From: owner-can-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca (Cdn-Firearms Digest) To: cdn-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: Cdn-Firearms Digest V9 #456 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 Saturday, May 27 2006 Volume 09 : Number 456 In this issue: RE: Black bear spotted near Kitchener For those who HATE the United Nations... here's one more reason Re: Mr. Mills, help us end the billion dollar long gun Re: Black bear spotted near Kitchener Re: For those who HATE the United Nations... here's one more Re: Mr. Mills, help us end the billion dollar long gun Re: [Bulk] Re: [LETTER] We've cultivated violent behaviour Re: Black bear spotted near Kitchener Re: Mr. Mills, help us end the billion dollar long gun Re: Mr. Mills, help us end the billion dollar long gun Tories to cut judges' pay raise My letter to the New Brunswick Telegraph Journal ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 21:11:30 -0600 (CST) From: "Jim Pook" Subject: RE: Black bear spotted near Kitchener Wow. Bears. In back yards. In Canada. We are not making this up! Here in Tahsis, BC we get bears all the time now - especially since the government made us put an electric fence around the dump. The bears used to stay up in the dump for the most part. Now they come into town and raid the fruit trees, compost boxes and garbage cans around town. There is a B&B that has photos of a mother bear with 3 cubs in an apple tree! http://www.tahsisbc.com/blog/ First photo - then scroll to near the bottom of the page for more bear photos. One of these cubs was killed by a boar and eaten in front of a bunch of school kids about a month after this photo was taken. One night I was watching TV when I noticed that the two cats were quite interested in something going on outside the window. I got up and had a look out just in time to see a large black bear dragging the neighbours garbage can across the street. I ran out there and chased him off while the neighbour grabbed his garbage can. BTW, a pet dog has nothing on a bear full of fresh apples & plums - bring a BIG shovel... and a wheelbarrow. Guided Salmon & Halibut Fishing on the Wild West Coast of Vancouver Island Jim Pook Owner Jim's Fishing Charters Box 326 Tahsis, BC Canada V0P 1X0 jim@tahsisbc.com www.jimsfishing.com tel: tel2: fax: (250) 934-7665 1(888) 617-3474 Toll Free (250) 934-7665 Add me to your address book... Want a signature like this? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 21:11:55 -0600 (CST) From: Christopher di Armani Subject: For those who HATE the United Nations... here's one more reason Oops! Here's the article to go with the two earlier posts regarding this article. Sorry guys! The United Nations in your wallet By Sally McNamara May 26, 2006 In spite of some pretty torrid scandals in recent years, the United Nations (U.N.) is far from finished. In fact, Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the U.N., is leading the gambit for perhaps its biggest power-grab yet – independent tax-raising powers or globo-taxation. In fact, the U.N. is deeply committed to establishing this 'sovereign' power for itself – independent of the scrutiny and direction of its large aid donors (namely the United States). It wraps this concept up in the intentionally boring globo-speak of 'enhanced dialogues on tax co-operation' and 'new innovative funding mechanisms,' but that is just intended to put a pretty bow on top of a very ugly concept – the removal of the exclusive sovereign power of nation states to levy taxes on its citizenry. Cliff Kincaid, President of America's Survival, Inc., has just published a devastating chronology of the U.N.'s sustained campaign for global taxes, noting the 2001 High Level Panel on Financing for Development as a turning-point in the debate. Not only did that meeting call for the establishment of an International Tax Organization, it blatantly outlined two major areas where globotaxation might easily be levied – a currency transactions tax and a carbon tax – both of which would disproportionately hit the U.S. Since then, a succession of high-level meetings, summits and conferences have been busy gathering steam for this concept: the Millennium Development Goals, the 2005 World Economic and Social Survey, the World Summit on Sustainable Development, the World Commission Report on the Social Dimension of Globalization and so on and so on; they all share this notion that globotaxation is the most 'innovative' solution to long-term funding for the U.N. They propose globotaxes on everything from air transportation to aviation fuel, from airline tickets to carbon emissions, from currency transactions to arms. The list is as ambitious as it is scary. The long arm of the U.N.'s IRS could be in your pocket soon. One of the U.N.'s more fruitful attempts at global taxation is the formal plan to levy a tax on airline tickets. In November 2005, Brazil, Chile, France, Germany, and Spain issued a joint statement calling for a 'nationally applied, internationally coordinated' tax to be levied on air transport travels. The French government has been the first one to bite the bullet, and from July onward, passengers will pay between one and 40 euros on all flights taking off in France. With enthusiastic U.N. support and much back-slapping for President Chirac, Chile has undertaken plans to do the same, with Belgium and Germany currently hovering in the wings to do so. Luckily, both Great Britain and the U.S. have resisted Mr. Annan's calls for others to follow suit. But make no mistake: the rot has started. Britain's Liberal Democrats are openly advocating for taxation on aviation fuel as a way of reducing climate change, and with the current spin-over-substance streak running through the Conservative Party, anything is possible from our normally reliable British partners. Of course, France's projected annual revenue of $248 million is not nearly enough for the U.N.'s aspirations and the finger-pointing – largely toward to U.S. – is really gathering steam now. Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, special adviser to Secretary General Annan on the Millennium Development Goals, has gone as far as to say that the U.S. is coming up short in its global aid commitments to the tune of $65 billion a year. Of course, Dr. Sachs is a vocal proponent of globo-taxation to make up the difference. At the 2002 International Conference on Financing for Development, Dr. Sachs helpfully points out that: "A global tax on carbon-emitting fossil fuels might be the way to begin". The undercurrent of this debate should not be ignored – any global tax will not be a tax on income, at least not at first; there wouldf be riots in the streets if that happened. Any global tax will stealthy enacted and will have to be far-removed from the scrutiny of ordinary taxpayers. So, what better way to circumvent the problem than to tax corporate America, especially the energy companies who both the U.N. and the European Union have been collectively obsessed with since President Bush refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. Feeding on media hysteria about imminent global disaster and excessive corporate profits, the proposition seems easier and easier to sell from a public relations perspective. There is maybe a glimmer of hope though. John Bolton, the ever-sensible U.S. ambassador to the U.N., has flat-out said that the United States accepts neither global aid targets nor global taxes, and President Bush has backed him. But it cannot always be assumed that the White House will be this sensible. Indeed, Bill Clinton told the Millennium Summit in 2000 that national sovereignty needed to be put aside for the sake of a more active U.N.. And for activism you can read – more of the same, with a tax raising platform to boot. Sally McNamara is the Director of International Relations at the American Legislative Exchange Council. Copyright © 2006 Townhall.com Find this story at: http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/SallyMcNamara/2006/05/26/198676.html Yours in Liberty, Christopher di Armani christopher@diArmani.com Politicians are like diapers. They need to be changed regularly, and for the same reason. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 21:17:19 -0600 (CST) From: paul chicoine Subject: Re: Mr. Mills, help us end the billion dollar long gun - ----- Original Message ----- From: "mred" > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bruce Mills" > > > P.S. - Your contribution is tax deductible. To find out the specific > > tax advantage of your contribution, we've provided a simple tax > > calculator. > > For more > > specific information on the rules governing personal contributions > > to political parties, click here. > > > > > > If you prefer that I not contact you again by email, please click > > here. > > > > > > Authorized by Conservative Fund Canada, Chief Agent of the > > Conservative Party of Canada. > > > > > > When they get rid of the gun registry and bring the gun laws back to > pre-68 I will be happy to donate what I can afford to the CPC...until > then though I will hang-fire and see what happens ? > ed/ontario RIGHT ON ED!!! Our message should be clear and constant, take us back to before 68. We want to go back to before 68. We want to go back to before 68. We want to go back to before 68. __________ Paul Chicoine Non Assumpsit Contract - All Rights Reserved - Without Prejudice ___________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 05:36:48 -0600 (CST) From: "mred" Subject: Re: Black bear spotted near Kitchener - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Mills" > Wasn't there a bear spotted in/near Puslinch a couple of years ago? > > > http://www.canada.com/globaltv/ontario/story.html?id=0836efc3-0e55-4f93-821a-b63e08b0c591&k=9915 > > Black bear spotted near Kitchener > > Broadcast News > Friday, May 26, 2006 > > KITCHENER, Ont. -- A rare bear sighting near Kitchener, Ont., has police > and curious residents on the lookout. There was a young bear spotted in Greensville , I believe/, last year just outside of Dundas ontario? The "Conservation" people shot it dead rather than dart it and release it back up north..... Pi**ed me and my wife right off and many others as well.These are the same people who would charge YOU if you did the same thing , without a licence..*ssholes all. ed/ontario ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 05:37:48 -0600 (CST) From: "mred" Subject: Re: For those who HATE the United Nations... here's one more - ----- Original Message ----- > There is maybe a glimmer of hope though. John Bolton, the > ever-sensible U.S. ambassador to the U.N., has flat-out said that the > United States accepts neither global aid targets nor global taxes, > and President Bush has backed him. But it cannot always be assumed > that the White House will be this sensible. Indeed, Bill Clinton told > the Millennium Summit in 2000 that national sovereignty needed to be > put aside for the sake of a more active U.N.. And for activism you > can read – more of the same, with a tax raising platform to boot. > > Sally McNamara is the Director of International Relations at the > American Legislative Exchange Council. > > Copyright © 2006 Townhall.com > > Find this story at: > http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/SallyMcNamara/2006/05/26/198676.html Anybody know how Kanada stands on this issue ?It would appear to be the first step towards UN domination of the world. Ii would appear that the 9/11 terrorists missed their mark ? ed/ontario ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 05:38:14 -0600 (CST) From: "mred" Subject: Re: Mr. Mills, help us end the billion dollar long gun - ----- Original Message ----- From: "paul chicoine" > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "mred" > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Bruce Mills" >> >> > >> > Authorized by Conservative Fund Canada, Chief Agent of the >> > Conservative Party of Canada. >> > >> > >> >> When they get rid of the gun registry and bring the gun laws back to >> pre-68 I will be happy to donate what I can afford to the CPC...until >> then though I will hang-fire and see what happens ? >> ed/ontario > > RIGHT ON ED!!! > Our message should be clear and constant, take us back to before 68. > We want to go back to before 68. > We want to go back to before 68. > We want to go back to before 68. I believe this is what Day stated , I could be wrong but dont thinks so?> ed/ontario ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 05:40:42 -0600 (CST) From: "mred" Subject: Re: [Bulk] Re: [LETTER] We've cultivated violent behaviour - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert P." > You are right. The main reason for increase in violence is people are no > longer held responsible for their own actions. > > They shoot someone - it is the fault of the gun manufacturer > > They drive drunk - it is the fault of the person who gave them the > alcohol. > > They get lung cancer from smoking - it is the fault of the cigarette > company. Except for Heather Crowe who died the other day at 61(a fairly young age today ?) from lung cancer gotten from smoking fallout , working in a restaurant for 40 years. ( she was the lady who was on tv promoting anti-smoking in the workplace)She actually said she never smoked a day in her life. I wonder how many MORE persons died from smoking fallout and which we never heard about ? I used to be a smoker from the age of 12 but quit at around 33 years of age . I wonder why Arya doesnt get on this bandwagon ? or the automobile accident bandwagon or the number of patients killed by hospitals and drs./ every year ? and alcohol? And asbestos?Literally multiple thousands more than are killed accidentally by gunshot.Could it be that government gets a HUGE amount of taxes from these activities ?except hospitals?.......... and thats why no one attacks them ? Maybe he should clean up his own backyard before starting on somebody elses? Approximately 45,000 people killed in the US by drs . and hospitals........ and the number here is about 4500, just over 1% of the total population. Here in Hamilton Ontario bone infections are prevalent after joint replacement except for one particular surgeon who I waited for 2.5 years to get for a knee replacement.He has had NO infections in all the time he has operated .Thats one reason I waited so long ,as he is the best joint replacement surgeon in all of Canada. ed/ontario ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 05:42:31 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: Re: Black bear spotted near Kitchener mred wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bruce Mills" > >>Wasn't there a bear spotted in/near Puslinch a couple of years ago? > There was a young bear spotted in Greensville , I believe/, last year > just outside of Dundas ontario? The "Conservation" people shot it dead > rather than dart it and release it back up north..... Probably the same one - I think they chased it from Guelph, down to Puslinch, through Flamborough to Greensville... Yours in Liberty, Bruce Hamilton Ontario ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 06:06:53 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: Re: Mr. Mills, help us end the billion dollar long gun paul chicoine wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "mred" > >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Bruce Mills" >>>Authorized by Conservative Fund Canada, Chief Agent of the >>>Conservative Party of Canada. >>> >>> >> >>When they get rid of the gun registry and bring the gun laws back to >>pre-68 I will be happy to donate what I can afford to the CPC...until >>then though I will hang-fire and see what happens ? >>ed/ontario > > > RIGHT ON ED!!! > Our message should be clear and constant, take us back to before 68. > We want to go back to before 68. > We want to go back to before 68. > We want to go back to before 68. If you receive such a message soliciting a donation, and you respond as the above, please CC your email to Garry Breitkreuz, too - I think he appreciates the support for his promise. Yours in Liberty, Bruce Hamilton Ontario ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 07:29:37 -0600 (CST) From: "mred" Subject: Re: Mr. Mills, help us end the billion dollar long gun - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Mills" > paul chicoine wrote: > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "mred" >> >>>----- Original Message ----- >>>From: "Bruce Mills" >>>>Authorized by Conservative Fund Canada, Chief Agent of the >>>>Conservative Party of Canada. >>>> >>>> >>> >>>When they get rid of the gun registry and bring the gun laws back to >>>pre-68 I will be happy to donate what I can afford to the CPC...until >>>then though I will hang-fire and see what happens ? >>>ed/ontario >> >> >> RIGHT ON ED!!! >> Our message should be clear and constant, take us back to before 68. >> We want to go back to before 68. >> We want to go back to before 68. >> We want to go back to before 68. > > If you receive such a message soliciting a donation, and you respond as > the above, please CC your email to Garry Breitkreuz, too - I think he > appreciates the support for his promise. Done~! ed/ontario ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 07:37:51 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: Tories to cut judges' pay raise http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=6167c430-029b-4e44-be0f-d39c5773bc7e Tories to cut judges' pay raise 'Middle-ground option': Nearly 19% over four years seen as too rich for Canada Janice Tibbetts CanWest News Service Saturday, May 27, 2006 OTTAWA - Stephen Harper's Conservative government is expected to tell the country's 1,100 federally appointed judges next week that they will not receive a promised pay raise of almost 11% because it is too rich when compared to the Canadian average. The rejection of an independent commission's recommendation is bound to spark an angry outcry from judges, who say the government would be turning its back on the principle of judicial independence. The government is seeking a "middle-ground option," that is more in line with the rise in the cost of living, said a government insider. While in opposition, the Conservatives strongly opposed the pay raise, which was promised by the governing Liberals on the advice of a commission that meets every four years to set judicial salaries and benefits. The idea behind the commission is to eliminate political wrangling between judges and politicians over pay so there is no appearance the bench is beholden to the government. Two years ago, the commission recommended a salary increase of almost 19% over four years: 10.8% in the first year and mandated cost-of-living increases in the remaining three. The recommendations would immediately increase judges' salaries to $240,000 from $219,400. Chief and associate chief justices would earn $263,000. Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, would earn $308,400 and the other eight Supreme Court judges would each receive $285,600. The total cost of the salary increase, spread over four years, would be $93.6-million, according to government figures. Judges have not seen any of the money because it must be approved through legislation in Parliament, and a Liberal bill to award the increase did not pass in the House of Commons before an election was called last fall. Justice Minister Vic Toews, when he was the Conservative justice critic, denounced the commission's recommendations as "an outrageous abuse of the public trust." Former Liberal justice minister Irwin Cotler countered that the raise reflects increases given to senior federal public servants. But Mr. Toews complained, at the time, that the increase was four times the Canadian average and that he wanted legislation that would tie judicial salaries to the cost of living. After assuming the Justice portfolio this year, Mr. Toews acknowledged the government must have a "rational basis" for overriding the commission, as a result of court rulings that made it clear the recommendations cannot be cast aside lightly. Judges have argued the raise is needed to attract quality candidates to the bench by keeping pace with salaries earned by senior lawyers. Justice Robert Blair, president of the Canadian Superior Court Judges Association, said he has written Mr. Toews pleading the judges' case. "Judicial independence is at stake here," said Judge Blair, an Ontario Court of Appeal judge. "Judicial remuneration is supposed to be subject to this process that is designed to de-politicize the fixing of judicial salaries so they don't become a political football." Judge Blair would not comment on what, if any, action the judges will take if they do not receive their raise. The president of the Canadian Bar Association, representing Canada's lawyers, says judges have earned the pay increase because their work is demanding, stressful and isolating. "The ordinary Canadian may say that's a lot of money," said Brian Tabor, a Halifax lawyer. "But we ask a lot of our judges. The tough issues of the day are placed before them. And it's a somewhat isolationist existence. These are all parts of the jobs that perhaps Canadians don't see." In its 2004 report, the three-member commission said the federal bench must be paid generously to attract quality candidates, and judges deserve the healthy raise because their jobs are becoming increasingly difficult as a result of more complicated and high-profile cases. Federally appointed judges sit on superior courts and courts of appeal in each province, as well as the national Federal Court, Tax Court and Supreme Court of Canada. Officials in the Justice Minister's office would not comment on the pay raise, saying only that a decision has not been made. MPs were initially in line for the same increases, because their salaries were tied to those of senior judges. But the former Liberal government, reacting to a public outcry, passed legislation that de-linked the salaries of members of Parliament and judges. Parliamentarians now receive increases based on the cost of living. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 08:05:33 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: My letter to the New Brunswick Telegraph Journal Just submitted, not yet printed. Have you written a letter today? - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Harper's no 'Mr. Dithers' on gun control, Kyoto Accord; Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 10:04:50 -0400 From: Bruce Mills To: Editor - Saint John Telegraph Journal Fred Hazel, despite his fear of guns, seems to intuitively comprehend the real source of "the problem": guns involved in criminal activities. The best way of dealing with this problem is not by keeping track of law abiding gun owners - since 99% of all legitimately owned guns will never be used to commit a crime, and neither will 99% of all legitimate gun owners. It is actual criminals, who actually commit actual crimes that are "the problem". This is why a Firearms Prohibition Registry would work much better. The current system doesn't bother to track those with prohibition orders against them, or who have been refused a license for whatever reason. While law abiding gun owners are required to notify the government within 30 days whenever they move, not so the 200,000-odd dangerous and potentially violent individuals who have been prohibited by the courts from possessing guns. While law abiding gun owners are subject to "inspections" of their homes - without any reasonable grounds to suspect that they have actually broken any law - not so those who have been legally deemed too dangerous to be allowed to possess firearms. It makes much more sense to keep track of those who have already been proven they can't be trusted with a gun, than the 2 million or more law abiding gun owners, who haven't committed any crimes - with or without a gun. ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V9 #456 ********************************** 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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