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As many Canadians may not know, in 2008 the Toronto City Council passed a bylaw banning shooting ranges on city property as well as businesses that manufacture firearms from operating within the city limits. Shooting ranges operated by governments are okay under the bylaw. Shooting ranges operated by private individuals or non-profit groups are not. [...]

and All Canadian Wildlife and Sporting Organizations by Al Muir On 15 May 1995 Parliament’s Standing Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs held a hearing on  the  Liberals’  Bill  C-68.  Speaking  for  the National Coalition of Provincial and Territorial Wildlife Federations in vehement opposition to this unjust law,  Mr. Rick Morgan of the Ontario Federation [...]

I got an email yesterday from the BC Wildlife Federation that shocked me, because I’d just emailed back and forth with John a few times just before Christmas.  So getting the notice that he had passed away on Christmas Day from a heart attack was quite the shock. I always hate it when I have [...]

Crown Counsel James McKeachie is very annoyed with the Montague family for making public the letter he wrote to them where he spelled out his intention to take their family home using Ontario’s Civil Remedies Act. They posted his letter on the website about their legal challenge to Canada’s Firearms Act, www.BruceMontague.ca. McKeachie’s letter, dated [...]

And what happens to all the money and property seized? Well, of the $13.4 million seized in Ontario since 2003, only $1.2 million has been turned over as compensation to “victims of unlawful activity”, whatever that phrase means. Almost half of it, $5.7 million has been handed back to law enforcement agencies in the form [...]

Donna Montague was not impressed. “At every stage of this process, whenever we’ve ‘negotiated’ with them, we’ve been railroaded,” she said. “The search warrants were illegal.  They said that for our Constitutional challenge to go forward we had to drop our challenge of them.  After they arrested Bruce, did the first search and were holding [...]

McKeachie, and through him the Attorney General’s office as a whole, was being forced to answer for his actions to the public.  He doesn’t like that at all.  Why should the Ontario Attorney General’s office or McKeachie personally be upset about public scrutiny of this case? Openness and transparency should be the hallmark of government. [...]

Crown Counsel James McKeachie is very annoyed with the Montague family for making public the letter he wrote to them where he spelled out his intention to take their family home using Ontario’s Civil Remedies Act. They posted his letter on the website about their legal challenge to Canada’s Firearms Act, www.BruceMontague.ca. McKeachie’s letter, dated [...]