Supreme Court of Canada decision Case #33648 regarding CHRONIC PAIN and the ability of the Human Rights Tribunal to hear complaints of Abuse

Today's news headline "duckett-memo-queue-jumping" is directly linked to Medical Abuse of seriously injured workers by the WCB Alberta.

I fell and broke my back more than 5 years ago, and yet when I am pulled out of a MRI machine screaming at Meadowlark to the Royal Alexandra Hospital in a ambulance, I still do not get to meet my Orthopedic Surgeon that I have been desperately trying to see since I had my hardware removed from my back over 3-1/2 years ago.

Alberta Health Services is deliberately BLOCKING me from "EVER" getting to see a orthopedic spinal surgeon again in the province of Alberta!!!

Workers Compensation working in parallel with AHS is ensuring I "NEVER" get to see a specialist in the province of Alberta, "EVER".
This is direct political interference in my medical treatment, and as such, I view this as another abuse of my Constitutional guaranteed Rights and Freedoms.

Nothing new for the Alberta Government of crooks, they are very comfortable abusing individuals rights and freedoms for fun and amusement.
Case in point is the recent Supreme Court of Canada's recent decision affirming that the Workers Compensation Boards Chronic Pain policy is discriminatory the Justices wrote recently in a decision before the SCC.

Here is a link to the written decision by the Supreme Court of Canada in June of 2011 http://scc.lexum.org/en/dn/2011/01.html scan down to item 15 in the year of 2011.

British Columbia (Workers’ Compensation Board) v. Figliola, 2011 SCC 52, [2011] 3
S.C.R. 422
Workers’ Compensation Board of British Columbia Appellant
v.
Guiseppe Figliola,
Kimberley Sallis, Barry Dearden and
British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal Respondents

Here is a link to the Supreme Court of Canada's Video Webcast of the SCC case #33648
http://scc-csc-gc.insinc.com/en/clip.php?url=c/486/1938/201103160530wv150en,001Content-Type:%20text/html;%20charset=ISO-8859-1
If you have been injured in Alberta and are suffering from Chronic Pain, it is imperative that you watch this video in its entirety so that you can see how man Government lawyers from across Canada show up and try to DENY you the right to a fair settlement from the Workers Compensation Board of Alberta.

This is directly related to the WCB Alberta abusing my rights, I had a severe incident back in March simply pulling something from the refrigerator, I had to wait 6 weeks for a MRI, on April 25, 2011. In the midst of the MRI, I started having severe spasms in the machine, I was pulled from the machine and since the Medical Imaging place wanted to get me out of the way quickly for the next scan, despite the fact my scan had not been completed. As soon as they tried to sit me up and twist me off the table I started screaming in pain.
I was taken quietly out the back in a ambulance, given some morphine. After 8 hours at the hospital the doctor informed my I have bulging discs and what he described as a ruptured disc.
That was on April 25th, and I still have not heard a word.
I told my doctor, I know people who broke their arm or ankle and they where sitting in front of my Spinal Surgeon within days.

This is the Hellberta Way. I will never receive treatment in this shit hole province. Here is the proof.
Horrifying for someone who suffers from severe chronic pain.
Sad days indeed when Conservatives run your health care, into the ground that is!

A True Democracy Would NEVER allow WCB Abuses

I watch the Federal Election in a state of fear. A majority of Harper Conservative majority government will be the final blow to Democracy in Canada. The Harper & Stelmach Governments are fastidiously tearing down the foundation of Democracy in Canada. We are now running full speed into the FASCISM PC Woodshed. Working together these Corporate shill Dynamo's are hammering the final nails in to the Universal Health Care Coffin. The AB PC's corporate crony doctors who hide behind the cloak of the College of Physicians. These Privatization Champions of feeding on the public tit like Dr. Olhauser are part of the "Alberta Doctors for Privatization" club who I believe are working with Dr. John F. Cowell of the newly created Health Quality Council of Alberta, have created the perfect Universal shill & crony Medical environment. The crony medical machine that serves All branches of the Alberta Government to ensure that seriously injured Workers and any other persons the Government chooses to "BLACKLIST", NEVER-EVER receive access to proper,timely medical treatments.
This is WHY they created the Health Quality Council, so they can stamp "Denied" on your medical referrals. Good Ol' Drunk Ralph "Stole" native Medical care and Closed The Charles Camsell hospital immediately after receiving it in TRUST from the federal Government. This was the fascist beginning of the Alberta Health eugenics program. Right wing religious zealots are unable to resist playing God with our lives.[Some PC's are evangelists]
They simply WATCH you die. It is the Hellberta WAY!
Watching Guy Kerr blather on his webcast only proves how severely detached all the top level government cronies are from reality. You can tell that Guy Kerr never worked a hard day in his entire life. Egotist's can only form narcissistic thoughts, they are too self involved and would not have a clue what a serious injury was if it ran up and kicked them in the head. That is how out of touch he, and the entire WCB AB are with reality.
Guy Kerr would go running home like a little girl if he ever had to work one day in a real working man's boots.
It is not difficult to see how severely he is in love with hearing his own words being expelled from his mouth. Seriously delusional personality disorders have the same hallmarks. Using glib industry sensitive catch phrases read from a teleprompter, cleverly arraigned, so you sound like you know what you are talking about, only reinforces what I have always known; The Guy at the top of the Workers Compensation Board Alberta, is an out of touch egotist, who has absolutely NO CONCEPT of what it is to work a hard day in his life, or what it is to be seriously injured on the job.
The death toll to workers can only grow in leaps and bounds as long this egotistical mental giant is at the helm of the Workers Compensation Board. Since he has absolutely NO CLUE about how to protect workers. This will result in many more deaths of hard working Mothers, Fathers, sons and daughters. Typical Hellberta product, self absorbed egotistical maniacs are a stalwart product of the Duetschland. Schadenfruede is one of many typical personality traits of these cultural egomaniacs.
I roared laughing when I heard him say that the second most important stakeholder was the worker! What a mean-spirited joke and a god-damned bare face lie! Never happens. You do as you are ordered by WCB Alberta or suffer the SEVERE consequences of Schadenfruede ravaged Claims Managers, and their supervisors. These are the factual policies enforced upon a seriously injured worker.
Unless you are a cop, a fireman or a government worker, then you get the ROYAL WCB AB treatment.
Fair treatment by the WCB of Alberta is ONLY for Government Workers, all other workers will be mentally tortured until they are so horribly bankrupt they will simply give up and commit suicide. We have no other options, since the government who is the regulator refuses to force WCB Alberta to stop discriminating against private sector workers who become seriously injured on the job.
Since the Government of Alberta refuses to offer transparency and accountability within the Workers Compensation Board of Alberta, all Laws written under the act is completely MOOT & non relevant, because the Government refuses to regulate this medical abuser organization.
And this point is precisely WHY the NO Lawyer in Edmonton will take on a WCB case, not matter the circumstances. I know, I went to see them all.

But why should the head of the WCB be any different than his "Know-everything" cousins--The PC Party of Alberta? He were not a shill crony then he would not fit the The PC Party of Alberta CRONY profile. As such his ideology would clash with the PC ideologues.

"No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Why are all the top Doctors, Government employees and politicians so seriously deluded? These are left over remnants of a by-gone era that are holding the Province of Alberta back from being a truly great centre of innovation.
It really is still 1953 here in Hellberta.
It truly makes me sad and depressed to know that I will NEVER ever have my back injury treated again in the province of Alberta.
I was born and raised in Edmonton and this realization is so horrific, it only serves to keep me in a WCB Alberta induced permanent depression, full of hopelessness and despair.

Opposition Parties Unite in Call for Public Inquiry

I have watched the events unfold in Alberta Health Scare, I am buoyed by the work of Dr. Raj Sherman and the efforts of the CBC to uncover some of the terrible abuses that the Alberta PC Government has been deliberately imposing on the sick, the injured and the dying citizens of Alberta. I see little sparks of light in the terrible darkness that has imprisoned families, terminally ill patients, persons who became ill because of workplace hazards for over a decade now.
I find it difficult to find hope when the Judiciary (Alison Redford Justice Minister of AB) of this province remains as the super corrupt blockade to any meaningful investigation of the facts.
We are exposed daily to images flashed across our airwaves of people fighting in far away lands to free themselves from the chains of corruption, and all of the evil insidious side effects of organized criminals operating at the highest levels of government.
The truth is that Albertans are subject to the very same abuses and cover-ups of the ruling government, all as a direct result of 40 years of hideous growing corruption.
DEATH PANELS? This is horrific. Iris Evans does not even flinch.
What did her father do for a living run a concentration camp?
How odd that Stockwell Day steps down now, was he involved in these policies?
The people have no where to turn for help. The RCMP which is our federal police force, is supposed to be protecting us. But as was revealed in the Mayerthorpe hearings, the top level Brass of the RCMP are corrupt, some had to step down in disgrace. I believe that the top RCMP Brass @ K-division are too busy clinking wine glasses with Tories to be bothered with protecting their own membership.So they get promoted to Ottawa to hang out with the true Oil Gangsters themselves.
The problem in Alberta is that the current system of Oil Company Welfare Payola payments to top cops, lawyers and members of the Justice Department is so entrenched, I can see no way out of all of this corruption.
I see no way for truth and Justice to escape to the light of day in this Hell hole of Oil Payola.
It has infiltrated every single pore of our society.
The corporate media is now making a feeble; "We can't be bothered to investigate" exposure of these crimes, but they have spent most of their time recently trashing Dr. Raj Sherman.
What ever happened to good old investigative journalism?
I see old political hack reporters bane-fully stumbling over to the Legislature, to once again reluctantly write another trashing of any opposition allegations of corruption in this government. I see just a tired old relic of a bygone era of political crony-ism that has been propping this government up for decades with their partisan reporting.
Reading the Journal and the Sun is no different than watching Fox television.
I am repulsed by Alison Redford smiling for photo ops, while she knowingly abused her powers by NOT investigating large amounts of proof dropped on her desk of corruption in the WCB Appeals Commission of Alberta, and medical abuses against injured workers.
I am repulsed when I see the RCMP and the EPS holding news conferences about their good deeds, when injured workers know that these Canadian Police Forces refuse to take so much as a statement about abuses and corruption and fraud within the WCB of Alberta.
I am visibly upset by Stephen Harper and his gang of hacks and fraud artists, crooks and cronies from Alberta who now permeate the PMO's office in Ottawa.

They say people get the government they deserve.
At the very point where a gang of fraud artists, crooks and thieves get elected to run Canada, Canada is in a downward spiral at the hands of these shills & hacks.
Canada cannot brag of being the greatest country on Earth, when crooks and fraud artists run the country. Very Sad times indeed.

I just cannot seem to get excited about these events while the crooked cops[RCMP, CSIS] stand by and promote corruption.
I find this very disgusting behavior from the Cops who collect WCB benefits and big cushy pensions paid for on that backs of very hard working and Canadians. Truly shameful.

Canada is now just another super corrupt Corporately controlled Oil State!
Alberta's Mubarek dresses slighty better than Mubarek, but is the same crook underneath. Stephen Harper wears a nice suit, rather than his bedsheets like his crooked pal Ghadhafi.

Canada pushes for Egyptian reforms

Egypt's Dreams & the Hypocritical Harper regime:

Harper was so smug in the interview with Mansbridge, when asked about our minority opposition, "Well, they lost", was his quote. WE the people did not LOSE Stephen Harper. Take a good look at the future; you may not like the image staring back at you in the mirror, Mein Führer Harpoon. History has a way of erasing totalitarian megalomaniacs from a humanitarian legacy of history. They will be remembered in the narcissist gone mad section of history. The fundamental principles of democracy are founded in the principle that a poor man's vote carries the same weight as a rich man's X on the ballot. Because the conservative/republican ideologue perverts have been fastidiously playing with Rules of Natural Justice through their relentless alteration of the Laws surrounding our Constitutional forefathers will, we no longer are experiencing a truly open, transparent and accountable democratic government.
At the very core of the Reform/Alliance [CCRAP] party manifesto is the blanket of secrecy that permeates Harper's conservative party government; deliberately erasing transparency. Harper was moulded by the pirates of Democracy, the AB conservatives. Alberta is where Harper was able to watch all of the devious neo-con shill clever manoeuvres of a super corrupt Oil State at work in real time; giving him all the necessary tools to not only actuate the levers of Fascism; but to carry out his assault on Democracy with skillful military precision. This ideology is Endemic to the Republican philosophy of systematic dissolution of democratic law. Harper shills have perverted the Laws of Natural Justice; CCRAP has trashed the very founding principle of Democracy. Harper advice is typically referred to as "Sabotage". Harper's Government has NO latitude for handing out platitudes!

Raj Sherman Healthcare and the College of Physicians

The Alberta Government smear campaign against Raj Sherman is another disgusting Smug, arrogant, glib abuse of power and political attack on Raj Sherman's integrity. Ed Stemach/cronies actions are a blasphemous attack on Democracy. The entire province of Alberta is disgusted with the Tories whisper/smear campaign is truly the last desperate act of a government reeling against an angry backlash of support for Raj Sherman. This is only the beginning of the exposure of the super corrupt government of Alberta. It is important to recognize who some of the hidden villains in this unfolding story are. First Villain, and of the greatest threat to Raj Sherman's reputation is the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Taxpayers have this quaint fluffy preconception of a dignified, respectable group of doctors whose only priority is to ensure the proper care of Health care Clients. Nothing could be further from the Truth. The College of Physicians is Lobby group for privatization of Health care. In the United States, the A.M.A.(American Medical Assoc.) is one of the most powerful and wealthiest lobbies Against President Obama's Health care Reform. The stakes are high in the millionaire club doctors organizations. Doctors stand to profit in the Billions. Are you getting my picture?
I had exactly the same deluded image of the College of Physicians until it was MY turn to file a complaint against the bogus "Rent-a-docs" the WCB Millard Center employs. It was then I discovered the true color of the College's underbelly.
Check out the Boards Dr. Olhauser sits on, no wonder you can NEVER win a WCB appeal!!

The WCB had violated my privacy by the unauthorized sharing of MY medical information with Doctors who have absolutely no involvement in my medical treatment. In addition the reports these doctors write are 100% completely felonious in nature, and are written with the felonious intention of falsely swearing a document in order to deny me government legislated Workers Compensation benefits.
These BUMS(triple bogie Docs) are being pursued by State Justice investigations in some U.S. states, this is only the beginning of Workers Compensation Insurance Providers Medical Fraud investigations in the United States.
A reasonable person with a reasonable amount of his own faculties would only be able to come to the conclusion that an egregious attack on my Medical Condition was being waged by a venomous Doctor(Fully Paid Member of the College of Physicians). This doctor and his felonious partners in crime(WCB Claims Managers), they did so with Dutiful Malice. Their intent is diametrically opposed to what is written in the Workers Compensation Act. The WCB, Alberta Gov't, and College of Physician sponsored perversions of Medicine have effectively GUTTED the very spirit of the legislation, leaving only a cold empty LEGAL corspe as any evidence of the intent of the Meridith Principle.
At the very core of contract law, is the tacit understanding that the party you are entering into a agreement(contract) with, will not use fraudulent misreprentation to cheat you out of any compensation.

These cruel fraudulent perversions of Medicine, intentionally attack the very social contract within the "Laws of Natural Justice". Using crook Doctors is what the WCB Alberta does 50 times a day to injured workers across this province.
The very Principes of The Rule of Law, and Democracy have been politically tampered with, to the point of Legal Heresy! The Alberta Conservative Party is not in any context, a legitimate ethical group of Lawmakers, period.

It appears to me that these College approved "Rent-a-Docs" can be called into active duty for more than simply denying crippled Ironworkers who fell and broke their backs. I feel really bad for Raj Sherman, to have such a bogus organization actually go after his credentials. The College and their board members have long been an embarassment to the Profession of Ethical Medicine in Alberta.

I feel sorry for Raj given the fact that in Hellberta, their is no other agency as powerful, skilled and devious as the College of Physicians membership. This organizations membership is clearly operating without fear of prosecution, for their fraudulent pandering against severely injured workers who were never, examined or treated by these approved College Physicians. Is the College of Physician's membership stamp simply a license to break the law, and act without professional conduct, to act with impunity? When these College members services were never solicited by the severely injured worker? How can a College approved Physician charge my Workers Compensation Account for his unsolicited, nefarious services? How is this possible under the Protective Umbrella of the College of Physicians and Surgeons? My crook WCB Claims manager Colleen Bamford can pay her crooked Doctors, Dr. Lorri Galbraith, Dr. E.D.Charleton and Dr. Barend Sonnenburg out of HER own pocket if she pleases. Why would I want to pay for felonious Medical reports based on selective medical report excerpts, without ever so much as an examination or any further radiographic scans? These College approved Rent-a-docs are writing "Pre-determined Medical Outcome reports", that are being used in a Medically slanderous manner to discredit my severe medical condition? These crooked bastards will not even approve of buying me a bed in the almost 5 years since I fell and shattered my vertabrae, with part of it collapsing into my spinal canal. What kind of sick bastards do the College of Physicians hand licenses out to? Con Artists is what I see. You be the judge.

This is why I worry for Raj Sherman, because the College of Physicians is acting like a Crack Commando Base for Crooked Physicians to operate from, using this Professional Platform to launch nefarious Medical Condition Attacks on Innocent Civilians. I see the College of Physicians as a rubber stamp for Medical Fraud of the highest level. Because these crook physicians(including psychiatrics) can operate from the Colleges forward operating Base in the Telus Tower.
This is why I call the government of Alberta a "DeMockery", and not a Democracy.
These crooks can have you locked up under false Mental Health pretenses, all 100% Politically driven by the Insurance Industry.
Who is the single largest benefactor of all of these crooked policies? You got it! Insurance companies. Life Insurance companies, Auto Insurance companies, The Workers Compensation Board of Alberta, which of course Dr. Olhauser sits as the Medical Panel Commisioner for the Workers’ Compensation Board of Alberta 2001 – Present, as well as the Insurance Board of Alberta. Start digging into who sits on all these different boards and committees and a very clear picture of corruption begins to emerge. Dr. Olhauser sits on a Federal Government Health committe, IMS Health Canada Medical Advisory Board 2006 – Present. When Did Canada start to go into the tank in Healthcare? Oh, lets say when Steven Harper became PM.

I have always said since the beginning of my injury and the start of my battle with the CRONY Government of Alberta, that soon all Albertans would be suffering exactly the same way I am, as a injured worker. Since I now know how FAR reaching and deep the corruption in every department of the AB Government is, ALL Canadians will soon feel this pain of denial of timely access to proper Health Care. It is the Alberta Way. One more benefit of voting for Steven Harper. When you vote for Steven Harper you get and entire BUSLOAD of Executive level crook cronies as an entourage.

Are any warning bells going off in your brain? Dr. Olhauser is Senior Medical Advisor to the Superintendent of Insurance 2004 – Present--Automobile Insurance Benefits Reform--Government of Alberta, Department of Treasury. I mean come on people, do I have to draw you a map and lead you there with crumbs? Soft Tissue Injuries ringing any bells? Wake up Alberta. The Government and a small group of super powerful people are controlling all of the strings which affect each and every part of your life. But more importantly, they control the most expensive parts of your life, right down to the part where you walk into the pharmacy and get your prescription, or oh, let's say go buy a medical assistance device.

Dr. Raj Sherman is up against some super powerful game players, and they don't like it when anybody starts rocking the boat. The corrupt Government of Alberta is not only waging a smear campaign against Dr. Raj Sherman-MLA, but they are out to discredit him and strip him of his Professional Credentials. Doing so would effectively render Dr. Sherman's ability to feed his family, Moot. Exactly the same thing they do to severely injured workers. This is not simply a Medical Crisis. This is a crisis of the social make-up of our society, government and communites. This is clearly a case of the BIG BOYS, squishing the little guy. Or maybe more aptly put, the good ol' boys.

All Workers Have the Right to return Home Safely

The three workers killed this past weekend in 3 days are really a direct reflection of the Government of Alberta's Cavalier attitude when it comes to dead workers.
It is no secret that the Ministry of Labour is taking the policy approach
of:

Alberta Tory Government Employment Policy A:There is another 50,000 foreign workers to replace dead Albertans.

Why would I make such a statement? Because the Ministry of Employment is in conflict in my mind, considering the fact the Occupation Health and Safety department is the responsibility of the Minister. Because Minister:Thomas Lukaszuk is also responsible for immigration portfolio. A ministry that zealously pursued a Conservative Party of Alberta program policy of continuing to pour 10's of thousands of temporary foreign workers into the province during the most severe recession the World has ever seen in modern times.
Minister Lukaszuk is also 100% directly responsible for the administration of the Workers Compensation Act of Alberta. He also has a hands off/DO-NOTHING approach to treatment of seriously injured workers who have been heinously abused by the WCB Alberta. But, simply put, he and his government do not care.

Nothing new for a minister who was in conflict for at least a year that I know of.

Are you starting to get MY Picture?

This is a link to the CBC News clip regarding the Ministry's stupid website, which by the way does not list my injury as a lost time accident. How coincidental(sic).

My blog today is to clarify all of the issues surrounding seriously injured and dead workers in a BIG Picture perspective. Hopefully to educate people on the threads that bind these issues together.

The events that unfolded in Chile last week are directly connected to dead and injured workers here in Alberta. How? Because the worldwide media was there to document the drama. It is so wonderful that a community effort of the entire country of Chile, helped ensure those men were brought home safely.

El Presidente de Chile Sebastian Pinera made a commitment to ALL working people of Chile. To ensure all workers make it home safely.

Those events bring to light the fact that ALL working men & women here in Alberta, and Canada for that matter deserve the right to come home safely to their loved ones.
These rights are not exclusive to: Policemen, Firemen, EMT's, Military Personnel and Government workers.
These rights extend to "ALL" working men & women. We all have the undeniable right to be protected from employer abuse in the form of safety violation enforcement.
Obviously the most "basic" worker safety enforcement principles are not being adhered to here in Alberta. The minister is not doing his job.
How is that website working out for you Tom?
The bodies are really starting to pile up.
Overpaid public officials doing "nothing", is a chronic problem Worldwide. This has been brought on by 20 years of conservative policy. "Do more with less", is their slogan to subordinate public workers.
Top government officials getting paid to do-nothing has become epidemic in this government and all Republican/Conservative style governments worldwide.
Steven Harper is still in denial. He just isn't getting my picture. He does not get the message.
Any message for that matter.

The Tory Legislature of Alberta is another do nothing organization. Helping cronies is high on their list.
We are suffering from exactly the same retarded republican Gov policies that tore down America. The current conservative ideology is predicated on the idea that Barack Obama is going to lose the midterm election, and Reps/Cons can simply carry on business as usual.
The Government of Alberta policies are killing workers. Your husband, your wife, your son, your brother all have the right to return home alive, every single day. No surprise from a Gov that puts children in their care in the grave.
Exactly at what point do we say enough is enough?
When? Another 10 dead workers? A hundred dead workers? A thousand dead workers?
When are the voters of this province going to stand up to their inept government, and demand a change? Not only a change in policy, but a change in who is in charge in this province

Working in Alberta

It is no secret that the WCB Alberta is super corrupt and the Minister responsible Thomas Lukaszuk refuses to do anything about it. As such, one can only conclude that the Conservative Government of Alberta is equally as corrupt. This is the only reasonable conclusion of evidence in my opinion.
"This is Working in Alberta".
So as such, If you are planning to work in the Province of Alberta. For gods sake do not get seriously hurt. The WCB Alberta will seriously punish you for this grievous offense.
You discover that this is without question the worst place in Canada to get seriously injured. Simply a result of the Conservatives continual tinkering with Health Care, ever since Whiskey nose Ralph Klein(a.k.a.drunkard) took it upon himself to destroy Health Care in Alberta.
If you are unfortunate enough to be seriously injured, for gods sake do not let them take you to the Royal Alexandra Hospital. They are obviously linked in some sort of secret agreement with the WCB Alberta. I found out the hard way. I fell, shattering my vertebrae when I landed flat on my back falling from a steel rafter.
They(RAH) would not even do a MRI on my back or neck, resulting in me being released with continual neck problems to this day. Just another side effect of being
Injured at Work in Alberta.

Dr. Leslie DeLima would come into my room and grab my neck squeezing it until I screamed it hurt, then he would tell me there was nothing wrong with my neck.
I was horrified, that this was the RAH's sophisticated testing method for a neck injury.
Then to cap it all off, they turned a hack surgeon named Dr. Jiang loose on me and he inserted metal screws and bars into my back. I have never recovered from this operation or the removal operation done on a day surgery out patient basis.
I would rather kill myself than let them operate on my back, then release me a couple of hours later. Believe me, you need serious injections of morphine after such an event.

If you are Seriously Injured at Work in Alberta and end up in Edmonton, insist you go to the University Hospital and make sure that is where you end up.

If you do decide to come to the Province of Alberta to work, for gods sake make sure you have the best supplemental Insurance policy you can buy. And make sure it is not from ManuLife, I have met dozens of workers who had ManuLife Insurance, and they screwed them the same way WCB Alberta does.
The best policy there is, in Alberta, is to pray like hell you do not get seriously hurt. Because the consequences of dealing with the super corrupt WCB Alberta, and the government cronies who refuse to help are so horrible, you will live to regret it for the rest of your natural life.
The WCB Alberta and their crooked tricks will do absolutely anything to ensure that you NEVER get to properly submit your appeal.
The WCB Alberta is nothing more than Crooks being run by Crooks(Tory Government), period.
This is life working in Alberta.
The Justice Ministry is corrupt right to the top. The Edmonton Police Service(EPS) and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police(RCMP) are corrupt right to the very top. All RCMP and cops across the province are instructed to refuse to investigate Injured workers complaints of fraud committed by the WCB Alberta(What kind of Oath do these goons sign?).
This is a direct contravention of section 15 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
There is "NO" justice in Alberta, that ministry is a joke. Alberta is the only province in Canada to openly ignore individual rights and freedoms guaranteed to individuals by the Charter.
This what happens when you come to Work in Alberta.
Having investigated this for over 4 years now, I honestly believe that if you were to investigate exactly WHO is lapping up all the benefits that are being paid by the WCB Alberta, it will without question be ALL the government workers, including cops, fire and health workers.

You have absolutely ZERO chance of fighting the WCB and the Province of Alberta if they decide to defraud you.
That is just a fact of Working in Alberta.
Ministers of Parliament(MP) will not help, they tell you it is not their Jurisdiction. Tory MLA's simply don't care, so don't even go there, total waste of time.
This is the price Workers here in Alberta pay for wide open Conservative Corporate DE-regulation. They pay with their lives. It really is no better than the third world.
Alberta is land of Corporate lawlessness, where the cops let corporate crooks roam free. Free from any possible punishment or prosecution.
If you are a corporate crook, Alberta is the place for you and your family!!
This entire province rotates on kickbacks, payoffs and Payola.
Welcome to Texas North. Bush & Cheney came here to tour their conquest, so you know who pulls the strings in this province. The baloney heads elected are nothing more than puppet Despots, propped up and financed by Houston Oil tycoons.
If you get killed the WCB Alberta issues a cheque for $5000, that is all life is worth here. Top to bottom this place really is Hellberta!

Here is a very relevant new LINK and interesting decision by the SPC(Supreme Court of Canada), this is closely related because it means that lesser courts "CAN" rule on Charter issues. And MORE importantly, citizens who have had their human rights abused by government officials of all stripes, are legally entitled to seek compensation for those breaches.

I have been closely watching the Cameron Ward appeal to the Supreme court since I first heard about it last fall. I am always fascinated by the SPC and their decisions, because these decisions are important and relevant to ALL Canadians in all walks of life.
Kudos to the court and Kudos to Mr. Ward. Cameron Ward is like many other passionate Canadians who are standing up for your rights, despite the fact most Canadians see NO reason for others to stand up for All Canadians rights.
There are amongst us, those who are not afraid of ridicule and prosecution by their right wing compatriots(Neo-Conservatives). These citizens of Canada are willing to walk through the door of History being remembered as someone who stood up for the betterment of society and humanity as a whole.

JUST SAY "NO" to Conservatives who want to inspect Uranus! ;?) Have a good weekend.

SynCrude Tailings Pond pays no WCB

Syncrude Corpse Will Never Collect WCB a.k.a. Dave Matthews

This article is interesting considering that Dave Matthews was Syncrude's bird and ecology team leader. Dave Matthews has since died of Cancer. Matthews, who had no training in wildlife management, since his only previous Syncrude qualifications was expertise as a Heavy Equipment Operator.
It came out in the court hearings that Dave Matthews has since died of Cancer. Interesting? Yes, could it be as result of working in close proximity to the Toxic Tailing Pond?
Did Equipment Operator/Migratory Bird Specialist Dave Matthews qualify for Workers Compensation Alberta death benefits, since there is about a 99% Probability Mr. Matthews expired as a result of working in such close proximity to the Tailing Pond/s.
I am simply curious as to whether or not Dead Syncrude Personnel qualify for this benefit, considering it equals of probably exceeds the Test for Cancers caused as a result of prolonged Occupational Exposure to extreme known Carcinogenic Toxin Lakes. There is no Scientist in the World that would contest the Extreme Toxicity & Cancer causing known Toxins in these Poisonous Chemical Lakes.
Mind you a Alberta Government Crony Scientist would knowingly Mislead the Public about the Tar Sands Scientifically Accepted Facts.
That too has been proven, and is a matter of public domain.
It only seems fair given the fact that the Fire Fighters have earned themselves this exclusive death benefit, recognized by the WCB Alberta.
Dis-including "ALL" other workers exposed to extremely dangerous Cancer Causing Chemicals, on the basis these Fire Fighter Cancer's were caused by agents of Combustion, is nothing more than Discrimination on the basis the unfortunate deceased worker was employed by Oil Sands Corporations propped up by Super Corrupt Oil Cronies in the Alberta government.
After all the Director for CSIS just public stated that government officials in Canada have been compromised by foreign interests.
I regard any group or Corporation that corrupts our government officials to be regarded as a foreign Power. Some of these crooks are domestic (eg.WCB), but Most are acting on behalf of foreign Oil interests. In my opinion.
In a true Democratic Province, there would be inquires, not in Alberta. The Corruption runs High & Deep.
Maybe someone should ask the WCB Alberta. They seem to have all the time in the world to discuss Fire Fighters, surely they can spare a few moments to discuss Cancer riddled Tar Sand deceased workers.

Mind you, I doubt the Minister Responsible Thomas Lukaszuk would really have time to discuss these important matters. Especially given the fact that he is an old WCB Crony. In my Opinion,He has to be, there is no other possible explanation as how he went from being a school teacher to being a Injured Workers Advocate, he was a WCB Claims manager or his wife was.
This is precisely why the WCB Alberta, and Employment Minister Thomas Lukaszuk are fully committed to building the WCB EDMONTON FORTRESS.
Good Job Tommy Boy, Billy club, Taser, physically assault and threaten seriously Injured Workers is your Standard Operating Procedure.
I have an idea Minister Waffen, how about you try Medically treating and helping seriously injured workers? Wow, what a concept. Well their is no way giant Oil Companies are going to put up with that BS.
How else are you going to KEEP the Alberta Lie alive? Stealing Jobs from Americans by artificially keeping Alberta's Workers Compensation Rates at the lowest in Canada?
This is no Alberta Advantage, this is Government Sponsored Fraud on a massive scale. Easily done when you refuse to help seriously Injured Workers Thomas.

Thomas Lukaszuk do you think Barack Obama will send you a thank you letter for Canadians stealing Jobs From America? Stealing Jobs and terrorizing families with a phony WCB rate, only made possible by stealing benefits from seriously Injured Workers?
George Bush's family is alive and well running Alberta.

President Obama's remarks on health care overhaul

I have been watching the American Congress debate on Health Care Reform with great interest. Particularly President Obama's remarks on health care overhaul. Barack Obama is a great human and a NOBEL Peace Prize winner because of his unwaivering resolve to make this bill a reality. And I quote:

"Good evening, everybody. Tonight, after nearly 100 years of talk and frustration, after decades of trying, and a year of sustained effort and debate, the United States Congress finally declared that America's workers and America's families and America's small businesses deserve the security of knowing that here, in this country, neither illness nor accident should endanger the dreams they've worked a lifetime to achieve.

To the Neo-Conservative elite who would lead you to believe, that American policies and Politics have no parallels to Canada. Untrue, as a Seriously Injured Worker this unfolding story in Washington IS our story. Steve the fascist and his crew cannot gallop abroad bragging about human rights. Why? Because at the very absolute core of the Injured Workers Paradigm is the implied human right to self dignity and complete access to Quality Health Care delivered in a timely, respectful manner. Without these basic core values, our society cannot even begin to start the process of properly rehabilitating seriously injured workers. I have always said right from the beginning of my injuries in 1990, that you have to medically treat my physical injuries BEFORE you can introduce me to a strict physiotherapy regimen. The WCB Alberta functions EXACTLY as an American HMO .
Here in Hellberta, we are being Carpet Bombed with "Supplemental" Health Care Insurance from Manulife. Why? DE-listing services is not coming! IT IS already here. SUPERBOARD HC Politics is here now! The re-organization of Health Care is happening before your very eyes, while you are being told otherwise. WTFU. There are no more regional board because then you actually had a name and a face to write an appeal to. Doesn't exist anymore. The PC's discovered a long time ago, if you make it into a quasi-private entity you can abuse appellants simply by shredding their stuff. It helps to have the privacy commission in your pocket as well. Try to get a written decision out of those guys, Hah! And BTW, rich PC Cronies can get instant care with a simple phone call to their Super Board Pals. Thanks ED, giving two tier health, some REAL Guts. It took a year and a half to get a MRI on my back and neck, JUST BECAUSE I GOT HURT AT WORK?
Seriously Injured workers in Canada are being subjected to EXACTLY the same abuses families without enough insurance in the United States have been experiencing. These super corrupt Health & Injury Insurance Schemes span across the border.
This issue absolutely burns a crook in the craw of the Rich White Arrogant KKK Republicans in the US House. This issue for the Americans is as much about Race as it is about the implied human right to health care in America. It is White vs. Colored, without question. The rich white cone heads cannot let go of their Vision apartheid America. How come these rich white bigots are all church going? What the Hell is up with that? It is no different here in Hellberta. Sieg Heil capital of Canada.

Taxpayers here in Alberta walked straight into the PC ambush, when they let the government pay their premiums. At that very point the taxpayer has given up ANY kind of leverage they had in receiving proper, timely care. Conservatives voters are duped easily by their handlers. If you listen to the "CENTRALIZATION" of emergency responders, I mean holy Christ. Sound like a communist country to you? Uhuh! That is why I call him Comrade ED. Centralization of the Health Boards, more commie stuff. The PC's use your public TAX dollars to build a new mental health facility, and then turn it over to be run by a private health group. These are all to facilitate "Staff reorganizations", that will be initiated down the road. This is what I mean when I talk about PC's picking off their opponents one by one. If all the Health Care workers do not unite now, there won't be anyone left to unite.
The Americans are making Gargantuan strides forward in their Health Care, and good Ol' Canada is going FULL SPEED backwards. These bastards are only shoring up their insulated private little world more and more each day.
They have no plans of fixing the WCB. Now they are just "rebranding" the private HMO, as "WorkSafe Alberta". What a joke. Conservatives are across the board, totally incompetent. These morons are so completely blinded by their own corporate greed, that they simply can't even see the future coming at them full speed. We are being governed by simpletons. I mean who's stupid Idea was it to turn the mental patients loose in West Edmonton Anyways. If I were a homeowner within 5 miles I would demand compensation for my depreciated property value. Especially if I owned a large mall.

And that is why I watch political events in the United States unfold. Because as Seriously Injured Workers we have been subjected to the same heinous Health Care denial crimes and human rights abuses. The bastards responsible, are dutifully and with willful malicious intent, engaged in the destruction of the nuclear family.
Barack Obama is the bravest, hardest working human in our lifetime, who instills a desire to do more for your country, do more for your neighborhood. And ultimately do more for the betterment of humanity. Good Job Barack Obama. Sadly for Albertans, and Canadians......we got the pack of morons(PC's) to run our country, great, just friggin' great.

CANADA A NATION RUN BY CORPORATE FASCISTS

Have you seen the Canada Train in Vancouver? It is a rolling Corporate Billboard. The United States of America revolted against this BS starting in 1999 with the WTO Protests in Seattle, Ref 2 Canadian Encyclopedia article. It culminated with the most unpopular president in history bankrupting the free world with his Globalization Corporate pals. On the way Bush picked up "Metard" Palin, who still doesn't understand she is not on the podium. American "Metards" created a rich white grass roots organization calling themselves the Tea Party. In reality the super rich corporate interest ME PARTY. The "ME Party" travels about disrupting true democratic processes, and spreading complete lies and untruths. Rumor has it there is a rich whites only "Metard" Party in Calgary. The METARDS bastards are the sons of bitches who are responsible for the quashing of our individual rights and freedoms. These rights are supposed to be defended by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. These rights are to upheld by the Laws of Natural Justice, with clearly defined non racial and non discriminatory rulings and guidance of the Supreme Court of Canada.
The Tory governments of this country have made it very clear which side their bread is buttered on, by their acts of perversion of Law and their denial of their mandate to represent the best interests of ALL their citizens. Basic Human Rights have been slowly, continually and constantly stripped from us for too long. It is time for all citizens of this country to stand up and say NO to this abomination of Democracy. The Prime Minister of Canada is a Corporate Bagman, and it is time the rest of the world comes to understand this at the OLYMPICS. Writing or phoning conservative members of our Parliament or Legislature has zero effect, because these arrogant pricks don't care what you think. It is time to disrupt their cushy lavish lifestyle in public, for the entire World to see. If you can, go to Vancouver, just for a day. Don't be disappointed if TORY trough slurpers(FEDeral and Prov.) give you the finger from their own private Taxpayer funded PARTY Train. ;~) Just remember the air is pretty thin up in the TORY clouds, and as such their brains are starving for Oxygen.

I howl laughing in disgust when I see the Tory Canada Action Plan Commercial. It asks if you are a worker needing help, the action plan will help you. Hah, what a Joke. Canada's own Captain Dumb Dumb, is in Haiti promising a half a billion in rebuilding money. How about helping your own seriously injured workers at home in Canada Steven Harper. What a Maroon, stripping people of Human Rights at home, and then traveling abroad bragging about what Canada does for human rights. I and other injured workers have given our lives and broken bodies to building this country. In return The Conservative Government of Canada allows corporate Insurers to openly target and destroy hard working citizens lives. And that is why I call the conservatives, Corporate Bagmen. I wonder what kind of racism is behind all this.

The rulers here(Hellberta) make no secret they hate Indians, look what they did to the Lubicon. Look what they are doing to the people of Ft. Chipewyan, poisoning their watershed. This Seig Heil government is operating more than one Eugenics program. If our Governor General is such a great humanitarian, why is she not helping Canadians like seriously injured workers, First nations people, homeless in Canada? She is contributing to human rights abuses here in Canada. By not standing up for Canadians first. Charity begins at home my mother always told me. Why is the Governor General of Canada not an Indian? Big Oil needs a facade. Our own Lieutenant Governor of Alberta would not help seriously injured workers, he was the ONLY high ranking official who could order an investigation and order that seriously injured workers get compensation. Just another "Muzzled" public figurehead.
CANADA SUCKS, why? Corporations run Canada, our politicians are Corporate Bagmen. It is sad, pathetic and flies in the face of Democracy. That is why I call it "Demockery", here in Alberta and Canada for that matter. This is what FDR warned about. The rabid pursuit of Oil has caused all of this. Oil=Evil. Bush and his cronies caused all this. What a "Kluge".
Barack Obama recognizes this, he has a hell of a fight with grumpy KKK republicans in the US. Guess what we have the same politicians here. Barack Obama inspires all humans world wide to do a better job for humanity, and to try harder yourself to better your community and the world. That is what is different about Barack Obama, and that is what makes him a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Canada is full of Old Crony Bagmen, who's only objective is enriching themselves. And that is why Canada Sucks.