2025-08-08
Conrad Black
National Post
365 Bloor Street East
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M4W 3L4
Dear Mr. Black,
I wish to draw your attention
to an injustice that occurred a number of years ago, and which is still
unresolved. A letter about this situation was sent recently to the North Shore
News in B.C., a publication close to the original events in 1985, to which no
response was received.
Essentially, a senior
teacher (myself) received positive evaluations, which were subsequently altered
to be negative, to mollify parents who were unhappy about the teaching methods
used by the teacher of their student in the classroom. When I discovered this
fraud (modifying reports after the fact) I was “laid off”, for which economic
reasons were cited, despite the subsequent hiring of over a dozen new teachers.
I disputed this action,
and it was brought to arbitration, but after the arbitrator ruled in favor of
the school board, I brought the case to the provincial legal system, where
Justice Mary Southin quashed the arbitration, ruling
the arbitrator patently unreasonable. She then directed the case back to the
same arbitrator without further instructions. That arbitrator, shortly before
re-assessing the case, suffered an untimely death, causing the case to go into
limbo (in legal parlance, frustration).
Years later (2007), I
submitted my retirement notice to the West Vancouver School Board, but there
was no response, preventing me from receiving my due pension, from that point
onward. Consequently, I have suffered monetary damages as a result of those actions,
without a meaningful legal avenue to receive justice. I have tried to take up
my case with various lawyers in the Ottawa area (where I now live), but have
received no responses, so I am now appealing to you for publicity in this most
unusual miscarriage of justice.
There’s more to the story.
Some years later (2019), my driving license was suspended, with vague
justification, after I was subjected to accusations of psychiatric conditions,
which I could not fight legally, due to my previous loss of access to lawyers.
I’m providing for you a
copy of the MTO’s memo regarding the driving suspension. I would appreciate
publication of a human interest story that reveals
this hole in our justice system which can leave people bereft of justice.
Sincerely,
Roger Callow
cc: MTO Medical Review
Division
22 Wellesley St. W. Box
589
Toronto, ON
M7A 1N3