Gail Asper's, the out-of-control spending on CMHR

[backhoe]

Ticks. And you can quote me.

850,000 people a year coming to see this monument to violating your civil rights?

If anyone takes that seriously I have a nice bridge up New York way I'd like to sell 'em...

[styky]

Some how I missed this............. (I didn't bother downloading the annual report but I'd really like to know whether they've even attempted to pay the property taxes they owe for the last three years as reported previously.)

Human Rights Museum Holding First Public Meeting

The first annual public meeting to discuss the Canadian Museum for Human Rights will be held on Tuesday, December 6.

It’s an opportunity for the public to get an update on key accomplishments from the past fiscal year, including progress on the construction of the museum and the continuing development of content and programming for the museum’s opening.

CMHR Board of Trustees chairman Arni Thorsteinson and CMHR president and CEO Stuart Murray will be on hand to update the museum’s progress.

The meeting will be held from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Manitoba Museum, 190 Rupert Avenue. Those who wish to attend can RSVP by e-mail to rsvp@humanrightsmuseum.ca or by calling (204) 289-2103.

Coffee and tea will be served prior to the event.

Download the CMHR’s 2010-2011 Annual Report (PDF, 3.3 MB).
http://www.chrisd.ca/blog/46643/canadia ... ting-2011/

[styky]

Winnipeg Free Press - PRINT EDITION
Content focus of rights museum
Chinese group wants story told

By: Geoff Kirbyson

Posted: 11/27/2011 1:00 AM
With both fundraising and construction moving toward completion, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights is turning its attention toward the exhibits it will put on display.

Museum officials met Sunday with representatives from across the country from the Chinese Canadian community to begin discussions how to tell their story.

Joseph Du, president of the Winnipeg Chinese Cultural and Community Centre, where the talks were held, said he'd like to see a pair of human rights issues that are close to his heart addressed at the museum -- the head tax, a fixed fee charged to each Chinese person entering Canada starting in 1885, and the Chinese Exclusion Act, a U.S. law that banned immigration from China.

"It's about education. People will learn from history and hopefully won't make a similar mistake," Du said. "We hope (the discussions) are the beginning, like a seed that will flower and turn to fruit."

It's important to realize there are three distinct groups of Chinese Canadians, said Jan Walls, professor emeritus at Simon Fraser University, who taught Chinese history and literature for 40 years. There are the first immigrants to come to Canada as carpenters and millwrights in 1788 and their descendants; there are those who worked on building Canada's national railway in the 1880s and their descendants; and those who came across the Pacific Ocean from Hong Kong, Taiwan and more recently from the Chinese mainland, as university graduates and experienced business people.

"These are three different categories with very different impressions of what being a Chinese Canadian means to them," he said. "A very important part of being a Canadian is our sense of harmonious diversity. Diversity without harmony is cacophony and harmony without diversity is monotony."

Angela Cassie, the museum's director of communications, said it has been working with a New York-based research team, Ralph Appelbaum Associates, on its content, both for its opening and beyond. She said such dialogue is an important part of the content development process and will ensure the exhibits are accurate.

"We have professional researchers and academics at the museum. If you think of the hundreds of stories we need to research, we're working with contractors who are experts in their fields to help us refine them. It's important to touch base with the communities (to be represented at the museum). It's a human rights-based approach, you're not just studying people as subjects," she said.

Cassie said the Friends of the Museum continues to work toward reaching its $150-million fundraising goal. It recently hit $130 million in donations from the private sector.

Construction at The Forks continues to progress and is on schedule for completion late next year. Cassie said the museum will announce its much-anticipated opening day in the next two to three months.

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition November 27, 2011 A4
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/ ... 53253.html

[backhoe]

"It's about education..."

Nope.

It's about money. and power. And whose Ox is being gored. Like it is with all things human. Pity it's based on a fraud.

Ticks...

[styky]

Monday, November 28, 2011
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights has a new villain---Christianity

For a brief moment, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights dropped its public mask and revealed its true agenda.

The national moneypit's biggest shill, CEO Stuart Murray, travels the country to put a happy face on the private Holocaust museum that was foisted on the public as the first "national museum" built in 40 years. Its backers, the Asper Family, realized they couldn't afford it without a pipeline into the public purse, so they tweaked the idea by folding the concrete Holocaust museum into a vague, undefined promotion of "human rights" in order to win a "national" patina for the project.

Murray still can't exactly define what the $310 million CMHR will be, other than it will have two permanent exhibits---one for the Holocaust and the other for Canada's alleged mistreatment of its natives.............................http://blackrod.blogspot.com/2011/11/ca ... s-has.html

[styky]

The last few lines of the above article are doozies......

So let's get this straight.

The taxpayer is paying for a museum that divides Canada's ethnic communities, opposes free speech, provides cover for Liberal attacks on the government, and now blames Christianity for the Holocaust.

Well Merry Christmas to you, too.

[Faramir]

Not interested in some damn human rights museum unless it showcases to right to free speech.

[free_life2]

Not interested in some damn human rights museum unless it showcases to right to free speech.

Problem is you and I paid for it and will continue to pay for it. $300+ million and $40+ million a year.

I said two years ago this would become an anti-Christian centre. I wrote them twice about the 200,000 Christians martyred each year for their faith and got no reply either time. I phoned them to talk to them about this and few other issues, they had no time or interest in this topic.

Ezra should pick up this story and run with it.

[Faramir]

Not interested in some damn human rights museum unless it showcases to right to free speech.

Problem is you and I paid for it and will continue to pay for it. $300+ million and $40+ million a year.

I said two years ago this would become an anti-Christian centre. I wrote them twice about the 200,000 Christians martyred each year for their faith and got no reply either time. I phoned them to talk to them about this and few other issues, they had no time or interest in this topic.

Ezra should pick up this story and run with it.

Will it contain anything about the Coptic Christians? The Armenians? The East Timor plight? What will be contained in this museum?

[styky]

Not interested in some damn human rights museum unless it showcases to right to free speech.

Problem is you and I paid for it and will continue to pay for it. $300+ million and $40+ million a year.

I said two years ago this would become an anti-Christian centre. I wrote them twice about the 200,000 Christians martyred each year for their faith and got no reply either time. I phoned them to talk to them about this and few other issues, they had no time or interest in this topic.

Ezra should pick up this story and run with it.

Will it contain anything about the Coptic Christians? The Armenians? The East Timor plight? What will be contained in this museum?

Apparently you have to be one of the chosen ones be privy to such information but that doesn't mean you're not paying for it.

[styky]

Human Rights Museum not getting another dime: Gov’t

Gov’t says rights museum not getting another dime

By Tom Brodbeck ,Winnipeg Sun

First posted: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 05:21 PM CST | Updated: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 03:38 PM CST
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights was hoping to dig its hands deeper into taxpayers’ pockets to cover projected cost overruns when it’s slated to open its doors next year.

Well, it’s not going to happen.

The CMHR will not be getting an extra dime in operating funds from the federal government, the Winnipeg Sun has learned.

The Department of Canadian Heritage says it will not increase the museum’s annual operating grant and that museum officials will have to make do with the $21.7 million already allotted to them.

“Our government’s commitment to the museum is unchanged — $100 million to build the museum and $21.7 million per year to operate it,” said James Maunder, spokesman for Heritage Minister James Moore. “That is our commitment, and there will be no new funds to the museum.”

Well, that puts the kibosh on that one.

Museum officials have already been spending lavishly over the past two years, including the hiring of 50 full-time staff and plans to hire another 35 this year, even though the facility isn’t even open yet.

The Crown corporation expects to spend the full $21.7 million in operating funds this year and had planned to ask Ottawa for more money when it opens its doors next year.

“The museum will be seeking the government’s approval to augment the operating funds already committed by an amount sufficient to cover the required property tax (PILT) payments and to address ongoing pressures of inflation in operating, maintenance and capital repairs,” the CMHR’s most recent annual report says.

Museum officials forgot to include payments-in-lieu of property taxes to the City of Winnipeg in their original cost projections. Now they want the federal government to cover those costs — and others — through an increase in annual funding.

We now know, thankfully, that will not happen.

Instead, museum officials will be forced to learn the concept of operating within a budget.

You can’t really blame the Harper government for turning down a request for more money from the CMHR. Ottawa is already deep in the glue and will struggle for years to get out of the deep deficit it’s now in.

Spending on a human rights museum is as discretionary as it gets, especially when there are cost pressures in high-priority areas like health care, education and infrastructure. Besides, $21.7 million in annual funding for a human rights museum is already excessive.

I’m amazed museum officials had the gall to even consider asking for more money.

It’s obvious, though, these guys live in some kind of fantasy land where they think they should be shielded from the fiscal realities of the world.

Well, it’s wake-up time folks. The party is over. And museum brass should consider themselves lucky Ottawa hasn’t reduced their existing $21.7 million operating grant given the state of the government’s finances.

The upshot is museum officials will now have to figure how to raise more revenue from operations, including through admissions, rentals, corporate sponsorship, retail sales, etc. And they will be forced to review costs, including finding more efficient ways of doing business and reducing travel expenses.

No longer can they expect taxpayers to bail them out at every turn.

Welcome to the real world, CMHR.

http://www.winnipegsun.com/2011/11/29/h ... -dime-govt

[free_life2]

The anti-Christ is anti-Christian, wonder if he has a position on the board?

[RedDog]

850,000 people a year coming to see this monument ...

In other words everyone in Winnipeg will go once and all the children will go on field trips for continued indoctrination. Then what?

How does one Jewish family come to be in charge of so much public money? I'd better zip my mouth at that.

[styky]

Some cost breakdowns on human rights museum
tom.brodbeck - November 29th, 2011

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights spent $8 million in operating costs in the fiscal year 2009-10. That had nothing to do with the construction of the museum at The Forks. This was pure bureaucracy — office costs, travel, promotions etc., even before the museum had opened its doors.

That year, the Crown corporation spent $2.5 million on staff costs, $772,000 on professional and special services, $503,000 on office supplies and administration and $2.1 million on exhibit content development. Marketing and promotion came in at $647,000 and travel was $521,000, among other expenses.

By 2010-11, operating costs grew to $10.3 million, still well before the museum had opened its doors. Museum officials spent $5.3 million on personnel costs, $1.2 million on professional and special services and $830,000 on offices supplies and administration. Exhibit content development were $677,000, marketing and promotion $621,000, and travel $519,000, among other expenses.

According to the CMHR’s 2010-11 annual report, the museum employed 50 full-time staff as at March 31, 2011 and expects to add another 35 this fiscal year. The museum’s planned opening is December, 2012.

The report says it plans to more than double its operating costs this fiscal year to $21.7 million, although it doesn’t break down how the money will be spent, other than the estimate of 35 new full-time staff. It doesn’t provide detail on staffing in terms of job description.
http://blogs.canoe.ca/raisinghell/gener ... ts-museum/

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Public meeting for CMHR

By: Staff Writer

Posted: 12/5/2011
HAVE a question about the human rights museum under construction at The Forks?

Tuesday afternoon is your chance to get an answer.

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is holding its first annual public meeting Tuesday from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Manitoba Museum.

The chairman of the board and its chief executive officer will update the public on the museum's progress during the past fiscal year, a news release said.

They'll discuss the construction of the building and the development of the museum's contents and programming when it opens.

People planning to attend are asked to RSVP at 289-2103 or email rsvp@humanrightsmuseum.ca.

Those who can't attend are invited to ask questions by emailing the same address.

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition December 5, 2011 B4
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/ ... 19318.html