Cdn-Firearms Digest Sunday, June 29 2008 Volume 11 : Number 607 In this issue: Gatineau police investigate club shooting On Bass Pro and other intrigue ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:51:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Bruce Mills Subject: Gatineau police investigate club shooting http://www.ottawasun.com/News/2008/06/28/6014891.html Gatineau police investigate club shooting No one injured By AEDAN HELMER Gatineau police are investigating a suspicious shooting outside Club le Pigale strip bar in Gatineau early Saturday morning. No one was injured as a single shot was fired at the bar, piercing the front door and becoming lodged in an interior wall. Police were called to the bar at 101 Greber Blvd. at 4:20 a.m. Saturday when a nearby resident called 911 reporting a gunshot. Police found one shell casing outside the bar, and discovered the bullet inside the bar. Three employees and the bar manager were inside the bar at the time of the shooting. Gatineau's Major Crime unit is investigating, but so far have no suspects and no arrests have been made. The bullet is currently undergoing ballistics analysis. Police are interviewing staff to determine whether the bar was targeted or if the shooting was a random incident. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:42:04 -0400 From: Lee Jasper Subject: On Bass Pro and other intrigue Bruce asked: > As long as the POL holder still meets all the criteria they did when they > originally obtained their POL, it should be renewable ad infinitum. > Not to seem mean-spirited here, but this all sounds like so much > cheerleading to me, all flash and no substance. Methinks the CPC 'cheer leading' may be related to the 'renewal' of 'expired' POLs that grumpy old owners sincerely believed they wouldn't need after the CPC 'repealed' C-68. I wonder if some gun owner had an appeal lined up with Day in his sights using my pet Quebec Mt. Sinai Hospital - gov't must keep 'promises' precedent case. - ------------------ Speaking of cheer leading, I'm still waiting on our New (and Accountable) Gov't to refund my PAL license fee as promised in recent amendments and press announcements. Seems its actions fail to match its PR campaign. The Public Safety Minister who is totally out of touch with Taser 'usage creep' by his Pony Soldiers, using an "unauthorized weapon' now has an ongoing case indicates he is also not on top of CSIS surreptitiously destroying documents. Seems like a case of the pulleyce never doing any wrong. (Tell that to Jonathan Login). I'm less than confident that the Minister and his many minions are protecting me from the Taliban. Methinks the Minister is NOT a 'detail' person and the Devil will be in the Details. - ------------------- There has been mention of Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World, that wonderful edifice of American consumerism up in Vaughan just within sight of Canada's Wonderland to the north and beyond the tentacles of Toronto's Mayor Miller. Of course, Bass Pro's trek to Vaughan predated Miller's vendetta with sports and competitive shooters. Has no one connected the dots and noted that our CSSA is also located in Vaughan as is Wendel Clark’s Classic Grill and Sports Lounge. Need I mention that the Hells Angels are also resident. I suspect the location was related more to Vaughan's financial inducements, location, location, location alongside one of the major traffic arteries in Ontario and the opportunity to anchor the large, totally new, upscale Vaughan Mills Mall. They even got their own exit off the #400 called Pro Mills Drive and a special overpass and direct southbound entry lane to the 400, points south and Tronna. If you're transiting from and returning south it's easy as pie. Confusing as all heck because the prices in their 'hard copy and online 'catalogue' never agree with the price stickers on the items on display. When asked you're advised, "They're American prices." Check it out the complex at: > http://vaughanmills.shopping.ca/listcategories?mallid=vgm And keep an eye peeled for OPP Sgt. Cam Woolley, the ample and affable copper who beat back OPP Commish Fantino in a popularity contest for City TV air time. Woolley and his Highway Rangers will be sure to pick you off if you're seen to be an 'aggressive' driver. - -------------------- I recently visited the Bass Pro establishment in a valiant attempt to get some ammo no one else has in stock. They didn't have it but I did make a small purchase of other ammo. I was darned tempted to walk when I discovered Bass Pro is still maintaining the 'old style' paper ammo purchase log and the Ontario CFO has not seen fit to put them on an 'electronic' log as has been done with most other retailers - even tho the 'new' electronic purchase log doesn't meet the specs detailed in the Ontario NDP ammo act. (This was a piece of legislation that the great bastion of right-wing nutteyness, Mike Harris, didn't repeal or amend - because he was too busy creating a false crisis in education, closing hospitals, trashing our already weak environmental laws, cutting taxes and paying off the deficit after which he had to borrow more money which increased the provincial debt). I might mention that Harris' and Preston Manning's advice to Toronto via the Fraser Institute has also been panned. Pretty odd, Harris advising Miller how to fix GTA problems that Hacksaw Mike, himself, created. On the upside, Bass Pro is offering 10% discounts on regularly priced merchandise-only, to military personnel on the 15th and 22nd of every month. - ----------------------- A final note, I read that after loosing former OPP Commish Gwen Boniface to the Irish National Police Force (the Garda Siochana Inspectorat) Canucks are gifting Guiliano Zaccardelli to a senior Interpol policing adventure where he will address crime issues in Africa. I guess our expectations are a tad unrealistic if our 'rejects' are the world's solutions. Are our standards high and the rest of the world's, low? Is that why physicians from around the world are driving taxis in Toronto and 401 garbage haulers to Michigan? - ------------------------ I note that Harper's apology to First Nations were still 'smoking' and he was still accepting the accolades and warm fuzzies from the left-leaners and Natives groups when CPC MP Pierre Poilievre (Nepean-Carleton) seized the opportunity to 'add' to the affair. He was quoted as saying, "Some of us are starting to ask, Are we getting value for all of this money, and is more money really going to solve the problem. My view is that we engender the values of hard work and independence and self-reliance. That's the solution in the long run," He fell-on-the-sword in the House the next day. He was previously cited for being captured on H of C video making an 'obscene arm gesture' to opposition MPs. We'd even drum this clown out of our tolerant ranks. I guess this means that political parties will take any kind of trash, eh? Me thinks he has committed political suicide by not clearing his remarks via the PMOs' Office. Let's see, CPC MPs whose nomination papers Harper will not sign for the next election: Bernier; Poilievre; . . . . ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V11 #607 *********************************** Submissions: mailto:cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Mailing List Commands: mailto:majordomo@scorpion.bogend.ca Moderator's e-mail address: mailto:drg.jordan@sasktel.net List owner: mailto:owner-cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca FAQ list: http://www.canfirearms/Skeeter/Faq/cfd-faq1.html Web Site: http://www.canfirearms.ca CFDigest Archives: http://www.canfirearms.ca/archives To unsubscribe from _all_ the lists, put the next four lines in a message and mailto:majordomo@scorpion.bogend.ca unsubscribe cdn-firearms-digest unsubscribe cdn-firearms-chat unsubscribe cdn-firearms end (To subscribe, use "subscribe" instead of "unsubscribe".)