Eye on BLR, Palmer Rapids, ON (2024)

10/01/2022

https://eyeonblr.ca/opp-investigates-4-compl
Palmer Rapids, ON – The Ontario Provincial Police have been conducting an investigation into four criminal complaints of municipal corruption against members of Brudenell Lyndoch and Raglan Council and staff since 2020, according to sources with knowledge of the matter

08/20/2022

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08/08/2022

https://eyeonblr.ca/gi5-rutledge-attended
Palmer Rapids, ON - Eye on BLR has confirmed that the voices in a portion of an audio tape of a 2019 meeting belong to Councilllor John Rutledge and the victim of a gun incident reported to the Ontario Provincial Police in 2019. Information in the audio indicates that Rutledge misled the public when he denied any knowledge of an ongoing OPP investigation into threats made to a municipal employee with a firearm.

08/03/2022

https://eyeonblr.ca/gi3-blr-mayor-misled
Palmer Rapids, ON - Information derived from an access to information request to the Ontario Ministry of Labour, reveals that BLR Mayor Sheldon misled the public when, during a council meeting, he officially denied any personal knowledge about any incidents of workplace violence that had occured on a municipal job site in 2019.

07/28/2022

https://eyeonblr.ca/gi4-mol-informed
Palmer Rapids, ON - An employee of the Township of Brudenell Lyndoch and Raglan was subjected to "particularly disturbing incidents" of workplace violence, this according to a document obtained by Eye on BLR following an access to information request made to the Ontario Ministry of Labour.

07/27/2022

https://eyeonblr.ca/gi2mol-docs-reveal-alle
Palmer Rapids, ON - The Township of Brudenell Lyndoch and Raglan turned a blind eye to a "long running and concerted campaign of workplace harassment" directed at one of their employees first identified to them in 2019, this according to documents obtained by Eye on BLR following an access to information request made to the Ontario Ministry of Labour

07/23/2022

https://eyeonblr.ca/gi1-ratepayers-brace-for
Palmer Rapids, ON - The circumstances surrounding the departure of the Road Superintendent, Charles (Charlie) Behm have once again raised anxiety with BLR ratepayers that tax dollars will have to pay for more legal fees due to clumsy administrative decisions from BLR Council.

05/29/2022

https://eyeonblr.ca/editorial-1-charter
On the 18th of May 2022, the small municipality of Brudenell Lyndoch and Raglan’s part-time municipal manager, Mr. Andrew Sprunt, made legal history when attempted to re-write the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He did so in a letter to me where the Township of BLR, chaffing under recent public scrutiny said that it would no longer respond to any questions about Council actions surrounding the Fire Chief investigation.
See if you can pick it out...

05/28/2022

https://eyeonblr.ca/blr-council-knew-pattern
Palmer Rapids, ON - New questions are now being asked as to whether BLR Council acted appropriately in re-instating their problematic fire chief, Jordan Genrick to duty in 2019, in light of information contained in a leaked confidential report.

05/24/2022

https://eyeonblr.ca/fire-chief-untruthful
Palmer Rapids, ON - The fallout from a leaked confidential report continues to sound ethical alarms for BLR Fire Chief Jordan Genrick, as for the first time, the public is learning that an outside investigator determined that allegations brought to the Ontario Fire Marshal in 2019 that the Fire Chief had a pattern of consuming alcohol on duty and operating his municipal vehicle were true.

05/13/2022

https://eyeonblr.ca/ofmem-cover-up-2
Palmer Rapids, ON - In an official statement the Township of BLR attempted to assert that it does not know why a review of the Fire Department by the Ontario Fire Marshal (OFM) never took place, despite evidence from the Ontario Fire Marshal itself that all parties (OFM, Council and the Fire Chief) apparently knew in March 2021, that it was decided that a public review would never occur. This decision was never conveyed to the public by the Township.

05/07/2022

https://eyeonblr.ca/court-never-saw
Palmer Rapids, ON - A report detailing misconduct on behalf of members of the Brudenell Lyndoch and Raglan Fire Department (BLRFD) that would have provided critical context in the matter of The Corporation of the Townships of BLR (Integrity Commissioner) vs Andrea Emma Budarick was never seen by the court before it ruled against the Councilor last year.

04/25/2022

https://eyeonblr.ca/blr-cant-locate-state-1
Palmer Rapids, ON - A written statement made by the driver of the first BLR Fire Department vehicle to arrive to a controversial 911 call at the son a BLR Councilor in 2019 is nowhere to be found, according to the Township of BLR.

Current BLR Councilor, and former BLR Fire Chief, John Rutledge was identified in the official incident report as the lone occupant of the first firetruck to arrive at the property of Gary Budarick, son of then-Councilor Andrea Budarick. The 911 call that dispatched Rutledge and other BLRFD personnel has since been shown to have been ochestrated by members of the fire department themselves.

04/21/2022

https://eyeonblr.ca/personal-reasons-1
Palmer Rapids, ON - The fallout from of a confidential report that investigated allegations of professional misconduct by the Brudenell Lyndoch and Raglan Fire Chief, Jordan Genrick, took a bizarre turn as Eye on BLR has learned that Genrick told an investigator that he failed to stop at a fire he saw at the property of the son of then-Councilor Andrea Budarick or to respond to the 911 call for "personal reasons."

04/11/2022

https://eyeonblr.ca/ofmem-confirms
Palmer Rapids, ON - In the wake of a confidential report that identified serious issues in their fire department, the Township of Brudenell Lyndoch and Raglan in a council resolution, told the public that it had requested a comprehensive review of fire protection services be conducted by the Ontario Fire Marshal and Emergency Management Office (OFMEM). In an exclusive, Eye on BLR has confirmed with the OFMEM that not only was no review conducted but that no formal request was ever made to them by the Township.

04/09/2022

Palmer Rapids, ON - The same BLRFD fire official who, at a tense September 7, 2019 meeting of BLR Council, bristled at being questioned about service charges by then-BLR Councilor Andrea Budarick has been identified as the individual who manufactured a 911call against her son, Gary in August 2019.https://eyeonblr.ca/ff-identified-as

04/06/2022

Palmer Rapids, ON - The fallout from a leaked 2019 report into professional misconduct of BLRFD Fire Chief Jordan Genrick continues as Eye on BLR has learned that the outside investigator hired by BLR to look into the matter expressed serious concerns...https://eyeonblr.ca/investigator-concerns

04/03/2022

Eye on BLR examines the ways the official incident report on a response to the property of a BLR Councillor's son was misleading.
https://eyeonblr.ca/incident-report-explainer

04/03/2022

Palmer Rapids, ON - Emerging details contained in a confidential report show that the Township of BLR had been in possession of information relating to a 911 call for six months when it made an official denial in a response to a Municipal Freedom of Information and Personal Privacy Act (MFIPPA) request in March of 2020. https://eyeonblr.ca/officially-denied-knowle

04/03/2022

Palmer Rapids, ON - The 2019 incident that sparked a costly two-year legal battle ending with an Ontario court removing BLR Councillor Andrea Budarick from her council seat, did not occur as it was presented to the public. In a shocking expose, portions of a confidential report seen ...https://eyeonblr.ca/fd-engineered-911-call