Big Blue Box Studios

07/04/2025

Tonight's 'family' meal for our transitional tenants was a huge success. The scalloped potatoes took a fair bit longer than was expected, but nobody complained. This meal, which was prepared by our formerly homeless guests for their brothers and sisters, was a far cry from the one slice of cheese, or single piece of meat sandwich that they receive from facilities run by the county or province, and everybody present could feel the sense of food security that is so important to those struggling to survive.
People being treated as respected members of society is the way to assist these fellow human beings to move forward, and to become once again productive members of society.
Politicians at all levels are far more concerned with what they can skim from the very limited services provided to these desperate people, and they are far more concerned with themselves than with ensuring the survival of these people.
We run the Big Blue Box Studios sanctuary on a shoestring, receiving nothing from the government, and only the pittance in rent that is paid for these people by a county and city who don't want them to find shelter.
How can we do this for eight people for essentially nothing, yet those who make a living from depriving the homeless claim to need hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars to provide less than is needed to survive, and much less than is being made available by us? Do the math. Where is our money going?

John Ironside, Five Points Media

07/03/2025

𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 - 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁!
𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢 𝘵𝘢𝘹𝘱𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘦, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘰𝘳, 𝘈𝘭𝘦𝘹 𝘕𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭, 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘶𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘶𝘥, 𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘣𝘺 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘦, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘸𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳, 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢. 𝘝𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦́ 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰𝘴 𝘢𝘵 https://www.fivepointsmedia.ca/barrie-mayor-alexander-nuttall-exposed.html

Tonight, our guests at Big Blue Box Studios transitional housing are in for a treat, as we have prepared and are smoking a ham with pineapple. Most of our friends have not seen such a delicacy in many years.
Mayor Alex Nuttall and his minions in Barrie City Council may believe they have a right to treat these fellow human beings like garbage, but in the spirit of Miep Gies, the woman who hid and protected Anne Frank from fascists, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miep_Gies, we choose to protect human lives from horrible people.
The next municipal election is Monday, October 26, 2026.

Ｌｅｔ＇ｓ ｄｕｍｐ Ｂａｒｒｉｅ＇ｓ Ｔｒｕｍｐ．

John Ironside, Five Points Media

07/03/2025

Too funny. Maybe we should try this with our transitional tenant family members.

07/03/2025

This would totally be our studio pups.

07/02/2025

This ‘street Urchin’ was rescued by Dr. Thomas Barnardo in Whitechapel, London. His sudden education as to the poverty of others led him to found an orphanage and then his school to help educate those who were destitute in Victorian London’s East End.
Why does it always seem to fall upon private individuals who have empathy and compassion to help the poor and impoverished, when clearly it is the responsibility of our government? If they will not help those in need, why do we need them?

07/02/2025

Today, each of our studio pups, Bailey, Bella, and Mae, got a chance to run in the wilds and swim in the creek. For Bailey, it was a struggle, but the old girl held her own. For the pups, it had been a while, and they loved every minute. Tonight, they are all crashed under the production suite, as if saying thanks to daddy while recovering from mild exhaustion.

07/01/2025

Last night, we received an emergency call for help from 'P', a woman who had been homeless with her dog, and had chosen to move into regular housing with her boyfriend. Sadly, the relationship degraded, as often happens, leaving our friend with nowhere to go.
'P' called out for help, and we responded. As the Big Blue Box Studios is full, we had to improvise, putting a cot into our studio control room to provide a temporary place for her to feel safe enough to sleep. As you can see, our studio pup, Bella, chose to visit and add her Moosely love to the mix ;-)
This is how you build community, which is not accomplished by Mayor Alex Nuttall's jack boot on neck tactics of oppression and abuse of civil rights.

John Ironside, Five Points Media

07/01/2025

𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸, 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗢𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗸
As many now know, and more learn every day, we have been the target of abuse by The City of Barrie By-Law and Property Standards Divisions ever since I notified Mayor Alex Nuttall of my intent to file against him an ethics complaint based on his decision to use and abuse city resources and the authority of officers of the Barrie Police Service, going so far as to arrest me at Berczy Park for reporting on their violations of 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 - Court File No.: CV-22-717 that can be downloaded fromhttps://fivepointsmedia.ca/pdf/2023onsc670%20-%20Waterloo.pdf
Well, while The City of Barrie tried to bully us over an act of nature that damaged our eaves trough, ignoring that we have donated more than $700,000.00 in services to our community and that we were nominated and voted to the highest levels at the peak of the pandemic for The City of Barrie and Barrie Chamber of Commerce award for altruism, it was the boys of summer, meaning the guys to whom we have provided shelter during both our -30 winters and +30 summers, who stepped up to fix the damage.
Mayor Alex Nuttall tries very hard to depict those in the homeless community to be lazy and a burden on our city, yet when our benevolent not-for-profit needed help, all he could do was threaten, attack, and try to bully us into submission, while those he attacks stepped up and say thanks through actions, not hollow words.

John Ironside, Five Points Media

06/24/2025

We wanted to pass on a huge thank you to Jeff White and his crew at Jeff's Junk, who in our time of need stepped up and helped us to dispose of a full bin of no longer needed stuff and things. Most of the overflow was made up of the property of some of our more recent transitional tenants, who are now feeling more confident every day that they will be moving on to bigger and better things, and not back to the encampments for which they had held onto these necessities of survival in tents in -30' temperatures.
This is how we build community.

06/21/2025

One of our newer transitional tenants, 'K', made the 'mistake' of leaving her door open. Now she needs to deal with squatters . . . or a welcoming committee. It all depends on how you look at it ;-)

05/23/2025

Our lives are more directly affected by municipal decision-making than by than any other level of government. Corruption and abuse of authority at City Hall must be exposed for what it is, when it happens. Page link: https://tinyurl.com/2hcyyfrb

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗹
Page link: https://tinyurl.com/2hcyyfrb
The newest page on our Five Points Media website includes a lot of the videos we have produced about Mayor Alex Nuttall and his hold the rope Councillors, as well as links to the various stories we have hosted on Facebook. To this day, none of our reporting has ever been in any way contested. We will be updating the content on a regular basis, as is warranted by the actions of our current Draconian dictatorship.
Page link: https://tinyurl.com/2hcyyfrb

On October 24, 2022, Alexander (Alex) Nuttall was voted into office as the 47th Mayor of The City of Barrie, and since that day, our city has spiralled into the autocracy of a weak authoritarian. According to a City Hall insider, Alex Nuttall has the only voice on Council, and the roughly 6'6", 320 lbs mayor is reported to bully the other ten elected municipal officials. Mayor Alex Nuttall has been accused of election fraud at both the provincial and federal levels, and he brazenly uses the Barrie Police Service to violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the authority of the Superior Court of Justice. This abuse of authority is not restricted to oppressing the homeless and unsheltered but has also been used to suppress any journalist who refuses to toe the line, and regurgitate his deceptive claims. This includes when he uses taxpayer funded resources to improve his family's standard of living, and to potentially profit from increasing the value of the home they live in.

John Ironside, Five Points Media

05/18/2025

This kind of abuse of authority and betrayal of public trust should not be so easily accepted by so many, and it should never be excused because of the colour of the tie worn by the politician.