Local Impact - Five Points Media, Barrie
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Verico the Mortgage Station

Loan Sharks Defrauding Seniors in Simcoe County Now Hiding Behind a Wall of Lies and Deception.

A documentary in production for broadcast and streaming

Five Points Media is a provincially registered media company and community channel.

Production: 416-996-2786 ~ Email jironside@fivepointsmedia.ca

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Our reports and evidence remain 100% uncontested by any identified person.
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This 'threat' was sent by an anonymous coward who feared signing their own name.

Why is the HomeEquity Bank, an asset of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP), valued at more than $247.5B, working with loan shark mortgage brokers who prey on seniors and veterans, while draining the resources of local charities, and why are they afraid to challenge the evidence and allegations of a small not-for-profit?

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  1. Our articles have been online throughout the time shown above; however, we have not received a single challenge to our fully-supported alllegations.
  2. All three brokers who are key to this documentary, David Flude, Lisa Purchase, and Renee Dadswell, have admitted in writing to our allegations.
  3. We have made multiple offers for the brokers of Verico the Mortgage Station and their various corporate allies to explain their side of the story.
  4. Despite our multiple offers of détente, not a single representatives of any of these multi-million and multi-billon dollar companies has stepped up.
  5. We have offerred to cancel this documentary, and to delete all articles and videos, if any of the accused can disprove our claims on camera using evidence.
  6. So far, none of them have shown the courage to stand up and disprove our claims, meaning all of our allegations remain 100 per cent uncontested.
  7. These purportedly 'legitimate' companies, who secretly lie to their clients about us, appear so afraid of our evidence they will not challenge our allegations.
  8. If we were not factual in our reporting, any of those corporations could have attained a cease and desist order or other injunctive relief against us.
  9. Instead, all these wealthy corporations seem willing or able to do is hide in the dark and hope that their clients do not learn the truth.
  10. So far, 97% of comments made online or through emails, direct messaging, etc. have been supportive of our exposure of these criminal acts.
  11. The South Simcoe Police Service is subject to pending investigation after omitting evidence and falsify figures to help the wealthy brokers.
  12. The Producer is 35-year media veteran who has worked as an international television news in places like Bosnia and the Middle East, and as the Deputy Editor of a national European newspaper owned by the Washington Times.
  13. The Producer has also passed on that knowledge and experience by teaching at three community and private colleges in Ontario and British Columbia.
  14. The Producer and crew of this expose documentary represent a not-for-profit community channel that since 2014 has donated more than $700,000.00 worth of services to more than 185 local charities, not-for-profits, benevolent special interests groups, and the towns and villages of Simcoe County.
  15. In 2020, at the height of the pandemic, the Producer and crew were nominated for and voted to the highest levels for an award for altruism presented by the City of Barrie and the Greater Barrie Chamber of Commerce.

Local Impact

One of the key measures of the value of media is the effect it has on those who can influence change. Sometimes those people are politicians, either municipal, provincial, or federal, but just as often they are members of groups, organizations, and sectors of society who can and will do what is required to attain a desired result.

It is safe to say that our stories so far have touched all sides of this equation.

This ideology is best demonstrated by who is liking, sharing, and commenting on our stories on social media, as that is a yardstick that can be measured accurately. So far, our Facebook posts have been shared, liked, and commented on by members of all level of government, including municipal, provincial, and federal.

For more than five years this pattern has persisted as we have continued into other poignant social issues.

Our crew has also worked with police, municipal governments, provincially funded groups, and other 'official' organizations to produce effective and sustainable projects to help the homeless, and to interconnect dozens of services that work together to help those in need.

It is safe to say that the OCANetwork, also known as Five Points Media, is having an influence in our community.


Reaching our target audience

  1. Our story about the Grilled Cheese Social Eatery and how they help the homeless spiked to over 30,000 views, and part of that was because Barrie Mayor Jeff Lehman shared it on his personal page. See post here

  2. Our stories often address an issue within our local community that is being confronted by Barrie residents, such as those at Gilda's Club. As such, they are popular with City Councillors such as Rose Romita. See post here

  3. City Councillor Andrew Prince has been sharing our stories ever since we recorded him in a dunk tank at a fundraiser for the Community Give and Get Centre where volunteers help Barrie families in need. See post here

  4. MPP Ann Hoggarth shared the video we produced through 3B Solutions of the vigil for those in the LGBTQ community who were murdered in Orlando, Florida. Barrie Pride asked us to record the event. See post here

  5. Jill Dunlop, the PC candidate for Simcoe North, has been working with our team to produce the SY-STEM Links project to help the homeless. She is also a supporter of our desire to help others through media. See post here

  6. The City of Orillia shared our story of the Coldest Night of the Year that we recorded in their city in support of the Lighthouse Soup Kitchen and Shelter. See post here

  1. The Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre likes our work, and they are happy to share it. This is just one example of many recent shares of our productions in support of Move-It For Young Minds. See post here

  2. We are also often shared by other community oriented groups, such as the ShopOrillia.com. These posts reach potentially thousands of their clients. See post here

  3. Like minded groups, such as '365 Day Kindness Initiative', also share our content. They spread our message to a pre-existing network of followers consisting of both individuals and groups. See post here

  4. Sponsors of the events we cover also share our content. Not only do they help the community, they are seen to do so which helps their image as a business and builds their brand. See post here

  5. Community partners like the Barrie Police Services have also shared our charitable productions. In this case they stamped their public endorsement on a project created for the Women and Children's Shelter of Barrie by our commercial production company, 3B Solutions. See post here

the OCANetwork, also known as Five Points Media, is Barrie's newest media source, and the only independent producer of local video programming. However, we have already established a growing footprint of influence within Barrie, Innisfil, Oro-Medonte, and other regions of Simcoe County and Muskoka. We have also expanded our crew and increased our available production equipment, meaning we can potentially cover multiple events running simultaneously.

Our fully functional kitchen set.