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Fredericton blogger urges Crown to drop assault charge against him
DON MACPHERSON Fredericton Daily Gleaner
Activist and blogger Charles LeBlanc emerges from the Justice Building in downtown Fredericton on Monday morning following a brief court appearance on an assault charge. He told the court if the Crown drops the case, he'll forget all about it.
Photo: Don MacPherson/The Daily Gleaner
Activist blogger Charles Joseph LeBlanc told a court on Monday he needs additional disclosure of the Crown file before he can enter a plea to a summary charge of assault.
LeBlanc, 55, of 1-145 Westmorland St. faces a charge alleging he assaulted Andrew Spencer in downtown Fredericton on July 3.
The blogger made his first appearance on the charge last month, when the case was adjourned to Monday for plea.
LeBlanc told provincial court Judge Mary Jane Richards he wasn’t prepared to enter a plea Monday, though.
Duty counsel Richard Cove noted the defendant hasn’t received full disclosure from the Crown in the case.
“The Crown’s position is all disclosure has been provided to Mr. LeBlanc,” said prosecutor Cory Roberts, appearing on behalf of Sebastien Michaud, the Crown prosecutor who’s handling the case.
LeBlanc said there were many unanswered questions in the case, though he didn’t elaborate before the judge on what they were.
Then he suggested Roberts was in a position to resolve the matter on Monday.
“If he’s ready to drop the case, I’m ready to forget this and go home,” LeBlanc said.
But the charge stood, and Richards adjourned the matter to March 2 before provincial court Judge Julian Dickson.
She said if the disclosure issue isn’t resolved by then, Dickson would likely schedule a date for a disclosure hearing.
LeBlanc has some long-standing beefs with the Fredericton Police Force, and he has alleged the charge was trumped up as a vendetta against him.
However, due to its past conflicts with LeBlanc, the city police force outsourced the investigation to the Miramichi Police Force.
While LeBlanc has in the past demanded outside agencies deal with his matters in Fredericton, he claimed last month the Fredericton Police Force had its hands in the assault investigation.
Outside the courthouse on Monday, LeBlanc said some of the additional information he’s seeking is communication between the Fredericton police and their counterparts in Miramichi. He said he wants copies of any phone conversations, faxes, emails or texts between the two policing agencies.
It wasn’t clear if any such communication exists.
The blogger also noted the documents he was provided were incomplete.
“There’s 38 pages that was supposed to be given to me. I was only given five,” he said.
“There’s many, many, many other issues.”
He also claimed a witness statement was missing from the disclosure package.
LeBlanc has come into conflict with members of the Fredericton Police Force for several years now.
His solo bullhorn protest in front of the city police station in the summer of 2011 led the Fredericton force to charge him with causing a disturbance, to which he pleaded guilty in January 2012. He was sentenced to probation.
The same week as that guilty plea and sentence, the city police raided LeBlanc’s apartment and seized his computer as part of a criminal libel investigation.
On his previous blog, LeBlanc had been calling a city police officer a sexual pervert and had claimed the officer had touched him inappropriately.
That libel investigation went nowhere because the Crown noted the relevant section of the Criminal Code of Canada had been deemed unconstitutional in other jurisdictions.
LeBlanc later started suggesting the city police force was a haven for pedophiles and steroid users.
The former unfounded allegation stemmed in part from his discovery that a document used by the city police force to get information from his Internet service provider referred to it being part of a child exploitation investigation.
The document in question also referred to the libel investigation, and the city police force explained the child-exploitation reference was a clerical error because those sorts of requests of Internet service providers are typically for child-pornography cases, not libel.
LeBlanc has rejected that explanation.
The blogger has maintained his problems with Fredericton police began with a recording he made of a July 2009 arrest in the city’s downtown bar district.
That video was used as evidence in the trial of Const. Stephen Stafford, a city police officer who was charged with assault as a result of his actions during that encounter.
Stafford was acquitted at trial, but LeBlanc has stated he feels the police turned on him as a result of his evidence in the trial.
LeBlanc has also blamed the Fredericton police for the removal of his previous blog from a free hosting service.
City of Fredericton chief administrative officer Chris MacPherson filed a complaint with Google about posts LeBlanc made referring to city police officers as pedophiles, asking for those posts to be removed.
Instead, Google removed blog in its entirety last summer. LeBlanc has since launched a new blog on the same free hosting service.
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Tuesday, 17 February 2015
Maybe the R.C.M.P. should go over this video I made during the Anti-Shale Protest in Kent County???
Mind you..as you will see in the video...the R.C.M.P. treated me with respect...they let me do what I do best and that's taking videos....but I must asks one question?
Why were the Cops speaking French among themselves in front of the Natives and English people?
Monday, 16 February 2015
Jesse Brown’s CANADALAND will be live in Fredericton on Thursday, Feb. 19 at 7:30 pm at St. Thomas University’s Kinsella Auditorium!!!!!
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Jesse Brown’s CANADALAND live in Fredericton: biting the hand that feeds in Irvingland
Jesse Brown’s CANADALAND will be live in Fredericton on Thursday, Feb. 19 at 7:30 pm at St. Thomas University’s Kinsella Auditorium.
Panelists: * Jacques Poitras, author of Irving Vs. Irving: Canada's Feuding Billionaires and the Stories They Won't Tell * Charles Theriault, documentary filmmaker, IsOurForestReallyOurs.com * Tracy Glynn, founder/editor of the NB Media Co-op * David Coon, MLA, Fredericton South, and long-time environmental activist * Introductions by Jan Wong, award-winning journalist and author.
The panel will examine the Irving-owned media in New Brunswick and how they cover resource giveaways, sweetheart tax deals, pollution, climate change, labour disputes, indigenous sovereignty and the nature of corporate influence on governments — all things that media critics are quick to charge affect the Irving group of companies, including forestry, pulp and paper, tissue, newsprint, building supplies, oil refining, oil tankers and distribution terminals, ship building, shipping lines, transportation, construction, security, frozen food and other sectors.
Jesse Brown and CANADALAND
Jesse Brown is known for breaking explosive stories that other media haven’t dared to touch. Brown was the first to break the story that CBC’s Jian Ghomeshi had allegedly engaged in non-consensual violent behaviour with a number of women.
Brown was heard on CBC airwaves as the host of The Contrarians and Search Engine. He has written for Toronto Life, The Walrus, Maclean’s and Saturday Night. Brown launched CANADALAND in October of 2013 with a video criticizing The Globe and Mail for running a series that depicted the Millennial generation as “narcissistic,” “selfish” and “lazy.” Brown has reported on CBC’s Peter Mansbridge getting paid to speak for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, CBC’s Amanda Lang ties to RBC and her moves to shut down a story on RBC and temporary foreign workers and the reluctance of The Globe and Mail and CBC to investigate and publish news about surveillance in Canada. Brown’s crowdfunded CANADALAND podcast is posted every Monday and Thursday.
Jesse Brown’s CANADALAND live in Fredericton is co-presented by the NB Media Co-op and will include introductions by Jan Wong, award-winning journalist and author.
For more information, contact: info@nbmediacoop.org.
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/600596193374224/
Jesse Brown’s CANADALAND live in Fredericton: biting the hand that feeds in Irvingland
Jesse Brown’s CANADALAND will be live in Fredericton on Thursday, Feb. 19 at 7:30 pm at St. Thomas University’s Kinsella Auditorium.
Panelists: * Jacques Poitras, author of Irving Vs. Irving: Canada's Feuding Billionaires and the Stories They Won't Tell * Charles Theriault, documentary filmmaker, IsOurForestReallyOurs.com * Tracy Glynn, founder/editor of the NB Media Co-op * David Coon, MLA, Fredericton South, and long-time environmental activist * Introductions by Jan Wong, award-winning journalist and author.
The panel will examine the Irving-owned media in New Brunswick and how they cover resource giveaways, sweetheart tax deals, pollution, climate change, labour disputes, indigenous sovereignty and the nature of corporate influence on governments — all things that media critics are quick to charge affect the Irving group of companies, including forestry, pulp and paper, tissue, newsprint, building supplies, oil refining, oil tankers and distribution terminals, ship building, shipping lines, transportation, construction, security, frozen food and other sectors.
Jesse Brown and CANADALAND
Jesse Brown is known for breaking explosive stories that other media haven’t dared to touch. Brown was the first to break the story that CBC’s Jian Ghomeshi had allegedly engaged in non-consensual violent behaviour with a number of women.
Brown was heard on CBC airwaves as the host of The Contrarians and Search Engine. He has written for Toronto Life, The Walrus, Maclean’s and Saturday Night. Brown launched CANADALAND in October of 2013 with a video criticizing The Globe and Mail for running a series that depicted the Millennial generation as “narcissistic,” “selfish” and “lazy.” Brown has reported on CBC’s Peter Mansbridge getting paid to speak for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, CBC’s Amanda Lang ties to RBC and her moves to shut down a story on RBC and temporary foreign workers and the reluctance of The Globe and Mail and CBC to investigate and publish news about surveillance in Canada. Brown’s crowdfunded CANADALAND podcast is posted every Monday and Thursday.
Jesse Brown’s CANADALAND live in Fredericton is co-presented by the NB Media Co-op and will include introductions by Jan Wong, award-winning journalist and author.
For more information, contact: info@nbmediacoop.org.
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/600596193374224/
This morning in Fredericton.....
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I no longer post pictures in this Blog!!
Sunday, 15 February 2015
Fredericton Police Force are at it AGAIN!!!!
Charles
When the FPD got caught trying to pull this fast one on Charles, without apology their excuse was "it was a clerical error." Like, a clerical error is a mis-date or a missing signature, etc. - Not two separate completed official requests. And Charles has been banned from here there and everywhere, everywhere a civilian has every right to tread. Now Charles is going to court for defending himself from a guy who provoked him on the street, but the police are calling it "assault" of course, because it's Charles :(
When the FPD got caught trying to pull this fast one on Charles, without apology their excuse was "it was a clerical error." Like, a clerical error is a mis-date or a missing signature, etc. - Not two separate completed official requests. And Charles has been banned from here there and everywhere, everywhere a civilian has every right to tread. Now Charles is going to court for defending himself from a guy who provoked him on the street, but the police are calling it "assault" of course, because it's Charles :(
Blogger to show up in Court at 9:30am in the morning and the issue of Pedophiles and the Fredericton Police Force WILL BE an issue!!!
All depends what the Judge says in the morning!!
There could be charges laid against the members of the Fredericton so-called Police Force in the Afternoon???
It's time to eliminate this Force!!! Too many innocent citizens are in Jail because of these Steroid Gorillas!!!!
We need a Provincial Inquiry and bring in the R.C.M.P.!!!! A racist Police Force just won't do!!! The Taxpayers are sick of these clowns!!!
Tomorrow morning at 9:30am and it's going to be interesting!!!!
There could be charges laid against the members of the Fredericton so-called Police Force in the Afternoon???
It's time to eliminate this Force!!! Too many innocent citizens are in Jail because of these Steroid Gorillas!!!!
We need a Provincial Inquiry and bring in the R.C.M.P.!!!! A racist Police Force just won't do!!! The Taxpayers are sick of these clowns!!!
Tomorrow morning at 9:30am and it's going to be interesting!!!!
PERFECT SONG FOR TODAY'S WORLD!!!
Someone was listening to me telling a group of people that we must stop believing the terrorists are bad but the people in authority are OK!!!
I mean charging people with false charge of having Sex with kids is a BIG FAUX PAS!!!!
The individual reminded me that all people from all sides are bad!!!!
Yes...I believe this song matches today's attitude from everyone!!!
I mean charging people with false charge of having Sex with kids is a BIG FAUX PAS!!!!
The individual reminded me that all people from all sides are bad!!!!
Yes...I believe this song matches today's attitude from everyone!!!
Canadian Flag is 50 years old but why is the Racist City of Fredericton celebrating????
The City DOES NOT believe in freedom of speech!!!!
I might add they are racist against the less fortunate!!!!
Why celebrate????
Saturday, 14 February 2015
Walter Cronkite, Lloyd Robertson and Blogger Charles LeBlanc are Journalists with Balls!!!
Charles,
Well Danny, old pal, WELCOME HOME!!!!
You finally came to your God-given senses and came home to roost where you truly, truly belong.
When I was made aware of your untimely departing from our fair city, it was as if the world had come to an end, as if someone had thrust a knife deep into my chest, as if the Quebcc Nordiques had been resurrected and won the Stanley Cup deep in the heart of Montreal.
What a sad, sad day indeed it would have been had the local constabulary had no supreme ass to kiss, the New Brunswick legislature had no-one to man the detonator switch, and the world famous BLOGGER would have to dig for far, far, far more inferior material about which to write and entertain the masses of fans who so bravely and consistently endear him.
Who else, Dan, would, or could have been at the helm and throttle of MOI MAISON?
Who could have been there to call in the local posse to keep all the riff raff and scum off the very lawn of the democratic-house-of-the-people?
Who else could have been there to order our beloved blogger to STAY OFF THE PROPERTY, amid the very presence of various segments of the local media???
We who are the fans and devoted supporters of our most humble servant, CHARLES LeBLANC, have come to expect, and will expect nothing less than the absolute facts and truth which is proof of expert journalism.
So, in final summation, Dan, as far as the east is from the west, there have only been three who have had the capabilities, and the balls, to bring the two together, Walter Cronkite, Lloyd Robertson, and CHARLIE LeBLANC, BLOGGER EXTRAORDINAIRE!!!!
The very team of you and he, Danny, ole boy, have done, and will continue to do, one helluva fine, fine super fine job.
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