This month, February 2013, we celebrated my Mom's 75th Birthday.
My Mom was born in 1938 before World War II in Mabolo, Cebu City, Philippines. On the Pacific front, WWII began in 1942.
Most of my Mom's siblings (she's the 2nd eldest of 11 children) live in the Philippines. Her brother Pedro & his family live nearby in the Niagara region.
Some of my mom's siblings I've only met once (and some I haven't ever met ) .. .Corazon, Lilia, Victorio (Vic), Teresita, Perpetuo (Petot), Maria Luz (Dede), Eva, Jocelyn.
My Mom's hometown, Cebu City, was the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
Ferdinand Magellan brought missionary zeal when he sailed in Cebu City in 1521. Magellan met his demise from warrior chief Lapu-Lapu on Mactain Island a few weeks later. This gave the natives temporary respite against the conquistators' incursions.
In 1565, the avenging Spaniard Miguel Lopez de Legazpi delivered Cebu and eventually the rest of the Philippines to Spain and Catholicism. My mom's strong faith as a devout, practising Catholic probably stems back to her upbringing, rooted in hundreds of years of imperialism & Catholicisim in the Philippines.
In 1575, the founding of the Villa del Santisimo Nombre de Jesús (Village of the Most Holy Name of Jesus) marked Cebu City as the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
The Spanish weren't the only visitors to the Philippines. My Mom's name in Portugese means Christmas 'Natividad'.
When Ferdinand Magellan sailed into the Port of Cebu on 7 April 1521, an eyewitness account relates that he was already a latecomer: 'Many sailing vessels from Siam, China and Arabia were docked in the port. The people ate from porcelain wares and used a lot of gold and jewellery…'
My Mom's great-grandmother's maiden surname (paternal side) was 'Yap', indicative of her Chinese ancestry. My great-great grandmother Yap fished and farmed to support her family.
My Mom studied nursing at Southwestern University in Cebu City. After she graduated in nursing, my Mom immigrated to Chicago in 1962 where she worked at Cook County Hospital and Bethany Brethren Hospital. My Mom was prepared to be treated differently in Chicago in the early '60s. Her nursing training at Southwestern University in Cebu prepared their students for this. My Mom said she was taught not to make a fuss or not to resist if they were told to move to a different seat in a public facility.
Chicago Freedom Movement (1965-1967)
Some of my Mom's nursing friends eventually accepted job offers in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
My Mom eventually applied to some of these positions. She moved to Hamilton just before the growing momentum of the Chicago Freedom Movement, an ambitious civil rights campaign from 1965-1967.
Since 1962, the CCCO (Coordinating Council of Community Organizations) had harnessed anger over racial inequality, especially in the public schools, in the city of Chicago to build the most sustained local civil rights movement in the North.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. placed demands on the doors of Chicago City Hall in order to gain leverage with city leaders in 1966. Some of these demands addressed housing discrimination, education, transportation and job access, income and employment, health, wealth generation, crime and the criminal justice system, community development and quality of life.
Civility v Civil Rights
My Mom pointed out to me the incompatibility between 'civility' versus 'civil rights'.
The extent to which civility was not compatible with the promise of racial justice has strong similarities with the Law Society's Civility Complaints Protocol. W.A. Derry Millar actually mentioned that growing diveristy of the Bar was one of the reasons proferred to explain the supposed decline in civility. His unsound Civility Complaints Protocol coupled with judicial immunity breaches one's Charter rights. An individual is entitled to confront their accuser(s) under oath but with judicial immunity & Millar's unsound Civility Complaints Protocol, the LSUC is trampling on lawyers' Charter rights.
Law Society of Upper Canada - Civility Complaints Protocol
The duality of 'civility' discourse versus civil unrest & disorder has the same duality as the Law Society's discourse of 'civility' versus argumentative 'tone' & 'words' of female, sole practitioners.
My good friend Elsie was name-called 'baboon' by one of the Law Society's witnesses. The Law Society does not believe this prejudice is relevant to their witnesses' credibility or to their Conduct Application against her which makes numerous unfounded allegations. Instead, Elsie's LSUC Panel suggested their Conduct Application simply relates solely to issues of tardiness, and refuses to admit the materiality and Stinchcombe relevance.
Former LSUC Treasurer's (W.A. Derry Millar) pernicious and insidious Civility Complaints Protocol is being mis-used in a discriminatory, economic way against sole practitioners from non-traditional backgrounds.
Name-calling 'Baboon' condoned by LSUC Panel
The Law Society is content to condone name-calling 'halfway house', 'baboon' etc. Clearly, the Law Society is still stuck in the historial period (1791-1841) of Upper Canada with the prejudices of that era.
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| Happy 75th Birthday Mom!! |
My Mom was born in 1938 before World War II in Mabolo, Cebu City, Philippines. On the Pacific front, WWII began in 1942.
Most of my Mom's siblings (she's the 2nd eldest of 11 children) live in the Philippines. Her brother Pedro & his family live nearby in the Niagara region.
Some of my mom's siblings I've only met once (and some I haven't ever met ) .. .Corazon, Lilia, Victorio (Vic), Teresita, Perpetuo (Petot), Maria Luz (Dede), Eva, Jocelyn.
My Mom's hometown, Cebu City, was the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
Ferdinand Magellan brought missionary zeal when he sailed in Cebu City in 1521. Magellan met his demise from warrior chief Lapu-Lapu on Mactain Island a few weeks later. This gave the natives temporary respite against the conquistators' incursions.
In 1565, the avenging Spaniard Miguel Lopez de Legazpi delivered Cebu and eventually the rest of the Philippines to Spain and Catholicism. My mom's strong faith as a devout, practising Catholic probably stems back to her upbringing, rooted in hundreds of years of imperialism & Catholicisim in the Philippines.
In 1575, the founding of the Villa del Santisimo Nombre de Jesús (Village of the Most Holy Name of Jesus) marked Cebu City as the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
The Spanish weren't the only visitors to the Philippines. My Mom's name in Portugese means Christmas 'Natividad'.
When Ferdinand Magellan sailed into the Port of Cebu on 7 April 1521, an eyewitness account relates that he was already a latecomer: 'Many sailing vessels from Siam, China and Arabia were docked in the port. The people ate from porcelain wares and used a lot of gold and jewellery…'
My Mom's great-grandmother's maiden surname (paternal side) was 'Yap', indicative of her Chinese ancestry. My great-great grandmother Yap fished and farmed to support her family.
My Mom studied nursing at Southwestern University in Cebu City. After she graduated in nursing, my Mom immigrated to Chicago in 1962 where she worked at Cook County Hospital and Bethany Brethren Hospital. My Mom was prepared to be treated differently in Chicago in the early '60s. Her nursing training at Southwestern University in Cebu prepared their students for this. My Mom said she was taught not to make a fuss or not to resist if they were told to move to a different seat in a public facility.
Chicago Freedom Movement (1965-1967)
Some of my Mom's nursing friends eventually accepted job offers in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
My Mom eventually applied to some of these positions. She moved to Hamilton just before the growing momentum of the Chicago Freedom Movement, an ambitious civil rights campaign from 1965-1967.
Since 1962, the CCCO (Coordinating Council of Community Organizations) had harnessed anger over racial inequality, especially in the public schools, in the city of Chicago to build the most sustained local civil rights movement in the North.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. placed demands on the doors of Chicago City Hall in order to gain leverage with city leaders in 1966. Some of these demands addressed housing discrimination, education, transportation and job access, income and employment, health, wealth generation, crime and the criminal justice system, community development and quality of life.
Civility v Civil Rights
My Mom pointed out to me the incompatibility between 'civility' versus 'civil rights'.
The extent to which civility was not compatible with the promise of racial justice has strong similarities with the Law Society's Civility Complaints Protocol. W.A. Derry Millar actually mentioned that growing diveristy of the Bar was one of the reasons proferred to explain the supposed decline in civility. His unsound Civility Complaints Protocol coupled with judicial immunity breaches one's Charter rights. An individual is entitled to confront their accuser(s) under oath but with judicial immunity & Millar's unsound Civility Complaints Protocol, the LSUC is trampling on lawyers' Charter rights.
Law Society of Upper Canada - Civility Complaints Protocol
The duality of 'civility' discourse versus civil unrest & disorder has the same duality as the Law Society's discourse of 'civility' versus argumentative 'tone' & 'words' of female, sole practitioners.
My good friend Elsie was name-called 'baboon' by one of the Law Society's witnesses. The Law Society does not believe this prejudice is relevant to their witnesses' credibility or to their Conduct Application against her which makes numerous unfounded allegations. Instead, Elsie's LSUC Panel suggested their Conduct Application simply relates solely to issues of tardiness, and refuses to admit the materiality and Stinchcombe relevance.
Former LSUC Treasurer's (W.A. Derry Millar) pernicious and insidious Civility Complaints Protocol is being mis-used in a discriminatory, economic way against sole practitioners from non-traditional backgrounds.
Name-calling 'Baboon' condoned by LSUC Panel
The Law Society is content to condone name-calling 'halfway house', 'baboon' etc. Clearly, the Law Society is still stuck in the historial period (1791-1841) of Upper Canada with the prejudices of that era.
Prejudice disguised as 'Civility' continues to discriminate & oppress lawyers from non-traditional backgrounds.
My Mom is disgusted that the Law Society proceeded with their hearing & Estates Application against me in my absence when I'm battling cancer.
I attended at Estates Court to view the LSUC's Application. At the computer, it asks the computer user to enter the name of the deceased. So, I entered my name. Then it asks the computer user to enter the Date of Death. Since my file number could not be retrieved this way, the clerk had to retrieve my file number to pull my estates file.
The Law Society's insidious behaviour far exceeds incivility. Their behaviour is appalling. This is one of many reasons why the LSUC is not fit to self-regulate or self-govern. Independent over-sight is necessary to keep the public interest protected from the private interests of lawyers regulating other lawyers.
My Mom is disgusted that the Law Society proceeded with their hearing & Estates Application against me in my absence when I'm battling cancer.
I attended at Estates Court to view the LSUC's Application. At the computer, it asks the computer user to enter the name of the deceased. So, I entered my name. Then it asks the computer user to enter the Date of Death. Since my file number could not be retrieved this way, the clerk had to retrieve my file number to pull my estates file.
The Law Society's insidious behaviour far exceeds incivility. Their behaviour is appalling. This is one of many reasons why the LSUC is not fit to self-regulate or self-govern. Independent over-sight is necessary to keep the public interest protected from the private interests of lawyers regulating other lawyers.
