Pretty tough lingo for some pretty bad actors.
“I’ve got a little tip for lowlife criminals out there. If you don’t want to get shot, don’t break into someone’s house. It’s really that simple.
“Isn’t it? It really is.”
Now that’s laying down the law.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government will table a motion next week under the Alberta Sovereignty Act that would instruct all provincial entities to refuse to enforce or prosecute matters under the federal gun buyback program.
Smith made the comments on Nov. 29 during a keynote address at her United Conservative Party’s annual convention, where she outlined her government’s priorities and next steps. She said the proposed motion would apply to all provincial entities, including municipalities and law-enforcement agencies, and would include provisions to prevent them from prosecuting Albertans “defending their homes and families from intruders.”
EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government will move next week to block enforcement of Ottawa’s new firearm legislation, marking one of the strongest sovereignty-based challenges her United Conservative Party has launched against federal authority to date.
Speaking to supporters more than an hour late at the UCP AGM in Edmonton, Smith said her government will table a motion under the Alberta Sovereignty Within a United Canada Act ordering all provincial agencies — including municipalities and police services — to refuse to enforce or prosecute the federal gun grab program.
h/t SM (Incognito)
Questions are being asked of Liberal MP Jaime Battiste (Cape Breton — Canso — Antigonish) after he told the Toronto Star he hadn’t “heard anything negative” about Ottawa’s gun grab pilot program in Cape Breton.
Emails shared by the Canadian Coalition for Firearms Rights on Wednesday detailed one of Battiste’s constituents venting their frustrations about the program on Sept. 22.
(Incognito)
OTTAWA—The Liberal government refused Wednesday to say how many banned weapons have been collected in the trial for its contentious gun buyback program, as federal sources and local reports suggest minimal success, raising concerns about how the roughly $750-million scheme will unfold on a national scale.
The Liberals kickstarted the long-delayed program with Cape Breton, N.S. as its testing ground last month, hoping to collect 200 guns and evaluate its system, but the small-scale pilot has been met with pushback and little uptake from frustrated gun owners.
OTTAWA — A Canadian taxpayers’ watchdog is taking the federal government to court.
Announced Thursday, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) is launching a legal challenge meant to reveal the true cost of Canada’s gun buyback program — beginning with a request for the court to rule on a long-delayed access-to-information request.
CSSA members agree on three things:
Licensed firearms owners are heavily vetted by government and the RCMP;
Licensed firearms owners are statistically safer than serving police officers;
Most crime committed with firearms is the result of illegal guns smuggled across the border and then used by drug dealers, gangs and organized crime.
What you demand from government …
In the last two weeks of October 2025, criminal violence with illegal guns has reached a fever pitch, which exposes (yet again) the stark hypocrisy of federal Liberal firearms policy.
While Mark Carney’s Liberal government pours hundreds of millions into a useless Firearms Confiscation Compensation Scheme that only targets licenced owners — hunters, sport shooters, and rural residents — violent crime involving smuggled illegal guns surges unchecked.
If you walk into a car dealership to ask about the price of the car out front and the answer is, “Probably tens of thousands of dollars,” it’s unlikely you’re going to buy that car.
Consumers need the full information on the price of something before they can decide if it’s a good decision. The same goes for taxpayers and proposed government programs.
As most affected firearms owners already know, Ottawa placed a funding cap on its “voluntary” Firearms Confiscation Compensation Scheme, saying if you wait too long to surrender your guns, you’ll get nothing.
They’ve announced $742 million for compensation, but even federal officials acknowledge that this falls far short of full compensation for affected firearms owners.
Police investigating College Street homicide
THUNDER BAY – Police say the death of a 67-year-old male has been ruled a homicide.
City police, in a release issued on Friday, Oct. 31, say they responded to a call at about 3 p.m. on Thursday at a residence in the 100 block of College Street.
Police say they believe the victim may have interrupted a break-and-enter and stressed it was not a targeted incident.
The police will not be there when you need them most.
h/t SM
The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Commissioner has told MPs that Ottawa should crack down on illegal guns coming over the U.S. border instead of collecting guns from law-abiding citizens through its buyback program, saying 91 percent of guns used in crime come from the United States.
“We will exceed over 2,000 crime guns this year again—91 percent of them are coming in from the U.S.,” OPP Commissioner and Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police president Thomas Carrique told MPs at a House of Commons justice committee meeting on Oct. 28.
“These are the dangers. These are the strains and drains on our resources, and this is where we need to be spending our time and our attention.”
When criminal violence strikes, no one is coming to save you. That’s the uncomfortable truth most people don’t want to face.
It’s not because police or regular folks don’t care. It’s impossible for anyone to predict it and be there in the terrible moment when violence strikes.
The Gun Violence Archive is the preferred source for information among almost every media outlet I seem to come across. There are a handful of exceptions, but those are generally outlets that have their own tracking efforts.
Interestingly, every single one of those tends to have a far lower number of things like mass shootings than the Gun Violence Archive has.
The accused listened to proceedings with his eyes closed and his mouth open.
It appeared that 43-year-old Richard Edwin, whose trial began this week, was heavily medicated with antipsychotic drugs.
Certainly projecting as narcotized — someone in need of mental stabilizing — would be fitting when the core substance of the defence is that Edwin should be found not criminally responsible (NCR) in the shooting deaths of two men he didn’t even know within a span of two days in downtown Toronto in 2022.
The chances of being shot by some drugged up rando remains pretty remote in Canada.
But it is impossible for the police to bend space and time to protect you when you’re being victimized.
At best you’ll likely contribute a positive stat to the TPS’ excellent homicide closure rate.
In this instance the shooter was in possession of legally obtained weapons despite a history of mental illness.
Who do gun laws protect? Not you and not me.
They make life easier for criminals who appreciate the unlikely possibility of return fire.
In the effort to maintain the state’s monopoly on violence you’re just unarmed collateral damage.
