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alberta • albertan (canada) • allan anthony "al" buttnor • bob mckee • brendon moore • calgary herald (canada) • canada • children, youth • cost • david wallace • dead agenting (black pr, smear campaign) • edmonton journal • elizabeth "betty" mccoy • hard sell • harvey schmiedeke • janice gariepy • ken montgomery • lawsuit • les jackman • lorna levett • neil taylor • reed leary • silencing criticism, censorship • suppressive person (sp) • william reid
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May 23, 2006
Experts challenge claims of Scientology's sweat-it-out treatment for addicts — Edmonton Journal
Type: Press
Author(s): Charles Rusnell
Source: Edmonton Journal
EDMONTON - A drug and alcohol treatment program backed by the controversial Church of Scientology is promising addicted Albertans an extraordinary 70-per-cent success rate. The Narconon program is marketed as "100-per-cent natural," and prescribes intensive saunas, exercise and high doses of vitamins to cleanse the body of "radiation, drugs and toxins." Advertisements for the Narconon program have appeared in recent months on Edmonton's CKUA radio and in weekly newspapers throughout the province. Addiction experts and academics in Canada, the United States ...
Oct 16, 1998
Letters to the Editor // Defamatory attack — Globe and Mail (Canada)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Globe and Mail (Canada)
In early June, The Globe and Mail distributed an insert published by The Church of Scientology entitled Freedom. This insert contained an article that amounted to a lengthy and defamatory attack on me and my research on new and alternative religions, particularly Scientology itself. As an insert in The Globe and Mail, this Scientology publication and the article about me may have enjoyed a greater degree of credibility than would otherwise have been the case, which prompts my response in these ...
Jun 13, 1998
Church of Scientology targets [University of Alberta] professor for criticizing its practices — Edmonton Journal
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Charles Rusnell
Source: Edmonton Journal
The Church of Scientology has launched a countrywide personal attack against a University of Alberta professor who has publicly criticized some of their practices. Sociology professor Stephen Kent was the subject of a scathing article in a 16-page Church of Scientology supplement entitled Freedom that was distributed with the Globe and Mail newspaper Friday. In the two-page article, Kent is compared to well-known neo-Nazi hatemongerer Ernst Zundel and is referred to "as the academic point man for the voices of hate ...
Aug 10, 1995
“Will you take my mom away?” — Edmonton Journal
More: holysmoke.org
Type: Press
Source: Edmonton Journal
The girl was 9. The boy was 10. Put yourself in their small shoes for a moment and consider their terrible fear on March 14, 1991. Three Edmonton police officers interrogated the children and their mother, Janice Gariepy, for approximately three hours. The brother and sister can be seen crying uncontrollably in a videotape of the interrogation. Here are a few selected excerpts. Detective Fabio Bonetto: “Would you like to go in a youth home? Would you like to be separated ...
Mar 29, 1994
Alberta natives warned about U.S. drug program — Calgary Herald (Canada)
Type: Press
Author(s): Bob Beaty
Source: Calgary Herald (Canada)
Scientology course 'potentially dangerous,' says Oklahoma report A drug treatment program backed by a controversial church is trying to sell Alberta natives addiction-cure services that medical experts have warned are unsafe and ineffective. As many as 10 Alberta reserves have been approached by Narconon, a U.S.-based program associated with the Church of Scientology. The program — which costs about $18,000 US and prescribes daily saunas and megavitamin doses — has been rejected by a U.S. state board of health because it ...
Apr 29, 1991
Mrs. Gariepy's difficult tale // Scientologist Buttnor, cleared of child abuse, says his former parishioner is out to get him — Alberta Report (Canada)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Greg Heaton
Source: Alberta Report (Canada)
Police last month arrested Allan Anthony Buttnor, a minister and director of special projects for the Church of Scientology in Edmonton. They claimed he was working at the church offices last November 30 when he fondled the chest of a church member's 10-year-old daughter. They also alleged he had picked up the girl in his car near her home on March 7 and repeated the act. Last week, after a crown prosecutor told the court that there is no evidence to ...
Apr 16, 1991
Charges against minister withdrawn // Scientologist relieved — Edmonton Journal
Type: Press
Source: Edmonton Journal
A Church of Scientology minister says unsubstantiated sexual-assault charges brought against him were an attack against the church. Allan Buttnor expressed relief, but also annoyance, after the Crown withdrew several charges against him Monday. The charges were laid following a police investigation into claims by a 10-year-old girl. The girl later told police the alleged incidents never happened. "It was obviously an attack on our church," Buttnor said after emerging from Provincial Court. Judge Edward Stack dismissed two counts of sexual ...
Apr 6, 1991
Mom, daughter launch lawsuit against Church of Scientology — Edmonton Journal
Type: Press
Source: Edmonton Journal
A mother and daughter have slapped the Church of Scientology of Alberta with a multimillion-dollar lawsuit. The mother and daughter are each claiming millions of dollars in general and punitive damages as well as unspecified special damages. Also named in the lawsuit, filed Friday in Court of Queen's Bench , are church official Allan Buttnor and another man. The three are being sued jointly and individually. The defendants or through others "coerced and frightened" the girl into writing and publishing statements ...
Apr 5, 1991
Scientologists face lawsuit // Police officer suing church, church official for malicious prosecution — Edmonton Journal
Type: Press
Source: Edmonton Journal
A city police officer being sued by the Church of Scientology has launched a $100,000 countersuit. Det. Ken Montgomery is suing the church and church official Allan Buttnor for abuse of process and malicious prosecution. As a member of the Edmonton Integrated Intelligence Unit, Montgomery investigates "cult, occult, ritualistic and religious influence crime." Buttnor, who is facing sexual-assault charges, last month filed a $1-million lawsuit against Montgomery, a second police officer and a woman. Buttnor, acting director of the local church's ...
Apr 4, 1991
Family reports 4th shooting in a week — Edmonton Journal
Mar 22, 1991
Official launches $1M lawsuit — Edmonton Journal
Type: Press
Source: Edmonton Journal
A local Church of Scientology official who is facing sexual assault charges has launched a $1-million lawsuit against two police officers and a woman. Allan Buttnor, 35, is claiming the actions taken by police and a relative of his alleged victim are "designed to injure (him) and the Church of Scientology." The man, who is acting director of the local church's citizen commission on human rights, is charged with two counts of sexual assault, two counts of sexual interference and one ...
Mar 21, 1991
Minister sues over sex charges — Edmonton Sun (Canada)
Mar 20, 1991
Allan Anthony Buttnor vs. Janice "Kelly" Gariepy, Reed Leary, Ken Montgomery
Type: Legal
LENNIE & CO. ID: 4034266977 JUN 20 '94 9:48 No.001 P.02 IN THE COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH OF ALBERTA JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF EDMONTON BETWEEN: ALLAN ANTHONY BUTTNOR, Plaintiff, - and - JANICE "KELLY" GARIEPY, REED LEARY, and KEN MONTGOMERY, Defendants. STATEMENT OF CLAIM 1. The Plaintiff is a resident of the City of Edmonton, in the Province of Alberta, and is an ordained minister of the Church of Scientology of Alberta, who seeks to minister to the spiritual needs of the ...
May 22, 1985
Alberta education department will support Scientology school — Toronto Star (Canada)
Aug 29, 1980
Law // The scientologists back off // Giving the final court victory to Alberta's Stubborn Seven — Alberta Report (Canada)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Alberta Report (Canada)
Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard told his followers early on that they should use civil litigation to harass, silence or even to destroy opponents. From the defamation suits filed four years ago by Scientology's Calgary, Edmonton and Old Strathcona Missions, however, seven weary but very determined Albertans last week emerged unsilenced and undestroyed. The $100,000 lawsuits against them (the figure, incidentally, specifically recommended by scientologist Hubbard) were thrown out of court without coming to trial. Even so, lawyers say, ...
Aug 27, 1980
Church lawsuit scrapped — Calgary News
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Calgary News
Alberta courts called the bluff of the Church of Scientology which had extended a libel suit against seven former members for four years. The case fizzled out in Edmonton when the church failed to deposit $45,000 as security for costs if it lost the case. The court dismissed a defamation suit launched by the church against Lorna Levett, Brendan Moore, Les Jackman, William Reid, Neil Taylor and David Wallace, all of Calgary, and Betty McCoy of Edmonton. The defendants are now ...
Aug 22, 1980
Church's action dismissed by court — Globe and Mail (Canada)
Type: Press
Source: Globe and Mail (Canada)
EDMONTON (CP) — A Church of Scientology defamation action against seven people has been dismissed in Court of Queen's Bench because the church did not produce $45,000 security to cover costs. The defendants in the action were Lorna Levett, Les Jackman, Brendon Moore, William Reid, Neil Taylor and David Wallace, all of Calgary, and Betty McCoy of Edmonton. Yvette Shank, director of public affairs for the church in Alberta, said yesterday the church did not deposit the security with the court ...
Aug 20, 1980
Ex-Scientologist // Scars have yet to heal — Calgary Sun
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Bill Hart
Source: Calgary Sun
Brendon Moore was yesterday piecing his life back together — after. being cleared by a court of defaming the Church of Scientology. The case, which has lasted four years, was thrown out of Court of Queen's Bench in Edmonton Monday when the church failed to post a $45,000 bond to cover future court costs. But Moore says the scars from his association with Scientology have yet to heal. The Scientologists sued eight ex-members in September, 1976 for allegedly defaming the church ...
Aug 20, 1980
Lawsuit against Albertans fizzles out — Calgary Herald (Canada)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Gordon Lee
Source: Calgary Herald (Canada)
The Church of Scientology's four-year-old defamation lawsuit against seven Albertans has fizzled out on the eve of trial. The Scientology organization was required to deposit $45,000 by Monday at the Court of Queen's Bench in Edmonton. But Calgary lawyer Ken Staroszik, who represents the seven defendants, said the court clerk's office confirmed Tuesday that the money has not been received. At a Queen's Bench hearing June 18 in Edmonton, Justice Arthur Crossley ordered the organization to post the money as security ...
May 30, 1980
Won't show their financial records, Scientologists declared in contempt — Globe and Mail (Canada)
Type: Press
Source: Globe and Mail (Canada)
EDMONTON (CP) — The Church of Scientology has been ruled in contempt of court for failing to present financial records to seven Albertans it is suing. Mr. Justice L. D. MacLean of the Court of Queen's Bench also ordered the church to proceed with its defamation action against the defendants after labelling the 1/2-year court delay "absolutely ridiculous." He said the Church of Scientology must appear ready for a two-week trial on Oct. 6 or its action, launched in 1976, will ...
Aug 26, 1979
Church of Scientology criticizes RCMP — Calgary Herald (Canada)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Calgary Herald (Canada)
EDMONTON (CP) — The Church of Scientology lodged a formal complaint Friday with the provincial attorney-general against the RCMP, which it accused of spreading false and misleading information about the church to files of Alberta government agencies. In a letter delivered to the office of Attorney-General Neil Crawford, the church asked for an investigation to stop the RCMP from interfering with the process of government. The letter, signed by Rev. Raymond Rockl, national director of public affairs, said the church "has ...
Dec 22, 1978
Scientology suit hits a major snag — Saint John's Edmonton Report (Canada)
Aug 24, 1978
Heaven (on earth) can wait — Albertan (Canada)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Bob McKee
Source: Albertan (Canada)
Those not-so-saintly Scientologists are in the news again. This time, it appears, our money-making missionaries have been up to their cassocks in — of all things — spying and as a result 11 members of the pay-as-you-learn church have been indicted in Washington on charges of stealing government documents and bugging government offices. Some of the things the reverie reverends are accused of include planting scientology "agents" in the government to find out about its investigations into the church; and of ...
Jun 25, 1977
Scientology: Target world government // Hubbard: "We'll make a new society so skip approval for a lot of wogs" — Albertan (Canada)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Bob McKee
Source: Albertan (Canada)
In the last of a series on the Church of Scientology Bob McKee examines the aims and future [?] of the Church. "Gungho groups are the first Scientology attempts to build a world government. They are a foothold in the community by which to get eventually to govern. What is done in the Gungho Group is going to influence what the community thinks about Scientology." These were the opening remarks made by a former Scientologist called Ron McCann in a talk ...
Jun 23, 1977
Scientology founder heavenly visits — Albertan (Canada)
Jun 23, 1977
Scientology: Money keeps rolling in — Albertan (Canada)
Jun 22, 1977
Scientology's tactics for dissenters / Hubbard: "Law can be used to harass. If possible of course, to utterly ruin" — Albertan (Canada)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Bob McKee
Source: Albertan (Canada)
The Church of Scientology has an effective way of dealing with those who "seek to destroy" it. In this, the third of a series Bob McKee examines some of its methods. There have been dissensions in every church that ever existed but few, if any, have resorted to as drastic a method in dealing with its heretics, as has the Church of Scientology. Not since the Inquisition has a church pursued so severe and uncompromising a stand in rooting out all ...
Sep 15, 1976
Cult launches lawsuit against ex-members [exact date unknown]
Sep 15, 1976
Former member fight cults [exact date unknown]
Jun 6, 1974
The costly search for 'Total Freedom' — North Hill News (Calgary, Alberta)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: North Hill News (Calgary, Alberta)
The rev. Lorna Levett, Australian born counsellor, who has faced the wrath of the Church of Scientology by her defection in Calgary, says the resigned because she did not think some students were getting their money's worth. She told the News this week that she had persuaded people to spend over $200,000 in Scientology since she opened her Calgary franchise (later called a mission) in 1968. "Well over $100,000 they sent to the Los Angeles organization," Levett said in a prepared ...
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