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DISBARMENT OF IHOR BRODA

March 3, 2010, the Hearing Committee of the Alberta Law Society disbarred  Ihor Broda. They found Ihor Broda, who resides in and practised at Edmonton,  Alberta, guilty of conduct deserving of sanction arising from 36 citations.  He admitted 16 citations.  The Hearing Committee had suspended Mr. Broda  from practice on November 3, 2009.

UPCOMING HEARINGS

 – Edmonton Court of Queens Bench, Surrogate Court, Edmonton, AB. Monday, March 1, 2010 @ 2:00 PM Application, Trusteeship & Guardianship re: Helen Tiedemann of Tofield,  (Detained in Vegreville Care Center, detained / imprisoned for 8 months behind locked doors in secure unit with cognitively impaired persons, disallowed to leave center at any time) total violation of […]

EMERGENCY WAITS ARE LONGER, AGING POPULATION BEHIND LONGER WAITS

Dr. Chris Eagle, Alberta Health Services vice-president, said rising wait times are caused by an aging population. We submit that Alberta seniors spend less money on health related services and supports such as emergency treatment than non-seniors. According to the Alberta Government Demographic Planning Commission, Discussion Guide, published in Summer 2008, Alberta seniors in 2004, […]

FATALITY INQUIRY JANUARY 14th & 15th @ 9: 30 AM-CALGARY PROVINCIAL COURT – Honourable Judge G.A.Gaschler presiding

Death of James Cairns, April 22, 2007BETHANY CARE CENTER, 916 18A Street NW. Calgary, AB. It is troubling, that Mr. James Cairns was placed in close proximity to a resident who expressed strong paranoic fears to staff and famiiy. It is further troubling that night staff failed to hear and intervene in this violent, deadly, […]

CHARTER OF RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS VIOLATION

We have uncovered a government initiative designed to arbitrarily strip seniors of their rights and their driving licenses. Presently, seventy year olds are being targeted. Seniors who have never had a driving accident are summoned to doctor’s offices and without permission, are administered a cognitive/ mental assessment. The test is carried out with a stop […]

COURT OF APPEAL GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO ELDER ADVOCATES ET AL CLASS-ACTION LAWSUIT

Alberta’s high court has ruled unanimously that the class-action lawsuit can proceed against government over fees charged to residents in long-term care homes. The society claims the province overcharged some 14,000 seniors more than $128 million over a 2 year period.The organization’s lawyer, Alan Garber said that the Court of Appeal in its ruling, said […]

SENIORS INFORMATION MEETING

SENIORS INFORMATION MEETING Friday, November 27, 2009 @ 1:30 PM Leduc Seniors Centre – Telford House 4907 – 46 Street Phone # 780 – 986-6160 ADULT GUARDIANSHIP & TRUSTEESHIP ACT This act is unjust legislation which disregards citizens rights, and violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It’s shocking that legislators have proclaimed Bill #24, […]

REX OKUMU, RAPED SENIOR, TO BE DEPORTED TO HIS NATIVE SUDAN

Rex Okumu, 45, a former nurse’s aide convicted of sexually assaulting a 91-year-old Alzheimer’s patient at the Brentwood Care Centre, Calgary, in July 2004, will remain in custody while he awaits deportation.

SENIOR ALERT – ADULT GUARDIANSHIP & TRUSTEESHIP ACT

According to Brenda Lee Doyle, Office of the Public Guardian, now, not only can physicians, psychologists and psychiatrists, declare seniors incompetent & strip them of all rights and monies, the AB. Government “is designating occupational therapists, social workers, RN’s, and registered psychiatric and mental deficiency nurses” to also become capacity assessors. They will have power […]

ADULT GUARDIANSHIP AND TRUSTEESHIP ACT

It is shocking that members of the Alberta legislature have allowed the proclamation of this Act into law. This legislation is a deliberate, calculated assault on the seniors of this province. We have documented the legislated abuse of well over twenty five instances of those who have been or are being wrongly detained because of […]

FIRE IN SENIOR’S HOME – AVONWOOD CORNER SENIOIR RESIDENCE

A senior, believed to be an occupant of a unit on the fourth floor, was taken away by ambulance this morning, with life-threatening injuries.

ASSISTED LIVING – ARSON – VILLA MARGUERITA – 9810 165 Street

Villa Marguerite, which houses people with disabilities and vulnerable seniors, has endured four fires in six days. All of the fires were sparked in a common area, a spokesman for Edmonton Fire Services confirmed. Tuesday night an estimated $40,000 blaze was set. Fires are under investigation by Edmonton police. Residents are afraid to speak out […]

ELDER ABUSE CHARGES LAID BY STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE

A Washington County nurse is facing elderly abuse charges. 26-year-old Certified Nursing Assistant Cigi Serrevera Snell, surrendered herself at the Jackson County jail in Marianna.. Snell is accused of slapping a 90-year-old woman in the face, while caring for her at the Signature Health Care Center in Jackson County. She was fired from her job […]

SENIOR MISSING FOUR YEARS

On September 16, 2004, Elisabeth Liesje Bontane, 89 year oldmother of E.F. failed to return home from her daily attendance at the Kirby Center Daycare Program. It would be four years before Ms. F. would see her mother again.GOVERNMENT BREACHES DEPENDENT ADULT LEGISLATION She was not given information or served any documents by the Kirby […]

ALBERTA HOSPITAL CLOSURE

It's final. Building # 12. is closing. Patients, family and friendshave been notified that senior / patients will be moved to the newEdmonton facility by April or May.