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Canada’s Senate is likely to approve Bill C-71 in winter or early spring, CTV News reported today, citing the sponsor of the planned law to further curtail the privacy and freedom of hunters and sport shooters. “I am confident that it will pass, eventually,” Senator André Pratte told CTV News in an interview […]
The PolySeSouvient group traveled to Ottawa on Monday to reiterate the urgency of adopting greater gun control. He denounces that Bill C-71, introduced at the beginning of the year, is still not in force. On the eve of the 29th anniversary of the Polytechnique tragedy, the group fears that the […]
Displaying information on its website that gave the public and gun store owners the impression Bill C-71 was already in force has landed the RCMP in trouble. An RCMP bulletin to gun stores and placed on their public website said the Swiss Arms and some Czech CZ 858 rifles are […]
Sixteen Canadian student associations are demanding that the Trudeau government ban the sale of handguns and assault rifles, so that a tragedy like the one at École Polytechnique de Montréal does not happen again. On December 6, 1989, Marc Lépine shot and killed 14 women at the Polytechnique and wounded […]
The RCMP has improved its internal approval process for online postings after sending out a potentially misleading message on firearms earlier this year, a House of Commons committee heard this week. The procedure and house affairs committee has been hearing testimony about whether an RCMP post about Bill C-71 was in contempt of Parliament for treating the Liberals’ […]
Most Canadians are shocked to hear that Canada has the fourth highest level of gun violence amongst OECD nations. A revealing comparison is with Japan, which has an absolute ban on firearms. Japan reports an average of 0.005 firearm homicides per 100,000 people per year. Canada, by the same measure, averages 0.48, nearly […]
The government has indicated that it will provide more details regarding the postponement of a regulation on the marking of firearms during the month of November. The Trudeau government again postponed the introduction of a gun-marking regulation to help police find weapons used for criminal purposes, despite the fact that […]
Senator Dean twisted statistics on the Senate floor. He incorrectly said that shooting was the most common way to commit suicide in Canada. It is not. According to Cause of Death statistics reported by Statistics Canada, hanging has been the most common suicide method for decades, accounting for an average 47% of all suicides […]
Trudeau proposes banning guns in order to win seat on UN Security Council Justin Trudeau’s proposed gun ban is not likely to be effective. Banning what is already illegal does not sound like a smart way to keep guns out of the hands of gangsters. Despite Canada’s strict controls on firearms, gangsters still seem […]
An investigation by the Stony Plain/Spruce Grove/Enoch RCMP Drug Section led to a significant firearms seizure. Staff Sergeant Mike Lokken (Acting Detachment Commander, Spruce Grove RCMP) provided the details about this seizure at the Spruce Grove RCMP detachment on Monday April 30, 2018.Larry Wong / POSTMEDIA NETWORK We are your friends, […]
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