Last Sunday, 46-year-old Abdul Aleem Farooqi was shot to death in his Vaughan home just after midnight. The shooter was part of a band of armed, masked intruders seeking to rob the house.
Farooqi was protecting his family when he died, and his children are now left without a father, and his wife without a husband.
On the same day in Welland, 25-year-old Daniel Senecal is alleged to have broken into another home and sexually abused a toddler while the parents slept. He was known to the police.
The controversy generated around charging a man for injuring an armed intruder who broke into his home in Lindsay, Ont., has ricocheted loudly and raised important questions that every citizen would wish to have answered clearly. The homeowner, Jeremy McDonald, was physically present when the alleged intruder, Michael Breen, damaged a screen and window in a forced illegal entry in the early hours of Aug. 18, and was allegedly carrying a crossbow, a potentially deadly weapon. He has been charged with related offences.
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer has called President Trump “the gravest threat to American democracy.” Nonetheless, Schumer wants to erase the Second Amendment. House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries calls Trump a “racial arsonist” and urges supporters to “fight” the Trump administration “in the streets.” Still, Jeffries wants to limit gun ownership and confiscate Americans’ firearms.
WARMINGTON: Catching wild shooters in Muskoka should be as easy as shooting fish in a barrel
The MacTier shooters have showed up every weekend this summer and left behind thousands of bullet holes and spent shell casings to highlight that.
It’s something many in the Georgian Bay and Muskoka region are wondering. It would not surprise members of a local snowmobile club who have been complaining about these reckless gunmen for two years.
Police just can’t catch these guys! They must be like super criminals!
WOW – These videos are from MUSKOKA…..
Peaceful Ontario Cottage country.
We’re in trouble, Canada. pic.twitter.com/hkjz3jmHYt
— Tablesalt (@Tablesalt13) August 29, 2025
The gun control lobby is crowing today after a jury in Baltimore slapped a Maryland gun store with a $62 million verdict for “flooding the city” with unserialized firearms.
Baltimore, working hand-in-hand, with the gun control group Brady, sued Polymer80 and Hanover Armory in June, 2022, a couple of months before Joe Biden’s ATF began enforcing a rule treating “buy, build, shoot kits” as firearms that needed to include a serialized frame or receiver, even if it wasn’t in completed form when it was sold.
OTTAWA—Canada’s gun buyback scheme is in the “final stages” of design and will be completed “no later” than the end of 2026, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree said Monday, as he warned hesitant provinces and law enforcement agencies it’s their obligation to implement the law.
In an interview with the Star, Anandasangaree confirmed an October 2025 amnesty deadline will have to be pushed back, but reiterated the Carney government plans to move forward with the plan to buy back thousands of “assault-style” weapons it has banned since 2020.
A woman in Joliet, Illinois used her handgun to defend herself and her baby last Friday night, shooting and killing the stranger who broke in to her home.
According to Joliet police, the incident happened around 10:30 Friday evening, and thankfully the woman wasn’t defenseless when the intruder gained entry to her home.
There’s no real debate about 9/11 being the worst massacre in American history, at least within the context of someone or a group killing as many people as quickly as possible, generally in a single day.
But before then, there was another massacre that reigned supreme, and while it involved plenty of guns, making it an exception to my look at massacres of the past where they weren’t used, it’s actually a great example of why we need the Second Amendment.
See, this one was carried out by the United States government.
OTTAWA—Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss?
The Liberal government vowed once more in the April election campaign that it will finally complete its long-delayed plan to buy back more than a 100,000 long guns it has banned across the country. But Prime Minister Mark Carney is all but certain to need one more deadline extension.
Ottawa appears to be moving ahead with efforts to get police forces, or anyone else, to take on the task of collecting the weapons from gun owners, but with no plan announced yet and a looming deadline, stakeholders and insiders expect the government to push back for a third time the amnesty order that protects the owners of more than 2,000 variants of “assault-style” weapons that were banned in 2020.
If Prime Minister Mark Carney is looking for ways to save money, he can start by shooting fish in a barrel: He can scrap the gun confiscation program that law enforcement leaders and academic experts say won’t work.
Carney’s government says it’s working super hard on a spending review. Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne told the rest of cabinet to come up with “ambitious savings proposals” to control government outlay.
When Ottawa spends billions attacking the people who already obey the law, you have to wonder if public safety was ever their goal.
From Victoria, British Columbia, to St. John’s, Newfoundland, law-abiding Possession and Acquisition Licence (PAL) holders watch Ottawa waste more resources, strip more rights from lawful Canadians, and protect more violent criminals from prosecution and incarceration while calling it, in true Orwellian fashion, “public safety.”
The numbers don’t lie. In 2024, more Canadians than ever earned their Possession and Acquisition Licences (PALs,) and that’s good news for public safety, no matter what the politicians say.
“The number of adults in Canada with a government-approved gun licence rose to a new high in 2024,” writes Nicolas Johnson, “again defying the Liberal Party-led administration’s actions to criminalize gun users and confiscate our gear.”
There’s a quiet crisis unfolding in Canadian neighbourhoods. Good, law-abiding citizens — mothers, fathers, seniors, and working-class homeowners — are being dragged through the criminal justice system for doing what any decent person would do in the face of violence: they defended themselves and their families from evil.
Last week, Ontario MPP Bobbi Ann Brady called for the adoption of U.S.-style Castle Doctrine in Canada.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Andrew Goodman has been publicly reprimanded and ordered to apologize to a man found guilty of manslaughter for imposing a prison sentence two years longer than intended at the end of the high-profile case.
Goodman waited over a year before admitting he’d meant to sentence Peter Khill to six years in prison for manslaughter, not eight.
Khill had been found guilty in the 2016 shooting death of Jonathan Styres, a 29-year-old Cayuga father of two from Six Nations of the Grand River.
He should never have been found guilty to begin with.
The Democratic (read: communist) frontrunner in New York City’s mayoral race, Zohran Mamdani, has made clear his intention to strip citizens of the right to armed self-defense—a position more radical than that of the Soviet Union.
While his proposals to abolish private property and his leniency toward criminal behavior are well known, one of the most chilling elements of his platform is captured in a simple declaration: “We need to ban all guns.”
