Born 1956, Canada.Nobel Peace Prize Nominee (2013).Community minister, human rights consultant & Field Secretary for The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church & State (ITCCS),Award winning documentary film maker (Unrepentant,2007) & author*.Education: B.A. (Anthropology),University of British Columbia (UBC),1983; M.A. (Political Science),UBC,1986; M.Div. (Master of Divinity),Vancouver School of Theology,1990.Ordained as clergyman into United Church of Canada,1990.Held three pastoral positions,including as Minister of St. Andrew’s United Church,Port Alberni,1992-1995.Fired without cause and expelled from ministry without due process,1995-97, after publicly exposing the death of aboriginal children and land theft by the United Church. Organized the first public inquiry into crimes in Canadian Indian residential schools, co-sponsored by United Nations affiliate IHRAAM, June 12-14, 1998, Vancouver Established first permanent body to further this inquiry, September 2000, Vancouver: The Truth Commission into Genocide in Canada; appointed Acting Secretary Published first account of crimes of Genocide in Indian residential schools, February, 2001: “Hidden from History: The Canadian Holocaust” (3rd edition at hiddennolonger) Established Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared, Vancouver and Toronto, 2005-2010; led church occupations and national conferences into missing aboriginal children Forced Canadian government “apology” for Indian residential schools, June 2008 Co-founded the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS), June 15, 2010 with six other organizations; appointed ITCCS Field Secretary Led public protests and exorcisms at the Vatican, 2009, 2010; ITCCS endorsed by Radical Party and other politicians, Rome Co-founded International Common Law Court of Justice, spring 2011, Brussels; served as Chief Advisor to the Prosecutor’s Office ; launched first Common Law Court case against the Vatican, the Crown of England, Canada and its churches for crimes of Genocide (2012-13) * Publications: Love and Death in the Valley (First Books, 2001) Hidden from History: The Canadian Holocaust (2001, 2005, 2010 self-published editions) Hidden No Longer: Genocide in Canada, Past and Present (2010, self-published at https://youtube/watch?v=AY4h3hDjOYM
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