Employment & Social Development Canada (ESDC), The Ontario Ministry of Children, Community & Social Services (CCSS), Simcoe County, The City of Barrie and their two biggest housing providers have manufactured their own homelessness & poverty problems.
Simcoe County has been experiencing a severe homelessness and sex-trafficking problem for a very long time, and it's been manufactured by ESDC, The CCSS, Simcoe County, The City of Barrie and their two largest housing providers; The Barrie Municipal Non-Profit Housing Corporation (BMNPHC) and The Simcoe County Housing Corporation (SCHC) . Here are some excerpts from news articles indicating the severity of homelessness and trafficking in Simcoe County. Below these excerpts, you'll find a long list of evidence:
"Drive along the highway near Barrie, and “I’ll tell you right now, that 70 per cent of those guests in those hotels and motels are sex-traffic victims, right now,” she told her audience. According to Dave Hossack, interim executive director of the Child Advocacy Centre of Simcoe/Muskoka, close to 70 per cent of human trafficking in Canada happens in Ontario. “And over 90 per cent of human trafficking victims in Ontario are from Ontario,” he added. - May 4, 2017. Source.
“Two-thirds of the nation’s police reported trafficking in persons violations occur in Ontario,” said Dr. Natalya Timoshkina, an associate professor in Lakehead’s school of social work. Within Ontario, Simcoe County is “a hot spot for sex trafficking and labour trafficking,” she added. - March 19, 2021 Source.
"Stephanie Bellows is an intelligence analyst with the province. She said the issues of human trafficking have exploded in recent years locally. The victims are both male and female and can be any age. There have been cases of trafficking in Barrie, especially in the hotels in Barrie. It is not an isolated issue. Barrie is quickly becoming a hot spot as well," Bellows added. - July 29, 2023. Source.
"Building Bridges Through Common Ground; $300K for 3 Years: Barrie Police Service is strengthening school safety and youth support through its partnership with the Simcoe/Muskoka Child and Youth Advocacy Centre Common Ground Youth Group Program. The six-week program focuses on youth ages 12-18 who have witnessed, experienced or are at increased risk of experiencing gender-based violence. Funding will be used for a direct referral process, increased program space and academic research and data interpretation. 2023-24 to 2025-26." Source.
CBC: Barrie wanted to ban donations to homeless people on its property. Advocates are sending the plan to the UN. - September 24, 2023. Source.
Toronto Star: Barrie’s homelessness plan is being called ‘a clear violation of basic human rights.’ Here’s why. - June 20, 2023. Source.
These are the number of income support beneficiaries in Barrie and Innisfil, provided by The CCSS and by ESDC via FOI requests. These numbers reveal thousands of residents are being blocked from receiving either of the disability benefits, the GIS benefit, the OAS benefit and the regular CPP benefit. You can view the FOI requests and responses below.
Ontario's Fastest Growing Age Group is Being Starved in Simcoe County
Despite seniors being Ontario's fastest growing age group, the number of beneficiaries who're receiving the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) benefit, the regular Canadian Pension Plan (CPP) benefit, the CPP Disability benefit, the Old Age Security (OAS) benefit, and the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) benefit, has either decreased or remained the same. In fact, the only social assistance benefit that has increased since the pandemic was Ontario Works (welfare).
Simcoe County's 'Negative Aging' Strategy
It's no surprise that BarrieToday.com has also referred to Simcoe County's aging plan as a "positive" one, as BarrieToday.com habitually reports the exact opposite of the truth after being provided with evidence.
In 2015, Simcoe County spent $50K on a Needs Assessment for their senior residents and "no one" noticed the significant number of low-income seniors being illegally evicted, starving and dying.
They noticed alright. Simcoe County is actually really good at achieving the goals they set for themselves. They just don't publicize their goals because their goals are crimes against humanity.
In 2023, I sent a couple Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to the CCSS and ESDC for a research study grant application (in food security) and that's how I discovered what Simcoe County is intentionally doing to their poorest, hungriest and most vulnerable residents: killing them slowly through homelessness and starvation. And no one paid me anything to get this information. I did it because I care to know what our government is doing to the voiceless.
Barrie's Non-Existent Economy
If vulnerable or disadvantaged Simcoe County residents want to eat, they must find someone who'll hire them. But during the summer of 2023, 12,800 advantaged and able-bodied people lost their full-time jobs in Barrie, yet our government told its disabled to go get a job anyways. Then the CCSS' simultaneously stopped accepting disability applications in Barrie and Innisfil and probably all of Simcoe County. Through social media, I learned that Barrie residents were directed to drive to Newmarket, Ont., if they wanted to apply for disability. Between February 2024 and August 2024, The City of Barrie has now lost 13,400 full-time jobs:
Community Support
The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario
On July 25, 2024, The HRTO served documents to two respondents:
1. The Barrie Municipal Non Profit Housing Corporation (BMNPHC), The Simcoe County Housing Corporation (SCHC), The City of Barrie, The County of Simcoe.
2. The Ontario Ministry of Children, Community & Social Services.
On August 2, 2024, I submitted a Form 16: Request For Interim Remedy. I also submitted a Letter of Support from a doctor. He said something about not legally being able to sign a declaration because doctors can only do that for patients and this doctor is not my family physician.
On August 6, 2024, I requested to add Employment & Social Development Canada (ESDC):
On August 20, 2024, the Ontario Ombudsman assigned to my case informed me that they don't have jurisdiction over the respondents because of the way the housing providers are structured. This means that whenever any RGI tenants in Simcoe County has a complaint about their housing provider, they have no one to submit their complaint to. I wonder how many decades RGI tenants in Barrie have been being abused by their housing service providers. Throughout all my communications with Barrie Housing, I've made many references to the time when their employee Ashley Sutherland stole $175 from me. The way Barrie Housing handled this complaint was by promoting Ashley to manage my building, as seen in the 'Description of Activities' PDF located much further down. When I complained about all of Barrie Housing staff's thefts to The City of Barrie, they told me to go work out the theft with the thieves, as seen in 'The City's Lack of Responsibility' PDF. Back when Ashley Sutherland first stole from me and when I tried to get that money back, I was ignored by every single BMNPHC manager I told. That's when I realized that all phone calls must be recorded: These housing providers lie about everything. I still don't know if this was the whole amount I was overcharged since Barrie Housing refuses to provide a financial breakdown. They've now sent me my first tenant ledger ever, two years after I asked for my overcharge amount and only after I posted all over Facebook letting everyone know that Barrie Housing refuses to provide tenant ledgers to any of their thousands of RGI tenants. I still don't know if all the overcharged rent has been returned because ODSP also refuses to provide a financial breakdown of what they gave me in 2020, and so I can't calculate how Barrie Housing calculated my rent rates still.
I've been begging "the world" for help since June 18, 2024 and no investigations have started and no one has forced the respondents to provide any of this information so I can't get to the bottom of these crimes myself.
All parties except the ESDC have responded by the deadline of August. 29, 2024, and of course they deny everything. I don't know much about how this process works, but I assume the ESDC wouldn't be expected to respond by this date as they were not included in either of the original applications and the HRTO has not included me in any communications they may have had with the ESDC at this time (at least not yet anyways).
The BMNPHC & SCHC's Unknown Rent Calculations
Fresh Food Weekly had to shut down their biweekly meal box program that was feeding hundreds of starving people living on social assistance benefits in Barrie and Innisfil because the BMNPHC decided that disabled and elderly people didn't deserve to have fresh food and toilet paper delivered to them every other week.
I personally raised +$176K in two years and Fresh Food Weekly was doing really well.
Barrie Housing staff hated me for being so good at feeding their hungriest tenants; which were, coincidentally, their poorest tenants who don't pay any rent at all, because of their disabilities.
I realize I sound very intense in my descriptions of Barrie Housing, and that’s a turnoff for a lot of people. A lot of people are having a hard time taking me seriously when I accuse Barrie Housing of being witches and Nazis (and no, I don’t think they practice witchcraft, but I do think they’re evil, and I think the sole purpose of their actions are to cause pain and death). They don’t show everyone who they really are. But they show me and people like me who they really are. I see them.
Two of my grandparents were in concentration camps. I don’t take my accusations lightly. I know exactly what I mean when I call them Nazis. That’s exactly what they are and I have every intention of proving it in court (with the guarantee that victims won't be evicted as a result of coming forward). Hopefully, someone will give me the benefit of the doubt, as I’ve never lied once, at any point. And Barrie Housing has lied about many things. Also, why would I hate them? Like, I don’t just dislike them. I deeply hate them. What causes hate? How can I care about so many “worthless” people but also hate Barrie Housing? What causes me to hate them so much?
Did you know, that Hitler never actually visited any death camps?
Mary-Anne doesn’t need to actually be on-site to be guilty. Mary-Anne + Adele = Barrie Housing. I’m sure there’s other staff just as evil as these two women, but I don’t know who they are. I will ensure the whole world knows what this organization is truly made of.
Since I’ve been publicizing Barrie Housing’s major crimes, A LOT of other tenants have been sending me PMs with pictures. 99% of these messages start off like this: “Please don’t publish this or tell anyone because I don’t want to be evicted”. So of course, I don’t publish them or tell anyone, because I would never want to cause an innocent person to be homeless (and because they’ve asked me not to).
Barrie Housing is so much worse than I ever could have imagined. There are clear patterns of abuse, and their number one fave thing to do is evict single moms.
Why would I lie about any of this? Especially when it can be so easily proven?
Here's an mp4 of the recorded phone call between myself and Mary-Anne Denny-Lusk that took place on Apr. 26, 2022:
Here's the transcript of the recording, without mentioning other tenants' names.
The definition of ‘over charge’ is: charge (someone) too high a price for goods or a service.
The definition of ‘stealing’ is: the action or offence of taking another person's property without permission or legal right and without intending to return it; theft.
At the beginning of 2019, Barrie Housing attempted to illegally evict me. Since this was their first attempt, I thought it was a mistake that they were too prideful to admit to, and so I don't have much evidence of it, but I do have some:
Here are two threatening letters I received from Barrie Housing’s lawyer, back in October 2022, telling me to stop exposing their abuses, or they’d sue me for defamation. I didn't remove any posts because I don’t lie:
Then they never talked to me again.
Some of “the worst” postings are provided below. Once you read these, you'll realize why Simcoe County wanted them taken down. I've plainly stated people's living circumstances. Additionally, Rob Cikoja, the CEO of Habitat for Humanity Huronia, told me in-person, that the reason my charity will never get support or funding from Simcoe County is because of these social media posts:
Recipient
Testimonies
These are some of the struggles our program recipients experience from systemic discrimination inflicted by those who manage our horrible existences.
On August 30, 2024, The BMNPHC submitted a Form 26: Request for Summary Hearing and are seeking to dismiss this case.
On September 15, 2024, I requested to consolidate the matters so Barrie Housing will stop blaming the CCSS; the CCSS doesn't evict tenants.
On September 16, 2024, The BMNPHC launched a defamation lawsuit against me through the Ontario Superior Court of Justice:
I’ve informed the HRTO as well as the Human Rights Legal Support Centre (HRLSC), and here, I’ve sent screenshots of the Form 10 to the HRTO Registrar, as well as to all the respondents. These screenshots explain what steps I’ve taken and some steps I plan to take.
On October 4, 2024, I responded to Barrie Housing's Statement of Claim:
In Barrie Housing's Statement of Claim, they reference a letter I delivered to 85 percent of tenants residing at 380 Duckworth Street on August 21, 2024. Barrie Housing claims this letter entices other tenants to falsify concerns about them. A copy of this letter can be viewed below, which clearly shows I never enticed, or asked anyone to do anything, let alone make up lies about Barrie Housing:
On September 17, 2024, I submitted a Form 12: Request For a Tribunal Ordered Inquiry to both matters, to request Information Sharing Agreements (ISA) from the respondents, and I also included some researchers.
On September 18, 2024, I submitted two more Form 12s. In the first, I've requested a specific individual to draft the ISAs. In the second, I've requested three more researchers be invited to participate in the formulation of the ISAs.
On September 20, 2024, I submitted a form 10 with an attachment titled, 'Housing Impacts', which are screenshots from news articles about two very corrupt housing providers: The Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) and The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), along with my commentary regarding all the similarities of corruption between these providers and Barrie and Simcoe County Housing, as well as solutions to this level of severe corruption.
On October 4, 2024, Barrie Housing brought a Motion against me, which is returnable on December 24, 2024, via Zoom videoconference at the Barrie Superior Court:
In Barrie Housing's Motion Record of the Plaintiff, they make reference to an email I sent to tenants and non-tenants asking if they'd sign a petition against the Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. Barrie Housing has told the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and the HRTO that this email entices other tenants to falsify concerns about Barrie Housing. Here's a copy of this email, clearly showing I never asked, or enticed anyone to falsify anything:
On October 7, 2024, I wrote a letter to the City of Barrie and Simcoe County:
On October 8, 2024, Barrie Housing responded with their Statement of Defence to Counterclaim:
It appears they're still dead set against providing a financial breakdown of how they calculated anyone's rent rates, nor do they seem concerned about the damages they claim to be enduring as a result.
On October 10, 2024, I mailed in an FOI request to Simcoe County, requesting the audit Barrie Housing conducted in 2022, that shows how they determined the overcharged amount of $2,628.53.
On October 11, 2024, I mailed another FOI request to Simcoe County, requesting the number of evictions made since 2020, as well as the total amount of rent arrears currently owed to Barrie Housing and Simcoe County Housing. I also mailed two more FOI requests to get the identities of the people who made two complaints made about me; one accused me of fraud and the other accused me of not taking care of my child. ODSP did do an investigation into me and determined that I did not commit any fraud.
The Dnaagdawenmag Binnoojiiyag Child & Family Services also did a home visit (two gals came to my apartment), and when I pulled out my laptop and showed them everything I was doing with Fresh Food Weekly, they changed their whole attitude towards me. Literally. Their faces were in shock as I scrolled through my website, talking about everything I had done; making sure to point out all the pictures of me receiving jumbo cheques. They leaned back in their chairs, lost their accusatory tones, and we started talking about all the problems with social service providers in Simcoe County.
On October 12, 2024, I put together these articles, to show the similarities between the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and the Barrie Municipal Non-Profit Housing Corporation (BMNPHC).
Barrie City Council Meeting Clip: August 14, 2024
A frustrated Barrie resident spoke at the Barrie City Council Meeting on August 14, 2024. This video helps show the hopeless struggle that reasonable residents experience when attempting to communicate with people who completely lack concern for poor people's problems; which is their survival.
Extreme Lengths To Not Share Information
Fresh Food Weekly would like to apply for a grant to fund the establishment of refrigerated mailbox clusters for Barrie's public housing complexes for a research study to measure how much it actually costs to feed vulnerable Canadians and how much it costs to not feed them. However, in order to achieve household food security, we need to know the number of bedrooms in a Rent-Geared-to-Income (RGI) household:
Section A Report Adoption
The reason they've been stalling and pretending to hand-over the requested information is because they were busy making a new policy to prevent sharing this information, as seen in The City of Barrie Council Meeting held on Aug. 14, 2024 (this is just a clip, for the full-video, visit YouTube):
The 'Achieving population household food security' document above shows how to measure household food security and generate food access in communities. This is what The City of Barrie and Simcoe County are so dead-set against happening.
These people aren't just doing nothing to help the poor; they're actively preventing everyone else from helping them too. As far as anyone knows, perhaps the whole reason they attempted to put a ban on feeding the homeless was the first step in their "final solution".
Who will help me put a stop to these Nazis!?
Value For Money Audit
Barrie's City Council has also requested a Value For Money Audit on Simcoe County's social services:
Maclean's Magazine of Village Media Inc.
BarrieToday.com was provided with all of this evidence after asking me specifically about my Barrie public housing experience, as seen in the ‘Description of Activities’ pdf attachment, but Nikki Cole decided to ghost me instead. Screenshots of BarrieToday.com trying to cover this up are also provided in the attachment below:
On June 21, 2024, BarrieToday.com revised this article so it wouldn't appear that Alex Nuttall ignored my request for help. However, I screenshot the original article because I knew BarrieToday.com would try to cover up the truth again. Here's the original version of the article:
Furthermore, here's a copy of the exact version of the Food Systems Planning Office proposal I presented to Alex Nuttall in February 2024:
On July 4, 2024, Nikki Cole and Alex Nuttall published an article talking about how wonderful Barrie public housing is:
On July 29, 2024, I submitted four Form 12s: Request for Tribunal Ordered Inquiry. In the second one, I've requested the respondents be forced to provide all their RGI tenants with a list of their maintenance requests they actually completed, including the items that were supposed to be included, so tenants can get all their missing structural materials provided, since that's what the respondents were paid to do. In the third one, I've requested an audit be conducted by a third-party investigator to determine how government funds are being disbursed between their properties.
On July 31, 2024, I submitted a fifth Form 12, and asked that an investigation be done on how each of their property's community rooms are being used. I suspect that many are not being used for tenants, but rather for Empower Simcoe programs.
On August 28, 2024, I requested to add BarrieToday.com to the list of respondents:
On September 10, 2024, BarrieToday.com responded.
On September 30, 2024, I reported Barrie Housing to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and requested an audit:
On October 1, 2024, I submitted a complaint to the Barrie Police. Shortly after, they responded saying they cannot help:
Cover-Up Culture
In fact, cover-up culture has been a long-reigning phenomena within the social housing sector for generations, as seen in the same city as the Mighty Mike Bloomberg; The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA).
This issue doesn't only exist in New York and Barrie, Ontario, Canada, though. There have been signs of mass corruption at the institutional level for years. Look at what the Manitoba Public Housing provider did to a tenant who tried to grow vegetables on his subsidized-unit's property:
In fact, the state of New York, New York City and NYCHA ended up facing a lawsuit costing the city and state $4 billion.
