Earlier today, federal, provincial and territorial justice and public safety ministers finished their annual meeting in Charlottetown. Among the items under discussion, was Quebec’s request that the Harper Tory government transfer data from the life saving long gun registry to provinces wishing to establish their own. According to the agreed
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Cowboys for Social Responsibility: Making it up as they go
In 2009, the Harper Tories had a clear plan to replace the long gun registry with something that could work: We want to return to the better system of having retailers record their sales of non-restricted weapons instead of having to register them with the long-gun registry. – Guy Lauzon,
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Everybody knows that goalies are special
Anybody who follows hockey knows that good goaltenders sometimes live in their own world. Boston Bruins star goaltender Tim Thomas reinforced that image with his refusal to join his teammates in the celebration of the Bruins Stanley Cup victory at the White House. Frankly, we don’t care if Thomas would
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Harper Tories release suppressed gun control report: Report leaves more questions than answers
Five days after the Minister of Public Safety tabled the overdue 2010 report of the Commissioner of Firearms, the government finally got around to providing it to the rest of the country. Sensible Canadians should be concerned that the report took so long to be made available. Judging from it’s
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Now this is interesting
We suspect that some of our readers will be upset that the UFC has banned gun ads. Others, we suspect, just won’t care.
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Harper Tories still suppressing critical firearms reports
Two months ago, we wrote about the Harper Tory government’s penchant for suppressing RCMP reports on the life saving long gun registry. At the time, the House of Commons Public Safety committee was studying the most recent long gun registry repeal bill and another favourable report would have again undermined
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Alberta supports Quebec long gun registry
Last week while we were busy doing other things, Alberta Premier Alison Redford visited Quebec. Over the course of the visit, the Premier was asked about her views on the life saving long gun registry. Redford told reporters that she respects Quebec’s decision to establish its own long gun registry
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: On schadenfreude
In October 2006, the NDP had a clear position on dual citizenship: “Narrow-minded members of the government should open their eyes and get a grip on the essence of Canada’s advantage in the world,” MP Peter Julian concludes. “We should celebrate our international bonds, not discourage them. Canada is well
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Thomas Mulcair: He didn’t choose France for you
Thomas Mulcair is French by choice. It’s not terribly difficult to predict the sort of response that a political attack machine could run with this untimely revelation. We’ve seen it all before. A little over five years ago, New Democrats were quick to join the base nativist attacks on Stéphane
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Even when they do things in Quebec, the NDP starting point is denial
First answer: This is not our way of doing things so I would be extremely surprised if it came from us – Guy Caron, NDP MP and Quebec caucus chairSecond answer: I’m just calling to confirm that those were done by the party – NDP spokeswoman Sally HousserAislin certainly wouldn’t
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Tories lying about gun registry bill
According to Western Canada’s gun lobby. Maybe that’s why the NFA didn’t get invited to the House of Commons Committee review of the radical bill to repeal the life saving long gun registry. Let’s hope the Tory majority lets the NFA appear when the Senate considers the Bill.
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Three posts on guns worth reading
Every now and then, we see things which will likely interest our regular readers and, as a bonus, engage and/or enrage our trolls. Here are three that speak of the community to which the Harper government is pandering in its incremental war on Canada’s gun laws. Reflecting on the Right-Wing
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: À propos of…
…of nothing at all.
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Dear fellow Reformers
OTTAWA January 6, 2011 Dear fellow Reformers, It’s been a long slog but we’ve arrived. The opposition is crippled and the media is cowed. Heck, we’ve turned the appointment of the second place candidate in an election that took place more than six years ago into a victory for “democracy”.
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Ringing in the new year with a bang
A couple of days before the new year a letter appeared in the Calgary Herald outlining the writer’s concern about the deaths caused by another formerly law abiding gun owner. The writer likely wondered how a young man who treated his guns like “babies”could legally acquire and keep the weapon
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Not just for Arizona anymore
Look out! Santa has a gun! Reports say that neighbourhood Santas were not amused.
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: #ethicalbananaphone
It must be hard to be Don Cherry these days. It’s not just that Cherry became the foil to the Conservative mob’s campaign to find out how much Peter Mansbridge makes. Or that Cherry felt obliged to decline an honourary degree from Royal Military College following one open letter from
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Next stop, tiger blood
Today we learned that the stable Harper majority government has launched yet another round of ads trumpeting the Conservative Party’s unfulfilled commitment to repeal the life saving long gun registry. But why now, right before Christmas? They have a majority in the House of Commons. They could have passed their
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: In defence of Peter MacKay (sort of)
See Peter. See Peter become a liability. Run Peter. You can run, Peter. You can not hide.We see that the right wing friends of the Prime Minister have launched their war on Peter MacKay. It must be a pleasant distraction from their rearguard action against the so-called War on Christmas.
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: When is OK to compare Canadian police to the SS?
In April 2011, a handpicked member of the Harper government’s radical anti-gun control advisory committee, compared Canadian cops to Hitler’s notorious SS. In the midst of an election campaign, such comments had the potential to be explosive and Public Safety Minister Vic Toews former Director of Parliamentary Affairs lept bravely
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