Thanx to Geek life for this very informative information. Its enough to make you sick. Shame on you Bell Canada and Northwestel.
With all the talk these days about UBB ( User Based Billing ) one thing I haven’t seen yet is anyone writing about User Based Billing in Northern Canada. Up here we have pretty much 1 supplier, Northwestel. I can’t think of 1 month that we have had perfect internet, no crashes not nothing. The rates quoted below are from their own website, and the only think I can say, is that there is no way it costs them $ 7.50 to send 30 gigs of information over the internet. Now, we do have the older infrastucture in Canada for our internet, the highest rates in Canada for our internet, and probably the most unreliable internet in Canada. Now while I know shipping costs up north are alot more expensive than they are down south, this really isn’t an excuse to charge what they charge up here lol.
I wrote our MP Dennis Bevington, will see if he replies, not going to hold my breath tho. We regularly go over our max cap of 30 gigs to the tune of between 100 – 150 a month, brining our internet bills to approx 180 – 230 a month. User Based Billing is alive and doing very well for Northwestel up here in Northern Canada. I am not opposed to UBB as such, but charging 4000% above what they pay for it, is pretty much like getting bent over and not kissed first. They want to charge me .50 cents a gig, hey I can live with that, consider it costs pennies a gig to send, they are still making a hell of a profit. Base it on actual download useage, so the less I use it, the less I pay, and the months I use more charge me more.then I’m all for it. Charging $ 10.00 a gig, sorry but you guys are hosing your customers, and I pray for the day there is competition up here, and you guys go out of business.
This is a copy of a message I sent Northwestel, and am doubting I will get a response.
Am sorry to hear that the recent decision from the CRTC has no impact on our Rates. After looking at Rates down south, and comparing the numbers, here is what I have found. Up here in the north we get 30 gigs max for basically $84.00. Pretty much 2.80 a gig up to the 30 gig max. Then low and behold it jumps to $10.00 a gig after 30 gigs. Thats right $10.00 a gigabyte of information. Now taking the worst case scenerio, lets say it costs you .25 cents per gig, ( thats WAY MORE THAN DOUBLE the national average,) but lets go with that, so on the first 30 gigs it costs you $ 7.50 worse case to transmit it. So you guys are making approx 1150% mark up. Hey I can live with that, you have old equipment and its more expensive, ok I can see that. Now after the 30 gigs are used, it costs you no more to send 1 gig, than it did to send that 1gb in with the normal package, but you are charging $10.00 to deliver that 1 gigabyte that cost you the original .25 cents to send. That is a 4000% percent markup. Wow, talk about USER BASED BILLING. $ 10.00 a gigabyte with no limit on how much you charge, thats worse than Rogers, Bell and Telus combined. I hope everyone that relies on your company for internet, reads this, and is as upset as I am about it. I think its time to write our MP’s and lets end this UBB.
Sex offender pleads guilty to assaulting N.W.T. children
08/02/2010 6:40:50 PM
A convicted sex offender has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting two boys while babysitting them several years ago in Hay River, N.W.T.
John Murray Melanson, 46, entered the plea Monday at the N.W.T. Supreme Court in Yellowknife. He also pleaded guilty to three counts of failing to comply with a probation order.
The sexual assaults took place in September 2006 in Hay River, where the New Brunswick native had been working as a cook for six months.
Images found
Court heard that Melanson had gained enough trust to babysit some people’s children in Hay River, but that ended when the father of the two boys found images on Melanson’s laptop of children having sex.
The father went to the RCMP with what he had found, also telling police that his children started exhibiting unusually sexual behaviour after Melanson had been alone with them.
The names of the two boys, who were both under the age of 10, are protected by a publication ban.
In addition to the sexual assaults, Melanson had also breached a probation order that required him to not possess pornography of any kind, not to be alone with children under the age of 14, and not to possess a computer with internet access.
Volunteered at school, library
While in Hay River, Melanson was affectionately dubbed "Fester" because of his resemblance to a character on the popular television series The Addams Family.
Residents have said Melanson volunteered at the local high school and library, even playing the part of Santa Claus at the library’s Christmas party for children.
But people he met in the town of 3,650 were shocked to learn later that Melanson had about 50 previous convictions for offences that include sexual assault, invitation to sexual touching, and possession and distribution of child pornography.
Melanson fled Hay River in January 2007 amid rumours about the child pornography found on his computer. He was arrested in Toronto a month later.
Melanson is being transported to Toronto on Tuesday to undergo a psychiatric assessment at the Crown’s request.
Prosecutor Shannon Smallwood told the court on Monday that she wanted Melanson to be assessed because of his long criminal history. Melanson is allowed to hire his own psychiatrist to challenge any negative conclusions drawn by the assessment.
After the psychiatric assessment is complete, the Crown will decide whether to ask the court to have Melanson declared a dangerous or long-term offender.
Well we win round one, will keep everyone updated 🙂
Accused Sex Offender to Stand Trial in YK
A man accused of several sex- related charges alleged to have occurred in Hay River in 2006 will go to trial. A preliminary inquiry this week determined there is sufficient evidence to send John Murray Melanson to the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories. Shannon Smallwood is the Crown Prosecutor in the case and says the court heard evidence against Melanson on eight different charges. “He was committed to stand trial on two counts of touching for a sexual purpose a person under the age of 14 years old. He was committed also on three counts of breaching probation order… two counts of committing a sexual assault, and he was also committed on a count of possession of child pornography.” He has previously been convicted of sex-related crimes in Manitoba and Ontario. He’s now in custody at the North Slave Correctional Centre in Yellowknife. The trial date has not yet been set.
Accused N.W.T. sex offender opts for trial without jury
A convicted sex offender who faces charges of sexually assaulting two children in Hay River, N.W.T., has chosen to be tried by a territorial judge alone, with no jury.
25/11/2008 7:33:09 PM
CBC News
John Murray Melanson, who also faces one count of possessing child pornography, appeared in territorial court in Yellowknife Tuesday morning.
Melanson’s legal aid lawyer was not present at Tuesday’s hearing, so no date for a preliminary hearing could be set at that time.
Crown prosecutor Michael Himmelman told the court that a preliminary hearing could be lengthy, considering there would be testimony from as many as 10 Crown witnesses, some of whom are children.
The court proceedings might require a special sitting of the court in Hay River, Himmelman said.
Melanson, who went by the nickname "Fester," moved to Hay River in the summer of 2006, but fled the community in January 2007 amid rumours that child pornography had been found on his personal computer.
He was arrested in Toronto a month later for violating a court order. Toronto police have told CBC News that Melanson has an extensive criminal record that includes convictions for various sex-related charges.
Melanson was convicted on the court order charge and was sentenced to time served. He was then escorted to Yellowknife, where he remains in custody. He is due back in court on Dec. 16.
For professional reasons, criminologist Pierre Tremblay would not disclose who the J.M. was in his study, but a comparison of the criminal record of a notorious pedophile named John Murray Melanson leaves little doubt he was the person interviewed.
In 2000, while he was a member of the Montreal Ganymede Collective, described as a group of 50 to 60 pedophiles based in this city, Melanson sexually assaulted a 6-year-old boy from a western Montreal suburb.
The J.M. in the study told Tremblay that Ganymede leaders made efforts to screen out pedophiles who posed a high risk to act on their attractions to children. But he also said the group had a "You don’t tell and we won’t ask" kind of policy when rumours surfaced about fellow members.
Besides being sentenced to a 30-month prison term for the sexual assault, Melanson was placed under a lifetime prohibition order on Aug. 31, 2000. It forbids him to be near playgrounds, daycares, schools and pools where children swim, and bars him from taking a job or volunteering for a position that would put him in a position of authority over anyone under age 14.
According to court records, Melanson moved to Winnipeg after completing his sentence and was arrested for possessing child pornography. In that case he was sentenced in 2006 to time served and placed under another court order, this time forbidding him to access the Internet for three years or from using encryption software, which protects the confidentiality of data stored on a computer disk.
Melanson, who likes to be called Fester, moved to Hay River, in the Northwest Territories, late last year, where he settled into a job at a hotel. Despite the court order filed in Montreal, he is alleged to have volunteered to teach students at a high school and to play Santa Claus at a public library.
He suddenly disappeared this year. While the RCMP in the Northwest Territories conducted a search for Melanson, new allegations involving two boys emerged. A warrant charging him with two counts of sexual assault on minors and possession of child pornography was issued. Melanson was recently arrested in Toronto.
So In other words, this sicko pervert freak has been "trusted " so many times and yet he keeps skipping out on his parol just to molest more children? Sorry ( excuse my language here ) But What the fuck is wrong with our court system that is allowing this to happen repeatedly. Holy shit, the court system in our country is a joke. We recently got a new system in place stating that anyone volunteering to work around children have to have a criminal check done, thats one step in the right direction for the good guys. I don’t blame the R.c.m.p. in this case, as I’m sure they want to see this sicko put away for a long time as well, who do I blame, Our lawmakers and Judges. Sorry but putting our children at risk to sicko perverts like John Murray Melanson, John Melanson, "fester" and fuck knows how many other names this perv has used, is just sick. How many times does a sicko have to be caught, found guilty before he is deemed as dangerous offender, Apparently John hasn’t harmed enough children already, Lets just hope he rots in jail, or is "accidently" released into general population where the prisoners will do to him what he has done to these children,
That is all I have to say about that.
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