From: owner-can-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca (Cdn-Firearms Digest) To: cdn-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: Cdn-Firearms Digest V6 #535 Reply-To: cdn-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Sender: owner-can-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Errors-To: owner-can-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Precedence: normal Cdn-Firearms Digest Thursday, October 2 2003 Volume 06 : Number 535 In this issue: 26 per cent of homicides used firearms Anti-gun advocates call controls Alberta Justice Minister: "The gun registry has been an absolute Pause for Thought GUN MURDERS PLUMMET STATSCAN REPORTS 42-YEAR LOW FOR 2002 3 gang members charged in slaying; Vote on Venne Motion M-387 to suspend gun registry Young woman shot in leg through her front door Man wounded in 2nd shooting in 9 days in Pierrefonds ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 08:36:40 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: 26 per cent of homicides used firearms Anti-gun advocates call controls PUBLICATION: Toronto Star DATE: 2003.10.02 SECTION: NEWS PAGE: A19 SOURCE: Canadian Press BYLINE: Martin O'Hanlon DATELINE: OTTAWA - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rate of gun-related deaths drops to an all-time low; 26 per cent of homicides used firearms Anti-gun advocates call controls helpful - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The gun-death rate in Canada fell to an all-time low last year, providing fresh ammunition for gun-control advocates and drawing envy from south of the border. The 26 per cent of homicides committed with a firearm is the lowest proportion since data were first collected in 1961, Statistics Canada said yesterday. Stabbing was the most common method of killing, accounting for 31 per cent of homicides. Beatings resulted in 21 per cent of deaths. Strangulation or suffocation came in at 11 per cent. The over-all homicide rate actually increased slightly, pushed up by deaths of 15 missing women in previous years in Port Coquitlam, B.C., but not reported by police until 2002. Among Canada's big cities, with populations exceeding 500,000, Toronto with 90 had the most homicides in 2002, followed by Vancouver with 69 and Montreal with 66. Toronto's rate of 1.8 victims per 100,000 inhabitants was sixth-highest among the nine largest cities. Anti-gun groups in Canada and the United States hailed the lower gun-death rate. They pointed to years of firearms regulation, but stopped short of crediting the federal gun registry, which requires all gun owners to register their weapons. "The numbers look encouraging," said Wendy Cukier of the Coalition for Gun Control. "It's still a bit soon to attribute it to the most recent gun-control law but certainly the trend in Canada of strengthening controls over firearms does appear to be having an effect." She said handguns being smuggled into Canada from the U.S. are the biggest problem. Solicitor-General Wayne Easter welcomed the drop, saying the registry gives police " greater ability to find illegal guns and stolen and missing guns." "We lose nearly 30,000 Americans every year," said Blaine Rummel, of The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, based in Washington. "That is astronomically higher than Canada's actual gun death rate. The reason why is because Canada has always taken a very responsible approach to regulating firearms ownership." Canadian police reported 582 homicides, up 29 from 2001, making the national homicide rate 1.85 homicides per 100,000 people, up from 1.78 in 2001. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 08:37:43 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: Alberta Justice Minister: "The gun registry has been an absolute DATE: 2003.10.01 CATEGORY: National general news BYLINE: MARTIN O'HANLON PUBLICATION: cpw - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gun-death rate drops to all-time low; anti-gun groups hail regulations - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- OTTAWA (CP) _ The rate of gun deaths in Canada fell to an all-time low last year, providing fresh ammunition for gun-control advocates and drawing envy from south of the border. The 26 per cent of homicides committed with a firearm was the lowest proportion since statistics were first collected in 1961, Statistics Canada reported Wednesday. Stabbing was the most common method of killing, accounting for 31 per cent of homicides. Beatings resulted in 21 per cent of deaths, while strangulation or suffocation came in at 11 per cent. The overall homicide rate actually increased slightly, but it was pushed up by the 15 deaths of missing women that occurred in previous years in Port Coquitlam, B.C., that were reported by police in 2002. The lower gun-death rate was hailed by anti-gun groups in Canada and the U.S. They pointed to years of firearms regulation, but stopped short of crediting the federal gun registry which requires all gun owners to register their weapons. ``The numbers look encouraging,'' said Wendy Cukier of the Coalition for Gun Control in Toronto. ``It's still a bit soon to attribute it to the most recent gun-control law but certainly the trend in Canada of strengthening controls over firearms does appear to be having an effect.'' She said handguns being smuggled into Canada from the U.S. is the biggest problem. The Washington, D.C.-based Coalition to Stop Gun Violence said many Americans will envy the Canadian numbers. ``We lose nearly 30,000 Americans every year,'' said spokesman Blaine Rummel. ``That is astronomically higher than Canada's actual gun death rate. The reason why is because Canada has always taken a very responsible approach to regulating firearms ownership.'' Canadian police reported 582 homicides last year, up 29 from the previous year. The national homicide rate was 1.85 homicides for every 100,000 people, compared with 1.78 in 2001. Solicitor General Wayne Easter welcomed the numbers, but he also stopped short of crediting the gun registry. ``The more important aspect of the firearms registry at the moment is the greater ability, with more registered guns, it gives the national weapons enforcement-support teams a greater ability to find illegal guns and stolen and missing guns,'' he said. ``That's the success story of the firearms registry system so far.'' Alberta's justice minister disagreed. ``The gun registry has been an absolute waste of time and resources and has shown no effectiveness,'' David Hancock said from a meeting in La Malbaie, Que. ``The reality is ... we had very strong gun laws in this country for a very long period of time and the guns involved in most of those incidents were already restricted or prohibited weapons.'' Of the 149 gun killings last year, handguns accounted for two-thirds, up from about one-half during the 1990s and one-third prior to 1990. B.C. saw the biggest jump in homicides, to 126 from 84 in 2001. With regard to cities, Winnipeg, with 23 homicides, and Saskatoon, with eight, each had a rate of 3.41 per 100,000 residents, the highest among metropolitan areas. Statistics Canada also found that: _ For a second consecutive year, gang-related homicides dropped substantially. _ As usual, most homicides were committed by someone known to the victim. _ Almost half of the 182 victims killed by a family member were killed by their spouse. _ Forty-four per cent of female victims and eight per cent of male victims were killed by someone with whom they had a relationship. _ Men are more likely to be killed by a stranger than women. _ Almost two-thirds of the 523 people accused of committing homicide in 2002 had a criminal record. _ Consistent with previous years, men accounted for nine in 10 accused, and about two-thirds of all victims. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 08:39:34 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: Pause for Thought PUBLICATION: Calgary Herald DATE: 2003.10.02 EDITION: Final SECTION: Opinion PAGE: A16 SOURCE: Calgary Herald - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pause for Thought - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I don't think most of us even realize what a billion dollars is. ~ Former Saskatoon mayor and Canadian Alliance hopeful Henry Dayday, on the cost of the federal gun registry. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 08:44:36 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: GUN MURDERS PLUMMET STATSCAN REPORTS 42-YEAR LOW FOR 2002 PUBLICATION: The Toronto Sun DATE: 2003.10.02 EDITION: Final SECTION: News PAGE: 10 BYLINE: IAN ROBERTSON AND ROB LAMBERTI, TORONTO SUN - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= GUN MURDERS PLUMMET STATSCAN REPORTS 42-YEAR LOW FOR 2002 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= Knives more than guns were the murder weapon of choice in Canada last year, Statistics Canada reports. With 29 more victims in 2002, a 4% jump from 553 in 2001, the homicide rate rose after a two-year levelling-off period, the agency said yesterday in its annual report. But StatsCan said the number of killings from bullets and shotgun pellets -- 26% of the 582 victims -- hit a 42-year low. Meanwhile, 31% of the victims were stabbed and 11% were strangled. StatsCan said of the 523 accused killers last year 348 -- or two-thirds - -- already had criminal records. About two-thirds of victims and nine of 10 accused killers were men. Of 182 people murdered by a relative, almost half were victims of a spouse. While Toronto has been plagued by a spate of gang-related homicides, Winnipeg and Saskatoon ranked as the most murder-prone cities, based on population. StatsCan attributed much of last year's national increase to 126 killings in British Columbia, up from 84 in 2001. With 23 murders in Winnipeg in 2002 and eight in Saskatoon, each city had a homicide rate of 3.41 per 100,000 residents. The 90 murders in the Toronto area, a homicide rate of 1.8 for every 100,000 people, "was still slightly below the national rate of 1.85," the agency said. StatsCan includes part of Durham Region, north to Lake Simcoe, west through Dufferin County to Halton Region as Toronto. Oshawa was the only Canadian city without a murder last year. In the city of Toronto, police reported 61 murders in 2002. The city has had 40 murders this year, compared to 33 at this time last year. Ryerson University justice studies Prof. Wendy Cukier credited the national gun registry for playing a major role in the dramatic drop in firearm murders since 1961. "In spite of the vocal opposition, the trends in homicides, in robberies with firearms and in firearm death and injury suggest that Canada is on the right track," Cukier said. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 08:46:36 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: 3 gang members charged in slaying; PUBLICATION: Toronto Star DATE: 2003.10.02 SECTION: NEWS PAGE: B01 SOURCE: Toronto Star BYLINE: Cal Millar - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= 3 gang members charged in slaying; Man shot outside club in February Versace Crew leader a suspect - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= The leader of a Toronto street gang known as the Versace Crew and two followers have been arrested in connection with the slaying of a 29-year-old man outside an after-hours club eight months ago. The Versace Crew has been embroiled in a gang war that has raged across the city for the past couple of years and has left at least a dozen people dead. But police said the Feb. 2 slaying of Matthew Osborne in the parking lot of the club on Sheppard Ave. E., just west of Brimley Rd., wasn't linked to the gang war. Osborne was a friend of the gang leader, but a falling-out between the two led to his death, said Detective Savas Kyriacou of Toronto's homicide squad during a news conference yesterday at Toronto police headquarters. Nicholas Omar Ebanks, 24, of Lawrence Ave. E. has been charged with conspiracy to commit murder, counselling to commit murder and attempted murder. Dwayne Locksley Campbell, 24, of no fixed address has been charged with first-degree murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder and a number of firearm offences. Wayne Constantin Powell, 33, of Ivy Green Cres. has been charged as an accessory after the fact to murder. Staff Inspector Gary Ellis, head of Toronto's homicide squad, said all three are members of the Versace Crew and Ebanks heads the gang. Ellis said two of Ebanks' brothers, Kevin, 27, and Jermaine, 18, were shot to death Oct. 27, 2002, outside an Etobicoke nightclub at the height of a gang war that raged late last year. Another brother, Christopher, 23, was shot and killed when ambushed a month ago just outside Kingston, Jamaica. Ebanks also has a half-brother who is now in hiding. The gunman who shot the Ebanks brothers in Toronto, O'Niel Ricardo Greenland, who was known by the street name Heavy D. and came to Canada illegally from Jamaica, was killed in a Scarborough strip mall in what police described as one of a series of retaliation shootings involving street gangs. "We believe that there is an ongoing conflict between several sectors or groups," Kyriacou said. He wasn't sure if the gangs are fighting over turf but said the conflict is city-wide. Osborne wasn't associated with the Versace Crew or implicated in any of the slayings, Kyriacou said. Osborne, a father of five, was sitting in his car with his girlfriend and two other women when at least two gunmen approached the vehicle and began firing. Osborne died a short time later at Sunnybrook hospital. His girlfriend, Nicketa Simmonds, was also shot but recovered from her injuries. Kyriacou and his partner, Detective Kim Carr, who retired last June after serving 30 years with the Toronto Police Service, made several appeals and arranged for a $50,000 reward. Although retired, Carr continued to help with the case. Kyriacou said the investigation has shown the Versace Crew is much more organized than police had believed. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 08:49:09 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: Vote on Venne Motion M-387 to suspend gun registry Motion M-387 - "That, in the opinion of this House, the government should immediately suspend application of the Canadian Firearms Programme in order to hold a public inquiry into the reasons for the Programme's extraordinary cost overruns, and to submit a structured and detailed strategic plan that would have to be approved in advance by this House." 37th PARLIAMENT, 2nd SESSION EDITED HANSARD * NUMBER 126 Wednesday, September 24, 2003 Firearms Program The House resumed from September 24, 2003, consideration of the motion and the amendment. The Acting Speaker (Mr. Bélair): Pursuant to order made on Tuesday, September 30, 2003, the House will now proceed to the deferred recorded division on Motion No. 387, under private members' business. * * * The next question is on the main motion. Is it the pleasure of the House to adopt the motion? Some hon. members: Agreed. Some hon. members: No. The Acting Speaker (Mr. Bélair): All those in favour of the motion will please say yea. Some hon. members: Yea. The Acting Speaker (Mr. Bélair): All those opposed will please say nay. Some hon. members: Nay. The Acting Speaker (Mr. Bélair): In my opinion, the yeas have it. And more than five members having risen: * * * =BD (1905) (The House divided on the motion, which was negatived on the following division:) (Division No. 234) YEAS Members Ablonczy Anderson (Cypress Hills-Grasslands) Bagnell Bailey Barnes (Gander-Grand Falls) Benoit Breitkreuz Brison Burton Cadman Casey Casson Chatters Clark Comuzzi Cummins Day Desjarlais Desrochers Doyle Duncan Elley Epp Fitzpatrick Forseth Gallant Gallaway Girard-Bujold Godin Goldring Grewal Grey Hanger Hearn Herron Hill (Macleod) Hill (Prince George--Peace River) Hilstrom Hinton Jaffer Johnston Keddy (South Shore) Kenney (Calgary Southeast) Lebel Lunney (Nanaimo-Alberni) Mark Martin (Esquimalt--Juan de Fuca) Mayfield McDonough McNally Merrifield Mills (Red Deer) Moore Nystrom O'Reilly Obhrai Plamondon Rajotte Ritz Rocheleau Schmidt Skelton Solberg Sorenson Spencer Steckle Stinson Stoffer Strahl Thompson (Wild Rose) Toews Ur Venne Wayne White (Langley--Abbotsford) Williams Yelich Total: -- 77 NAYS Members Alcock Allard Assadourian Augustine Bachand (Saint-Jean) Bakopanos Barnes (London West) Barrette Bélanger Bellemare Bergeron Bertrand Bevilacqua Binet Blondin-Andrew Bonin Boudria Bradshaw Bryden Byrne Calder Cannis Caplan Cardin Carignan Carroll Castonguay Catterall Cauchon Charbonneau Coderre Cotler Cr=EAte Cullen Cuzner Dalphond-Guiral Davies DeVillers Dhaliwal Dion Discepola Dromisky Drouin Duceppe Duplain Easter Eggleton Eyking Farrah Folco Fontana Fry Gaudet Gauthier Goodale Grose Guay Guimond Harvard Harvey Hubbard Jackson Jennings Jobin Jordan Karetak-Lindell Keyes Kilgour (Edmonton Southeast) Knutson Kraft Sloan Laframboise Lalonde Lanct=F4t Lastewka LeBlanc Lee Lill Lincoln Longfield Loubier MacAulay Macklin Mahoney Malhi Maloney Manley Marceau Marleau Martin (Winnipeg Centre) Matthews McCallum McGuire McKay (Scarborough East) McLellan Minna Mitchell Murphy Myers Nault Neville O'Brien (Labrador) O'Brien (London--Fanshawe) Pacetti Pagtakhan Paquette Patry Peric Pettigrew Picard (Drummond) Pillitteri Pratt Proctor Proulx Provenzano Redman Reed (Halton) Robillard Rock Roy Saada Sauvageau Savoy Scherrer Scott Sgro Shepherd Simard St-Hilaire St-Jacques St. Denis Stewart Szabo Telegdi Thibault (West Nova) Thibeault (Saint-Lambert) Tonks Valeri Vanclief Wappel Wasylycia-Leis Whelan Wood Total: -- 142 PAIRED Members Adams Anderson (Victoria) Asselin Bennett Bigras Bourgeois Brown Fournier Gagnon (Québec) Gagnon (Champlain) Gagnon (Lac-Saint-Jean-Saguenay) Godfrey Graham Marcil Martin (LaSalle--Èmard) Ménard Mills (Toronto--Danforth) Tremblay Total: -- 18 The Acting Speaker (Mr. Bélair): I declare the motion lost. * * * ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 08:51:06 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: Young woman shot in leg through her front door PUBLICATION: The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon) DATE: 2003.10.02 EDITION: Final SECTION: Third Page PAGE: A3 BYLINE: Shannon Boklaschuk SOURCE: The StarPhoenix - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= Young woman shot in leg through her front door - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= Saskatoon police were investigating a shooting incident Wednesday in a suburban neighbourhood in the city's north end, which left a young woman hospitalized with a single gunshot wound to the leg. It was the second shooting in Saskatoon in as many days. On Tuesday, another young woman received a single gunshot wound to the upper torso, in an event that occurred in the Riversdale area. But while the two incidents may sound similar, Sgt. Norm Gilbertson said police do not believe they are connected. "They're not looking at that angle at all." Gilbertson said one of the reasons police don't believe the shootings are connected is because the victims come from different backgrounds. "It's hard to explain, but they're not associated to anybody similar whatsoever," he said. "There's no reason to believe that they are associated." Just after 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, police went to Royal University Hospital after receiving a call that a 24-year-old female gunshot victim had arrived in emergency. According to police, the woman suffered a wound to her right leg after she was shot through the door of her residence in the 400 block of Wakabayashi Crescent, located in the city's Silverwood Heights area. The bullet was retrieved from the victim via surgery, Gilbertson said. "Other than that, we have nothing more to report on it as far as any suspects or arrests or anything like that," he said. Details surrounding the Wakabayashi Crescent incident were still sketchy Wednesday afternoon. "We've had several different stories from people at the address, so we're not sure which one we're going to go with yet," he said. "Not everybody's saying the same thing. It's not cut and dry -- let's put it that way." Gilbertson said he did not know what type of firearm had been used in the Silverwood Heights shooting. However, he said the young woman's injury appears to be non-life threatening. Tuesday's shooting on the city's west side also remains under investigation. Around 6 a.m., police responded to a call in Riversdale, where a 22-year-old woman had been shot in an apartment building in the 500 block of 18th Street West. Police were looking for the victim for a period of time on Tuesday, after she apparently ran out of Royal University Hospital. But according to Gilbertson, she later returned to the hospital on her own. "She apparently went home to make sure that her home was secured after the incident, allegedly. That's what she's saying, anyway," he said. "Then she went back to the hospital and they retrieved the bullet from her. She couldn't have been hurting that bad, I guess." In an interview Wednesday, Gilbertson said police didn't have any new information on the Riversdale shooting. "We're not getting a lot of co-operation from the victim, apparently," he said. However, police did determine a "small calibre" firearm was used in that shooting. The Saskatoon police major crimes section is investigating both of this week's incidents. In the interview, Gilbertson said shootings incidents can happen anywhere, "depending on the circumstances and the people involved. "It doesn't necessarily mean just because you live in a rough area that you're expected to have more problems there," he said. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 08:51:23 -0600 (CST) From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 1" Subject: Man wounded in 2nd shooting in 9 days in Pierrefonds PUBLICATION: Montreal Gazette DATE: 2003.10.02 EDITION: West Island SECTION: News PAGE: F1 / BREAK BYLINE: ALYCIA AMBROZIAK SOURCE: The Gazette - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Man wounded in 2nd shooting in 9 days in Pierrefonds - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nine days after a 66-year-old grandfather was fatally shot in his Cloverdale St. apartment, a 26-year-old Montreal man was wounded in an apparent gang shooting in the same area of Pierrefonds. The man, whom police would not identify, was treated at the Lakeshore General Hospital for a gunshot wound to his back. Police said his life was not in danger. Montreal Police Constable Daniel Maheu, who operates from Station 3, which covers Roxboro and eastern Pierrefonds, said he did not know whether there was any connection between the latest case and the fatal shooting Sept. 19 of Jose Silveiro as he answered a knock at his front door. On Saturday, the young man was shot on the street around 10:30 a.m. at Alexandre St. and Gouin Blvd. "At this point, we don't know what connections there are, if any, between the two cases," Maheu said. The man told police he had just visited his cousin in the Cloverdale area and was standing at a bus stop when a red car pulled up with three men inside and forced him into the vehicle. The attackers appeared to be in their early 20s. "He told investigators that one of the men demanded he give them everything in his pockets," Maheu said. The victim told police one of his attackers wore a patch of the Ruff Ryders, a gang involved in illicit drugs, weapons and prostitution on the West Island. The Ruff Ryders are a puppet club of the Rockers, who themselves are affiliated with the Hells Angels, according to Lt.-Det. Michel Leblanc of the Montreal police youth-and-street-gang unit for the western sector of the island. The victim told police that one of the men in the back seat was armed with a gun, possibly a sawed-off shotgun, Maheu said. "He fired it at the man, through the car seat, hitting him in the lower back, before throwing him out of the car, at Basswood and Alexander Sts.," Maheu said. "It's most likely the fact that the gun was shot through the car seat that saved the man's life." The wounded man was able to call his friends from a pay phone. They picked him up and took him to the hospital, and that's when police were called. The man told police that his assailants yelled "B-squad" as they tossed him out of the car. "That could be a gang cry," Maheu said. "But we have not confirmed that it was the Ruff Ryders who were involved." In the Silveiro case, Maheu said police have no motive or suspects in the slaying of the father of seven. Anyone with information about the Silveiro homicide is asked to call police at (514) 280-2502. Information can be provided anonymously by calling InfoCrime at (514) 343-1133. Anyone with information on the latest incident is asked to call (514) 280-0103. aambroziak@thegazette.canwest.com ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V6 #535 ********************************** Submissions: mailto:cdn-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Mailing List Commands: mailto:majordomo@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Moderator's e-mail address: mailto:akimoya@cogeco.ca List owner: mailto:owner-cdn-firearms@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca FAQ list: http://www.magma.ca/~asd/cfd-faq1.html and http://teapot.usask.ca/cdn-firearms/Faq/cfd-faq1.html Web Site: http://teapot.usask.ca/cdn-firearms/homepage.html FTP Site: ftp://teapot.usask.ca/pub/cdn-firearms/ CFDigest Archives: http://www.sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca/~ab133/ or put the next command in an e-mail message and mailto:majordomo@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca get cdn-firearms-digest v04.n192 end (192 is the digest issue number and 04 is the volume) To unsubscribe from _all_ the lists, put the next five lines in a message and mailto:majordomo@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca unsubscribe cdn-firearms-digest unsubscribe cdn-firearms-alert unsubscribe cdn-firearms-chat unsubscribe cdn-firearms end (To subscribe, use "subscribe" instead of "unsubscribe".) 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