From: owner-can-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca (Cdn-Firearms Digest) To: cdn-firearms-digest@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: Cdn-Firearms Digest V10 #356 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 Wednesday, March 28 2007 Volume 10 : Number 356 In this issue: Berserk killer slain by police Brockville men convicted of illegal hunting Canadian Security - Border Crossings & Coasts Toronto Star: Two-year term in gun case Shot at cops, man gets 2 years: Re: More on Rousseau Letter to Toronto Star (just sent) ... Quebec Election Results [US] Judge pulls gun after attack on defendant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:32:41 -0400 From: News@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: Berserk killer slain by police PUBLICATION: WINNIPEG FREE PRESS DATE: 2007.03.28 PAGE: A1 BYLINE: Carol Sanders and Mike McIntyre SECTION: City WORD COUNT: 1005 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - -------- Berserk killer slain by police Man kills one senior, stabs another at care home - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - -------- A knife-wielding man killed by police Tuesday morning after going on a deadly rampage inside a Wolseley care home had been exhibiting bizarre behaviour in recent weeks that had neighbours baffled. Winnipeg police are now equally stunned, saying they had no choice but to shoot the armed suspect when they arrived at Madison Memorial Lodge on Evanson Street just after 8 a.m. to find a horrific scene inside. One elderly tenant -- identified by residents as Alex Kowalchuk -- had suffered a gruesome neck injury that would take his life. A second senior had also suffered knife wounds. The suspect was still armed with the weapon when confronted by police in the communal kitchen of the facility, which is located in the basement of the four-storey building. Police spokeswoman Const. Jacqueline Chaput said the man refused to drop the weapon, triggering a deadly encounter with officers. The mental health of the dead killer will likely be a key issue as police investigate the incident, which will also be the subject of a mandatory provincial inquest because a civilian was killed at the hands of police. Some residents of the building said they do not feel safe because it has become a warehouse for some of society's most vulnerable, including the mentally ill, addicts, recently paroled prisoners and the elderly. The building is run by a non-profit agency. Some tenants of the building told the Free Press they heard officers first tried to use a Taser to stop the man, but to no avail. "I heard three shots -- pow, pow, pow," said resident Chris Shaw, who awoke in his main-floor suite to the sounds of arguing, screaming and eventually gunfire coming from the basement. Police weren't releasing the names of the man they killed, but residents knew him by the first name of Mohammed and described him as having a slight build and a normally pleasant demeanor. Shaw, 37, said he noticed a disturbing change in behaviour from the man in recent weeks. "Mohammed moved in more than a year ago, and I'd always say 'Hi' to him and he'd always say 'Hi' to me. But the last three weeks or so, he's been real quiet, staying to himself," said Shaw. "He would go outside, be out there alone for like six or seven hours at a time, just pacing around, talking to himself," said Shaw. He said a care worker at the home recently told him "Mohammed is sick. He's hallucinating." Another resident said the man was upset because of a recent court case in which he was the subject of a restraining order. Shaw described the stabbing victim, Kowalchuk, as a "very cool guy" and long-time resident who never rubbed anyone the wrong way. "I've been here four years and five months, and he was here before me. He was a very nice person, a bit older, people would always help him on payday get to Harry's to buy some groceries," he said. Shaw said Kowalchuk used a walker and had difficulty moving around on his own, which required him to receive home care at the block. "They would come in, do his laundry, clean his room, that sort of thing," he said. Neighbour Gary Chartrand called Kowalchuk a "very easy-going" man who liked watching the Space Channel in the lodge's common room, and never had conflicts with other residents. "He was a frail old gentleman," said Chartrand. "I don't understand it." Shaw said he heard the other stabbing victim -- a man he only knew as Woody -- may have suffered a stroke while being attacked. Police said his condition isn't considered to be life-threatening. Residents gathered outside the block yesterday, still stunned at what had gone down. Wayne Dorvault said the building's administrator Susan Hall-Amado was telling people to stay in their rooms. "Nine cop cars pulled up and they ran into the building," he said. "I heard three shots and one guy was taken out stabbed in the throat. One other guy (who was injured) didn't look too serious." The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority sent its four-member mobile crisis unit to the building, said spokeswoman Heidi Graham. "It's traumatic for people who witnessed it," she said. And for the people cowering in their rooms who heard it. "He was threatening to hurt someone," said resident Brian Byers, who's lived in the building 20 years. Byers said he was too frightened to leave his suite to go to the communal kitchen area for breakfast. Police initially told reporters at the scene Tuesday morning that just one person was taken to hospital in critical condition. No mention was made of police using deadly force or shots being fired. As soon as reporters left the scene, a police cruiser was taped off as part of the crime scene. The officer involved in fatal shooting has a number of years' experience, said Chaput. He will be interviewed by homicide detectives and forced to turn in his weapon and go on mandatory leave under police protocol. carol.sanders@freepress.mb.ca www.mikeoncrime.com - -- With files from Lindsey Wiebe Police involved in other shootings Tuesday's deadly shooting in Wolseley bears an eerie resemblance to the last time Winnipeg police used deadly force. It was late December, 2005, when officers were called to the Silver Heights apartment building for a report of a stabbing in progress. Police arrived to find Zunga Bashir in the process of killing James David. They shot and killed Bashir after he refused to drop the weapon or stop the attack. The incident remains under police investigation and no date for a mandatory inquest has been set. There have been other recent shootings involving police: December 7, 2006: Police shot and wounded a suspect while executing a search warrant at a home on Jubilee Avenue- but only after they were fired upon first. The suspect received a serious hand injury and remains in custody awaiting a preliminary hearing. Dec. 2, 2005: Howard Fleury was killed after a confrontation inside his family's Alfred Street home. He was armed with a knife and advanced on officers coming down a stairway, ignoring repeated demands to drop the weapon. He had also been pepper-sprayed, but it had no effect. Police say their end of the investigation is now in the hands of the Vancouver Police Department to determine if procedures were properly followed. No inquest has been called yet because the case remains open. Jan. 31, 2005: Matthew Dumas, 18, was shot after he ignored repeated orders to drop a screwdriver. Justice Minister Dave Chomiak has said an inquest into Dumas' death will likely be called this spring. Jan. 3, 2005: Dennis St. Paul had just been placed under arrest, but not handcuffed, in Norway House, when he wrestled Const. Darcy Muth's baton from him and hit the officer in the head. Muth pulled out his gun and fired two shots. The Regina Police Service conducted an independent review of the St. Paul shooting and concluded no charges should be laid. A Crown attorney from Alberta was also consulted. www.mikeoncrime.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:33:53 -0400 From: News@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: Brockville men convicted of illegal hunting PUBLICATION: The Ottawa Citizen DATE: 2007.03.23 EDITION: Final SECTION: City PAGE: F8 BYLINE: Andrew Seymour SOURCE: The Ottawa Citizen WORD COUNT: 235 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - -------- Brockville men convicted of illegal hunting - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - -------- A tip from the public, forensic analysis and thorough investigation helped convict two Brockville men for their roles in illegal moose hunting, Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources said yesterday. Frederick Church, 63, has been fined $4,000 for illegally hunting a cow moose, abandoning the meat of a game animal and making a false statement to a conservation officer. He has been banned from hunting for five years. Lorne Murdock, 51, has been fined $2,000 for abandoning the meat of a game animal and making a false statement to a conservation officer. He has been banned from hunting for one year. The Crown will return the hunters' seized firearms after they pay their fines. The court was told that in early October 2006, Mr. Church and Mr. Murdock were hunting west of Geraldton when their group shot a bull moose and a cow moose. On Oct. 10, Mr. Church and Mr. Murdock were hunting together in the Wildgoose Beach Road area, where Mr. Church shot a cow moose; neither man had a cow moose tag, the ministry said in a statement. They abandoned the moose and did not report it to the Ministry of Natural Resources. Another hunter discovered the moose the next day and alerted conservation officers. The officers collected evidence and interviewed hunters for the next two days. With the help of Kemptville District conservation officers and forensic analysis of the evidence, the officers were able to lay charges. Justice of the Peace Marcel Donio heard the case in the Ontario Court of Justice in Geraldton last week. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, March 28, 2007 7:41 am From: News@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: Canadian Security - Border Crossings & Coasts - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sender: owner-cdn-firearms@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Precedence: normal Reply-To: cdn-firearms@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca SENATE STANDING COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL SECURITY AND DEFENCE http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/Committee_SenRep.asp?Language=E&Parl=39&Ses =1&comm_id=76 Canadian Security - Border Crossings. (March 2007) http://www.parl.gc.ca/39/1/parlbus/commbus/senate/com-e/defe-e/rep-e/rep 10mar07-e.pdf Canadian Security - Coasts. (March 2007) http://www.parl.gc.ca/39/1/parlbus/commbus/senate/com-e/defe-e/rep-e/rep 10mar07-4-e.pdf ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:53:39 -0400 From: News@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: Toronto Star: Two-year term in gun case PUBLICATION: The Toronto Star DATE: 2007.03.28 EDITION: Ont SECTION: Gta PAGE: C08 ILLUSTRATION: York student Samuel Egonu faces more jail on gun charges.; BYLINE: Peter Small SOURCE: Toronto Star WORD COUNT: 276 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - -------- Two-year term in gun case - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - -------- A York University football player from "a very good family" who hid a lethal semi-automatic pistol in his packsack has been given another 10 weeks in jail - on top of almost a year's dead time - and a stern warning by a judge. "You must reform your ways," Justice John Macdonald told 24-year-old Samuel Egonu yesterday. "You are capable of making much of your life and it's a terrible shame that you have thrown away the chances that you have been given," Macdonald said. "Choose wisely, Mr. Egonu. Your life is in front of you. Don't mess it up." Because the Superior Court judge credited Egonu with 21 1/2 months for time he has spent in pretrial custody, he must serve only 2 1/2 more months of yesterday's two-year sentence. But the Toronto man is still being held on a March 2006 firearm charge that was laid while he was on bail on these charges. Earlier this month, Macdonald convicted him of possession of a restricted firearm, which has a minimum one- year term, and of careless storage of a firearm. The Tec-9 semi-automatic pistol found in his packsack at home had a "formidable appearance" and it was loaded. "It looked like a submachine gun," Macdonald said. "This was no ordinary handgun. It was capable of inspiring great fear." On the plus side, Egonu has a "very good family," which is very concerned about him, the judge said. And he has a long-term relationship with a woman, with whom he shares a 9- month-old daughter. He was in his second year and a member of York's football team when arrested. He also sold insurance for a bank and was called a talented youth worker. His lawyer Selwyn Pieters, calling him a "model student," submitted 12 letters of support. "As a young man of colour from one of Toronto's priority neighbourhoods (St. Clair-Dufferin), Sam's strong commitment to reaching out to young people ... and then directing them to our programs is an essential service for us," wrote Gavin Sheppard, co-founder of I.C. Visions: Remix Project. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:54:50 -0400 From: News@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: Shot at cops, man gets 2 years: PUBLICATION: The Windsor Star DATE: 2007.03.28 EDITION: Final SECTION: News PAGE: A1 / FRONT BYLINE: Doug Schmidt SOURCE: Windsor Star WORD COUNT: 482 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - -------- Shot at cops, man gets 2 years: Lawyer says accused fired gun to save friend from beating outside restaurant - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - -------- A Windsor man who admitted shooting a gun at least five times at a group of off-duty police and customs officers outside a crowded restaurant in 2005 had all but one charge against him withdrawn by the Crown before he pleaded guilty to a count of pointing a firearm. Kevin Ouellette's lawyer Kirk Munroe said his client, who was handed a two-year sentence Monday, explained he pulled the trigger to defend a friend who was being roughed up. Had he been convicted of discharging a firearm in the commission of an offence, Ouellette, 25, would have faced a minimum four-year prison term. In pre-sentence custody since his arrest as a fugitive in B.C. in October 2005 -- a period which also covered a nine-month sentence for an unrelated crack trafficking conviction -- Ouellette should be back on the streets by early May. The shooting rampage next to Ferrary's diner at 2085 University Ave. W. on Aug. 1, 2005, followed an altercation inside between Ouellette and his friend Shane Holland and the officers who spilled outside. It ended in the severe beating and arrest of Holland. "These cops were beating up Shane Holland. They stopped when (Ouellette) started shooting -- you can say he saved this guy," said Munroe. He said it wasn't his client's intention to shoot at police officers, and that he didn't even know they were cops. Holland underwent emergency surgery and spent a week in intensive care with a lacerated liver and numerous other injuries, including a broken rib and a battered face. His family has retained lawyer Gino Morga. Morga told The Star Tuesday that settlement talks are continuing with the city's insurers to avoid a civil suit. Ontario's Special Investigations Unit, a civilian agency that investigates encounters between police and civilians resulting in serious injury, sexual assault or death, cleared a Windsor police officer of wrongdoing. It concluded there was "a substantial body of witness statements, corroborated with the physical and medical evidence, that indicates the complainant tripped and fell." An internal investigation by the Canada Border Services Agency cleared all five off-duty border officers who were present. The deal offered Ouellette came after his lawyer filed a subpoena to see the SIU's files in the case. A hearing on the matter was scheduled for this month. TOSSED OUT CHARGES Last month, an Ontario court judge tossed out twin criminal charges of mischief and resisting arrest laid against Holland. Justice Guy DeMarco ruled there was "significant reasonable doubt" that Holland was guilty of the alleged mischief offence -- letting air out of the tire of the off-duty officer's SUV. As for the resisting arrest charge, Holland's trial lawyer Robert DiPietro said DeMarco, citing the severity of Holland's injuries, ruled the accused man could have been trying to protect himself from the "significant amount of force" being used by the officers. "That was a tough one," assistant Crown attorney Roger Dietrich said of this week's deal. NOT SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE "I just didn't have sufficient evidence," he said, suggesting two years was better than potentially seeing the shooter walk. The firearm was never recovered. At the preliminary hearing, Dietrich said one of the Crown's witnesses misidentified the person who had brought the firearm to the scene as the shooter. Using force to defend others is a legal defence under common law, said Munroe. The question then becomes, was firing the gun near a busy restaurant excessive force? With the plea deal, however, "we don't have to cross that bridge," said Munroe. dschmidt@thestar.canwest.com or 519-255-5586 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 07:50:04 -0700 From: "Al Muir" Subject: Re: More on Rousseau > Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:52:23 -0700 > From: "Todd Birch" > Subject: More on Rousseau > It always amuses me when I read the comments of those who are just now > realizing the truth about politics and politicians; that it is the > ultimate 'art of compromise' where the only rule is to be in power and on > the winning side. However, this realization is the beginning of political > wisdom, and better arrived at later in life than never at all. Todd you continue to suggest that those of us that are most disturbed about our treatment at the hands of the CPC were politically backward. The reality is that those of us that are most disturbed, have been warning for a very long time that it was likely to happen. Since the election of the CPC we have been proven, again and again and again by the ACTIONS of the CPC, that we were correct in our concerns. The problem is that even though we have known the reality for a very long time we have been forced to play the game in order to say in the end that we have fully explored every option before we have moved on to the next one. Our continued efforts are not wailings over our expected mistreatment they are efforts to educate those of us that STILL do not get the real nature of politics. If we had been successful we would have educated gun owners that we do not have to accept whatever "political reality" is laid at our feet but through unified action, however difficult that action might be, we might have changed that very political reality. Gun owners are in a struggle for our survival. It is very difficult for some of them to accept that the party that was there greatest hope was among those they were struggling against. Rather than face up to that difficult and hard to overcome fact those same owners placidly accept a continuous downgrading of their expectations of the CPC. Those of us that can face up realize that a large part of the success of the CPC is due to gun owners and are willing to withdraw that support in order to force the CPC to realize the error of their ways and deliver to those gun owners that are depending on us what they feel is just, not what a party feels they can give them while attempting to gain and RETAIN( read actions while in majority in here) the support of urban voters. Our failing is not a misunderstanding of how government works. It is a failure in getting other gun owners to understand how it works. Al Support criminal control, not placebo gun control ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:59:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Rob Sciuk Subject: Letter to Toronto Star (just sent) ... 'Model student' carried loaded gun (fwd) Dear Sir/Madame, It occurs to me that kinesiology student and convicted felon Samuel Egonu's crime is not more insidious because his illegal handgun was "semi-automatic". The media is guilty of the same misleading techniques that the Liberal Party has resorted to with their "resolution 42" -- that of trying to classify and thereby vilify guns according to the mechanism of the firearm. The make, model and type of firearm has nothing at all to do with the fact that the "suspect" in this case was in illegal posession (presumeably without license, registration and authorization to transport) of a loaded restricted firearm, which was either not properly stored, and/or dangerously transported. Lets just stop with the unwarranted sensationalism, shall we? Sincerely, Robert S. Sciuk ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:32:24 -0700 From: "Todd Birch" Subject: Quebec Election Results In reading an assessment of the Quebec election results, I was shocked to learn just how much Quebec society benefits from federal transfer payments to the detriment of the other provinces. Things like low cost auto insurance premiums, affordable day care and other social amenities, all subsidized generously through federal largesse. With the CPC courting Quebec voters, this generosity to the federalist Liberals under Curly Charest will continue to bleed the national treasury. The Bloc may well be moribund for a time and we will be spared the charade of yet another separation referendum for a few years, but at what cost? If this is imbalance between the have and have not provinces continues, perhaps Quebec ought to go. This will set the stage for western separation and the disintegration of the country, so that isn't likely on the political horizon. But, "I have a dream....." of living in a country where some provinces are not more equal than others, getting an unfair share of the federal pie and always wanting more. How much is enough? All it takes to get the Quebec votes necessary for a CPC majority, purchased with our tax dollars. We are talking political reality here, not equality. TB ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:22:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Mills Subject: [US] Judge pulls gun after attack on defendant http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070327/APN/703270565 Judge pulls gun after attack on defendant The Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Published Tuesday, March 27, 2007 A Circuit Court judge pulled a handgun in his courtroom after a man jumped a railing and punched a handcuffed defendant accused of molesting his son. Bailiffs eventually took control of the attacker during Friday's outburst, and Circuit Judge John Merrett handed his gun to a clerk for safekeeping. The judge met with the father in his chambers and later ordered him released without bail, even though he was charged with a felony and two misdemeanors. The man is not being named to protect the identity of his son. Merrett said Monday he never put his finger on the trigger or pointed the gun at anyone. Because of the way his courtroom is configured, the judge said he couldn't see the fight below his bench. He said he pulled the gun as a precaution. "I didn't know if he was going after me or the bailiffs or the defendant," the judge said. Duval County Public Defender Bill White questioned the safety of allowing judges to carry guns. He said he plans to talk to the chief judge about disarming the judges. Merrett, who has a license to carry a concealed weapon, committed no crime, State Attorney Harry Shorstein said. Merrett was presiding over a court hearing for Derrick Kendall McNiel, 21, who has been charged with molesting a child. A police report said the father landed several punches and threatened to kill McNiel. It took five bailiffs to restore order. - --- Information from: The Florida Times-Union, http://www.jacksonville.com">http://www.jacksonville.com ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V10 #356 *********************************** 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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