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 #643 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, July 18 2007 Volume 10 : Number 643 In this issue: Gold for Canada's big gun in Rio- The Edmonton Journal [none] Bears missing paws, gallbladders- The Vancouver Sun "Cyclist survives bite on butt...black bear- Vancouver Sun" Group upset at cub killings- The Vancouver Sun Nude man chases would-be thief- The Vancouver Sun Re: Bears missing paws, gallbladders- The Vancouver Sun Landmark warrant ruling stuns border guards A story about Fred ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:13:40 -0600 From: News@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: Gold for Canada's big gun in Rio- The Edmonton Journal Gold for Canada's big gun in Rio http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/story.html?id=01fdf042-d555-4b01-ad4b-9fe368b0fb76&k=91421 Image Susan Nattrass won the women's trap shooting event Tuesday at the Pan Am Games. The Journal, file Ex-Edmontonian ends her Pan Am career on top John MacKinnon, The Edmonton Journal Published: 7:59 am RIO DE JANEIRO - The first thing Canadian flagbearer Susan Nattrass did after winning the Pan Am Games gold medal in the women's trap shooting event on Tuesday was grab a cellphone and call her coach, who also happens to be her mom, Marie. "Mom, I won," the 56-year-old Nattrass told Marie back in Gibson's, B.C., as the tears that come so famously and easily to the international shooting legend began to well. "I won the Pan Ams." "I guess that means I've been replaced," came the coach-mother's reply. "I guess I can't take the credit anymore." With that Nattrass's tears gave way to laughter, and mother and daughter, coach and athlete just revelled in the moment. It was quite the moment. Three days after sashaying into Maracana Stadium proudly waving the Canadian flag in front of nearly 100,000 party-hearty Brazilians, Nattrass ended her fourth and final Pan Am Games in golden style, even if didn't exactly seem that way during the event. "I thought I was having a bad day, in fact," said the former longtime Edmontonian, who now makes her home in Vashon, Wash. "I only had 20 in the first round, the same as Corey (Cogdell of the U.S.)." Nattrass was good on 20 of 25 targets in the second round also, one less than Cogdell, Puerto Rican shooter Deborah Feliciano and Canadian teammate Cynthia Meyer of Bowen Island, B.C. But Nattrass saved her best for the last of three preliminary rounds, when she hit 22 of the 25 targets. In the championship round, she hit 18 of the targets, including a miss with her final shot, but she still was good as gold. Feliciano won a shoot-off with Cogdell to finish second, while Meyer, Nattrass's longtime partner in doubles trap, was fourth. "When I finished, I didn't know where I stood," Nattrass said. "I sort of lost track of what the other people were doing." Her cheering section, which included Team Canada chef de mission Tricia Smith and a cluster of mission staffers, sure kept track. They erupted into loud whoops and hollers in the bleachers at the sun-splashed National Shooting Centre when the final shot was fired. "Thank you so much," Nattrass told her fans. "That made a big difference." She also said it felt grand to say "Tchau" to the Pan Am portion of her international shooting career. "It felt absolutely wonderful, especially after the disaster I had in the last Pan Am Games," said Nattrass, whose shotgun mysteriously broke down in 2003 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The gold was her finest Pan Am moment, but there have been others. Nattrass also won a silver medal in women's double trap in 1995 and a bronze in that event with Meyer in 2003. It's her last Pan Am Games, and closing in on the final international competition for Nattrass, who announced last year she wants to qualify for the Summer Olympics in Beijing, then retire in 2009, exactly 40 years after her career began. When things are rolling so well, why? "I don't have that focus every (competition)," Nattrass explained. "That's what I used to have when I was younger." So she tries to summon that focus for the events that count, like the 2006 World Championship in Zagreb, Croatia, where she won the gold medal, her seventh among 15 world championship medals won in 36 trips there, including the last 29 in a row. Like the upcoming world championship in Cyprus -- which will be 30 in a row. Like the Beijing Olympics, which will be her sixth, if she qualifies. The Olympic shooting berths are based on points accumulated and Nattrass is ahead among Canadian competitors so far. At Zagreb, she'll also have to get along without Marie, who, at 86, has begun to find the international travel wearing. Marie had been there last August, when Nattrass won the world title on her mother's birthday. "I asked her to come (to Zagreb)," Nattrass said. "I begged her." Nattrass said she misses the company, misses having a partner for the card games she likes to play in the down time between shooting events. Over the years, that's a lot of card playing and an awful lot of world-class shooting. After all, Nattrass has been competing since she was 18. She's made five trips to the Olympics, her first in 1976 in Montreal, when she made history as the first and only woman entered in the trapshooting event. Nattrass became a trailblazer in her sport, campaigning for five years for the inclusion of women's shooting events. She succeeded, too, when the International Olympic Committee introduced women's shooting disciplines at the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney, Australia. She continues to be an advocate. Women's double trap was dropped from the Pan Am program, so Nattrass assembled a petition to have it reinstated. What's more, when she found herself next to Anita DeFrantz on her arrival in Rio, Nattrass lobbied the U.S. International Olympic Committee delegate on this double trap matter, too. The men still shoot doubles, the women should, as well, Nattrass believes. Anyway, Nattrass will have a couple of more days in Rio to savour her gold medal, before flying back home to Vashon to prepare for the Canadian championships in Vancouver next month. Then she'll be off to Cyprus and the worlds in September. "I'm hoping I'll be able to pull it all together there," Nattrass said. If she does, Marie can expect another jubilant call from her daughter. Check out my blog at: www.edmontonjournal.com jmackinnon@thejournal.canwest.com © The Edmonton Journal 2007 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:18:48 -0600 From: News@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: [none] Subject: "Top Mountie in Alberta new commissioner's right-hand man- Edmonton Journal" Top Mountie in Alberta named new commissioner's right-hand man http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=2ae5329c-3cc6-4d91-9de4-50eb1b21f50d Darcy Henton, The Edmonton Journal Published: 2:35 am EDMONTON - Alberta Mounties are applauding the secondment of their boss as new RCMP Commissioner William Elliott's right-hand man. Deputy Commissioner Bill Sweeney, who commanded more than 6,600 uniformed and civilian RCMP members in Alberta and the North West Region, headed to Ottawa Monday to help Elliott overhaul the management of the beleaguered national police force. The senior officer, born in Fredericton, N.B., was touted as a strong candidate for the top job. He was seconded for an eight-month term to serve as a senior adviser on operational matters and to help implement recommendations from a new task force. Officers in Edmonton say Sweeney, who joined the force in 1974, will take a wealth of experience to Ottawa. "We think it's a real good thing for the police force," said Staff Relations Staff Sgt. Bob Meredith. He said it's important that somebody with Sweeney's policing knowledge and background will be advising the commissioner. Sweeney employs a collaborative leadership style, often seeking the input of senior officers and allowing the group to make decisions, but acts decisively when necessary, said Meredith. "He's a compassionate fellow. He's knowledgeable. He's a very approachable type of person." Retired assistant commissioner and former K Division commander Don McDermid said Elliott made a wise choice in picking Sweeney to help him fix problems at the top levels of the RCMP. "He's definitely top drawer," said McDermid, who retired in 2001 after 37 years with the RCMP. Sweeney spent his first 15 years on the force in Alberta. Assistant Commissioner Rod Knecht, who is second in command in Alberta, will take over K Division in Sweeney's absence. dhenton@thejournal.canwest.com © The Edmonton Journal 2007 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:37:08 -0600 From: News@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: Bears missing paws, gallbladders- The Vancouver Sun Bears missing paws, gallbladders http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=ad62f328-a1f3-42af-a662-34050038ebb3 CanWest News Service Published: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 NANAIMO - Three dead bears, with gallbladders and paws removed, have been found near Nanaimo and conservation officers are appealing for people to come forward to help catch the poachers. The mutilated black bears were found over a three-day period earlier this month. All had been shot and the carcasses left to rot. Two of the young bears were found near Cedar and the body of a one-year-old bear was found in the Mount Benson area. It is probable they were killed nearby and their bodies dumped, said Ron Heusen, provincial conservation officer. "This is poaching for trafficking. It's a commercialization of the whole process," he said. © The Vancouver Sun 2007 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:32:35 -0600 From: News@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: "Cyclist survives bite on butt...black bear- Vancouver Sun" Subject:"Cyclist survives bite on butt dogs drive off black bear- Vancouver Sun" Clinton cyclist survives bite on butt after dogs help drive off black bear http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=9232b3c8-2a61-401e-a55d-66926a1b8529 Sunny Freeman, Vancouver Sun Published: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 It was just a nip in the butt, but Roy Klopp knows it could have ended much worse when a black bear furiously attacked him Monday near Clinton. "It wasn't my day to die," said Klopp, who returned to his sawmill job Tuesday night after taking a day to recuperate from the attack. Klopp, 56, suffered bruises and a few puncture wounds in the behind, and one of the border collies who helped defend him from the bear needed stitches. He was on his daily bike ride around 11 a.m. Monday with the collies, Tippy and Chuckie, when he encountered the unusually aggressive bear on one of the walking trails above Clinton, a town of about 740 residents on the Cariboo Highway 380 km northeast of Vancouver. Protected only by a pair of shorts, his bike and his dogs, Klopp heard a sudden "whoosh" from the bushes. He turned to see a bear rushing toward him; a conservation officer told him later it was probably a year-old male black bear, weighing around 90 kilograms. "I didn't have any time to think," he said. Running on adrenalin, Klopp jumped off his bike in front of a tree stump. "Instinct takes over and you do what you can," he said. "I don't know why I got off my bike, but I did. I held my bike up as a shield in front of me." Klopp thrust his bike at the bear, but the animal didn't stop. "It happened so fast. He came at me about four or five times. All of a sudden he went through the bike and knocked me on my butt. I was lying face down and I heard the bear going by me when he nipped me right on the butt." Klopp believes he owes his life to his collies, which protected him and chased down the bear. "They were right on him. And they chased him far enough for me to get back on my bike. I was pedalling pretty fast, but he was chasing me. When I got close to my truck I lost sight of the bear." Tippy, the younger dog, had to get four stitches after the bear bit him in the chest. Klopp visited the town nurse after the attack because he was worried about infection. He got a tetanus shot and some penicillin at a hospital in 100 Mile House, about 70 km away. "I'm lucky that I got off basically unscathed," Klopp said. "I'm stiff and sore, but I'm not on painkillers or anything. "I wasn't scared at the time. It's not until I got home that I realized how scary it was." Black bear attacks are extremely rare because they are typically not aggressive creatures, said Robert Cobo of the North Shore Black Bear Network. But because Klopp was riding a bicycle, he may have violated the bear's comfort zone. "When you're biking, you're travelling at a higher speed so the noise is reduced and the bear doesn't have a chance to hear your approach, which increases the chance of aggression." Klopp figures he was simply at the wrong place at the wrong time. "I won't change my lifestyle," he said, "but I'm going to be more aware." He plans to keep biking with his dogs, but said he's going to stay away from the trails for a while -- and invest in some bear spray. sfreeman@png.canwest.com © The Vancouver Sun 2007 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:43:27 -0600 From: News@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: Group upset at cub killings- The Vancouver Sun Group upset at cub killings http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=a7301420-d8cd-495c-8f3b-5eb3272d1c7e Get Bear Smart Society claims a dozen little bears have been destroyed recently by conservation officers Kelly Sinoski, Vancouver Sun Published: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 A Whistler-based society is calling for an investigation into the number of black bear cubs being killed by provincial conservation officers. The Get Bear Smart Society claims a dozen cubs have been killed in recent months, including one whose mother crawled through the open window of a Whistler house. The society has sent a letter to Environment Minister Barry Penner, claiming too many orphaned cubs are being destroyed by B.C. conservation officers when they should be placed in rehabilitation facilities. "There's certainly an alarming number happening now," society executive director Sylvia Dolson said. "If [the ministry's] policy is to shoot these cubs then they need to be more honest with the public." She noted although the mother bear in Whistler was known for visiting residential neighbourhoods and was caught pawing through a golf bag, the seven-month-old cub should have been saved. Others killed include triplets in Prince George and one cub each in Kamloops and Manning Park, she said. Kate Thompson, spokeswoman for the environment ministry, said Tuesday she hadn't seen the letter from the society but noted that not all bears meet the criteria for rehabilitation. The Whistler cub had to die, she said, because it was "living exclusively out of garbage cans." She warned that other bears will be destroyed if people continue to leave out their garbage out or "attractants" like bird feeders and scraps in the barbecue. In Sooke and Nanaimo, conservation officers are being called out four to five times more than usual to deal with bear-related complaints, she said. "Some of our bear numbers are way up in some areas because people keep leaving stuff out for them," she said. The B.C. Conservation Officer Service spends more than $1 million each year responding to bear complaints and relocating or destroying bears. Ministry carnivore specialist Tony Hamilton said he's worried about this fall, given the late spring and the heavy snowpack, which may lead to a berry crisis for bears. ksinoski@png.canwest.com © The Vancouver Sun 2007 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:50:53 -0600 From: News@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca Subject: Nude man chases would-be thief- The Vancouver Sun Nude man chases would-be thief http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=ed573c63-2589-4365-9fef-317a0fb50e3d CanWest News Service Published: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 PENTICTON - Residents had a nude awakening Monday after they were woken by a screaming, naked man in an alley. But the RCMP say the unclothed man "was the good guy." The man was yelling for police assistance after chasing a would-be robber from his home. "He didn't stop to put on his shoes or his pants," said Const. Ted Manchulenko. The man's girlfriend "awakened to a man standing over her in her bedroom," Manchulenko said. "She confronted him, and yelled at him to get out of there." When man fled the bedroom, he ran into the woman's boyfriend, "and the chase [was] on," Manchulenko said. The boyfriend chased the man out of the house and down an alley. "And the boyfriend [succeeded] in waking up the rest of the neighbourhood, so we get a complaint from someone else about a male in the alley, naked and screaming." The would-be robber gained access to the house by a ladder. © The Vancouver Sun 2007 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:56:14 -0400 From: "mred" Subject: Re: Bears missing paws, gallbladders- The Vancouver Sun - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 3:37 PM Subject: Bears missing paws, gallbladders- The Vancouver Sun > Bears missing paws, gallbladders > http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=ad62f328-a1f3-42af-a662-34050038ebb3 > > CanWest News Service > Published: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 > > NANAIMO - Three dead bears, with gallbladders and paws removed, have been > found near Nanaimo and conservation officers are appealing for people to > come forward to help catch the poachers. > > The mutilated black bears were found over a three-day period earlier this > month. All had been shot and the carcasses left to rot. > > Two of the young bears were found near Cedar and the body of a > one-year-old > bear was found in the Mount Benson area. It is probable they were killed > nearby and their bodies dumped, said Ron Heusen, provincial conservation > officer. > > "This is poaching for trafficking. It's a commercialization of the whole > process," he said. > > > © The Vancouver Sun 2007 Ok ? on the other hand its ok for police and CO `s to shoot bears and leave them on the town dump. ed/ontario ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:21:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Mills Subject: Landmark warrant ruling stuns border guards http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070718.BCBORDER18/TPStory/National Landmark warrant ruling stuns border guards ROD MICKLEBURGH July 18, 2007 VANCOUVER -- Canadian border guards are stunned by a landmark Provincial Court ruling that they must obtain a warrant before thoroughly searching a suspicious vehicle. "This is huge. I can't believe it. If this stands, we might just as well go out of business," Ron Moran, national president of the 10,000-member Custom Excise Union and a customs official for 27 years, said yesterday. "Until this judgment, it would never even have crossed our minds to obtain a search warrant. It's just not part of what we're taught." Mr. Moran was commenting on a little-noticed decision last week that acquitted a B.C. man of importing 50 kilograms of cocaine into Canada because the contraband was discovered by customs officials without a search warrant. The ruling by Provincial Court Judge Ellen Gordon, believed to be the first of its kind, could have profound implications for border checks across the country. "All of our current procedures are based on previous court rulings. This sets new ground," said Chris Williams, spokesman for the Canada Border Services Agency, which is responsible for policing the border. "The smuggling of cocaine is an ongoing concern. This judgment is something we are obviously concerned about." Mr. Williams said the government has already filed an appeal, and, in the meantime, customs officials will not change the way they operate at the border. The two border guards involved in the search testified that they had never before sought a search warrant to poke and prod through stopped vehicles. Nor did they even know how to go about it. The case involved Ajitpal Singh Sekhon. In January, 2005, he was waved over for a check of his pickup truck at a small Fraser Valley border crossing by a veteran customs officer who thought Mr. Sekhon seemed nervous. The driver's jaw was rigid, he held the steering wheel tightly, he failed to maintain good eye contact, and the more he was questioned, the tenser he became, the officer told the court. By the time customs officials were finished, his vehicle had had several holes drilled into it, been towed to another border post near by, and dismantled. A hidden compartment was discovered with 50 kilograms of cocaine inside. Judge Gordon ruled the search unconstitutional because it was conducted without judicial authorization. "A warrantless dismantling can be described only as a search carried out in an unreasonable manner," she said. The judge concluded that border officials further violated Mr. Sekhon's Charter rights when they prevented him from leaving early on in their search and did not allow him to contact a lawyer until they had discovered traces of cocaine. The presiding officer mistakenly believed she could hold anyone "in a form of custody for as long as she wishes without advising that person that he or she ... has a right to retain and instruct counsel," Judge Gordon said. She said that those on duty at the time appeared to believe that the border is a Charter-free zone. "It isn't." They committed three serious breaches of the Charter, the judge decided. "The evidence of the seized cocaine must therefore be excluded." Larry Myers, who argued the case on behalf of Mr. Sekhon, called the ruling a victory for democratic rights. "We have these rights, and we must not give them up, even if, at times, it's a little inconvenient and a little cumbersome and the odd guy with some drugs goes free," he said. "Parliament has decided that we have a Charter, and that Charter must be enforced. It's the rule of law." It's no big deal to obtain a search warrant," Mr. Myers added. "You can get a [telephone] warrant in four or five minutes." While the precise impact of the Provincial Court decision remains to be determined, Mr. Myers said he does not think customs officers will now need search warrants for simpler procedures such as checking car trunks and back seats for undeclared goods. In her ruling, Judge Gordon said there is a difference between having "reasonable grounds" for searching a vehicle at the border and "a lucky hunch," which she said prompted the guard's initial decision to have the truck gone over. Mr. Moran of the Customs Excise Union said the ruling appears to change the status of border guards as "the only law enforcers who can search people without a warrant." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:41:29 -0400 From: Lee Jasper Subject: A story about Fred After Jim's story about the farm couple, I couldn't resist this tale about Fred. Fred A cop stops a car for traveling faster than the posted speed limit. So he asks the man his name." Fred," he replies. "Fred what?" the officer asks." Just Fred," the man responds. The officer is in a good mood and thinks he might just give the fellow a break and write him out a warning instead of a ticket. The officer then presses him for the last name. The man tells him that he used to have a last name but lost it. The officer thinks that he has a nut case on his hands but plays along with it. "Tell me, Fred, how did you lose your last name?" The man replies, "It's a long story, so stick with me on this." "I was born Fred Dingaling. I know -- a funny last name. The kids used to tease me all the time. So I kept to myself, studied hard, and got good grades. When I got older I realized that I wanted to be a doctor. I went through college, medical school, internship, residency, and finally got my degree, so I was Fred Dingaling, MD." "After a while I got bored being a physician, so I decided to go back to school. Dentistry was my dream! Got all the way through school, got my degree, so then I was Fred Dingaling, MD, DDS." "Got bored doing dentistry, so I started fooling around with my assistant and she gave me VD. So now I was Fred Dingaling, MD, DDS, with VD. Well, the ADA found out about the VD, so they took away my DDS. Then I was Fred Dingaling, MD with VD. Then the AMA found out about the ADA taking away my DDS because of the VD, so they took away my MD leaving me as Fred Dingaling with VD. Then the VD took away my Dingaling, so now I am just Fred." The officer walked away laughing, in tears. ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V10 #643 *********************************** 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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