Nova Scotia to pass law mandating all doctors to submit ALL PATIENT MEDICAL RECORDS to the state: Links 1 for March 28th, 2024

1. The Helen Grus endless hearings continued on Friday last week. There was a lot of oddness around it. Hopefully soon, we can post some detailed reporting on exactly what happened and what it means. But for the moment suffice it to say that rather than public scrutiny making the process more fair, they found more ways to make it unfair, including hiring several new prosecutors to attack Helen, one of whom is a recent Ottawa Police Chief’s wife. See if you can wrap your heads around that.

Below is a link or two leading to reportage on it. But Epoch Times and True North were both in the hearing room. Please hunt down any reporting they did and read it. And maybe post links in the comments and your own thoughts on it.

Police retain outside law firm for prosecution of Helen Grus: my latest on the detective who asked the wrong questions about the covid shots https://t.co/mRoEsaSZXz

— Jason Unrau (@JayUnrau) March 28, 2024

Here are a few paragraphs from True North:

The Ottawa Police Service has hired local law firm Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall to assist its discreditable conduct case against detective Helen Grus. On Monday, day 15 of Grus’ disciplinary tribunal, it was learned that firm partners Jessica Barrow and Lynda Bordeleau – former OPS chief Charles Bordeleau’s wife – have joined the prosecution.

They were retained by OPS after Grus’ defence team of Bath-Sheba van den Berg and Blair Ector filed a motion to have police’s lead counsel, Vanessa Stewart, tossed from the case for professional misconduct. During cross-examination of a defence witness last January, Stewart compared Grus’ calm demeanour to that of serial rapist and double murderer Russell Williams.

Other aspects of the motion included Stewart’s perceived conflict of interest with a prosecution witness who is her sister-in-law, and what the defence felt was a recalcitrant attitude towards negotiating Grus’ use of police documents in her defence.

2. Never let a school board tell you they need money for anything ever again. At least not this one.

BREAKING: @ECUSDistrict7 school board just voted to approve a $6.8 million project to build gender-neutral bathrooms for Edwardsville HS.

Now boys and girls will be able to hang out inside the bathroom area. What could possibly go wrong?!

To top it off, one of the board… pic.twitter.com/NCr7S6FVIv

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 27, 2024

Related. What they do to a roughly 10 year old who has a counter-revolutionary message.

Middle schooler KICKED OUT of school for wearing t-shirt saying ‘There are only two genders’ appears in court pic.twitter.com/HuhDQq3zQG

— Shunya (@Shunyaa00) March 27, 2024

3. So far, this is the best thing seen on the accident with the ship and the bridge. It also jibes well with rumours that the owners of the ship had the backup power system removed for financial reasons. Again, think Boeing and recent accidents.

Sailor here. I’m a certified master helmsman with lots of port transit time. Here’s my take on what happened with the bridge incident:

Updated with new information.

The ship in question is the MV Dali. The ship has a fixed pitch prop that makes it difficult to reverse. She has an electric bow thruster, but that only really works at slow speeds and requires electrical power.

The videos show the ship losing power and engines as it approaches the bridge. When the power goes out on a ship like that, the hydraulics that control the rudder stop working.

After losing power, the ship begins to twist in the current, with the aft sliding out of position to port.

They managed to get an auxiliary generator going, which is when the lights came back on the first time, but this did not provide power to the rudder hydraulics.

Then suddenly the engine kicks back on, which is the cause of the black smoke you see. Once the engine kicks back on, the power to the hydraulics is restored and steering is restored, but it wasn’t on long enough to maneuver the ship.

A second ill-timed power-outage seals the fate, not leaving enough time for the ship to swing to port after the current had caused it to twist.

You can seem him try to swing the rudder back over to the port side once he realizes the rudders are working again, but by then it is too late. The rudders on those ships are slow to respond. It can take over ten seconds for the rudders to swing all the way over from one side to the other.

It’s possible they managed to put the engines in reverse which would also cause the her to straighten up down the channel to port.

I’ve had power-outages like this happen on a warship at sea with far more redundancy than this cargo ship has. Things like this can happen. Even with backup generators running, managing the electrical load on a ship like this is complex. It would have taken the engineers some time to figure out how to address an outage. As you can see from the video, the outages did not last long. They just happened at the worst possible time.

There is no conspiracy.

I would need to see some proof of sabotage before I believed this was planned. Killing the power also means killing the ability to steer. If the ship can’t be steered, there’s no way to intentionally aim it at the pier.

The new info comes from this analysis by the YouTuber “whatsgoingonwithshipping” – where he displays the actual track data as opposed to me just eyeballing it.

Clarification for the nitpickers: my understanding of this ship is that to use reverse thrust, it would require that the engines be fully stopped, reverse gears to be engaged, and then the engine started back up again – which is obviously impossible to do if the engines aren’t working. It can’t just slam into reverse like ship with variable props can.

Further, this is not something you would want to do in transit because the wake of the props provides a large part of the rudder authority. Without forward power, the rudder is much less effective.

I also see lots of questions about anchors. Anchors on ships need to be manned. Dropping an anchor is a completely manual operation requiring no power. They typically can’t just be dropped by the push of a button. Further, from what I see, it’s unlikely that even if they did have the anchors manned and managed to drop them that it would have managed to stop the ship in time. Anchors are not designed to stop ships in motion.

Whatsgoingonwithshipping reports that the pilot did order the anchors to be dropped, but it’s unclear if they were able to accomplish this before colliding with the bridge. I don’t see anything in the video indicating this happened.

I also see lots of questions about tugs and a port pilot. Tugs were used just to pull her out of the pier. This is completely normal. Tugs typically do not follow a ship out of the harbor. In this case, the ship was already beyond the point where tugs were required. Two pilots were on board at the time. Whether or not there was port pilot onboard at the time really doesn’t matter in this case since without steering there is nothing that can be done.

Whatsgoingonwithshipping reports that the pilot did call for emergency tugs, but it was too late for any tugs to get there before the ship collided with the bridge.

4. Unitarian church to merge all-ages ‘TRANSformation’ drag show with Easter service

The Unitarian Church are dialectical Christians, much like the Reform Jews and various other sects of Judaism are dialectical jews. They work against the people, the history and the beliefs and use any moral authority they can usurp to do so. Like Black Lives Matters for another example.