic services and culturally safe spaces.”

Laboucan has unsuccessfully applied for temporary leave from prison several times, with the Parole Board deferring to his dangerous offender status. However, federal case managers have reportedly argued that Laboucan should be granted escorted temporary releases in order to help him move towards public reintegration.

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Citigroup (C) earnings Q1 2025

Jane Fraser, CEO of Citigroup, attends a hearing on Annual Oversight of Wall Street Firms before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs in Washington, D.C., the United States, on Dec. 6, 2023.  Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Citigroup reported first-quarter earnings before the opening bell Tuesday. Here’s what the company reported compared with what Wall…

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Citigroup (C) Earning Q1 2025

Jane Fraser, Citigroup Executive Director, participates in the hearing on the annual surveillance of the Wall Street companies before the Senate Banking Committee, Housing Care and Urban Questions in Washington, DC, United States, December 6, 2023. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Citigroup He plans to apply for earnings in the first quarter before Bell opened on Tuesday. Here’s…

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Lords Vote

On: National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill

Baroness Williams of Trafford moved, as an amendment to the motion that the bill be committed to a Grand Committee, to leave out “Grand Committee” and to insert “Committee of the Whole House”. The House divided:

Ayes: 226 (85.8% Con, 5.3% , 3.5% XB, 2.7% DUP, 1.3% UUP, 0.9% Bshp, 0.4% PC) Noes: 228 (55.7% Lab, 23.7% LD, 17.1% XB, 3.1% , 0.4% Green) Absent: ~369

Likely Referenced Bill: National Insurance Contributions (Secondary Class 1 Contributions) Bill

Description: A Bill to make provision about secondary Class 1 contributions.

Originating house: Commons Current house: Lords Bill Stage: Committee stage

Individual Votes:

Ayes

Conservative (194 votes)

Agnew of Oulton, L. Ahmad of Wimbledon, L. Altrincham, L. Anelay of St Johns, B. Arbuthnot of Edrom, L. Ashcombe, L. Attlee, E. Bailey of Paddington, L. Baker of Dorking, L. Balfe, L. Barran, B. Bates, L. Bellamy, L. Bellingham, L. Berridge, B. Bertin, B. Bethell, L. Black of Brentwood, L. Blencathra, L. Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist, B. Booth-Smith, L. Borwick, L. Bourne of Aberystwyth, L. Bray of Coln, B. Bridgeman, V. Bridges of Headley, L. Browning, B. Brownlow of Shurlock Row, L. Caine, L. Caithness, E. Callanan, L. Cameron of Chipping Norton, L. Camoys, L. Carrington of Fulham, L. Cathcart, E. Chadlington, L. Choudrey, L. Courtown, E. Crathorne, L. Cruddas, L. Davies of Gower, L. De Mauley, L. Deben, L. Dobbs, L. Duncan of Springbank, L. Dunlop, L. Effingham, E. Elliott of Mickle Fell, L. Evans of Bowes Park, B. Evans of Rainow, L. Fairfax of Cameron, L. Fall, B. Fink, L. Finkelstein, L. Finn, B. Fookes, B. Forsyth of Drumlean, L. Foster of Oxton, B. Framlingham, L. Fraser of Craigmaddie, B. Frost, L. Fuller, L. Garnier, L. Gascoigne, L. Geddes, L. Godson, L. Gold, L. Goldie, B. Goschen, V. Grayling, L. Griffiths of Fforestfach, L. Grimstone of Boscobel, L. Hailsham, V. Hamilton of Epsom, L. Hammond of Runnymede, L. Hannan of Kingsclere, L. Harding of Winscombe, B. Hayward, L. Helic, B. Henley, L. Herbert of South Downs, L. Hintze, L. Hodgson of Abinger, B. Hodgson of Astley Abbotts, L. Holmes of Richmond, L. Hooper, B. Horam, L. Howard of Lympne, L. Howard of Rising, L. Hunt of Wirral, L. Jackson of Peterborough, L. James of Blackheath, L. Jamieson, L. Jenkin of Kennington, B. Johnson of Lainston, L. Johnson of Marylebone, L. Jopling, L. Kamall, L. Keen of Elie, L. Kempsell, L. Laing of Elderslie, B. Lamont of Lerwick, L. Lancaster of Kimbolton, L. Lansley, L. Lawlor, B. Lea of Lymm, B. Lexden, L. Lilley, L. Lingfield, L. Liverpool, E. Lucas, L. Mackinlay of Richborough, L. Magan of Castletown, L. Mancroft, L. Marks of Hale, L. Marland, L. Maude of Horsham, L. May of Maidenhead, B. McColl of Dulwich, L. McInnes of Kilwinning, L. McIntosh of Pickering, B. McLoughlin, L. Mendoza, L. Mobarik, B. Monckton of Dallington Forest, B. Morris of Bolton, B. Morrissey, B. Mott, L. Moylan, L. Moynihan of Chelsea, L. Moynihan, L. Murray of Blidworth, L. Neville-Jones, B. Neville-Rolfe, B. Newlove, B. Nicholson of Winterbourne, B. Noakes, B. Norton of Louth, L. Offord of Garvel, L. Owen of Alderley Edge, B. Parkinson of Whitley Bay, L. Penn, B. Pickles, L. Pidding, B. Polak, L. Popat, L. Porter of Fulwood, B. Randall of Uxbridge, L. Ranger of Northwood, L. Rawlings, B. Reay, L. Redfern, B. Risby, L. Robathan, L. Roberts of Belgravia, L. Roborough, L. Rock, B. Sanderson of Welton, B. Sassoon, L. Sater, B. Scott of Bybrook, B. Seccombe, B. Shackleton of Belgravia, B. Sharma, L. Sherbourne of Didsbury, L. Shields, B. Shinkwin, L. Shrewsbury, E. Smith of Hindhead, L. Soames of Fletching, L. Sterling of Plaistow, L. Stowell of Beeston, B. Strathcarron, L. Strathclyde, L. Stroud, B. Swinburne, B. Swire, L. Taylor of Holbeach, L. Trefgarne, L. Trenchard, V. True, L. Tugendhat, L. Udny-Lister, L. Vaizey of Didcot, L. Waldegrave of North Hill, L. Wasserman, L. Wei, L. Wharton of Yarm, L. Willetts, L. Williams of Trafford, B. Wolfson of Aspley Guise, L. Wyld, B. Young of Cookham, L. Younger of Leckie, V.

Non-affiliated (12 votes)

Ashton of Hyde, L. Chisholm of Owlpen, B. Cooper of Windrush, L. Faulks, L. Foster of Aghadrumsee, B. Fox of Buckley, B. Harrington of Watford, L. Lupton, L. Moore of Etchingham, L. Moyo, B. Rosenfield, L. Tyrie, L.

Crossbench (8 votes)

Alton of Liverpool, L. Carter of Haslemere, L. Cavendish of Little Venice, B. Colville of Culross, V. Falkner of Margravine, B. Kakkar, L. O'Loan, B. Sentamu, L.

Democratic Unionist Party (6 votes)

Browne of Belmont, L. Dodds of Duncairn, L. Hay of Ballyore, L. McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown, L. Morrow, L. Weir of Ballyholme, L.

Ulster Unionist Party (3 votes)

Elliott of Ballinamallard, L. Empey, L. Rogan, L.

Bishops (2 votes)

Leeds, Bp. Norwich, Bp.

Plaid Cymru (1 vote)

Wigley, L.

Noes

Labour (127 votes)

Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent, B. Anderson of Swansea, L. Armstrong of Hill Top, B. Ashton of Upholland, B. Bach, L. Bassam of Brighton, L. Beamish, L. Beckett, B. Berkeley, L. Blackstone, B. Blake of Leeds, B. Blower, B. Bradley, L. Brooke of Alverthorpe, L. Browne of Ladyton, L. Campbell-Savours, L. Carter of Coles, L. Chakrabarti, B. Chandos, V. Coaker, L. Collins of Highbury, L. Cryer, L. Davies of Brixton, L. Donaghy, B. Donoughue, L. Drake, B. Dubs, L. Eatwell, L. Falconer of Thoroton, L. Faulkner of Worcester, L. Foulkes of Cumnock, L. Gale, B. Giddens, L. Glasman, L. Golding, B. Goldsmith, L. Goudie, B. Grantchester, L. Griffiths of Burry Port, L. Grocott, L. Gustafsson, B. Hacking, L. Hain, L. Hannett of Everton, L. Hanson of Flint, L. Hanworth, V. Harman, B. Harris of Haringey, L. Haskel, L. Hayman of Ullock, B. Hayter of Kentish Town, B. Hazarika, B. Healy of Primrose Hill, B. Hendy of Richmond Hill, L. Hendy, L. Hermer, L. Hollick, L. Howarth of Newport, L. Hunt of Kings Heath, L. Hutton of Furness, L. Jones, L. Jordan, L. Kennedy of Cradley, B. Kennedy of Southwark, L. Kennedy of The Shaws, B. Khan of Burnley, L. Kingsmill, B. Kinnock, L. Knight of Weymouth, L. Lawrence of Clarendon, B. Lennie, L. Leong, L. Liddell of Coatdyke, B. Liddle, L. Lipsey, L. Lister of Burtersett, B. Livermore, L. Mann, L. McConnell of Glenscorrodale, L. McIntosh of Hudnall, B. McNicol of West Kilbride, L. Merron, B. Mitchell, L. Morgan of Drefelin, B. Morris of Yardley, B. Murphy of Torfaen, L. Nye, B. O'Grady of Upper Holloway, B. Osamor, B. Pitkeathley, B. Ponsonby of Shulbrede, L. Prentis of Leeds, L. Ramsey of Wall Heath, B. Rebuck, B. Ritchie of Downpatrick, B. Robertson of Port Ellen, L. Rowlands, L. Sahota, L. Shamash, L. Smith of Basildon, B. Smith of Malvern, B. Snape, L. Spellar, L. Stansgate, V. Stevenson of Balmacara, L. Symons of Vernham Dean, B. Taylor of Stevenage, B. Thornton, B. Timpson, L. Touhig, L. Tunnicliffe, L. Turnberg, L. Twycross, B. Vallance of Balham, L. Warwick of Undercliffe, B. Watson of Invergowrie, L. Watson of Wyre Forest, L. Watts, L. West of Spithead, L. Wheeler, B. Whitaker, B. Wilcox of Newport, B. Winston, L. Winterton of Doncaster, B. Wood of Anfield, L. Woodley, L. Young of Old Scone, B.

Liberal Democrat (54 votes)

Addington, L. Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville, B. Barker, B. Beith, L. Benjamin, B. Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury, B. Bowles of Berkhamsted, B. Brinton, B. Bruce of Bennachie, L. Burt of Solihull, B. Dholakia, L. Featherstone, B. Foster of Bath, L. Fox, L. Garden of Frognal, B. German, L. Goddard of Stockport, L. Grender, B. Hamwee, B. Harris of Richmond, B. Humphreys, B. Hussein-Ece, B. Janke, B. Kramer, B. Lee of Trafford, L. Marks of Henley-on-Thames, L. Newby, L. Northover, B. Oates, L. Parminter, B. Pidgeon, B. Pinnock, B. Purvis of Tweed, L. Razzall, L. Rennard, L. Russell, E. Scott of Needham Market, B. Scriven, L. Sharkey, L. Sheehan, B. Shipley, L. Stoneham of Droxford, L. Storey, L. Strasburger, L. Suttie, B. Thomas of Gresford, L. Thomas of Winchester, B. Thornhill, B. Tope, L. Tyler of Enfield, B. Wallace of Saltaire, L. Wallace of Tankerness, L. Walmsley, B. Willis of Knaresborough, L.

Crossbench (39 votes)

Aberdare, L. Berkeley of Knighton, L. Best, L. Bew, L. Boycott, B. Brown of Cambridge, B. Bull, B. Burns, L. Butler of Brockwell, L. Chartres, L. Clancarty, E. Cromwell, L. D'Souza, B. Freeman of Steventon, B. Freyberg, L. Green of Hurstpierpoint, L. Hall of Birkenhead, L. Hampton, L. Hannay of Chiswick, L. Harries of Pentregarth, L. Hayman, B. Hogan-Howe, L. Hope of Craighead, L. Hunt of Bethnal Green, B. Janvrin, L. Kerr of Kinlochard, L. Krebs, L. Laming, L. Londesborough, L. Macpherson of Earl's Court, L. McDonald of Salford, L. Meacher, B. Meston, L. Patel, L. Stuart of Edgbaston, B. Trees, L. Vaux of Harrowden, L. Watkins of Tavistock, B. Wheatcroft, B.

Non-affiliated (7 votes)

Austin of Dudley, L. Cashman, L. Mackenzie of Framwellgate, L. Paddick, L. Paul, L. Truscott, L. Uddin, B.

Green Party (1 vote)

Bennett of Manor Castle, B.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

House Speaker Greg Fergus says he doesn't intend to resign, despite two opposition parties calling for him to step down.

Both the Conservatives and Bloc Québécois say they want Fergus to resign for appearing in a video shown at the Ontario Liberal leadership convention last weekend.

In the video, Fergus paid tribute to former Ontario Liberal interim leader John Fraser. The video was recorded in the Speaker's office while Fergus was wearing his Speaker's robes.

MPs spent a chunk of time Tuesday afternoon debating the wording of a motion that would refer the issue to committee. The motion itself is likely to pass as the four major parties have all said they support the idea. [...]

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Glue Factory - 23/9/24

In today's college trip we had discussions with Fraser Whiting about his background to the art industry, when he graduated and where he and the Glue Factory is now. The Glue Factory was build in 1891. This building was initially a glue and industrial pipework. This can be seen in the images above in the tank room. Everything is untouched to have the sense how aging this building is and therefore becomes useful to others students for those that seek areas like this for film.

Fraser graduated in 2022 studying painting and printmaking at GSA and is now currently working as facilities manager in the Glue factory and is part of Glasgow Project room committee. He talks about the spaces allocated to those in the art industry and have the opportunities to use the new studio spaces.

In this industry requires a lot of community support for financials and communications between artists and the team in the Glue Factory to make events happen. The events may include art showing, event hires such as weddings. I thought the glue factory was interesting for those aspects of community similar to SWG3 trip. I find it would be interesting to use those large spaces for bigger projects.

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I.8.6 What did the agricultural collectives accomplish?

Most basically, self-management in collectives combined with co-operation in rural federations allowed an improvement in quality of rural life. From a purely economic viewpoint, production increased and as historian Benjamin Martin summarises: “Though it is impossible to generalise about the rural land take-overs, there is little doubt that the quality of life for most peasants who participated in co-operatives and collectives notably improved.” [The Agony of Modernisation, p. 394] Another historian, Antony Beevor, notes that ”[i]n terms of production and improved standards for the peasants, the self-managed collectives appear to have been successful. They also seem to have encouraged harmonious community relations.” [The Spanish Civil War, p. 95]

More importantly, however, this improvement in the quality of life included an increase in freedom as well as in consumption. To re-quote the member of the Beceite collective in Aragón: “it was marvellous .. . to live in a collective, a free society where one could say what one thought, where if the village committee seemed unsatisfactory one could say. The committee took no big decisions without calling the whole village together in a general assembly. All this was wonderful.” [quoted by Ronald Fraser, Blood of Spain, p. 288] As Beevor suggests, “self-managed collectives were much happier when no better off than before. What mattered was that the labourers ran their own collectives — a distinct contrast to the disasters of state collectivisation in the Soviet Union.” [Op. Cit., p. 95] Here are a few examples provided by Jose Peirats:

“In Montblanc the collective dug up the old useless vines and planted new vineyards. The land, improved by modern cultivation with tractors, yielded much bigger and better crops … Many Aragón collectives built new roads and repaired old ones, installed modern flour mills, and processed agricultural and animal waste into useful industrial products. Many of these improvements were first initiated by the collectives. Some villages, like Calanda, built parks and baths. Almost all collectives established libraries, schools, and cultural centres.” [The Anarchist Collectives, p. 116]

Gaston Leval pointed out that “the Peasant Federation of Levant … produced more than half of the total orange crop in Spain: almost four million kilos (1 kilo equals about 2 and one-fourth pounds). It then transported and sold through its own commercial organisation (no middlemen) more than 70% of the crop. (The Federation’s commercial organisation included its own warehouses, trucks, and boats. Early in 1938 the export section established its own agencies in France: Marseilles, Perpignan, Bordeaux, Cherbourg, and Paris.) Out of a total of 47,000 hectares in all Spain devoted to rice production, the collective in the Province of Valencia cultivated 30,000 hectares.” [Op. Cit., p. 124] To quote Peirats again:

“Preoccupation with cultural and pedagogical innovations was an event without precedent in rural Spain. The Amposta collectivists organised classes for semi-literates, kindergartens, and even a school of arts and professions. The Seros schools were free to all neighbours, collectivists or not. Grau installed a school named after its most illustrious citizen, Joaquin Costa. The Calanda collective (pop. only 4,500) schooled 1,233 children. The best students were sent to the Lyceum in Caspe, with all expenses paid by the collective. The Alcoriza (pop. 4,000) school was attended by 600 children. Many of the schools were installed in abandoned convents. In Granadella (pop. 2,000), classes were conducted in the abandoned barracks of the Civil Guards. Graus organised a print library and a school of arts and professions, attended by 60 pupils. The same building housed a school of fine arts and high grade museum. In some villages a cinema was installed for the first time. The Penalba cinema was installed in a church. Viladecana built an experimental agricultural laboratory. [Op. Cit., p. 116]

Peirats summed up the accomplishments of the agricultural collectives as follows:

“In distribution the collectives’ co-operatives eliminated middlemen, small merchants, wholesalers, and profiteers, thus greatly reducing consumer prices. The collectives eliminated most of the parasitic elements from rural life, and would have wiped them out altogether if they were not protected by corrupt officials and by the political parties. Non-collectivised areas benefited indirectly from the lower prices as well as from free services often rendered by the collectives (laundries, cinemas, schools, barber and beauty parlours, etc.).” [Op. Cit., p. 114]

Leval emphasised the following achievements (among others):

“In the agrarian collectives solidarity was practised to the greatest degree. Not only was every person assured of the necessities, but the district federations increasingly adopted the principle of mutual aid on an inter-collective scale. For this purpose they created common reserves to help out villages less favoured by nature. In Castile special institutions for this purpose were created. In industry this practice seems to have begun in Hospitalet, on the Catalan railways, and was applied later in Alcoy. Had the political compromise not impeded open socialisation, the practices of mutual aid would have been much more generalised … A conquest of enormous importance was the right of women to livelihood, regardless of occupation or function. In about half of the agrarian collectives, the women received the same wages as men; in the rest the women received less, apparently on the principle that they rarely live alone … In all the agrarian collectives of Aragón, Catalonia, Levant, Castile, Andalusia, and Estremadura, the workers formed groups to divide the labour or the land; usually they were assigned to definite areas. Delegates elected by the work groups met with the collective’s delegate for agriculture to plan out the work. This typical organisation arose quite spontaneously, by local initiative … In addition … the collective as a whole met in weekly, bi-weekly or monthly assembly … The assembly reviewed the activities of the councillors it named, and discussed special cases and unforeseen problems. All inhabitants — men and women, producers and non-producers — took part in the discussion and decisions … In land cultivation the most significant advances were: the rapidly increased use of machinery and irrigation; greater diversification; and forestation. In stock raising: the selection and multiplication of breeds; the adaptation of breeds to local conditions; and large-scale construction of collective stock barns.” [Op. Cit., pp. 166–167]

Collectivisation, as Graham Kelsey notes, “allowed a rationalisation of village societies and a more efficient use of the economic resources available. Instead of carpenters and bricklayers remaining idle because no wealthy landowner had any use for their services they were put to work constructing agricultural facilities and providing the villages with the kind of social amenities which until then they had scarcely been able to imagine.” [Anarchosyndicalism, Libertarian Communism and the State, p. 169] Martha A. Ackelsberg sums up the experience well:

“The achievements of these collectives were extensive. In many areas they maintained, if not increased, agricultural production [not forgetting that many young men were at the front line], often introducing new patterns of cultivation and fertilisation … collectivists built chicken coups, barns, and other facilities for the care and feeding of the community’s animals. Federations of collectives co-ordinated the construction of roads, schools, bridges, canals and dams. Some of these remain to this day as lasting contributions of the collectives to the infrastructure of rural Spain. The collectivists also arranged for the transfer of surplus produce from wealthier collectives to those experiencing shortages, either directly from village to village or through mechanisms set up by regional committees.” [The Free Women of Spain, pp. 106–7]

As well as this inter-collective solidarity, the rural collectives also supplied food to the front-line troops:

“The collectives voluntarily contributed enormous stocks of provisions and other supplies to the fighting troops. Utiel sent 1,490 litres of oil and 300 bushels of potatoes to the Madrid front (in addition to huge stocks of beans, rice, buckwheat, etc.). Porales de Tujana sent great quantities of bread, oil, flour, and potatoes to the front, and eggs, meat, and milk to the military hospital. “The efforts of the collectives take on added significance when we take into account that their youngest and most vigorous workers were fighting in the trenches. 200 members of the little collective of Vilaboi were at the front; from Viledecans, 60; Amposta, 300; and Calande, 500.” [Jose Peirats, The Anarchist Collectives, p. 120]

Therefore, as well as significant economic achievements, the collectives ensured social and political ones too. Solidarity was practised and previously marginalised people took direct and full management of the affairs of their communities, transforming them to meet their own needs and desires.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"500 WORKLESS STORM RELIEF OFFICE IN HULL," Ottawa Journal. April 16, 1934. Page 1 & 13. --- Police Arrest Alleged Ring-Leader After Dispersing Mob. ---- CHEER SPEAKERS AND BOO OTHERS ---- Demand 50 Percent. Increase in Food and Less Work. ---- Demanding a 50 percent, increase in direct relief orders and a ruling that they be required to work only such time as would be necessary in order to meet rentals, a mob of more than 500 unemployed swooped down on the offices of the Hull Citizens' Relief Committee, 95-97 Victoria street, at eight o'clock this morning.

Demonstrators milled about the street in front of the office and the roadway, cheering orators and booing relief officials for nearly two hours. They were only dispersed by a strong detachment of Hull City police led by Chief Frederic Marengere and Deputy Chief Arthur Racine at 9.45.

Arrest Alleged Leader. Alleged to be one of the ringleaders of the near riot, Jean Paul Lafontaine, of Mance street, Hull, was arrested by Chief Marengere and Detective A. Anderson and is now in custody at Hull police station cells, where he is held on a charge of inciting a disturbance.

Police watched Lafontaine when he was making a speech to the crowd and effected the arrest afterwards on the grounds that he was going about from group to group of men removing ice from the sidewalks, and urging them to down tools.

Assemble in the Rain. According, apparently, to a pre-arranged plan the mob of unemployed gathered on Victoria street opposite City Hall Square shortly before eight o'clock, and in the pouring rain, speakers harangued the crowd. Principal points in their demands were a 50 percent. increase in relief orders, free clothing and release from compulsory work, except enough to meet their rents. In addition to setting forth their demands, speakers roundly scored members of the Hull Citizens' Relief Committee, Hull City Council, and provincial and Dominion Government officials.

One grievance aired at some length was that Hull unemployed on relief were getting less than their fellows in misfortune residing in Ottawa.

Shortly after eight o'clock, Hull police were advised of the demon- stration and Chief Marengere called out all available constables on both day and night staffs of the force. Off-duty firemen were summoned to stand by in case of serious trouble, and special officers of the Quebec Liquor Commission staff under the direction of Donald Myre went to the scene and mingled with the crowd.

The presence in their midst of a strong force of armed constables dampened the martial ardor of the demonstrators and no acts of violence were committed. However, the mob jeered loudly on the arrival of the relief committee staff at the office doors at nine o'clock.

Delegation is Heard. A delegation of 10 unemployed were admitted to the office of J. A. Charlebois, manager of the Hull Welfare Committee, who listened to their demands. He explained his work was purely administrative and that he was powerless to give an answer to any representations made. On receiving this reply, the demonstrators threatened to go on strike, declaring if they could not get more consideration, they would not work on any civic projects. About 15 minutes after the interview, the men dispersed to their homes, saturated with the steady downpour.

No statement on the disturbance was available from the Hull Citizens' Relief Committee in the absence from the city of its chairman, Col. W. Fraser Hadley.

While Hull police have made but one arrest, a number of other alleged ringleaders are under surveillance, including residents of Ottawa. A meeting of the relief committee scheduled for this evening has been postponed.

Hull City Council meets this evening, and measures are being taken by city police to prevent another possible disturbance on the part of the insurgents. While the meeting was not originally called to discuss direct relief administration. it is understood that the question will be brought up by Hull aldermen.

[lboogie1906]

Rosemary Brown (June 7, 1930 - April 26, 2003) has the distinction of being the first Black woman in Canada to be elected to public office. She was elected to the British Columbia Legislative Assembly (1972-86). She was the first woman to run for the leadership of a federal political party, finishing a close second in the New Democratic Party leadership race in 1975.

She was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and came to Canada in 1951. She completed a BA at McGill University. She received an MSW at the University of British Columbia. She was known as a dynamic social activist, a writer, and a feminist as well as a politician.

She was active in the British Columbia Council of Black Women and the National Black Coalition of Canada. She worked with the Vancouver Children’s Aid Society, and Simon Fraser University’s counseling service, and developed a volunteer-driven counseling outreach program. She was a founding member of the Vancouver Status of Women Council and helped train volunteers for the Vancouver Crisis Centre.

She was re-elected to the legislative assembly in 1979 and 1983. She sponsored legislation that created a provincial committee to eliminate sexism in textbooks and educational curricula. She was instrumental in establishing the Berger Commission on the Family, and in introducing legislation that would prohibit discrimination based on sex or marital status. Her efforts contributed directly to an increase in the number of women represented on boards, commissions, and directorates throughout British Columbia. She left politics to become a professor of Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University.

She was awarded a Human Rights Fellowship by the United Nations. She received the National Coalition of Canada Award and the Black Historical and Cultural Society of British Columbia award. She was named an officer of the Order of British Columbia, and the Order of Canada. She held an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Mount St. Vincent University in Nova Scotia. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence