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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH – Put the people first

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BY PASTOR AL MILLER

“Greetings!

 As many of our readers know, we have taken a different approach to the COVID-19 pandemic than many of the cultural, and mainstream media has. We will not coerce, manipulate, or present information to you that has not been verified, researched and accredited. We have spent the last year and a half sifting through articles, peer reviewed research papers, talking to the leading experts in their fields, finding ways to ensure that you have all the information you need to make educated, and self guided decisions for your family.

Not all of our readers agree with our direction, but it is important that during this time of our history, we document all the stories, not just stories that are bought and paid for by the government. We are the voice of the people, and we will continue to present you with the information needed to TAKE BACK YOUR FREEDOM!

I would like to present to you, Reverend Al Miller (aka, the Nation’s Pastor). He represents thousands of citizens, Pastors, Doctors, Lawyers, Educators and other professionals in Jamaica, and we want to present an article to you that they will not print in Jamaica, and for good reason. I take pride in introducing to you ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!.”

Simone Jennifer Smith
Chief Reporter/ Operations Manager TCN

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Thanks for the tremendous efforts in guiding and working to protect our nation in this challenging COVID-19 season. WE APPRECIATE the hard and timely work. You have carefully led us in observing the protocols with all attempts to control the spread. By and large, with just a few exceptions, our people have responded well. We have admirably satisfied the international requirements.

BUT PLEASE DO CONSIDER! IT IS TIME TO CHANGE OUR APPROACH.

The sustained recommended lockdowns have caused great pressure and great problems. But creating a problem to solve a problem is not the best wisdom. Our people’s trust levels are waning. Frustration levels are rising. Wisdom says, change now. WE MUST PUT JAMAICA FIRST!

Many first world policy makers’ solutions are not practical for developing nations. They often enforce them for their own benefit. Tough questions now have to be asked. Whose interest is being served? To whose tune are we dancing? Is it some external force, or our own? Whose agenda are we following? Ours, or that of conventions and treaties, signed in favour of the big nations?

The suffering is great on our people. Greater on our children, the poor, small businesses, musicians, and sports persons and lower level workers across all industries. Hustlers (informal entrepreneurs) are all but totally disabled, along with their informal economy which represents bread and butter activity for hundreds of thousands.

The nation can take no more lockdowns. We are losing more than we gain by such action. It is no longer necessary, not beneficial, not just, not wise, not productive. We can be protective of our people and on the offensive against the virus, at the same time. It is being done elsewhere. Nations are now opening up (Mexico, Puerto Rico, Anguilla, Aruba, Britain, France, Croatia….).

We have followed, read all and listened to all media; those closely aligned to the system and the independents and we NOTE, the censorship of those who don’t carry the narrative of the status quo. Truth, integrity and honest reporting we cherish, in a free democracy but it seems scarce on this subject. Regardless, what is clear is, there are better options.

We are not unmindful of the international pressures that are often put on developing nations, some we have to stoutly resist for our good. This is one such occasion where we must now say ENOUGH is ENOUGH. We have long passed external control and abhor any return from any source. Freedom is our choice. Open contending views for best wisdom is necessary now. Everything can look good, sounds good until it is challenged. Truth can always stand any test.

We the people are EMPOWERING you to say NO to further lockdowns, seek national consensus and let’s TOGETHER devise the best methods for our national realities going forward.

We the people trusted you and voted you as our Jamaican Parliament and government. We did not elect the World Health Organization (WHO) or the United Nations (UN) or any other external entity. Those are support mechanisms, not our rulers or dictators. No independent nation can give up their sovereignty to external entities. We the people gave no such authority. The above groups and others must respect this right and freedom.

Since when can we leave our destiny and best interest to the dictates of forces that have never been known historically to prioritize our cause. Their track record consistently shows self-interest, using lies and deception.

When since those who seek to oppress for their own ends have ever spoken the truth of their intent? It was always denied and called ‘conspiracy theories’ We have not heard of their Damascus Road change experience. Inducing fear for control, along with dangling or withdrawing  ‘goodies’ as rewards or consequences, has been their consistent methods.  Suppression of information and opposing voices, threats, use of force, denial of freedoms, are not new to us, ‘ole time something come back again.’

PARLIAMENTARY LEADERS, WE STAND WITH YOU TO PUT JAMAICA FIRST.

Here are our arguments to the external pressures:

Firstly, world political ideology of power for control and the commercial philosophy of domination for control share a common goal. Where there are mutual benefits, temporary alliances are easily formed to achieve the goal and then divide the spoils, to the detriment of developing nations. This seems to be now occurring.

Secondly, they tell us; follow the science! Whose science?

Science of convenience to an agenda, OR science of: objectivity, balance, honesty and truth? Pure science can stand up to contending views and evidence.

The science of the creator is consistent, orderly and when understood, it is for development and advancement never for enslavement, but for freedom.

Science is never in conflict with God’s Word or humanity’s best welfare. Science is God’s creative genius of the earth for man’s survival. Man’s abuse causes problems, not its use.

There is evidence of tested proven medical protocols being successfully used by leading doctors that reduce hospitalizations and deaths. Using both known and proven existing medication and alternative medicine. Should we not explore and allow this, informing and giving freedom of choice?

Should not all medications that can help be approved and the society be educated on options available?  Isn’t it a citizen’s right to emergency care, or to try ANY therapeutic measures that could possibly SAVE lives and alleviate suffering?

Doesn’t the principle of the Helsinki Accord and the Hippocratic Oath of medical personnel not consider it unethical and immoral to deny the sick and dying patients a known therapeutic measure that has proven promise to save life and alleviate suffering.

Let us together, as a nation apply ATTACK as the approach to COVID and not a continued defensive one to our detriment.

We can beat COVID-19 by honest dialogue on optional ways to overcome. A different approach must now be engaged, as is being done elsewhere. This new approach could engender hope.

It is always a danger when people begin to lose faith in a system or process. Leaders take charge before more disastrous effects take place. Let’s not dance to anyone else’s music! Let’s create and dance to our own ‘riddim’ for Covid’s defeat.

There is a limit to how much a person can bear before negative responses and effects trips in. Our nation is at that limit. We have borne it for 15 months.

We have been understanding and gracious, giving the benefit of the doubt in many questionable situations. Our people and their children’s education have suffered setbacks and hardships. The lockdowns can be contributing to increased domestic abuse, sexual abuse and crime. The greatest impact is on the poor, it cannot continue like this. THERE IS OTHER WAYS TO ACHIEVE THE SAME ENDS!

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4 Million Views – The Awakening World Truth Summit Part III; A race against time

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BY MICHAEL THOMAS

 “If you kick God out, then the devil remains,” words of wisdom from world-famous pastor Arthur Pawlowski who is known virally for the words “GET OUT,” which he used to evict the health official and her police entourage from his church here in Canada. He was one of the final guest speakers on day one of The Awakening World Truth Summit Part III, A Race Against Time. The team at TCN.video and the Toronto Caribbean Newspaper organized the two-day summit, and they did not disappoint.

Day one started out with award-winning medical journalist Dr. Michael Yeadon, who was the V. P. and chief scientist at Pfizer for a number of years. If there were a man that Big Pharma would be nervous about, this would be your guy. It could be why his interview was significantly disrupted during the summit, so much that the hosts Brandon V, and Simone Jennifer Smith had to arrange to interview him on another day.

Since leaving Big-Pharma and denouncing the myth of the so-called “injection for the world” that was created to piggyback on the virus scheme, Yeadon has made many false prophets very uncomfortable. There have been hit pieces written about him, he has been called a spreader of disinformation, and he has been ridiculed on places like Twitter which seems to be a popular trend these days depending on one’s views.

All this and more has not been able to deter this scientist in his quest to let the world know that they were and are still being lied to by the pharmaceutical companies, politicians and a handful of want to be slave masters.

A recent hit piece about Yeadon revealed the fear that the pharmaceutical companies have for him. Due to his credibility, the media reports that he is responsible for big injection hesitancy and false narratives.

Other speakers on day one were: Mitchell Gerber who spoke on the tyranny that he has witnessed in his over twenty years standing up to the China Communist Party, as well as Ontario’s only Mr. Chris Sky who introduced to us his newest book, “Just Say No!” Kerry Lee Crawford and Simone Jennifer Smith were able to get through half of an interview with Robert F. Kennedy Junior, but like Dr. Yeadon, the interview was disrupted, but not before Robert shared his thoughts on exactly what we as a people are dealing with when it comes to COVID-19 and the plans behind it.

One of the most powerful interviews of the day was with veteran physician Sherri Tenpenny, and you definitely have to watch the replay of Brandon V’s interview with Trudeau’s half-brother Kyle Kemper.

Day one ended with Kerry Lee Crawford interviewing what could only be described as the Holy Trinity: Pastor Henry Hilderbrandt, Pastor Tobias Tissen, and Pastor Arthur Pawlowski.

Day two took place Sunday June 27th, 2021 and also featured a powerful cast of speakers and educators like the incomparable Mr. David Icke who never disappoints, Dr. Zev Zelenko, Vlad Sobolev, Adam Skelly of Adamson Barbecue, Dr. Francis Boyle, and local activist Impenetrebel who stopped by to show his support of the summit.

Three people hosted the Summit with a conviction for spreading the truth: Mr. Kerry Lee Crawford, Mr. Brandon Vydelingum and the one and only Miss Simone Jennifer Smith. This article will just scratch the surface, and anyone and everyone is encouraged to go to TCN.video and check it out yourself, it really is an experience that no one should miss.

Every speaker had one destination in common, just different routes of arrival. The arrival point was to educate and mobilize the masses in such a way that they will realize their full potential and end this “Medical Fraud” that has been forced on humanity sooner rather than later.

Chris Sky really knocked it out of the ballpark when he said that he had travelled almost the entire country and Ontarians are the most sheepish people he has met. They just blindly obey, and what’s worse, they help their slave masters enforce the rules, but in the end, Sky urged them to “Just Say No,” and stand up for their rights.

Kyle Kemper was on point and he basically had these words for his brother’s regime, “Say I’m sorry.” Kemper said he believes there is room for healing if the people with the evil agenda confess.

Doctor Sherri Tenpenny was dynamic in detailing the harm that is done and is on-going due to these fraudulent injections campaigns. Tenpenny spoke at length about the amount of money that is thrown around to make sure the best minds that include doctors, scientists and powerful people of all walks of life, are bought and paid for by the players in this evil agenda.

Mr. Courage himself “Adam Skelly” spoke of the oppression he faced publicly by Ontario’s officials. Skelly has the government in court right now. He was treated like a criminal just for opening his barbeque restaurant during the first lockdown. He shared his thoughts about what he felt during the government cross examination, “When you have no truth, lies are all you have to rely on.” He calls the government case against him “bogus.”

Speaking of bogus, the final speaker Dr. Francis Boyle spoke at length with Kerry Lee about the US government, the FDA and how they have a history of corruption. He used the example of giving Saddam Hussain bio-weapons to use against his people. He closed by saying, “I have decided to use my talents to make this world a better place.”

Hats off to Grant Browning and the team at TCN.video and the Toronto Caribbean Newspaper for having the backbone to stand up and help educate their community, country and the universe in a time when most media outlets have been bought off by pathological liars, and have become journalistic prostitutes. As David Icke said to his host Simone, “You’ve got to have a relationship with truth, not with public opinion.”

The summit surpassed its past numbers with over four million page visits in two days. What this goes to show is that there is a need for the truth, and finally last weekend, truth seekers were provided with a platform where they could go for answers.

Gain free access to view each video below:

Former Pfizer VP & Chief of Science Dr. Michael Yeadon:
https://tcn.video/dr-michael-yeadon-full-interview-the-awakening-3/

Investigative Reporter Mitchell Gerber:
https://tcn.video/mitchell-gerber-full-interview-the-awakening-3/

Chris Sky:
https://tcn.video/chris-sky-full-interview-the-awakening-3/

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.:
https://tcn.video/robert-f-kennedy-jr-full-interview-the-awakening-3/

Dr. Sherri Tenpenny:
https://tcn.video/dr-sherri-tenpenny-full-interview-the-awakening-3/

Kyle Kemper (PM Justin Trudeau’s brother):
https://tcn.video/kyle-kemper-full-interview-the-awakening-3/

Pastor Henry Hildebrandt, Tobias Tissen & Arthur Pawlowski:
https://tcn.video/3-defiant-pastors-speak-out-full-interview-the-awakening-3/

David Icke:
https://tcn.video/david-icke-full-interview-the-awakening-3/

Dr. Zev Zelenko:
https://tcn.video/dr-zev-zelenko-full-interview-the-awakening-3/

Vladislav Sobolev:
https://tcn.video/vladislav-sobolev-full-interview-the-awakening-3/

Adam Skelly (Adamson Barbecue):
https://tcn.video/adam-skelly-full-interview-the-awakening-3/

Dr. Francis Boyle:
https://tcn.video/dr-francis-boyle-full-interview-the-awakening-3/

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Unethical Incentives – How vaccine incentives are being used to influence the Moveable Middle

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BY SIMONE J. SMITH

“The Government of Canada is planning to use influencers for various campaigns to help connect Health Canada and PHAC messages to specific audiences within the Canadian population.” André Gagnon

How do I start this?

Hmmmm!

Well, I guess I have to just start with the truth; once again my fellow Canadians, we are being duped by our government, and the forces that are standing behind them.

It is actually very frustrating watching this happen to the people in my country and my global community. What is being done around the world goes against every human right that we have as free-minded people, and it is being done without regard. This week I am going to break the psychology down for you, give you some examples, and provide you with proof that the people who we think have our best interest at heart do not.

Do you know why you do what you do? Are you aware of the forces behind your actions? Do you get up and meditate each day because you know it’s good for you, or is it because of some type of external reward? There are many different reasons why people do things: some are motivated to act because of internal desires, but other times external rewards are the true motivators.

Well, there’s a lot of research that’s been done to discover what will motivate those who are now being classed as vaccine hesitant. The entities that are marketing this vaccine are no longer going after those who are adamantly opposed to it, no; they are going for those people who are what they call the movable middle.

It has been admitted that a lot of time was spent last year testing different messages to encourage people to get a vaccine. Some of these messages were tested out during last fall’s flu season. It was discovered that messages that focus on a vaccine being reserved for you or waiting for you did better than others. Exclusivity is always a motivator to have something or do something.

There is a theory that emerged during the 1940’s and 1950’s called the incentive theory. It was built on the earlier drive theories established by psychologists such as Clark Hull. The incentive theory proposes that people are pulled toward behaviours that lead to rewards, and pushed away from actions that might lead to negative consequences. In many cases, external rewards can motivate you to do things that you might otherwise avoid, such as chores, work, and other tasks you find unpleasant.

Let’s take a look around the world, and see how governments, businesses, and organizations have used the incentive theory to convince their citizens to get one of the COVID-19 vaccines. Some of these incentives include: tax breaks, free airline tickets, and even million of dollars in lotteries.

Denmark
On Wednesday, the Denmark government announced it was partnering with a private company to develop a digital passport, which would allow travellers to bypass some restrictions by showing a trusted proof of inoculation. According to the Associated Press report, Acting Finance Minister Morten Boedskov stated that the program would be ready in several months and the government would discuss its use for non-travel reasons at a later point.

Germany
A German discount supermarket chain Lidl has allocated $200 to employees who complete their coronavirus vaccination regimen.

Brazil
According to Bloomberg News, JBS, a Brazilian meatpacking company and its subsidiary, Pilgrim Pride, promised to pay each worker at their U.S. operations $100 to get vaccinated.

Hong Kong
Property developers and philanthropic foundations in Hong Kong have teamed up to offer a one-bedroom apartment worth $1.4 million, as well as 20 cash prizes equal to $12,890, in a lottery open only to vaccinated residents.

$60,000 in airline tickets are being given away to city residents and airport employees who have been fully inoculated by the end of September.

At an HSBC bank in Hong Kong, employees are being offered a day off work per vaccine dose.

Philippines
The Straits Times reported that the mayor of a small town in the Ilocos Sur province is planning to raffle off a plot of land with a house in December, when he expects vaccines to be available for his community. Elsewhere in the country malls serving as vaccination sites are offering free parking and banana fritters.

United States of America
Instacart, Trader Joe’s, Amtrak, Aldi and Dollar General are among grocery and other companies in the United States offering various bonuses for employees who get vaccinated.

Most recently, Instacart stated that they will provide a bonus of $25 to workers who get inoculated. Dollar General, among others, will offer employees up to four hours of paid time to get both shots.

Canada
Canada has taken a two-pronged approach with their incentives. Not only are they offering many of the incentives that you see popping up in the United States (Krispy Kreme giveaways, lotteries, pizza, etc.), they are also finding ways to engage people in promoting the vaccine.

The Government of Canada is putting on one promotional incentive that I found. The application process challenges you to design, develop and carry out a community-driven information campaign to promote:

  • Confidence in vaccination against COVID-19
  • Continued compliance with public health measures

They want people to reach communities that are underserved or have been more greatly impacted by the pandemic and provide them with messaging that is:

  • Targeted
  • Informed
  • Culturally sensitive

These communities may include, but are not limited to:

  • Indigenous peoples
  • Low-income Canadians
  • People with disabilities
  • Black and other racialized Canadians
  • People with mental health challenges
  • Immigrants and non-permanent residents
  • People living in rural or remote communities
  • Other underserved or especially hard-hit communities

The campaigns should show an understanding of their target audiences with respect to:

  • Vaccine intentions
  • Barriers to vaccination
  • The effects and impacts of COVID-19
  • Approaches and supports needed to reduce or help overcome barriers

A grand prizewinner will be selected and awarded a $100,000 grant to reinvest in support of the health of their community.

There are some ethical issues that come with some of these incentive programs that need to be exposed and explored. These programs do not address “persistent information gaps” that have proved a barrier for inoculation among populations, particularly marginalized groups, that have questions about the science or where to get the doses.

Another huge issue is one that cannot be understated; this goes completely against standard one of the Nuremberg Code of 1947. The war crimes tribunal at Nuremberg laid down the ten standards, and they are considered the ethical way for experiments to be carried out on humans worldwide.

Special Note

Before we go over standard one, I want you to be aware of one very important aspect of this situation; we are all involved in an experiment, and the moment you accept one of the incentives being pushed at you, you then give your consent to be part of this experiment.

On the National Institute of Health’s website, there is a section that goes through the ten standards, but I really want you to have a full understanding of this one.

  1. The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.

This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved, as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision.

This latter element requires that, before the acceptance of an affirmative decision by the experimental subject, there should be made known to him the nature, duration, and purpose of the experiment; the method and means by which it is to be conducted; all inconveniences and hazards reasonably to be expected; and the effects upon his health or person, which may possibly come from his participation in the experiment.

The duty and responsibility for ascertaining the quality of the consent rests upon each individual who initiates, directs or engages in the experiment. It is a personal duty and responsibility, which may not be delegated to another with impunity.

I want to close by saying this; if this were something that was truly good for us, they would not need to use psychological tricks, incentives, or any other external motivations for us to take it.

Really think about it.

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Communities need to be heard – Black Canadians are again fighting to protect the only black-owned radio station

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BY ALMIRA RIMEZ

While many Canadians are concerned about having their voices silenced by the provisions in the Trudeau government’s C-10, black Canadians are again fighting to protect their lone black-owned media platform. Here we go Again! Black Canadians waited decades and fought tirelessly to have their voices heard. Despite that, G98.7 FM is heading back to court with the Canadian Radio, Television & Telecommunication Commission on May 27th, 2021, to address the proposed sale to Neeti P Ray, owner of C.I.N.A. FM Windsor & C.I.N.A. AM Mississauga.

The legacy of Canadian black-owned broadcast is on the ropes once again, but how did we get here? Canada’s first black-owned broadcast license, CFXJ-FM, otherwise known as Flow 93.5 FM, first hit the air in 2001. Denham Jolly of Milestone Radio held a minority ownership stake. This battle was long and arduous, strewn with elaborate promotional campaigns that included recording a music video entitled “We need it now.” These campaigns designed to raise awareness of the black community’s need to be heard instead was met with a succession of controversial and disheartening decisions.

 This includes the slap in the face the black community received in 1989 when the C.R.T.C. decided in favour of granting yet another Country Music License CISS-FM instead of going urban. This disappointment was experienced again in 1997 when the C.R.T.C. decided to choose in favour of giving the license to a division of C.B.C. radio one instead of Milestone. As racist as some say the United States of America is against black people, black-owned radio has existed there for more than three-quarters of a century. W.E.R.D. was the first black-owned radio station in the United States of America, launched by Jesse Blayton in 1949. Presently in the U.S.,168 of the 10,135 commercial AM and F.M. radio stations are black-owned.

In Canada, for the second time in a little more than a decade, the sole black-owned radio station is in danger of being sold to someone from outside the black community. The year was 2010 when C.F.X.J. (Flow) was sold to CTV’s Globemedia CHUM Radio, to the detriment of the black Canadian community. These circumstances demonstrate that even in a progressive country like Canada, there remain to be glaring racial deficiencies.

In the wake of the tragic death of George Floyd, and dozens of men and women just like him, the United States has been characterized as one of the most racist’s places on earth; however, upon closer examination, some shocking details were revealed. Canada’s issues with institutional racism may be even more pervasive than their neighbor to the south.

After nearly seventy years of black-owned broadcast in the U.S., a medley of governmental policies have been enacted in order to aid smaller and black-owned broadcasters to remain competitive with larger corporate competitors. One of these provisions requires that all American corporations allocate a specific percentage of their marketing dollars to black-owned broadcasters. In Canada, it is the opposite. Many U.S. businesses operating in Canada have been accused of regularly redirecting funds away from black Canadian media to other cultural markets. This circumstance has traditionally made the viability of black-owned broadcasting more difficult, leaving many of this country’s residents without a voice. Some would suggest this to be the purpose of the practice. History often repeats itself, but one would think that it wouldn’t have occurred again so soon.

2011 Intercity Broadcast Network and their founder Jamaican-born Fitzroy Gordon received approval from the C.R.T.C. to launch CKFG-FM despite the objections from many of Canada’s mainstay media broadcasters. C.B.C. forcibly noted their objections while Rogers Media, Astral Media, Bell Media & Durham Radio all filed comments with the C.R.T.C. in support of the C.B.C.’s views. Was this the old boys club sticking up for a member, or was their objection warranted? Regardless of what one may think about this consortium, they demonstrated a level of resistance to the granting of this license that had never been seen before.

In Canada, black-owned broadcasters are targeted in this manner, often by many of the industry elites. The same companies that have taken a knee and professed to be in support of black rights initiatives are often the very same that have been accused of undermining black business. On the other hand, there have been a number of commercial companies whose support of G98.7 FM was instrumental to their success. The allocation of hundreds of thousands of their advertising dollars to the station helped to bolster some of their best revenue-generating years ever seen.

In 2019, approximately one week after the death and before the funeral of the sole founder of G98.7 FM Fitzroy Gordon, former C.F.O. Delford Blythe of Jamrock accounting filed an emergency order to gain control of the radio station. Mr.Blythe was fired from the company in 2015 for misconduct amidst a succession of allegations of maleficence concerning his accounting conduct. The allegations outlined in testimony given by the former C.E.O. detailed his failure to pay the C.R.T.C.’s C.C.D. Fee’s from 2012-2015, essentially the duration of his tenure as C.F.O. at G98.7 FM.

These allegations also provided implicit details of the alleged improprieties committed by the C.F.O. This included non-payment on crucial expenditures like the lease on the broadcast antenna at T.D. Manulife Centre in Toronto which went unpaid for several years. The same individual who went to the media to complain about G98.7 FM maleficence was, according to previous testimony of former C.E.O. and Founder Fitzroy Gordon, the same individual responsible for the alleged governance.

Despite that fact, media stories released by a series of media outlets, including The Globe & Mail, quoted Mr.Blythe as their sole source for the alleged mismanagement. This raised the ire of many of Canada’s industry elites, including broadcasting legend Bob Markowitz Sr. former colleague of the late Fitzroy Gordon that spoke about his testimony on the alleged discrepancies.

These accusations alleged Mr. Blythe’s utilization of his G98.7 FM expense account to pay for a helicopter ride date with a young lady, a trip to London, England for the Olympics, and even for his elaborate 50th Birthday Celebration in 2012. After the filing of the emergency order by Mr.Blythe, G98.7 FM owed less than $300,000.00 today, that amount is estimated to be more than $2,000,000.00.

According to sources close to the circumstance, when A. Farber & Partners appointed court-ordered control of CKFG-FM to Mr.Blythe in December of 2019, G98.7 FM owed a little less than $400,000.00; the question remains what happened afterward? How have the rumours of egos and infighting impacted the plight of the only black-owned broadcast network in the country? Who is responsible? Will Canada lose its only black-owned network? How much did the emergency motion end up costing G98.7 FM? How were these legal costs covered? Is this the end of Gospel Morning? How did an individual who invested $0 end up with 19% ownership of the said company? These questions and more are what we set out to discover.

New proposed owner of G98.7 FM Neeti P Ray whose Mississauga based C.I.N.A. AM broadcasts 80% of their content in Arabic provided the following statement,

“The applicant proposes that the station operate on the same terms and conditions that currently apply to ensure continuity and to establish a record of compliance.

The station has the important mandate of serving black communities in Toronto (those of the Caribbean and African heritage) with spoken word programming and music. The applicant is committed to continuing to meet this mandate and to fulfill all applicable conditions of license.”

 Mr. Neeti P Ray went on to state, “It would perhaps be premature to speculate on the likely plans in future that would ensure that the objectives of the station are best achieved. More importantly, the commitment to meet the above mandate will remain unchanged.”

The new owners of Flow 93.5 FM stated the very same thing, yet in less than twelve months quickly filed to amend the license away from the original mandate; there are no guarantees. Will the plethora of qualified, well-financed black-owned broadcasters be left on the outside looking in? Will the potential new owners stand by their commitment, or will these be empty words.

Will the C.R.T.C. and the community hold the new ownership to account? If history is any indication, the answer to all these questions is NO, but you can have your say and watch the C.R.T.C. hearing live at 11 AM May 27th, 2021.  G98.7 FM is third on the court-hearing list.

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