Cdn-Firearms Digest Thursday, November 27 2008 Volume 12 : Number 692 In this issue: Re: Toronto Star: Lawmakers, police pledge to work better together [SPORTS ILLUSTRATED] A More Dangerous Game Toronto Star - Four sought after truck hijacking Toronto Star - Violent offenders to be tracked Montreal Gazette - Mob trial ends as three plead guilty Winnipeg Sun - Animal spray now a lethal weapon ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:01:38 -0800 From: R. LaCasse Subject: Re: Toronto Star: Lawmakers, police pledge to work better together On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:28:50 -0600 (CST), you wrote: |>---------------------------------------------------------------------- |> |>Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:16:23 -0800 (PST) |>From: Bruce Mills |>Subject: Toronto Star - Lawmakers, police pledge to work better together |> |>http://www.thestar.com/News/Ontario/article/543166 |> |>Ontario's lawmakers and police officers are pledging to share more |>information and work together more closely to keep a better watch on |>repeat violent offenders. |> Of course, .....it would be a shame if these "ugly" vandals got the better of the police unions.......... This release of "crack/pot" offenders will put the police and lawmakers in a paranoid state, were they will fear for their lives.... |>Attorney General Chris Bentley and Community Safety Minister Rick |>Bartolucci said Tuesday they will set up a task force and working group so |>Crown attorneys and police officers can give the courts the information |>they need to keep violent repeat offenders behind bars. |> Were is all this millions of dollars going to come from, just to give a bunch of power trippers the unauthorized power of authority of innocent people minding their own business....... These "catching crooks" diversion is just a simple ruse to throw everybody off base to the real steam of gangsterism THEY portray.... |>"The police are going to identify the definition of those they believe |>should be targeted," Bartolucci said. |> THEY quite often create the situation demanding police attention... |>Toronto police Chief Bill Blair said hundreds of people would fall under |>the task force's criteria. |> Actually nobody want's to be dogged and badgered buy a bunch of proletariat nazi based gun gangs... "hundreds of people"............... maybe thousands of innocent legal registered law abiding peoples will fall to THEIR WRATH.... |>"It really is about focusing on those truly dangerous individuals and |>making sure the courts have the right information to make the right |>decisions," Blair said. Around here, Vancouver BC, their main service is to block roads and POWER drive recklessly all over, as far as I have seen..... |>The announcement came a day after Bentley announced new rules for Ontario |>families divided by divorce and custody battles, including treating a |>violation of a restraining order as a criminal offence. What happens between two married people is really none of the these kids business......this scam overrides God's Law of Human Bondage and other things over a gunnys "discretionary concern"........ |>The legislation aims to ensure that courts know if a potential caregiver |>has a violent history when making decisions about transferring custody of |>a child to anyone who is not their parent. That must be a real "big" job as they are suggesting,.......... costing billions of dollars and invoking some concern of numerous otherwise useless nosy gang bangers and tuti fruiti "unemployable" social workers... |>Those changes were prompted in part by the death of seven-year-old |>Katelynn Sampson, whose battered body was discovered in August by Toronto |>police. As if she was the ONLY molested child in the history of mankind, where were these Police for last 1,000 years. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:45:35 -0800 (PST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: [SPORTS ILLUSTRATED] A More Dangerous Game Too long to post to the Digest, but a good read. http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1148866/index.htm November 24, 2008 A More Dangerous Game Bears On The Golf Course, Deer On The Windshield, Wolves On The Walk Back Home How the decline of hunting is changing the natural order of predator and prey MATTHEW TEAGUE ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:00:24 -0800 (PST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: Toronto Star - Four sought after truck hijacking http://www.thestar.com/GTA/Crime/article/543599 Four sought after truck hijacking Nov 26, 2008 12:40 PM Christina Commisso Sunny Freeman Staff Reporters York Regional Police are looking for four suspects after a tractor-trailer was hijacked in Vaughan yesterday and its two drivers held captive at gunpoint. Police say the male suspects approached the truck drivers at a Petro Canada station on Hwy. 400, close to Major Mackenzie Dr., just after midnight. All four suspects were wearing ski masks and two were armed with handguns. The drivers were forced to hand over the keys of the tractor-trailer, which was filled with electronic and computer equipment. Their heads were covered with pillowcases and they were forced to get into a minivan. The suspects drove the victims around for four hours before releasing them close to the Queenway and Kipling Ave. area. The two victims flagged down drivers before calling police. They were not injured. The tractor-trailer was later found in Peel region. Most of the equipment inside was gone. The suspects' minivan is described as a black, newer-model Dodge or Chrysler with tinted rear windows. Anyone with information is asked to call the York Regional Police Hold-Up Unit at 1-866-876-5423. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:26:29 -0800 (PST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: Toronto Star - Violent offenders to be tracked http://www.thestar.com/News/Ontario/article/543356 Violent offenders to be tracked New task force of Crown attorneys will follow dangerous recidivists through justice system Nov 26, 2008 04:30 AM Be the first to comment on this article... Robert Benzie Queen's Park Bureau Chief Toronto police Chief Bill Blair said he welcomes a new Ontario task force that will help prosecutors better track dangerous offenders in the provincial justice system. "It really is about focusing on those truly dangerous individuals and making sure the courts have the right information to make the right decisions," Blair said. In a bid to make it harder for violent recidivists to get back on the street, Attorney General Chris Bentley and Public Safety Minister Rick Bartolucci have launched the task force that will provide Crown prosecutors with more information at bail, sentencing and parole hearings. The task force will consist of other Crowns who can bolster front-line prosecutors. "Ontarians have no time for repeat violent crime," Bentley said. Blair said the task force would help "red flag" such criminals as they wind their way through the courts system, although he emphasized there are relatively few in Ontario. "We're talking about hundreds, not thousands," he said. The fledgling panel came out of a two-hour meeting at Queen's Park late yesterday between the ministers and Blair, Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Julian Fantino and Sudbury police Chief Ian Davidson, president of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police. Bartolucci said the new tactic was not sparked by any one heinous crime in particular. "It's part of a natural evolution," he said, adding he and Bentley routinely meet with the police chiefs. The police chiefs, who have long sought more resources to keep tabs on violent offenders in the criminal justice system, welcomed the move. Fantino acknowledged "cynics" may scoff at yet another task force, but emphasized there are loopholes in the system that can be closed. "There are gaps ... that need to be addressed. We can and should do more." The announcement came a day after Bentley revealed new rules for Ontario families divided by divorce and custody battles, including treating a violation of a restraining order as a criminal offence. The legislation aims to ensure courts know if a potential caregiver has a violent history when making decisions about transferring custody of a child to anyone not their parent. With files from The Canadian Press ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:41:01 -0800 (PST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: Montreal Gazette - Mob trial ends as three plead guilty http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=3D379883a0-6997-46=92-aed9-ddd9fcaac0ec Mob trial ends as three plead guilty Another starts involving 6 charged with trafficking PAUL CHERRY, The Gazette Published: 11 hours ago The Montreal courthouse was humming with activity yesterday as one case in a major investigation into the Montreal Mafia came to a close and another began. Three men arrested in Project Colisée, the lengthy probe into the Rizzuto Clan, pleaded guilty and were sentenced to time served plus probation for handling high-calibre weapons while acting as bodyguards for mob leaders. While that case ended in a third-floor courtroom, a new drug-trafficking conspiracy case, related to the Colisée investigation, opened in a courtroom across the hall. The new charges were filed against six men, including five who were already facing drug trafficking and gangsterism charges. All five men were told yesterday the new case against them returns to court Jan. 13. The sixth man, Tarlochan Bajaj, 41, a Pierrefonds resident who wasn't arrested in the original 2006 roundup, was apprehended by the RCMP yesterday and is to appear in court today. Bajaj is charged with taking part in two conspiracies to export marijuana to the U.S. in 2005 and 2006. One charge alleges the conspiracy involved several men who were named as non-indicted co-conspirators, including Antonio (Tony) Mucci and Moreno Gallo, both considered by police to be influential figures in the Montreal Mafia. Gallo, a convicted murderer, is in a federal penitentiary for violating his parole by associating with people like Nicolo Rizzuto. While the five men were making their first formal court appearances, crown prosecutor Yvan Poulin closed the weapons case involving Charles Édouard Battista, 33, of Blainville, Giuseppe Fetta, 29, of Laval, and Danny Winton Martinez Canas, 31, of Laval. Between August and October 2006, during the Colisée investigation, all three men were seen acting as bodyguards for Mafia leaders Francesco Del Balso and Lorenzo Giordano at the Bar Laennec. The Laval bar served as headquarters for Del Balso and Giordano. Poulin told Quebec Court Judge Jean-Pierre Bonin that because the three men have already served the equivalent of more than three years behind bars, the Crown and defence proposed a joint recommendation on sentencing. The three were given suspended probation sentences on top of time they've already served. Bonin said it was very unlikely the men would have been sentenced to anything more time in custody had they been convicted in a trial. pcherry@thegazette.canwest.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:42:51 -0800 (PST) From: Bruce Mills Subject: Winnipeg Sun - Animal spray now a lethal weapon http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2008/11/26/7537646-sun.html Animal spray now a lethal weapon New rules to hamper criminals, says gov't By ROB NAY, SUN MEDIA The Winnipeg Sun WINNIPEG -- New requirements for selling bear spray aim to discourage criminals from buying it to use as a weapon. The province announced yesterday it will implement regulations beginning Jan. 1 that require stores to be licensed in order to sell bear and other animal repellent sprays. Shops will also have to keep records of who the animal repellent spray is sold to, which will be forwarded annually to the government. "We believe that it will be more difficult to get pepper spray into the hands of those who want to misuse it," said Rosann Wowchuk, minister of agriculture. Animal repellents are currently exempt from regulation under the Pesticides and Fertilizers Control Act. Wowchuk said the measures are geared towards protecting the public. Local police voiced support for the regulations. 'MAKE A DIFFERENCE' "I truly believe that this regulation will make a difference and we will see a dramatic drop in the use of animal repellents for illegal purposes," said police Supt. Gord Schumacher. In the past two years, officers have responded to more than 700 bear-spray incidents, said Schumacher. He calls the restrictions a good first step and would like to see additional measures considered. Victims of bear spray attacks can experience tearing up, breathing problems or a burning sensation on skin. "It's tremendously uncomfortable," said Schumacher. Some community groups lobbied for measures to restrict bear spray after youths were threatened or attacked with it. "This is an important issue to the inner city," said Sel Burrows of the Point Douglas Residents Committee. Burrows said he was "optimistic" about the regulations, adding his group will monitor their effect. Ralph Eichler, the provincial Tories agricultural critic, said he was concerned the issue was being tackled under the banner of agriculture. "This is more of a justice issue," said Eichler, adding the regulations require a "wait-and-see" approach to determine if they're effective. Stores that violate regulations can be fined more than $2,300. Some local businesses welcomed the measures, saying they give support to store policies already in place to monitor the sale of bear spray. "For us, it's not a huge shakeup," said Monica Hildebrand, a manager at Wholesale Sports. Hildebrand said she did not believe the new measures will deter people from purchasing the spray to protect against animals in the wilderness. ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V12 #692 *********************************** 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".)