Quevillon met with the negotiator on Monday to discuss not only the Pines, but also what he believes to be the core of the issues: the lack of policing in Kanesatake. Over the past years, the forest had fallen under the hands of entrepreneurs who disregarded the moratorium that was put in place by the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake MCK to protect the Pines.
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A downtown Brampton health clinic is reeling after receiving an order from the Ministry of Health to close its doors by the end of March. The ministry communication says WEFHT will be shut down by March 31, , under a section of its agreement, which allows the government to cut funding without explanation and with no cause. The COVID pandemic has hit the city particularly hard, compounding an already inequitable healthcare situation. Such clinics are made up of family physicians, nurses, social workers, dieticians and a variety of other healthcare professionals that provide care to a roster of patients.
The concept is centred on the idea that partnership between providers will make it easier for patients with complex healthcare needs to receive the treatment they require in an efficient and cost-effective setting. For example, a patient with diabetes could see a nurse, dietician and doctor in the same setting, helping with long-term management of their condition.
The decision to close the clinic appears to have its roots in a statement of claim filed last year by the current management of WEFHT against its former directors. The statement of claim, which has not been tested in court, alleges the previous physician-led board, including Dr.
Sanjeev Goel and Dr. Lopita Banerjee a married couple were behind fraudulent transactions. Goel and Banerjee founded the clinic in and stepped down from the board in early , resulting in a transition from a physician-led board to one now governed by patients and community members.
Ernesto Gaskin is the current executive director of the patient-run clinic, and under his leadership WEFHT followed up on previous allegations against Goel, Banerjee and other board members lodged in a lawsuit by a former colleague. The current board filed a statement of claim against the previous board, alleging mismanagement and misappropriation of funds, communicating these concerns to police and the provincial government.
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Goel denies all allegations by the current board and the former colleague. The model of care provided by Wise Elephant is delivered using funds from the Ministry of Health through an agreement that has specific conditions attached. For a family health team FHT to function successfully, it must be affiliated with a family health organization FHO of physicians. An extension was granted for the two groups to repair the damage and move on. Goel said his actions to have Wise Elephant shut down were not an attempt to terminate the lawsuit the organization filed against him.
Gaskin acknowledged WEFHT was in breach of its agreement, but said he had reached out to the Ministry multiple times to work out a solution. The clinic asked if its funding agreement could be amended to work with new physicians, but received no direction from the ministry.
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Gaskin says he believed the Province was working on the issue in the background. He was shocked when the wind-down order landed Monday. Along with his concerns for patients, Gaskin is frustrated that the move will end any investigation or follow-up to the initial forensic audit done by Toronto-based forensic auditing firm P. Once you shut it down, all these investigations come to a premature end and the taxpayers are left out in the cold. He feels the requests were met with an alarming disinterest.
Such transactions, according to the lawsuit, are prohibited under the funding agreement between the health team and the Ontario Ministry of Health. He said it amounts to gagging whistleblowers and is leaving taxpayers worse off. The clinic was under the impression law enforcement and government would take action. A message on December 15 Tuesday from the Ontario Provincial Police OPP stated no investigation had been started and said the force was waiting on the green light from the government to get the pending investigation going.
With a formal police investigation stalled, and an order to cease operations from the Ministry of Health, Gaskin is now questioning the motivations of some provincial staff. After receiving no help in its mission to recover taxpayer dollars, he alleges WEFHT is now being punished. With hospitals full even before COVID and now forced to transfer out patients and cancel surgeries, preventative care and the ongoing work of clinics like WEFHT are at the heart of healthcare delivery.
Assuming a smooth transition for patients, space will still be lost and access to healthcare will be reduced, potentially making it harder for thousands of patients to get the attention they need. Access to primary care will continue as usual Amarjot Sandhu, whose riding includes the clinic, and Prabmeet Sarkaria have acted as intermediaries between the Ministry and WEFHT, advocating to keep the space open and continue its work. But when the order came down to turn the lights off, Gaskin says the pair knew about the decision and even supported it.
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It sat by his kitchen phone, yellowing with age. Dubyk had written down the numbers of local authorities after his father died, but he couldn't bring himself to call, to say he planned to burn down the century-old grain elevator outside his family's little blue farm house that three generations of his family had shared near Rosetown. Dubyk wanted to conserve and restore the building, but high costs and roadblocks made that impossible. Saying goodbye by setting the tower ablaze was the last thing he wanted to do, but eventually he realized there was no other option and he made the call.
On an April morning in , Dubyk piled fuel at the base of the elevator and the small office beside it. He touched a lit rag to each and hurried back a safe distance. He checked the time: 8 a. A few gathered neighbours watched the first sparks with him. They were old friends, veterans of working nearby fields and longtime residents of Rosetown. Dubyk huddled behind a video recorder, capturing the flames as they engulfed the building where he had worked with his grandfather.
The fires spread and the tower teetered before pancaking downward into a smouldering pile that smoked for weeks. By then, the time read a. It was over. Wooden grain elevators used to be the sign of a successful community. The towering structures, whether owned by farmers or co-operatively by the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool, were places to store and prepare grain before it was shipped to a world market through a network of rails and roads. They were also community hubs where people shared news and did business. But as farming practices changed and many small farms were replaced by a few large ones, it made sense to have fewer, centralized grain storage vats or newer facilities.
Today, the peaks of polished steel grain bins are visible from the road leading to Dubyk's farm.
Gary Storey, a professor emeritus in the University of Saskatchewan's department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, wrote for the Encyclopedia Saskatchewan that there were 3, primary grain elevators in Saskatchewan in and that had number dropped to 2, by The number "declined tremendously" after that. By , only primary elevators were left. Grain elevator enthusiast Jim Pearson, who kept a running tally of all standing elevators in the province, died in His last count was When grain elevators were torn down, it often meant some businesses in the community were destroyed as well, said Ray Ambrosi, a Regina-based researcher.
Elevators were landmarks for communities. When they disappeared, the towns where they stood became nearly invisible.