From: owner-cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca (Cdn-Firearms Digest) To: cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Subject: Cdn-Firearms Digest V16 #558 Reply-To: cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Sender: owner-cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Errors-To: owner-cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Precedence: normal owner-cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Cdn-Firearms Digest Friday, December 12 2014 Volume 16 : Number 558 In this issue: Re: MSM fear and politics- Digest V16 #550 Re: Hazel Young publishes her first novel, Jake & Ellie Re: Hazel Young publishes her first novel, Jake & Ellie "Nurse attacked and robbed leaving Regina General Hospital" "Men accused of Hana murder denied bail"-SP "A medical perspective on the Garner tragedy"- Re: CIA Report- Digest V16 #555 NRA firearms training in Canada no longer permitted by ... Re: Support for gun rights reaches highest levels in 20 ... Obama's feds hid data -- get ammunition ban passed ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 13:12:47 -0600 From: Larry James Fillo Subject: Re: MSM fear and politics- Digest V16 #550 On 2014-12-06, at 8:57 PM, Cdn-Firearms Digest wrote: > Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 19:02:07 +1300 > From: David Mack > Subject: It's good to be anti Islam > > While we are remembering Marc Lepine (why do the media insist on using > his adopted western name instead of his given, Islamic, name?) here's > something to reflect upon. Two reasons: 1. They are afraid. 2. It doesn't fit their political agenda. I noticed the comments sections of articles online contained many references to Gamil Gharbi. Word has spread, in spite of being spiked by the MSM. When the calls to Open Line programs mention that and the letters to the editor mention them, the MSM will admit that after the general public becomes aware of it from other sources. When the MSM refuse to inform the public, citizens must do it. Sometimes the proverb of "Professionalism is a conspiracy against the laity." is applicable. The author of Medical Nemesis coined that decades ago. > http://www.patcondell.net/its-good-to-be-anti-islam/ Pat Condell used to be a stand-up comedian. Now he uses his skills in defense of British Liberty. He does that in a land where some who do what he does get put in jail for doing that. His high profile, high level of support and internet only presence helps. I'm sure he receives threats from Islamists on a regular basis. A friend of mine raised your question to a MSM reporter he's known for years. She replied they were not going to "go there". Until something breaks through onto the mass media or else is raised by an independent political "lobby", the politicians can ignore it. Or until they are targeted directly, which is now the case. The M.B. is well organized and funded here. SunnewsTV and the PMO are the only two willing to stand up to them so far. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 20:32:20 -0700 (MST) From: mudman1 Subject: Re: Hazel Young publishes her first novel, Jake & Ellie Dennis/ Hazel - Congratulations! :-) Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: Dennis Young To: cfdmod@bogend.ca Sent: Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 -0700 (MST) Subject: Hazel Young publishes her first novel, Jake & Ellie NOTE: Just in case you're looking for one more Christmas present for your lady friend. The plot of Jake & Ellie revolves around, Jake, a Sudbury boy who fulfills the dream of every Canadian youngster who has ever laced on a pair of skates. He makes it into the NHL. "To Jake, stepping onto the ice always felt like being infused with pure oxygen. Feeling the ice under his skates made him feel alive and centred and somehow free. All the years he played, he neve ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 20:32:20 -0700 (MST) From: mudman1 Subject: Re: Hazel Young publishes her first novel, Jake & Ellie Dennis/ Hazel - Congratulations! :-) Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: Dennis Young To: cfdmod@bogend.ca Sent: Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 -0700 (MST) Subject: Hazel Young publishes her first novel, Jake & Ellie NOTE: Just in case you're looking for one more Christmas present for your lady friend. The plot of Jake & Ellie revolves around, Jake, a Sudbury boy who fulfills the dream of every Canadian youngster who has ever laced on a pair of skates. He makes it into the NHL. "To Jake, stepping onto the ice always felt like being infused with pure oxygen. Feeling the ice under his skates made him feel alive and centred and somehow free. All the years he played, he never lost this sensation of being exactly where he should be when he was on the ice. There was a joy to it that he couldn't imagine finding anywhere else . . ." Jake & Ellie However, after Jake retires and leaves the game he discovers that he may be suffering with a neurological disease perhaps brought on by the many concussions and hits he took during his hockey career. He and his estranged wife Ellie are brought back together as they face the possible diagnosis which they both fear. They have a month before they will hear the definitive diagnosis and grasp at this second chance they have been given, rediscovering each other in the unnerving face of an uncertain and frightening future. As I have lived with Multiple Sclerosis for the last thirty years, I feel qualified to describe the fear and frustration and unmitigated sense of betrayal you feel as your self slowly slips away from you. I also feel blessed and so privileged in knowing that being loved and cherished, despite the disease, is the one thing that can make the unbearable, bearable. The links to the two news stories from our local papers are below. Thanks, Dennis and Hazel Young AIRDRIAN PENS LOVE STORY By Dawn Smith - Tuesday, December 2, 2014 12:00:05 MST PM PHOTO CAPTION: Hazel Young recently self-published her first novel, titled Jake & Ellie. After many years of suffering with MS, Young decided to do harness her creativity and write her first novel, with ties to Canadians' favourite game. http://www.airdrieecho.com/2014/12/02/airdrian-pens-love-story AIRDRIE RESIDENT PUBLISHES FIRST NOVEL By: Lucas Punkari - Posted: Thursday, Nov 27, 2014 01:08 pm PHOTO CAPTION: Hazel Young held a copy of her novel Jake and Ellie, which was released in October. The book follows Jake who suffers a major head injury in a motorcycle collision and reconciles with his ex-wife Ellie. http://www.airdriecityview.com/article/20141127/ACV0302/311279940/0/ACV PS Sorry folks, Jake & Ellie is not on the book store shelves yet. It can be ordered from a bookstore or online JAKE & ELLIE is now available in hard cover and soft cover at the Friesen Press Bookstore http://www.friesenpress.com/bookstore/title/119734000011130483/Hazel-Young-J ake-%26-Ellie And also at Amazon, Chapters/Indigo, Google, Kindle, Kobo, Nook and iTunes Bookstore PPS If you read Jake & Ellie and like it, be sure to post a review on the above websites. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 23:06:16 -0600 From: Larry James Fillo Subject: "Nurse attacked and robbed leaving Regina General Hospital" http://ckom.com/story/nurse-attacked-and-robbed-leaving-regina-general-hospital/479779 http://ckom.com/story/nurse-attacked-and-robbed-leaving-regina-general-hospital/479779 Nurse attacked and robbed leaving Regina General Hospital Health region safety solutions are not working says nurse Reported by Deborah Shawcross First Posted: Dec 11, 2014 5:33pm | Last Updated: Dec 11, 2014 8:21pm Nurses at Regina's General Hospital are shaken up after one their own was attacked and robbed early Thursday morning. Karly Simpson works in the neonatal intensive care unit at the hospital. She says a co-worker was leaving around midnight. She was followed to her car by a man, who wanted her to drive him to Cornwall Street. "She was getting in her car and he started hitting her in the throat and hitting her in the upper body. She started screaming and laying on her horn," said Simpson. Family members of a patient that was driving by, heard her honking and they scared him off. The man got away with her purse. Regina Police describe the suspect as a man between the ages of 25 and 30, with a dark complexion and is 5'8" tall. He was wearing a black or grey toque, blue jeans and a black and brown jacket. This isn't the first time a hospital staff memeber has been approached after leaving work. Simpson said another co-worker was followed to her parked car by the hospital around two months ago. When Simpson was pregnant she was leaving work and was approached while walking to her car. "When I was approached there was four of them, there was nothing I was going to be able to do. But luckily they were mostly just joking but I mean it still puts you in a precarious situation where you're real nervous and have no where to go." Nurses raised the issue of parking and safety last year and Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region responded by making security available to walk staff to their car. But Simpson says it's hasn't solved the problem. "There's not enough of them to walk all of us out in the dark and at this time of the year we're coming in the dark and we're leaving in the dark, if you're working either shift." Another option is staff can be bused to the hospital from certain two different parking lots in the city. Simpson says that doesn't work for everyone as it doesn't run all day and night. For people living out of town, she said it adds more travelling time to an already long work day that could be 12 to 13 hours. Simpson said some nurses have chosen to move downtown so they could walk to the General Hospital and avoid the parking problems all together. But that doesn't mean they are feeling safer. "Now even those ones are scared of doing that because now they're walking through the same path that this girl was attacked on." With no parkade in the works in the near future, nurses are left with parking in two hour limit zones around the General Hospital. "It's hard to focus on your job when your worried about if your a) getting a bunch of tickets or b) going to make it home to your family at night. That's the part that's scary to me," said Simpson. The Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region says they are working with police and will conduct an internal review to see if there is anything they can do to ensure this doesn't happen again. Director of security services Barry Stricker says they would consider hiring more security to escort staff to their cars or even purchasing a larger van that could take more people at one time but only if there is a demand. Stricker agrees with Simpson that their shuttle bus to the hospital is not perfect. "It does not work well for some shifts so there will be a full review of that service to see if the uptake is there that would warrant lengthening the hours for service to midnight or there abouts to accommodate some of those evening shifts," said Stricker. As for building a parkade, Stricker says it's still an ongoing discussion as the health region is looking at high costs for construction. "Currently the cost per stall to build a parkade exceeds $30,000 per stall so cost is extreme and that's not to say the parkade isn't warranted." Striker says reports of staff being assaulted are very few and far between. "The numbers that we get aren't that many but one is more than enough." ========================================================================== Restrictive gun control supported by Prime Minister's Mulroney, Chretien, Martin and Harper was supposed to make women safe, we were told. The smaller, female hand sized handguns were declared prohibited to... oh right, to keep women safe. How's that working? Crime is down nationally, but tell that to people who actually live and work in some of the most dangerous cities in Canada. The last time I was informed of a women being robbed at knifepoint outside her home, it was not on the news, as her friends said she didn't even report it. Individual citizens have learned by experience what the "right to be a victim" means. Why risk further harm. The most powerful single union in the most politically sensitive government program is the nurse's union. If that union demanded CCW permits for their members, the provincial government would literally be up against the wall. (Prov. governments administer the Criminal Code). Except, they are a "lefty" NDP union who are supposed to be against armed self-defense. So the compensation is, at least, being a victim has a political status. They are more likely to have armed police officers assigned to hospital parking lots than they are to apply for CCW permits. I truly feel sorry for the helpless victims of violent crime. I meet more each year. But when you belong to a union the gov't. does fear and, in effect, runs a 4.5 Billion dollar gov't. industry... Security guards by the score, armed police or CCW permits. It's really their choice.* For the politically unorganized, there is no alternative to being a victim, whether on the "mean streets" or in the High Rivers of Canada. A registered nurse could move to a low crime state, 97 percent of U.S. counties have a lower murder rate than Canada's, be hired and offered a CCW permit course and her choice of sidearm as a signing bonus. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 23:37:15 -0600 From: Larry James Fillo Subject: "Men accused of Hana murder denied bail"-SP Men accused of Hana murder denied bail By Hannah Spray, The StarPhoenix December 11, 2014 7:53 PM Kennith Jacob Tingle Photograph by: Michelle Berg , The StarPhoenix Two men accused of taking part in the killing of Isho Hana will remain in custody pending the outcome of their murder trial. Kennith Jacob Tingle, 34, and Jonathan Kenneth Dombowsky, 33, applied for bail last month, after their trial stretched beyond its scheduled time and was adjourned to continue in February. In a written decision issued this week, Justice Richard Danyliuk ruled the two men should stay behind bars. The reasons for the ruling are subject to a publication ban, since some of the information heard at their bail hearing has not yet been heard at trial. Tingle, Dombowsky and a third man, Long Nam Luu, are charged with first-degree murder in the death of Hana, who was chased down and shot on Preston Avenue in April 2004. Luu, 37, was not part of the bail hearing. He was released on $25,000 bail — with strict conditions including electronic monitoring — after a hearing in June 2012. All three men were charged after Neil Lee Yakimchuk told undercover officers he was paid to kill Hana during a drug turf war in Saskatoon. Yakimchuk was convicted of first-degree murder by a jury in Saskatoon in June. Tingle allegedly was with Yakimchuk during the shooting, while Dombowsky and Luu allegedly hired Yakimchuk. Yakimchuk was the first witness called by the Crown at Tingle, Dombowsky and Luu’s trial in September, but he refused to even be sworn in. The Crown then applied to introduce Yakimchuk’s statements to undercover officers as evidence and the trial entered into a voir dire, or trial within a trial, to determine whether those statements are admissible. During four weeks of the voir dire this fall, court heard testimony from the undercover officers, as well as eyewitnesses to the shooting and police who investigated the murder scene. The trial is set to resume on Feb. 23 and continue for a further five weeks. =================================================================== So what is the lesson here? Simple, the perp. convicted and sentenced for 1st degree murder is going to serve that due to the power of the Justice system to put him there. But once he's in the pen., how he lives and whether he lives, depends on those who run the place. And it's not the guards. Some lessons are discovered reading between the lines. (and a few other sources) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 00:59:41 -0600 From: Larry James Fillo Subject: "A medical perspective on the Garner tragedy"- The MSM get better audience numbers puffing up a riot than they would finding a medical explanation commensurate with the facts. As for a lame duck President... not even such a lame excuse applies. http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/12/a_medical_perspective_on_the_garner_tragedy.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 01:12:55 -0600 From: Larry James Fillo Subject: Re: CIA Report- Digest V16 #555 On 2014-12-10, at 10:19 PM, Cdn-Firearms Digest wrote: > > Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 12:29:24 -0600 > From: Edward Hudson > Subject: NEW CIA REPORT PAINTS A GRUESOME PICTURE > > NEW CIA REPORT PAINTS A GRUESOME PICTURE > > Waterboarding, rectal feedings, extended sleep deprivation, and > dishonesty. > By John Hendrickson > > December 9, 2014 > > http://www.esquire.com/blogs/news/cia-report-released Nancy Pelosi and Dianne Feinnstein have reports on gun control you'd find amazing, too. Their policies having destabilized Iraq, Libya, Egypt, favoured the Islamic State of Iran on the verge of going nuclear and turned the "awakening" that defeated Al-Q in Irag into a phoenix of the I.S. ... The Obama administration reverts to it's oldest tactic blame Bush. The MSM play their game well but predictably. Comparing the critics of this report with it's supporters is an educational exercise, failing to do so is for those who've not been paying attention, deliberately. To paraphrase Socrates "The unexamined political life is not worth living." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 01:26:31 -0800 From: "Clive Edwards" <45clive@telus.net> Subject: NRA firearms training in Canada no longer permitted by ... ...Homeland Security My wife and I have been life members of the NRA for many years and have been NRA certified instructors for almost as long. Recently, when I tried to renew my teaching credentials, I received the following response: NRA cannot provide any assistance in training foreign persons due to conflicting information from the U.S. Government regarding regulations pertinent to foreign persons and arms training. NRA cannot process any requests for assistance in training foreign persons. In view of the above, we regret to inform you that NRA cannot renew NRA firearm trainer credentials for any foreign national. My response, to the Instructors Division and to the Institute for Legislative Action, is below. Today I tried to renew my NRA Instructor ratings. A red block of type popped up stating that I was no longer welcome to do so because I was a foreign national. As a Life Member and NRA instructor in Canada, which shares so much, including security, with the U.S.A., I must protest this refusal to renew my instructor credentials due to the short sightedness of the U.S. government. I suggest the NRA use its lobbying power to at least permit and support NRA firearms training in all NATO countries. To fail to do so is an affront to those who fight and die beside Americans overseas, and help provide security to Americans at home. 45clive ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:01:12 +0000 (UTC) From: william stacey Subject: Re: Support for gun rights reaches highest levels in 20 ... ...years... so what's your alternative Joe.? i'm not happy about c68 or our property rights either but does anyone seriously think this will be better with either of the other 2? you can bet if harper doesn't get in Pierre light or mad tom will. we will be even less effective under either of those On Thursday, December 11, 2014 10:58 PM, Joe Gingrich wrote: This, while Harper and his cronies use his (Harper's) enhanced and unjust Bill C-68 to break & enter, steal, confiscate, disarm, imprison, intimidate, victimize and torture responsible members of the Canadian firearms community. This, while Harper says, Gun controls "work." "We will keep this system that works. That's the important thing, to have controls that work." (1) This, while a disingenuous Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney now relegates Canadians' "rights to own and use firearms" (2) to a "hobby." (3) Whatever happened Mr. Blaney's belief? --- "I believe that firearms ownership is a right, but a right that comes with responsibilities"  ------- Hon. Steven Blaney, Minister of Public Safety (4) This, while both Harper and Blaney fail to promote the policies of the Conservative Party of Canada thus violating section 10 of their own Party's Constitution. Do not work, fund, support or vote for the Harper con. govt. Yours in Tyranny, Joe Gingrich ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 06:50:32 -0600 From: "Joe Gingrich" Subject: Obama's feds hid data -- get ammunition ban passed ... http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/2/lead-ammunition-ban-passed -after-feds-withheld-key/ Obama's feds hid key data to get Calif. lead ammo ban passed in backdoor gun control move Gun control advocates used plight of iconic California condor to push legislation By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times - Tuesday, December 2, 2014 A pro-hunting group is up in arms after obtaining emails that it says indicate that a federal official withheld critical data on lead blood levels in the California condor until after gun control advocates in the California state legislature used the iconic bird’s plight to help push through a law last year to ban lead ammunition. The National Shooting Sports Foundation obtained the emails as part of a Freedom of Information Act request showing that John McCamman, California condor recovery coordinator for the Fish and Wildlife Service, did not make the report public until the bill was on its way to the desk of Gov. Jerry Brown. Mr. Brown signed the measure in October 2013. The annual update, which had been previously issued in June, found little change in the condor's blood lead levels despite a 2007 ban on lead ammunition in the "condor zone," a lengthy swath of habitat along the coast from Ventura County to Santa Clara County. The California state legislature acted at the urging of wildlife and animal rights advocates, led by the Humane Society, which argued that the California condor and other species were being poisoned by ingesting lead shot, fragments or contaminated prey. Lawrence Keane, NSSF senior vice president and general counsel, accused the Fish and Wildlife Service of deliberately sitting on the report in order to bolster the chances of passage of Assembly Bill 711, which ushered in the nation’s first statewide lead ammunition ban. “[T]he email thread shows that they withheld that [information] from the public; they withheld it from the legislature purposely,” Mr. Keane said. “And why? Because the results show that despite the existing law and regulations that ban the use of traditional ammunition by hunters, it was not having an impact on condor blood-lead levels in California.” Mr. Keane added, “Which suggests, as we have said all along, that condors in California are accessing lead from other sources, not ammunition.” Gun rights groups, which have blasted the law as a backdoor effort to ban hunting, countered that the lead-poisoning claim wasn’t backed up by scientific research. About 95 percent of U.S. hunting ammunition is made of lead. Mr. McCamman could not be reached for comment Tuesday, but Fish and Wildlife spokesman Scott Flaherty said that while the 18-page report, entitled “California Condor Recovery Program, Project Update and 2011 and 2012 Lead Exposure Report,” had been held back, “I’m pretty sure it was not delayed simply to withhold it from the debate.” The emails between Fish and Wildlife Service personnel show that a draft of the report was ready in April 2013. The state legislature passed a final version of the bill on Sept. 10, 2013. Seven days later, Mr. McCamman sent an email to agency wildlife biologist Joseph Brandt. “Joseph — is this ready to go? I’ve attached a summary document — the state has been avoiding getting into the middle of the legislatures business (AB711) but now that that is over, this has to be ready to go. … [Are] you comfortable?” says Mr. McCamman in an email dated Sept. 17, 2013, provided by the NSSF. The email suggests Mr. McCamman may have been trying to avoid embroiling the Fish and Wildlife Service on either side in the political debate over lead ammunition, but Mr. Keane said that such a decision was not the bureaucrat’s call to make. “It’s disingenuous if he were to suggest that he was somehow trying to stay out of it,” Mr. Keane said. “By withholding that information, he injected himself into it, and again, that information was relevant — highly relevant — to the debate. The public should have been allowed to take that into consideration — certainly members of the legislature, and even the governor, before signing the bill.” Mr. Flaherty said that while he was unfamiliar with the details surrounding the report’s release, “It’s not the business of the service to influence state legislation on condor matters.” “Our concern is strictly focused on condor conservation and condor health and the effect that lead has on condors,” Mr. Flaherty said. “It’s a scientific fact that lead poisoning is a leading cause of death in condors.” Other states have also wrestled with the lead ammunition issue, but California is the first and only state to ban it altogether. State wildlife agencies in Arizona and Utah, which are also home to California condor populations, have enacted successful voluntary programs in which hunters entering condor territory receive free nonlead ammunition. “As of fall 2014, biologists were pleased that substantially fewer condors in the Arizona-Utah population had to be treated for lead exposure,” said the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources in an online post. “Only 13 birds were treated from Sept. 1, 2013, to Aug. 31, 2014, as compared to 28 birds that were treated during the same period the previous year.” The California condor’s numbers, which had dwindled to just 22 in 1987, have since bounced back to 430. A scavenger with a nearly 10-foot wingspan, the California condor is known for eating carrion in the gut piles left by hunters, which often include bullet fragments, but also picking through trash and debris from other sources. The Fish and Wildlife Service report released in October 2013 concluded that California condors continue to be exposed to lead despite California’s ban on lead ammunition in the “condor zone,” and offered explanations that included alternative sources to hunters’ bullets. “[T]here are other sources of lead in the environment that condors may be accessing, including five individual condors apparently ingesting chips of lead-based paint in a fire tower (since remediated),” said the report. The update also cited a 2012 peer-reviewed scientific paper that found nine condors “had lead detected in their blood that did not match the isotopic signature of ammunition, background levels, or paint, indicating an unidentified source of lead in the environment.” It’s entirely possible that California’s Democratic-controlled state legislature would have approved AB 711 even if the Fish and Wildlife Service data had been made available before the vote — but “we’ll never know,” said Mr. Keane. The measure passed the state Assembly by a 44-21 margin in May and by a 23-15 margin in the state Senate in September. “The legislature and the public did not have the opportunity to take that into consideration when debating and voting on AB 711,” he said. “And we think that is a very important issue, and the public deserves to know about it.” ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V16 #558 *********************************** Submissions: mailto:cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Mailing List Commands: mailto:majordomo@scorpion.bogend.ca Moderator email: mailto:owner-cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca List owner: mailto:owner-cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca FAQ list: http://www.canfirearms/Skeeter/Faq/cfd-faq1.html Web Site: http://www.canfirearms.ca CFDigest Archives: http://www.canfirearms.ca/archives To unsubscribe from _all_ the lists, put the next four lines in a message and mailto:majordomo@scorpion.bogend.ca unsubscribe cdn-firearms-digest unsubscribe cdn-firearms-chat unsubscribe cdn-firearms end (To subscribe, use "subscribe" instead of "unsubscribe".)