If you were going to spend a bunch of money on a new car, you’d probably want some proof that it actually works first. Right?
Apparently, Ottawa believes evidence is optional when spending taxpayers’ money.
Gun Control
MACLEOD: From licenced citizen to ‘gun grab’ criminal
I’m old enough to remember a time when owning a firearm in Alberta was simply a part of our lives. Farmers carried rifles in the back of the truck. Hunters taught their kids firearm safety before they taught them to drive. Sport shooting clubs operated openly and responsibly. We knew the difference between a .22 short, .22 Long, and .22 LR before our tenth birthday. Firearms were simply tools, traditions, and hobbies. In Alberta, owning a variety of guns was never viewed as offensive or radical. It was, and remains, completely normal.
HAUBRICH: Doug Ford needs to stand up for Ontario gun owners
There’s always that one friend who talks big but doesn’t show up when it counts.
Which raises a question: Is that friend really a friend?
For Ontario firearm owners and taxpayers, that friend is Premier Doug Ford.
And upset his Liberal-NDP base? No way?
Taxpayers’ Federation says Ottawa has no evidence gun grab program will reduce crime
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation says newly obtained federal records show Ottawa has no evidence its controversial gun grab program will reduce crime or improve public safety.
The federation is calling on the Liberal government to scrap the program after an access-to-information request revealed Public Safety Canada does not possess any internal analysis measuring the program’s effectiveness.
BERNARDO: 10 crime scenes, 2 killings, 18 missing smuggled guns — Ottawa still blames licenced firearms owners
An April 16, 2026, CBC report shows exactly what crime-gun enforcement should be focused on: cross-border trafficking, criminal resale, and violent offenders — not confiscating firearms from licenced Canadians who acquired them legally.
This should end, once and for all, the fantasy that confiscating legally owned firearms from licenced Canadians is a serious answer to violent crime.
BERNARDO: Yes or no — the question Ontario’s Chief Firearms Officer refuses to answer
On March 22, a second letter was sent to Ontario’s Chief Firearms Officer.
It asked one question. A simple one.
“Will the Chief Firearms Officer revoke the firearms licences of those who do not turn in their newly prohibited firearms?”
And then, for clarity: “Yes, or no. Please choose one.”
Albertans who declared banned guns under Ottawa’s buyback still can’t get compensation
More than 7,000 banned guns have been declared in Alberta under the federal government’s gun buyback program, but owners in the province can’t collect compensation because of an ongoing dispute between Alberta and Ottawa over how the program is meant to operate.
That’s left firearms owners like James Bachynsky, president of the Calgary Shooting Centre, frustrated and out of pocket.
“It’ll impact me personally; it’ll impact my business partners, my family,” he said.
HAUBRICH: Still time for Ottawa to scrap gun confiscation program
Federal Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree needs to learn the meaning of the sunk-cost fallacy.
That’s because he needs to finally cut his losses and scrap Ottawa’s gun ban and confiscation scheme.
GUNTER: Ottawa’s gun buyback program a dismal failure
Six years ago, after Gabriel Wortman of Nova Scotia committed the deadliest mass shooting in Canadian history, the Trudeau government banned more than 2,500 models of firearms because they looked scary. Even though other models of the same firearms had the same firepower, those versions were not banned because they lacked the militarist features that made the others look like “assault-style” weapon.
How Canada’s largest gun control effort in decades is missing the mark
Heidi Rathjen has been calling for a ban on assault-style rifles since 1989, when a gunman opened fire on her classmates at Montreal’s École Polytechnique.
The shooting, in which 14 women were killed and more than a dozen injured, was a turning point for Canada, changing how the country viewed gun violence.
More than two decades later, after another deadly mass shooting in 2020, Ottawa did roll out a ban on some 2,500 models of such “assault-style” weapons.
Liberals planned to buy back 136,000 banned guns. Fewer than half that many were declared
David Hicks has been trying to get rid of his father’s rifle — but hasn’t had much luck telling the federal government that.
“It’s very frustrating,” said the Ottawa man. “If they’re going to do it, they need to do it properly.”
Executor of his father’s estate, Hicks has been trying to declare the semi-automatic firearm he inherited with the Liberal government’s banned gun compensation program. He wants to be in compliance with the law — and get some money for his widowed mother.
More than 67,000 firearms declared under Liberals’ controversial firearms ‘buy back’ program
OTTAWA — The federal government says more than 67,000 guns have been registered to be turned in for compensation under its program for banned weapons.
Public Safety Canada announced the figure on Wednesday, one day after the compensation window, which opened in mid-January, closed for owners of the more than 2,500 makes and models of firearms the federal Liberals have prohibited since 2020.
Some Canadians pull out of federal gun grab program at the last minute
CALGARY — Tuesday marked the final day for Canadian gun owners to declare their prohibited firearms and receive compensation as part of the Liberal government’s gun grab program, and some gun owners are backtracking on their declaration.
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The Racist Massacre You Probably Never Heard Of
I’ve been looking at historic massacres for a little while now, and there’s always been one that looms slightly larger in my mind than most others. All but one, really. The one I’m talking about is called the Camilla Massacre.
You’ve probably never heard of it, and that’s fine. It’s local history to me, something that happened just a handful of miles down the road from where I sit as I type this, in a town I’ve been to countless times, both before I learned of this horrific event and afterward.
As the federal gun buyback deadline looms, questions are raised over how it’ll be enforced
Ed Landy has been shooting so long he can remember riding the school bus with a shotgun so he could hunt ducks after the final bell.
“My teacher would just tell me to keep it in a locker during school hours,” Mr. Landy recalls of his ninth-grade hobby in rural Manitoba. “And then he’d wish me luck at the end of the day.”
Now aged 75, Mr. Landy remains an avid firearms enthusiast, even as the federal government has limited their use and availability in the wake of several mass shootings over the past four decades.