Are some people within the justice and legal aid system pulling strings behind the scenes to misappropriate funds from the taxpayers of Ontario in a case involving Justice Craig Perkins?
(August 18, 2008) Renowned columnist with the National Post, Barbara Kay, has written an excellent article about the same case which Court Watch has been following for some time involving Justice Craig Perkins who sits in the Barrie and Newmarket Courts in Ontario.

This case in which Justice Perkins placed a publication ban has taken a new twist.  Now it seems as if the taxpayers of Ontario are going to get hosed for a lot of money.  It seems that legal aid is going to fund the case in which the recipient mother of the legal aid lives very comfortably in a home where the combined income is in excess of $100,000 per year and where the recipient is reported to come from a very financially well off family.  It is also estimated that this case could cost the taxpayer in excess of $100,000 to help the mother fight in court to prevent Justice Perkins gag order from being removed and to prevent her 12-year-old daughter to have contact with her older brothers and sister.  The recipient mother has consistently refused to allow her 12 year old daughter to see her other siblings in spite of the child desperately wanting to do so.  She misses her siblings dearly because of what Justice Perkins and her mother's lawyer have done to separate and destroy the family in Canada's morally corrupt family court system.  In the eyes of many in the community, the mother who is the recipient of the legal aid is a child abuser of the worst kind as a result of the things that she has done to destroy her children's lives with the help and support of her family law lawyer.  Yet it seems while many poor families are unable to get legal aid, this mother who would appear to be financially well off, gets significant funding.  The father in this case has fought valiantly against an anti-father family court system and has fought tirelessly to pursue justice for his children, something which the courts seem unable to do.

Many who are familiar with the case believe that the case is being funded by Legal Aid for political reasons because influential people in the court system do not want the truth to come out about how this family was mistreated by the justice system and how a young girl was stripped away from her family without Justice Perkins ever asking what the girl wanted or inquiring if her mother was abusing her. What is also interesting is that is has been reported that the mother's lawyer is a director of Legal Aid and will get a big chunk of this money from the taxpayer's purse.  The conflict of interest is so apparent. Justice Perkin's publication ban even makes it impossible for the taxpayers of Ontario to know the name of the lawyer.  This whole case involving Justice Perkins has been a miscarriage of justice from the very beginning and in the opinion of many, Justice Perkins should resign as Judge.  This case was the same case in which Justice Lydia Olah ordered the courtroom doors to be UNLAWFULLY locked by OPP officers to keep members of the media out of the court.  Many citizens in Ontario feel that Justice Olah and Justice Perkins have both acted like judicial tyrants and have brought the Administration of Justice into disrepute.  It would appear that Justice Perkins along with some others in the legal industry have a vested interest in seeing that the truth in this case is kept hidden from public scrutiny and helping the mother with the use of legal aid resources would certainly help in this goal without implicating those who really want the truth buried.
Link to article in PDF format

Ontario Lawyer speaks out about the abuse of citizens by law enforcement officials and the failure of the justice system to protect Canadian citizens from this abuse
(August 13, 2008) Court Watch has posted a segment of an interview with a highly respected and ethical lawyer in which he speaks about how a number of Canadian citizens are being abused by law enforcement agencies while at the same time the justice system is allowing this to happen.  The justice system is failing to protect Canadian citizens from abuse while at the same time protecting those who commit the abuse. In the eyes of many Canadians, the authorities are failing to protect the citizens that they have been entrusted to protect and instead, protecting those who break the law.  Many citizens feel that many in the justice system have forgotten what true justice is about and have taken the position that rather to serve and protect the citizens, to punish them.
Link to Court Watch video index

Toronto CAS group home infested with bedbugs!
(August 9, 2008) Court Watch has received inside information that a Toronto region group home has been infested with bed bugs on intermittent basis for over 18 months with the problem continuing as of today.  It has been reported that the children in care are being bitten while they sleep.  Children have had their personal belongings and clothing thrown out and are being forced to sleep on the floor without blankets.  The residence has been sprayed numerous times but the bugs keep coming returning.  Questions can also be raised as to how much pesticide have the children been exposed to in this CAS home after repeated spraying.   If these conditions existed in a private home, CAS would likely apprehend children from parents, yet when these deplorable conditions exist within a taxpayer funded CAS facility, nothing is done.  Children report being threatened with punishment by CAS workers if the children say anything to anyone about what they see going on in these homes.  Sounds like this CAS facility should be closed down permanently!

Fathers for Justice launch protest at the Toronto office of Jack Layton
(August 8, 2008) Fathers for Justice have taken over the roof of the Toronto constituency office of Jack Layton and have hung a banner reading, "No Dads Party" in protest to what many claim is the anti-father policies and positions of the New Democratic Party in Canada.  Fathers for Canada has claim that the New Democratic Party will not support equality and fairness in family law in Canada and are treating fathers and sons as second class citizens. Toronto Police and various news agencies have arrived at the scene.

Nine, including social workers, charged in teen's death
(August 2, 2008) A report from Associated Press about a teen in the US who died from neglect while under the watchful eye of child protection workers.  Workers involved with the child's case are suspected of falsifying home visit and progress report records.  The Assistant Health Commissioner, Carmen Paris, was suspected of interfering with the investigation into the girl's death likely in an attempt to hide shoddy work by the workers who were supposed to be supervising the girl and her family. Ms. Paris was forced to resign her position. 

Court Watch is aware of cases where CAS workers are not visiting families in a timely manner as they are supposed to be.
Link to article in pdf format

Police seize children from mother who kidnapped her children almost 6 1/2 years ago.  Children now happy and returning to Ontario with their father
(July 31, 2008) Breaking news.  A father is on his way back to Ontario today after police seized his children from their mother who had kidnapped them from the Toronto Region and had taken them to the east coast of Canada where she hid the children with the help of her family for years. She registered the children in school using false names which the school local board never checked.  She never bothered to obtain health cards for the children and the mother worked for cash to elude Revenue Canada.  The children are reported doing good and happy to now be with their father. The boy who was overjoyed to see his father said, "I knew you were out there somewhere dad and knew that you would find me." 

Hopefully the courts here in Ontario will send a message to this mother who kidnapped her children in contravention to a court Order.  The mother has an extensive history of financial fraud and has been abusing the system for years with impunity.

Ontario Lawyer speaks to Court Watch regarding the use of recording devices in the court as well as the tampering of transcripts by judges and court reporters
(July 31, 2008) Court Watch has posted a segment of an interview with a highly respected and ethical lawyer in which he speaks on the subject of recording your own court hearing in Ontario as well as the problem with court transcripts being unlawfully altered by judges and court staff.
Link to Court Watch video index

Father reports how Ontario's Office of the Children's Lawyer destroyed his children and adversly affected his life forever as a result of a biased and incompetent report
(July 28, 2008) Another testimony in the continuing saga of abuse of children and families by incompetent workers with Ontario's Office of the Children's Lawyer, headed by Ms. Clare Burns, a lawyer who in contradiction to the Supreme Court of Canada, believes that it it harmful to have workers with the Office of the Children's Lawyer interview children on videotape.  It's time for the Government of Ontario to remove Ms. Burns from her position as the Children's Lawyer.  Court Watch continues to have complaints about her agency pour in.  She is the one who is the head of that organization and the one who should be responsible for the lousy performance of her agency. Court Watch challenges Clare Burns to start ordering her workers to videotape their interviews with children.  Why is it that Clare Burns and her band of lawyers and social workers are so afraid of videotaping? Are they afraid of being held accountable?  Many citizens in Ontario are asking this same question.
Link to Court Watch video index

Lawyer tells Court Watch that legal profession has lost its moral compass is is working against the interest of the Canadian people.
(July 27, 2008) Court Watch has interviewed a lawyer who has indicated that many of those involved within the legal profession have loss their moral compass to the point where justice in Canada is in disrepute.  The legal system itself is no longer serving to defend the citizens of this great country, but has turned against the citizens of Canada using lawyers who want to pursue convictions and guilty pleas at all costs using threats and intimation.  Stories of wrongfully convicted certainly support what this lawyer has reported to Court Watch.  In the opinion of this lawyer, there is one set of laws for those in the system and a second set of laws for the Canadian people.  Many in the legal profession have put money and winning cases above justice. Other honest and ethical legal professionals have contact Court Watch as well and have indicated their willingness to speak publicly about how the legal industry in Canada is failing the Canadian public. The video interview with this lawyer to be posted soon.  Readers who would like to keep updated to new video releases should subscribe to the Court Watch Videos on www.vimeo.com/user387217/videos

Other lawyers, paralegals, court workers, CAS workers or other professionals who would also like to speak up about the failure of our legal or child protection system to serve the interests of Canadians are urged to contact Canada Court Watch at info@canadacourtwatch.com

Father reports extreme gender bias by Ontario police.  Police refuse to charge partner even when she admits having assaulted the father and "liking" it.
(July 24, 2008) Court Watch will soon be posting another recent video in which a father describes in detail how police in Ontario, including the police from Halton Ontario, demonstrated blatant bias against him because of his gender.  Police refused to charge his drunken and violent wife after she busted down a door and physically assaulted her husband leaving marks on him.  According to the father, Halton Police told him that if he called the police if his wife was to assault him again, that he would be forcefully removed from his home under Ontario's zero tolerance laws which mandate that the male must be removed from his home and his children, even if the male is the victim of the assault.

In another incident, the police refused to press charges even after his drunken wife admitted to police that she had assaulted her husband in front of the children and "liked" doing it.  This video will give yet another example of how police, operating under Ontario's draconian zero tolerance laws are literally destroying children and their families and breeding disrespect for the police by allowing many violent and abusive mothers to assault their partners and their children with impunity. Domestic violence statistics are being skewed to appear as if only men are the abusers because men in Ontario now live in constant fear of being removed from their homes and their children if they dare to call the police on their abusive partners.  Some of the most shocking human rights abuses and abuse by police services against the citizens are going on right here in Canada.

Children report corruption and bias by Ontario police against their loving and devoted father
(July 23, 2008) In this video, children disclose how they witnessed police officers illegally seize tape recorded evidence from their father which would have shown that the children's violent mother had been abusing the children and then gave the evidence to the mother for her to destroy.  They then turned around and arrested the father and took him off to jail after refusing to listen to the tape which would have shown that mom was lying to police officers and that she was the one who was abusing both the kids and the father.  Unfortunately, bias against fathers by police is a big problem in Ontario, with many, good and loving fathers being forced out of their homes, taken from their children and then arrested and thrown in jail based on false allegations from abusive and violent mothers.

A licensed private investigator's report in this same case was given to Court Watch also reveals that the mother in this case was observed by a private investigator inside an undercover police car on a remote rural Ontario road with one of officers from the local police force and appeared to have engaged in sexual activity. Was this payback to one of the police officers for letting mom destroy evidence which would have shown that she was abusing her children? 

It's no wonder why the kids in Ontario are losing respect for the police and the courts in Ontario.  The kids are seeing for themselves how corrupt Ontario's family law system has become and how good, loving fathers are being destroyed by a system which supports mothers to the point where many mothers are being allowed to abuse their family members with impunity! Let's not forget the few good mothers who get screwed by the system as well for similar reasons.  It's time that police officers and CAS workers be required to videotape interviews with children to lessen the ability of the system to ignore and cover up what the kids are reporting. What are these agencies afraid of?  We need more honest cops and CAS workers to step up to the plate and to help put an end to this sort of family destruction.  Corruption in the system is hurting our families, our communities, our province and our Nation.
Link to Court Watch video index

Teens report that nobody, including the police, the CAS or the court listened to them while their mother abused them and their loving father for years
(July 20, 2008) A new video will soon be released in which three teens disclose how they were miserably failed by the system in Ontario which ended up rewarding their mother for abusing them and their father for years.  They reported abuse by their mother to the authorities but tell how nothing was done.  In fact, even after reporting that mother was abusing them, the children were put in the custody of their abusive mother and forced to endure even more abuse.  Dad was forced into virtual poverty trying to protect his children and to seek justice.  Justice Perkins and Justice Lydia Olah of the Barrie, Ontario court have done this as well - refused to listen to the kids about their abusive mother and then put a publication ban on the case to hide what these judicial tyrants did in that case.

Child reports her unpleasant experience with Ontario's Office of the Chldren's Lawyer
(July 12, 2008) In a recent video interview, a young child tells how Ontario's Office of the Children's Lawyer has miserably failed her.  This young girl reports how it took the lawyer from the OCL almost a year to return her calls to his office.  She reports abuse by her stepmother to the OCL lawyer but who does nothing to deal with the abuse.  The girl reports how the Office of the children's lawyer has done absolutely nothing to help her.  The taxpayers of Ontario are literally getting hosed by this government funded agency which in many cases, is providing absolutely incompetent services to children.
Link to Court Watch video index

Disgusting videotaped interview of Barrie, Ontario child by the CAS
(July 3, 2008) A recently released video reveals disgusting work done by CAS workers to a child from Barrie, Ontario in which one of the workers takes the clothes off a young child at the CAS offices including her underwear so that the CAS worker who has no medical credentials could do a vaginal examination. Absolutely disgusting does not even begin to describe the intrusive and unprofessional exam done on this child by some CAS worker!  The child even tells the worker that mommy told her to tell the worker that daddy touches her private parts but the worker quickly diverts the child away from this disclosure about her mom.

On top of this, the incompetent and stupid worker asks a bunch of leading and totally inappropriate questions clearly intended to get the child to say bad things about dad and to avoid asking questions about mom.  Shame on you, CAS!!!!!!  This video brings your agency to the pinnacle of child abuse! Who is watching these workers with the CAS?  Obviously some of these CAS workers haven't the foggiest idea of how to conduct an interview with a child.  Shame as well, on the judges in the Barrie, Ontario court such as Justice Olah and Justice Perkins who seem to believe much of what these CAS workers say without question. If Justice Olah or Justice Perkins would like to have a copy of this tape to see for themselves how CAS workers interview children and take their little panties down, then they are welcome to contact Court Watch and we will arrange to have a copy of the video delivered to them for their private viewing.  While Justice Olah and Justice Perkins criticize Court Watch for its efforts to expose the truth and to help children, it's the CAS who are making fools of everyone at the court and making a mockery of justice!  Court Watch has another video of a boy telling how a male CAS worker, stopped the CAS van at the side of the highway and then opened his trousers and grabbed his penis!  Watch for that Court Watch video to be posted soon.  It's a simple case of judges like Justice Olah and Justice Perkins backing the wrong horse in too many cases with tragic results for children.  The CAS are going to make fools of both of these judges.  It's no wonder why CAS agencies fight hard to keep these videos secret - they don't want to be scrutinized for their lack of professionalism! Justice Olah orders courtroom doors locked and Justice Perkins orders publication bans which certainly help these child-abusing CAS workers to hide their dirty secrets.

RCMP National Investigation unit reports that CAS have acted inappropriately and have wrongly taken children!
(July 3, 2008) Documents recently released were reviewed by Court Watch reporters today which clearly indicate that the RCMP at the highest level, did conduct an investigation involving the CAS in Ontario and did conclude from their investigation that the CAS had acted inappropriately and had wrongfully taken away children from their parents. In addition to this, information has been uncovered which would indicate that police at a local level where this family lives kept this report a secret until the documents were eventually uncovered.  Thanks to the honestly of some good officers at the RCMP, the CAS perpetrators of this crime may be brought to justice.  A number of good lawyers and police officers are now refusing to support a family court system which even they see is out of control and unaccountable.  It's only a matter of time till many of these CAS workers who engage in criminal activities are going to find themselves and their agencies facing big lawsuits as the truth begins to surface of their wrongdoings.

Reign of terror in Barrie, Ontario as police terrorize girl and her family as part of police goon squad assistance to Children's Aid to "serve and protect" children and members of the public.
(July 3, 2008) A video posted on Youtube shows graphically how our tax dollars are being spent by police and child protection workers in the Barrie, Ontario region, to supposedly "protect" children from harm by forcing children to return to the care of the Children's Aid Society.  If anyone wonders why a growing number of children and families in the community are beginning to hate the police and the CAS, this video shows graphic reasons why. 

This sort of public relations disaster created by police and the CAS is only destroying the public's faith in the police and the CAS.  These organizations need the respect and support of the people of Barrie, not their disrespect and scorn.  Another 13-year-old teen from Barrie contacted Court Watch to tell us how police broke down the bathroom door at her friend's home to take her away to the CAS after forcing her into the back of a smelly police cruiser.  She had run back to her loving family after being sexually approached while in foster care with the CAS.  CAS workers who often don't even have the credentials as social workers are in effect telling the police what do do.  Police are often listening and taking orders from inexperienced CAS workers who often are not even registered Social Workers.   This girl and her sibling you can be sure now hate the Barrie, Ontario police force as well and will be certainly sharing their views with many in the Barrie, Ontario region including other teens.  Next time the Barrie, Ontario police have a riot and have kids jeering and making fun of them,  they can blame their own policy of acting as the goon patrol for the CAS for turning the kids against them.  What the police should be doing is insisting on Court Orders for apprehension rather than to take orders from unregistered CAS workers. Make the CAS workers get a court Order first and get it on the RECORD! Stop taking orders from these incompetent CAS workers who have a long history of messing up kids and their families.

Videos like this are helping to expose the truth of the child protection industry in Canada.  You don't need to go to third world countries like China or South America to see children being terrorized and taken away - we have the police and the CAS doing that right here in Canada.  If you think that human rights are being respected in Canada, you had better think again.  All this nonsense by the CAS being funded by the taxpayers of the Province of Ontario, of course!
Link to You Tube video (Please note: CAS threatened the parents to remove the video and had it removed.  If this link does not work then stay tuned for a new link to the video)

And let's not forget as well, that it was officers from the Barrie, Ontario police force who bullied and intimidated a 70 year-old senior citizen and would not let her enter the Barrie, Ontario courthouse to use the public washrooms because the elderly woman was wearing a Court Watch T shirt. Read the article at the link below.  The police at the Barrie, Ontario courthouse called her a "gang" member for protesting for justice outside of the Barrie, Ontario court.
Link to Barrie Courthouse article in PDF format

Hamilton MPP introduces Ombudsman oversight bill to make CAS more accountable!
)June 18, 2008) Hamilton NDP MPP Andrea Horwath MPP has re-introduced the CAS Ombudsman Oversight Bill, which, if passed, will grant the Ontario Ombudsman, Andre Marin, the right to finally have the power to investigate the actions of Children's Aid Societies within the province of Ontario.  Officially, that Bill is known as Bill 93, Ombudsman Amendment Act (Children's Aid Societies), 2008.  Most of those in Ontario will recall the Auditor General Report of 2006 in which it was reported that the four Children's Aid Societies that were investigated had misspent money that should have gone towards protecting our children.  The Auditor General found that that all four CAS agencies involved in the investigation were paying for personal vacations and luxury vehicles, etc. with our tax dollars.  That was plain wrong.  The report also found that the CAS agencies were either unwilling or unable - whichever the case may be - to adhere to child welfare policies, as stated in the Child & Family Services Act, which policies have been made in order to protect the province's children.  Children were dying because of the CAS' failures in this regard.  At the same time, numerous other parents were losing their children unnecessarily to the Crown because of poor record keeping, or sometimes, because of incompetent or vindictive social workers whose management was also either unable or unwilling to prevent these "mistakes".
 
The Child & Family Services Review Board was introduced to the general public as what was supposed to be the independent investigative body that would ensure that children were protected from this point on, and that, on the rare occasion when mistakes were made, the CFSRB would be there to "fix" what went wrong. The CFSRB's role, however, became so watered down during its establishment that the Board really does not now have any investigative powers whatsoever.  The only power that the CFSRB actually has - as admitted to by the CFSRB itself - is to compel the complained-about CAS agency to put in writing the reason for their decision on a given matter.  There is absolutely no oversight over CAS agencies at all - even with the CFSRB in place - despite Minister of Children & Youth Services Deb Matthews' false allegations to the contrary. The offending CAS agency can still rob parents of their children - and children of their parents - inappropriately and illegally.  The CAS agencies can still destroy lives and lie in affidavits, which they do repeatedly without penalty. 

Parents are urged to contact their MPP's and to request that support Andrea Horwath's Bill. Parents can also help by obtaining a copy of a petition form from Andrea and collect signatures. We can no longer allow CAS agencies to continue to be unaccountable any longer.  All of our children are counting on it."

Simcoe Children's Aid Society accepts psychic's prediction as basis to commence sexual abuse investigation!
(June 17, 2008) If the latest news out of Barrie is any indication of what what CAS agencies have added to their risk assessment tools, CAS agencies should soon be regularly making front page news in the National Enquirer!  It seems that the bumbling idiots from the Simcoe Children's Aid Society (most of whom are unlicensed social workers) commenced an investigation into child abuse based on the reports of a local psychic and card reader. Check today's top news stories in various newspapers.  We can expect that the Simcoe Children's Aid Society will soon be hiring its own psychics, card readers and witchdoctors. What's next? Will the Simcoe CAS start a new department to begin investigations of sexual abuse of Aliens from Outer Space? Risk Assessment tools for green children from outer space could very well be the next project coming from the Barrie, Ontario Region if this latest incident is any indication of the thinking that goes on with workers at the CAS.  The real tragedy is that the Province of Ontario is taking money away from  schools and hospitals in order to fund this CAS nonsense. BEFORE any investigation even commences or a file is even opened up, CAS workers should be verifying the source of the information.  In this case with information coming from a psychic as the source, school officials and CAS workers should simply have hung up the phone before taking any further action. The school worker who went to the psychic in the first place should be fired for being mentally unfit to care for children.

Internationally acclaimed Canadian scientist to speak about abuse of children and families by Canada's family court system!
(June 10, 2008) One of Canada's highly acclaimed and internationally recognized scientists has contacted Court Watch and has indicated that he is willing to come forth publicly and speak about what he has seen is the systemic abuse of children and families by Canada's morally corrupt family court system.  His testimony will soon be spread throughout the world how the legal profession together with the courts in Canada are helping to destroy their own citizens.  Readers should stay tuned for when Court Watch breaks this new story.  According to this highly respected scientist, the family court system is creating unnecessary work for lawyers and failing to serve the interest of the Canadian people.

Ontario judge grants recess in court to allows party to purchase recording device and to bring it back into the courtroom!
(June 3, 2008) One Ontario Court judge has demonstrated that he has the fortitude and respect for justice to boldly step where few other judges would dare to tread.  In court, the judge acknowledged that a party appearing in court had the right to record his own court hearing. The judge was then so gracious as to grant a recess for the party to leave the courtroom to purchase a recording device at a local electronics shop and to bring back into court.  At a previous hearing, the judge admitted that after over 20 years of the bench, he was not familiar with section 136 of the Courts of Justice Act which allows recording and had told the party at the first hearing that recording would not be allowed.  At the second hearing, however, the judge did not dig in his heels, but honourably admitted his previous error and to make amends, allowed the party to obtain a recording device at a local store and to bring it back to the court.  An article with full details will be published.  Hats off to this judge who not only showed that judges are human and that they can make mistakes too, but showed that he was going to put justice and the law above even his own pride! It's the actions of judges like this who help restore the public's respect in the administration of Justice.  We need more judges like this who understand that they are working to serve the people of Canada in the interests of justice.

It's too bad that more of our other judges would not follow the example of this judge.  Justice Craig  Perkins and Justice Lydia Olah are some of these judges who, by their actions, have demonstrated contempt of the law.  Justice Lydia Olah had OPP officers from the Collingwood detachment of the OPP physically lock courtroom doors with a lock and key at her court in Collingwood, Ontario and Justice Craig Perkins appears to have made arrangements to have his own court Order violated by certain firms who publish case law.  Many argue that the time has come for elections for judges so that the people of Canada can weed out those judges who work against the fundamental principles of justice.  Just like a garden needs to be weeded out, Canadians need the ability to weed out those in the judiciary who fail to serve the true interests of justice.

Mother testifies about her family's horrible ordeal with Ontario's Office of the Children's Lawyer!
(June 3, 2008) A mother has come forth to speak about her horrible experience with Ontario's Office of the Children's Lawyer. This is only yet another in the series of videos intended to expose Ontario's Office of the Children's Lawyer for failing to live up to it's mandate to properly protect many children.  Hopefully, this will motivate Claire Burns, the Children's Lawyer, to introduce some much needed changes, such as requiring interviews between children and workers to be videotaped.
Link to Court Watch video index

Child Protection worker caught with drugs in vehicle while transporting foster child
(May 28, 2008) From CBC News - An employee of West Region Child and Family Services is on paid leave and facing criminal charges in connection with drugs found in a vehicle.  RCMP said they stopped a car not far from Winnipeg on May 21 and found nearly half a kilogram of marijuana in it.  One of two men in the vehicle was an employee of West Region Child and Family Services. A 13-year-old foster child was also in the car.  (Maybe this is where some of the workers from the Hamilton CAS get their illegal drugs from. Link to Hamilton CAS article)
Link to CBC news Article

Teen speaks up about how kid's are being drugged up while in CAS approved foster  homes!
(May 25, 2008) A teen speaks up about how kids in foster care were pumped up with drugs until they were zombies and then go downhill after that.  She witnessed kids go from good to bad once CAS workers put the kids on prescription drugs. A chilling testimony of just how things are really like in a CAS foster home.
Link to Court Watch video index

Christmas at an Ontario CAS approved foster home!
(May 28 2008) A teen speaks up about her experience at Christmas along with three other foster kids.  Locked in a damp and cold basement, this girl along with three other teens was made to stay in the basement while the CAS foster family ate turkey dinner and shared Christmas upstairs.  She was also told by CAS workers that she was not allowed to call her mother or her family at Christmas.  This video is a just a short clip from an extensive interview in which the girl discloses beatings of kids by CAS providers, psychological abuse and drugs being forced on kids in care.  She describes many times, how abuse is reported to CAS workers but workers turn their backs on the kids and do nothing.  The more comprehensive video interview will be posted in the near future with high quality DVD copies available from Court Watch. The full length DVD video could be used as a resource by parents to take to their MPP's and MP's and also to give as evidence in CAS court cases to show that CAS is not a safe place for children.
Link to Court Watch video index

Teen speaks up about her experience with Ontario's Office of the Children's Lawyer!
(May 25, 2008) A teen speaks up about her experience with Ontario's Office of the Children's Lawyer.  Her testimony is typical of the type of feedback that children are reporting about the Office of the Children's Lawyer.
Link to Court Watch video index

Mother and Daughter claim that they waited for almost a year to get a return call from the Children's Lawyer and still after more than 1 1/2 years absolutely nothing constructive has resulted!
(May 19, 2008) In response to our call for witnesses, a mother and daughter have come forth to complain about what they say is their "horrible" experience with Ontario's Office of the Children's Lawyer headed by Ms. Claire Burns.  In their situation, it took almost a year from when the case was assigned for the children's lawyer to return their phone calls and even then it was only after the mother sent a complaint letter to head office did the lawyer call them back (in 3 hours after the complaint letter).  But even after the lawyer called them back, nothing effective ever got done after that.  Both the mother and the daughter say that the Office of the Children's Lawyer had done absolutely nothing to help them in almost 19 months.  The girl even tried to fire her Children's Lawyer but the Children's Lawyer's Office refused the girl's request.  How's that for service to the children of Ontario! 

While Ms. Claire Burns spouts off in court in an effort to denigrate Court Watch and to stop Court Watch from observing her agency in court, she forgets that many of the children who her agency has provided lousy services are voluntarily coming to Court Watch to tell how the agency she heads has failed them.  These parents and their children want their stories heard about how the lawyers have miserably failed them.  There is an old saying, those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.  It is time for Ms. Claire Burns to come out of her glass tower on University Ave, step up to the plate and to do her job as head of the Children's Lawyer Office by implementing a few simple procedures which would stop these sorts of situations from happening in the first place.  Video interviews with this mother and her daughter will be posted soon.  Court Watch does not wish to embarrass the Office of the Children's Lawyer, but sometimes this is the only way to get positive changes implemented.  Court Watch only wants the Office of the Children's Lawyer to work in an accountable, transparent and professional manner in the interest of children and families in Ontario.

In this day and age of inexpensive recording devices, there is no reason whatsoever for children and parents to be contacting Court Watch to report that they have been threatened and abused by their children's lawyer while in meetings.  Court Watch manages to provide videotape service with no money coming from the taxpayers, so why can't Ms. Burns's agency do the same with the millions of tax dollars it receives every year from the Ontario government!  There should be no reason for children reporting that their Children's lawyer is lying about what they have said.  There should be no reason why children are reporting physical abuse to their lawyer and then have the lawyer do nothing about it! THERE IS NO REASON FOR THIS WHATSOEVER! If Claire Burns, as the Children's Lawyer of Ontario, does not take steps to fix the problem of selective reporting, then she is part of the problem herself and in the public's interest, Court Watch will do its part to expose injustices committed against children by her agency.  If changes don't come soon, a public inquiry may be the solution.

The Archbishop Dorian A. Baxter, the National Chairman of Court Watch, stands ready to meet with Ms. Burns to discuss how her agency can begin to make positive changes which will better serve the children of Ontario.  One thing we can predict for certain, that unless Claire Burns takes her duty to serve the citizens of Ontario seriously and takes positive steps soon to fix the sorts of problems that Court Watch had uncovered, that it will be only a matter of time until our elected officials will decide to have her replaced with someone who will get the job done with far fewer of these sorts of unnecessary and easily avoidable complaints.
Link to video to be posted here soon

Information wanted from children and parents about their experience with Ontario's Office of the Children's Lawyer!
(May 17, 2008) In a recent court hearing, Ms. Claire Burns, the Children's Lawyer of Ontario, personally intervened and attempted to discredit Canada Court Watch by claiming that Court Watch should not be allowed to monitor child protection cases in the courts and that Court Watch should not be considered as a media source for getting information out to the public.  By her actions, Mr. Burns has only demonstrated that her agency is more worried about protecting the interests of its lawyers than it is interested in promoting accountability and transparency which are some of most basic principles encompassed within the meaning of "the Administration of Justice."  Court Watch has a copy of a video from the Law Society of Upper Canada in which Ms. Burns has stated on the public record that her office has determined that the recording of children by their children's lawyers can psychologically harm them.  Yet, the Supreme Court of Canada has contradicted the position of Ms. Burns and has said that the video recording of children is a reliable source of evidence. (Canada Court Watch supports the position that interviews between children and professionals in any matter which could have a significant impact on a child or family must be recorded using audio or video)

Ms. Burns, representing the Office of the Children's Lawyer, takes the position that her government funded agency is a reliable source for providing services for children and that organizations such as Canada Court Watch should not be allowed to monitor how the Children's Lawyer's Office does its job at the expense of taxpayers.   What Ms. Burns failed to mention is that her agency had previously argued this same position in the past and at a court hearing where lawyers with the Office of the Children's Lawyer were given time by the judge to present their arguments and where Court Watch was given a fair opportunity to present it's arguments, that the lawyers with the Office of the Children's Lawyer and the Children's Aid were defeated in court by a single Canada Court Watch reporter.  This is not the first time that the Children's Lawyer's office has attempted to pervert the administration of justice and to keep Canada Court Watch from monitoring how its agency represents children in Ontario.  It would seem that Claire Burns does not support a fair process when it comes to dealing with those who monitor her agency.  There is an old expression in the English language with says, "what is good for the goose is good for the gander" so as a public figure, Ms. Burns must be prepared for what members of the public have to say about how her agency is performing in the public's interest. Court Watch has received many complaints from children about their distrust of the court appointed Children's Lawyer.  Children have testified that their court appointed children's lawyer has lied to the court about what they are saying and that they don't trust their children's lawyers.  This being the case, why is Ms. Claire Burns so opposed to having her worker maintain an accurate record of meetings with children by simply audio recording them?  And what about the psychological damage to children as Ms. Burns claims - hogwash say many parents and children!!

A previous report Link to report released by a committee of citizens about the Children's Lawyer on just one case, provides some evidence as to the poor job this agency has done in the past.  This report which was produced by the citizens of Ontario at no cost to the taxpayers, resulted in the Office of the Children's Lawyer being hauled before the Divisional Court In Toronto and harshly criticized by the court.  This is a good example of how the citizens of Ontario can fight back and make a difference!  Recent video testimony from a mother gives some more indication of how some children and parents feel about this government funded agency and that problems continue to exist with this agency. Link to video

Canada Court Watch feels that it is time for children and parents of Ontario who have had dealings with Ontario's Office of the Children's Lawyer, to have their say so that the elected officials of the Province of Ontario can know how the Children's Lawyer is performing under its mandate.  Court Watch would like to gather testimony and other evidence from children and parents who have had dealings with the Office of the Children's Lawyer for the purpose of producing an investigative report on this agency.  We are looking for video interviews with children and parents as well as court documents which will show how the Children's Lawyer has performed in various Ontario court cases.   We want the names of individual lawyers who have worked as children's lawyers and we want feedback as to how well they performed.  Testimony from mature children and teens will be most helpful.  Whether a good or bad experience, Court Watch would like to hear from you.  If you are interested in providing information or testimony in support of this effort, please contact Canada Court Watch at info@canadacourtwatch.com

Women's Shelter supervisor reports abuse of tax dollars by women's shelter!
(May 16, 2008) A women's shelter supervisor contacted Canada Court Watch to disclose that she has witnessed considerable problems within the women's shelter where she works and that there are many things that she has seen which she does not feel are right but unable to say anything publicly about due to fear of losing her job at the shelter for abused women.  During her interview she disclosed that records were being altered and that the shelter for abused women was taking in many women of questionable background for the sole purpose of maintaining higher levels of government funding from the Province of Ontario.  She indicated that violence was occurring in the shelter and that homeless people, people on drugs and violent women were being allowed into the facility in the presence of children without question in order to maintain higher levels of funding from the Ontario government. Many would say that it is about time that standardized intake forms and policies be imposed on all abused women's shelters in Ontario which would help to reduce these systemic abuses of women and children who come to women's shelters looking for help.  Court Watch has a list of recommendations which would have eliminated this caller's concerns if implemented by the government of Ontario. Link to position statement

Recent video testimony from parents and children support what this supervisor has reported to Court Watch
Link to mother's testimony
Link to mother's testimony
Link to child's testimony

Teen speaks up about her experience under the care of the Children's Aid Society!
(May 15, 2008) A teen speaks up about her experience as a child living under the care of the CAS in Ontario.  This girl says that she suffered 2 1/3 years of physical beatings by her foster mother while under the care of the CAS and workers would not listen to her.  Her tragic story is typical of the many horror stories from children raised in the care of child protection services in Ontario.  Its no wonder why children who have been in care are growing up to have a deep distrust of child protection workers and the agencies they work for.
Link to Court Watch video index

Teen claims that CAS foster mother with the Halton Children's Aid Society broke the law and encouraged foster children in her care to break the law as well - video now on line!
(May 11, 2008) A child involved with the CAS has described during a videotaped interview how the CAS mother broke the law by providing cigarettes to teens in her care and then encouraged the teens to break the law themselves by sending them to the store to purchase cigarettes for her when they were underage.  This teen says that what the CAS foster mother did was wrong and that it encouraged those kids in the care of this Halton CAS foster mother to smoke.  Here we have laws in the Province of Ontario to protect children from smoking, yet we put the kids in care of an agency which is supposed to "protect" children and it is actions of the child protection agency and its workers which are the ones who are failing to protect children and putting them in harms way.
Link to Court Watch video index

How CAS workers manipulate children in a campaign to harm fathers and protect mothers who abuse their children - video now on line!
(May 5, 2008) A child involved with the CAS has described during a videotaped interview with Court Watch how CAS workers from Ontario asked her leading and suggestive questions in an attempt to make her father look bad while trying to paint the mother as a good mother.  Yet the child was being abused by her mother, not the father.  According to this girl, CAS workers totally disregarded abuse by her mother.  This latest video supports what many children and parents have been reporting to Court Watch about the bias against fathers being shown by many CAS workers.  Court Watch has received complaints from other families about the same CAS agencies which this girl was involved with. Court Watch has advocated for years that CAS workers must record their interviews with children, yet CAS agencies refuse to do this because they very well know that many of their child protection files are based on misleading and fabricated evidence.  If this is not the case, then why are CAS workers and agencies afraid of recording devices?
Link to Court Watch video index

Foster kid spill the beans! Halton Children's Aid Society worker gives cigaretts to underage children and then smokes up with them!
(April 26, 2008) A ward of the Halton CAS has come forth and during a videotaped interview disclosed to Court Watch that children as young as 14 were being given cigarettes and then allowed to smoke them along with the Halton CAS worker who told the children to keep this a little secret between themselves.  According to society ward, the CAS worker involved was having the under-aged children purchase cigarettes at the local store and bring them back for the the CAS worker and the kids to smoke together.  In addition to the smoking, the foster child told of crying in bed at night because of all the broken promises by workers and the constant pressure put on the children by the Halton CAS workers.  Another foster child came forth not that long ago to disclose abuse by workers with the Halton CAS.  That child as well voiced similar complaints.  During her interview, the child who is now a teen, disclosed of other abuses by CAS workers.  The teen referred to CAS workers as liars and manipulators who could not be trusted.  Children are being abused by CAS workers and agencies and now these unaccountable CAS agencies are demanding yet even more money from the Ontario Government.

The Untold Story and Gender Politics behind Ontario's Hadley Murder-Suicide
(April 24, 2008) Watch the video presentation of well respected Canadian criminal lawyer, Walter Fox, while he speaks about some of the gender based politics that went on during the Hadley murder-suicide inquest in Ontario.  Hear about some of the tricks that women's shelter advocates do not want members of the public to know about when it comes to how men are treated by the system in Ontario. Ontario is not a friendly place for men.
Link to Court Watch video index 

Barrie, Ontario Rally 2008 - Pre-Register Now!
(April 21, 2008) Citizens from the Barrie, Ontario Region are getting ready for their third annual public awareness event and barbecue to be held sometime this summer during the months of July or August in Barrie, Ontario.  The event is intended to bring public awareness of the injustices being perpetrated against families by the family court system and the Children's Aid Society.  The last two years have been a great success.  Justice Craig Perkins of the Barrie, Ontario court along with some other Justices such as Justice Lydia Olah have caused the citizens of Ontario great concern by their apparent lack of respect for the Law and their lack of accountability to the community.  Justice Craig Perkins likes to encourage people to violate his own court Orders and Justice Lydia Olah likes to have the Ontario Provincial Police lock the doors to her court in order to keep matters secret.  If you would like to pre-register for this event and to get your name on our contact list, please go to our registration sheet.  Many parents are aware of the dismal record of the CAS and the things that the various CAS agencies do to keep their workers unaccountable.
Pre-Registration information form

Teen beaten up by other girls
(April 8, 2008) Zero tolerance domestic violence policies paint most men in Ontario as abusers and women as victims.  Here is a link to a video which shows some of the truth about violence by women.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=a-YDgAG6tCM

Lawyers gone bad! Sex and Madness in Canada's legal profession
(April 8, 2008) Every week Court Watch advocates in various areas receive complaints about lawyers.  Poor services, high prices and often unethical practice. 

Meet Philip Slayton, Rhodes Scholar, former corporate lawyer and Dean of Law, discuss his book, book, Lawyers Gone Bad: Money, Sex and Madness in Canada's Legal Profession. Question and answer to follow. Wednesday, Apr. 9, 7 p.m. - North York Central, Auditorium.  Call the Library for registration at 416-395-5639.

Young girl's testimony about her experience in an Ontario women's shelter
(April 5, 2008) If any doubts linger about what the previous two women's shelter videos reveal about what is really going on inside some of Ontario's women's shelters, then this next video will support what those mothers said but from the perspective of a child.  In this video, the child reports being exposed to violence and abuse inside the shelter and that she was forced to watch movies which showed men beating up women and then the bruised women going to women's shelters.  These women's shelters are indoctrinating children into believing that only men are abusers and that women are victims.

The child said that it was not fair that they were denied access to her loving father and that she hated being forced to stay in the women's shelter.  It would appear that not only are tax dollars being used to abuse women at these shelters but their children as well!
Link to video

One father's experience with altered court transcripts and his advice about the use of audio recording devices!

(March 31, 2008) In this video a father from Ontario tells about his experience with the Ontario courts and the court's transcription services.  According to this father, the court transcripts in his case were altered and that the company who did the transcripts went to great lengths to cover up the tampering.  An increasing number of families in Ontario are complaining about court transcripts being altered.  Citizens must protect themselves using hidden audio recording devices outside of the court and to record their court hearings when inside!
Link to Court Watch video index 

Law enforcement officer provides evidence to Court Watch to support incompetent and bias decision by Justice Craig Perkins!

(March 28, 2008) In follow-up to the post of March 14, 2008, documents have now been delivered to Court Watch which would reasonably support claims that Justice Craig Perkins of the Newmarket, Ontario court failed to promote justice and made an incompetent and bias court ruling in support of a woman in a family law matter.  His decision in this case has adversely affected a father and his children and at the time of his decision put other citizens in the community at risk because of the fraud and deception being perpetrated by the mother with the support of Justice Perkin's ruling. 

The documents reveal how Justice Perkins had the wool pulled over his eyes and totally fell prey to a women's lies and deceptions which hurt yet another family without even giving the opportunity for the father to appear in his court.  To have prevented this fraud on the community, Justice Perkins simply had to tell the mother to serve documents on the father so that he could be given the opportunity to be in court as well so at least Justice Perkins could hear both side.  But Justice Perkins did not and went ahead and listened to the mother's side only.

There is no publication ban as there is in another case which Justice Perkins badly messed up on by not even asking what the wishes of a 10-year-old child before he separated permanently from her loving family.   It would seem that Justice Perkins has a bad habit of making decisions without ensuring that he has all the evidence before him.  Charges for obstruction of Justice will be requested in this case.  Only time will tell if judges like Justice Perkins are interested in making parties (including lawyers) who mislead the courts accountable for their actions.  One of the reasons why lies and perjury has become rampant is because the courts do nothing to those who get caught lying.  Many c