News archives 2009-2010

North Vancouver's top Mountie supports gun registry Supt. Enger: 'If you take it away, we lose something'
North Shore News, May 19, 2010 ...download pdf

Chatham-Kent Police Services Board support long gun registry
Chatham Daily News, May 18, 2010 ...download pdf

U.S. gun lobby brings hardline tactics to Canada
Toronto Star, May 13, 2010 ...download pdf

Police groups join forces in support of long gun registry
Globe and Mail, May 6, 2010 ...download pdf

Polytechnique survivors fight to save gun registry
CTV, May 6, 2010 ...download pdf

RCMP official defends gun registry
Winnipeg Free Press, May 5, 2010 ...download pdf

Mother who lost her daughter to gun violence says value in gun registry
St. Catharine's Standard, May 3, 2010 ...download pdf

Newfoundland and Labrador Canadian Union of Public Employees Supports National Gun Registry
VOCM, May 5, 2010 ...download pdf

Changes To Gun Registry Among Resolutions Brought Forward By Alberta Police Chiefs
HQ Grande Prairie, April 30, 2010 ...download pdf

Doctors, nurses tell MPs scrapping longgun registry a health risk
Canadian Press, April 28, 2010 ...download pdf

Ontario cops protest plan to scrap gun registry
Vancouverite, April 28, 2010 ...download pdf

Doctors: Gun registry helps prevent suicide
Toronto Sun, April 28, 2010 ...download pdf

Retired RCMP Member Says "Type of Gun Matters"
Edmonton Journal, April 27, 2010 ...download pdf

Niagara Regional Police Chief Supports Gun Registry
St Catherines Standard, April 26, 2010 ...download pdf

Police chief backs gun registry as a public safety tool
Prince Albert Daily Herald, April 24, 2010 ...download pdf

"A rifle or a shotgun in the wrong hands is just as deadly as a handgun"- Yves Francoeur, president of the Montreal Police Brotherhood
Globe and Mail, April 24, 2010 ...download pdf

"[Defending the registry] is one of those rare issues where the police chiefs of Canada, the police unions of Canada and those responsible for governance and oversight of police services are united in our common cause" - Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police President William Blair
CTV, April 21, 2010 ...download pdf

Ignatieff moves to save gun registry
Canwest News Service, April 19, 2010 ...download pdf

The Canadian Federation of University Women writes "Eliminating the gun registry will put lives in danger."
Ottawa Citizen, March 26, 2010 ...download pdf

"The inquest into the suicide of my daughter's killer concluded that the licensing of gun owners and registration of rifles and shotguns might have saved both her life and that of Karen Marquis of New Brunswick."- Priscilla de Villiers
Calgary Herald, March 25, 2010 ...download pdf

Gun use in robberies registers steep decline in '08
CTV, March 25, 2010 ...download pdf

Senior Mountie backs gun registry; Toews calls it wasteful
CTV, March 18, 2010 ...download pdf

Use party line to save gun registry, coalition asks leaders
Montreal Gazette, February 27, 2010 ...download pdf

Thieves steal 30 semi-automatic handguns from lawyer's home
National Post, February 24, 2010 ...download pdf

Coalition of Provincial and Territorial Advisory Councils on the Status of Women Wants Gun Control Bill Abolished
VOCM, February 24, 2010 ...download pdf

Dozens of firearms missing after Toronto break-in
Toronto Sun, February 23, 2010 ...download pdf

Tories sniped at firearm data
Toronto Star , February 22, 2010 ...download pdf

Submission to the UN conference on women "slams the government's determination to scrap the long gun registry"
Canadian Press, February 21, 2010 ...download pdf

Prorogation won't halt bill to scrap gun registry, or much else
Canadian Press, January 5, 2010 ...download pdf

Attorney General of Ontario writes: "Canada's long-gun registry protects public safety, don't pass private member's bill"
Hill Times, December 14, 2009 ...download pdf

Gun control advocates fight 'misinformation'
CBC, December 8, 2009 ...download pdf

Montreal Massacre reminds us why we need gun registry
CBC, November 27, 2009 ...download pdf

Police need gun registry. It keeps officials, victims safer, Quebec minister for the status of women says.
Montreal Gazette, November 23, 2009 ...download pdf

Does regulating guns result in fewer murders?
Macleans, November 17, 2009 ...download pdf

Saskatoon's Star Phoenix First Nation perspective columnist writes " Dangerous mistake to scrap long gun registry"
Star Phoenix, November 13, 2009 ...download pdf

MPs disregard safety of rural Canadians
Ottawa Citizen, November 9, 2009 ...download pdf

Scrapping long-gun registry is pandering to vocal minority
Vancouver Sun, November 9, 2009 ...download pdf

Gun registry worth fixing
Hamilton Spectator, November 9, 2009 ...download pdf

Distorting the gun facts
Toronto Star, November 8, 2009 ...download pdf

Firearms database popular with police Tories release report on registry use two days after key Commons vote
Toronto Star, November 7, 2009 ...download pdf

An appalling betrayal
Ottawa Citizen, November 6, 2009 ...download pdf

MPs are way off target The Long-gun registration has made Canada a safer place in the past 14 years - Parliament is wrong to kill it
Montreal Gazette, November 6, 2009 ...download pdf

Gun registry an asset: (Halifax) Cop. Long-barrelled firearms just as problematic as handguns, officer says.
Metro News Halifax, November 6, 2009 ...download pdf

(North Bay) City police oppose dismantling gun registry
North Bay Nugget, November 6, 2009 ...download pdf

Rural overrepresentation defeats the people's will
Globe and Mail, November 6, 2009 ...download pdf

Canada's competing views on guns
Globe and Mail, November 6, 2009 ...download pdf

(Kelowna) Top Cop Says Gun Registry Should Stay
Castanet, November 5, 2009 ...download pdf

Police would lose 'investigative tool' if gun registry scrapped
Winsor Star, November 5, 2009 ...download pdf

Gun registry vital
Sault Star, November 5, 2009 ...download pdf

Members of Quebec national assembly passed a unanimous motion urging the federal government to preserve the national firearms registry
CBC, November 4, 2009 ...download pdf

Gun registry might have saved my daughter
Calgary Herald, November 4, 2009 ...download pdf

Head of Montreal Police Brotherhood says "removing long guns from the registry would erase 95 per cent of Quebec's registered firearms"
Canadian Press, November 4, 2009 ...download pdf

Kenora Sexual Assault Centre joins call to defeat bill to amend Firearms Act
Kenora Daily Miner and News, November 4, 2009 ...download pdf

Gun Victim's Mom Says: "Gun registry keeps guns out of hands of dangerous people"
Sault Star, November 4, 2009 ...download pdf

International Action Network on Small Arms says: "Canada's legislation on firearms has been a model for other countries (...) All this will be undermined if the registry is abolished."
Toronto Star, November 4, 2009 ...download pdf

Toronto Police Chief: "We lose the gun registry at our peril"
Globe and Mail web exclusive, November 3, 2009 ...download pdf

Reject gun-registry bill, MPs urged 20th anniversary of Poly near; 'Firearms Act is a monument erected in memory of the victims of the massacre'
Montreal Gazette, November 3, 2009 ...download pdf

Tories target rural ridings on gun bill, trying to build majority
Hill Times, November 2, 2009 ...download pdf

Tories move closer to killing gun registry
Toronto Star, November 2, 2009 ...download pdf

Firearms registry defended following gun seizure
CTV, October 28, 2009 ...download pdf

Timmins Police says service accesses information from the gun registry on a regular basis
North Bay Nugget, October 28, 2009 ...download pdf

Guns kept away from criminal hands
Toronto Police, October 28, 2009 ...download pdf

Gun Control activist responds to Conservative advertising campaign in rural opposition ridings to gain votes in favour of Bill C-391
Winnipeg Sun, October 26, 2009 ...download pdf

Moms take to the streets, Oppose Bill C-391
Toronto Sun, October 26, 2009 ...download pdf

Ottawa giving up millions in gun registry fees
CBC, October 5, 2009 ...download pdf

Hundreds of guns will never fall into wrong hands
Toronto Police, September 22, 2009 Click here for details (You will leave the Coalition for Gun Control's website)

Editorial: Three amigos and guns
Toronto Star, August 9, 2009 ...download pdf

Smuggled U.S. guns responsible for most Canadian armed crime: report
Canadian Press, July 30, 2009 ...download pdf

Toronto police chief says the gun registry help our work and is money well spent
Globe and Mail, July 21, 2009 ...download pdf

Police put at risk by decline in gun-license renewals
Canadian Press, June 27, 2009 ...download pdf

Study shoots holes in $2B 'fabrication'
New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal, June 18, 2009 ...download pdf

Firearm smuggling on rise
Edmonton Journal, June 15, 2009 ...download pdf

River of U.S. guns flows north of the border
Hamilton Spectator, June 6, 2009 ...download pdf

Firearm inventories offer police tool in war on weapons trafficking
Ottawa Citizen, May 29, 2009 ...download pdf

Conservative MP’s bid to abolish gun registry fails
National Post, May 25, 2009 ...download pdf

Ottawa extends long-gun amnesty for another year
Canadian Press in Globe and Mail, May 15, 2009 ...download pdf

A not-so-happy Mother's Day She lost her daughter 13 years ago to young offender with stolen handgun
Hamilton Spectator, May 11, 2009 ...download pdf

Breitkreuz shows up for lobby group's dinner after speech and weapon raffle are called off
Toronto Star, April 19, 2009 ...download pdf

Gun control vital part of strategy to address violence
Edmonton Journal, April 13, 2009 ...download pdf

Gun control victim in Harper legislation
Metro, April 7, 2009 ...download pdf

How police use the gun registry
Macleans, April 2, 2009 ...download pdf

Firearms registry helps protect women
Calgary Herald, April 1, 2009 ...download pdf

Keep federal gun registry: T.O. police chief
Toronto Sun, April 1, 2009 ...download pdf

Anne-Marie's Mom Does Not Take It (translated)
La Presse, March 30, 2009 ...download pdf

House eyes Breitkreuz's explosive gun bill
Hill Times, March 30, 2009 ...download pdf

Rural violence on rise More people resorting to guns when conflicts arise, says RCMP officer
Edmonton Journal, March 29, 2009 ...download pdf

Liberals, NDP cautious on Harper call for free vote on gun registry
Telegraph Journals, March 23, 2009 ...download pdf

Harper appearance adds fuel to raffled guns controversy
Canwest News, March 20, 2009 ...download pdf

Bill would 'dismantle gun control,' critics fear
Montreal Gazette, March 19, 2009 ...download pdf

Applaud Tory MP, win a Beretta semi-automatic
Toronto Star, March 19, 2009 ...download pdf

Surrey police recovered 222 rifles and shotguns in 2008
Vancouver Sun, March 18, 2009 ...download pdf

Registered rifle on RCMP murder scene helped investigate and convict accomplices
RCMP website, January 30, 2009 ...Click Here (You will leave the Coalition for Gun Control's website)

"Don't Touch the Firearms Registry"
(Translated) La Tribune, April 6, 2009 ...download pdf

"Meet the fanatics who dictate Tory gun policy"
NOW, September 17, 2008 ...download pdf

"Brossard Man Plead Guilty to 8 Firearms Charges"
Montreal Gazette, January 23, 2009 ...download pdf

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