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09/17/2025

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗔 𝗪𝗲𝗮𝗸 𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗧𝗮𝘅𝗽𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗛𝗲 𝗜𝘀 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵
𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘦, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘢𝘹𝘱𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘔𝘢𝘺𝘰𝘳 𝘈𝘭𝘦𝘹 𝘕𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭 https://www.fivepointsmedia.ca/barrie-mayor-alexander-nuttall-exposed.html

Alex Nuttall, the mayor of Barrie, Ontario, was voted into office with only 12.91% support of the full electorate, and by a margin of only 777 votes. As he entered office with such a low level of support, he has acted in a fashion reflective of an insecure child seeking approval for doing very little or nothing of consequence.
https://www.fivepointsmedia.ca/barrie-mayor-alexander-nuttall-exposed.html
Now, that a crisis has arisen, it is clear that Alex Nuttall is way over his head, and that he has no idea what to do other than lash out at the victims, many of whom are homeless due to government inadequacies and incompetence. Instead of dealing with the current homeless crisis, like a leader and adult, Alex Nuttall is demonstrating phenomenal weakness by dumping the burdens of a serious social issue, that he helped to create, away from his backyard and into those of much smaller communities that have fewer resources, smaller populations, and much less money.
https://www.facebook.com/FivePointsMedia/
That is no different than a cowardly bully challenging smaller kids to a fight and then taking their lunch money. His motivation is transparent, weak, and pitiful, and Alex Nuttall is the only person who cannot see that everybody in city halls across Ontario, including his own, are laughing at him for implementing a plan so transparently flawed, and doomed to come back on us as a city, that none of them gave it a moment's thought. Does Alex Nuttall truly believe he is the first politician to ever think about offloading his problems onto another community? It doesn't work for a reason.
https://www.facebook.com/FivePointsMedia/posts/pfbid02vJ4Q5yEtzAeJJ5CSCu6ncGyf9iMa8CPGQtZAVNBWoTKtM24zEVxMCy3Eq1ToyWj2l
Our mayor, the supposed leader of our community, has never even shown the courage to challenge our claims about him, even though we are a small, not-for-profit, social enterprise, community media service, and he has the resources of Canada’s 22nd largest city. That should tell you who is telling the truth, and that our mayor knows we hold evidence of secrets he does not want us to expose in an open court of law, where they would become part of the public record and accessible to other media and political opponents. It also confirms our analogy to a bully, as we all know, the best way to deal with the schoolyard scumbag is to punch him in the nose.
https://www.facebook.com/FivePointsMedia/posts/pfbid02bMWpTLMvX1KphVuQi4eAaKeDjYbDPCGzqCT6yekYYKKbDyC368M9TfWVWTTWAXNcl
In an article by OrilliaMatters, linked below the next paragraph, Rosemary Petersen, the Managing Director of The Lighthouse shelter, which is "𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦" falls just short of decrying the decision by our supposedly devout Christian hypocrite of a mayor who has shown he does not give a damn who he hurts, just as long as he can make himself look good by downloading the problems he helped to create onto others.
https://www.facebook.com/FivePointsMedia/videos/562940969707370
Peterson bit her tongue, as the Lighthouse relies at least partially on public funding, but she was able to communicate her message as follows: “𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘺,” 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥. “𝘈𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴: 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘰?”
https://r.pebmac.ca/https://www.orilliamatters.com/local-news/new-faces-same-crisis-orillia-feels-impact-of-barries-state-of-emergency-11212481
The only person who seems unable to see the truth about himself is Alex Nuttall. For the rest of us, it is obvious that any municipal politician who needs to subjugate his council and control all media is somebody who is afraid of the public learning about their agenda. They also fear exposure for the problems they have caused.
https://www.facebook.com/FivePointsMedia/posts/pfbid0yenLXnUKYMeX28faDi7zHJRH9SainznKHbhmYyTpMtvXgr1aF79LPAAbwzFfdJChl
Three years ago, local churches offered The City of Barrie portable toilets for encampments at no cost. They apparently understood that bigotry and some twisted personal mission were not going to change the biological functions that exist for ALL human beings. It was reported to us by a priest that Alex Nuttall emphatically refused, saying “𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘢 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘭” or words to that effect. As a result of Alex Nuttall’s personal and dark alleged negligence, the taxpayers of Barrie will be paying a million dollars for an environmental cleanup at the former Flat Rock encampment that could have and should have been avoided.
https://www.facebook.com/FivePointsMedia/posts/pfbid02r74rnGbTCox2qYoNeEdNxmLfq9SdgKyuGAGBnh68KpUo8jDtMwjMRSHxjKFzG8FDl
Alex Nuttall then used the results of his own incompetence to fan the flames of hatred and anger by claiming, with no evidence whatsoever, and in defiance of readily available scientific data, that the contamination that his actions helped to cause at Flat Rock were somehow responsible for the closure of our beach, several kilometres away. In reality, the beach often closes due to increased heat. The claim, by our mayor, a supposedly 'responsible' politician was just a pathetic lie. Is this truly what we get for the huge salary we, as taxpayers, are paying Alex Nuttall as mayor?
https://www.facebook.com/FivePointsMedia/posts/pfbid0dZHsogJQ9B9MZvWTiHU5znHyb1aP92HdcRPoea79PFizemNgehGx1Assc8ZnvuMPl
The crisis on Mulcaster was the direct result of a decision by Alex Nuttall to close the Flat Rock encampment without first formulating anything resembling a plan. Those struggling to survive with only minimal support had built tiny houses and insulated shacks. They were set to survive the winter, out of sight and minding their own business. That all changed when our very weak mayor decided that the heinous murder of two men could be used to eliminate the long standing and well-establish community.
https://www.facebook.com/FivePointsMedia/posts/pfbid02dkRvpN2MEvctm756STHf3nErxA72wCegMwjCKZJyF1PBkEFUs4CjdjwsMNTLvGYEl
When a murder happens in a neighbourhood, police do not evacuate and tear down nearby houses, and they do not evacuate entire apartment blocks when a murder happens in a single unit. The same is even true of trailer parks and campgrounds. Under the law, those tents and tiny houses were legally granted the same rights as any other home, but our weak mayor chose to violate Section 7 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, "right to life, liberty, and security of the person", and the January 27, 2023, ruling of Justice Michael J Valente, Superior Court of Justice, both of which heavily outweigh his authority. That legally binding court order can be downloaded from:
https://fivepointsmedia.ca/files/valente.pdf
Alex Nuttall had no plan when he decided to make as many as 100 people suddenly homeless, again. He claimed to have shelters, but there were no beds, and the insurance on the buildings would not even allow those struggling to survive the option of laying on the floor to sleep. He huffed and puffed and made all kinds of lofty promises, but Alex Nuttall lied, plain and simple, and he has never shown the courage to admit that he has no idea what he is doing.
https://www.facebook.com/FivePointsMedia/posts/pfbid02SsxftMwRmLTWdqHWmGxGZN21eNE8e8c44pUf9LNzNFHDoHkTimTBXxs8La1Riqhkl
With no genuine shelter, those who had built homes for themselves had nowhere to go, but to the relative safety of the Busby Centre, which caused the pop up encampment on Mulcaster. That development, which was the direct result of Alex Nuttall’s previous actions, was then used by our weak mayor to ‘justify’ announcing the ‘State of Emergency’ that is as fake and unwarranted as every other claim and action Alex Nuttall has made or taken whenever he is forced to ‘deal’ with the homeless crisis that he has very much helped to create.
https://www.facebook.com/FivePointsMedia/posts/pfbid02G89oJitkvBtco1d8Bcxi8iXCXb5ekVfh691D5X8PHtXBSPip61qFEyUgzfa3Yxq7l
The City of Barrie is NOT alone in having to deal with the homeless crisis. In fact, our city is not even in the top ten cities to be burdened with the cost and logistics of dealing with people who have no home to go to. Those cities, that have much larger problems, have somehow managed to work their way through the crisis without overreacting and attacking the victims of illegal eviction, government incompetence, chronic illness, and workplace and personal injury?
https://www.facebook.com/FivePointsMedia/posts/pfbid021DyMjn32tdzgRybpzHQUKoL5FqyVSpYHPUBb4yGBMhpX77barkWr3MCe6HEdFUbCl
Why is it ONLY Alex Nuttall who felt the need to hit the panic button and run around flailing his arms like a promotional air dancing flailing tube man? True leaders resolve problems. They don’t cause them and then exacerbate the crisis for personal gain, and they don’t blame the victims to appease the haters who are given far too much air in our society.
https://www.facebook.com/FivePointsMedia/posts/pfbid033MVGDmjySkmRKmXoe5RqusJJxAauWoR27crL2uRpafoZdKCJZbsbuZXSWtiwuXo1l
Alex Nuttall has shown himself to be much more like Donald Trump than would make most people comfortable. Regardless of the denial of his supporters, the facts speak for themselves. Alex Nuttall lies with phenomenal ease and frequency. Our mayor also feels the need to hold near total control over his councillors, organizations like the Barrie Chamber of Commerce, and the local media. He also functions as a politician by throwing red meat to his base, and blaming the victims of what is often his own incompetence. Whenever he is confronted by facts, Alex Nuttall deflects the issue to his choice of victims. For Donald Trump, they are the immigrants of colour, while for Alex Nuttall, they are the poor and homeless.
https://www.facebook.com/FivePointsMedia/posts/pfbid02wSncR32J4UiyPJ9bUXECyTsVJ3aq1r9HUe6SdRzoystV6VEfffAoEAvZudNH4GsGl
Alex Nuttall has revealed himself to be the ‘Narcissistic Nazi” we are told he is referred to in secret by City Hall staff, both in Barrie and elsewhere. We also know from direct conversations, that many of his councillors are quietly working behind the scenes and in some cases collaboratively to ensure that our imperialistic mayor is limited regarding how much damage he can do, and how many people he can cause to die this winter due to his personal agenda of hatred against the homeless community.
https://www.facebook.com/FivePointsMedia/posts/pfbid0953yMWv4qTzhqWNwJ7xc2VK2oqQwqjFS373QezfHTvso4mH5Ytk5PDj5NaaFHbDol
Most of those councillors want to be re-elected during the next municipal election, to be held on Monday, October 26, 2026, which is simply NOT going to happen if they maintain the façade of alliance to our hypocritical mayor who abuses the trust of taxpayers through deception and misrepresentation.
https://www.facebook.com/FivePointsMedia/posts/pfbid02R6RrzET5fuaf8uLXFV9xcqwNQ8VEbdkfKfTnLt6RqZrxV7V55FPnwvYGDQ2wBURZl
Alex Nuttall needs to do the honourable thing and resign, NOW, before he hurts anybody else due to his personal issues. We also need a competent person to replace Alex Nuttall. At this stage, that person would most likely rise from the existing council. We need the crisis resolved in a way that best serves the needs of ALL of the human beings who are affected by it, and not just those who are profitting from their association with City Hall.
Other cities and towns across Canada have accomplished that seemingly impossible goal, so why can’t Barrie, other than because of our current compassionless and incompetent ‘leadership’?

09/06/2025

The big girl on the top with the red collar is Bella, four years ago, a few weeks before she filled our house and studio with unconditional love. She is now 125 lbs of bed-hogging, sister's dinner finishing, crotch sniffing (sorry), relentless energy super girl ;-)
Photo by Alli Dixon

08/25/2025

It has been a fun weekend. On Friday night, I had to rush out half an hour before the pet store closed when our senior studio dog, Bailey, was bitten by a spider. Now I can't get her to come down from the ceiling ;-)

08/23/2025

It only took about an hour for the pups to train our resident 'K' regarding whose couch it is, and which part she could sit on ;-)

08/23/2025

They say that you can tell a lot about a person's character by how dogs take to them. We think it is safe to say that 'K', one of the residents at our Big Blue Box Studios transitional housing program, is good people.

08/20/2025

This is why we welcome our guests with dogs.

A homeless man has captured the attention of thousands, not for begging, but for the way he rocks his dog to sleep every night. When asked why, he explained that life hadn’t always been this way. “When I first got him, we had an apartment,” he said softly. “Living on the street has been a hard adjustment for him. The honking, the sirens, the people, it keeps him up. So every night, I make sure he’s asleep before I close my eyes.”

08/14/2025

The City of Barrie needs to do better in their hiring and training.

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.

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗢𝗳 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗲 𝗧𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗔 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝗜𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗔 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘀
𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘦, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘢𝘹𝘱𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘔𝘢𝘺𝘰𝘳 𝘈𝘭𝘦𝘹 𝘕𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭 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 ‘trespassing’ 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 ‘sent back to staff’, 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 Nuttall’s 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 h̲i̲s̲ ̲c̲h̲i̲l̲d̲r̲e̲n̲ 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 Nuttall’s 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 mayor’s character, and the depth of his fear regarding the release of the truth.
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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 ‘strong mayor powers’, 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 h̲i̲s̲ ̲c̲h̲i̲l̲d̲r̲e̲n̲ 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.
“The Supreme Court of Canada has maintained that the connection between freedom of expression and the political process is “perhaps the linchpin” 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

08/01/2025

These are the pictures referred to in our article regarding the ODSP, and their sometime confusing choices. Nobody in our house starves, and everybody is shown all due respect.
The article that referred to his pictures can be found at https://www.facebook.com/FivePointsMedia/posts/pfbid02WqAbRBU8MpqUzs4KWCUguWZJskDkFA6KUBbiLzJbzGEFgmtRkxTp65YwLPsW1KLLl