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“Jail Two Ships' Firemen,” Toronto Star. April 10, 1942. Page 38. ---- Victoria, April 10 - (CP) - Patrick O'Brynne and F. Roma, firemen on the dominion government hydrographic survey ship William J. Stewart, were sentenced to four months in jail on a charge of refusing to sail with their ship up the west coast of Vancouver Island March 27. They refused to sail unless they were granted a war bonus.

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Wednesday incident leaves person in custody at Saanich jail needing medical attention - Saanich News

Wednesday incident leaves person in custody at Saanich jail needing medical attention – Saanich News

One person in custody needed medical attention after an incident at the Wilkinson Road jail on Wednesday. (Facebook photo/Koa Barroeta) Wednesday incident leaves person in custody at Saanich jail needing medical attention No details about what happened could be provided on Sept. 29 One person in custody needed medical attention after an incident at the Wilkinson Road jail on Wednesday. A…

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Evergreen Suspension Latest in Compliance Shortfalls

  Health Canada Suggests Evergreen Diverting Cannabis to Black Market – LPC

Health Canada announced it suspended Evergreen Medicinal Supply, Inc.’s cultivation and medical sales licences. The Evergreen suspension actually came in August after an unannounced Health Canada inspection. Health Canada spokesperson Tammy Jarbeau confirmed the move to BNN Bloomberg (see link below). She indicated that part of the reason was concerns about Evergreen cannabis going to the black market. “Health Canada suspended Evergreen Medicinal Supply’s licences to protect public health and safety, including preventing cannabis from being diverted to the illegal market, as a result of non-compliance with certain provisions of the Cannabis Act and Cannabis Regulations,” Jarbeau said. The Evergreen suspension comes on the heels of other high profile suspensions. Bonify Medical Cannabis in Winnipeg had its licence suspended in early 2019 after Health Canada found it was selling unlicensed cannabis. CannTrust Holdings Inc. had its licensed pulled for illegal cannabis activity including unlicensed growing areas. Although the CannTrust matter is still undecided, fines and jail time for executives and workers are all possibilities.

Story Goes Deeper Than Evergreen Suspension – LPC

The Evergreen suspension is just part of the story. Court documents in BC show that Evergreen landlord Philip Illingworth sued Evergreen. Illingworth said the company owes him $425,061 in back rent. The court found Evergreen had not paid rent in three years of its five-year lease. The lease itself expired at the end of December 2018, which Evergreen also contested. The court ordered Evergreen to vacate the 5,700-square-foot facility by the end of August 2019. The facility is located in Central Saanich, BC on Vancouver Island, about 20 kilometres north of Victoria. Meanwhile, the Evergreen website has been essentially shut down with a temporary splash page blocking access to the site. It is unclear if the splash page appeared before or after the Evergreen suspension. This editorial content from the LPC News Team is meant to provide analysis, insight, and perspective on current news articles. To read the source article this commentary is based upon, please click on the link below. Click here to view full story at www.bnnbloomberg.ca Read the full article

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Hello there, many people know the police are harassing me.... violating section 65.2 of the BC POLICE ACT RSBC 1996 NOwhere in the BC police act rsbc 1996 does it say when filing a verbal complaint for disparaging comments about my sexuality or father's death by a Saanich police officer ..... does the police act state one can't raise their voice or yell, outraged when filing a complaint. In fact, from spending time at the library no police act internationally states a person can't raise their voice when filing a verbal complaint. The Victoria police community has retaliated escalating with harassing mental health act arrests as uneducated malcontents like Mike Martin bullying seek controlling power.as they file criminal charges against me. In fact when no longer on probation I phoned before stopping by my family home to speak to my mother Anna isabel Davidson about how I was and to ask her if she would manage my artistic career only to get arrested at gunpoint and thrown in jail, just for trying to connect with my family. (at Oak Bay, British Columbia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDn5dUyjxjD/?igshid=110tzo9vgvn22

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What’s Current: Mexican woman convicted of homicide for miscarrying walks free

What’s Current: Mexican woman convicted of homicide for miscarrying walks free

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A Mexican woman who was sentenced to 16 years in jail after miscarrying in a department store bathroom has walked free after a court overturned her homicide conviction.

Despite filing bankruptcy papers, proceedingsagainst Matthew Schwabe, accused of hiding a camera in the women’s washroom at Mattick’s Red Barn Market in Saanich on Vancouver Island, then uploading photos to a…

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“The Provincial Mental Home, Colquitz opened its doors to British Columbia's "male criminal insane” inmates on 25 March 1919. Situated on farmland 10 kilometres northwest of Victoria, the institution's physical plant was the creation of local architect Colonel William Ridgway Wilson (1863-1957). Workers constructed the central building during 1912 and 1913 out of red brick, terra cotta, and reinforced concrete in "high Victorian Gothic revival style" at a cost of $240,000. Originally comprising 144 steel-barred cells arranged in two wings of four and two tiers apiece, Colquitz operated from 1914 to 1917 as the Saanich Prison Farm, then for the duration of World War I as a detention facility for prisoners of war and military offenders under the Naval Discipline Act. Following two years of agricultural use (as a pheasant farm), the grounds fell under the jurisdiction of the Provincial Secretariat and in 1919 became the second establishment for "criminal lunatics" in Canadian history. Over the first decade of its operation, the main structure's east wing was converted into two large dormitories (the Top East and Lower East Wards), while the West Ward remained a cell block accommodating refractory inmates. With the 1929 transfer of 20 resident employees to a Staff House the Colquitz patient population reached a capacity of about 285, which remained relatively stable until the facility began to depopulate prior to its decommissioning and reassignment to the British Columbia Corrections Branch in early 1964. A total of 778 men entered the Colquitz Mental Home from the province's courts, prisons, and hospitals during its 46 years of existence The building became a heritage site in 1979 and underwent extensive renovations in the mid-1980s. It continues to function as the Vancouver Island Regional Correctional Centre (better known as the Wilkinson Road Jail).

Colquitz was one component of an immense provincial psychiatric enterprise that had its origins in the Victoria Lunatic Asylum (1872-78), and rapidly expanded with the opening of New Westminster's Public Hospital for the Insane (PHI) in 1878, followed by the inauguration of the Provincial Mental Hospital, Essondale, in Coquitlam on 1 April 1913. Along with various satellite institutions operating at different times in Vemon, Terrace, Kamloops, and the Lower Mainland, the PHI, Essondale, and Colquitz were the three flagships of British Columbia's mental health apparatus for the better part of five decades. Between 1872 and Colquitz's closure in 1964, 68,430 people passed through the doors of these establishment.

Farrant was a former psychiatric patient himself. Shortly after he had arrive& in late 1898, from his home in Essex, England at the age of 21, police found Farrant drifting through the bush near Nelson, British Columbia. Physicians certified him to the Public Hospital for the Insane (PHI) in New Westminster, where he spent nearly three months in detention with a diagnosis of melancholia. The experience evidently had an enduring effect. Following his discharge in 1899, Farrant entered the provincial mental health service as an employee, working under Medical Superintendents G. F. Bodington, G. H. Manchester, and C. E. Doherty. With the exception of one brief stint with the New Westminster Club, Farrant rose systematically through the asylum ranks from under-attendant to supervisor of the branch asylum at Vernon to assistant bursar at the Provincial Mental Hospital at Essondale. Upon their both returning from overseas service after World War I, Superintendent Doherty appointed Farrant to the newly created position of Colquitz Supervisor. Farrant held the post until his death from complications of diabetes on 6 November 1933.

While he possessed no medical credentials and was formally subordinate to officials in Victoria and psychiatric authorities on the mainland, Farrant was nonetheless a dominant force in the organizational life of the Colquitz Mental Home. Residing on the property and responsible for both administration and security, he was ubiquitous in virtually every facet of the facility's operation:

It was Farrant who oversaw the maintenance of the building and surrounding grounds and farmland, who hired and fired attendants, who assigned patients to dormitories and "rooms," who determined work assignments, who controlled the regulatory system of rewards and sanctions, who received visitors and corresponded with outsiders, and who generally represented the institution and fashioned its external image and internal regimen.

The operation of Colquitz during these early years was both a reflection of contemporary preoccupations about mental disorder and criminality, and a projection of Farrant's own indomitable personality. Farrant and the senior medical staff considered Colquitz a prototypical facility, which simultaneously could service a specialized clientele of male "criminal insane" and other "difficult" inmates, and relieve the grave overcrowding that forever plagued the mainland institution. Moreover, it would represent the highest ideals of moral management and modern science. However disordered and dangerous, all patients would benefit from the wisdom and benevolence of their overseers in a context where "no arms are permitted to be carried.. . and kindness takes the place of force."

There is little doubt about Farrant's sincerity of conviction. As his 1923 New Year message to Medical Superintendent Harold Chapman Steeves intoned, 

"we will carry on in the same indefatigable way to promote the conditions of those who are less fortunate than us, who live in a world that is almost unknown to others except ourselves."

Five years later, his annual report was replete with the many benefits that he had bestowed during the prior 12 months upon the patient population: 

Ample amusements have been afforded the patients, we had a number of excellent concerts, given by our own orchestra, supplemented by outside talent, there were many friends of the Institution, who gladly rendered their services, to make these concerts a success. Films have been regularly screened during the Winter months. Radio has been installed in each Ward, which is tuned in daily, the building has been wired from the Main. Reading matter has been supplied by the Times Office, Salvation Army, Y.M.C.A. and others. The patients' spiritual welfare, has been cared for, by the Protestant and Catholic Churches also the Salvation Army.

Such affirmative images of Colquitz's philanthropic mission were also evident in various public depictions of the facility. In one such portrayal, entitled "Making Life Worthwhile for Insane. Humane Methods Lighten Suffering of World's Unfortunates," a tour of Colquitz inspired a local newspaper columnist to wax eloquent about the good works being undertaken by Farrant and his staff: 

Mr Farrant's secret of success in running a mental home might be sized up in two words--"congenial work." Where it is possible every patient is profitably employed in the grounds or in the main building and the result of their work is shown in thirty acres of well-kept grounds and farm lands, greenhouses, gardens, buildings and furniture. Every bit of the work the superintendent points out, with justifiable pride, has been done by the labor of the patients. . . . Instead of looking upon those under his charge as men who have been sent to him because of some insane tendency [and] should not be free to take their place in the word as ordinary citizens, he looks upon them as men to be put to work under conditions as much like those of outside workers as possible." 

As I argue..., however, Granby Farrant's rendition of life in his I establishment represented only one of many alternative versions of institutional reality. For a multitude of medico-legal, administrative, philosophical, and personal reasons, discourse and practice did not always coincide in the everyday operation of the Colquitz Mental Home. The interplay of power and resistance within the institutional walls generated a far more complex milieu than these positive accounts would allow. In what follows I enlist the clinical and organizational records to penetrate beyond these public representations. I attempt to assemble a portrait of Colquitz that reflects not only the perspective of Farrant and other authorities, but also the rich and poignant experience of those many men who inhabited the dormitories, wards and cells of this imposing structure.”    

- Robert Menzies, “"I Do Not Care for a Lunatic’s Role": Modes of Regulation and Resistance Inside the Colquitz Mental Home, British Columbia, 1919-33.” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History. Volume 16: 1999. pp. 185-186