“Exponentially growing” volume of inquiries, insufficient funding, inadequate type of remuneration: The National Institute of Forensic Psychiatry Philippe-Pinel can no longer judge the worst criminals in Quebec since the pandemic within the legal time limits. One hardened criminal has already tried to get away with these delays.

Posted at 4:34pm

Louis Samuel Perron The Press

Jeffrey Howard Hébert was an influential pedophile on the dark web. He was even the administrator of a forum dedicated to child pornography. The Dorval resident also made very real sacrifices by secretly photographing two toddlers hundreds of times. He had more than 90,000 pictures and 2,000 videos of particularly sordid child pornography.

Due to the seriousness of his crimes, the Crown requested last July that Jeffrey Howard Hébert be assessed to determine whether he can be declared a dangerous or a long-time criminal. These labels are reserved for the worst criminals to protect the populace. For example, it is very difficult for a dangerous offender to get parole. A long-term offender may be subject to prolonged supervision after release from prison.

According to the Criminal Code, such a psychiatric assessment must be carried out within 60 days. However, three months later, Jeffrey Howard Hébert is still 18th out of 24 on the waiting list for the assessment. The waiting times will thus exceed six months, the National Institute of Forensic Psychiatry Philippe-Pinel announced in letters filed Tuesday at the Montreal courthouse.

These letters, signed October 18 and 20 by Elizabeth Mandeville, director of the Institute’s Reception, Admissions and Medical Records Services, paint a bleak picture of the situation. The institute argues that due to the “scarcity of our resources” it is “currently impossible to respond to the exponentially growing volume of these requests”.

The institute is indeed overwhelmed by the 60 requests received in 2021-2022, an “impressive” number given that the previous average was around 40 requests, the letter said.

“The facility’s ability to respond to all court-ordered requests is severely compromised and, unfortunately, the deadlines imposed by the courts are not being met because we are not meeting the growing demand,” responded Institute spokeswoman Pascale, via e-mail. Mail Trudeau. She adds that it is “important” for the facility to “reduce” the current waiting list.

The crux of the problem: only five experts are able to carry out these very specific assessments for all of Quebec, the institute specifies in the letter.

Also, one of them will be retiring soon. And, of course, psychiatrists do not only devote themselves to these evaluations. Such a report requires extensive work in addition to testifying in court.

“The type of resource remuneration is clearly a brake on new hires,” the institute analyzed in court.

The funding provided by Quebec to conduct such assessments is “insufficient,” the institute writes. An agreement with the Minister of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice allocates funds to Pinel and the University of Quebec’s Institute of Mental Health for just 15 assessments.

However, this agreement is “repealed,” we argue in the letters. The Pinel Institute claims it has since taken steps with ministries to raise awareness of the situation. The Institute also presented a project to the Ministry of Health to create a department that would devote permanent resources to this issue. “We are awaiting an answer from you,” we wrote.

The Ministry of Health could not comment on the case on Tuesday. The Department of Justice has not responded to our request.

Additional Deadlines

In the case of Jeffrey Howard Hébert, the Pinel Institute asked Judge Yves Paradis to give him an additional 60 days to complete the evaluation. In the eyes of Crown prosecutor Me Amélie Rivard, the defendant does not suffer from “prejudice” because of this delay.

“We came up with a joint proposal that took into account all the ratings we expected. It was an extremely important element. We should settle the case in November,” Me Rivard told the court.

“No decision applies to a context like the one proposed to me,” said Judge Paradis, concerned about the situation.

However, last summer a criminal attempted to evade such an assessment and the resulting labeling by citing that the legal deadline had been exceeded. Sébastien Pauzé was found guilty of numerous charges over the past year, including criminal harassment, making death threats and assaulting a peace officer.

In December 2021, the judge ordered a report to be drawn up to determine if he could be declared a dangerous or long-time offender. However, as of July 2022, the institute still had not submitted its report due to “lack of resources” and the COVID-19 pandemic.

However, Judge Pierre Labrie of the Quebec Superior Court denied Sébastien Pauzé’s request because he failed to show that he had suffered harm as a result of those delays. The judge argues that the Court of Appeal found that these statutory waiting periods do not lead to the termination of the case in the absence of prejudice.

“It is important for the judge to have the fullest possible insight into the applicant and his dangerousness,” concluded Justice Labrie.

Learn more

• 46 Average number of applications received between 2015 and 2021 for assessment of high-risk and long-standing offenders

  Source: Philippe Pinel Institute

  60 Number of evaluation requests received in 2021-2022

  Source: Philippe Pinel Institute

A poll conducted by Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) confirms that a majority of Mexicans approve of key changes included in President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s electoral reform initiative. According to the poll accessed by EL PAÍS, 93% of citizens support the proposal to allocate less public funding to political parties; 87% support a reduction in the number of representatives and senators at the federal level; 78% support electoral councils and magistrates being directly elected by citizens; 74% agree to cut funding to INE.

The points on which the presidential initiative does not find such overwhelming – albeit always majority – support relate to the reestablishment of the electoral control apparatus. For example, the proposal to replace the INE with a new centralized National Institute for Elections and Consultations (INEC) is supported by 52% of respondents, while 40% opposed and strongly opposed. Regarding the disappearance of state electoral institutes and courts, 53% agreed while 43% disagreed.

Morena’s representative before the INE has pointed out that the results of the study were withheld from her for two weeks because they were “prejudicial” to the institute. Two officials of the election umpire denied the allegation and assured that the report was distributed to all Council members, although certainly not to the parties represented in the General Council. They pointed out that the survey was an internal input for the institute’s decision-making process. “Also, the results are public, they’re on the transparency side,” said one of the officials. “This is not the first time that the institute has conducted an institutional evaluation survey and the results are always disclosed in the same way.”

The INE survey was conducted by three private companies on September 9th and 10th through 400 telephone interviews with a representative sample of the Mexican population over the age of 18, according to the technical documentation of the study. This poll is important because it is the first to be produced by the same institution that López Obrador and his Morena party plan to re-establish. So far, the only studies on the initiative have come from private pollsters and the media. For example, since May, El Financiero published a survey that showed results similar to those now provided by the INE. This Tuesday, Reforma published a study saying that 13% of the population agrees with the INE’s “disappearance”.

Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) telephone survey on the scope of potential electoral reform. decency

The electoral officer’s poll seems to show that the mood of citizens is far removed from the positions of party leaders, who have promoted discursive campaigns in defense of the INE and democracy. López Obrador’s initiative is already being negotiated in the Chamber of Deputies between the government bloc from Morena, the Greens and the Labor Party and the Va por México alliance of PAN, PRI and PRD. Only the citizens’ movement remained on the fringes of the negotiations in protest.

The INE study, the results of which have been distributed among electoral councils since October 13, shows that those who believe that electoral reform is necessary are the same ones who agree with López Obrador’s leadership. The Elections Officer made a general assessment of citizens’ perceptions of his institutional leadership. One of the most notable findings is that positive opinion of the INE has fallen 11 points from 67% to 56% over the last year, largely because respondents believe it is a corrupt institution, that it commits electoral fraud, that she’s made pacts with parties and politicians and mishandled public funds, all allegations steeped in the official discourse of López Obrador and Morena’s politicians.

43% believe INE spends too much, mainly on election officials’ salaries, advertising and campaign propaganda. 85% say the budget cut for the institution would not affect their voting rights.

Subscribe here to the EL PAÍS México newsletter and receive all the informative keys to current events in this country

Desperate truckers have revealed the pressure of skyrocketing fuel prices, while suppliers warned “some cities could dry up for a few days”.

Diesel per gallon rose to nearly $2.00 over the past year, with prices rising from $3,634 to $5,312.

Gas prices, however, saw a much-needed drop to $3.758 a gallon this week, but were still up $0.356 from last year’s $3.402.

According to the American Trucking Association, the trucking industry carried 72.2 percent of all freight shipped to the United States in 2021, equivalent to 10.93 billion tons.

In the same year, it accounted for 80.8 percent of the country’s freight costs on sales of $875.5 billion.

The association registered 38.9 million trucks used for business purposes, excluding government and farms, in 2020, accounting for 24.1 percent of all registered trucks.

During the same year, 44.8 billion gallons of fuel were consumed by these trucks, typically 35.8 billion gallons of diesel fuel and 9.0 billion gallons of gasoline.

Desperate truck drivers have revealed the pressure of skyrocketing fuel prices, while suppliers have warned “some cities could dry up for a few days”.

Diesel topped the $2.00 per gallon mark with prices rising from $3,634 to $5,312 over the past year. However, gas prices fell to $3,758 a gallon this week – still higher than last year

That’s why truck drivers have voiced their fears, telling Fox News that rising fuel prices have made them “work for peanuts.”

One driver said: “It literally costs my company 30 or 40 percent of the expenses for refueling.

Another said: “Diesel prices are very high at the moment, it is harder for companies to make money from the high prices.

“Also, interest rates have gone down, so you’re not really making the money you made before you’re barely making ends meet right now.”

According to Indeed calculations, the average salary for a truck driver in the US is $71,207 per year.

Corporate team riders are typically paid $0.48 to $0.75 per mile up to 6,000 miles per week, which is estimated at $3,154 per week.

The company’s solo riders are seeing $0.40 to $0.64 per mile up to 3,000 miles per week, averaging about $1,183 per week.

While owner-operator drivers are seeing an average of $0.94 to $1.79 per mile up to 3,000 miles per week, with an estimated average of $3,163 per week.

Diesel topped the $2.00 per gallon mark with prices rising from $3,634 to $5,312 over the past year. However, gas prices fell to $3,758 a gallon this week – still higher than last year

Every year, around 800,000 drivers leave the profession – although experts say that rising diesel prices could push other drivers out

One driver commented that to benefit from an average day, he would have to drive farther as fuel prices have contributed to higher operating costs.

“We have to drive more than we normally do, that’s like 400, 500 miles a day, so we can make a little bit of money. we [now] have to drive about 600 miles,” he said.

About 800,000 drivers leave the profession each year, according to WCPO, while experts said rising diesel prices could displace more drivers.

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported that the US had just 25 days of diesel in reserve as of October 14, a low not seen since 2008.

The Biden administration said it is closely monitoring diesel stocks and is working to increase deliveries after it was announced that reserves were being exhausted.

A White House official told Fox News that the administration is closely monitoring diesel stockpiles, particularly on the East Coast, and is in touch with US energy companies to build reserves and seek solutions.

The official added that the administration has also been in regular contact with East Coast governors for months, providing them with tools including the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve (NEHHOR).

Mansfield Energy, the supplier led by CEO Michael Mansfield, issued the recommendation to ensure companies are prepared.

Businesses dependent on the fuel have been ordered to take steps to plan for the potential shortage of supplies, largely caused by Russia halting imports after invading Ukraine

According to the American Trucking Association, the trucking industry carried 72.2 percent of all freight shipped into the United States in 2021, and the drop in fuel prices could cause people to exit the industry

Businesses dependent on the fuel have been ordered to take steps to plan for the potential shortage of supplies, largely caused by Russia halting imports.

This means that the companies will not receive as many petroleum products as they did before the invasion of Ukraine.

It impacted refineries as they had to switch production from gasoline to diesel. This means they may run out of gas.

The diesel shortage is also caused by high demand for distillate (heating oil and diesel), refinery maintenance and reduced refinery capacity.

Businesses can protect their fuel supplies and reduce their risk of downtime by issuing emergency fleet cards.

These enable traceable access to fuel. You can also use a small tank for emergency fuel.

Mansfield Energy assured consumers that for the most part, gas stations will find supply and remain operational.

She added that for this reason, gas stations are unlikely to have bags over the pumps and the main ongoing impact is likely to be higher prices for customers.

It comes as Biden considers capping US fuel exports to lower prices and replenish inventories.

However, this is an idea not supported by refiners. You said that this action would likely reduce inventories.

The refiners added that it would reduce domestic refining capacity and put pressure on fuel prices for consumers and alienate US allies amid the war in Ukraine.

On the Eastern Front, which has stagnated since the liberation of the Kharkiv-Izioum-Lyman axis in early October, the beginning of a Ukrainian counteroffensive is taking shape, soldiers deployed in that sector said on Tuesday. “The trend is good, in fact, the front line (this week) on our side has progressed quickly and well,” assured an officer of the Ukrainian army’s special forces from a position in the village of Zarichne from code “Iva”, operating on this front.

“We are concentrating on the Svatové-Kreminna road with the aim of cutting the Russian supply line,” in the direction of occupied Lysychansk, the soldier continues on condition of anonymity. The town of Svatové, occupied by Moscow since March 6, is one of the main logistical hubs of the Russian army in this occupied part of the Lugansk region.

Ukrainian forces are advancing from the south, particularly on the axis parallel to the Svatové-Kreminna highway and the road passing through Nevske.

In the direction of Nevske “our army is making very good progress”

“In the Nevske direction, our army is making good progress, in Kreminna it is more complicated because of the daily bombardments. At the moment in this sector it is still the (Ukrainian) territorial defense, which is great for holding positions, but not calibrated for the offensive,” the officer continued.

“We will not talk about specific locations and we leave that to the General Staff, but we can say that the Svatové-Kreminna highway is practically under the control of the Ukrainian armed forces,” said the region’s governor Serguiï on national television on Friday Gaïdaï.

– The famous “return of politics” is recorded by this first decree Meloni government. And not because who knows how revolutionary it is compared to the Draghi government, but because it requires identity decisions. Decisions that the left can (hopefully) contest in five years’ time in the election campaign and convince the citizens of the opposite. If he has governed well, Meloni will return to Palazzo Chigi. Otherwise it will be left until the middle. How nice the change of power. Before I die I wish I could really see her.

– Yes, it is true. On the dates of minister and gods secretaries of state Meloni takes a risk: if you don’t please your allies a little, you risk pulling the rope too hard until it breaks. But…there’s a but: Allies know the percentage difference in the polls is currently in favor of the PM. If they broke up today, they would risk being passed for as those who “brought down Giorgia.” And I don’t know if that would add to their electoral booty.

– These are the ones from the rave party an unsafe private building okkupano, organize an illicit maxiraduno, then get high for a day with lots of drugs (allowing some of them) and the newspapers, what’s their name? About the fact that “they cleaned everything”. And God forbid.

– If I were on the left, I don’t know if I would be happy about the election lula in Brazil. I mean, did you read what he said about Zelensky?

– He’s right Gramelini: The appointment of Edoardo Rixi to infrastructure will allow Salvini to devote more of his time as party leader, causing some confusion among the majority. But the Corriere reporter does not take into account that he will also go to this ministry Galeazzo Bignamideputy minister and right-hand man of Meloni, someone who, if I know him – and I know him – will be able to keep a ministry in check that risks being handed over entirely to the Lega.

– It seems that Russia is recruiting Afghan soldiers to fight in Ukraine. They will say: Embé? The fact of the matter is that these soldiers were once trained by the United States of America with a tremendous investment of resources. You teach them how to shoot and eventually they hit you back. I think it’s happened a few times in the US…

– We missed roll call Al Bano to Vladimir: “Dear Putin, I know that you are very “private” to actions that only sow drama and destruction, and I also seem to understand that you have no intention of putting an end to this great act of madness. But I feel something I have to tell you. You, the “great” Putin, you, the head of state, but are also a father; (…) stop and think of those who see bombs falling on them and have to flee their homes. Think of the children who have the right to life and are instead forced to know death without being able to fully live the “plan” they were born for. If you can, ponder this dramatic truth for a moment. Think of the ten commandments that say in the fifth: “Do not kill”: God must have meant something! And then, if you are able – and I know you are able – stop this grim madness that has already been traversed by Hitler, Mussolini and many others before you. Stop while you’re in time: the world would thank you.” Anything else to add?

– This story of calendar what an accusation Bonino To have received money from Soros for not breaking the pact with the Democratic Party seems wonderful to me. But not so much for the facts themselves, if it pleases me to see them slaughtering each other in this little vegetable garden they still call the left. Prepare the popcorn

– Putin says: The EU doesn’t want ours gas? There is always someone who will buy it. Maybe, we’ll see. On the other hand, I think another scenario is simpler: the one where Putin sells gas to Erdogan, who cauldrons it at his hub in Ankara, and then happily sells it to us. All happy and content: we, who did not pay the money directly to the tsar, but will warm up with his gas, Turkey, which is becoming the world center of methane, and Putin, who continues to see his hydrocarbons. And many greetings to the kind words about Ukraine.

– Cazullo says that the doctors are resuming no wax in hospitals it would be the worst cliché about Italians: I don’t respect the law, the worst “saint cheated” is long gone. It is not so. Because whoever was not vaccinated, rightly or wrongly, paid a very high price: almost a year without a salary, without a job, without knowing when it would all be over. It doesn’t seem like a trivial matter

– Repubblica headlines: “The Night of Rights”. And all because a crime on rave party (we have dozens of similar ones) and for the forced prison (which mainly concerns the mafia). The point is, they’ve been disappointed: they were hoping for a little more bundles, like castor oil in schools and gay purges, but instead they find themselves with a perfectly harmless edict and having to shoot blanks. The readers understood that (and so did the Pd voters).

– Allegri: “The Europa League? It’s a good competition”. If the fox cannot get to the grapes, he is content with bottom rot

– Repubblica hires the editors Roberto Buroni on doctors no vax. The point is that Burioni ultimately agrees with Meloni on the choices made, defining them as “scientific” even when he disagrees with them. “Reconsidering the mandatory ‘vaccine’ is a political decision that can make sense.” Who would have thought?

– In the book by Bruno Vespa, melons he makes a confession halfway between intimate and political secrecy. In the most complicated days of forming his executive branch, he explains: “I was never really afraid that I would not be able to form a government, even considering the possibility of presenting myself in Parliament without prior agreement with all allies, on some proposals they seemed to me inadmissible “. It would have been sensational. But it explains well why she managed to enforce some of her decisions in the end.

– Tal Maurizio Maggiani is commissioned by La Stampa to continue the inevitable (so to speak) debate on what the left should be and how to re-found it (lost time, I tell you). In short, Maggiani seasons his play like this: “(…) Here, even if they are words that say something as simple and crude as disarm, I know that the left is a militant humanity in all circumstances. People who recognize themselves in the most radical part of their humanity. Tireless builders of life, generous fighters against the builders of death”. Militant humanity, people who recognize themselves in the most radical part of their humanity. What the hell does that mean?

– For the government it is 4,000, for La Stampa 5,000 and for Il Fatto 6,000. ‘sti Doctors no vax they multiply like loaves and fishes

– I got to the bottom of Maggiani’s play and you should build me a statue for that. In summary, he was able to save trees and ink and only write the last paragraph. The Left – he says – “is trying to face the urgent need to choose between the asterisk I have on the keyboard and that black, which I don’t find to even out the accounts between genders, while a woman cares a great deal about whether she’s summoned or gained power with males and any other gender. In this respect, at least, he is absolutely correct.

– Beautiful page of La Stampa that Gianni Oliva is supposed to write today to accuse the right of making April 25 divisive. To sum up: the party is on the left because the right has forgotten it. Then they place on the front page a photo of a banner that will be displayed at one of the parades. It reads: “Let’s liberate Italy from the fascists of the twentieth century, for socialism and the proletariat in power”. All exposed by the Italian Marxist and Leninist parties. And then you wonder if La Russa Doesn’t he come to the demonstrations?

– In the Afghanistan Students who tried to enter the university without a burqa were flogged by the Taliban. And here we have the Murge discussing schwa

– I repeat: is Letta really thinking about climbing back up the polls by defending rave parties and illegal occupations?