Procedure for self-protection following any incident involving Mississauga Corporate Security or Corporation of the City of Mississauga Staff
MOST IMPORTANT! For your own protection regardless of whether you are in the wrong, as soon as practical after an incident, file a Freedom of Information form requesting:
- All records, emails, and any other documents pertaining to [your name].
- All records, emails, and any other documents including any video surveillance footage pertaining to the incident of [date] at [location] involving [your name] and [Mississauga Corporate Security or City staff].
The filing fee is $5.00. Forms are available here: City of Mississauga ONLINE FORM: Access / Correction Request – Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
Why this is important
A Freedom of Information request (FOI) immediately protects the requested documents from deletion based on the City’s official “Records Retention Policy”. Without such a request, video surveillance footage can be erased after only five days.
Do not assume that because you were in the wrong, there is no reason to file your FOI! Your records on file with the City can contain gross errors. In particular, FOI has shown that Mississauga Corporate Security records can be inaccurate and severely biased. You can also use the FOI request form to request a correction of your file. Although you cannot make them correct false information, your side of the story will become part of the official record.
Finally, always keep in mind that the “official record” can make your incident appear far worse than it actually was.
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Hello – I’ve stumbled upon your rants here during / through research for school. 1st off, please seek some assistance with the organization of your info that you are posting here – its all over the map with links and such – nothing seems to be in order! Regardless, if you are open to some criticism, then I have something constructive to say. Your focus here seems to be on things that appear to be a personal ‘bug’ of yours? What is the point of continuously blogging about something that has no relevance other then to someone like yourself it appears ? Have you suffered some great injustice by the City of M and their staff or something? You sound like you have been personally attacked? is this all a joke ? Are you considering things in reality type context ? For example – your latest blurb about filing an FOI before video evidence gets “erased” as early as 5 days? Have you ever considered that this might be because of a lack of their capabilities with the storage infrastructure rather then some type of secretive ploy here to circumvent whatever is that you claim in order to hide something which you perceive ? I think you need to spend time with a psychologist rather then waste it away sitting in a city council meeting, but thats just my student opinion of thought per say. Paranoid delusions come to mind, have you ever considered the fact that you are ranting about things that the vast majority of people perceive to be quite bizarre ? You are obviously putting a great deal of time and effort into this, along with what appears to be a great deal of money – exactly what do you think is your purpose in society or what is it that you are trying to make people understand? Your ramblings here appear to be nothing more then something I have studied with the paranoid and schizo, are you on medication and are you taking it as prescribed? You seem to be intelligent enough to consider these questions rationally, not trying to offend you but lets be serious here – you are putting a great deal of effort into the perception of something that does not even remotely exist. You are exhibiting classic symptoms, I do hope you consider getting a professional opinion on your mental state and are able to realize the kind of time you are taking away from your life here. Don’t listen to me, surely there is someone in your family that has brought this to your attention already – listen to them! Your sister / mother etc., might just be a little more sane then you think. Best regards.
NOTICE TO READERS: Why when I Googled “Don Makintoshevsky” such a person didn’t exist. A phone directory search found no one with that surname in Canada OR the US. In addition, he left a URL such that when you clicked on his name, you’d go directly to the homepage of The Corporation of the City of Mississauga —yes, really. (I have since fixed that).
I have also forwarded this Alert and the comment by “Makintoshevsky” to the Director of Mississauga Corporate Security with an invitation to comment.
Now onto my duet here with the 100%-OPINION-ZERO-RESEARCH “Mr. Makintoshevsky”…
Hello, Mr. “Makintoshevsky”, you write:
Now let me get this straight. You just left this 456 word comment all stuffed into one-block-paragraph and you’re giving me a lecture on organization? HAHAHAHAHAHAAAHhahhaa…
Question, Mr. “Makintoshevsky” :
Why is it that when you left this comment you arranged it such that when I clicked on your name, it sent me to the mississauga.ca website? Hmmmmmmmm?
Are you a shill for The Corporation of the City of Mississauga, or perhaps a support-shill from another municipality?
Mr. “Makintoshevsky”, I encourage you to click on your fake name now —Don Makintoshevsky.
Mr. “Makintoshevsky”, you write:
OK, and if you’re open to criticism, then I too have something constructive to say.
And I offer this both as a former teacher and as a published author. Do your “homework” through Freedom of Information (FOI) before writing about something as weighty and convoluted as Ontario municipal “in-house” security operations.
But then again, the purpose of doing homework through Freedom of Information is primary research, that is, to compile FACTS. And clearly, as your 456 words confirm, Facts aren’t what you’re about! You only ever served up One.
Mr. “Makintoshevsky”, you write:
HAHAHAAHAHahhahaa. Like I said, do your homework. I mean even a teeeeeeeeeeeeeny bit.
Because if you had, you’d know that the Ontario Privacy Commissioner’s “Guidelines for the Use of Video Surveillance of Public Places” requires that video surveillance footage be erased!
A quick lesson on what “The Guidelines” say about video surveillance erasure.
“The Guidelines” state the following about video surveillance footage:
So allow me this question, Mr. “Makintoshevsky”…
Before your apparently uninformed comment, “Have you ever considered that this might be because of a lack of their capabilities with the storage infrastructure rather then some type of secretive ploy here to circumvent whatever is that you claim in order to hide something which you perceive?” did you not bother reading my other Blogs pertaining to the“Guidelines for the Use of Video Surveillance of Public Places”?
And regarding your allegation that somehow I’ve suggested some “secretive ploy” was afoot, please, just where in this brief Citizen Alert did I remotely suggest that Mississauga Corporate Security’s erasures of video surveillance footage was a “secretive ploy” or to “hide something”? For the record, that caution is posted so that the video record is preserved from the normal procedure of erasure, and is not intended to imply that Mississauga Corporate Security deliberately destroys evidence.
You say you’re a student, but your comment gives the impression that you’re sloppy, lazy, and an embarrassment to all schools you attended from Grade 6 upward.
The reality is that you know ZIP. Knowing ZIP is bad enough. But then crapping out your ZIP-knowledge as “advice”, well…
Mr. “Makintoshevsky”, you write:
HAHAHAHAAHahahahahaah…
“I think”, “just my student opinion of thought”? I disagree. You don’t THINK at all. Where’s the evidence?
Your 456 words strongly support an urgent need for you to take several focussed courses on research skills —beginning with the most basic.
Pssssst… *hint*… When I sit in (and videotape) entire Council meetings I witness first-hand why Mississauga Corporate Security is the way it is! And by extension, why the Province has steadfastly resisted allowing the Ontario Ombudsman investigative powers into Municipalities.
While videotaping Audit, Budget, General Committee, Council, and public meetings are crucial to my primary research (you know what “primary research” is right?) into the why’s of Mississauga Corporate Security, it is Freedom of Information that shows me how Mississauga Corporate Security got the way it did.
Mr. “Makintoshevsky” writes:
“Paranoid delusions come to mind…”? If you are truly a student, you should already be familiar with the term ad hominem, but I’ve linked to the Wikipedia article anyway, because frankly your comment reveals no evidence of knowing how to study anything. Quite the contrary, it is full of personal attacks and innuendo thinly disguised as “advice”. And who appointed you spokesman for the vast majority? I guess I missed the memo.
As for “the vast majority of people” I was one of that vast majority once.
I believed I was blessed to live in Mississauga and especially blessed to have Mayor Hazel McCallion and I voted for her since forever. Blessed! But Freedom of Information confirms a shady, secretive and unaccountable Mississauga behind the smiling visage of the “We welcome public input” 88 year old Mayor.
I will go one step further. Even when I manage to reveal what will eventually be over two years of Freedom of Information documents, the vast majority of people still won’t care. I know that. Here’s how.
Freedom-of-Information-acquired Mississauga Staff emails/documents confirm that Judge Nevins was right. I know people don’t change their votes because kids/Youth are duped and abused by the very institutions ostensibly there to serve them. People ultimately vote with their wallets.
I know all that now. But I’ve a moral obligation to inform/alert potentially vulnerable kids/Youth (and their parents) about the ghastly legal (even arrest) trouble that they can fall into while on Mississauga Properties.
What I am researching is the treatment of those marginalized by Mississauga (and Brampton), Peel’s Pockets of Poverty and the allure of Youth Gangs, and the absolute lack of municipal oversight/accountability. AKA: The Roots of Youth Violence.
I’m researching McMurtry/Curling’s astute, and long overdue observation that:
Mr. “Makintoshevsky”, you write:
Holy Jumpin’!
I’m down this far in your comment and still not a single fact. Nothing. Just noises of someone who writes suspiciously like a municipal sycophant, or someone hoping for municipal sycophancy as a career —zero-facts-100%-opinion his calling card.
You remind me of something the Ontario Ombudsman, Andre Marin said:
My purpose in Society, Mr. “Makintoshevsky”, is to inform. Like, you know, with Facts? You know facts, right? You get facts through careful data collection, especially through Freedom of Information.
So that’s my purpose in Society. Compiling data from Freedom of Information that gauges the validity of the McMurty/Curling “Roots of Youth Violence” statement:
and to repeat:
Mr. “Makintoshevsky”, you write:
Oh MY, thank you for asking.
You’ve just provided me with a perfect example of the kind of abuse I have to endure every single day from people like you. GAWD you write that you’ve “studied”? Your 456 words show zero evidence of “study”.
Bit of news for you Mr. “Makintoshevsky”, you have not “studied” the paranoid and the “schizo” because if you did, you’d know how relevant my Freedom of Information research into municipal security operations and “at-risk youth” issues really are.
Here’s a bit of truly-basic homework. Read this Mississauga News article, “Mental illness causing youth violence: Justice”. The article states:
Our Peel Police know that many citizens and Youth they must face have mental illness. From our Peeler website:
Our Peel Police know the human cost of mental illness and train their officers and structure mentorship programmes accordingly. Mississauga Corporate Security does not (and yes, I have the Freedom of Information MIssissauga Corporate Security Youth banning letters to prove that).
In addition, there’s compelling evidence that Mississauga Corparate Security is in violation of the Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2001, S.O. 2001
This part:
Pssssst. In case you missed that lesson in class… Not all disabilities are physical or visible. Here. From the Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services website.
See that “intellectual, developmental, learning, mental health” part, Mr. “Makintoshevsky? Well Mississauga Corporate Security doesn’t either.
Mr. “Makintoshevsky”, you write:
Look dumpling. I’ve gone this far now and the only fact that you’ve managed to serve up is that I’m intelligent enough to consider questions rationally. (HURRAY! ONE FACT FROM MR. MAKINTOSHEVSKY!)
Mr. “Makintoshevsky”, allow me a question because I’m calling you out. Whatever “schooling” you’ve had is criminally-pathetic. For you to have gotten so far as to be “studying” paranoia and schizophrenia and not argue here with FACT is frankly a SIN.
I deal with Science. Data. Facts. All of them supported with either videotape or Freedom of Information.
I can’t begin to convey the contempt that I have for your concept of “studying” or “rational thought”. Dude, dude, DUDE! Don’tcha know that rational thought demands facts as a pre-requisite?!
Mr. “Makintoshevsky”, you write:
Ummm… trust me, Mr. “Makintoshevsky”, because I know. You are exhibiting the classic symptoms of a terminally-lazy student —or a stauch defender of the City of Mississauga status quo.
I should ask (and I’ll highlight in bold-red). WHY, if you are a “student”, did you provide mississauga.ca as your name-link?
And about my life…
I research sea turtles. My husband and I have a webpage called Turtle Trax: A Page Devoted to Marine Turtles.
We just got our sea turtle book published by the University of Hawaii Press.
My life, as you put it, Mr. “Makintoshevsky” was diving with fish, coral, sea turtles, sharks (I loved the sharks) and Hawaiian sun shining through electric blue ocean. My life was learning everything I could about marine ecology.
Mississauga Corporate Security STOLE that life, Mr. “Makintoshevsky”! Get it?
And I know that they’ve stolen the lives of Others! And I know this because I have the Freedom of Information documentation! You asked what my purpose in Society was.
It is this. I know that the people targeted by unscrupulous, unaccountable government entities are those who already exist on the society’s margins. As such they are defenceless. They’re shit on by cretins and those who tolerate, condone, and even support them —people like you.
I mean think about it. If you really believe I’ve got a mental problem, why’d you feed me such condescending patronizing crap? (I wonder if at-risk Youth get your prompous-insufferably-arrogrant-head-buried-deep-up-your-own-ass kind of “help” from social workers…)
For the record, I’m putting in the money for Freedom of Information because I know that The Poor can’t.
Next, I’m putting in the time for Freedom of Information research because I know that The Under-Educated can’t (they’d also need to sit in on a vast gamut of municipal meetings in order to know what to ask when they file for FOI).
I’m putting in my brains because they’ve just completed a Natural History book on Hawaiian sea turtles and the documentation techniques we used so successfully there were easily transferred to the municipal realm.
Here’s another Fact. Unlike Mississauga Corporate Security, to assist our sea turtle data collection, my husband designed a database that is more “robust”, more responsive, more reliable and is actually of use for analysis.
That is also for the record.
Mr. “Makintoshevsky”, you write:
Gosh… gotta wonder.
When some black kid comes to a social worker who has your insufferably-arrogrant-head-buried-deep-up-your-own-ass bedside manner (forgive me but I’m assuming you’re white, as in authoritarian white-white kind of white) and says that he’s just been screwed over by a municipal security guard who’s fabricated a story about him and called police… that kid’s just got to feel even more revulsion than I do.
Yep, gotta wonder, how your “You are exhibiting classic symptoms, I do hope you consider getting a professional opinion on your mental state” and “Don’t listen to me, surely there is someone in your family that has brought this to your attention already – listen to them! Your sister / mother etc., might just be a little more sane then [sic] you think” would play with him…
You see, that’s why I’m here —my purpose in Society. The lied-to Youth, lied to about how much the “government closest to the people” cares about them. Freedom of Information documents indicate the Opposite.
So, my purpose.
Again, from that Mississauga News article, “Mental illness causing youth violence: Justice”. This quote from Peel Regional Police Inspector, Chris McCord.
I know if I can save just one kid from being screwed over by Mississauga Corporate Security then I’ve succeeded!
BTW, instead of Mr. “Makintoshevsky” ya should’a gone with “Makintoshitsky”.
This video’s for you.
(Click here to go directly to the clip on YouTube)
Signed,
The (Oops, almost forgot, click here for my “Best regards”) Mississauga Muse
Wow, thank you for that detailed response, it is exactly what I am looking for to assist me with completing research toward my Psychology degree. I apologize for prodding or baiting you with such text but how else would I get your type of viewpoint on what ‘surrounds’ you in your mind. I cannot really travel to your great City so thank god for the internet.
You don’t really believe everything that you are saying do you? And you were a teacher at some point in your life? I am shocked actually, care to tell the world what happened there? Never mind – I think you know full well that nobody cares about that or what the internet is used for in your particular case, but if its really true you have to at some point in your day – rationally wonder where those years must have gone to? Its never to late to turn back, I think you know that too.
However – I shall not bother you anymore as your time I’m sure can be more productively spent with your family rather then chasing ghosts.
And to think your rant for my research all started with you clicking on my name where I thought I was to fill out my favorite web site on your blog? Wow indeed. So what happens when you click on my name now ? Do you see me at school?
Buy a plane ticket and come over to see me, but when I return to Canada next year I shall look you up as well. In the interim, our secret communications can be under the research papers I am working on with the code name “Intact”. Forget the google now, it is true. If you ever hear it called out to you in the distance, turn around.
Good luck with your pursuits!
Don
Hi Don Makintoshevsky, (aka D M)
You wrote:
Your gracious apology means that I too must apologize —mainly for thinking you were a minion of my municipal evil empire or some other Ontario municipal evil empire.
You wrote:
If I didn’t believe it, D M, I wouldn’t write it. But tell you what. Give me an example of something I’ve written that you don’t think I believe. I admit when I first saw/read some of the stuff that I got through Freedom of Information, I was going “Holy ****! I don’t believe this!” but yeah, I believe pretty much everything I write.
Including how hypcritical and callous my own city government is. I got the Freedom of Information documents with their own words in black and white, friend.
You wrote:
One of the problems with email/Internet communication is that words are often a source of misunderstanding and confusion. I’m not entirely sure what you meant in your paragraph.
“Turn back”? Zero need. Plus I aim for this Future. I can’t walk away from it.
You can learn about Poverty or the Roots of Youth Violence through books or through interviews or you can ferret out facts using Freedom of Information. I got to say, there are some truly primo Sociology studies awaiting a university student prepared to investigate the structure of Municipal (City Hall) Corporations.
D m, you wrote:
No, friend. I have to chase ghosts —although I refer to it as chasing shadows. They make up Peel Region’s underclass. Poor. Under-educated. Many highly stressed from living from hand to mouth. My government had always assured me that they were taking care of these people through our tax dollars. I now know that was a Lie.
You wrote:
No, nothing like that. It aimed you at a YouTube video.
You wrote:
“secret”, don’t like “secret”, D M… I’m fighting “secret”.
If you’re out of country, how come in you’re comin’ in on a ROGERS IP, D M?
Last, you wrote:
You also.
re: “good luck”… Have to say that from the Get-Go I knew that I was fighting a losing battle.
Peace.
Hmmm, cannot put anything by the self proclaimed snoop of snoops right? Yes you’re partially correct on the Rogers IP, it is of course linked to my iPhone which I tether to my laptop for wireless connection while travelling. Nice catch, I did say I will be back to Canada & when I do I will drop you a line to point you at something way bigger then what you can likely conceptualize at the moment with this silly City of Mississauga chase.
What is my IP at the moment? I am currently at my desktop PC at school finishing off some papers. If they don’t block it – you can trace it!
You are obviously too busy to worry about hackers and spammers like me, so pls carry on with your great work – it makes my study easier. But give it a rest at some point will you? Surely City Council next door in Toronto is more interesting then Hazel? I think so, will you quit your pursuits when Carolyn becomes Mayor?
Have a good day!
you’re partially correct on the Rogers IP, it is of course linked to my iPhone which I tether to my laptop for wireless connection while travelling
Hahaha… someone’s gonna get nailed by Rogers for data roaming fees. Hope he has a large bank account.
Talk about doublespeak (or maybe duckspeak). Just look at the way it was written. Maybe he is part of FicDep with all the doubleplus-prolefeed being spewed. Time for Big Red to vaporise his tether for the ungood of which he spreads.
Hello again, Don Makintoshevsky (aka D M).
You wrote:
Oooo, an iPhone (you techie you). While I’d be interested in hearing about your “way bigger” concept, I need to point out that understanding the conduct and operations of the City of Mississauga is in truth, far more than I can handle right now, D M.
Imagine researching a government for more than two years through Freedom of Information (their own words and deeds) and also direct observation (all duly videotaped). And then comparative Freedom of Information requests filed at other GTA municipalities. And I’m just one person…
My head still can’t get around the vast gulf between what is trumpeted (Trust Quality Excellence “The Best City in Canada” “We lead Canada in management”) and What Is. Not just how it could happen but how that ruse could’ve been sustained that long in a “free society” with a “vigilant” press.
And by far the worst part, discovering overwhelming evidence that this ethical disparity —this Control The Message …has got to be a “Root of Youth Violence”. Perhaps even the major one.
I can’t change any of this D M. The Message is so controlled even by the media who helped create Hazel McCallion’s Cult-Status that it’s tough to get the truths out there. And I think even if the CBC did a six-part exposé on Ontario municipal government, it still wouldn’t matter.
Edward R. Murrow said:
I’ve sadly concluded that people want to be lied to.
Ever read Brave New World? And Huxley’s “Soma” —that happy-drug everyone took?
Our happy-drugs are (of course) happy-drugs like booze, marijuana, Prozac but also television, video games, pornography, you name it. Infinite distractions.
And another happy-drug is that governments lie to us about how decent-Canadian they are, what a “caring community” they are, and how committed they are to the Common Good.
I blew one massive hole in that ruse with just two years’ worth of Freedom of Information.
I learned that the most successful government (as in one mayor staying in power for three decades) is being an Uber Alles “efficient” Master at Controlling the Message. That’s Mississauga. End of story.
You wrote:
Have to say I grinned when I now saw you coming out of Sayreville, New Jersey. Nice! Can’t tell you more because it’s my husband that’s the techie-tracer, not me.
You wrote:
Truth is D M, nary a day goes by when I’m not left some abusive message about how great McCallion’s Mississauga is and that I’m a “trouble-maker” “****-disturber” “nutbar” “crank” “cretin” “malcontent” need to “get a life” “have an ax to grind” (Partly true, actually. And I know just the craniums I’d like to split), and “@$$****”.
Have to laugh though. No Mississauga apologist has ever attempted to debate me with Facts.
As for me giving it a break and turning my attention to Toronto. Actually, I’m waiting on five Freedom of Information results that I filed on the City of Toronto Corporate Security operations (everything from the bans, trespass, arrest records in their database, to their adherence to their own video surveillance/ “zero tolerance” policies, to how they report back to Toronto Council).
I know you’d be surprised but Toronto isn’t as important as Mississauga. Not by a long shot. It is Mississauga that boasts Canada’s longest-serving mayor. It is Mississauga that has Canada’s most-influential mayor. It is Mississauga that so many people point to as having the mayor that they’d want to run their city.
Trust me, D M. The data show that my most fertile research trail is Mississauga.
You see I’ve developed a theory (and “theory”‘s all it is at this point)… (she bolds for emphasis)
The Truth about any municipal government is embedded sweet-and-centre in its security operations.
After all, ultimately that’s what any government is about, is it not? Treatment of citizens.
D M, you wrote:
You also. And one other thing. Just want to say that I’ve never had a more satisfying exchange with a reader in such a short time. In just three messages you took me from vilifying you as —some municipal defend-the-status-quo hack to someone I look forward to hearing from again.
Parting comment.
I got a major in Psych and Soc back in the Jurassic and then another in Anthro. I’m very into primate/human behaviour —and currently I’m fascinated with sociopaths. Yes sociopaths.
Because that’s what the data indicate that many Ontario municipal governments are. You know, their muncipal corporate structure having the characteristics of a sociopath?
So if you have any Psych readings/papers on Controlling the Message, let ‘er rip over here. I’d be most appreciative.
Aloha.
P.S. Almost overlooked it. You asked:
No. Can’t ever quit. So long as Mississauga Corporate Security is the way it is, I have to be The QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODES? Because there is absolutely no one monitoring their conduct and operations.
Hey again Commentguy,
You quote Don as writing:
and then wrote:
Well I’m pullin’ for Don Makintoshevsky, commentguy.
I see ROGERS as a less-than-arm’s length extension of Mississauga’s evil empire Muni-True. I mean ROGERS CABLE 10 TV is right there on the mississauga.ca website. Incestuous is bad enough. But when you got two entities embedded up each other’s…
Commentguy you wrote:
Yeah, I know. I took the Don for a City of Mississauga (or other Ontario municipal) Employee (even MissCorpSec). But I’m ok with him now. He’s a decent communicator for one thing and has things to say. I welcome that. I’ve scrapped with plenty of people who later won my respect.
It’ll be interesting what he’s going to reveal about something “bigger” than Mississauga when he gets back from Canada. So we’ll see.
You’re terrific at Newspeak, Commentguy. I’m doubleplus impressed!
Love your reference to FicDep. And have got a story to tell (complete with Freedom of Information documents to back it up) on the MissCorpsec FicDep. Holy Jumpin’. BIG BROTHER really is Watching!
Although, have to admit that I’m a bit insulted. They don’t even bother being good at it. ‘course they don’t have to be.
Speaking of Big Brother. Allow me to share part of a song for a video I’m workin’ on.
See that “Compartmentalized, Separate and Broken“?…
MISSISSAUGA “SILOS”….
And that means Half of Peel, Commentguy…
Hi Muse,
I’m glad you reconciled with “Don” or whatever his real name is, and I hope he’s sincere, but my advice is to proceed with caution.
First, Commentguy is bang on with his observation about Rogers roaming fees. It’s highly unlikely a student is tethering an iPhone from Europe; it’d cost a fortune. iPhones can’t normally be used as a modem either, although if you jailbreak it it can be done.
Second, coming from different IPs (especially ones from different continents) indicates he’s using TOR or something similar. TOR is an “onion routing” proxy network designed to hide your true IP.
Mr. Makintoshevsky might be genuine but he is hiding something (his IP) and is claiming to be doing something with his iPhone that is highly unlikely. I wouldn’t trust him or anything he tells you.
Let’s see if he clarifies himself. I’m not holding my breath.
It’s highly unlikely a student is tethering an iPhone from Europe; it’d cost a fortune. iPhones can’t normally be used as a modem either, although if you jailbreak it it can be done.
If a Big Red iphone is jailbroken, it will normally fry itself on the spot. Big Red has some coding built into it so that it will auto-destruct itself and become nothing more than a $684.99 paperweight.
Big Red monitors its network for abuses… that would most likely qualify as one and their service would be immediately terminated.
MUSE!
Sorry for the caps.
Thank you so much for this “How to file” lesson. I had an incident today with MuniBramCorpSec and am filing my FOI on Monday morning at 9am when the office opens.
Hey there, Commentguy,
You wrote:
YIKES! Our “Procedure for self-protection following any incident involving Mississauga Corporate Security or Corporation of the City of Mississauga Staff” isn’t near complete! This is a skeletal interim alert only.
Actually, my husband suggested we post a warning after I got back the results of a second (follow-up) Freedom of Information on Mississauga Corporate Security to see what new stuff they might have on me.
My husband wrote the entire Procedure himself. And yes, he did an excellent job but it’s nowhere complete.
For you, since this is your first request for personal records that BramCorpSec might have on you, in addtion to 2 I’d write something like, “All records, emails, and any other documents, video and photographs pertaining to [your name]. involving [your name] and [Brampton] Corporate Security or City staff] .”
And I hate to tell you this. I’ve taken your Brampton Freedom of Information Department for a spin myself. I’d requested all records pertaining to evaluation/assessment of Safe City Brampton. Got the results back (paid over $80.00 for it all) Purely by accident, by following up on a Council meeting included in the packet, I discovered one HUGE matzoh ball they left out of that Safe City Brampton Council meeting soup. Long story that I will one day reveal.
As a result, I don’t trust your city’s Freedom of Information Department either. Yes. I know. Grim.
Oh. And I hope you were wired at the time. Because in Mississauga, whenever it comes down to Citizen Said, Staff Said, Citizen Said loses 100% of the time!
And Mississauga is so perverted that it’ll conduct a “thorough investigation” give you the results and you then offer your audiotape of what was said and they won’t accept it because the investigation is completed!
I can’t stress this enough though. For you or anyone else reading this. You do not want an incident to come down to your word against a municipal security guard’s. 100% of the time you’ll be absolutely ****ed.
Funny because just this week I emailed the Director of Mississauga Property and Facilities Management (aka Director of Mississauga Corporate Security). Here’s a cut-and-paste.
And Commentguy, I try and warn people every single day. My greatest frustration though is how to reach Youth and —especially warn those deemed “at-risk”.
If I can help in any way… and I really think that I should file a “piggy-back” FOI on you (yes, you)… Unfortunately, I am “expert”…
Signed,
The (There’s NO POSSIBLE WAY BramCorpSec’s personal records on you are as extensive as what MissCorpSec has on me) Mississauga Muse
Hey Muse!
Thanks for the additional tips. Now, in all fairness to the security guy, he was very professional and polite to me, and actually resolved a standoff I was having with some jerk city employee, I think he didn’t really want to be there because he never bothered to take any of my personal information and write it in his book heh.
I know that the MuniCityBram hides behind FOI (remember I filed one years ago? that was in the 90′s) and they hid behind some veil of secrecy called “lawyer client privileged information”. I’m not expecting much but we’ll see what happens.
Hey again Commentguy,
Good. Because that’s the experience that I’ve had with Brampton Corporate Security —professional and polite.
Also, I was at a Council meeting where one tiny female City of Brampton security guard (backed up by just a few senior staff) managed to clear a council chamber full of rather-crabby taxi drivers and settle them all down as well as out City Hall. I was impressed!
I’m relieved that you didn’t have an actual banning incident.
That’s actually par for the course and you have to accept that.
The Freedom of Information exemption that kills me is when Mississauga Corporate Security hides behind “security exemptions”. Tough to investigate through Freedom of Information, the conduct, practices and oversight of a municipal security operation who then hides behind the security exemptions in the Freedom of Information Act.
And hiding behind the “Human Resources/employee privacy protection” exemption. That’s a killer too.
Makes it very very tough —nay, impossible, to know everything about a municipal Big Brother’s security operation when he’s deliberately hiding, cloaking and skulking.
You wrote:
Just remember, if they have stuff on you that you don’t agree with, you can file for a Correction to your Personal Records. Oh! And file a complaint against whoever wrote the thing… and cc that to Mayor Fennell.
Signed,
The (And thanks for those tips of that Don Makintoshevsky…) Mississauga Muse
Are you the self proclaimed tech nerd commentguy? Seems like it, take it easy now.
Ok Muse – New Jersey is correct, nice find. Iam travelling in the U.S. As for the techno blurbs about my tethering… hey its not illegal to roll back the firmware on your iPhone and use it as an Ad Hoc router. I know this is not a tech forum so I will try to keep my response brief for commentgeek! Can it get costly ? Sure it can but if you only browse forums and not hit it with streaming video you can keep the data plan in check. Speaking of which, if you signed up with Mr Rogers when I did last summer and through the educational affiliate plans that also got me an Apple laptop, there was a short window there that most people missed where Mr Rogers offered an unlimited plan which included set rates for North American roaming after Apple threatened to pull the whole sale deal in Canada when they first released their rate plans, even then, when they came back and revised the plans, unlimited was gone. So yes, don’t set that up & try it if you are using their fixed plans now. That’s why the Rogers IP will show up if my connection is coming off the unit itself – but to answer the proxy issue further, I don’t think it can always be consistent so that’s about all I can say or know in that respect, but I see where you are coming from, proxy servers should be well documented on google however so perhaps a tracert command could verify.
Regardless, my connection ‘process’ works because the application you run (pdanet) makes it a full-on WiFi router, it doesn’t actually set up a WiFi network that your computer can just join. Instead, what you’ll need to do is set up an “Ad Hoc WiFi Network” on your computer and then join that network on your iPhone. What you essentially do is tell your computer to create a WiFi Network and allow computers on that network to share internet connections. Your iPhone will then become one of those ‘computers’ and your laptop will be able to use its network connection(3G / Edge). I am not the only one doing it! And yes, I don’t do it from my home base because the roam fees are beyond belief.
Keep up the good work Muse, you have peaked my interest in more ways then initially I landed here from doing school research and trying to rev you up a bit. I will check in from time to time but please get on to something else if you possible can – I think you’re beating a dead horse already with the C.O.M. issues – looking back on your site it seems that is all you are concerned with. Can you focus both barrels on something more interesting like David Miller, Dalton McGuinty or ? Are these fish too big for you? Once again – best of luck… & I got my tracert on you too commentgeek.
Hey again D M,
Ooo, all that techo-warble between you and Commentguy!…
D M, you wrote:
I understand how you can conclude that, friend, but I’m not focussed on City of Mississauga 100% or “all” as you put it.
My research is, however, exclusively focussed on municipal governance.
Local government, D M, as local government will itself state, is the government closest to the people. Far too many of these municipal governments have no opposition councillors, no legitimate media and above all no accountability or oversight mechanisms in place. Employees run muncipalities, —they have the Power, and not the elected officials.
No one’s watching municipalities, D M.
Provincial and Federal politics get the most attention from citizens. And that means corruption, cronyism and every other negative “ism” is free to flourish inside our city halls.
I do agree with you that I am flogging a dead horse. It’s just not possible for a citizen to hold a municipal government accountable if it doesn’t want to be. I acknowledge that.
But I can warn people, D M. I can research, document, bear witness and warn people.
You wrote:
McGuinty, Miller being “too big” a fish for me? D M, sweetie, believe THIS.
In Ontario there IS no bigger fish than Hazel McCallion. There’s every indication (don’t have proof though) that it’s because of Hazel McCallion’s three-decades prominence at the municipal realm that Ontario lags so shamefully behind in provincial oversight of anything from Children’s Aid Societies to Municipalities themselves.
As for you having a tracer on Commentguy… now play nice with each other. I’ve only read four messages from you, D M, but there’s every indication that you and Commentguy are on the same team!
Look forward to hearing more when you get back to Canada, D M.
Signed,
The Muse.
Hey Muse
Check this out. It’s an editorial written by a student at Humber in the news department about FOI requests.
Thought you might find it interesting:
http://www.humberetc.com/displayArticle.php?id=1446&sid=19
Hey Commentguy,
You wrote:
WOW, Humber’s News Editor, Kassina Ryder really nailed it with “Nothing free about Canada’s access to information act” thanks for the heads-up!
And her first three paragraphs are DEAD-ON!
I’m already way over $2,000 for my own investigations into the City of Mississauga’s “efficient” style of business-governance and I suspect that I’m only about 1/5 done!
Love her “in theory”. What “in theory” means is the policies and procedures are indeed in place (Recall I refer to those as “window dressing” to wave at how progressive Mississauga is in frontn of ROGERS Cable 10). For example, “in theory”, Mississauga’s public complaints Mississauga Corporate Security’s public complaints procedure is “transparent” and holds Security staff “accountable” (it even says so in the Corporate Report).
But then take “in theory” that for a test drive and experience “The Reality”.
What Ryder doesn’t mention are the poor saps whose first step is to ask/email municipal staff, being given an answer (aka strung a line or fed just a portion of what they needed to know) and they accept that when they should’ve filed Freedom of Informtion from the Get-Go. I can think of 100% of the people with major gripes who call into The Mayor’s Hour.
McCallion listens to those phone-in complaints and then does the old *FLUSH* with “I’ll refer it to staff”. (see second comment regarding ““City fraud probes raise oversight questions, councillors say” in yesterday’s National Post in the Blog “CITY of MISSISSAUGA EMPLOYEE ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS plus MISSISSAUGAWATCH gets into it with a Security Guard at the Toronto Star”
And Ryder’s last two paragraphs are also dead-on.
Not Free is one reason why I keep on keepin’ on.
I know the single mom working minimum wage with two kids —one of which made it into the Mississauga Corporate Security database— can only dream of filing the Freedom of Information stuff that I currently am.
Thanks again, Commentguy.
Thought you might find it interesting:
http://www.humberetc.com/displayArticle.php?id=1446&sid=19
“Are you the self proclaimed tech nerd commentguy? Seems like it, take it easy now.”
Well. If you must know, I do have connections with Big Red and if you really want me to, I’ll pull your file with Big Red and have your iPhone zapped faster than you can can say the phrase Freedom of Information. But that aside, you seem to have some valid comments as Muse said, so why not just drop the shtick and behave yourself.
Oh. And I hope you were wired at the time. Because in Mississauga, whenever it comes down to Citizen Said, Staff Said, Citizen Said loses 100% of the time!
Well Muse. I must say. Lesson learned. Remember how I was telling you about my little incident with a parking attendant and a security guard in a CorpCityBram lcoation? Well, mysteriously enough the cameras were “broken”, and the unionized uneducated booth attendant seemed to make up stories about what really happened.
Citizen loses all the time. No point in fighting City Hall. They all protect each other’s ass from being kicked around.
What a great sequence to read…fascinating. That said there is a good suggestion to clean up the top part as it serves as a valuable tool for those (under a bit of stress you can imagine) to find the information they need and take action.
I would also suggest you list eight or nine points: write down what you think happened, list any witnesses or descriptions, send a copy to MississaugaWatch etc..
This page is VERY important to anyone charged and the entertaining exchange with Don M should be moved elsewhere but kept and hopefully he will comment again.