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The government’s entire reasoning for these bans is to prevent mass shootings. That’s their defence of it. They reference the small number of tragedies Canada has experienced, many with illegal guns which would not be impacted by the bans. Only legal guns owned by licensed owners are.
To believe this reasoning, you’d have to believe that just by virtue of owning them, you’re susceptible to committing a mass shooting, but if you owned other guns you wouldn’t.
It’s literally the stupidest thing I’ve ever experienced. 🇨🇦
They’re not for sale.
Firearm ban challenge ends after Supreme Court hearing ctvnews.ca/politics/article/…
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Remember, the SCC didn't officially rule that gun ownership was a "privilege" until 1993. Before then, it was largely understood to be a right or at least a long standing fundamental freedom — something that would have (should have) been protected by part 2 of the bill of rights.
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AG: Hey justices, just incase things don’t go our way can you pretty please suspend your judgement by 12 months so we can just ban it all a different way now we’ve got a majority?
Diabolical. They’ll never stop.
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Get ready for the "800-pound Gorilla in the Room" at the Supreme Court of Canada, starting Monday.
@CSSA_CILA's counsel plans to make the perverse argument that the gun ban creates a public-safety crisis because the government cannot identify, locate and seize all the firearms it prohibited.
@BurlewEdward is attacking the ban by making the government’s ability to track and collect our firearms the measure of public safety.
That is a breathtakingly reckless premise to put before Canada’s highest court.
Follow his logic. If missing ownership records are the crisis, Ottawa has an obvious answer: compulsory records. Mandatory declarations. Registration. Stronger collection measures.
We don’t need CSSA’s counsel to give gun-control advocates, or the government ammunition. This argument hands it to them by the case. (Pun intended).
His oral outline actually calls affected firearms “black market ghost guns.” That is extraordinary language for counsel representing the interests of Canadian gunnies. It invites the court to associate lawful ownership with criminal supply without establishing that connection.
His own factum acknowledges that federal registration of non-restricted firearms ended in 2012. Yet he blames the 2020 ban for making those firearms untraceable. Overturning the ban would not magically produce the ownership records whose absence he presents as intolerable.
His sweeping claims that safety controls disappeared collide with the original amnesty, which required continued licensing and retained storage and transport safeguards.
Ed should understand the danger of telling the Supreme Court that firearms the government cannot comprehensively track and recover constitute an unacceptable public danger.
His intention of undermining the bans risks supplying the justification for the next registry, the next reporting requirement and the next expansion of collection powers.
The Liberal's bans didn't erase my serial numbers or set me up to distribute them in the GTA. Equating firearms held by LAGOs under an amnesty with smuggled and illicitly manufactured weapons undermines the distinction we desperately try to make, which is we are not the problem.
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The fact that this is an actual headline, suggest the level of critical thinking in Canada has dipped so low that those wacky warning labels you see like, “don’t use your hands/genitals to stop the chainsaw” are absolutely necessary.
Is the fed’s plan to end homelessness achievable? ctvnews.ca/politics/article/…
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Ok, hear me out.
We put all these secret PRC bases on on Google Maps and label them as Jewish owned businesses.
Then because we’re Canada (aka the Wild West) the local antisemitic/pro-Palestine/Muslim Brotherhood crew does their thing and shoots the place up and burns it to the ground.
Then we can deport the PRC operatives and arrest the domestic terrorists which should finally start addressing our antisemitism problem.
Win win.
Report alleges China linked to at least 18 overseas police stations in Canada ctvnews.ca/canada/article/re…
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They should have called this budget The Grand Illusion!
The revenue predictions are delusional, as is the GDP growth forecast while the net debt calculation relies on using every penny in the CPP, military/RCMP & public sector pension plans despite almost all of that money being allocated to cover pension payments.
The debt to GDP ratio has increased 5 years in a row, even after the Finance Minister declared that lowering that rate was a key fiscal anchor.
On the homelessness front, the very same @liberal_party gov issued a plan in 2017 to cut homelessness in half. As of 2025, according to Statistics Canada, homelessness has increased 160% from 2017 levels.
The liberals are the masters of economic spin & making grand promises they never keep! Oh in the case of this specific Minister, ensuring her husband’s company gets good big dollar federal gov contracts 😎 #TheGrandIllusion
Canada has the lowest net debt-to-GDP ratio in the G7, giving us the capacity to invest with ambition. Budget 2026 puts that strength to work by expanding our energy infrastructure, helping businesses grow and making life more affordable.
It also sets a path to end homelessness within 10 years, connecting housing with the care people need to stay housed. A stronger economy must give Canadians greater security in their daily lives.
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What about Carney’s disastrous mass immigration budget? What about Carney’s conflicts of interests?
#BREAKING: Poilievre loses third senior aide in less than a year ctvnews.ca/politics/article/…
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First, stop calling them police stations, it implies some sort of legitimacy. They’re a hostile forward operating base.
Second, kick the doors down, handcuff and black bag everyone in there and put them in a detention centre and arrange deportation.
Third, summon the Chinese ambassador and advise him that if his country tries that shit again he can pack his bags and a major review of Chinese owned companies will be conducted with extreme prejudice.
Report alleges China linked to at least 18 overseas police stations in Canada ctvnews.ca/canada/article/re…
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Like many Canadian industries, our media companies were slow to adapt, slow to innovative, slow to recognize the changes in how Canadians wanted to consume news and information, slow to reimagine and reconfigure their old business models. And, perhaps unsurprisingly, they’re still struggling to understand why they have lost the trust of so many Canadians. Faced with these realities, the Canadian government does what Canadian governments do — reward failure with taxpayer money.
Ottawa boosts journalism tax credit by $501M, extends eligibility to broadcasters ctvnews.ca/politics/article/…
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The journalism tax credit now extends to Bell, Rogers, Corus and Quebecor: $501M over five years, $85M a year permanently. Nearly every major news organization now depends on federal support. Companies reliant on government are less likely to criticize it.
michaelgeist.ca/2026/11/from…
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This is 100% true.
Your reliability in general should be *higher* with agent written code, as measured by error rates, SLO violations, client regressions etc.
If you’re having more or equal incidents now than when you were manually writing code, that’s likely a “skill issue”.
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It is now impossible for (almost) anyone in Canadian journalism to question or object to government subsidies for anyone or anything and expect to be taken seriously
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The Carney government's new immigration figures are them telling you, as clearly as they possibly can, that your simple desire to live in a country with competitive wages, affordable housing and accessible publuc services can get fucked.
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Oh no, no, I didn't vote to give my friend billions of dollars.
Only my colleagues, whose jobs all depend entirely on my good graces, voted to give my friend billions of dollars.
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So in the USA when they're unhappy with the Economy, they Fire all their Politicians. In Canada, we keep them in power for 12 Years, give them a Raise and Blame other countries.
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If you live in Canada, and are not a US citizen, please repeat after me:
“I’m not a US citizen.
I need to pay more attention to the affairs of my own country, and our politics, rather than obsessing over America’s.
I cannot vote in US elections, therefore I should not act irrationally or base my entire personality over the outcome of those elections.
I cannot blame a foreign president or political party for all the shortcomings and problems our nation is struggling with.”
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Total lies.
The reason this is so offensive (and dangerous) is that Sean Fraser is a persuasive speaker, he's really good at it. However, the truth is that Canada has gotten wildly more violent over the last 11 years while the Liberals have been in charge and talking just like this.
Weak-minded people will believe Sean Fraser and the rest of these disingenuous creatures and place their safety in their hands.
This grift has an actual price, paid by those who would believe these people. They truly have no regard for your safety, your life simply doesn't matter to them. This is no accident, these aren't regular people who feel honour or remorse, they're psychopaths.
Just understand what you're really dealing with, and hope those who can't distinguish a lie from reality have people around them to wake them up before it's too late.
Take care of yourselves and those that matter to you. It's up to you.
Torontonians are horrified by the event on the Bridal Path. Despite new Liberal crime laws, home invasions are up 32% in Toronto over the same period last year.
So I asked AG @SeanFraserMP, if he will work with Conservatives to pass real bail & sentencing reform?