08/13/2025
Police officers are sworn to serve and protect the community. That means everybody, including the homeless. They do NOT have the right or authority to prevent media from reporting about their own unlawful actions, or their selected abuses of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
๐๐ผ๐ ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐๐ ๐ข๐ณ ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฒ ๐ง๐๐ฟ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ ๐ช๐ฎ๐น๐ธ ๐๐ป ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ธ ๐๐ป๐๐ผ ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐น๐น๐ฒ๐ป๐ด๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ฟ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐๐ฏ๐๐๐ฒ๐
๐๐ง ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ญ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ, ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ข๐น๐ฑ๐ข๐บ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ค๐ฆ๐ด ๐ข๐ด ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ช๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐๐ข๐บ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐๐ญ๐ฆ๐น ๐๐ถ๐ต๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ญ https://www.fivepointsmedia.ca/barrie-mayor-alexander-nuttall-exposed.html
Yesterday, I attended at the Ontario Court of Justice as a self-represented defendant to contest an abusive order of trespassing that had been served against me by officers of the Barrie Police Service. The intent of their action was to prevent me, a provincially registered and long-time journalist, from recording their unlawful actions, and those of By-Law officers who represented The City of Barrie, as they violated a Superior Court order and the Charter of Rights and Fredoms to destroy the lives of desperate people forced to live in a homeless encampment in Berczy Park.
Almost immediately, at the recommendation of the Judge, the trial was postponed and was changed into a pre-trial conference. I cannot go into details about what was discussed during that closed court conference. However, I can report that based on the Judge's experience the decision was made to advance the case to a Charter Challenge regarding flagrant abuses of section 7 and section 2B of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms by The City of Barrie and officers of the Barrie Police Service. The trial is now set for December 3, 2025, at 9:00, for a full day in courtroom number 2.
It is interesting how, when we stand up to those who abuse authority, even over something as minor as a fifty dollar fine for committing the heinous crime of โtrespassingโ as media in a public park, their actions can become an issue of Charter violations, which would then lead to expensive and revealing litigation.
Although the intent of the officers and city staff was to reduce exposure of their own unlawful actions, the Charter Challenge will now inevitably draw more attention from mainstream media than would ever be due to any ticket for trespassing.
That is what happened in 2023, when Mayor Alex Nuttall and his council of sycophants tried to sneak through by-laws that would have made it a finable offence for any Barrie taxpayer or visitor to show compassion to a human being in need.
Our team and others went public, resulting in a massive protest by the good citizens of Barrie who filled the council chamber wall to wall with signage and their obvious displeasure. Also, media from across the province showed up to report on the proposed Draconian doctrine, which caused humiliation for our good city, and its mayor and council. The result was that the vote to endorse the proposed abusive action was โsent back to staffโ, and the proposed violations of human rights were never heard of again.
https://www.fivepointsmedia.ca/standing-with-our-homeless-neighbours.html
It is also likely that this case will now draw some support from larger media outlets, and from civil rights advocates and legal clinics. Their interest would stem from how case law works. If I am not successful in proving my case, or the court shows bias against me as self-represented, the ruling can be used as precedent against the rights of all journalists in Canada in similar situations. Therefore, it is in their best interests to show interest and assist in the case.
There is extensive case law that supports the rights of journalists under Section 2B of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and more than enough established rulings in the Superior Court and the Supreme Court of Canada to establish the unlawful nature of the actions by the officers of the Barrie Police Service and the By-Law staff representing The City of Barrie. One of the strongest rulings, that applies directly to this unlawful action, can be found at:
https://www.fivepointsmedia.ca/files/valente.pdf
As many of our followers know, I am not inexperienced in defending my rights as a journalist. I have successfully defended against various abuses of authority, and I have disproved deception in court multiple times, both civil and criminal.
When doing so, I have consistently established my right to tell the truth using evidence. I have proven the wrongness of actions by police officers, including those in the Barrie Police Service and Toronto Police Service.
In one civil case, when a Toronto-based 'family run' corporation abused the civil court system to prevent me from exposing millions of dollars of employee, I successfully faced off against nine lawyers from three Bay St. law firms. In the end, the abuser declared bankruptcy after confessing to losing half a million dollars in business and spending four hundred thousand dollars in legal fees. It also resulted in the termination of an up and coming lawyer from a prestigeous Bay Street law firm, who just happened to also be a violent convicted felon and ex-convict.
I have learned that it is most often not the professional ability to argue law that wins the case, but the capability of collecting and presenting evidence, which is in line with my professional history in international journalism and private investigations.
So far, I have been 100% successful against those who tried to silence the voice of journalism through threats and intimidation by abusing the true purpose of our legal system.
https://www.fivepointsmedia.ca/housing-slumlord-threatens-to-sue-defamation-obvious-slapp-action-2022.html
This story goes back to last year, in September, when I showed the nerve and audacity as a journalist to report on the unlawful actions by the By-Law staff of The City of Barrie, when they violated the rights of the members of a homeless community in Berczy Park who are protected under Section 7 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, "right to life, liberty, and security of the person", and also the January 27, 2023 ruling of Justice Michael J Valente, Superior Court of Justice.
https://www.fivepointsmedia.ca/files/valente.pdf
The homeless are permitted and protected, under the law, to live in public spaces, like parks, until such time that the city or county provides alternative housing that meets their specific needs. These range from couples accomodation, to special need to assist their mobility, accomodations for addiction, service animal or pet ownership, gender identify safety, and other issues that are accomodated by society outside the homeless community.
Mayor Alex Nuttall has chosen to provide only the most basic amount of support for those in the greatest of need, which is antithetical to his claims of being a devout Christian.
https://www.facebook.com/FivePointsMedia/posts/pfbid0jyyDKFZFUmP6KGNzqoXXHKB9veGec4mMPpKQkxGLsRnJ4hTmrURqog5hG6QrJy87l
In sharp contrast to his holier than thou claims of following the teachings of a Messiah who is said to have lived as and travelled with homeless people, Alex Nuttall has chosen to attack the homeless and unsheltered community at every opportunity. The fact that his words counter his actions when considering his professed faith makes him, at best, a hypocrite.
https://www.facebook.com/FivePointsMedia/videos/1350768779528044
In this case, the Barrie Police Service arrested a Charter protected journalist to silence the truth of the human rights violations being committed by The City of Barrie against the homeless community at Berczy Park.
The true purpose of this act of intimidation was to prohibit me, as a journalist, and advocates for the homeless from descerning that the encampment in Berzcy Park was located directly around the corner from Alex Nuttallโs family home.
Our mayor has also stated many times on other media sources that he wanted to clean out the Berzcy Park encampment, specifically, so that hฬฒiฬฒsฬฒ ฬฒcฬฒhฬฒiฬฒlฬฒdฬฒrฬฒeฬฒnฬฒ can safely use the playground. Berczy Park is, to date, the ONLY park that has been deemed worthy of such vigilant attention against a homeless encampment, and I do not believe that is coincidence.
Mayor Alex Nuttall prognosticates about the growing dangers of homeless encampments, yet the ONLY legally protected plot to be acted against just happens to be the one in his backyard where his children want to play. Who is frankly stupid enough to buy that load of manure? Where is Alex Nuttallโs supposed concern for the taxpayers of Barrie and the safety of their children?
I estimate that the eviction at Berczy Park cost more than $20,000.00, and we, as taxpayers, picked up the bill. Also, at the time of the eviction, Alex Nuttall was planning to move to the other side of the city, and with the encampment removed, his property around the corner would be worth more, regardless of if it was sold or rented. That would mean Alex Nuttall potentially profited at the expense of the taxpayers. If so, that is called fraud over $5000.00, it is an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.
https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-46/section-380.html
Before the Judge closed the courtroom of all non-involved parties, Shawn Gibson, the Stakeholders Relations/Office of the Mayor Barrie, and a lawyer who identified himself as representing Alex Nuttall, appeared covertly in the courtroom through video link. They did not show themselves until called upon to do so by the Judge. The lawyer, whose name I noted incorrectly due to my combat related hearing loss, stated concerns over the documents I had requested that Mayor Alex Nuttall brings with him under the Summons to Witness that I emailed to him, but which he refused to reply to arrange a time and place to be served.
https://www.facebook.com/FivePointsMedia/posts/pfbid02bSQk6sYFWkPsE6nMTK2ihCgVdKvSKXEVpHm9HVsKSC6zY4yRFCdmvk7shnc435ePl
In the Summons to Witness, I requested that Alex Nuttall provide as follows:
1) True copies of all emails pertaining to the eviction of the homeless encampment at Berczy Park.
2) Documentation of ownership pertaining to a house at 56 Gunn St. in Barrie, current as of 11/09/24
3) Evidence of evictions of homeless encampments undertaken since 11/09/24 in other public parks.
4) Documentation showing a vote by council authorising the eviction of Berczy Park.
Apparently, at least one of those documents concerns our mayor sufficiently that he sent counsel to argue against it becoming public, and he did so without notifying me of his intent to do so.
Such requests for suppression of evidence can only be presented to a court after the other party is served with appropriate warning and documentation, which did not happen. The lawyer representing Mayor Alex Nuttall would know this, so evidently, he was hoping for special consideration from the court due to the position held by his client. Simply put, this was an attempt by Alex Nuttall, through his lawyer, to bushwack a self-represented defendant with the goal being to attain undue relief based solely on his elected position, without complying with the rules.
From my experience in court, such tactics seldom win favour, as they are viewed as acts of desperation and are often considered to be unethical. The fact that a lawyer representing the mayor of our city tried this lame excuse for strategy against a self-represented opponent says a lot about the quality of our mayorโs character, and the depth of his fear regarding the release of the truth.
https://www.facebook.com/FivePointsMedia/videos/3534031926890311
Fortunately, the Judge noted that it was not within her power to grant such a request, and that Alex Nuttall would have to plea his case in the Superior Court, just like anybody else. Our claim, which is based on the statement of a member of council, is that Alex Nuttall acted unilaterally when he abused his position as mayor, apparently through the use of his โstrong mayor powersโ, to fraudulently use publicly funded resources and the authority of the Barrie Police Service to improve his own life and that of his family.
I had been waiting until this trial date to file an ethics complaint against Mayor Alex Nuttall regarding those actions, which I feel are criminally fraudulent, but will now be proceeding forthwith, before the new court date.
In addition to bringing By-Law, the Barrie Police Service, and contractors to destroy and discard the personal property of people who are protected by a ruling of the Superior Court, which outranks them all, the invading army of enforced compliance also included representatives of just about every County of Simcoe financed homeless support group imaginable. Their staff were then used to tag-teamed the residents, trying to convince them that there was accommodation available that would better meet their specific needs, as is ordered in the ruling of Valente, which is available for download fromhttps://www.fivepointsmedia.ca/files/valente.pdf
All of those false claims were exposed at the encampment, in real time, and the malicious lies were recorded by our cameras. That is why the Barrie By-Law staff, and the officers of the Barrie Police Service violated the section 2B Charter of Rights that protects the rights of media, so they could remove me from being able to record their fraudulent statements and criminal level of deception. By-Law staff also trespassed advocates from groups like Ryan's Hope, who were protecting the rights of the residents and exposing the lies being used by professionals against human beings who had no legal representation, and of which, many suffer mental health issues.
It was bullying, plain and simple, as orchestrated by an entrusted public official who cared only about cleaning out his own back yard, but not doing likewise for taxpayers. Alex Nuttall justified, at least in his own mind, that people without shelter for some reason represented a risk to hฬฒiฬฒsฬฒ ฬฒcฬฒhฬฒiฬฒlฬฒdฬฒrฬฒeฬฒnฬฒ while they entertained themselves on the playground at Berzcy Park.
However, that professed care and concern did not equate to the same services being provided by The City of Barrie for the 'protection' of ANY members of the public or their children. That is why Alex Nuttall does not want our request for specific documents to be honoured by the court.
Alex Nuttall wanted the eviction to be done quietly, and with minimal fanfare or blowback, but because of his unethical actions, and those of the Barrie By-Law staff and officers of the Barrie Police Service, it is now an issue of a Charter Challenge and will draw more attention than Alex Nuttall could ever have deemed viable for a simple allegation of trespassing.
The Crown clearly does not want a battle of this size over what was supposed to be a fifty-dollar ticket, as was obvious from her repeated suggestion of negotiating a resolution.
I am a veteran, and as a journalist who has covered the atrocities of war, I have seen some very bad things. On principal, I will fight this in defence of the rights of media, and of those in the homeless communities who deserve the protection of being seen and heard. Journalists are the eyes and ears of society who ensure we do not fall into an autocracy. I will do that either alone, or with other media standing with me. There is also substantial caselaw available in which the Superior Court or the Supreme Court has supported the rights of journalists in similar situations.
โThe Supreme Court of Canada has maintained that the connection between freedom of expression and the political process is โperhaps the linchpinโ of section 2(b) protection (R. v. Keegstra, [1990] 3 S.C.R. 697; Thomson Newspapers Co. v. Canada (A.G.), [1998] 1 S.C.R. 877; Harper v. Canada (Attorney General), [2004] 1 S.C.R. 827). Free expression is valued above all as being instrumental to democratic governance.
If my one hundred percent successful previous experience in defending against intimidation-motivated abuses of the criminal and civil justice systems is any indication of what we can expect, the ruling will be based on the evidence, and not on the social or political standing of the parties before the court.
As I have proven repeatedly is possible, you can in truth fight City Hall, especially when those who control it are acting in a corrupt or unethical manner that contradicts the best interests of taxpayers and all citizens.
John Ironside, Five Points Media
