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GREY GLORY
Watch “Grey Glory” a documentary by Brandy Yanchyk- Omni TV Sunday evening, July 6, 2014 @ 9:00 PM. “Grey Glory” is a heartwarming and inspirational documentary about Canadian seniors whoare pushing their bodies to the limit, redefining our perceptions of aging. To see the website for “Grey Glory” go to: brandyyproductions.com/grey-glory/
Ric McIvor promises to eliminate DriveABLE
Ric McIvor, at this mornings leadership campaign launch in Edmonton, announced he is committed to eliminating the DriveABLE testing program and will be asking for a thorough review of the Simard MD program. May 28, 2014
Simard MD
There is no doubt, the Simard MD & DriveABlE protocol is a sophisticated scam carried out on the backs of seniors, propagated under the guise of research, science and safety.
Preston Carpenter thief
Preston Lee Carpenter Carpenter targeted seniors for theft at two senior homes. He was able to get inside the residences by posing as a family member & a maintenance person. March 21/14, was sentenced to 45 days in jail by Provincial Court Judge Fred Day. Warrants for his arrest for forgery, unlawfully in a dwelling […]
Police Officer Jack Redlick
February 2010, Edmonton Police Constable Jack Redlick viciously beat a handcuffed man, Kasimierz Kozina,. No action was taken by his superiors. He and two other plainclothes officers viciously beat a handcuffed man while he was down. It was observed and reported, by former Edmonton Police Officer, Derek Huff: “They basically had their knees on his […]
Elder Abuse by Simard MD & DriveABLE
A friend about my age who had no health issues and had never needed a family doctor went to a walk in for his first license medical. He has driven from 16 yrs of age, truck, heavy eqpt, clean record. He was made to take the Simard MD exam, where he scored low, then to […]
SIMARD MD – The Medically At-Risk Driver
Seniors are the safest drivers on Alberta roads. Alberta Transportation statistics indicate they are not causing the carnage on Alberta roads, they have the lowest casualty rates. Nevertheless, in 2008 the Minister of Transportation, introduced a pilot project that subjected all Albertans age seventy five, to a medical fitness assessment. In many medical clinics, a […]
DriveABLE madness
Michelle Mungall MLA Creston, BC Just the other day I received in my office a letter from Heather Myers, and she’s telling me the story of her father who was tested. His doctor, said he was in perfect health and in perfect driving capability & there should be no reason for the test (DriveABLE). But […]
Testing violates senior’s rights
According to Alberta Transportation statistics, seniors are the safest drivers on Alberta roads, they are not causing the often carnage on Alberta roads. It is documented they have the lowest casualty rates, Nevertheless, in 2008 the Minister of Transportation, introduced a pilot project that required all Albertans at age seventy five, be subjected to a […]
DriveABLE testing costly
The BC Medical Association worries that too much reliance is put on the DriveABLE computer test, the CBC’s Alan Waterman reports 2012. BC spends almost S2M on re-licensing senior drivers. Thus feeding the coffers of the multi-million dollar, private for profit, DRIVEABLE ASSESSMENT CORPORATION INC. of which Allan Dobbs PhD, founder of DriveABLE testing, owns […]
Covenant Health bans Shauna McHarg
Shauna McHarg is only one of many who have suffered banning. This morning, one man who has been victimized by such protocol put it this way, “What has my 101 year old mother done that she is daily being punished by being denied the care & comfort of family?” This man, has also been arbitrarily […]
APPLICATION by Covenant Health for Judicial Review of Freedom of Information (FOIP) Adjudicator’s Decisions.
COURT HEARING Edmonton Court House, February 20, & 21, 2014 – Thursday & Friday @ 10:00 AM. Shauna McHarg, who is the subject of banning in regard to her parents who are residents at the Covenant Health Edmonton General Long Term Care Centre, has not been allowed to see her father for close to two […]
Abuse by Government
For All Canadians Who Believe That there Are Equal Rights For Everyone, And not Just For Those That The Government Decides When Convenient. Please send this to your Federal MP, and demand that they investigate the many Transgressions of the Federal Laws, by the Ontario Government. Whereas the Ontario Government, through the Ministry of Transportation, […]
Ontario Study shows paying doctors curbs unfit drivers.
The Star Editorial dated February 5/ 14, states the matter as factual, that paying doctors to be bounty hunters reduces carnage on the roads. Then, as many of those zealots who wish to get older drivers off the road, cite seniors as medically at risk, even though their illnesses are most likely being treated and […]
Statistics speak loudly
https://elderadvocates.ca/wp-content/uploads/Age-of-Drivers.jpg In Alberta, statistics clearly indicate that cognitively impaired Albertans who may cause accidents, are NOT ON Alberta roads.