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Yesterday, a Quebec Superior Court judge granted a five-day injunction against the Harper government’s attempted early destruction of the long gun registry. You’ll remember that I reported back in December that they were totally going to go ahead and destroy it once the law passed even if the court case was ongoing. Well, the court [...]
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Quebec gun registry spared (very) temporarily
April 6th, 2012 
Jason Thibeault 
Posted in Canada, Guns, Politics 
Tags: Canada, Conservatives, guns, Harper government, long gun registry, politics, Quebec 
7 Comments »Vic Toews: Gun registries are invasion of privacy. Internet snooping is great though!
February 21st, 2012 Jason Thibeault During the Conservative fight to fool everyone into believing the long gun registry is a bad idea, one of the most frequent and most proximate reasons the CPC and their spambot flaks gave for dismantling and bonfiring the database was that it served as an invasion of privacy that allowed the government too much insight [...]
Posted in Canada, Politics Tags: C30, Canada, Conservatives, hypocrisy, internet spying, long gun registry, politics, privacy, twitter, Vic Toews 12 Comments »The numbers don’t lie: as many long guns in Toronto as in rural areas
January 31st, 2012 Jason Thibeault The impending destruction of the long gun registry has been touted by conservatives (and most especially conserva-bot sockpuppets) as being primarily intended as a sop to the rural voters who are “disproportionately affected” by the long gun registry is another demonstrable falsehood. As it turns out, there are 287,000 long guns in the Greater Toronto [...]
Posted in Canada, Guns, Politics Tags: bullshit, Canada, Conservatives, domestic murder, domestic violence, Harper, long gun registry, social causes, women 6 Comments »Canada about to lose any vestige of internet privacy
December 26th, 2011 Jason Thibeault Despite how pro-privacy the Harper government has claimed to be, with the destruction of the long gun registry out of privacy concerns, it is absolutely no surprise to me that they’re total hypocrites when it comes to actual privacy concerns, like warrantless information-gathering from ISPs. Suppose you read an online article – not this one, [...]
Posted in Canada, Computers, Politics Tags: Canada, civil rights, Conservatives, Harper, long gun registry, privacy, pseudonymity, warrantless wiretapping 13 Comments »Harper will destroy long gun data despite Quebec’s pending court challenge
December 14th, 2011 Jason Thibeault Via The Globe and Mail: Brushing off attacks from Quebec and the opposition, Mr. Harper and his ministers said they will not wait for the court ruling to fulfill a campaign promise to get rid of the registry and its unreliable data. [...]
Posted in Canada, Guns, Politics Tags: Canada, Conservatives, gun control, Harper, long gun registry, politics 21 Comments »Conservatives preparing for blowback on new Office of Religious Freedoms
December 5th, 2011 Jason Thibeault As reported by the CBC, a document was obtained through access-to-information laws which was evidently designed as a cheat sheet for potential questions John Baird might soon face regarding another of the Conservatives’ campaign pillars that is about to come to fruition, the creation of an “Office of Religious Freedoms”. This document suggests that the [...]
Posted in Canada, Politics, Religion Tags: Canada, Conservatives, long gun registry, Office of Religious Freedoms, politics, religion 8 Comments »Ending the Canadian long gun registry means more domestic murder
November 4th, 2011 Jason Thibeault On December 6th, 1989, a virulent misogynist named Marc Lépine entered a school in Quebec and murdered fourteen women and wounded ten women and four men with a long gun — a Ruger Mini-14 semi-automatic .223 calibre rifle, which he obtained and owned legally. He hunted women explicitly, screaming “I hate feminists” as he mowed [...]
Posted in Canada, Gender, Politics Tags: Canada, feminism, gun control, long gun registry, mass murder, misogyny, Montreal Massacre, murder 28 Comments »1989: The Montreal Massacre
November 2nd, 2011 Jason Thibeault I wanted to have this handy for a post I plan on writing about the Conservatives’ elimination of the long gun registry. Can you guess my angle?
Posted in Canada, Gender Tags: Canada, feminism, gun control, long gun registry, mass murder, misogyny, Montreal Massacre, sexism 13 Comments »
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