Alberta has shameful history of involvement with the particular stream of thought-reform programs that originated with the Seed. Albertans were sent down to Straight, and at one time Straight had a sales office in Edmonton, Alberta. The Alberta Government paid Miller Newton to apply his particular brand of coercive behaviour modification to Albertans at Kids, and the Government also put up $600 000 to bring Kids to Alberta in the program that is now called AARC.
Recently AARC held a conference that included uber-creep Ken Winters of the University of Minnesota as a speaker. This conference was sponsored by the Alberta Family Wellness Initiative.
http://www.aarc.ab.ca/http://www.psychiatry.umn.edu/faculty/winters/home.htmlhttp://www.albertafamilywellness.org/The AFWI in turn is in a partnership with an entity called TRI, which boasts Winters as a Director:
http://www.albertafamilywellness.org/in ... r-partnershttp://www.tresearch.org/adolescents/adolescents.htmWinters is also Chairman of the Science Advisory Board at PFDFA:
http://www.drugfree.org/about/our-people/advisorsA more wretched, desperate gang of inbred, dissembling prevaricators is unlikely to be found this side of Nancy Reagan's Ouija board, but it gets creepier. Another partner of AFWI is something called the Frameworks Institute:
http://www.frameworksinstitute.org/mission.html"FrameWorks designs, commissions, manages and publishes communications research to prepare nonprofit organizations to expand their constituency base, to build public will, and to further public understanding of specific social issues."
Glad to have Miller Newton's spawn involved in the process of building the public will.