Congratulations to Cornwall Police Service for their part in shutting down a sophisticated smuggling operation that used Akwesasne territory on Cornwall Island to smuggle drugs south and illegal guns north. Thanks to Cornwall Police Services' excellent work, 35-year-old Mark Rudolph of Cornwall, ON, now faces charges for Importing and exporting cannabis … [Read more...]
Raise Your Hand if You Remember Normal
If you remember a time when life was 'normal' please raise your hand. I'm not talking about pre-COVID times either, although they are particularly stupid on almost every level. I'm talking about times when such outdated concepts as personal responsibility, respect for others and simple civility ruled the day. Those glorious days when we could agree to disagree without … [Read more...]
Winnipeg Police Arrest Drug Dealer Violating Firearms Prohibition Order
Drug dealers love their illegal guns. That's the theme I see repeated every week as I track how many criminals are re-arrested for violating the Firearm Prohibition Orders against them because of a previous run-in with the law. Today's commentary continues this series about Canada's failed and broken Firearm Prohibition Order system and the criminals who flagrantly violate … [Read more...]
David Lametti Drops Mandatory Minimums for Serious Firearm Offences
Justice Minister David Lametti's performance during last Thursday's press conference for Bill C-22 rivalled Justin Trudeau's or even William Shatner's for overacting. "We're turning the page on a FAILED [overemphasised for dramatic effect] Conservative criminal justice policy." "It was an approach that did NOT [overemphasised for dramatic effect] make our communities … [Read more...]
Misfires and Lawsuits Plague Sig Sauer P320
In 2017, Sig Sauer’s P320 won a $580 million USD contract from the US Army for M17 and M18 Modular Handgun System, intended to replace its aging Beretta M9 pistol. That same year Sig Sauer’s Canadian distributor, M.D. Charleton, won a $4.5 million CAD contract to supply “miscellaneous weapons” the special forces unit JTF2. It was an auspicious start for a 3-year-old … [Read more...]
Darwin Award Winner Shoots Off His Own Testicles
If you don’t want to shoot off your testicles, pay attention to the four cardinal rules of firearm safety: Rule #1: Treat every firearm as loaded until you prove otherwise. Rule #2: Keep your firearm pointed in the safest possible direction at all times. Rule #3: Keep your finger off the trigger and out of the trigger guard until you are ready to shoot. Rule #4: … [Read more...]
Bill Blair Enrages Liberals’ Most Ardent Supporters with C-21
It's fascinating to watch Bill Blair get roasted for 'betraying' a host of lobby groups who want the government to confiscate my legally-acquired and legally-owned firearms but those same lobby groups refuse to support Firearm Prohibition Order Reform to keep illegal guns out of the hands of convicted violent criminals. Their position is a little bizarre, to be honest. I … [Read more...]
Bill Blair: Edmonton Drug Dealer Busted for Violating Firearms Prohibition Order
On February 8, 2021, Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT) seized over $700,000 of drugs and cash during a raid on the west Edmonton home of drug dealer Garret Nybakken. Garret Nybakken was charged with violating his existing Firearms Prohibition Order, possession of drugs for the purpose of trafficking, and possessing the proceeds of crime. Nybakken's firearm … [Read more...]
Whitehorse, Yukon, and its Ongoing Addiction Issues
The Yukon territory claims a population of 41,352 in 2020. Of those, 32,304 (almost 80%) live in Whitehorse, the territory's capital, and its surrounding area. (See Yukon Fact Sheet 2020) The Yukon territory's median age is 39 and, despite a higher than average Canadian weekly income, Whitehorse has an ongoing and serious addiction problem fuelled primarily by out-of-Yukon … [Read more...]
DENIED! Bonnie Henry’s Injunction Against Churches Denied by Chief Justice Christopher Hinkson
"I shouldn’t be doing Dr. Henry’s job," Chief Justice Christopher Hinkson told government lawyers last week. "If she wants police to have the ability to arrest people, the order can be amended, can’t it?” In response, BC's High Priestess of COVID, says she doesn't know if she has the power to order the arrest of individuals who refuse to comply with her self-contradictory … [Read more...]
Matthew Kwasi Asare-Boah Arrested Again for Violating Firearm Prohibition Order
When police arrested drug dealer Matthew Kwasi Asare-Boah on January 28, 2021, they charged him a series of drug and firearms offences, including two counts of Possession of a Firearm Contrary to Prohibition Order. Less than two weeks later, the Ontario Provincial Police arrested Matthew Kwasi Asare-Boah again and charged him with three new drug offences and two counts of … [Read more...]
Windsor Drug Dealer Busted for Violating Firearms Prohibition Order
Jason Sulatycki, a 42-year-old drug dealer from Windsor, Ontario, was busted on February 10, 2021, in possession of an illegal firearm in contravention of his existing Firearm Prohibition Order. Windsor's Drugs and Guns Unit (DIGS) raided his home and seized quantities of blue fentanyl, purple fentanyl, methamphetamine, and cocaine at the scene as well. Jason Sulatycki … [Read more...]
Another Drug Dealer with Firearm Prohibition Order Busted with Illegal Guns and Drugs
Tyler Busch is a prime example of why Canada’s Firearm Prohibition Order system is broken and must be fixed. In the early morning hours of February 6, 2021, North Bay police executed a search warrant at the home of 39-year-old Tyler Busch. Busch was arrested and charged with breaching a firearms prohibition order and the street was shut down due to a possible bomb … [Read more...]
Bonnie Henry Wants to Arrest Churchgoers, not just Pastors
Dr. Bonnie Henry refuses to shut down ski resorts after 547 COVID cases are linked directly to Whistler Mountain in January alone, yet refuses to rescind her order banning religious worship services despite her inability to link a single COVID case to a worship service anywhere in British Columbia since November. “What I’m telling people is it’s okay to go outside to go … [Read more...]
Smuggled Guns: Was Defeating Bill C-238 the right choice?
On January 27th, 2021, Liberal, Green and NDP MPs defeated Conservative MP Bob Soroya’s Private Members Bill C-238 – intended to increase penalties for anyone possessing a smuggled firearm – by a vote of 171 to 150. At best, it was a well-intentioned but poorly-drafted solution to the problem of smuggled guns. At worst, it was an abject failure to comprehend Section 96 of … [Read more...]
Who is Erin O’Toole? Someone I can’t vote for, says guest columnist Robert Alexander
On Monday, February 8th, CPC National Campaign Manager Fred DeLorey sent an email asking the question, "Who is Erin O'Toole?" Robert Alexander answers Mr. DeLorey's question in today's guest commentary. Dear Fred, Who is Erin O’Toole? Someone I can't see myself voting for, that's who. That man is neither my idea of a leader nor of a modern … [Read more...]
Dr. Bonnie Henry to Arrest, Jail Pastors for Defying Her Senseless Public Health Orders
Dr. Bonnie Henry, British Columbia's very own High Priestess of COVID, doubled down on her hatred of religious worship services, despite over 500 cases of COVID linked directly to the Whistler/Blackcomb ski resort (which remains open). Bonnie Henry will now attempt to have church pastors arrested and hauled off to jail for daring to defy her senseless and contradictory … [Read more...]
Utah Senate Slams Door on Civil Asset Forfeiture Loopholes
Civil asset forfeiture is the legal procedure for seizing your assets without the tedious requirement of convicting you, the hapless property owner, of a criminal offence. If it were anyone but government officials doing the stealing, this would be called theft. Because it’s government, their lawyers call it a ‘victimless prosecution’ where the property, not the property … [Read more...]
Blake Harvey’s Murder Proves We Don’t Value Children’s Lives
On December 5, 2005, Ryan John Podhorodecki slapped 2-1/2-year-old Blake Harvey twice in the head, then squeezed his face before pushing him so hard the child hit his head on a wall. Then Podhorodecki threw the boy on a bed and "folded him in half" so his feet met his head and held him there for a while. Then Ryan Podhorodecki went to sleep. The 2-1/2-year-old boy died … [Read more...]
Joe Biden: America’s Gun Salesman of the Month for January 2021
Democrat American presidents are great gun salesmen. Newly sworn in Joe Biden is no exception according to data released by the FBI. In January 2021, over 4.3 million background checks were initiated by the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check (NCIS) system, the highest total ever, making Joe Biden America's 'Gun Salesman of the Month' for January … [Read more...]
Membership has its Privileges: the Constable Adree Mohammed Zahara Story
On October 15, 2006, RCMP Constable Adree Mohammed Zahara fired nine bullets from her RCMP-issued pistol into the wall of her home during a domestic dispute with her partner, Constable Chuck Simm. A December 21, 2006, Saskatoon Star-Phoenix news report, shown below, informed readers that Constable Sahara pleaded guilty to a lone charge of careless use of a firearm related to … [Read more...]
Twitter Birdwatch: Fact-Checking on Socialist Steroids?
On January 25th, Vice President Keith Coleman announced Birdwatch, Twitter's new "community-based approach to misinformation." I'm surprised the company that deplatformed the sitting President of the United States sees the need for a 'community-based approach' to censorship given their internal censorship system worked so flawlessly during last November's US Presidential … [Read more...]
Is Gun Owner Licensing and Firearm Registration Coming to America?
Is gun owner licensing and firearm registration coming to America? If Texas Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) gets her way, the answer is unequivocally YES, and she'll ban .50 calibre ammunition, US standard-capacity magazines and a wide swath of semi-automatic firearms while she's at it. On January 4, 2021, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) introduced … [Read more...]
US Lawyer Charged with Gun Smuggling Postpones Trial Again
On October 25, 2019, Washington State lawyer Shawn Bertram Jensen crossed the border into Canada at Osoyoos, B.C. with a loaded Ruger .22 handgun and an unloaded Colt AR-15 semi-automatic rifle with U.S. standard capacity magazines and ammunition in his vehicle. He was arrested and now faces eight criminal charges, including gun smuggling. Jensen first sought to delay his … [Read more...]
Blackcomb-Whistler Skiers Highlight COVID Enforcement Hypocrisy
Yesterday was the tale of two COVID enforcement actions by BC Premier John Horgan and his High Priestess of COVID, Dr. Bonnie Henry. Blackcomb-Whistler Mountain was flooded with skiers who did not practice social distancing. Blackcomb-Whistler did not receive a fine for violating the High Priestess' social distancing rules. Yesterday in the Fraser Valley, at the same … [Read more...]
Bonnie Henry’s Health Orders Stand Trial on March 1st
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms’ lawsuit against public health orders issued by Dr. Bonnie Henry will be heard before BC Chief Justice Hinkson on March 1–3, 2021 at the Supreme Court in Vancouver. This is good news. The JCCF filed their legal challenge against restrictions on public protest and public worship services on January 7, 2021. (Download PDF of … [Read more...]
Erin O’Toole’s Public Perception Problem
Think Titanic and Iceberg. We all know who wins, the Titanic’s ‘unsinkable’ billing notwithstanding. Erin O'Toole’s ship slammed into the Iceberg of public opinion sometime in late September 2019. Since then, every move the new Conservative Leader made ripped new and bigger holes in the ship’s hull. Today, the good ship O'Toole is sinking and sinking fast. This is a … [Read more...]
Parliament Talks Smuggled Guns and Mandatory Minimums
Parliament resumed this morning and MPs from across the country were chomping at the bit to make their first speeches on Bill C-238 in the House of Commons. Here are some of the highlights and lowlights via the Hansard for Monday, January 25, 2021. Kristina Michaud (Bloc Québécois) Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia, QC I am very pleased to speak to gun control, … [Read more...]
BC Premier Horgan Obeys One Section of Charter While Happily Violating Another
On Thursday, January 21, 2021, BC Premier John Horgan told reporters he would not impose a travel ban based on a “review of our legal options.” The Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees our right to mobility in Section 6: Mobility Rights. 6 (1) Every citizen of Canada has the right to enter, remain in and leave Canada. (2) Every citizen of Canada and every person who … [Read more...]
NFA Talk – Remembering Dennis R. Young
Last night the NFA invited Tony Bernardo, Executive Director of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association, and me to remember Dennis Young and discuss how Dennis' work will move forward now that he's entrusted his legacy to my hands. Dennis R. Young's Website: https://DennisRYoung.ca NFA Talk - Remembering Dennis R. Young (January 20, … [Read more...]