Media Release: Narconon Trois-Rivieres Charitable Status Revoked
Submitted by intelligence on Mar 10, 2013 - 03:22 PM | 
Documents received today, confirm that Narconon Trois-Rivieres in Quebec, Canada, has had their charitable status revoked by the Canada Revenue Agency. A 5 page formal complaint, with attached evidence documents, was filed on January 17, 2012 against Narconon Incorporated and Narconon Trois-Rivieres with the Ottawa Agency.
Documents submitted, referred to: "Narconon is operated as a commercial business venture, with huge sums ending up in Scientology bank accounts. These files confirm to the Charities Commission that Narconon does NOT benefit the community in a way the law regards as charitable. Quite notably, this organization causes far more harm than good as will be evident to the Commission when applying the "Public Benefit Test" as prescribed under the Income Tax Act."
By David Love
It's been a rough road for Scientology's drug rehabs in Canada since September 2010, when Narconon Canada Continental, dissolved in disgrace following negative media PR.
On July 27, 2011, a devastating blow to operations at Narconon Trois-Rivieres was delivered by the Quebec College of Physicians. Following a formal complaint and several months of investigations, Dr. Pierre Labonte, Narconon's medical manager, was found guilty of breach of ethical obligations by associating himself with a drug rehab not recognized in current medical literature. Dr. Labonte and all Quebec physicians were put on notice, forbidden to associate with Narconon or face discipline by the College.
The ultimate blow to Scientology in Canada was announced on April 17, 2012, from Marc Lacour, Director of Social Services for the Mauricie and Centre-du-Québec Health and Social Services Agency.
After a thorough investigation, he announced that the 100 bed Narconon Trois-Rivieres be closed - - citing that "fifty-five criteria required for certification, forty-six were found to require various types of corrections and twenty-six of these criteria were deemed high-risk factors." The center was closed and patients transferred to other facilities.
Narconon Trois-Rivieres, ABLE Canada, Scientology Montreal et al. and Executives, still face 5 cases under investigation for nearly 2 years, by the Quebec Human Rights Commission. All 5 cases are now in the hands of the Commission lawyers.
The recent revocation of Narconon Trois-Rivieres charitable status is deemed "voluntary" and falls under one or more of the following criteria:
- a lack of available resources;
- dissolution of the organization;
- a merger or consolidation; or
- no further need for organization's services (for example, the project or program it was established to undertake is complete).
Credible sources indicate that another Scientology drug rehab will be opening soon in a more favourable Province, Ontario, with a "Canadian Medical Detox" website posted on October 14, 2012, by President P. Dubreuil, an Ex-Narconon Trois-Rivieres staff member.
The drug rehab industry is indeed very lucrative and attracts many unscrupulous business minded entrepreneurs for quick and easy money. Upload a "drug rehab" website for desperate addicts to find with a Google search and the phones begin to ring.
However, with the numerous patient deaths in Georgia and Oklahoma, USA, and the troubles in Canada, health agencies and government authorities are keeping a close watch.
David Edgar Love
With Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes‘ divorce being finalized, Scientology has really been in the spotlight recently. There are allegations that the Church sent people to follow Katie, that she divorced Tom to keep their daughter Suri safe from the ‘security checks’ that begin when a child reaches the age of six, and that Katie herself was auditioned by the Church for the role of Tom’s wife, among maaaaany other rumors too numerous to mention. So what’s the point of all this? We’ll never know what’s really going on, so why are we speculating? I’ll tell you why: because Scientology is effing crazy and one of the greatest pleasures of human beings is watching other human beings engage in irrational behavior. It’s sort of like schadenfreude, except we don’t necessarily want them to fail, we just want to watch what happens, Bravo-style. We spend so much time thinking that celebrities are better and smarter and richer and hotter and more talented than us, that it’s thrilling to watch them do things that make absolutely no sense.
So honestly — what is it about Scientology? That’s the real question, here. I get why the Church of Scientology seeks out celebrities; they need prestige, credibility, and visibility to disseminate their message, and those are three things that celebrites have in spades. But what does Scientology have to offer in return? Pretty much every rational person I’ve ever spoken to considers Scientology to be a perverse mix of a joke and a cult, so why are people like Jason Lee, Leah Remini, Jenna Elfman, and Juliette Lewis publicly speaking out on its behalf? What are they getting out of it?
I have only one firsthand experience with Scientology, but it’s defined all my future interactions with it. I grew up in Oregon and went to a private school that was small enough that my awkward, gangly self was deemed sufficiently athletic to make the junior varsity basketball team. We had a mix of home and away games, and one of these away games was at Delphian, a Scientology boarding school in rural Oregon where John Travolta‘s son was rumored to be a student. As the bus pulled to a stop, a school official got on the bus to make a few announcements. We assumed she was getting on to welcome us to the school and give us directions to the basketball court, but instead she warned us against snooping around while we were on-campus. I can’t recall the exact wording of the whole warning, but the phrase “don’t try to steal our secrets” has stuck with me ever since. Why did an adult feel was necessary to threaten a bus full of teenagers like that? And then when we got to the basketball court itself — built as a dome so that no evil energies could hide and collect in the corners — I remember being scared and a little exhilarated that there were adults in the world who were this fearful and irrational.
If I was able to that quickly assess and reject Scientology as a fourteen-year old, then why are dozens of celebrities willing to donate hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars just to move through the levels of a religion invented by a science-fiction writer? Well I have some theories about that, so let’s talk.
In reading a 2011 article on Scientology from The New Yorker, I came across this quote from Hugh B. Urban, who teaches religious studies at Ohio State University:
“I think the reason that celebrities would be interested is because it’s a religion that fits pretty well with a celebrity kind of personality. It’s very individualistic. It celebrates your individual identity as ultimately divine. It claims to give you ultimate power over your own mind, self, destiny, so I think it fits well with an actor personality. And then the wealth question: These aren’t people who need more wealth, but what they do need, or often want at least, is some kind of spiritual validation for their wealth and lifestyle, and Scientology is a religion that says it’s OK to be wealthy, it’s OK to be famous, in fact, that’s a sign of your spiritual development. So it kind of is a spiritual validation for that kind of lifestyle.”
Whereas many religions preach that the less you have in this lifetime, the more you deserve in the next, Scientology encourages its followers to achieve what they can, as their successes reflect back on the Church and make them more able to contribute financially. The Scientology Celebrity Centres are gaudy properties where theoretically anyone can worship, but with special entrances, VIP lounges, and separate ‘auditing facilities’ for famous adherents. In addition, Scientology seems almost specifically designed to appeal to actors, as its teachings purportedly give them control over their lives in a world where they’re really quite helpless. If you want a job, you have to audition for it, sometimes multiple times, alongside people exactly like you. You can feel that you had the best audition and not get the part, or the worst audition and get cast the next day. It’s a system with no control, where you rely on the whims of casting directors, producers, agents, etcetera, and it can become incredibly frustrating over time.
Which is where Scientology steps in. It offers a range of courses insisting they can maximize your potential, increase your intelligence, streamline your talent, and most importantly — give you control of your life. The trick of the religion is in its ability to catch people at the right time, right as they’re becoming famous, when all they need to really break through is an attitude shift, and then they’re suddenly wildly successful. The Church then capitalizes on that moment, saying that your success came about from Scientology, conveniently helping you forget all the many years of hard work, fruitless auditions, and unpaid bills.
The thing is, this technique is really genius, actually, because of the environment that’s fostered by actors working on a project. When you’re working on a show or a film, you know you’re not actually that character, but you have to suspend your disbelief to accurately portray them. You have to really open up your mind to take in new information and take on false characteristics, and in that mindset, you’re extremely susceptible to outside ideas. That’s part of why it happens so often that people have relationships with their former co-stars — you’re engaged in something intensely personal that people outside the project couldn’t understand. It’s the perfect breeding ground for a cult, and I’m honestly surprised that no one’s thought of it before L. Ron Hubbard.
I don’t want to make a blanket statement, but I’m about to. The most successful actors are typically extremely narcissistic. (Surprise!) And it makes sense. It’s so difficult to become a successful actor, let alone a movie star, that you have to have intense faith in yourself, almost to the point of irrationality. People every day for years and years will tell you ‘no’, and you have to continue to believe ‘yes’. That is completely and totally crazy. You don’t want to hang out with people like that. Those are the people who when you say, “What’s your back-up plan?” they say, “I don’t need one, I’m going to be famous and people will give me money to be more famous!” And a surprising number of cases, they’re actually right, because people who really want and believe that are going to make it happen. They are, in a word, obsessed. Think about the ridiculous things you see in the riders of famous people. They want all their M&Ms sorted so they don’t even have to TOUCH the flavors they don’t like. They want eight dozen roses in each dressing room. They want ten phone lines. That is ridiculous. No one needs all that.
But Scientology supports that kind of behavior. It encourages its members to be elitists. It seeks out egotists — people who think they’re better than us because they have proof! As a nation, we pay millions of dollars every year to watch them on movie screens. We adore them, and they begin to feel they deserve more and more adoration, which the Church heaps on so that they’ll continue to disseminate Scientology’s messages.
And even if people do become disillusioned with the religion, after a while you’ve invested too much time and money to just stop. It’s like when you’re waiting for the subway and it’s been thirty minutes — you should leave, but because you’ve already put so much time into waiting, you find yourself waiting five more minutes, and then another five, and then another five…
And hours and hours after the rest of us have sucked it up and taken a cab home, Tom Cruise will still be waiting on that platform for the G.
Read more: http://www.crushable.com/2012/07/17/other-stuff/celebrities-and-scientology-l-ron-hubbard-tom-cruise-katie-holmes-john-travolta-981/#ixzz2Jgn3QU36
What a fashionable pair! Suri Cruise is a little lady in fake fur as Katie Holmes goes back to the 80s in studded leather
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She's got a closet envied by women older than her mother.
And Suri Cruise was more than pleased to show off her fashion sense as she played with her mother Katie Holmes as they left their New York City apartment on Sunday.
The six-year-old was a little lady in a plush tan fake-fur coat and a long purple striped skirt, pairing her outfit with a sparkling headband and shiny gold flats.
Making a run for it: Suri Cruise dashed away from her mum Katie Holmes as the pair left a New York City apartment building on Sunday
The bouncing brunette was already a few steps ahead of her mother holding on to her friend's hand as they exited the building.
Seconds later Suri dropped her friend's grip and made off, grinning as she clutched tight to her fuzzy grey stuff elephant.
Quick on her heels was mum Katie, who surely caught up to her daughter in no time.
Playdate: The six-year-old had just wrapped up a playdate with a blonde friend
Off she goes: Suri dropped her friend's hand and took her stuffed animal for a run
Katie herself looked equally as fashionable in a studded black leather jacket and dark flared jeans.
The mother-of-one went almost make-up free for the outing and wore her long brown locks out in a natural style.
The pair have been spending the majority of their time living in the Big Apple after the 33-year-old wrapped up a stint on Broadway in the play Dead Accounts.
Fashionable: The youngster looked like a fashion star in a faux fur coat and maxi shirt
The daughter of Tom Cruise, Suri is well on the way to be becoming quite the multi-talented young lady.
As well as taking regular ballet classes, she is already said to be learning a second language.
Katie and Tom Cruise's little girl is reportedly currently study Chinese at her swanky $39,750-per-year Avenues school in Manhattan.
Her famous parents apparently enrolled their youngster in a Mandarin language course last year.
Quick on her heels: The former Dawson's Creek actress stormed off after her daughter
And living in New York has made it easier for her to visit her busy father Tom, who is currently filming his latest project All You Need is Kill in London.
The 50-year-old actor is said to have flown his daughter over from New York last week, before spending time with the little girl at the luxurious Grove Hotel in Hertfordshire.
A source told E! News: 'Last week, Tom sent his private jet to NYC to pick up Suri so she could come to London and spend some time with him.
Travelling has been the norm for the youngster, whose parents split in June 2012.
However, the former couple do their best to spend equal amounts of time with their little girl, with Suri spending both Thanksgiving and Christmas with her dad last year.
Favourite fur: Suri was spotted in the same coat leaving tennis class on Monday
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2291341/Cant-catch-Fashionable-Suri-Cruise-gives-mum-Katie-Holmes-run-sprints-streets-New-York.html#ixzz2NCil4c1G
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