Some of the past media coverage of DADS Canada

CHTV, Channel 11
On Monday February 9th, 2004, the president of DADS Canada Inc. appeared on the  CHTV Channel 11 news at 5:30 and 11:30 p.m.  He appeared as a guest with a family law lawyer and a representative from  Mother's Against Deadbeats.  The issue was "War Against Deadbeats".  At the end of the show, our male president pointed out that he was a sole custodial parent of his 2 children and that he wasn't able to get any judge to award him child support.

C.B.C. 99.1 Radio
On Monday February 9th, 2004, our president appeared on the Andy Berry show regarding an article which appeared in the Toronto Star newspaper titled "War Against Deadbeats". At the end of the show, our male president pointed out that he was a sole custodial parent of his 2 children and that he wasn't able to get any judge to award him child support.

The National Post
A father's crusade for justice
The National Post, by Ian Harvey, Saturday September 18th, 2004,

It's easy to find Stacy Robb's one-room office in the back of an Elm Street walk-up off Yonge Street: Just follow the trail of cigarette smoke.

There, amid the clutter of files, butts and books, you'll find Robb, two phones on the go and a client waiting. His rapid-fire conversation is peppered with case citations, court rules, family law sections and the odd giggle. He's no lawyer and he's never claimed otherwise, but over the years he's taught some members of the bar a trick or two about family court process. >> read more

The Mississauga News
DADS Canada "DEADBEAT MOM'S PROTEST"
A group of men will use Mississauga as a launching pad to win back rights they feel have been lost to deadbeat moms.

Divorce And Defence Strategies (DADS) Canada, a group formed two years ago to battle what it sees as an unjust family law system, will hold a rally here to draw attention to their cause and push for changes to the Provincial Family Court system. >>read more

The Mississauga News
"Fathers fight back" - Comments from the editor
It has taken some time, but it appears that fathers are fighting.

That the organization Divorce And Defence Strategies Canada (DADS) has selected Mississauga as the focal point for the beginning of its campaign is no coincidence as the group appears to have a strong base here. If you need evidence, you can go by the large turn out for its demonstration here on Saturday, despite the strong rain, and the number of telephone calls The News has received supporting the group and wanting to know more about it. What may be surprising to some, is that much of the support for this organization is coming from women. While the issues DADS are bringing to light certainly surround those of fathers who want access to their children, it is not gender specific to believe the certain laws concerning custody are outdated and don't work. >>read more

The Mississauga News
"Dads aim for moms again"
A group fighting for rights they believe have been lost to "deadbeat moms" are planning a second Mississauga demonstration on the heels of last Saturday's event. Divorce And Defence Strategies Canada (DADS), a group formed two years ago to battle what it sees as an unjust family law system, will demonstrate this Sunday in the Creditview Rd. and Eglinton Ave. Area.

Last Saturday's demonstration in Meadowvale attracted 50 people, who showed up in support of non-custodial parents and the children who get caught in the middle. The protesters marched to the home of a woman they had targeted, and handed out fact sheets on the group to homes. >>read more

The Toronto Sun
Dads get laws, not justice
Father's rights advocate takes show on road.
Sunday March 30th, 2003, By Mark Bonokoski

Tomorrow morning, about the time all the high-priced lawyers begin to arrive in their black silks to thrash out divorce and custody battles, Stacy Robb will pull up to the University Ave. courthouse in a mobile home.

It's unlikely that he'll go unnoticed.

"Mediate, don't litigate," reads some of the lettering on the side panel of Robb's "portable office."

"We support joint custody and equal access," reads another message.

It's a mission statement, no question about it, and Stacy Robb, founder of a non-profit fathers' rights group called Dads Canada, has been on that mission for almost a decade. >>read more

The Toronto Sun
Saturday Spotlight
September 28, 1996, By Ian Harvey

Divorced dads find strength in numbers New men's support groups seek to level the playing field.

The way Stacey Robb and Neil Catania see it, they're on the front line of a social revolution. The only problem is, they're fighting a rearguard action. But that doesn't dampen their fervor as they work from a tiny Etobicoke basement apartment crammed with law books, case files and computers. Meet the DADS Project - Dads And Divorce Strategies - one of the half-dozen or so Metro-area selfhelp and lobby groups for divorcing fathers and other men's issues. Too politically incorrect for government funding, the groups scrape by on membership fees and goodwill. But as with the feminist and pro-environment groups that started up the same way things - and people's ideas - are starting to change. "If you're prepared to negotiate, communicate and co-operate you can get settlement without the cost of going to court," said Catania of DADS, among the more radical and ~ active groups. "We try to explain what's going on and not give any false hope. We're not there to siphon off their life savings. We're a paralegal support group." >>read more

The Toronto Sun
Mom jailed in battle over daughter
January 11, 1997, Toronto Sun, By IAN HARVEY

For the first time in more than 20 years a mother has been jailed for denying access to the father of her child, a Hamilton lawyer says.

"I lost a job that I was to start Monday,~ Deborah Grenier; 33, of Hamilton said after she spent two nights in jail for contempt of court.

Hamilton Unified Court senior judge David Steinberg ordered Grenier to jail for five days on Monday. She was released Wednesday morning. >>read more

Toronto Sun
Court the only solution
Changes to the Family Support Plan in the works
May 25, 1997, By IAN HARVEY

Dear Ian:

My daughter is now 18 years old and working and not attending school I am trying without success to get the garnishee of my wages canceled by Family Support Plan.

I am not a deadbeat dad, I love my children and during the last five years I have never missed a support payment - even when they left me with $5.50 from my first week back after an injury. >>read more

Toronto Sun
Custody penalties ripped
Group: Jail moms who deny access
March 31, 1998, by Philip Lee-Shanok

Moms who deny their ex-spouses legal access to their children should be jailed, a Joint Senate-House of Commons committee on child custody and access heard yesterday.

Groups representing men who have been denied visitation rights complained there was a bias in the family law system favoring women as custodial parents after a divorce.

Stacy Robb of the advocacy group Divorce and Defence Strategies D.A.D.S. Canada, said there should be increasingly tougher penalties including jail time. >>read more

Toronto Sun
DADS STRAIN AT CUSTODY CHAINS
Monday, August 31, 1998 By ELAINE MOYLE,

They're angry men who feel their right to be active fathers is being ripped away.

"Deadbolt dads" -- separated and divorced fathers who claim the courts grant them too little time with their kids -- are banding together through support and political groups to vent their frustrations.

During the past year, they've seized the opportunity to express their outrage to a government panel -- the Joint Senate-Commons Committee on Child Custody and Access -- researching the issue through national hearings. >>read more

The Toronto Sun
Dads are 'dying'
Suicide note is a grim reminder that our family laws are flawed
November 18, 2002 PAGE 6, By MARK BONOKOSKI

The suicide note came to this newspaper in the form of an e-mail, as if the sender wanted an expanded world to know that he had had enough.

Addressed as a Letter to the Editor, it carried the two-word heading -- "Inquest request."

After setting the scene, the writer ended his letter as follows: "I have no family and no friends, very little food, no viable job and very poor future prospects. I have therefore decided that there is no further point in continuing my life. It is my intention to drive to a secluded area near my home, feed the car exhaust into the car, take some sleeping pills and use the remaining gas in the car to end my life. >>read more

The Toronto Star
Birth rights,
A small but vocal group : of estranged fathers is fighting for fairness and equality
March 1, 1997, BY: PETER CHENEY STAR REPORTER

As Stacy Robb sees it, the battle of DADS Canada is an up hill one against the combined forces of radical feminism, legal apathy and cash flow. The current bank balance is $15.39 and headquarters is the basement of an Etobicoke bungalow.

But austerity doesn't faze Robb, a 41-year old unemployed trucker and founder' of DADS Canada-- "Justice has to prevail," he says. Right now there is none. Many tiny splinter groups have sprouted in the battle-fields of the divorce wars. >>read more

The Toronto Star
MOM GETS 60 DAYS FOR DENYING FATHER ACCESS TO THEIR DAUGHTER
February 28, 1998, BY PATRICIA ORWEN

A Mississauga mother of two is serving a 60-day jail sentence for failing to allow the father of her 4-year-old daughter access to the child "I'm devastated... I don't understand how this could happen," Lisa Barbosa said during an emotional interview yesterday at the Metro West Detention Centre.

"I know people get sent to jail, but couldn't the judge have understood how horrible this is for my children? "Their mommy is suddenly gone and she's in jail." >>read more

The Etobicoke Guardian
Dads angry over insults from MP's manager

By: CHRIS VERNON Staff Reporter

Two father advocacy groups protesting Etobicoke-centre MP and Justice Minister Allan Rock's office allege his campaign manager hurled insults at the dads recently. Dads Canada and Fathers are Capable Too have rented offices just metres from Rock's Dundas Street West campaign office. The director of operations for Dads Canada claims Rock's campaign manager, Tom Allison, has lobbed insults at the protesters. "Rock's campaign manager has resorted to name calling the fathers that have been protesting," said Stacy Robb. >>read more

The Etobicoke Guardian
Dads protest Justice Minister
By CHRIS VERNON Staff Reporter
About 35 protesters took their message directly to Etobicoke-centre MP and Justice Minister Allan Rock" campaign office just after it opened its doors Sunday. Two father-advocacy groups, Fathers are Capable Too and Dads Canada, have rented offices a mere 20 metres from Rock's 4180 Dundas Street West campaign office. Angry about Canada's divorce and support laws, the protesters vow to keep Rock from being reelected. >>read more

The Ottawa Citizen
Pickets make the point with 'deadbeat' judges
People are going to be picketing "deadbeat judges" in Perth Tuesday, and if it bothers them, they can blame it on former justice minister and now health minister, Allan Rock. It's all part of a growing demand for speedy changes to Ontario's family courts, and suggestions they should be shut down.

The definition of a deadbeat judge comes from Stacy Robb of Toronto, who three years ago founded DADS Canada (Divorce and Defence Strategies). "They (family court judges) don't read the files. In one jurisdiction (in Southern Ontario), you have to make an application to get your file read." >>read more

The Ottawa Citizen
Men of honour must "stand up and fight".
Fathers must push for right to help raise their children, man says.

An honourable man walked out of an Ottawa courtroom recently and made an observation: "It cost me 16 months and $35,000 to get something I would have had in the first place, if the Government of Ontario was doing its job." >>read more

The Perth Courier
Protesting 'deadbeat judges' at the courthouse
Perth Courier, By Ian Gray, WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 29, 1997

The first ever deadbeat judge protest in Canada was held in front of the Perth courthouse last Tuesday. Representatives from three fathers' rights groups took part. Brett Peters is president and under of Fathers After Rights Equalization (FARE). His group was joined by Fathers Are Capable Too (FACT) and Dads Canada on the protest march. "What we want is to bring equality back to the judiciary pertaining to child access, custody and visitation,". Mr. Peters said. >>read more

The Brockville Recorder
LEGAL SYSTEM UNFAIR, DADS SAY
The Brockville Recorder, By: Ronald Zajac

PERTH, ONTARIO

A dozen demonstrators marched in front of the Perth courthouse Tuesday, charging the legal system is stacked against fathers in child custody and child support battles.

The group, which included at least two women, carried placards bearing slogans like "Access Denial is Child Abuse," "Young Offenders are Fatherless Kids" and "Deadbeat Judges Should be Fired." >>read more