Two Canadians who illegally possessed 67 firearms were arrested by Minnesota State Patrol on January 10, 2021, after being pulled over for speeding. Dayne Adrian Sitladeen, 29, and Muzamil Aden Addow, 29, now face charges of being an unlawful alien in possession of firearms and will likely face a host of additional charges. According to State Police, the Chevrolet … [Read more...]
Edmonton Police Officer will not face charges for Negligent Discharge
[Updated 2021-01-14 17:30 with Alberta Crown Prosecution Service statement] On June 7, 2019, an officer with the Edmonton Police Service committed a negligent discharge of their service pistol at the William Nixon Training Centre but will not face criminal charges. Crown prosecutors decided not to lay charges against the Edmonton police officer because it was not in the … [Read more...]
Singapore Police can now access data from Singapore’s TraceTogether COVID Contact Tracing App
On January 4, 2021, Desmond Tan, Minister of State for Home Affairs, revealed that contact tracing data from TraceTogether, Singapore’s COVID Contact Tracing App, is available to police. (YouTube video) The Singapore Police Force (SPF) is empowered under the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) to obtain any data, and that includes the TraceTogether data, for criminal … [Read more...]
Did Navdeep Bains Quit or did Justin Trudeau Force Him Out?
On January 11, 2020, Navdeep Bains – the former Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry – resigned his cabinet post. Bains also announced he would not run in the widely anticipated spring pandemic election. With no election officially in sight and a Liberal Party actively seeking candidates to run in the next campaign, why would Bains bow out now? My guess is Navdeep … [Read more...]
Mozilla Foundation CEO: De-Platforming You is Not Enough
If your politics are anything but far-left, The Mozilla Foundation, creators of the FireFox web browser and the Thunderbird email client, despise you and everything you say. Removing you from social media platforms is not enough. They want to utterly destroy your online presence so nobody will ever hear your WrongSpeak again. This week we saw the culmination of a … [Read more...]
Singapore Bans Possession of 3D Gun Blueprints
On January 5, 2021, Singapore’s Parliament passed Bill No. 44/2020, Guns, Explosives, and Weapons Control Bill, which makes possession of 3D gun blueprints a criminal offence without a licence. The legislative change is designed to stop unauthorized 3D printing of “major” gun parts but does not apply to accessories that can be fitted to a firearm, such as flash suppressors, … [Read more...]
New Zealand’s Proposed Firearm Prohibition Order System Gets It Right
“Action is needed now to tackle this growing gang and gun violence in Auckland and Firearm Prohibition Orders are part of the solution,” says Simeon Brown, New Zealand National Party’s Police Spokesperson. “Firearms Prohibition Orders (FPOs) would give police greater powers to take firearms of violent criminals. This is a sensible piece of legislation that would go some way … [Read more...]
15 Signs of an Abusive Relationship: Government Edition
How do you know if you’re in an abusive relationship with your government? If your government tells you not to see your friends and family, you’re in an abusive relationship with your government. If your government says you must ask for their permission before leaving the house, you’re in an abusive relationship with your government. If your government tells you what … [Read more...]
When did Defending Our God-Given Rights Become Unacceptable?
A recent comment on one of my commentaries about Dr. Bonnie Henry, British Columbia’s High Priestess of COVID, forced me to take some time to think about my approach to defending our God-given rights. “I like what you are doing about the Firearms issue. but get out of the way of Bonnie and her friends, hundreds are dying. Do you have any solutions? I suspect not!” This … [Read more...]
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas! I hope you and your family are having a wonderful Christmas Day today, despite the lockdown measures in place in so much of our country. It's just after noon on Christmas Day on a glorious but overcast day on the mountain and I just want to say thank you for being a part of my liberty-loving efforts to change the world. I'm so grateful you choose to … [Read more...]
Government Power Always Comes From the Barrel of a Gun
“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” It’s said that Mao Zedong, the most famous of Justin Trudeau’s dictatorial Chinese idols, first uttered this maxim on August 7, 1927. I think it was Naheed Nenshi, Calgary’s Masked Mayor, on December 18, 2020. For the sake of today’s political commentary, I’m going to attribute this quote to Calgary Mayor … [Read more...]
Are Your Ready for a Pandemic Spring Election?
I've said for a while that Justin Trudeau wants a spring election. A Friday afternoon funding announcement is one more indicator that The Shiny Pony does indeed intend to send Canadians to the polls for a pandemic election. How he will engineer the fall of his own government remains to be seen. On December 11th, the Trudeau government quietly rolled out their latest climate … [Read more...]
Trudeau’s Virtue-Signaling Vaccine Giveaway
I literally laughed out loud when this headline scrolled through my Twitter feed: Canada will donate excess COVID-19 vaccine to poorer countries Excess? We're at least six months away from knowing if we have enough to meet demand from Canadians, yet we can commit to giving the vaccine away to other countries? Obviously, it's never too early for another virtue-signalling … [Read more...]
Josh Benoit-Wilson: 48 Counts of Violating Firearm Prohibition Order
Josh Benoit-Wilson is one of those delightfully violent young men who Bill Blair, our Minister of Public Safety, loves to ignore while he focuses on confiscating guns from licensed firearm owners. The 26-year-old's latest (and lengthy) list of charges include 48 counts of violating his Firearm Prohibition Order. As I note almost daily when I update the list of people … [Read more...]
Bonnie Henry’s ‘not-a-lockdown’ Christmas Lockdown
On December 7, 2020, Dr. Bonnie Henry, BC's High Priestess of COVID, was asked whether she thought British Columbians "will be on board with basically being locked down for Christmas?” “This is not a lockdown, clearly,” Bonnie Henry replied, a smirk on her face. Then she described a key element of a lockdown. “But yes, these are the restrictions that we’ve had in place. … [Read more...]
Jealous Rage Leads to Claresholm, AB, Highway Massacre
This is part of my ongoing series on Canadian Mass Murders. Jealousy is one of humanity’s ugliest emotions. It renders its owner incapable of responding rationally to any situation involving the object of their jealousy. When a rational person sees their former romantic partner enjoying themselves in the company of another, they may feel anything from … [Read more...]
Undercover RCMP Refused Entry to Fraser Valley Churches
I never believed I would live long enough to see religious freedom under blatant attack in Canada. I was wrong. On Sunday, December 6th, a pair of undercover RCMP officers attempted to attend worship services at three Lower Mainland churches. Their crime? Holding regular Sunday worship services in defiance of Dr. Bonnie Henry's order banning all worship … [Read more...]
COVID: It’s not about health, it’s about keeping those ants in line
“You let one ant stand up to us, then they all might stand up! Those puny little ants outnumber us a hundred to one and if they ever figure that out, there goes our way of life! It’s not about food. It’s about keeping those ants in line.” – Hopper, A Bug’s Life Preamble I never intended to get involved in the COVID debate. My preference was to simply to watch it … [Read more...]
All Hail the High Priestess of COVID – Dr. Bonnie Henry
If COVID is the new god then Bonnie Henry is its High Priestess. On Tuesday, December 8th, the High Priestess of COVID published the latest version of her bastardized commandments. If the restrictions that follow make no sense to you, don’t worry your pretty little head over them. This doesn’t have to make sense. It’s government policy. All Hail the High Priestess of … [Read more...]
Liberal Firearm Confiscation Scheme Proves Deadly for Temp Agency
Public Safety Minister Bill Blair keeps stepping in steaming piles of dog poo with his proposed Firearm Confiscation Compensation Scheme. Minister Blair is 0-3 at finding a scapegoat for seizing and destroying legal firearms from licensed, RCMP-vetted firearm owners. Conversely, Minister Blair is 3-0 at leaving illegal guns in the hands of drug dealers, gangs and other … [Read more...]