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 #752 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 Friday, August 25 2006 Volume 09 : Number 752 In this issue: Harper pressed to axe 'Status of Women Canada' Fw: Response from my Conservative MP RE: Harper pressed to axe 'Status of Women Canada' 1 wounded in overnight shooting Gun buy went bad, court told Behind summer-of-gun triple shooting [EDITORIAL] Tackling gun crime Study links race, shootings Re: Gun buy went bad, court told [EDITORIAL] The failure of multiculturalism Liberals to be 'more disciplined' in fall: Graham Re: Gun buy went bad, court told ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 13:54:36 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: Harper pressed to axe 'Status of Women Canada' This should get the feminazis over on rabble babble all in a tizzy... http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060825/haprer_women_060825/20060825?hub=Canada Harper pressed to axe 'Status of Women Canada' Updated Fri. Aug. 25 2006 12:56 PM ET Canadian Press OTTAWA -- Several pro-Conservative Internet blogs have signed onto a campaign to eliminate Status of Women Canada, a Trudeau-era federal agency that promotes women's equality and advancement. The campaign was kickstarted by REAL Women of Canada, one of Canada's most vocal organizations of social conservatives. It has long urged the federal government to axe Status of Women - but this time its message is being widely discussed and supported among some in the Conservative Internet community. "Like typical radical feminists, they have decided that they speak for all women, and they only consult those groups and women that agree with their agenda," says an entry on the Big Blue Wave blog from Suzanne, who does not give her last name. "So it's a bunch of radical feminist bureaucrats consulting radical feminists to hear what they want to hear to promote more radical feminism on my dime." Says blogger Steven Janke of Angry in the Great White North: "Any women's group that does not subscribe to a 'woman as the victim' view is likely to leave empty-handed if it were to ask for funding." Gwendolyn Landolt, national vice-president of REAL Women of Canada, says Status of Women's time has passed and is no longer relevant. "It's based on the premise that women are allegedly victims of a patriarchal society and need support and special recognition," said Landolt. "Our view is that the vast majority of women are not victims, and quite capable of making decisions in their lives." REAL Women of Canada's objectives include promoting equality. The organization, which has not received federal funding for several years, is also against abortion and same-sex marriage. It advocates a "Judeo-Christian" understanding of marriage and family life. So far, it's not clear what the Conservative government's thinking is on Status of Women Canada. The agency, overseen by Canadian Heritage Minister Bev Oda, is undergoing a periodic mandate review, the results of which are due this fall. Calls to Oda's office were not returned Thursday. The governmental branch, with a budget of about $23 million and some 130 staff, not only funds a variety of women's groups across Canada, but also co-ordinates pro-equality measures across government departments. Its stated objectives include addressing violence against women and promoting women's human rights. Its latest focus is on women's poverty and improving economic security. Conservative MPs on the Status of Women Commons committee recently approved recommendations for extra funding for the agency. There's been no indication from women's groups so far that the agency's existence is in jeopardy. But fears that the campaign might find favour within a caucus that includes many social conservatives have taken root in some quarters. Halifax communications consultant and blogger Audra Williams has mounted her own counter-offensive, urging readers to write to their MP in support of Status of Women Canada. "This actually turns my blood to ice," Williams wrote last week. "I am calling my MP right now. I mean, I know she's on board, but still I am calling her." Monica Lysack of the Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada, a recipient of funding from Status of Women Canada, calls the campaign to eliminate the agency "distasteful." "There's both anxiety and nervousness out there, but there's also a really solid resolve to ensure that doesn't happen," said Lysack. "When you look at women in Canada and their human rights compared to international standards, we have a long way to go." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:07:13 -0600 (CST) From: "David Brown" Subject: Fw: Response from my Conservative MP I recently took the time to go and talk to my MP, Garth Turner, at his constituency office. The subject matter was C21, C68, and Property Rights. The resulting essence of this meeting was that the Conservatives understand the wishes of the RFC. The policy of the Party and the Government is to get rid of the long gun registry. A difficult task when not in a majority position. Patience, is therefore, not only a virtue, but a necessity. David R. H. Brown, P.Eng. Oakville, Ontario, CANADA ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:09:44 -0600 (CST) From: "Ed Sieb" Subject: RE: Harper pressed to axe 'Status of Women Canada' Bruce Mills wrote: This should get the feminazis over on rabble babble all in a tizzy... ====================================================================== Heh heh heh... in fact, LOL! We're having a party over this news over at Free Dominion! We're cackling with glee over the angst over at Babble. Ed Sieb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:39:47 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: 1 wounded in overnight shooting http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&pubid=968163964505&cid=1156456959664&col=968705899037&call_page=TS_News&call_pageid=968332188492&call_pagepath=News/News 1 wounded in overnight shooting JOANNA SMITH STAFF REPORTER Aug. 25, 2006. 05:50 AM A shooting victim showed up at a North York hospital early Friday, saying he'd been shot at a location several kilometres away. The man walked into the emergency room of the Humber River Regional Hospital’s Church St. site, near Jane St. and Lawrence Ave. at about 3 a.m. with a gunshot wound to his hand, police said. He claimed he was shot in the Dundas St. W. and Dufferin St. area, police said. Police said they did not receive any calls about shots fired in that area and are still investigating to confirm where the shooting took place. Police did receive several calls around 2:20 a.m. after about five gunshots were heard in the Oakwood Ave. and Vaughan Rd. area southwest of Dufferin St. and Eglinton Ave. W. Officers and police dogs did not find any shell casings, victims or other evidence to confirm the shots were fired, police said. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:33:00 -0600 (CST) From: Vladyslav Strashko Subject: Gun buy went bad, court told $8,000 rip-off led to shooting deaths Toronto Metro today (http://www.metronews.ca/uploadedFiles/PDFs/Metro_Toronto_0825_2006.pdf) see page 4 A man who sought guns for drug dealers to replace ones he lost in a police raid was crossed in a buy that ended with three men dead, a Toronto court heard yesterday. Matthew Scott thought he was helping his crack-addicted mother after she ran up a sizable debt. Scott was to settle it by hiding four guns for the drug dealers. Police seized the guns after a tip and charged Scott. The drug dealers wanted replacements, so Scott got $8,000, borrowing money from friends, and was to buy four guns on Sept. 16, 2005, in a gun-crime plagued Tandridge Crescent, in Etobicoke. But Scott shot and killed the two men trying to cross him after one pulled a gun on Scott’s friend, Donald Rawchuk, who knew nothing of the gun deal. Rawchuk died after he was shot in the back of the head by one of the gun dealers, Joseph Santos. Originally charged with two counts of second-degree murder, Scott pleaded guilty to reduced charges of two weapons offences because he acted in self-defence in the shootout that night. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE I support these organizations: www.nfa.ca www.cdnshootingsports.org www.ofah.org www.conservative.ca Support Organized Crime - Vote Liberal ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:59:33 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: Behind summer-of-gun triple shooting http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1156456211720&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home Behind summer-of-gun triple shooting A mother's crack debt, gun dealers' threats, an innocent friend ... and a double-cross NICK PRON COURTS BUREAU Aug. 25, 2006. 05:33 AM Matthew Scott figured he was helping out his mother, getting her out of a tough spot. But the favour for his mom would end up costing three men their lives. Scott's mother was a crack addict, and she had run up a sizable debt. To settle up, Scott was told to hide four guns for drug dealers, which is a common practice in Toronto's underworld. Usually the guns are kept by "baby mothers," girlfriends of the drug dealers who rarely get searched by police. But in Scott's case, as a Toronto courtroom heard yesterday, somebody tipped the police he was hiding the weapons and the police seized the guns and charged Scott. The drug dealers didn't care. They wanted replacement weapons, and leaned on Scott to get them. "That's the law of the street. You're holding four guns and you lose them, then you have to replace them," Scott's lawyer Gary Grill told the court. So Scott scraped together $8,000, borrowing money from friends, and set up a deal to buy four guns in a transaction that was supposed to take place on the evening of Sept. 16, 2005, in a neighbourhood already plagued by gun-related crime, Tandridge Cres., in the northern end of Etobicoke. At the time, Toronto was in the midst of the worst year ever for gun-related violence, with a record 41 murders involving firearms. None of the men lived in the area, but knew of its reputation. But what Scott didn't know, the court heard, was that he was being set up. Originally charged with two counts of second-degree murder, he pleaded guilty yesterday to reduced charges of two weapons offences because he acted in self-defence in the shootout that night. The man supposedly selling the weapons to him, Joseph Santos, had no intention of supplying any guns. Instead, Santos and two colleagues planned to rip Scott off for the money. On the evening the deal was to go down, Scott was at a bar with long-time friend, Donald Rawluck, a 24-year-old father of a 3-year-old boy. Rawluck, a muscular one-time boxer, was celebrating his promotion at a Mississauga tire company. Scott wanted Rawluck to go along with him that evening, presumably as backup, but never told Rawluck he was going to buy guns. Instead, Scott told his friend that he had too much to drink and needed him to be the designated driver that Friday evening. So Rawluck drove Scott's BMW as they headed for Tandridge Cres. Scott, though only 27, was president of a janitorial service company and also had a second job working as a property manager. He was described in court as a man with a bright future, although he came from a broken home. When Rawluck and Scott got to Tandridge Cres., Santos climbed into the back seat, according to an agreed statement of facts read out in court by prosecutor Lorraine Cavion. Santos, 25, had a confederate in the setup, 26-year-old Shane James, who suddenly appeared at the side of the car and stuck a gun in Rawluck's face, saying: "What up couz?" Scott, suspicious of Santos, had brought a .40 calibre handgun along for protection. He took it out and started firing. At least a dozen shots rang out that evening, missing a mother and her young son standing nearby. Scott was quicker on the trigger than either Santos or James. He shot Santos in the head and chest, killing him. He plugged James in the chest, who staggered away, dropping his gun. He died later in hospital. Police believe an accomplice grabbed James' gun, and fled. As for Rawluck, the only innocent man in the group, he was killed after Santos shot him in the back of the head with his Glock 9 mm pistol. Rawluck, barely alive, tried to drive off, but crashed the car. Scott, who wasn't hurt, ran away, leaving his friend. In court yesterday, Scott apologized for first tricking his friend, and then leaving the mortally-wounded man behind. "I will never forgive myself for his death," said Scott, reading from a prepared text. "He had so much to live for." He also apologized to the family of the other two dead men, Santos and James. Despite his contrition, the prosecutor said Scott should go to prison for 15 years. The two counts of second-degree murder were later reduced to one count each of possession of restricted weapons and violating a court ban to never have a firearm. Said Cavion to Mr. Justice David Watt: "Essentially Mr. Scott thumbed his nose at the court orders," referring to the earlier order that he was banned for life from having a firearm. She said Scott should have anticipated that what he was doing that evening was dangerous. The stiff sentence was warranted to protect society from gun crimes, Cavion told Watt. Grill told Watt that Scott should get five years in prison, saying that he wasn't a gun dealer and was a man with a promising future. "Rehabilitation is a sure thing for Mr. Scott," he told Watt. "This is not the case to cure society's ill on gun crimes." Whatever Scott's punishment, said Kristy Rawluck, the sister of the only innocent victim in the shootout, it won't bring her brother back. After court, Detective Sgt. Terry Wark returned her brother's sneakers to her. Scott will be sentenced next Thursday. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:59:56 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: [EDITORIAL] Tackling gun crime http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1156456211000&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795 EDITORIAL: Tackling gun crime Aug. 25, 2006. 08:05 AM Are Toronto's measures to curb gun violence working? It just may be that they are. Earlier this week, police reported that there were 20 gun-related killings in the city so far this year. That's well below the 32 shooting homicides that occurred over the same period in 2005. This easing off of violence also holds for gun attacks in general, with police listing 181 shooting victims so far this year, almost 60 fewer than a year ago. All homicides, involving all causes, are also down from last year, though not to the same extent. Overall, these are heartening figures. Of course, it's possible they may be a statistical quirk. Crime numbers fluctuate from year to year. But it may be that some progress has been made in averting a repeat of last year's gun violence. Even so, it isn't yet time for a collective sigh of relief. Weeks of warm weather still lie ahead. Criminal gangs remain a fixture in some neighbourhoods. And multiple shootings can erupt at a moment's notice, spurred by a careless word or a chance encounter between mortal foes. Still, there is cause for cautious optimism. With shooting incidents and gun-related deaths running well below what was experienced last year, there's reason to hope that countermeasures initiated in response to last summer's crisis are working. The city certainly hasn't been idle. Police cracked down on the notorious Jamestown Crips this spring, arresting more than 100 people. And a sweeping investigation into the Boxing Day murder of 15-year-old Jane Creba maintained heavy pressure on the gangs involved in that violence. Police Chief Bill Blair has assigned more officers to Toronto's most troubled neighbourhoods. They are reaching out to beleaguered residents, establishing contacts and building trust. Perhaps in response to that effort, more people appear to be helping officers in their investigations by sharing what they know. That is critically important to making the city safer for all. Politicians at city hall and Queen's Park have also made an effort to expand recreation opportunities, job training, mentoring and other services aimed at giving young people an alternative to gang culture. And community initiatives, like the laudable anti-violence campaign backed by the Toronto Argonauts, deserve to be commended as well. More work must be done. Some already-funded programs have been too slow in rolling out. This is no time for complacency. But rather than a second "summer of the gun," this season stands a chance of being remembered as Toronto's summer of hope. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:33:02 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: Study links race, shootings http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1156456211753&call_pageid=968256289824&col=968342212737 Study links race, shootings Aug. 25, 2006. 01:00 AM FOREST, Ont.—Research that suggests blacks in Ontario are 10 times more likely to become victims of a police shooting than whites shows "something has gone wrong" in society, the group that commissioned the study said yesterday. Aboriginals, similarly, were four times more likely to be shot by an officer than whites, says the study, introduced at the inquiry into the fatal 1995 police shooting of Dudley George. Using data from Ontario's Special Investigations Unit, which probes incidents involving police and civilians resulting in serious injury or death, the report "confirms the long-held concerns of these communities of the disproportionate use of (police) force against them. "Whichever way you cut the data, aboriginals and African-Canadians are grossly over-represented in the SIU investigations of police use of force and shootings," said Gerry McNeilly of African Canadian Legal Clinic. The clinic commissioned Police Use Of Force In Ontario for the inquiry probing the death of George, who was killed by a police sniper after police marched on aboriginal protestors who had seized control of Ipperwash Provincial Park. "Something has gone wrong in our society when aboriginals and African-Canadians are vastly, in disproportionate numbers, victims of police use of force and shootings," McNeilly told the inquiry. University of Toronto criminologist Scot Wortley co-authored the report. The study also found "evidence to suggest black civilians were somewhat more likely to be armed. "In use-of-force cases, the ... reports suggested that only 58 per cent of black civilians were unarmed, compared to 76 per cent of aboriginals and 79 per cent of whites." Canadian Press ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:32:55 -0600 (CST) From: "bletchley park" Subject: Re: Gun buy went bad, court told To All, Are we to understand that shooting someone fatally with a firearm in *self-defence* is now acceptable in hoplophobic Canada. Double homicide.... Charges reduced to firearms offences..... Wow! Can we expect concealed carry soon? Respectfully Peter Twinn ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:54:29 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: [EDITORIAL] The failure of multiculturalism http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/editorialsletters/story.html?id=d6808448-7d90-446f-9d44-696b54c89f13 The failure of multiculturalism Editorial National Post Published: Friday, August 25, 2006 Immediately following the most recent round of terrorism-related arrests in the United Kingdom, the government arranged a meeting with Muslim leaders to discuss how to best tackle extremism. Instead of offering up things that the Muslim community itself could do, the groups presented the government with a list of demands, including the introduction of Sharia law for family-law cases and public holidays to mark Muslim religious festivals. If their religious demands were met, the Muslim leaders argued, then they would be in a better position to disarm radicals. This is the cancer of multiculturalism in its advanced stages. Given that polls show that many British Muslims want Britain to become an Islamic state, these are unlikely to be the final demands placed on the government by the Muslim community. As Michael Nazir-Ali, the Anglican Bishop of Rochester, said, "Given the world view that has given rise to such grievances, there can never be sufficient appeasement, and new demands will continue to be made." Little wonder, then, that Tony Blair's government has announced the establishment of a Commission on Integration and Cohesion that will study the effect of multiculturalism policies that have for decades sought to downplay the notion of a British identity and culture in favour of a "fruitcake" approach to citizenship -- that is, a collection of ethnic and racial communities living separately side-by-side. In unveiling the commission, Ruth Kelly, Britain's Communities Secretary, said as much explicitly, calling for an open debate on multiculturalism, uncensored by political correctness. Many Britons find no need for such a debate or any reason to wait for the commission's report. The Bishop of Rochester said a week ago, "The multiculturalism beloved by our political and civic bureaucracies has not only failed to deliver peace, but is the partial cause" of alienation and extremism. In the wake of the 7/7 terrorist bombings of London's subway system, and a series of terrorism scares in the year since, that view is now widely shared in the U.K. While everyone continues to mouth the usual platitudes about how Muslims and other immigrant communities can take pride in their traditions etc., etc., the firm belief of many is that they now must be compelled to assimilate into British society. Britain has at last awoken to the dangers wrought by multiculturalism, a policy that only feeds intolerance and misunderstanding by separating people into ethnic and racial tribes, formalizing -- indeed celebrating - -- divisions. Whether four decades of multi-culti indoctrination can be easily undone, and the cancer arrested, is another matter. It's a question Canadians must also face: With recent studies showing a growing pattern of ghettoization of racial and ethnic communities in Canada, and with our own homegrown terrorist plots, how long before this country is compelled to follow the British example and establish its own Commission on Integration? © National Post 2006 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:54:40 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: Liberals to be 'more disciplined' in fall: Graham http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/editorialsletters/story.html?id=b750ca40-7a01-437e-bb14-e531763c55a8 Liberals to be 'more disciplined' in fall: Graham Ian Bailey, CanWest News Service Published: Friday, August 25, 2006 VANCOUVER - The federal Liberal caucus will return to the House of Commons this fall with an improved sense of discipline, Interim leader Bill Graham said yesterday. Mr. Graham's pledge, at the end of a national caucus retreat, comes amid the controversy of the party's deputy foreign affairs critic resigning after suggesting Hezbollah should be taken off Canada's list of terrorist organizations. The party is also in the midst of a leadership race with 10 candidates speaking out on various issues. "We will be more disciplined this fall in opposition to Mr. Harper," Mr. Graham told reporters at the end of the three-day meeting. Opposition house leader Ralph Goodale also said discipline was on the agenda among MPs and senators at the retreat. © National Post 2006 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:55:17 -0600 (CST) From: Vladyslav Strashko Subject: Re: Gun buy went bad, court told - --- bletchley park wrote: > To All, > > Are we to understand that shooting > someone fatally with a > firearm in *self-defence* is now acceptable in > hoplophobic Canada. > Double homicide.... Charges reduced to firearms > offences..... Wow! Can > we expect concealed carry soon? > > Respectfully > > Peter Twinn That's why I post it!!!!! ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V9 #752 ********************************** 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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