A man who was removed as chief of The Key First Nation following a six-month conditional sentence for drug trafficking is back in jail awaiting a bail hearing on new charges.
Clarence Papequash, 64, is now a band councillor. Prior to his political career, he worked as a drug councillor.
But in 2014 he was convicted in a sting in which RCMP were cracking down on dealers who fueled a wide-spread opiate problem in the Kamsack, SK area, as revealed by APTN Investigates
Papequash sold a morphine pill to an undercover officer.
Five months later his community voted him back onto council.
Wait, it gets better.
Health Canada has pulled the plug on a methadone doctor who APTN Investigates exposed last year.
Dr. Murray Davies ran the methadone program in Kamsack, Saskatchewan, located on the SK/MB border, 80 kilometres north of Yorkton. In April 2013, APTN Investigates’ episode Questionable Pharma featured Aboriginal patients who claimed they were over-prescribed opiates and once hooked, were shuttled into the same doctor’s methadone program.
Great investigative work by APTN. (Via John Gormley Live)
Mayor of Washington, D.C. Marion Barry was arrested and convicted of smoking crack and actually went to jail for awhile. After he got out, he was re-elected as mayor. He was a crackhead, but he was their crackhead!
Rob Ford
The Child Spawn and his “sunny ways” are in charge now.
Don’t worry about it.
Everyone of the signed Treaties, we hear so much about, except the most important clause, has the Indian signatories agreeing to obey the law.
Therefore every criminal offence committed by a Treaty Indian is a violation of their Treaty obligation with the Crown, the government of Canada.
In contract law violating the terms of the contract leads to it being declared null and void.
The most common example of racism in Canada is the racism of low expectations.
First – Organized Crime operated Casinos throughout North America
then – Indians opened Casinos on “Tribal” Land
First – Colombian Drug Lords … really nasty, murderous people smuggled drugs to North America
then – Indians won lawsuits allowing the use of their “Heritage” Drugs like peyote and marijuana
Hmmm … I see a pattern developing. Next thing you know … Indians will start becoming politicians
For the dedicated listener, the ol’ Pukatawagan song by Sidney Castel.
http://www.hillmanweb.com/westfall/puksong/PukSongCastel.WAV
Not exactly Tom Cochrane but close enough as the crow flies.
I cannot fathom the level of cognitive disonance required that ignores the connection between the boatloads of money sent to the bands and the lack of progress on the intended goal.
And as the accused has been arrested on drug charges it must be the same for those advocating for so-called safe injection sites and the crisis levels of opioid related deaths.
So its not that the bad habit persisted, its that the bad habit was done without supervision in an unsafe place……that right there is juthtin logic.
Some of APTN’s investigative journalism has been very good. This is another example!
mebbe the ones that continued to vote for this hoodlum believe that the media/police/etc reports were ‘fake news’.
oh neat. sumptin in common with the rabid right wing.
you people just don’t get it yet even; ALL officials, bureaucraps, politishuns, authorities with WAY too much power, they are ALL suspect, regardless of the ideology or flowery CV. all of them. put them all thru THAT filter and see how clean they come out.
are natives still having to deal with contaminated water on those isolated communities? how many centuries will it take to get that dealt with? lots of players with that one.
Don’ know what yurr all upset ’bout anywehs.
Our Cheeps got duh same ‘titullmunts as your pull’tishuns.
Uhm ugreein wit Jimmy. Dis is small putatos cumpared tuh Doltun Mughiny an Katleen Win. Dey rote duh book.
Hey, Willy.
Juss wundrinn. You ‘borijnull…or di’jnuss?
My mudder was di’jnuss but my fodder wus ‘borijnull
Look at the “good” side of opiod related deaths.In the Vancouver area the number of organs donated for transplant has doubled. So ALMOST nothing is purely bad. And for those who say organs from those dying from opiod overdose can’t be used-not true apparently.
Holy puck, Willy! ‘Dijnuss peepulls dance clockwise, b’rijnull peepull dance counter clockwise. Howdapuck d ‘ yuh do duh turdishnal Injiun dance?
Holy puck, Willy! ‘Dijnuss peepulls dance clockwise, b’rijnull peepull dance counter clockwise. Howdapuck d ‘ yuh do duh turdishnal Injiun dance?
Jeezus Jimmy. I alwees tougt I wuz dancin’ t’ward Hottawa
You mean that old Brocket 99 skit about the drug and alcohol abuse hotline wasn’t that far off?