I do not know the current board make up since I quit supporting them nor do I have much interest in their operations.

And many of the same people who give to these large orgs also disparage the poor and houseless living right down the street from their McMansion.

Some people call it poverty porn. Kind of like the ads some “ministries” run on late night TV showing starving & disease ridden children. Pimping out these poor little ones to make a buck, just a few cents of which is actually used to help the kids.

The Buist article is terrible, sloppy journalism borrowing from an article he did 3 years ago. I don’t care what awards he’s won, this one was sloppy and careless. Buist has done things like this in the past. Make a few phone calls and reference it. Do a little bit of digging. This article was flat out lazy work on the part of Buist. I live in Hamilton and it’s a running joke amongst Hamiltonians calling the paper “The Speculator”. Remember all news agencies are for profit businesses. If they can make a buck selling crap to customers, they will do it, selling you dog poop and calling it candy.

YouKnowWho:

Is this the current (2019) Canadian board?

KP Yohannan – USA
Daniel Punnose – USA
Frederick H Schaphorst – USA
Vraj Lal L Raniga – Canada
Allan Jahnke – Canada
Oskar and Maria Zollinger – Canada

Unfortunately, it’s not illegal for a Canadian charity to have board members who are non-residents, nor is it illegal to have a caretaker rubber stamping puppet board that meets once a year.

Do you know if Pat Emerick is running the Cdn operation from Texas?

Lol.
Steve Buist wrote that article you are referencing – March 19th, 2016 which was also run in The Toronto Star.

Running a straight piece on the US court case back referencing a prior article you’ve written with the local/national angle doesn’t make someone a terrible journalist.

Terrible journalists don’t win 4 National Newspaper Awards, been named Canada’s Investigative Journalist of the Year 3 times, or win 5 Ontario’s Journalist of the Year.

Bottom line YouKnowWho – right now there is no movement with GFA World (Canada). Officials are mum, and if anyone else such as yourself has verifiable information/facts, they need to speak up. Journalists don’t work in a vacuum.

Out of curiousity – what do you think Buist should/could have written?

GFA Canada has always been under the control of K.P. and the US Office. K.P. has always been Canadian Board chairman, US staff have served as Canadian Board members, and, when the former Canadian Director left around 2007, he was immediately replaced by an American from the USA office. The Canadian Board meets only once per year and NEVER without K.P. If K.P. is too busy to attend (which he usually is), the meeting is a quickie by tele-conference simply to get it documented they had one meeting during the year. All GFA Boards are really just puppet boards. During GFA Canada’s history, they had 3 Board members who asked lots of questions. All 3 were railroaded out as quickly as possible. I know all 3. One was a trained lawyer who worked as an insurance company investigator. He began scrutinizing, the financial statements and asking questions in the mid 2000’s. Not long after, he was shown the door.

Buist is a terrible journalist. All he did was borrow from an article done in the Spectator 3 to 4 years ago and combine it with a synopsis of the settlement. The “Hamilton Speculator” at its best!