MP Bob Zimmer continues hunting for answers, Goodale continues to blame others.
MP Bob Zimmer rose in Parliament today to ask Ralph Goodale, the Minister of Public Safety, a pointed question about the Quebec long gun registry data. Goodale’s response was predictable, although not informative. Question 1 “According to Deputy Commissioner Peter…
Firearm Owners: Guess who CPIC Tracks and who CPIC does NOT track daily?
Dennis Young, master of the Access to Information Program (ATIP), learned something interesting on June 7, 2016, that ought to shock and scare every single licenced gun owner in Canada. Dennis asked what information about violent criminals is held in…
Be Afraid – US Civilian Agencies own more guns than the entire US Marines
Open the Books found there are now over 200,000 non-military federal officers with arrest and firearm authority, surpassing the 182,100 personnel who are actively serving in the U.S. Marines Corps. The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution was written, in…
Stephen Harper Loves his Canadian “Meat Puppets With Wallets”
One of my favourite characters from the now-finished television series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” was Spike, played by James Marsters. Spike had a great sense of humour and with rare exception viewed the human race with disdain. One of his…
Cutting Egypt’s Internet Access: Who Benefits?
An odd story crossed my desk over the weekend. Not that there is anything unusual about that… odd stories cross my desk all the time. This one, however, puzzled me because it just didn’t make much sense. An Associated Press…
The Journal News’ Caryn A. McBride Hires ARMED bodyguards? Oh, the irony!
On December 27th, 2012 I wrote the article “Hypocritical Anti-Gunners: Be Very Careful What You Wish For” in which I discussed the antics of the anti-gun zealots inhabiting the offices of The Journal News, a newspaper based in Rockland County,…
Hypocritical Anti-Gunners: Be Very Careful What You Wish For
[powerpress] Anti-gun zealots get a lot more than they bargained for after publishing the names and home addresses of New York handgun permit holders. On December 24, 2012, The Journal News got up on it’s high horse and published…
In the wake of all the unauthorized access to CPIC, you may want to find out what information the RCMP holds on you!
There have been a lot of cases of unauthorized access to the Canadian Police Information Center (CPIC) database. Yesterday I wrote about Lethbridge Police Service Constable Michael Fielding using CPIC for his own ends and his demotion for that violation,…